Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Conquering All Odds ❯ A Lesson Learned ( Chapter 5 )

Conquering All Odds

Chapter Five: A Lesson Learned

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Snow: Here`s chapter five after a long anticipated wait!

Hiei: Shut up baka-lion. No one likes you stupid stories. You haven`t even gotten a new review!

Snow: That`s just because I haven`t updated in a while!

Hiei: You idiot!

Snow: Who you calling an idiot?!?

Snow and Hiei continue fighting…

Disclaimer: I don`t own YYH okay?

Yusuke: Meow! Meow! (Translation: ON WITH THE FICCIE!! *dun dada duuuun*)

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Yusuke just sat for the rest of the day inside that bag, listening to the teacher and all the other students.

`Thanks, Kurama.' He thought and smiled inwardly.

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Good thing for little Yusuke that it was a Friday and he had two whole days of doing nothing. `When you`re a little adorable kitten, you can`t fight demons…unless they`re rat demons.' He thought, smiling a cat-like grin as he rode home in the backpack.

Yusuke then felt pressure on his little belly. `Uh oh.' He thought desperately. `I can`t go to the bathroom in Kurama`s backpack!' He peeked out of the backpack to see Kurama taking his precious time getting an ice cream cone.

"Thank you," Kurama said gratefully as he took his change from the ice cream vendor, slipped it in his pocket and began licking his chocolate ice cream cone.

`Damn it!' Yusuke thought, scratching the side of the backpack with his razor sharp claws. `Kurama better hurry up unless he wants kitty crap in his bag!'

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Yusuke tried his best to hold it in and was relieved when he peeked out and saw Kurama`s house right in front of him. `Run! Kurama, run!' Yusuke thought even more desperately.

Kurama opened the door, walked in, sat his book bag on the floor, and opened it to reveal a very bathroom deprived little "Yuki."

Kurama lifted the black kitten out of the bag and sat him down. When he did so, Yusuke ran off into the bathroom. Kurama followed. He rounded the corner and saw Yusuke, with his back facing him, using the bathroom on his mother`s favorite white bathroom rug.

"NO! Bad Yuki!" Kurama exclaimed, his eyes were as round as plates and he waved his arms through the air frantically.

Yusuke turned his head around and meowed innocently. `What? When you gotta go, you gotta go.' He stood up and kicked the ground in front of his "business" as if to cover it up.

Kurama slapped his forehead in frustration. "I knew animals hate me." He said and went into the other room. He returned with a paper towel, picked up Yusuke`s little "present" with it and ran into the kitchen saying: "Ew ew ew ew grooooossss!!" He threw it into the trash can like it was on fire.

Yusuke laughed in his head. `He looks cute when he`s creeped out…' Realizing what he just thought he nearly hissed. `Why the hell do I keep having these stupid thoughts!!? Kurama is my friend! Damn it!'

He then felt a spray of water on him. "Bad Yuki!" Kurama said he was holding a spray bottle. He sprayed again, this time in Yusuke`s face. He meowed loudly and wiped his face and whiskers with his paw.

"We`ll have to potty train you." Kurama said. He led Yuki to the park to teach him how to "be a good kitty and use the bathroom properly."

He told him that whenever he felt like he was going to go to the bathroom to scratch on the door and he would let him out.

Yusuke listened to every word Kurama had to say, because he didn`t want to be kicked out and have to live on the street where he might never find someone to turn him back into a human. But he saw a really cool looking purple butterfly and his kitty instincts couldn`t resist. He got away from Kurama when he was talking to him about "kitty toilet seats" and went to go chase the butterfly.

`Ah, Toguro, I see you`ve been reincarnated as a harmless purple butterfly…I shall eat you now! Ah ha ha!' Yusuke pretended rather childishly as he crept up on the butterfly, which was sitting peacefully on a small twig.

He crouched lower, sticking his small behind high in the air. His tail twitched. A small cat-like smirk crept upon his face, showing his small, sharp teeth.

The butterfly turned around and Yusuke pounced, but instead of a butterfly, he pounced on a rather large bulldog that was stalking him to begin with. `Uh oh.' Yusuke turned around and hauled ass out of there with the dog right behind him.

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Meanwhile Kurama was sitting on a bench looking up at the clouds, when he saw a black kitten run across the grass with a large bulldog on his heels. "Yuki!" He gasped and ran to the aid of his poor little kitten.

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`Can`t we just work this out? I mean I know cats and dogs don`t get along but can`t we just put this aside and…' He meowed loudly as the bulldog charged and was going to pounce on him when…

"Haru! Bad boy!" A feminine voice called out and the bulldog stopped dead in its tracks.

Yusuke turned his head to see a woman with sky blue hair, wearing the Sariyaski Jr. High girl`s uniform. `B-Botan?' He thought surprised. Then came Kurama, panting and sweating he picked up the traumatized kitten and held him in his arms. "Botan?" He asked once he caught his breath. "What are you doing with a bulldog?"

"Oh, the dog, Haru, isn`t mine. He`s Koenma`s." Botan smiled her bubbly girl smile and latched the red leash onto Haru`s collar. "He wanted me to walk him while he stamped some more papers." She patted his head and looked at Kurama and his furry friend. "Is this adorable little kitten yours?" She went over and scratched Yusuke behind his ears.

"I found him, and I guess he`s mine." Kurama said as Yusuke climbed on top of his head. `This is so cool! And if I trip, I can just grab his hair and save myself from falling off.' Yusuke thought childishly.

"Oh! Before I forget, have you seen Yusuke?" Botan asked curiously while scratching her head. At the sound of his name, Yusuke jumped. He was glad at least someone was looking for him.

"No, I haven`t seen him lately." The red head told her. "Do you know where he might be?" Kurama asked, concern lacing his voice.

"I have no clue. Kuwabara says the last time he saw him was storming out of the arcade because he wasn`t able to beat a racing game." Botan said matter-of-factly.

`I coulda beaten that game easy! I had just gotten back from fighting these cat demons and…' Yusuke gasped. `The cat demon scratched me a few minutes before I turned into this…thing. It was the cat`s scratches that did this to me!'

"Sounds like Yusuke." Kurama stifled a small chuckle, but then asked. "Are you sure you have no idea where he is?" Concern was blatantly obvious this time.

"As I said, I don`t know." Botan said disappointedly.

"Keep looking, he is your Spirit Detective." Kurama said as Botan held out her hand and her oar formed. She hopped on and said. "Of course we`ll keep looking, we`ll keep looking until we find him!" She then flew away with the bulldog on her lap.

Kurama waved until she was out of his sight.

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Later that night, Yusuke couldn`t sleep. His brown eyes scanned the room and then finally rested on Kurama`s sleeping form. Getting up from the beanbag, he placed a small paw on the hardwood floor and made his way to the bed. He leapt onto Kurama`s bed and saw the blanket moving slowly up and down, indicating that the kitsune was breathing.

`Will I ever turn back into a human again?' Yusuke wondered with his eyes focused on Kurama. He had moved in front of his face and saw his eyes closed. A peaceful look was on his graceful features. Yusuke just stared.

Kurama`s eyes opened suddenly and he shouted "Yusuke?!"

This scared little Yusuke to death, he leapt up with every hair on his back standing straight up and his tail was stiff. He hissed and landed, on the edge of the bed, hanging on by his claws.

"I just had the feeling that Yusuke was right here in this room…it was like he was staring at me." Kurama sat up and saw "Yuki" hanging onto the bed for his very life and picked him up in his arms. "Oh it was just you Yuki."

Kurama smiled and picked Yusuke up, saving him from falling off the bed. He placed him in his lap and started stroking his back with his knuckles. Despite not wanting to, Yusuke purred.

`I guess it isn`t that bad being a cat.' Yusuke thought, closing his large brown eyes and drifting off into a peaceful night sleep.

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Snow: There`s the fifth chapter!! ^_^

Yusuke: MEOW!

Snow: What, you`re saying you didn`t like being chased by the dog?

Yusuke: *nods* MEOW MEOW!!

Snow: *sighs* I`m enjoying writing this fic and am glad that all of you people are reading it! *smiles*

Hiei: THAT was cheesy…

Snow: Hey! I like cheese!

Hiei: You moron!

Snow: *sticks tongue out at Hiei*

Hiei: *unwraps his bandage across his arm* DRAGON OF THE DARK-

Snow: *is scared* If you do that I`ll tell Yukina that you`re her brother!!!

Hiei: -ness Flame?

Snow: Now that`s better! *pats Hiei`s head*

Kurama: SEE YOU NEXT TIME!!!

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