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Chapter Two

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Normal Point of View

The evening was going great and the festivities were almost over. Kuwabara and the others were bidding farewell to their guest as Kurama sat at his table finishing up his cocktail. He stood up when they all walked towards him.

"Hey Kurama, there is someone you haven't met, and he's actually going to be your ride home." Yukina smiled sweetly at him as he returned the gesture.

"This is..." She wasn't allowed a chance to finish.

"Hiei!"

"Kurama?" Were the two shocked but instantaneous voices when they saw each other.

"Huh, you two know each other?" Kuwabara asked a bit confused as he looked back and forth at both of them.

"You can say that." Hiei smirked and Kurama flushed slightly.

"We... um... we went to the same High School." Kurama confirmed as he smiled, while his heart raced as if it was going to jump out of his chest.

"Oh, well then since you two know each other we don't have to waste time commencing amity. Kurama, you're getting a ride home with him." Yusuke said frankly and Kurama's mind took him somewhere else.

'We already had a ride, a few actually.' He shook his head. His mind was going places it should not have.

"Alright." Kurama smiled sweetly as he always does.

"Good, because Keiko and I are going to celebrate our anniversary, Urameshi style." He grinned and Keiko slapped him.

"Yes, and Yukina is tired, so I'm going to rub her feet and we're staying over here for the night." He grinned.

"You're such a darling Kazuma." She smiled as she rubbed her engorged stomach.

"Anything for you, my princess." He shrieked and Hiei growled.

"Well, thank you for thinking about my wellbeing and sorting out a transport home for me." Kurama smiled and bowed his thanks at the two couple before they made their exit. Kurama and Hiei were left, avoiding each other's gaze.

"So." He paused. "Your friends don't know about our history?." Hiei turned to look at Kurama.

"They're your friends, if I'm not mistaken." Kurama retaliated.

"No, Yukina is my sister and I see you have your pleasant mannerism as always." Hiei smirked at Kurama.

"OH, yea, it is a good asset." He turned away. "So um, can you take me home now, if you are indeed my ride." He turned back and looked at Hiei who was just watching him.

"You look good Kurama." He said after a pronounce pause as they started to walk out of the temple and down the stairs.

Kurama turned to face him a bit take aback. "Oh, um, and yourself. You look well kept." He smiled and quickly turned back.

"You kept the hair." He noted and appreciated the movement of Kurama's long red hair on his back as the wind stirred it a bit as they walked.

"Yes, I became very fond of it." He smiled at Hiei. 'I almost cut it but it was because of you I kept it.' He thought a bit sadly. 'I would never have you the way I did when I least appreciated you.' He thought as he followed Hiei with his head bowed.

"This is it." Hiei said as they walked up to a deep blue Lexus coup.

"Alright." Kurama said as he waited for Hiei to disarm the alarm and then opened the door and stepped inside and Hiei drove off.

"Are you in the same place?" Hiei asked suddenly.

"Yes, but I am in the process of moving." He said hastily because he didn't want Hiei to think he would forever stay with his parents.

"Lucky you, a condo?" Hiei asked, trying to make a conversation.

"No, a house. I was saving to buy my own, so now I am finally in the process of moving out." Kurama said and the silence started. How does one break a silent when shared with an ex that you regret not staying with.

"Why did we break up Kurama." Hiei's voice rang in the deep silence.

"Huh." He voiced out unintelligently. "Um... I don't know." Kurama sighed. "Every time I think of it, I never found the answer." He confessed softly.

"It was the only thing in my life that I regretted."Hiei confessed as he took a glance at Kurama.

"Really?" Kurama asked thoroughly shocked. The Hiei he knew would never say such things, but here his is, in real life, looking as divine as ever, speaking words of love and kindness, well not love, but it was a start.

"I've missed you a lot and I couldn't stop thinking about you." He confessed as they reached a stop light. "I tried to, God knows I've tired, but it didn't work and it affected me knowing that I didn't even know why we broke up in the first place." He sighed.

"Hiei, I've missed you so much. I was too young and immature to cherish what we had." Kurama said with regret. "I actually forgot about you but when I met Yukina, the thought of you kept running through my head constantly and I wondered, what have I done to have to suffer so much. Looking back now, I've realised that I was in love with you but too foolish to understand what love was or how to spot it." He said somewhat embarrassed by his abrupt confession. Silence followed and he began to feel uncomfortable, so he continued.

"But it's probably too late for my confession, I mean how can a guy like you still be single after so long." He sighed sadly, feeling sorry for himself but yet he went on. "You could have anyone one you want..."

"But I want you."Hiei's deep smooth voice broke his sentence as he leaned over the passenger seat and kissed Kurama. The kiss was soft and sweet as it lingered a while before they pulled away.

"Hiei." Kurama said weakly, feeling tingly all over all by one kiss.

"I want you back Kurama." He said as they pulled away. "When Yukina told me about her friend, I knew it just had to be my Kurama she was referring to. I came back for you. Am I too late." It wasn't a question or a statement.

Kurama blushed when he was being referred to as his Kurama. "Am I too late for you?" Kurama asked as he touched Hiei's arm.

"No, I should not have let you go in the first place. It took me losing you to realise your true worth. I am not that stupid teenager that took everything for granted, and back then when we first," he paused when he saw Kurama's redden face. He caressed the reddening cheek as he continued. "I should have told you how I felt back then but I was too scared and didn't know if it was the right thing. I was a child, what did I know about feelings." He said somewhat condemning his former self.

"I saw it, but didn't know. Don't blame yourself. None of us were ready for that then." Kurama reasoned.

"But it would have saved us time among other things." Hiei said as he continued driving.

"I know." Kurama sighed. The rest of the way was silence until they reached Kurama's parents place.

"You remembered?" Kurama looked at him and then back at his house.

"There are so many things I thought I forgot, like that birthmark you have on..."

"Alright, I get it." Kurama said hastily and chuckled a bit and Hiei grinned as he got out and went to open the door for Kurama.

"Thanks." He said as he stepped out of the car.

"It was good seeing you again Kurama." Hiei said as he walked back to the other side of the car.

"It was good seeing you too Hiei." Kurama said sadly as Hiei gave him a small smile and stepped in the car and left.

"Was that your friend from High school?" A soft voice from behind asked.

"Yes mother, he came back." He answered with a smile as he walked past her and headed for the house before she asked anymore questions.

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Kurama's Point of View

When mother asked me, I couldn't help but smiled that she remembered Hiei. No one knew the true nature of our relationship but somehow I had a feeling she knew, well that and there were a few time she almost caught us with our pants down, literally. Not to mention the time when we came home from school, thinking the house was empty, only to go fill the house with noise, unaware that she was sleeping in her room. That was embarrassing when she woke up and asked about it. As usual, being such a bad influence, Hiei lied smoothly, that she believed him; and my behaviour afterwards did not hide the fact that I was involved with someone.

It was hard keeping our hands from each other. We were best friends for years, since before Meiou High, but it was until then that we started experimenting. We thought that since we were already comfortable with each other and slept in the same bed a few time during our sleepover, that it would not be any different than the relationship we already had. Looking back now I've realised that the more physical we became the more emotions was forming. Something was developing out of our control and we didn't know. Even now, I wouldn't have changed it. I love that I love Hiei and I hope he feels the same intensity as I do.

The students in school never knew, and we didn't care to share. We were still the most sorted after duo in school. Hiei, for his bad boy reputation and an 'I don't give a damn' attitude who somehow did very well in school academically, hmm, I wonder why he did well. I laughed knowing that he had a really good tutor, but no one had to know. And myself, the pretty boy, the beauty and brains, the envy of both the male and female student body. We were a good team. I remember helping Hiei out of a few 'instances' with teachers. They never expected their high achiever, model student to alter the truth slightly. I love that I didn't lie to them, I just explained it differently and they fell for it. Haven't you realised that using certain words to explain something with the right tone helps you instead of resorting to actually lying. I convinced them to see it my way and Hiei was most of the time relieved from his punishment. Of course I couldn't help him all the time, or else he would not have learned, but truth be told, I wasn't there all the time to save him.

I sighed as I lay half naked on my bed as I remember those wonderful times. If only he could be here now with me. I can only dream as I pulled a t-shirt over my head and crawl under my sheets for a well heated night dream.

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End of Chapter two