Disclaimer: I in no way own the great anime/manga InuYasha, created by Rumiko Takahashi, or YuYu Hakusho, created by Yoshihiro Togashi
Pairings: Hiei/Kagome
Warning: Alternate Universe. Kind of set in the IY Universe, but the YYH Universe doesn't exist. Youko being a perv and Hiei eating… A lot!
4. Gluttony .4
Youko look down at the priestess next to him. "Do you know why he won't quit burning everything around us?" He asked her easily side-stepping a falling branch that was on fire. His hair lifted around his head slightly as the crimson flames roared and danced a deadly dance of death and carnage.
Kagome shrugged lazily. "As long as none of my stuff gets burned I could care less." The miko covered her face with her hands and groaned loudly. "Oh, alright!" She stormed forward, out of the safety of her pink barrier, and away from Youko's intense You-better-get-to-the-bottom-of-this look. She cupped her mouth and yelled loudly. "HIEI! What's wrong?"
Said dragon ignored her. He scooped up the fallen ash around him and ate heartily.
The priestess narrowed her eyes. "HIEI! So help me if you don't answer I'm going to… To… I'm going to go with Youko and travel with him for a while!" She stomped her foot and crossed her arms over her chest.
The black dragon looked at her before snorting and giving her a soft growl. He returned to his pile of ash and wolfed it down in record time.
Youko arched a thin silver brow as Kagome raced back into her barrier, waving her hand in front of her face to get the smoke away from her mouth. "Well…" She coughed. "That didn't work like I planned it. Usually when I say something about you he goes psycho…"
The kitsune smirked and curled his fingers around her shoulder and rubbed the pad of his thumb against the rough fabric of her kimono. "And I thought you didn't like me." He purred, even though Kagome knocked his hand off her shoulder and glowered at him.
"I like you, but that doesn't mean I won't purify your hand. I'm pretty sure you can throw your whip with one arm." She said blandly and pulled her barrier in closer to her. "Well, if he's not going to talk to me, then let's at least get far away from here. I'm going to drop my barrier, want to take me to the nearest water source? I need to fill up my water jug." Kagome watched as Youko dropped down in front of her and she crawled onto his back, piggy-back style. She let her barrier dissipate and covered her mouth with her kimono sleeve.
It didn't take long for the two to reach at stream but Kagome told him to go further, so he did. She finally slid off his back when the burning forest was only a small line of smoke in the air. "I hope he gets done soon…" She turned around and pulled out the canteen from her large yellow-tinged pack. "Thanks, Youko, for bringing this too." She pointed to the hefty bag and smiled softly at him.
The kitsune shrugged lazily and rested his hands on his hips. "It was lighter then I had expected." She scowled at him but didn't say anything more as water gurgled in the jug.
A loud, angered roar reached them and Kagome smiled. "Guess he noticed, huh?" She stood up and pushed the stopper in the jugs opening. "What did he say?"
Youko made an act of tapping his chin with his clawed finger. "Hmm, what did he say I wonder…?" He smirked at her when she tapped her foot in aggravation. "Oh, you're no fun." He sighed out before leaning down, his mouth centimeters from her ear. "He said 'rroooooaaarrrrr…" The fox demon licked her ear lobe and skipped away from her angrily waving hands.
"You are… are… You are a nasty little pervert!" She snapped.
The kitsune stuck his tongue out at her playfully and Kagome copied him. A devilish grin crossed his face before he was holding her tightly against his much larger and stronger body. "Best keep that delicious little tongue of yours inside your mouth unless you're going to use is properly…" His growl was loud and she could feel his youki poke at her own energy, trying to overpower and conquer it. She bit her lip before her eyebrows furrowed and she pushed back, throwing just a smidge of her purifying powers into the playful struggle.
Youko groaned and she gasped when something started to poke her upper abdomen. She yelped loudly and sent a jolt of her miko ki, to which the fox snarled and leapt back, his front half smoking. He snorted and flicked his hair behind his back.
Kagome gripped the front of her kimono and let out a shaky breath. "You are a dirty fox." The priestess said before rubbing her temples with both hands. "Ugh, I need a hot bath and new friends."
Another cry sounded and Kagome grabbed up her jug, tied it to her pack and gave a heavy, put-upon sigh. "Guess we'll camp here till Hiei finds us." She flopped down in front of her pack before closing her eyes and covered her face with her kimono's sleeves. The gravel crunched as Youko made his way over to her before she felt the rise and fall of his youki. A soft weight settled along her body, the foxes head resting comfortably on her chest. "I'll give you to the count of five to move to a different spot or I'll have to singe that pretty silver fur." When the fox squirmed till he found a better spot Kagome started counting. "One… Two… ThreeeiiiI!" She rolled over and threw the silver beast from her person. "You… You are so DEAD!" She roared before chasing the kitsune.
And that was the sight the sleepy dragon came upon. Kagome was chasing the bastard fox with her bow, swinging it at him wildly while yelling at the top of her lungs, "GET BACK HERE YOU NASTY FOX!" He growled softly in annoyance.
"Fox, stop playing with the human and tell her we need to find shelter immediately." He hissed out before turning and stomping back in to the forest, setting trees alight and eating the remains quickly.
Kagome stumbled to a halt when Hiei spoke and pulled her bow across her chest. "What did he say?" She asked and watched Youko transform before twirling around with a heavy blush. "And put some clothes on!" She sputtered.
The fox grin happily and snatched up his clothes that he had purposely lost when he first transformed. He dressed himself and picked up her pack before crouching in front of her. "He said to follow him. Mind putting up that barrier, at least around our faces?" He handed her the bag and settled her onto his back before taking off.
Kagome did as she was asked and held on tight as the kitsune jumped head-first into the fiery inferno.
Youko was bored. So. Very. Bored! They had been stuck in the same cave for more than a week, watching over the hibernating dragon's lifeless form. Hiei had gorged himself on as much ash as he could, trying to fatten himself up for the long sleep. He was currently (by Youko's estimate) three-hundred pounds over his normal weight, since his stomach was protruding largely, like the dragon had eaten a hundred deer's, whole.
The kitsune had gone out many different times to comb the area for any interesting treasures but only came up with annoying woodland creatures and a few stupid, low-class demons. He killed them without a second thought and would always return with a few rabbits or a whole deer for the intriguing priestess to eat. She would easily cut open and pull out her favorite parts of the animals before pushing the rest towards him.
He was currently stretched out on the cool rock surface, belly down. The fox watched Kagome as she twirled the meat pieces above the tiny fire. She sighed again and he flicked his many tails lazily. "Youko?" She asked suddenly, disturbing the quiet boredom that had settled upon them again. "What's it like…?" She asked and looked out into the night sky.
He shifted forms (since he couldn't speak human as a fox, the vocal cords were all wrong or something) and sat up, resting his arm on his raised knee. "What's what like, Kagome-dear?" He asked and tilted his head to the side, letting his long mane of silver hair fall across his back and over one shoulder.
"To have all of that strength, to be a demon, to be free like you are. To go where you want, do what you want, be what you want?"
Youko blinked slowly, contemplating the question. "I do not understand… What does it feel like to have the power to kill a demon with a touch? What goes through your mind when you don't do what your species has deemed you to do?" She turned to look at him and smiled faintly.
"It's not fun, I'll tell you that. It's not fun to be told that you have to kill demons or make contracts with them. It's not fu-" Youko cut her off.
"Contracts do exist then?" He leaned forward and stared expectantly at her.
"Well, yeah, they do." There was a loud growl before Hiei shifted and stretched a wing out. It curled around his body once more and he was still again. Kagome shook her head and rested her hand on the long black tail that rested next to her. "You have to drink from the ceremonial waters and then mix both the demon and the human's blood together in a cup with the water. The demon then lets loose his youki and the holy person let's loose their ki and let it mix with the water and blood, making the bond. Then they both drink it and are forever linked." She turned her eyes towards the fat, sleeping dragon.
Youko tapped his chin before his lips curled into a devilish, purely evil grin. "You know, there's an easier way than doing all of that, right?" He said after masking his face into one of pure boredom.
Kagome blinked at him and furrowed his brows. "What, having sex? Yeah, but then the demon and human would be mated and that's not what we are trying to accomplish. Besides, both races usually hate hanyou's, so…" She shrugged lazily and Youko pouted.
"You weren't supposed to know what that was." He murmured and Kagome gave him a cheeky smile.
A month passed before Hiei woke up to a growling stomach. He was up in an instant (freaking Kagome out since she had been sleeping on his tail) and was outside in less than a second. He fired off a few jets of flame before eating the ash that was left over.
Kagome blinked owlishly before groaning and covering her face with her sleeve. Her barrier came up and Youko looked at her blankly. "Someone's hungry." He said simply before scooting closer to her and wrapping an arm around her petite form. She glared down at the appendage before sighing heavily and sat up, folding herself into a lotus position.
"No time like the present to meditate. Looks like we'll be here a while." She muttered before closing her eyes and focusing her energy, readying it for meditation. She barely registered Youko's angry whine but did feel when he pulled his arm back. A smile crossed her face momentarily before her mind went blank and she was swept up by her own energy into a higher plane.
0. End .0
HBWD's Corner: Yes! Chapter 4 is gawn! The chapters from here on out are gonna be shorter and rushed (in my opinion). I procrastinated too much and wrote the last chapters the last few days the contest was open… Yeah, real smart, huh? xD
Anyway, since psychokitsune got to this part first (she told me what it was when the story was up for the contest) she gets to choose what her story is.
And because I was feeling generous, Cherry-Blossom-Love was the first reviewer for that answered the question.
I'd like to thank: Black Firelight, Cherry-Blossom-Love, Binnybai, XxXTwilight-SinXxX, Kidnapped by a Demon, Speedykitteh1643, AmericaBlessGod, animechickie, kakashixangela, ToonyTwilight for being the first 10 to review!
And I am gonna have the 'FRGtC' contest again. Let's see who'll win next! :D
Translations:
Miko – a "female shaman, spirit medium" who conveyed oracles from kami ("spirits; gods"), and presently means a "shrine maiden; virgin consecrated to a deity" who serves at Shinto shrines
Kitsune – fox
Kimono – traditional Japanese garment warn by women, men and children
Youki - demon essence
Miko-ki – priestess energy
Ki – life energy
Hanyou – half demon or half blood