Fox Wisdom
By: Madoka
Pairings: Yusuke and Jinn, Hiei and Kurama
Warnings: None that you havent already heard...if you;ve made it this far then you know what the warnings are, hopefully. If you don;t, you;re pretty slow.
Dediciation: For Ruth, and Brian, and all the other seniors whom I knew and appriciated that are GONE! GONE FOREVER! sob!
AN: Yes, the seniors are gone, gone forever. They've gradutated, lucky bastards. Um...any single lesbian chicks that are reading this should Instant Message me thing sometime. Um....this may be the last real chapter, or there may be another one. I have reached the home stretch now. Yup! YAY FOR ME!
okay, on with the fic.....
The next few hours ran together in a blur. Jinn knew he followed the voice and gentle hands someplace warm and soft, and after that remembered no more. He woke up in the dark, with something warm and breathing in his lap, propped up against a wall. There was a raincoat in his face.
Nothing had made sense so far, but of all the things that Jinn could sense wrong with the picture, the raincoat was the most obvious. He batted the slippery folds of fabric away and the coat swung slightly on it's hanger. In a closet. He was in someone's closet? He blinked, as his eyes adjusted to the light, and looked around. It was small and obsessivly clean. Madoka was asleep in his lap, her warm fox presence soothing, at least for now. He stroked her head and her ears flapped up against his hand as they twitched in her sleep. He was lying in a sleeping bag, propped up against the wall. A thin band of light came up from under the door. The memories were muddled but he seemed to remember falling asleep here to Madoka's soothing hum, her breath tainted with sake, emotional in her drunkeness.
Why he was in a closet was another matter. He struggled to his feet and Madoka was jerked rudely awake when he stood up. She fell and yelped as she changed from fox to foxgirl on impact. Jinn ignored her and opened the door.
Kurama was still in bed, not asleep just sitting, quiet and staring into space. Jinn padded acorss the floor in his bare feet, and sat next to him. He heard Madoka grumbling behind him as she dragged herself to her feet and last crawled out of the closet with the very same raincoat hanging over her face.
"I'm glad you're awake." Kurama said softly, without looking at him. "Hiei has gone to get something for us to eat. Are you feeling better?"
"I wasn't-"
"Madoka told us what happened- what she knew, anyway. The rest of it the three of us surmised for ourselves, and believe me, you can feel physically ill for a while after something this traumatic happens." Hiei slipped soundlessly back into the room, a bag under his arm and a mugful of something warm in his other hand. Kurama took the bag as it was offered and smiled slightly at Hiei, who didn't respond. Madoka had crept a bit closer in foxgirl form and wad curled as close as she dared to Jinn, offering the comfort of someone he knew to soothe the near panic he felt at waking up in a near-stranger's closet. "I'm sorry we had to put you in the closet, but I think it could have confused my mother if we'd let you have the bed." Kurama went on, gracefully handing him the mug. Jinn took it with thanks and looked down through the golden surface. Tea, it was tea of some kind. Hiei was unwrapping rice balls wihtout a word, leaning comfortably agianst Kurama's side. Watching them, Jinn ached with something he couldn't have, something that had been denied to him since he was very small. Kurama had gone on talking without caring, obviously, that Jinn wasn't listening. "What do you plan to do now?"
"I don't know." Jinn said tonelessly. "Leave, I guess. Go to Makai. Someplace that's far, far away from here, that's certain enough."
Madoka chrred sadly between her teeth. Kurama and Hiei glanced knowingly at one another and Jinn wondered (not for the first time since this had begun,) who exaclty was conspiring to get himself and Yusuke together. Madoka shifted uneasily against him.
"That's cowardice." Hiei snorted. "Yusuke may be a stupid human, but he can't stand cowardice."
"Well it dosn't really matter what Yusuke thinks, now does it?" Jinn asked bitterly. "Every time Yusuke thinks of me he'll think-"
"Hiei, Madoka, I think Jinn is used to more substansail food then rice. Why don't the two of you go to the store and find some beef and rice and I can make lunch?" Kurama innturrupted, handing Hiei a few bills wrapped in paper. "Use the window, okay? My mother is awake."
Hiei and Madoka slipped out the window, with Hiei going first, and apparently went to 'the store' even though it occured to Jinn he hadn;t seen any store on the street, just rows of apartment buildings. Kurama turned quietly and seriously from the window to Jinn, simply looking at him for a long time before he spoke.
"Did it ever occur to you that perhaps Yusuke wasn't running from you or what you were offering?" Kurama asked quietly. Jinn gasped in surpise but Kurama didn't look up.
"but-"
"Jinn, you were raised with demon values, that had no bars on sexuality and didn't hold your sexuality against you. When liking, love, came to you, you were able to accept it readily, because who had ever told you it was wrong?" Kurama looked up again, out the window. Jinn wondered if he led life with his face to the ground, if he ever looked up at all, or if he was just shy. When he thought back to the tournament, he could remeber Kurama looking up at him, it seemed, and those green eyes held more wisdom then Jinn had ever seen. "Yuske, however, has been told his entire life that this love is wrong. Negative propaganda about "homosexual" love is everywhere you look in Ningenkai. Everything Yusuke has ever known about this has been negative or grossly misguided. How would you expect him to act?"
Jinn felt the funny 'wish a hole would come up and I'd fall right through it' feeling again. Kurama stood up with a bit of diffculty and picked up his futon. "I would surmise that if you went to Yusuke and talked things over, you'd find him most receptive to your attentions. I don't know. I can't read minds. But leaving without trying one more time wouldn;t be the Jinn I met in Makai." Kurma turned and offered another shy, hesitant smile. "And it's certainly not a prudent idea to stay in my closet forever, either."
Jinn smiled back, more at the effort then at the weak joke. "Aye, I guess it's not then."
"Madoka will be glad to hear that. She's very fond of you, you know."
"Aye, I know."
Kurama stood and walked to the window and leaned out, his hair sliding gracefully over his shoulder and falling over his neck. "Well, Hiei seemed to take the hint. I think they'll be gone for quite some time. His Ki got pretty far away in a pretty short time."
"What's he supposed to do?" Jinn asked, because he was curious.
"Do?" Kurama echoed. "Vey little. If I know Hiei, find someplace warm and out of the way and take a very long nap." He shut the window and sat down again. "Well, I'll try to see if I can call him back. I'm guessing you want to give Yusuke some time to think before you go hunting him?"
"Aye. Just a bit." Jinn replied.
"Good." Kurama held out a rice ball and Jinn took it, smiling unexpectedly.
It felt good to smile again.
******
Madoka was walking behind Hiei, trotting to keep up with the shorter demon's stride, as they crossed the street to yet another long row of apartment houses. Hiei said they were going back to Kurama's, but whether or not they were actually close, or even if they were heading in the right direction, Madoka couldn't say. Her ears perked up against her will as she spotted Urameshi hurrying along the sidewalk torwards him. He reached Kurama's first and waited for them, gasping from the effort of running so far. Madoka titled her head in mild confusion. Yusuke had had all day to find Jinn, yet it was apparent he had run all the way here.
"He's in there, isn't he?" He adressed both Madoka and Hiei as they drew closer, jerking his thumb at Kurama's window. Madoka nodded faintly. "Can you go get him?"
"I will." Hiei said and left Madoka standing in the driveway as he ran inside. He didn't bother to use the window when he was by himself- apparently Kurama's human mother was used to him by now, and a moment later Jinn leapt off the window ledge from the second story and down to the ground. Pain shot up his knees, and he gritted his teeth but didn't cry out.
Jinn found himself shaking as Yusuke crossed the yard and offered his hand to help him up. "We need to talk." Yusuke said, and didn't make it a question. He looked at Jinn as he said it, really looked at him, for the first time since Jinn had showed up. Jinn could find himself lost in those eyes, anyone could. He smiled faintly and took Yusuke's extended hand as the taller human hauled him to his feet.
"Aye." He said, and this time he didn't remove his hand from Yusuke's fingers, and the other made no attempt to pull away.
AWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! OHHHH, YAYYYY! Jinn has found true love. What a joy. It's still not over, but for those who are suckers for happy endings, I think you'll appriciate this....
-- Madoka
By: Madoka
Pairings: Yusuke and Jinn, Hiei and Kurama
Warnings: None that you havent already heard...if you;ve made it this far then you know what the warnings are, hopefully. If you don;t, you;re pretty slow.
Dediciation: For Ruth, and Brian, and all the other seniors whom I knew and appriciated that are GONE! GONE FOREVER! sob!
AN: Yes, the seniors are gone, gone forever. They've gradutated, lucky bastards. Um...any single lesbian chicks that are reading this should Instant Message me thing sometime. Um....this may be the last real chapter, or there may be another one. I have reached the home stretch now. Yup! YAY FOR ME!
okay, on with the fic.....
The next few hours ran together in a blur. Jinn knew he followed the voice and gentle hands someplace warm and soft, and after that remembered no more. He woke up in the dark, with something warm and breathing in his lap, propped up against a wall. There was a raincoat in his face.
Nothing had made sense so far, but of all the things that Jinn could sense wrong with the picture, the raincoat was the most obvious. He batted the slippery folds of fabric away and the coat swung slightly on it's hanger. In a closet. He was in someone's closet? He blinked, as his eyes adjusted to the light, and looked around. It was small and obsessivly clean. Madoka was asleep in his lap, her warm fox presence soothing, at least for now. He stroked her head and her ears flapped up against his hand as they twitched in her sleep. He was lying in a sleeping bag, propped up against the wall. A thin band of light came up from under the door. The memories were muddled but he seemed to remember falling asleep here to Madoka's soothing hum, her breath tainted with sake, emotional in her drunkeness.
Why he was in a closet was another matter. He struggled to his feet and Madoka was jerked rudely awake when he stood up. She fell and yelped as she changed from fox to foxgirl on impact. Jinn ignored her and opened the door.
Kurama was still in bed, not asleep just sitting, quiet and staring into space. Jinn padded acorss the floor in his bare feet, and sat next to him. He heard Madoka grumbling behind him as she dragged herself to her feet and last crawled out of the closet with the very same raincoat hanging over her face.
"I'm glad you're awake." Kurama said softly, without looking at him. "Hiei has gone to get something for us to eat. Are you feeling better?"
"I wasn't-"
"Madoka told us what happened- what she knew, anyway. The rest of it the three of us surmised for ourselves, and believe me, you can feel physically ill for a while after something this traumatic happens." Hiei slipped soundlessly back into the room, a bag under his arm and a mugful of something warm in his other hand. Kurama took the bag as it was offered and smiled slightly at Hiei, who didn't respond. Madoka had crept a bit closer in foxgirl form and wad curled as close as she dared to Jinn, offering the comfort of someone he knew to soothe the near panic he felt at waking up in a near-stranger's closet. "I'm sorry we had to put you in the closet, but I think it could have confused my mother if we'd let you have the bed." Kurama went on, gracefully handing him the mug. Jinn took it with thanks and looked down through the golden surface. Tea, it was tea of some kind. Hiei was unwrapping rice balls wihtout a word, leaning comfortably agianst Kurama's side. Watching them, Jinn ached with something he couldn't have, something that had been denied to him since he was very small. Kurama had gone on talking without caring, obviously, that Jinn wasn't listening. "What do you plan to do now?"
"I don't know." Jinn said tonelessly. "Leave, I guess. Go to Makai. Someplace that's far, far away from here, that's certain enough."
Madoka chrred sadly between her teeth. Kurama and Hiei glanced knowingly at one another and Jinn wondered (not for the first time since this had begun,) who exaclty was conspiring to get himself and Yusuke together. Madoka shifted uneasily against him.
"That's cowardice." Hiei snorted. "Yusuke may be a stupid human, but he can't stand cowardice."
"Well it dosn't really matter what Yusuke thinks, now does it?" Jinn asked bitterly. "Every time Yusuke thinks of me he'll think-"
"Hiei, Madoka, I think Jinn is used to more substansail food then rice. Why don't the two of you go to the store and find some beef and rice and I can make lunch?" Kurama innturrupted, handing Hiei a few bills wrapped in paper. "Use the window, okay? My mother is awake."
Hiei and Madoka slipped out the window, with Hiei going first, and apparently went to 'the store' even though it occured to Jinn he hadn;t seen any store on the street, just rows of apartment buildings. Kurama turned quietly and seriously from the window to Jinn, simply looking at him for a long time before he spoke.
"Did it ever occur to you that perhaps Yusuke wasn't running from you or what you were offering?" Kurama asked quietly. Jinn gasped in surpise but Kurama didn't look up.
"but-"
"Jinn, you were raised with demon values, that had no bars on sexuality and didn't hold your sexuality against you. When liking, love, came to you, you were able to accept it readily, because who had ever told you it was wrong?" Kurama looked up again, out the window. Jinn wondered if he led life with his face to the ground, if he ever looked up at all, or if he was just shy. When he thought back to the tournament, he could remeber Kurama looking up at him, it seemed, and those green eyes held more wisdom then Jinn had ever seen. "Yuske, however, has been told his entire life that this love is wrong. Negative propaganda about "homosexual" love is everywhere you look in Ningenkai. Everything Yusuke has ever known about this has been negative or grossly misguided. How would you expect him to act?"
Jinn felt the funny 'wish a hole would come up and I'd fall right through it' feeling again. Kurama stood up with a bit of diffculty and picked up his futon. "I would surmise that if you went to Yusuke and talked things over, you'd find him most receptive to your attentions. I don't know. I can't read minds. But leaving without trying one more time wouldn;t be the Jinn I met in Makai." Kurma turned and offered another shy, hesitant smile. "And it's certainly not a prudent idea to stay in my closet forever, either."
Jinn smiled back, more at the effort then at the weak joke. "Aye, I guess it's not then."
"Madoka will be glad to hear that. She's very fond of you, you know."
"Aye, I know."
Kurama stood and walked to the window and leaned out, his hair sliding gracefully over his shoulder and falling over his neck. "Well, Hiei seemed to take the hint. I think they'll be gone for quite some time. His Ki got pretty far away in a pretty short time."
"What's he supposed to do?" Jinn asked, because he was curious.
"Do?" Kurama echoed. "Vey little. If I know Hiei, find someplace warm and out of the way and take a very long nap." He shut the window and sat down again. "Well, I'll try to see if I can call him back. I'm guessing you want to give Yusuke some time to think before you go hunting him?"
"Aye. Just a bit." Jinn replied.
"Good." Kurama held out a rice ball and Jinn took it, smiling unexpectedly.
It felt good to smile again.
******
Madoka was walking behind Hiei, trotting to keep up with the shorter demon's stride, as they crossed the street to yet another long row of apartment houses. Hiei said they were going back to Kurama's, but whether or not they were actually close, or even if they were heading in the right direction, Madoka couldn't say. Her ears perked up against her will as she spotted Urameshi hurrying along the sidewalk torwards him. He reached Kurama's first and waited for them, gasping from the effort of running so far. Madoka titled her head in mild confusion. Yusuke had had all day to find Jinn, yet it was apparent he had run all the way here.
"He's in there, isn't he?" He adressed both Madoka and Hiei as they drew closer, jerking his thumb at Kurama's window. Madoka nodded faintly. "Can you go get him?"
"I will." Hiei said and left Madoka standing in the driveway as he ran inside. He didn't bother to use the window when he was by himself- apparently Kurama's human mother was used to him by now, and a moment later Jinn leapt off the window ledge from the second story and down to the ground. Pain shot up his knees, and he gritted his teeth but didn't cry out.
Jinn found himself shaking as Yusuke crossed the yard and offered his hand to help him up. "We need to talk." Yusuke said, and didn't make it a question. He looked at Jinn as he said it, really looked at him, for the first time since Jinn had showed up. Jinn could find himself lost in those eyes, anyone could. He smiled faintly and took Yusuke's extended hand as the taller human hauled him to his feet.
"Aye." He said, and this time he didn't remove his hand from Yusuke's fingers, and the other made no attempt to pull away.
AWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! OHHHH, YAYYYY! Jinn has found true love. What a joy. It's still not over, but for those who are suckers for happy endings, I think you'll appriciate this....
-- Madoka