Yami: (points to the sky) Look, a dead bird!!
Hikari: (looks up into the sky) WHERE!?!
Yami: I can't believe you fell for that…
Hikari: (still searching the sky) I DON'T SEE IT!!
Yami: … moron…
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Chapter 10 pt. 2
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The gang ended up playing several drinking games by the end of the night and by the time two o'clock rolled around Yusuke had to call Shizuru to come and pick Kuwabara and himself up while Keiko and Yukina ended up dragging Botan home with them for fear she would fly her oar into a radio tower or something.
Cho then asked Shizuru if she could take her bike home and found it parked exactly where she had parked it earlier that night in the apartment lot as she and the three remaining youkai stepped out of the cab upon arrival.
Kurama was completely plastered and was therefore forced to give up his keys after he couldn't even make it up two flights of stairs without trying to hurt himself. Once they entered the apartment Cho and Hiei disappeared and when Prixa went to check on them she found them both already passed out on Cho's bed. The hanyou girl hadn't even bothered to remove the loathsome mini-skirt.
Meanwhile Prixa was left with the charge of the other kitsune. Kurama snickered uncontrollably as she tipped him over just far enough so he would fall back safely on her bed.
"This is your first time drinking isn't it Kurama?" Prixa raised an eyebrow as she morphed with a little flash of light back to her fox form.
"Yes, yes it is," He mumbled, not even a shadow of his usual, solemn demeanor and composure remaining. "And I thank you for introducing me to such things as "absolute sex" and "crazy cows"!" He laughed as he named the shooters they had been drinking.
"Well," Prixa said flopping down beside him with a knowing smile. "You're not gonna like me for it tomorrow, or your self for that matter." Kurama didn't seem to be listening.
"Do you have any family Prixa Yoshiko?" He asked lazily. Where ever the alcohol had taken him he had definitely left the building!
"Yoshiko isn't my real last name if that's what you're asking," Prixa revealed picking at the fuzz on her comforter so she wouldn't have to look at him directly.
"Then why do you use it?" The kitsune boy asked propping himself up on one hand to look at her properly.
"Why do you use Minamino?" She asked nonchalantly. The smile fell from his lips instantly. "I heard you talking to someone on the phone one day," She explained quickly. Kurama conceded to the fact with a shrug. Prixa inhaled.
"Yoshiko was the name of the man who raised me," She explained, a hint of sadness in her voice. "My original pack was killed when I was just a pup and Yoshiko took me into his own."
"And where are they now?" Kurama inquired twiddling with her lavender hair distractedly. At her sudden expression of pain he placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly while she chocked out the next word.
"Dead," She answered hoarsely and Kurama's face took on a concerned expression. "It's okay. It's been nearly ten years since they died. One of Yoshiko's own blood relatives sold us out to Hidaka…"
"Hidaka?" Kurama interjected in surprise.
"Yeah… guy gets around doesn't he?" Prixa laughed without amusement. "Apparently we were getting in his way. He wanted our territory I guess. The pack was ambushed… Women, children… they left no one alive, but me." She murmured bitterly. A tear rolled down her cheek and settled into the sheet leaving the spot dark with moisture. "He told me that one would live to tell of his great deeds. That day I took my first blood oath." A mixture of pride and disgust filled her words. "I swore on every one of their tomb stones that Hidaka would pay for what he'd done. I was nine years old…"
Prixa sniffed trying to rid her eyes of more tears. "Listen to me cry over spilt milk. Like I said, it was a long time ago." She tried to brush it off but Kurama caught her chin in his hand forcing her to look at him.
"Even so, I understand that it still hurts. Your pain is no less imposing than Cho's is, even if it is longer lived." He assured regaining his seriousness momentarily.
"Yeah but you don't see Cho making water works every time she talks about it now do you? She can control herself at least." Prixa argued, more tears falling unstoppably.
"Quite the contrary actually," Kurama corrected gently. "Hiei said that when he first found her, Cho was in pieces, sobbing in the rain." He informed finding the dreamy; self amused state again, slumping back against a pillow.
"Wow," Prixa blinked slowly a few times. "I've never seen Cho anything other than uncaring or pissed. I guess that's how she does it then," The kitsune thought out loud. "She convinces the world that she doesn't give a damn so no one will know how she feels."
"This isn't necessarily a good thing. Keep to your self to long and you'll end up like Hiei, prickly and unsociable." Both foxes laughed as Kurama poked fun at their little friend.
"Well I'm glad Cho finally has someone. I can't see what makes Hiei particularly alluring, but he seems to be good for her and…"
Prixa had been so busy talking that she didn't even know what hit her until she saw Kurama's face in front of hers, his lips pressed against hers with a fierce softness that gave her goose bumps. It lasted a short moment before he broke it, but only withdrew a centimeter or so to speak.
"And what about you," He asked seductively. He ran his tongue along her bottom lip begging for entry. "Can I be good for you?" His words sent chills down her spine and she inhaled a slow quivering breath, her body alight with excitement.
"Hmm," Prixa thought finally returning the favor and practically tackled Kurama as she kissed him back with enough force to push him back against the pillows. "Maybe we won't regret the drinking in the morning!"
Boy had she been wrong…
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"Rise and shine Tantei!!!" Botan's voice rang through the apartment with no heed of its sleeping occupants. Kurama opened his eyes groggily and squinted at his surroundings. Every part of his body tingled as though it were waking up and his head buzzed sharply.
"Good morning Cho, Hiei!" He heard Botan through the walls separating the girls' rooms as though she were talking directly into his ear and cringed. Then the bathroom door connecting the two rooms flung open and the blue-nette came prancing into Prixa's room as well.
"Good morning my little love-birds," She chirped making Kurama's head pound. "Up and at 'um! Koenma's got a new assignment for you!" Prixa's tail flicked to one side and brushed against Kurama's leg reminding him with a jolt that she was there.
"Come on, chop-chop!" Botan exclaimed exiting the room in leaps and bounds as though she had not been throwing shots back the night before like the rest of them.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me," Prixa moaned from under the pillow she had pressed over her head to block off the ferry girl's unwelcome voice.
It took them a few tries to clamber out of the bed and another ten minutes for Prixa to find a shirt to wear as they both realized dully that she wasn't wearing one anymore. Kurama panicked shortly at the lack of memory as to how she had become shirtless but stopped shortly after when it made his head spin. "She's not worried about it, so apparently nothing happened," He reasoned to himself as they congregated in the living room with the others.
Cho and Hiei were sitting in the window seat together while Yusuke and Kuwabara each occupied a pap azan, each giving their own take on the "living dead" hangover act.
"Remind me again why we're here," Kuwabara asked weakly holding his head in his hands.
"I told you guys that Koenma had a new assignment for you last night silly!" Botan replied cheerfully.
"Was that before or after we consumed large amounts of alcohol?" Hiei inquired with less force then usual looking as though speaking to loud might do him in.
"Before of cour…" Botan stopped mid sentence and stared blankly at the fire youkai before giggling sheepishly.
"You forgot didn't you?" Yusuke asked exasperatedly. Botan twiddled her thumbs nervously as the room let out a collective sigh. Usually some one would give out to her now for being such an air head but no one was in the mood to even try.
"Um, well, what I was supposed to tell you last night," Botan continued, "Was that Lord Enma has been sensing unusual demon energy coming from a district a few miles from here." She then continued to relay instructions while the rest of the group struggled to listen to her words, Kurama, though usually the most intent listener found himself staring at his shoes through dazed eyes.
"I fell asleep next to a gorgeous kitsune and I didn't even take my shoes off," A thought dully. "Now that's depressing!"
"Ah," an unwelcome voice purred in the back of his mind, "Suiichi the saint has a new love interest… how amusing." Youko chuckled.
"Shut up," Kurama snapped back willing his other self to go away.
"Well, well. Is she a boring human like you?" Youko inquired slyly. "Obsessive compulsive and quiet, or maybe something a little more…" Kurama's gaze fell involuntarily on Prixa who was perched on the arm of the futon a few feet away concentrating on their orders. "Exciting." Youko whispered taking in Prixa's form hungrily. Kurama could feel Youko's excitement fuel his own and blushed furiously.
"So we'll meet in the park in an hour." Yusuke's voice ripped Kurama's focus back to the room. "That should give everyone time to shower and change and everything," He explained. Kurama was relived that he wouldn't have to listen to Youko anymore and was the first one out the door when the meeting adjourned.
His mind was suspiciously quiet as Kurama drove home wondering if Youko would be a problem in the future. Then he suddenly realized over the dull ach in his head, "I wonder what we're supposed to be doing today."
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A/N: I love messing with Kurama. To me he seems to be the person who never looses his cool until someone embarrasses him, then he's all hot and bothered for days on end; the cute, awkward sort. lol I'm gonna have way too much fun with him! XD
Can I get some props here!?! lmao. I did it, I did it, I did it!!!! My first chapii in ages. Every one should clap for me on this one! I still update even though I've crossed I donno how many time zones, and an ocean!!! I think I deserve a cookie! XD PLEAZ review for this one! I went through hell and high waters to get it to you, so you better have enjoyed damn it!!! lol. I keed, I keed! But anyways, greetings from Ireland and all that jazz now go review! Pleaz? #
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