Dark Tournament Stories
Lucida –Alright, this chapter is a little weird, but hey, am I a normal person?
Hiei – No.
Lucida – No. Thank you, you agree with me. silence Hey! Are you calling me a freak?
Hiei – Yep.
Disclaimer – YYH does not belong to me, blah, blah, blah, though Christmas is coming up………..
(A/N: Sorry for not updating in so long! Gomen ne! Okay, now, this is a little weird, but if you haven't seen the series, you won't understand what's going on. So, this is after the fight with Gatasible the robot and Hiei and Kurama have beaten the remaining member of Dr. Ichigaki team to unconsciousness and they now have to talk.)
Kurama sat on the shoulder of the robot watching Hiei throw some punches into the remaining member, even though he was unconscious. Kurama hopped gracefully down and laid a calming hand on Hiei's uninjured arm.
"You can stop. He's defeated." Kurama assured. Hiei looked to the fox, then dropped the creature and turned away from the fox. Kurama removed his hand and they sat in silence for a while, the birds weren't even chirping, they had fled in the heat of the battle.
Kurama looked back to Hiei.
"Hiei, you're shutting me out again." Kurama noted.
"Hn." Hiei snorted.
"Why won't you let me help you?" Kurama asked, keeping a calm voice. "Why do you insist that I cannot help you, isn't that what partners do?"
"You tell me, Yoko." Hiei glared over his shoulder. Kurama didn't show it, but he was inwardly hurt by Hiei's comment. There was an uneasy pause, Hiei shifted back and forth from foot to foot. His instinct was telling him to run away from Kurama, he feared the fox's fighting abilities, but Hiei could deal with physical pain…….it was the emotional pain the fox gave that he didn't think he could handle.
"Planning to run away, Hiei?" Kurama inquired, turning a cold eye to him. Hiei crossed his arms trying not to wince at the pain of his singed arm.
Before Hiei knew it, Kurama had grabbed his good wrist and was pulling him to the ground.
"Fox!" Hiei snapped, "What are you doing!" Hiei glared up at the fox as Kurama leaned over him, reaching into his hair. "Fox…let me go!" Hiei snapped, noting Kurama had him pinned down.
"Hold still." Kurama ordered. "And open your mouth." Hiei stiffened, knowing Yoko Kurama personally from the past, he wasn't sure he wanted to comply to the order. He clamped his mouth tightly shut. Kurama growled, removing his hand and pushing a seed up to Hiei's clenched jaw. "Hiei, quit being difficult."
Hiei kept his mouth shut.
"Don't make me angry." Kurama warned, his eyes showing the anger of a legendary bandit hidden beneath the human skin. Hiei stayed still, not opening his mouth. Kurama's angry eye trick could work on any other demon, but not on Hiei. Kurama smirked and leaned closer to Hiei.
"Would you prefer if it was transferred through a kiss?" He whispered.
"Kur-" Hiei began to yell at Kurama, but the fox quickly slipped the seed in and put his hand over Hiei's mouth, smiling innocently. Reluctantly, Hiei swallowed it.
"There." Kurama let Hiei up, "Thank you."
Hiei stood up and turned his back to Kurama, who was still on the ground.
"What was it?" Hiei asked softly.
"Merely a painkiller." Kurama answered. Hiei walked away slowly. "Hiei? Where are you going?"
"We have to go find Metamura." Hiei answered shortly. "Are you coming or not?" Hiei looked back to the fox, who stayed crouching on the ground. Hiei snorted. "Fine, I'll go alone."
Hiei started walking forward more, then stopped and stood still, his back still turned to Kurama.
"What's wrong Hiei?" Kurama hissed.
"I….don't know where the cave is." He mumbled. Kurama smiled and stood walking over next to Hiei.
"Come on."
(Now we jump ahead to that night!.)
Kurama lay on his bed, his eyes closed, his arm draped across his stomach, his shirt removed and his wounds somewhat bandaged. Hiei walked in slowly.
"You alive, fox?" Hiei asked, trying not to sound worried. Kurama smiled, his eyes not opening.
"For now." He laughed, slowly sliding his gorgeous green eyes open. Hiei was holding a bowl of water and a small dishcloth. He wrung it out and began cleaning off the fox's sweat and blood covered face. "Where are the others?" Kurama asked hoarsely.
"Out, Yusuke's with Keiko…lord knows where Botan is, and…the idiot is with Yukina." Hiei grumbled the last part.
"You know, Kuwabara is not the brightest man around, but he seems to really like Yukina." Kurama smiled.
"Be quiet, she deserves better." Hiei snapped, dipping the cloth back in the water.
"Hiei?" Kurama asked softly.
"Hm?"
"Why…where you worried about me when I was fighting Touya?" Kurama asked meekly. Hiei paused.
"Who said I was worried about you fox?" He snapped.
"You're brain waves were out of control, I was getting some strange signals from you, your thoughts were that you were worried about me." Kurama explained. Hiei continued to clean the blood off of Kurama's chest as well.
"I lost my partner once, I'm not willing to do that again." Hiei answered, unconcerned, especially when I'll have to spend the rest of the time with a bunch of humans. Thanks anyway." Hiei put away the cloth and began to unravel the dirtied bandages, when Kurama's hand lightly latched onto Hiei's wrist.
"It's okay Hiei, you don't have to worry about me." Kurama insisted, pushing Hiei's hand away. "You treat your own wounds first. Bandage up your arm." Kurama smiled (A/N: Awwwwww...isn't that so like Kurama? Worrying about everyone else instead of himself..)
"Nice try, fox, you're worse off than I am." Kurama and Hiei continued to argue about who was in worse condition until Hiei finally lost and bandaged up his arm, then attended to Kurama, even though the exhausted fox had slipped into unconsiousness.
Lucida - How's that? smiles brightly
Kurama and Hiei - sweatdrop
Lucida - don't give me that look!