AN: Wow, ummm... I think I've just gotten a huge compliment from Eri-san, glad you like this so much to review again for me! Also I wanted to pat DarkFlame136 on the back because they totally got the Kurama hugging people thing... they hit it right on the button! But I wanted to do something with the mis-knowledge... ^_^ you'll see what I mean soon.

I think it was Baka Gothic Kitsune that asked if the Sirin should have been spelled Siren... and yes you are right! I made a huge mistake! I was confusing myself though with the spelling for Sirine... ^_^;; author is an idiot.

Disclaimer: Holly and the race of Sirine are mine. Everything else is owned by others who made profit off their idea... which again is not me.


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Hiei woke slowly to something nearby muttering his name. 'What does the fox want now?' He rubbed his eyes and looked down in the dark room at the fox. It was dark and he could make out Kurama's shape and by the breathing patterns the kitsune was still sleeping. 'I must be hearing things,' Hiei closed his eyes to go back to sleep only to have them spring back open in shock when he felt one of Kurama's hands caress his inner thigh.

The fire demon opened his mouth to protest when the caress was repeated and his protest died on the edge of his tongue. And to add to his shock and arousal Kurama really was muttering his name in his sleep. 'Control yourself, Hiei! Shimata! What the HELL happened to control?!'

A desperate course of action was needed, Hiei reached for Kurama's arm in order to move the hand away. However he once again forgot just how light of a sleeper Kurama really was and before he touched Kurama, the fox was awake and very alert.

It took Kurama a moment to realize what was going on but seconds later he was on the other side of the bed with his knees draw up to his chest. "I'm sorry Hiei!" Kurama breathed huskily.

"Hn. I was wondering when you were going to come to your senses!" Hiei bite out. Though he knew it was more out of frustration then actual anger. With the lack of light Hiei wasn't sure if Kurama was blushing or not but his mind's eye gave him a really good picture of the fox blushing, and panting... 'Control! K'So!'

"Hiei... I-" Kurama tried to speak but Hiei had just about enough and decided it was time to leave. He got up quickly however as he was getting off the bed Kurama shot forward suddenly. "No please Hiei don't! Don't go!" Kurama was nearly in tears from the sound of it, which didn't make sense to Hiei. He couldn't confirm that now however because of the how Kurama was holding him around the middle once again and his back was to the kitsune.

There was something else strange about the situation he found himself in. "Kurama when the HELL did you get to be that fast?"

"Wha?" Kurama sounded confused. "What do you mean?"

"You just caught ME," Hiei ground out.

Kurama's arms immediately removed themselves. "I'm sorry! Inari, I'm so so sorry Hiei. Just please don't leave!"

Hiei turned back to regard the youko in the semi-darkness, his voice wasn't just husky it sounded a little deeper... What was going on?

Deciding a light might be the wisest thing to obtain first Hiei went to turn it on. When he did so however he nearly jumped out of his skin. "Kurama what happened?! Look at your hair!"

"My hair?" Kurama reached for a lock and looked at it. "Holy..." He toned in shock. "My hair! Why is my hair PINK and WHITE?! It looks like some freaky candy coloring!"

"Your ears are pointy too!" Hiei grabbed another strand for the kitsune's examination. "And your eyes are strange looking, fox. They're kind of glowing light green."

"Shimata!" Kurama dashed for the nearest bathroom, which was down the hall and yet was still reached in seconds. "OH MY GOD!!!!!!" Was heard throughout the temple.


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"Kurama?" Botan continued knocking on the door of the bathroom. "Come out Kurama, we can't help you if you only stay in there!"

"I'm not leaving!" Kurama's voice still sounded far too deep even through the door.

"I seem to have made an error," Genkai said sipping from her teacup calmly. "His need to touch people while under this spell must have something to do with borrowing their energy."

"So he's been stealing our power all day?" Yuusuke groaned.

"Well yes and no. If he was stealing it you would have noticed the drain in your ki, Yuusuke," Genkai explained. "Ki is constantly flowing in and out of your body and a lot of it is wasted because your body can make more then it can use and store. Kurama's body seems to have been taking that extra energy... not only to power the spell that the Sirine has him under but also storing some of it to possibly be used later. Since Kurama's human body can't handle as much Youki as he's been getting from Hiei, it's switching to the Youko form... only very slowly."

"So why all of a sudden do we see a change now?" Kuwabara needed to know.

"Hiei and Kurama were both sleeping... even less of your energy is used when you sleep and the body actually produces more energy then, as well, to flush the old energy out and replace it," Botan took over the explanation.

"Kurama please open the door," Yukina asked quietly at the door again without knocking. "Please let us try and help you. We're all friends."

"No!"

Hiei, who had been standing in a corner the whole time, began to lose his patience... not that he had much to begin with. "Kurama, you have had long enough to sulk. I've already seen what you look like and the others already know the gist of it so what does it matter? I'm getting very angry with you..."

The others fell silent, as it seemed that when Hiei said 'angry' it was indeed a very heavy threat. Moments later a sulking Kurama opened the door to the bathroom. "Alright..."

"Better, fox," Hiei growled.

Botan and Yukina both immediately began making a fuss over the youko, in their own fashions. Botan with lots of high volumed verbal muttering and waving about of her arms; and Yukina with very low murmurs of despair and tiny worried looks.

Yuusuke and Kuwabara both nearly chocked on their own tongues as they fought not to laugh. But Kurama's hair was PINK! He looked like Chibi Usa [1] with bleached highlights! Their amusement was short lived though when Hiei turned a VERY serious deathglare on them.

"We better go... back to bed!" Yuusuke got up and streched. "You know we're going off to find that Sirine chick in the morning."

"Drrr... yeah Sleep Good!" Kuwabara nodded and both of them vanished.

Hiei turned back to the task of comforting Kurama... only he wished he hadn't. Botan had gotten some weird idea and had begun playing with Kurama's hair. "See this isn't so bad!" She exclaimed. "It looks nice when you put it up."

"You really think so?" Kurama asked idly, while Yukina giggled merrily.

Hiei promptly turned on his heals and went to seek out his own room, 'Girls...'


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AN: ^_^ I love torturing Kurama... don't know why but I get a kick out of it. You can just blame the spell for making Kurama a little odd...

[1]Chibi Usa aka Rini (in english): Sailor Moon reference.

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