White Christmas
This is HIEIkurama boy/boy so if you don't like it don't read. There is oocness in this so if you don't like it don't read. This is my second holiday fic so please tell me how I did and no flames. Happy holidays and enjoy the story.
Disclaimer: Don't own
It was the week before Christmas and the whole gang was staying at a private 7 room/2 bathroom mountain lodge in the mountains that Kurama rented for everyone as an early Christmas gift.
Of course, he hadn't told any of them that he had had to ask Hiei to recover a couple of his ill-gotten treasures from his den in the Makai in order to pay for such a luxury.
Hiei had retrieved them at Kurama's request, claiming he did it for Yukina's happiness, but the fox knew it was for him as well though he never admitted it aloud.
Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara were currently at the end of a snowball fight that had been waging for a good part of the day.
They had teamed up naturally, Yusuke covering Kuwabara's back and Hiei covering Kurama's just as they would in battle though the laughter in the air belied the deadliness of their usual tactics.
Unlike human snowball fights, theirs' was as fast as they could run, even Kuwabara was faster than many low class demons so as fast as they could go was pretty fast, and as cutthroat as war.
The only rule that was set was: No weapons or fatal energy attacks.
All else was fair game.
The teams were almost even after ruling out most of their usual forms of defense and attack.
The key word: Almost.
Hiei would flit around them raising the snow up in a flurry, blinding them as they tried to aim their projectiles, and Kurama would instruct the trees to raise their roots up and trip them as they tried to get away from the almost hurricane force winds created by the fire youkai.
Eventually Yusuke got lucky and nailed him with a boulder sized snowball, which ended Hiei's fun and caused the party to burst out into gales of laughter at his expense as the fire demon tried to brush the snow of off cloak and hair.
Deciding that revenge was in order, Hiei immediately launched his counter attack, throwing snow balls as quickly as he could make them, causing Yusuke and Kuwabara to retreat to a safer distance to regroup.
The two began to make a mound of snow a fair distance from where Hiei and Kurama stood making snowballs, and their actions caught the fox's attention.
When Kurama realized the two's plans, he immediately brought Hiei up to speed.
They were mistaken if they believed they could build a snow wall faster than their opponents could chase them down and destroy it.
So every time Kuwabara would begin construction, Hiei would drop a good sized stone in the middle of the forming structure; and every time Yusuke started scraping together a base Kurama would cause the seeds lying dormant below the ground to sprout and grow into saplings in the middle of his work.
The snow ball fight was ending- with the fox's clever planning and Hiei's speed the partners had closed in on Yusuke and Kuwabara and it was only the two's stubbornness that kept the battle going for so long.
The snowballs had slowed and then stopped coming altogether, so the fire apparition felt relatively safe in taking his attention away from the playing field to face his partner.
Hiei titled his head to one side giving his partner a small happy smile that was Kurama's alone to see, and the red head beamed up at him in answer from his seated position against the wall of their own snow fortress.
Hiei was fairly confident that a few more minutes of this and he and his partner would be victorious.
The fire youkai sat down next to the fox, his head resting against the snow wall behind him.
He had been standing throughout the entire battle because they had built the walls to a height that required him to stand to get snowballs over it.
Beside him Kurama coughed quietly into his gloved hand a few times.
Hiei knew the cold was getting to the redhead and, he supposed, along with the effort of hurling snowball after snowball at their two stubborn friends for over three hours would also but a strain on the fox's mostly human body, but now the sun was starting to set.
The fire apparition watched this silently before tugging his white scarf from his neck and shoving it towards the red headed fox with a grunt.
"Hiei, I'm fine, honestly. It's just a small cough" Kurama protested, but, before he could protest further, he coughed again.
The fire apparition straddled his hips and tied the scarf around his neck with quick efficient movements that were oddly gentle even in his haste to cover the fox in the warm cloth.
Kurama fought against the blush that was desperately trying to form on his cheeks even as he wound his arms around Hiei's waist and the fire apparition wrapped his arms around the fox's shoulders.
The two sat like that in a comfortable silence for a while, when Kurama slowly began to slump forward, finally laying his head on Hiei's shoulder, and Hiei pulled back just enough to see that the redhead was almost asleep cuddled against his warm body.
Hiei got off Kurama's lap to sit beside him and pulled the fox into his arms as Kurama coughed more harshly than before. Hiei started to rub his back. "Perhaps we should get inside so you can warm up?" Hiei suggested, but paused when Kurama sat up and locked eyes with him with a stern expression on his face.
"Kurama?"
"Not until they give up, I'll be fine don't worry," Kurama assured him as he got off of Hiei's lap and sat next to him.
As if on cue they heard their two friends call for a truce.
"WE ACCEPT!" Kurama called out in reply.
"I knew it wouldn't take long," Kurama added smugly, his voice lowered so only Hiei could hear him.
"Yes, now let's go inside," Hiei said firmly allowing no room for argument this time as he stood up before helping Kurama to his feet.
"Thanks Hiei," Kurama said quietly as they waited for the other two to join them and they all headed inside the house the fox had rented for the trip.
When they were inside, they all took off their winter gear before hanging it up neatly on the large coat rack next to the entry hall.
After they all settled in the large commons area of the lodge, Keiko, Botan, and Yukina brought out some hot cocoa to warm the snowball warriors up after their battle.
Hiei settled on the windowsill, Yusuke, Keiko, Kuwabara and Yukina sat on the jumbo-sized couch, and Kurama got comfortable in the recliner that sat closest to the window in which Hiei was situated.
Hiei used his Jagan to survey their surroundings one last time for any unseen dangers, and upon finding none, relaxed and drank his hot chocolate while the others conversed around him in the warmth of the room.
When they all were finished, everyone but Hiei and Kurama went to get the decorations out of the van that Kurama had rented for their transportation during their trip.
Hiei glanced over at the fox, seeing that he was almost asleep yet again. Kurama's eyes closed tiredly and his head drooped forward a bit before he jerked himself awake and rose from his comfortable position to gather the dirty mugs from around the room.
Carrying the mugs into the kitchen, Kurama put them in the sink then braced himself against the sink as he started coughing, trying to remain as silently as he could.
He closed his eyes against the sudden pain in his chest brought on by his coughing spell, and felt his stomach rebel as he bent over the empty basin of the sink opposite of the one containing their mugs.
A few moments later he felt an arm wrap around his waist and its partner come up to start to rub his back.
When the coughing fit was done, he panted and opened his eyes to see Hiei by his side glaring at him accusingly.
"You said you were fine," Hiei said still glaring at the fox even as he helped Kurama back into the living room.
"Maybe I-I'm not," Kurama answered his voice hoarse from abuse as Hiei helped him lay down on the couch, the fire apparition sat down next to his head while everyone else came in.
"Is it a cold or something worse?" Hiei asked his tone concerned as the two youkai locked eyes and the others froze at the sight of Hiei smoothing the fox's hair away from his face in an almost tender gesture.
"…Uh…It's probably just a cold or the flu, but I can't be sure quite yet," Kurama replied hoarsely as he shifted to his side his back to the others and laid his head in the fire demon's lap.
"Alright tell me if you feel worse. Now go to sleep. You need to rest so you can feel better for the holiday," Hiei said firmly as he began to absentmindedly stroke the fox's red locks soothing the redhead into sleep. Not that said redhead was thinking of arguing with such logic.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Kurama hummed contentedly as he stirred a pot of chicken broth.
"Are you done heating the broth yet?" Hiei grumbled as he slouched into the kitchen.
"It's almost ready," Kurama replied warmly over his shoulder, "Did Yukina send you away from the patients again?"
"What do you think?"
Kurama smiled as he watched the fire demon take a seat at the table before turning back to the pot of broth on the stove.
A few minutes later he was pouring the heated liquid into separate mugs and placing them on a tray.
"Here Hiei," Kurama said as he placed the now empty pot in the sink and began to wash it, "Why don't you take that to Yukina while I finish cleaning up here."
"Hn."
Kurama smiled at the fire apparition as he balanced the tray easily on one hand and turned to do as he had been asked.
"Thank you, Hiei."
Kurama sighed as he listened to the discontent grumblings of his friends.
It was Christmas Eve, but instead of the laughter and fun he had planned for all of them, everyone had fallen ill except Hiei and Yukina.
Kurama had gotten over his illness quickly, so he hoped that his friends would be feeling better in the morning when it was time to open presents.
He looked out the window at the remains of their battlefield from the first day.
Most of his and Hiei's fortress still stood amongst the trodden snow and occasional mound of snow that was all that remained of Yusuke and Kuwabara's attempts at a defensive wall.
He smiled softly at the memory of the fun the four of them had had.
The forecast had predicted snow for tonight, so when they awoke in the morning everything would have a fresh blanket of white on it.
'Well even if we can't have a merry Christmas,' Kurama mused to himself as he watched the first snowflakes begin to drift down from the gray skies, 'We'll definitely have a white one.'
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