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Well, thank you for the wonderful reviews. Here is your somewhat longer chapter. I hope it suffices your needs! Now, to thank everyone! Thank you to;

Moon Minamino - Ah, okay. Thank you. (Oh, I also think you're a wonderful author too . . . Personally wish you would update your HP/YYH X-over, but hey. Do what you want. :)

YokoYoukai - Actually, I don't understand anymore either. I guess they're just there until I can find a bigger purpose for them. Or maybe I'll just leave them there. They're funny, short, and odd. Hm. Thank you.

Agent Dark Moose - Half the people I know are going on skiing trips. Either that or they already have. Thank you for reviewing. Glad it's funny. I sort of aimed for humor there . . .

turtle - I agree. To bad there aren't many fics out there like that, ne? Thanks for reviewing!

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WARNING:

1. This story will contain Shonen-Ai in later chapters (will be mild.) Don't like don't read!

2. Rated for reasons: Language and future scenes (Blood, etc.)!

You have been warned!

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CAPTURED

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The night was quiet - the air was almost eerily still. The moon was non existent as the night of the new moon was upon them.

Nothing stirred in the air, the trees were silent. It was as if someone had bade them to stay still and not flow and bend along. The grass stood tall and erect. Alert, watching for anything, someone, to whom would threaten the heist about to take place that night.

If someone had thought this, you wouldn't know how right they would have been.

They could have told the poor, unsuspecting people below that in the morning. . .

They would have almost nothing left.

In the morning all their pretty jewels would have found a new owner.

In the night two demons were waiting for them to fall asleep. Quietly, patiently, waiting.

For by the time morning came, Youko Kurama and Kuronue would have been long gone.

Along with their new treasures.

Youko and Kuronue were on a midnight raid.

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It was obvious that as the fox slept, it wasn't very alert. He didn't know why, but for some reason this surprised Hiei. Maybe it was because the fox was on the top of the Makai's "Most Wanted" list? Maybe because this was the Youko Kurama? Maybe it was because if the fox knew Hiei was after him, he'd actually try putting up some kind of guard or leave some of his senses up to alert him of Hiei's arrival?

It just seemed easy. A little bit too easy. Like how when you kill some supposedly tough bad dude whilst on a killing rampage and feel that killing him with just one swipe of your sword was way to simple. Hiei's crimson irises narrowed as he continued to observe the kitsune in a supposed slumber.

Youko's long silvery main of hair was strewn about him in a careless manner. Every once in a while the youko's sensitive ears would twitch from most likely a dream. Hiei watched the fox's chest rise up and down in the most simple way of telling if one was alive or dead. Youko was alive.

Unfortunately.

Just watching the kitsune was getting old and tiresome. If he was supposed to bring the fox back to that Karasu guy, might as well do it sooner or later. Just to remind you, Hiei was getting low on is gold stash.

In only a flicker of black, then Hiei was positioned on the ground, mere meters away from the slumbering fox.

The 'This-Is-Way-To-Simple' feeling was still fluttering around in Hiei's mind, but at the present he ignored the signs. The fox was off-guard, now was the perfect, most likely only, time to capture him. Hiei took a step closer to the infamous youko.

How to capture him . . . not to worry. Hiei had come prepared to ensnare the youko. Prepared of a struggle.

It didn't take the long for the half-koorime to figure it out, but the foxes 'symbol' was the rose. Not just any old rose either, and not the rose the kitsune oh-so kindly left Hiei at their first meeting together. This was the rose in which the youko stored his precious youki. Every spirit youkai kept their youki in something, as to have a stored up source of energy when the supply naturally in their body was running low.(1)

The spirit youkai usually fed a bit of youki at a time over the years to their trademark, or whatever you'd prefer to call it.(2)

Even though the kitsune's mind defenses where high, Hiei had still managed to grab this information from his mind as the fox slept. That proved that Youko Kurama needed to guard this information with more care. Not that Hiei really cared if the fox did or not, as long as he got his money out of this, whatever happened to the fox didn't matter to him much at all. Thought it would be interesting to know why Karasu was so interested in this peculiar kitsune, or youko, or thief, Hiei brushed the thought off harshly. Once the fox was out of his life, the better.

The youko had caused him enough pain already without doing a real fight with the jaganshi. Hiei was still sore from when his face was non-so-kindly smashed into that tree's trunk. It was all Youko's fault.

Hiei took another step forward, toward the youko.

The fox was less than a meter away now.

If he had wanted to touch the Youko, Hiei probably could have done it. He wanted to avoid as much physical contact with the kitsune as possible. You have to remember, Youko Kurama had aced the skill of seduction. Hiei wasn't going to take any chances with the tricky fox. Especially since it was naturally curious.

Taking another step forward, it looked as if Hiei hadn't even moved, his walking was so swift. The koorime halfling could hear the foxes soft breathing.

Quick as he could manage it, Hiei bent down over the sleeping fox and grasped the rose barely visible between the youko's fingers and hair. Grinning in self-triumph, Hiei looked at his prize.

It was a rose. It was a most peculiar color though. It wasn't exactly red . . . but it wasn't white, yellow, nor any other color roses would naturally be. This rose seemed to be . . . transparent. Like a faint color of white or silver, yet you could see through it. Almost like vellum, but instead of the images being foggy and blurred, Hiei could see right through the petals. And the stem, thorns, which were a misty green color.

It was truly the most . . . strange thing Hiei had ever seen. Then again Hiei had never really had an encounter with another spirit beast or youkai . . . The first time he'd met with the youko didn't count either.

Dismissing the roses odd appearance, Hiei decided he didn't expect anything more or less from the fox. At least now he held the power to control the youko to his every whim, unless the fox actually wanted to die. It would be a pity to kill something so young - well in actuality the fox was older than the jaganshi. Still, a pity to have to kill something so . . . bluntly put, pretty.

Hiei shook his head harshly, letting the thought abruptly slide away from his mind.

'Bad thoughts,' Hiei growled out to himself, 'No thinking like that. Think of the money. Remember the money. M-
O-N-E-Y. Important money. Damn fox is trying to seduce you whilst sleeping. Damned fox, what's it think it's doing? Nothing can, nor will, gain control over me.'

"Really, you think so? I wouldn't be so sure. There are plenty of mind-controlling youkai out there that are stronger than you." The fox suddenly spoke, "And now I'm quite insulted. You think I'm trying to seduce you? Why should I want to? I can take control over my own actions while sleeping, thank you very much! I wouldn't violate a small koorime halfling. Koorime and . . ."

The foxed sniffed the air, "Hi-youkai! Really now? What an interesting breed indeed! A hanyou . . ."

Hiei bristled at the insult embedded in the words of the fox, who had heard Hiei's words, as Hiei now realized he had spoken them out loud. The fox was calling him little.

Small.

A half-breed.

Even though what the fox said was true. Truth wasn't one of the things Hiei liked best. He was much more comfortable with lies and deceit. Oh, but now Hiei was in control of the kitsune. The jaganshi smirked at the youko, who was now sitting up, looking at him. Those glittering golden eyes were glazed with curiosity.

"Shut up," Hiei ordered the fox, "You have no right to laugh at me."

"Oh really now?" The fox was now genuinely interested as to why this demon was following him around. "You have no right to order me."

Hiei snorted at the fox, didn't it realize that Hiei literally held the foxes power in his fingers? Sure, you could see through it, but anyone could see what it was, and it was perfectly touchable.

"I'd reconsider what you think my rights are." The koorime said in a cold manner, "I've got something you need to survive, how can you live without me giving it back to you?"

"It depends on what you have." The fox said, idly. He had somehow found a twig in the dim lighting and was twirling it around in his fingers like it was a toy. A soft hum came from the stick as the speed increased.

Hiei's eye twitched in annoyance. The youko stopped playing with his new found 'toy,' and looked at Hiei with a quirked brow. "Well?" Youko asked as he grew tired of the silence.

"Don't you get it!" Hiei demanded of the fox, taking a threatening step forward. He brandished the rose in front of the kitsune's face, waving it in the air.

Youko Kurama's eyes followed the rose, and narrowed ever-so slightly. "What do you want from me?" He spat at Hiei, standing up quickly.

This forced Hiei to look up, making the youko have to look down to meet the jaganshi's eyes. Hiei growled out of annoyance. 'Curse the fox for being so damn tall!' "You have to do everything I say. Everything, unless you feel like dying. All I have to do is to bend this little stem . . ."

"I don't think you will." Said Youko, watching the rose with rapt attention. Hanging tightly from his clenched fist was the gem he had stolen at the shop mere days ago. He had stolen it once again, but this time from Hiei while the hi-youkai-koorime was examining his rose with an intrigued expression, just before scowling and realizing that Youko was awake.

Hiei looked at the jewel with disbelief sketched across his round face. 'How the hell did the fox get that!'

He didn't even need to ask as Kurama started to explain his actions on his own. "I took it from you when you were preoccupied with my rose. It just wouldn't be fair if you had a weakness to me, and I didn't have one to you, would it? If I remember correctly, you were a very pissed off koorime halfling when I stole that jewel from you, weren't you?"

The fox smirked at Hiei, his golden eyes glinting at him playfully with a 'Ha-Ha-I-Got-You-Sucker' look in them. Hiei didn't make a sound, or move, furthering the foxes assumption to be correct.

"You wouldn't tell me why you wanted it so badly, but I gave it to you anyways. Well, now wasn't I being smart that day? It seems to have paid me off in the right way, hasn't it?"

"Hn," Hiei snarled back at the youkai.

"I see. Are you going to tell me why you need this so bad? You obviously are going to do anything to get it back. I would do anything to get my rose back."

The fox looked at Hiei's crimson eyes before smirking once again, "We're bound together now. Stuck until you give me back my rose. You can be assured you're not getting this beauty back until that moment comes." He said, voice becoming just a tad bit more serious.

Hiei glared full daggers at the fox. It was dead now. Just the second in which he got the gem back, the fox would find himself on the road to hell.

Yet now while thinking these thoughts, Hiei had forgotten all about Karasu and Kuronue.

"Fucking fox." Hiei said tightly.

The youko only smiled, his pointed fangs glinting faintly in the darkness of the Kuro Mori.

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Authors Note: I can only hope that this is long enough. There isn't much to say about it. I hope you enjoyed it though! Feel special, I still haven't updated my other story. Muwhaha? Oh yeah, Karasu and Kuronue will have a chapter to themselves next chapter. I think, maybe. It will most likely be a rather short chapter, seeing as those two aren't the main focus of the story, though they are rather important. I don't have a plot without them! So, I hope you enjoy then when I get it out!

Important Notes:

(1) - I want you all to know, yes I made this up completely. But hey, I needed some way to "bind" the two together, so this is how it came out in my mind. Anyways, it's like an extra gas tank . . . except if you lose it, you're in some serious trouble because it basically holds the energy you need to live. Without it, poof! Good bye, Youko! And, no! That is not how Youko will die, he isn't even going to die. Come close, definitely. It's in that way in which Hiei's gem comes into play. Wait and see -

(2) - Basically they just send their youki to the receiver (in this case the rose) and it holds their vital energy. The extra gas tank. I made this little detail up too.

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