So I've never written for this site before, so I really don't know much of what I'm doing haha. I've been a member for a long time but sitting here actually trying to figure out how I'm editing this is what's funny :'D

I didn't write this entire story myself. In fact this first chapter is only half of a roleplay between myself and my girlfriend.

Our roleplay took place on Skype and we decided to continue this, and in the long-run, I'm turning the entire thing into one really long story. So basically I went back over this entire first chapter, cut out any chatting we had going on, and edited both of our parts to make what you're about to read.

I've been a fan of Yu Yu Hakusho for ten wonderful years, and I'm finally able to show my love for it here, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho in any way, shape, or form. If by some miracle I did, Kurama and Hiei would have ended up a couple as originally planned, Yukina would know Hiei was her brother, and Yusuke and Koenma would have been a couple and Koenma would never even have that baby form. :I

So, I'll shut up now that I've had that intro. Enjoy, guys~

Warning: If you don't like yaoi, which is boy on boy relationships and sex, then don't read this. Simple. :D This is a KuramaXHiei and KoenmaXYusuke fanfiction, so it's going to have boy on boy action man. xD

Chapter One: Tears Would Show Your Weakness

Hiei was currently in the hotel room that the team was staying in during the Dark Tournament. He was sure everyone else was out. He hadn't seen them, so he had gone to his room that he was sharing with Kurama. He was currently lying on his small, temporary bed, clutching his stomach with his one good arm, the left one. His right arm twitched and he let out a groan of pain. Now something was not only wrong with his arm, but his stomach. He had been smashed into that tree by Gotasubal, that giant-ass, 30 foot robot that Kurama had killed. When Kurama had saved him from that thing he had immediately been fine, as if he wasn't in pain at all, but now something was wrong. Clutching his stomach with his left arm, he groaned and curled in on himself, growling loudly in his pain.

Kurama was a bit tired from the day, but he was glad he had gotten Hiei free from that monstrous machine. As he rested in a chair, he watched Yusuke talking to Kuwabara, the two beginning to laugh at something. He didn't really get their humor, despite being raised as a human. He slowly got up, and walked to his room. He wanted to check up on Hiei, concerned for the smaller male. He wanted revenge for what had happened to him, though he supposed that with Gotasubal and that other demon dead, that was the best he would be getting for now. He slowly walked in and looked at Hiei, noticing the smaller male was holding his stomach and growling. Shocked and scared, he rushed to Hiei's side and held his hand, "Hiei, what's wrong?" He looked at the fire demon in concern.

Hiei's eyes snapped open and he looked at Kurama, never once uncurling himself from his fetal position on his bed. "Kurama I swear..." he gasped as he tried to breathe."I swear that giant mechanical creature did something to me when it crashed me into that tree. I don't know what's going on but on top of my arm already being in pain this isn't exactly..." he winced and growled a bit as the pain flared up. "...helping..."

Kurama looked at the small male with distress written plainly on his features. "Hiei..." He let go and sighed, before getting up and turning to look around, pulling out some herbal medicine books and opening them. He flipped through some pages to find a recipe for a pain-reducer. As he found one that peaked his interest, he saw that it would also clean any open wounds, plus it had half the healing time. He looked at the ingredients and walked out, taking the book with him. Hiei watched as Kurama walked out of the room. He sighed before his pain flared up again and he growled once more.

As Kurama walked outside, he began searching through the forest, picking up some moss and other ingredients he saw in the book. As he finished this task, he took everything back inside and put it into a bowl, crushing the ingredients finely together. He also picked up some wrap around bandages and finally, he walked back to the room. "Get up, Hiei." His voice was stern. He didn't want to hurt the male further, but if he didn't get up, he'd have to use force.

When the older, taller male finally returned, Hiei's eyes widened in shock at the request. He looked at Kurama, frozen, not able to move. He finally gasped. "K..Kurama I don't understand..h-how do you expect me to move, let alone.." the pain flared and he hissed, "..get up!"

Kurama glared a bit at this, walking over, "Aren't you supposed to obey people older than you? I am trying to help you, but I can't if you don't get up."

Hiei's eyes widened further at Kurama's sudden attitude. "K..Kurama..you've never..spoken to me like that.." Hiei would never admit it but just that small glare from Kurama hurt him more than he ever thought it could. The pain from that one glare was greater than the physical pain he had times 100.

Kurama watched the boy, placing the powder down on his own bed. He watched Hiei patiently, hoping he'd at least try to get up so he could clean the wound and apply the powder. If Hiei didn't, he knew a few movements of the wrist to get him to uncurl. He continued watching, waiting...

"I..I was just asking how you expect me to move. I can barely breathe and everything hurts, Kurama. I just..I'll try but I don't know how well I'll manage." Hiei growled out the words angrily, but truthfully, he felt pathetic at that statement. He had never felt so useless and weak in his life. He was used to being the tough one who didn't give a damn about anyone. This was new to him and he didn't understand the emotions running through him or why he was so willingly acting helpless in front of his best friend. He never thought he could act this way, especially in front of Kurama. He didn't want Kurama to see him as weak. He took in a breath, and, left arm still clutching his stomach, attempted to sit up. As he did so he let out a loud cry of pain. If Yusuke and Kuwabara heard that from the other room, he would be so embarrassed, but he knew they did and they'd probably come bursting in, louder than ever as he cried out, the pain ripping through his stomach like a sharp knife.

Kurama watched and slowly, cautiously began to walk over, lifting Hiei's cloak and shirt. His eyes went wide in shock as he saw the now large, terribly infected wound covering the other's stomach. How it had gotten this bad without them noticing, he would never know. Staring at the horrible injury, he kissed it softly and walked to his own bed, picking up the powder he had made, along with a wet towel he had brought. Hiei blushed, eyes wide when Kurama kissed his wound. Kurama walked back to Hiei's bed and began to slowly scrub and clean the wound, feeling a bit distressed as he heard Hiei growl in more pain. He wanted to help him, but he really didn't want to cause this much stress to the Fire Demon, or really, to himself now, either. He continued cleaning the wound, and began to rub Hiei's cheek softly, trying to soothe him. As Kurama was working, Hiei, of course, noticed the other rubbing his cheek. His eyes still wide, he blushed more, hoping Kurama wouldn't notice. Kurama had never treated him like this before. This was his best friend but he was acting like so much more. Hiei didn't understand.

When Kurama saw that the wound was as clean as it would get with the towel, he placed it down and picked up the bowl full of powder. He dipped a small brush, one often used when looking for fossils, into the bowl and picked up a good amount of powder. He rubbed it into the wound, looking at Hiei to see his reaction.

'Kurama...' he thought to himself quietly. 'Do you..maybe have fee-' his thoughts were abruptly cut off as Kurama rubbed that powder into his stomach. He immediately screamed at the pain it caused, trying to back out of Kurama's grip as he helplessly writhed around, seemingly out of control with his pain.

Kurama, all too calmly, looked to Hiei. "Calm down. This is an all-natural remedy. It'll sting, but it'll also take away infection." Hiei, however, continued to writhe in pain. Even his right arm wasn't in this much pain after he had blasted out that Dragon. He almost bit the finger Kurama had just placed in front of his mouth, not because he wanted to hurt him, but out of instinct to try to focus on biting instead of the pain he was feeling.

Kurama continued his actions, moving the brush back down into the powder, before picking it up again and rubbing the powder more into the wound. The quicker it got into his body, the better he'd feel.

At some point, the Fox had taken the towel and began to dab lightly at Hiei's injury in his attempts to ease the other's pain. But, he soon moved the towel away and began rubbing the little demon's cheek softly and moving that godforsaken finger back to his lips in an attempt to keep him quiet. The Youko rubbed more of the pale green powder in and watched Hiei's reactions. He knew if Yusuke or Kuwabara walked in, they'd know the secret Kurama kept from even his closest friend. But, when Kurama proceeded to put even more of the vile substance onto his wound, that's when Hiei became more drastic. He instantly shot up to his feet right in front of Kurama and ran. Well, he tried to at least.

Kurama jumped back in shock, almost spilling the powder all over the floor. "Hiei!" Coming to his senses, Kurama was quick to his feet as he rushed at Hiei and grabbed him. "You'll kill yourself!" Kurama was angry, hurt, but most of all, he was close to crying, something he had never done in front of the other. He didn't want to see his friend hurt, so he gently wrapped his arms around the other, making sure to keep away from Hiei's stomach. "Please, stay still so I can help you.. I don't want to lose you like I almost did in the forest." He looked at Hiei's exposed back in frustration and pain, wanting to know that Hiei understood what he meant. He turned the other around slowly, and ever-so-lightly cupped his cheek, "If it hurts, I'll make sure you feel much better afterwards."

However, Hiei had frozen as soon as the fox wrapped his arms around the shorter boy. Kurama had NEVER hugged him before. He had been under the impression that Kurama saw him as unhuggable, which was something MOST thought of Hiei for his cold disposition and the way he just generally hated others with a passion. It was true that Hiei didn't trust people, humans and demons alike, but it was more out of a fear he would never admit he had. He had always been abandoned by everyone. His own family threw him off of a mountain hoping he would die, and then the people who raised him abandoned him later, too, and he was just truly afraid of getting close to others because he feared they would leave him, too. As much as he was friends with Kurama, he feared anything more in their relationship because he didn't want Kurama to up and leave him like everyone else had, but Hiei was not unhuggable like everyone thought. In fact somewhere in him, Hiei loved hugs. So when Kurama hugged him at that moment he froze. He was in pain, yes, but the shock from not being hugged by anyone in his whole life and now Kurama was here, arms wrapped around him.. Hiei's breathing hitched when it happened and his mind short-circuited like a computer battery gone wrong. He didn't know what to do, and then Kurama said those words. 'I don't want to lose you like I almost did in the forest.' And Hiei lost it somewhere in his mind and slowly, but surely, tears started forming in his eyes, another thing that had never happened before. Hiei had never cried so he didn't know if his tears formed jewels like his sister's but he had never thought he'd find out. But his eyes watered as he tried to hold back the tears and simply stood there, still frozen.

After the long silence, Kurama finally broke the silence between them. "Please, Hiei. I need you to lay down so I can help you." Kurama sniffled softly, holding in his own tears. He continued hugging the male, wanting to hold him close and never let go. He wanted Hiei to live. He wanted Hiei to stay his friend. But, he also wanted more. He wanted to enter the fire and feel the burn. He wanted Hiei. He loved Hiei, but seeing Hiei like this was breaking his heart. "Please... Hiei..."

At that moment Hiei's mind came back online and registered the pain from his trying to run and he screamed, an agonizing, blood-curdling scream as he fell back into Kurama's arms helplessly. He didn't understand what that THING had done to him, why it hurt so badly, but the tears he had been holding back finally released themselves as Hiei screamed his agony in Kurama's arms, mind reeling with pain and at the same time the heartbreak from what Kurama was saying to him, how desperate he sounded. Hiei had never been in a situation anything like this so all he could do was scream in pain and try to ignore the feelings he was gathering for the taller, red-haired demon, knowing now that Kurama obviously had some sort of feelings for him as well.

Kurama's eyes went wide and he picked up Hiei, holding him to his chest. He was afraid of that scream from the other, what it meant. As Hiei's tears finally dropped to the floor, they formed the gems he didn't think were possible, and even more so, they were different colors. There were some black, some red, and some that were both black AND red in a marble-like pattern. They were beautiful but Hiei never noticed as he screamed and Kurama picked him up and put him on the bed.

The Fox brought a leaf to his mouth. "Chew on it," he said simply, trying to suppress the urge to let his emotions just run rampant. The leaf he was holding had a special property to numb the user and keep them from feeling any sort of pain, emotional or physical. As soon as the leaf was presented to Hiei's already open mouth, he immediately accepted it and chewed on it. It was a taste he couldn't describe, mixing back and forth between bitter and sweet.

Kurama watched Hiei slowly, rubbing his chest softly to try and soothe the pain a bit more. "Hiei, do you feel that pain? It'll only get worse if I don't put the powder on it. It's becoming infected and it could kill you!" Kurama was finally crying now, tearing up at his close friend. He felt his own tears slip down his face in both anger and sadness. Hiei simply laid on the bed chewing the leaf as the tears escaped him, his situation obviously desperate as he finally allowed Kurama to do whatever he wanted. He just took the powder. He didn't care anymore. He wanted all the pain to go away.

Kurama, finally allowed to continue, dipped the brush into the powder once more and rubbed it against the wound, singing softly as he continued. This time, he didn't use the towel, continuing to dip the brush in and rub it over the wound. He did this until the injury was covered with the green powder. At last, he picked up the towel, still damp and pressed it to Hiei's wound. He continued pressing it until he felt it was time to remove it, in which, he did and grabbed the bandages. He helped Hiei sit up and slowly wrapped the bandages around his waist, watching him softly.

As Kurama lifted Hiei to wrap the bandages around him, he almost screamed again in that horrible agony. All the while that Kurama wrapped him in the bandages, he leaned on Kurama for support, breathing heavily as a few more tears slipped out and formed those beautiful gems as they hit the floor. He buried his eyes in Kurama's shoulder, not wanting Kurama to see his face when he was this pathetic-looking. He felt so unlike his normal self and he didn't understand it and there was just so much pain and he didn't know what to do.

Kurama picked up the little one's hand after he finished bandaging him and kissed it softly. "There, there," he whispered soothingly into the other's ear. Hiei's eyes widened as he stayed on Kurama's shoulder, where Kurama couldn't actually SEE his eyes widening in shock at the kiss to his hand.

Kurama soon laid Hiei down on the bed gently, and decided to lay beside him, holding Hiei close. He felt bad for his friend. He had heard the remedy was often painful, but he never had to experience it for himself. As Kurama laid him down on the bed and held Hiei, the Forbidden Child was in utter shock. He couldn't believe Kurama was so easily getting so close to the little fire demon when he had thought Kurama didn't even trust him. Kurama proceeded to rub Hiei's cheek softly, moving closer to him to the point that their lips were almost touching. Kurama's eyes closed so he was unable to notice. He continued rubbing his cheek, smiling softly as he held the smaller male close. He cared for him and wanted to make sure he would make it through the night without incident.

When Kurama's eyes slipped closed and he moved so close to Hiei that their lips were almost touching, Hiei's eyes only continued to widen and he blushed, stilling under Kurama's hold on him. He tried not to let Kurama see his obvious nervousness at this situation that he wasn't used to, but it was hard to relax in a situation like this. He didn't understand anything right now, but he knew the pain was slowly starting to subside in his stomach.

Kurama slowly drifted off to sleep, his arms around Hiei protectively. He would do anything to protect his friend as he held him. He lightly snored near Hiei's ear, whispering his name softly in his dream, "Hiei~..." He smiled faintly in his sleep and curled up softly.

Hiei was getting more and more flustered by the second. He was pretty sure he was about to snap, and then Kurama whispered his name. He froze and stared at Kurama. He surely wasn't still awake, was he? "Y..yes..Kurama? What is it..?" He asked quietly, nervous at whatever response he may receive.

"I love you~..." Kurama whispered in between snores. He held him close, singing softly in his sleep. His arms wrapped around his body as he was pulled closer. His lips were still close to Hiei's as he slept, and they fell open a bit more, his arms pulling him as close as he could get.

Hiei almost fainted as the words escaped the sleeping form that was Kurama. He didn't know how to react, what to do as Kurama pretty much crushed the two of them together like he would never let Hiei go. Those lips close to his own scared him, in all honesty, and he looked around to try to find a way out of the vice grip the fox had on him. Hiei was frightened. He wasn't used to this, it wasn't normal for him and he didn't know what to do. His mind kept replaying that statement in his head and he kept getting more and more scared of himself. Hiei was sure he would be getting no sleep tonight.

Hnnnnn...so I guess let me know what you think haha~ I really would like reviews and such things, since it's my first story here on and that means this is srs beanz. Oyus. Srs. Business.

Or if it makes it easier I can just call forth my own demons to kill you if you don't review. /shot