InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Real Folk Blues ❯ One more time ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: the most adorkable squashed banana
Explanations take center stage. Yuusuke and Kagome exchange the secret of their lives. Botan may not like it at all. Kagome always earns the rotten end of the deal.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Angst / Fantasy / Hentai / Comedy | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 10.25.2006 | Updated On: 10.25.2006 | Pages: 6 | Words: 8.7K | Visits: 2.4K | Status: Work In Progress

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Title: The Real Folk Blues
Author: Adorkablebanana
Chapter 4: One more time
There's no measure between the distance and you.
-Little man in love.
 
One minute I'm grappling (no challenge really) with Kagome, the next minute me and her woven ourselves with the covers tightly (think cocoon) numbing and trapping my foot along with hers.
 
Just as I almost released my foot Botan appears. Great just peachy, what kind of excuse do I use on her now?
 
She won't believe me, a picture tells a thousand words. Fuck, now she'll squeal to Keiko then she'll think I'm cheating on her with Kags or being the local family molester.
 
Chewing the inside of my cheek pensively realizing we're stuck in a dead end situation. Kagome reddened like a ripe tomato covering her face with small petite hands horrified at the level of shame. I had to get this straightened out. " Botan!" calling to her she turned glancing up timidly, playing nervously with her large kimono sleeves. "Yess-s" she asked shyly. Shy, Ha, that's a first. I guess there's a first time for everything.
 
"It's not what it looks like okay."
 
"What do you mean it's not what it looks like? You're having s-s-sex with another person! You're cheating on Keiko you dirty two timer!" she yelled fuming in all out rage clearly hurting for my "betrayal" on Keiko.
 
Keiko, Shizuru, and Yukina are the closest people Botan has to a family. She'll always protect her friends from harm at any cost. Admirable her spunk but she showed it at a wrong time.
 
"Botan I'm not cheating on Keiko, this girl is my sister" I insisted hoping to get to a common understanding, stupidly I made it worse.
 
Botan looked at me in disgust wrinkling up her features distastefully. "Uh! You sicko, how can you do this! She's your sister!" she exclaimed indignant thinking how I'm such a perverted sick bastard. I knew another way Botan will know I haven't been practicing `incest.' "You don't have a sister!" Took her that long to remembered that little detail.
 
"Botan relax! Tell me do you smell or sense that I've been fucking!" Since Botan's the grim reaper maybe she has similarities close to demons holding the ability to sense auras and energies, surely she'll figure out the truth. I hope.
 
The ferry girl squinted her bright eyes searching the room, her angered state reverted back to normal. Tugging her ponytail nervously and shakily laughing--a habit she regularly does at tense times--she smiled sheepish. "Um...my mistake" she continued to laugh idiotically, Botan's an enigma.
 
"Botan since your not doing much DO YOU MIND HELPING ME!" It gets tiresome when people stand around doing squat, yapping gibberish while there's more important matters to handle. Such as my asleep foot. It hurts!
 
Immediately Botan began wedging Kagome's midsection carefully untangling us from the imprisoning fabric. Slithering free Kagome fell off the bed in a loud THUMP!
 
"Ow! My arm!" Whined the pouting girl, rubbing her whacked elbow. Botan giggled finding her little fall cute. At least it appeared so. As much as I enjoy my wallow in the bed with Kagome and the little tart's fall, I want out! I'm burning under the layered fabric cocooning me. Sweat trickled down my back accumulating uncomfortably damping my heated flesh, it aggravated me. Oh, how much I wanted to shred these condemning sheets. You know what, that's what I'm going to do the moment I'm out.
 
The sad thing is I'm supposed to be the great Urameshi, the kick ass spirit detective who shouldn't have trouble with such a minor trivial things. These minor trivial things!
 
Each girl grabbed an arm and yanked me roughly out. Does Botan have to dig her nails into my arm? It hurts. She's doing it on purpose!
 
Each girl laughed like crazed hyenas, terribly amused, appeasing them with my embarrassing torture. Suddenly I slid out of the bed unprepared to brace myself I banged my bottom painfully onto the wooden floor. Ouch. I could have sworn I shattered my tail bone on the impact, ouch!
 
I seriously forced down the urge to wince sheer pride preventing me to blemish my tough guy rep, so I had to swallow my pain whole. Good thing martial arts and training under the crypt keeper (A.K.A Genkai) taught my body to resist blows. Alright I'm exaggerating with this one but I don't want to show my pain, okay.
 
How these girls mange to "set me free" is a puzzle I'm not willing to solve. So squash it! Kagome and Botan settled down their giggles. Botan returned to her version of an ill-tempered bitch. Man I hate it when girls do that. Pick one thing damn it!
 
Just as Botan was ready to accuse us for role playing a soap opera scene I beat her to it.
 
"Botan whatever your going to say save it. I'll talk to you in a few. Go wait outside for a moment so I can speak to Kagome, it's important."
 
"But--"
"Not now. I promise to tell you later, just wait outside the door. You can get something to eat if you like there's still some grub in the fridge."
 
"But Yuus--"
 
"Later Botan! It won't take long," silencing her, she narrowed those eyes and quietly exited the room. I gave her no time to protest.
 
"Ten minutes then I'll be back and you better have an explanation," she said holding up ten fingers emphasizing the time limit. She turned and closed the door behind her.
 
Turning I see Kagome sitting near the edge of the bed, processing all that's occurred with her head hung low. I made my way next to her crouching down on my hind legs meeting those confused eyes.
 
"Yuusuke… w-what's going on?" asking too baffled and bewildered by tonight's events. "I need some answers." She almost politely demanded, crossing her arms under her breasts waiting for my response.
 
I have to admit the girl has a lot of spunk. Hmm...maybe. Another reason to add on the list of things why I like her and get along well with her.
 
In a bad or awkward situation I built a habit of shoving my hand threw my hair, combing it with my fingers to distract the tension. " I-I um…" I don't even know where to begin or how to approach this. Kagome told me from the start about her tale, but, how do I tell her mine? Will she believe me or just think I'm a worst lunatic than she had expected?
 
No, no, she won't, she can't. Her story is as bizarre as mine. Literally. It's amazing how much we have in common the near similarities to our situations are almost dead on the nail. Everyone depends and expects us to come up with all the answers and solutions, we're forced to deal with situations not many are willing to commit to. That's how I feel sometimes, most of the time I oblige myself to do it for Keiko's safety.
 
She and I carry the weight of the world on our shoulders to support everyone around us. Strange, I'm ...glad she trusted me with her secret in return I have to trust her with mine. It's only fair. We have so much in common, ah, what a pair we make.
 
"Kagome it's hard to understand, you probably will think I'm hit on the head one too many times but--"
 
"No Yuusuke …I will believe you. Don't worry about it, you believed my story and I will believe yours in return" she cut in offering encouragement to continue on. Her understanding nature really means a lot to me, it eases the tension off me a bit.
 
Sitting down on the floor, bending a knee up and resting an elbow on it, I adjusted to a more suitable position. We stared into one another's eyes without saying a word to each other. Second thoughts came to mind like uncertainty if I should or shouldn't say, but it all changed when Kagome gave me a subtle smile and reached a hand over to caress my cheek tracing the jaw line in a feather like touch. This is…sentimental like…weird. "Trust me," she said above whisper.
 
As corny as this is going to sound the daunt and insecurity vanished by the mere loving touch, I gathered her small hand into my larger rough hand feeling the different textures between her softer hand and my callous hand. My version of a kind gesture is tracing with the pad of my thumb over her knuckles carefully, the motion of skin gliding through my fingers soothed my nerves.
 
Shit, her hands are as soft as Keiko's. Hmm... it's a girl thing, yep, it's definitely a female thing. Of course this is going in the category of hidden closet secrets. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm acting like an immature teenager not willing to submit into those type of emotions.
Hmm... it's a girl thing, yep, it's definitely a female thing. Of course this is going in the category of hidden closet secrets. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm acting like an immature teenager not willing to submit into those type of emotions.
 
I do submit into those "feelings" sometimes, but, only around certain people and in specific circumstances. By the sullen, bitter, rough lifestyle I lead for so many years it's simply natural for a person such as myself to act like a tart. Besides I am a teen, old teen but still one. Immaturity is something I'm obliged to do.
 
"…It happened a while ago. When I was fourteen years old I got killed in a car accident when…I was trying to do something” I paused uncertain if I should go on. When she gave no indications to stop I continued. Hey, I did mention the drastic part first. “Shortly afterwards I met Botan--you know the girl who barged in earlier?" I pointed towards the door, she nodded.
 
"Yes, I remember Yuusuke. How can I forget,” she said, almost sarcastically. It better have not been.
 
"Yeah…well she's the...well she's the grim reaper" I said airily not knowing how to put it in simpler words. It isn't easy saying a lively bubbly girl like Botan is the personified death. People imagine death to be a creepy rotting skeleton hidden under a black hooded robe, wielding a giant scythe ready to hack off a limb. Not some cute blue haired (I still believe she dyes her hair despite Koenma's constant nagging; “It's her natural hair color!”) dressed in a girly floral kimono, full of enthusiasm.
 
It's plain laughable. The first time, and I still remember it, I met Botan I was rolling with laughter swearing my insides were going to burst, well, they did burst when I met the toddler next.
 
Judging by the expression Kagome is fabulously flaunting she's on my side in this. "T-T-The gr-rim r-reaper? Her? Lady death herself! But how? She's so, so alive and her job is so, so dead!" Kagome tried to connect two and two together. At least she believes me…I think. She forced the appalling information down into her brain, she still appeared surprised by the new revelation.
 
Shocker I know. "Yeah, when I first met the chick it was a who-what-where-why and how situation. You'll get use to it...eventually."
 
Kagome twisted her lips skeptically eyeing me with doubt. "I guess I will have to get use to it, it's very hard for me to believe someone like her can be death" she added sarcasm to her final word.
 
I couldn't help but grin at the Kagome. What she claims is true, a normal person would be locked into an insane ward for suggesting such rubbish.
 
"Alright, getting back on the topic. Botan lead me to Reikai; Spirit World, where dead souls go to find out their destiny, I met my toddler boss, Koenma--"
 
"Wait! Your boss is a toddler?"
 
“Yes. I know. Very weird. Koenma--”
 
“But how can a toddler boss you around? It's unethical.”
 
“He doesn't boss me around! What's wrong with you!”
 
“You're the one who said `a toddler's my boss' not me! And don't you yell at me!”
 
“I'm not yelling at you, you're yelling at me!”
“Fine then! Go on” she huffed indignantly.
 
“I will!” I shot her a glare. Can she shut up for a change and let me continue on uninterrupted? “As I was saying, after I met Botan she took me to meet Koenma and he--”
 
“Does he hit you with a bottle if you don't obey what he tells you to do?” she interrupting me once again.
 
“COME ON KAGOME! Quit interrupting me. I heard your story now you hear mine!" I started to whine angrily faintly resembling a five year old child begging for his parent`s utmost attention. I can't help it though, it annoys the hell out of me to repeat myself. I punched a fist on the wooden floor enough to make the floor shake. I wanted to state the seriousness of the conversation.
 
She was unaffected. "Sorry, it's just so funny. First Botan's the grim reaper then your boss is a toddler. What's next? Ogres running an office?" she giggled softly failing terribly to hide it.
 
"Well …actually, they work as secretaries" I admitted above whisper.
"Huh?" Eyes widening she paused, then bit her bottom lip. "Excuse me for a moment will you?" She choked out, barely able to contain herself. She crawled onto the bed again and snatched the biggest pillow to bury her face in it. The pillow muffled all her uncontrollable laughter, it must've been really loud because I can hear her pretty damn well from the range I sat on the floor.
 
Five minutes later Kagome is still laughing her socks off. What's up with her? It's not that funny, sheesh! The tension is mounting, I can feel an eyebrow twitching in agitation slowly surfacing. Three…two…one…
 
“Kagome enough already! It`s not that funny!" I snapped at her. She rose up all red in the face breathing in and out attempting to even her shaky breaths.
 
Kagome clutched her aching ribs, she wiped with a free hand the fallen tears from her flushed face. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry.” --a giggle escaped--“gosh Yuusuke, I haven't laughed that hard since... I came back” she suddenly grimace at the thought. A frown slowly reached her lips as she remembered her fellow companions she spoke so fondly of.
 
As tempting as it is to yell at her for mocking my story insultingly I couldn't or didn't have the vigor to. The way Kagome's expression soften to melancholy, I couldn't. She hit a soft spot in me her remorse ales me deeply too.
 
I haven't the slightest clue how I became very attached but it happened without my notice. Damn girls. If anyone ever dared to hurt her in anyway again I'd tear the creep limb from limb, dismantling his or her (in certain cases) anatomy in the most painful way. Same as I would for Keiko. Though I can only watch in the sidelines when it refers to Kagome. Kagome's heartache isn't something I can rescue her from. Nor do I think I can.
 
This type of misery she needs to face and confront alone. I can only stand by her side unfortunately.
 
"Do you want me to go on or no?" I asked meekly, that's a first. Women do weaken me to a certain extent.
 
"Of course I do. I'm sorry I laughed I couldn't help it. You just say it with a straight-face it makes it more funnier.”
 
I shrugged off the apology. “Ah, it's alright. I said it so many times before I'm used to the situation and I tend to forget how weird it is. Now that I think about it I guess there will be others who will laugh to death hearing it.”
 
"Guess your right. Now of course you're going to have to continue your story. I'm ordering you to" she piped, switching moods: sad to perky within the sixty-second time limit.
 
Pinching the ridge of my nose, controlling the urge to roll my eyes or say a curse that might risk in waking the whole household, I grounded out. "Can I start?"
 
"Yes!"
 
"As I was saying, Koenma made a deal to restore my life back if I became one of his spirit detectives."
 
"Uh--"
 
Should have guessed. "A Spirit Detective is basically a fighter who investigates suspicious activities of the supernatural, like escaped demons for example" I answered her unspoken question before she asked. Man am I good.
 
"Yuusuke, what do you mean by `escaped demons'?"
 
How should I put it in lame terms? Tapping a temple with an index finger I mulled over on breaking down a simple explanation best explaining “escaped demons.” The idea demons lived amongst the world today isn't so, as brainy Kurama puts it, `far-fetched.' Whatever that means. Sometimes the fox can drone on and on about something using big words me and Kurabara don't understand. I'm not cutting myself short I'm merely admitting the truth.
 
“See there's three realms. The first one is Ningenkai; the human realm, where you and yours truly lives” I gestured to myself and the surroundings. Kagome pouted and glared daggers thoroughly annoyed. Probably disliking how my explanation resembles one of a parent lecturing a stupid child. Whatever works use it.
 
She offends way too easily, referring her as stupid hit's a nerve in her. I couldn`t help the inward smile seizing my mind. “The second is the Reikai; where Koenma lives and deceased souls go before they depart to the notorious `mysterious beyond' and the third realm is the Makai. The realm where demons live in.”
 
“But how can that be? InuYasha and lots of other demons lived with the human villagers--”
 
“Yeah about that, the three realms were suppose to separate everyone in order to live in peace. What Koenma babbled about he said the realms were created by some ancient people--”
 
“Deities,” she corrected me, wearing her famous and very cute smug. I hate it with a passion.
 
“--Deities three hundred years ago after the two hundred year period you traveled in.” Aha, touch down. Comprehension hit her, creating an `0' form on her lips. I allowed a self-praising smirk to shape my lips, sometimes I even surprise myself. The information was bound to sink in eventually, Koenma does like to hear himself talk.
 
“That clears up the cloud a bit,” she poured her cheerfulness into her tone. Her enthusiasm astounds me most of the time. Nah, scratch that the whole time.
 
“Good, good, now where was I? Oh right. After I got my life back I had to go on these missions to track down demons and retrieve some stolen stuff, I met two demons named Hiei and Kurama in which we teamed up under the Reikai partnership and an old buddy of mine, Kurabara.” I know I shouldn't go saying Hiei and Kurama's names in released daylight since their about as wanted as the…crap, what's an important leaders' name again? Ah, screw it. It's not like Kagome actually knows them and isn't in the least a threat to them.
 
Kagome seemed to have frozen when I mentioned my teams' names. Pointing an accusing finger at me she tried to regain her composure. "Y-Y-You k-n-now Hiei?" she asked hoarsely in disbelief.
 
“Huh?” Okay now I'm confused. “Yeah and how do you know him!” Well there goes my theory down the toilet. I wondered was I going to like the answer? Fuck. Then again I need to know.
 
Her long silence took its toll on my curiosity, it etched, cutting me down piece by piece. If she doesn't answer soon there's no--”
 
“Yuusuke I know Hiei for certain unexplainable reasons. Let's just say I know him by associations” she replied blandly. What the hell did she mean by `associations' that's not a suitable answer.
 
Our eyes locked into each others for countless moments, I waited for a short explanation to her and Hiei's “associations.” Tch! Association my ass. It never came. How does shorty know her anyways? This can't be good if she knows the hotheaded assassin. It's a shady relationship I need to figure out. Nothing good could come out of Hiei, the demon isn't exactly the life of a party, he's more like the silence of the party (death to it). Befriending a human is a red flag flaring there.
 
Kagome's stoic gaze gave no hints to further clues to the mystery behind her and Hiei. Her callous expression closed the matter tight. Pressing on the issue wasn't going to get us anywhere tonight and seeing Kagome refused to let an interrogation commence I was pretty much forced to drop it. The more practical thing to do, much to my dismay. I eventually will figure out the puzzle involving Hiei and Kagome's `relationship' in the nearby future. She's not getting away that fast. No one can keep stuff from me for too long.
 
Normally I wouldn't have let the chick off the hook so easily, due to my stubborn nature, insisting is more like it, but it's late. Nearly the early morning. The sun should be rising soon and I have an angry assistant waiting outside in the kitchen practicing a different variety of ways to bat my head with her oar for the "betrayal" on Keiko. Not a pleasant sight to greet in the morning. I know Botan well and she will hit me with that fucking stick thingy.
 
Sighing weakly I lifted myself up and walked towards the window. I watched as the night sky kissed the upcoming dawn making my predictions correct on the early morning guess. Unable to tear my gaze from the sky I couldn't help myself staring out into the distance. I leaned my aching forehead against on arm pressing next to the ledge of the wall, the window reflected my ruffled image and the reflection of Kagome's shorter form standing next to me.
 
“The sun's rising isn't it?”
 
“Yep, looks like it.”
 
“Surprising we didn't wake up the whole house hold with our ranting. Right?”
 
“You could say that again.” A curve kicked up in the corner of my lips realizing the truth to that statement. “Shit, these asses sleep like rocks, there can be an earth quake shattering the city and they'll still be sleeping, dreaming who knows what.” My eyes never strayed from the window, watching the sun rising for the first time in ages captivated my attention and interest as it did Kagome's.
 
“It must be difficult to undergo all those missions with your friends.” She started quietly. “After all we are still kids. The feudal era missions were no picnic either, it was hard on me, it's still is hard on me.” Hearing her words mingled with gloom pained me in an ironic sort of way. She truly does understand me. Both of us try to hide our feelings in a mask deceiving others with our carefree attitude when it's not like that. Knowing the dangers involving everyone we care about is very...bothersome.
 
I'm not ready nor am I willing to show anyone the true depths of my thoughts on things just yet, though, who knows? Maybe I will one day just not now.
 
I rested a hand on Kagome's shoulder silently saying everything she needed to know. At least I hoped she picked up on the hint. She did to my relief because she flashed me a smile. Kagome leaned onto me encircling her arm around my waist to my surprise. I didn't pry her away. The gesture's harmless and somehow I felt like I needed that. With one arm I coiled it around her small waist holding her beside me. What else can I do?
 
“Thank you,” she whispered as the two of us watched the bright fiery sun rise from the horizon diminishing the darkness and replacing it with the yellow morning light.
 
Collecting new knowledge of Kagome's past, no longer ignorant to the fact she's a powerful priestess (rookie--err--apprentice, oh hell whatever you call it) a major target for demons I vowed to protect her, Keiko, and my newly acquired family. No matter what I will always have your back Kagome. I swear it.
 
As the two of us watched the horizon in awe at the beauty to it all I would much rather sleep. No seriously, the whole `beauty to nature' gig is old news to me. I absolutely hate waking up early for no damn reason. School's out and Grandma (Genkai) isn't training me until the next two weeks, I'm supposed to be resting till then. I can't stand it. “I hate waking up early.”
 
“Same here.”
 
“Crap. Too late to go back to bed.”
 
“Yeah, too bad for you buddy, I can go back to bed unlike certain unfortunate people here.”
 
"You really are an evil incarnate."
 
“Do you even know what that means?” Oh, hell no. She's implying I'm stupid!
 
“Yeah I would know, I'm standing next to one and boy is it ugly.”
 
She glared stepping hard on my foot. “Get use to it bud” she said roughly reaching up on her tippy toes ruffling my unruly hair. I need a bath right about now.
 
“Feh, girls.”
 
“Pfft, boys.” She smiled cynically still mocking my misfortune. I snorted rolling my eyes and reached down to ruffle her hair in return. See how she likes it. Shoot, this is going to be a long day. I can feel I'm not going to welcome it.