AN: another commentfic prompt. Written for the prompt
Yu Yu Hakusho, Kurama,
I saw a fox by the rabbit hole
You saw a prince from a fairy tale
He promised that he'd watch over you
Turned out to be the fox we all knew
-Run Rabbit Run (The Hoosiers)
Hiei wondered how anyone could believe the act. When the ningen smiled and cooed and fawned over Kurama, what did they see? Did they see red hair that brought out his pale skin? The delicate bone structure that made him look feminine and harmless? Did they look in his green eyes and think that his smiles were genuine? Did they ever sense the disgust lurking behind the polite soft spoken façade or were they truly as senseless as blind and deaf monkeys?
There were odd moments when even Hiei couldn't tell what Kurama actually felt about playing human. The times when he laughed with friends over an inside joke or when he did his homework like any other teenager, patiently flipping through the textbooks and scribbling answers for hours, or when he ate dinner with his human mother. Those were the times when Hiei doubted he could ever understand Kurama in his entirety no matter how many empty hours he spent watching. It made it all the more jarring when he thought that when it came to fighting, he knew Kurama better than Youko Kurama's old partners likely had.
Kurama ate breakfast with his mother, he played perfect student, helped others with their homework, listened to some girl's confession and walked home to eat dinner with his mother and do more school work. And repeat. If Hiei were living Kurama's life, he would snap and kill everyone in a week. He wanted to burn a few of the vapid girls that looked at Kurama and only saw a pretty face because they didn't get anything and he was only an observer.
Kurama looked up from his lunch surrounded by human teenagers at where Hiei was hiding in one of the large trees just outside the school grounds. For a moment Kurama smiled and there was nothing human about it. It was pure Youko with sharp intelligence and cruel humor, offering to share a joke, before it was replaced with Minamino Shuichi's patient, calm smile.
Hiei almost fell out of the tree. There was some ningen saying, fox in the henhouse? Or was wolf in sheep's clothing more appropriate? Maybe that was how Kurama got through day by day, knowing he was fooling everyone and treating it as one big extended prank on humanity. And they would never know how fortunate they were that Kurama had a reason to pretend to be something other than the demon he was.