Botan: Well we're back with another entertaining portion of Always So Close to Me. Our author has passed out from shock behind me.
Kua: Shock? Shock from what?
Botan: Shock that people liked the first chapter, shocked that shes finished with the second, and shock…from being in shock.
Kua: Um… ok?
Youko: I have recovered from shock just long enough to say a few things to my wonderful reviewers.
Yuskue: Is reviewers even a word?
Youko: Like you would know…remember in Single Rose's story you didn't even know what amputated ment…or sedated (that was sooo funny! ;) )
Yuskue: (scowl)
Youko: Anywho… to SitDog-Boy: I meant to say that Hiei was out of character in the first chapter, but I kinda forgot, hehe. I try to be original… lets hope you like the next chapter! Here it goes.
Red Kitsune Flames: Thanks for your comment. I had hoped that when Hiei passed out someone would find it entertaining. Lets hope that Kurama speeds up the "I love you" process in this chapter wink, hope u like it!
Dragon Tamer 103088: Awwww I', so glad you like the first chapter….it made me feel all warm and fuzzy. I LOVE detail, guess you could tell hu? Hehe. Hope you like this chapter as much as the last.
Single Rose: I'm glad you noticed the humor; I tried to drop in some funny stuff every now and then. I hope I wrote the second chapter as well as the first one :) Let me know what you think of it.
Hiei: you took long enough
Youko: I'm not done yet. I have to let every one know that I do not own u guys…I just play with your minds. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ok now that I've taken up a lot of time….heres the next chapter….oh my. Goes into shock again
Yuskue and Kuawbara had been running all over Mukuro's palace for at least an hour trying to find our lovely demons. Sure Kurama had said not to bother them, but we all know that the two human boys were way to curious to follow orders.
"God how many rooms does this woman have in her house….GOD!"
" I think Hiei told me once that there was like….300 or more."
At this Kuawbara's jaw hit the floor and he had to force it back up with his hand…
" How in the world are we supposed to surch all those rooms?"
"Um…"
To he honest Yuskue would suggest blasting down every door until they found the one they were looking for…. but knowing the bionic woman's strength, that didn't seem like a great idea.
"What? You expect me to know these things…. that's Kurama's job."
Kuawbara started to wonder how the detective got along before Kurama entered the picture. That's when a brilliant idea entered his mind. With lightning speed the light bulb shot up over his head the carrot top snapped his fingers.
" I got it!"
"For once."
" Shut up…anyway, why don't we just walk by the rooms and see if we hear voices. I mean if Kurama's really going to tell the shrimp how he feels there's bound to be some commotion."
" Ok then…lets motor…vvvvvrrrrrrooooooooommmmm."
With that lovely phrase Yuskue proceeded to act like he was driving a car as he walked down the hall.
" Sometimes I wonder about your mental sanity…."
Kuawbara just shrugged his shoulders and walked after his friend stopping at each door and listening to see if anyone was in there.
" What do you mean "shes not who I was talking about" who else would dare to love a forbidden child?"
The pair still sat on the bed, Kurama occasionally shifting uncomfortably. But the fox was in utter shock that Hiei had such a low opinion of himself.
" I think that its my turn to ask if your mental. I know many demons and humans that love you."
" Really…. name them."
" Oh Hiei this is extremely immature for you."
The fire baby just looked harder at Kurama and crossed his arms.
" I don't care."
" Fine. For one you sister loves you…we know that Mukuro loves you, however grotesque that may be. Um…Yuskue cares deeply about you, and even Kuawbara…weather he says it or not. And…"
" Thats are not the same kind of love and you know it. Mukur—"
" You didn't let me finish jaganshi. I was about to say…."
Suddenly the words caught in Kurama's throat. What would happen if Hiei didn't love him? Would he be able to forget the ruby-eyed demon sitting in front of him? There's no way he could do that, even lust filled Youko's have feelings.
" Fox…. are you gonna finnish or what?"
But what if Hiei did share his feelings? Then if Kurama didn't tell him, they would go on without each other, and that was worse than rejection. The Kitsune had to tell him, he just had to.
" I was going to say that I love you…. I love you more than Mukuro ever would."
Then the fox leaned forward and closed his eyes….
" Yuskue get over here I think I found something."
The spirit detective jogged across the hall to where the taller boy was crouch down, ear pinned up against the door.
" Hear something?"
" Yeah it sounded oddly like a "Love you…. Mukuro.'"
" I think we found our door, lets go."
Yuskue placed his foot on the door and pushed, causing the door to sling backwards and reveal the contents of the room.
The two boys knocked the door down just in time to see Kurama move forward and meet thin air. The redhead slowly pulled himself up and wrapped his arm around the bedpost, burring his face in his slender arm.
" Yo foxie! Wha'd we miss?"
To this the humans met only silence.
" Kurama…. are you alright?"
The Youko slowly lifted his head, to show a red tinted face and eyes that were shining with determination and glinted with gold. When he uncurled his hand from the bedpost, his knuckles were bleach white. Trying his best to stay clam…Kurama spoke.
" I…told you…I…wanted…to be…alone with…Hiei!"
The fox swung his legs over the edge of the bed and stood up. As graceful as always Kurama walked over to where his two friends stood.
"WHAT do u think you were doing coming in here?"
" Kurama, geez man, calm down."
" Yuskue…don't talk to him…. its not a smart thing to do right now."
That was when Kurama realized how harsh he was sounding. It wasn't their fault that Hiei left, he probably would have done that anyway.
" No, your fine. I just, I just need to think."
Hiei tore through the trees in the Makai, wanting to get as far away from that room as possible.
He landed on a tree branch at lest 3 miles away from the castle.
Well this should keep that damned fox out of my head for a while…what is that those humans say…um…out of brain into eyes? No, um…. oh forget it, I just know it works.
Actually Hiei was thinking of out of sight out of mind, but that's another story.
Much to our fire demons dismay the foxes words still rung in his ears…
" I love you….I love you more than Mukuro ever would…"
The jaganshi just couldn't believe that anything like Kurama could fall in love with him. Images of the relationship they could share flitted through his mind, it was filled with lovely images of their days…and nights. While the slide show played on the heat reconsumed his body. As soon as it covered him completely the images stopped and Hiei felt worse than ever.
" Damn it!"
With that statement, Hiei drove his fist down and through the tree branch. That would be just fine except for one thing…it was the branch the Forbidden Child saw standing on.
Before Hiei had time to react, he found himself sitting on the ground below, with a very sore butt. The demon stared daggers into the ground, as if trying to set it ablaze with his mind. It was truly a devilish stare…. makes you feel sorry for the poor ground that had to suffer through it.
The jaganshi felt very…. very….short sitting on the ground so he picked himself back up and jumped back up into the trees.
Maybe just maybe, he held feelings for the Youko. But he still had a hard time believing that the most beautiful piece of his imagination held feelings for him. But the Kitsune had said it to his face, and even leaned forward to…what was he about to do? Kiss him?
I wonder what hes doing right now…
Hiei's jagan began to glow, as it searched around for the Fox's presence, and when he found him, couldn't seem to pull away.
Yuskue and Kuawbara were patting Kurama on the back as they turned to leave the room. The room clearly belonged to Razen, due to the lack of decorating skills. The Youko walked over to his bed and slipped under the covers in one fluid motion.
Damn I never realized how beautiful he is
The redhead rolled over to his side, hair fanning out behind him. Slowly he raised his arm and acted as if he was laying it over his lover lying next to him. Only no one was there. Then his Jagan seemed to zoom in on Kurama's face just in time to see one clear tear drop glisten down his cheek, leaving a darkened trail on the pale skin.
The next thing that happened slightly unnerved the fire demon…
Before the next tear could fall, Kurama shifted his eyes, and seemed to look directly at Hiei. Those green gems were riddled with hope, love, sadness, and rejection.
The jaganshi let out a tiny gasp and his Jagan flew out of the room, down the hall, out the building, through the trees and stopped at Hiei's perch as the demon opened his eyes.
Both demons had a restless sleep. One was seeing the love of his life run out the window never to return, calling him an idiot for even assuming that the Jaganshi would love him. The other kept seeing that tear stained face, and deeply troubled eyes, piercing through his soul.
Only seconds apart the demons in question rose, looking into the same rising sun, thinking the same thing….
I've got to find him and work this out….
Before either of our demonic friends could clear things up, Koenma called the team for another mission. Now Kurama was leaning up against the white wall of the toddler's office, waiting for a straggler to show up.
" Just like the shrimp. Go and bail on us right before a mission."
" Now Kuawbara, You know it's not like Hiei to be late, I'm sure there is a simple explanation for all of this."
Yuskue felt that the time was right to crack a joke at the Youko, little did he know it would do a great deal of damage.
" Well Kurama since you two became lovers, why don't y---"
" Don't make stupid assumptions."
Hiei had flitted to the window as Yuskue had started his comment, and not wanting to seem like the lovie-dovie guy in front of the big oaf, Hiei acted as if the statement was insulting.
" But I thought that the night in Mukuro's palace…"
"Shows how much you know, Hn."
The detective now had a really confused look on his face, while Kurama had a very different reaction.
I KNEW IT! He doesn't care at all for me. Lord how ridiculous do I seem now; I should have never trusted my heart to a stubborn, cold-hearted, emotionless…. Oh who am I kidding? I can't make myself not love him, he's just to perfect.
But the fire baby's words had hurt the proud Youko, if only Hiei knew just how much.
All Kurama could think about was how the love he bore would always be unrequited. It stabbed like a knife into the demon's heart…. knowing that he was unwanted (this has never happened to him before you know).
Oh Hiei how could you do this to me?
The group had been assigned a simple mission; take down a group of lower-class demons that were disturbing the peace. Nothing big, they had handled much worse in the past, but two of the boys seemed distracted.
Kuawbara and Yuskue dismissed it, knowing that as demons, you have a lot on you mind. Besides, neither of them wanted to go marching up to the Jaganshi just to ask what was wrong. The little pictures that popped in their head were quite ugly, seeing as Hiei usually didn't like to be bothered while he was thinking.
They soon found the demons they were looking for. And as suspected a fight broke out.
The detectives should of have no problem with such weaklings, but two of them proved to be skilled with their weapons, even if they had little or no demonic energy.
Hiei was fighting a particularly skilled swords man, but the jaganshi was only fighting half-heartedly. He was mostly focusing on the dazzling redhead only a few feet away.
Kurama moved with such grace it seemed as if he was doing a well-practiced dance. Every move he made tensed a muscle and made him just as deadly looking as Hiei himself. The red main of hair would trace his every move, following his body perfectly.
The Youko made a move on his opponent and without warning another demon came into the picture heading straight for the fox. Kurama sensed this however and dodged quickly, managing to kill one lowlife and only receive a scratch on his cheek.
Kuawbara and Yuskue quickly finished off the demon attacking them and looked at how their friends were doing. Just as the laid their eyes upon them they saw another demon charge at Kurama (same demon as in the above paragraph, this is from a different perspective). When it appeared Hiei stopped fighting and froze in his spot, but only for a moment.
"HIEI!"
The creature the Koorime was fighting saw this slight falter as an opening and drove his sword into Hiei's pelvic area.
As soon as their friend had fallen, Yuskue and Kuawbara were filled with rage and took on the two remaining demons. Kurama on the other hand rushed toward the small body lying on the ground surrounded by blood.
"Oh God no. Come on Hiei were getting you out of here."
The redhead kneeled down to pick up his companion, but the later gasped in pain and griped Kurama's sleeve.
I suppose I can't move you…. shit this is bad.
It wasn't that Hiei hadn't survived much worse, but he was loosing more blood than normal and loosing it fast. Knowing he could not move the little fire baby, the Youko wrapped his arms around his and cradled him in his lap, the taller boys head buried in Hiei's chest.
When the carrot top and the detective came over to Kurama, he was shaking slightly griping the back of the Forbidden Child's shirt
"Is he…"
"No Kuawbara, he's still alive but in great need of attention."
The spirit fox leaned his head up and tried to wipe away the tears that poured from his eyes, but they had still left their mark on the shirt, creating darker black pools on Hiei's chest.
"Oh Kurama….is there anything we can do to help?"
"Nothing much now, I've given him all the Ki I can. But its not a lot, I still haven't fully recovered from the last time I helped Hiei out."
He tried to smile, but as the thought about the last time he had supported Hiei with Ki, more tears broke from his face. It was time for Yuskue to be shocked…
I've never seen Kurama cry before, not even when his mother was in the hospital. I guess he really loves that guy.
" Its all up to him now weather his lives or not."
The demon boy looked back down at his small friend and hoped that he would pull through.
" Well shouldn't we take him to Genkai's at least?"
For the second time in this story Kuawbara had a good idea…. shocking. Yuskue had offered to carry Hiei but the look he got from Kurama made his decline his offer, Youko's were very protective of what they loved….other demons being no exception.
With Hiei very unconscious and still bleeding, the first chance they got, Yuskue, Kuawbara and Kurama slipped into the Nigenkai, hoping the Fire demon would survive.
Youko: I'm soooo sry that this chapter was much shorter than the last. I wanted to make it long, but I had this overwhelming urge to get it posed before school starts and it starts tomorrow. I tried to keep the humor, but it was hard with all the rejection and blood and stuff like that, so I'll try to regain funny-ness in the next chapter.
Yuskue: There u go again using words that don't exist.
Youko: Like you would n—
Yuskue: AH HA! This time I have a dictionary and plan to use it to my advantage! Flips through the book, but doesn't know how to use it.
Youko: so yeah plz review…i love reviewing! U ppl make me feel so loved when you tell me if you like it, or not but that kool too. So let me know what u think!
