I am working on The Boy Who Had No Heart and As Long As You're Mine, but until then, I thought you guys might enjoy this.

I wrote this a while ago, and just edited it the other day. I enjoy it, and I hope you do to!

Summary: An assassin is hired by three brothers, Yomi, Karasu, and Kuronue, to protect their fiancé. When he meets their fiancé, will he stay loyal to his employers? Or will he forsake everything to save him from a terrible fate? Yaoi, AU, Hiei/Kurama

Pairings: Slight Karasu/Kura, Kuro/Kura, Yomi/Kura, Karasu/Kuro, and Karasu/Yomi. Overall Hiei/ Kura.

Warnings: Um… it's pretty safe, but I guess you could say slight incest and AU

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.

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Chapter 1: The Brothers

It was the first week of spring when I signed a contract with my new employer. I remember that night distinctly, for it was the first time in months that the sky chose to torture me with rain. It wasn't just a passing shower- that, I could have tolerated.

No. When nature came at me, it came hard. Each droplet sliced through the air like a needle, which shattered upon coming into contact with something solid. The air was bitter and frozen, and I felt even more unwelcome in the world than, because of my pessimistic nature, I usually felt.

The rain pounded all night, as if by persistence alone it would reach me. It was just after midnight that he accosted me. Now, normally I wouldn't even think of taking on a job when there was a bad omen as obvious as this storm.

Something about this demon was unique, and it piqued my interest. He told me that he and his two younger brothers were looking to hire an assassin to eliminate some neighbors. I instantly refused.

I'm not so poor that I would sink to taking on something so minor that any lay-killer could accomplish it. Why would I charge exorbitant prices if I did baby work like that? I told him as much, but he just chuckled.

That chuckle managed to irritate me right off. The guy hadn't even once opened his eyes, so I was willing to assume he was blind. I don't generally enjoy the company of cripples; I've made too many of them for that.

So I tell him to go away, but he just won't shut up. "No, you don't understand." he tells me. He explains that they are willing to give me a lodging, because they need a guy who's proficient enough to work on his own, and that it is vital to them.

He says his name is Yomi, and apparently the three of them live up in the hills, far away from the majority of the world. The closest guys are miles away, and it's a well-known fact that those who live up in the hills are always fighting over territory.

Now the guy had my interest. If he and his brothers had enough money to live up in those hills, that means they probably owned a significant chunk of land, and therefore, were filthy rich. I realized I was being offered the deal of a lifetime, and decided to accept his generous offer.

I'm definitely anti-social enough that I would never consider living near others, but like I said, this guy was special. He told me that his parents were shape shifters, and I realized what made him seem so abnormal.

I had never seen a race like his before, so it must have been some invented form. Shape shifters have no actual form; it was more of a power. Whatever form the parents have is the form the offspring takes. So I realized he must be some thought up species that they had decided to have.

It was one hell of a freak show; that was certain. The guy had six ears! Why the hell would someone need that many ears? Then again, if the guy was blind, he could have added more himself.

For whatever reason, I was fascinated. Shape shifters are a mystery, and I wanted to know more. I also wondered what the other two looked like. So I agreed to go with him, but there was no way I was moving from my shelter until this accursed storm left.

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Curse my damn curiosity.

So about a week later, I find myself at an old castle. We go in through the front, and Yomi yells out for his brothers. They show up pretty quick, but they had clearly just scrambled to get their clothes on. I wasn't so naïve that I thought they'd been sleeping.

I was already starting to regret agreeing to this. Yomi introduced them. The one that was next in age to him seemed a few years younger, maybe twenty-five or so. He was creepy, and for me to think that, he has to be really creepy. The guy's body was slim and sort of curved like a girl's, minus the chest of course. His hair was long and black; it completely surrounded three sides of his body.

He grinned at me, his violet eyes glistening malevolently. I shuddered and quickly shifted to appraise the next one. I had to look closely, but I was surprised to find that he looked about ten years younger than the last one, Karasu.

The guy was fifteen years old! And he'd just been in bed with that creepy… ugh, I shuddered at the mere thought. He had the thick, long black hair that the brothers shared, and it was hanging down so that it brushed against the ground.

His eyes were an unnatural indigo color, and he had two useless looking bat-like wings. Kuronue, he was called. I noticed him scowling at Yomi when Karasu began hanging off of Yomi's arm. Wow, Karasu was definitely a slut if he was into both his brothers.

I noticed him staring at me and glanced away. "Who's this then?" Kuronue asked, leering at me curiously. Was this the same kid that had just been glaring at Yomi for taking his brother's attention?

Were they all sluts or something? I did not like the way that that batty chimera thing looked at me. Yomi introduced me and then just plopped down onto the floor, right there in the middle of the room.

I realized I was getting way too distracted. After all, I'd come to work, not wonder about my employers. Well… sort of. He asked if they could have a minute to talk, so I grunted and walked back outside.

I was going to listen in on them, of course. "Back off Kuro." Yomi snapped. "He's not a new toy, he's here to work."

"But I've never fucked a killer before!" he whined childishly. I shuddered, was he serious? I wouldn't even want to sleep with me.

"He's not so pretty as that darling." Karasu said in a sultry voice. I saw him wrap himself tightly around Yomi. "Aren't I enough, or do you not love me anymore?"

"Of course I do." The teen sighed sullenly.

"Then quit worrying your pretty little head about it." The crow, (he was too creepy to be anything else) purred.

Yomi pried his younger brother off of him. "Snap out of it you idiots! We're paying him to get rid of competition after all."

This seemed to get their attention. "He was pledged to us at birth, why do we need to fight over him?" Kuro wondered. So this wasn't a land fight after all, it was over a demon? Weird…

"Because baby brother, they all want him." His eyes turned hard. "He's our fiancé, none of them can have him!"

"Indeed, so are we all agreed?" The other two nodded. "You can come back in now!" Yomi called.

I moved into the doorway and waited for them to talk. They decided that they would wait a couple days to give me my first target. Kuronue led me to a little shack attached to the side of the castle.

He told me I could explore all I wanted, as if I wouldn't do that anyway. They would inform me when they needed someone killed. Then he left, and I was alone.

I looked around; there were hills for miles in every direction. There was an old bridge leading through the hills to a pond a few miles east. Other than that, there was nothing in sight. I grimaced; this was going to be a long year…