Kali: WHOOOOOOOO! CAHPTER 13! ^^ My lucky number and... THE FINAL CHAPTER! Sorry if this and 12 took a while to get up, I wanted to post them at the same time to make up for the long wait, as I said in chapter 12. *Is listening to The Kids Aren't Alright, which she found made as a YYH music video* *Drools* Gooooooood soooooong.
Kurama: ... Your drool is making hte keyboard spark...
Kali: O.O NO MY NEW KEYBOARD! TORI!
Kurama: ... I still can't believe you named your keyboard after your Internet wife... and I can't believe you married your best friend over the Internet.
Kali: *Is also female* I twas a joke first off... ^^; which we still have going cause we got no lives and... MY POOR KEYBOARD! *Kali is proud of her keyboard because its black, silver, had a red sticker, and green lights* XD Its my Kurama and Hiei keyboard... To bad there is no gold... *gets her gold paint marker and writes Tori on it*
Nuria: O.O PAINT MARKER! *Steals Kali's silver and gold paint marker, and her mothers red and green permanent markers, and Kali's black permanent marker* *Gets hyper because of the fumes from drawing all over Kali's desk with them* WHEEEE!
Hiei: ... You got paint markers and permanent markers in out colors?
Kali: ^^; yeah... *Note Kali's project is black, silver, gold, greed, and red* *cough*
Kurama: *Trying to calm Nuria down*
Kali: *Is now listening to a Hiei music video made with Staring at the Sun* *Sobs* I dun own YYH, but the plot, the element properties of White Fire, and the original characters. Are. MINE.
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Yuusuke and Kuwabara called out as they saw Kurama frown and fall forward. Hiei growled and darted forward, reaching Kurama just as he hit the ground. Yukina was quick to follow the fire demon. The second Kurama frowned, the flames had flickered and died, and Yuusuke felt the cool breeze fade. The two teens started to get up to see Kurama, but Botan stopped the two. her face serious as she spoke.
"You two need healing, Hiei and Yukina can take care of Kurama." It was then that the two noticed the states of each other, Hiei, and finally took full notice of Kurama's wounds. Yuusuke frowned, so Crevan HAD tried to pick them off one by one... Seemed that he had taken the 3 of them first, to weaken them and get full control of their powers so that he could take down Kurama... But why did he want to kill Kurama? Yuusuke sighed and decided to ask Hiei later. He blinked, remembering Shori as he glanced over her and saw her staring wide eyes, a look of shock mixed with guilt as she watched Hiei and Yukina tend to her "son". Yuusuke couldn't help feel bad for her. She may have rejected Kurama as her son and hurt his feelings, but he couldn't really blame her. Her life had been completely normal to her eyes. She had a good home, job, and the perfect son.
Then suddenly she was getting nightmares of her son turning into a demon, and killing her, getting a strange bite wound, then finding that her son really was that demon in the dream, and that he had been lying to her for years. Then to top it off she was dragged into a crazy battle, and thrown into more nightmares, then to wake up to find the person who she had always thought of as a son surrounded by a strange cool fire and dying. Yuusuke watched, not noticing the painful poking and prodding of Botan, as Shori stood up and meekly made her way towards the 2 demons tending to her "son". Kuwabara was also watching silently, a similar look of sympathy on his face.
.:*:.
Hiei glanced up, his eyes narrowing as he watched the human woman approach. He wanted to give her a good slap to the face for hurting Kurama like she had, but Yukina's sad look stopped him from doing anything, and Hiei went back to ripping his shirt into trips to wrap Kurama's wounds. They had taken what was left of Kurama's bloody, torn, and burnt tunic off and used what little clean areas there were to wipe pooling blood off his body. Hiei frowned and cursed softly as he ran out of clean areas of his shirt to wrap Kurama's wounds with. He blinked slightly in surprise as Shori held out her blazer from work for him to use. Taking it silently Hiei gave a nod in thanks, Yukina smiling slightly at Hiei with a "I told you so" sort of look. (Ugh, not sure if I have Yukina knowing Hiei is her brother in this story... But I'll just say she does. *Bets 5 dollars that she said some where in one of the early chapters that Yukina doesn't know*) Hiei shook his head softly, allowing his sister to tease him silently.
Hiei blinked surprised as Shori sat, holding Kurama's head in her lap. He went back to work wrapping Kurama's wounds, letting his thoughts wander. She had probably figured that Kurama had gotten these wounds to save them from Crevan, and how he had grown so angry at Crevan before when she was in danger. Indeed it had dawned upon Shori that even though he looked different, and she had rejected him and hurt him, he still seemed to love her just as much as he did before. He had opened himself to her and told her everything, telling every single thing that he had lied to her about before... Besides... His ears were cute looking. She grinned faintly, tweaking one of his ears slightly, scratching behind the other.
Both Yukina and Hiei blinked as Kurama's right foot twitched and they could hear him purring faintly. They glanced over to see Shori grinning slightly and scratching behind one of Kurama's ears. Yukina giggled slightly and Hiei shook his head, leaning forward slightly to hide a smile. It faded though as he wondered if Kurama had mentioned their relationship to Shori, he REALLY didn't want any more surprises to come between Kurama and his mother that would cause either to become upset again.
.:*:.
It had taken a while but Botan had finally gotten both of the boys patched up, though they still have a few wounds and would be sore for a week or two. She made her way over to Hiei, and began to heal him with what energy was left, despite his angry pretests and curses. Yukina got him to calm down and when she felt Kurama was healed enough she used her remaining energy to help Botan heal Hiei, who by now was sulking angrily. Shori watched in amusement before frowning slightly and raising a question.
"How are you going to get Suii-Kurama back?" At that everyone either frowned or groaned. There was no way the women could carry a 7 foot tall youko, even if he was extremely light for his height, and none of the males where in the condition to carry a kitsune on their back. Botan frowned, summoning her oar.
"I could probably fly him to Genkai's temple... but I might be seen and I can't fly and hold him right at the same time..." Hiei frowned slightly.
"I can hold him... If you can fly right..." Botan gave a angry yelp and swung her oar at Hiei's head, but the demon jumped back, avoiding the hit.
"Jerk! Of course I can fly right!" Yuusuke snorted at that.
"I feel bad for whoever was your flying instructor..." Botan gave another shout and swung at Yuusuke's head. Unfortunitly for him, he wasn't as quick on his feet as Hiei, and earned himself a nice large bump on the head. Grumbling Yuusuke rubbed his head as Botan and Hiei climbed onto the oar, managing to get Kurama on with them. The two looked slightly uncomfortable. Hiei trying to hold on to Kurama with one hand, and onto the oar with the other, and Botan had Kurama leaning on her slightly. After adjusting themselves for a moment, Botan finally took off, Yuusuke sighed and rubbed the back of his head.
"Time to visit the old hag again..." At the thought of all those steps Yuusuke and Kuwabara groaned, leaving Yukina to giggle and Shori to look confused.
.:*:.
Kurama's golden eyes flickered open slowly, the world slowly starting to focus. He smiled slightly as a certain black haired, crimson eyed, fire demon came into view. Hiei allowed himself a faint smile as he sat by Kurama side.
"About time." Kurama smirked slightly, and stretched, giving a large fanged yawn. Reaching up, and minding a few wounds, Kurama pulled Hiei down next to him, curling up next to the fire demon on the bed they were on, nuzzling Hiei's neck with his nose. Hiei snorted softly at the animal like nuzzling that Kurama was giving him.
"Hn... Baka Kits-- Hey!" Hiei glared at Kurama, who held a large, very fox like grin of mischeviousness. Hiei rubbed his neck and grumbled softly.
"No bitting..." Kurama responded, poking Hiei's nose.
"No baka kitsune's either." Hiei stayed silent, his glare growing darker. It faded away as Kurama pulled away, stretching again. Hiei then noticed the marking on Kurama's arm. He frowned slightly and pointed to the golden fox mark on Kurama's shoulder.
"What's that?" Kurama frowned sitting up and turning his head, twisting his arm gingerly, mindful of wound, to look at it. Hiei frowned as Kurama's eyes flickered, emotions quickly coming and going. Confusion, sorrow, anger, love, hate, realization, pride, longing, and finally back to sorrow again.
"MY mother." Hiei frowned, confused for a moment when he remembered the fact that Kurama had once had a demon mother. Lightly tracing the outside of the mark with his finger, causing Kurama to shiver slightly, Hiei spoke.
"When did she give you that?" Kurama frowned, thinking back.
"Around 1420 years ago..." Hiei blinked surprised. He knew Kurama was old, but not that OLD! He smirked slightly, giving into temptation.
"You're and old geezer." Kurama blinked, surprised, but then quickly glazed and wholloped Hiei with his pillow.
"Thats the last time I tell you anything..." Kurama's tail puffed up slightly in playful annoyance. Hiei smirked and reached over, scratching behind Kurama's ear. Immediately, Kurama's scowl faded and he gave a faint purring noise. After a moment he pulled his head away and glared again.
"Thats not getting you out of trouble this time Hiei." Hiei frowned, trying his best to pout, and he was doing a pretty miserable job at it too. he glared frustrated, and before Kurama could react, he leaned forward and pulled Kurama into a kiss. For a second Kurama resisted, but he quickly gave in, nipping softly at Hiei's lips, leaning into the demon. The two jumped slightly though and pulled back, looking for a second like two kids caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Shori was standing in the door way, her face red from blushing at catching the two demon's kissing. She quickly shuffled forward, her face still meek, and her eyes gazing at the floor. Hiei moved off the bed and over to the other side of the room, and Kurama shifted so he was sitting cross legged on the best, his tail across his lap.
Shori sat down next to him, both looking uncomfortable for a moment or so. After a moment, Shori leaned over, wrapping her arms around Kurama, her head leaning on his arm as she hugged him.
"I'm so sorry Suiichi..." Kurama blinked slightly surprised by the hug, but more so by the use of his human name. He was slightly hesitant, but he hugged Shori back softly. After a moment they both pulled back,and Shori stared down at her hands that were folded in her lap.
"I Shouldn't have acted like I had... But... After all these years of thinking I had a normal son... And that dream... It had scared me, and I wasn't thinking clearly... I hadn't given myself enough time to think about things and cool down... I treated you so unfairly!" her voice seemed to waver. Kurama frowned and hugged her again. His youko side feeling awkward at the use of physical contact in a loving manner with some one other then Hiei.
"Its not your fault... I should have told you before... but I had been worried about what you would think of me... and Crevan," His voice grew dark at the use of the name, causing Shori to tense for a second, though she relaxed when his voice was normal as he continued, "had toyed with you." Shori smiled as he pulled away. She stood and patted him on the shoulder, allowing another small grin as she tweaked his ear and he seemed to pout slightly in annoyance. She soon blushed again though as she spoke.
"I'll leave you with your... er, Hiei." She quickly moved out of the room. Kurama glanced at Hiei on the wall, giving him a suggestive look. The fire demon rolled his eyes, but before either could say anything, Kuwabara, Yuusuke, Botan, and Yukina burst into the room... Well, more like Yuusuke and Kuwabara burst in, Yukina and Botan just followed. Yuusuke grinned, hugging Kurama, forgetting about the youko's wounds till he heard Kurama hiss, Hiei growl, and felt Kurama bite his shoulder lightly in warning that he was getting angry. Yuusuke yelped and let go quickly, sweat dropping and holding his hands in front of him.
"Gomen! I forgot about your injuries." Kurama's angry look faded too one of amusement as Hiei rolled his eyes and commented.
"Yuusuke, practically the only thing he is wearing is bandages." This caused Yukina and Botan to sweatdrop and blush slightly, and Kuwabara and Yuusuke to blink, and take a good like at the Youko. Sure enough, the only thing Kurama had on OTHER then bandages, where a pair of white boxers, which were supplied from Shizuru, who had stolen them from Kuwabara's dresser and cut a hole in them for Kurama's tail. Kuwabara sulked.
"Those were mine..." Yuusuke snickered slightly before growing serious.
"Hey Kurama... What was with the fire that was in the forest when we woke up?" This caused everyone to grow serious, their eyes turning to Kurama. The youko frowned, seeming uncomfortable. He was hoping they wouldn't ask him about it. It would just raise a bunch of questions and discussions of the past that he didn't want, but they deserved to know in a way.
"Its a special element... White Fire..." Hiei looked slightly surprised before frowning again, he had heard of that... It was extremely rare. Genkai by this time had stepped into the room, and took over for the youko.
"White Fire?" Kurama nodded. Genkai thought for a moment before speaking.
"White Fire, a extremely rare element. Few have it, and it can only be gained through parents, or taking the blood of some one who has it, and doing some special spell and drinking the blood." Everyone glanced at Kurama, causing him to give a annoyed glare.
"My MOTHER gave it to me... I don't drink blood for power..." Yuusuke sweat dropped, not wanting to make Kurama any angrier, so he quickly changed the subject.
"Does it do something special other then being a weird color? Well... Then again, Hiei's is a weird color too..." Genkai glanced at Kurama, letting him explain. Kurama was silent for a moment before explaining.
"Hai, it has special effects. The controller can summon a spirit, and the spirit will make its body out of fire, and will usually fight for you if you ask it to. Also the one who controls it can tell it what, and what not, to burn... So i could light the entire forest on fire, and tell it to burn only animals, and not plants, and it would do just that... or I could tell it to only burn a specific being, and nothing else, and it would burn that on particular creature, and nothing else." Yuusuke blinked.
"So that's what you did to Crevan? You spread your fire through the forest and told it to only burn him?" Kurama shook his head slightly.
"Yes and no... He was still in the clearing, and even before I told it to burn him, I was holding him by his throat... I'm not quiet sure why I had set my fire through the clearing and some of the forest... I guess... To scare him... or to make sure he didn't get away." Kuwabara blinked and pointed to the burn marks on Kurama's cheeks, and his bandaged sides.
"Then why are you burnt?"
"He was using Hiei's black fire on me." This gained a dark glare from Hiei.
"Did he use my dragon?" Kurama nodded.
"Hai, near the end... I summoned a spirit..." Yuusuke cut in, asking a question Kurama had hoped he wouldn't.
"Whose spirit?" The others frowned slightly, catching onto Kurama's slight hesitation, and his soft tone.
"The spirit of my demon mother. She made the body of her fox form out of fire, and fought the dragon, beating it." The others blinked, surprised. So... White Fire was stronger then Hiei's black fire? Well... It wasn't TOO surprising. Being they had seen others take Hiei's dragon head on and either deflect it, or absorb it, like Bui and Mukuro. Still... That had to have taken a TON of energy... not to mention Kurama had to be pretty damn strong to keep it under control. Yuusuke frowned.
"How come you never used to before?" Kurama frowned.
"Didn't know I could... I didn't even though I had the ability." Botan blinked, taking her turn to question.
"Could you use it again?" Kurama shrugged, growing tired of all the questions, especially ones that were kind of obvious.
"Probably. Though, like Hiei's dragon... it would be a one time in a fight thing I guess..." Yukina moved forward, ending the questioning as she made a quick check over of Kurama's wounds. Yuusuke and Kuwabara looked confused, though they seemed less confused then they had been before. Genkai had already left, along with Botan, and Hiei was leaning against the wall with his eyes shut. Finding everything to her liking Yukina smiled and left, reminding Kurama to get some rest. Now with everyone gone Hiei took a few steps forward as he pushed off the wall and then opened his eyes. He blinked as he looked around and Kurama wasn't in sight. He gave a soft yelp and jumped slightly as suddenly from behind Kurama pounced on him, nearly causing both of the demons to fall on the floor. Hiei growled and pried Kurama off, dragging Kurama over to the bed and shoving him down onto it.
"Baka... Youko," Kurama frowned as Hiei dodged around his rule from before, "Don't do that." Kurama's sulking was forgotten though as Hiei kissed him.
"Sleep." Kurama sulked, and then grinned. Kurama wrapped is arms around Hiei's one arm and he rubbed his cheek on Hiei's shoulder. His voice was nearly purring as he spoke.
"Come on Hiei... Lets do something, other then sleeping." Hiei rolled his eyes and reached over, flicking off the light.
"Yes, like turning off the lights and pulling the blankets up, then shutting our eyes and dreaming." Kurama glared and grumbled something before pressing his body against Hiei's and wrapping his arms around the demon. Sighing softly Kurama buried his face in Hiei's neck and drifted off to sleep. Hiei smiled fondly down at his itooshi.
"Sweet dreams."
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Kali: DONE! ALL DONE! ... *Sobs* I'm gonna miss this story! Damn... Its taken me nearly 3 whole months to do this... I'm so slow!
Kurama: ...
Hiei: ...
Kali: ...
Nuria: ...
Kali: Erm... why are we "..."?
Kurama: Because we don't know what to say?
Hiei: Hn
Nuria: FWEEEE!
Kurama: ... I can't see Hiei saying sweet dreams...
Hiei: Whats that supposed to mean? At least I waited until you were asleep...
Kurama: *Sulks* I wanted to hear it though...
Kali: Its irony... Note how the whole story is based off nightmares... and then the last line is SWEET dreams.
Nuria: So... sleepy...
Kali: Oo You were sleeping nearly the whole story!
Nuria: *Shrugs and makes herself comfy and Kurama and Hiei's bed and falls asleep*
Kali: ^^; Right... Any way... R&R and see you next time! HAPPY HUNTING ALL!
Kurama: ... Your drool is making hte keyboard spark...
Kali: O.O NO MY NEW KEYBOARD! TORI!
Kurama: ... I still can't believe you named your keyboard after your Internet wife... and I can't believe you married your best friend over the Internet.
Kali: *Is also female* I twas a joke first off... ^^; which we still have going cause we got no lives and... MY POOR KEYBOARD! *Kali is proud of her keyboard because its black, silver, had a red sticker, and green lights* XD Its my Kurama and Hiei keyboard... To bad there is no gold... *gets her gold paint marker and writes Tori on it*
Nuria: O.O PAINT MARKER! *Steals Kali's silver and gold paint marker, and her mothers red and green permanent markers, and Kali's black permanent marker* *Gets hyper because of the fumes from drawing all over Kali's desk with them* WHEEEE!
Hiei: ... You got paint markers and permanent markers in out colors?
Kali: ^^; yeah... *Note Kali's project is black, silver, gold, greed, and red* *cough*
Kurama: *Trying to calm Nuria down*
Kali: *Is now listening to a Hiei music video made with Staring at the Sun* *Sobs* I dun own YYH, but the plot, the element properties of White Fire, and the original characters. Are. MINE.
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Yuusuke and Kuwabara called out as they saw Kurama frown and fall forward. Hiei growled and darted forward, reaching Kurama just as he hit the ground. Yukina was quick to follow the fire demon. The second Kurama frowned, the flames had flickered and died, and Yuusuke felt the cool breeze fade. The two teens started to get up to see Kurama, but Botan stopped the two. her face serious as she spoke.
"You two need healing, Hiei and Yukina can take care of Kurama." It was then that the two noticed the states of each other, Hiei, and finally took full notice of Kurama's wounds. Yuusuke frowned, so Crevan HAD tried to pick them off one by one... Seemed that he had taken the 3 of them first, to weaken them and get full control of their powers so that he could take down Kurama... But why did he want to kill Kurama? Yuusuke sighed and decided to ask Hiei later. He blinked, remembering Shori as he glanced over her and saw her staring wide eyes, a look of shock mixed with guilt as she watched Hiei and Yukina tend to her "son". Yuusuke couldn't help feel bad for her. She may have rejected Kurama as her son and hurt his feelings, but he couldn't really blame her. Her life had been completely normal to her eyes. She had a good home, job, and the perfect son.
Then suddenly she was getting nightmares of her son turning into a demon, and killing her, getting a strange bite wound, then finding that her son really was that demon in the dream, and that he had been lying to her for years. Then to top it off she was dragged into a crazy battle, and thrown into more nightmares, then to wake up to find the person who she had always thought of as a son surrounded by a strange cool fire and dying. Yuusuke watched, not noticing the painful poking and prodding of Botan, as Shori stood up and meekly made her way towards the 2 demons tending to her "son". Kuwabara was also watching silently, a similar look of sympathy on his face.
.:*:.
Hiei glanced up, his eyes narrowing as he watched the human woman approach. He wanted to give her a good slap to the face for hurting Kurama like she had, but Yukina's sad look stopped him from doing anything, and Hiei went back to ripping his shirt into trips to wrap Kurama's wounds. They had taken what was left of Kurama's bloody, torn, and burnt tunic off and used what little clean areas there were to wipe pooling blood off his body. Hiei frowned and cursed softly as he ran out of clean areas of his shirt to wrap Kurama's wounds with. He blinked slightly in surprise as Shori held out her blazer from work for him to use. Taking it silently Hiei gave a nod in thanks, Yukina smiling slightly at Hiei with a "I told you so" sort of look. (Ugh, not sure if I have Yukina knowing Hiei is her brother in this story... But I'll just say she does. *Bets 5 dollars that she said some where in one of the early chapters that Yukina doesn't know*) Hiei shook his head softly, allowing his sister to tease him silently.
Hiei blinked surprised as Shori sat, holding Kurama's head in her lap. He went back to work wrapping Kurama's wounds, letting his thoughts wander. She had probably figured that Kurama had gotten these wounds to save them from Crevan, and how he had grown so angry at Crevan before when she was in danger. Indeed it had dawned upon Shori that even though he looked different, and she had rejected him and hurt him, he still seemed to love her just as much as he did before. He had opened himself to her and told her everything, telling every single thing that he had lied to her about before... Besides... His ears were cute looking. She grinned faintly, tweaking one of his ears slightly, scratching behind the other.
Both Yukina and Hiei blinked as Kurama's right foot twitched and they could hear him purring faintly. They glanced over to see Shori grinning slightly and scratching behind one of Kurama's ears. Yukina giggled slightly and Hiei shook his head, leaning forward slightly to hide a smile. It faded though as he wondered if Kurama had mentioned their relationship to Shori, he REALLY didn't want any more surprises to come between Kurama and his mother that would cause either to become upset again.
.:*:.
It had taken a while but Botan had finally gotten both of the boys patched up, though they still have a few wounds and would be sore for a week or two. She made her way over to Hiei, and began to heal him with what energy was left, despite his angry pretests and curses. Yukina got him to calm down and when she felt Kurama was healed enough she used her remaining energy to help Botan heal Hiei, who by now was sulking angrily. Shori watched in amusement before frowning slightly and raising a question.
"How are you going to get Suii-Kurama back?" At that everyone either frowned or groaned. There was no way the women could carry a 7 foot tall youko, even if he was extremely light for his height, and none of the males where in the condition to carry a kitsune on their back. Botan frowned, summoning her oar.
"I could probably fly him to Genkai's temple... but I might be seen and I can't fly and hold him right at the same time..." Hiei frowned slightly.
"I can hold him... If you can fly right..." Botan gave a angry yelp and swung her oar at Hiei's head, but the demon jumped back, avoiding the hit.
"Jerk! Of course I can fly right!" Yuusuke snorted at that.
"I feel bad for whoever was your flying instructor..." Botan gave another shout and swung at Yuusuke's head. Unfortunitly for him, he wasn't as quick on his feet as Hiei, and earned himself a nice large bump on the head. Grumbling Yuusuke rubbed his head as Botan and Hiei climbed onto the oar, managing to get Kurama on with them. The two looked slightly uncomfortable. Hiei trying to hold on to Kurama with one hand, and onto the oar with the other, and Botan had Kurama leaning on her slightly. After adjusting themselves for a moment, Botan finally took off, Yuusuke sighed and rubbed the back of his head.
"Time to visit the old hag again..." At the thought of all those steps Yuusuke and Kuwabara groaned, leaving Yukina to giggle and Shori to look confused.
.:*:.
Kurama's golden eyes flickered open slowly, the world slowly starting to focus. He smiled slightly as a certain black haired, crimson eyed, fire demon came into view. Hiei allowed himself a faint smile as he sat by Kurama side.
"About time." Kurama smirked slightly, and stretched, giving a large fanged yawn. Reaching up, and minding a few wounds, Kurama pulled Hiei down next to him, curling up next to the fire demon on the bed they were on, nuzzling Hiei's neck with his nose. Hiei snorted softly at the animal like nuzzling that Kurama was giving him.
"Hn... Baka Kits-- Hey!" Hiei glared at Kurama, who held a large, very fox like grin of mischeviousness. Hiei rubbed his neck and grumbled softly.
"No bitting..." Kurama responded, poking Hiei's nose.
"No baka kitsune's either." Hiei stayed silent, his glare growing darker. It faded away as Kurama pulled away, stretching again. Hiei then noticed the marking on Kurama's arm. He frowned slightly and pointed to the golden fox mark on Kurama's shoulder.
"What's that?" Kurama frowned sitting up and turning his head, twisting his arm gingerly, mindful of wound, to look at it. Hiei frowned as Kurama's eyes flickered, emotions quickly coming and going. Confusion, sorrow, anger, love, hate, realization, pride, longing, and finally back to sorrow again.
"MY mother." Hiei frowned, confused for a moment when he remembered the fact that Kurama had once had a demon mother. Lightly tracing the outside of the mark with his finger, causing Kurama to shiver slightly, Hiei spoke.
"When did she give you that?" Kurama frowned, thinking back.
"Around 1420 years ago..." Hiei blinked surprised. He knew Kurama was old, but not that OLD! He smirked slightly, giving into temptation.
"You're and old geezer." Kurama blinked, surprised, but then quickly glazed and wholloped Hiei with his pillow.
"Thats the last time I tell you anything..." Kurama's tail puffed up slightly in playful annoyance. Hiei smirked and reached over, scratching behind Kurama's ear. Immediately, Kurama's scowl faded and he gave a faint purring noise. After a moment he pulled his head away and glared again.
"Thats not getting you out of trouble this time Hiei." Hiei frowned, trying his best to pout, and he was doing a pretty miserable job at it too. he glared frustrated, and before Kurama could react, he leaned forward and pulled Kurama into a kiss. For a second Kurama resisted, but he quickly gave in, nipping softly at Hiei's lips, leaning into the demon. The two jumped slightly though and pulled back, looking for a second like two kids caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Shori was standing in the door way, her face red from blushing at catching the two demon's kissing. She quickly shuffled forward, her face still meek, and her eyes gazing at the floor. Hiei moved off the bed and over to the other side of the room, and Kurama shifted so he was sitting cross legged on the best, his tail across his lap.
Shori sat down next to him, both looking uncomfortable for a moment or so. After a moment, Shori leaned over, wrapping her arms around Kurama, her head leaning on his arm as she hugged him.
"I'm so sorry Suiichi..." Kurama blinked slightly surprised by the hug, but more so by the use of his human name. He was slightly hesitant, but he hugged Shori back softly. After a moment they both pulled back,and Shori stared down at her hands that were folded in her lap.
"I Shouldn't have acted like I had... But... After all these years of thinking I had a normal son... And that dream... It had scared me, and I wasn't thinking clearly... I hadn't given myself enough time to think about things and cool down... I treated you so unfairly!" her voice seemed to waver. Kurama frowned and hugged her again. His youko side feeling awkward at the use of physical contact in a loving manner with some one other then Hiei.
"Its not your fault... I should have told you before... but I had been worried about what you would think of me... and Crevan," His voice grew dark at the use of the name, causing Shori to tense for a second, though she relaxed when his voice was normal as he continued, "had toyed with you." Shori smiled as he pulled away. She stood and patted him on the shoulder, allowing another small grin as she tweaked his ear and he seemed to pout slightly in annoyance. She soon blushed again though as she spoke.
"I'll leave you with your... er, Hiei." She quickly moved out of the room. Kurama glanced at Hiei on the wall, giving him a suggestive look. The fire demon rolled his eyes, but before either could say anything, Kuwabara, Yuusuke, Botan, and Yukina burst into the room... Well, more like Yuusuke and Kuwabara burst in, Yukina and Botan just followed. Yuusuke grinned, hugging Kurama, forgetting about the youko's wounds till he heard Kurama hiss, Hiei growl, and felt Kurama bite his shoulder lightly in warning that he was getting angry. Yuusuke yelped and let go quickly, sweat dropping and holding his hands in front of him.
"Gomen! I forgot about your injuries." Kurama's angry look faded too one of amusement as Hiei rolled his eyes and commented.
"Yuusuke, practically the only thing he is wearing is bandages." This caused Yukina and Botan to sweatdrop and blush slightly, and Kuwabara and Yuusuke to blink, and take a good like at the Youko. Sure enough, the only thing Kurama had on OTHER then bandages, where a pair of white boxers, which were supplied from Shizuru, who had stolen them from Kuwabara's dresser and cut a hole in them for Kurama's tail. Kuwabara sulked.
"Those were mine..." Yuusuke snickered slightly before growing serious.
"Hey Kurama... What was with the fire that was in the forest when we woke up?" This caused everyone to grow serious, their eyes turning to Kurama. The youko frowned, seeming uncomfortable. He was hoping they wouldn't ask him about it. It would just raise a bunch of questions and discussions of the past that he didn't want, but they deserved to know in a way.
"Its a special element... White Fire..." Hiei looked slightly surprised before frowning again, he had heard of that... It was extremely rare. Genkai by this time had stepped into the room, and took over for the youko.
"White Fire?" Kurama nodded. Genkai thought for a moment before speaking.
"White Fire, a extremely rare element. Few have it, and it can only be gained through parents, or taking the blood of some one who has it, and doing some special spell and drinking the blood." Everyone glanced at Kurama, causing him to give a annoyed glare.
"My MOTHER gave it to me... I don't drink blood for power..." Yuusuke sweat dropped, not wanting to make Kurama any angrier, so he quickly changed the subject.
"Does it do something special other then being a weird color? Well... Then again, Hiei's is a weird color too..." Genkai glanced at Kurama, letting him explain. Kurama was silent for a moment before explaining.
"Hai, it has special effects. The controller can summon a spirit, and the spirit will make its body out of fire, and will usually fight for you if you ask it to. Also the one who controls it can tell it what, and what not, to burn... So i could light the entire forest on fire, and tell it to burn only animals, and not plants, and it would do just that... or I could tell it to only burn a specific being, and nothing else, and it would burn that on particular creature, and nothing else." Yuusuke blinked.
"So that's what you did to Crevan? You spread your fire through the forest and told it to only burn him?" Kurama shook his head slightly.
"Yes and no... He was still in the clearing, and even before I told it to burn him, I was holding him by his throat... I'm not quiet sure why I had set my fire through the clearing and some of the forest... I guess... To scare him... or to make sure he didn't get away." Kuwabara blinked and pointed to the burn marks on Kurama's cheeks, and his bandaged sides.
"Then why are you burnt?"
"He was using Hiei's black fire on me." This gained a dark glare from Hiei.
"Did he use my dragon?" Kurama nodded.
"Hai, near the end... I summoned a spirit..." Yuusuke cut in, asking a question Kurama had hoped he wouldn't.
"Whose spirit?" The others frowned slightly, catching onto Kurama's slight hesitation, and his soft tone.
"The spirit of my demon mother. She made the body of her fox form out of fire, and fought the dragon, beating it." The others blinked, surprised. So... White Fire was stronger then Hiei's black fire? Well... It wasn't TOO surprising. Being they had seen others take Hiei's dragon head on and either deflect it, or absorb it, like Bui and Mukuro. Still... That had to have taken a TON of energy... not to mention Kurama had to be pretty damn strong to keep it under control. Yuusuke frowned.
"How come you never used to before?" Kurama frowned.
"Didn't know I could... I didn't even though I had the ability." Botan blinked, taking her turn to question.
"Could you use it again?" Kurama shrugged, growing tired of all the questions, especially ones that were kind of obvious.
"Probably. Though, like Hiei's dragon... it would be a one time in a fight thing I guess..." Yukina moved forward, ending the questioning as she made a quick check over of Kurama's wounds. Yuusuke and Kuwabara looked confused, though they seemed less confused then they had been before. Genkai had already left, along with Botan, and Hiei was leaning against the wall with his eyes shut. Finding everything to her liking Yukina smiled and left, reminding Kurama to get some rest. Now with everyone gone Hiei took a few steps forward as he pushed off the wall and then opened his eyes. He blinked as he looked around and Kurama wasn't in sight. He gave a soft yelp and jumped slightly as suddenly from behind Kurama pounced on him, nearly causing both of the demons to fall on the floor. Hiei growled and pried Kurama off, dragging Kurama over to the bed and shoving him down onto it.
"Baka... Youko," Kurama frowned as Hiei dodged around his rule from before, "Don't do that." Kurama's sulking was forgotten though as Hiei kissed him.
"Sleep." Kurama sulked, and then grinned. Kurama wrapped is arms around Hiei's one arm and he rubbed his cheek on Hiei's shoulder. His voice was nearly purring as he spoke.
"Come on Hiei... Lets do something, other then sleeping." Hiei rolled his eyes and reached over, flicking off the light.
"Yes, like turning off the lights and pulling the blankets up, then shutting our eyes and dreaming." Kurama glared and grumbled something before pressing his body against Hiei's and wrapping his arms around the demon. Sighing softly Kurama buried his face in Hiei's neck and drifted off to sleep. Hiei smiled fondly down at his itooshi.
"Sweet dreams."
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Kali: DONE! ALL DONE! ... *Sobs* I'm gonna miss this story! Damn... Its taken me nearly 3 whole months to do this... I'm so slow!
Kurama: ...
Hiei: ...
Kali: ...
Nuria: ...
Kali: Erm... why are we "..."?
Kurama: Because we don't know what to say?
Hiei: Hn
Nuria: FWEEEE!
Kurama: ... I can't see Hiei saying sweet dreams...
Hiei: Whats that supposed to mean? At least I waited until you were asleep...
Kurama: *Sulks* I wanted to hear it though...
Kali: Its irony... Note how the whole story is based off nightmares... and then the last line is SWEET dreams.
Nuria: So... sleepy...
Kali: Oo You were sleeping nearly the whole story!
Nuria: *Shrugs and makes herself comfy and Kurama and Hiei's bed and falls asleep*
Kali: ^^; Right... Any way... R&R and see you next time! HAPPY HUNTING ALL!