Haru: Yes! Another Chapter! I have a quick apology to make, before starting on this fanfic I had read a few others and it looks like I got the phrases "youkai" and "youko" mixed up. Gomen Nasai! Plus, thanks go to LoversPastForgotten who pointed out this mistake!
Hari: Would you shut up and introduce the story!
Haru: T-T...
Hari: Fine, I'll do it...Alright, so now onto Chapter 4!
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For the rest of the night, Kurama and Hiei layed in bed, wrapped in each others arms. Hiei had fallen asleep some time ago, Kurama on the hand, was still wide awake, racking his brain for the coming day.
'How will I tell her?' Kurama thought to himself, 'I can't just say 'Hey mom, i've been sleeping with another guy', can I?' For the rest of the night Kurama continued to think about what he was going to say until the first rays of the sun shot through his bedroom window and hit him like a thousand tiny spears.
Kurama got up as soon as the light hit his eyes, although he really didn't get any sleep that night, the fear of how his okkasan would react gave him enough energy to move around. While Hiei continued to sleep, Kurama quickly took a shower and changed his clothes, before walking downstairs, though, Kurama quietly walked over to the bed and kissed his sleeping youkai on the lips, making Hiei let out a small noise.
In the kitchen, Kurama quickly started the task of making breakfast, if his mother were to come home early he wanted to have some kind of food ready for her. After frying the omlettes and making some toast, Kurama walked back to the stairway to wake up Hiei.
"Hiei! Time to get up!" he shouted from the bottom of the stairs. Soon the noise of rustling about and the sound of grunting could be heard from Kurama's bedroom as the small demon slowly slumped out of the bedroom and downstairs.
"Good morning, did you sleep well?" asked Kurama.
"I slept with you, so it couldn't have been that bad" replied Hiei, giving off the best face his semi-awake body could pull off. It was after Hiei said those kinds of things that Kurama usually wanted to pick him up and squeeze him until he couldn't breathe anymore, but thankfully he had more self-control then that.
After breakfast Hiei went back upstairs to shower and put on his normal clothes before rejoining Kurama back downstairs in the living room. The next few hours seemed to fly by for Kurama as the two sat side by side on the couch. "What are you thinking about?" asked Hiei, finally looking up to see his kitsune lost in thought.
"Hm, nothing" answered Kurama.
"If you don't want to tell you mother, you don't have to" replied Hiei, "I wouldn't really expect you to make me keep my end of the bet if I lost."
Kurama only shook his head, "no, we need to stop hiding what we are, plus okaasan has a right to know."
Hiei only gave the kitsune a weird look before returning his gaze to the T.V. Soon after though, the two heard the sound ofthe front door opening. "Suichi! I'm home!" came the voice of Kurama's okkasan.
Hiei quickly shifted his weight and distanced himself from Kurama on the couch as Kurama's mother entered the living room. "O, Hiei, your here too?" she asked, somewhat surprised. Hiei gave her a nod of approval before looking over at Kurama.
"Hiei, do you mind going into the kitchen for a while?" asked the kitsune. Hiei nodded and walked out of the room. "Okkasan, can we talk?" asked Kurama.
"Of course" replied his mother, sitting next to him on the couch.
"Do you remember that talk we had some time ago about love when dad died?"
Shiori remembered it well. It was right after her husband had died that Kurama had found the love letters he had send her and asked her what "love" was. Shiori simply told him that when two people found each other and wantd to be with each other for the rest of their lives, then that was love. In fact, she was actually quite surprised that Suichi had remebered the talk, since it had happened over seven years ago.
"Yes, but why bring that up?" asked Shiori.
"Did you really mean when two people come togther that it's called love?" asked Kurama.Shiori nodded her head to his question.
"When ANY two people come together?" Kurama asked again, this time placing emphasis on the word "any". Shiori nodded her head again.
"Shuichi, is there anything you want to tell me?" Shiori asked, placing her hand on her sons shoulder.
"Okaasan, four years ago, Hiei and I..."
Hiei sat in the kitchen, using every bit of self-restraint he had to not listen in on the conversation, until finally he heard what he guessed was the sound of crying.
Quickly he ran into the living room, seeing Shiori with her head bent down as tears ran down her face. Kurama sat right next to her, constantly rubbing her back with one hand and hugging her with the other.
Hiei walked over to Shiori's other side and gave his lover a kind of "what the hell did you say to her?" look. Kurama looked up and gave the youkai a understanding look before standing up and walking into the kitchen.
Hiei stood there, dumbfounded at the crying ningen in front of him. Soon though, Shiori stopped her crying and stood up in front of Hiei.
Hiei looked confused at her for a moment, unsure about what she was about to do, until finally she bent over and pulled him into a hug.
"I'm sure you understand how much I love Suichi" she began, "and from what he's told me, you love him just as much, and I just wanted to let you know that he is very lucky to have someone like you in his life."
Hiei stood there, dumbfoundly at what the woman was saying. After he took a few moments to let it all sink in, her slowly raised his arms to embrace the neck of the woman that held onto him.
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Haru: Yay! Hiei and Kurama finally came out to Shiori. I'm so happy:)
Hari: ...would you just give the intro to the next chapter already!
Haru: T-T...
Hari: God, would you stop crying! Fine, i'll do it...now that Hiei and Kurama had lifted some of the burden they share by coming out to Shiori, they decide it's time to have some...fun...
Haru: So please come back for the next chapter, and remember to review this chapter!
Hari: Yeah, or else this crybaby might start bawling again.
Haru: T-T...
Hari: For the love of...