I'm sorry I hadn't written a new chapter in a while, but I sort of lost interest in this for a while and I hadn't been getting many reviews on this when I last updated. If anyone has some ideas or requests for this fic, than please let me know!
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~*~ Kurama's POV: next morning (10 a.m.) ~*~
The memory of last night's hunt was still strong in my memory. I had wanted to kill a fellow demon, even if she did associate with humans. Didn't I associate with them on a daily basis? Wasn't I living as a human? Even so, it went against my code to slaughter demons. Our demon race was rapidly declining. It became sort of a goal to hunt down humans for fun to allow them to become a small population, matching the demon.
I shook my head slightly. The desire to kill her had overpowered me, now that I think of it. I must admit that I enjoy the thrill of hunting down prey, but killing them never gave me pleasure the way it seemed to give Hiei. Maybe I had stopped Hiei from killing Miah only because I wanted to kill her instead. What was wrong with me?!
"Hn. What's the matter, fox? Don't tell me that you're exhausted from being out all night. Feh, you're slowly becoming human," Hiei said in his bored monotone.
A fury seemed to well up in me for some unknown reason. I was used to Hiei's taunting. It frustrated me at times, but not enough for me to become angry with him. "I wish you would come up with a different insult. This one is growing quite old," I replied. What was wrong with me? Did I really allow that to slip my mouth? Even more importantly, it was something I would never say. I didn't really care if Hiei teased me.
~*~ Hiei's POV ~*~
I blinked at him, thinking I had heard wrong. "What?" I asked, surprised at his tone of voice.
"Nothing. I don't know what came over me." He avoided my gaze and sat at the wooden object he called a desk. "I need to do my homework," he said quickly.
I watched him from my usual seat on his windowsill. I think that windowsill is the right word. My arms were crossed over my chest. "What's been wrong with you? You didn't let me kill the girl. Usually, you'd let me kill whoever I wanted." I asked him. He didn't answer me as he sat shuffling through extremely thin pieces of wood with markings on them.
(a/n: Hiei means paper, incase ya didn't know!)
I probed his mind, wondering what he was thinking if he couldn't tell me. My head began to throb painfully. Hn. He was blocking me out somehow.
Wait. He, in human form, wouldn't be able to block my Jagan out. Somehow his other form was gaining control over his thoughts. That must have been what made him talk back to me in that way.
"I hate it when you try to read my thoughts. I made it clear to you didn't I? My thoughts aren't yours to be read," Kurama suddenly said in an uncharacteristically harsh tone. "This is the last time I am going to say this to you. Do it again and your arm will be detached from your body. Understand?"
I stared at him. Who the hell did he think he was? The Kurama I knew wouldn't let something simple bother him. At least, he wouldn't let it be known and here he was, threatening to slice off my arm. Now I was convinced. Youko had to be taking over. How did this happen?
"Have you turned deaf as well?" Kurama turned, his green eyes full of fire. "Do you understand me?!"
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Why are you doing this, Youko?"
A smirk appeared on his lips. "You don't know, do you? You've become too simple minded. And you say that Suichi has become soft from living as a human. Use your worthless Jagan to see past it. Suichi is human." The smirk left his face. "His will power is unusually strong for a human. He's able to keep me from pushing me to the surface more often than what you've been able to see of me." The smirk returned. "Until now. Now, with his mind weakened and confused, I have easy control over him."
"No shit. If he did let you out, every race on the face of the earth would be wiped out."
"Perhaps. I would kill everyone that is weak. I'm becoming bored enslaved in this worthless human skin.." He walked closer to me. I felt his Reiki rise to allow Youko's true form to appear. His gold colored eyes studied me, just as Kurama did countless times. Only this time, Youko was making me uncomfortably aware that he was more powerful than me.
"You appreciate a good kill, do you not?"
I kept quiet, wondering what the catch was. I enjoyed killing humans. Human filth deserved to die, but here Youko was, inviting me to do what he knew I enjoyed?
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
"Don't you?" Youko repeated, his amber eyes glowing with a sadistic light.
"What's the catch?" Hiei asked at last.
"Catch? Must there be a catch to destroy the lowly species?"
Hiei glared at him. "Kurama was never actually hunting the humans, was he? It was your influence."
A melodic laugh escaped the fox demon's lips. "You give the human far too much credit. Your precious Kurama isn't as perfect as you think. No no, he, too, enjoys the hunt. He enjoys the way the scent of human fear overpowers his senses. He liked killing that lowly Spirit Detective, but that demon trash you met . . .he didn't want to kill her. I had to take over then, but he fought me and managed to stop you from killing her as well."
He shrugged casually and raised a slender arm to brush a strand of silver hair from his amber eyes. "I've strayed off the subject, I'm afraid. You want a catch? Here it is. I can find your sister within a week, unlike you."
"I know where she is," Hiei retorted.
"Do you?"
The Jagan eye glowed faintly. Hiei was able to see where Yukina was, but he wasn't able to pinpoint her exact location. He scowled and avoided the insinuating eyes.
Youko smiled. "I told you, now allow me to continue. Join me in killing the humans and I'll help you find your sister."
"And if I refuse?"
The Death Plant wrapped around Youko's arms and snapped in front of Hiei's face. "I think these speak for themselves, don't you?"
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