Love's Denial

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This chapter has a lemon, kittens, so beware!


Chapter Fifteen


“Fucking spectacular,” Yusuke grumbled, crossing his arms and glaring at Genkai.


The old woman rolled her eyes as she pulled out a cigarette, lighting it up and bringing it to her lips. “For one who has saved the world, you are
still such a fucking baby, dumbass.”


Kurama cleared his throat. “Genkai, you seem to have more knowledge on the sprit world than I do, can you tell us what this tournament is? As Yoko, I remember it mentioned but that was just at passing,” he told her after gaining her attention.


“You are correct in your assumptions, Kurama,” Genkai started. “Shortly after Yama began his rule around seventy-five thousand years ago, he decided that he wanted to have some . . . fun with the three worlds. He created a tournament and invited the strongest humans, demons, and everything in between to fight it out and see who reigns supreme,” Genkai told them, stubbing out her cigarette.


“He calls it his little game because this tournament is not only a way for him to gain information on possible threats but a way for him to . . . get rid off a lot of creatures who could possibly threaten his rule. Now this was the perfect situation for Yama because being the sick son-of-a-bitch that he is, he had the old rulers of Makai fight it out and kill each other while squashing any threats on Ningenkai, which has always been in the sprit worlds control. He played them like puppets for almost twenty thousand years but Yama underestimated demotic intelligence. When the invites came out for the fifth tournament, the Makai lords refused to fight. When Yama tried to force the issue, they threaten war. After that incident, Yama invited any demons with an immense amount of power to observe the matches and if they chose to fight, well, he wouldn’t complain. He really is ingenious, he might be a wicked son-of-a-bitch, but he is a smart one,” Genkai finished, pulling out another cigarette.


The room was silent as the young men contemplated what their elder told them. Kurama was the first to break the silence. “Is it safe for us to assume that Yama wishes us dead?”


Genkai sighed. “I can tell you now that Kuwabarra is safe, well, as safe as he can be going up against herds of demons and pompous humans. Now as for you and Yusuke, that is another matter. You are both basically screwed and I can just about bet that Hiei was invited to this thing as well.”


“For an old human, you are sharp,” muttered a new voice. The four turned their heads around to the window, each taking a fighting stance but dropping it instantly as they saw Hiei standing against the wall. “I could have killed you thirty seconds ago, you fools.”


Genkai shrugged her shoulders and turned back around. “Fucking morons. How in the hell are all of you immature, fucking idiots,” she mumbled.


Kuwabarra stared at Hiei for only a moment before turning his head and Yusuke turned his body around to face Hiei. “So, you got a letter too, Hiei?”


“Hn, you are a little short on the uptake aren’t you, detective?”


Before Yusuke could protest Kurama spoke. “Now that we all know what is going on since I am sure that Hiei has been watching us since he entered the human world, how are we going to handle the situation?”


Hiei snorted. “Stupid fox, we are going to fight of course.”


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“Call them, Aki,” Tai pleaded with her smallest friend. She had been begging the girl to contact Yusuke and the others for over an hour and the girl had yet to move from her position on the couch.


Aki yawned loudly and blushed in embarrassment. She wished that Tai would leave her alone and let her sleep, but it didn’t seem that that was going to happen. “Tai, I see no reason to bother them this late at night. Besides, I know how to defend myself. I am sure that I’ll be fine and I have three months to prepare.”


Tai groaned. “Will you act like a normal creature just once in your life, Aki? How do you plan on fighting when you can barely move at the moment? Not only that but what about your slight . . .issue?” she demanded while resisting the urge to grab Aki by her shoulders and shaking her, hard.


Aki just gave her a small smile while closing her eyes and leaning her head against a pillow. “Things always have a way of working out, you know.”


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He watched as Yama’s messenger left him, his eyes cold and calculating. He already knew what was in the envelope; he knew what was expected of him. He turned in the shadows, watching his beautiful love sleep. He would fight and kill for her in three months with no regrets, just as he had done for five years.


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Kuwabarra dropped his cell phone in shock, completely oblivious to the fact that it shattered on the hardwood floor. “I don’t understand,” he muttered softly.


Kurama stared at him with weary eyes. They could only handle so much. “What is it now?”


Kuwabarra looked at him with disbelief. “I thought that this tournament was for the strongest beings in all three worlds.”


Genkai nodded her head. “It is, so what is the problem?”


“Aki has been invited as well. They are going to rip her to shreds.”
Hiei’s eyes widened in shock while Yusuke stared at Kuwabarra as though he had grown another head. Genkai could only shake her head. “Well, this certainly complicates things,” she muttered.


Kurama stood up. “Bloody hell, what the fuck is it with this girl?” he demanded to no one in particular while walking out of the room.


Yusuke ran after him. “What the hell, Kurama? Where are you going?”


Kurama didn’t even turn around as he answered him. “I am going to speak with the asshole himself.”


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Kayu was happy; no that is an understatement, she was ecstatic. Finally, after years of trying, she had succeeded in finding a way to get rid of the family trash. Her life couldn’t get any better at the moment.


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The doors leading to King Yama would intimidate any man, demon, or sprit in their right mind but to the legendary Yoko Kurama they were merely in the way. The angry sprit fox forced the doors open, ignoring Yama’s sprit assistants and ogres yelling in the background.


Yama lifted his eyes from the file he was reading. He smirked lightly when he saw the angry demon. “The legendary Yoko Kurama has come to pay me a visit. I am flattered,” he exclaimed, waving his assistants away.


Kurama walked up to the much bigger deity with no fear in his eyes. “Cut the chit-chat. Why in hell have you invited a human girl with no real fighting experience to fight in this tournament of yours?” he demanded, leaving no room for denial or argument.


Yama looked at Kurama in confusion. “Every fighter coming to my games are going to be there for any reason I see fit. Now, this human girl, what is her name?”


Kurama glared at Yama, his patience waning. “Aki, and there is no reason for her to be there unless you are wanting her dead.”


“Well, lucky for you, Kurama, I was just double checking the human fighters before you burst through my doors,” Yama told him, flipping through pages and pushing his glasses farther up his face. “Ah, yes, here she is. Tokashi Aki, age 21, knows basic martial arts and is a college student while working as a part-time librarian. Her sprit energy is low and there is no record of her having any real sprit awareness. What is the problem?”


“Do you now see your mistake, Yama?” Kurama demanded.


Yama gave the sprit creature a wicked grin. “Aki is fighting. It seems that she has an extensive amount of knowledge about demons and Makai. From her file, it seems that she knows more than I do.”


“Are you fucking with me, you bastard?”


“You had better watch your tone, Yoko Kurama. I do not take to disrespect well. The girl is fighting and nothing you or anyone else says can change my decision,” Yama told the upset fox in a deadly calm tone.


Kurama gave the deity a deadly smile that his youko side would be proud of. “Understand my words carefully, if one hair one her head is touched, I will relish in killing you with my bare hands,” and with that he walked out of the office.


Yama smirked lightly. “You really should be careful about who you have feelings for, Kurama,” he muttered, knowing full and well that if the youko was pissed enough, he could kill Yama.


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“Make sure you have Yukina here in at least five days, Hiei,” Genkai told the fire demon as she walked with him outside. “We need her talents in order to prepare Aki for the fights and to take care of the injuries you will all receive during your training.”


Hiei nodded his head in agreement. “Is there anyway for Kurama to get her out of it?”


Genkai shook her head lightly. “Yama is a complete bastard. Kurama is wasting his breath.”


Hiei sighed lightly as he flitted off into the night for the second time that evening.


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Kuwabarra doused his face in cold water as he leaned over the bathroom sink. His life sucked. First, he lost his lover because he wasn’t good enough, then he and one of his best friends started fighting for no real reason, after that he had fucked up a perfectly good date because his head was in his ass, and now he was stuck in a tournament that he wanted no part of. And if that wasn’t the tip of the iceberg, his weakest and closest companion also has to attend the tournament. Yes friends, our dear Kuzuma was ready to loss his fucking mind.


Looking up in the mirror, the strong human couldn’t help but noticed that he had changed a lot over the last three years. He was still tall and well muscled but he had lost a lot of body mass and now had a lithe body. His face had lost some of its harshness of his youth and his hair had grown to his chin. He was definitely not the same man who fought in Maze castle around seven years ago.


Kuwabarra left the room and went to his bedroom and feel on top of his bed. He needed to get out of this slump he was in. He didn’t want to get out of bed in the morning and not even Eikaki could brighten his day like she usually did. Kuzuma closed his eyes and took a shuddering breath, coming to a decision. It was time to cut his losses. After this tournament, he would find someone else and be rid of the memory of Hiei for good. Even if he had to distance himself from all of the others, he would get on with his life. It was time for him to claim his balls back.


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Yusuke paced Tai’s living room floor nervously. It had been five days since they had received their invitations and Hiei had finally gotten Yukina to Aki. Yusuke just hoped that her injuries were not too much for the ice apparition. When she walked out of Aki’s room wearing an exhausted smile, Yusuke let out a sigh of relief. “So, you healed everything?”


Yukina looked at the boy. “Yes, but she was hurt pretty bad and still needs to be careful for a few days.”


“Thank you, Yukina,” Yusuke told as she sat down and tool a cup of tea from Tai. The sprit detective walked to Aki’s door and through the door open.


Aki turned to Yusuke and gave him a shy smile as she finished buttoning a flannel shirt over an overly large t-shirt. “Did you forget how to knock, Yusuke?”


Yusuke stopped in his tracks. He gave her a grin. “Sorry about that, but this can’t wait.”


Aki gave him a confused smile. “What is it, Yusuke? Is there something wrong?”


Yusuke sighed as he sat down on her tiny bed. He looked around her room and noticed that everything was really tiny and that he was surrounded by books. He turned back to Aki, who had sat down at her desk, completely comfortable in her surroundings. “I just realized that you are really small.”


Aki blushed as she pulled her legs up on the chair and wrapping her arms around them. “Well compared to you, I am sure that I do seem very small. So, what did you want to talk about, Yusuke?”


Yusuke grinned. “Didn’t mean to change the subject like that. Now, down to the nitty-gritty. You are stuck in this tournament. There is no way for us to get you out of it,” Yusuke told her, his voice deadly serious.


Aki gave him an understanding smile. “I knew that, Yusuke. I have to fight. You shouldn’t have wasted Koenma’s time and energy by having him plead my case to his father. If you had just asked me, I would have told you that I had no choice,” she told him calmly, her smile never fading.


Yusuke sighed as he leaned back against her wall. “Koenma had nothing to do with it. Kurama actually was the one to go before Yama. He was pissed when he got back to Genkai’s the next day.”


Aki looked at Yusuke as though he had grown two heads. “Kurama-san went to see Yama over me? Surely you are mistaken, Yusuke.”


Yusuke gave her a look of confusion. “Uhhh . . . no, I am pretty sure that I know what I saw. I mean, I know Kurama has been an ass lately, he and Kuwabarra are barely speaking, but he was quite upset that you got an invitation.”


Aki forced herself to smile. “Okay, so now that that is over with, what do you really need to tell me?” she asked softly.


“You need to come to Genkai’s within the next few days. We have to get you ready for the tournament. Genkai, Kurama, and I are going to teach you how to fight.”


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Aki rubbed her temples the moment Yusuke left the room. The boy drove her insane. She pulled her blanket down and just as she was about to lie down, her phone rang. Aki grabbed it and answered before the first ring was finished. “Hello?”


“Be at my apartment in twenty minutes. Make sure no one sees you,” and with that the caller hung up.


Aki gave a small smile as she pulled on a pair of sneakers. Her master might want her again.


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Tai groaned as Kaname latched onto her neck. She had missed him lately. “Oh baby, I am so sorry about neglecting you lately,” she mumbled softly in his ear.


Kaname leaned up and looked her in the eye. “What are you talking about?”


Tai sighed as she leaned up and moved out from underneath him. She sat up, pulling the sheet up to her neck. “Aki has had me torn in two for a while now and I just want you to know that it is over now,” the dark haired woman told him while running her hand over her bandaged arm.


Shaking his head in amusement, Kaname just smiled at her. “Honey, Aki is always going to be a part of her life. You still think that you owe her for what she did all those years ago. I wouldn’t have you any different. I love you the way you are.”


Tai gave him a look of disbelief. “You really love me?”


“Yes, I do and if I am not mistaken then I can assume that you feel the same way, right?” he asked her, cupping her face gently.


Tai looked at him through pained eyes. “But you know everything, and I mean everything. I am good for nothing more than fucking and –“ she started but was stopped when Kaname kissed her.


When he finally let Tai go, watching her pant and look at him with lust filled eyes. “The past is the past and the future is the future. I love you, Tai, the woman you became because of what you had to go through in the past.”


Tai looked at him through tear filled eyes. “I love you too. Oh how I love you, Kaname,” and she kissed him while straddling his hips.


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When Aki reached her master’s apartment, she mechanically unlocked the door and walked in, undressing as she made her way to her master’s bedroom. There was no room for error. Before she got to the door, all her insecurities fell like a wall. Maybe this was the end and her master wanted noting more to do with her or he could have forgiven her, she didn’t know. Her mind was torn. She just hoped that it was the latter.


Aki folded her clothes neatly and placed them on the chair sitting next to his bedroom door. She looked around and realized that her master was not in the apartment. The blonde haired girl fell to her knees at the edge of the bed, burying her face into her master’s cover. It smelled so good. Aki couldn’t stop herself as she climbed up onto the end of the bed, grabbing her master’s pillow and laying down.


She nuzzled her face into his pillow, closing her eyes. Aki’s complete and utter exhaustion hit her at that moment and she couldn’t help but completely relax into the pillow, her body curling up around the pillow at the end of the bed. ‘Just a few minutes,’ she thought just as she fell into an exhausted sleep.


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Kurama walked into his apartment, automatically locking the door and heading to his room. He stopped in the doorway, his eyes widening in shock at the sight before him. He had been expecting to see his hummingbird on her knees waiting for him but instead he found her curled up in a little ball on the end of his bed.


Kurama knew that he should be upset but as he pushed her long bangs away from her face, he couldn’t help but smile at her. He walked over to the other side of the bed, throwing the covers down as far as he could with his hummingbird at the end. He stripped out of his own clothes and walked back to his hummingbird, easily picking her up and walking back to the other side of the bed. Kurama watched the pillow fall to the floor as she wrapped her arms around his chest. The youko climbed into the bed, bringing his hummingbird’s sleeping body flush with his. He fell asleep within minutes.


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Yukina smiled as Hiei walked her up to Genkai’s temple. “Thank you for escorting me, brother, but it is getting late. You should be heading back to Kuzuma now,” she told him, stopping at the top of the stairs.


Hiei looked away guiltily. He couldn’t tell her that he had screwed up again. “Hn, the human can wait. I haven’t seen you in weeks and you are far more important, Yukina,” he told her gruffly.


Yukina giggled softly. “You shouldn’t say things like that, brother. I know that you love Kuzuma. There is no reason for you to hide it.”


Hiei started picking up the pace to the temple, trying to avoid any more questions from Yukina. The fire demon knew that Yukina would be upset if she found out that he broke Kuwabarra’s heart. She was her brother’s biggest fan. “Come Yukina, it is late,” he told her over his shoulder, avoiding her look of confusion.


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She was warm. Aki couldn’t help but nuzzle her face even deeper into her pillow. Her eyes opened when she felt the arms around her tighten. She lifted her head and saw her master’s sleeping face and she smiled softly, tucking her head back into his shoulder.


Kurama woke the moment Aki moved her head back to his shoulder. He brought a hand to his face and rubbed his eyes, while lifting up to look at the alarm clock on the other side of the bed. It was four o’clock in the morning. The fox had not realized that he was so tired. He laid back down on the bed, running his hands down Aki’s back. “How did you sleep, hummingbird?” Kurama asked her softly, hiding his smirk.


Aki blushed, keeping her head down. “I am sorry, master,” she whispered.


Kurama pulled her away from him and lifted her face to his. “You didn’t answer the question, hummingbird, but that is okay. I also needed the sleep so I will allow it this one time. Now, about you breaking my other rules. Hummingbird, I told you my rules before I ever touched you. I had thought that something terrible had happened to you and then I saw you with Kuwabarra at your apartment and you were perfectly fine. That showed me a total lack of disregard for the rules I have set for you, hummingbird,” Kurama told her, his face growing serious and his voice harsh.


Aki waited for her master to continue but when he didn’t she knew that it was time for her to explain. “My trip ran longer than I expected. I ran into a family issue and then when I got home I was utterly exhausted. I slept for a few hours and after Kuzuma left I realized that my phone was dead. I don’t disregard any rules that you have given me, I relish in them. I truly respect you more than any other or I wouldn’t put myself in such a humiliating position. I like having you as my master,” she told him in a soft voice.


Kurama sighed lightly, his face expressionless as he looked into his hummingbird’s eye’s filled with nothing more than adoration. He knew this was a mistake and that he should end this thing that they have but she was the first to truly give him what he desired. His hummingbird would do anything he asked of her and even though his mind was telling him to run away from this girl and that she was nothing more than trouble, Kurama couldn’t help it. He cupped her face in his hands. “Consider my lack of attention your punishment, but understand, if this happens again, you will not get off so easy,” he told her, his eyes flashing gold.


Aki lowered her eyes. “Of course, master.”


Kurama smirked, turning on his stomach and pulling his hummingbird under him. “Now, I think you deserve a reward, hummingbird,” he whispered, his smirk growing as he watched her eyes widen in confusion. “You see, you handled that doctor beautifully, hummingbird. I knew that you were good, but that was a remarkable performance, one that deserves a reward. Oh, and by the way, you are going to tell me what really happened that night but that can wait. I am going to let you chose your reward now though,” he finished, running his hand down her side and up her belly.


Aki closed her eyes, her body was already on the verge of combusting and yet her master had hardly touched her. Her body truly was lewd. “Uh, what kind of reward, master?” she moaned, shifting her hips.


Kurama smirked as he leaned down to her ear. “Anything you want, hummingbird. If you want, I can fuck you into the mattress or I can drive you crazy with my touch and mouth until you beg for me to stop. I would even lay back and let you touch me in any way that you wanted and ride me until you were satisfied. So, what is it that you want, my hummingbird? I’ll do anything that you want,” he whispered, pulling her ear lobe into his mouth and smirking at her sudden intake of breath.


Aki opened her eyes and turned to look into her master’s eyes. “I want you to kiss me, my master.”


Kurama smirked at her. “Where, hummingbird?” he asked, sitting up and straddling her hips.


Aki groaned as he took one of her breast into his hand, gently messaging it. She knew that she looked like nothing more than a wanton whore, but with him, she’d have it no other way. “I . . . uh . . . . oh . . I want . . . you to kiss me, . . . just me . . . uh . . ,” she groaned as he continued his administrations.


Kurama pulled away from his hummingbird, his eyes wide in shock. He took Aki’s chin in his hand and held her face up. “Open your eyes,” he commanded softly, stifling his own groan of pleasure, as she looked at him with lust-filled, pouting eyes. “Explain what you mean.”


Aki sighed, trying to get her thoughts under control. “You have only kissed me a handful of times and of all the wonderful things that you do to me, your kisses are my favorite, my master,” she told him, her face turning pink as she nuzzled her face into his hand.


Kurama smiled, leaning his head down so that his mouth was only a breath apart from hers. “Why didn’t you say something before, hummingbird?”


“It is not my place, my master. I am to take what you give me and give you what you ask,” she whispered, smiling and tilting her head back as her master threaded his fingers into her hair.


The kitsune smirked. “Good answer and I’ll keep what you said in mind,” and then he pressed his lips to her violently, immediately sliding his tongue into her mouth.


Aki moaned in delight as her master raped her mouth. He was claiming his complete dominance over her, sliding his tongue against hers. She pushed her body against her masters as one of his hands went from her hair to her back. She gasped for breath when he let her mouth go.


Kurama smirked, his own breathing uneven, as he watched his hummingbird below him. “I hope you aren’t finished, hummingbird,” he whispered against her lips as he latched onto her neck, sucking violently.


Aki groaned, turning her head to give him more access. “I am finished when you are, master.”


Kurama grinned as he moved down from her neck to her collarbone. He ran his hands along her body, gripping and bruising her body as he brought her pleasure. The fox flicked his tongue around her nipple before bringing his mouth around it and biting down hard causing her back to arch up into him as her mouth opened in a silent scream. “Ah, hummingbird, do you know how sexy you look?” he asked, pulling his mouth from her body and sliding in between her legs.


Unable to utter any other sound but a moan, Aki just shook her head. The youko smirked as he got to his knees between his hummingbird’s long legs.
He grabbed one of the pillows from the headboard, lifting Aki’s hips and putting it under them. “Let me tell you what you look like, my sweet hummingbird. You look wanton, like a whore in heat who just can’t get enough. If I were any other type of creature, I would say that you were nothing more than a common whore, but I am a youko and we see more than what others see. Tell me, my wanton hummingbird, about youkos,” he muttered against her stomach.


Aki let out a shuddering breath and started. “Youko’s are sensual creatures. They enjoy sex and pleasure. They are happy and affection creatures but are deadly when pissed off,” she mumbled.


“Go on,” he told her, nipping at her hipbone.


“Ah . . . youko’s are also very beautiful and . . . uh . . . I really can not think properly when you do that,” she told him as her legs spread wider as he moved from her hips to the inside of her thighs.


The fox smirked. “You can and you will, hummingbird, that is if you want to cum at some point tonight,” he told her as his mouth found her secret spot.


Aki basically jumped off the bed as her head snapped back. “Shit . . . ah . . .,” she started, taking a deep breath. “All youkos are absolutely breathtaking in their . . . . ah damnit . . . beauty. It makes them . . . mmmm . . oh . . . crave the exotic and priceless. Now, can you please . . . stop . . . oh hell,” the blond haired girl begged as she gripped the sheets next to her head.


Kurama couldn’t help but grin as he used his wicked tongue to bring even more curses from his hummingbird’s somewhat innocent mouth. He was surprised she didn’t scream when he bit her clit. He lifted his head away from her and moved back up her body, placing gentle kisses on random parts of her body as he reached her face. “My, my, hasn’t our vocabulary grown, hummingbird. Your little lesson was very accurate. I am guessing that you have a book or two on youkos, no?” he asked, nipping at her neck and grinding his cock against her.


Aki groaned and nodded. “One or two, my master.”


Kurama sat up, jerking her legs roughly and positioning himself at her opening. “Sorry to cut the foreplay short, hummingbird, but I need to cum and if that dirty mouth of yours was any indication, you need to cum as well,” he told her plunging into her body with one brutal thrust.


Aki was lost in her little world of pleasure and there seemed to be no way out. “Please, please, please, please, please,” she whispered at every thrust into her body.


Kurama groaned as his hummingbird began her mantra. He put one hand in her hair and gripped her hip, pulling her body up against his. He pulled her head back and claimed her lips brutally, mocking his thrusts inside her body.


Aki wrapped her arms around her master’s shoulders, groaning in pain and pleasure as he raped her mouth, pulled her hair, and claimed her body over and over again, giving her no room to breath or think, just feel. Just as she thought that she would pass out, the small woman felt her master cum inside her that triggered her own toe-curling orgasm.


Kurama moaned as he pulled himself out of his trembling hummingbird, laying her down on the bed and falling down next to her, wrapping his arms around her. He kissed her neck gently while nuzzling her hair. “Oh, hummingbird, I really did miss you,” he whispered before falling off to sleep again.


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Genkai groaned as she saw Yusuke walk up to the temple. When the jackass had called and told her that he and the others would be there to train in a few days, the old woman had thought that she would have at least three days of peace and quiet before she had almost three months of hell. The dumbass had come after only one day of rest. She really did a good job when she picked him as her student. She stubbed out her cigarette and stood up. “Well, jackass, are you ready to train?” she demanded, kicking a rock at his forehead.


Yusuke dodged the rock and grinned. “Hell yeah.”



Here it is kittens! Enjoy and review please!


Kitty Korner:

blood-illusions: thanks for the review and if you like Aki now oh just wait until you read what is going to happen in the next couple of chapters (namely two or three)