Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The New Spirit Detectives ❯ The Mission Part 1 ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter Four: True Feelings About The Mission, Revealed

Author's Note: Thanks to all the people who've been writing such nice reviews. I'll usually remember to thank them at either the beginning or the end of each chapter, because I love you all so much. Maybe that's a little too much love. Oh, and by the way. The first part of the chapter was inspired by the Princess Mononoke Theme Song. Well, anyway, here we go.

It was Thursday, tomorrow they would have to go and fight those demons. Yuki wasn't worried about her training, she was worried about Elijah. 'He's been avoiding me lately.' She thought. 'I wonder why. Well, I guess I'll just have to go and see for myself.' She put on some clothes and ran over to Elijah's house. ' I'm so glad that everyone let us have this day off. I think our trainers needed it more than us. I'm also glad that all the parents went out to dinner. That gives me some alone.' She knocked on Elijah's door. "Elijah, open up. It's me Yuki."

He opened the door, surprised to see her standing there. "Oh, hi." He said. "You really shouldn't be here right now. It isn't a good time." He closed the door in her face.

She caught the door and walked into the house. "Why? Why isn't this a good time? Why do you keep avoiding me Elijah? What did I do wrong?" she grabbed both his hands and locked their fingers together.

"You didn't do anything wrong," he told her as he tried to let go of her hands. 'Man, she's got a really tight grip.' He thought.

"Then, what's making you avoid me?!" she screamed as she started to cry. He was finally able to let go of her hands as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "We were just starting to become more than friends and then you just stopped paying attention to me altogether." She said into his shirt.

"It was more of our parents' doing," he explained. "My dad told your dad that I wasn't concentrating on my fighting and your told my dad the same thing about you. Then they figured out that we've been spending more time together, and decided to split us up. My dad told me but we didn't want you to know. I'm sorry if I hurt you." He hugged her more tightly.

"So, did you willingly agree to their plan?" she whispered as she raised her head up to meet his eyes.

"Yes, I agreed," he muttered, looking the other direction.

"Then, let me change your mind." She whispered as she brought his face down to hers and kissed him. It was sweet and gentle. She didn't want to scare him. But in reality, she didn't want to scare herself. She was perfectly fine with their arrangement until he started to respond to the situation. Then, she pulled away, and buried herself in shirt again. "I'm so sorry. That was completely wrong of me and…"

He stopped her by tilting her chin upward. "I didn't think you'd feel the same." He said as he kissed her forehead.

"I've been like this for a long time. It was good to let it out." She sighed as she kissed him again. They continued on so for about ten minutes, when Elijah look at the clock.

"Yuki, you really should leave now. It's almost 9:00. Our parents said that they'd be home around 9:15."

"You're right. But, we can't tell anyone about…us. Not yet, at least. I'll see you later." She kissed him once more and ran out the door.

Kuronue knew his sister had gone out, but didn't know she had gone until she walked into the living room. He could smell a familiar scent. 'Elijah' he growled. She was on the way to the kitchen as she passed the couch he was sitting on, and he grabbed her arm. " You reek of Elijah. Dad won't like it. He told me to make that you didn't go near him. But, I failed father and now I must tell him what you did." She gasped in surprise, but then glared at him with gold in her eyes. Kuronue remembered what his dad had told him. ' She's stronger than me, you know. I'd watch it around her if I were you.' He really didn't want to be his sister's next target. "You know what, forget what I just said. Here, you give your clothes and go take a shower. I'll cover for you."

"You'd better not pull anything." She growled as she took her shirt off and threw it in his face. "I have a Makai plant growing in my room with your name on it." She gave him the rest of her clothes and walked into bathroom. "Thanks," she said before she closed the door.

"Now to wash these clothes," he said as he tossed them into the machine and turned on the water.

"Kuronue, we're home!" yelled Botan as they came up the stairs. "Why is there water running? And where did your sister go?"

"Oh, she's taking a shower." He said as he scratched his head. "Umm… Yeah, she went out for a walk on the property and fell in the mud. So, I put her clothes in the wash and she's taking a shower.

"Oh, okay." Said Kurama. "You go when she's finished okay? I want you two to go to bed early since you've got a big fight tomorrow.

That night, while Kuronue was trying to sleep, he heard Yuki's voice, "Kuronue, are you asleep?" she asked.

"No, what do you need?" he asked back, getting out of bed.

"Nothing, I'm just worried. Probably for nothing. But, can I stay in here tonight?"

"Sure." He said as they dragged pillows and blankets onto the floor and fell asleep.

At the Urameshi house, Yusuke was trying to give his son some last minute training. "All, you have to do is concentrate really hard and fire the spirit gun. It isn't that hard. Never mind. Just work on the punches and kicks that I taught you." He left the training room and walked into the kitchen. "Keiko, it's useless. He just can't do it. I know Koenma wants him to be the leader of the group but he can't. I just don't understand how Kurama's daughter can knock him into next week when my son can't even fire a spirit gun two feet! Why Keiko? Why?"

"Well, love," said Keiko. "Kurama is a full demon, and Botan is or was a Spirit, so that makes their children half demon, half spirit. You're half demon and I'm full human, so that makes our children one-fourth demon and three-fourths human. I'm sorry, Yusuke. I almost feel as if it's my fault because I'm a human." She started to cry.

"No, Keiko. It isn't your fault. It was never your fault. I'd love you no matter what. You just always know that." He hugged her and kissed her. "But, I still worry about Kenji."

"Don't. He'll be fine as long as his friends are there." There was a crying sound from another room. "Oh. I have to put Akane to bed. I'll be right back." She rushed out of the room to put their baby girl to sleep. Yusuke sighed and went back into the training room to hopefully help his son a little bit more.

All was quiet at the Kuwabara house, except little Kazuma was sitting in his room reading a book about fighting techniques. When he heard a soft knock on the door. "Come in," he squeaked. 'Darn, I was caught.' His parents came into the room.

"Kazuma, sweetie," said Yukina. "We just wanted to tell you that we're very proud of you for taking on this mission and that we love you very much." She kissed his forehead. "Now go to sleep. We have to wake you up at 6:30 and it's already midnight." They left the room. Kazuma put his book down and fell asleep.

The next morning at 8:30, everybody at the train station waiting for Koenma to arrive. The kids were dressed in their fighting clothes and ready to go. As Koenma arrived (In his teenager form, wearing regular clothes) they said goodbye to their parents and boarded the train. Two hours later, they reached their stop at Fujita Station and took a bus to a large dojo out in the middle of a forest. "Well, this is it." Said Koenma as he pointed to the dojo. "This is where you'll be fighting. I must leave you now. But know this, always look where you're going. You never know what's around the corner." And with that he disappeared.

"Well, here we go." Said Kenji. "But just a warning to you guys. If all those monsters run away in a flash, it's because they know that Kenji, the son of Yusuke Urameshi has entered the building! Ha ha ha!!"

"Whatever, dimwit. Let's just go," growled Elijah.

Author's note: Wow, that was long. And it only took me two hours to write. Man, I have no life. I know I said there'd be fighting in this chapter. But I wanted to keep you waiting a bit. I also wanted to go into the character's heads a little more. Even though some people didn't want that. It makes it much easier to write the story. And, how did you like my bits of romance? Ooohh. Now there's a secrest relationship going on. But don't worry, the story won't focus on that for a while, the next chapter will be like all action.