Werefox
By: SanguineFox
Warning: Yaoi!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of the characters there in.
Chapter 13: TrainingKurama chuckled softly from the safe distance on what could probably be considered the porch of the old temple.
Hiei glared back at the amused redhead before he recieved another blow to the head, "Damn it woman, I got almost all of them."
"That's not all of them," she easily met his glare.
Hiei formed another fire ball in his fist, but the woman only hit him once again, "Damn it!"
"Try again, and this time focus on the targets, not your lover boy."
Hiei turned to glare at Kurama for a moment before retuning to the small pieces of wood that Genkai had set up for him to practice with. He had been improving greatly, and his control over his power and temper were becoming a bit easier as time passed.
Breathing heavily, he managed to take all but one. He braced himself for another smack from the teacher, but it never came.
"I have to admit that I am rather impressed with how far you've come, Hiei," Kurama chuckled as he finally approached when Genkai said that they were done for the day and headed in to enjoy a cup of tea that Kurama had promised.
"You're only saying that so you might get something tonight."
"Is that so wrong?" he pouted.
"Hn, damn perverted fox."
"Don't forget, Hiei, you are mine," he stepped closer so he could slide his finger along the opening of Hiei's shirt to lightly graze the marks in his neck.
A shiver ran through Hiei's spine at the controling nature of Kurama's tone.
"And if I want to play with you..." he easily had Hiei pinned to the ground, but the fire demon only smirked, and reversed the hold, "What...?"
"Don't forget Kurama, these powers may be knew, but I've always been a good fighter."
"Yes, but you weren't stronger than me then..." he pouted, knowing that his fun was now over.
"It's time to head home, Yukina's making spaghetti tonight... she wanted to know if you'd like to join tonight."
"No, sorry, Hiei, but it's a full moon, I need to be out. You know how I get when the moon is out."
"Hn," Hiei shrugged.
"So you won't be joining me tonight, either?" he was genuinely sad, but Hiei thought that it was still part of the redhead's little mind games.
"No."
"... Guess it'll just be Karasu and me once again..."
"Karasu?" he growled.
"Oops, didn't I tell you?"
"Tell me what?" Hiei advanced on the 'innocent' fox.
"Nothing, just that Karasu seems to be spending more time with Youko than you."
"Fine, I'll be there tonight," he growled before disppearing in a huff.
Kurama grasped at his chest, trying to keep the pain from showing.
"Are you still trying to play dumb?"
"i'M SORRY?" he turned to see the old woman watching him from the stairs.
"You're connection is going to be the death of you."
"I'll be fine... when Hiei realizes his full potential I'm sure..."
"He doesn't undrestand the demon ways, he won't know if you don't tell him."
"... I know...but... I feel as if I sort of forced him into this... and he... if he were to claim me... there'd be no going back. It was in the moment that I marked him without explaining what it truly meant."
"You're telling me too much," the old woman grunted.
"Sorry, but there isn't really much to tell anyway... It's very odd, I've been with several kinds of demons in my life as Youko..."
"you're bordering on too much information again."
"And quite a few of those were fire demons... They're very passionate, but Hiei... He runs hot and cold..."
Genkai shrugged, "Mabe it has something to do with the koorime blood that was also activated when you marked him."
"Koorime? Are you really sensng that?" he looked at the wrinkled woman in surprise, "There might be a bigger problem than I thought..."
"Not really, it seems that Hiei has naturally been able to balance his internal temperatures."
"...I can't believe I didn't notice..."
"Maybe if you weren't trying to just get in his pants..."
"I'm a fox demon! What do you want from me?"
Hiei tapped his foot against the ground as he had another 'glare off' with Karasu.
"I can't believe that you're a demon."
"I can't believe you still think that you have a chance with Kurama."
The silver fox enjoyed watching the angry men, they were quite the entertainment to him.
"Go to hell."
"You first."
"Boys, boys, boys," Kurama finally stepped between them, "there's no need to fight over little ol' me."
"Who's fighting over you. I really just hate that bastard," Hiei growled.
"See, Kurama, he won't even fight for your love."
"That's because he doesn't have to," the fun had run out and now he felt as if he were dealing with two children, "Now, Karasu, just give me the details of the Makai."
"Yomi believes you dead and gone."
"Good," he sighed heavily.
"Hn, who is this Yomi, anyway?"
"The lord over a third of the Makai. Kurama, here, screwed him and ran off with a large chunk of his treasure."
The silver fox was turning a bright color, "Karasu!"
"It's disgusting when you act like this shy human, that used to be your proudest moment."
"Used to. Now this is," Kurama smiled proudly as he wrapped his arms about Hiei.
"You're making me sick," the crow demon rolled his eyes, and his metal mask hid his annoyed sneer.
"Hn," Hiei was starting to get equally annoyed with the fox's actions, "Aren't you done for the night, can't you just go back to the demon world?"
"Oh, little human, I don't care if you have learned to use a bit of youki, you'll always be pathetic in my book," Karasu eyed the Youko a little longer before disappearing.
"Can't you just kill him, already?"
"I still need his services a little longer."
"What kind of services?" he glared out of the corner of his eye.
"Nothing important," he ho-hummed, "Well, we're alone now..."
"Hn, I'm going home."
"Hiei," the fox's grip tightened a little bit, "Are you already tired of me?"
"What?" he was completely surprised by the insecurities of such a sensual demon.
Kurama let out a heavy sigh, releasing Hiei from his grasp, "Never mind, I'll just see you in school tomorrow."
"Kurama?" he tried to question, but Kurama turned into a fox and quickly disappeared into the brushes.
This had to be the most infuriating mate ever! Kurama grew impatient as Hiei now used his new powers to threaten him whenever he got to close. Hiei had learned control over his power and control over his mate in just one night.
"But... Hiei..."
"I said no, Shuuihci," he groweled, shoving the taller teens arms from about him, as he side glanced to his sister who was still giggling at his expense.
With a frustrated sigh, the redhead stood from the lunch table and walked away.
"What's going on with the two of you?" even Yusuke was getting a little weirded out by Kurama's need to be all over the shorter teen, but the girls had seemed rather entertained by it.
"It's... complicated, but there's something else with K... Shuuichi..." he watched his moody boyfriend going down the hall. His chest pulled a little and he knew what he had to do... sort of...
"Oh, Hiei," Kurama chuckled softly as the shorter teen had him pressed against the bathroom wall. The redhead had planned to find a place alone when someone was suddenly pushing him into the boys' bathroom.
"Hn," he caught those full lips in a nipping kiss before moving to Kurama's neck, suckling on it softly.
"Hiei..." he groaned louder, trying to keep his volume down, but the little fire demon had no idea what he was doing to his loins right now.
"Shit, fox," Hiei barely managed as he pulled back, panting. He wanted so much more, but knew that it wasn't the place... maybe the time, but definitely not the place.
"Mm, don't say that while we're in here, Hiei."
"S-Stop squirming," he was having enough problems trying to restrain himself without the friction the normally calm student was making.
"I can't, Hiei, please, just... do something..."
"Our first time will not be in the school's bathroom," he growled, managing to pull away.
"Mm, let it be here, it's fine," he purred, reaching out his fingers to just barely graze over Hiei's neck and chest.
"Sorry, Fox, there's no way," he was feeling a little awkward pulling away. He really wanted to touch every inch of Kurama inside and out, but this was not theway he imaginedhis first time with Kurama to be. Actually he was surprised that the Youko had been as restrained as he had been when he had Hiei under him.
"Mm, Hiei," his aluring voice was soft and too tempting, not did the soft fingers tracing his chest through the thin shirt he was wearing help his situation, "please..."
The warm breath of Kurama against his skin was that most intense feeling he had ever had, there was something almost primal in him that told him the only way he would survive was to slam the beautiful teen against the wall and rip off his clothes before taking him in the most intimate of ways.
"Hiei!" the redhead pouted as the new fire demon pulled away.
"Damn it, Kurama! Our first time will not be in the boy's bathroom in our school!" Hiei shouted.
"Especially when you have a teacher present," a deep voice practically boomed, and the teacher came out from one of the stalls.
"M-Mr. Sensui," Kurama flushed a deep red.
"I think it's time for the two of you to get to class?"
"...Of course," Kurama was completely flustered, and grabbed the glaring Hiei's hand before dragging him out of the room.
"Damn in, Kurama, what you do to me sometimes..." Hiei muttered as they stood in the hall for a moment, trying to catch their breaths.
"I don't do anything."
"Throwing yourself at me every chance you get, even when we're in front of my sister?"
"I wasn't throwing myself at you, Hiei," he was obviously very angry with his mate, "I just wanted to hug you, isn't really all that wrong?"
"When it's in front of those idiots and my sister."
"Damn it," Kurama huffed, and straightened himself when the bell went off to sgnal a change of class, "Fine, then I guess touching is out of our relationship."
"What? No, Kurama..." he was so frustrated with the constantly horny fox, but he was too proud to say that he need Kurama in that way, too. His pride kept him from going after the very annoyed redhead.
It had been a long day, and the fight he had had with Kurama was still weighing heavilly upon him. He had told Yukina that he would be home late, and had been walking through the park, hoping Kurama would show up, but with the sun setting, he decided to see if Kurama had just gone straight home from school.
Although his powers were still needing improving, the fire demon coul easily sense when a demonic force was sent at him from behind. He barely managed to dodge in time.
"Karasu," Hiei growled loudly at the dark shadow, "What are you doing? I thought you went back to the demon world already."
"As a human, I was willing to wait for you to die before claiming what was rightfully mine to begin with, but as a demon, I can challenge you to a battle for the right to own the Youko's love."
"I refuse to battle you over that. Kurama is no trophy. He is my lover, and mine alone. You will leave now, Karasu, and you will never bother my mate again," he wasn't sure what had come over him, but it was as if the words had been in him the entire time, but he could never bring himself to actually say anything.
"You don't believe that the Youko is worth fighting for? You really don't deserve him, you pathetic human half breed."
"I would fight for my fox to my last breath, but you have no chance of winning him, and there is no reason for me to fight you. Face it, Crow, Kurama loves me, and I love him. You have no chance against that."
Even through that mask, Hiei could see the thin man's face contort into one of rage and fury as he shouted, "I do if you're dead."
"Argh!" Hiei clamped his hand over his shoulder where he was suddenly bleeding from.
"Now, little spitfire, it's time for you to die!"
A cool voice seemed to echo through the alley way, "Spitfire… hm… I think that I like it."
"K-Kurama…" Karasu looked around, almost frightened.
"What have I told you about teasing my beloved?" Kurama asked eerily calm as he approached the tall crow.
"Your beloved does not deserve you. He is not willing to fight for you! He may be a demon now, but he still thinks like a pathetically weak human."
"That is because my love is not stupid. He has not been properly trained yet. He would have no chance in defeating you, and he knows better than to treat me as some object that is to be passed around to anyone that can fight. If all I wanted was someone to treat me as nothing but a trophy lover, I would have given myself to a cold, heartless bastard like you long ago."
"You make no sense, Youko. You are the greatest of thieves from the demon world, and yet you waste you time in this human world of weaklings and pathetic creatures. You are a demon, you do not belong here!"
"He's right," Hiei stated suddenly.
"What? Hiei?" Kurama turned to face his mate.
"You belong in the demon world."
"No, I… I belong with you, Hiei," he tried to read his lover, but had no idea as to why Hiei was talking like that.
The short teen held his hand out in front of him, and a ball of black fire flickered into life, "I don't exactly belong here myself, either…"
Karasu glared at the redhead, he despised that human side of the fox. He let out a soft purr as the moon came into view and the Youko made his appearance.
"That's it… your assistance is no longer required, Karasu. You are free."
"You stupid fox. I was free from the beginning," he threw a bomb at the tall demon, but Kurama managed to dodge, and the garbage can behind him erupted instead, "you have never had any control over me. I allowed you to tell me what to do, but you have never been my master."
"Then why are you still here?" Hiei growled, stepping between the crow and his fox.
"Ha, you think you can stop me, human?" Karasu stepped up to the teen and easily lifted him by the neck before effortlessly flinging him into the brick wall before Kurama could do anything.
"Stop this Karasu."
"You are the most infamous demon in the Makai… You should be with another great demon, not some low classed human turned demon. I will defeat you, and show you that you are mine."
"I will never be yours, Karasu, you are just a lowly servant," the Youko's hand balled into fists ready to kill.
"My beloved fox. You are too beautiful when you are angry, I just love that look in your eyes. It's as if at any moment you will reach out and rip my throat out."
"That's not such a bad idea," his hand gripped at the crow's throat, clenching tightly.
Karasu just smirked, a small chuckle coming from behind his mask.
Anger dropped from the fox's expression and he pulled away, but a line of small bombs had been sent through his arm, his left arm lay uselessly at his side, "Damn it."
A sickening smirk lit in those violet eyes as Karasu removed his mask, revealing his true nature. The long black hair turned blonde, and Karasu's energy seemed to spike.
Kurama jumped further back, knowing now what his enemy's true power was. Pulling a seed from his hair with his good hand, the Youko let the whip snap. He had to keep as far from the crow demon as possible, but now that he had no use of his left arm, he was thrown off balance.
With speed that caught Kurama completely off guard, the crow was up against him, running a finger across his chest before playing with the necklace that Hiei had given him, "How funny, your little lover's trinket will be the death of you."
Kurama watched wide eyed as Karasu took a few steps back and a pressure in his chest made him black out.
"Karasu!" Hiei's deep voice nearly shook the area, and Karasu turned with a murderous glare in his eyes, but it was nothing compared to the death that Hiei's ruby eyes seemed to promise.
"Oh… the human awakes? You're too late, your lover's dead…" his long, pale fingers tangled with the silver mass of hair that was splayed about the beautiful fox in a twisted sense of beauty.
"You're next."
"Ha, you really think that you can beat me? The Youko thought that he could defeat me and he was considered the best in the Makai. You… you barely know how to control your…"
A shadowy aura blacked out the entire alley, it was such an intense dark that Karasu was starting to have trouble breathing. He was not stupid, and in the time that Hiei stood before him, Karasu decided that his fun was over for the day.
"My love is dead," he stated proudly, "I've done what I came here to do. Even in death, he is a glorious sight."
Hiei was about to throw the fire ball that Genkai had taught him how to do, but it took him too long to form the energy the old teacher had explained to him, and Karasu disappeared.
Once he had displaced the energy, he turned to the fallen fox. It couldn't be true, it just couldn't. Taking slow steps, Hiei bit his lip as he felt his heart fall. The silver fox was wanton on the ground, his hair sprawled across his face, stained with the blood of the puddle he was soaking in.
With shaky hands, Hiei easily lifted the Youko into his arms and held him close, burying his face in the reddened hair not even noticing the smears that now marked him and his clothes.
Hiei had no idea how much time passed since Karasu left, all he knew was the lifeless body in his arms. Not once, since he could remember had he ever cried, but he felt the burning sensation in his eyes and the warm liquid fell from the corner of his eye.
"Kurama," he held the demon tightly to his chest as more tears fell and he began to rock back and forth. He just couldn't come to terms with it. It wasn't possible. He had just promised Kurama that they would be together.
The moon was high in the air, casting a silvery glow over them, Hiei was so lost in his depression and tears that he didn't notice the long fingers that twitched before slowly raising up to caress his cheek.
"Hiei...I can't breathe..." his low voice was a bare whisper, but Hiei heard every word, and his body shook.
"Kurama," Hiei kissed the fox all over his face before meeting his lips.
Accepting the kiss, Kurama managed to get his arms about the other's neck, even the terribly damaged one. Taking a deep breath from Hiei. After a while Kurama felt Hiei feeding him ki, he wasn't sure when or how Hiei had learned to do that, but he was able to call on enough energy to transform back into his human form, cradled against Hiei's chest.
"Hiei," he pushed away, the teen was giving him far more energy than he should be capable of transferring, "stop. Stop!"
It was too late, Hiei passed out into Kurama's chest, and slept soundly.
TBC
