Konoko: Wuz up. How are ya'll. We come to one of my favorite songs out of
the entire movie. "Come What May" take it away Hakana!
Hakana: ::dressed in a news reporter suit along side Hiei who's holding a camera looking very annoyed:: hi, it's Hakana! I'm live backstage of the awesome fic Kitsune Rouge by Konoko. ::lowers voice to a whisper:: now lets go get some secret footage of the actors. Come on Hiei.
Hiei: this has got to be the most idiotic thing she's made us do.
Hakana: hey be quiet before she puts us in a Kuwabara/Hiei and a Hakana/Karasu fic! Now here we are back stage. And there's Kurama the Desert Rose of our play and my dear brother. Oh and there's Yusuke the spirit detective, with the most off-key voice I have ever heard!
Yusuke(in the background) HEY!
Hakana: and Kurama has the greatest male alto voice! Hiei you agree? Hiei?..........Hiei? Konoko, Hiei's gone missing.
Konoko: where shorty at?.....::hears singing::....what's that?
Hakana: ::ears turns straight up:: I hear it. it's beautiful.
::both look behind the curtain to see Kuwabara and keiko practicing El Tango de la Roxanne. Kuwabara was singing::
Hakana & Konoko: Kuwabara can sing?!
Konoko: that is impossible! You're telling me that air-headed baka has the makings for a freakin' state choir?!
Hakana: um...maybe not. ::points to Kuwabara's mouth:: he's lip singing!
Konoko: then who's.......... :: looks off to the side and sees Hiei on a recording microphone.:: AH HAH! I knew that voice was too deep for Kuwabara! Hiei you bastard you're filling the voice for Kuwabara. What possessed you to do something nice for Kuwabara.
Hiei: ::sweatdrops and looks down:: Yukina ask me too.
Hakana & Konoko: Understandable.
Konoko: any way let's get on with this. PLACES EVERYONE! LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION!
Kitsune Rouge
Act V: Come What May
'Yomi's brilliant lies saved us all again. But no lie, no matter how brilliant, could save Kurama.........'
Yomi, Botan and George stood around the unconscious fox. In the hall Shizuru and Yukina listened anxiously. The doctor begin putting on his coat and hat. He looked at the three with a sad expression.
"Kurama is dying. He has consumption."
Botan gasped and began crying. Yomi just held a look of astonishment, shaking his head in total denial.
"Can't be! My little kit is dying. He mustn't know, Botan! The show must go on."
(Konoko: In case you have no idea what consumption is. It's tuberculosis also known as black lung disease. It makes you cough blood and slowly kills you. Yusuke: how cheery.)
Kurama lay propped up in Yusuke's bed, while the detective/writer typed away on the lap top. He cast glances at Kurama who seemed dazed as he coughed every now and then. He looked down at the paragraph he had been typing and read it in his mind.
All night, the sitar player had waited and for the first time, he felt the cold stab of jealousy.........
Yusuke looked over at Kurama who avoided his gaze. That must be it, Yusuke thought. He's so ashamed to face me.
Yusuke stood and walked over to where Kurama rested. He put a hand on the red-heads shoulder. Kurama jumped slightly and looked towards him with weary eyes.
"Kurama,...where were you last night?"
Kurama turned away. "I told you. I was sick."
Yusuke didn't buy it. He instead put more pressure on the subject. "You don't have to lie to me."
Kurama turned to him; his emerald orbs filled with hurt. He sighed shaking his head. Standing he moved towards the window away from Yusuke.
"That's it. we have to end it."
"What?"
"It has to stop. it has to stop now! Every one knows about us. Yomi even knows. It won't be too long before Karasu finds out. I don't even want to think about what he'll do to us. This just has to end. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"No, I won't let it. I love you too much to just let this go."
"If you love me then you will. On opening night, I have to sleep with Karasu......and the jealousy will drive you mad......" Kurama whispered lowering his head.
A much needed silence overtook the both of them. Kurama only stared out the window. Yusuke sat there thinking. He decisively got up and paced to his mate. He took Kurama's face in his hands and gazed into the pools of emerald green.
"I'll right a song about it. and we'll put it in the play."
"No-"Yusuke silenced him with a kiss on the forehead.
"And no matter how screwed up things get. You can just hear it, or whistle it or hum it or sing it and it'll help you remember that I love you and that we're stronger than this. I swear I won't get jealous."
Kurama shook his head with his eyes filling with crystal tears. "things don't work that way here, Yusuke. we just have to stop."
Kurama walked away from him and leaned on the window sill, ready to cry at how difficult Yusuke was making this. Yusuke sighed in frustration. He plopped down on the bed. Softly he started singing their song.
"Never knew......I could feel like this"
Kurama looked back at him sad faced. Yusuke continued.
"It's like I've never seen the sky......before."
Yusuke snuck up on the fox and slowly wrapped his arms around him. He sang in the redhead's ear.
"Want to vanish inside your kiss......Everyday I'm lovin' you......more and more."
The next day they were in practice. Yusuke was fitting in the new song.
"This next song is new. It's to remember that no matter how bad things are they know they love each other."
Kurama smiled at him lovingly.
"Lets take it from your part Kuwabara."
"Right" Kuwabara cleared his throat. "Fear not, my love we will conduct our love affair right under the maharaja."
Yusuke continued to sing.
"Seasons may change. Winter to spring."
A loud thump was heard when Kuwabara hit the floor asleep. Everyone threw their scripts up frustrated. But Yusuke and Kurama weren't paying attention.
"but I love you......until the end of time."
Kurama had a flash back of when he first came up with the song. Yusuke held him close singing in his ear.
"Come what may.......Come what may, I will love you, until my dying day."
A few days later, Karasu had requested another outing with Kurama. Yusuke came along carrying the picnic basket with a pissed expression. When the dark youkai wasn't looking Kurama and Yusuke worked on their song.
"Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place. Suddenly it moves in such a perfect grace. Suddenly my life doesn't seem such waste. It all revolves around you."
They continued in the practice hall.
"And there's no mountain too high. No river to wide. Sing out this song and I'll be there by your side!.....Storm clouds may gather, stars may collide....."
Yusuke: but I love you...
Kurama: I love you
Yusuke: till the end
Kurama: until the end
Y&K: Of time....Come what may......Come what may.......I will love you.......
Shizuru worked her hands over the ivory keys as Yusuke told Hiei his last line.
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
The day after they were reviewing the play for Karasu. They were singing the finale which was the lovers' secret song. Keiko eyed Kurama and Yusuke with great jealousy as they sung more to each other than for the show. She sauntered to the duke and casually stood by him. she smacked her lips.
"This ending's stupid! why would the courtesan fall for the penniless writer!" she exclaimed with a smirk.
Crass looked at her in confusion. Keiko covered her mouth in mock shame.
"Oops! I mean sitar player," she said nodding her head to Yusuke.
Karasu looked at Yusuke then Kurama. Their eyes were locked with each other. He suddenly felt a fool. All that time. How could he have missed. He narrowed his eyes in anger. Keiko, feeling her job was done, walked away with a triumphant smile. Yukina saw this and ran to Hiei who's part was over and told him what happened.
Everyone: Come what may!
Yu & Kur & Kuwa: I will love you
Everyone: Come what may!
Yu & Kur & Kuwa: Yes I will love you!
Everyone: Come what may!
Yu & Kur & Kuwa: I will love you....
Everyone including those three: till my dying day!
They sustained the note for a grand finish. Then all grew quiet as they waited for Karasu's approval. The dark demon stood with an angry look.
"I hate this ending!"
Everyone looked in shock. Kurama threw up his arms in anger and crossed them looking quite annoyed. Yusuke just arched eyebrow. Yomi took the initiative to step up and speak.
"hate the ending?"
"Why would the courtesan choose the sitar player over the maharaja who's offering a life time of security. Once the sitar player satisfies his lust he'll leave the courtesan with nothing. I suggest that in the end the courtesan choose the maharaja."
Yukina meekly stepped up. "I'm sorry, Karasu-sama, but that doesn't fit the bohemian ideas of truth freedom beauty and love-"
"I don't care about your fucking dogma!" Karasu yelled.
Yukina jumped behind Hiei frightened. Yusuke was beginning to get hot under the collar with the way the discussion was going.
"Why shouldn't the courtesan choose the maharaja?!"
"BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LOVE YOU!"
Everyone turned to Yusuke with wide eyes. Kurama looked at him wide-eyed and angry. Yusuke cleared his throat.
"Him....doesn't love him."
Karasu turned cold narrowed eyes to Kurama who looked back with a racing heart. Keeping his dark purple orbs on the fox he spoke to Yomi in a commanding voice.
"The ending will be rewritten without the lovers secret song. It will be ready for the performance tomorrow night!"
Yomi stuttered. "K-Karasu, that'll be impossible!"
Kurama knew something had to be done. He stepped in to the conversation.
"Yomi! Poor Karasu is being treated appallingly!" he said loudly.
He slowly walked down the stairs towards Karasu. "Sorry, but these silly humans let their imagination run away with them!" Kurama stood only two feet away from Karasu keeping his eyes on the taller demon.
"How about we sit down and have a little dinner and then afterwards we can let Yomi know how we want the story to end, hmm?"
Karasu looked down at the seductive red head then cut his eyes at Yusuke who looked away in both anger and embarrassment. He smirked and turned back to Kurama. He acquiesced with a nod.
"That will be perfect, love."
"Eight 'o clock then."
Afterwards, Kurama paced down the hall removing part of his costume. He ran a nervous hand through his hair. He gasped when a pair of hands pulled him aside. Yusuke held the fox close from behind, burying his face in the silky red locks of his love's hair.
"I don't want you to sleep with him, Kurama." Yusuke whispered.
"He could destroy everything we worked so hard for, Yusuke."
"I don't care! I don't want him to touch you! Not that way!"
"It's for us. if I don't go he'll kill us all. I have to. just try to remember it's for us."
"I can't. I can't just let you-"
"You promised. You promised me you wouldn't be jealous, you-"Kurama turned his head to face him partly. Looking deep into the writer's chestnut eyes. "It'll be alright"
"No it won't-"
"Yes it will. I promise. When you wake up tomorrow I'll be at be at your side."
"I just can't-"
"shhh" Kurama whispered putting a finger to the detective's lips. "come......what.......may"
Yusuke nodded. "come what may."
He let the fox go and watched with depressed eyes as Kurama left to get dressed. This was it. this would decide everything and it was all Yusuke's fault.
A/N: damn Yusuke! you outta feel like shit! But any way hi! Next up is ACT VI: The Show Must Go On! See ya there! ^ ^.
Hakana: ::dressed in a news reporter suit along side Hiei who's holding a camera looking very annoyed:: hi, it's Hakana! I'm live backstage of the awesome fic Kitsune Rouge by Konoko. ::lowers voice to a whisper:: now lets go get some secret footage of the actors. Come on Hiei.
Hiei: this has got to be the most idiotic thing she's made us do.
Hakana: hey be quiet before she puts us in a Kuwabara/Hiei and a Hakana/Karasu fic! Now here we are back stage. And there's Kurama the Desert Rose of our play and my dear brother. Oh and there's Yusuke the spirit detective, with the most off-key voice I have ever heard!
Yusuke(in the background) HEY!
Hakana: and Kurama has the greatest male alto voice! Hiei you agree? Hiei?..........Hiei? Konoko, Hiei's gone missing.
Konoko: where shorty at?.....::hears singing::....what's that?
Hakana: ::ears turns straight up:: I hear it. it's beautiful.
::both look behind the curtain to see Kuwabara and keiko practicing El Tango de la Roxanne. Kuwabara was singing::
Hakana & Konoko: Kuwabara can sing?!
Konoko: that is impossible! You're telling me that air-headed baka has the makings for a freakin' state choir?!
Hakana: um...maybe not. ::points to Kuwabara's mouth:: he's lip singing!
Konoko: then who's.......... :: looks off to the side and sees Hiei on a recording microphone.:: AH HAH! I knew that voice was too deep for Kuwabara! Hiei you bastard you're filling the voice for Kuwabara. What possessed you to do something nice for Kuwabara.
Hiei: ::sweatdrops and looks down:: Yukina ask me too.
Hakana & Konoko: Understandable.
Konoko: any way let's get on with this. PLACES EVERYONE! LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION!
Kitsune Rouge
Act V: Come What May
'Yomi's brilliant lies saved us all again. But no lie, no matter how brilliant, could save Kurama.........'
Yomi, Botan and George stood around the unconscious fox. In the hall Shizuru and Yukina listened anxiously. The doctor begin putting on his coat and hat. He looked at the three with a sad expression.
"Kurama is dying. He has consumption."
Botan gasped and began crying. Yomi just held a look of astonishment, shaking his head in total denial.
"Can't be! My little kit is dying. He mustn't know, Botan! The show must go on."
(Konoko: In case you have no idea what consumption is. It's tuberculosis also known as black lung disease. It makes you cough blood and slowly kills you. Yusuke: how cheery.)
Kurama lay propped up in Yusuke's bed, while the detective/writer typed away on the lap top. He cast glances at Kurama who seemed dazed as he coughed every now and then. He looked down at the paragraph he had been typing and read it in his mind.
All night, the sitar player had waited and for the first time, he felt the cold stab of jealousy.........
Yusuke looked over at Kurama who avoided his gaze. That must be it, Yusuke thought. He's so ashamed to face me.
Yusuke stood and walked over to where Kurama rested. He put a hand on the red-heads shoulder. Kurama jumped slightly and looked towards him with weary eyes.
"Kurama,...where were you last night?"
Kurama turned away. "I told you. I was sick."
Yusuke didn't buy it. He instead put more pressure on the subject. "You don't have to lie to me."
Kurama turned to him; his emerald orbs filled with hurt. He sighed shaking his head. Standing he moved towards the window away from Yusuke.
"That's it. we have to end it."
"What?"
"It has to stop. it has to stop now! Every one knows about us. Yomi even knows. It won't be too long before Karasu finds out. I don't even want to think about what he'll do to us. This just has to end. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"No, I won't let it. I love you too much to just let this go."
"If you love me then you will. On opening night, I have to sleep with Karasu......and the jealousy will drive you mad......" Kurama whispered lowering his head.
A much needed silence overtook the both of them. Kurama only stared out the window. Yusuke sat there thinking. He decisively got up and paced to his mate. He took Kurama's face in his hands and gazed into the pools of emerald green.
"I'll right a song about it. and we'll put it in the play."
"No-"Yusuke silenced him with a kiss on the forehead.
"And no matter how screwed up things get. You can just hear it, or whistle it or hum it or sing it and it'll help you remember that I love you and that we're stronger than this. I swear I won't get jealous."
Kurama shook his head with his eyes filling with crystal tears. "things don't work that way here, Yusuke. we just have to stop."
Kurama walked away from him and leaned on the window sill, ready to cry at how difficult Yusuke was making this. Yusuke sighed in frustration. He plopped down on the bed. Softly he started singing their song.
"Never knew......I could feel like this"
Kurama looked back at him sad faced. Yusuke continued.
"It's like I've never seen the sky......before."
Yusuke snuck up on the fox and slowly wrapped his arms around him. He sang in the redhead's ear.
"Want to vanish inside your kiss......Everyday I'm lovin' you......more and more."
The next day they were in practice. Yusuke was fitting in the new song.
"This next song is new. It's to remember that no matter how bad things are they know they love each other."
Kurama smiled at him lovingly.
"Lets take it from your part Kuwabara."
"Right" Kuwabara cleared his throat. "Fear not, my love we will conduct our love affair right under the maharaja."
Yusuke continued to sing.
"Seasons may change. Winter to spring."
A loud thump was heard when Kuwabara hit the floor asleep. Everyone threw their scripts up frustrated. But Yusuke and Kurama weren't paying attention.
"but I love you......until the end of time."
Kurama had a flash back of when he first came up with the song. Yusuke held him close singing in his ear.
"Come what may.......Come what may, I will love you, until my dying day."
A few days later, Karasu had requested another outing with Kurama. Yusuke came along carrying the picnic basket with a pissed expression. When the dark youkai wasn't looking Kurama and Yusuke worked on their song.
"Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place. Suddenly it moves in such a perfect grace. Suddenly my life doesn't seem such waste. It all revolves around you."
They continued in the practice hall.
"And there's no mountain too high. No river to wide. Sing out this song and I'll be there by your side!.....Storm clouds may gather, stars may collide....."
Yusuke: but I love you...
Kurama: I love you
Yusuke: till the end
Kurama: until the end
Y&K: Of time....Come what may......Come what may.......I will love you.......
Shizuru worked her hands over the ivory keys as Yusuke told Hiei his last line.
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
The day after they were reviewing the play for Karasu. They were singing the finale which was the lovers' secret song. Keiko eyed Kurama and Yusuke with great jealousy as they sung more to each other than for the show. She sauntered to the duke and casually stood by him. she smacked her lips.
"This ending's stupid! why would the courtesan fall for the penniless writer!" she exclaimed with a smirk.
Crass looked at her in confusion. Keiko covered her mouth in mock shame.
"Oops! I mean sitar player," she said nodding her head to Yusuke.
Karasu looked at Yusuke then Kurama. Their eyes were locked with each other. He suddenly felt a fool. All that time. How could he have missed. He narrowed his eyes in anger. Keiko, feeling her job was done, walked away with a triumphant smile. Yukina saw this and ran to Hiei who's part was over and told him what happened.
Everyone: Come what may!
Yu & Kur & Kuwa: I will love you
Everyone: Come what may!
Yu & Kur & Kuwa: Yes I will love you!
Everyone: Come what may!
Yu & Kur & Kuwa: I will love you....
Everyone including those three: till my dying day!
They sustained the note for a grand finish. Then all grew quiet as they waited for Karasu's approval. The dark demon stood with an angry look.
"I hate this ending!"
Everyone looked in shock. Kurama threw up his arms in anger and crossed them looking quite annoyed. Yusuke just arched eyebrow. Yomi took the initiative to step up and speak.
"hate the ending?"
"Why would the courtesan choose the sitar player over the maharaja who's offering a life time of security. Once the sitar player satisfies his lust he'll leave the courtesan with nothing. I suggest that in the end the courtesan choose the maharaja."
Yukina meekly stepped up. "I'm sorry, Karasu-sama, but that doesn't fit the bohemian ideas of truth freedom beauty and love-"
"I don't care about your fucking dogma!" Karasu yelled.
Yukina jumped behind Hiei frightened. Yusuke was beginning to get hot under the collar with the way the discussion was going.
"Why shouldn't the courtesan choose the maharaja?!"
"BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LOVE YOU!"
Everyone turned to Yusuke with wide eyes. Kurama looked at him wide-eyed and angry. Yusuke cleared his throat.
"Him....doesn't love him."
Karasu turned cold narrowed eyes to Kurama who looked back with a racing heart. Keeping his dark purple orbs on the fox he spoke to Yomi in a commanding voice.
"The ending will be rewritten without the lovers secret song. It will be ready for the performance tomorrow night!"
Yomi stuttered. "K-Karasu, that'll be impossible!"
Kurama knew something had to be done. He stepped in to the conversation.
"Yomi! Poor Karasu is being treated appallingly!" he said loudly.
He slowly walked down the stairs towards Karasu. "Sorry, but these silly humans let their imagination run away with them!" Kurama stood only two feet away from Karasu keeping his eyes on the taller demon.
"How about we sit down and have a little dinner and then afterwards we can let Yomi know how we want the story to end, hmm?"
Karasu looked down at the seductive red head then cut his eyes at Yusuke who looked away in both anger and embarrassment. He smirked and turned back to Kurama. He acquiesced with a nod.
"That will be perfect, love."
"Eight 'o clock then."
Afterwards, Kurama paced down the hall removing part of his costume. He ran a nervous hand through his hair. He gasped when a pair of hands pulled him aside. Yusuke held the fox close from behind, burying his face in the silky red locks of his love's hair.
"I don't want you to sleep with him, Kurama." Yusuke whispered.
"He could destroy everything we worked so hard for, Yusuke."
"I don't care! I don't want him to touch you! Not that way!"
"It's for us. if I don't go he'll kill us all. I have to. just try to remember it's for us."
"I can't. I can't just let you-"
"You promised. You promised me you wouldn't be jealous, you-"Kurama turned his head to face him partly. Looking deep into the writer's chestnut eyes. "It'll be alright"
"No it won't-"
"Yes it will. I promise. When you wake up tomorrow I'll be at be at your side."
"I just can't-"
"shhh" Kurama whispered putting a finger to the detective's lips. "come......what.......may"
Yusuke nodded. "come what may."
He let the fox go and watched with depressed eyes as Kurama left to get dressed. This was it. this would decide everything and it was all Yusuke's fault.
A/N: damn Yusuke! you outta feel like shit! But any way hi! Next up is ACT VI: The Show Must Go On! See ya there! ^ ^.