Well, I'm updating on this one again because, frankly my dears, it's my
favorite out of the two. I'll be able to update more this week, hopefully,
because I'm off from school for a while. (Yippee) The only thing that may
prevent me from updating would be my birthday, on the 8th, but I'll still
try. (Yay! I'm gonna be 18!) Okay, I know I stopped at a not-so-nice spot
before, sop I'll stop blabbering and get to writing. I would like to warn
everyone, however, that this is where I start doing some things that I'm
not sure how everyone will react to. Probably not in this chappie, but
there will be a lot about Kurama's past, and Hiei's, and some stuff about
Hiei's powers I'm not sure about, but I'm doing for the hell of it.
I own nothing 2.This is Yaoi
~
Yusuke opened his eyes slowly, head pounding painfully from the blow he had received. His arms ached and his wrists and ankles throbbed painfully; something cold and metallic was pinching his skin. He tried to move and, upon finding he couldn't, tried even harder.
He cried out at, suddenly, pain wracked through his entire body.
"Finally, the last one is awake." A voice purred. A hand cupped his face, sharp fingernails digging into his skin. Yusuke found himself staring into a pair of icy blue eyes set in a sharply featured, yet lovely face. The woman smiled a calculating smile as she realized he truly was awake, and aware, and ran her eyes over him. "Another human I see. Strange company you keep these days."
"Leave them alone."
Yusuke jerked his face out of the woman's grasp, ignoring the deep scratched the action caused as he turned his head in the direction of the familiar voice. Fear filled him at what he saw.
Kurama was crouched on his knees on the floor, hands tied behind his back. His clothes were ripped and dirty, hair a tangled mess, and, most horrible of all, there was a bruise forming under one of his eyes. He met Yusuke's gaze with a look of deep sadness.
"Kurama?"
"I had hoped you, at least, had gotten away, Yusuke." He answered regretfully, pulling his eyes away.
"No speaking to my prisoners!" The woman snapped, sending a whip-like thread of energy at him. The red haired boy didn't flinch. The woman was very beautiful, with a curvaceous body that would have drawn Yusuke's eye a year ago, accented by the too-tight dress of green and gold scales she wore.
Yusuke worked stiff muscles in his neck as he looked around the rest of the room that held him, finding a frightened Kuwabara chained to the wall beside him. Hiei was on the other side, in much the same predicament except, rather than look frightened, he glared furiously, a silk scarf stuffed into his mouth as a gag.
"Quite a collection I've accumulated here, wouldn't you agree, Youko, dear?" The woman taunted silkily. "Just think of all the uses I can put these little darlings to. Well, the ugly one will have to go straight to the cookpots, I'm afraid, but the pretty ones. well," She scraped a black lacquered fingernail across Yusuke's cheek, smiling as he glared. He opened his mouth to give her a piece of his mind, and with a tsk she stuffed a wadded up scarf into his mouth and lightly kissed him around it.
For some reason, Hiei thrashed violently against the chains holding him, his muffled cries filling the room as black lightning raced across his body.
The woman smiled slowly. "They don't learn very quickly, do they? I can think of so many uses for them though. A high ranking, powerful demon of ill refute and an attractive human child? Yes, I could find them very amusing."
"You will not touch them, Medu!"
She laughed lightly, hand trailing over Yusuke's chest. "Humans are always the most amusing." She continued as if she hadn't heard Kurama, smiling when Yusuke's eyes widened and he let forth a muffled protest. "They fight it to the end, no matter the pain or the drugs. The amount of persuasion needed usually either kills them or draws them insane."
"Medu!"
"But then again," She left Yusuke, moving to Hiei. "The Forbidden Child could amuse me much longer. He would be very entertaining to break. It would be more than satisfying to watch him beg for my attentions." Hiei began to struggle again, receiving the painful lightnings for his efforts.
Kurama's eyes were desperate. "I said leave them alone!"
"Leave them alone? And what would you give me for my troubles? I would have to have a pretty heavy compensation for releasing treasures this unique. A fox demon completely obedient to my every whim would perhaps be enough. What do you think, Youko? Is the price worth it? I could just keep them and release you. Or. well, I think you understand my meaning. It is what I deserve, after all. You permitted me to go for years believing you were dead. To think I had to hear it from those worthless gossips from the tournament!"
Kurama stared at Yusuke and the still-thrashing Hiei with pain-filled eyes. Shameful eyes. He dropped his head. "I will pay the price. Only please, release them."
The pain began increasing until blackness claimed Yusuke once more.
~
Harsh hands shook him violently, sending tendrils of pain throughout his body. He was on fire, but it didn't really matter. What filled his mind most prominently was the image of the eyes he had always loved to gaze into once more looking at him with pain and shame filling them.
"Hiei! Hiei, wake up!"
He cracked his eyes open enough to glare, but his hope left him when he found himself staring into velvety brown, worry filled eyes, rather than deep and endless green.
"Quit shaking me, you fool!" His voice came out a rasp, throat raw. He could remember screaming. He swallowed and sat up, expression turning from annoyance to surprise as Yusuke was suddenly in his arms, clinging to his shirt with a desperation he wouldn't have expected from the normally arrogant, self-sufficient youth.
"She took Kurama. That bitch took him."
Over Yusuke's head, Hiei surveyed their surroundings. They were in an alley, obscured from the street by boxes and garbage. Kuwabara was slumped in a corner, still unconscious. Hiei permitted Yusuke to remain in his arms a few moments more, drawing more comfort from the human boy's presence than he would have admitted. He felt shaken to the core. He had never even considered that Medu, of all people, would be the one trying to take over Makai - a fact she had revealed to him while everyone else had still been unconscious. After all, she had always been more concerned over her own comforts than power, but she had taken considerable pleasure in gloating to him of her eventual status of Queen of the Demons.
He had known she was dangerous. He had known of her unhealthy obsession with Kurama, who she had tried to buy several times before Hiei had met him. But Hiei had never expected to run into her, especially not on this mission. It had never so much as crossed his mind, or Kurama's.
Hiei released his returning hold on Yusuke and pushed the human boy away with a gentleness that surprised even him as he stood.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Where do you think?" He spat wearily. Kami but he hurt. "I am going after him."
Yusuke leapt to his feet. "I'm going with you!"
"No you're not."
"You just try an' stop me." He challenged, shouldering his bag. Hiei realized they were in the alley behind the hotel - their things still where they had been dropped when they had been attacked. "I'm not about to stay behind while that bitch had him!"
"Leave Kurama to me, detective. I have more right to him than you, after all. We have been together for five hundred years and. ." Why was it so hard to say? "I. love. him."
"You think I don't?" Yusuke demanded. "I love 'em just as much as you do, y' bastard, and I don't give a damn if you did have him first, I ain't stayin' behind! This isn't about you, it's about me, you get it? No one's ever cared about me before, no one's ever given a damn 'cept for Kurama and I'm not letting that bitch take him away. I never cared about no one before, but I love him and I'm not letting you go alone!"
Hiei surveyed him coldly a moment before giving in and nodding sharply. "Fine, you can come. However, your friend stays here. He annoys me."
Yusuke glanced down at the unconscious Kuwabara. "Isn't it dangerous to leave him here alone?"
"Who's more important, him or Kurama?"
Yusuke didn't even hesitate. "Kurama. Let's go."
~
To Be Continued
Okay, don't be mad at me. I have reasons for everything I do. I have a side story to this, kinda'. It's about how Hiei and Kurama first met. Let me know if anyone wants me to post it.
I own nothing 2.This is Yaoi
~
Yusuke opened his eyes slowly, head pounding painfully from the blow he had received. His arms ached and his wrists and ankles throbbed painfully; something cold and metallic was pinching his skin. He tried to move and, upon finding he couldn't, tried even harder.
He cried out at, suddenly, pain wracked through his entire body.
"Finally, the last one is awake." A voice purred. A hand cupped his face, sharp fingernails digging into his skin. Yusuke found himself staring into a pair of icy blue eyes set in a sharply featured, yet lovely face. The woman smiled a calculating smile as she realized he truly was awake, and aware, and ran her eyes over him. "Another human I see. Strange company you keep these days."
"Leave them alone."
Yusuke jerked his face out of the woman's grasp, ignoring the deep scratched the action caused as he turned his head in the direction of the familiar voice. Fear filled him at what he saw.
Kurama was crouched on his knees on the floor, hands tied behind his back. His clothes were ripped and dirty, hair a tangled mess, and, most horrible of all, there was a bruise forming under one of his eyes. He met Yusuke's gaze with a look of deep sadness.
"Kurama?"
"I had hoped you, at least, had gotten away, Yusuke." He answered regretfully, pulling his eyes away.
"No speaking to my prisoners!" The woman snapped, sending a whip-like thread of energy at him. The red haired boy didn't flinch. The woman was very beautiful, with a curvaceous body that would have drawn Yusuke's eye a year ago, accented by the too-tight dress of green and gold scales she wore.
Yusuke worked stiff muscles in his neck as he looked around the rest of the room that held him, finding a frightened Kuwabara chained to the wall beside him. Hiei was on the other side, in much the same predicament except, rather than look frightened, he glared furiously, a silk scarf stuffed into his mouth as a gag.
"Quite a collection I've accumulated here, wouldn't you agree, Youko, dear?" The woman taunted silkily. "Just think of all the uses I can put these little darlings to. Well, the ugly one will have to go straight to the cookpots, I'm afraid, but the pretty ones. well," She scraped a black lacquered fingernail across Yusuke's cheek, smiling as he glared. He opened his mouth to give her a piece of his mind, and with a tsk she stuffed a wadded up scarf into his mouth and lightly kissed him around it.
For some reason, Hiei thrashed violently against the chains holding him, his muffled cries filling the room as black lightning raced across his body.
The woman smiled slowly. "They don't learn very quickly, do they? I can think of so many uses for them though. A high ranking, powerful demon of ill refute and an attractive human child? Yes, I could find them very amusing."
"You will not touch them, Medu!"
She laughed lightly, hand trailing over Yusuke's chest. "Humans are always the most amusing." She continued as if she hadn't heard Kurama, smiling when Yusuke's eyes widened and he let forth a muffled protest. "They fight it to the end, no matter the pain or the drugs. The amount of persuasion needed usually either kills them or draws them insane."
"Medu!"
"But then again," She left Yusuke, moving to Hiei. "The Forbidden Child could amuse me much longer. He would be very entertaining to break. It would be more than satisfying to watch him beg for my attentions." Hiei began to struggle again, receiving the painful lightnings for his efforts.
Kurama's eyes were desperate. "I said leave them alone!"
"Leave them alone? And what would you give me for my troubles? I would have to have a pretty heavy compensation for releasing treasures this unique. A fox demon completely obedient to my every whim would perhaps be enough. What do you think, Youko? Is the price worth it? I could just keep them and release you. Or. well, I think you understand my meaning. It is what I deserve, after all. You permitted me to go for years believing you were dead. To think I had to hear it from those worthless gossips from the tournament!"
Kurama stared at Yusuke and the still-thrashing Hiei with pain-filled eyes. Shameful eyes. He dropped his head. "I will pay the price. Only please, release them."
The pain began increasing until blackness claimed Yusuke once more.
~
Harsh hands shook him violently, sending tendrils of pain throughout his body. He was on fire, but it didn't really matter. What filled his mind most prominently was the image of the eyes he had always loved to gaze into once more looking at him with pain and shame filling them.
"Hiei! Hiei, wake up!"
He cracked his eyes open enough to glare, but his hope left him when he found himself staring into velvety brown, worry filled eyes, rather than deep and endless green.
"Quit shaking me, you fool!" His voice came out a rasp, throat raw. He could remember screaming. He swallowed and sat up, expression turning from annoyance to surprise as Yusuke was suddenly in his arms, clinging to his shirt with a desperation he wouldn't have expected from the normally arrogant, self-sufficient youth.
"She took Kurama. That bitch took him."
Over Yusuke's head, Hiei surveyed their surroundings. They were in an alley, obscured from the street by boxes and garbage. Kuwabara was slumped in a corner, still unconscious. Hiei permitted Yusuke to remain in his arms a few moments more, drawing more comfort from the human boy's presence than he would have admitted. He felt shaken to the core. He had never even considered that Medu, of all people, would be the one trying to take over Makai - a fact she had revealed to him while everyone else had still been unconscious. After all, she had always been more concerned over her own comforts than power, but she had taken considerable pleasure in gloating to him of her eventual status of Queen of the Demons.
He had known she was dangerous. He had known of her unhealthy obsession with Kurama, who she had tried to buy several times before Hiei had met him. But Hiei had never expected to run into her, especially not on this mission. It had never so much as crossed his mind, or Kurama's.
Hiei released his returning hold on Yusuke and pushed the human boy away with a gentleness that surprised even him as he stood.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Where do you think?" He spat wearily. Kami but he hurt. "I am going after him."
Yusuke leapt to his feet. "I'm going with you!"
"No you're not."
"You just try an' stop me." He challenged, shouldering his bag. Hiei realized they were in the alley behind the hotel - their things still where they had been dropped when they had been attacked. "I'm not about to stay behind while that bitch had him!"
"Leave Kurama to me, detective. I have more right to him than you, after all. We have been together for five hundred years and. ." Why was it so hard to say? "I. love. him."
"You think I don't?" Yusuke demanded. "I love 'em just as much as you do, y' bastard, and I don't give a damn if you did have him first, I ain't stayin' behind! This isn't about you, it's about me, you get it? No one's ever cared about me before, no one's ever given a damn 'cept for Kurama and I'm not letting that bitch take him away. I never cared about no one before, but I love him and I'm not letting you go alone!"
Hiei surveyed him coldly a moment before giving in and nodding sharply. "Fine, you can come. However, your friend stays here. He annoys me."
Yusuke glanced down at the unconscious Kuwabara. "Isn't it dangerous to leave him here alone?"
"Who's more important, him or Kurama?"
Yusuke didn't even hesitate. "Kurama. Let's go."
~
To Be Continued
Okay, don't be mad at me. I have reasons for everything I do. I have a side story to this, kinda'. It's about how Hiei and Kurama first met. Let me know if anyone wants me to post it.