Another long day of classes, clubs and work. Kurama returned to his apartment after dark only to find that his kitchen was emptier than he remembered, so he picked up the phone to call in a take-out order. He had to eat, but he didn't have the time to go shopping that evening. Such a long day and all the others around it stretching on as well, off into some distant future when he would leave this world behind. Not that he wanted to drop everything and go rushing off to demon world, but things were so boring around the human world these days. There was no one trying to take over the world and Koenma's new spirit detective was in charge of removing all the trash that did manage to sneak through the border.
He sat down at his desk to finish his homework for the next few days. Perhaps tomorrow he would go home and have dinner with his family. He needed to do something to break what was becoming a monotonous routine.
There was a tapping at the window and Kurama got up to answer it. Normally he would have sensed somebody coming, normally he would be able to tell who it was even now, but his senses weren't picking up any of these signs. He didn't find it odd at all. He slid open the casement and stepped back as a familiar shadow dropped into the room.
"Hello Hiei, it's been a few months," he said pleasantly as the fire apparition let out an annoyed grunt.
"Stupid humans," he muttered as he flicked his cloak into position and glared at his friend. "Pathetic, useless, dumb animals. I'm tired of babysitting, but anyone else would screw it up."
Kurama chuckled softly and returned to his seat at his desk. "My, Hiei, you seem to be getting rather bitter in your old age."
"And how do you think you would feel if you had to put up with all the screaming they do?"
"I do live among them, if I must remind you. And the couple down the hall does quite a lot of screaming of their own."
Hiei glanced in the direction indicated before making an indistinct noise and pacing around the pretend human's room. He seemed to have something to say but was still working himself up to the point of saying it, or maybe he just needed somewhere to work out his thoughts in peace. Kurama felt some pride that he had beaten out Mukuro for that rare honor of being able to watch Hiei thinking.
"What are you smirking about fox?" Kurama shifted in his seat slightly and smiled at the other demon. It was good to hear those accusing tones again as Hiei stalked towards him. "Well?"
Kurama chuckled pleasantly and shook his head. "I was not smirking Hiei, merely smiling."
"Pfft, I didn't come here to be smiled at."
"Then what did you come for?" Kurama asked as he lounged in his chair. He was teasing the little demon, playing their occasionally dangerous game.
"I came for a little sanity, but I find it lacking here as well," he growled in response and turned away.
Kurama reached forward quickly and caught the fire apparition by the back of his cloak. Hiei spun around, his eyes flashing and on impulse Kurama pulled him in. His reaction would be amusing, to say the least, and Kurama was looking for some diversion. He could risk this wrath. Thier lips brushed.
Kurama started, sitting up in his desk chair. His head had been laying on the open pages of one of his text books and he rubbed the side of his face. At a sound from the window he jerked around to stare but didn't jump to defense as he sensed the familiar energy. The window slid open quickly and a black figure stepped into the room.
"Stupid humans," it muttered as it pulled the glass shut. Then it turned to Kurama and he had to keep his face neutral as he saw those red eyes glinting in the lamp light. "Were you asleep fox?"
I'm trying to update this set once a day except Sundays, we'll see how that goes, eh?
This was actually pretty hard for me to write. I've never written any vaugely KxH before and read only a little bit of it. A good writer has to be the one to do it and I don't think I've quite pulled it off myself. I thought of the idea easily enough but the execution was hard, I guess because in my head Kurama and Hiei don't have that kind of chemisty, so the result seems a bit forced. It's kind of like they're sitting there with the scripts glancing from them to me and tapping thier feet. I can get them to act the scene, but it takes a couple cattle prods.