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Bleeding Mascara	By : KuwaLover Category: Yuyu Hakusho > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1725 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Bleeding Mascara
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or its characters. I do not make a profit by using it in this story. I'm just using it as an outlet for stuff that has been bothering me and don't make any profit or anything.
Warning: Violence, language, AU, gore, blood, angst
Dedication: I dedicate this fan fic to a friend of mine from work and his family; Andre and Nichole. They don't read fan fics but I still dedicate this to them in the most sincerely form of wishing everything good to head in their direction and to show my sympathy for them and my prayers for their family.

Screams echoed through out the grocery store. The scream was chilling to say the least as it sounded as if someone was dying. The worst part was it came from the meat room; the room where the butchers worked on cutting meat for customers. It was a very busy day. It was before the big holiday and it was the beginning of summer time so it was certainly going to be busy with many orders and orders that needed to be done quickly.
Yusuke had been a butcher for 8 years and had been working at this grocery store with his three best friends and best girlfriend for those same 8 years. Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama were butchers just like him and his friend Keiko who started out as a packaging girl before turning into the department's manager. They had all met at the grocery store and became best friends from seeing each other each day and working almost all the time together.
They had bonded like most people do working so close together and had a fun time which was unusual especially at such a dull job. However, they seemed to make it fun for each other and even hung out outside of work. It seemed like they would all be working there until they were to retire.
However sometimes things don't go the way you think they would.
One this day, Yusuke had decided he needed a break. Usually Kuwabara would have gone on it with his best friend, however it was so busy they couldn't afford to spare two people to go on break at the same time. Besides, steaks needed to be cut and Kuwabara was the best at using the bone cutter.
So Yusuke goes on his break. It was a nice 15 minute break and was dreading going back to work. However as he was walking down one of the aisle back to the meat room he started to hear something unsettling.
At first he thought it was two people yelling at each other, or even 'play' screaming. However as he reached the end of the aisle he could tell that the scream wasn't playing or even yelling. It was a pure agonizing pain filled scream.
Yusuke's eyes were wide and his face paled. It was a man's scream but it was the scream of pure horror and pain. He had NEVER heard such a scream in his life. It made his body shiver and felt as if he wanted to puke. It was a howling moan with a scream and a mix of words that couldn't be made out more than ramblings.
The area outside of the meat room was surrounded by wide eyed customers and a few employees. A tall black man stood at the meat window looking into the room through the window.
“Calm down.” the man said with a calm yet kind tone.
“Get him some ice.” he said turning around and looking around.
A red headed young man came rushing out from the meat room, tears in his emerald green eyes. He seemed to not even notice Yusuke standing there as he rushed towards the Appy department, running to get some ice.
“It will be okay. Just keep calm.” the man continued to say.
It was at this point a few of the store's manager's came running through the doors of the meat room.
“Someone call 911.” the man said to Keiko who had tears in her eyes as she nodded at him before going to the nearest phone.
Yusuke felt as if he was a ghost. He felt as if no one saw him or could even see him. It felt as if he was watching something that wasn't real. But he knew it was real. He knew that something bad had happened while he had gone on his break. It was at this time Kurama came back with a tub of ice and a plastic bad. It was big enough to hold something.
Yusuke looked at the door and noticed that people were kneeling on the floor, as if whoever was injured was on the ground. The normal noise of the machines had either stopped or were drowned out by the screams of pain and terror. Yusuke's stomach did flip flops and he felt as if he was going to faint at any minute. He was too scared to go in. He was too scared to see who was injured.
“Yusuke.”
Yusuke jumped at his name and found Keiko looking at him with wide eyes. He looked down at her. He could tell. But...it couldn't be true could it? It couldn't be. Not him.
“No...” he whispered as it slowly hit him.
Keiko looked ready to cry again.
Yusuke shook his head and held back the tears that tried to force their way past his eyes. He walked past his best girl friend and took in a deep breath before entering the meat room.
He had seen blood before. He was a butcher for kami's sake! He had a stomach as strong as an ox! He could eat while watching an autopsy! However, he felt as if he was going to throw up and faint at the same time.
On the floor practically laid his best friend. There was blood covering his white coat and seemed to soak through it to his clothes underneath it. Hiei was holding him in his lap and stroking his head as he tried to keep him calm. Kurama was sitting next to Kuwabara, holding on to his hand with a white smock that was slowly turning red. However, in Kurama's other hand was a bag of ice. What was in the bag made Yusuke almost throw up.
Kuwabara's right pointer finger and the tip of his thumb. Both of them were in the bag of ice. Yusuke's body trembled as he looked around the room. He could picture what had happened in his mind's eye.

Kuwabara was at the bone saw. He was cutting some meat for a customer; most likely the black man who was being so kind and trying to keep the orange haired man calm. However, something happened....something unexplained and unpredictable. His glove some how got caught in the machine and had pulled his hand towards the jagged blades. In less than a second, half of his pointer finger and the tip of his thumb went flying into the air and landed not too far on the floor.
Kuwabara's eyes widened in pain and there was where the scream came. Kurama was the first to notice what had happened and had screamed along side Kuwabara's; hence why Yusuke had thought he heard someone 'fighting' coming from the room before.
Kurama's eyes filled with tears as he watched Kuwabara grab his hand and fall to the ground, rolling around in pain and agony. Hiei was the first to come to the orange haired man's aid. He grabbed on to him and held him tight. Kurama had rushed out, tears in his eyes and rushed back in with a bucket of ice and a bag. He rushed over to where the missing digits landed and picked them up and put them in the bag and put ice in it. He then sat next to Kuwabara holding the hand that was bleeding; covering it with a once clean smock; which slowly began to be dyed a deep red.
Yusuke fell to his knees next to the moaning Kuwabara. His cries weren't as loud as they had been before however it seemed he was loosing a lot of blood and slowly his best friend's face was becoming pale before his eyes.
“Kuwa....” he whispered as he didn't know what to do but stare at his friend's face.
Saliva came from his mouth and tears flowing from his eyes. His body was full of sweat and blood as his body continued to shake. He moaned and every once in a while would let out a cry that would sound like: 'my finger'.
Yusuke's eyes filled with tears and he cried.
“Where the fuck is the ambulance!” Yusuke cried out and screamed.
The other people in the meat room were crying as they stood there helpless to help their fellow team mate.
He was a guy that made working fun. Kuwabara would always have a smile on his face and would always joke around and make everything fun. To see him on the floor in pain and slowly looking as if he was dying right before their eyes...well, it was a hard sight to see.
Finally the ambulance came. They gently pulled him away from Hiei and put him on a stretcher. One of the EMT's took the bag that had Kuwabara's finger and looked grimly at it. Yusuke could tell from the look on the guy's face that they wouldn't be able to re-attach it. Yusuke watched with horror and tears as they carried his best friend out of the room through the back way and out on of the doors meant for vendors.
Yusuke sat on the bloody floor with Hiei and Kurama. They just sat there staring at the blood; all of it from Kuwabara's body. They couldn't understand how it could have happened. He had done everything that was required to keep him from losing a finger and yet...and yet....
It wasn't fair! There wasn't anything else they could do or Kuwabara could have done to prevent it from happening! He had been a long time veteran of using that damn machine. Yet, even he had some how lost a finger! It wasn't fair and what was worse was the fact that Kuwabara had a side job of being an artist on the side of working in the meat industry. He was a fabulous landscapist. He would go to the park on some of his days off or sometimes he would go outside for his break and quickly sketch a scene of the sun and some of the clouds with birds flying in the air.
Kuwabara had made some extra cash from selling his works of art and now, not only would he not be able to cut meat any longer but his career as an artist was gone. He couldn't draw with out the use of his pointer finger, let a lone the tip of his thumb!
Yusuke felt as if someone should be blamed for what had happened. Yusuke's earlier suspicion of Kuwabara's glove being the cause of the accident had been correct. He himself had small pieces of the tips of his fingers missing because of the machines. However, this was the first time in as long as they had all been working there that someone had actually lost half of an entire digit!
The trio were finally made to get up off the floor so it could be cleaned up. When they got up they were expected to go back to work. Kurama and Hiei seemed to sort of welcome the distraction; however Yusuke wasn't sure if he could handle working knowing that his best friend was fighting for his life in the hospital. Speaking of which...
Yusuke eyes widened when he realized no one called Kuwabara's girl friend; Yukina. Yusuke had decided if anyone was going to tell her it would be him. He tried to call her using the work phone; however since she her self worked at the same store; tho a different department, she didn't pick up. Yusuke figured she ignored it thinking that work was calling her in. He decided to text her in order to let her at least know to call back the store and find out which hospital Kuwabara had been sent to.
After not hearing back, he decided it would be a good idea to just finish out the rest of his work day. However, he really didn't feel like it. The entire room felt as if all the life was sucked of it. More people from that department came in and with each one coming into work; each learned of the horrific accident. It had affected everyone, not just in their own department but the entire store.
Kuwabara had been a well loved and known butcher; tho he was also dating a popular girl who was very kind and sweet. They had a little baby girl together. Hiei, being Yukina's twin brother; hated Kuwabara for a long time after they had started dating and even grew bitter towards him feeling as if Kuwabara had 'knocked' up his sister.
However, after seeing his niece he changed his tune and had grown to like Kuwabara and respect him. He saw how kind and loyal Kuwabara was to his sister and that he had nothing to worry about with him. He would take care of his sister.
Now that Kuwabara was out, sure he'd get workers comp. However, what about after that? It was his dominate hand that had the injury. There wasn't much he could do with four and a half fingers. He could just pack out the meat stuff instead of cut them, but who knew how this accident had affected Kuwabara's psyche. What if he is now traumatized by the bone cutter noise? What if he faints at the sight of blood now? There was just too many things that could change for the worse for the couple. Yukina worked but they were only surviving with Kuwabara's mega paycheck. It wasn't called hazard pay for nothing however, in the long run was it really worth it?
So many questions needed to be answered, however the only one who could answer them all was in surgery at the moment. No one knew when Kuwabara would even be up to seeing visitors let alone when he would be out of the hospital. Yusuke thought he wouldn't be able to hold out at work. Every time he heard the bone cutter being used, all he could think of was Kuwabara's shivering form on the ground with his hand wrapped in a white smock slowing turning red. Hiei couldn't help but think the same thing as Yusuke.
However it was Kurama who felt as if he couldn't handle being there anymore and had gone home early as the images of Kuwabara's body on the ground had become too much for him; especially when the bone cutter was turned on.
On that day it seemed like everyone's world had come crashing down and they were scared. Scared of what the future would bring. It made each and every one in that back room feel as if life was short and that no matter how skilled you are, you can end your career in a second with just a small mistake or miscalculation.
Yusuke finished off the rest of his working day and was about to sign out and head over to the hospital where his best friend had been sent to.
However, to his shock and great joy he found his best friend riding into the store on a motorized cart. With him was Yukina and their beautiful 3 year old girl Yuza. Yusuke went up to them with a less worried face however before he could really say anything he stopped and looked at Kuwabara's hand. His own face went just as pale as Kuwabara's face was at this moment. His hand was wrapped up however even with it wrapped you could tell that he was missing a finger. You could tell the pointer finger was half gone.
Yusuke's eyes glistened as if they wanted to cry again. However, he wasn't going to cry. Not in front of Yukina and especially not in front of his best friend.
Kuwabara gave Yusuke a faint smile, however he looked like shit. He was still in hospital gown as they had to throw out his clothes because of how soaked of blood they were. He was happy that he hadn't worn his favorite shirt and pants to work today. He would have been so upset if he had to throw out his shirt with Eikichi being held by his little baby girl.
Yukina gave Yusuke a small smile. She seemed to be holding up pretty well considering what had happened and didn't look too worried. Meanwhile, their daughter was luckily too young to understand what had happened and seemed to only think her dad's finger was 'bent' wrong.
Yusuke awkwardly looked at his best friend. It was a little bit funny to find his best friend in one of those hospital gowns that were open in the back. The thought of seeing Kuwabara's ass made him chuckle a little bit but he shook the thought out of his head before he decided to push all 'unmanly' things out of his mind and gave his friend a fierce bear hug; being careful to not touch the injured hand.
As the two held on to each other for a bit, Yusuke realized that even tho something so horrible had happened and to one of his 'own'; that it would only be a horrible and a tragedy if he made it into one. Kuwabara seemed to be ready to move on and get back to his life; this being proven to be true by the fact he had come back to work so soon after finishing surgery just to get his medicine; but also to let everyone know not to worry about him.
Yusuke smiled inwardly of how kind his best friend was and how strong he was.
In the end, no one truly knew how Kuwabara's life would be, however, with this finally action at the end of such a horrific day; it showed that maybe, with hope and a lot of love, Kuwabara would be able to make the whole half a finger work and would be able to even learn how to paint again.
Who knows, only time and healing will tell.

End.

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