Youkai Orpheus

Chapter 13- Home again, Home again

They were checked out of there hotel and inside of the train within the next couple of hours. After the wolf tribe had escaped they had to report back to Koenma, explaining everything that had happened with the wolf tribe. Apparently they all escaped, minus Grubby, who they found in one of the boxes, well his body anyways. His head was still missing. They tried to keep the whole meeting as objective as possible, but Hiei went and blurted out the fact that Luther was now obsessed with Kurama and that he had tried to strangle him once. Incidentally, Koenma's entire mood changed and he was anxious to get them out of France and back to Japan as soon as possible, he didn't say why but he obviously knew something that they did not. When they tried to question him about it he simply said that it was for everyone's safety... his eyes were on Kurama when he said it.

In other news, Hiei and Kurama had been much more civil with each other over the past couple of hours; but they still hadn't admitted their feelings for each other. You see, after Hiei had kissed Kurama he was 100 percent prepared to tell Kurama how he felt, but the two buzz-kills had to walk in and ruin the moment. Kurama didn't speak much to Hiei after that, since he was required to put on some kind of "objective" facade for his friends and Koenma; but Hiei did see a couple of light smiles play across his lips when he thought no one was watching. But, Hiei was watching, he was always watching and when he claimed Kurama as his own he would never have to stop.

Now, they were on the train again, trekking back to a portal of some sort so that they could get home. Hiei and Kurama were sitting across from each other almost like the first time they traveled to Paris, almost a month ago, but now they were alone.

Hiei glanced outside the window. His palms were sweaty, his throat was scratchy and his heart was beating rapidly. He didn't know how to start this up, this was the first time that he had been alone with him since he kissed him over an hour ago. He desperately wanted to tell him why but the nervousness was starting to set in, the moment wasn't right anymore. It was right an hour ago when they were in the room, Hiei had just heroically saves Kurama's life and there Kurama was tied up to a chair looking as vulnerable as ever... it was absolutely perfect. But, now they were on a noisy, bumpy, dirty and ugly train... it wasn't going to work. But, on the other hand, they had had a deal! When this mission was over they were going to tell each other how they felt. It was over now.

Hiei glanced at Kurama, who was looking down at his fingers as he tapped them together, he was breathing oddly hard and his face seemed like it would forever be stuck in a deep frown. Hiei sat up in his chair, he didn't want Kurama to frown, he had kissed him a couple of hours ago; he wasn't supposed to be sad, he was supposed to be have that happy grin on his face.

"Fox..." Hiei mumbled with a hint of indifference in his voice.

Kurama attentively looked at Hiei with a small frown on his face. "Yes, Hiei?"

Hiei scrunched his nose, he couldn't say it, not yet. He turned his attention away from the red head and before shaking his head, symbolizing that there was nothing that he wanted to say.

Kurama nodded silently, smiled softly at Hiei and resumed his playing with his nails. Hiei glanced at Kurama, there was something wrong.

"Kuram--" Hiei began.

"It was all my fault."

Hiei raised his right eyebrow and awkwardly placed his hand on his knee. "Kurama, I don't--"

"Everything was my fault. If only I was smarter, maybe I could have stopped all of this before it started."

"Don't worry about it, it's all over now."

Kurama shook his head as Hiei spoke with a distressing look on his face. "No, it's not... Grubby, he..." Kurama stopped and sighed while punching the top of his hand with his other balled up fist.

Hiei glanced down to his toes and sighed angrily. "Kurama, he was evil. He was going to have to get killed sooner or later, whether it was by me or Yusuke or Kuwabara or you. Don't feel bad about that slime getting what he deserved!" Hiei shouted, his voice wasn't angry like it should have been.

Kurama's next sigh was sounded broken to Hiei. "No, you don't understand..." He was barely audible.

Hiei looked at Kurama closer, his eyes were glazed over and he sniffled. "Don't cry, fox."

Green eyes glanced outside of the window, he didn't allow any tears to fall. "Everything that happened to him was my fault! I caused it."

"What happened to you when you were there?"

Kurama shrugged, he just barely remembered what happened when he was there, he remembered how he'd gotten there and he remembered what happened when he woke up. But, there was something in between that was blurred in his memory; Kurama sighed and shook his head. "I don't remember much..."

Hiei scratched his eyebrow in frustration. "What the hell do you remember?"

Kurama, who was unfazed by Hiei's blistered tone, simply rested his chin on his palm. "I remember Luther tricking me into getting there...and I remember what happened to Grubby... I remember what Luther did."

Hiei inwardly growled at the sound of Luther's name and he was about to scold Kurama for the use of it, but he noticed the tears that were still in Kurama's eyes. "What did Luther do?"

"He choked me and he killed Grubby." Kurama said objectively as he rubbed the side of his face. Then he thought he might have remembered something, something that Luther had given to him the first time that he'd woken up, it was some kind of blu-- Kurama suddenly felt a slight shock run through his body and up to his head, he managed to hide the pain from Hiei, but it's not like it was that painful... but it was just enough to make him forget that last thought.

Hiei rested his head on the window sill and gazed outside the train window. There was a long pause, neither of them wanting to say anything because Hiei didn't want to offend Kurama and Kurama was busy having thoughts about Grubby's last moments. "Why did he kill him?"

Kurama's eyes fell deeper to the floor, Hiei noted the guilty look on his face but he didn't comment on it; he would rather Kurama tell him what was on his mind his own. "It was a stupid reason, you would be so disgusted."

"Disgusted with Lut-- that wolf?"

Kurama shook his head. "No, with me."

Hiei wrinkled his eyebrows and removed his head from the window sill. He peered closer at Kurama and looked at him accusingly. "What did you do?"

Kurama nervously glanced back at Hiei and after seeing the stern accusing look on his face, he guiltily dropped his eyes back down to the floor beneath his feet. "Promise you won't laugh."

Hiei scowled. "Fox, this is serious... why would I laugh?"

"Luther caught Grubby and I -you know- making out."

Hiei stared at him dumb-founded for a moment. Kurama tensed up, what if Hiei was mad at him, he took his head out of his palms and began to fiddle with his fingers again out of nervousness. Hiei continued staring for a while before breaking out into a rumbustious fit of laughter. Kurama looked at Hiei, his eyes etched with confusion and a bit of relief. He took a deep breath before joining him in his laughter; They continued in their simultaneous laughter for a couple more seconds before it died down to light, quick snickers.

"Hiei, you promised not to laugh," Kurama continued snickering but he was able to wipe the stony tears from his eyes because of his new found good mood. "I should hit you for that!"

Hiei chuckled comically before wiping his eye from the tears that threatened to fall because of all of that laughter. "How did you do it? You're always telling me that the way he smells makes you queasy."

Kurama snorted. "I just held my breath and let him do his dirty work."

"What made you do that?"

"I don't know, I had to get out of there some how. And he kind of promised to spring me if I agreed to sleep with him after he got me out... but, he needed proof that I was going to do it."

Hiei snickered. "Well, what would you have done if he did get you out of there?"

Kurama pouted theatrically. "I don't know. I think I was planning to ask you to defend my honor."

Hiei stopped snickering and frowned. "I'm really sorry Kurama..."

Kurama's laughter died down as well and he smiled pleasantly at his friend. "About what, it's not like you did anything."

"I didn't kill Luther like I was supposed to, I wanted to chop his head off, not possibly sever his arm."

Kurama dismissed his thought with a wave of the hand. "Don't worry about it Hiei, it's not like it was your fault. There were so many odds stacked against you, I'm kind of impressed that you weren't killed in the fight." Hiei made a disgruntled face, that quickly made Kurama speak up again. "Think about it, you had me constantly distracting you, the thought of another demon coming into the room and stopping you, and that weapon that Luther had. That thing was distracting, I know from personal experience that it's hard to concentrate with that in the room... not to mention how weak it can make you feel."

Hiei sighed angrily and began to rub his knee. "I don't care, I want him dead."

Kurama shrugged and sighed happily. "Well, there's nothing to we can do now."

"That wolf is out there in the world somewhere, he could come and get you at anytime because I couldn't kill him when I was supposed to. He should be dead or in jail right now, not--"

Kurama reached out in the small gap between the chairs and placed his hand on Hiei's knee before smiling. "Look Hiei, if he does come after me I'll be sure to tell you. And we'll handle him together, I promise." Kurama snatched his hand off of Hiei's knee awkwardly and placed his hand on his lap and smiled.

Hiei felt his face growing hot for the second time in the last two hours. What was his fox doing to him? Hiei rested his head on the window sill again, only this time his eyes were on Kurama and not on what was outside the window, maybe this was the perfect time...

Kurama's shy awkward face changed almost immediately in front of Hiei's eyes and was replaced with a sly smirk. "So... you kissed me earlier."

Hiei's face grew even hotter and his eyes shot to to outside of the window again, moment ruined. "Yeah, I did."

Kurama smiled and nodded. "Yeah, you did." Kurama glanced at the roof of the train with and comically exhaled. "So, was there a reason why you did it?"

A smile played on Hiei's lips, one that he had no hope of suppressing, he turned his attention to Kurama and nodded. "Yeah..."

Kurama bit down on his bottom lip before leaning up in his chair and slightly parting his legs. "Would you like to do it again?"

Hiei looked at Kurama with a hint skepticism in his eyes. This was not the time, he couldn't help but think that the timing still wasn't right, he couldn't tell Kurama his feeling yet; but, that doesn't mean that he couldn't get a little taste of something that someone as lowly as Grubby got to sample.

Hiei stood from the chair and sauntered over to Kurama, who was still sitting down and slowly parting his legs as Hiei moved closer. When he was only a couple of inches away from Kurama, the red head roughly grabbed Hiei by the hips and moved him quickly to meet Kurama's lips with his own. Hiei, who was a little bit surprised by the action, chuckled into Kurama's mouth for his anxiousness; then he began kissing the man back. Kurama, who had been a little shocked by his actions too, let his hands fall from Hiei's hips and down onto his own lap. The crimson eyed man wanted to laugh at Kurama again, but he was too wrapped in the hot kiss that Kurama had pulled him into. He snaked his fingers through the ruby-red hair belonging to his current kissing companion and deepened the kiss.

Kurama moved up a little bit more in the seat, the sensitive area between his legs brushed up against Hiei's leg, prompting a moan to escape his lips and go into Hiei's. Hiei noticed the sudden contact and began to teasingly rub his leg on the area between Kurama's long legs. The jade-eyed man moaned into Hiei's mouth before placing his hand on Hiei's toned chest and running it down to his stomach and finally to Hiei's "sensitive area". Neither of the two could believe that this was actually happening, they were kissing each other; they were both full participants. They would've jumped for joy if they weren't already busy getting ready to jump each other.

Hiei tightened his grip in Kurama's hair and broke the kiss, much to the confusion of his counterpart. Hiei sucked in his breath, he knew what he was going to say. He was going to be his normal blunt self and tell Kurama how he felt; now, if only he could get this uncomfortable feeling to go away. Kurama's continued frowning and moved his hand from Hiei's crotch and Hiei removed his leg from Kurama's.

Kurama smiled shyly and began to speak. "So, why'd you stop. Were you nervous?"

Hiei's rolled his eyes and snarled. "No, I was not nervous," Hiei said firmly before stroking the top of Kurama's head. "Listen, I have something to tell y--"

It was the perfect moment, they were alone, in a train compartment, mere inches away from each other and they were both horny. How could it have gotten more perfect? How could this moment be ruined? Oh yeah, now I remember.

"Hey guys!"

Hiei inwardly growled as he chanted to himself, 'No, no, no damn it all, no!'. Who would have thought that just when he was ready to tell Kurama everything that was in that black abyss that he called his heart, they would show up. Hiei glanced to the side only to see his two 'partners' standing there with awkward and goofy grins on their faces. He glanced at Kurama, whose face was redder than a over-ripe apple, Kurama did his best to return their smiles but it really wasn't working, it came out as a lopsided grin.

"What the hell are you guys doing in here?" Hiei shouted. He untangled his hand from Kurama's hair and took a couple of steps back until the back of his legs were touching his seat.

"Sorry to walk in on your groove, but we needed somewhere to go. The people that we're sharing our compartment with are total squares, all they do is talk and talk and talk and talk..." Yusuke trailed off, and then began speaking again. "Anyways, we were wondering if we could spend the rest of the ride in here with you guys."

"Absolutely no--" Hiei began.

Kurama cut him off quickly. "Sure, I don't see why not. Just go get you stuff."

Kuwabara and Yusuke gave him a thumbs up and then they left again.

Hiei shot Kurama a severe glare before roughly hitting his seat again and turning to look out the window; only Kurama would pass up train sex for something as meager friends.

The green eyed man smiled at Hiei when he saw the expression that he gave him. Kurama leaned down a bit in his seat and began whispering, "Hiei... meet me back at my house later on today-or tonight- whatever it will be when we get back. I think it'll be more comfortable that way, and more private if I can get my family to go out somewhere."

Kurama arrived home sometime in the afternoon. It was an uneventful homecoming, they spent their time asking how his trip was and what did he see while he was in Europe. Kurama, being the natural liar that he is, simply made things up as he went along, though he did manage to contradict himself at least twice. But, other than that everything was fine; his mother wanted to make him a big dinner in celebration of his homecoming, but Kurama suggested that he was way too tired to have eat. She prompted, but Kurama kept refusing, he didn't want to miss a second with Hiei. After his mother had finally decided that it would be best if he did get some rest, Kurama tried to convince his entire family to go to the movies or something and celebrate without him. Now, it was their turn to refuse; they didn't want to leave him here all by himself on his first day back and Kurama completely understood how they felt. But, he had to get them out of there before Hiei came, they were really going to need some privacy. It took a lot of convincing, but he did manage to get them out of the house and to the grocery store because of their lack of his favorite food for the big welcome home dinner that he had to change his mind about.

Kurama patiently waited on his bed in his room, the window was wide open and it brought in an awkward chill, but Kurama persevered, Hiei would be there soon.

The red-haired man removed himself from his bed and walked toward his closet, goodness, he had never been this nervous before. What was Hiei going to say? What was he going to say? Well, he knew for certain that when he saw Hiei he was going to tell him that he loved him, but what about Hiei? It was probably going to be along the lines of the same thing... but, you can never be too sure. Kurama huffed angrily, before shuffling through his closet. When Kurama found something that he thought he would feel comfortable in for the night he began to change. He had barely gotten the pants half of his pajamas on when he heard a very familiar voice from behind him.

"So, you're already taking your clothes off," Kurama's head snapped back, only to see that it was the man that he'd been waiting all night for, Hiei. "I didn't know you were that anxious to get started."

Kurama smiled softly at Hiei and then turned away again as he put his shirt on. "I was beginning to believe that you weren't going to show." Kurama turned back around and buttoned his shirt as he spoke.

Hiei smirked and sat down on Kurama's bed; Kurama joined him shortly afterwards. Kurama laid down on his back and began to slowly speak. "What did you want to tell me earlier?"

Hiei rolled his eyes and laid back on Kurama's bed as well with his hands curved behind his head."...Promise you won't laugh."

Kurama chuckled and shook his head. "I can't make any promises, I will laugh if it's funny."

Hiei growled lowly. "Fine, then I'm not saying anything!"

Kurama smiled a bit and sat up on his elbow. "I'm sorry Hiei, go on, tell me; I promise I won't laugh."

Hiei glanced at Kurama for a while, he looked sincere enough; and if he wanted to get some before Kurama's parents got home he couldn't afford to be stubborn. Hiei opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't find the right words to express what he was feeling- and there was so much that he was feeling. Kurama seemed to wait patiently enough, he didn't speak a word to prompt Hiei, nor did he make impatient faces; he simply laid there on his elbow with the same curious and yet some how anxious look on his face.

Hiei opened his mouth again, his voice had come back luckily. "I- ummm- there's something I've been wanting to say to you for a while now. But, I can't..." Hiei trailed off. What could he say? He had never had to tell someone that he loved them before, hell, he just barely ever had to tell someone that he was fond of them. This was new to him.

Hiei went to open his mouth again but he was shushed by the feel of Kurama's soft finger being placed on his lips. "You don't have to stress yourself Hiei, I think I know what you're trying to say," With that said Kurama leaned down to Hiei's lips and placed a tender kiss on them; Hiei was not expecting that... well, at least he didn't have to say it now. Kurama pulled away within seconds of meeting Hiei's lips and smiled warmly at him. "And, I feel the same way."

Hiei smirked and lifted up in the same way that Kurama did before literally attacking him with his lips. Kurama squeaked in surprise, but he still kissed him back; he'd dreamed of this for so long, his dreams were finally coming true. The crimson eyed man moved one of his arms to the other side of Kurama and moved himself until he was on top of his kitsune; just like Kurama he could scarcely remember being this happy, it was hard to believe that all of the happenings of the past month led them to this. They had been so angry at each other, in Hiei's case it was to the point of wishing to commit bloody murder to his current companion; thank goodness he hadn't done it!

Kurama wrapped his arms around Hiei's back and pulled the fire demon a little bit closer not noticing that he was close enough already. Hiei used his knee to forcibly part Kurama's long legs, he was so excited, he was finally going to get what he had been waiting for. He was going to be able to claim his fox before anyone else is able to, especially that damn wolf! Hiei separated his lips from Kurama's and moved them down to Kurama's tasty neck, he began to suck on it gently, he heard all kinds of sounds coming from his green-eyed partner below him. This was going to be fun. Hiei began nibbling on Kurama's exposed neck before licking it again, making Kurama go crazy with the quick switches of pain to pleasure. Hiei ran his tongue down Kurama's neck, to his collarbone and all the way down to where his shirt was blocking.

Hiei fought the urge to rip the thing open with his teeth; instead he went did the patient thing and he unbuttoned each and every button individually, much to Kurama's dismay.

"Oh, come on Hiei, hurry up, my parents will be back any minute!" Kurama shouted.

Hiei snickered, who knew he could ever get Kurama to be hot and bothered. When Hiei freed his kitsune from the confounds of his shirt he ran his hand down Kurama's chest and finally down to the waist band of his pants. Kurama bit down on his bottom lip and bucked his hips up once, prompting Hiei to basically 'hurry the hell up!'. Hiei smirked mischievously, but decided that he wasn't going to mess with his fox any longer. Hiei began pulling the pants down when--

Honk Honk

Hiei's eyes shot up to Kurama irritation etched on his face. Kurama smiled sheepishly and shrugged.

"I told you my parents would be back soon."

Hiei growled angrily and slapped his hand on his forehead; he removed himself from on top of Kurama and stood a couple of inches away from him. "Damn it..."

"You can come back tomorrow, right?"

"I can't be too sure, Mukuro is probably pretty angry with me for going out missioning with you guys except for doing my real job. She might force me to stay a bit longer than a day." Hiei replied with a bit of malice in his voice.

Kurama chuckled and nodded, he lifted himself on both of his elbows this time and smiled. "Just get here when you can... oh, and make sure to take care of that hard thing in your pants by yourself. I don't want you going out cheating on me this early in the relationship." Kurama said, it was intended to be a joke but Hiei was sure that he sensed a little bit of seriousness in there.

He smirked and nodded. "Will do, I'll see you soon, my fox."

"See you soon, my love." Kurama cringed when he said those words, that's what that goofball Luther had called him back when they were going out... about a day ago.

He smiled at him and with one stiff wave he was out of the window. Kurama sighed dreamily and fell back on his bed, thank goodness that was all over with.

There's chapter 13 for you!

It was hard to write because I've been distracted all weekend, but, I did it!

Till next time. : )