InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Of Moonflowers and Mikos ❯ Of Flames and Flirting ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter five

 

Kagome felt herself panting as the panic set in. Her fight or flight reaction was bubbling forth and she was leaning towards the “run away and don't look back” option. What was she supposed to tell this person who she hardly knew while they held a blade against her throat? That she'd fallen out of some flower in a strange room and had no idea where she was? That her only intention was to find her way home? That she was simply hoping that she had gone back to modern day and was still in Japan somewhere as well as still on the planet Earth? It would be quite a pathetic sounding story but maybe, just maybe, the three men around her might actually listen to what she had to say…. Now she was just hoping that they wouldn't think her insane.

 

Trying to lean back away from the steel biting against her throat was of no use as the fire apparition behind her pinned her forward with his standing body and placed more firmly a grip on the handle of his weapon.

 

“Woman, I will not repeat myself.”

 

“Hiei is that really necessary?” Kurama's polite and light hearted sounding voice asked. Of course he also knew the danger that the little miko before them proved to be. In mere moments it was shown that Yuusuke, however, did not.

 

“What the hell do you think you're doing, Hiei!?” Yuusuke shouted and against the tiled walls of the kitchen his voice reverberated loudly.

 

Kagome found she couldn't speak. She struggled to find an acceptable place to begin but she couldn't seem to start. The beginning... The beginning was as good a place to start as anywhere else… Only she wouldn't start at the true beginning. No, that would be reserved for later until she finally got to know these demons.

 

“A flower…. I think I fell out of a flower…” She finally spoke quietly.

 

The room became deathly quiet once more and Kurama struggled for words, “What do you…. A flower? The one that…”

 

*So that's what happens when the flower opens… Red we should find more!* Youko said gleefully.

 

`I knew it, you didn't know…' Kurama began bitterly.

 

“All I know is that I woke up covered in blood and muck and then took a shower. I got tired and found a clean room to sleep in… That's all.” Kagome finished her story lamely.

 

~Fox, I do not detect any lies coming from her… Although her actions do not suggest common sense, there is no deceit within her wordsm, but I think she is not telling the whole story.~ Hiei's voice growled into Kurama's mind

 

`Agreed, but at least we know some of it.' Kurama's voice was quiet.

 

~Is there any way to know for certain?~ Hiei questioned him. It was impossible for a person to be born from a flower! Wasn't it? Of course it was! It was pure nonsense!

 

*Shuichi, I think you're forgetting something that could very well play as a key element in this.* Youko spoke smugly.

 

`What are you talking about Youko?' Kurama was becoming irritated at the small lilt in Youko's voice as if he knew something Kurama didn't and the lack of sleep wasn't helping to fuel his mood.

 

*When one has a way to record a momentous occurrence of history one does tend to try and make record of it, ne?* Youko continued to hint at something and Kurama finally understood.

 

“I set up a video camera for my room! I don't know why I didn't think of it before but we can check her story's merit against the footage.” Kurama supplied.

 

Kagome sighed deeply in relief, thank god for the red head. Although as to why he had a video camera in his room in the first place was a bit disconcerting. It screamed “porn star” and “pedophile” and she shifted away from him a bit.

 

But it was only once Hiei had replaced his blade within its sheath that she relaxed. Kurama stood from the table and left the kitchen leaving Kagome to fend for herself against the short tempered apparition and the foul mouthed detective.

 

 

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Kurama stared at the camera in his hand before pulling it from its stand as well as collecting up the cables to hook it up to the T.V. with. The blood still coated the floor and he grunted irritably at it in hopes that his dislike of it would make it go away on its own…. And it worked! The kitsune watched mesmerized as the blood slowly disappeared on its own accord. Shocking was too bland of a word to accurately express his disbelief but he would not go as far as to say he was hysterical over the happening. He'd seen many more things in his two life times that were far more bizarre than disappearing blood. Taking a deep breath, Kurama thanked whatever god it was that had helped him with this mess while chastising said god about how it was not amusing for a heavenly being to make blood like the disappearing ink of a carnival. The trip back down stairs took only a matter of seconds, but when he entered the kitchen the tension in the air was thick enough to cut a knife with.

 

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Watching Kurama leave made Kagome want to tear out her hair. What was she supposed to do now?! He seemed to be the most level headed person out of this group and her sanity was leaving with him! She shifted uncomfortably in her chair under the scrutinizing gaze of Hiei and chanced a small smile at him. It appeared that lady luck was not with her as he bared his teeth at her in a very impressive sneer meant to intimidate her into taciturnity and intimidate it did… if only for a moment. She shot him a glare that had Yuusuke sitting further back in his chair, yet it did not seem to faze Hiei. Adding to her response with a flawless imitation of his sneer, she accompanied it with a very animalistic growl that she had perfected while in the Sengoku Jidai during her numerous fights with Inuyasha.

 

Her reaction from both demons present in the room was quite the unexpected one. They stilled completely as their spines went ramrod straight. Glancing at one another with a look that confused Kagome, they seemed to come to an unspoken disagreement. Hiei growled deeply at Yuusuke. It was a dark sound with a meaning that Kagome could not comprehend. It was an entirely foreign thing with no way for her to decipher it and she could only hope that its true intentions were not as dark as it sounded. Yuusuke then grumbled back at Hiei causing Kagome the distinct wish to sink within a hole in the ground.

 

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Hiei could not believe that the girl had the audacity to smile at him after her reveal of being a miko. It was absurd! So he did what any self respecting demon would have done - with the exception of Kurama - and had warned her with a snarl. So what had the girl gone and done?... She answered in the most infuriating, most maddening, most… most alluring of ways that had effected him, and the detective as well since he could smell the boy' arousal, in the most primal and basest of ways. His passion caught aflame like a match to a gasoline soaked rag.

 

The beast within him howled to be let out in order to conquer the fiery and willful maiden, to demand the submission required from her. With his heat quickly descending upon him, it was a struggle for him to clamp down on his instincts and shove the urge to rut into the proverbial box. He wanted to lay her down on the table, or on the floor, or on the couch in the other room and..…. And then he noticed the lust he felt mirrored in Yuusuke's eyes. A warning left him even before he could stop it. He would dominate the wench and the detective would not interfere but it appeared that the boy had plans of his own regarding the woman if the look in his eyes and the smell of his desire was any indication to go by.

 

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Youko was shrieking with rage as Kurama stepped into the kitchen and the boy had to clench his hands tighter around what he carried in order to keep them from leaving his hand and smashing against both Yuusuke's and Hiei's heads. Their want was as blatantly apparent as the nose on each of their faces and it had tossed the kitsune into an uproar.

 

“Shall we… Shall we move to the living room to watch this?” Kurama ground out through his teeth.

 

Kagome bolted out of her seat at the offering and nearly succeeded in tipping her chair over as she nodded her assent and sped quickly towards Kurama. She slipped past him through the doorway and stood almost plastered to his back acting as if he was an impenetrable shield. Kurama didn't have a negative word to say about it and Youko danced in glee as she subconsciously sought his protection.

 

Kurama's arms folded against his chest and stared blankly at Hiei and Yuusuke, “Coming?”

 

Hiei gazed at Kurama before his eyelids closed halfway and dark lashes veiled twin crimson orbs. A slow and cunning smirk made its way across his features and he walked with the grace of an assassin towards the avatar followed closely by Yuusuke. It was entertaining to know that he had unnerved the fox. They made their way into the designated room and Hiei propped himself against the back as Kagome sat on the couch with the detective and the fox hooked up the necessary equipment.

 

The apparition stared intently at the back of the priestess's head and knew that she felt his glare when she turned to look back at him. He still did not trust her words and because he did not know of her motives he was opposed to the idea of allowing her the close proximity needed for her to purify him.

 

“Hi… Hiei?” She stumbled uncertainly over her words.

 

“What is it, miko?” He spat the word with a venomous hiss. He did not appreciate her earlier challenge as it had left him in a most uncomfortable state. He was a demon who prided himself on control over his body yet here he was acting like a teenage boy who had just recently discovered the un-gift of puberty.

 

That was it! Kagome had, had enough of his “miko” stuff. She'd taken enough abuse about it from the demons back in the past and she wasn't about to take it from some terrifying midget of a demon in the, hopefully, future!

 

“I was going to ask if you wanted to sit on the couch with us but apparently you have too big of a stick up your ass to actually use my name or even sit down! My name is Kagome! Ka-Go-Me understand?!” Kagome knew it wasn't the best choice of words but as of the moment she didn't care.

 

“Wench, I do not have a stick shoved anywhere within my body…” Hiei spoke lowly in a devastating threatening tone.

 

“No, I was wrong about the stick part because I see now that it's definitely the whole damned tree!!” Kagome ached in fury at the “wench” remark. What was with demons and calling her by something other than her name?!

 

Kurama halted in his progress of connecting the final cable to the T.V. and watched the scene behind him unfold through the reflection on the darkened T.V. screen. Yuusuke was uncertain as to what to do and he could tell that the fire apparition was seething by the way his hand fingered the hilt of his katana. He was bewildered by the fire demon's actions. Was this Hiei's way of… of… Flirting?! Pressing the play button before immediately turning on the television, he plopped down onto the couch.

 

“Alright then, Hiei will stay where he is and I'll sit next to you. Is that okay, Ka-Go-Me?” Kurama said trying to lighten the moment.

 

Hiei nearly murmured “unacceptable” as he vaulted over the couch's back and slipped between the kitsune and the priestess. Purification be damned he would not allow the fox to end this between the woman and him.

 

“Are you satisfied, Miko?” He purposefully pressed closer to Kagome in hopes of baiting another rise out of her. It had been a while since he'd met a female willing to shout back at him. Most either died or were covered in the disgusting stench of fear at this point in the conversation.

 

“I… I… ummm... Yes…” Kagome cast her vision down in embarrassment. She was now sandwiched between two very well built men with a third next to them and she was at a loss for words.

 

Sound poured forth from the television's speakers and all of their attention was turned to it as Kurama fast-forwarded through most of the beginning of him lying on his bed as well as the entrance of a floating blue haired girl. It took a couple of minutes before they actually came to what they were looking for but what all of them saw was not likely to ever be forgotten by any of them.

 

The large flower bud that all their eyes were transfixed on began to open slowly. Lily white petal upon lily white, silken petal unfurled until it had reached a point where the evident form of a person shown through. Then the flower began to rip and like a cat stuck in a sack the petals stretched outwards like elastic as nails clawed against them. Then all of a sudden the flower was shredded open while blood and a purple light spilled forth. The glass casing around it shattered and sprayed outward. A few of the shard must have hit the camera because the screen of the television became shaky before it leveled out once more.

 

Kagome watched as she, stark naked as the day she was born and covered in grime, move with a fluid elegance she hadn't known herself to possess. She winced at the sound of the glass implanted in her feet scraping across the wooden floor of Kurama's room. She saw herself enter the bathroom and a little while later exit the room wrapped in a towel. Then Kurama turned off the T.V. and they sat in an awed quiet for a while.

 

“Well that explains… a lot.” Yuusuke spoke unnaturally softly as if in reverence of the moment.

 

“Not really, detective.” Hiei said gruffly and he stared at Kagome as if he was a starving lion about to tear into its portly tamer.

 

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That seems like a pretty good place to end O__o;;

 

YEEEEEP AND CHEESERS! YUH OH.

 

I realize that during the story it has missing/odd chapter markings. Please disregard them as they are simply how I've saved them to document as they were written. I combined the first and second chapter as the first posted chapter and therefore posted the third chapter as the second posted chapter on M.M. Please follow the chapters as they are numbered and titled by the site itself.

 

XDDD Van is quite a scatterbrain sometimes. Again sorry.

 

I know I know… Lame-o chapter! Where's the good stuff?

 

Its coming I promise! I just have no idea how to get from here to there! Wait a minute I know!

 

-goes off to write next chapter.-

 

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-Van