Hugs Are Nice

Kuwabara x Yukina

Author's Note: This was written for the 100women challenge on livejournal. I haven't written anything for Yu Yu Hakusho in a VERY long while, so I can only guess that the characterization is okay.

ANY kind of feedback is welcome. :D Yes, even flames.

Kuwabara Kazuma had never really been intimate with Yukina. He had never even really hugged her before. He wanted to on many occasions, but he always felt that maybe his big clumsy body would somehow damage what was very pure and delicate. He knew this was absolutely ridiculous because she had withstood five years of brutal torture. She was, in no way, delicate.

Botan had eyed the two of them for a few weeks, intently spying on them to see if there would be any physical action, so to speak, taking place. She was always disappointed when a moment would come and then pass by them like a bus.

Eventually, she got so fed up with the moments they were missing that she shoved Kuwabara into Yukina one afternoon and the two of them caught each other, Kuwabara’s face a shade of the deepest red. Yukina giggled after she recovered, but there was no blush on her cheeks.

“What was that for, Botan?!” Kuwabara snapped, turning around to look at her, still furiously red.

“Oh for goodness sake, you two are so... distanced!” she shrieked. “Yusuke and Keiko are always hugging and making kissy faces at each other! Why can’t you?!”

“Botan – ” But Kuwabara was cut off when he felt little arms encircle his waist. His face, if possible, became even redder.

“Y-Yukina?” He slowly turned to face her and she had on the most adorable smile he had ever seen on her.

“I like the idea of a hug, Kazuma,” she said, innocently.

Kuwabara nearly died of happiness.