Whew! It took a while to get to where we are, eh? Who was surprised by that ending? Raise of hands? Mine is certainly up- I kind of went with the flow on that one. Just to give y'all a fair warning this is going to get dirty…Eventually.
I'm not in love with this chapter. It's very gossipy but I needed it as a bridge for later things to come. I hope you enjoy it nevertheless.
Reviewers:
Half-a-recess: ^-^ thanks I'm having so much fun writing this. I read a story with them and fell in love with Hiei and Kuwabara as a couple, opposites attract after all! I'm glad you enjoying this!
AH36: Yeah I tried really hard to build up their personalities and give a good understanding of how they could ever possibly like each other- and I never thought I'd like this pairing either! If you like this story check out some other fanfictions with them, they are such a cute couple! "Something Sweet" by kazima kuwabara is one of my favorites!
Anime's-mistress: Trust me I surprised myself! I came up with that last minute. Crazy things happen in the heat of the moment!
I know there are more reviewers I just responded to the latest ones sorry if I missed you, I really appreciate your feedback!
Chapter 7
Hiei was kissing a human, did it matter?
Not tonight.
Hiei was kissing, of all humans, Kuwabara.
Did it matter?
Not tonight.
What did matter was what Hiei was feeling. No, not physically, though his fingers running through Kuwabara's hair pulling him closer felt really nice… and the warmth that came from Kuwabara's mouth was so inviting… the way he tasted and smelled of cinnamon…
- WHAT MATTERED, was that Hiei felt an odd combination; one feeling like relieving satisfaction. That feeling of a spot finally scratched after ten minutes of shear agonizing restlessness of trying to avoid it. It was an odd combination, he admitted of feeling satisfied, and desperately hungry for more.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the kiss, Kuwabara was having a nervous breakdown. (Poor guy! Your distress is our vice!). A rough estimate of ten millions thoughts were streaming through his head,
"This is my first kiss… I never expected it to be with Hiei! Is this how he throws people off guard before he kills them? What about that picture of my father? Is he mad I didn't tell the team about it? Oh man! What if Shizuru walks in with some of her girlfriends! I'll never hear the end of this! I wonder if my breath smells… oh god that would be so embarrassing with demons and their heightened senses… great now my palms are starting to sweat. .."
At Kuwabara's lack of response Hiei cracked open his eyes and began to pull away. He smirked so devilishly that Kuwabara gulped. Kuwabara's obvious discomfort was adorably charming. He didn't think anyone's face could get as red as Kurama's hair.
Kuwabara seemed to be looking everywhere, but Hiei's face. Finally he settled for staring red faced at the floor. But Hiei was not having it. In one swift, unimaginably quick movement Hiei had kicked Kuwabara's feet out from under him and pinned him on the floor. Now he had no option for a point of focus but Hiei's own eager face. He leaned in for a second taste.
"Wait! Wait, wait!" Kuwabara said panicked. Hiei who was straddling the larger man's hip began to feel a slight stiffening underneath him. He couldn't help but tease Kuwabara further.
"It would seem the rest of you doesn't want to wait Kazuma."
Kuwabara froze at the use of his first name. Had the world gone mad! … Or just Hiei? Damn his teenage hormones!
"I just... I don't… I'm not… I mean…" Kuwabara stammered awkwardly.
Hiei tried to wait patiently, listening carefully for signs of intelligible language. Then, suddenly, he remembered the girl who had hassled him outside of Kurama's school. The idea hit him like a ton of bricks. Was Kuwabara… what was the word… homophobic?
Hiei didn't know which was worse, the disappointment creeping up his spine, or the slight embarrassment of rejection in his stomach. He got off Kuwabara slowly.
"Can we just-" But before Kuwabara finished his sentence Hiei had disappeared from the room through the window that was left wide open.
Kuwabara sighed, "talk about this…"
Kuwabara had been all over his room trying to settle down from this afternoon's previous events. He had tried to sit at his desk and do homework, but his focus was horribly deterred. He had even tried to get himself absorbed in his favorite comics, but he kept forgetting what he read as he imagined Hiei's soft, but lustful lips on his, and would have to reread each column over again. Occasionally he traced the lines of his lips in wonder.
Finally he couldn't take it anymore. He grabbed his favorite jacket, locked the front door and headed out.
Kuwabara did not want to be home. With no father, no mother, no Shizuru, and now no Hiei he couldn't stand being without company he felt way to alone. Shuffling along with his jacket nonchalantly thrown over his shoulder he thought about how Hiei wouldn't be coming over anytime soon and how often he was going to be alone now. He had looked forward to Hiei's visits… even if it was only to escape the rain.
Or was it? Hiei had been the one to initiate the kiss after all. Could the impossible be true? Did someone actually find him attractive? Or was Hiei just fucking with him? The latter seemed much more possible. Many of his earlier friends have told him that he had really grown into his features, some of the high school girls even thought he was cute. But ultimately he couldn't escape his ugly duckling syndrome; unattractive youth have no faith in their attractiveness later on.
Did he think Hiei was attractive? Hell yeah he did! Would he ever admit it? Not unless he wanted to die of embarrassment, or ya know, literally. He tried to keep his internal musings to himself on who he thought was attractive.
One time Yusuke and him had hung out after he had come out. After a day of fighting movies and the arcade Yusuke had abruptly turned to him and said,
"So, Kuwabara, what kind of men are you attracted to?" Kuwabara swallowed the straw he had been slurping on.
"Urameshi, this is not really something I want to talk about-"
"Oh come on! Like Kurama? Kurama's hot; do you think he's sexy?"
Completely red face Kuwabara looked at the ground and muttered,
"He's too girly…" In which case Yusuke died laughing. After whipping a tear from his eye, smiling ,Yusuke continued his interrogation.
"What about me?" Yusuke teased Kuwabara, he continued in a husky voice "We've been best friends, I'm lean, toned, a paragon of men-"
Kuwabara scoffed, "Don't flatter yourself Urameshi."
Yusuke pushed him farther, "Come on! I'm a catch!"
But Kuwabara decided to get him back, in mock disbelief he accused Yusuke, "Could you be suggesting you wantme to be attracted to you? Is there something you need to tell me?"
Yusuke stopped dead, dumbfounded and caught in his own mischief. Kuwabara just laughed warmly.
"Don't sweat it man, you're cute, but you're like a brother to me. Come on, I'll play you at another round of Goblin King."
…
…
"So do you think Hiei is sexy?"
….
Kuwabara shook the memory from his head. It was his own personal guilty pleasure to watch Hiei's serious fights. Was it Hiei's legendary sparring prowess? His unmatchable speed? No, it was because every time Hiei fought with intensity he removed his shirt. (A.N. You know its true its anime law) Oh Inari, he was such a groupie… but he couldn't help it. Everything about Hiei was attractive… his nonchalant misdemeanor, his mysterious background, not to mention his rippling muscles. And though Hiei would always be stronger (Kuwabara hated to admit, but he'd grown older and more practical Hiei was a demon after all), and Hiei was definitely older, Kuwabara wouldn't feel completely emasculated because, and he prided himself, he would always be taller.
But what if he messed things up?
Kuwabara felt a drop of water hit the top of his head. He held if hand out palm skyward to see if more were on their way. His answer was a crack of thunder…
Of course.
"Is this some kind of cosmic joke!" He bellowed at the clouds. It was raining and he knew Hiei would not come to his house. He didn't want to be alone. Maybe Kurama was home.
Shiori had been cooking vigorously in her kitchen when she heard her doorbell ring. She whipped the flour on her hands on her apron and hustled over to the door. When the door opened though Kuwabara was miserable he put on he put on his biggest smile,
"Hi Mrs. Minamino, I was walking home and got caught in the rain, is Shuichi here?"
Shiori moved aside allowing him to enter, he respectfully removed his shoes.
"Kazuma-kun of course come in, Shuichi is in his room doing his homework. He's such a good son." Shiori thought about his home situation and added kindly, "I'm just preparing dinner, you're welcome to stay if you want."
"Hai, I would love to stay, but I think my sister is coming home early tonight thank you so much." Kuwabara shuffled up the stair to Kurama's room.
Kuwabara burst into Kurama's room didn't even look at him groaned and threw himself on Kurama's bed facedown.
"Kuwabara," Kurama said with an eyebrow raised, "what brings you here?"
Over the years since both Kuwabara and Kurama had remained in human world, their friendship had grown strongly or as strongly as a Fox and his 900 year junior could be. Kurama had long ago embraced his life in the human world, and often found his teenage friend endearing. Kuwabara reminded the Yoko of what it was like to be young; he often got a kick out of Yusuke and Kuwabara's crazy antics.
"Mhmhhffffmmmhfffm" Kuwabara mumbled into the pillow.
"…Do you want to talk about it?" Kurama encouraged, amused.
Kuwabara flipped onto his back still sprawled across Kurama's bed. He sighed loudly.
"I don't think you'd believe me if I told you."
"Kuwabara. I'm a spirit fox spawned the womb of a human woman. Try me."
"Listen Kurama, I know we're good friends, and I need to know that our conversations are in complete confidence."
Kurama nodded intrigued. Kuwabara sat up.
"You know how I'm… How I'm attracted to… Ya know how I'm…"
"Gay?" Said Kurama helpfully.
"Yeah… well something kinda happened that I wasn't expecting from someone I wasn't expecting."
The Yoko in Kurama cheered, SEX, SEX, SEX! While Kurama sat coolly, eyebrow raised.
"Go on,"
"Someone kissed me." The Yoko face-palmed, you humans and your abstinence! Kurama internally shushed him.
"I don't know what to do… I've been interested in him for a while-"
"You mean Hiei?"
"Geeze man could you pretend to not know everything for once?"
"Sorry," Kurama smirked, "So, Hiei kissed you. Well… this is surprising." Though in truth, Kuwabara was completely covered in Hiei's scent.
"I know! He's usually so disconnected, he just comes over when it rains and sits in the corner pensive and morose. We were fighting over-" Kuwabara stopped himself from mentioning the picture, "we were fighting and then suddenly he was kissing me!" Kuwabara blushed.
"He looked like he was ready to jump my bones," (Yoko cheers in background) "but I told him to hang on a sec, and he disappeared."
"Well, no one likes to get turned down…"
"But I wasn't! I was just caught off guard!"
"There seems to be a piece of the puzzle missing, maybe if you or I talk to him-"
"NO WAY. Yeah you know what, I think that's the best choice of action Kurama, not talking about it, let's just pretend like it never happened then things can go back to normal!" Kuwabara said cheerfully.
"Kuwabara that's rarely the best choice of action-"But Kuwabara was already grabbing his coat.
"Thanks Kurama! You're always the best one to go to for advice! I bet that idiot Urameshi would have sent me down the river! Catch ya later!" And with that he was gone as quickly as he had appeared.
Kurama just sighed and returned to his homework.
