Konoko: Hello! I'm finally healed from the beating I got from Kurama. Yay
for me. anyway I'm pleased to announce that I'll be able to update more
often now. Because of this joyful fact who ever review's this story gets a
free scene for them added to the story. Make sure it fits and that I'll
like it. So let the contest began. AND HERE'S CHAPTER FOUR! YAY!
Kitsune Rouge
Act VI: The Lovers Are Discovered!
"We will have a new completely modern, entirely electric, bohemian stage spectacular!" Yomi shouted to the employees of the Kitsune Rouge.
Karasu sat beside Kurama who was happy and excited that their deal went through. He stole a glance at the fox who looked at him and gave a nervous smile which he returned. Kurama looked over at Yusuke who sat across the room with Keiko clinging to him. He smiled seductively at the young writer who blushed and smiled warmly. They had been at it like rabbits since the night before and couldn't seem to keep away from each other. When Yomi dismissed everyone to have one last show as Kitsune Rouge the nightclub, Kurama got up to get ready for his last performance as a courtesan. Yomi, however, stopped him. Kurama gave him a questioning glance.
"What is it, Yomi? I have to get ready."
"I'm sorry Kurama, but you won't be able to perform tonight."
"Why?!"
"Karasu had a few conditions for us to follow before he let us have the money. He doesn't want you to perform unless it's as an actor. He doesn't want anyone but him to see you scantly clad. He doesn't even want me touching you. You belong to him now and if we don't go along with that we could lose the Kitsune Rouge."
"Wait stop! you mean you signed me off as a contract to that psychotic asshole! I don't believe this!"
"If I didn't we wouldn't have had this chance!"
"My! I thought I was a bit More important than that, Yomi!" Kurama yelled.
"Like it or not I have no say in it anymore. I can't take you or the Kitsune back!"
"When you had a say in it you just immediately signed me off to him. But I guess that's youkai loyalty for you! Listen, I don't even want you near me anymore! Go to hell. And as for Karasu he isn't going to touch me!"
"Well I wonder how you're gonna pull that one off when you have to have dinner with him tonight!"
"You promised him a dinner with me! Why don't you give him my soul while you're at it!" Kurama yelled to the top of his lungs.
He stopped and coughed violently. Yomi put a hand on his back and stomach to steady him as he fought through his fit. Kurama broke away from him and punched him in the jaw. He glared and ran still coughing. When he reached his room he could barely stay on his feet. Leaning against the door Kurama rested and let his fit subside. Breathing heavily he collapsed on the bed. That's all Yomi ever thinks of. Money, Kurama thought. Well that's fine! Because I belong to no one except Yusuke. Karasu will never own me. NEVER!
He gasped when he felt a hand caress his hair.
"Are you alright, koi?"
Kurama felt his blood run cold as he bolted up right and stood. He gasped in air trying to compose himself. Karasu looked at him a bit concerned.
"Yes I'm alright! I'm just very tired."
"I assume Yomi told you about the contract. I thought that you'd be thrilled."
"Oh! I was!" he lied. "I just get really over worked by surprises. And I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't perform tonight."
"they are undeserving of your beauty," Karasu said backing Kurama into a wall. "Elegance such as yours should be admire by those of true taste such as my self."
Kurama smiled nervously. "You flatter me but I really should rest I have a big day today and I have to get back with Yusuke on the play."
Karasu pressed against Kurama making the fox's panic meter hit the roof. "I'm sure you can spare time for me now." The dark youkai whispered in the fox's ear.
Kurama couldn't think clearly because fear was over running his senses.
"Um, excuse me," a meek voice cried.
Karasu turned allowing Kurama to see who had interrupted. Karasu scowled at the little aqua haired koorime. Kurama sighed with a smile at her. Yukina bowed.
"I'm sorry for interrupting but we need Kurama to go over some things with us."
"Karasu as much as I would love to continue work must come before play. Excuse me?"
"Fine, I'll see you at dinner tonight then."
Kurama nodded and practically ran to Yukina and led her off. Once they were out of hearing distance Kurama thanked Yukina.
"Boy, you have good timing. I can't thank you enough, Yukina-chan."
She smiled cheerfully. "None necessary. Yusuke would have killed me if I had a chance to stop him and didn't take it!"
Kurama laughed with her.
'Kurama would not be attending the dinner that night or the following night. He and I were stuck together too often to allow it. We were very grateful for that.'
Kurama and Yusuke were making out passionately in Kurama's dressing room. Their scripts, long since forgotten, were still in their hands. They immediately broke apart when Karasu walked in looking for Kurama.
"Still at, fox?"
"Oh, Karasu, there are so many lines to learn I've been trilling them over and over!" Kurama said flushed.
Yusuke looked away hiding his red face behind the script. Karasu eyed him suspiciously. Kurama hugged Karasu's arm to distract him from what ever he was thinking.
"How about an outing together? I could use sometime off."
'Try as he might, Karasu couldn't get Kurama alone. We kept coming up with perfectly legitimate reasons to avoid him. '
Kurama and Karasu were watching the rehearsal of the first stages of the play. Kurama signaled with his eyes for Yusuke to come over. Yusuke nodded and walked over and put his head between their shoulders.
"Kurama-san, I haven't finished writing that new scene um 'will the lovers be meeting at the sitar player's humble abode scene?' and I was wondering could you help me with later tonight."
"Koi," Karasu said. "I already had a dinner planned for us in the rose tower tonight."
"Oh well we could try another time."
Kurama look of mock anger. "How dare you, Yusuke! It can't wait until tomorrow! 'The Lovers will be meeting in the sitar player's humble abode' scene is the most important in the entire production. We will work on it until I'm completely satisfied!"
"Kurama-" Karasu started.
"Karasu, forgive me. I have to take a rain check." Kurama said standing. " excuse me."
Kurama exited the little scene and Yusuke bowed to Karasu and left as well. Backstage, they found each other a laughed at their plan. Yusuke pushed the red head against the wall and kissed him deeply. Kurama wrapped his arms around the younger boy. Downstairs Karasu stomped angrily to Yomi.
"Karasu-sama. everything set for that dinner in the tower?"
"You might as well eat it yourself! His affections are waning!"
"Impossible!"
"I know how important his work is to him but he's always at it with that goddamn writer!"
Yomi looked up as Karasu was talking and saw Kurama and Yusuke kissing passionately. Karasu, curious as to what Yomi was staring at, turned in the direction of Yomi's sight. Yomi immediately stopped him.
"NO! Karasu-sama. I'll insist that Kurama takes the night off!"
Karasu narrowed his violet eyes at Yomi and agreed. "Fine then. Eight 'o clock ."
As Karasu exited, Yomi cast an enraged glare at the two as they walked off with Yusuke pulling Kurama out of sight. Kurama laughed as Yusuke pressed him against the wall and nibbled at his neck.
"Yusuke! come on now we have to get back to work."
"To hell with work!" Yusuke spouted kissing Kurama.
Kurama pulled away regretfully. "Stop Yusuke someone's going see. Now you go back to work!"
"Alright but I will see ya to night?"
Kurama looked down to if Yomi was anywhere insight and then back Yusuke.
"Yes."
"Eight 'o clock?"
"yes! Now go!"
Yusuke gave a goofy grin and walked away. Kurama laughed and walked in the opposite direction bumping dead into Yomi. He didn't like the look the taller youkai was giving him.
"Hello Yomi."
"Are you mad?! Karasu holds the deeds to the Kitsune Rouge! He's bought you a beautiful new dressing room; he's spending a fortune on you; he wants to make you a star! And you're dallying with that bastard Yusuke!"
"Yomi what are you-"
"I saw you together!" He yelled.
The fox backed down and away from him. He looked away and tried to play it off. "It's nothing! It's just an infatuation...it's nothing." Kurama whispered.
"The infatuation will end. Go to the boy and tell him its over! Karasu expects you in the tower at eight!"
Yomi stomped off leaving Kurama alone to think about his next move. The encounter with Yomi and all the worrying was taking it's toll on Kurama. That's it then, he thought. I have to tell Yusuke it's over before I get us both into more trouble. But I can't leave him. what am I going to do?
"If I should die this very moment...I wouldn't fear" he sang in almost a whispered.
"For I've never known completeness like being here...wrapped in the warmth of you...loving....every breath of you."
Kurama felt his heart rate increase again. "Why live life" he whispered. "From dream to dream" he inhaled sharply. " and dread the day...." He couldn't breathe any longer as another severe coughing fit took over him.
'how could I have known....in those last fatal days. An force darker than jealousy and stronger than our love began to wilt my desert rose.'
Blood trickled down the side of Kurama's mouth. He quickly wiped it away holding on to the dresser for support. He gasped and coughed but nothing could relieve the tightness in his chest. With a final gasp Kurama fell to the floor with a flow of blood coming from his mouth. He barely heard Yukina's gasp before he was lost to the endless abyss.
Yusuke waited in his apartment for Kurama but the fox was late. He suddenly felt suspicious the Yomi had coaxed Kurama into going to the diner with Karasu. As the hours passed he the suspected the worse; Kurama had lied to him and went to Karasu on his own. Like Yusuke, Karasu stood in the rose tower waiting. He was, for lack of a better word, pissed off! Yomi stood on the balcony wondering where the hell Kurama was. George came up beside him and whispered,
"The duke's leaving!"
"Wait Karasu! Um...Um HE'S CONFESSING!"
Karasu gave Yomi a spiteful unbelieving look. "Confessing?! What kind of fool do you take me for Yomi?"
"Well he was on his way here and he had the strangest desire to go to a priest and um confess his sins. You see he wanted to be cleansed of his former life. He looked upon tonight as his...um wedding night!"
Karasu walked towards Yomi and stared him calculatingly. "His wedding night?"
"Yeah....he's like a blushing bride, er groom, or what ever. He told me that you make him feel..." Yomi looked around as if to make sure no one was listening. " Virgin."
Karasu eyes took a new sinister light. "Virgin?"
"You know, touched for the very first time."
"Virgin."
Yomi nodded. "He said that it feels so good inside, when you hold him and you touch him."
"Virgin.." Karasu repeated smirking beneath his mask.
"He made it through the wilderness somehow. He made it though! He didn't know how lost he was until he found you!"
Frighteningly enough Yomi stared singing. "He was beat; incomplete. He had been had! He was sad and blue. But you made him feel. Yes you ma-a-a-a-ade him feel shiny and new ooooh. Like a virgin!"
The servants even jumped in. "Like a virgin."
"Touched for the very first time!"
Yomi and the servants: "Like a vir-ir-ir-ir-irgin!"
Yomi: "When your hearts beat, both in time! Gonna give you all his love. His fear is fading fast. He saving it all-"
servants: "FOR YOU!"
Yomi: "only love can last!"
Yomi grabbed one of the table cloths and wrapped it around his head and pranced around like a virgin maiden. Karasu sweatdropped at the sight.
Yomi: "He's so fine!"
serv.: " HE'S SO FINE!"
Yomi: "And he's thine" (I wonder if the person who made this song knows that 'thine' is not a word? Konoko: Shut up Yomi you're ruining the moment!)
Serv. : "AND HE'S THINE"
Yomi: "He'll be yours to the end of time! Cause you made him feel he has nothing to hide!"
Yomi shoved Karasu on a rotating bed as he and the others danced around him.
Yomi: "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time!"
Serv.: "VERY FIRST TI-I-I-I-IME!"
Yomi: "when you hold him and you touch him...OH!"
They spun Karasu round and round until he was too dizzy to make sense and the psycho youkai joined in on the singing.
"he's so fine. And he's mine. He makes me strong, he makes me bold. Now his love's thawed out. Yeas his lo-o-o-o-ove thawed out; what was scared and cold."
Karasu stalked up on Yomi who backed away with a sweatdrop eclipsing his head. Yomi turned and ran screaming like a little girl with Karasu after him.
Yomi: "LIKE A VIRGIN!"
Karasu: "Feels so good inside! When I hold him and I touch him and oooh!'
Karasu chased Yomi onto one of the table where Yomi sat leaning away from Karasu as the dark youkai towered over him. They finished with a harmonizing finally.
Yo & Ka: "LIKE A VIR-IR-GIN!"
They danced around together and struck a pose.
A/n: hmm.that was some horrifying stuff. Anyway hope it was up to par. I kinda rushed this but the next two are going to be the best cause they both contain my two favorite songs in the movie. So stay tuned and tell me what you think! Kay! See ya soon in ACT V: Come What May!
Kitsune Rouge
Act VI: The Lovers Are Discovered!
"We will have a new completely modern, entirely electric, bohemian stage spectacular!" Yomi shouted to the employees of the Kitsune Rouge.
Karasu sat beside Kurama who was happy and excited that their deal went through. He stole a glance at the fox who looked at him and gave a nervous smile which he returned. Kurama looked over at Yusuke who sat across the room with Keiko clinging to him. He smiled seductively at the young writer who blushed and smiled warmly. They had been at it like rabbits since the night before and couldn't seem to keep away from each other. When Yomi dismissed everyone to have one last show as Kitsune Rouge the nightclub, Kurama got up to get ready for his last performance as a courtesan. Yomi, however, stopped him. Kurama gave him a questioning glance.
"What is it, Yomi? I have to get ready."
"I'm sorry Kurama, but you won't be able to perform tonight."
"Why?!"
"Karasu had a few conditions for us to follow before he let us have the money. He doesn't want you to perform unless it's as an actor. He doesn't want anyone but him to see you scantly clad. He doesn't even want me touching you. You belong to him now and if we don't go along with that we could lose the Kitsune Rouge."
"Wait stop! you mean you signed me off as a contract to that psychotic asshole! I don't believe this!"
"If I didn't we wouldn't have had this chance!"
"My! I thought I was a bit More important than that, Yomi!" Kurama yelled.
"Like it or not I have no say in it anymore. I can't take you or the Kitsune back!"
"When you had a say in it you just immediately signed me off to him. But I guess that's youkai loyalty for you! Listen, I don't even want you near me anymore! Go to hell. And as for Karasu he isn't going to touch me!"
"Well I wonder how you're gonna pull that one off when you have to have dinner with him tonight!"
"You promised him a dinner with me! Why don't you give him my soul while you're at it!" Kurama yelled to the top of his lungs.
He stopped and coughed violently. Yomi put a hand on his back and stomach to steady him as he fought through his fit. Kurama broke away from him and punched him in the jaw. He glared and ran still coughing. When he reached his room he could barely stay on his feet. Leaning against the door Kurama rested and let his fit subside. Breathing heavily he collapsed on the bed. That's all Yomi ever thinks of. Money, Kurama thought. Well that's fine! Because I belong to no one except Yusuke. Karasu will never own me. NEVER!
He gasped when he felt a hand caress his hair.
"Are you alright, koi?"
Kurama felt his blood run cold as he bolted up right and stood. He gasped in air trying to compose himself. Karasu looked at him a bit concerned.
"Yes I'm alright! I'm just very tired."
"I assume Yomi told you about the contract. I thought that you'd be thrilled."
"Oh! I was!" he lied. "I just get really over worked by surprises. And I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't perform tonight."
"they are undeserving of your beauty," Karasu said backing Kurama into a wall. "Elegance such as yours should be admire by those of true taste such as my self."
Kurama smiled nervously. "You flatter me but I really should rest I have a big day today and I have to get back with Yusuke on the play."
Karasu pressed against Kurama making the fox's panic meter hit the roof. "I'm sure you can spare time for me now." The dark youkai whispered in the fox's ear.
Kurama couldn't think clearly because fear was over running his senses.
"Um, excuse me," a meek voice cried.
Karasu turned allowing Kurama to see who had interrupted. Karasu scowled at the little aqua haired koorime. Kurama sighed with a smile at her. Yukina bowed.
"I'm sorry for interrupting but we need Kurama to go over some things with us."
"Karasu as much as I would love to continue work must come before play. Excuse me?"
"Fine, I'll see you at dinner tonight then."
Kurama nodded and practically ran to Yukina and led her off. Once they were out of hearing distance Kurama thanked Yukina.
"Boy, you have good timing. I can't thank you enough, Yukina-chan."
She smiled cheerfully. "None necessary. Yusuke would have killed me if I had a chance to stop him and didn't take it!"
Kurama laughed with her.
'Kurama would not be attending the dinner that night or the following night. He and I were stuck together too often to allow it. We were very grateful for that.'
Kurama and Yusuke were making out passionately in Kurama's dressing room. Their scripts, long since forgotten, were still in their hands. They immediately broke apart when Karasu walked in looking for Kurama.
"Still at, fox?"
"Oh, Karasu, there are so many lines to learn I've been trilling them over and over!" Kurama said flushed.
Yusuke looked away hiding his red face behind the script. Karasu eyed him suspiciously. Kurama hugged Karasu's arm to distract him from what ever he was thinking.
"How about an outing together? I could use sometime off."
'Try as he might, Karasu couldn't get Kurama alone. We kept coming up with perfectly legitimate reasons to avoid him. '
Kurama and Karasu were watching the rehearsal of the first stages of the play. Kurama signaled with his eyes for Yusuke to come over. Yusuke nodded and walked over and put his head between their shoulders.
"Kurama-san, I haven't finished writing that new scene um 'will the lovers be meeting at the sitar player's humble abode scene?' and I was wondering could you help me with later tonight."
"Koi," Karasu said. "I already had a dinner planned for us in the rose tower tonight."
"Oh well we could try another time."
Kurama look of mock anger. "How dare you, Yusuke! It can't wait until tomorrow! 'The Lovers will be meeting in the sitar player's humble abode' scene is the most important in the entire production. We will work on it until I'm completely satisfied!"
"Kurama-" Karasu started.
"Karasu, forgive me. I have to take a rain check." Kurama said standing. " excuse me."
Kurama exited the little scene and Yusuke bowed to Karasu and left as well. Backstage, they found each other a laughed at their plan. Yusuke pushed the red head against the wall and kissed him deeply. Kurama wrapped his arms around the younger boy. Downstairs Karasu stomped angrily to Yomi.
"Karasu-sama. everything set for that dinner in the tower?"
"You might as well eat it yourself! His affections are waning!"
"Impossible!"
"I know how important his work is to him but he's always at it with that goddamn writer!"
Yomi looked up as Karasu was talking and saw Kurama and Yusuke kissing passionately. Karasu, curious as to what Yomi was staring at, turned in the direction of Yomi's sight. Yomi immediately stopped him.
"NO! Karasu-sama. I'll insist that Kurama takes the night off!"
Karasu narrowed his violet eyes at Yomi and agreed. "Fine then. Eight 'o clock ."
As Karasu exited, Yomi cast an enraged glare at the two as they walked off with Yusuke pulling Kurama out of sight. Kurama laughed as Yusuke pressed him against the wall and nibbled at his neck.
"Yusuke! come on now we have to get back to work."
"To hell with work!" Yusuke spouted kissing Kurama.
Kurama pulled away regretfully. "Stop Yusuke someone's going see. Now you go back to work!"
"Alright but I will see ya to night?"
Kurama looked down to if Yomi was anywhere insight and then back Yusuke.
"Yes."
"Eight 'o clock?"
"yes! Now go!"
Yusuke gave a goofy grin and walked away. Kurama laughed and walked in the opposite direction bumping dead into Yomi. He didn't like the look the taller youkai was giving him.
"Hello Yomi."
"Are you mad?! Karasu holds the deeds to the Kitsune Rouge! He's bought you a beautiful new dressing room; he's spending a fortune on you; he wants to make you a star! And you're dallying with that bastard Yusuke!"
"Yomi what are you-"
"I saw you together!" He yelled.
The fox backed down and away from him. He looked away and tried to play it off. "It's nothing! It's just an infatuation...it's nothing." Kurama whispered.
"The infatuation will end. Go to the boy and tell him its over! Karasu expects you in the tower at eight!"
Yomi stomped off leaving Kurama alone to think about his next move. The encounter with Yomi and all the worrying was taking it's toll on Kurama. That's it then, he thought. I have to tell Yusuke it's over before I get us both into more trouble. But I can't leave him. what am I going to do?
"If I should die this very moment...I wouldn't fear" he sang in almost a whispered.
"For I've never known completeness like being here...wrapped in the warmth of you...loving....every breath of you."
Kurama felt his heart rate increase again. "Why live life" he whispered. "From dream to dream" he inhaled sharply. " and dread the day...." He couldn't breathe any longer as another severe coughing fit took over him.
'how could I have known....in those last fatal days. An force darker than jealousy and stronger than our love began to wilt my desert rose.'
Blood trickled down the side of Kurama's mouth. He quickly wiped it away holding on to the dresser for support. He gasped and coughed but nothing could relieve the tightness in his chest. With a final gasp Kurama fell to the floor with a flow of blood coming from his mouth. He barely heard Yukina's gasp before he was lost to the endless abyss.
Yusuke waited in his apartment for Kurama but the fox was late. He suddenly felt suspicious the Yomi had coaxed Kurama into going to the diner with Karasu. As the hours passed he the suspected the worse; Kurama had lied to him and went to Karasu on his own. Like Yusuke, Karasu stood in the rose tower waiting. He was, for lack of a better word, pissed off! Yomi stood on the balcony wondering where the hell Kurama was. George came up beside him and whispered,
"The duke's leaving!"
"Wait Karasu! Um...Um HE'S CONFESSING!"
Karasu gave Yomi a spiteful unbelieving look. "Confessing?! What kind of fool do you take me for Yomi?"
"Well he was on his way here and he had the strangest desire to go to a priest and um confess his sins. You see he wanted to be cleansed of his former life. He looked upon tonight as his...um wedding night!"
Karasu walked towards Yomi and stared him calculatingly. "His wedding night?"
"Yeah....he's like a blushing bride, er groom, or what ever. He told me that you make him feel..." Yomi looked around as if to make sure no one was listening. " Virgin."
Karasu eyes took a new sinister light. "Virgin?"
"You know, touched for the very first time."
"Virgin."
Yomi nodded. "He said that it feels so good inside, when you hold him and you touch him."
"Virgin.." Karasu repeated smirking beneath his mask.
"He made it through the wilderness somehow. He made it though! He didn't know how lost he was until he found you!"
Frighteningly enough Yomi stared singing. "He was beat; incomplete. He had been had! He was sad and blue. But you made him feel. Yes you ma-a-a-a-ade him feel shiny and new ooooh. Like a virgin!"
The servants even jumped in. "Like a virgin."
"Touched for the very first time!"
Yomi and the servants: "Like a vir-ir-ir-ir-irgin!"
Yomi: "When your hearts beat, both in time! Gonna give you all his love. His fear is fading fast. He saving it all-"
servants: "FOR YOU!"
Yomi: "only love can last!"
Yomi grabbed one of the table cloths and wrapped it around his head and pranced around like a virgin maiden. Karasu sweatdropped at the sight.
Yomi: "He's so fine!"
serv.: " HE'S SO FINE!"
Yomi: "And he's thine" (I wonder if the person who made this song knows that 'thine' is not a word? Konoko: Shut up Yomi you're ruining the moment!)
Serv. : "AND HE'S THINE"
Yomi: "He'll be yours to the end of time! Cause you made him feel he has nothing to hide!"
Yomi shoved Karasu on a rotating bed as he and the others danced around him.
Yomi: "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time!"
Serv.: "VERY FIRST TI-I-I-I-IME!"
Yomi: "when you hold him and you touch him...OH!"
They spun Karasu round and round until he was too dizzy to make sense and the psycho youkai joined in on the singing.
"he's so fine. And he's mine. He makes me strong, he makes me bold. Now his love's thawed out. Yeas his lo-o-o-o-ove thawed out; what was scared and cold."
Karasu stalked up on Yomi who backed away with a sweatdrop eclipsing his head. Yomi turned and ran screaming like a little girl with Karasu after him.
Yomi: "LIKE A VIRGIN!"
Karasu: "Feels so good inside! When I hold him and I touch him and oooh!'
Karasu chased Yomi onto one of the table where Yomi sat leaning away from Karasu as the dark youkai towered over him. They finished with a harmonizing finally.
Yo & Ka: "LIKE A VIR-IR-GIN!"
They danced around together and struck a pose.
A/n: hmm.that was some horrifying stuff. Anyway hope it was up to par. I kinda rushed this but the next two are going to be the best cause they both contain my two favorite songs in the movie. So stay tuned and tell me what you think! Kay! See ya soon in ACT V: Come What May!