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It was Saturday morning and as promised Yusuke was taking Keiko out for the day. Waking up early for the second time in his life the young Spirit Detective hopped out of bed. He quickly got ready and was out the door. Yusuke wondered around downtown for a few hours considering that most normal functioning people weren't awake yet.
Finally the clock struck ten. Yusuke smiled and headed over to the Yukimura Diner. He had told Keiko that he would be there to pick her up around ten. He arrived just as Keiko was coming downstairs to wait for him. Talk about perfect timing.
Yusuke wasn't prepared for the sight before him. Keiko was wearing a red ruffled skirt that went all the way down to her ankles. The skirt was adorned with black flowers and leaf imprints on it. Her top was a simple long sleeved black shirt and her neck was graced with a thin silver chain with a rose shaped pendent hanging from it. Her hair was down and she broke into a wide smile when she saw him. He wasn't used to his best friend (and crush) looking so nice.
"Yusuke it's rude to stare at people." Keiko chided her best friend as she reached the bottom of the steps.
Immediately he looked away and crossed his arms over his chest. "I was not staring! I was merely observing!"
"Call it what you want but you were drooling." Keiko pointed out.
"I was not!" Even though he denied it Yusuke wiped his mouth anyway. 'Damn it she was right!'
"Whatever you say." Keiko shrugged as she and Yusuke left the diner. "On a different note what's the plan?"
"Plan?"
"Yes plan. Are we going somewhere? Doing something? Or are we just going to sit in the middle of the sidewalk as people walk pass us?" Keiko questioned.
Yusuke scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "To tell you the truth I don't really have anything planned out. What about you? Do you want to go anywhere in particular?"
"Hmmmm." Keiko was deep in thought as she tried to think of something they could both do and enjoy. They were just about to cross the street when a poster on a nearby telephone pole caught her eye. Taking it she read it over before showing it to Yusuke. "How about this? It looks like fun."
Yusuke read over the paper he was handed. It was a flyer for a film festival that was taking place downtown. It was an all day event with food, music, and movies made by the locals. There was even a schedule for when the movies would be playing.
"Works for me as long as we don't see a chick flick. I can't stand those things." Yusuke said as they made their way downtown.
"What's wrong with a chick flick? I happen to like a good romance story." Keiko asked.
"Because it's all disgustingly sweet." Yusuke then made his voice high pitched. "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? "
"It's because of men like you that us girls turn to movies like thatChivalry is a foreign language to you and it's us women who suffer." Keiko argued. "Your minds have somehow been reversed in the evolutionary process. If there's fire, gunshots, and half naked women on the screen you would sit there and watch even if there was absolutely no thought process whatsoever."
"You make us sound like we're mindless Neanderthals." Yusuke said.
"If the shoe fits." Keiko retorted.
"At least we don't get all teary eyed in a movie when the guy dies. Of course he's going to die! Or when the knight in shining armor comes and whisks away the princess. As if that'll ever happen." Yusuke argued. "Face it the fairy tale life is a big lie. We don't open doors, we don't pull out your chair, and we don't put our coat down so you can avoid a mud puddle."
"Why? That's what I want to know! Is it really so bad to do something like that?" Keiko demanded. "You know it's just a nice little gesture. It's not like we're asking you to recite poetry in a public place or duel for the sake of our honor. Would it kill you guys to buy a rose? Open a door? What could it hurt?"
"Because it's just something we don't do. What's wrong with fire and gunshots? A good war film?" Yusuke was curious to know. By now they had arrived at the Film Festival.
"Hey if you can refuse to go to a chick flick I can refuse to go a war movie." Keiko reasoned, as they made their way through the crowd. "If I can't refuse to see a war movie it's called a double standard and that's not fair."
"Well if you won't see a war film and I refuse to see a chick flick what are we supposed to do? I don't want to wonder aimlessly just because we can't agree on a film." Yusuke complained as they checked out the schedule times.
"How about me make a deal?"
"Last time I made a deal with you I was forced to attend school."
Keiko rolled her eyes and continued as if he had never spoken. "I'll watch the war films with you if you watch a few chick flicks with me. Then we'll both see the comedies together. You get what you want, I'll get what I want, and we'll have a few laughs along the way. That way everyone wins!"
"Sounds good to me. Come on the war movies are about to start!" Yusuke grabbed Keiko's hand and led her through the crowd.
-After the War Films-
"Wasn't that great?" Yusuke asked as he grinned. "I haven't seen a good movie with things catching on fire and blowing up in a long time!"
"That was terrible! How can you possibly take any joy out of watching people die?" Keiko questioned.
Yusuke shrugged. "It's a guy thing."
"It must be." Keiko glanced at her watch before looking around. "We still have some time left over before my movies start and I'm getting hungry. How about we grab some food before we continue?"
When it comes to Yusuke and food you don't have to ask him twice. His eyes lit up as he spotted a noodle cart a short distance from where he was standing. Looking at the noodle cart and back to Keiko he silently pleaded with his eyes.
Seeing the pitiful look on her best friend's face Keiko sighed and shooed him off. "Go on I'll meet you in front of the building. We'll walk in together."
-After the Chick Flicks-
"That was so cute! What did you think Yusuke? Wasn't that great?"
"That was the worst hour of my life! I thought I was going to die! Suffocated by the sheer mushiness of it all!" Yusuke whined.
"Mushiness?" Keiko snickered. "There's a word I'd never thought I'd hear you say."
"See! That what chick flicks do to me! They turn my mind in a useless mess of goop!" He accused.
"I'm pretty sure that wasn't the movies fault." Keiko laughed at the look Yusuke gave her. "Come on admit that movie gave you a warm and fuzzy feeling."
"Yeah, it was my lunch making a return trip." Yusuke grumbled.
That comment earned him a whack upside of the head courtesy of his date. They know found themselves seated and awaiting the comedy movies to start. Yusuke was still laughing at the end of one of the final films. So hard in fact that he failed to hear the announcement of the next video. That was until he heard a familiar sentence
"I guess there isn't a fight. Come on Kuwabara lets go."
Yusuke looked up and sure enough there on the screen was Kuwabara, Yusuke, and a crowd of boys in blue. He looked from the screen to Keiko silently asking her whether or not this was real. Seeing the shocked and amused look on her face assured Yusuke that this was really happening.
He looked back up at the screen.
"Come on Keiko I'm taking you home right now." Yusuke said gruffly as he took of his green jacket and wrapped it around Keiko. He then began dragging her towards the entrance of the school.
"No! Yusuke let me go! I still have classes to finish!"
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Now he glanced at Keiko whose face was red from slight embarrassment, though not nearly as bad as Yusuke. He wasn't used to people seeing the caring (in his own way of coarse) side of him.
"Is that so?"
"Yes!"
"Good then you won't mind if I call some of these guys."
"No I woul- WHAT! YOU HAVE THEIR NUMBERS!"
"Yah I was late for a lot of my classes because guys kept handing me their numbers." Keiko said calmly.
"WELL YOUR NOT GOING TO CALL ANY OF THEM ARE YOU!"
"You know I think I might. Some of those guys were kind of cute. And since they all went through the trouble of giving me their numbers…"
Yusuke kept his face buried into his hands and kept them there until the end of the movie. Keiko shaking his shoulder was the signal that it was okay to look.
"The next entry is called 'Man in Spandex' and was entered by Shizuru Kuwabara." The host announced.
Yusuke's eyes narrowed. "That better not be what I think it is." He practically growled under his breath. As the movie started his fear was confirmed. There on the screen was Yusuke in all his tight fitting glory.
"Cheese and crackers Urameshi! INDECENCY! INDECENCY!"
Yusuke scowled at his friend and took the seat across from him. "I know its bad okay! It's like this was my idea!"
With his eyes still covered by his hands Kuwabara spoke up. "I'll probably regret asking this but why are you wearing that?"
"A better question is why does he own something like that."
Kuwabara toppled out of his chair at the sudden new voice. Yusuke meanwhile stayed seated though he did startle slightly. Only now did Kuwabara uncover his eyes to get a look of the person who popped up out of nowhere. "Don't do that shrimp! You trying to give me a heart attack?"
Hiei snickered from his spot on a desk. "That wasn't the intention but it would be a pleasant benefit."
Franticly looking around he found Shizuru standing in the back. She was so busy watching Yusuke making an ass out of himself that she failed to notice the death glare that the star character was sending her. When he finally managed to catch her eye her smile just got bigger as she waved at him. Keiko was the only thing standing in Yusuke's way of hurting Shizuru.
"Hiei! Get your ass back here so I can kill you!"
Needless to say Yusuke received a lot of unwanted attention from the student body. First the yelling of threats that gathered heir attention then his outfit that kept their attention on him. Yusuke realizing that nearly the entire school had seen him caused him to go red in the face.
The roar of laughter wasn't exactly helping Yusuke with his anger issue.
"You expect me to get dressed in a tree!"
"Well do you really want to have to go to the boys locker room to change?"
"NO!"
"Then do it!"
"… Turn around."
"Now for a short intermission where you could vote for your favorite movie in each category. Cast your vote at the booth in the back. Come back in an hour to hear the results!" With that the host let the audience leave. Luckily for Shizuru Keiko managed to keep Yusuke busy enough for her to get lost in the crowd.
A half an hour later Keiko, Yusuke, and Shizuru were back to hear the results. It took most of the intermission to make Yusuke came back but he eventually had some sense knocked into him. Anyway they were all seated when the announcer came on stage. "Is everyone seated? Okay Let's get moving then. Third place goes to…. Inuyasha's 'Little Brother' (1) entry!"
A tall man with black hair (2)walked onto the stage with a big smirk on his face. Close behind him was a little girl with brown hair. The announcer shook his hand and gave him a check. After receiving the money the man scooped up the girl in his arms and spoke into the microphone. "I just had to say the credit really goes to my niece Rin. Come on Rin say hi to Fluffy. Look there he his!"
Once Rin caught sight of the man Inuyasha was pointing to you couldn't get her to stop waving. Inuyasha just smiled as the man with silver hair sent him death glares.
As Rin waved at 'Fluffy' and 'Fluffy' glared at Inuyasha a small excerpt from the film played in the background.
"Because your parents need to have one for it to be a brother."
"Oh." She thought about it for a moment.
"You have it."
"WHAT?" Sessouhmaru considered fleeing. But the youkai lord never ran from a battle
"Rin wants one."
"Even if I wanted a child, I couldn't, Rin."
"Why not?"
"Because I have no wife."
"Why do you need a wife?"
Once again laughter filled the lungs of the audience at the look of pure horror and embarrassment on Sesshomaru's face. After everyone had regained their composure and stopped clapping the host once again took charge. "Now the second place winner is…. 'Truth in Anger' (3) by Roy!"
A tall man with black hair and eyes appeared on stage. His smile took up quite a bit of his face as he shook the host's hand and received his check. Still smiling he took hold of the microphone. As the excerpt played Roy spoke to the crowd. "Not much to say but Shorty is never going to live this down."
"The cat I've brought in last night?"
"What? No."
"The possibility of you being gay?"
"No!" Ed sounded horrified.
"Did he ask you to be his girlfriend?"
"Dear gawd, Al! No!"
"Did he ask you to marry Mayor Armstrong?"
"No! Dammit, Al! He asked me if I want to have sex with Winry!"
Another wave of laughter overtook the crowd. When that died down the final winner was announced. "Last but not least the First prize winner of on thousand dollars and free dinner for two at A-Dozen-and-One Stars is…. Shizuru Kuwabara with 'Man in Spandex'!"
"Cheese and crackers Urameshi! INDECENCY! INDECENCY!"
Yusuke scowled at his friend and took the seat across from him. "I know its bad okay! It's like this was my idea!"
With his eyes still covered by his hands Kuwabara spoke up. "I'll probably regret asking this but why are you wearing that?"
"A better question is why does he own something like that."
After the clip Shizuru happily accepted the money and dinner passes. "I have no one to thank but myself, but because I love to annoy the hell out of my friends I'll switch the spotlight. Yusuke and Keiko get on up here!" When neither made any signs of getting up Shizuru sighed and walked over to them mike in hand. Once there she patted Yusuke on the shoulder. "This is the one and only man in spandex everyone. And being the nice person I am…"
The mumbled curses that came from the star disagreed.
"I've decided to give the dinner passes to him so he can take his girlfriend out for a nice dinner." Placing the tickets in his hands she walked back up to the stage and put the mike back.
-----------------------Sometime Around Seven-------------------------
Yusuke and Keiko were sitting at their table in the A Dozen-and-One Stars. They had finished their dinner and were waiting for their desert to come.
"It was nice of Shizuru to give us these tickets. The food here is wonderful." Keiko commented as they waited.
"Would have been better if it didn't involve me in tights."
"Your not still upset about that are you? Come on even you have to admit it was pretty funny." Keiko questioned.
"It was not!"
"Yah it was!"
"Your not the one you just had a jackass made out of himself in front of the whole town! Do you have any ideas how many people I'm going to have to hurt in order to live this down?" Yusuke demanded.
"Not a topic I really want to discuss. Hey here's our desert." And indeed a big brownie with ice cream and chocolate sauce had arrived. If there was ever heaven on earth this must be it. Wasting no time Keiko picked up her fork and took a chunk.
After a few minutes of eating she noticed that Yusuke hadn't taken a bite. "Take some it's really good." Seeing the look on his face she smiled. "I don't have cooties you know. I thought you got over that when we where little."
Yusuke just sent a glare over to her as he picked up his fork and helped himself. Keiko smiled and continued helping Yusuke make the heaven on earth disappear.
(1) This is an excerpt from Sit Boy by SilverYoukai a great Inuyasha Fanfiction. I do not own that idea and am only using a small part of it. The idea and credit goes to SilverYoukai.
(2) Yes this is the Inuyasha and yes he is human.
(3) This also does not belong to me. This in an excerpt from the Fullmetal Alchemist Fanfiction Aw Man by Asha3. Another story that you should take the time to read. Once again I take no credit for it.
This is not my own creation. A Dozen-and-One Stars is a restaurant that Tohru owns from the Fruits Basket Fanfiction Healed By Tears by newiceauthoress. I liked the name so much I thought I should put it in here. The credit and praise goes to newiceauthoress. I also highly recommend that you read her story. It's very well written and worth reading.