A/N: I'm such a ditz. I almost forgot to finish this chapter before posting it. You can tell how tired I was that day... it's a different day. I"m sorry for the delay and the lack of posting. It took forever for the writers block to go away, and even longer for me to like this chapter. I scraped it at least 4 times before I was happy with it. You can tell that I read my own works to try and make sure that my readers like it too. yet another sweatdrop I hope that I make you happy for the next chapter.. Meaning this one. You won't be happy with me for long, because one of the characters might get raped... or in the sense. It's not going to be pretty or happy. It's going to be dreadful for that character. I'm not telling and the preview at the end won't be able to give it away either. The person(s) who get(s) the character will get the next chapter dedicated to them. I want to let you know I've set the standards for this fic. It will be 15 chapters. We still have a bit to go, but quite a lot to cover within 8 chapters. I'm counting this one as well just so you know. I'll stop talking and let you read. This is important. Please Review or I'll fell rejected. Please people who have been waiting for so long, don't give up hope on me yet. I"ll finish this series one way or another. As usual, reviews at the bottom. Ja!

Chapter 8: Hope and Love aren't my friends anymore.

Hiei and Kurama stayed together, but each was distant of the other. Both thought the other was going to eventually leave, but they both stayed around and kept basically the same attitude around each other. Finally, Kurama was getting sick of the silence between them during meals and movies. Hiei rarely talked about the things that were going on with him anymore and Kurama needed to get some answers. Those answers needed to be soon.

"Hiei, we really need to talk." Kurama brought up the subject another time.

"We don't really. It's fine like it is." Hiei answered the same. He was being more distant than usual, like there was something that he had been meaning to tell him, but couldn't bring himself to tell Kurama. It hit Kurama. Hiei had never told him that he loved him. Sure, Hiei showed him affection, but had he ever said it? Kurama racked his brain trying to find an answer. "Hiei, do you love me?" Kurama asked.

"Hn."

"No, give me a real answer." Kurama said in response to Hiei's non response. 'Doesn't he love me? If he doesn't, why would he have stayed with me? If he loves me, he would tell me right?'

"Kurama, I've been wanting to give you a real response, but it has been really hard to completely sort out my feelings about you and Youko and if it was really just you I wanted. I finally figured it out. I love you Kurama, but there's something else that you have to know. I'm not quite sure if you remember, but it's something that happened a long time ago." Hiei paused to look at Kurama's expression. He looked confused, not quite sure what to think.

"Hiei, you– what do you mean?" Kurama asked him.

"When I told you a while ago that I really loved you, back then, it didn't feel like it does now. To some extent, I did love you, but I wasn't sure of my own feelings. I think that I partially made it up. I have to be sincere when I say that I don't know if I really did love you then." Again he paused. He sighed and looked at Kurama with sincere eyes. "Right now Kurama, the real way I feel about you is mostly like this: I love you with all my heart and if anything ever happened to you, I wouldn't be able to live with myself." Hiei looked at him with tearful eyes. "I can't lose you now. You are my Kurama, and I can't leave you now. Please forgive me for not telling you all of this sooner."

Kurama smiled and took Hiei into his arms. "I know that. I feel almost the exact same way. If I lost you, I'd be broken down and wouldn't want to let anyone else near me for a long, long time. If you left for some reason because of me, I would start thinking in a way that would make me think that you didn't trust me anymore and that no one else would be able to trust me anymore. Koi, I love you and hope you'll stay with me for a long time." Kurama said just before he kissed Hiei close on the mouth hoping for entrance. Hiei allowed his tongue inside and moved his mouth in time with Kurama's.

Later that night

Hiei lay in bed listening to Kurama's contented breathing. 'How am I going to tell him that I'm only after Youko? It's not like he'll give to that side of him so easily that I'll be with him. It's confusing. Why do I want Youko over Kurama? Kurama cares so much more about me than Youko ever would and is so much nicer. Maybe I just need someone who would be rough with me when we slept together that it would seem more fun for me.' Hiei moved his arm to lay over his eyes. 'What the hell am I thinking? I would never want to have Youko over Kurama. I just must be extremely tired. I'm going to try and get some sleep without waking up Kurama. It's been a long day for him.' Hiei thought as he snuggled up close to Kurama's chest.

Kurama took him in his arms, sighed and fell back asleep. Kurama didn't know the real danger that would be soon discovered about a son he never knew he had.

The next morning

Kurama woke up to find the Hiei that would normally be laying in his arms sleeping out in the tree. No, not sleeping, gazing around. He saw Hiei's eyes lock on the window and a small smile appeared on his face. He opened the window and jumped back inside.

"Were you out there the whole night?" Kurama asked pulling Hiei against him, an arm around his waist.

"No. I went out earlier to train and then watched over you and the house." Hiei paused and stood on tip-toe to give Kurama a kiss gently on the lips. Then he looked at Kurama with interest.

"Daijobu desu ka?"

"Hmm? Oh, hai. Daijobu. Doshite?"

'Because you're acting weird' Hiei thought. " You looked confused about something. I just wanted to know if anything was bothering you or not."

"No. I'm fine. What were you doing in the way of training?" Kurama asked looking across the room.

"Nothing much. Running around attacking random things," Hiei said and interrupted Kurama before he could say anything. "and don't worry. I didn't attack anything moving. No kittens, no ningens, no thing living and moving at the same time are harmed. Only grass, tree trunks and bushes are hurt." Kurama sighed. "Stop attacking nature. You know how I feel about that."

"Speaking of nature," Hiei said taking out a boquet of roses and handing them to Kurama. "These are for you."

"Hiei! You know that you didn't have to. Thank you, they're lovely." Kurama told him kissing Hiei and sniffing the roses.

" I had a feeling that you would like them. They just seem to fit you, seeing as how you use the rose whip in almost every battle. I thought that you would need to have some back ups."

"I summon them out of no where."

Hiei's eyes widened in shook. "No where? Really? How cool!"

Kurama sweatdropped. "It's not that amazing. I thought that you'd have figured that out during all the times you've seen me in battle. I make them out of my energy. Besides," Kurama said holding up the roses, "my roses don't smell nearly this good."

"That's good. I just have to tell you something really important. I got a summoning message from Mukuro and I have to go and do an assignment for her. I'll be in Makai for a few days." Hiei said looking at the floor. Kurama slammed his hand down on the table the roses sat on. "When? How long exactly are you going to be gone?"

"I got the message yesterday, when you went out to do your errands. I'll be back in less than 3 days."

"Ok. Go. Just be back before the timelimit you've given me or it'll be a while before I'll be able to trust you again."

"I know. I don't have to go until tomorrow. Why don't we have some fun until then?" Hiei said wiggling his eyebrows.

"You need to keep that perverted mind of yours out of the gutter for more than 3 hours at a time, but I wouldn't mind having some fun. Who ever goes and gets the ice cream first gets to be on top. And no using any super human, sorry demon, speed."

"That's not fair. If I run like a regular human I wouldn't stand a chance." Hiei said pouting.

"That's the point." Kurama said dashing out of the room.

"You should come back here! I get to be on top this time! We made a deal with that!" Hiei said chasing after Kurama.

"No we didn't!" Kurama said after Hiei got into the kitchen.

" I love you fox. Only you forever."

"Me too Hiei. I love you and only you forever as well." Kurama said bringing Hiei into a mind-numbing kiss.

A/N: You guys are so lucky. I got reviews and this chapter is finally done. I'm glad that I didn't end the series like that. For once, I didn't leave it on an evil cliff hanger. This chapter made me so happy when I finally got the real good chapter done. After 4 drafts this got to be pretty good. It was unusual because I wrote this one out completely on paper and typed it up after that. I wasted around 13 pages of lined paper before I finally got myself to like this chapter. Thanks and please review like you always should.

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