Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Erotic ❯ Agent 0069, Pun Intended ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimers: I do not own YYH or any of its characters. If I did then hell I wouldn't be spending time writing fanfiction.

This fic is rated NC-17 for sexual situations, nudity, sadomasochism and the heavy involvement of the porn industry. If you don't like this or the coupling, get out and save yourself some time.

AU possibly some OOCness. Kurama is a sophomore in college. Karasu comes back but as a very popular porn photographer, but has no memory of what happened. Find out what happens when they meet again. KarasuXKurama.

Note: Sorry if I did offend anyone about the whole atheist comment, but it's almost like say someone from Europe dissing the US when they haven't even lived there. And one guy… grr let's not speak his name but he's atheist and has this love for talking about religion and how right and wrong it is. You're not a person of faith, why are you talking about it? (Addressed to that arrogant bastard that does nothing but play FFXI like some D&D dork that lives in their parents' basement after 40.)

Thank you for all the reviews. You guys are awesome. This chapter is for all those people who always wanted to know how it's like to be a spy.

Chapter 6: Agent 0069, Pun Intended

Karin was one of Karasu's top models for lesbian action. She was smart and had graduated from college with a doctorate in psychology. It seemed somewhat strange that a woman, who made so much money out of porn, would continue her education. But the answer was easy. When she became too old or that porn became too boring for her, she would go into the real world as a doctor and earn as much money as she was making right now.

Her real birth given name was Claudia Marie Beauvais. She was only twenty-eight, but she looked as young as twenty-one. Karin was a French girl that moved to Japan at the age of twelve because of her father's transfer of work. She struggled for many years to be accustomed to the very cold and distant traditions of Japan as well as the confusing script and language. By the age of fifteen, she had aced Japanese the language, but until she was eighteen she learned to read and write without any problems. To avoid so many difficulties with the language barrier, Karin's parents had sent her to a special school where children with the same situation would go and learn. It was not a "special ed" school for the retarded; the only difference it was to the other regular Japanese schools was that the script was in romanji and not in the kanji, katakana, or hiragana. (However they had many classes to teach how to read and write them.)

By nineteen she had legally changed her name to Karin Watanabe and it became her porn star name when Karasu had found her at the age of twenty at an Italian restaurant. Karasu, at time, was barely starting to recruit people for his soon-to-be business. He was very close to graduating from college, but wanted to finish as soon as he could so that he could start off his dream. At first Karin was very hesitant to work for a man who had nothing but a future degree in business, photography and Korean, but he had spoken to her in the very little French that he knew. That had broken the ice and she instantly warmed up to him.

"Your French is… it has a heavy Spanish accent to it."

"Would you believe me if I told you that I'm from Spain?"

"If you remove the shades I would." Raven removed his shades and revealed his clear blue eyes. "Ah but you're not Japanese! You're definitely European."

"But that is where you are wrong, my dear. My mother is Japanese, I just happened to have inherited most of my father's looks."

Karin smiled, "Do you agree that this country is too cold?"

"Yes, both in its winters and the fact that these people don't appreciate closeness."

"Why are you starting this business?"

"Because I love taking pictures. And isn't it an art? Besides how can I let you hide from the world? You're gorgeous!"

Indeed she was. She had long curly hair with red ribbons that made her look so young and innocent. Her eyes were emerald green and her skin was slightly tan, giving her a very exotic look. Yes Raven wanted her. He had to have someone that was not Asian. It would destroy the purpose of starting Erotic if all he had was just Japanese, Japanese, and Japanese. That would make his business just like Hugh Hefner's Playboy with nothing but fake plastic blondes. Besides the Japanese had to open their minds to western women. It wouldn't hurt at all to see something different for a change.

"I'm Claudia Marie Beauvais, well I was last year. My name is Karin Watanabe."

"Are you married?"

"No, just wanted a change."

"So do I. My name's Raven Emilio Satoshi Cortez and welcome to my future horny family."

And that's how Karin and Raven had hit it off. Perhaps it was the fact that Karasu did not look Japanese or the fact that he had spoken French to her or that he didn't like the coldness of the people of Japan or that he was Catholic like herself, but Karin had taken a big liking to Raven, so big, in fact, that she had agreed to become a porn star.

Karin walked down the hall to get to her dressing room. She cared about Raven very much, almost like a brother or cousin, but he had started to worry her a little. It was that read head that he carried around recently. Maybe if he was not so touchy with the boy she would have let it go, but she couldn't do it because he was very touchy-feely with the new model, Shuuichi Minamino. Karin wasn't jealous or anything like that, only very suspicious of the boy.

Was it because Megumi had told her her feelings about Raven? She didn't know. But she had to stop thinking of the boy and worry about the movie she was going to make.

She turned to another all, away from her room and went to the vending machines. Karin searched her purse for some coins but was a few yen short.

"Here."

"Oh thank you." She looked up. It was Shuuichi Minamino.

"You're welcome."

Karin nodded and bought bottled water, smiled at Kurama, then left.

`Yes I remember that boy now. How he and Raven were making out, almost about to do it in the hotel's hallway. I've never seen Raven so hard before either. He probably really likes that kid. But what am I saying? He's just some annoying little play toy that Raven will toss away after he's gotten what he wanted from him. It won't be too long before he fucks Red senseless and leaves him.'

Karin entered her room and sat on her chair. The makeup artist was going to come in an hour to get her ready for the movie, so she turned on the TV and began to flip through the stations to see if there had been anything interesting on. When she found a channel she increased the volume and started to get dressed for the short film.

Simple white panties and a white corset with matching garters and stockings. It looks like she was going to play the innocent one in this film. Or judging how kinky Raven was, she was the one to be in charge and dominate the other partner. After changing, she sat down again to watch the television, but it soon bored her, so she started to paint her nails white.

While she painted them, she kept thinking about Raven and Kurama, now nicknamed Red by her. It was true that she had sex with Raven several times, but in the long run they both admitted that they felt very dirty, like having sex with their own sibling. They were very fortunate to be very conscious about contraceptives and did use as much protection that they could muster. Later that first year with Erotic, she found out that she was bisexual but preferred women more than men. Raven didn't mind. In fact he loved the idea that she was a candidate for lesbian photo shoots and movies.

Once they had gone to a rave. It was wild and the whole place reeked of alcohol and marijuana. But by that time Karin had already tried weed back in her younger years in high school, so the smell didn't bother her so much. At the rave they found a couple of people that Raven knew. After a few hours of dancing and singing, they went to a local hotel and had an orgy, but it wasn't an everyone-on-everyone orgy. Karin had sex with the girls while Raven taped it with a camera he carried in his car and touched himself while they went off. Karin took Raven's camera and taped him having sex with the guys, him always being the dominate one despite being the leanest and less stronger looking of the males.

Because of Raven, she found that guy-on-guy was hot and every week went to a bookstore and bought a very graphic yaoi manga. She had accumulated many throughout the years and has at least two tall shelves filled at her house, each one of them read at least more than three times.

Yes they had a lot of crazy adventures. Even though Raven had gone through some hard times financially, he still remained very happy and carefree, as if he never had any money problems and continued to be just glad that he was alive. It was his family that had helped him to overcome the many obstacles. Both sides, Japanese and Spanish, pitched in to help Raven start off the business and never allegedly told him that what he was doing was wrong, in regards to the nature his production. And it was amazing to see how much self-control Raven had over the money he was given. Most people would have gone and used the money they were given to spend on booze, drugs and entertainment, but Raven didn't. He kept all that money in a bank and had fun because he had learned the art of "Friends' friends."

Karin had watched Karasu do this "art" with a careful eye to see the secret. It was simple actually, but what you really needed was to have one hell of a great character. And Raven Cortez had that kind of character to pull it off.

First he had his friends and then went to parties were hosted by them and made friends with their friends' friends. Once a certain level of intimacy (in regards to acquaintance) was established, he went to his new friends' parties or places that they would go. And it would continue in a cycle until he'd meet many rich and famous people in these clubs, parties or raves, continuing to meet more and more until he had established a small empire of friends and acquaintances. And because of this "art" he was able to make Erotic come true and become a very powerful business within two years, or even less.

"Girlie you're already dressed up and all!? Omigod! I'm sooo sorry for being late. Really I am. Let me get you fixed up before Raven gets all hoity-toity on me!"

That was Goh, an obviously gay hair and makeup artist. He wore the stereotypical clothes of what a fashion artist would wear: tight leather pants, a fruity colored tank top or a colorful tight oxford shirt, jungle colored scarves, and shoes that were either very cute or sneakers or very high fashioned with designers names like Armani or Dior. His hair was spiked and had highlighted tips. Yes if that wasn't gay then someone please stand up and tell me what is.

"It's fine, you're only five minutes late. And I didn't even notice."

"There's still no excuse. Well Girlie, I'm gonna make you look so fabu that all the people watching the movie will jerk off until they pass out."

Karin laughed. "Oh you don't mean that."

"Honey I may be gay but that doesn't mean I don't talk about sex or anything of that matter." He began to work with Karin's hair.

"I know, I know. So did you talk to Raven?"

"You mean Better Than a Vibrator? No, but I'll have to after I'm done with you. He asked me a few days ago to work with Shuuichi Minamino."

Better Than a Vibrator, or BTV, was a nickname people gave to Raven whether or not he slept with them or not. And it was true. Despite Karin's preference to woman, she knew that Raven's sex was better than what a vibrator could do. But it was enough of that. Goh talked about Shuuichi and she had to know what this was all about.

"Red? Why?"

"Well come on Girlie. You know that boy's a dreamboat! I mean that boy… I swear he makes me cream my pants. It's not a wonder why Raven's all over him like a woman with a chocolate turtle cheesecake with whipped cream."

"He is attractive. But I don't know. I think Raven might like him too much."

"And why can't he? I mean it's about time that the man has finally decided to settle. It's not safe to have sex so freely anymore. There's all that fear about AIDS and HIV and that nasty gonorrhea and syphilis. Nuh uh Girlie, I think it's good that BTV wants to calm down and have sex with one guy. He's already thirty, so he might as well get with the trend and start getting marrying now before he gets all old and impotent. Can you imagine that Raven could go impotent!? And using viagra!?" Now Goh started with the makeup, which didn't take so long since the movie didn't require much.

"God forbid that."

"You're telling me."

After he had finished, they both walked to the studio and waited until the set was ready. Raven was already sitting down on the director's seat instructing the people where to put certain objects in the scene. His cell phone rang and he answered it. There was a very beautiful smile on his face as he spoke to the person on the other side. Karin wondered whom the person could have been to make him so happy while he was working. No matter who called him, Karasu was always so bitter when they called while he was working. It was so strange that he was so happy to talk to someone on the job.

"Yes… oh Itooshi I'm glad you called."

Kurama blushed on the other side. "Don't say that. I only wanted to know if I could come tomorrow for the shoot instead of on Sunday."

"I don't mind at all."

"What are you doing right now?"

"Well I'm working on a porno scene with Karin. You remember Karin right?"

"Not really."

"She's one of the girls that wasn't Asian, remember?"

"Oh yes. She's a beautiful one."

"And what I liked about her is that she sticks out like a sore thumb within a crowd of my pornies. How about I take you out tonight?"

"Um I don't know."

"Oh why not?"

"Because I really can't. I need to study for an English test."

"How about I come over and tutor you then? You have nothing to lose and I know better English than you. Come on, what do you say?"

Kurama hesitated for a moment, "I guess… I guess it couldn't hurt. Just don't bring your bodyguards like the last time. And don't you dare take me out because I'll scream help and rape and catch people's attention."

"Oh but you know that screaming rape never works. People always never come when someone screams for help or rape. The best thing to do is scream fire, fire! Only then will people come to see what's going on. For some odd reason people just want to crowd around fire." [1]

"Yeah well what time are you coming?"

"Well it depends when I'm free. Let me check my agenda." Karasu held his hand over the mouthpiece of the phone and yelled for someone to bring him his agenda. "Okay I'm out by eight. So I'll see you around 8:30?"

"Okay."

"I look forward to it. Bye."

"Bye."

Karin sat on her chair and waited for the assistant to call her name that everything was ready. She looked at Raven and saw a satisfied look on his face. That call… Whoever had called him made him very happy. It was very notable because he had not yelled at the people as bad as he did before.

She waited for about fifteen more minutes when she decided to go to the bathroom, but not before telling Goh were she was going. When she finished her business, Karin washed her hands and checked herself in the mirror.

"Ready for the movie?"

"Hello Megumi."

"You seem kinda stressed."

"I am."

"It's not like you to be stressed like this. You're always so calm and eager for these things."

"Shut up bitch."

"You know something. What the hell happened back in Hawaii? Raven didn't call me to go there."

"He didn't plan for any porno shoots and you know it. What the hell do you want to know?"

"Something went on. I know that guilty look on your face. Tell me."

"Well if you want to know so badly… Raven was making out with Red."

Megumi's eyes flashed in anger. "Red meaning Shuuichi?"

"Yes and Raven was very happy about it. He looked his hardest."

"You lie."

"Why should I even lie? I know how much you love Raven. I thought you wanted to know what was going on with him?"

Megumi clenched her fists and glared at the mirror. Karin almost shivered in fear from the looks she was giving. Maybe she shouldn't have told her what she saw. But then Megumi did ask her to keep an eye on Raven while in Maui. Why did life have to be so confusing?

"Fine. Fine with me. That's all I needed to know."

`That does not sound good,' thought Karin. `I'd better get out of here.'

Karin turned towards the door, but Megumi caught her arm. "Karin." Karin looked at her honey colored eyes. They were filled with sadness and with a little bit of fear and hatred. There was certainly something like a zeal or obsession. She had to get out: now.

"I have a movie to be in. Don't worry about it Megumi."

She nodded and let go of Karin. "I think they're calling you."

----Porn Scene

"Agent 0069 we meet again," replied an Asian woman dressed in the same manner as Karin but in red and with a lab coat and glasses.

"Yes Doctor Nymph. You know why I'm here don't you?" said Karin pouring herself a glass of white wine. Raven had changed her attire at the last moment into having her panties be black, her corset white with black buttons like a shirt and long black gloves for sleeves. She wore a black bow tie, white garters with black bows and no stockings. Yes she looked like James Bond, only a female version and with lingerie.

For one reason or another he felt like making fun of the James Bond movies. Particularly because Pierce Brosnan was no longer going to be the next James Bond and there were rumors that Collin Ferrell was to be the next James Bond. [2] It was obvious that Raven Cortez was against the whole idea of having him as the next James Bond and that there was going to be another 007 movie. `Enough is enough. The United States is no longer fighting Russia. What was the point of continuing a movie whose purpose was to bash a rival nation when they are at peace?'

Raven may never understand Hollywood, but he did understand porn.

"Yes. You've come to kill me, but is I who will kill you," Dr. Nymph took out a gun from her lab coat. "I have you now Agent 0069."

"Call me Karin," as replied as she threw a sex toy at Dr. Nymph, knocking the gun out of her hand.

"No stop! Do not kill me. I find you so sexy! Make love to me Karin."

-30 seconds later-

"Ooh, aah, yes, yes, oh, ohh, fuck me Karin. Fuck me Agent 0069, fuck me."

"Give it up Dr. Nymph. Say it."

"I give up!"

We can all guess what happened after that.

----One hour later----

"You did great job Girlie!"

"Thanks Goh."

"Honey you've got this thing all clear for you. BTV looks so pleased! Oh he's coming over here!"

"Karin you did great."

"Thanks Raven."

"How about I treat you to some lunch?"

"Lunch sounds great."

----Boba Café [3]

"I love these sandwiches. I swear to God these sandwiches are a godsend. Stupid Subway."

"Yeah," replied Karin. "To hell with Subway. These sandwiches are much cheaper and tastier."

"Gotta love those Vietnamese. Good food, good people, and great tapioca drinks."

Karin took a sip of her strawberry tapioca drink then a bite of her pork sandwich. "Raven. We're practically siblings right?"

"Well almost like my sister Dolores," he replied biting his beef sandwich. "Why do you ask?"

"About Megumi… you know she has the hots for you right?"

"Yeah. Is there a reason why you're asking me the obvious?" He took a sip of his coconut tapioca drink.

"Yes. Megumi asked me to tell her anything that's happened between you and Red."

"Red? Are you talking about Shuuichi?"

"Yes, that's what I call him. And listen…"

"What did you tell her?"

"Raven don't make this harder for me. I just want to tell you, as a sister figure, to be careful. I don't want you to be hurt."

"Are you warning me against Shuuichi or Megumi?"

"Honestly… Raven I'm warning you against both. Don't ask me why, but I just have this feeling about Red that isn't right. And Megumi, I don't know either. I think she's crazy, crazy in love to do something to the both of you. Raven please."

Raven looked furious and chewed a piece of the tapioca pearls angrily. "Karin you're a good person and all. And I can tell this is not being told to me out of jealousy and I appreciate that you're telling me all this but you know what? I'm not stupid. I know what's going on. I know that Megumi has it bad for me. I know that my Itooshi is much different than any person we've met. I know that people are crazy enough to do crazy and stupid things. But rest assured I know what I must do in case of any situations. Karin, you may not tell me what you told Megumi, but I won't let it take the best of me."

"Raven-"

"I'm not done," said the crow. Suddenly his frown turned into a smile. "You did great Karin. You know I can get you into acting."

Karin smiled. "Thanks Rave. But you are aware that I meant every word I said."

As strange as the whole change in tone of the conversation has been, Raven had had those types of small fits of anger on purpose. He once asked Karin if she considered acting, and she had said yes. But one thing she could never do is get used to the parts when a character as angry at her character. Most of the time she would start crying or just run off. Raven had told her that if he was ever in a fit of rage, not to be afraid because he had an idea to desensitize her from all the fake anger and verbal abuse.

At first the whole lessons started with a warning. Once Karin got used to it, Raven warned her that he would do it at unpredictable intervals without any warnings. She failed countless times on this part of the experiment but managed to tell the difference between real anger and fake anger.

Yes they were strange folk.

"I know, I know. Just relax Karin. So you're concerned that Megumi is gonna fuck me over and that Shuuichi is weird?" He laughed. "Like I said before, I know what's going on. Maybe I seem so, I dunno, weird about it but hey, that's me. So chill out okay?"

"Sure…" she sighed.

"Claudia Marie…" he said in an almost disappointed tone.

"I'm not in the mood for any acting lessons right now."

"Fine, fine, whatever you want. I'll watch out for Megumi and Itooshi."

"Itooshi now is it?" Karin replied with some feigned suspicion.

"You call him Red, I call him Itooshi. You say vous, I say tu."

"But we both say anata."

"Si."

"Oui."

----Kurama's Apartment, 8:42 PM

Knock, knock.

"Coming."

"Hello Itooshi. Traffic was hell, but how was your day?"

"Don't call me Itooshi, if you don't want me to call you Karasu. Sorry to hear about the traffic, and my day was fine."

"I don't mind you calling me Karasu. I think it's nice that you've given me a pet name."

"It's not a pet name, it's just something I call you," said Kurama, letting Karasu in. "You seemed to have gone a long way just to see me."

"To tutor you, Kurama. I need you to stop the Engrish and start with English."

"I almost forgot why you know my nickname. My friends are that loud, aren't they?"

"Yes but the Spanish are louder, trust me on that. Especially in the dinner table! We are so loud it's insane. Scared my mom too when she ate at my dad's house for the first time. Speaking of dinner, did you have anything to eat?"

"Yes."

"Oh because I was going to suggest to go to an Anna Miller's." [4]

Kurama smiled, "I like the way you pronounce Anna Miller. It sounds so authentic and professional."

"With a bit of practice I can help you say English without an accent."

"Could you? It's hard as it is to right in Engr- I mean Eng…Eng…"

"It's not so hard. Put your tongue at the edge of your maxilla and make a noise. Like this: Luh, luh, luh."

Kurama repeated, "Luh, luh, luh. I'm surprised that you know about what the upper jaw is called."

"Surprised? Just because I came from two countries where children don't study their poor asses off, doesn't mean I don't get good education. If anything, we don't get sagging eyes or cataracts at the fucking age of seventeen. And anyway, my sister Dolores is a dentist."

"You know, you and I would get along if you'd stop making fun of Japan."

"Okay, okay, if you must insist. In the United States there are too many racist people, the only way you can get in college is by being a minority because the law says you have to give them a chance, many of the men think a perfect ten is a blonde, the girls try to enforce marriage by getting themselves pregnant, they are run by the media, they elect stupid people in their political offices, oh and-"

"That is enough," replied Kurama.

"No it's not enough. You wanted me to diss the west, then I will diss the west. In Spain you can't go into any small towns lest you want some Gypsy to rob you, the roads are more confusing than a rubix cube, there aren't enough children to take over the elders' job, there is graffiti all over the damn places, and-"

"I said that's enough!"

"You're the one who wanted me to talk about MY world. Well you don't know MY world Kurama! Yeah I'm some halfsie raised in the western world and come back to his mother's land, but you can't say anything about MY world! I've lived in Japan for twelve years! Isn't that enough time for me to judge a nation?"

"Well you're always judging Japan like it's some hellhole!"

"A Catholic westerner doesn't belong here!"

"Then you can just leave! No one's keeping you from leaving Japan."

"God damn you Kurama, God damn your motherfucking righteous hand."

"Here," said Kurama, removing the clasp from the necklace, "take your necklace back. I don't need it in this hellhole."

Karasu did not respond, but looked at his crucifix hang from Kurama's hand. He felt like he wanted to cry or even hit Kurama; he even saw himself doing it, bashing the fox's head against the wall, ripping his hair, breaking his fingers with a hammer, painting the walls with his love's blood… it was a god-awful thought within his id. `Stop it,' he said to himself. `I'm not going to kill him.'

Instead he replied, "Why do we always end up arguing like this? And put that necklace back. I gave it to you and have no intention to take it back." Kurama didn't move. "I said put the necklace back."

"I don't know why we argue, but it seems that we can never get along no matter what we do."

"Ha!" scoffed the crow. "What we do? Why are you always damn suspicious of me? What have I ever done to you for this sort of treatment?"

The redhead sighed and put back the crucifix around his neck once again, lowering his gaze. "I don't know."

Karasu hugged Kurama tightly. "You don't know how much your suspicion has hurt me. It's like you see me like some rapist or murderer. Is that what you see in me?"

Kurama didn't return the hug, but nuzzled Raven's chest. "I don't. I just feel so insecure." He looked up to see Karasu's eyes. They were watery and red; his blue eyes clashed out with the red, like a blueberry surrounded by strawberries. "Are you crying?"

Raven pulled away and wiped his eyes. "No, I just have something in my eyes." He looked at Kurama then turned away.

"Raven I didn't mean to hurt you."

"You did. I know you did mean every word of it. Tell me Itooshi. Is there anything that I have done to you in the past that roused such suspicion? I want to know so that I may apologize."

"No," calmly responded Kurama. "You've done nothing. I'm just suspicious by nature."

The crow demon turned back to face Kurama and grabbed the boy's arm. "You weren't suspicious when I did this," and kissed him passionately. This time Kurama didn't refuse the kiss but went along with him and kissed with a little bit more vigor than Karasu.

It was obvious to Kurama that Karasu was a very experienced and very good kisser, being that he had familiarity with kissing. He wasn't like those kinds of people that drooled or breathed too much from their mouth. He was very gentle but fierce and bit Kurama's lower lip very softly for permission. Kurama complied, naturally; he had had horrible experiences where some people would bite too hard and accidentally gnaw his tongue. But Raven was so smooth and very fluent with his kiss… Kurama didn't stop until he ran out of breath, panting on Karasu's mouth.

While waiting for Kurama to recover, Karasu kisses the boy's neck and made a trail of kisses to his earlobe and nipped it with care. Kurama moaned but pulled Karasu away, still panting for more air.

"So does that mean you forgive me?" asked Raven, gasping for air.

"You've done nothing," finally recovering. "I apologize for being so cruel."

"And I am sorry for making you feel uncomfortable."

"Forgiven."

"Likewise."

That eerie silence was within their midst again. Kurama looked away from Raven's gaze, while the man stared at Kurama.

"What are you looking at?"

"Your crotch," he replied taking a box of cigarettes from his long black coat.

"Why am I not surprised?" Kurama rolled his eyes and grabbed his books from the kitchen table.

"I don't know. Maybe you know me a little bit more than you thought you did." Karasu searched his pockets for a lighter, but couldn't find it. "Dammit. Got a light?"

"Yeah," replied Kurama looking into a drawer and pulling out a small red lighter.

"Never thought you were the kind to smoke," said Karasu as he lit the cigarette.

"I don't smoke. I only have a lighter for my candles and other things."

"Really?" Karasu walked to the window and opened it. "Are you a drinker?"

"I drink, but I'm not an alcoholic. What's it to you?"

"Just wanted to know in case of one day, you know, I invite you to a bar or something." He blew out the smoke into the window screen and puffed the cigarette and repeated.

"I see."

"Got an ashtray?" finishing the smoke.

"No."

Karasu walked to the kitchen and turned on the faucet to the sink, wetting the hot ash with the water. When he saw that it was completely extinguished, Raven threw the butt on the trash and sat down on the couch.

"So what exactly are you having problems on?"

"I can read and write English fairly well, but I still don't know too many large words, nor can I understand much of the American and British humor. Also I still need help with pronunciation."

"I see…" said the crow, looking at Kurama's books and notes. "Well for one, English is one of the hardest, most versatile languages in the world. Had Japanese had been Latin-based, it wouldn't be so hard. I was hella lucky that Spanish was very similar to English."

Kurama nodded and began to study with Raven. He was very patient with the fox, but sometimes lost his temper when Kurama made obvious mistakes. Many times he would try to sit closer to the fox, but Kurama would move so that they were at least a foot apart. Once and a while Karasu would twirl Kurama's hair and nuzzles close without the redhead noticing or protesting. Whenever Raven put his hand deliberately on Kurama's thigh, his would immediately be pushed away or pinched, making Karasu pout and make another attempt until Kurama gave up and let him have his way.

It was one in the morning and Kurama still felt that he didn't study enough. Karasu was starting to pass out on his couch and almost drooled on one of his textbooks. The youkai went into his kitchen and made some coffee to keep the crow awake.

"How do you like your coffee?"

"Like I like my man: sweet and full of cream."

For a second, Kurama didn't understand what Raven had meant but suddenly made a face of pure disgust. "You pervert."

"Just put the sugar and cream before I pass out in your couch."

Kurama finished the hot drinks and put them on his coffee table. "So the homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled different."

"Right. Like the word `here' and `hear' sound the same but are spelled differently and have a different meaning."

"What about words like `colour' and `color.' You know, with a `u' in one of them?"

"Ah that's a cultural thing. In the United States, they have the word `color' with no `u,' but if you go to places like Canada or England, you see a lot u's in words that the US doesn't have. Take the word `theater' for instance. In the United States it's spelled as T-H-E-A-T-E-R. But in England it's spelled as T-H-E-A-T-R-E, theatre. Don't ask me why, but that's how it is."

Kurama smiled and a soft pink blush graced his cheeks. "I like the way you pronounce Engr-English words." But what he didn't tell Raven was that his eyes, although were heavy with sleep, were extraordinarily beautiful at that moment. They were so alluring and deep with some sort of emotion. Was it affection?

He didn't know…

"Itooshi…" replied Karasu, touching Kurama's cheek. Kurama waited for more words to come out of the crow's mouth, husky and romantic, anticipating the next syllable with hidden excitement. "I'm tired."

If it wasn't for his pride, Kurama would have done a face fall and smack Karasu upside the head. "What do you want me to do about it?"

"Can I stay over?"

"No you may not."

"But it's like 1:30 in the morning. Come on let me stay Shuuichi…" Karasu wrapped his arms around Kurama and nuzzled his face against Kurama right shoulder. "You're so warm and inviting… let me stay and sleep. I'm harmless."

"Harmless is such an understatement. More like vicious and dangerous."

Karasu pulled Kurama closer. "You don't mean that."

"I do."

"Well just remember that tomorrow you have a photo shoot."

"I will. Just get off me okay?" There was no noise. "Raven?" Some more silence. "Karasu?"

Karasu's body pulled Kurama backwards and was suddenly lying on the couch with a sleeping Karasu holding tight to the fox.

"Hey get up!"

But Karasu did not budge; he was dead asleep and was not about to let go of Kurama that easily. Kurama twisted and coiled but was not able to gain freedom from the pornographer's grasp. `I am not about to end up sleeping in his arms like this,' he thought. With one last pull, he released himself from Karasu's clutches and rolled into the floor.

Thud.

"Ow."

Kurama quickly stood up and looked at Raven. He was sleeping so peacefully and so serene that it was hard to believe that he was once a dangerous and sadistic demon.

After turning off the lights and making sure that nothing was left on, Kurama stood in front of his couch and thought for a while about if he should sleep next to Karasu.

`The hell with it. As long as he doesn't hump me at night.' With that thought in mind, he laid next to the sleeping crow and nestled himself almost happily and slept.

---End of Chapter 6

[1] It's sad but true. No one will come to help you if you scream help or rape. Screaming fire will attract people.

[2] Will they quit with the James Bond films already!? No more cold war to add the fuel! And I like Colin Ferrell but he's no James Bond.

[3] If this name sounds familiar and you live in Houston, yes it is based on this place.

[4] A fast food restaurant that's the Japanese equivalent to Mc Donald's.

My goodness what a predicament everyone is in. I hope yal enjoyed this chapter. Who knows what surprises are in store for our young rising porn star and his horny boss?

Find out in chapter 7!

Please R&R! They make baby Jesus happy.