Kurama didn't sleep that night.
Yusuke snored wide-mouthed. Kurama could hear him from the bathroom where he stood staring at himself in the mirror.
It was a disturbing thing, this image looking back at him. Shuiichi the human with the fox ears and tail of the Youko.
Even Kurama's eyes...
Where once they had been green, now they were flecked with gold.
Kurama stared into those eyes and a piece of the Youko he had never seen in Shuiichi stared back at him.
And Hiei...Was Hiei alright? Was he, too, experiencing some side-effect? And what had he been trying to do?
Kurama thought about going after him when he heard a loud yawn behind him. He turned to see Yusuke standing there.
"You still up, Kurama?" he said.
Kurama nodded.
"Go to sleep. You need it. Don't make me knock you out to make you get some rest."
Kurama almost replied, but in the end, he didn't. He simply nodded.
Even so, he didn't sleep that night.
At the most, his thoughts were everywhere at once-Hiei especially, Youko, Tohru, his mother, home, school...and, at the least....
His tail kept getting in the way.
...to be continued...