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“Hey, do ya think Kurama an’ Hiei are a thing?”
“Huh?” Yusuke must not be hearing correctly. He reaches up and digs into his ear with his pinky, making a face, before he turns to look up at Kuwabara with a confused expression. “What’d you just ask me?”
“I was just thinkin’,” Kuwabara says, shrugging his shoulders. He looks serious. Yusuke nearly snorts.
“I think you should stop.” Yusuke flicks Kuwabara’s upper arm, making the other teen yelp a little.
Kuwabara glares at him, rubbing his upper arm. As if Yusuke actually hurt him. “It’s a serious question, Yusuke!”
“I ain’t answering it,” Yusuke huffs out, turning forward, letting himself continue to walk.
“You can’t deny there’s somethin’ goin’ on, though!” Kuwabara falls in line with him, reaching out to throw an arm around Yusuke’s shoulders. “C’mon, didn’t ya see ‘em before? At the Dark Tournament?”
“Kinda hard to read into their relationship when we all were, ya know, fighting for our lives and shit.”
Still, Kuwabara’s words make Yusuke think back to that time. Had there been something to the two demons? After Kurama’s transformation, it did seem to shift something between him and Hiei—but who the hell is Yusuke to judge when it comes to that? He literally died then came back, so it’s not like Yusuke’s privy to life-altering relationship changes.
“Who the hell cares if they are?” Yusuke grumbles, loud enough to earn a few weird glances from the people around them. “Don’t let Hiei catch ya talking about him like that. He won’t have any mercy towards ya.”
That seems to shut Kuwabara up, for the most part. He doesn’t ask Yusuke about it again, but he’s pretty sure Kuwabara is still thinking about it the rest of the time they hang out.
Idiot.