okay chapter, what is this nine? one day after the last one! woo aint it great? this one, is a little better than the last one, and apparently the last one was pretty good. read and reveiw and enjoy!

"Here we are Akira." Kurama sat the fragile albino down on his couch. "I shouldn't have left you alone, with those bullies about i…"

wiche "kurama its okay, you didn't know that bully was there."

"but I should have"

"how could you have?" Kurama couldn't tell him that he was really an ancient demon so he did the thing he could think of, he lied.

"I should have just known they were following you. I shouldn't have even taken the chance."

"what are you my nanny?" he said with a smile

"no, im just worried about you, you just seem to get in trouble"

"you are one of only 2 people to stick up for me like this, but I'm used to it, so much so bruises don't show up much cause my veins are reinforced!" he said with a laugh and a wince.

"your just gonna laugh it off?'

" Why worry about it, im not so bad off this time, thanks to you."

"uhhh" kurama replied and blushed even though he didn't know why.

"Well let me get some antiseptic for the cuts on your hand anyway." Kurama walked out of the room, and Akira watched him leave and remembered back to the first time he woke up in this house, he was confused and in a lot of pain. And there was an unknown scarlet hair boy watching over him. He had felt drawn to the boy, and at the time didn't know he would be such friends with him. The times he had been studying with kurama didn't come to mind as he looked about. He felt very comfortable there.

Kurama walked back into the room with a bandage and some iodine.

"iodine!" he said alarmed

"sorry its all I have, we used the other stuff already."

"oh, well get it over with already" kurama dabbed the iodine on a cloth and rubbed on the scratches

"oww oww owww!" he yelped

"im sorry! It'll be over quick I promise!" he tried to comfort him desperately as the painful owws continued. He wrapped his hand and capped the iodine to the relief of Akira.

"Well that's over with." Akira sighed as Kurama sat down in front of him.

"you should at least try to fight back or something." Kurama suggested to the quiet Akira.

"I know, but, if I fight back it might get hurt worse."

"Maybe, but still, I'm just worried you know?" kurama said worriedly and kindly to Akira who smiled back at him. Suddenly he was filled with a feeling he couldn't explain, his heart began to beat strangely and something welled in his chest. He didn't remember closing the space between them as their lips met. It lasted but a few seconds before they pulled away from each other and blushed looking at their feet.

"Well that was weird." Kurama pointed out

"Yeah, well actually…" akira trailed off.
"A-actually what?" Kurama said still thinking of what just happened.

"That wasn't as weird as you would think was it?" Kurama thought and realized that it wasn't that strange, and as he thought that he realized that he wasn't embarrassed about it at all really. It was kind of nice.

"Your right, it wasn't , but even still, lets not tell the others okay?"

"Don't have to tell me twice!" Akira responded with a smile, he leaned into Kurama with his shoulder who embraced him warmly. They stayed like that for some time, thinking of the awkwardly not-so-awkward moment they shared and smiled.

"Well now what? Does that mean we're gay?" Akira asked into the quiet and made Kurama laugh.

"I don't know what it means Akira, I really don't, but I guess we'll figure it out eventually!" Kurama marveled at how Akira had changed since they had been friends. He was more open and you could see the subtle sense of humor that he possessed. Kurama suggested Akira stay the night so he could watch him and make sure everything was all right. He didn't want the bullies to jump him while he walked home. Fortunately it was Friday, so he didn't have to worry about school the next day and stayed up late so he could keep an eye out for them out the window; it was easy to find out where a student lived if you tried so kurama was careful.

In the morning, after they both woke up in the living room the ever annoying yueske showed up at the door with Kuwabara.

"hey Kurama? I saw Kuwabara trying to stuff a bottle of, highly flammable silly string back in his bag yesterday, just thought you'd like to know." Kurama took the hint and hid a butane lighter behind his back when he opened the door.

"HI KURAMA!" Kuwabara yelled as he whipped the can out from his bag.

"hi Kuwabara." He said with a grin as he lit it on fire as soon as he started spraying it. All three of the others laughed as he screamed, dropped the can and ran to the end of the yard.

"oh hi Akira, you stayed here last night? What happened?"

"he got beaten up last night when I ducked into the store, but I caught the bully before much harm was done so he's okay."

"that's all?"

Kurama crossed his fingers behind his back and replied with a completely innocent "That's all."

finally! some action between those two huh? you like it, its gonna get better, but it might take a while, i've run out of most ideas again so your just gonna have to wait til they come back so til then!