10 Years of Waiting

by Kurohi Tatsaki

Day 18b - Yaoi Fluff

Disclaimer - I don't own YYH, & never will. After all, I'm not Yoshihiro Togashi. Kurohi, Yamiryuinu, Shirokoori, and all the other original characters *I* and Kohaku Frost come up with are property of Beware of Mage & Tsuki Ryu Productions. Use our characters without permission and we will be pissed. One thing's for sure: I'm thankful for copy and paste! There's no WAY I'm going to rewrite this whole disclaimer over and over again!

Scarby - In the start of the series, I've heard Hiei is 24 years old (according to this FAQ I found on the Philippine Version), so that would make him 36. (The series lasted 2 anime time years) Kurama is 28 (Wow! **Younger** than Hiei!) Yusuke and Kuwabara are both 26. Yukina is 36. I don't know Botan or Koenma's ages. According to this fic I read by Bulma Briefs, she has a fic that is SIMILAR to mine (it was a main inspiration after the first few Days) that centers solely on Kurama and Hiei, and in it, Genkai was still alive, so in my fic, she's alive, too. As for Hiei hearing Kurama's thoughts, Kurama's actually uttering them by accident cuz he's so tired. Kurama teaches Biology at Meiou High School. Kuwabara's a Scientist (remember: he said this in an early episode during the first season at the start of the Yukina mission). Yukina is a healer in the Reikai. Koenma and Botan's Jobs remain the same. Yusuke still fights - I have yet to decide if he's gonna be a cop or in some sort of profession in Ningenkai or Reikai.. perhaps I'll have him buff up the guards around the Reikai Palace? Angel doesn't have to work worth crap. She's filthy rich and has servants all over the place. Angel has no interest in raising children. Azura is a companion that comes and goes, just like Kurohi, but she stays more often than not. She's crazy about kids and just loves to play with them. Tag and Hide 'n' Seek are her favorite games. In their spare time...

Kurama writes poetry (mostly about Hiei) and tends to his plants.

Hiei lounges around in trees or on Kurama's bed. He still retains his like to kill of demons when he's bored, however, it has been watered-down because of his work with Mukuro.

Yusuke and Kuwabara spar with each other. (Yusuke remains undefeated)

Yukina cheers for Kuwabara, but he still loses.

Kurohi lounges in a tree, thinking of many ways of seduction or erotic pleasure for Koenma. *snickers* He likes to look at various dragon-based jewelry/clothing. (necklaces, bracelets, earrings, shirts etc...) He has this love song in his head, but it has no words. It's kinda slow, but it has happy and sad turns. I am currently coming up with the lyrics.

Ramen - ^_^ Yeah, I got sick of highly pessimistic fanfics with no ending or humor so I wrote this! Haha!

JinE4 - I haven't been able to find anything more to make a vote on. How about things to do?

Storm - I know what you mean, but I think I intended just to let that one bit of him show up - that he was half fire demon, but not necessarily half human. I guess "hanyou" is my own personal reference to half-something, hence "fire hanyou" which, according to my lala land vocabulary, means "Half fire demon" but the other half isn't necessarily human, and "hankoorime" is half-koorime, but what kind of word is that? Especially if used over and over again? Also, I don't mind multiple reviews from one person on the same chapter if you've left something out by accident and wanted to fill it in or add on to it. ^_^ Oh, and thanks for the URL to that site! I'm gonna look at it right now! (6/23/03)

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Kurohi was humming something to himself while scribbling marks onto a paper in front of him.

"Whatcha doin' love?"

Kurohi snapped out of his trance. "Em?"

Koenma smiled slightly. "I'm willing to hear if you could sing that," he said, referring to his humming.

"Aahh, I need to work on the lyrics some."

"Well, whatcha have so far?"

Kurohi blinked at his paper. "Aaah, I have... (A/N: The following lyrics were created by ME, so if there are any errors in grammar or whatnot, I'm very sorry! I'm still learning and am going by the dictionary. Plus, what I have gotten down so far is subject to change.)

"U-mi to kaze ga, watashi ore yo-ru...

(The water and wind was harsh to me that night...)

"Watashi ma-da, omo-idasu to issho ni, ko-ko-ro..

(I still remember, with a heavy heart,)

"Shippaita ko-koro~ miru no LOVE

(Failed attempts of love)

"Yowasa no, ko,ko,ro...

(Weakness of heart)

"Boku ni chigainai nokoru tsuyoi yo"

(I must remain strong!)

"Ai desu ore tsukuru, boku wa kokoro, hyoushi mugamushuu"

(It's love that makes, my heart beat wild)

"Ai desu ore tamosu boku ikteiru"

(It's love that keeps me alive)

"Itsuka iku sura nai, kudasai itsuka iru suru nai yo"

(Don't ever go, please don't ever go!)

"Anata dake, shougai boku, motteiru nokori"

(Only you are the life I have left.)

The teen looked up from the paper and into Koenma's eyes. He blinked once and slight coloring went across his upper cheeks.

The god chuckled as he peeked over his love's shoulder. His gaze went back to the bright blue one. "Hey, it's okay. Is that what went through your head, even now?"

The Tsuki Ryu leaned against his lover and turned his head upward. His hair was still out of its magnificent spikes and was tied back into a tight ponytail close to his head. Some silver strands still tried to spike of their own accord, but some failed miserably. Kurohi remained silent a moment before nodding his head slightly.

"Well, yeah," he said softly, eyes sliding shut. "It's not easy being born into a race that hates your guts just because you were born... I felt that I had to be stronger than I was capable of. Hiei and I are nearly alike in this category, y'know.

"Also, if you consider that when I had that pendant, that if it fell into the wrong hands, I could most definitely..."

"I know. I saw the whole thing. I'm sorry you had to suffer because of me."

Kurohi started the purring thing again. "I don't regret my actions, Koenma- chan. Ai desu. That's why I did that."

"Kurohi, if you start that up again I might need you to take care of a big problem."

The tailed one bopped the slightly taller male lightly with one open hand. His eyes opened part-way. "Ara, anata! Do you know how many days I had to go withOUT that leisure?"

Koenma groaned. "I would have died without that."

"Try about seven decades," replied Kurohi, snorting slightly. Seven decades without a single shag had been meaningless to the demigod. After all, the only thing he felt his whole live wasn't even as meager as affection, and the only liking he found was Angel, whom was practically untouchable, and then, later, Koenma himself.

"Sheeze."

He recalled, thirteen days, almost half a month ago, he remembered in detail what it had been like to be laid, what it had been like to awaken in someone's loving arms, and more importantly of all, what love was like.

It was a bitch at first, but it eventually sweetened up and the next thing you knew, it'd kill you if you ever tried to get rid of it.

Then again, why would he want to rid himself of something that stopped most things bad to ever happen to him? It also seemed to help Koenma, too. He wasn't as uptight, and the slightest wink from Kurohi caused the god to blush.

San...

Ni...

He looked cute then, in any form, but downright sexy when he...--

Ichi...

--had a light sheen of...--

"I got another idea. Wanna go at it?" Kurohi asked.

"Sure!"

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Kurama...

I glance down at his sleeping form against my shoulder, and then to the sky through the window. The sun is slowly +setting; I should probably get my fox in bed. Things have been busy with saving our friend - my student - from the clutches of that insane brother of his, that almost inari-awful wedding, and my student's love life.

Carefully, I shift slightly, and lift him up. I support his back with my right hand, letting him lean against my chest. My other arm supports him under his knees, and I take him upstairs to his room. Setting him on the bed, I flick a bang out of my eyes. I sit on the edge of the bed near him, gazing upon his youthful face.

After a few moments, I turn back to the window in fox's room. The sun has nearly set. I gently shake the redhead awake. "Kurama..."

"Mmm...?" His emerald eyes slide open and they lock with mine. He yawns and stretches. "Nani...?"

"Look." I turn my gaze over to the window. I hear him sit up and turn on the bed to see what it was I saw.

"Pretty..." I felt his head connect gently with my shoulder. Absently, I ran my fingers through those silky locks.

I observed the bright colors of the sky. If you asked me about it ten years ago, even twelve, I wouldn't have cared.

I felt a hand pull apart my hair-tie, and felt my long hair fall against my back, stopping near the middle. I looked at Kurama confusedly, sensing one bunch of shorter hair draping kindly across one shoulder.

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I gazed back at those lately-expressive ruby eyes. My left hand tenderly grasped the tendrils of hair that had flopped over Hiei's right shoulder. I held his left biceps and leaned up and pulled him in for a gentle kiss. I felt his arms slowly hold my waist and he kissed back. I slowly pulled back after a moment before the kiss could go out of control.

I spoke softly, "Hiei, ai shiteiru zutto."

He smiled lightly. "Hn. Love you too, fox."

"It's getting late, will you sleep with me?"

His arms, still around my waist, pulled me down with him. My head ended up atop his chest and I could easily pick up his demon heartbeat. I chuckled. "I wonder what 'Kaasan would say..."

"If she's an understanding woman, she will accept this. Not only that, her 'control' over you is gone, if I am correct about the ningen age rules before they are, officially, adults."

"Hmm, because 'Kaasan, little Shuuichi, and my step-father will be here tomorrow or the day after that, as she left the day before you came here."

His chest vibrated slightly as he made a contemplative, "Hmm", noise.

I chuckled again. "Now I know how you felt twelve years ago."

"Ah?"

I nodded against his chest and snuggled there. I felt his hands roam through my hair and I purred at the sensation. "Yes, you used to come only up to my chest on me... well, at least the tips of your hair... which always smelled so nice..."

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The demon paused. "Lemme guess, you never wanted to tell me because you were afraid I'd run?" That's usually what he did anyway, to most of his personal problems. Any other ones, he'd either kill the antagonist or not answer at all.

"Mm-hm. I didn't want to risk our friendship." The fox was constantly afraid that one slip-up would ruin his life with - or even near - the half fire demon, half koorime beauty. Well, his beauty could also be translated to "gorgeous" but that wasn't much different, right? Besides, at the time, he couldn't just say, "Hi Hiei, did you know you're a gorgeous demon? Could you mate with me? Please?" It would be an insult to his demon and make him look like a careless Youko. Besides, the death of Kuronue was more than enough burdens to bear.

Kuronue had, despite his dying, Makai Bamboo-pierced body, urged Kurama to run to save his own life from those guards.

The fox Youko Kurama AND the human part of him, Shuuichi Minamino, would not be careless with ANYONE ever again.

"And, if I try to think back on it, our friendship would probably have been ruined." Yes, Hiei remembered his old life in tremendous detail. It was all battle and nothing else. Sure, he had had a few ties with Yusuke and especially Kurama, and, for a time, he started a relationship with Mukuro soon after he met her, but, somewhere, in his heart, he didn't love her like he did someone else. He had declined all her "offerings", stating that his half-frozen heart had "gone to seek someone it loved". Unfortunately, he had endured a few bruises, sprains and fractures because of his pretty speech.

Some silence took up speech's place. Kurama found himself dozing off again. Hiei sensed this and started to shift the red-head's body to a more comfortable position, but he was quickly interrupted by said red-head.

"No... if it's all right, can I just remain here?" he asked softly. He was so tired, and just didn't want to move away from his koibito.

The fire demon simply wrapped his arms around the other's waist and closed his eyes. Sleep veiled them both in a heavy, gentle fog.

End Day 18

My writers' block came back tenfold because of my jumbled up obsessions. One minute I'm intrigued by a Digimon fic I did that is collecting dust, and the next I'm in my Harry Potter section! Could you great reviewers come up with some things to do for the YYH gang? Because, to be honest, I'm practically fresh out... except for maybe this one idea:

They go to a zoo - I think it would be a humorous idea but if I use that I'm not sure how or when to set it into play. It'd probably be a helluva long chapter, too. I think Hiei would be tempted to beat the shit out of anything that pissed him off, but good thing Kurama'd be there!

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Okay, here are my latest notes (6/27/03): My various obsessions are gone, but will flit everywhere every now and then. I may start the sequel, but I would have to start doing some transcripts of Poltergeist Report, and that takes time even though I'm a fast typist (40-60 WPM). I'm sorry for the wait, but for a while, I couldn't finish this chapter, and if I don't do something to this fic's later chapters soon, the wait will only increase. Gomen nasai.

R&R!

Started 6/14/03, 7:21PM Finished 6/27/03 10:43PM

Rambles of 6/27/03: I had a harsh time yesterday an' I'm sore all over (I pulled just about every muscle in my body)! Me an' a hentai friend of mine played tag (I'm almost always "it" & my friend &brothers trick me all the time into being confused who's "it" & who's not! Not only that, I need ta work on my stamina!) & when I hugged him g'bye since he was goin' somewhere with a group (I won't say where), he tried to take off my BRA!!! I KNEW I shouldn't've let 'im look @ my Inu-Yasha Vol. 1 Manga!! He was actin' like Miroku!