Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Anti-Freeze ❯ Lesson One, Stay Up ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter Three.

Kurama chose a room that was at the end of the hall and around a short corner, there is sure to be privacy there. Then he could put the moves on Hiei with confidence that no one will be walking past the door peeking inside.

Although with the way things are going, they might not see Kuwabara or Yusuke unless they're outside, because they seem too captivated with the snow to think about anything else.

Hiei was sitting at his favorite place in life, the windowsill, looking outside at the falling snow. Kurama wondered if his friend were thinking about, Yukina and the ice world. Or was he simply looking out the window.

"You can stop staring at me, and say something if you want to." Hiei mentioned, when he noticed Kurama's reflection, or maybe, he'd been looking at the fox boy the entire time.

"I was just looking out the window, as you are." Kurama rushed out, while slipping a snow hat on his head.

"Yeah right." Hiei turned to face the boy, but quickly turned away with a blush after seeing how adorable the red head looked with his hair matted to his forehead under that hat. Not to mention, how nice his hips and thighs looked against the large sweater he had spilling over his upper half.

"And a jacket.." He was muttering, as he picked it up. Slipping the large goosed down jacket around himself. He zipped it all the way up to his neck and smiled at his success of his first winter wear accomplishment.

Still blushing, Hiei glanced back at Kurama remarking. "You look like a big red pillow."

Kurama glanced down at himself mostly to hide the smile that Hiei was watching him. "Yes, well I suppose it beats a large yellow bird." He chuckled lowly. Hiei didn't really get it, so he just turned his head back to the window.

"And now for you," Kurama crossed the bedroom over to where Hiei sat, and slipped a snow hat over his head and laughed seeing the boys flattened hair.

"Get this ridiculous thing off my head." He protested, thinking that Kurama was laughing at him.

"Sorry to laugh, but you just look adorable that's all." The fox stated. "I'll get you a sweater."

'Wish I could be as honest as you.' Hiei thought, turning his eyes up as though he were trying to look at this hat on his head.

"Here you are," He held up a dark blue sweater for the youkai to see. "I have other colors if this isn't to your liking."

"I'm not cold, so I don't need your clothes." He reached up taking the hat off his head handing it back to Kurama.

"True enough, but I don't want anyone to stare at you because you're not properly dressed." The fox assured.

"I provide my own clothes, so let them stare."

Kurama didn't wanna push an argument, but Hiei had to wear the clothes. "If you would just put this on. You can remain in your normal pants, but the shirt and jacket are important."

"Kurama I am not putting that on!" Hiei snapped.

The two glowered at each other, and Kurama raised the sweater to Hiei as though he were going to force it over his head whether he liked it or not but the fire demon looked as though he were ready to flee, before Kurama could even blink. "You're going to wear the sweater, even if I have to-..." He lunged at him but as he expected, Hiei vanished.

Shizuru looked up at the ceiling hearing the two thumping around the room and she smiled. "The quietest guys are always the most noisy in bed." Shaking her head, she walked into the kitchen and pulled out some plates and forks to wash up for dinner and lunch. 'Guess I'm on my own today.' She figured thoughtfully.

"Aaaahh!!!" She heard a female shouting. "Somebody help meee!!"

'That voice sounds so familiar.' Drying her hands on a dish towel, Shizuru walked to the kitchen door and tugged it open, seeing an ice blue haired girl flying at her inside. Moving aside a step so the girl could get in, Shizuru closed the door and smiled down at the panting visitor.

"Botan, what brings you here?" She asked crossing her arms.

"I've been looking everywhere for this cabin," She explained. "and just when I thought I had found it, this gigantic dog chases me away!"

"Ahahahaha." The brunette laughed. It was pretty funny seeing the girl getting chased like that.

"Glad your enjoying yourself," She straightened up, pushing back the sleeves on her sweater. "I should give that brother of yours a swift kick in the rear."

"Step in line, did he invite you along or something?"

"Yes, and thank him so much for not telling me where the place was." She began to brush snow from her hair.

"You want something to eat or drink, it's not lunch yet but I'll be glad to cook you something." Offered the other girl.

"Hot chocolate would be nice, I think I feel a cold coming on." She sniffled and sneezed right after.

The front door opened and Hiei and Kurama escaped outside to what could be either very good or very bad.

Hiei, although the struggle was hard, he had put on the jacket and sweater and hat as Kurama had banter- I mean, asked. The two of them glanced around and Kurama wondered a moment. "Where are they?"

"Didn't they say something about going to a lift?"

"....See Hiei, you're already being helpful."

"Whatever. Let's make this quick."

The two of them walked through the snow with little difficulty, and they wandered for sometime before finding the ski lift by the resort.

"There they are!" Shouted Yusuke, spotting Kurama first. The two of them skied over to their friends with smiles on their faces, both not wanting to wait to tell them how awesome a time they were having.

"What took you guys so long, Urameshi and me were waiting forever." Said Kuwabara.

"It's only been twenty minutes." Chided Yusuke. "Are you guys ready to learn!?" He said as though he were introducing a rock band.

"Yes," Kurama made a face placing a hand behind his head. 'Yusuke isn't going to make this easy is he?'

"I got you guys some skiis, I had to rent Hiei's because a mans might be too big for him." Kuwabara teased.

"I can wear the size everyone else does." Hiei stated, reaching for the pair held out to Kurama.

"Perhaps you should try the shorter set and see how that goes." Kurama said taking the set being given to him.

"Come on Hiei, we all had to start with smaller skiis," Yusuke then added with a laugh. "Only you have to keep 'em." Kuwabara joined in the laughter and the both of them received a snowball in the mouth.

"The next one will be made of fire." Warned Hiei.

His two friends waved a hand backing off. "Where do we start?" Asked Kurama. He was watching all the other skiers going by, old and young. Zipping from side to side over the white plains.

"We get to start on the bunny slopes!" Kuwabara tried to sound like it wasn't a kiddy level but more like... well, for beginners. Yeah!

"Bunny slopes?" Wondered Hiei. His mind had a quick flash of a group of rabbits on skis going over hill after hill. Then another flash of himself and Kurama hopping up and down to ski.

"No no noo," Said Kuwabara cutting through the boys thoughts. "It's not like rabbits, it just means there's gonna be rabbit hole sized hills."

"I see." Replied Kurama, confirming that he had been the one to ask the question of it, and Kuwabara hadn't been reading the youkai's thoughts.

"It's this way, come on." Yusuke hopped up a bit, getting his board back on top of the snow and he glided easily away.

"Stop showing off Urameshi, we got newbie's!" Kuwabara held a hand out to Kurama. "I'll walk you over there."

Kurama took his friends hand and held his other out to Hiei. The youkai narrowed his eyes at it, but grabbed a hold anyway and then the three of them began trudging through the snow after Yusuke.

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"Left! Kurama left!" Shouted Kuwabara.

"No, my left!" Shouted Yusuke to Hiei.

"I'm going to kill them for making me do this." Mumbled Hiei as he slowly slipped past Kurama.

"We only have to keep this up until lunch," Assured Kurama. "I actually think I'm starting to get the hang of thi-..." The tip of his left ski banged into a tiny hill flipping the back part of it into the air. "Waa-aahh."

Hiei looked on smugly seeing that Kurama had fallen sideways with the back of his ski pointed into the air and the other laying down on the snow making the boy look like a giant 'L'.

Just as he was about to comment on Kurama's- not so- amazing skills, his own skiis began to slip back and forth underneath his feet knocking him back on his butt.

"Hahahaha." Laughed Yusuke. "Way to go Kuwabara, Kurama really ate it on that hill."

"Yeah and you're doing a bang up job with Hiei." The red head pointed over to the grounded youkai.

"Wha-? Hiei! That's not how you're supposed to do it!" With an exhausted sigh, Yusuke ran over to the poor boy picking him up from under his arms, raising him back to his feet, listening to Hiei complain about not needing help.

"So just let me go- whoa!" He began to slip again, but Yusuke reached out to stop him only to receive the same face plant as Hiei, when the skis knocked him off his feet.

Yusuke started spitting out the snow that entered his mouth and he smiled down at Hiei who was doing the same. "At least it's not yellow."

Hiei growled at him shoving the dark haired boy aside. "Get off of me." Looks over his shoulder. "Where's Kurama we're going inside."

"Aw, you can't quit now." He watched Hiei stand up. "We just got started."

"Well I've decided that we're finished." He started away with a little trouble with the skiis going in different directions than his feet.

It took everything in Yusuke's power not to laugh at him and make it worse. But Hiei looked hilarious trying to avoid going into the splits with the skis separating on him.

"I can't figure out how to get over hills, the tip continues to go under the snow." Explained Kurama. He just couldn't figure out how Kuwabara was going over them with such ease and he couldn't. But Kurama has decided that he was going to become a skier if it took him the whole trip to learn.

"It's easy, you see you're leaning your weight too forward when you get to hills." Kurama nodded. "You wanna lean back a bit, so that the ski elevates over the hill."

"I see."

"Kurama, we're leaving." Said Hiei as he approached the two red heads.

"Quitting already pipsqueak? Heh heh, it figures you couldn't hack it." Teased Kuwabara. He knew what kind of motivation guys like Hiei needed. And it almost always worked.

"Can we just wait another hour or so? I need to learn how to go over these hills." He was already turning away from Hiei, preparing to ski to the next slope. "Then we'll go inside."

Hiei seemed reluctant to comply but he still didn't want to ski anymore. "Hiei!?" Called Yusuke. "You wanna try the board instead?"

The boy scrunched his eyes but wandered over to Yusuke anyway. It was just another hour, he could deal with that.

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"You're doing great Kurama!" Kuwabara cheered. His face dropped the smile seeing that Kurama had spread his arms out and started to wave them in circles. "Kurama plant the sticks into the snow!"

"Kuwa-bara, I can't stop them." The poor flailing boys skis crossed over each other and when Kurama tried to uncross them he slipped quickly down a hill it only aided in his fall.

Yusuke and Hiei weren't having much luck either. The snowboard seemed to fit Hiei just fine but, he couldn't get the hang of getting it moving. So Yusuke figured starting on a hill would be just the thing to do it. "It'll be just like riding a bike."

"Assuming I can." Muttered Hiei.

"Look, I'll give you a starter push, then you just hold your arms out like this for balance. Ready?"

Hiei said nothing so Yusuke placed his hands on the boys back and gave him a gentle shove.

It looked as though Hiei were going to make it, then he caught an edge and went flipping over down the hill. "Okay, I'll push a little lighter next time." Assured Yusuke.

The two tried over and over and every time it ended up the same- with a face plant.

Same with Kuwabara and Kurama. When Yusuke and Hiei slid down the next hill they hadn't seen Kurama and Kuwabara coming over it.

"You're looking good Kurama."

"Keep it up Hiei, you're doing it!"

Seeing the other person's head appearing slowly ahead.

"Kurama, watch out for that kid! That scary kid- oh it's just Hiei." He scrunched his face in the two's collision course, but Yusuke watched their entire journey down the hill with a laugh.

Kurama brushed snow from his face and Hiei stood up glaring at him. The two demons approached their friends, saying sourly. "We wanna go in now."