From the Past

From the Past -Chapter One- New mission

"…" speech

'…'thoughts

Kurama and Hiei circled around the two opponents in the densely packed forest. They walked around, getting a good a glance as they could. Hiei had his katana out already, and Kurama just called out his rose whip. The two members on the opposite side started running, preparing to place their attacks. Hiei and Kurama ran forward fast, jumping right before they crashed into one another. Kurama's rose whip whipped the person fast but he immediately stood up. Hiei's katana missed his target by just a few.

Yusuke ran forward hand outstretched prepared to punch the demon. He dodged the attack, but his kicked landed on the demon's body. Kuwabara called out his rei ken sword and ran forward prepared to join the battle. Kuwabara fell when something lashed out at him, but he jumped up his chi growing higher. He lunged his sword; it fell into target when he realized it hit a tree instead.

Hiei withdrew his kantana when the enemies attacked him. He cut them, the blood glowing in the dark night. He began kicking, sensing the chi, knowing his exact moves. Kurama whipped the rose whip onto the floor, where they were. They dodged it, sending a bruising attack onto Kurama's torso.

"K'so" Hiei swore when their opponents caught him off guard. He landed hard on his back and slowly got up. In the mean time, Kurama was fighting for both of them. He fell once more and didn't get up for quite a while. Hiei got up, his anger taking over him, and began hitting the opponents for injuring Kurama so much.

Yusuke punched a demon hard knocking it back a couple of feet. 'Hmm…this demon isn't so tough.' Yusuke planned to finish this demon off soon, it wasn't even much of a challenge. 'Not even going to bother using my Rei gun.' He planned to finish the demon off with a couple of quick punches, but to his dismay, the demon was gone. "Where did…Oof!" Yusuke landed face down on the hard ground. His attacker kicked him repeatedly on his back but Yusuke dodged most of them. He caught his attacker's foot half way throwing him down.

Kuwabara's rei ken drew blood from the attacker's arm. While his attacker was momentarily confused, Kuwabara furiously began to attack him thinking thoughts about Yukina. 'Thinking about her makes me fight better.' Feeling heat rise up to his cheeks, he got distracted enough to feel someone kick his back. He rose up, signaling Yusuke, fought together against the demons.

"Ouch!" Kuwabara shouted.

Yusuke shouted," Nani? Daidouji Kuwabara?"

"Hiei Stop man!!" Hiei stopped his attack and Kurama's called back his rose whip.

" Guess practice's over," he muttered.

"Everyone OK? No big injuries right?" shouted out Yusuke.

"No Biggie. Yo, Shrimp your kantana cut me." Kuwabara peered at the long cut across his arm.

"Hm." Hiei snorted. " Baka. Someone punched me hard across my back. You huh?" Hiei glared at Kuwabara. " That's why you deserved the cut."

"Well…"

" HEY! Stop it okay? It's practice and everyone got injured. Kurama, you ok?"

Kurama lifted up his shirt examining the bruise on his torso. "Um…I'll guess I'll be okay. I have to get back to my kaasan. Ja…see you guys at meeting tomorrow." Kurama slowly walked back to the city, groaning and stopping once in a while from the pain.

" I think everyone's ok. 'cept for my bruised back. O wellz! Nothin' gonna hurt me. Kuwabara- com' on…stop it!!" Yusuke pulled him away from the argument he had with Hiei. " Ja Hiei!"

"Baka! Come on; let's just go back k? I bet Yukina's worried about you." Changing the subject, Kuwabara began to list all the reasons why Yukina was so kawaii. " Did you know that Yukina eye's are…?"

Hiei quickly ran trying to catch up with Kurama, which wasn't very hard. Kurama was resting against a tree, catching his breath. Kurama sensed Hiei and turned to face the shorter man.

" Fox, u okay?"

" I guess, havta get back to my kaasan without her knowing."

"Hm." Silently, Hiei took Kurama's hand and supported him all the way back to his apartment.

Once in, the apartment, Kurama crashed on the bed, careful enough not to injure his bruise. Hiei stood against a corner looking at Kurama through worried eyes. Kurama smiled a little smile. " Join me?" ' Kurama's still the same old Youko, injured or not.' Hiei crossed the room, and lied on the bed with Kurama falling asleep almost at once.

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"LISTEN UP!!" Koenma bellowed. No help. Kuwabara was mindlessly blabbering to Yukina and half heartily arguing with Yusuke. Botan and Keiko were in the middle of some girl talk. Kurama was leaning near the window still looking for someone. He noticed the chi before he saw the shadow, a flicker, and then Hiei. "Now that...NOW THAT EVERYOne's here..."

"Gee, no need to talk that loud do ya?"

"As I was saying, there had been a disturbance in the last couple of days. Someone been killing off some very powerful demons and hurting the humans in a way. We don't know much about the killer, but we know he's powerful. Now, you four..."

Koenma turned and looked at Hiei, " ALL FOUR are going to the last place they scorched and get clues ok?"

"Hai!!" Yusuke and Kuwabara sounded enthusiastic. They engaged in an argument about who's going to discover this demon soon after.

" HA! I'll get it first and Yukina..." he took hold of her hand," Don't worry. No one is going to get hurt cause I'll find..."

"Please!! You couldn't find a demon if it was in front of your face. I'll find it and you..."

Kurama simply nodded and Hiei stood there.

"I'll take that as a yes then. Dismissed."

" Journey after tomorrow ok everyone? Bye bye now!" Yusuke grabbed Keiko's arm and left. " Com'on Yukina. Let's go!" Yukina and Kuwabara left. Soon, only Hiei and Kurama were remaining in the room.

Kurama walked toward and hugged the shorter man for a long time. " Some more alone time now." Hiei's laugh was muffled in the outfit Kurama was wearing.

"What's so funny Koi?" Kurama's eyes twinkled.

"Nothing lets go walk around. I want some sweet snow." Kurama stared. It never amazed him how Hiei could actually like something from the makai although he refused to call it ice cream.

"That's it? We have some time together, and u want sweet snow?" Kurama put on a kawaii face.

Groaning a bit because he was hungry, "Don't you think about anything else fox?" His eye twinkled and he grabbed Kurama's arm in a strong hold. " I know how much you like the wait. Now…" he dragged Kurama's arm leading him outside. "Sweet snow!"

They spent half the day walking around when they bumped into Yusuke and the rest of the gang. " Hey K'rama, Shrimp, you guys okay from yesterday?"

"It'll heal."

Okay, you guys wanna go to that new bar across town for karaoke?" Kurama looked at Hiei.

Hiei was just about to answer when he yawned. "Sorry Fox. I'm a little tired. Lemme sleep instead, k?"

"Next time then. Ja!"

Kuwabara stared on. " Hmm...since when did Hiei call Kurama fox? Ah...no matter. Come on! Let's go!"

Hiei and Kurama got back to Kurama's home in record time and Hiei crashed on the sofa. His Kaasan was out on a conference and he had the home to himself. ' Oh, what to do while they are all away?' Kurama laughed silently at the thoughts entering his mind.

Kurama snuggled beside Hiei on the sofa and eventually fell asleep himself.

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Hiei woke up snuggled against a warm body. His ruby eyes stared at the red tresses framing his koi's face. His koi. Now that seemed hard to say when he first met Kurama. Surprisingly, he was the only one that he trusted. Kuwabara was too much of an idiot, Yusuke was ok, but Kurama...

Hiei felt a hand around his waist and he looked down to see Kurama wrapping himself around him. Hiei bent and kissed Kurama lightly on his lips.

"Hmm..." Kurama slowly opened his eyes. "You're up?"

"Hai, Morning." They slept till late morning and had to meet Yusuke and Kuwabara at 11. It was 10: 30 already.

Kurama turned until his face was muffled into the tunic Hiei wore. " 15 more minutes...then we go, k?" Hiei snickered at what Kurama was planning and kissed him again.

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"You're here now?? What took you guys so long? I could have spent more time with Yukina!!" Kuwabara complained. Yusuke immediately punched him in the head. " Baka. Hiei hates you babbling about Yukina, we all do, so shuddup already! "

"Ready to go?" Kurama asked.

"Hai." Kuwabara, Kurama and Yusuke walked at a pace while Hiei walked ahead of them scouting for anything unusual.

It wasn't long when Hiei sensed a faint chi. It was far away, but it was familiar. And Strong. The closer the rekai detectives got, Hiei got more nervous. The chi was unmistakable. He hoped it wasn't who he thought it was.

"Hiei! Down here! We found something!!" Hiei flicked down to the clearing and saw what resembled his black dragon attack only it had a larger impact and a red fox was marked on the arms of victims instead of its master.

" Is it..." Hiei started.

"Holy shit!" Kuwabara looked at the scene. " This dude's strong. We better tell Koenma. He'll know who this is."

" We gonna leave the body here?"

"What do you think? We gonna drag it back to Koenma's office? he gonna have my head if I do that..."

Yusuke and Kuwabara were engaged in another argument as Kurama bent and analyzed the remains. ' That attack is so familiar to Hiei's. I bet he knows who this is and he is very quiet.' Kurama glanced at Hiei who was staring deep into the forest. ' But it's a fox…I should know this…' Kurama stared into the victim hoping it will jog some part of his memory as the youko.

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" We don't have any record of him. That's unusual…GEORGE!!" Koenma bellowed.

Huffing and puffing, George stumbled in, "Hai?"

" FIND SOME INFORMATION ON HIM NOW!! HOW CAN THERE BE NO FILES? DO YOUR JOB RIGHT!!"

"Hai Hai…" and George stumbled out once more.

" What are we going to do about him Koenma? I mean all we know is that he has a fox thingy in his arm and he can kill people…"

"You should have seen that hole on the floor!" declared Kuwabara.

The gang sweat dropped and then George hurried back in, stacks of paper on his hands. " K-Koenma san…There's –'s isn't a lot of info about him…"

Still shuffling papers, "…no siblings…loner…has two forms…worked for Mukuro…"

"MUKURO?" George was still fumbling with the papers when Koenma questioned him. "GEORGE!"

"Mukuro? Oh…yes…he did some work for her a while ago, we don't know why, um perhaps we should ask M-Mukuro..."

Kurama agreed with what George said. " She'll know what he does."

"Hai, George go away!" With a swish of the toddler's arm, George was gone.

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It was late when the three reached the edge of Mukuro's property. Hiei was already there doing some heir business. Hiei who looked ticked off by something greeted them at the gate. Kurama looked at Hiei through worried eyes. Yusuke was about to ask if he was ok but thought better when he saw the icy look in his eyes. Kuwabara oblivious to Hiei's look, patted him hard on his should as he passed, and said "Sup Shrimp?" Hiei glanced a murderous look onto Kuwabara's back and was just about to hit him except for Kurama's restraining hand.

They walked a short distance when Mukuro herself greeted them. She nodded at them, and walked off toward a clearing. Without necessary disruptions, she turned and asked what they were here for getting straight to the point. " Looking for some information?" Kuwabara looked dumbfounded, talking to Kurama, " How'd she know?" Mukuro looked at Yusuke.

He explained what happened and all Mukuro did was look at Hiei and Kurama. "The answer's right in front of you." She walked to Kurama. " Know anything about your past yet Kitsune?" To Hiei, she stared hard and walked away.

"What the hell was that?" Kuwabara yelled flinging his arm toward Mukuro's retreating figure. "She brings us here and we can't even get a straight answer out of that damn mouth of her!"

Kurama was deep in thought. Learn from my past. His past was blurred but how can his past deal with someone now? Might as well try to remember something he thought as Yusuke was shaking his arm.

"This didn't help much. I'm going to do back to Koenma, then to Genkai with Kuwbara. You guys don't havta go. Ja ne!"

Kurama bid them farewell, and turned to leave with Hiei, but saw that he was gone.

Notes- I had this in my computer for a while but I just didn't upload it to ff.net. Read and review! Don't write bad comments cause…well, just don't! I have more chapters soon!!!