Demon claims were tricky things. Mainly because it could go one of two ways for both individual's involved. Either very, very good. Or extremely bad.

In one case both individual's shared a life span, married (or mated- depending on the demon) and spent the rest of their lives happily.

In the other case though- it never ended well for the weaker individual. Usually because the one who had initiated the claim wound up draining the other of any and all spiritual power and weakening them considerably. Almost like a vampire would.

Now Yusuke would be the first to admit that having a medaphorical vampire feeding on someone's energy, wasn't always an utterly bad thing. He should know. During the time he spent in demon world training to control his newly awakened abilities- his demon father Raizen had initiated a claim on him.

Granted it wasn't the same things that had just happened here with Kurama, and the old guy had told him of what he was doing and taken the time to answer his questions and let Yusuke decide for himself if he wished to go through with it.

Raizen's reasoning however had been that since they were blood related, the claim would act as a sort of buffer to preserve his humanity should his power go out of control and begin to consume and change him.

Yusuke couldn't begin to count just how many times the old demon's claim on him had saved his fucking life.

But what Kurama had done was just wrong.

He had basically just forced his spirit and demon energy into a human being! Yeah the woman was believed to be a psychic or something, but they had no way of knowing that for sure. And stupid demon claims were freaking unpredictable.

If anything went wrong there would be a violent backlash that could very well kill one or even both the woman and Kurama.

Just like my late old man had died from a backlash just to save my fucking life. Yusuke thought in annoyance as Kurama got up off of the edge of the bed only to weave a bit on his feet.

Yusuke had half a mind to let the dumbass fall flat on his face for what he had done, however in the end, despite his anger- Kurama was still his friend. Moving quickly, he grabbed the fox as his legs went out from under him, and slung one of his arms up over his shoulder's while wrapping an arm around his slim waist to hold him upright.

Grunting slightly under Kurama's weight, Yusuke frowned down at the red head and brushed his thick mane of wild red hair back away from his face so that he could see if Kurama was even still conscious.

He was. Though it looked like he was fighting a losing battle.

His green eyes were glazed over, his face pale as chalk and the idiot couldn't even hold his damn head up. Just how much energy did he use? Yusuke wondered as he picked the red head up and removed him from the guest room even though Kurama started to growl softly at him in warning.

Obviously not wishing to be parted from the one that he had claimed. Not that Yusuke gat a flying rats ass.

Entering Kurama's bedroom, Yusuke carried his friend over to the bed and unceremoniously dropped the growling fox demon onto it. Causing the other man to yelp in surprise before he hit his mattress.

Giving Yusuke enough time to snap at him from across the room t the door, "Now you just lay your sorry ass down and you had better stay put. If I find you in that woman's room while she's sleeping again- I'm going to kick your ass." Kurama's growling got louder, and move vicious sounding by the moment, causing Yusuke to become so annoyed that he actually slipped off one of his shoes and threw it at Kurama as he attempted to push himself upright on his bed.

As exhausted and weak as he was now, he was being driven purely by his demon's instinct to stick close to the woman. And that was simply something that Yusuke couldn't allow at the moment. At least not until things had been explained to the poor gal.

The shoe hit him square in the chest, the sight impact was enough to topple the already weakened demon even as he grasped Yusuke's shoe in one clawed hand.

Yusuke's eyes widened slightly at the sight of Kurama's nails lengthening to claws, and he quickly ducked out of the room before the other male decided to make an attempt to rip his head of. Or worse.

Demon's were unpredictable too when it came to claims.

It was much like how demon's chose the ones that they claimed.

It was either through a series of events, the sound of a person's voice or even their appearance and scent that made demon's initiate claims on others. Yusuke wasn't totally sure which one it was, but he knew what had caused him to initiate a claim on Keiko.

They had been six and he had flipped her skirt up to see her panties and she had punched him so hard that he'd actually lost a tooth.

And as odd and moronic as that sounded, that had pretty much done it for him. He'd loved her ever since. But that love was enforced by his desire to be by her side, always. Which is were the claim came in handy. Apparently he had placed one on her when they were still fairly young.

Frankly he didn't recall doing so. But he could feel it. Almost as if they were meant to be bound together by fate.

But Kurama didn't know this woman. He didn't know if she was bad or good or even what her abilities were or what she was like. He didn't know her good side, her bad side, or her secrets...

Scratch that, the damn fox would have her figured out by sun down tomorrow if Yusuke allowed them to be alone. He thought in wry amusement as he ran his fingers through his collar length dark hair as his amusement slowly faded.

Out of all the people in his life that he had ever encountered (human and demon alike) Kurama had always seemed like the most responsible.

So why? Why had he forced a claim on an innocent and unknowing woman, that according to him, he had only had the pleasure of meeting once for like five or ten minutes? It just didn't make any sense to him.

And until it did...

Well, Kurama would just have to be happy with supervised visits to Yusuke's house to see the woman. Cause she sure as shit wasn't staying here with the fox.