Chapters 1-4 freshly revised. I did my best revising them and fixing all the grammatical errors I could find but I'm not good at finding errors in stories so I may not have fixed them all, if anyone finds any errors in my writing feel free to let me know so that I can fix it. Thank you.

Chapter 1

(Hiei's POV)

Searing white-hot pain flashed through my body, my vision fading in and out as I dragged myself through the woods. If anyone were to take a look at me they honestly wouldn't be able to tell the amount of agony I was in, for I would never allow my weaknesses to be shown, but the truth was I wasn't sure how much farther I could go.

I really needed to get somewhere for the night and give my body time to heal. Obviously my first thought was to head to Kurama's place, but damn it he was too far away from me at the moment.

I stopped for a minute to rest against a tree, feeling as though I were going to be sick any second. Every step I took was absolute torture, but I would cut out my own tongue before I admitted how bad it was to anyone else. My leg was pretty much in shreds, some of the tendons and muscle looking as though they were about to completely fall off. The fact that said leg was also broken in several different places, and I still had to walk on it, really wasn't helping either.

I took a slow deep breath to try and keep from passing out, and I thought about where I could go. I had to think for a moment, and I let out a sigh as I pushed myself forward. Even though I really didn't want to, Yusuke's house was the closest to where I was at the moment and if I didn't sit down soon and let my leg heal up I was most likely going to bleed to death.

As if I didn't have enough problems already, it started pouring while I was still about twenty minutes away from the detective's house and I cursed my luck. I could already smell infection setting in so I pushed myself to run the rest of the way.

With me running at top speed I knew I must've gotten there in roughly five minutes, but the excruciating pain made every second seem like an eternity. It was late and I knew the human would be asleep, and I figured the half-breed was most likely sleeping himself, so I didn't even bother knocking on the door.

I made my way around to the side of the house and forced my way into Yusuke's bedroom window. I easily slipped into the room and made my way into the boy's bathroom. Water was pouring off of me and pooling into the floor as I passed Yusuke's bed and nearly tripped over one of his stupid bags.

I made my way over to the medicine cabinet and grabbed a bottle of alcohol and bandage wraps. I had just sat down on the side of the bathtub when I suddenly heard a loud thump followed by angry cursing.

"What the fuck? Oh don't tell me the damn roof is leaking! Stupid water!" Yusuke shouted. I heard a bit more shuffling before he popped into the bathroom and switched on the light, causing me to let out a hiss from the sudden brightness.

"Holy shit! Dude don't fucking scare me like that! Jesus, as if I didn't have to piss bad enough already," the boy grumbled angrily. I ignored him as I grabbed the shredded remains of my jeans and carefully ripped them the rest of the way off.

"Oh my god! What the hell happened to your leg?" Yusuke asked in shock as he came over to me.

"Hn. It was nothing," I said as I assessed the damage. Yeah, that leg was definitely going to take at least a week to fully heal. If only a demon's ability to heal quickly worked as good on things like this as it did with small cuts and bruises…but no such luck.

"That doesn't look like nothing! I mean dude, half of your leg is gone! Oh god, it's broken too!" he said in shock.

I had to admit that it did look really bad, and if I were a human I had no doubts that I would've lost the leg but it was still annoying to hear such a fuss over it. "Shut up!" I snapped, glad when he obeyed me. I opened up the bottle of alcohol, and gritted my teeth as I poured it into my open wound.

Stars lined my vision and if I thought I was sick before, I must've been crazy because this was so much worse. As much as it hurt I refused to cry out, though I really had to concentrate to keep from doing so.

"Dude, stop! You're not supposed to pour that shit into wounds that damn deep!" Yusuke shouted as he snatched the alcohol from my hand. I ignored him once again and began wrapping the leg, blinking in surprise when the detective dared to smack my hands away. Perhaps if I wasn't in such agony I would've been furious.

"Don't wrap it yet. Hang on a sec," he said, running into his room and rummaging through something. I arched a brow as he came back into the room with a bottle of something and some kind of metal device. He poured the bottle of stuff on the bandages before wrapping my leg with them.

I closed my eyes as he wrapped my leg, clenching the sides of the bathtub so hard it threatened to break. I was really hoping this would be done with soon, heaven knows I needed some damn rest!

"…So what the hell happened to you, Hiei?" Yusuke asked suddenly.

I didn't answer him, honestly not sure if I would be able to keep from crying out if I tried to speak. I merely kept my eyes closed; almost passing out as he accidentally pulled one of the wraps too tightly. Thank god he noticed and quickly loosened it.

He was finally done and I let out a breath I wasn't aware I had been holding. I heard him messing with something and I opened my eyes to see him with the weird metal device. I was curious as to what it was, but decided I honestly didn't care so I merely watched as he strapped it to my leg.

"Ok, well good news is it looks like my old cast fits you…but I'd say you're gonna be stuck in it for a good while."

"Hn. Fool, the broken bones should heal sometime by the end of the week," I said as I pushed myself to my feet.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it!" the detective shouted suddenly.

I actually paused for a moment, wondering what the hell his problem was when he suddenly wrapped an arm around my shoulder and helped me walk out into his room. I was a little angry that he thought he needed to help me, but on the other hand I was too tired to reject the help. If I had tried to move on my own there was a 99% chance I would've blacked out, because honestly I just couldn't handle any more right now.

"…You've gotten taller since I saw you last," the boy commented and I shot him an angry glare. Why he and that idiot Kuwabara felt the need to remind me I was a bit on the short side I'll never know.

I let out a sigh as I laid down on the bed, my head finally ceasing to spin since I was laying down. "So, are you gonna tell me what happened or what?" Yusuke asked curiously as he sat down on the opposite side of the bed.

"I was out patrolling when I was fortunate enough to be ambushed by a pack of werewolves, who apparently thought I'd make a good snack. Those damn bastards are quicker than you'd think, and with so many of them attacking at once some of them got lucky and chewed my leg up pretty bad."

"Didn't you have any backup?"

"No, why would I? I was only patrolling the area. Koenma failed to mention that there was a chance I could be eaten by werewolves," I said, hoping he would shut up soon so I could get some sleep.

"Wow…I mean I know Koenma isn't the best at giving information, but come on. That's just ridiculous," Yusuke said angrily.

I decided it would be best to ignore him so I didn't say anything else and merely closed my eyes… Too bad he couldn't take a damn hint! "Hey out of curiosity, why'd you come here instead of going to Kurama's? I ain't complaining or nothin', I was just wondering."

I let out an aggravated sigh, "Your house was closer. Obviously with the state my leg was in I highly doubt I would've been able to make it to the Fox."

The idiot tried to talk to me some more after that, but I definitely wasn't in the mood for it so I shoved a pillow in his face to shut him up. Apparently he finally took the hint and left me the hell alone, so I was able to slip off into an ok sleep, not really letting my guard down around the half-breed even though he was someone I didn't necessarily want to kill.

I slowly opened my eyes, fresh pain exploding as I moved my legs, forgetting about the encounter I'd had just the night before. I blinked in surprise as I realized Yusuke was snuggled up close to me like a cat.

I was honestly shocked, wondering why in the hell he was sleeping within such a close proximity towards me. Sure the boy had just realized he was part demon just a few months ago, but his instinct should be the same as mine when it came to carelessly letting your guard down around anyone; especially other demons!

I supposed it didn't matter that the boy was comfortable around me, so I decided I might as well try and relax and get some more sleep…though that thought was interrupted when someone began banging loudly on Yusuke's bedroom door. "Yusuke, wake up! You're not skipping school again!" a woman, who I assumed was Yusuke's mother, shouted from the hallway.

The boy stirred beside of me and I felt my heart flutter when he wrapped an arm around me and snuggled closer. "Mmm, so warm…" he mumbled.

I knew he was asleep, so I obviously didn't think of what he was doing as making an advance towards me…but I was still a little stunned. The boy was an idiot, but he was actually quite cute, and in all honesty I'd had feelings for him for a while now. At first it was admiration of him for being able to beat me and then grow stronger every time I saw him after…but I really realized how I felt after he died for us.

The raw surge of feelings I had felt at that moment had made me realize what I felt for him wasn't admiration, but something more. I had begun to wish I had realized my feelings earlier, but when he came back and we learned he was part demon, I knew I had time… Too bad I had forgotten about his stupid human girlfriend at the time, which was obviously the reason why I hadn't really contacted him much or tried to make any advances towards him.

I let out a sigh as I watched him sleep, reaching a hand out to run through his hair. I was getting rather impatient honestly, I wasn't used to waiting for the things I wanted. I was so used to just taking whatever I wanted that I had forgotten how much it sucked to try and be patient.

I may not have liked Keiko, but Yusuke obviously had feelings for her and I wouldn't try and split them up if she truly made him happy. Besides, now that it was discovered he was actually a half-breed, I had all the time in the world. Yusuke would never age, but Keiko would. The girl would grow old and die and Yusuke would remain the same, so I could wait if I truly had to.

Gods, how I'd missed him. With as many times as he'd pissed me off you wouldn't think I would've missed him at all…but his stupidity starts to grow on you after a while. But just because I had feelings for him, it definitely didn't mean he didn't piss me off. No, he was actually very good at pissing me off and annoying the shit out of me without even realizing it.

I had thought that maybe one reason why I stayed annoyed at the boy was because he was with Keiko and out of my reach…plus with him being raised as a human for years there was no telling how he would react to my feelings for him. Humans are different from demons after all, they believe it's wrong to have same-sex relations whereas demons do not.

Demons care only about finding our soul-mates, so it doesn't make a difference to us whether or not they're of the opposite sex. It is important to us to find our other halves, because once a demon mates, it's for life.

I snapped out of my thoughts when Yusuke moved beside of me, his eyes fluttering open and causing my hand to freeze. I felt my heart jump into my throat and I didn't know what I should do…So I was surprised when Yusuke moved closer to me.

The boy grabbed my arm that was still frozen above him and brought it close to his face. I had to suppress a shiver as he nuzzled my arm. I knew he was only scenting me out of instinct, I was a demon who was invading his space and he was still half asleep so he wasn't thinking in a humanly way…but even knowing that it still sent a jolt of pleasure throughout my body.

"Mmm…Eh? Oh shit, sorry," Yusuke said as he finally seemed to realize what he was doing. He quickly let go of my arm and I had to suppress a disappointed sigh.

"It's fine, Detective. It's a common thing for demons to do."

"Yeah, but I'm no demon…I mean sure I have demon blood in me and all that, but I was raised as a human my whole life," Yusuke said as he got to his feet.

I let my eyes wander over his body as he stretched and made his way to the bathroom, trying to keep myself from looking too much. But how could I not stare? The boy had one hell of a body, and I wanted so much to touch him…though I knew I couldn't. I would not take him away from his human girlfriend, especially since he showed no signs of being gay or bisexual.

All demons are naturally bi, seeing as how we look for love wherever we can find it…But humans, they believe in only being straight for some damn reason. In my opinion I honestly think it's ridiculous. Sometimes humans would spend their whole life trying to find their mate and never find them because they're not looking everywhere. Others assume they've found their mate and marry only to be miserable for the remainder of their days, or to be cheated on and break up.

I carefully sat up and gingerly got to my feet, wincing at the pain that shot through my damaged leg. I knew I should just go to Kurama and get him to heal me up, but the thought of walking all the way to his place on an injured leg was very unappealing…Not to mention there was always the possibility that he wouldn't even be home.

I didn't need any help, I was fine. I'd never needed help, nor asked for help and I wouldn't start now. No one cared enough anyway so why bother asking? You learn to keep quiet after years of people trying to kill you or turning their backs on you when you need them the most.

I limped over to the window, deciding to just hurry up and leave before Yusuke's mother decided to come in and find me. It's not that I didn't like her, in fact I have met her before…I just didn't like being around humans and she would be wondering why I was even here.

I was just about to climb out of the window when I was suddenly grabbed from behind and pulled against a warm body.

"What the hell are you doing? You're leg ain't even healed yet, and you're already trying to jump out a damn window?" Yusuke asked in shock as he held me in place.

I immediately tried to pull away from him, but he kept a strong grip on me. "Let go of me!" I warned, a growl making its way into my throat.

"Whoa man, just calm down. I just don't want you to hurt yourself. Just sit down or something and stay off of that leg for a while."

"I'm not staying here with a human here all day!" I spat angrily.

Yusuke let out a sigh, "I can stay here too if you don't want to be stuck with my mom."

"You're mother already said you aren't skipping school today, Detective."

Yusuke laughed, "Yeah, well all I have to do is agree to do the housework all day today…which I do anyway so it won't kill me. Besides, I need a break. Believe it or not I've actually been trying since I got back from Makai, and I'm doing pretty good… Besides, without me being a Spirit Detective anymore I deserve a day off from school."

I rolled my eyes, "Whatever. Let go of me. I don't care what you do, but I don't need your help!" I growled as I broke free of the boy's grip. He tried to grab me again but I elbowed him in the stomach before hopping out of the window. I gritted my teeth as my sore leg hit the ground, but I quickly made my way to the forest before the boy could come after me.

Ok, so I was an idiot for leaving the Detective's house. I just didn't want to spend the whole day with a human…but I was starting to wish I would've just stayed so I could have a soft place to try and sleep. With my leg injured as badly as it was, it was impossible to climb trees or move too quickly.

A couple of hours had already passed and it was getting cold out already, seeing as how it was getting close to winter, and I was ready to suck it up and go back to Yusuke's place. Sure, the boy might be at school and I'd be alone with his mother, but oh well. It wasn't like I was going to let her know I was there. I was good at being sneaky and quiet, obviously that's what made me a good killer.

"Wait a minute…What the hell am I thinking? There's no way in hell I'm going back to that house after saying I didn't want to be stuck alone with a human all damn day!" I thought angrily to myself.

Gods, what was wrong with me? I hadn't seen Yusuke in a few years now, yet seeing him again after so long already had me willing to go back to his place, even if his mother was going to be there all day, just to wait for him so I could see him again.

Why was I still so hung up on the boy anyway? I would never have him, I could just sense it. Not only did he have his annoying human girlfriend, but he never showed signs of liking other men before. Sure I could force him if I really wanted to…but I didn't want him to hate me, not when I felt this way for him.

I shivered in disgust for myself. If Kurama knew how I was feeling and what I was thinking, he'd laugh himself to death. Me! One of the most dangerous, hated, and cruel demons in all of Makai feeling like this over one stupid human! Ok so technically the boy was only part human, but still…Gods how I'd fallen, and in more ways than one.

I grimaced as I found myself back at Yusuke's place. I wondered if maybe I should go inside or just go somewhere else. I couldn't really go back home to Makai in the state I was in, and once again I had no clue where Kurama was. He could be home, but I didn't like the idea of making a trip all the way out to see him if he wouldn't even be there.

I figured it would be ok to just stay where I was, I needed some sleep anyway and I knew Yusuke's mother never went into his room for anything so I decided to hurry up and sneak back inside. I carefully climbed through his window and limped over to the warm bed. I smiled and let out a content sigh as I laid down, Yusuke's scent surrounding me and lulling me to sleep.

(Yusuke's POV)

I let out a string of curses when Hiei elbowed me in the stomach, and let out a sigh as he jumped out of my window. I was worried that he'd hurt himself even more by doing that, especially with a broken leg, but that was how he was. I was a little relieved when he walked away and didn't look like he was too hurt, though I still couldn't help but worry about him.

I shuddered at the thought of having to go to school, but I didn't want my mother bitching at me so I pretty much just thought why not. I quickly pulled on my clothes and grabbed my books before heading out the door. I didn't bother telling mom I was heading out…it wasn't like she really cared anyway.

I stretched lazily as I made my way to my new school. It felt really weird to be in high school honestly, but it was good to know that I only had a few years left and then I'd be out of there for good. I wasn't really sure about going to college since I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I had gotten a job recently at a bakery so I had thought about just staying there. It wasn't a bad gig after all.

I stopped in my tracks when I felt Kuwabara's Spirit Energy and I let out a sigh as I waited for him to catch up.

"Hey! Wait up!" he shouted as I rolled my eyes.

I laughed when he caught up to me and was all out of breath, "What took you so long? I was about ready to just go on without you," I joked.

"Shut up Urameshi…It's not my fault…I was runnin'…late," he panted.

I patted him on the back before walking off without him, laughing when he started chasing after me again.

"Come on, man. Why are ya in such a hurry anyways?"

I let out a sigh, "I just wanna get going before we run into Keiko…"

"Eh? Why? I thought you two always walk to school together."

"…Well we normally do, but not today… Me and Keiko got into another stupid fight recently so we haven't really been talking much for the past two days… I swear, I'm getting so sick and tired of us fighting all the damn time. It's driving me crazy."

"What'd you guys fight about this time?"

"You know it's sad, but I can't even remember. She's the one who started it again anyways. I can't do anything without her getting all pissed off at me," I said angrily as we made our way into the school.

"Well I'm sure you guys will be all good soon. You usually always are," Kuwabara smiled.

I rolled my eyes, "Yeah, and then a few days later we'll get into another dumb fight. I'm telling you, I'm so close to just saying 'fuck it' and ending this stupid cycle once and for all," I said angrily and he looked at me in shock.

"But you guys have always been together."

"Yeah, and she acts like a mother instead of a girlfriend! I think I'll try one more time, but if she starts anymore fights with me over something stupid I'm done," I said.

The bell rang and Kuwabara and I split up and made our way to our classes. I didn't see Keiko until lunch, and sure enough we did start talking and everything was good between us once again. And I found myself wondering how long the peace would last this time.

By the time school was over I was exhausted and mad with the fact that I had a shit-load of homework to do. It wasn't too bad though, I guess, since Keiko and I were ok again for now and she had agreed to walk home with me. I gave her a quick kiss on her lips before she could protest, and told her I'd see her later.

I laughed at how flustered she seemed when she turned to leave, and I wondered if we'd ever graduate to something more intimate with each other. I loved her, there was no denying that…but I wasn't sure if she felt the same way about me or not. If she loved me she wouldn't nag me all the time and start lame fights, would she?

I let out a sigh as I made my way inside, checking in on mom before heading up to my room. I paused in the doorway when I noticed Hiei asleep on my bed, and I couldn't help but smirk. "And here I thought he said he didn't want to be here alone with my mom all day," I thought to myself.

I stretched before making my way over to my bed and plopping down on it. Just because he was sleeping in my bed didn't mean I couldn't kick back and relax like I always do after a long day of school.

I blinked in surprise when Hiei stirred and moved closer to me, wrapping his arms around my waist and nuzzling my arm like a cat. I found myself smiling at him, not realizing he could actually be so cute… "Wait a minute…Cute? What the fuck am I thinking? He's a guy! Not to mention one of my friends!" I thought to myself.

I was in utter shock that I could have a thought like that…but I couldn't deny that it was true. Hiei was really cute when he was sleeping, especially with him cuddled up to me the way he was. But it was weird for me to think about another guy as being cute, wasn't it? That was something that gay guys did, not straight guys with a girlfriend.

I decided it wasn't really worth getting so worked up about. I was a half-demon after all, and I found myself doing and thinking a lot of things that I normally never would. So I guessed this was just one of those weird things.

My eyes started to get heavy, Hiei's body heat lulling me to sleep, and I was shocked at myself when I turned over and pulled him closer in my arms. I thought about moving away, but Hiei started nuzzling my neck and I actually really liked it.

I licked my suddenly dry lips and shook my head, trying as hard as I could to clear my thoughts. I thought about pushing him away, but I didn't want to wake him up with him looking so peaceful.

I couldn't help but smile as he clung to me, and I hoped his leg wasn't hurting him too much with him as close to me as he was. I guessed that since he was still asleep, I obviously wasn't hurting him like I thought I was so I decided to stop worrying about it. I also wasn't really looking forward to doing any stupid homework, so I figured I'd take a nap. It couldn't hurt anything, and besides that Hiei was just so warm and comfy.

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