(September 6-05) Lucky you all get a teeny short chapter! ...There was a wee bit of editing done, and I don't know exactly where to direct you for the full version... Colleen has an account on adult fan fiction (dunno the link, couldn't post it if I did) where this chapter will be posted in its full lemony glory... If you can find it, congrats. If not... Darn. (I'm such a bitch when I'm in a good mood; don't you love me?)
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CHAPTER FOUR

Near dawn, the kitsune began to sweat and writhe in pain. Hiei looked on, concerned. "Fox?"

"It hurts, Hiei!" The voice sounded doubled, as if somehow, two people were speaking through the single mouth. Her…his…back arched, showing Hiei that the body was undergoing transformation. The flesh of the chest was smoothing, returning to its prior masculine state. As he looked closer, he could see other changes indicating that the kitsune was returning to his prior form. Hiei glanced at the sky. It hadn't yet been 20 hours. Would his fox be in pain for four hours? Could he bear it?

A keening wail brought his mind back to the present. The redhead's brow was covered in sweat and contorted in pain. Gently, Hiei laid his hand on the red hair and soothed the kitsune in the only way he could think of. Softly, his lips pressed against the red hair, "I'm here, Kurama. I will not leave you."

It what seemed a final surge of pain, Kurama collapsed, unconscious, panting heavily. Hiei looked over the body before him. All signs of feminity seemed to be gone. The chest was again flat. The hips narrower, the torso tapered instead of hour glass shaped. These were the lines he knew so well. His eyes returned to the fox's face, flush and still damp from the pain he'd experienced. He brushed his fingers through the red hair, "Kurama?"

Green eyes opened blearily, "Hiei? Is it over? Am I…am I me again?"

In answer, Hiei kissed the kitsune, his hands tracing the contours he'd dreamed about, from shoulder to waist. He hesitated a moment, and then allowed his hand to explore lower. What met his hand made him smile in the kiss. The fox was already growing excited and the results were…obvious to his questing hand. Pulling back, Hiei murmured, "It seems I have a debt to collect on."

Kurama smiled, and said in his own voice, "And we have four hours before anyone will come looking for us." He brought his hand up to Hiei's cheek and gently drew the koorime down, bringing their lips together, allowing passion to enter and consume their souls. The next four hours passed in a blur for the two, the only certain thing being their desire to repeat and expand on their activities.

But, there were other debts to pay before they could continue with their desired activities. They both knew Koenma would summon them if they did not appear, so they left the clearing, intent on returning to Kurama's house to allow him to change and clean up, but their tryst had consumed too much time. Botan was waiting for them near the open portal. A near silent groan escaped both demons at the sight of the blue haired guardian of death.

"Koenma sent me to get you two. The boys are already there." She looked more closely at Kurama, who had to this point been walking behind Hiei and now drew even. "It wore off!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands in excess of joy.

"So it would seem," the redhead replied evenly. "Do we have time for me to go home first?"

"No, he was insistent that you come quickly. Something about trials and holding prisoners without one…" her voice trailed off, indicating that she didn't understand what she'd been told.

Kurama smiled, "Fine, we do not wish to hold up the wheels of justice." He was certain he heard Hiei laugh once at this statement. With a quick bow, he passed through the portal, Hiei following him, Botan last of all, puzzling over the kitsune's comment and his disheveled state.

As they traveled through the portal, Botan began, "Uh…Kurama?"

"Yes?"

"What does it mean, about the trials and things?" This wasn't really the question she wanted to ask, but she couldn't think of how to ask what she really wanted to know.

Kurama chuckled. "There are laws that say a prisoner can be held for only so long without charges being filed. And, since the barrier breach has been repaired and I seem to have no lasting ill effects, there are no real charges to hold Seimigaku on, so Koenma is obliged to release him."

"Why…why was I sent for you?" She still couldn't bring herself to ask what she really wanted to know…why the two were together, why Kurama looked so disheveled.

The redhead chuckled, and the ferry girl questioned the wisdom of asking him anything. "We have a debt to repay that has nothing to do with the Reikai system of justice."

At that moment, Botan decided she didn't want to know anymore.

Yay. You'll like the next chapter, I believe. -evil snickers- I hope it'll make up for the shortness of this chapter.