Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Hitoshizuku ❯ School Rumors ( Chapter 3 )

Sorry for the long wait for chapters everyone, I haven't really been working on the stories I've got up but the ones that seem to pop up in my head. Don't worry, I've made a New Years resolution to type my stories more, so, here's on contribute to my resolution! Another fun filled chapter of Hitoshizuku! And the stress begins for Yusuke!

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Yusuke threw open the door to his apartment and closed it behind him. He immediately saw his mother, Atsuko, slumped on the couch in the living room; in an ungraceful position snoring lightly and a liquor bottle in her hand. The black haired boy rolled his eyes and walked over to his mother, taking the empty bottle from her hand, holding it up to the light, seeing if there was any left, but it was bone dry. He sighed in disappointment. He had wanted a drink after the day's events.

He tossed the bottle on the floor and wondered to the kitchen; he was hungry and sore from fighting. He was planning to fix both with instant ramen and sleep. As he was heating the water in the kettle, Atsuko stumbled to the kitchen door way and leaned against it for support and she stared sleepily as her son

"Ah, so your finally home?" she said "Where ya been, Keiko's been lookin' for ya" her voice was slightly slurred from drinking

"I've been getting cursed from a spring in China and now I turn into a girl with cold water" Yusuke said sarcastically, doubting Atsuko had heard a word he said. She yawned and walked to her own room mumbling a `That's nice' after her. Yusuke rolled his eyes once more before pouring the water into his ramen cup.

After grabbing some chopsticks, he went into the living room and hoped over the back of the couch and landed in an Indian style position. He dug his chopsticks into the noodles and was about to pop the food into his mouth went the sound of someone knocking on the door stopped him. He groaned and set his ramen down on the coffee table before getting up to answer the door.

Opening the door, he saw a familiar and yet irritated brunet. Yusuke mentally slapped himself; he had forgotten to tell Keiko about the China trip, then again, she may have wanted to go. He felt a lecture coming

"It's good to see you back, Yusuke" she said with a little bitterness in her voice. Yusuke sighed, he hated lectures

"Hey Keiko" he said and let her in. She went in and another familiar face poked out from behind the brunet's head and a little spirit beast hopped onto Yusuke's ungelled head happily

"Puu!" the blue creature cried happily and Yusuke glared up at his inner self, not actually seeing Puu, but giving the point that he did not appreciate being used as a perch

"Yusuke, I thought you were going to tell me when you go on missions" Keiko said, aggravated "Shizuru had to tell me before I knew that you went to China"

"Relax Keiko, it was a little mission, no big deal" the black haired teen said nonchalantly "Some demon dogs got loose, but they were push overs"

"That isn't the point!" Keiko said loudly, not yelling, but certainly putting her foot down. Yusuke looked unaffected with the lecture about leaving her out on the missions. Yusuke just stood there and knitted his fingers together behind his head, waiting for it to be over. She'd lectured him so much in school he hardly listened anymore

"Come on Keiko, haven't we been through this enough?" Yusuke asked after the first 3 minutes of the lecture

"Obviously not enough for you to tell me what's going on" the brunet said but sighed and decided to let the first subject drop "Anyway, I saw Kuwabara in the café and there was a girl with him, I still think they were on a date" she looked away thoughtfully and Yusuke looked annoyed

`She's not going to let that go, is she?' he thought angrily

((--Laughs and holds up a victory sign-- Nope, sorry Yusuke --giggles-- Nobody is))

"She said she was your cousin" Keiko said looking back to Yusuke "Is your cousin in town?"

"Yeah" Yusuke lied smoothly "Her name's Yakuza"

"Yeah that's her" Keiko said "You know, you two look almost like twins, especially with your hair down"

"Uh-huh" Yusuke said, also none too happy with the comparison between him and his girl form, even if it was true. Keiko glanced at the clock and she blinked

"Oh, I guess I was at the café longer than I was suppose to. I should get home" She reached up and took Puu from Yusuke's head before heading for the door. "See you at school, Yusuke"

"Later Keiko" Yusuke said and closed the door after her. He let out a relieved breath and walking back into the living room--

"Funny, I don't recall anyone named Yakuza in the family"

Yusuke jumped back with a `Yipe!' and saw Atsuko leaning next to the doorway to the living room, smirking smugly

"Mom!" Yusuke yelled "You were listening?!" He had thought his mother was at least KO'd from the liquor

"'o course" his mother said with a shrug "There was only about a quarter of the liquor left" Yusuke paled considerably, he had not wanted his mother to know he was cursed. When he had told her he thought she was drunk! He was being sarcastic! "So what's this I hear about a curse?"

After explaining the curse, even if he had refused willingly the first 10 minutes, his mother also wanted to see his girl form and dumped a cup of tea that she had made that morning in the kitchen but never drank, making her son into a daughter. Atsuko was very amused, not very surprised; she wasn't very surprised much after her son died and then come back to life

"Wow" she said as Yusuke-chan glared at her, arms crossed, wet again that day. It had to be some kind of record "I have a son and a daughter all in one" Yusuke-chan took the kettle that still had a lot of warm water and poured it over her head.

"You have a son and only a son" he said and his mother playful pinched his one cheek like a grandmother would do

"Oh, but it's so hard to tell when you're already so feminine" she said with a laugh

((Yes! I love to pick on Yusuke! It's so fun! --Is KO'd by an angry Yusuke--))

Yusuke angrily slapped at his mother's pinching fingers but she had already pulled away by then.

"Shut up!" he snapped and Atsuko laughed, waving it of with a hand

"I'm only kidding" she said and wondered off to her room again to sleep off the liquor she did have

Yusuke was still fuming as he sat down on the couch, and grumbled as he picked back up his ramen cup only to find his ramen was cold now from all the interruptions. Yusuke took a deep breath and let out an aspirated sigh `Woopy, cold ramen' he though sarcastically but dug into the noodles anyway and shoved some into his mouth `Well, it can't get any worse than this'

Or could it...

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After Atsuko had shoved Yusuke out the door to school he had met up with Keiko part of the way.

"Morning Yusuke" she said cheerfully. He assumed she had forgiven him for the China trip

"Hey Keiko" he mumbled and stifled a yawn. Going to school was very boring to him. The brunet seemed to look around a bit

"Hey, is Yakuza around?" she asked and Yusuke blinked a moment, wondering what she was talking about at first, then he remembered the whole Jusenkyou curse thing

"No" he said shortly

"Isn't she coming to school?" the brunet persisted with the questions

"Keiko, she's not going to school" Yusuke said aggravated "She's not going to be here permanently" `She better not' he thought

"I was just wondering" Keiko said with an edge in her tone "No need to be nasty about it"

Yusuke sighed. This being cursed business was not going to be fun.

At school there was a lot more talking than usual. Gossip and rumors had already started about the allusive Urameshi cousin. Many people had clamed to be Yusuke's cousin to get out of fights before, and as many of them clamed it was "Survival of the fittest". But when Kuwabara had confirmed it in front of Kasanegafuchi school punks there had to be gossip now. And there was exclusive gossip that Urameshi's cousin was a hot babe. Keiko's friend's had also contributed to the rumors after seeing the almost fight through the window. Isn't gossip funny that way?

When Yusuke and Keiko entered the school grounds all attention turned to him like the first day of coming back to life; though everyone looked more questionable and curious than shocked and scared. Yusuke huffed in annoyance. He didn't like attention. He glared at everyone that was staring at him and they looked back to what ever they were doing.

`Oh, this is going to be so much fun! NOT!' Yusuke thought and walked toward the school building as Keiko went off to search for her friends

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Yusuke had found out why he was stared at that morning when a group of guys had been brave enough to actually speak to Yusuke and ask if he really did have a cousin named Yakuza in town. Yusuke agreed that he did, but lost his temper when they had actually asked if she was hot and had big boobs. One of them had a bloody nose as they ran away for asking that question, a big reminder to the whole school had to watch out for picking/hitting on Yusuke's `relatives'. He'd kick their butts with one fist.

For a week it was like that, rumors going around the school that Yusuke's cousin in town. And it didn't help Yusuke that he had had water incidences in school and was turned into Yakuza. Like when the janitor would leave a soaking floor when he went on his lunch break. Yusuke had slipped and fell, getting wet from the water one the floor. Some guys had helped her up and asked her out. She of course turned them all down; or when the broken water fountain had squirted him in the face, which it did to everyone. And when cars splashed puddles, after it rained, on him

"Have you noticed that I've become a water magnet?" Yusuke-chan asked in an annoyed tone to Kuwabara as they walked from school. She brushed her slender fingers through her wet hair after the puddle water had washed out her hair gel.

"Yep" Kuwabara said and watched as a group of girls from their school walked by, pointing at the pair as they walked side by side. There were now rumors at school that Yakuza and Kuwabara where dating, because that was the only guy Yakuza would talk to. And did that make Yusuke mad, but that was one rumor that if you denied it'd just grow, it was every embarrassing for both of them [1]. "So I'm guessing no one in Spirit World has found a cure?"

"No" she said in a sigh "Botan came by last night and said that they'd have to find someone who had had the curse who've had it cured to find one"

"So…" Kuwa said "That means?"

"That means they have to ask around in China"

"Well, Koenma has to have some agents that speak Chinese"

"Yeah, one. Hiei"

Kuwabara anime fell right there, and Yusuke-chan watched nonchalantly

"That's what I said" she said nonchalantly as Kuwabara stood up again

"But the shrimp hates doing anything, for anyone! Especially if it involves him and humans!"

"He's refusing to do it unless he gets something out of it" Yusuke-chan said as she rubbed her right eye with the palm of her hand "And you know him. It just gives me one big headache"

Kuwabara looked at Yusuke-chan. When had Yusuke ever had a headache? "You ok?"

"Hm?" Was the first sound she made "Oh yeah, just a bit bored I guess. I mean a full week with no mission. Keiko took, Yakuza, shopping the other day and I would have rather cracked my head through a thick plate of steal then go through that again"

"That bad?" the tall teen asked and she gave an annoyed/frustrated huff

"Her and her friends tried on like 20 pairs of shoes!" Yusuke-chan exclaimed and Kuwabara laughed at a thought

"Did you try any on?" He asked with a snicker and saw her blush when she slapped his arm

"Shut up" she growled, still blushing brightly. Yes, Keiko had talked her into trying on some high heals, red ones, and she fell right on her own face. But Yusuke-chan had refuse out right to wear any skirts the girls had tried to talk her into. There was just one point she had to draw at her acting to be a girl. Kuwabara was still chuckling lightly, rubbing his arm where she slapped him, even though it didn't hurt

"I'm only kidding" he said "But you wouldn't have had to go if you had just told Keiko about the curse" Yusuke-chan mimicked the lecture making a face while doing it and snorted at the end

"Whatever" She said and Kuwabara rolled his eyes. Yusuke could be so childish at times

A few moments later a familiar girl in a pink kimono flew down on her ore, floating in front of the two of them

"There you two are" Botan said cheerfully "I've been looking everywhere for you"

"Hey Botan" Yusuke-chan said "The toddler want something?" Botan resisted scolding Yusuke that Koenma was not a toddler

"Lord Koenma says that he has a small mission for you, Kuwabara and Kurama" She said

"What about the shrimp?" Kuwabara asked

"Hiei and Koenma are still trying to find dealing ground" Botan said thoughtfully "Though I really don't know what Hiei could want, he has full range about the city still. Anyway, Yusuke-chan, you may want this" She dangled a small thermos of warm water in front of the Spirit Detective

Yusuke-chan glared at her for several reasons "Don't call me Yusuke-chan" she said and took the thermos "Why do you have this thing anyway?" she didn't like it if Botan had been carrying this on a regular basis just incase he turned into a she

"Its for you actually" Botan said "Every time I've come to see you for the last week you've been Yakuza. I thought it would help" Yusuke-chan felt a little insulted, but used the warm water anyway

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[1] I had a rumor on me like that, it was very annoying

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