InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Tales of the Night ❯ Night MMX: Connection ( Chapter 37 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Title: Night MMX: Connection
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership of Sengoku Otogizoushi - InuYasha or Yuu Yuu Hakusho. InuYasha belongs to Takahashi Rumiko, Shogakukan, Viz Media, ShoPro Entertainment, and Shounen; while Yuu Yuu Hakusho belongs to Togashi Yoshihiro, Shueisha, Viz Media, and Shounen. No profit or money of any kind is made from this fan-created crossover.
Warning(s): Fluff; Light swearing


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Shippou was a resourceful youkai; he had learned how to read situations and people at a young age. He was a kitsune, after all, and he had spent centuries around youkai like Inuyasha, Kouga and Sesshoumaru. He had to have learned something. And he had spent the last five months watching Hiei and Kagome. Even now, as he leaned against the counter, he watched the ways in which they acted in each other's presence.

And what he had learned was this:

They knew every detail of each other's bodies. He was certain that if he asked, and if they were the type of people to kiss-and-tell, they would be able to reveal where each old scar laid on their flesh. The spots that made the other lose control and moan. The ways they enjoyed being touched.

They had watched and helped each other grow as people and in power. He knew that Hiei was to thank for Kagome's progression in her control of her hama no reiryoku. Just as he knew that Kagome was to thank for Hiei's ability to tolerate Souta. He knew what type of youkai Hiei had been; were he still that youkai, he would have no issue with killing the boy for touching his sister, Kagome's little brother or not.

They knew which buttons to push and when. He was almost certain that they had even created some of those buttons. Just as he was certain that not even Inuyasha, had he still been alive, would have been able to piss her off to the levels that Hiei did at times.

More than that, it was so obvious that they had been perfect strangers brought together by serendipity too soon. Shippou was over five-hundred years old; he knew serendipity when it happened. All those little things said that it had really been too soon for them to try and have the relationship that they had had. Yet that was how life worked out at times. They did not live in a fairy tale or a movie or a book; they could not have that kind of smooth romance. They were real people with real problems and real pasts. Things fell apart and people left--it happened every moment of every day.

But it seemed as though serendipity wanted to give them another chance.

From what Shippou had been told and what information he had been able to gather about their relationship, everything had conspired against them to bring them together. First there had been the tear-gem Hiei had given Kurama to give to Kagome. She had accepted it but given it to Souta who thought it cool and had worn it every day. Then he had bumped into Yukina and Kurama as they headed to check up on Kagome's family about a year ago, and Yukina had caught sight of her mother's tear-gem that she had given to Hiei.

Soon after the story of why he had it had come out, Souta and Yukina had bonded because they both had an older sibling who was out of their reach at the moment. It had taken only a month or two before they had developed some sort of deep romantic feelings for each other, which was just about the same time it had taken Hiei and Kagome from what Kagome and Kurama had revealed.

Then when Kagome and Hiei had returned to this time and realm for good, they had been brought together one night around the same time they had first met because his little sister was dating her little brother whom had only met because Hiei had been with Kagome and given her the tear-gem his sister had given him and gave it to her brother. The first time they met, they had managed to develop a relationship on their own. This time, though, it was out in the open and they were all determined to push them together. Yet it seemed as if they were taking the rebuilding of their relationship and trust at the same pace they had used the first time.

Ugh; there were times that thinking on all the details of their relationship made Shippou's head hurt. And that was not even taking into consideration all the small things that had brought and kept them together.

So yeah, Shippou was willing to bet all his fortune on the fact that Kagome and Hiei were being given a second chance by serendipity. They had so many threads of fate weaved between them in their lives that had he an extra-special sense of supernatural sight, he was certain that he might even be able to see a red string of destiny between them.

"Nee, Shippou-chan?" Kagome asked and pressed her hand against his forehead. "Are you all right? You look like your in pain or something."

He smiled and brushed aside her hand, glad over seeing how Hiei glared at him. "I'm fine, Kagome-chan! I was just thinking about some things."

He saw Hiei smirk. "I thought idiots didn't have a brain to overheat."

Shippou gasped and pointed at him. "Kagome-chan! Hiei's being mean!"

Yet she only smiled before finishing up whatever it was she did at night in her store. "You're a grown kitsune, Shippou-chan. You should be able to handle yourself."

That bastard! He had managed to turn his Kagome-chan against him! Not even Inuyasha had managed to do that! "Asshole!" He stuck his tongue out at him as he knew Kagome would kill him if he did anything more drastic toward him.

"Kitsune." He did not know how he managed to do it, but Hiei had been able to say his species as though it was an insult.

"Men." Kagome sighed, but she did not look up. "There. Can we all finish this night out in peace now?"

Oh, there would not be peace for a long while. Not if Shippou had anything to say about it.


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A version of this chapter was posted to the livejournal community 30_Nights for their bonus theme #037. Threads of Fate.
Word count: 986