Hello. now I MUST ask am I not being good to all of you and updating or what? I mean. I think I updated this in what a day's time or so? That's pretty good since I'm not usually good at writing these types of stories,¦ reading yes defiantly, but writing not as good.

Oh well onto the story!

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Chapter something:

Locked in a nightmare

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Hiei's P.O.V (I like it that way so sue me! I say that a lot.)

I had fallen asleep this I knew, but I seemed to be awoken quickly, surly night had not passed that fast had it? I opened my eyes and was met by the same darkness that had been there before.

If dawn had not woken me up then what had? I was still drawn close to my fox and I didn't want to move, maybe I had just instinctively woken up or something.

As I settled back in and shut my eyes, my koi's movement made me snap my eyes open I had observed my fox sleeping before on numerous accounts I knew well that once he was asleep, he didn't move from that spot until morning woke him.

So why did he move now?

I felt his grasp tighten on my shirt, like if he let go he or I would disappear; I made the slightest move to look at him.

His eyes scrunched up then released, every couple seconds and his face was covered in sweat the whole time, his grasp never let up on my shirt.

"Kurama?" I asked quietly, knowing well that he might be in a human body, but he still had very precise ears. Still he didn't show any signs that she heard me, "Kurama?" This time I shook his shoulder a bit, but nothing happened.

My eyes grew wide as I pulled a bit more away and thought of what to do to wake my fox up. Nothing came to mind, the only thing I could do was try and shake him awake. I pushed on his shoulder repeatedly, but still nothing happened.

I unsealed my Jagan to see what was going on in his subconscious mind, instantly heat went threw me as I was taken into his mind.

Flames licked at my vision like they were right in front of me, but they didn't burn my skin. I saw it from a bird's-eye-view, it turned out to be a burning village, but where was my fox.

I scanned the area time and again, but found nothing. After going around for the third time, I found him running down the street, buildings burning all around him.

I went down and ran next to him, configuring my body into his nightmare, "Kurama." He looked over at me and then back in front, squeezing his eyes shut as if trying to block everything out.

"Kurama, you need to wake up." I ordered, but he ignored me simply saying,

"No, you're not here, you can't be!"

A woman stood up ahead, cowering in fear. Kurama kept going, pulling out his Rose Whip and easily killed her as he ran by. Her screams as she died filled the area, I hadn't heard those types of screams in years and it seemed to really affect my fox.

Now I understood, what he meant by the screams of the ones he killed.

I followed his every step, staying right beside him. It was obvious he didn't want to do these things, but he had too, something seemed to be forcing him.

"Koi, please, you need to wake up this is a nightmare!" I tried to explain, but it proved to be useless.

"No, no you're not here!"

I didn't know what to do. I pulled out of his mind and was met by the darkness that soon faded as my vision adjusted to no light.

He was still the same as before, I stared at him, feeling utterly useless. He was going threw all of this and I could do nothing to stop it. He would always help me, but I could not do the same.

A thought came to mind and I was willing to do it. Slowly I brought myself closer to him until we were literally an inch apart from each other.

I let out my breath and closed the space between us. Taking him into a kiss not very deep, but enough to try and draw him back to reality. I pulled away after a moment and waited in anticipation for the results of my actions.

Slowly his eyes twitched a bit and then opened. He then shot up, breathing heavily as I continued to watch him. He turned to me, "Hiei?" I observed the look of confusion mixed with pain.

"You had a nightmare." I stated as a different look passed his face, but I couldn't tell of what feeling. "Do you always have nightmares about that type of thing?" I asked, as he looked me dead in the eyes.

Right then, I saw something I had never seen before in him, fear. Okay, maybe once or twice, but it didn't happen very often, and honestly I hated to see it in him.

"What are you……."

"Are those your nightmares of killing?" I cut in as his eyes widened.

"Yes, how did you know?"

"I saw." His eyes widened more, if possible.

"I'm sorry Hiei I-."

"Stop, don't say it. It wasn't your fault." I said, but it was obvious my words had little to no effect on him.

"You tried to contact me?" I nodded, "And I turned away. I'm-….." I knew what he was going to say and I wouldn't let him say it.

"Don't say it, koi." I stated, stopping him mid-sentence. "It doesn't suit you and you couldn't help it." I explained to him as he looked down, obviously in thought about it all.

"I guess your right." He said, placing a hand on his forehead loosely. "Well it's still late, we need to get back to sleep." He said, lying back down, his hand never leaving his head.

I lay next to him and got close to him, offering as much comfort to him as I could give. He looked at me and smiled, removing his hand. "Next time slap me when I don't listen okay?" He said as I stared into those beautiful emerald eyes.

"Hn." He smiled again, it seemed he was doing a lot of that lately, but he leaned towards me and took me into a kiss and I instantly deepened it. We stayed like that until we had to separate for air.

I pushed against him and closed my eyes as sleep called to me, although I could still feel his gaze upon me. "Hiei?" He asked putting an arm around me.

"Tired." I said simply, trying to get sleep to take me, but for some reason it didn't come.

"Okay, you sleep."

"And you?" I asked

"I want to stay up a little while longer." He murmured softly.

"Hn, baka kitsune." I heard a soft chuckle from him before the blackness of sleep took me.

Kurama's P.O.V

I watched my koi fall into the night's slumber. When his breathing evened out, I knew well he was asleep even though it didn't take long. He was tired, that was certain, and I didn't blame him for wanting to sleep.

I then let the thoughts that lingered strongly in my mind flow threw me as I sorted each one out slowly. Why was I having these nightmares day after day? Why did they affect me so much?

These questions I couldn't answer, I had nothing to work from resulting in my confusion. I sighed as I looked over at my love again, he looked peaceful when he slept.

I turned towards him and got as close as possible to him, closing my eyes for a moment. I thought back to what Hiei had asked me earlier, 'I was thinking about, what would happen to us in the future.'

I had simply said, 'don't worry about that now koi, we will deal with things one day at a time.' But was that really the right thing to say? Had I made the mistake of telling him something he now believed as the truth, but I didn't?

I sighed silently, why do I always make these kind of mistakes? But thinking about what he had said earlier I had to question it as well. How would Yusuke and the others take it? What if it got out? What would my mother think?

"We won't tell them then." I heard Hiei say as I opened my eyes and looked at him. "Your thoughts are to loud, koi." He said, never opening his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Hiei." I stated, smiling lightly.

"Hn." I let out my breath and leaned against him more, welcoming my little fire demon's heat that he gave off.

I lay there for another moment, nothing going threw my mind, nothing passing threw my closed eyes. I felt at peace now for some reason; I let out a breath as I felt sleep take me.

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The next morning I awoke early, I was still in the same position I had been in when I fell asleep and not surprisingly, Hiei was still there to.

I tried not to move too much, it seemed Hiei could be awoken by the slightest movement I observed his closed eyelids, twitching ever so slightly and I started to wonder what he was dreaming about.

Smiling lightly, I got up, ready to start the day, but then again, I really didn't want to get up. I wanted to stay were I had been for as long as I possibly could, but then again, I knew I had to go to school.

I took a quick shower and came out in my school uniform, ready to go. (I'm not going to describe that!) "What are you doing?" Came a groggy version of Hiei's voice.

I turned to him, to see him looking at me and squinting slightly, "I'm sorry, Hiei. Did I wake you up?" I asked as he leaned back on his hand.

"No, the sun. Where are you going?" I made a mental note to close the blinds tonight.

"I have to go to school." I explained.

"No, stay here." I smiled, going over to him. "I can't, I have to go to school you know that." I knew he didn't like the fact that I had to go, but I just needed to go.

"Yes, but you can claim you're sick." I rolled my eyes slightly at his attempts.

"No Hiei, I have to go, I'll be back later on. Besides, you're energy still hasn't recovered." He looked away and I knew I had hit a sensitive spot in him.

"Hn, I know that." I took his chin and turned it back to me, meeting his crimson orbs. "Then you need to stay here and sleep." I explained.

"Fine."

I said nothing in return, but went forward and kissed him deeply. I knew well that it would just kill him to try and make me stay, but oh well.

"I'll be back later, koi." I said, drawing back and moving to the window and closing the blinds that closed off the sunlight from entering the room.

I exited the room as he laid back down, I liked this feeling that filled my body to capacity. I felt like it was hard to put into words really, but basically, I felt like I was really depended on now and truly loved whether I was a demon or not.

Surprising enough, when I exited the house Yusuke and Kuwabara stood by the door, "What are you two doing here?" I asked as they turned towards me.

"We came by to see how things went!" Kuwabara said which really didn't help much.

"What stupid here is trying to say is that we came by to see what happened with Hiei and if he's okay?" Yusuke said.

"Yeah, hey wait that was an insult wasn't it?" Kuwabara shouted.

"Yeah, what of it?" Yusuke shouted back.

"Guys stop, please, I'll explain what happened." Of coarse, I would have to leave out a few details. I led them down the driveway and down the sidewalk as I started.

"So what was up with him did you find out?" Yusuke asked.

"Yes it seemed he had a rather deep cut and was letting it bleed the whole time. By the time he told me, he had passed out from blood loss."

"Is he okay?" Both asked and I was sort of surprised that they were really that concerned.

"Yes, but he lost most of his energy trying to keep himself stable last night. He needs to rest and get it back."

"So, where is he now?" Kuwabara asked.

"He is still asleep." I said a small smile, spreading across my face.

"Well that's good!" Yusuke said.

"Yeah, I knew he was acting odd last night." Kuwabara agreed.

"It is surprising that you two were concerned enough to come today." I stated, looking at both of them.

"Well of coarse, shorty is our friend too!" I smiled even more.

"Well, we got to go before we're late. We should all do that again like last night." Yusuke explained as they started heading in a different direction.

"That sounds good." I said as I went in another direction.

"See you, Kurama!" Kuwabara called as Yusuke hit him over the head.

I shook my head and continued on my way to school.

(As you all know, I am not putting what happened at school it would just take to long so I will skip to the end of the day!)

I walked home after a long day at school, I was actually anxious to get home for some reason or another. It didn't take long for me to get there either.

"Hello Shuuichi, how was school?" My mother asked as I closed the door behind me. I smirked a bit as she still called me by my human name.

"It went fine. How was your day?" I asked, going into the kitchen to get something to drink.

"It went fine also. Where is your friend, Hiei?" She asked as I was stricken with confusion, 'he didn't come out of my room then?' I asked myself getting the lemonade out.

"I'm not sure." I said, pouring two glasses.

"Will he be having dinner with us then?" She asked.

"I don't think so. I'm going to go do my homework." I said, taking the glasses and starting to go down the hall.

"Alright, I'll call you for dinner then." She said as I went down the hall and into my dark room. I saw Hiei was still asleep on the bed facing towards the wall. I never thought I would see the day when Hiei slept threw a whole day.

"Hiei?" I asked, but got no response. I put the glasses down on the table and gently got on the bed, but still he didn't move. "Hiei." I said again, this time putting my hand on him.

"Home so soon?" Came his voice, although it was silent as if he had been deprived of sleep.

"I suspect you've been sleeping all day?" I asked as he turned slightly.

"Barely." I changed to confusion.

"Your ki hasn't gone up at all, that's odd." I said, really thinking aloud as he sat up.

"Hn."

I thought a moment about what could have been the problem, but nothing came to mind, "Did the two idiots come by this morning?" He asked, knocking me out of my thoughts.

"Yes, they were concerned about what happened to you. I suppose you heard them?" I asked, giving up on it.

"A little hard not to hear them." I smirked as he started to get up, "Where are you going?"

"Out, I've been here to long." He said, grabbing his cleaned cloak and opening the window.

"Okay then." I said as he disappeared out of the window.

I knew I should have protested against it, but I knew Hiei was not one to stay in one place for very long so it would be good for him to get out for however long he needed. I knew he would come back in due time.

I got up and decided I would help my mother prepare dinner.

LATER ON

My mother shivered a bit, got up from the table, and turned the thermometer up. I guess it was cold for her, but I hadn't noticed much. "Weather man says a cold front is coming threw for a few days." She explained, sitting back down.

"How cold is it supposed to get?" I wondered.

"Tonight is supposed to get down to about 20 degree's."

(I don't know if I said it before, but it is around the start of winter. I love winter and it will help for an idea I have in the not so far future!)

"How cold is it now, do you know?" I asked, wondering where Hiei was. He had not come back and I could not feel his ki so he was probably still out.

"About 36 last time I checked it's only going to get worse from here." She explained as we finished dinner.

"Very good, mother."

"Thank you. Did you finish your homework?"

"No, I still have some stuff to catch up on." I explained, putting my plate in the sink and then moving towards the hallway.

"Okay, well go finish your homework then."

I smiled she acted as if I had never said anything about being a demon or anything else. I guess I could consider that being good. I walked back into my room just as I saw Hiei climbing back threw the window. "Back so soon?"

"It got cold." Since when did Hiei get cold? Then again, a lack of energy might have been the purpose to blame.

"So, you're staying in now?" I asked sitting at my desk as he moved to a different side of the room.

"For now." I rolled my eyes and got to my homework.

It only took me about a half hour to finish my homework. Now, I was free for the rest of the night; I turned to Hiei to see him shivering a bit as he sat against the wall.

"Are you cold, Hiei?" The words felt kind of wrong to say considering he was a fire demon and almost never did they get cold unless they were really low on energy or were sick.

"No." He said, standing up. I knew well he was lying.

"Hiei, don't lie." I said, noticing that it was starting to get late.

"I'm not lying." He said, going to the window.

"You're not sleeping outside are you?" I asked, knowing that if he wanted to sleep outside then he wasn't going to let me say otherwise.

"Yes, why?" He asked, opening the window again.

"It's going to get really cold tonight though." I said, a slightly concerned look spreading across my face.

"I'm a fire demon, I can warm myself." He stated.

"Not with your energy so low you can't."

"I can very well warm myself if I get cold, Kurama." He said before once again disappearing out of the window. I had a feeling this would seriously not end well, but I wouldn't say anything for right now.

I closed the window, but didn't lock it, just incase Hiei changed his mind some time in the night and decided to come in. I then got ready for bed.

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A/N: Anyone have any idea what is going to happen next? If you think you know please review me what you think and I'll tell you whether your right or not! Oh and as always, if you have any ideas or requests that you would like to see in this story please review those to!