Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, Togashi the wonderful guy married to the creator of Sailor Moon does. Also, this plot was inspired and very loosely based on an episode of 'Tom and Jerry' I just saw on TV, the title is also from the show and I do not own 'Tom and Jerry' either. Please don't sue, I'm so poor that I have to go to a community college and can barely afford that.
Snowbody Loves Me
Shounen Ai warning, okay so it's probably more Yaoi than Shounen Ai in this case.
Alternate Dimension sort of, since there's no way this would work in the actual YYH timeline.
It was the worst snowstorm in the last three decades; snow blinded travelers, swallowed entire villages whole, and the freezing temperatures killed many livestock and more than a few hundred youkai. There were avalanches and blizzards everywhere. The last time the Makai had seen a winter this bad, the Koorime had learned that a Forbidden Child had survived the fall off of the snow maidens' glacier to the world below. This was no weather for any demon to be out of doors, not even if they were hiding in a cave.
And yet one lone figure trekked onwards disregarding the whole storm. The cold could not touch her, the winds were merely an annoyance that forced her back, and snow was her ally. Her pale blue kimono fluttered slightly, but most of the wind from this blizzard swept around her, and few snowflakes rested on the pretty cloth or her long blue-green hair. Her eyes were wide open revealing bright red eyes, which peered forward to search for her destination before glancing down to the body in her arms.
He had stopped shivering, that wasn't a good sign. Swathed in black, the fire demon's face was faintly blue, and his own crimson eyes were closed as he struggled to conserve his energy. His cloak and his spiky black hair with that cute little starburst of white in the hair above his forehead, white scarf and matching jagan ward headband were all soaked through as his body heat melted the snow that had been on him. He should have been dry, but he didn't have the energy to do more.
"Oh Hiei-kun, what did they do to you?" She knew that the little fire demon could withstand even the worst cold, but the Koorime must have kept him as cold as they could for the few weeks he had been missing. It was all her fault too. The other ice maidens had probably only attacked Hiei because he was her friend and she was a Koorime too. The elders didn't want fire demons and ice maidens to be friends, especially when her missing twin brother was a fire demon.
"Yukina?" A hoarse voice managed to croak before the youkai in her arms passed out again.
"Don't worry Hiei-kun, there's a village, and the demons there will take care of you. Just hang on."
Yukina turned around the next avalanche fall and saw the lights of the little Makai town. She trudged on until she came to the village head's house. Gently, she dropped Hiei to the snow on the step of the large building and used her youki to take the cold away from his body and heal him slightly. He's shivering again, that's better. She left as he regained consciousness. Something just outside the village gained her attention. Examining the leg sticking out of the snow, the Koorime recognized it as that of one of the villagers, and the frozen bodies surrounding it must have belonged to the rest of the demons. And there was the village head's head.
"But then, who are all the demons in the houses?" She asked in fear as she ran back to her glacier, knowing that she'd have little chance in any fight, and Hiei would have to handle it on his own. "Hiei, you better be okay."
Hiei stood up shakily, shivering violently. It was cold. Colder than anything he'd ever felt, colder than his own heart. It took him a minute to realize that he was getting just slightly warmer by being next to a house. It took him another minute to realize that by looking through the windows he could see flames, and flames were warm, and food, and food was good too. He completely disregarded the feel of youki emanating from a demon that was asleep inside the house as he picked the lock on the front door and entered.
The demon Hiei hadn't noticed managed to notice that the door had done something in his sleep muddled mind, so he went outside to see what had made the door open. Hiei recovered quickly after placing his head in and out of the fireplace, and finally noticed the other demon as it left. So, being a fairly intelligent fire demon, Hiei locked and barred the door before grabbing an armload of food and sitting in front of the fire to eat and rest.
At about the same time that Hiei pulled a really long silver hair off of the chair he was lounging in, the other demon had woken up fully in the freezing snow and had finally found his lock-picking tools in his long silver hair. And when the door still wouldn't open after being unlocked, he called his goons.
"Hey you ugly snots, get yer butts out here!" His deep voice reverberated throughout the village as his henchmen left the other houses.
His second in command sauntered up with a hot water bottle tucked under his shirt and a thick brown blanket wrapped around his body hiding his vestigial leathery wings. His tattered black hat had been replaced by a garish red knit cap that had his long black hair tucked in underneath. "Crap Kurama, it's colder than an ice maiden's panties out here."
The infamous youko glared at his best friend and shivered in his thin, filmy white tunic. "I know. Some little soon-to-be-dead youkai snuck in and barred the door. Get Anuka to disintegrate the wood so I can get in there and kill him and go back to my nap."
"Fine, I wanna go back to that farmer's daughter I found. Anuka! You heard the boss, get too it." Almost everyone went back indoors for shelter from the storm.
"Have fun Kuronue." Kurama twitched his frozen fox ears, and grabbed his friend's cap, blanket, and hot water bottle.
"Hey, ya prick, now it's gonna take ten minutes to get warm enough to have fun." The dark haired demon glared mildly with violet eyes before running back to the house he had commandeered.
Two minutes later, and the silver fox demon was sneaking stealthily back into the warm building. He peaked up over the high back of the chair in front of the fire and saw a fully fed fire demon curled up in a blanket, a black cloak spread out on the floor to dry. The fire demon was kinda cute. In sleep his face was childlike, and a small evil smirk graced his features, and it sounded as though the little thing was purring. Too bad he had to die now.
That's when Kurama found a katana placed next to his jugular, a blanket alone in the chair, and a slightly pissed off youkai standing slightly behind and to the side of him. "Who the Mekai are you?"
"You don't recognize the most infamous youko thief feared throughout the Makai?"
"What, is he outside? Can't be you, I caught you off-guard too easily." The fire demon's voice was filled with contempt.
"Why you little...." Kurama didn't finish, merely smirking evilly as vines grew out of his long silver hair and trapped the short demon. As he moved away from the katana, he pulled the blade out of the fire youkai's grasp. And the battle ensued.
Hiei flash flared the vines with his fire and disappeared to kick the youko from behind. Grabbing his foot before the strike hit, Kurama threw him into a wall. A seed flicked into the air, exploding in a bright flash as it hit the wall where the fire demon had been. Kurama dodged a slash from the katana and pulled out a longer blade made of grass.
"How ever did you manage to get that back?" The youko sneered.
"Apparently the legend of Youko Kurama is greatly inflated." They started trying to slice one another up, always managing to block or dodge the strikes until the fox demon landed a kick on Hiei's head during a back-flip and Hiei returned it with a cut on his upper thigh.
Three gigantic demon eating plants and one black dragon later and the rest of the gang of thieves were busy trying to revive their leader and completely ignoring the unconscious fire demon. The house had been demolished, and all that was left were the charred remains of a fireplace and melted piles of treasure. Kuronue had moved the two fighters into his own borrowed shelter as they were both freezing cold and he was pretty sure the fox demon would like the personal pleasure of killing the little pain in the butt.
Kurama awoke in pain, bandages covering his minor but numerous cuts and one third degree burn where the secondary flames of the dragon had hit him. He was barely thawed from fighting during the blizzard, and he had a fairly annoying headache resulting from the severe energy usage of the battle. He rolled over on his side to relieve the pressure on his tail, hold on, what's that?
"What the hell happened to my tail?" Kurama roared as he scrambled out of the bed he was in. His tail was wrapped up in bandages and he was starting to feel like a mummy.
A scantily clad Kuronue appeared in the doorway with a pretty little pink oni girl in his arms. "Oh that, the little brat bit it judging from the bite marks." He gestured over to the other bed in the room where the black and white haired fire demon lay curled up around a hot water bottle unconscious.
"And what is he doing in here?" His cold baritone matched the equally cold golden scowl he gave the bat winged demon. The little oni girl fainted out of sheer terror and dropped the blanket she was wearing. Blushing, Kuronue retrieved it and covered up his new girlfriend.
"Um, thought you'd like to deal with him yerself instead of letting the cold kill him?" He sneaked out quickly to leave his friend alone with his enemy.
Hiei awoke in pain also, the pain of being slapped out of unconsciousness induced by an utter and complete lack of youki from using just a little to much energy for the Kokuryuuha. He growled in anger and general grumpiness before biting the offending hand and getting pinned to the bed by a heavy weight.
"You're still alive?" Hiei yawned with lines of sleepiness etched all over his face, he was too exhausted to kill the youko that was kneeling over him now.
"Impertinent little...."
"Jiijii."
The centuries old youko smacked Hiei repeatedly for calling him an old man in such a derogatory way, and then he pulled out the fire demon's sword and put it to his neck. "Nobody insults me like that and gets away with it! What's your name, we need it for a proper grave?"
Hiei gave an evil smirk, "Nobody."
The fox demon really wanted to shove the katana down his cursed throat, really, but the laughter bubbling up from his demonic belly wouldn't let him. It had been at least a hundred years since somebody dared to have the nerve of this little youkai, and he was strong, he had held his own against the infamous Youko Kurama.
A moment later, his laughter had subsided and his deep, smooth voice filled the little demon's ears as he bent down to Hiei's head, "The way I see it, you've got two choices; join me, or die."
"Can I take a rain check? I've gotta find my sis... Yukina and get revenge on the Koorime for trying to kill me again."
"You have a sister named Yukina? Is she pretty?" Hiei was starting to find the youko's smile to be very infuriating.
"Who told you? They must die!" Kurama had to be careful not to accidentally kill the irate fire demon as he flailed underneath him.
"Careful firebaby, I've still got the katana here. And you're the one who told me." Hiei growled threateningly as the fox continued, "Hm. And those Koorime are after you specifically. You wouldn't happen to be their little Forbidden firebaby would you?"
Hiei made a grab for his sword and Kurama laughed as he held it out of his short reach. "I'll let you go on one condition."
After a minute of Hiei's red eyed glare the fire demon got tired of waiting for the youko to open his big mouth again, "And that would be?"
"Either you get me five of your sister's tear gems, or you come back and be my lover."
Hiei's right eye twitched as his face lost all composure, "Wha?"
"Well, you're cute and strong, and you need an even stronger hand to guide you. You could be great, firebaby."
"I am great."
"Then why are you too weak to get back your sword?" Again with that infuriating grin of his.
"Get offa me ya...." Hiei was thoroughly interrupted by an equally thorough kiss from the fox demon. "Mmph?" His struggles were useless in his weakened state.
Three months later and spring was finally returning to the Makai, the snow was melting and the regions around the Koorime's glacier were flooding from the heavy snow fall. Luckily for Hiei, he was far away from that area now, glaring at his lover as Kurama tried to convince him to go with Kuronue and the fox demon to steal some well guarded treasure. His sister was safely in the Ningenkai staying with an old hag of a ningen. Of course she didn't know that Hiei was indeed her twin brother, and Kurama was under the threat of 'nearly certain death' if he ever told her on one of their occasional trips to visit the beautiful Koorime.
They lived happily ever after until both Kuronue and Kurama died, leaving Hiei alone until some ningen kid named Minamino Shuuichi tricked and seduced him, and Hiei found himself once more trapped in the grip of the youko, though it was smaller and softer this time. And then Hiei had to crash the wedding of Kuwabara Kazuma and his twin sister. Yukina found out Hiei was her twin and felt sorry that the couple couldn't have children because they were both male, so she sent off one of her asexually reproduced newborn daughters to them so they would never be lonely. But all that is another story for another time, and for the meanwhile, Hiei and Kurama and Kuronue (and random pretty youkai until Kuronue dumped them or they died or dumped him or...) lived happily ever after. The end.
Snowbody Loves Me
Shounen Ai warning, okay so it's probably more Yaoi than Shounen Ai in this case.
Alternate Dimension sort of, since there's no way this would work in the actual YYH timeline.
It was the worst snowstorm in the last three decades; snow blinded travelers, swallowed entire villages whole, and the freezing temperatures killed many livestock and more than a few hundred youkai. There were avalanches and blizzards everywhere. The last time the Makai had seen a winter this bad, the Koorime had learned that a Forbidden Child had survived the fall off of the snow maidens' glacier to the world below. This was no weather for any demon to be out of doors, not even if they were hiding in a cave.
And yet one lone figure trekked onwards disregarding the whole storm. The cold could not touch her, the winds were merely an annoyance that forced her back, and snow was her ally. Her pale blue kimono fluttered slightly, but most of the wind from this blizzard swept around her, and few snowflakes rested on the pretty cloth or her long blue-green hair. Her eyes were wide open revealing bright red eyes, which peered forward to search for her destination before glancing down to the body in her arms.
He had stopped shivering, that wasn't a good sign. Swathed in black, the fire demon's face was faintly blue, and his own crimson eyes were closed as he struggled to conserve his energy. His cloak and his spiky black hair with that cute little starburst of white in the hair above his forehead, white scarf and matching jagan ward headband were all soaked through as his body heat melted the snow that had been on him. He should have been dry, but he didn't have the energy to do more.
"Oh Hiei-kun, what did they do to you?" She knew that the little fire demon could withstand even the worst cold, but the Koorime must have kept him as cold as they could for the few weeks he had been missing. It was all her fault too. The other ice maidens had probably only attacked Hiei because he was her friend and she was a Koorime too. The elders didn't want fire demons and ice maidens to be friends, especially when her missing twin brother was a fire demon.
"Yukina?" A hoarse voice managed to croak before the youkai in her arms passed out again.
"Don't worry Hiei-kun, there's a village, and the demons there will take care of you. Just hang on."
Yukina turned around the next avalanche fall and saw the lights of the little Makai town. She trudged on until she came to the village head's house. Gently, she dropped Hiei to the snow on the step of the large building and used her youki to take the cold away from his body and heal him slightly. He's shivering again, that's better. She left as he regained consciousness. Something just outside the village gained her attention. Examining the leg sticking out of the snow, the Koorime recognized it as that of one of the villagers, and the frozen bodies surrounding it must have belonged to the rest of the demons. And there was the village head's head.
"But then, who are all the demons in the houses?" She asked in fear as she ran back to her glacier, knowing that she'd have little chance in any fight, and Hiei would have to handle it on his own. "Hiei, you better be okay."
Hiei stood up shakily, shivering violently. It was cold. Colder than anything he'd ever felt, colder than his own heart. It took him a minute to realize that he was getting just slightly warmer by being next to a house. It took him another minute to realize that by looking through the windows he could see flames, and flames were warm, and food, and food was good too. He completely disregarded the feel of youki emanating from a demon that was asleep inside the house as he picked the lock on the front door and entered.
The demon Hiei hadn't noticed managed to notice that the door had done something in his sleep muddled mind, so he went outside to see what had made the door open. Hiei recovered quickly after placing his head in and out of the fireplace, and finally noticed the other demon as it left. So, being a fairly intelligent fire demon, Hiei locked and barred the door before grabbing an armload of food and sitting in front of the fire to eat and rest.
At about the same time that Hiei pulled a really long silver hair off of the chair he was lounging in, the other demon had woken up fully in the freezing snow and had finally found his lock-picking tools in his long silver hair. And when the door still wouldn't open after being unlocked, he called his goons.
"Hey you ugly snots, get yer butts out here!" His deep voice reverberated throughout the village as his henchmen left the other houses.
His second in command sauntered up with a hot water bottle tucked under his shirt and a thick brown blanket wrapped around his body hiding his vestigial leathery wings. His tattered black hat had been replaced by a garish red knit cap that had his long black hair tucked in underneath. "Crap Kurama, it's colder than an ice maiden's panties out here."
The infamous youko glared at his best friend and shivered in his thin, filmy white tunic. "I know. Some little soon-to-be-dead youkai snuck in and barred the door. Get Anuka to disintegrate the wood so I can get in there and kill him and go back to my nap."
"Fine, I wanna go back to that farmer's daughter I found. Anuka! You heard the boss, get too it." Almost everyone went back indoors for shelter from the storm.
"Have fun Kuronue." Kurama twitched his frozen fox ears, and grabbed his friend's cap, blanket, and hot water bottle.
"Hey, ya prick, now it's gonna take ten minutes to get warm enough to have fun." The dark haired demon glared mildly with violet eyes before running back to the house he had commandeered.
Two minutes later, and the silver fox demon was sneaking stealthily back into the warm building. He peaked up over the high back of the chair in front of the fire and saw a fully fed fire demon curled up in a blanket, a black cloak spread out on the floor to dry. The fire demon was kinda cute. In sleep his face was childlike, and a small evil smirk graced his features, and it sounded as though the little thing was purring. Too bad he had to die now.
That's when Kurama found a katana placed next to his jugular, a blanket alone in the chair, and a slightly pissed off youkai standing slightly behind and to the side of him. "Who the Mekai are you?"
"You don't recognize the most infamous youko thief feared throughout the Makai?"
"What, is he outside? Can't be you, I caught you off-guard too easily." The fire demon's voice was filled with contempt.
"Why you little...." Kurama didn't finish, merely smirking evilly as vines grew out of his long silver hair and trapped the short demon. As he moved away from the katana, he pulled the blade out of the fire youkai's grasp. And the battle ensued.
Hiei flash flared the vines with his fire and disappeared to kick the youko from behind. Grabbing his foot before the strike hit, Kurama threw him into a wall. A seed flicked into the air, exploding in a bright flash as it hit the wall where the fire demon had been. Kurama dodged a slash from the katana and pulled out a longer blade made of grass.
"How ever did you manage to get that back?" The youko sneered.
"Apparently the legend of Youko Kurama is greatly inflated." They started trying to slice one another up, always managing to block or dodge the strikes until the fox demon landed a kick on Hiei's head during a back-flip and Hiei returned it with a cut on his upper thigh.
Three gigantic demon eating plants and one black dragon later and the rest of the gang of thieves were busy trying to revive their leader and completely ignoring the unconscious fire demon. The house had been demolished, and all that was left were the charred remains of a fireplace and melted piles of treasure. Kuronue had moved the two fighters into his own borrowed shelter as they were both freezing cold and he was pretty sure the fox demon would like the personal pleasure of killing the little pain in the butt.
Kurama awoke in pain, bandages covering his minor but numerous cuts and one third degree burn where the secondary flames of the dragon had hit him. He was barely thawed from fighting during the blizzard, and he had a fairly annoying headache resulting from the severe energy usage of the battle. He rolled over on his side to relieve the pressure on his tail, hold on, what's that?
"What the hell happened to my tail?" Kurama roared as he scrambled out of the bed he was in. His tail was wrapped up in bandages and he was starting to feel like a mummy.
A scantily clad Kuronue appeared in the doorway with a pretty little pink oni girl in his arms. "Oh that, the little brat bit it judging from the bite marks." He gestured over to the other bed in the room where the black and white haired fire demon lay curled up around a hot water bottle unconscious.
"And what is he doing in here?" His cold baritone matched the equally cold golden scowl he gave the bat winged demon. The little oni girl fainted out of sheer terror and dropped the blanket she was wearing. Blushing, Kuronue retrieved it and covered up his new girlfriend.
"Um, thought you'd like to deal with him yerself instead of letting the cold kill him?" He sneaked out quickly to leave his friend alone with his enemy.
Hiei awoke in pain also, the pain of being slapped out of unconsciousness induced by an utter and complete lack of youki from using just a little to much energy for the Kokuryuuha. He growled in anger and general grumpiness before biting the offending hand and getting pinned to the bed by a heavy weight.
"You're still alive?" Hiei yawned with lines of sleepiness etched all over his face, he was too exhausted to kill the youko that was kneeling over him now.
"Impertinent little...."
"Jiijii."
The centuries old youko smacked Hiei repeatedly for calling him an old man in such a derogatory way, and then he pulled out the fire demon's sword and put it to his neck. "Nobody insults me like that and gets away with it! What's your name, we need it for a proper grave?"
Hiei gave an evil smirk, "Nobody."
The fox demon really wanted to shove the katana down his cursed throat, really, but the laughter bubbling up from his demonic belly wouldn't let him. It had been at least a hundred years since somebody dared to have the nerve of this little youkai, and he was strong, he had held his own against the infamous Youko Kurama.
A moment later, his laughter had subsided and his deep, smooth voice filled the little demon's ears as he bent down to Hiei's head, "The way I see it, you've got two choices; join me, or die."
"Can I take a rain check? I've gotta find my sis... Yukina and get revenge on the Koorime for trying to kill me again."
"You have a sister named Yukina? Is she pretty?" Hiei was starting to find the youko's smile to be very infuriating.
"Who told you? They must die!" Kurama had to be careful not to accidentally kill the irate fire demon as he flailed underneath him.
"Careful firebaby, I've still got the katana here. And you're the one who told me." Hiei growled threateningly as the fox continued, "Hm. And those Koorime are after you specifically. You wouldn't happen to be their little Forbidden firebaby would you?"
Hiei made a grab for his sword and Kurama laughed as he held it out of his short reach. "I'll let you go on one condition."
After a minute of Hiei's red eyed glare the fire demon got tired of waiting for the youko to open his big mouth again, "And that would be?"
"Either you get me five of your sister's tear gems, or you come back and be my lover."
Hiei's right eye twitched as his face lost all composure, "Wha?"
"Well, you're cute and strong, and you need an even stronger hand to guide you. You could be great, firebaby."
"I am great."
"Then why are you too weak to get back your sword?" Again with that infuriating grin of his.
"Get offa me ya...." Hiei was thoroughly interrupted by an equally thorough kiss from the fox demon. "Mmph?" His struggles were useless in his weakened state.
Three months later and spring was finally returning to the Makai, the snow was melting and the regions around the Koorime's glacier were flooding from the heavy snow fall. Luckily for Hiei, he was far away from that area now, glaring at his lover as Kurama tried to convince him to go with Kuronue and the fox demon to steal some well guarded treasure. His sister was safely in the Ningenkai staying with an old hag of a ningen. Of course she didn't know that Hiei was indeed her twin brother, and Kurama was under the threat of 'nearly certain death' if he ever told her on one of their occasional trips to visit the beautiful Koorime.
They lived happily ever after until both Kuronue and Kurama died, leaving Hiei alone until some ningen kid named Minamino Shuuichi tricked and seduced him, and Hiei found himself once more trapped in the grip of the youko, though it was smaller and softer this time. And then Hiei had to crash the wedding of Kuwabara Kazuma and his twin sister. Yukina found out Hiei was her twin and felt sorry that the couple couldn't have children because they were both male, so she sent off one of her asexually reproduced newborn daughters to them so they would never be lonely. But all that is another story for another time, and for the meanwhile, Hiei and Kurama and Kuronue (and random pretty youkai until Kuronue dumped them or they died or dumped him or...) lived happily ever after. The end.