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Other: I am so sorry if you are still waiting for me to update my RIDING DECEPTION story, but I really don't have chapter 3 typed yet...I have the rough draft but not the final one so please be a little bit more patient with me.

Important: O and you know the writing format I use for the prologue? That format's coming back in chapter 2...or the 3rd upload, whichever you prefer. Because well, it seems that the first upload (prologue) was much more popular because of the style of writing so i thought ill give you guys what you want. So anywayz...heres another story that you all might enjoy!

Summary: Love, is like a rose, and like a rose, it dies. yusukexkuramaxhiei, triangle fic. Shounen-ai.

Like A Rose

Chapter 1-Are you Sincere?

Love, is a rose. So wondrous, voluptuous, full of life, and...serene.

Like a rose, love is a pure and beautiful emotion, given birth to when two people,

two souls,

two hearts,

collide...

"Kurama." You greet me. It's always the same. A simple nod, grunt, or statement. There's never been any appreciative comments. Just a sneer, or a smirk, who knows, I might even get the cold shoulder.

I tell myself, each time you do these things, that it's not your fault you're this way. That you didn't choose to be this way, and that you'd be different if it wasn't for your past, but even if these words were true, these lies, have long been overused.

Lately, I've been feeling lonely, depressed, and angry. Can't you see it Hiei? I've felt this way for so long, do you not love me enough to see it? Or do you just not care enough to look? I wish you could look me in the eye and say you love me, but what's the use of doing it, if you don't even mean it?

I hate it when you leave me alone at night, but I hate it even more when you know I need you here with me, and you aren't.

I smile in return, smiling and hoping at the same time, that it wouldn't crack...

...and it didn't.

It really hurts, don't you know? You probably do, having felt rejection most of your life, but if so, why are you so intent on hurting me? Does it give you some sort of sick pleasure? Do you enjoy torturing me with this game of yours?

I probably won't ever know.

By now, I'm already leaning against the wall next to yours, and we're waiting for the rest of our team to arrive. We've recently been getting more and more cases together, and I've gotten to see you even more so, but nothings improved. If something's changed in our relationship, it hasn't changed for the better. If anything, things have gotten worse.

We've been together for approximately a year now Hiei, why can't you open up to me?

"KURAMA!" Hearing a cheerful voice, I look up slowly to see a happy face, so close to mine. For some reason, I feel happier when I hear his voice. He's always brought me out of the crevices of those deep and dark thoughts. Out of the pits of hell.

"Hello Yusuke." I say with a genuine smile on my face, and I can feel his eyes on me. I've never really stopped to consider or think on why he always watches me when I'm with Yusuke, but now that I do, it has me awed.

Hope had sparked in my heart. Maybe, just maybe, Hiei still cared? I'd seen something flash in his eyes, and turned my head fully to him, trying to read his emotions...could he possibly be jealous?

Looking closely at you, I explore those blood red orbs that you call eyes, but before I can confirm my suspicions, you turn away, and once again, I'm left thinking the inevitable. Are you still so unwilling to trust me with your emotions? Even after all we've been through together?

I close my eyes, mindful of Yusuke's watchful gaze. It isn't hard to figure out what's been bothering me, but I didn't need anyone poking and prodding at our already strained relationship.

Yet, I still can't help but feel happy that Yusuke actually took the time to come talk to me. If I were anywhere else, anyone else, I would have broken down and cried my heart out long ago.

"Are you alright Kurama?" I slowly come to face the features of our one and only detective. Yusuke's face was laced with concern and those eyes just couldn't help but display his worries for him, and Kurama began to wonder, just how nice it would be...if Hiei was just a bit, just a little bit, like Yusuke. Would our relationship be better?

I smile a bittersweet smile, and once again, I can feel the fiery eyes of Hiei glance my direction. So I turn, but just enough to gaze into his eyes.

"I'm fine Yusuke..." O how his heart felt right then. Breaking into tiny pieces...one at a time.

"...just fine."

...Not.

TBC

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