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I'm so sorry it took so long for me to update writer's block is such a bitch, and writing the concluding chapters is very difficult for me. Thank you for your patience and your reviews. I hope you enjoy chapter 14!

Terms you should know:

Onnakyodai no Makai: Sister Makai

Kiyomeru: Purifying or to purify

Doku: Poison

Slanted words like this: Blackfoxxess

Mean the person is thinking

Chapter XIV

-The King of Thieves is Legendary Even in the Onnakyodai no Makai-

Karasu's Dreamscape…

"I hate you Karasu." Kurama expressed darkly struggling to get away.

"No, no you don't fox; you don't mean what you say." Karasu denied and assured a defenseless redheaded Kurama laid out on the bridal room bed. "We are right back were we started. I didn't wish to show you my cruel side, but you left me no choice in the matter. You brought this upon yourself."

"Bastard!" Kurama declared sitting up "I don't recall asking to be pinioned with shackles."

"Hush…" The crow cooed, pushing away a few red tresses from Kurama's face "Though you detest your bindings they're necessary." Karasu whispered softly into the redhead's ear his tongue slid down to the Crow's mark leaving a visible trail of saliva behind. "I don't want you running off on me again."

"Apprehensive fiend…" Kurama spat turning his head away trying to free himself from the shackles behind his back.

Even though all of these events were mere fabrications in the crow's psyche, his fantasy felt so real to him. The foreseen way he would have his way the rare spirit fox; crimson haired, naked, and restrained with tight shackles to give the proud fox a sense of helplessness. He could almost feel the she-devil's wrists between them. With them, he would teach his rebellious lover a lesson.

"Don't fight" Karasu insisted shadowing over his prize jerking the chains roughly to give warning. "You of all people should know when you are beaten." The obsessed demon lord put his hand on the angry demoness' cheek and stroked her lips with his thumb. A growl escaped from Kurama's lips Karasu responded with a loving smile. "Those cup lock shackles are lockless so there is nothing for you to pick at. I suspected a being like you is gifted with various abilities. In addition, they're made from phoenix steel the strongest metal my country produces. So stop your struggling, or do you like being hurt? Are you in to that sort of thing Nushi? Then tying you to the bed post will make things more interesting…"

Kurama gave the crow demon a look that would instantly peel the flesh off any human's face. "You're nothing more than a degenerate beast… you don't feel love within that dark heart of yours it's nothing but a hollow shell."

With Kurama's last word, Karasu violently fastened him to the bed.

"You have such an insolent mouth on you even when you're conquered, but I guess living a nomadic existence has caused you to forget the nature of the world especially the yokai's. Conversely, it could be your human blood at work too." He applied more pressure to his hold "You've forgotten the defeated obey the victorious and the strong control the weak. This is the number one rule of any Makai, no of any world. You've disregarded this ultimate law of the world. Like humans, demons are best controlled with supremacy and you are no exception from this rule and yet… that very same insolence is what makes me love you." His grip loosened "You're the only woman I've ever loved and I won't let you leave my side. After my incident with Ama, I started to loathe her and all other women. In my eyes, they and Ama were alike. Until I met you, I never thought I would love a woman in this lifetime. When I first saw you, I craved to make you mine in both body and mind. That so very familiar face of yours gave me a strange ease and a sensation of rapture."

"Incident with Ama?..." Kurama looked up mystified finally able to get a word in.

"Yes…" Karasu responded. He stopped pinning Kurama to the bed with his hands and started removing his own shirt throwing it aside. "But despite all my effort and methods to woo you like a gentleman, you continued to brush me and my affections aside like compost. You claim I have no heart that it's dark but you just don't understand me." Pants were thrown to the side in impatience. Karasu placed his left pointer finger above Kurama's heart to feel it pulse. "However, you will I'll make sure of it. I'll use my body as an instrument to make you understand."

"Stop this!" The jade-eyed demon implored reddening in mortification, rubbing against the raven-haired demon's fully erected member. The testosterone intoxicated demon broke the skin above Kurama's heart. With the blood, he wrote the kanji symbol for love.

"I have the divine right to choose whom I want as a mate and I want you." He licked the kitsune's blood off his finger. "I'll have you and make my mark on you permanent; if forcing myself on you is the only way to make you understand I love you…so be it."

Kurama raised his leg to ward off the demon lord's advances but he caught it. "Stop this!"

Karasu bent down to make eye contact with the unwilling fox. "You will never leave my side from now on your only home is with me. I can give things most people only dream about."

"This isn't love!"

"Love comes in many different forms. Don't question mine…" Karasu whispered before engaging in sexual intercourse with the redhead.

"HNNG!"

Kurama's scream of first penetration woke Karasu up from his dream. He sat up heavily panting, both happy and disappointed it was mere fantasy. Ever since his first encounter with the fox demon he'd been having them each time he would wake up aroused even though in most of the dreams Kurama was male.

"How strange…" he murmured, "Would I still love my fox if she was a man?"

After taking frustration out on Kurotori, Karasu found comfort in laying unclothed in the bridal room bed inhaling Kurama's dissipating scent. Karasu groaned in delight he relished in the way his body felt. Just between the kitsune's bodily aroma and his fantasy, he had reached his arousal peak the erection the lust that had built up within him was nearly unmanageable.

"What a curse it is to be a man." Karasu smiled "After one experience you're addicted to sex as if it were a narcotic and just like a narcotic it's almost impossible to stop craving it..."

-Monkey Village-

She-Yoko just stared at the little monsters that were at the root of the long nightmarish ordeal. Hiei grunted in disgust at the sight of them, having to bargain with them to correct their own wrongdoings. He wished he could cut off the older monkey's fingers one by one because being ripped open from the inside out by a demonic plant just didn't fit the crime.

"My misfortune isn't over yet. This is all an act being played out by the cornered beast." Yoko whispered to herself, locking golden eyes onto the bowing enemy "A cornered beast is a desperate one, sneaky and in the decisive moment of weakness he tries one last thing to make the situation his. I do not know what these demons are planning but I'm prepared should they attempt anything foolish, however earlier affairs must attended to first."

She-Yoko got up from the floor and turned towards her love interest.

"Problem?" Hiei asked from the shadows.

"No, but I've been giving this female body a considerable amount of consideration." The silver kitsune stroked the frame of her physique suggestively avoiding eye contact. "It's unmistakable why you're keeping your distance, and perhaps this tribulation is a blessing in disguise; maybe sign."

"Your making as much sense a Kuwabara and that's never a good sign."

"Then I'll articulate." Yoko took a few steps forward Hiei took a step back, "I love you."

"Hn, didn't we already have this conversation? I told you then I'll tell you now we're merely partners nothing more and nothing less."

"Yes, but we never finished that conversation you ran off and didn't let me conclude what I needed to say to you. Was it because I was a man Hiei? Was being loved by another man feel wrong to you? Was it immoral?"

"Now you're just talking nonsense fox and even if you were to stay the way you are now it wouldn't change a thing between us so just hurry up and drink the antidote so we can get out of here."

"Wouldn't it Hiei…" A vulpine smile spread across the vixen's lips "Than why the hurry to turn me back fire demon? You casted off my affections did you think you couldn't love a man the same way you love woman?"

"Just…drink the …potion Kurama." He panted between gritted teeth.

"But now I stand before you the complete opposite and this whole time you've lusting after my new sex." She took a few steps forward.

Hiei turned his head. "Hn, don't flatter yourself fox."

"That erection of yours is all the flattery I need from you." She-Yoko pointed, taking the last steps forward

Hiei's panting quickened as space decreased between them, it was apparent the fire yokai had never been around a female in heat. He didn't know how the female version of his friend got them both on the floor, but now she was straddling his hips.

"Hiei just listen…"

"Get…off…" Was all Hiei managed to huff in embarrassment giving a small push to the kitsune chest. "I thought you said you would never become Yoko Kurama again at the demon tournament." He stated trying get off subject.

"Yes, well…" She-Yoko looked to the side for a moment remembering the Kiyomerupowder episode back the castle, and then turned his eyes back on Hiei. "Isn't this the way I should be? Isn't this the way I looked before being tainted by those humans." She smiled rephrasing a comment he had said about Yoko Kurama during the Dark Tournament.

"Hn."

Hiei did possess the physical strength to throw female Yoko off if he wasn't fighting with his own body and mind. His eyes wandered all over the hoary demoness' bare petite body, he couldn't determine whether to throw her off him or to make love to her. Unconsciously his hands found their way into the kitsune tresses. Female whimpers of arousal only encouraged the second option.

"Oh, Hiei…"

The scene of seduction was concealed from Niisan and Ototosan who had been pushed aside like unwanted children by the high-class demons. However, the sounds that reached their ears were questionable and spurred on innate monkey curiosity. Hiei's low grimace of arousal heard from the darkness made their minds wonder and wander. Niisan stopped his brother when he tried to get a closer look.

"Ototo no don't get closer I know you want a better look, but no."

"Brother are they-?" Ototo blushed at the thought

Niisan shook his head "There seems to be some sort of conflict on one side…and if they do mate I'll make things more complex, but I'm not in the position to stop them…Just, just behave okay?"

"Okay"

Distracted by their guests the two brothers didn't notice someone encroaching behind them…

-Somewhere in the Woods-

"Damned fox demon…" a female voice hissed, "I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE YOU WHORISH VAGABOND! YOU-YOU HARLOT! You made the mistake of leaving the castle Karasu cannot protect you out here! I'll find you yet, and devour you whole then I'll send you back to Lord Karasu in a form that best suits you."

It was Ama and wandering the woods did nothing to calm her temper she was ready to kill anyone or anything in her way.

"The river may have thrown me off but your scent trail is clear now just you wait I'll find you yet you feral fox! I'll find you and the thing that will assure my domination over this world in that miserable village. Yes, I'll find you soon enough!…I'll find you… I'll find you…I'll find you…I'll find you…

-Crow's Castle-

CLUNK! Bad vibes ran down Karasu's spine causing him to drop the shackles he had custom made for Kurama upon her return.

"Ugh, what the hell was I thinking?" He lectured himself getting up, "Ama and Kurama are out there and Kurotori is far past his prime, both of them could slice through the old man like lard. There isn't a doubt in my mind that Kurama could destroy Ama but being in heat is a factor to consider weakening her Ama without a doubt will take advantage of Kurama's situation."

Quickly throwing on clothes and grabbing the shackles, he headed out.

"I can't chance that to happen. It's time I went on a fox hunt."

-Monkey Village-

"J-Jaganshi…not so rough… in way I'm still a virgin." She-Yoko implored sounding like an innocent youth.

Kurama I don't, we don't have… time for this." Hiei panted losing the control he had over his body partially intoxicated on female hormones. Hands continued to comb through silver tresses despite the order he'd given them to stop.

"Hiei," The false female whispered capturing one of the fire demon's hands, putting it against her own cheek, "I'd relinquish everything I've gained in human world to be with you, my lifestyle, the identity Shuuichi Minamino, and my existence as a male demon."

"Don't be a fool." The master swordsman demanded trying to break free from the spell the kitsune had over him.

She-Yoko pressed their chests together. "I love you." She-Yoko confessed again making direct eye contact. Hiei's anger and frustration came to the surface.

"DAMN IT KURAMA, I don't have time for your declarations of love, this isn't the time or the place! I don't need or want you as a mate, a lover, or partner, who's smitten with me like a horny schoolgirl! I don't love you! The only woman I love is Muku-!"

Yoko pulled away before Hiei could finish or realize what he'd said. Bullion and crimson eyes locked on to each other. The expression on the She-Yoko's face stopped Hiei from continuing, it felt as if an emotional bond had broken. A sliver of guilt entered the hardened demon's soul. His rage subsided replaced with concealed lust feeling himself become agonizingly roused. It seemed the more emotion pain he inflected the greater his sexual urge become.

"You're such a pain in the ass…" He mumbled, "If you tell anybody about this I'll kill you."

The always-alert fox taken was by surprise when the fire apparition crushed their lips together. This was the only way Hiei could think of to atone. Yoko accepted gently grasping the younger demon's head between clawed hands for more control. Hiei growled in annoyance trying to maintain his already high level of stimulation around a master of seduction. A moan of disappointment slipped when Yoko stopped.

"You've been eating humans?"

"HN, what of it, if I were to spit them back out could you bring them back to life?"

"Could you force someone to love you? Can I force you to love me?..." She-Yoko dismounted "I cannot especially since your heart already belongs to another."

"Hn." The fire demon looked away from the vixen's face, she knew that the Koorime was in love with Mukuro and nothing within the legendary demon's power could change that reality.

"Hiei even though you love another my feelings for you will never become tainted with hate, jealousy, or rage. I want you to be happy even if you're sharing your life with another."

"Pity Karasu doesn't have the same standpoint in regards to you. Not only did he send out men to track you, he's out here himself looking for you. He won't easily surrender his precious fox. That mark on your neck is prove of that."

"…Yes, well ridding me of his mark is a simple matter… Covering up my tracks won't suffice I must destroy every trace of my existence in this sister Makai and every memory of myself but-?"

SMASH!

Breaking glass, redirected She-Yoko's concerns as the older twin fell lifelessly to the ground the 'antidote' he was holding was now useless the problem of becoming a male again had reoccurred, escaping Karasu would be more difficult in She-Yoko's eyes. A demon that Hiei had failed to detect had struck a blow to the back of Niisan's skull causing him to drop the glass vile and had consequently done the vixen a favor.

"You're that old man from before!" Ototo pointed in shock.

"Aye," he shrugged poking the unconscious demon on the floor

"Why did you kill my brother!"

"Nigh, you're mistaken young one I've shown your brother mercy. It's too late for him now the Death Plant growing throughout his body has reached its final stages of maturity and will flower soon. Even if the person who planted it were here right now, even they couldn't remove it. Your brother will die at least this way he won't…yawn… be in much pain."

"Too bad the same can't be said about your death old man." Hiei uttered sensing something amiss about the third monkey demon. He'd scouted this entire village and found no sign of inhabitance so where did this old man come from? Whomever he was red-eyed demon felt, he had to perish for breaking the only available 'antidote'.

"Who are ye?" the old demon squinted looking into the darkness.

"That is the least of your worries." The Dragon of the Darkness flame was clear in Hiei's eyes he would have killed the anonymous decrepit demon if he had hadn't said:

"A vassal to the Greenbeast?...I should have known. You've come to take control of our clan secret for your master no doubt. Well, good luck those seals are impossible to break."

"What?"

Or maybe you've made a pact with Kurotori come to take revenge in his place, either way you'll get nothing! The clan's already relocated and a miserable demon like you will never be able to break the sacred seals…"

"Vassal?" Hiei muttered

"Secret?" Ototo whispered

"Seals?" She-Yoko said revealing her face; the old man backed himself against a nearby wall on the floor. Ototo tossed the vixen some clothes (all white) the necklace from Karasu was slipped into a pocket.

"Hn…How could I have missed this loud mouthed old man? This place was a ghost town I would have surely sensed and heard him."

"Y-Yoko Kurama! It can't be, these old eyes are deceiving me. You're dead, you were killed on a night raid a long time ago yet you're right here in front of me. And what's even more unbelievable you are the one t-those two youths made drink master Doku's Seibetsu potion. Than they presented, you the King of Thieves to the King of the North as mate. D-Don't get me wrong now I must admit you extremely good for a woman…It's more suiting really and that scent of yours… You look worth the heart attack…"

"Who are you?" Yoko glared suspiciously "…He smells like rotting flesh and soil..."

"I'm what you could call a keeper and I'm stranded. I fell into a deep sleep; the village physician pronounced me dead and buried me alive. I found myself sleeping in my own grave and dug myself free. I assume between my death and two missing clansmen they took it as a bad omen and left before misfortune could befall them."

"What do you mean by 'stranded'?"

"What do you mean by secret?" Hiei interjected impatiently

"Aye, I am the keeper stranded here guarding my village's secret. Kurotori the old vulture has finally exacted his revenge by using our way of life to destroy us, the art of demon matching making is no more."

"I would hardly consider what your clan did an art form," Yoko argued "However why does Kurotori seek revenge."

"His motivation is simple we…match-maked the love of his life with his best friend the late lord of the Northern land. At the time we had no knowledge of this and presented her as a mate to our lord, he accepted, Kurotori lost the love of his life, and gained a deep hatred of my clan. He vowed revenge on us and our way of life and in doing so gave the Greenbeast that laid in wait an opportunity strike and take possession of our secret."

"Greenbeast?" Hiei said.

"Aye, if the Greenbeast gets it's hands on the village secret the monster will conquer the Onnakyodai no Makai without any hindrance and then nothing will stop it from invading Makai unless slain."

"Hiei I believe the 'Greenbeast' is a reference to an unpleasant woman named Ama who rules the southern lands of this Makai," She-Yoko explained "she departed from the North earlier so you're secret is safe from her Keeper. And be assured my friend is no servant of hers."

The old man sighed in relief of the fox demon's words.

"…However, after the entire ordeal your clan's put us through you have an obligation to tell us what that secret is."

"I can't…" Hiei began reaching for his sword "As the Keeper I'm forbidden to discuss it with outsiders."

"If you will not tell, then let's go see, shall we, Hiei?"

"Hn."

-Close by in the Woods-

"I'm coming for you fox; your stench is getting stronger like my appetite…"

-Monkey Village, Shed-

The storage shed covered with seals Yoko had ogled before with great suspicion stood before her and pleaded to be unsealed. She was about to remove the first seal when the mysterious old man shouted his warning.

"No stop those are first rate seals if you make one mistake in removing them you'll do damage your soul! It's bad enough the village idiot brought his unconscious brother along with him!"

"If my brother is going to die tonight he won't be alone, we were together in birth we'll be together in death."

Hiei stood with a clear distance a way keeping his eyes on all three monkey demons especially the aged one. Assuming he was about to try something underhanded. The fire demon couldn't place his finger on it but the Keeper's story just didn't seem right.

"Apparently old man you've forgotten my legacy… these seals are child's play to me. Stand clear." Yoko ordered

The elderly monkey did as told, and started a one sided conversation with the Jagan user during the seal removal.

"This is none of my business but, you seem to have feelings for the powerful fox demon even before the gender transformation."

There was no response.

"Yoko…is a very alluring creature. Beautiful, mysterious, and unearthly exotic and with the fox demon in heat it must add to your temptation, to your demon desires. You've managed to keep yourself contained behind an in control façade but how long can you keep that up?"

"If you wish to die keep talking old man…"

"Done." She-Yoko announced pushing the shed door open blue light poured out from within.

Ototosan shielded his eyes from the light not able to stand its intensity. "W-What is that?" Ototo asked.

To the kitsune's surprise, Hiei answered Ototosan's question.

"A portal you fool, a portal to Makai."

END CHAPTER

Yes, Kurama is still a woman I don't want to confuse you on this. And I found out a male fox is called a reynard…