#1: Window-Hiei/Kurama
Until he found Kurama, he'd never found himself particularly welcome. For some time, there were bandits, outlaws he associated with in the demon world, people he could meet for the sake of planning a low ball theft, exchanging payments as everyone did everyday. But there was no one he spoke to just for the sake of doing so. The very word 'friend' made his eyes roll.
Until Kurama started leaving his window open.
Hiei had used it once to alert the Fox to his presence; and Kurama had never really locked it again. When the koorime had asked about this, not without sarcasm, Kurama had smiled, turned back to his book, "In case you should need a place to stay," he said simply.
Hiei used it, a few times, testing the limits of the Fox's patience, offering no e xplaination to why he had popped into his room in the early hours of the morning. Kurama smiled, offered a tired welcome, offered the spare futon he had already set up. Hiei lay there, watching. Kurama's chest rose and fell in the moonlight. 'Stupid fox' he huffed. But he curled into the blankets, feeling safe behind locked doors and windows, feeling okay to let down the wall to the Fox who had proven himself trustworthy.
"Kurama?" He finally said, halfway in the room. The kitsune made a small interested noise, flipping the page of the book he held in his hand.
"You're never going to lock the window," he said this quietly, daring to let ...what, hope? Enter his voice, "Are you?"
"No," K urama said lightly, eyes never leaving the novel he held, "So long as I live, the window will be unlocked. If you choose to use it, I have no objection."
Hiei smirked, sliding the window shut behind him. Slowly, he sat beside his partner on the bed, and laid down, holding his breath. K urama dimmed the light, smiling softly at the petite hiyoukai curled into his side. "Goodnight Hiei," he whispered.
Hiei yawned, burrowing into the Fox's ribs, "Sleep, love.."
I apologize for my long absence! My computer died and I just bought a new obe! I have not abandoned my old fics!