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Random disclaimer time: I do not now, nor have I ever owned Yu Yu Hakusho. Now that I am reminded of that, I will go be sad and borrow the characters again to play with...

Kurama sat with me during breakfast. It was odd to me, because he usually avoided being alone with me like the plague. I held my tongue as long as I could, then blurted, "Dude, we're alone. What's your excuse to leave gonna be this time?"

He sputtered on the tea he'd just taken a sip of. "Pardon?"

I giggled and passed him a napkin. "You always make some lame excuse so that you and I are never alone together. So, what's it gonna be this time? Calling your mom at midnight?"

"I really said that?" Kurama blushed.

"Not exactly. You said you had to call your mom, when it would have been close to midnight in Japan. You're brilliant, so it was a bit flimsy at best."

"My apologies. I didn't realize you knew the time zone differences."

"Gah, an insult within an apology. You're awesome Kurama." I rolled my eyes.

"I forget I'm dealing with a woman who thinks like a man." Kurama shrugged. The gleam in his eye gave up the game.

"You're trying to work me up and its not going to work. She is not allowed out. Does Yoko talk to you a lot?" I decided a change of subject was in order.

"Kind of. We are technically the same person." Kurama chuckled a little.

"You know what I mean. Does the demon part want things the human part can't or won't do?"

"Like the way I've been barely keeping the demon part of me restrained so I don't kill you? Yeah." He actually blushed.

I was sure I paled more than my usual Celtic ghostliness. "So if there's witnesses I get to live?"

He smiled at my squeak. "Hiei sat me as my demon self down and had a very pointed conversation."

That got my full attention. "Pointed? Like at the end of a katana?"

"Not at first... lets just say both halves of me are now in accord. Our lovely Pyro is most definitely not Lotus."

I fidgeted with my spoon. "C-Can I see your demon side? You don't have to change, just call up an image and let me touch your arm."

A mist rose up around Kurama, blocking all but his general outline from view. The mist stretched taller and I could see the shape of tails flicking about.

Once the mist cleared, a devastatingly handsome man with silver hair, fox ears, and tails stood before me. "Hello there handsome." I grinned at him.

He flicked his tails and smiled back. "Hello yourself beautiful."

"Such a flirt. I apologize for my past self's treatment of you."

He waved his hand, as if to brush off the need for an apology. "That life is long since over, Pyro, and you protect us, who have given you no cause to even trust us." He reached over and patted my hair like I was a cat.

"Yoko, remove your hand from the girl." Hiei growled from the doorway.

"Relax, Jaganshi, I will not harm the kitten who holds back the lioness." Yoko continued to pet me, so I purred.

Both demons gave me an unreadable look.

I shrugged. "You don't live with cats your whole life and not pick some mannerisms up." I gave a small 'mew' to prove my point.

"I think I'll let my human side deal with you for the rest of the time you're medicated." Yoko mumbled. The mist rose again, but this time it revealed the red head I knew as Kurama.

"Ok, where the hell did you boys put Mittens?"

Kuwabara walked in just as I asked after the cat. "I, uh, kinda... lost him." The tall man's words were almost whispered by the time he was finished speaking.

"You lost my cat?" I didn't raise my voice, but my shock and annoyance came through.

"It wasn't on purpose. He must have ran out when we had the door open during the fight. I looked everywhere for him. I even had Hiei use his third eye. When I found him, he was flat in a gutter." Kuwabara bent nearly double in a low bow, with his hands clasped together over his head. "Please forgive my negligence in the care of your precious kitty."

I almost laughed. Almost. "Its ok, Kuwabara. I never did like the stupid beast. Its kind of fitting though. He was born on the streets, and he died on the streets."

"You're not mad? Urameshi said you'd be furious." Kuwabara straightened and scratched the back of his head.

"Nah, man. Hell, I laughed when Hiei almost decapitated the beast last week." I winked at the orange haired man.

Kuwabara gave Hiei a scandalized look. "But he was just a harmless little cat."

Hiei shrugged. "Hn, the beast attacked her."

I giggled at the memory. "Oh my gods, you two should have seen it. Mittens LICKED Hiei's katana!"

Kurama touched my hand. "Try and show me."

I sent a nervous look in Hiei's direction.

"Just like we practiced, in the tree." Hiei nodded once. It wasn't much, but more encouragement than most people ever got out of the dragon.

I reached over and touched Kuwabara's hand as well. "Might as well fail big time if I'm gonna fail at all." I said. Then I closed my eyes and let the memory out.

Kuwabara fell down laughing.

Kurama actually let out a real laugh. It was a nicer, more real sound than his usual polite chuckle.

I winked at Hiei. "Forgot how funny the look on your face was Oni-san."

Hiei just shrugged. "That cat was too stupid to know fear."

Kurama patted my hand. "Thank you for that Pyro-chan, I needed that laugh."

I smiled at the red head. "No, thank you, Kurama-kun, for letting me use you as a guinea pig."

"Why is he Kurama-kun, but I'm always Oni-san?" Hiei's pout-laden voice only added to Kuwabara's laughter.

"I only call you Oni-san when you act like a dick, my dear, sweet Hiei." I said in a sickly sweet tone. 'I'd call you a lot of much nicer names if I didn't think you'd dice me.' I winked at him.

Hiei blushed. Like full-on, can barely see his red eyes blushed.

"Please do your telepathic flirting somewhere I can't accidentally hear you." Kurama sighed.

Hiei quickly recovered from his shock. 'Doesn't matter what you call me in public, so long as its MY name you scream in private.'

"HIEI!" the fox and I voiced our shock simultaneously.

"Not you, fox," Hiei winked, "her."

I was going to leave an extra long chapter to make up for no chapters last week, but i couldn't find the inspiration for it with just the one review. so this little comic bit is what you get. reviews are like crack for a writer. the more we get, the more jazzed we are and the faster we update. (btw, WRF, your reviews make my mom wonder what's wrong with me for days. its the silly grin.)