Betrayal Games by Lesfriendly
Note from the author: Accckkk! Chapter 12... I can't believe it's come to this long! Do people like it? I wonder...
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Chapter 12: Dive
"Did you get what I asked you to?" Kurama asked, poking Hiei, waking the fire demon up.
"Hn," Hiei snorted at the fox. "It's there," he grumbled, pointing to a pile of rocks as he turned to his side, wanting to get some more sleep.
Kurama literally hopped to the rocks and sighed at the sight below him. Foxnip. He inhaled and the scent intoxicated him even more.
He grabbed the catnip and chomped into them, hungrily licking his chops.
"Kurama. Have you forgotten you're half human?" Hiei noted. The demon had quietly moved at the back of the fox, disturbed by the sounds he was making as Kurama chomped on the foxnip.
"Nnnn…" Kurama muttered, licking the last of the foxnip off his fingers. Hiei focused on the fingers and the mouth sucking them, wondering how such an animalistic action looked sensual when Kurama was doing it. Hiei's mind almost wandered off into that one night he & Kurama had, when he experienced those mouth & fingers on his own body, when suddenly Kurama looked up at Hiei.
The fire demon hissed in surprise as he realized that he was suddenly looking at golden eyes. The fox ears seem to have suddenly sprouted up, too, and all of a sudden it was Youko Kurama in front of him.
"This?" Hiei said, eyeing the fox/kitsune with amazement. "This is your plan to steal Mukuro's heart? To grow fox ears and tails?"
Youko Kurama chuckled, his voice lower and, Hiei couldn't help noticing, scarier.
"Don't you like it?" Kurama said, wiggling his ears and caressing Hiei with his tail.
And a lot flirtier, Hiei noted mentally. He let the tail rub around his waist as the kitsune circled him.
"My plan is to seduce Mukuro until she points us to the right direction."
Hiei looked at Kurama. Can Mukuro be seduced with this thief? Who wouldn't? Hi-
"Hiei. I'm only kidding!"
Kurama collapsed back into a sitting position, laughing his head off.
"Fox. Did the snake poison affect your head?"
Kurama continued to laugh, but his laughter was now more for show. He hadn't told Hiei or Yusuke that he had woken up during the poison-flushiing session, and they seemed to have an agreement to put on a show too – they told Kurama that Kuwabara has saved his life by running to the ningen town and finding an antidote.
It was just as well. He wasn't sure if he was ready for a confrontation.
"Hiei, Hiei. Let me explain," Kurama said.
"Let me get this straight," Kuwabara said. The four of them have gathered inside a cave and were plotting out their plan. More like, Kurama was telling them his plan. "You're older than Mukuro?"
"He's older than the Makai kingdoms," Hiei mentioned.
"Hai, dear Kazuma-san. I was born even before there was some sort of order into this world."
It was Yusuke's turn to voice out his amazement. "Wow. You're a grandpa."
Kurama chuckled. "A grandpa who's going to save all of your asses with this mission."
"Exactly, how?" Yusuke asked, growing more interested.
"Mukuro can detect everything and anything that goes on in the Makai. But she can only detect those who submit to her power. That includes all plants, all trees, all creatures, including me, Yusuke and Kuwabara," Hiei offered, enjoying the logic.
"I don't submit to Mukuro's power!" exclaimed Kuwabara. Yusuke nodded. "Neither do I."
"You do, even unknowingly. Yusuke, your father recognizes Mukuro's power and third of the kingdom, so you do acknowledge her reign, even unconsciously, since you and your father are bonded by ki. Kuwabara, being entirely human, has no choice but to submit. It is Makai law that any human who enters here be subject to the rule of the three lords, depending on his location," Kurama explained.
"But you, you're not under Mukuro's reign?" Yusuke asked, eyeing his fox suspiciously.
"No. Neither of the other two lords. They cannot reign over a creature who has existed long before they or their powers did."
"That can't be right. If not, there could be a whole community of old subversives out here in Makai who could escape Mukuro's notice!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"Not really. Until I turned youko, everything was under Mukuro's reign," Kurama explained smugly. He put his hands on his waist and waited for Yusuke and Kuwabara to reply.
"Holy shit! So that means…" Yusuke's eyes widened.
"That means Youko Kurama is the oldest creature here in Makai. The only one who has survived from before the reign of the three lords."
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