The Dream: Chapter 26
"Hiei." His eyes snapped open and drifted to look at Kurama out of the corner of his eye, to which he looked sound asleep but Hiei knew better. "What." The corner of his lips turned upward as he lazily opened his eyes to greet the piercing red ones, he snuggled in closer to Lilly not wanting to start the day yet, but also didn't want to be the only one awake. Both men could tell that her presence between them was causing them to act slightly out of character, happy possibly. Narrowing his eyes at the younger human, he was not in the mood for the Fox's games, even if it was late into the morning; so instead of paying him any mind, Hiei's sight drifted up toward the ceiling. "Hiei." "What?" his voice dripped with anger that he had been woken by Kurama and furthermore that it was only for his amusement. Kurama shrugged his shoulders and started to kiss upon Lilly's exposed shoulder, causing her to sigh in her sleep and press up against Hiei's side; instantly there was a light blush upon the fire demon's face, which only encouraged Kurama to continue his games. Nibbling on her ear, he caused another amusing reaction from Hiei, until the demon had had enough. "Kurama," his voice was low and his eyes held the thirst of murder behind them, "stop."
There was a moment of silence and Hiei had hoped the Fox would leave him alone, "Yukina is back." His voice was low as to not wake the woman next to him and was full of amusement as Hiei slightly opened his still uncovered Jagan eye to see for himself; and as soon as he did Kurama go the reaction he was looking for. Hiei jumped from the bed, causing Lilly to fall a few inches back down, mumbling something about him being an ass as she rolled over onto Kurama. The young man shifted to a position that mimicked Hiei's earlier one as to give her a more comfortable pillow – he was sitting slightly against the head rest of his bed, his right arm protectively wrapped around Lilly's shoulder, while his left hand was behind his head, with a wicked grin upon his face.
"What?" Kurama shrugged at Hiei's forceful question as he started to play with Lilly's loose hair. Hiei watched his actions closely as his Jagan searched for his sister's exactly location, which didn't take long after he felt the sensation of pleasure pulse through her. "I'm going to kill the Oaf." His low voice as to not fully awaken the sleeping girl, but Kurama's uncontrolled laughter did, she yawned and looked up at him. "Good morning Lilly, Yukina is back and seems to be enjoying herself with Kuwabara." The statement meant nothing to her sleepy brain, until her eyes searched the room and found an angered Hiei standing at the foot of the bed with black flames licking up his tattooed arm. "Umm." Closing her eyes once again, "Hiei leave them alone, it's not like that haven't had sex before."
Hiei's eyes shot towards her peaceful form, "What?" "Ugh…" she curled into Kurama as to hide from Hiei, just realizing he still did not know about her pregnancy.
In an attempt to keep Hiei from leaving just yet, Kurama and Youko devised a plan; after all Kurama had woken up in a more than usual playful mood that morning. Before Hiei's hand reached the door knob Kurama acted, "Lilly how many men have you had sex with?" His questioned seemed innocent enough, but it stopped Hiei in his tracks. The young woman opened her eyes to stare off into space, recounting her past. "8… men." Hiei was the first to pick up on the fact that she had added men specifically to the end of her answer, "And women?" Lilly giggled softly at the curiosity in his voice, "three. Why have many have you been with Kurama?" She was enjoying this game, especially since it keep Hiei from burning the temple down until she was fully awake and ready to leave Kurama's soft bed.
He was quick to answer, with no thought needed, "One." His eyes traveled towards the back of the fuming demon at the door. "In this body at least, for Youko many many more." His green eyes connected with hers and she saw them flash silver, and in her still sleepy state she could help but giggle. "What about Hiei?" Enjoying the free flow of information, "Fox." His single word was used as a warning to which Kurama ignored, "I believe only three, maybe four." "Why so few?" His eyes looked towards Hiei's back once more before connecting with Lilly's again; inside Kurama's head Youko was howling with laughter and full of snide comments about the lack of lovers Hiei has taken. "His lack of trust I assume. Though two of the three I know about have been myself in one form or another," his eyes flashed again and Lilly fell into another fit of laughter. "Maybe he likes you more than he lets on?" "Perhaps. Or he just likes what I can do to him."
"Enough." There was a loud banging coming from the opposite end of the room as Hiei turned back towards the couple still in bed, "None of this is your business little flower. The fox is just playing games." She looked at him with all the innocence she could muster, "Yes I know. They are both in a rather good mood this morning. I wonder why." Her comment implied more than the surface meaning and resulted in Kurama laughing out loud at the blush appeared upon Hiei's face once again.
"Don't worry Lilly, he might not have taken as many lovers as we have, but when it comes to intimacy Youko did not lie."
Hiei turned from them once more towards the door, rage boiling over and he wanted to go find Kuwabara and get his frustrations out; but once again he was stopped by a soft voice, "Wait." "Why should I?" "Because I'm coming with you, I will not let you kill Kuwabara, maim sure but not kill." He turned to look at the woman, now standing a few feet behind him, and his eyes went wide as darkening thoughts swirled through his head. At some point in the night, Lilly had stripped layers of clothing off, leaving her standing in front of him in a pair of black lacey underwear and a slightly see through cami. His eyes narrowed, "No," instantly Kurama knew why Hiei was against Lilly going with him but he chose not to speak upon it yet. "Why not?" She crossed her arms under her breasts and glared at him, to which he glared back. "Well…"
"I believe he thinks you are under dressed to be in the presence of other men." Her eyes widened in shock, "What?" She giggled softly to herself, "You do realize I wear something like this almost every morning and my work out clothes expose more skin." "Maybe you should change anyways and then we can continue the maiming?" "Fine," she grabbed onto Hiei's shirt at a level than caused him to bow slightly, "But you are coming with me. I will not allow you to hurt Kuwabara without me there." As she walked towards the door and opened it, she looked back at the shirtless man still lounging on the large bed, "Are you coming?" He gracefully lifted off the bed and followed the two down the hallways of the temple.
This little flower is going to pay for dragging me around like this, but thank goodness Yusuke is not here to see this. "Not her guard dog huh Hiei?" The comment caused him to stop walking and stand tall, pulling the young woman's arm with him, he turned his murderous gaze upon Kurama and growled at him. "Come on Hiei or I could just go down to the living room like this."
Finally in the privacy of Lilly's room, she released her hold on Hiei's shirt and pushed him roughly to a seated position on her bed and smirked at him. "Two can play at the rough game Hiei, besides I'm going to have to get use to it eventually right?" He did not answer her mental question but rather smirked back at her as Kurama calmly took a seat in the arm chair at the side of her bed.
She turned her back towards the two men and walked towards her huge closet; upon closer examination, Kurama took in how messy her room was and wondered how someone like Touya could handle sleeping in here for all those months. Once she opened her closet door, Kurama saw a different side to her room; her closet was neat and organized, showing how much she cared about her clothes. She off her bra and stood there with her back to the men in nothing but a pair of underwear while looking through her mass amount of clothes for something comfortable and not too revealing.
The minutes dragged in silence until a voice popped into Hiei and Kurama's consciousness, "Interesting." The comment drew their attention to the naked woman across the room, their eyes trailed up and down her body and stopped on three horizontal scars that had previously been covered by her bra strap. "And more?" Their eyes found three more scars that were vertical drawn along her back left hip, mostly covered by her still present underwear. They were strange as though someone had taken something to carve into her body in one swift dragging motion, starting under her left arm, across her back and then again down her left butt cheek.
"Lilly." "Yeah?" "Did that man… do that to you?" After a slow worded question slipping from Kurama's mouth, she could feel their eyes on her scars; the others seemed to hold no interest to them, simply because they knew who gave the other three scars to her. One upon her right upper arm, from a sparring match with Touya and his ice, another on her right ankle from Yusuke biting her in his childish manner, and lastly one that was a result of Hiei's sword sliding clean through her left calf.
Bending down, Lilly found a red bra and quickly fastened it, matched with a pair of work out pants that were probably Yusuke's from the look of them. Now that both scars were covered, she turned towards the men. "Yes." Neither had to ask what happened, their faces asked everything they wanted to know. Lilly sighed and thought the best choice of action was to simply replay everything to them, she closed her eyes and opened her mind; letting the memories flow. It was like a movie on fast forward; flying through the good times of their early relationship, how he turned angry more often, the violence started with endless apologizes causing her to stay, how she fell into a fit of despair and Kuwabara was the one to save her from those dark thoughts, ending with the second to last night she saw him and he attacked her with a grilling utensil. Using it to rip through her clothes and shred her skin as she whimpered in a corner of their shared apartment; her eyes snapped open and she looked dead into their eyes.
"He is dead." "No Hiei, I do not want that. A few years ago I saw him in a grocery store with his new girlfriend, they seemed happy. In love, he seemed to have changed for her. I do not want to take her happiness away, simply because of the things he did to me. I am not a victim of his abuse, I am a survivor." Again another growl came from the young fire demon. "Interesting." "Yes, very much so. Do you think he would turn that anger towards us one day?" "If so, then all my years of stopping the past from repeating would be for nothing. Hopefully the little thing can see the wisdom behind my actions." "Hopefully."
When Kurama ended his private conversation with Youko, Lilly had found an over sized sweat shirt to hide her body with and was in a full yelling match with Hiei over his decision on how to handle Kuwabara. "You will not kill him, as you saw he means more to me than you do at this point. I will NOT let you kill him." "Try and stop me little flower." Her eyes shifted and started glowing red as her energy spiked, "want to test me now Hiei?" "Yes." He stood from the bed and pulled out his sword and pointed it right at her chest. Kurama slowly stood as well and walked in between the two heated individuals, looking right into Lilly's eyes. A single hand rose to her face, crest her cheek as his lips moved closer towards her, the stopped right before making contact, "Calm down Lilly," then his lips pressed gently upon hers long enough for her energy to drop away like a dead fly in the air. He pulled away looking deep into her eyes and turned towards Hiei, "enough bickering we have something else to take care of." The demon in question only glared, but put his sword away none the less. He walked towards the couple and stopped on the other side of the young girl, whom still had a hand pressed against her cheek, he bend his head down and gently kissed her temple before walking towards the door.
"He isn't good at showing emotions outside of fighting, is he?" The set of green eyes looked down at the blue ones begging him for an answer, "Fighting is how he shows his emotions, you must just look at it in the right away." He kissed her soft lips once more, before allowing his hand to fall from her cheek and take hold her hand while they followed Hiei to the living room.
Damn, Lilly has a bit of a dark past now doesn't she? As all of our lovely characters do! I had the hardest time with these last few chapters, getting Lilly away from Jin and Touya and closer to Hiei and Kurama, but I have made a decision on how to keep this pace up for a few more chapters before the love sick twins return. Also, I am trying my best to involve all the characters in some way or another. I hope you do not mind the length of this story or the slow crawling pace either! I rather enjoy it so I will continue, and for anyone wondering why I rated this story M but have not really shown much M worthy material. Your wish is about to be granted!
Also, Youko is starting to gain importance as a large character in my mind for this story. Do not worry, as stated before he is almost a fatherly figure to Kurama and there for will not steal his woman. We will dig into that a bit later on too!