Haru: Eeeeep! Not only am I sooooo sorry about this chapter being so late, but I'm also sorry about having to fix this chapter, to make a long story short, everything that could have gone wrong, did.
Hari: Computer breaking, internet getting cut off, food poisioning, the whole nine yards.
Haru: Anyway, to make up for being so late, I have a big announcement at the end of this chapter, so please enjoy chapter 7!
Chapter 7
As the sun reached the highpoint for the day, Yuusuke and Botan returned from a well-deserved walk in the park after discussing Botan's little "discovery" only to find the little light on the answering machine blinkly madly, as if to say "For the love of God, you have to hear this!" After laying his coat on the couch, Yuusuke walked over to the machine and pressed a button as a familar voice began to come through the speaker.
"Yuuske, it's Kurama. I've decided to hold a small dinner tonight and I was wondering if you could come. There's something important I need to talk to everyone about. I've already called Kuwabara, Yukina and a few others and they all agreed to come. You don't need to bring anything, but if could get ahold of Botan and Keiko and ask them to come it would be really great. Hope to see you there."
Yuusuke shot a glance over at Botan that seemed to say "what the hell are we suppose to do?" Botan only shurgged her shoulder and gave a small gulp. Reluctantly, Yuusuke picked up the phone and dialed Keiko's phone number, wondering whether or not he should mention what he already knew.
Across town, Kurama hurridley walked the kitchen, making sure there would be enough food for everyone. "There's enough food here to feed seven, so that should be enough, but what if Shizuru decides to come? Do you think we should have given Genkai a little more notice to get here?" As Kurama continued to pace the kitchen floor, Hiei sat at the kitchen table with a kind of smirk on his face. Finally, Hiei grabbed Kurama's hand and pulled him over to the chair, sitting him on his lap. "Any more walking and you'll rip up the floor, baka kitsune" Hiei said in his usual sarcastic tone. Kurama could only try to resist Hiei's grip for a short amount of time before finally sinking back into his koibito's hold.
"What do you think everyone will say?" Kurama asked, a small hint of fear in his voice.
"Who cares. If any of them don't like it they can voice their complains in hell." replied Hiei, patting the side of his hip that usually held his sword.
Kurama couldn't help but smile at Hiei's remark as he turned his head and kissed his lover on the lips. It was only a small kiss, but with it, Kurama's fear and anxiety seemed to melt away. For the next while, Kurama and Hiei mearly sat with each other, their hands intertwined and their eyes locked onto each other.
As the sun began it's final descent into the horizon, Botan and Yuusuke finally reached the Minamoto residence after walking for the past half-hour. At first, Botan wanted to either fly or take a taxi, but Yuusuke thought it would be best to walk and spend the extra time talking about what they should say and how they should act. As the two reached the doorstep, they both seemed to have the same idea of turning around and saying they had forgotten about the whole thing, but they both finally agreed that what they were about to do was for two of their best friends as both of them knocked on the door and where soon greated by a somewhat frantic Kurama who lead them into dining room.
As Yuusuke and Botan took the last two seats at the table, they noticed they had been the final two to arrive. Kurama and Hiei sat at the other end of the table, with Kurama's mother sitting next to Kurama. Kuwabara, Yukina, Shizuru, and Genkai where also sitting on the sides of them table, although it seemed that none of them knew why they were asked to come here.
The next hour or so went by pretty uneventful. The main foods were served and everyone chatted about the normal tihngs in life: the weather, the current events, and a new movie that had just come out. After the group was finished with their deserts, Kurama silently stood up and gave a small glance to both Hiei and his mother as Hiei stood beside him and his mother quickly squeezed his hand in support.
"Ummmm...everyone..." Kurama started, trying to get everyone to keep quiet, although it took one of Hiei's death glares for everyone to get the point.
"Umm..I wanted to thank you all for coming tonight...and...I just wanted to tell everyone why I asked you all to come." Kurama began as he started to sweat a little, "You see..,I wanted, err...we wanted...Hiei and I wanted to let everyone know..."
"We wanted everyone to know that we're both in love with each other" Hiei said, cutting in and wrapping his arm around Kurama's waist, as if to say "it's over now".
For a while, everyone at the table was either still trying to understand what was just said, or was too afraid to reply, but it was Genkai that broke the silence.
"Well, it's about time" she said in her gruff manner, "I was wondering when you two would finally come together."
From around the table, noises of approval and acceptance could be heard, but it was Yuusuke's and Botan's voices that could be heard the loudest. With the secret out, Kurama looked down at his lover and smiled at him, but it didn't last long as one voice raised itself higher then the rest.
"In love?" Kuwabara said, almost jumping out ofhis chair, "but your both guys, how can be in love!"
Hiei mood seemed to change instantly as he reached for his sword, this time fully really to cut the oaf in half, but Kurama quickly grabbed Hiei's and and pulled it closer to himself.
"But Kazuma" started Yukina, trying to act the peacemaker, "if they love each other then shouldn't we accept them?"
"Of course not, two guys can't fall in love, that's just unnatural!" Kuwabara said, standing up and stomping his foot on the floor to show how against the idea he was.
And with that the entire mood of the night changed. Feeling the tension in the room, everyone soon stood up and left the dinner, saying they had other things to do, but as each left they gave the couple a small look that seemed to say "I support you", eberyone that is except for Kuwabara, who was the first to leave the dinner.
Haru:...TT...Why must Kuwbara be agiainst their love?
Hari: Because he's an idiot who would most likely be opposed to anything that's considered "wrong."
Haru: O yeah...TT
Hari: Baka, we still have one more chapter to end this fanfiction.
Haru: Yeah, about that...
Hari: For the love of God, please don't say what I think your about to say.
Haru: Our big annoucement is...we've decided to create a sequal to this story, I got the idea while I was sick in bed.
Hari: NOOOOOOOOO! WHY GOD WHY! begins banging his head on the wall I NEED ACTION!
Haru: Ehehehehehe...well, I hope he's feeling better be next chapter. Please remember to continue to read and review my stories, cause up next is the final chapter in this arc of "Into the Light", see you real soon!
Hari: O GOD WHY!