Disclaimer- I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho in anyway shape or form, although it is a distant dream of mine.

A/N- This story is loosely based on the old Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice with a little bit of tweaks in between. If you know the story then you probably know how this is going to end, but think again because you never know with me sometimes. I am not afraid to change things… so THERE! Anyways, I know someone has written a story using this same basic plotline, and now I want to write one. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the other one was bad, I actually really enjoyed reading it, but I want to write one. And like I said- it's going to be loosely based on the myth which means that there will be some things in between. So, here's my story, please enjoy!

The Youkai Orpheus

Chapter 1- Honey

Hiei stood in front of Kurama's house with a frown on his face; he hadn't been in Ningenkai for a while, three whole weeks to be exact. Hiei had come to find out that being away from this place wasn't as good as it had seemed when he was stuck here and actually wanted to leave. It had taken him days and days of uninterrupted thinking to just figure out what it was that was drawing him to this place. He hated the people there, he disliked the customs and he really hated the fact that all he could do all day was jump around in the trees, eat chocolate and hang with the only person who he knows who isn't a moronic idiot, Kurama. Then it hit him, it was that damn Kurama who was sucking him back here. So here Hiei was, in front of Kurama's house, he was here to figure out why he was keeping him here and how.

Hiei leisurely walked to Kurama's front door, this wasn't a persistent occurrence for Hiei; he usually came in through the window. But he knew for a fact that Kurama was in there alone today because while he was staking out his house earlier he watched Kurama's whole family, minus Kurama, leaving in that contraption called a car; so there was no point in bounding himself to Kurama's room when he could have the whole house to kill him in. Hiei knocked lightly on the door and then proceeded to dig his hands into his pockets. He didn't have to wait long before Kurama opened the door with his usual attentiveness in case of danger. He watched Kurama's lips curve into a smile when he realized who it was, this almost lifted Hiei's spirits, but he didn't return the smile.

"Hello Hiei," Kurama said as he opened the door a little wider. Hiei couldn't help but notice how Kurama seemed to have no casual 'hanging in the house' clothes; he wore the same things that he wore when they were on missions.

"Hn…" Was all that Hiei was willing to say.

Kurama giggled without due consideration, he stopped when Hiei hit him with a death glare. Kurama cleared his throat and then he moved away from the door and smiled at his old partner. "Would you like to come in?"

Hiei didn't answer; he only walked into the house as if it was his own. He made his way to the couch and sat down unceremoniously, actually propping his feet on Kurama's coffee table. Kurama smiled, forgetting at this point that Hiei had forgotten to strip himself of his shoes before he walked into the house. He sauntered to where Hiei was sitting and sat down beside him in his usual proper/girly way.

"So Hiei, what brings you here today?" Kurama asked him, he moved himself a little bit closer to the Koorime. Hiei glared at Kurama, causing Kurama to nervously laugh. After a couple of long seconds Hiei still wasn't speaking, just staring, Kurama began to feel a little uncomfortable, making him rub the back of his head. "What?"

"I think you know exactly what brings me here." Hiei said accusingly.

"Umm… no, I don't." Kurama said sensibly, followed by a short shrug. Hiei only rolled his eyes at this display, and then he stood up from the couch with his arms crossed.

"Do you have anything to eat in here fox?" Hiei asked, he figured he might as well change the subject before he went on his little rampage. Kurama merely nodded and stood. He walked into the kitchen, being followed closely by Hiei. Kurama opened the refrigerator door and gazed inside it, Hiei did the same only he looked much angrier then Kurama did, this caused Kurama to giggle uncontrollably.

"Hiei, why are you angry at my food?" Kurama asked him as he reached into the fridge and pulled out an apple. "Do you want this?" Kurama only received a frown and a slow shake of the head from Hiei; Kurama nodded with a smile and then he turned back into the refrigerator and began to repeatedly pull things out until Hiei finally agreed on a piece of chocolate. Kurama handed it to him and they both settles back on the couch, not saying a word to each other for a while.

Hiei turned toward Kurama with his normal blank expression. He observed the fox as he usually did when he was here, only this time he was searching for something. He was searching for the reason why he was drawn back here, what in that fox was doing this to him. Was it those big beautiful green eyes that he sported so well? How about his blood red hair, was that malleable silky mane making him come back here every week? Could it be those soft lips be the things that bind him here? Hiei's eyes traveled a bit lower, his eyes rested on the flat stomach and chest area of his friend, now could Hiei's desire to caress them be his downfall? His eyes trailed a little bit lower and down to his long legs, which were still in the nice position that he preferred, were the dirty thoughts that oozed into Hiei's mind whenever he looked at those legs the thing about Kurama that was keeping him here?

"Hiei?" Hiei was snapped clean out of his thoughts when he noticed Kurama calling after him. Hiei moved his eyes to Kurama and saw that he was glazing at Hiei as if he was crazy or something; he had obviously noticed his staring. Hiei averted his eyes away from Kurama again, for a second he thought he had blushed but then he realized that it was impossible. "Hiei are you blushing?"

Hiei muttered the words 'Damn', before he began glaring at his fox counterpart. "No! Do I look like someone who would go red in the face?" Hiei asked him harshly.

Kurama pouted as his eyes diverted, he leaned back in his seat and shook his head. There was another long awkward couple of moments that Kurama and Hiei spent watching the news, Kurama seemed to really be into it while Hiei only silently chuckled to himself when he saw all of the crazy things that those Ningens did. When the news hour was over Kurama turned the television off once again and he shifted his eyes to Hiei, he seemed to be examining him just like Hiei had been doing to him earlier. Hiei frowned and glanced down into his lap awkwardly, he wondered if this was the way that Kurama felt when he had been staring at him. Hiei uncomfortably shifted in his seat, he thought he might be blushing again but he abandoned the idea when Kurama remained silent. After a couple of minutes of the Hiei actually being self-conscious for once, he got fed up and quickly turned to Kurama with an irate look in his red eyes.

"What!?" Hiei yelled, his full intention to scare Kurama, unfortunately Kurama remained un-phased. Kurama merely grinned at Hiei and then he sat back in the couch. Hiei sighed in relief and sat back in the couch just as Kurama had done. They remained silent for a while, neither of them looking at one another for about 3 minutes before they both raised their eyes to look at each other at the same time. Their eyes fell almost immediately though, they didn't say anything for a while yet again until Kurama decided to speak.

"Hiei…" Kurama said softly, he got his attention almost immediately. "…Are you okay?" This question took Hiei off guard, mostly because he had no idea what Kurama meant. Hiei glared at Kurama, he looked pretty annoyed.

"What do you mean am I okay?" Hiei asked him accusingly.

Kurama bit down on his bottom lip and then spoke calmly. "Well, what I meant was…"

Hiei cut Kurama clean off with a loud snicker. "I'm sure you mean a lot of things, huh Kurama? Like, if I'm okay with the fact that you've been using some kind of fox tricks to pull me back here every other week, or if I'm okay with the fact that you've kept me completely oblivious to the fact? Or if I'm okay with the reality that you're making me experience all of these stupid sad feelings when I'm not here in Ningenkai with you? Is that what you meant?" Hiei snarled angrily, he didn't notice what he was saying until he saw the look on Kurama's face. He looked completely taken aback, his eyes were wide and he was pouting again.

"Umm… no…" Kurama answered passively.

Hiei rolled his eyes at Kurama and turned away from him. His eyes feel to his lap and Kurama just stared into the different areas of his household, trying to figure out what had just happened. After a bit of uncomfortable silence, Hiei stood from the couch with his arms crossed. "Bye fox…" He murmured, he began walking at a face pace out of the room.

Kurama frowned and he hopped out from his seat. "Where are you going?"

Hiei turned his head and frowned at Kurama. Now, he had one of two options, he could tell Kurama the truth and say that he was way too embarrassed to stick around and look at him or he could make up some kind of lie that Kurama would probably have a good solution to anyways. "I'm tired… I'm going to find somewhere to go to bed." Hiei mumbled, he was about to sprint toward the door, but he was stopped by Kurama's voice.

"You don't have to sleep outside. I heard there was a possibility of a rainstorm tonight." Kurama said, he actually sounded a bit concerned to Hiei, but he passed this off as the fox's normal tone.

"Well, I'll just go back to Alaric then." Hiei rationalized.

"You really don't have to go through all of that trouble; you can just stay here for the night and go back to Makai tomorrow…" Kurama said; he smiled when he noticed the look that Hiei had given him (it was an annoyed stare by the way). "…That way you won't get caught in the rain."

Hiei rolled his eyes, he wanted to say no or just leave, but something in Kurama's voice made him change his mind completely. He turned his body around and looked at Kurama, and slowly nodded. Kurama beamed, actually causing Hiei to smile briefly, brief enough that Kurama couldn't even see it. Kurama walked closer to his friend and he looked down at him with the same smile on his face. "If you're tired now, you can go up to my room. I'll be able to join you shortly; I just have to take a shower first." With that said, Kurama walked upstairs and straight into the bathroom.

Hiei shook his head, he wasn't exactly tired yet and he didn't want Kurama to think that he followed him or anything. So, instead, Hiei decided to stay downstairs for a while and go through the house. Hiei walked to the kitchen first and searched for any other food that looked edible. Hiei went through gleefully, throwing things around and even dropping and spilling a lot of things. When he didn't find anything that even looked like he'd want to eat it he shifted gears to the freezer, he found a full carton of sweet snow and he decided on that. After all of those escapades were done he walked to the bookcase that was in the dining room. There was one book in particular that stood out to Hiei, it was about relationships and stuff and the title was, "Relationships and stuff". Hiei opened it out of curiosity and gazed inside and found that there were a lot of frivolous topics, such as: 'How do you know if you have fallen in love', 'Does he love you that much?', and the most ridiculous one, 'When is it the right time to get married?'. Now, regardless of al of this Hiei did come across an article that seemed like it would be an interesting read for his current situation; 'Four Signs that you have a crush (or an infatuation)'. Hiei's eyes focused on the page, he read in a speedy manner.

A/N: I hate sticking these in places but I just have to say that I pretty much found this on the internet somewhere. Okay? Okay!

Sign number one: You think about the object of your crush all the time

Hiei had to ponder this one; he kind of did spend a lot of his time thinking about Kurama, more time then what had been normal. Ever since he had decided to stay in Makai he had been having many dreams about Kurama, and not just the stupid kind of dreams that you have a night that you can't control. He actually had daydreams, those useless occurrences when Hiei's mind would wander to what it would be like if he was with Kurama, what would his lips taste like; a lot of random thoughts that only had one thing in common, that damn fox.

Sign number two: Your crush starts to get in the way of your everyday life

Hiei didn't have to think about his one at all, Kurama defiantly did put a damper on what used to be his normal life. He could recall before he'd met Kurama he was able to commit crimes and do various bad things without having a second thought about it. He even did these things a year after he had met Kurama, but that was only because he was doing it with him, which meant that if one went down, they both went down. Now it was totally different, Hiei did in fact miss the rush of doing bad things like stealing things, kidnapping people for selfish purposes and killing people for no purposes. But now he had to think about Kurama, because if he was arrested again or put on probation in a place where Kurama was not present then that would mean loneliness for the both of them. In that respect, the kitsune was killing his everyday life brutally.

Sign number three: You find yourself doing things you swore you would never do

This one completely linked back to today, Hiei had sworn that as soon as he got out of Ningenkai there was no way that he was coming back. But, alas, here he was dragging himself back there every other week just to make sure that Kurama was still safe or to ask him a question, or simply to just lounge on his couch with him and eat sweet snow. It just wasn't fair. Hiei knew it was Kurama's fault that he was coming back there.

At this point Hiei was getting a little worried, he had the first three qualities of having a crush on Kurama, not that he thought this magazine was right or anything, it's just some random book written by an idiotic Ningen women. But still, he was kind of interested, what if he did have the next quality, then did that mean he had a crush as far as Ningen standards went. He cautiously glanced down.

Sign number four: You're breath gets caught in your throat and your heart skips a beat whenever your crush walks into the room

Hiei sighed with relief after reading this. Not once has his breath caught in his throat, not for Kurama and not for a single other person that Hiei had taken up with. That proved it! He didn't have an infatuation with the fox, it was all in his head and the stupid book was the one putting it in his head. Hiei had half of a mind to take out his katana and made this book shreds, but it was Kurama's and more than likely Kurama would kill him.

He closed the book and placed it back on the shelf, relief flooding through his heart. Hiei yawned silently, he was getting rather tired, 'Maybe I should get upstairs in Kurama's room and go to bed.' Hiei thought to himself. He placed the sweet snow on the counter, forgetting that it needed to be frozen in order for it to remain "snow", then he made his way upstairs, he passed the bathroom, hearing that Kurama was still bathing himself. Hiei managed a small smile when he heard the fox humming a pleasant tune, he couldn't help but notice that he sounded pretty good when he hummed, defiantly when you compared it to when he sings, which is always a catastrophe. Hiei sighed heavily, reminding himself that the fox wasn't supposed to be on his mind unless he wanted to have an infatuation with him. Hiei exhaled noisily and began to walk to Kurama's room again.

Hiei reached Kurama's room, documenting the neatness of the room, Hiei had no idea how he pulled this off in a room so small with no one keeping it clean for him. He noticed that there was a pair of pajamas sitting on his bed, they seemed to be entirely too small for Kurama and they were orange, a color that Kurama had some how grown to hate in recent years. Hiei rolled his eyes when he came to the realization that these were meant for him, Hiei defiantly didn't want to put these on, but of course if he didn't Kurama would come in here and force it on him. Hiei quickly changed into the embarrassing apparel, but he kept all of his clothing and his katana close by. He laid down on Kurama's comfortable and yet small bed, not that he minded at all, he and Kurama had slept in the same bed in the past one's that were even smaller than this, they were that comfortable in each other's company.

Hiei had defiantly though he was sleepy, but when he had lain down on the bed he couldn't get to sleep at all. That stupid book was still stalking his mind. He possibly had an infatuation with Kurama; as far as that book was concerned Hiei had a 3 out of 4 chance of being smitten with Kurama. Honestly, Hiei had never really thought of a chance that he could like Kurama, he always saw him as a good and trustworthy friend, but as a lover, no! But then again, it was possible; Kurama did have a nice face from women and men standards. But, Hiei had only just started having these feelings… was it the distance between them? 'I once heard the phrase that distance makes a bond stronger and not weaker. Is it possible that the time that I spent away from him the thing that suddenly making me realize... No! Of course not, Kurama is just Kurama, and that stupid book was just a bunch of confusing Ningen text, nothing that really meant anything. I have nothing to worry about…' Hiei said to himself, he smiled softly when he was finished, there was no way that he was crushing on Kurama.

Kurama's door opened and, as if fate was playing a cruel joke on him, in came Kurama with a towel rapped around his waist and another rapped in his red hair. And surprisingly Hiei felt his heart skip and his breath caught way up in his throat. Kurama was so lovely when he had just gotten out of the shower, Hiei couldn't help but notice how some of his dripping wt red streaks were still falling down his face, escaping the tight towel.

"Oh, I'm sorry Hiei, I thought you'd be sleeping by now." Kurama said bashfully, he looked to the side and for the first time Hiei actually saw Kurama when he was shy and he thought it was cute.

"Sorry fox, you're going to have to change in front of me." Hiei said, he made it sound like a joke but in reality he was dead serious.

He got received a light giggle from Kurama. "As appealing as that sounds, I think I'm just going to change my clothes in the closet." Kurama walked inside of his tiny closet and began to do his business.

Hiei listened closely to every time that Kurama had bumped into things and murmured the words 'Ow', 'Ouch', 'Shoot'. Now that is the type of entertainment that Hiei craved for, his favorite parts is when he would laugh and Kurama would yell, "Shut up!" from the closet. Hiei's thoughts drifted back to when Kurama had walked into the room a couple of minutes ago. 'He looked so nice that my breath…caught... up… in my… Oh GOD!' Hiei immediately burst out with a bunch of curse words, some he didn't even know the meaning of.

"Hiei, are you okay?" Kurama asked him.

Hiei just grunted in response and he immediately calmed himself down by laying face down into the pillow. A couple of minutes later Hiei felt the part of the bed beside him sinking down, he lifted his crimson eyes to meet the amber ones of his counterpart. Kurama smiled at him then he reached over and shut off the light that was near his bed. Hiei watched as he lay back in the bed, covering himself up with the blanket. He turned to Hiei with a warm smile on his face.

"Goodnight Hiei…" Kurama said before he closed his eyes and in minutes drifted off to dreamland.

After about an hour of lying awake, Hiei sat up in the bed and glanced at the kitsune that slept so peacefully beside him. The same kitsune that is responsible for keeping Hiei awake for so long, his thoughts kept shifting back to that stupid book and all of its stupid analogies to what Hiei was feeling. He had gone through all of the signs that he had an infatuation with Kurama, and quite frankly he was starting to not have a problem with that, that was the confusing part. Hiei scanned the red head, he was so pretty; who wouldn't have a crush on him.

Hiei's eyes fell onto the pale lips of his, they were vaguely parted and looked... tasty. Hiei bit down on his bottom lip, pondering on what he should do now. He obviously wasn't getting to sleep anytime soon, and there was nothing to do. 'Maybe I could get a small taste… you know, just to lie to rest all of my fantasies of what his lips would taste like. He's sleeping so he won't even have to be a part of it.' Hiei said to himself. He moved his body a little closer to Kurama, carefully as to not wake him, and he placed his hand on Kurama's cheek. When Kurama didn't move, Hiei smirked mischievously and he lowered his head to the lips of his lovely kitsune, their lips meet and Hiei felt pure bliss. He laced his fingers into his hair and pressed his lips deeper onto Kurama's, he'd gotten so rapped up that he didn't notice Kurama waking up until it was way too late, Kurama's eyes were wide open and they looked shocked. When Hiei realized this he snatched his lips away from Kurama's and looked at him wide eyed. Kurama continued staring at him as he sat up on the bed.

Hiei suddenly felt overwhelmed with the fact that he had been found out and in the blink of an eye he was gone, along with all of his things. Kurama continued staring into the spot where Hiei had been, his eyes wide with shock. After a while he had defiantly calmed down a bit and he raised his fingers to touch his mouth, a light smile danced onto his lips. He lay back down in his bed and fought his way to sleep as many daydreams of his first kiss with Hiei danced through his head.

Meanwhile, Hiei hopped around many trees doing whatever he could to forget the previous occurrences. 'Oh goodness, I feel almost as stupid as that idiot Kuwabara. Why couldn't I keep that stupid kiss just a kiss; I insisted on touching his hair and making the kiss deeper than necessary. How will I ever look that Kurama in the eye again?' Hiei stopped at a tree when he was sure that he was too far for the fox to follow him. Hiei cursed loudly this time, hoping to wake the entire neighborhood; he should have just gone to Alaric like he had been planning to do. This was all Kurama's fault, he should have just let him get caught in the rain, wait, where is the rain? Hiei looked at the sky and saw that it was clear, there wasn't a cloud in sight; and it certainly didn't smell of rain. So the Fox had tricked him again, now for what reason? Hiei couldn't even figure out. Hiei slumped in the tree and frowned, after a while of sitting there silently Hiei licked his lips and couldn't help but taste the lingering presence of Kurama's lips. Hiei smiled to himself, they tasted like honey.

Chapter Numero Uno!

I hope you guys liked it, there is more to come and more than likely the next chapter will be within the next week or so.

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