Title: Little Tastes

of Delight

Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho

Pairing: Past Kurama/Yusuke, Hiei/Kurama

Part: 3

Word count: 1,947

AN: My older brother is in the hospital. I will be going over to see my older sister on Thursday. Please note that yes, I will post but I'm going to be eh on actually returning replies for a week or so. Thank you.

Landing lightly on the edge of Tourin, Yusuke's land, Hiei looked around and smirked lightly before continuing on his way to the main castle, finding several of his friend's loyal servants moving around the land, doing what they needed to do. He nodded to a few that he knew personally but did not stop running towards the castle that he knew the young youkai lord was waiting.

He was proven right when he finally came to a stop before the doorways, finding Yusuke perched on a wall, sipping some water from a water bottle and holding another.

"Hey there," Yusuke greeted, holding out the unopened water bottle with a smile on his lips, eyes dancing as he slid off of the wall. Hiei grunted and took the bottle, opening the top and draining it with a few long gulps, his friend looking away with a blush.

"It's warmer than usual," the fire youkai grunted, Yusuke nodding his head as he put the water bottle aside.

Digging around in his pocket, he sighed and pulled out a thick hair tie. "Yeah, unfortunately. It's getting up there today. Luckily for us, most of the castle is pretty nice since the walls are so thick. Adobe like I think," he said as he pulled his hair back into a messy somewhat bun that kept it off the back of his neck.

"Adobe?" Hiei asked, raising an eyebrow. He had heard of the term but had never quite learned just what it was, or why it was called that.

"It originated in the hotter areas of the Americans and most of Mexico if I remember my history right. They would take mud and straw or dried out leaves, stuff like that, mix them together and either form bricks or layer it onto a frame. It was for more permanent homes and to keep things cool during the summer months and warmer during the winter. It's made for desert living," Yusuke hummed, rubbing at the back of his head before pointing to the walls. "Ours is made with rich mud and peat from one of the swamps then with the sand turned into mud from nearby. There's a reason why the castle is so big outside but smaller inside."

"The walls are thick," Hiei said, Yusuke nodding and leading the way into the castle. He smirked and ran a hand through his upright hair, musing the locks ever so slightly as his friend look over his shoulder. "Can we still spar like we planned?" he asked.

"Yeah, not a problem," Yusuke said, waving a hand back and forth as he lead the other man to the dining room. "Lunch first, man. I'm hungry and you're a good half hour late," he said, smirking over his shoulder to show him that he was just teasing him. Smirking, Hiei rolled red eyes as they sat down at the table, nodding when the servant placed their food down before leaving with a knowing smile on his face.

"Your servants make me wonder sometimes," Hiei muttered, eyes wide as he watched the servant leave before shaking his head and turning back to his plate and finding a spread of sliced meat, cheeses, sweet rolls and a selection of condiments. Smirking, he followed Yusuke's example and used the sweet rolls to make several small sandwiches to his taste. "Why lunch like this?"

"Because it allows me to customize what I want to eat and how I want to eat it. I don't have to worry about being killed because of an onion being placed on my sandwich on top of that," Yusuke stated as he bit into a turkey sandwich that he had built.

Hiei snorted and smiled at his friend. "Such an odd allergy to have," he teased, Yusuke shrugging in return.

"I didn't like onions to begin with so when the damn allergy popped up when I was 10 it wasn't a hardship for me," Yusuke hummed, shrugging one shoulder as he finished off the sandwich and started on a second, building it with some ham and pickles. "Every one of the recipes that we have here have removed the onions and onion type things so I don't have to worry if I have guests."

"It's a good thing it's just eating and not contact," Hiei drawled, Yusuke nodding and biting his sandwich in half.

"You're telling me," Yusuke snorted as he made a few more sandwiches, Hiei copying him as they fell into an easy silence. A servant came out only twice, once to refresh their drinks and again to place a large bowl of chips with some dip down for them. They ate and sat around for a good half hour afterwards so as to make sure that they wouldn't get sick during their sparring.

"Alright, come along, detective. I wish to toss you around your training room once more," Hiei snorted as he stood up, brushing off his pants with a smug smile.

Yusuke snorted in return and stood with him, pulling his hair free of the bun and tightly braiding it. "Bring it on, midget," he teased, leading the way towards the training room that was on the back end of the castle.

"Midget? I'll show you a midget," Hiei growled, eyes vibrant and teasing. His words held a double meaning that Yusuke completely missed even as Hiei's mind provided him with just how he would show the younger man a midget.

Smirking, he stood across from the younger man, both falling into their chosen stances before Yusuke threw the first punch, a lazy one, as if he was just playing. In a way, he was. Hiei threw his own punch, an equally lazy one that was easily batted aside. They were soon trading punches and kicks, each faster than the last, skidding and running around the room as they sparred.

Yusuke would land a punch before getting kicked while Hiei would often flip the younger youkai around and watch him land light on his feet, not the least bit slowed down by the fact that he had just been tossed by someone who was at least an inch shorter than him. He was more then used to it by then.

As they came to a draw, both men bruised and somewhat bloodied, Yusuke skidded to a stop some feet from Hiei, falling to land on his ass and huffing with a smile on his lips. Hiei chuckled and picked up his cloak from where he had tossed it aside earlier during the fight, having learned that Yusuke had discovered a few new tricks to fight with.

"Come on, detective. We both need a shower and a change of clothes," Hiei snorted, tossing his cloak over his shoulder as Yusuke groaned from his place.

"Yeah, alright," he huffed, hauling himself up and off of the ground, leading the way to their rooms. Once they had showered and changed, Hiei into another copy of his clothes, Yusuke into a pair of loose pants and shirt, they came back together in the library, sitting in a far back corner with several large pillows that made a rather nice nest for them.

"Has the fox tried to contact you while I was gone?" Hiei asked as he settled into his personal pillow. He hated smelling others on the pillows that he sat on, same with his chairs and Yusuke respected that, always having a pillow, and chairs just for him in each of the rooms. He rather liked that and felt smug that not even the fox could get such special treatment.

Yusuke shook his head with a tight look on his face. "Twice, via letter. Apparently he's coming with Yomi to talk peace treaties with me for some of my outer land areas that he wants to farm since it's not really being used. Part of the food would go to some of the smaller villages in that area, mostly warriors instead of farmers. They can raise meat creatures and the such but not plants outside of rice," he said. Hiei scowled.

"Did he say anything else outside of that?" he asked, claws scrapping against the floor under him lightly as Yusuke gazed at him, eyebrow raised.

"He wants to talk with me when we have time between discussions. I can't very well just tell him to fuck off without insulting Yomi though I don't think our dear Lord knows what his precious fox did and how much of a bastard he can be, despite their history together," Yusuke hummed, rubbing at the back of his neck, his braid twitching with the movement.

"So you're just going to deal with him and move on finally?" Hiei asked, raising an eyebrow at the small smile on Yusuke's face.

"I've already moved on," he stated, reaching out to pluck the sake bottle out from where he kept such things hidden. Pulling out two sake cups, Yusuke opened the bottle before handing over one of the cups to his friend.

"How so?" Hiei asked, tilting his head with a long look at Yusuke as he poured some of the sake into the two cups.

"I figured, while you were seeing Kuwabara, that if he didn't want to be with me and help me deal with all of my hang ups and fuck ups and all that good shit that came with a relationship that comes with me, than I don't need to mourn the fact that he's a bastard," Yusuke stated, shrugging as he sipped at his sake. Hiei hummed and drained the cup before holding it out to the other.

"So you moved on while I was gone. That's good. It was annoying that you were moping," he snickered, getting a moan from the younger youkai as he poured some more.

"Oh, fuck you, man," Yusuke huffed, rolling his eyes as he settled back onto his pillow, smirking at him. "Anyways! I moved on and if he wants to try something I can just show him how cold a street rat can get. If he thinks he's cold, he's like an ice cube in the sun compared to someone like me," he purred, eyes flaring.

Hiei chuckled and he saluted his friend with his glass as he frantically quelled the desire that rose within him at the sight of flashing eyes and the sound of the rolling purr. "Good luck. I want to be a fly on that wall when you tell him off," he stated, making Yusuke roll his eyes.

"Man, only you would want to be on the wall for that fight," Yusuke snorted. "Why don't you just watch from a safe distance. You have the hearing for it after all," he teased, offering Hiei some more sake, pouring more for the both of them. "As it is, I have time to prepare myself to deal with the ass. They won't be here for another week or two, just got to wait for it," he continued, shrugging with a smile.

"Good luck, Yusuke," Hiei drawled, the two tapping their glasses together before settling back in to enjoy their time together. Their conversation ranged from past relationships that had happened, Yusuke admitting to his first relationship that had ended in disaster so long ago while Hiei talked about the few in his life time that he had that was worth mentioning.

They also talked about their pasts, Hiei learned about how it had been to grow up for Yusuke to rely upon himself and no one else, despite Kuwabara's and Shizune's offers of help. He went to bed that night with much to think about and very little time to really think about it.

Title: Little Tastes of Delight

Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho

Pairing: Past Kurama/Yusuke, Hiei/Yusuke

Part: 4

Word count: 1,630

AN: Please remember that I am mourning my brother and will be behind on occasion for this month. Thank you.

Hiei stared at Kurama as the fox strolled over to him, looking bored with something or another, a rather common look on his face. The fire demon was lounging back on his pillow in the library once more as Yusuke spoke with Yomi some more about the crop exchange. The fox looked as elegant as ever, red hair pulled back into a ponytail and clothes a variant of his usual fighting outfit.

Hiei played with his personal sake cup. "Kurama, a surprise to see you here in the library. Usually you tend to stay far, far away from Yusuke's library, almost as if it insults your very being. Probably because of the manga on the shelves," he purred, smirking at the flash of gold in green eyes. "So what brings you here?" he asked.

"I just came to see if the rumors I've been hearing floating around were true or not," Kurama hummed as he sat down in a chair, legs crossing. He noted that Hiei didn't offer him any of the good sake he had next to him, wondering what the change in his friend was.

"Oh?" Hiei murmured, sipping at his sake with a smile. "And what rumors would those be?" he asked, acting as if he didn't know what the other man was talking about. He knew that Yusuke's men were talking about how he was courting the young lord and how clueless Yusuke truly was.

It was cute to the fire demon though.

Kurama just smiled sweetly and flicked a wrist at him. "I've heard several such rumors that you are courting the young Toushin," he said, his eyes taking in the way Hiei smirked ever so slightly. "You are, aren't you?" he asked, surprised at that bit of information flashing across his face.

"I am." Hiei placed his sake cup aside and ran his claws through his hair before he once more relaxed. He laughed lowly at the wide eyed look on Kurama's face as he assimilated the new information. "Not that he really knows it. Or if he does know it, he's quite good at hiding his thoughts and what he knows or doesn't know."

"I see," Kurama rumbled, rubbing at his bottom lip, eyes dark as he stared at the shorter demon. He had known that Hiei had a thing for Yusuke, had had it since the young lord had trusted him to not let them be crushed to death in the castle. It had grown into something more, something like love, though hardly the paltry emotion that humans called love. "Do you know about his history?" he finally asked, resting his jaw onto one hand.

"Oh yes, I know all about his mother, his father and what he did to survive his life," Hiei said, voice cold. "He told me everything and I let him without judging him one tiny bit," he went quiet, playing with his sake cup. "Unlike you."

Kurama reared back, his eyes narrowing at the shorter demon. "And what would you know about what I did and did not do?" he asked in a tightly controlled snarl.

"I know what you did and did not do because Yusuke told me and his men were all too happy to tell me even more," Hiei stated.

"You were always willing to listen to others when it came to what you wish to believe," Kurama sighed, shaking his head with a rueful smile. "Yusuke is a little boy who can't grow up, Hiei, no matter how mature he acts. You are wasting your time with him," he continued.

Hiei burst into laughter, surprising Kurama even more. "Kurama, he hasn't been a kid since he started working for a small time hustler when he was eight so he could get some food to eat and some cash to wash his clothes," he snorted as he stopped laughing. "Did you never give him the chance to tell you just what he had to do to live?" he sneered. "No, wait, I know. You pretended to listen and then you fucked him, using your knowledge of his body to distract him from the fact that you didn't listen."

"Hiei," Kurama growled, hating the way the other was dragging everything he had done through the mud with an uncanny ease.

"Shove it, fox. I have a patrol shift around the grounds," Hiei snorted as he stood. He swept out of the library, pulling on his cloak and sliding his katana into his belts. He left the red headed fox to think about just how much head fucked up in regards to Yusuke.

Kurama sat back in his seat and gazed out of the window, a black blur that he knew to be Hiei soon streaking across the grounds. He watched the black and white streak as he thought about his relationship with Yusuke, going over what they had done, blinking in surprise at how little they had been in bed together.

Usually when he was with someone, he tended to take them as often as he could get it up before he got tired of them and moved onto the next lover or one night stand. He was rather surprised that he had stayed with Yusuke for so long, had been surprised when he had broken it off, great sex notwithstanding. Yusuke had been a virgin for the most part, showing some talent with his mouth that he had kept silent about, but had learned all about the sexual aspects of life quite fast. The rest of the relationship had bored him though...

Sighing, Kurama stood and went in search of Yusuke, wondering if the Toushin would want a tumble in bed for old times' sake. He felt the gently rolling power in the kitchen and followed after it with a lazy smirk. Walking into the rather nice kitchen, the fox stopped to watch as Yusuke easily formed meat dumplings, placing them into steam baskets.

He wondered if his talk with Hiei and the following thinking had taken so long as to leave Yusuke time to create the dough and filling.

"If you're looking for Yomi-san, I believe that he's headed for his bedroom to relax before dinner time," Yusuke said, his voice cool and not stopping with his easy movements. "If you want Hiei, he's out on a quick patrol around the grounds. As for me, well I see no reason as to why you would want to speak to me seeing as how things ended between us."

"Oh, come now, Yusuke, things can't be that bad between us," Kurama said, brushing off that possibility. Yusuke just gave him a dark look as he placed the last dumpling into the steam basket.

"Kurama, you are either even more egotistical than what I have originally thought or you truly believe that," Yusuke stated as he piled the baskets together and placed them into the steamer. "Let me say this and if you dare to interrupt me, I will be tying you up and gagging you. Do you understand me?"

Kurama frowned as he eyed Yusuke, noticing that he did not look like he was a child playing grown up. "Very well."

"Now that I've actually had some time to really think about our relationship compared to our friendship, not to mention the time to listen to others observations, I can see now that despite how close we were as friends, and despite how much you have changed, you are still a cold hearted bastard to those who you are dating," Yusuke stated, his tone almost as if he was talking about the weather. All he was doing was stating the facts though, and Kurama could tell that he meant each word that came out of his mouth. "We rarely talked about personal pasts and the times that I did, it seemed as if you weren't listening or even trying to find out who I was under the mask. You never really tried to find out how I got so well at hiding who I was, why I was never once caught for anything worse than some thieving of food or how I was able to live without any real financial help. Not once did you wish to know about what shaped me into me," he continued, washing his hands and cleaning up his miss.

The entire time he spoke, Yusuke's tone never once changed, always staying the same. It sent chills up and down Kurama's spine, finally seeing just how much he had underestimated the younger man.

"As for our so called relationship, it was more about sex on your side than any real feelings. Which did hurt and still hurts, knowing that I gave my all to what we had and you barely tried," Yusuke stated, his voice finally taking on a sad tinge. "I had promised myself that I would never fall into a relationship that would end up hurting me in such a way after watching my mother go through them herself, one after another. But I did and for a man I once considered a good friend."

With those words, Yusuke left, braid swaying behind him as Kurama watched him with wide green eyes. Once the young lord was gone and out of earshot, Hiei snorted from behind the fox, making him whip around and narrow his eyes at him.

"Yes, I heard every word, and yes, I agree with him and what he has to say," Hiei drawled, crossing his arms. "Like I told you, fox, you fucked up big time. But that just means I have to work a little harder to get him to agree to being my mate." He smirked before leaving the kitchen, leaving Kurama alone in the room.

The fox had much to think about.