Warning: Contains YAOI. Rating has changed from PG-13 to R


Memories of Fire

Chapter Eight

By: Neko-kyolover


Hiei leads me back outside to the fresh air. Instantly I feel like I have just gained double my strength as I stare at the beautiful woods around me. This is where I belong, not locked inside with the feelingless things that humans make.

I walk leisurely through the woods, the tall grasses brushing my ankles delicately in greeting. Hiei is still beside me, gripping lightly onto my hand. He is very silent, but just having him there is such a comfort. My heart never wants to be away from him.

Abruptly I turn to face him and open my mouth to ask a question but then I stop myself. I want so desperately to ask him so many things, but I don't know what it is that stops me from doing so. Why am I all the sudden so cautious around Hiei?

I turn instead to look up at the sky which seems to be growing darker. The mixed oranges and pinks of the horizon are just visible in between the many trees. I can smell the impending night on the air as a chilled breeze begins to toy with the loose strands of my crimson hair. Ah bliss, standing here in the wind's embrace, letting it dance around me as though I had not a care in the world. I could almost forget those memories, standing here with Hiei by my side. I could almost forget that anything else existed.

"Kurama. We should return now." Hiei states abruptly, disrupting the peace that has settled around my shoulders.

My face falls into a frown. "But.." I say softly in regret for the beauty that would be lost if we returned inside.

"Come on. It's getting cold." He says firmly as his fingers tug against mine.

I stand still even as he begins to move away. Without a thought I let his fingers slip from mine and I move in the opposite direction, deeper into the woods.

"Kurama!" I hear him call out as he turns to find me speeding off in the other direction.

I find myself racing through the trees, skirting past the hanging branches, the wind blowing wildly in my hair. I do not know what has possessed me, but I can't bring myself to stop. The blood is pounding heavily in my veins, telling me to run and never ever stop.

I'm dancing wildly, the leaves and the flowers spread out wide beneath me. The moon begins to peek through the clouds and it calls out mournfully to me. What is this obsession that has taken over me? I want to dance the night away, to feel the caress of the earth around me.

Hiei has no chance of ever catching up to me, no matter how fast he flits along. No one can outwit a fox's intuition. My feet are going even faster, back in forth in this complicated rhythm that beats steadily within my heart, my pulse speeding along with it.

Memories are disappearing, flowing out from my grasp. I'm beginning to forget even that Hiei exists. Sweet sweet bliss enraptures me as I feel those horrible memories being taken away again. They're all fading away...as if they're nothing...as if those people meant nothing.

Suddenly, I feel my feet halt and I come to dead stop. No...No...I must stop this dance, no matter how happy it may make me. I don't want to forget them. Mother...No...I can't forget her. Not after all she went through for me. I can't forget her. And Hiei. No I can not let myself do this.

Frantically I look around me only to find that I recognize nothing. Where am I? What kind of trouble have I gotten myself into now? How will I ever find my way?

The air is so chilly now and I begin to shiver in my thin robe. I'm beginning to wish that Hiei were here again. Why had I danced off like that? What has all the sudden possessed me?

It has grown truly dark now and the dark trees seem so ominous. No longer do their branches welcome me. My bare feet step lightly on the cold ground as I begin to wander again. I sigh, slightly annoyed with myself and more than a little unnerved by the silence of the forest.

Soon I grow tired and I let my body slump against one of the trees. My eyes want so badly to close, but I refuse to let myself fall asleep yet.

"Have you ever heard of the Twilight Fox?" A cold familiar voice says abruptly making me jump. I turn quickly to see Hiei approaching from the darkness. "They say he danced his life away."

I let out one long relieved sigh and stand up. I'm glad that he doesn't look mad at me. "Hiei...I'm sorry—"I try to apologize, but he swiftly approaches me and puts a finger to my lips.

The night seems so enchanted as he brings that hand up to tangle in my hair. I suddenly feel myself burning with a strange desire.

"I know of the foxes whims. Don't try to understand anything tonight....just let it be..." he says slowly and I find myself gazing intensely into his crimson eyes. I can't help but notice how much they really do look like pools of blood.

Slowly his lips meet mine and I'm tasting pure lust. I want to moan as the kiss grows more heated, my lips parting and letting him slip his tongue into the cavern of my mouth. His arms are encircling my waist, pushing me slowly down onto the ground.

I feel as if a haze is clouding my mind and I can't think as his fingers begin to slowly brush against my exposed skin. Slowly I feel him tugging at the ties on my robe. His fingers are fire dancing across my bare flesh. My mind is simply reeling from all this sudden pleasure.

Our lips part at last, both of us heaving for breath. Now I lay naked to his eyes, my robe splayed out beneath me. I feel so exposed and yet at the same time exhilarated. His lips soon attack my neck, tracing down the graceful curve in little licks and bites. His hands travel down to rest at my hips as I bring my own hands up to settle on the small arch of his back.

I hiss softly as his lips travel lower to my chest, his tongue gently flicking against my stiffening nipple. I can feel my back arching, pressing into his own, intensely aware of my hardening erection pressing against the cloth of his pants. Over and over again he begins to lick and bit my chest and my nipple to the point where I think my mind is about to explode with need.

Suddenly he ceases as his piercing crimson eyes meet my own. My whole body is trembling now and I feel so weak and needy. And yet at the same time I find that I'm actually enjoying this. In a way, that this is what I really need.

"Hiei..." I moan out lustfully as I pull his lips to meet mine again, my fingers tugging at the dark swaths of cloth around him. I want to feel his skin against my own, to please him as much as he has been pleasing me.

He lets me remove his cloak and I admire his strong bare chest. My fingers trail against rock hard abs gained after years of hard work and fighting demons. My lips begin to place soft kisses against that pale white skin that feels so soft against my own. Why is he letting me do this, I wonder, but it is only a passing thought. I'm much too caught up in the moment to really think about it.

Slowly I feel him relax against my caresses and his fingers once again dance across my skin, lower and luxuriously lower until they finally meet my throbbing erection. The caress is ever so slow and torturous, rubbing up and down my trembling length until I can bear it no longer.

"Hiei..." I moan out loudly and I can feel my nails dig into his back as I try to press him even closer.

Abruptly as it started, the torturous caress stopped and I groaned out loud in protest. Urgently I lift my body up, trying to gain the much needed friction on my groin, but Hiei stops me. He slowly lifts my chin up to look at me straight in the eyes again as though he's checking for something.

"Do you trust me?" He says seriously. I know that at this point there is no turning back and I quickly nod my head. "Truthfully?" He insists again.

"I trust you...with everything..." I say, short of breath and panting. I see it in his eyes that he understands now. I truly meant what I said, every single word.

Slowly he turns me around and now I am facing the ground, my legs and arms bracing me. I know what is coming and I'm ready....more than ready.

I hear the soft slide of cloth and his pants pool around his feet. Slowly he lifts his fingers to his mouth, quickly soaking them. Even though I know what is coming, I'm still not ready as I feel those slick fingers enter inside of me. He's slow and careful, trying to make it as uncomfortable as possible as I await the sweet reward.

I soon I grow impatient and I began to buck against him and he knows that its time. Quickly coating himself with saliva he positions himself and slowly enters inch by inch.

My body is racked with desire and pain as I feel him moving inside of me and his hands return to caress my aching member. The pace begins slow as he moves in and out of my entrance, but soon it speeds up and I feel myself howl out as he hits my sweet spot.

We begin to rock against each other, faster and faster as he continually hits that special spot. I can't describe the utter pleasure I am feeling at this moment. So many things that I don't understand are happening. I can't think anymore as he pounds harder into me. I'm so very...very confused.

His hands on my member move in our dancing rhythm, as we both moan out in our intense pleasure. I'm so overwhelmed as the night sings around us, and I can feel myself coming to the brink. I can tell he's holding me just on the edge and I'm squirming against him trying desperately to find release from this sensory overload.

And then it happened, as our moans rose in a chorus, he came spurting against my sweet spot filling me with his seed. And as he came inside of me I felt myself topple over the edge and come onto the ground beneath us. In that one second in which the intense ecstasy coursed heatedly through my veins that I remembered. I remembered just how much it was that I loved Hiei.

It's so foolish. How could I ever forget the passion that burned in my heart, the longing that I had always held for him? How could that be erased? How could I forget that sweet irreplaceable love and heated lust I felt for him?

Some things were beginning to come clear at last, even though some things still remained murky. But somewhere deep in my heart I knew, that somehow I was going to get through this...as long as I had him.


Author's Note: This is FAR from over. I know...I know....I took FOREVER to update. How long exactly? 7 months and 3 days to be exact. I feel so sorry for anyone that was waiting!! I've been so distracted lately and I just got back into writing my HieixKurama stories.

By the by, did anyone think the lemon was too much? Ah well, tell me what yah think anyway.