Disclaimer: I own none of them. If I did, Kurama would be Youko all the time. And Hiei and Kurama would be together. 'Nuff said.
A/N: Yes, it's another InuYasha/Yu Yu Hakusho fic… Well, I hope this one's original. Anyhow, I have a quick bone to pick with people. This will probably contain some moments of Hiei/Kurama. However, that is NOT the reason this fiction is rated PG-13. It really bugs me that people can't think of guy/guy and girl/girl couples the same way as they do guy/girl couples. I'm straight, and it still pisses me off. Major dittos to Angelofheart2.0 for putting a cute H/K poem as G. I salute you! Anyhow, this fic will contain Youko Kurama (yummmm….) and lots of cute, fluffy, waffy moments. Please, review when you're done.
Chapter One: What Do You Mean I Can't Kill Him?
'Well, it's about time.' Kagome Higurashi aged 15, climbed out of the well at her shrine. Her mental comment was concerning the fact that InuYasha, the oh-so-obnoxious love of her life (kinda sad, really), had finally let her come home for school. Swinging her heavy backpack up onto the floor, she hoisted herself out of the deep well and hurried through the rain into her house.
"Mom! Grandpa! Souta! Hello?" Kagome spotted a note on the kitchen counter.
Dear Kagome,
We've on a trip to Kyoto. We'll probably be there for a while. There are some shrines your grandfather wants to visit. Don't expect us back before the 15th.
Love, Mom
Kagome looked up at the calendar. It was the 5th. Great. 10 days alone. Luckily for Kagome, who was so tired she was about to collapse, it was Saturday night. That meant no getting up early the next morning. She'd told InuYasha she wouldn't be back for a few weeks, so she didn't have to hurry or worry too much about excuses for her absence.
Dragging her bag slowly behind her, Kagome climbed the stairs to her bedroom and fell face first onto her bed. She was out like a light the moment she hit the bed.
The next morning, Kagome woke to the sounds of birds singing outside her window. "What a cliché morning. This is going to be one of those days," Kagome muttered as she changed into a pair of blue jeans and a T-shirt. There was nothing to do on a Sunday. She poured herself from cereal (A/N: I don't know what they eat so all food is going to be what I'd eat) and tried to decide what to do.
"Well, let's see. I could study, or I could practice archery… Who am I kidding. Archery." Kagome picked up the bow and quiver she'd brought back with her from the feudal era and headed out to the God Tree. A target was set up in front of the trunk, and Kagome began firing arrow after arrow into it. Each time she released an arrow, it glowed pink briefly with her growing miko powers.
"Excuse me? Is this the Higurashi shrine?" A nice, alto male voice snapped Kagome out of her concentration. Feeling the distinct tingle to her miko senses that meant demon, she spun around.
She'd just notched an arrow on the string, and the tip started to grow a bright pink color as it hovered a centimeter from the boy's throat. "You can't have it."
She looked up into the startled face of the demon. He looked human, with bright orange-red hair and bright green eyes. His features were oddly feminine, and it didn't help that he was wearing pink. His clothing SHOULD have clashed with his hair, but it didn't. He felt like Shippo a bit, so Kagome assumed he was a kitsune. "Excuse me?"
"I said, you can't have it. Leave me alone." Kagome was growling now, ready to release the arrow and kill this demon who dared bother her at her home.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you…" Another voice came out of the trees. Kagome fired off her arrow at him without thinking. A short person with gravity-defying black hair fell out of the tree, her arrow in his leg. He landed on his feet, pulled out the arrow, and was suddenly standing right next to the first boy.
The boy in pink looked slightly startled. "You hit Hiei. Congratulations. I think you might be the first in over 400 years. You are the priestess, correct?"
Kagome looked at the two of them, standing there in front of her, and figured that if they were after her jewel shards they'd be attacking her by now. "I'm Higurashi Kagome. And you are?"
The red haired boy bowed. "Forgive me. My name is Suichii, but you may call me Kurama. This is my friend Hiei. We came looking for the Higurashi family. There was an… accident at our school, and your mother volunteered to house seven of us, as we will be going to your school for the next several weeks."
"Are all the rest of you demons?" Kagome deadpanned. She hoped that InuYasha wouldn't choose to come back through the well to collect her early. She wasn't sure that he'd like a strange male demon staying in her house… and two would make him pissed for sure.
Kurama thought, then said, "Well, only one of them is but one is also the grim reaper…" To his surprise Kagome just laughed.
"Really? I've always wanted to meet the grim reaper. I'm guessing the scythe thing is exaggerated?"
"Y-yes… she has no weapon and she rides an oar. Oh, yeah, and she's perpetually hyper." Kurama wondered what this girl did that had her so jaded towards demons and the like.
"Hmmm…" Kagome thought for a bit. Well, if her family was gone that sort of solved the sleeping arrangements… As uncomfortable as she was with all these demons in her house, she figured that they seemed nice enough. Just one thing, though. "Hey, Kurama?"
He tilted his head. "Yes?"
"Would you mind me… probing you a bit?" She flushed, not sure how to explain it. Kaede had just explained it to her. She could test a demon's type and power with her own miko powers. Luckily for her, Kurama seemed to understand.
"Yes, of course you may. And I'm sure Hiei, Yukina, and Boton wouldn't mind either… would you, Hiei?" Kurama's smile took on a slightly sadistic edge as he turned to look at his friend.
"Hn." Hiei pointedly looked away.
"That's a yes!" Kurama smiled broadly at Kagome. She had the feeling that it wasn't, that Hiei really didn't want her to, but she didn't say anything. "Why don't we wait for the others to come, first? That way you can just do it all at once."
"Oh, thank you. That makes sense." Kagome smiled. "Why don't you call everyone else and I'll get you guys settled in?"
Within thirty minutes, there were seven people standing in her living room with bags. She clapped her hands cheerfully and set about assigning rooms. "Ok. Keiko will be sharing my room with me. Yukina and Boton, you'll be in the guest room… the third room on the right upstairs. Yusuke, you and Kuwabara will be sleeping in my brother's room until he gets home, then you'll be in the living room. Kurama, you and Hiei get to sleep in the shrine house. It's got pallets and everything, my grandpa still thinks that we'll get pilgrims at some point. Everyone clear? Ok. Go to." Everyone headed off to their respected rooms to unpack.
A/N: Yay! One chapter done! Next time: What happens when they're all probed? Something surprising… that's what. And yes, I know, I should be working on All's Fair in Love and War, but I got hit with the muse. The other one-shot I've posted is from a while ago, just couldn't figure out how to end it. And yes, I'm also starting another long story. That will be three big ones and one that I work on as stress relief. Review!