Disclaimer: I'm insane. I have no idea where this
story is going to go, but when I said that I
didn't want to post it because the plot was not
defined as of yet, and that my friends at school
would shoot me for not writing the rest of my Ranma
fic I was writing for them Katchan said, and I
quote, "::sulk:: And what are we, chopped liver?".
So, in fairness, and because I *don't* think you
guys are chopped liver I will post it. I'm
warning you now, I have no idea where this story
is going, or what is coming next. That's a lie.
I have a very vague idea where it will go, as the
title suggests.
The Forgotten Child
Chapter 1
by Kat Aubuchon
Hiei watched as Yukina shooed her youngest
child from the room. The little boy took offense
at being left out of another adult conversation,
and let them know it. Normally Hiei would have
just ignored the occasional whining from his
little nieces and nephews, but today for some
reason they made him feel like he was being
crowded. By some sibling miracle Yukina had
noticed, and was making the children go outside to
play. Even Kurama's presence at his side was
suffocating. Kurama ran his hand along Hiei's
arm, and the fire spirit reacted as if he had been
burned. Kurama gave him a look of concern.
"Just leave it alone fox," he warned. Kurama
held his hands back in a non-threatening manner,
but didn't leave it alone.
"Hiei, what's the matter. You've been
awfully touchy the last few days." The concern in
his voice was obvious, and it just made Hiei grind
his teeth more.
"I said, leave it alone, damn it." he hissed
through his clenched teeth. Kurama face fell, and
the hurt was plain in his beautiful green eyes.
Hiei cursed himself for upsetting Kurama, again.
Hiei could never understand the relationship
the two of them had. They had been close friends
for years before they were lovers, and Hiei was at
a lost as to the dynamics of both the friendship
and romantic relationships. When they were just
friends it was easy to say that his feelings for
Kurama were for a fellow warrior. He felt
companionship for Kurama, and nothing more. Then
time and again the two of them had been pushed
together by events beyond their control. Forced
to rely solely on each other. Then just when he
thought he understood their friendship
relationship, it took a very personal turn.
His personal relationship with Kurama, was
even more confusing to him. To anyone outside
their personal ring of friends, and Kurama's
mother of course, the two of them seemed to be
only close friends. Their interaction with other
people and with each other changed very little
when they got personal involved, but when the door
was closed, that was a whole other world.
It had been almost eighteen years since
Kurama had shocked him to his toes by telling him
that he was in love with him. Hiei hadn't known
what to say, so he had said nothing. In fact he
had stood rooted to the spot for a good ten
minutes before Kurama pushed him over to get his
attention.
"Hiei, I just told you that I'm in love with
you. Aren't you going to say anything, or do you
not care?" Kurama had asked. Hiei had just sat
there still stunned, and shook his head.
"Is that 'no' your not going to say anything,
or 'no' you don't care?" Hiei could hear the
laughter in his voice, and it snapped him out of
his woolgathering.
"Your crazy."
"I have been told that on occasion." Kurama
agreed. Hiei flailed his arms in the air, trying
to get the right words to come out.
"But, your a guy... and I'm a guy... and your
a youko... no a human... and I'm a
koorime...and..." Hiei stopped when he realized
that he was rambling.
"Well, so far Hiei, you have established our
gender and our species, but you still haven't said
anything about what I said." Hiei had growled and
then glared at the annoying youko. Out of
confusion he disappeared into the night. Hiei
didn't see Kurama for the next month, still too
confused to reply to his confession. Hiei still
didn't have an answer for the youko when he
finally came to see him, but he couldn't stand
being alone anymore.
Kurama had graduated from his high school and
was attending something called college, so Hiei
had to sneak into the dorms and make sure he
didn't wake up that idiot human, Kuwabara, that
Kurama had shared a room with. Kurama had been
up, looking all the world like he'd been waiting
for him. He had greeted Hiei as he always did,
with a smile and some kind of sarcastic remark,
but Hiei could tell that Kurama was not feeling
well. The friend that never had a hair out of
place, had large bluish circles under his eyes and
his clothes were less than perfect. Hiei remember
wondering what was wrong with him.
"So, what are you here for Hiei? Did another
human fall into the Makai?" he had asked. Hiei
had been surprised by the hard edge in Kurama's
voice.
"No."
"Come to see your sister, then?" Hiei had
hissed for him to be quiet, because the idiot was
in the other room.
"No."
"Che, then why are you here?" Kurama had
actually given a very good impersonation of his
own patent glare.
"I... I don't know," when Kurama didn't
respond he knew in his heart, that he had made a
mistake in coming. "I'm leaving."
Kurama had moved faster than Hiei had ever
seen him move before. Kurama had grabbed his left
arm and brought it up behind his back, and made it
uncomfortable for him to try and move away. Then
Kurama had brought his right arm around Hiei's
neck, and pulled him back to be flush with his
body.
"Oh, no you don't. I'm not letting you go
until I have an answer. One way or the other."
Hiei had not known what to say 'one way or the
other', so the two of them were at a stand off.
After a few moments Kurama heaved a
disappointed sigh, and did the last thing Hiei
wanted him to do, release him. Hiei had stood
still, not knowing what to say or what to do. All
he knew was that he didn't want to lose Kurama.
When Kurama had tried to back away from him, the
fire demon had quickly reached behind him and
grabbed his hand. Hiei had hoped desperately that
Kurama understood what he wanted, what he need,
because he didn't.
Hiei could feel Kurama rub his thumb over the
back of his hand, and a warm feeling he had never
experienced before came over him. Then Kurama had
reached around him again, but this time it wasn't
to restrain him. Hiei had felt Kurama's chin rest
on the top of his head and his hands caressing his
arms, and without even thinking Hiei had leaned
back into Kurama's embrace. He had been stuck
with the damn fox ever since.
Now that he really knew this crazy,
overactive, over emotional, oversexed youko, he
was amazed that Kurama had waited a whole week
before seducing him. Hiei still didn't know when
Kurama found time to study for his exams in
school, or how he didn't turn into a fish with all
their trips to the shower. He had heard that
youkos were insatiable, but Kurama was beyond
belief.
Right now Hiei didn't even want to think
about sex, or anything that had to do with sex.
All he wanted was to see Yukina, in fact he had
this insane need to be alone with her, talk with
her. He hadn't felt a need to speak to his sister
this badly in a very long time. Not since he and
Kurama had their first really big fight.
Yukina had confessed at her wedding that she
was his sister, not knowing that he knew she was
his sister. It was the weirdest, and the second
best night of his life. When they had finally sat
down and talked, he found out that his sister was
a lot more than she appeared to be.
Yukina gave one last push and her child was
out the door. She came and sat next to Hiei,
taking his hand in hers. Hiei could feel the
tension leave his body, and smiled one of his rare
truthful smiles at his beloved sister.
====================
Kurama was jealous, he had been alive for
almost five hundred years, and he knew jealousy
when he felt it. He watched as Hiei bestowed one
of his carefully guarded smiles for Yukina.
Kurama could count on one hand the number of times
he had been given that smile. Smirks, grins, and
glares he got in truckloads, especially the
glares. The type of smile Hiei was giving his
sister was the kind that made you know that you
were one of the most important people in his life.
The kind that made you want to lock him in a room
somewhere and keep him for yourself forever.
Kurama had even talked to Yukina about those
smiles, and the both of them had agreed that Hiei
was definitely cute when he gave them. Kurama
counted his lucky stars that he was one of the
only two people Hiei had ever given that smile to.
The first two years of their personal
relationship had been a "busy" one. He was
luckily that he passed all his classes those two
years and he had the money for the water bill,
with all the extra curricular activities he had
taken on. Those first two years Kurama was sure
that Hiei was going to wake up one day and say the
he had made a mistake, and that he never wanted to
see him again. He had wanted to make memories
with Hiei as fast as he could, so that if Hiei did
ever leave, he would have something to hold on to.
Then suddenly Hiei had become more openly
affectionate to him and the others in general, and
had even told him that he loved him. That had
gone a long way to quitting his fears.
Hiei had been innocent to the point of almost
being naive their first time, but Kurama was sure
to remedy that quickly. Kurama smiled at the
images that his memories had evoked in his head.
He wished that they weren't at Yukina's house so
that they could act on his present amorous mood.
Then he remembered the last couple of days and
frowned.
Hiei had been more than just touchy lately,
he had been rude, obnoxious, antsy, and pissed at
everyone that even looked at him. The only other
time he had seen Hiei in this bad of a mood, he
had been in collage and the two of them had been
in a huge fight. Hiei had stormed off, and didn't
come back for two days. That was when Hiei had
his strange change of attitude, and then told him
that he loved him. Kurama hoped that this time
would turn out as good as the last time did.
Hiei continued to hold his sister's hand long
after he would have normally let go. Kurama was
starting to wonder if Hiei was going to curl up in
his sister's lap and start purring, like he always
does when they're alone. Yukina was lovingly
stroking Hiei's hand and giving him a look of
understanding and comfort. Another jolt of
jealousy hit him. He was supposed to be the one
to give Hiei comfort and understanding, not that
the stubborn fire spirit ever came to him for
comfort he emitted.
Kurama was almost happy to see Kuwabara come
into the room and ruin the psychic connection
between brother and sister. Kuwabara came in as
he always did from work, in a whirlwind of
activity and kids behind him. All three of the
little faces that Yukina had pushed outside to
make Hiei more comfortable, and the oldest that
was watching from a distance, were peering around
him. Staring at their uncles with abnormal amount
of interest.
Yukina accepted a hug and a kiss from her
husband, and then hurried around the room putting
food on the table. Kurama spooned himself up some
of the soup that was placed in front of him as he
watched Hiei squirm and fidget. Then, suddenly
Hiei stood up. He got up so fast that his chair
fell backward and crashed on the floor, making him
the center of attention. Kurama tried to take his
hand, but Hiei jerked away.
"I need to get some air." Was all he said
before he blurred out the door. Kurama's anger at
being so publicly rejected made him stay in his
seat and calmly eat his soup.
"You're just going to let him leave by
himself?" Yukina asked him in gaping surprise.
"He can take care of himself. He'll come
back when he's ready." he said. Kurama tried to
keep all emotion out of his voice so that they
couldn't see how much he was hurting. Kuwabara
sat in his usual place at the table and mirrored
his wife's disbelief. Kurama looked around the
room and realized that all of the Kuwabaras were
looking at him like he had just grown another
head.
"What?" he asked as he took another calm sip
of soup.
"Well, if it was my significant other that
was getting ready to have my child, I wouldn't
just let him walk out the door by himself." Kurama
took all the soup in his mouth into his lungs and
then tried to cough it all out again. Kuwabara
tried to help him by banging on his back.
"Is Hiei-oijsan going to have the baby now,
Kasan?" the littlest Kuwabara asked. Yukina
smiled at her son and nodded her head.
"Yes, he is, and your going to have a new
little cousin." Those were the last words Kurama
heard before he passed out in his soup.
============
end chapter 1
Comments and replies are welcome.
Kat
story is going to go, but when I said that I
didn't want to post it because the plot was not
defined as of yet, and that my friends at school
would shoot me for not writing the rest of my Ranma
fic I was writing for them Katchan said, and I
quote, "::sulk:: And what are we, chopped liver?".
So, in fairness, and because I *don't* think you
guys are chopped liver I will post it. I'm
warning you now, I have no idea where this story
is going, or what is coming next. That's a lie.
I have a very vague idea where it will go, as the
title suggests.
The Forgotten Child
Chapter 1
by Kat Aubuchon
Hiei watched as Yukina shooed her youngest
child from the room. The little boy took offense
at being left out of another adult conversation,
and let them know it. Normally Hiei would have
just ignored the occasional whining from his
little nieces and nephews, but today for some
reason they made him feel like he was being
crowded. By some sibling miracle Yukina had
noticed, and was making the children go outside to
play. Even Kurama's presence at his side was
suffocating. Kurama ran his hand along Hiei's
arm, and the fire spirit reacted as if he had been
burned. Kurama gave him a look of concern.
"Just leave it alone fox," he warned. Kurama
held his hands back in a non-threatening manner,
but didn't leave it alone.
"Hiei, what's the matter. You've been
awfully touchy the last few days." The concern in
his voice was obvious, and it just made Hiei grind
his teeth more.
"I said, leave it alone, damn it." he hissed
through his clenched teeth. Kurama face fell, and
the hurt was plain in his beautiful green eyes.
Hiei cursed himself for upsetting Kurama, again.
Hiei could never understand the relationship
the two of them had. They had been close friends
for years before they were lovers, and Hiei was at
a lost as to the dynamics of both the friendship
and romantic relationships. When they were just
friends it was easy to say that his feelings for
Kurama were for a fellow warrior. He felt
companionship for Kurama, and nothing more. Then
time and again the two of them had been pushed
together by events beyond their control. Forced
to rely solely on each other. Then just when he
thought he understood their friendship
relationship, it took a very personal turn.
His personal relationship with Kurama, was
even more confusing to him. To anyone outside
their personal ring of friends, and Kurama's
mother of course, the two of them seemed to be
only close friends. Their interaction with other
people and with each other changed very little
when they got personal involved, but when the door
was closed, that was a whole other world.
It had been almost eighteen years since
Kurama had shocked him to his toes by telling him
that he was in love with him. Hiei hadn't known
what to say, so he had said nothing. In fact he
had stood rooted to the spot for a good ten
minutes before Kurama pushed him over to get his
attention.
"Hiei, I just told you that I'm in love with
you. Aren't you going to say anything, or do you
not care?" Kurama had asked. Hiei had just sat
there still stunned, and shook his head.
"Is that 'no' your not going to say anything,
or 'no' you don't care?" Hiei could hear the
laughter in his voice, and it snapped him out of
his woolgathering.
"Your crazy."
"I have been told that on occasion." Kurama
agreed. Hiei flailed his arms in the air, trying
to get the right words to come out.
"But, your a guy... and I'm a guy... and your
a youko... no a human... and I'm a
koorime...and..." Hiei stopped when he realized
that he was rambling.
"Well, so far Hiei, you have established our
gender and our species, but you still haven't said
anything about what I said." Hiei had growled and
then glared at the annoying youko. Out of
confusion he disappeared into the night. Hiei
didn't see Kurama for the next month, still too
confused to reply to his confession. Hiei still
didn't have an answer for the youko when he
finally came to see him, but he couldn't stand
being alone anymore.
Kurama had graduated from his high school and
was attending something called college, so Hiei
had to sneak into the dorms and make sure he
didn't wake up that idiot human, Kuwabara, that
Kurama had shared a room with. Kurama had been
up, looking all the world like he'd been waiting
for him. He had greeted Hiei as he always did,
with a smile and some kind of sarcastic remark,
but Hiei could tell that Kurama was not feeling
well. The friend that never had a hair out of
place, had large bluish circles under his eyes and
his clothes were less than perfect. Hiei remember
wondering what was wrong with him.
"So, what are you here for Hiei? Did another
human fall into the Makai?" he had asked. Hiei
had been surprised by the hard edge in Kurama's
voice.
"No."
"Come to see your sister, then?" Hiei had
hissed for him to be quiet, because the idiot was
in the other room.
"No."
"Che, then why are you here?" Kurama had
actually given a very good impersonation of his
own patent glare.
"I... I don't know," when Kurama didn't
respond he knew in his heart, that he had made a
mistake in coming. "I'm leaving."
Kurama had moved faster than Hiei had ever
seen him move before. Kurama had grabbed his left
arm and brought it up behind his back, and made it
uncomfortable for him to try and move away. Then
Kurama had brought his right arm around Hiei's
neck, and pulled him back to be flush with his
body.
"Oh, no you don't. I'm not letting you go
until I have an answer. One way or the other."
Hiei had not known what to say 'one way or the
other', so the two of them were at a stand off.
After a few moments Kurama heaved a
disappointed sigh, and did the last thing Hiei
wanted him to do, release him. Hiei had stood
still, not knowing what to say or what to do. All
he knew was that he didn't want to lose Kurama.
When Kurama had tried to back away from him, the
fire demon had quickly reached behind him and
grabbed his hand. Hiei had hoped desperately that
Kurama understood what he wanted, what he need,
because he didn't.
Hiei could feel Kurama rub his thumb over the
back of his hand, and a warm feeling he had never
experienced before came over him. Then Kurama had
reached around him again, but this time it wasn't
to restrain him. Hiei had felt Kurama's chin rest
on the top of his head and his hands caressing his
arms, and without even thinking Hiei had leaned
back into Kurama's embrace. He had been stuck
with the damn fox ever since.
Now that he really knew this crazy,
overactive, over emotional, oversexed youko, he
was amazed that Kurama had waited a whole week
before seducing him. Hiei still didn't know when
Kurama found time to study for his exams in
school, or how he didn't turn into a fish with all
their trips to the shower. He had heard that
youkos were insatiable, but Kurama was beyond
belief.
Right now Hiei didn't even want to think
about sex, or anything that had to do with sex.
All he wanted was to see Yukina, in fact he had
this insane need to be alone with her, talk with
her. He hadn't felt a need to speak to his sister
this badly in a very long time. Not since he and
Kurama had their first really big fight.
Yukina had confessed at her wedding that she
was his sister, not knowing that he knew she was
his sister. It was the weirdest, and the second
best night of his life. When they had finally sat
down and talked, he found out that his sister was
a lot more than she appeared to be.
Yukina gave one last push and her child was
out the door. She came and sat next to Hiei,
taking his hand in hers. Hiei could feel the
tension leave his body, and smiled one of his rare
truthful smiles at his beloved sister.
====================
Kurama was jealous, he had been alive for
almost five hundred years, and he knew jealousy
when he felt it. He watched as Hiei bestowed one
of his carefully guarded smiles for Yukina.
Kurama could count on one hand the number of times
he had been given that smile. Smirks, grins, and
glares he got in truckloads, especially the
glares. The type of smile Hiei was giving his
sister was the kind that made you know that you
were one of the most important people in his life.
The kind that made you want to lock him in a room
somewhere and keep him for yourself forever.
Kurama had even talked to Yukina about those
smiles, and the both of them had agreed that Hiei
was definitely cute when he gave them. Kurama
counted his lucky stars that he was one of the
only two people Hiei had ever given that smile to.
The first two years of their personal
relationship had been a "busy" one. He was
luckily that he passed all his classes those two
years and he had the money for the water bill,
with all the extra curricular activities he had
taken on. Those first two years Kurama was sure
that Hiei was going to wake up one day and say the
he had made a mistake, and that he never wanted to
see him again. He had wanted to make memories
with Hiei as fast as he could, so that if Hiei did
ever leave, he would have something to hold on to.
Then suddenly Hiei had become more openly
affectionate to him and the others in general, and
had even told him that he loved him. That had
gone a long way to quitting his fears.
Hiei had been innocent to the point of almost
being naive their first time, but Kurama was sure
to remedy that quickly. Kurama smiled at the
images that his memories had evoked in his head.
He wished that they weren't at Yukina's house so
that they could act on his present amorous mood.
Then he remembered the last couple of days and
frowned.
Hiei had been more than just touchy lately,
he had been rude, obnoxious, antsy, and pissed at
everyone that even looked at him. The only other
time he had seen Hiei in this bad of a mood, he
had been in collage and the two of them had been
in a huge fight. Hiei had stormed off, and didn't
come back for two days. That was when Hiei had
his strange change of attitude, and then told him
that he loved him. Kurama hoped that this time
would turn out as good as the last time did.
Hiei continued to hold his sister's hand long
after he would have normally let go. Kurama was
starting to wonder if Hiei was going to curl up in
his sister's lap and start purring, like he always
does when they're alone. Yukina was lovingly
stroking Hiei's hand and giving him a look of
understanding and comfort. Another jolt of
jealousy hit him. He was supposed to be the one
to give Hiei comfort and understanding, not that
the stubborn fire spirit ever came to him for
comfort he emitted.
Kurama was almost happy to see Kuwabara come
into the room and ruin the psychic connection
between brother and sister. Kuwabara came in as
he always did from work, in a whirlwind of
activity and kids behind him. All three of the
little faces that Yukina had pushed outside to
make Hiei more comfortable, and the oldest that
was watching from a distance, were peering around
him. Staring at their uncles with abnormal amount
of interest.
Yukina accepted a hug and a kiss from her
husband, and then hurried around the room putting
food on the table. Kurama spooned himself up some
of the soup that was placed in front of him as he
watched Hiei squirm and fidget. Then, suddenly
Hiei stood up. He got up so fast that his chair
fell backward and crashed on the floor, making him
the center of attention. Kurama tried to take his
hand, but Hiei jerked away.
"I need to get some air." Was all he said
before he blurred out the door. Kurama's anger at
being so publicly rejected made him stay in his
seat and calmly eat his soup.
"You're just going to let him leave by
himself?" Yukina asked him in gaping surprise.
"He can take care of himself. He'll come
back when he's ready." he said. Kurama tried to
keep all emotion out of his voice so that they
couldn't see how much he was hurting. Kuwabara
sat in his usual place at the table and mirrored
his wife's disbelief. Kurama looked around the
room and realized that all of the Kuwabaras were
looking at him like he had just grown another
head.
"What?" he asked as he took another calm sip
of soup.
"Well, if it was my significant other that
was getting ready to have my child, I wouldn't
just let him walk out the door by himself." Kurama
took all the soup in his mouth into his lungs and
then tried to cough it all out again. Kuwabara
tried to help him by banging on his back.
"Is Hiei-oijsan going to have the baby now,
Kasan?" the littlest Kuwabara asked. Yukina
smiled at her son and nodded her head.
"Yes, he is, and your going to have a new
little cousin." Those were the last words Kurama
heard before he passed out in his soup.
============
end chapter 1
Comments and replies are welcome.
Kat