Title: Trust
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho
Paring: Kurama x Hiei
Authoress: Ladyfiction
Themes: #006 Traveling abroad, #096 Sunlight streaming through the trees.
Rating: T
AN/Warning: None
Disclaimer: Nothing.

-Trust-

Kurama was a trusting person. He put faith in his friends, his family and in himself, living a life that most people could only dream up. He had to have confidence living as a half-breed away from his real home, in a world so much different from where he was first raised.

His belief in himself helped him adapt to these new circumstances and cope with his human surroundings. Sometimes, during those nights were he reminisced old memories of that distance place, he missed the demon world. Without a purpose, the higher authorities did not permit traveling across that border, abroad to the other side.

Kurama trusted highly in his abilities but even more so in the feelings he discovered sensations, emotions and sentiments of the human heart and mind that made him understand their way of life. With first hand experience from each world, he truly comprehended the mortal and demon species.

The fox often trusted and confined in his love the most; his love for roses, that special crimson color which was also the essence of life that permitted him to live. That scarlet let his heart beat with passion for the ruby eyes and fiery flames of his lover. Kurama trusted Hiei the most of all, to such an extent that he let the demon whisk him away.

They decided to see the rest of this world that they were guest to and now inhabitants, just to discover the wonders hidden on every continent. It took years to finally see it all, to marvel at every statue and experience love under the same stars in a new location. That night, before they would part for that house he inherited from his mother, in the silence, an idea surfaced.

''Kurama, there is just one more place left I want to bring you too.''

He looked up and smiled lovingly at the proposition, letting those warm lips press to his again.

Kurama fully trusted Hiei and the next day, when he opened his eyes, everything around him was still black. Soothing words calmed him before a sense of alert could overpower his reaction to the darkness. He knew he had not lost his sight for a thick, soft material wrapped around his eyes like a blindfold.

''Slowly, take it off.'' And he obliged to the command, furthering itself from him when spoken.

Kurama tugged off the barrier and squinted his jade eyes as the opposite of the obscurity beamed upon his face. The sunlight streamed through the branches of a large tree he sat under and shadowed the outlines in dark hues. The rays that filtered freely landed on his body and as everything became clear to him, in the distance, he saw Hiei.

Beyond the demon, was the demon world and then, it felt like being home again.

-EndE-