Part Three - Forever Morning
Kurama awoke as light from the dawning Sun flooded through his windows, brightening his room. His eyes opened groggily, and he tightened his arms around the warm body in his grasp.
"NANI?" the fox demon yelped. Sleeping, well, not anymore, in his arms was a peaceful-looking Hiei.
The little Jaganshi squinted his eyes further shut, burrowing his face deeper into the crook of the redhead's neck. "Hn. Stupid fox. Go back to sleep."
"Hiei?" Kurama asked in a quieter tone once he slowed his racing heart. "What are you doing here?"
Red eyes finally opened, looking deep into endless emerald orbs that were currently filled with confusion.
"I thought you would want me here," came the smug reply, accompanied by a small smirk.
The half-Koorime regretted the words almost as soon as they left his mouth. He found himself being gathered into a lung-crushingly tight embrace, and once his body relaxed, tentatively returning the gesture.
"I thought you had left. I thought you said that love wasn't real," came the almost inaudible whisper.
"You're putting words in my mouth, fox. I said love was an imagined emotion. And I never said I loved you."
Kurama's face fell, the picture of despair and rejection. "But . . . you came back. I had assumed that that meant . . ."
Small pink lips curled into a real smile, lighting up the pale face as effectively as the Sun had lit the room. "I never said I loved you. Not yet."
Green eyes snapped up, taking in the small one's unexpectedly tender expression on a normally passive face. Without thinking twice, Kurama took those smiling lips with his, verbalizing his passion and relief better than any words could tell.
When the two broke for air, it was the fox's face that was covered with a grin.
"Aishiteru, Hiei," he said, tightening his arms around the smaller's waist.
Hiei smirked, cuddling closer to his koi and closing his magma eyes. "Forever and for always, fox."
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