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LostCause6661: hmmm, mate of the year... I like that! I may have to steal that one...
The computer took a few minutes to load. "You know, I could be all paranoid and tell you to look away when I sign in..." I grinned at the screen.
Hiei backed up slightly. Just enough so that he couldn't see the keyboard, and still be touching me.
"I didn't mean that. I want you to learn how to use one of these if you're gonna stick around." I sighed. Sometimes joking with him was like talking to a wall.
"I know how to use one. I am giving you your privacy."
"So formal. Thought we were past that?"
"Trying to keep my mind on the task at hand, not the way you looked during the fight." He let out a shaky breath.
I got a shiver of arousal off him. "Ooookayyy... anyhow." I scrolled through the new messages to find the one I wanted. "Kitsune1000... damn him."
"Did you not give the fox a way to contact you?"
"No. and I swear to all the gods, if he knicked the address off your sister, I will kick his scrawny foxy arse. Hmmm, its directed to both of us."
Hiei leaned closer, so that we could read it together.
{pyro and hiei, I hope this finds you well, and not gone all evil rule the worlds. koenma has given me free run of his library to research other cases like yours, to find a solution. and before you call and swear to kick my foxy arse to spirit world and back, botan asked me to e-mail, because she just found out that ferry girls can't use computers, their powers make the poor machine go into meltdown. I did NOT steal the slip of paper with your e-addy on it. I will keep you informed on my progress, kurama.}
Pyro snickered. "The fox writes like a brainiac fourteen year old."
"He writes letters to me in Alaric like that as well." Hiei said, sitting back again.
"Alaric... that's where your boss is, yeah?" I purposefully left out -and lover- because I didn't really want to go there tonight.
He apparently heard the unspoken part, because he said, "Yes, to both." He shifted in his seat, like he wanted to run far far away.
"Hmm." I kept my eyes glued to the screen. Seems like we were going there after all.
"She... she was my boss. Is still my boss, and lord of Alaric, I'm her heir. She hasn't been my lover since, well, for a long time now." He looked as defeated as the emotions rolling off him.
"Since you said something and she got pissed in a royal kind of way."
"Because I told her the truth one night while we were discussing mating. She would have to have children, as we'd need an heir." Defeated turned into indignant.
"She's pissed cause she's barren and you didn't notice." I flicked a glance his way to see if I was right.
He got his wide-eyed look of shock. "What?"
I rolled my eyes. "You mean I'm right? Hell, with that much evidence, even the zombie and Kazu could have known."
He turned my face toward him with a gentle, but shaky, hand on my chin. "How do you figure there was any evidence?" The look in his eyes told me he was mentally kicking himself for being more idiotic than the idiots.
"Hiei, honey, I know how you are. If I didn't need to be so careful about the bitch in my head, you would be acting on all that pent-up arousal you try to hide from me every night. She was your intended, and you nailed her to the mattress every night. If she was gonna give you little mini fire demons, it would have happened already." Oni-san had a LOT to learn about the birds and the bees still.
"She never... Oh that bitch of a lord." He slapped himself in the forehead, really close to his third eye.
I winced. "And I'm not, just so ya know. Kurama had been slipping a little extra something in my tea since the day we started sharing a roof."
That got a quick burst of anger out of the demon at my side. "He did WHAT?"
I giggled. "Chillax lover. I caught him a few months in and asked him what it was."
"And..?" His prompt for information was clipped, like he was resisting the urge to go and beat the crap out of a certain kitsune.
"It wasn't poison." I grinned at my angry oni-san. "It was a plant that acts as a demon contraceptive. He discovered it when he was with Lotus. He gave me some seeds the day I caught him, and taught me how to grow them, just in case you actually let someone else battle one day and he couldn't grow it for me."
Hiei calmed almost instantly. "So, assuming you haven't had any human lovers lately..."
I felt like I'd been slapped. "You jerk, that hurt. You, of all people, should know me WAY better than that." My voice came out as a whisper. I crossed the room to sit in the recliner with my laptop.
His sigh rang through the shocked silence I created.
"You, oni-san, have been in my mind more completely than anyone ever has, so you should know that, not only would I NEVER have another lover while I'm with you, its also not a good idea to even joke about it." I hit the keys on my computer harder than necessary in my annoyance, but I found what I'd originally gone into my e-mail to find.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking." He looked up at me. "With all the shocks tonight, I can't think straight." His eyes begged me to forgive him.
"Oh honey, you know I can't stay mad at you! Swear you'll never suggest that I've been unfaithful to you again and you're forgiven." I grinned at him.
His relief washed over the room. He crossed to stand directly in front of me and looked directly into my eyes. "I swear."
"I found the e-mail."
He sat on the arm of the recliner and read the contents. "That stupid oaf, he left his e-mail open where Shishi and Touya could get to it. This letter is mostly Shishi, especially the parts about how a lord of the makai would never pledge himself to a weak human."
"Fuckers. Go figger, he hates me anyway." I set the computer on the side table. "I'm gonna head to bed, see if I can't get a little rest before HER memories start up again."
"I will follow you in a few minutes, after I handle the replies to the lies you were told." He had an evil smirk on his face that told me it was best not to ask what he was planning to write.
I know, is short. But I hurted myself this week, and the advil I took wore off, so I can't type anymore. (wrist injury.)
love to all my readers! And I am sooooooooooo sorry I didn't post more sooner. I got lost in Ouran High School Host Club silliness. (I love the series, and highly recommend it)
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