They brought their plates up to Kurama's room.
Hiei sniffed at the food and even tried a bite. "Disgusting human food." he said and set the plate down.
Kurama on the other hand had settled on the edge of his bed. He drank his orange juice slowly and pushed around the food on his plate, but didn't eat any of it. He usually loved his mother's cooking.
"Hiei?" He said after a long time had passed.
"Hn."
"Why did you do that?"
"I didn't do anything, Fox. Does she know what you are any more than she did yesterday? I was merely curious."
"And what has your curiousity gained you?"
"The fact that although you profess it so, she is merely a human, just like all the others."
Kurama was silent.
Hiei crossed his arms over his chest. "Don't let it bother you, Kurama. It's pathetic. Live out a life in this human world if you want. Tell her or don't tell her. But if you do, I think you know the response you will get."
"Hiei."
"What's with that look, Fox. You almost look scared." Hiei stood and walked until he stood right before Kurama. "I would have rather died than did what you did, Fox, binding my soul to a human body would simply have not been an option." He leaned forward. "It has made you weak."
Kurama's mouth slowly lengthened into a smile. "And you have no weaknesses, Hiei?" he said in a low voice.
"Hn." Hiei said and began to pull away, but Kurama caught his arm.
"Why don't you answer me, Hiei?"
The voice was bland, carefully neutral, but Hiei heard the anger beneath it. What he had done had indeed scared the Fox, but now that fear was becoming a completly different animal named revenge.
"Let me go, Kurama." Hiei warned.
The reply was simple and the smile in the word was not kind. "No."
Hiei began to pull his arm away but that was when Kurama stood. Hiei looked up the difference of their heights and Kurama looked down. He looked exactly like a fox now, every bit sly and every bit coniving.
"Kurama." Hiei growled.
"Hn." Kurama said and lowered his head.
When his lips touched Hiei's own, Hiei had been trying to pull away, but as soon as they touched, he went still. Kurama smiled at that. Kurama moved his lips against Hiei's mouth and Hiei moved his against Kurama's, ran his tongue over his mouth and gasped.
"I think I know your weakness, Hiei." Kurama said and pulled away.
Hiei reached for him, had enough strength to bend that face to his own for a moment, let himself savour the taste of Kurama and then Kurama had pulled away and Hiei was reaching for something that simply wasn't there.
...to be continued...