Disclaimer- I do not own Yu yu hakusho in any way, shape or form

Disclaimer- I do not own Yu yu hakusho in any way, shape or form. –sighs- this just never gets old…

A/N- Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! I'm back, I'm finally back! I could totally die of happiness right now. My mummy bought my sister and I laptop until our computer gets fixed. Anyways, in the light of all of my downtime, I got like twenty thousand other ideas for this story and new stories… so many new ideas, in fact, that I think I might have to alter my summary for this one a bit. Now, on with the story!

The Youkai Orpheus

Chapter 8- Post Date Problems

Hiei sat crossed legged in the middle of his bed, his brain slowly processing everything that he had seen and heard in the past day. He bit down hard on his bottom lip out of anger at that wolf, anger at that fox and anger at that damn Pace. Hiei couldn't help replaying that kissing scene between Kurama and that Luther over and over and over and over again. The way that Kurama clung to that man's neck, the way that the wolf stuck his tongue into Kurama's "virgin" mouth... Kurama hadn't even allowed Hiei to kiss him in his mouth, but for some reason, this wolf gets those kinds of privileges. So unfair. And then, all of that stuff that Pace said about Luther being dangerous to Kurama, he wanted to believe that Pace was only saying that to scare him into agreeing to end the date early; but something didn't sit right with him involving that wolf and if his own partner said that he was dangerous then he had to be dangerous.

Hiei heard the door behind him slowly opening; a bright light coupled with a skinny shadow presented itself on the floor of his dark room. He had expected Kurama back hours before; apparently he had gone out somewhere, judging by all of the bags that Hiei could hear shuffling. He listened as Kurama mumbled something about it 'Being so dark' inside of the room. He turned on the lights, instantaneously stinging Hiei's eyes, although, regardless, Hiei didn't turn around to face the approaching fox.

"Hello Hiei! I thought you would be sleeping by now."

"Well, I thought you would've been back by, like, 2 hours ago,"

Kurama rolled his eyes and dropped a couple of his bags on the floor. "I can do without the smart remarks tonight Hiei, I'm in too good of a mood."

"A good mood?" Hiei asked him bitterly, he turned around and glanced at Kurama, who still seemed to be a little flustered from his early festivities, and scowled at him.

Kurama nodded at him and smiled. "Yes, a very good mood."

"Do you mind if I ask why?"

"No, not at all," Kurama took a seat beside Hiei on his bed. Hiei was couldn't help but feel a bit nervous, Kurama smelt so different from what he had smelled like when he'd left, he smelled sweeter and more natural then before; while, at the same time his scent was a bit tainted… by that wolf. "That date was a complete success; I wasn't able to get a lot of information. But, I do know that he is working on a 'project' right now and he should be finished in the next couple of weeks. The only problem is Koenma never told us what they were up to; which means I'll have to do a lot more persuading to get more information."

Hiei didn't reply at first, he hadn't actually heard too much of what Kurama had said, he only caught that word that Kurama was saying (and misusing) so much lately, persuasion, that damn word that made him want to scream. "So, what kind of persuasion did you use today?"

"I didn't have to use persuasion, we only spoke today." Kurama said smoothly, almost as if he wasn't lying.

Hiei frowned angrily before removing himself from the bed and walking to the window and glaring out at nothing in particular. Kurama shrugged before standing up and going to his bags and pulling things out. Hiei wasn't doing well with not concentrating on Kurama, he could hear his every motion, his every breath; and he could smell his scent fading and getting closer as he moved farther and closer to Hiei's current destination. He wanted to hit him, to ruin his happy mood because he felt the need to lie. But at the same time, he wanted to believe that Kurama really hadn't lock lips with that wolf and he imagined it all for the sake of entertaining himself… but, he knew his imagination was not that active.


Hiei stood behind the tree with a frown on his face as he watched Luther leave the swooning Kurama behind. Kurama still seemed to be in a trance from that 'kiss' that he had just received. It disgusted Hiei, but luckily it would be over soon and Kurama would be back in their hotel room, their Luther-free hotel room. Hiei turned his attention back toward Pace, who was looking on at the sight proudly. He leaned down on his cane and turned to Hiei with a smirk on his face.

"That's what you wanted, correct?"

Hiei merely nodded as he turned his attention back to Kurama who was dreamily smelling the rose at the time, while picking at the dessert that he had gotten. Hiei couldn't help noting how soft his face looked, and how green his eyes were when they're surrounded by an abundance of trees and grass. He almost smiled, but he maintained himself because he was currently in public. Pace chuckled lightly before turning his attention to Kurama and smirking.

"I'll remind you of my warning, get him away from your Luther as soon as possible… but that's only if you want 'your' fox, to actually belong to you and you alone."

Hiei looked at the man and glared. "What do you mean?"

"My buddy Luther loves to do a lot of things, but his favorite has always been to fall in love with beautiful things and in some instances, people. The only problem is… he has a terrible habit of tainting these beauty's; he never does it purposely and he has been trying to stop. But, I'm afraid your friend is beautiful enough to meet his standards, maybe even excel it."

Hiei glanced back at Kurama, who seemed to be packing up to leave, and thought about the possibility of anything happening to him because of that wolf. He couldn't let that happen…

Tainted

Kurama

Tainted…

"… What do you mean…" Hiei began as he turned back to where Pace had been standing only to see that he was no longer there. Hiei frowned, but figured that Pace had the right idea, when he saw Kurama approaching his tree. He fled quickly.


Hiei continued staring into the big city of Paris; he had read in one of Kurama's books that Paris was supposed to be beautiful. Hiei couldn't see beauty in a place that harbored men like Luther. Luther apparently contaminated beauty; he had already contaminated Paris as far as Hiei was concerned. Hiei glanced at Kurama and frowned; he knew Kurama was strong, one of the strongest people that he knew, but could he handle that wolf? He was failing miserably so far.

"…Kurama." Hiei murmured.

Kurama glanced at Hiei and smiled politely at him. "Yes Hiei?"

"I think you should quit while you're ahead."

"Ahead of what?"

"Quit seeing Luther before he finds out what you're doing and kills you."

Kurama chuckled underneath his breath. "Hiei, Luther is not going to kill me; I'm not completely helpless you know, I can hold my own. It's not like I'm some C-class."

"That's not the point Kurama; he's not as weak as you think!" At this point, Hiei had no control over his voice, and Kurama was pretty offended by his rash tone.

"And I'm not as weak as you think!" Kurama yelled, easily matching the tone of his friend.

Hiei sighed angrily before turning his attention away from Kurama and glared outside of the window again. "I really don't think it's a good idea, fox."

"Well, Hiei, regardless of what you think, I'm going to continue. It's a clever way to get information, and it's always a good way to analyze an enemy before attacking. And, when I think about it, it's very safe."

"How so?"

"Well, I have reason to believe that he's 'fascinated' with me; which means he must like me."

"So… no one minds killing people they like, especially if they betray them."

"He's not going to kill me; I'll make sure of it."

"What are you going to do, have another make out session?"

Kurama pouted and wrinkled his eye brows in confusion. "How did you know…" Kurama's voice drifted off until it faltered. Hiei frowned and turned away, he knew Kurama was piecing together what he had just heard and was seconds away from coming up with his conclusion. "… Did you follow me?"

Hiei didn't reply; he only stared out in the city, getting ready for the fireworks to start.

"Hiei, I can't believe you followed me. Do you have any idea what could've happened if he noticed you were there, he could've found us out and then I really would be dead right now."

"Didn't you just say you wouldn't let him kill you?"

Kurama opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it and looked down. "That's not the point, Hiei. That date was intended to be private."

"Yeah, I know, that's why you handled all your personal business in a public park." Hiei replied resentfully.

"I meant it was private from you." Kurama said spitefully.

Kurama scowled before turning away from Hiei as soon as Hiei turned to look at Kurama. He angrily turned back toward the window and dropped his voice, he really wasn't in the mood for arguing with him tonight; he was still kind of pissed. "Fox, I don't care who you go around kissing, as long as it's not him. That guy is dangerous, you knew that way before you started seeing him."

Kurama sighed. "Hiei, I can handle it. Don't worry about it." Kurama voice was calm again; he began shifting through his bag with a frown.

"I just… don't care anymore." Hiei muttered almost too low for Kurama to hear.

Kurama frowned, passing one quick glance at Hiei, before sighing silently and walking toward the bathroom. Before he closed the door he murmured a silent. "Fine…"

Hiei looked at the bathroom for a couple of seconds before rolling his eyes and yelling. "…Fine!"

Hiei was getting a little agitated, the fights between Kurama and Hiei were always so calm, and Hiei wasn't exactly one for these kinds of conflicts. He wasn't satisfied yet; Kurama was no good for venting frustrations to. Hiei walked away from the window and to one of the bags that Kurama had been shifting through, he rolled his eyes when he noticed that there were clothes inside. He snatched them all from his bag and placed them on Kurama's bed, contemplating something bad he could do to them in order to ease his present anger. His face lit up into a deviant smirk.


When Hiei was finished his job he smiled smugly at the amazing work he had done. Now, he had been planning to start yelling at Kurama again as soon as he walked out of the bathroom, but luckily for the fox, what he did to his clothes calmed him down just fine. He stuffed all of the clothing back into their original bags and focused his attention back onto the ledge beside the window. He gazed out the window just like he had been doing when Kurama left the room. He heard the sink water stopping inside of the bathroom and seconds later Kurama escaped the bathroom, now sporting different clothes and wet hair.

Hiei couldn't hear even a bit of motion going on behind him; he could almost feel Kurama's piercing green eyes on the back of his neck. After a while, Kurama turned away from Hiei and began moving again. The shorter demon could no longer tell whether Kurama was still mad. But there were ways to tell if Kurama was still angry, if he doesn't speak some kind of nonsense to before two minutes is up, he is still mad at you. If he doesn't speak to you for over five minutes then he is pissed at you, if he says nothing anywhere over ten minutes then he's about to kill you. Hiei awkwardly sat on the ledge of the window as the minutes ticked by. Kurama was behind him forcefully brushing his long red hair, Hiei could hear every stroke.

He glanced at the clock inside of the room, Kurama had pretty much explained all of this clock business to him a couple of months ago. He used to judge the time of day by the sun and moon positions until Kurama helped him discover an easier way. And from what he could tell, Kurama had left the bathroom three minutes before, which meant that there were only seven more minutes until Hiei was going to be introduced to a premature grave. Minutes began ticking away slowly; up until it had been almost 9 minutes, Hiei was beginning to get nervous before he heard the distant voice of his friend.

"Hiei?"

Hiei turned around and looked at Kurama, he could tell that he was still a little aggravated, his voice was dangerously stern. "What…"

"I have desserts, would you like to eat them with me?"

Hiei shrugged. He could tell that Kurama was trying to smooth things over, Hiei kind of felt bad for what he did to his new clothes. He peeled himself off of the ledge and walked to the itty bitty table that was placed in their room, a table that was barely made for two. He took a seat in one of the chairs and crossed his arms tightly across his chest. Kurama joined him shortly afterward; he forced a smiled on his face before pulling out that dessert and placing it in front of Hiei. It was a big chunk of rum cake; Kurama couldn't help but chuckle.

"Wow, Luther was trying to get me drunk."

Hiei looked sharply at Kurama with anger in his eyes. Kurama sighed; obviously his friend wasn't in the joking mood. He dropped his eyes to the table and frowned. "Hiei, just eat, alright…"

Hiei glared at Kurama for a while before hesitantly digging into the tasty cake. Kurama didn't eat a bite, he merely watched Hiei as he feasted upon the dessert that Luther had given to him. Hiei noticed this constant staring at once, but he didn't say anything or stare back at him. He figured Kurama was thinking and just so happened to look in Hiei's direction. Hiei continued eating. He could recall eating a cake that tasted just like this before, Kurama had fed it to him once when they were spending time up in his room alone while the rest of his family was having dinner down the stairs. He had originally fed it to him as a joke, to see whether or not he could get completely lightheaded, fortunately, Hiei had eaten the whole cake and ended up completely fine and craving more. Kurama called him fat for the rest of the day.

Hiei glanced quickly at Kurama as he ate and frowned. "Why are you staring at me?"

"Well, I just wanted to say something… but, finish getting your fill of the cake first." Kurama offered. Hiei simply shrugged before returning to his cake.

Much to Hiei's dismay, he could still feel Kurama's eyes on him. He let out a low growl, hoping that it would faze Kurama just a little bit, unfortunately, that wasn't the case; Kurama's eyes stayed on him, unmoving, and almost unblinking. Hiei raised his eyes and glowered at Kurama; Kurama frowned and dropped his eyes to the wooden table underneath his elbows.

"Hiei," Kurama muttered. Hiei glanced at Kurama expectantly. "I was thinking about what you said and I think you're right."

Hiei looked at Kurama, his mouth was in the shape of an O; it had been a while since Kurama actually admitted that he had been wrong. Hiei wanted so badly to through a large party in honor of Kurama's broken pride. He smirked before looking back down into the almost gone cake. "So, does that mean you're going to stop?"

Kurama chuckled lightly and rested his hands in his palms. "No."

"Then, why did you tell me that?"

"Because I wanted to make you feel good before I told you that I no longer want you following me around on my dates anymore."

Hiei raised an eyebrow and quickly turned away. "Whatever…" Hiei murmured, not really expecting Kurama to believe him, seeing as he didn't even believe himself.

"I'm serious Hiei."

"I'm serious too."

Kurama stared at him, obviously unconvinced. "So… no more following?"

Hiei nodded.

Kurama smiled at him, and then he removed himself from his seat and ran over to his bags, causing a fearful feeling to bubble up in Hiei's stomach. "You would never guess what I bought!"

"Wait, don't--" Too late. Kurama pulled out a couple of torn pieces of his shirts, he wrinkled his eyebrows before mouthing the word 'What'. He dropped the ruined clothes onto his bed and began digging into the bag again, only to find more and more shredded clothing. Hiei shifted his eyes away from him, if Kurama wasn't going to kill him a couple of minutes before; he was defiantly going to do it now.

"Hiei-- Why-- I—" Kurama stuttered along. Hiei didn't answer; he only turned away from his friend and frowned. He heard small sounds coming from Kurama, it almost sounded like he was crying. He turned around and saw Kurama with his hand on his stomach and his hand over his mouth.

"Are you crying?"

Kurama shook his head, his face was very strained. He removed his hand from his mouth and all Hiei could see was a huge smile. He was laughing. Hiei rubbed his eyes to make sure that what he was seeing was really happening, when he saw Kurama basically hunched over in laughter, he scowled and turned away. All of that hard work of ruining Kurama's clothes for nothing; he's happy about this. Hiei growled lowly. "Why are you happy?"

Kurama stifled his laughing and turned to Hiei. "I'm sorry, it's funny, that's all."

"Fox, I ripped your clothes…"

"Well, yeah, but--" Kurama shrugged before throwing his clothing back on his bed. "These clothes weren't only for me to enjoy."

Hiei wrinkled his eyebrows in confusion. "What!?"

"Well, you remember earlier today when you were complaining about how I dressed too good for Luther, so I bought new clothes for the next time we go out. But, I guess I'll be stuck in my old clothes…" Kurama faked a fairly obvious sad voice.

Hiei huffed angrily. "Buy more clothes."

"No, I wouldn't want to make you bare the burden of ripping them up again…"


OMG!

This was such a filler chapter.

But, I'm glad I'm back and updating again.

I'm excited about the next chapter!

Until next time!!