Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Birth-Dazed ❯ Remembering of gloom ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter Four...

Yusuke started home with a smile plastered to his face. He hummed at a low tone, placing his hands behind his head to support his big shot attitude. 'Maybe I should stop being such a jerk...' The self satisfied boy thought to himself. 'I mean, Kuwabara just wants to give me a stupid birthday party, what's the harm in that?'

Watching out for a bike riding kid coming his way, Yusuke swayed slightly to his left to avoid being plowed down- not that a kid would be brave enough to ram into the great Yusuke Urameshi- but you never know, some people want a death wish.

Aside from that, he was feeling too good to make a threat sound even half way believable. "Hahaha," He laughed closing his eyes to in vision his thoughts. 'Now that I think about it... I might want a party, it could be really funny.'

His mind wandered into the depths of his thoughts, seeing his home decorated with streamers and balloons and who knows what else, all for him. A table filled with all kinds of snacks and treats that he couldn't wait to get a toothache from.

His friends would be there- yeah, even Hiei would come. Yukina and Botan would laugh at how he looked in a party hat then give him a kiss on the cheek. His mom, she'd be there too... not drunk or full of excuses but like a real mom.

And the best thing of all.... "Would be Kuwabara popping out of the cake, butt naked and smiling!" He burst into laughter at the thought of his boyfriend leaping out of a cake, naked with a sash that read: Happy Birthday!

"What's so funny Yusuke?" The boy from the park asked.

Yusuke opened his eyes and looked ahead to where the boy stood. His hands dropped and he then stuffed them into his pockets turning on his patented, 'Fuck off' look. "I was just laughing at how your face would look after I made a few pot holes in the street with it."

The boy looked bewildered, then angered and clenching his fist growling. "Is that so? Well, I didn't know a fairy could talk so tough."

Smirking with more malice than before, Yusuke pulled his fist from his pockets and banging his balled fist together. "Okay then, how 'bout I grind your ugly face into fairy dust instead."

Sneering, the boy took a step forward, bravely retorting. "Go ahead and try."

"Your funeral tinker bell." He cracked his knuckles beckoning the challenge to him.

The boy let out a battle cry then charged at Yusuke, fist raised and ready to punch the moment he got up to is ego ridden rival. "Yyyaaaa!!!!!"

Yusuke's smile changed into amusement seeing the boys approach and, stepping gradually to his left, Yusuke grabbed the boys shoulders stopping him in his tracks. Swinging his right leg up from behind his back he kicked the boy in the mouth, "Urameshi the mess making menace slams his foot into the boys mouth,"

Bringing his leg back down, Yusuke knocked the boys feet from under him and letting his shoulders go the clumsy boy fell flat on his face. "Giving his opponent a new taste for concrete the menace then uses his famous, Yusuke Urameshi-," He posed in action with his elbow bared ready and his body making a low jump into the air he finished saying, "elbow drop." as he brought his body and elbow down into the lower regions of the boys back.

"Ah- OOooooooHHHHWoooWooo!" The other boy wailed.

"Ah hahaha. And that concludes this episode of backyard wrestling." He stood waving to fake fans. "Thanks, you've all been great! But you should really be clapping for the challenger here, whose volunteered his ass to be my punching bag for the next week."

The boy groaned hearing this, knowing Yusuke meant what he was saying. 'Me and my big mouth.' He complained.

Taking one last look at the guy, Yusuke laughed at his victory then started again to his house.

.............

"Yusuke!" His mother snapped the moment he got into the house. "You said you were gonna be home earlier than eight! I waited for you and now dinner is frozen again!"

Holding his hands up in defense, Yusuke's face humbled and he shook his head saying. "I got hung up at Kuwabara's, we were uhhh? Studying."

"Oh yeah right, Yusuke that is the lamest excuse you could possibly think of." She approached her son raising a hand the entire walk over then swatted her hand down on the back of his head.

"Ow!"

"Studying... The only thing you'd crack open is your boyfriends-..."

"Moom! Alright, I get it." He shrank away. "I won't do it again."

Atsuko sighed and shook her head. "Go wash your hands, I reheated dinner- twice! And you're going to eat it."

"Sure mother," He placed his hands behind his head and swaggered to the bathroom. "whatever you say." He closed the bathroom door after him and turned the lock over. Letting out a sigh, he pressed his back against the door and turned his gaze to the mirror at his reflection.

'A birthday party?' Shrugs with a smile. 'Sure, why not.'

"And make it snappy, it's getting cold again!" His mother shouted through the door.

"Okaaay!" Throwing his hands in the air in exasperation, he then dropped one into the sink while the other turned on the water. Brushing water over them, he ignored the soap then shaking his hands as dry as the air would allow, Yusuke waltzed out of the bathroom into the hall.

"Eat quickly and then get to bed," Atsuko instructed, while heading off to her bedroom. "I don't want any of your laame excuses that you're too tired to go to school tomorrow. Got that."

"Yup, I'll think up a good one and my excuse will be that I'm too awake to go to school tomorrow." He started laughing as he sat down at the kitchen table.

Atsuko shook her head, waving the boy off. "Oh shut up Yusuke."

He smiled and mumbled under his breath. "Thanks for the happy birthday mom....."

//Four years ago.

"Stupid teacher, he knows I didn't start that fight." A young Yusuke grouched as he walked home from school and kicking a can that he saw in the rain gutter of the street, the twelve year old boy heaved a loud angered sigh.

"And on top of everything else, I tore my stupid jacket!" His head dropped miserably planning to stay at a low level before his gaze caught sight of a rainbow of colors just up ahead.

"Looks like some bodies having a party..." Notices where the balloons are located a smile broke out on the boys face. "Ahaha, those are at my house!" He rushed up ahead, for what he didn't know.

Every birthday the boy had ever had ended miserably, or just never happened because his mother was too plastered to remember her own sons birthday. But today... who knows.

Rushing to his house Yusuke tugged at the handle of the door until it pulled open. "Hey mom I-..." His words were silenced seeing a man he's never seen before answering the door at his house.

"Come on in sweetie, the fun has just begun." The man said.

Yusuke looked on with his expression both bewildered and disgusted. Putting up his shield, Yusuke turned his nose up brushing by the man saying, "It's not so much that there's a strange guy in my house, but the fact that he's dressed as a woman that makes me mad."

Glancing around the living room, Yusuke spotted his mother and brushing past the drag queen, he angrily stormed over to her. "Mom, what are all these people doing here?" He demanded to know.

"Ah..." Hiccup. "Yusu... Yuuuusss-..." Hiccups. Deciding the name was too long Atsuko settled with a casual. "ah son, you're home." The drunk woman waved a glass gripping hand around the room saying. "Hoppy borthday."

Yusuke bit back anger as he snatched the glass from his mothers hand. "You've had enough, get these people out of here." He looked at everyone in the room. "The party's over."

"Atsuko," A particularly large man said. "You never told me you're son was such a party pooper."

"Yeah but heeeesh mine," She burst into laughter.

Yusuke's eyes narrowed in digest and decided on just heading to his bedroom. He could ignore them there- he hoped. Keeping the drink he'd taken from his mother, Yusuke marched into his room, locking the slide away door. Shrinking down onto the floor the boy then fished around in his school bag and found his packet of cigarettes.

"Ruin my birthday, hn." Pulling a stick from the packet, he popped the tip into his mouth. "Happy birthday Yusuke."//

Yusuke's eyes snapped open and he stared around in the darkness. 'Rrr, snap out of it Yusuke... things are different now.' He told himself. 'It's not always gonna end up like that.'

He suddenly heard what sounded like a buzz saw coming from his mothers room. "Uuugh," He tucked his head under his pillow. "who snores after only thirty minutes of sleep?"

Yawning. "No more nightmares, Yusuke." Nuzzles his face into the mattress, muttering. "Rrr, I can still hear it. Good thing," yawns. "I'm too tired to ca-....." Closing his eyes, the young boy fell fast asleep.... and started snoring.