From The Past

by Ruriko

Someone from Kurama's and Hiei's past comes and turns Kurama against the Urameshi team. (I'm bad at summarizing! Just read and comment)

4. Revealed

Chapter four- Revealed

Kirma paced around the forest, feeling /his/ little fire demon's presence.

"Hiei…" he whispered.

Hiei jerked awake. He thought he heard his name. He shuddered. 'A figment of all this stress.' He lay down again but it happened again.

"Hiei…"

"Wha?" Hiei turned. He couldn't sense anything and he had a sure feeling it was Kirma.

"Hiei…miss me?"

The words were so close and Hiei turned, his eyes staring momentarily into icy ones. Before he knew what happened, Kirama pulled Hiei into a rough and bruising kiss. Hiei struggled his hands at Kirma's shoulder trying to pull him off.

"Struggle all you want Hiei…" Kirma whispered at Hiei's neck, causing the little man to shiver slightly.

"This just makes it more interesting…"

Hiei felt weak when Kirma whispered at the nape of his neck. He winced when he felt sharp teeth bite into him, soothed over by a wet tongue. His grips on the shoulders were weakening and before he realized it, his lips were drawn in another desperate kiss.

"You /do/ miss me. The other youko isn't satisfying your needs?" Kirma eyed the rising bulge in his lover's pants and kissed him once more.

"No worry…you're mine…all mine…"

Hiei turned his neck to let Kirma smuther it with kisses when he heard the familiar sound.

"H-Hiei?"

He turned once more and saw a distress Kurama a few feet away. His eyes were wet with tears and was leaning on a tree for support. "H-Hiei?"

Kurama looked through wet eyes at the half naked man and a youko. /His/ lover was with someone else. With their sworn enemy. With his tormenter. Kurama couldn't take all this in and ran off into the forest crying, a black rose on the ground.

"Kurama!!" Hiei dressed and landed on the ground in a flash. "KURAMA!" He looked at all his surroundings no sign of him.

"He's gone Hiei…." Kirma was leaning against a branch in the tree his eyes looked delighted.

"You bastard!!!!!" Hiei flitted over to the youko, preparing to give him a severe beating. Before he reached him, Kirma disappeared but his mocking tone was heard.

"Revealed…"

+ + +

Hiei landed at the windowsill to the meeting place where the Urameshi four was to meet. He wasn't the last one in.

Yusuke greeted him with, " Hiei! You're early! Do you know where Kurama is? He's usually early and he's still not here."

A flicker of pain and sadness crossed Hiei's eye and he merely shrugged.

"We better get started!" Koenma announced.

"How bout Kurama then man?"

"You'll tell him later Kuwa! Here's the plan…"

Hiei didn't hear a word Koenma said. He kept looking at the door, concentrating on finding him. His thoughts lingered back to yesterday.

----flashback

"H-Hiei?"

He stared at the tear stricken face, the shock all revealed in his emerald eyes.

---end flashback

"SHRIMP!!!!"

Hiei snapped his head, aware that the so-called meeting was over. "Hiei, we're gonna stay here and make some plans. You better find Kurama and give him the head's up. Ja!"

Hiei flickered off, his jaganashi wide open.

+ + +

Kurama huddled into a tighter ball feeling the wetness in his tunic. He had cried himself to sleep, it wasn't even sleep. The 'sight' kept replaying over and over in his head. A fresh wave of tears came, and he shuddered and cried some more. 'I can't be here anymore…damn you Kirma!'

An old vision of Kirma's face appeared. "Damn you Kirma!!"

Ruby eyes, a cute button nose…Hiei's face. "Damn you too Hiei." He muttered. Willing his youko side to rise, he rose and disappeared into the dense forest once more.

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Hiei landed at a nearby branch. He had been to Kurama's apartment, to all the ningen places and still no sign of him. 'Where the hell are you Kurama? I have to explain…' He continued flitting when he came to the edge of the forest. He used the most power to have the jaganashi look for any sign of Kurama. 'He must've masked it very well…he doesn't want to see me if he did this…' His eyes lingered on the forest's path and he saw a quick and fast flicker of something white. And then it was gone.

'Kurama!' his heart leap a beat and he decided to follow the blur.

The blur was quickly disappearing as Hiei jumped from branch to branch. He never saw who the blur really was and it was too fast for him to recognize. 'It has to be Kurama…' Hiei continued running but before long he lost him. 'How the hell did I lose him?' Frustration showed on his face and he continued leaping.

The Youko watched nearby as the fire demon showed signs of anger. No emotions showed in the kitsune's face as he prepared to leave once more, faster and more unnoticeable. 'Why can't you just leave me alone?'

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Hiei returned to the ningen world, angry and distraught. He had spend most of the day looking for Kurama and he was no where to be seen. Now he had so many problems, Kurama and Kirma. 'What am I going to do now? Kirma would do anything to get Kurama back and he has him now. What is he going to do with him?'

"HIEI!" Yusuke shouted to the smaller man up in the tree. "Koenma called and told us to tell ya, to stop looking for Kurama. He left a note or something that he's busy and he'll be gone for a while."

'Kurama?' Hiei quickly flickered down to Yusuke, confusion in his eyes. "That's it?" his tone was neutral. "Yup, and we better go and find Kirma now cause Kurama isn't here. He said he'll be back to defeat Kirma though." Yusuke shrugged. "Ja!"

Hiei was left confused. He looked back toward Kurama's house, a silent apology.

+ + +

Kurama laid down on the ground exhausted. Being a youko for most of the day had taken a lot of energy from him. 'At least I solved the thing for now with Hiei.' He started a small fire and prepared to rest when the familiar chi came.

"Hello Kurama."

Kurama stood up facing Kirma. "What do you want?" Fear showed in his eyes and he backed up a little.

"Do you remember me Kurama?" Kirma didn't walk closer to Kurama. He stood where he was, his eyes boring into his.

Silence.

"I'll take that as a no. Don't you want to know Kurama? Don't you want to know why I'm so important to you and Hiei?" A quick flash of Hiei and Kirma together entered Kurama's mind.

"Don't you want to know Kurama?"

"Don't you?" A fog started to appear and within seconds, the two were covered in a great mist.