With you

Part 12: A clever plan

By: Sano

Standard YYH disclaimer

Note: Wow! My creative juices are flowing! First 'Realization', then 'Forgotten', now 'With you'! This part is dedicated to Briana and all the other people who encourage me by sending feedback *throws kitsune-shaped creampuffs everywhere*. Thanks you guys! Enjoy the fic!

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"Shuu-chan!"

Kurama's head looked up from the book he was trying to read for the past 20 minutes on botany and faced Maya with a forced smile on his face. "What is it?"

Maya didn't seem to notice his lack of enthusiasm and grabbed the book out of Kurama's hands. She held the cover in front of her face and frowned. "How can you read such boring books?" She threw the book on the sofa and held one of Kurama's hands.

"Shuuichi…" She trailed off as she played with his hand. "Since our wedding is coming up and all…my friends want to throw a little pre-wedding party for us…do you mind?" She looked up and locked eyes with Kurama, her brown eyes pleading him.

'Why should you let her? Your already getting married, what's the point in making another party? What about Hiei? Have you forgotten about that kiss? Besides, you'll just get the house dirty.' A voice spoke at the edge of Kurama's mind.

'You should. It would be the opportunity to unwind, and forget that…incident. You'll be able to forget about Hiei…' Another voice spoke.

Kurama was in deep thought. Both reasons were…acceptable, but after a few moments of thinking. The second voice won over, and he agreed to Maya's decision.

"Honto?" She squealed. "Oh, Arigato, Shuuichi!! I'll call them right now to tell them you agreed!!" With one last thankful hug, Maya ran to the phone on her room to tell her friends.

"Yare, yare…" Kurama sighed. He picked his book up from the sofa and sat down on the big wicker chair, maybe some forced reading would take his mind of a certain fire demon's lips.

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"Hello? Yuusuke-kun? Ah, this is Maya…I was wondering if you could come to a party…yes…it's for Shuuichi and me…can you come?" She twirled the phone cord around her index finger.

"You can…oh, and Yuusuke-kun…can you bring Hiei-san too?" Maya's face broke out into a smile. "Good…don't tell Shuu-chan. I want it to be a surprise for him. I want him to see all his friends…Arigato, Yuusuke-kun…" She hung up the phone and lied down on the bed.

Won't Shuuichi be surprised when he sees all his friends there at the party.

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*Hides behind a Keikkai* you can all send your flames now. Okay, I really didn't mean to do such a lovey-dovey scene between Kurama and Maya okay? I just needed to do that to keep the plot of the story flowing. Besides, they're engaged. They probably would have slept together already! *Gets buried under a pile of old gym socks* Yuck! In this story, they haven't slept yet. I'm keeping Maya quite innocent here so don't worry. Won't Kurama be surprised to see his Koi there, ne? Imagine them in Kurama's ro- *clamps hand over her mouth* Ooops…I'm revealing too much am I? Oh yeah, 'yare, yare' means 'Oh, boy'. At least, that's what Rukawa always says and that's what the subtitles are.

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