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CHAPTER 1
o.o.x.X. Makai X.x.o.o
Kuronue was awake, watching his lover sleep. He had made a habit of watching his lover sleep every once in a while. This night he had stayed awake because it still, after all this time, surprised him that they were a couple.
Kuronue and Youko prided themselves on being the best thieves in all of the three worlds. Coming with their business, they were often known as the coldest hearted thieves alive. It was known to all, they would kill any who happened in their way, intentionally or not. However, Kuronue knew that his partner, Youko, was not as cold hearted as he seemed all the time. He had been privy to the times when Youko when he was gentle and kind. Youko was never hard and cold with him in the nights that they were 'together'.
Kuronue's hands started to gently drift over his silver haired lover's chest, while trying his best not to wake him.
It didn't work.
"Love, did you want something or where you just thinking again?" Youko lazily opened his golden eyes at the touch.
"Thinking again," answered Kuronue quietly, with a soft smile on his face and a gentle expression in his eyes.
With the coming of Kuronue's answer, Youko ran his hands up Kuronue's naked chest, and up around his neck. His hands settled behind Kuronue's neck he slowly pulled him down into a slow kiss.
Kuronue was not in the least surprised at this, Youko had always seemed to enjoy the pleasures of the body much more than most spirit foxes. However, he had been worried about Youko because, during the last two jobs that they had done, Youko had done something most unusual, he had stayed in the trees. Youko had shown a deep urge to keep out of sight, an action that was most certainty not his style. When Youko robbed someone, he wanted them to know of it.
"You think too much lover. You need to relax… I can help you with that," Youko purred suggestively.
"I didn't say that you couldn't, Youko," answered Kuronue softly.
"Then why you are still worried, my love?" Youko asked, an inquisitive look coming to his eyes.
"It's nothing," Kuronue replied, a small frown on his face that went largely unnoticed.
At his reassuring answer, Youko put his head in between Kuronue's neck and shoulder blade and started to purr softly, snaking his arms around his loves back.
This again was something unusual that Youko had begun to do in the last three months. Kuronue humored him, though it was very nice, and let him continue until he fell back to a peaceful sleep again.
It was a while later when Kuronue used a small, almost unnoticeable, amount of the spirit energy from his necklace to find out what was wrong with his lover. It was almost a full minute later when his eyes widened and he smiled. He would have to talk to Youko in the morning. Right now all he wanted was for Youko to get as much sleep has he needed, and more then he wanted.
o.o.x.X. THE NEXT MORNING .X.x.o.o
It was the next morning when Youko woke, it was just before Kuronue and he wanted to go to the waterfall that was a part of their hideout. The water was cold and sparkling clean as he started to wash up.
Youko was understandably confused when he noticed that all of the plants were avoiding him. That in itself was very odd seeing as every morning he would give them a bit of his spirit energy, and they loved and thrived in it. He made a mental note to find out what was going on later.
Youko's train of thought kept him preoccupied enough that he didn't hear Kuronue, as he came up behind him.
"Foxling, what are you doing?" asked Kuronue in his low voice as his feet halted a few steps away from his kitsune.
"Thinking," was his short answer.
"About what?" Kuronue asked, not dropping the topic.
"Something that is odd this morning that is all," Youko looked up at his bat and smiled.
"We need to talk," Kuronue stated his demeanor serious.
"About what, lover?" Youko frowned.
"Remember what you said could happen but had not happened yet?" the question was asked seriously.
"Yes, you asked if I was in heat, and I said no, why?"
"Look within yourself" said Kuronue softly.
Youko closed his eyes and followed Kuronue's directions, just as he had asked him to. It was not two seconds later that Youko went white as his clothes.
He wasn't ready for a child! He began to feel slightly lightheaded in his distress.
"How?" came his strangled voice.
"With what we do at night, you ask how?" Kuronue's tone was incredulous.
"That's not what I meant, and you know it! How did this happen? We both make sure, every time, every time! So this shouldn't happen!"
"That's true however, it must have failed at some point," Kuronue's brows furrowed in thought.
"What do we do now?"
"That would be up to you, do you want to keep this kit, or kits? Or do you want to find a family that wants the kits and leave the kits with them?" Kuronue asked.
"I don't know" Youko spoke almost helplessly, at this Kuronue pulled Youko he his arms and hugged him. Youko was pensive, thinking about it from his safe spot in Kuronue's arms. He had no idea what to do, but he did know one thing, and that was that he was not ready to have kits of his own to rear yet.
"Lover, I hope that you don't get mad, but… I am not ready to raise a kit yet…"
Kuronue started to laugh, although he was at an age, being older than Youko, to raise kits he had hoped that Youko would say that. From what he had seen over the years in Youko had effectively told him that Youko was not ready to raise them, not yet. So for now the best thing to do was to find a family who would want the kits, and let them adopt the little ones after birth.
"I had hoped that you would see that…" said Kuronue, breathing in Youko's scent from his noses place in his hair.
"You knew? How?" he looked up slightly.
"After all you've gone through in your life? It was easy to tell that you're not ready to stay in one spot for the time need to raise a kit," said Kuronue knowledgably.
"Thanks…"
"Now, the problem is, do you want to find a family here in the Makai or in Ningenkai?" asked Kuronue, running his long clawed fingers through his foxes silver hair.
"The human world," he answered with sureness, "That's the way I want them to live."
"In that case, we should leave soon," Kuronue let him go.
They both finished their baths in record time and got dressed, from where they packed what they would need for they trip, and then they left their hideout.
It wasn't that long before he found a place that was weak enough, so they could cross the barrier that kept the two worlds apart, and crossed into the human world. They then found a cave that they could use as a den far up in the woodlands where not many could reach.
It was several days before they found a woman that they thought may be a likely mother for their kits. She was beautiful and kind. When they talked to her, they found that she was sad because she could have no children of her own, and she wanted some, badly.