Demonic mutants

Troubled

"What's it this time, toddler?" Yuusuke Urameshi asked impatiently, opening his communicator, thing he hadn't done since a long while. He disliked the communicator a lot, by the way; it was pink and girly. But he always brought it with him in case something important came up.

Their boss, the all mighty ruler Koenma, always chose the most random and worse time to call them for some mission. And every mission seemed to take days or months to accomplish.

And it wasn't a good moment either. Yuusuke was back home after 3 months of being in the Makai. Now, the demon world may already have a unique king after the last tournament, but the ones that had been rulers once -Mukuro, Yomi and at Raizen's death, Yuusuke- still had some matters to take care about. For instance, Yuusuke had to convince hesitant Raizen's followers to keep on with their lives and find a work or something. He had also found Hiei around a forest while he was taking a walk for relaxation.

They had talked and Yuusuke received then the notice that Hiei wasn't going to stay in the Makai anymore. Looked like someone had spread rumors about Hiei being Yukina's lost brother. Rumors that were true, and rumors that lead Yukina to go in a search for Hiei. She and Kuwabara would soon be looking through the Makai in hopes of finding the fire demon, with escorts Koenma was forced to send for them. Kuwabara was not happy with the notice, but he was not angry either. He was kind of in a state of unbelieving shock. Hiei was not going to stay there and just be found.

Yuusuke guessed he did not want to face Yukina yet. Sure enough he needed time to kill whoever spread the rumors before going to Yukina and tell her that those all were just senseless rumors and that her brother was dead. But in the mean time he would be in the ningenkai, finding the person who had spread the rumors with Kurama's help. That had been 3 months ago, when he started his visit to Makai.

Mukuro was sad to lose Hiei, she had commented to the detective, who didn't quite believed it. The boy got the slight idea that Hiei also wanted to leave Makai to get away from Mukuro. Yuusuke always thought there was something between them, but maybe it didn't work so well, or maybe there was nothing at all and they had just fought. He didn't go to deep in the matter while he made his little visit to Mukuro.

Next stop had been Yomi's.

Yomi was having some problems with his son and Yuusuke had sparred with the kid once. He had no doubt he would be stronger than his father someday, but until then said father would have to ground him and teach the kid some manners. Yuusuke had decided not to get too involved with these family issues either.

Kurama had returned to his semi-normal life while doing missions for Koenma for the sake of keeping his powers trained as always. He was head of the class as always, and even when his step-brother had grown to not like him so much, he had a nice relationship with his step-father. Shuichi's dislike towards Kurama was mainly just the fact he was jealous because Kurama got many attention even when the guy didn't seem to want to get it. Also there were his perfect grades and sudden disappearances until late without being grounded for the last.

Kuwabara by his side, was being chased by girls because he was the top of his class. He had not completely left the team Urameshi, but he was not seen near them as often. Yuusuke knew, though, that he still had his friend to call upon if he had troubles or wanted a partner in fight. Kazuma's style of thinking hadn't changed much, nor the effort he tried and gave to the school. And his heart still belonged to his dear Yukina, hence to why the guy offered to search for Hiei with her even when it would interfere with his classes for a while.

The last factor that made this a wrong moment to call was that Keiko had just left Yuusuke.

After Yuusuke went missing for quite some time for training in the Makai after the tournament, yet returned to Keiko and his friends, everything seemed to be okay and back to normal. Keiko somehow got the lazy detective to put effort in school and Yuusuke managed to get into studies again, keeping average B grades. Also, there were times when he was called from the Makai to take care of some matters that involved people from what once would have been called his kingdom. This matters could take from a 10-minutes phone call to a trip of 2 days to Makai. Keiko, even when glad the boy took care of his responsibilities, felt she was being pushed aside and that she didn't receive much attention from Yuusuke.

She had tried to talk to him about leaving aside the demon matters and focus on his life, but Yuusuke did not want to give it up. He liked his work and loved to fight. Keiko and him soon noticed they were too different and broke up. Yuusuke had more free time since then, not having to argue with Keiko. His grades went up to A-, but he was depressed at losing the girl he still was in love with. No, depressed wasn't the right word. More like, very easy to annoy and silent.

He had been thinking about all this and how he had too many pressure for being a 18-years old when the communicator had started to vibrate in the chest pocket of his jacket. He was not in mood for another mission. He was not in mood for anything, actually.

However, his expression turned from upset and bored to surprised and worried as he looked at the communicator's little screen and did not see the chubby face he was used to.

"Kurama?" He asked, cocking an eyebrow in surprise.

The eyes of the teen were narrow and he was frowning slightly. His emerald eyes were wary.

"Yuusuke." He greeted in a deadly calm voice. "Glad to see you're indeed back."

"Eh… yeah. What's the matter? You seem troubled."

"You think so? Well, I would be grateful if you could come over to my house."

The detective blinked at this. Since when Kurama called to invite him over? Of course there had to be something going on there.

"Alright, I'm on my way."

"Thank you."

TBC

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu yu hakusho or X-men, neither I own the characters.

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