Ooh thank you so much for your reviews…I'm so cruel to Kurama. I learned from the best, though. I know you're out there Youko, reading this. Ha ha…

But Kurama will get his sweet revenge, don't worry I do love that oversensitive brilliant minded fox.

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Conclusion. Kurama walked slowly from the area where he had caught two embracing, his clover colored eyes dulled. Heaving a sigh, he continued on lacking the energy to yell or think or laugh it away. It didn't matter. It was all the same. What was Hiei still doing here? He should have just stayed where he belonged in demon world. What was keeping in this world that hated him as much as he hated it?

Whatever.

His mind was playing games with him. Could he have been that much in denial? Hiei loved Yusuke, and that was all there was to it. Yusuke of course was just playing, but he could tell that Hiei was secretly enjoying the attention. Assuming again… He shouldn't do it. How was he to know that Yusuke didn't enjoy it as well? Kurama just wanted to break down and release all the feelings he had so they would go away. Yusuke was his friend. He never meant-

Awe struck Kurama with such lightning force that he nearly jumped. Yusuke was the one who broke them up with that exclamation! Yusuke was the only one the koorime had left to open up to. Yusuke was the one who held his only love in his arms, joke or not. Was this all a scheme to get Hiei all his own! Subconsciously or not, it was happening, and the human reaped all the benefits of it! Him. He wasn't even half demon./ How hypocritical of Hiei! What a…no…yes he had the right to be angry. He led him to believe…to believe…

Kurama sat, exasperated, on a bench behind him. He wanted to tear his heart out. His stomach growled, but it felt good to think of hunger rather than Hiei. He hated that name. Hiei. It was like venom. Like a toxin he wanted to spit out every time it formed on his-

His heart leapt as he saw Hiei directly in front of him, staring curiously at the melodramatic fox.

"..Kurama stop it," came the forceful order from the koorime.

Hiei's eyes sharpened, full of suppressed emotion. He suddenly took Kurama by the shoulders and moved in, Kurama having nowhere to go, a bench behind him. Kurama's eyes widened half with hate, half curiosity.

After a long pause Hiei leaned in to the fox's ear. "I do love you…"

Was it a mockery or was Hiei being sincere? What gave him the gall to utter those words after that embrace with Yusuke. He had to have known his feelings were read. And still… those trickling words caught Kurama in the koorime's delicate web.

I did NOT accept. I merely saved you the fall.

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I love writing two chapters a day. It's very refreshing. Keep up those reviews. I look forward to them everyday. Thank you so much.

Oh, and the next chapter is very action packed, otherwise I would have written further. I didn't want to leave you hanging in the middle of dialog action.

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/ This is before the gang knows of Yusuke's demon connections.