Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Our Fathers ❯ Chapter 4

Last one. I hope you like this fic because I put a lot of effort into it. Tad bit of shounan ai. On with the last one!

Chapter 4

A man walked up to the willow casket and set a piece of paper on the chest of who was once his father. Walking up to the alter he looked at the crowd before he spoke.

*He sat up on the bed and he watched me packing

He already knew why I was leavin'

I took what I needed but I sure left a lot still hanging

But I figured I'd get it come the weekend*

"My father was a kind, charitable man. He never hurt anyone who didn't hurt him or his family. When he left every once in a while when I was young I cried because I thought he didn't love me, but he told me he did and that he would always come back for me.

*He said Daddy when you get there

Are you gonna have a refrigerator

I kinda laughed and said I guess I will*

I always asked him where he was going and he told me he was going on an adventure and that he would tell me about it. He did and came back to me and Papa every time.

*Then he handed me a tracing of his hand

On the back of a piece of paper

And a magnet and my heart stood still (when he said)*

One day I took a piece of paper and drew my hand on it, giving it too him. I told him that anytime he felt lonely to just put his hand in mine. Stupid I know, but I was a little kid and I would miss him.

*Put your hand in mine

And I'll be there anytime

When it feels like you could use a friend

I'll be there to lift you up again

You can reach out to me anytime

And put your hand in mine *

He gave me and tracing of his hand too and told me the same thing. To this day I can still here what he told me. I cried when he left and Papa held me till I fell asleep. As I slept I would dream of my father as he went off on his jobs.

*I drove past the Hardin Baptist Church

Though it wasn't really on the way to my hotel

Beside me on the seat I was looking at five small fingers

When I heard the chapel bell (and it took me)

Back another life ago when our hearts were open

Oh, back when we could still agree

Back when the future that we had was full of hope and

You and I we got down on our knees (and said)*

As I look at the tracing he gave me right now I feel as if I can get over his death, but I know it won't be that simple. I remember when my father would play with me in the garden he grew just for me and Papa and we would play till the sun went down and the moon was high. Gods, I miss those days.

*Put your hand in mine

And I'll be there anytime

When it feels like you could use a friend

I'll be there to lift you up again

You can reach out to me anytime

And put your hand in mine*

That's the thing I'll teach my children, that if they're ever afraid they can always count on me to be there, like my father was.

*I couldn't even stay away one night

I noticed you left on the light

And I've only got one thing to say

If you're not too tired and it's not too late*

My father always came home safe and the first thing he would do is take my hand and Papa's. When he said "I love you" I would say that he didn't have to say it so much, but now, I'm glad he did. Because then I knew that he loved me and would always love me.

*Put your hand in mine

And I'll be here all the time

When it feels like you could use a friend

I'll be here to lift you up again

Would you reach out to me one more time?

And put your hand in mine*

I'll always put my hand in my father's and I hope you won't be frightened to do the same. I'll always remember my father, Minamino Shuichi or Youko Kurama."

The boy stepped down from the alter and joined his friends as they said good bye to their heroes, their fathers.

*Would you reach out to me just one more time?

And put your hand in mine*

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Oh wow! I didn't expect so many reviews for this story. It was just something I thought of while working on my "Saying Good-Bye" Story. That's my Mother's day fic. So now I have a story for both parental holidays! ^_^ They were really nice, so thank you all! I thought about making so the detectives were saying good bye to their dads but then I said, "Wait, we never met their dads!" so I made this instead!