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Kurama sighed as he sat back in the sofa. His chest was heavy to him now and his shoulders all the more. Finding nothing on him but his cloths, he wished that the burden would be lifted by an external force like had heard so many other say happened when releasing a secret. All that happened to him was his head constricting in fear and thoughts as she slowly drooled out her story to him. They had been drinking tea and talking at his house for hours now and only more questions had been brought up.

"So how do you know Hiei?" Kurama asked leaning forward and gently rubbing his temples. He had been fed an intrigue story about how she had been here and there, then sold, and bought, then finally freed by Mukuro, but that didn't explain Hiei at all, only Mukuro who was connected to Hiei, yes, but that was it.

"Hiei is Mukuro's worker who is keeping an eye on my relations so I do not make bad ones. After I was finally freed I began to realize what situation I had been in and feared it's return, so I hide from relationships." She explained leaning back and gently petting down her soft dress as her long black hair crunched against the cushion behind her head. Kurama couldn't help but stare at her almost wanting to be like a normal male and stare at her chest because of the desire that rose from her neck. He swallowed and turned away, prying his eyes from that point, that pivotal point, and forcing himself onward. "You never answered me when I first asked, were you stalking me?"

Kurama blinked and looked up at her, "Does it matter? You're dating me now, and you know who I am. If I was stalking you, I didn't do a very good job considering I didn't know any of this about you." Kurama shrugged, and in his soul he felt the depression of that statement really set in. He thought about the months he intense searched for everything with her title, any other titles, and every bit of information about her that he could come up with. What he had found was before her imprisonment and then her long absence that had confused him. He hadn't know what to think of that and although he had searched demon world some what, it was only Hiei's patrol to see if they found human crossing over that went by her name. Hiei had reported absolutely nothing although it did explain the smile. He had been watching her and knew that Kurama was spying on her. A heavy sigh escaped him, he hadn't been a very good spy at all if he was able to be stalked as well.

"Oh, on the contrary, you did very good, I don't have friends really, so the fact that you found out as much as you did is very impressive. That is why I wanted to know if you had been stalking me or not in the first place, after all. I'm sorry I made it hard on you Shuichi, but for a while, I was hiding from Hiei and Mukuro, or trying to rather..." she shook her head lightly and sipped at her tea gently licking her lips. Her soft pink tongue flipped over their rosy gloss surface pulling in the access liquid that had pooled against them. The ruby rose lips pulled apart slowly, thinning, and creasing upward in a delicate smile.

Shuichi's eyes focused out of his small little picture and he smiled back at her with a twitch of his lips instead of her slow grin that seemed to just continue spreading. He wondered when it would stop after catching her eyes, accepting his stare like it was another part of her body. He sipped his own tea to distract himself from reaching out and touching her soft face. Her cheeks looked like velvet and he longed to just lay for hours petting her like an exotic creature of gold. "Thank you for the complement..." he was not thinking about what it was he said.

Sharon laughed now and opened mouth to speak, breaking the illusion.

"So you were stalking me."

Kurama's head snapped up and his eyes widened, he hadn't meant to admit that. He didn't want her to feel threatened by that at all and he had been extra careful that she was never able to tell, "I'm sorry Sharon, but it was the only way I could find out enough about you to see if it was really you I desired, or your body. I found out merely that I desire every bit and fiber of you." He sighed as though that was a distracting and painful thought gently rocking his foot up against the couch pressing his heal into it and leaving it on his toe as he leaned forward holding his cup in the other hand and putting his chin on his hand. "You see, it started about five months ago... I was in English class sitting behind you and I smelt lavender on you. It intrigued me and I started to examine you as a person of class instead of a person in class."

"Lavender? I don't have any perfume Kurama."

"It wasn't the perfume Sharon, I would have been able to recognize that. I am a flower expert after all. No, this was a more universal and sweet smell of true lavender. You had either walked by it, or have it somewhere on the complex, maybe in a park or something but I smelt it on you and it caught my attention. The more I watched you, the more I suddenly began to have the itching sensation to cling to you and hold on desperately for whatever happened. That was when I started to stalk you."

"It could have been from the funeral home at my grandmother's death."

"Probably," Kurama replied with a shrug, if she wanted to identify where it was from instead of listening to his story, he was fine with that. "I think it was living when you passed it though so it's probably either on your way to school, in a park, as I said, or you were somewhere like a garden shop around that time."

"Oh! I was in the floral shop, that's what it was! I wanted to do some gardening but I didn't find what I wanted. Continue with your story Kurama, thank you." She smiled sweetly again and Kurama almost became captured with her image but she took a sip of her tea sending her small hands up to her lips as they clung to the cup like a vat of some unknown liquid that would tell the future.

"Fine," Kurama closed his eyes for a moment recomposing himself, "When I started to find out more about you, I first learned your schedule, then your routs, then I learned your after hours activities followed by learning actually about you. It all was very intricately planned and my friends all realized that I was up to something although they didn't say anything so when I approached you that day, they weren't surprised to see that I had left right with you. I was actually the reason why they had stopped there in the first place. It was unusual for you to go there at that time of day on that day so I wanted to see you and try when I had the perfect chance."

"And you knew how long it would take me to drink tea?"

"Yes, actually. I had seen you drink there before so I had an estimated time."

Sharon laughed and smiled giving a soft gesture to Kurama. In almost a moment, the fox was at her side with his arms around her, her tea out of her hands and his lips pressed against her face in a loving, passionate kiss. He was happy and smiling as best he could when he leaned away, still awestruck that she was so close to him. "Kurama, I want to find out why you itch, as you say, with need for me, but to do that you have to find out how to quell that feeling. Do what you will to me and then we'll work on figuring it out."

"Fox!" A window opened quickly somewhere and Kurama's head popped up. He opened his eyes and stared at Hiei in pure shock as the man came into the room and towards them as though he owned the place, "Yukina, she- she-"

Kurama sighed and nodded. He leaned down with his new found power and kissed Sharon deeply on the lips, "I expect you'll be okay looking after Sharon, Hiei, I will go check on Yukina. It may take me all night, alright Sharon?"

"What's happening?" Sharon asked standing up and holding a fist to her heart.

"Yukina's poisoned," Kurama replied without thinking about it. He went to the window and jumped out heading off to the shrine while Hiei was left with Sharon.

Hiei turned to Sharon and stared at her, "Just because I accepted him doesn't mean you can use him to your own selfish intentions Sharon."

Sharon's chin rose intently, "What do you mean by that Hiei?" she growled as she stood up to the little fire demon. She had learned from Mukuro that he couldn't hurt her so she was the one with the power and she liked using it.

"You're a lustful human, what do you think I mean?" he glared back at her, "Kurama is my friend and ally in arms, if you so much as harm him again, I promise you Mukuro will regret having me as your keeper," he growled and put his hand on his sword with the full intent on drawing it, had he not known that Mukuro would know about that. All the same, the action had it's effect.

Sharon stiffened, and there went the power. She stared at Hiei with wide eyes, "Hiei, I won't hurt Kurama again, now that I know who he is, I- I just want to be happy. Please, you were the one telling me to know who I'm around and I didn't know Kurama, so why now do you contradict that with saying I hurt him and will be punished for that? I don't understand!"

Hiei came towards the couch and leaned over as she curled away from him. He put a hand beside her head and glared down. "Kurama is my friend. I accepted him Sharon. You don't need to know who I accepted. Half of the things in Kurama's life are worth keeping secret now but out of it and keep to after he died or you will regret it. Do you understand?" Hiei asked her strictly.

Sharon nodded slowly and Hiei backed off, leaving her out of the corner and on the couch, "Hiei, how do you know?" she asked weakly, not to challenge him, but curious enough that she had to ask.

"I know because he's told me most of it," Hiei turned his head and gazed over his shoulder at her with his sad red eyes coldly resting upon her naked soul. The black swallowed them and spit them out as he held onto life and then slowly, his image faded, becoming transparent, then non existent. She glanced around for Hiei, but he was gone. She closed her eyes and curled up to herself shuttering. Hiei was someone to fear, and now he had threatened her. She didn't like that much at all.

Not at all.