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lady_flamewingTitle: That Strange and Subtle Magic of Birthdays
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho
Pairing: Yusuke/Kurama
Rating: G
A/N: The long-anticipated(?) next part of this fic. I've always been really bad at continuations of things... Anyway, I take back what I said about the graphic yaoi - it may not happen. But, regardless, do enjoy! As a reminder, this is an AU-fic, inspired by a number of different sources, but most notably the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye".
Yusuke spends the next several days trying to initiate some sort of conversation with his djinn – any sort, in fact – but the boy refuses to respond: for all the progress he makes, Yusuke might have done better trying to engage a brick wall. The djinn seldom even speaks, and on the rare occasions he does, he only asks icily, “Have you decided on your first wish yet, Master?”
Under the best of conditions, Yusuke’s reserves of patience are pitifully small, and after yet another failed attempt to learn the djinn’s name, they finally run dry.
“Damn it!” he curses angrily. “All I’m trying to do is be friendly; I wish you’d at least answer my goddamn questions!”
It isn’t until he stares into furious green eyes for a few moments that Yusuke actually realizes what he’s just said.
“No, I didn’t mean – ” he begins hastily, but the djinn interrupts, his speech halting, his tone poisonous – as though, Yusuke realizes, the words are being pulled from him without his consent.
“So you have wished it, so shall it be.”
There is a brief, awkward pause as the djinn seethes and Yusuke tries to figure out what’s just happened.
“So, what now?” he finally asks.
The answer comes immediately, which is more than a little disconcerting, considering the track record Yusuke has of getting the djinn to talk. “I am required to answer your questions.”
Yusuke winces slightly. “Even if you don’t want to?”
The djinn glares at him. “That was your wish. I am required to fulfill it.”
“Why don’t you want to?” Yusuke thinks to ask, after another moment of silence.
Scoffing disdainfully, the djinn turns away. “I have no desire to engage myself in conversation with you.”
“But why?” Yusuke persists. “What have I done to make you hate me so much?”
Unexpectedly, the djinn whirls on him. “And isn’t that just disgustingly human of you,” he sneers, “assuming that everything has to involve you somehow? What makes you so special? When will you stupid creatures realize your insignificance?”
Yusuke’s anger flares in response, and he finds himself surprisingly incensed at the fact that this…this boy, this being can apparently feel nothing but contempt in the face of Yusuke’s honest attempts to befriend him.
“Well, what am I supposed to think?” he demands furiously. “You won’t tell me anything! And even after I make you talk by fucking wishing for it, you won’t give me straight answers!”
“Then how’s this for a straight answer?” the djinn snarls, jewelry jangling harshly as he tosses his head angrily. “I hate humans. All humans. There is absolutely nothing special about you.”
“That’s the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever heard,” Yusuke hisses, getting swept up in the djinn’s rage, though he knows subconsciously that nothing good can come of this.
“Oh, really?” the boy retorts, stalking towards Yusuke, that sense of oddly familiar presence increasing steadily until Yusuke can almost feel it rolling off the djinn in waves. “You have no idea what I’ve been through.”
Refusing to back down, Yusuke only goads, “Then maybe you should tell me.”
“Maybe I will,” the djinn breathes, close enough now that Yusuke feels the words whisper across his skin, and the sensation makes him uncomfortably aware of the djinn’s proximity, enough so that he speaks without thinking.
“Then I wish you’d get on with it,” he murmurs, anger fading as quickly as it came, and all of a sudden, he’s not entirely sure what he means – what he wants – anymore.
The djinn’s eyes widen briefly, and he blinks a few times, his brow furrowing slightly. But he recovers nicely, a malicious smirk spreading across his face not a moment later as he says once more, “So you have wished it, so shall it be.”
Something tells me I’m not going to enjoy this, Yusuke thinks, and then the world dissolves.
Comments and criticisms are more than welcome.
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho
Pairing: Yusuke/Kurama
Rating: G
A/N: The long-anticipated(?) next part of this fic. I've always been really bad at continuations of things... Anyway, I take back what I said about the graphic yaoi - it may not happen. But, regardless, do enjoy! As a reminder, this is an AU-fic, inspired by a number of different sources, but most notably the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye".
Yusuke spends the next several days trying to initiate some sort of conversation with his djinn – any sort, in fact – but the boy refuses to respond: for all the progress he makes, Yusuke might have done better trying to engage a brick wall. The djinn seldom even speaks, and on the rare occasions he does, he only asks icily, “Have you decided on your first wish yet, Master?”
Under the best of conditions, Yusuke’s reserves of patience are pitifully small, and after yet another failed attempt to learn the djinn’s name, they finally run dry.
“Damn it!” he curses angrily. “All I’m trying to do is be friendly; I wish you’d at least answer my goddamn questions!”
It isn’t until he stares into furious green eyes for a few moments that Yusuke actually realizes what he’s just said.
“No, I didn’t mean – ” he begins hastily, but the djinn interrupts, his speech halting, his tone poisonous – as though, Yusuke realizes, the words are being pulled from him without his consent.
“So you have wished it, so shall it be.”
There is a brief, awkward pause as the djinn seethes and Yusuke tries to figure out what’s just happened.
“So, what now?” he finally asks.
The answer comes immediately, which is more than a little disconcerting, considering the track record Yusuke has of getting the djinn to talk. “I am required to answer your questions.”
Yusuke winces slightly. “Even if you don’t want to?”
The djinn glares at him. “That was your wish. I am required to fulfill it.”
“Why don’t you want to?” Yusuke thinks to ask, after another moment of silence.
Scoffing disdainfully, the djinn turns away. “I have no desire to engage myself in conversation with you.”
“But why?” Yusuke persists. “What have I done to make you hate me so much?”
Unexpectedly, the djinn whirls on him. “And isn’t that just disgustingly human of you,” he sneers, “assuming that everything has to involve you somehow? What makes you so special? When will you stupid creatures realize your insignificance?”
Yusuke’s anger flares in response, and he finds himself surprisingly incensed at the fact that this…this boy, this being can apparently feel nothing but contempt in the face of Yusuke’s honest attempts to befriend him.
“Well, what am I supposed to think?” he demands furiously. “You won’t tell me anything! And even after I make you talk by fucking wishing for it, you won’t give me straight answers!”
“Then how’s this for a straight answer?” the djinn snarls, jewelry jangling harshly as he tosses his head angrily. “I hate humans. All humans. There is absolutely nothing special about you.”
“That’s the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever heard,” Yusuke hisses, getting swept up in the djinn’s rage, though he knows subconsciously that nothing good can come of this.
“Oh, really?” the boy retorts, stalking towards Yusuke, that sense of oddly familiar presence increasing steadily until Yusuke can almost feel it rolling off the djinn in waves. “You have no idea what I’ve been through.”
Refusing to back down, Yusuke only goads, “Then maybe you should tell me.”
“Maybe I will,” the djinn breathes, close enough now that Yusuke feels the words whisper across his skin, and the sensation makes him uncomfortably aware of the djinn’s proximity, enough so that he speaks without thinking.
“Then I wish you’d get on with it,” he murmurs, anger fading as quickly as it came, and all of a sudden, he’s not entirely sure what he means – what he wants – anymore.
The djinn’s eyes widen briefly, and he blinks a few times, his brow furrowing slightly. But he recovers nicely, a malicious smirk spreading across his face not a moment later as he says once more, “So you have wished it, so shall it be.”
Something tells me I’m not going to enjoy this, Yusuke thinks, and then the world dissolves.
Comments and criticisms are more than welcome.
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Date: 2008-01-18 02:12 pm (UTC)i loved this chapter, write more soon♥
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Date: 2008-01-18 04:45 pm (UTC)I'm teasing. Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
I will see this through to completion, I swear. Feel free to bother me if I start taking too long...
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Date: 2008-01-19 06:12 am (UTC)I wish I could do fanart, because Genie!Kurama needs to be drawn.
MOAR PLEASE.
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Date: 2008-01-19 06:20 am (UTC)If someone drew me fanfic for this story, I would be the happiest girl in the world.
I RUSH TO OBEY.
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Date: 2008-01-21 05:00 am (UTC)