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!ChaAndDeathyPresent!

Partner.

(Hiei's POV)

"Kurama..." I muttered dully to myself as I saw the great Youko walk towards where I was hidden, perched on the branches of a sakura tree. He couldn't see me; the branches were too thick where I was. He could have detected me easily, though. This was merely an experiment. Kurama's behavior had changed, at least from my perspective, and was continuing to change... not that I was stalking him or anything. The idiot; although he acted normally carefree around others, when he was alone, he was completely different. I could tell; his aura held a strange sadness with it. His walks home usually weren't this depressing. Kurama is one of those people who can smile at nothing, even when alone, and here he was, doing exactly the opposite. This was most definitely not normal. Continuing to watch him, I started feeling concearned ?...

No.

A demon of my stature could not feel such things. It had never happened, and never will. Like I said, when Kurama was alone, it was almost identical to when he had his pathetic human friends around him: cheerful- almost to the extent (and sometimes not too far away) of making me ill. But whatever this changed Kurama was, I didn't like it one bit. Thoughts were interrupted as he came up slowly under the tree I was secluded in. With his hands in his pockets, and an astute gaze at the sky, he heaved a depressing sigh and rested against the tree I was in. My memories played in my head. 'Fox. You aren't acting normal' I had said. Others had noticed, too, although not as much as I. But he would just smile sadly and say that every thing was alright. I strongly doubted it.

This abnormality was driving me insane. I now felt like I had to confront him. As I made my move to jump down, I did the most un-demon like thing I could possibly do. Tripping over my own foot, I fell, and almost tumbled out of the tree entirely, had my divine reflexes not enabled me to catch myself. What an ungraceful entrance that would have been. I then took into consideration the great deal of noise I must have made falling, and turned my head to see if the fox had heard me.

To my complete and utter disbelief, he hadn't. Totally lacking the sense of awareness... he was a FOX, for Kami's sake! And not only a fox, but the great Youko Kurama! Either he had gone deaf in a matter of thirty minutes, or whatever was troubling him had taken his complete attention to grieve about. It was then that that undecided feeling of worry came flooding back and made it self clear. "Well... someone needs to talk to him about his stupid human emotions..." I muttered, not entirely meaning that his emotions were stupid. Pulling myself back onto the branch, I made a second attempt at getting down, only to have the feeling of someone tugging on the back of my shirt collar.

"Damnit, what now..?"

I tried to move my neck to see what was holding me back from interrogating my companion. Another branch!? True enough, I was now hanging from it by the back of my shirt. How undignified. "It figures..." I sulked. Although I hate to admit it, my rather small figure made it hard to break free. I glared hard at the damned thing, not like it would do me any good. I looked down. Good thing Kurama had left and it was getting dark...

Wait...

!End: Chapter One!

Chaos- I originally had this as a one-shot, but I think I'll let it go on a bit longer. Please boost my ego and review! ::Clings:: My head is too full of other things to think right now.. T.T

Death- She's too busy gushing over her boyfriend. ;/

Chaos- Young love! ::Tosses Deathy Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy plushies::

Death- ::Gasps:: HARRY! DRACKY!! ::Snuggles them::

Both- ::Dreamy sigh::

Kenshin- Women... ::Sweatdrops::