Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Mating ❯ Comforting Keiko ( Chapter 9 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

"The Mating"

Disclaimer: See Chapter one

AN: I shall only say, that YES, this will have a happy ending! A lemon warning. This is pretty much summed up by the title of the chapter.
Morwen ra- Thanks for the lollipop
Shadowdragon, glad you liked the ring! I had the hardest time coming up with what he would want!
All, I am trying to update as I can. Helping two different people move as well as working is not conducive to getting some of this up. I also have a cousin who I think will be asking for my help to move soon as well.

Chapter Nine: Comforting Keiko

Kurama carried his mate in through the door that was opened by his mother. Keiko seemed to have cried herself to sleep on the way home. "Thank you, Mother." He turned to Hiei. "I need you to go see Koenma. Pester him if you must, but find out everything you can about any other high level demons that mated with a human. What happened to them. Everything. I can't plan for it if I don't know what's happening."

Hiei nodded and flitted off.

Hatanaka blinked. One minute he saw his stepson's friend standing there, the next, he had vanished. "Where did he go?"

Kurama told him, "To see the only one who might have some knowledge of what's going on with Keiko and incidentally, our boss." He frowned. "I need to see to Keiko right now. We'll be down in a bit to explain what we can. Please, if Hiei returns before we come down, tell him to contact me."

Shiori nodded at her son as he carried his mate upstairs to his room. She sighed. "He grew up so quickly."

Hatanaka put an arm around her. "They always do. Was he like this as a little child, too?"

Shiori nodded again. "He wasn't quite as decisive, or else he just hid it better. Keiko didn't seem phased at all and she's known him since he was fifteen. It seems he was always this way, just hid as best he could behind a human facade. They call us ningens, you know."

"Who is that strange friend of his that was hanging about?" He asked.

Shiori smiled fondly. "That is a friend of Kurama's. His name is Hiei. I feel like he is more of a brother to Kurama than anything. I offered him a home with us."

Hatanaka shook his head. "This family gets any stranger and they can call us the Adams Family, or maybe the Munsters." He was an afficiando of old TV classics from the states.

Shiori laughed, "Then you don't mind?"

Her husband shook his head. "Would there be any point to it?"

Shiori shook her head at him and was about to answer when the phone rang. Shiori went over to it and answered, "Hello, Hatanaka residence."

"Hello? Mrs. Hatanaka? This is Mrs Yukimura."

"Well, hello." She answered rather puzzled.

"Please, is my daughter there?"

"I'm sorry, she fell asleep on the way home. Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Well, I hate to sneak around my husband like this, but I assume that Keiko will continue going to school?"

"Yes, they finished up their homework before we came over. Why?"

"Well, my husband's in the hospital right now, claiming to have fallen down some stairs. They did a few x-rays and decided they wanted to keep him overnight. I was wondering if I could bring over some of Keiko's school uniforms and other changes of clothes along with the rest of her school books later today."

"That sounds fine." Shiori agreed.

"Could you please give me directions?"

"Certainly." Shiori gave her the directions quickly.

"Thank you. I'll be over in about an hour and a half."

"That sounds fine." Shiori hung up the phone.

Hatanaka came over and asked, "Who was that?"

"Keiko's mother. She told me that her husband has been admitted to the hospital overnight and she'll be bringing some of Keiko's clothing and the rest of her school things over tonight. She's not as intolerant as her husband."

"It'll be nice to get to know her." Hatanaka replied as he put his arms around his wife.

*********Upstairs************

Kurama laid Keiko out of the bed, laying beside her. He brought her head to his shoulder and just held her while she slept. He noticed that tears were still leaking out of her closed eyes. This is not healthy. He bent down to kiss her awake.

Keiko felt something soft touching her lips and opened her eyes. She saw her mate's face as he lifted his lips from hers. She looked at him questioningly.

"You were crying in your sleep love." Kurama replied to the unspoken question. "I decided to wake you up. Nothing could have happened differently."

Keiko met his eyes. Hers glistened with tears, "But-"

"There are no buts." Kurama interupted her, "I have sent Hiei to see Koenma to see if anyone has any information on what is happening to you. We should be able to plan for it when he returns."

She gave him a tenuous smile. "Trying to take care of me?"

Kurama replied just before he closed the gap between their lips, "Always."

Keiko opened her mouth for him. Her tears were rapidly being chased away by other feelings. She still felt melancholy, but there was an undercurrent of love there. This was where she belonged. In these arms, with Kurama, it was where she always belonged. Their tongues dueled for a short while, each trying to master the other, when Keiko conceeded the match and let him win entrance to her mouth. He freely gave and she gratefully accepted.

Kurama needed to show her what was between them. They were two halves of a whole, but one was wounded. He wondered how he should go about showing her that he could help shoulder her burdens, just as she could help with his. He finally claimed her mouth and was rewarded when she moaned into his. He finally pulled back enough to whisper to her, "I love you, Keiko. Let me demonstrate how much."

Keiko widened her eyes as he half demanded and half asked the last, his eyes taking on a gold hue, but not transforming. Not fully. She nodded.

Kurama felt satisfaction sweep through him. She trusted him completely. He knew that his demon side was trying to completely take over, but he didn't want it to, not yet. He undid the belt at her waist and easily slipped the dress off of her, the material becoming once more a duller color. He smiled in satisfaction, seeing that she hadn't worn the bra and quickly removed her underwear. "Just lie down." Kurama quickly went over and locked his door, deciding that he'd just end up leaving a seed in the mechanism so that he didn't have to fish it out from his hair all the time. He knew that Hiei would know better than to try to come in through the window. He just hoped that no one would come investigate. He went back to the bed. "Now we won't be disturbed."

Keiko held her arms out to him. "Please, make me forget. Make love to me?"

Kurama felt the impact of those words. It was the first time that she had voluntarily asked him to make love. He wordlessly nodded and came to lay with her. He saw her mating mark clearly as everyone could see it now. He moved his mouth down to lave the aforementioned mark, tracing the design of his fox form, complete with tails. He currently had five. The mating mark evolved as the mate themselves evolved. For a kitsune, it reflected how many tails that mate had, for others different things changed. The mating mark was also very sensitive to the touch.

Keiko lolled her head back, giving him full access to her neck. She shivered as his teeth just scraped along the tatoo that started at the base of her neck and went into the collarbone.

Kurama left a smattering of kisses along the expanse just below her neck. He loved the taste of her skin. His mouth moved lower, his tongue flicking out to taste the tempting swells before kissing them all over, carefully avoiding their peaks until he felt her hands tangle in his hair, guiding his mouth to them. He suckled at them, making her cry out in pleasure. He added a small scrape of his teeth, causing her fingers to clench in his hair. He was concentrating on driving her into the realm of pure pleasure, making reality a very distant memory.

Keiko was overwhelmed with pleasure. Her melancholy completely forgotten now, she was lost in his arms, lost in the pleasure that he was creating.

Kurama was using all his skill to drive her as far as she could go. Later he would more thoroughly test her boundaries, but right now, this was for her. He concentrated on the areas that would bring her the most pleasure. He nipped at her stomach, causing the muscles there to jump. His fingers trailed along the sensitive area just between her curls and thighs, trailing up her thighs and avoiding the curls with his fingers, but causing her thighs to part silently begging for his attention. She made delightful mewling noises in the back of her throat when he didn't answer the wordless plea. He smiled as he answered her pleas. She gasped as his tongue first contacted her core. He flicked the nub with his tongue then dragged his teeth very lightly over it making her jump as she cried out.

Keiko felt the pleasure washing over her. She knew that with this kind of attention, she would come very quickly. She was not sure of what he was doing differently, but he seemed to be loosing his expertise on her. Not that she minded, he was hers and hers alone. She gasped as his tongue entered her passage, that was new, but she loved it.

Kurama tasted her core, licking her as if he was in fox form getting a drink. He knew she was close to her peak and brought a finger to the nub that he had teased earlier.

Keiko started to scream when she felt his other hand come up and cover her mouth when she came. He released her mouth and she panted as she tried to get her breathing back in order. She noticed that he was still fully dressed. He rose up over her and kissed her deeply. She felt her arousal coming back to life as she tasted herself on his tongue.

"You taste sweeter than the richest honey." Kurama said as he pulled back from the kiss.

Keiko opened her eyes and blushed at the compliment. She whispered, "I need you in me, Kurama."

Kurama widened his eyes. He hadn't been intending to go all the way, not this time, but he couldn't deny that he ached and she had asked. He gave her one last kiss before getting up and quickly undressing.

Keiko watched him as he removed each peice of clothing. Even in haste, he's graceful . The brief thought filtered through her head before she again welcomed him back on the bed.

Kurama willingly was surrounded by his mate's welcoming arms as he laid himself down on her moulding her softness to his hardness. With one swift thrust he seated himself in the heat that was as welcoming as her arms. They both gasped at the feeling. He brought her arousal completely back to life with slow, shallow thrusting, once more teasing her by not quite reaching that place deep within her.

Keiko felt him barely brush that spot that brought her the most pleasure. "More." She moaned in his ear.

Kurama let the transformation take him as his instincts took over. She became tighter around him and she gasped at the feeling. "More, you say?"

"Ye-yes. I need more." Keiko moaned as she took in his transformed state. How can he focus like that? She wondered briefly, then as the teasing thrusts continued, she begged, "Please, Kurama!"

As if the please was what he was waiting for, Kurama started thrusting harder and deeper, bringing her once more to the heights of ecstacy. He felt her contractions around his shaft and held himself back through force of will. He pulled out of her and turned her over, entering her from behind.

Keiko was familiar with this positioning, save this time they were on a bed instead of standing in the shower and he was bigger. She gasped at being so filled and again her arousal came back to life.

Kurama held himself still letting her adjust a bit to this new position with his youko size. He reached around her and fondled her breasts, playing with them as her hips started to move. He kept himself still, letting her rock beneath him and moved one hand down to play with the nub just above where they were joined. He joined her rhythm as it sped up and they both were thrust over the edge of the abyss into pure pleasure.

They collapsed onto the bed, both panting for air as their hearts raced. The two fell into an exhausted sleep.

************Downstairs***********

Hiei came in to find the downstairs curiously deserted. He listened with his ears, only to pick up two heavy breathers, two sleepers and one awake. He could also hear the sounds of what they called video games. He assumed that the one awake, then would be the boy, Shuuichi. He wondered if anyone had a chance to explain to the boy what had happened earlier.

He slowly walked up the stairs, stopping at the room that had the video game sounds coming from it. He knocked on the door.

"Yeah, come in!" Came the boy's voice from the other side.

Hiei opened the door, came in and closed it behind him, so as to not desturb any of the other people on the floor. "Hello, Shuuichi."

"Hello, Hiei, isn't it?"

Hiei nodded. "Your mother invited me to be part of this family." He said without preamble.

Shuuichi's face lit up, "Really? She's the best, isn't she?" Then his face got puzzled. "But aren't you really old?"

Hiei shook his head, "By Makai standards, I'm still quite young. Your brother's older than I am. He's old for the Makai." He changed the subject. "Has anyone been able to come up and tell you what happened over at Keiko's parents?"

Shuuichi shook his head, "I was still asleep when you guys got home and when I woke up, everyone else was," He turned bright red, "Busy. I mean I know they do that but I really don't need to hear it, do I?"

Hiei's eyebrow rose. "I know the kitsune and his mate can be noisy, but . . ."

Shuuichi nodded. "Not the first time. This wall is very thin. Brother's room is across the hall, so at least I have that, but Mom and Dad are right next door." He shuddered.

"Enough on that subject." Hiei said firmly. "Would you like to know what happened?"

Shuuichi eagerly nodded. "Please. I wanted to go so much, but I was pooped."

Hiei wondered at the odd phrasing. "You did not want to be there. It was not a pretty sight."

"Tell me?"

Hiei found himself telling the boy a long summary of what had happened at Keiko's parent's house.

"Gosh," Shuuichi said when Hiei was done, "I think I'm glad that I didn't go. I would have made no difference. I feel so bad for Keiko right now."

Hiei looked at him hard. "Don't let her know that, Shuuichi. Kurama is working very hard to get her mind off of what happened and to cheer her up. If you go in there feeling sorry for her, you'll only make her feel bad again."

"I never thought of that." Shuuichi replied thoughtfully. "How did you get so wise?"

Hiei gave a bark of laughter. "I am not wise, child. Your mother is."

"Can you not call me child? I am in Junior High now."

"How old?"

"I'm fourteen!"

Hiei smiled in reminiscence. The same age Yusuke was when I first met him . "You are still a child by my reckoning, I am over five hundred and I'm still young. Just old enough to make a name for myself. Shuuichi, you are old enough though to start training. If Kurama noticed your power level when you moved in, then I'm sure other demons have noticed as well. I have not particularly noticed, but then that doesn't count."

"Why not?"

"You don't attack me." Hiei shrugged. "Come. I hear some movement outside."

"I don't."

"Youkai ears are much more sensitive than ningen ears." He stood up. "Save your game and come."

Shuuichi did so and followed Hiei downstairs where he found his father and stepmother waiting for them.

"Hello, son, how long have you been awake?" His father asked him.

"About half an hour. I started up a game in my room. Hiei informed me of what happened over at Keiko's house." Shuuichi told them.

"Keiko's mother called to ask if she could bring over Keiko's school things and some spare clothing." Shiori told him.

All of a sudden from upstairs they heard a barking and a door opening. Keiko's voice sounded halfway between laughter and outrage as she yelled, "Kurama, bring that back here!"

Running down the stairs in full fox form, five tails streaming behind him and a peice of cloth clutched in his mouth, came Kurama. Keiko was hot on his heels trying not to laugh as she chased the fox into the living room.

Hiei blinked, surprised. Kurama rarely took the fox form at all. Then couldn't help but laugh as the fox tried to hide from Keiko behind him.

Shiori, Hatanaka and Shuuichi were all stunned. The two adults had seen his demon form earlier, but never imagined that he had an animal form as well.

Keiko didn't pay attention to any of them, in single-minded pursuit of the extremely playful fox. "Kurama, give that back to me!" She had thrown back on the dress that she was wearing earlier and came towards Hiei.

Hiei looked down to see what Kurama had stolen, but Kurama darted off towards the dining room. Hiei moved faster than the overly playful kitsune. "What did you steal?" He asked, not sure that he wanted to know, but then, he'd never seen Kurama in his full fox form and was curious to see what mischief he had gotten himelf into.

Kurama allowed his mouth to open, showing Hiei the treasure that he ran off with before closing his mouth again and starting to squirm.

Hiei had to burst out laughing, letting Kurama go. "Kitsune, if she kills you for this one, it's your own fault." He knew what that white peice of material was, though he couldn't help but notice that Keiko was not in the slightest upset or thinking about sad things now, either.

Kurama twirled around his mate's ankles as she caught up to him in the dining room before dropping the treasure at her feet.

Keiko bent down to collect the pilfered underwear, turning bright red in the process.

Kurama nosed her when she was off balance, sending her sprawling on the floor, laughing.

The three from the living room came into the dining room to see one of the most unlikely sights they thought they'd ever see. Kurama licking Keiko's face while she was sitting on the floor, the white article clutched in her hand that was wrapped around her waist, bent over double from laughing so hard and Hiei just standing there, clutching the table and laughing at the kitsune.

Shiori got over her shock first, whether it was constant exposure to her son's behaviors or she was just more than a little numb from all the revelations, she wasn't quite sure, but she went over and knelt down in front of the silver colored five tailed fox. "Kurama?" She reached out her hand, as if asking permission to touch him in this form.

Kurama stopped licking Keiko's face only to lean into his mother's hand, letting her stroke his fur. He liked being petted in this form. He rarely took it because his playfulness completely took over most of the time, but it was also smaller, and more agile than his youko form. He sat down, fanning his tails behind him.

Shuuichi was the next to come over. Curiosity overriding any other concerns that he had. His stepmother was okay, so his brother obviously wasn't dangerous. "Kurama?" He repeated the question, approaching his brother as if he was a strange, but friendly dog.

Kurama couldn't help the mischief that washed over him. As his stepbrother knelt down, holding out his hand, he nudged the proferred hand just right, sending Shuuichi sprawling.

Shuuichi found himself flat on his back, with about fourty pounds of fox standing on his chest. He froze, only to start giggling when Kurama started licking his face, trying ineffectually to deter that tongue.

Kurama climbed off of his stepbrother, making sure that he didn't dig in with his claws. He looked at his stepfather questioningly. The only one who hadn't approached him. He knew that his stepfather was easily the most sober in the family and had yet to find a sense of humor in the man.

Hiei studied this face off between the two. It was a very interesting sight. A fourty pound fox and a fourty something year old man.

Neither of the two were going to give in to the other and it was simultaneous when it happened. They both took a step towards the other at the same time. Both of them equals in their own field. Hatanaka joined the others on the floor, kneeling down at the same instant that Kurama sat directly in front of him. Nose-to-nose.

Hatanaka had an instant warning as he saw those eyes twinkle for a split second and then that cold, wet nose brushed his, followed by a quick lick.

Everyone in the dining room had just gotten their breathing back under control from laughing so hard when they all broke out again at Hatanaka's frantic wiping of his nose as if it itched, but was chuckling with the rest of them.

Hatanaka proved that he had a sense of humor after all when he asked, still chuckling, "I hope you don't need rabies shots!"

Kurama was laughing with his eyes, his vocal cords not properly present in this form, but everone heard the response in their heads, indignant to say the least and sending them all back into peals of laughter, ~Of course not! ~ Kurama was glad to get the tension out of the house. After that, everyone needed a good laugh, and in this form, he could have some fun that he ordinarily couldn't have. It was time to get serious once again, though, with Hiei back from the Reikai. He sighed, time to put away the fun. He needed to change forms, though and get dressed first. He padded silently up the stairs Keiko following him.

To be continued . . .