Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from the Yu Yu Hakusho series. I wish I did, but I don't. Once again... THIS STORY IS NOT CONNECTED TO FIFTY SHADES OF GREY! I want to make it clear that I couldn't come up with a good title that would tell everyone what the story would be about so I borrowed some of the title. I am telling you that the book was the farthest thing from my mind when this story came to be. Please review and comment and request all yous like. I am happy to hear what everyone has to say. Now... enjoy the next installment to Fifty Shades of a Youko.

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Kurama's meetings seemed to fly by almost too quickly. The first of his three meetings was with Biotech, his answer of denial not sitting too well with them. He told them that if they could provide more results on a very long term scale, ten to twenty years of success, then he would consider setting up another meeting with them. Until that time, there was no deal. As Kurama had expected, he had to spend the next twenty two minutes explaining that the concept was a good one, but the results were only on short term scales. Minamino Enterprises was about the long term results, twenty years to a hundred years. They wanted product that would last, not just for a little while, but for as long as the people needed them to. However, he did give them advise on how to further their research. He told them to get more investors so that their laboratories could expand, and their research could continue on larger scales. The company grumbled about the decision that Kurama had made, but Kurama was happy that the most dreaded meeting was over.

The next two meetings didn't take as long. One was simply Kurama setting up a new scholarship program at the closest university. He would fund twelve students that showed academic expertise that he once held. A love for the biologies of life was what each student had to possess. That meeting took only ten minutes, the next one however, didn't take the amount of time that he had thought that he would have to put into it. That last meeting was the only one that day that he had really been looking forward to. It was an internship based program where college grad students could come and test their skills for a week or two at a time and see if this was the fields that they really wanted to follow. The contract was signed within three minutes of Kurama sitting down! Every expectation of the meeting was blown to bits as the members of the Universities that were called to the meeting instantly agreed to every term inside the contract. Kurama was upset that his meeting took less time, for that meant it would be several more hours before he could head home for the upcoming weekend.

Once the meetings had come to a close, Kurama sat back at his mahogany desk in his oversized office and looked around. Wow, this was crazy. He loved his work and yet, today it seemed to be avoiding him in a way. His meetings went by too fast, lunch was still a few hours off, and then the rest of the day was still many hours away. Kurama sighed heavily and leaned back in his soft leather chair. His thoughts roamed from the meetings to the upcoming holiday. Monday that coming week was Valentine's Day. His employees would be enjoying their holiday knowing that they wouldn't have to return to work until that Wednesday. Kurama always gave an extra day for the holidays. Especially Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. He was alright if his coworkers weren't able to make it in the day after new years eve but he wouldn't give them off. He simply took it out of their vacation days. But they weren't upset with that, for Kurama gave them many vacation days. They were easy to earn and they could be saved for only two years before they were forced to take them. But by then there were at least three weeks.

Then a very interesting thought came to mind... he wouldn't be spending Valentine's Day alone this year! He now had Hiei to occupy his time and then he remembered what he had said to himself that morning on his way to work. He smiled and began to devise a plot to gain the information that he needed from Hiei. But how to do this without hurting him was the key to the entire contract. Kurama pondered several ways to do this. He knew that he couldn't torture the information out of him, that would definitely end their contract. However... he could just ask him... tell him that he needed to know a little bit more about him... hmm that could work! He leaned back into his chair again and began to think about how much he did want to know about his little companion. He had to be careful though... he didn't want to get attached to him. But that seemed to be happening already... and Kurama knew that he was treading in shallow waters when it came to Hiei. But how could he not? Hiei was like an addictive drug that he HAD to have. Like catnip to a cat, prey to a hunter... he could go on and on trying to describe it. But he knew one thing for sure... he still wanted the fire demon. He wanted to hear him beg. That much had not changed and nor would it. He WOULD hear him beg, if it was the last thing he did.

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Hiei sighed heavily as he plopped down onto his couch, exhausted. He and a friend had moved his furniture into the apartment that rested mere feet from Kurama's door. He was so tired that he barely had the strength to lift his head. He closed his eyes for a moment to regain his energy. He knew that he could take a catnap before he knew Kurama got off work. He also knew that it was Friday, with a holiday coming up on Monday... that didn't seemed to be in his favor. The horny fox for three whole days? Yikes, the thought actually unnerved him a bit. But then he remembered something that he had read in the contract. It had said that should he ever ask he could receive a day off. A free day from Kurama's tempting voice and body. But he frowned as the thought made him wish that very clause wasn't in the contract at all. That moment is when he realized that he really DID want to be in this weird contract with the fox. He wanted the contact that was promised, wanted the attention and most of all, he wanted Kurama. That thought scarred him, he had never felt like this about any one. He had never thought that these feelings could come to someone so quickly either.

Hiei felt a surge of energy all of a sudden and stood up. He looked around the room and seen a box that he had labeled fragile. He knew that it was his dishes and whatever else was breakable and walked over to the box. He took the box cutter out of his pocket and extracted the blade. He ran it down the strip of tape and then retracted the blade to return it to his pocket. He was only wearing a pair of faded blue jeans for his other clothes were packed. His hoodie from earlier was discarded on the coat peg that was sticking out of the wall a few feet from the door and only a white wife-beater shirt covered his coiling muscles. He knew that the look was plain and simple but he wasn't dressing to impress. But then he wondered if Kurama would say anything about his attire. He shrugged as he pulled out several plates that were wrapped in bubble wrap. He had gotten the plates in the Makai and they were expensive. He had gotten them for his sister but she lived with Genkai and asked him to hold onto them for her. He had agreed and they had been packed away ever since.

He walked the plates to the kitchen and opened a cabinet. The shattered glass look was pretty cool. It suited his taste in decoration. He carefully unwrapped each of the plates and sat them on the upper shelf of the cabinet. Once all of the collection of six plates were put away he returned to the box. He had pulled out the bowls and sat them to the side before pulling out the plates but knew that there were other things that needed to go up before them. He reached into the box and pulled out another item having been wrapped in bubble wrap like the china had been. He frowned and unwrapped the item and seen that it was the matching teapot. He didn't really drink tea all that often, but it came with the set so he had no choice but to keep it. He walked it to the cabinet and placed it next to the plates.

After about an hour of walking back and forth from the boxes that were in the living room to the kitchen and several other rooms, Hiei was able to flatten about a third of the boxes that he had brought. He looked around at the other boxes and frowned. He didn't realize that he had acquired so many items in this world. He shook his head as he picked up one of the boxes that read bathroom and knew that it was only towels. He sat it on the floor in the hallway and shoved it down the hallway with his foot. He smirked as it hit the bathroom door and bounced inside. He was good and he knew it. Actually the rest of the boxes were sent to their designated rooms in the same manner, unless he knew there was something that could break inside. With his hands on his hips he nodded as he seen that there were no more boxes piled high in the living room. He knew that he would have to unpack more of them. He seen several things were missing that were most likely placed in the wrong box. He shrugged and started to unpack a box that housed his record player. He was a sucker when it came to vinyl records. He loved them better than he did CD's. But records had a quality sound to them, unlike CD's. Once the record player was placed next to the fireplace, he turned to the box that held the records. As he began to pull out the records he glanced at the case that normally held them, the poor thing was empty. He frowned at the sight... a simple case waiting to be filled. He shrugged his shoulders again and began to put them in.

Suddenly there was a knock at his door. He glanced at the clock on the mantle and smiled. He knew who it was. He called out "Why knock when I know you have the other key?" and a moment later the door opened and Kurama walked in.

Kurama's eyes widened at the sight. Hiei almost was completely unpacked and it had only been seven hours? How the hell had he done that? He looked at Hiei and almost fell to the floor. Hiei was only wearing a pair of torn blue jeans and a white shirt that barely covered him. He was sitting on his knees placing records inside of a well built cabinet and turned to look at him.

"I see that you are settling in nicely..." Kurama managed to say as he closed the door behind him and looked around the room. "How... how did you..."

Hiei smirked. "I have friends that were willing to help me move on short notice. Besides, they owed me a favor."

Kurama frowned at the thought of what type of deed he had done for them. He looked around the living room. The furniture that adorned the room was actually quite stylish. He hadn't expected that from Hiei. The sofa was one of well crafted leather and there was a matching reclining chair that sat next to the couch. He looked around again and seen a wide variety of oil paintings that seemed to be hundreds of years old, some that Kurama had to stop and admire. He came to one and gasped lightly.

"You are a fan of Robert Woods?" Hiei asked as he seen Kurama standing next to the large painting called Autumn Leaves that rested over the fireplace.

"Are you kidding?" Kurama asked. "He is amazing! His use of color is unmatched!"

Hiei chuckled lightly and wondered if he should tell Kurama how he had acquired that painting. He knew that Kurama would be shell shocked if he knew, so he told him. "Yeah... well I actually won it in a poker game two years ago."

Kurama looked down at him and Hiei smirked, for his assumption was correct. Kurama shook his head and had no other reaction but to chuckle lightly. "Unbelievable. You realize what you have here, Hiei? You can tell by the brushstrokes that it is an original!"

"I know," Hiei said as he finally placed the last two albums in the case. "That's why I told the loser that would be enough to pay his debt. That or his life, he opted the painting."

Kurama looked at him, he seen Hiei push himself up off the floor after shutting the cabinet door. After standing up, he grabbed the box and flattened it. Hiei looked at him and frowned. "What? Did you seriously think that I had no class of any kind?"

"No..." Kurama lied and Hiei's frown turned dark. "Well... I came to realize that we really don't know much about each other, and this was just a bit of a shock. I pegged you for an abstract art type of guy."

"Abstract art? Seriously?" Hiei asked, his expression changing too quickly for Kurama to determine whether he was mad or amused. But his question was answered moments later. "That crap is just... confusing."

Kurama chuckled hard at the statement. "I agree. I prefer scenic paintings, Thomas Kinkade mostly."

"I hadn't noticed," Hiei said sarcastically, he had figured that, considering the paintings were almost everywhere in Kurama's apartment. But they were placed in a way that it wasn't gawdy in any way. It was humble and peaceful. "So off for the next three days, huh?"

Kurama smiled and had hoped that Hiei would bring up the coming weekend. "Well... actually, Valentine's Day is a favorite for foxes and so it's four days that I will be off. Everyone in my company as well."

Hiei had his back to Kurama for a moment and paled. He wasn't sure he could handle three days alone with him, let alone four! He swallowed hard and sat the box on the pile that was next to the door. He turned back to Kurama and seen an odd look on his face. "So... what are you planning?"

"I thought that the two of us could get to know each other a little better," Kurama said as he held up his mother's leftovers from this morning. "And I won't be able to eat all of this myself."

"How do you expect that we get to know each other?" Hiei asked, fearing what the fox had planned. "Cause I doubt that we would get very..."

Kurama's chuckles made Hiei stop. "I thought we could talk over dinner, that is all, Hiei. What did you think that I would fuck the answers out of you?"

Hiei blanched, actually that is what he had been getting ready to say before he stopped. He looked down and shook his head. "Well..."

"Hiei, I told you," Kurama said and sat the leftovers on the cabinet that separated the kitchen from the living room. "I wouldn't push you any farther than I believe you could go. This morning was a bit far and I knew that you would need a bit of down time. I am not a monster, Hiei. I do care about my companions. Whether they believe it or not."

Kurama spoke the truth and Hiei looked down again, damn the fox was on a roll. He was still sore from this morning and the thought made his cheeks grow warm. Kurama seen the blush appearing on his cheeks from where he stood, but could also see that Hiei was trying to hide it. So he busied himself with exploring the rest of Hiei's living room. "The best way to get to know a person is by asking questions. If you don't feel like answering a question, tell me that I've gone too far and I won't ask again. Simple enough?"

Hiei thought about the statement. "I guess not... as long as this isn't some sort of one sided game of yours."

Kurama turned to him and frowned. "Of course it goes both ways, Hiei. I am more than willing to answer any questions that you might have. About me or about what we have going here."

"Here?" Hiei asked as he gestured to his living room. "Or your place?"

"Either way," Kurama shrugged. Hiei shrugged and led him to the kitchen. "I have one question that has been burning at me since I signed the contract this morning."

Kurama smiled and sat at the cabinet as Hiei went about to warm up his mother's homemade lasagna. "What is that, Hiei?"

Hiei knew that this wasn't the type of question that you ask someone when trying to get to know them a little better but it was the only one that he could think of at the moment. "In the contract... it states that the policy..."

"Just say you and me, Hiei. This is about us, not anyone else," Kurama said before Hiei could continue.

Hiei sighed lightly. That was meant to lighten the conversation but it just made his question even harder. "It states that I have to obey you... would there ever be a time that the situation would reverse itself?"

Kurama blinked. Hiei was asking if he would ever get to give him a command and if he did would he follow it? That was actually a tough question. "Well..." Kurama stopped and searched for the words. "I suppose that... damn, I don't know how to answer that, Hiei."

"Then don't," Hiei said and quickly turned back to the meal that had dinged a moment before. Kurama sighed lightly and continued to search for the perfect way to word his answer. Hiei had said that it had been burning him since he had signed that morning, so he knew that he would have to answer something like that.

"Well, Hiei," Kurama said and looked down. "I am a fox, I am used to giving orders to people and expecting them to follow them without question... I have never been in a position of having to OBEY anyone's orders. That is why it is a hard question to answer."

Hiei had his back turned to Kurama as he was rotating the lasagna. This hid the small smile that was playing at Hiei's lips. So the fox had never been ordered around before? Hmm that was an interesting thought. Maybe he could use that one day to his advantage. But he knew that the fox would ask him a tough question next and that was going to be tough. He turned back to Kurama and seen him smiling lightly as he thought about his question.

"Where did you grow up?" was his simple question. Hiei shrugged his shoulders.

"I never really had one place," he said and looked down. "I bounced around from place to place and honestly I couldn't tell you which way was up."

Kurama nodded and sighed lightly. "My life as a fox was kind of like that too. But then again I was a notorious thief that was wanted in almost every city that I came to, so, go figure."

"How did you become a human?" Hiei asked as he reached into the cabinet and pulled out two wine glasses. He sat them on the counter and then walked to the refrigerator. He pulled out a bottle of wine and pulled out it's cork.

Kurama smiled as he read the sideways label of the wine. It was one that he was fond of and wondered if he had bought it for him. "Well... being a thief tends to get one into a lot of trouble. Bounty hunters finally caught up with me one night and in order to save my own life, I escaped into the human world. I found a pregnant woman whose embryo didn't have a soul and replaced it. Unfortunately it was supposed to be a girl."

Kurama tasted the wine and watched as Hiei sipped his as well. He heard the microwave ding again and walked over to the cabinet that he had just come from. He pulled out two plates and sat them on the counter next to Kurama. It wasn't the china but they were still nice. They were squared plates with a red and white zigzaging stripe down the two sides. Hiei turned and walked to the microwave to pull out the food. Kurama winced as he lifted the hot dish with his bare hands. Even though he was a fire demon, that still had to sting a bit.

"No it doesn't," Hiei answered and sat the dish on the counter. "I can even hold dry ice, since my mother was an ice demon."

"Where is she now?" Kurama asked but almost instantly wished he hadn't asked.

Hiei looked down and sighed lightly. "She died when I was a baby. She was a Koorime and having a male child was forbidden so she was forced to give me up. She had had twins, and since my twin was a girl, she wasn't left childless."

Kurama flinched... had he known that... he never would have asked him. But then, how could he have known if he hadn't asked. But he could still see that the question and answer had been painful. "I'm sorry. Your father took you in at least... didn't he?"

Hiei shook his head and looked up at Kurama. "I never knew my father. To this day I still don't. No one knew about my birth, let alone who had been my father, so there was no way of ever trying to track him down. For a while, I thought that I was getting close. There were rumors of a fire demon that had fathered a child with an ice demon but that was all that there was. There was no name, no other information other than the demon also had an older daughter."

"So besides your twin sister, there is a possibility of an older sister out there?" Kurama couldn't help himself. The idea of there being another person that he could consider family was interesting.

"Like I said, they were only rumors," Hiei said sadly. "I followed every trail that I could, but never found any evidence to support any of them."

"Would you ever try to look again?" Kurama asked, hating the fact that his questions seemed to get more and more trying for his companion, but again he couldn't help it.

Hiei sensed the fox's struggle to contain himself. But he answered the question as honestly as he could. "I don't know. If there is someone out there that is related to me, they would be trying to find me, right? Well, I have left very obvious trails on how to find me but nothing yet. They obviously want nothing to do with me, so why bother?"

Kurama cringed at the coldness of the statement. But he could see why Hiei would think of such a thing. There were large amounts of energy that always came from him and even a blind demon could find him. But then again, if they didn't know about him, how could they be looking for him? Then another thought came to mind... he was once known as the best tracker in the four realms.

"What if you had someone help you track them down? Would you want to find them if there was someone there to help you?" Kurama knew that the conversation was going to drop quickly but he had to give it a shot. So he put it out there in the universe.

"Like I said before, everything that I ever found was just rumor," came the response. "I don't know if there is anything to find out there, Kurama... if there is... I fear that it wouldn't be worth the time and energy to find it. I would hate to find the half of my family that I never knew and then learn that they hadn't lifted a finger to try and find me. What would I have then? The knowledge that there IS someone out there and the fact that they DON'T want me?"

Kurama knew that he had pushed too hard, for Hiei didn't say a word over dinner. They both sat there in silence eating the meal that Hiei had warmed for them, and Kurama knew that he was an ass for what he had done. He had specifically set out to get info on Hiei but didn't want to push too hard... well he ended up pushing too hard and now he regretted having asked anything at all. But Hiei shook his head and Kurama knew that he was reading his mind.

"Don't be sorry for wanting to know me, Kurama," Hiei said as Kurama looked at him. "I am glad that you know about my past, it makes it a bit easier... but I have to admit... there are things about me that I really cannot share with you. Don't press the issue because it is something that I won't divulge the information that you seek. It is something that would end your feelings of compassion... and replace them with contempt. I don't want that, nor do I want any pity."

"You are hiding something from me... for my own good?" Kurama asked... this was actually shocking. He knew that Hiei had killed people before, but then again, name a single demon on the planet that hadn't. He knew that there was something that had happened to him years ago that made him the way he was, but that didn't seem to be what Hiei was talking about. This was not about the scars on his chest. Now Kurama wanted to know... the fox in him couldn't help it.

Hiei nodded and clenched his jaw. "You are right, it has nothing to do with the men that I have killed, nor is it about the scars. But I know that you would hate me for life if you knew the truth... and that is something that I cannot seem to live with. I have come to want your companionship, come to want whatever you have to give... even if it isn't permanent..."

Kurama swallowed hard... had Hiei just told him that he WANTED the fox? This is what he had been avoiding all of his life, but this time was different... "I wouldn't hate you, Hiei. I don't think that there is anything in this world that would make me hate you... absolutely nothing. And I too find myself waiting for the hours to pass to see you again... I was almost tempted to come home early just to see you..."

Hiei smiled lightly, the fox wanted to see him? At that moment, they both realized that there was something more to the contract. It was something pure. They were able to open up to each other, something that neither was able to do in the past. This was new for both of them and now they both realized that there would always be something for them. They always had the whole truth. And nothing but the truth.

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End of chapter four. Hope you all enjoyed, please give your comments, reviews, and requests. Look forward to hear them and am already thinking of a sequel to this story so if you are liking so far... STAY TUNED.