Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Erotic ❯ Hotter than the Zion Rave ( Chapter 7 )

Disclaimers: I do not own YYH or any of its characters. If I did then Kurama would be Karasu's lover-bitch-whore. I also do not own Everclear, that godforsaken drink that puts all the others to shame. (99.9 percent alcohol!!) The only thing I own in this fic that has some relevance is The Underground.

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.

Thank you all for all the reviews. They made baby Jesus and me happy. (Please don't take the baby Jesus thing seriously.)

Well I came back from my Christmas vacation in Mexico and it was really stressing. For one, my grandma had a double heart attack on the 22nd then died on Christmas day. For two days straight after the funeral on the 26th, I had the strangest and most violent dreams/nightmares. For a few other nights I didn't get much sleep until the last minute when the sun was coming up. But it's all in the past and I'm glad I'm back here in the States. I really wanted to write this chapter for the longest time now and I finally got past all the chapters to do this.

I hope yal like this chapter as much as I do. This chapter is for all the people that thought the Zion rave scene from Matrix Reloaded was a waste of time.

-------Chapter 7: Hotter than the Zion Rave

"Hey Kurama, whatcha doing?" asked Yusuke.

"For one, I'm eating and two, I'm studying for a calculus test."

"Man that class sucks. But I bet you get A's anyway."

"I do, but I feel that I have been falling behind as of late."

"Why do you say that?" Yusuke said pulling up a chair and sitting across from Kurama.

"You wouldn't understand."

"Try me."

"I can't," replied Kurama. "This is a little private thing that's going on with me right now."

"Is it about that money thing? You seem stable on that."

"It's not about money anymore. I got another job and it's been supporting me very well and all but… it's kind of complicated."

"What's so complicated? Aren't you working at some grocery or book store or something?"

"Not really. It's more difficult than that."

"Look Kurama, I may be loud and sometimes a bit impatient and all, but you can trust me. I mean after all the things that we've been through, I'd think that by now we should have full trust in each other."

The red head sighed and looked at Yusuke. "I've been meaning to tell someone, but it's really hard to say. I've kept this whole charade for at least a month now and it's not been easy to hide it, especially with my crazy boss and all."

"Whoa so it is your job, huh? So where do you work?"

Kurama turned a few shades redder. "Well that's the thing I was hesitating to tell anyone about. And I still don't think I can tell you."

"Aw come on Kurama. It's not like you work as a porn star or a drug dealer or anything like that."

"…"

"Wait a minute. No you can't be."

"I was only silent."

"Yeah but that usually means that that's the case. Kurama… does that mean your name is Huge Dong?"

"Yusuke don't be stupid," he replied with an annoyed look on his face. "The last thing I'd do would be porn."

"Yeah but that Raven Cortez offered you a job didn't he? Kurama are you an Erotic model!?"

"Shhh! Yusuke why must you be so loud?"

"So which is it? The porn star or the drug dealer?"

"Neither."

"Neither? That's no fun. Well being a drug dealer isn't fun, but I bet being a porn star is. Come on you can tell me Kurama. I mean you're Youko Kurama! Doesn't he like sex, being a fox spirit and all?"

"I can assure you that Youko Kurama has quite a… erm massive libido, but it doesn't mean that I do."

"Uh so that means you are a porn star?"

Kurama sighed, "No Yusuke, I'm not."

"Oh okay."

"I'm a porn star model."

"WHAT!?"

"You try hiding something like this from your friends and family and see how you'll turn out. Yusuke I know the job is degrading, but I did need the money. The worst aspect of my job is Mr. Cortez. He's not all sunshine and rainbows you know."

Yusuke was dumbfounded. His jaw had dropped and even a bit of drool came down from his mouth, out of negligence. He began to blink again and slowly closed his jaw, wiping away any of the drool that was in his chin. The boy shook his head and rubbed his temples, then looked at Kurama.

"Whoa, wait Kurama, are you being serious?"

"Dead serious."

"Then why haven't I seen you in any of the magazines?"

"You mean to tell me that you subscribe to Erotic magazine?"

"No, but I buy them from the stores whenever I can."

"Reasons why you probably haven't seen me is one, I asked Mr. Cortez to put me in the homosexual edition so that no one that knows me will see me. And two, because all you like to see is lesbian action."

"Damn sorry to hear about your job, but it pays pretty well doesn't it?"

"Yes, but if only Mr. Cortez wasn't so touchy feely on me, everything would be better and less stressing."

"You know now that you mention Raven Cortez, I can't help but to notice that he looks like that guy from Toguro's team, Karasu."

Kurama sweat dropped, "And to think that you could have seen that way before this conversation."

"So you suspected that already? What did Koemna say?"

"He said not to worry and that if anything strange does happen that he'll let me handle it. So far Karasu hasn't done anything so far. The only thing I do see that is one hundred-percent Karasu is his affinity for me. Other than that Raven Cortez is a whole other entity."

"Man but you gotta admit that he makes quality porn."

"Are you even paying attention to me?"

"I am, I am, but let's put that aside for now. I mean I guess I can get used to the fact that my friend and fellow detective is a porn star. Hey does that mean your friends can get some discounts or fringe benefits?"

"I don't think so."

"Well find out for me cuz I'm a big fan of Erotic. Hey if you can, can you get me Karin Watanabe's autograph? Tell her to sign, "to Yusuke, my number one fan" and her name."

Kurama smiled, "Very well, Yusuke. As long as you keep your mouth shut about this whole thing, I'm fine."

"Aw you don't have to worry about me. Kuwabara's the one that blabs every secret you tell him, so you're in safe hands. Gonna tell Hiei about it?"

"I don't need to tell more than one person, thank you."

"Omigod!!" screamed a girl.

The two detectives turned around to see where the screaming came from. A girl in her school uniform, high school at that, came running towards Kurama's table.

"I'm so sorry if I'm bothering you," replied the giddy girl. "But aren't you Shuuichi Minamino from Erotic?"

Kurama was shocked that someone had actually recognized him. Usually he was cooped up in school and didn't go out to big places, so he hadn't had much encounter with any fans, but this had to be his very first hyper fan girl.

"I am."

"Wow it's really you!" she jumped in joy. "Can I have your autograph?" She pulled out an Erotic magazine from her briefcase and opened it to the page where Kurama was modeling.

In this issue, the theme was sadomasochism. Kurama was gagged and tied from his wrists above his head while wearing black chaps. The chaps, however, didn't have any back or front, just the pants part, so Kurama's buttocks and hard sex were exposed. In his neck he wore a spiked collar that matched with his bracelets and garter on his right leg. The right pant side of his chaps was torn, which revealed his luscious thigh with the kinky garter. To top off his getup, the youkai wore a cock ring on his hardened member and was surrounded by rose petals. The message on top said, Every thorn has its rose. [1]

Yusuke shielded his eyes when the girl opened the magazine, upon seeing some men in tight clad leather having an orgy circle. "Aww I don't wanna see that! Kurama I hope you weren't doing that!"

"I wasn't."

"Good," replied Yusuke, turning around not to see the magazine any longer.

"Sign it to Sakura-chan my number one fan, then your name."

"Okay," Kurama said, signing the picture.

"Thank you sooooo much! My friends are gonna flip when they see this!"

"You're welcome."

Yusuke turned around to face the youkai after the girl left. "Okay what the hell? Have you ever gotten any fans like that?"

"I have been stopped before and asked for an autograph, but I've never had such an enthusiastic fan like her before."

"Wow. Wait has any guy, like a gay guy, ever asked for your autograph."

"Yes."

"Like how many?"

"Why do you want to know that?"

"Only to prove my theory that you're a gay guy magnet."

"Is this something that you and Kuwabara thought up?"

"No, just me and Koemna."

Kurama sweatdropped again, "I see…"

"So when are you going to model again?"

"This week."

"Cool, well good luck."

"I'll need it."

-----Airport

After eating with Yusuke, Kurama went to the airport and met up with Raven. What he had not told Yusuke was that he had been invited to go to San Francisco with Raven. And if he did tell him, he wasn't going to tell his loud-mouthed friend that it was with just him, no other model.

"Hello Itooshi."

"The only thing I appreciate is that you told me a few days earlier about this trip."

"Well I didn't want you to be angry with me if I had sent Akira and Nobuo to do it for you while I carried you to my limo. Do you have your phone with you?"

"Yes."

"Okay then we're ready to go."

"Wait why did you only invite me to San Francisco?"

"Well let me be honest with you Shuuichi. My sister Dolores lives in San Francisco and I wanted to visit her for the longest time. And remember when I asked you if you drank? Well I was invited to this rave there and they have great drinks. And I wanted to spend more quality time with you out of work."

Kurama blushed softly, "Thank you, but you do know that I have to get back to Japan as soon as possible right?"

"Yeah don't worry it won't be so long. And don't worry about getting a hangover at the rave, because I'm brining plenty of Eki-kyabe [2] to make a drunken giant sober. Now let's go!"

-----San Francisco, California

"I hate traveling so far on a plane," groaned Karasu as he got out of the plane.

"Well it's your fault and it's not like you didn't ride in first class."

"Shaddup."

"Who's gonna pick us up?"

"I can't tell you it's going to be my sister with the whole policies here because of that fucking 9/11. But I already have a ride and should be here soon, but until then, we have to get our luggage."

"What's our ride going to be?"

"A limo, from then I'm going to my sister's house to get my car and visit."

"You have a car here?"

"And a condo too. Hey I don't always stay in Japan."

Once they had their luggage and found the man holding a sign with Raven's name, they were off to Dolores' house.

Kurama imagined his sister to be a lot like Karasu, but hopefully less perverted. He looked out at the beautiful scenery of San Francisco and sighed happily. This was his first time in the United States, well Hawaii counted, but in the actual continent to be more precise. The place reminded him a lot of Tokyo except there weren't as many apartment complexes or Asians.

"Hey Raven?"

"Yes?"

"The driver that had the sign… why did it have Emilio Cortez?"

"Oh that. Well my name is not Raven. I mean what Spanish and Japanese parents would name their child Raven if they're living in Spain? Emilio Satoshi Cortez Hanai is my full name."

"Then why Raven?"

"When I was little, around four or five back in Spain, one of my older cousins Maria Fernanda said that I reminded her of a raven since crows are all black while ravens have hints of blue and I have blue eyes. In Spanish to say crow is cuervo and ironically enough it's the same word for raven. Funny though, in Japanese karasu is used for both crow and raven. Maria Fernanda was learning English at the time and started calling me Raven. Everyone else started to call me that, even my sister and soon my parents did."

"And so that became your nickname? Did you have it legalized as your first name?"

"Nah, I like it better as a nickname. But I don't want you to stop calling me Raven. In my signature it's R. Emilio S. Cortez, only because I accepted Raven as a part of me."

"I see. How old is your sister?"

"Dolores is thirty-three."

-----Dolores' residence

Ding-dong.

"Coming!" piped a tiny voice and opened the door.

Kurama didn't see anyone, but when he looked down he saw a little boy with brown hair and blue eyes wearing some casual shorts and a little basketball jersey with the number 55. The boy sort of looked like Raven but had his own distinct appearance.

"TIO!" the boy jumped into Karasu's arms and hugged him.

"Peter!" Raven replied hugging the boy back. "How's my favorite boy?"

"I'm great! And guess what! I have muscles!" Peter flexed his left arm, showing Raven hi biceps.

"Wow they're huge! Are you going to be a wrestler?"

"I was thinking about that, but boxing is cooler! I'm gonna be one when I grow up!"

"Let's a punch right here," said Karasu pointing at his arm. His nephew punched him with all his might. "Ow! That really hurt. At your rate you'll be a champion when you're eighteen."

"That's cuz I practice every day." Peter beamed at his uncle and finally took notice of Kurama. "Who's that?"

"Oh him? He's a good friend of mine. His name is Shuuichi Minamino. Say hello to my nephew Shuuichi."

"Hello Peter," replied Kurama.

"Hi Shu… umm how do you say it again, tio?"

"Shuuichi, but you can call him Kurama if it's too hard," said Raven.

"Koo-rah-ma? Is that right?"

"Yup."

"Okay, hi Kurama."

"Peter who are you talking to?" said a woman's voice.

"Está hablando con su tio, Lola!" [3]

A woman with long braided blonde hair and green eyes through the door, "Raven is that you?!"

"Aw you make it seem that I haven't seen you in years!" he replied giving his sister a hug.

"You freak you didn't even call! What did you expect me to do?"

"Hey I did call you… oh wait did your husband answer the phone?"

"Ugh he probably did and didn't bother to tell me. But anyway please come in. Oh who's your friend?"

"Oh this is Shuuichi Minamino."

"Tio says I can call him Kurama since I can't say Shu… Shu… his name."

"Well you both come on in. I'll call Victor down."

Kurama followed Raven as his nephew pulled him to the living room. The room was small, but it had all the furniture a living room had. There were red sofas with Victorian style flowers with gold lining, a few curio cabinets with fine china, and a large table in the middle. Kurama and Karasu sat on the love seat, while Peter ran into the kitchen.

"They seem nice."

"Well you haven't met all of them yet."

"Raven."

"Victor," he replied giving his brother-in-law a hug, slapping each other's backs. "How's it going?"

"Pretty good, pretty good. How's Japan?"

Victor was Dolores' husband. He was born in Mexico but raised in Sacramento all his life. He visited Mexico many times, to know his roots and visit his relatives during vacations from school. Victor came from a town known as Allende, famous for once being a French colony many years ago. Because of that, it was no surprise why Victor had light brown hair and blue eyes. He was very tall, a bit past six feet and had fair skin. Despite his European-American appearance, he spoke perfect Spanish and spoke to his children as much as he could in it.

"Still the same, but it's getting better. And how's the job?"

"It's doing well. Right now I'm working on a project for a new building in downtown."

"That's great. Oh and this is Shuuichi Minamino. He's a friend I brought from Japan. Shuuichi this is my brother-in-law Victor Sandoval."

"Pleased to meet you," said Kurama, shaking Victor's hand.

"Likewise."

"Hey where did Peter go?" asked Raven.

"I think he went to find Kitty, our cat."

"You have a cat now? I never thought you liked them."

"Are you kidding? I used to have two dogs, three cats and a few pericos. [4] And well the kids really wanted one. So who was I to take that away from them when I used to have pets?"

"Good point. Where's Lucia? I haven't seen her yet."

"I'll go get her. Dolores should be coming down."

Once Kurama was sure that Victor was out of hearing range, he began to ask a myriad of questions.

"So he's form Spain as well?"

"No, he's from Allende in Mexico. He works as an architect and does a pretty damn well job of it."

"I see. How old is your nephew?"

"He's seven. I also have a niece who's four. She's somewhere around here… Hmm…" Raven turned around and looked behind the couch to see if anyone was hiding from the back. When he saw that no one was there, he looked near the entrance to the living room and caught a glimpse of a pink ribbon hiding behind.

"Lucia your tio is here…"

The pink ribbon moved and completely hid behind the entrance.

"Oh come on Lucia," pouted Raven. "Is it Shuuichi? Is it his ketchup hair? If it is then don't be afraid. He doesn't bite; I bite. Kurama tell her it's okay and that your head is not on fire."

"What-Ow!" Karasu stepped on Kurama's foot and gave him a look that said `you better play along if you know what's good for you.' "No my hair isn't on fire."

"No?" piped a little voice.

"No," said Kurama.

A little girl with blonde hair and green eyes wearing a stain pink ribbon in her hair hopped out of her hiding spot. She wore a little pink skirt and a white t-shirt along with some bunny slippers. Her face was covered with a rosy bashful blush but despite the timidity, she smiled brightly.

"Hey Lucia."

"Hi tio."

"How's my favorite girl?"

"I'm good…"

"Aww don't be shy. It's Shuuichi isn't it? His hair is not on fire."

"You sure?"

"I'm positive. See I'm touching his hair and it doesn't burn. You try."

Lucia slowly walked up towards Kurama, sliding her feet against the floor but then turned and hugged Raven's legs.

"Lucia your tio missed you so much," he answered hugging his niece tightly and giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Say hi to Shuuichi."

"Hi…" she replied shyly, hiding her face in Karasu's chest.

Kurama smiled. "Hi Rucia."

Raven's eyes opened wide and gave the red head another look. "What have I taught you? Peter!"

"Yeah?" yelled Peter from the kitchen.

"Get me a newspaper or magazine!"

"Okay!!"

A few seconds later Peter, along with an orange tabby cat, came with a newspaper and gave it to Karasu. Karasu rolled it up and hit Kurama on the head, eliciting giggles from both his niece and nephew.

"What did you do that for?!"

"You called her Rucia and if you knew even a bit on child psychology, they don't like their names to be manhandled. Lucia hit him on the head."

Raven gave his niece the rolled up newspaper and though hesitant, she hit the youkai on the head, receiving more giggles from her brother and herself.

"Ow. I'm sorry R-Lucia."

Lucia smiled and reached out her hand to touch Kurama's hair. Kurama leaned his body more towards the child, suddenly feeling the girl's touch on his head.

"It doesn't burn tio!" she squealed in delight continuing to touch Kurama's bright red hair.

Raven kissed Lucia's cheek, "See I told you so."

Suddenly Dolores came downstairs and entered the living room. "Sorry that took too long, Raven. Someone was on the phone and I needed to take care of it."

"That's okay Lola. I was just having fun with the kids."

"Mami his hair doesn't burn!"

"Tio hit Kurama with a newspaper, Mami!" said Peter, carrying his cat.

Dolores smiled, "I'm glad you two had fun. I'm sorry if they were a bother, Raven."

"What the hel-heck Lola? You know that I love these kids. They're never a bother and ask for Kurama, mreh he can care less."

"They're lovely, ma'am."

"Call me Dolores, or just Lola."

"Hey why aren't you at work Lola?"

"It's a Saturday Raven."

"I lost track of time Lola."

Lucia giggled as she nuzzled herself closer to her uncle's body. Kurama smiled at her causing the child to blush and hide her face into Raven's coat. Raven noticed this and kissed his niece's head.

"Looks like someone likes a certain redhead."

"No…" she replied shyly.

"Raven stop teasing Lucia."

"Why, does it remind you how I used to tease you, Lola?"

"Ha! You wish!"

"I don't wish, I know."

Dolores laughed, "Yes then I'd take your Freddie and hold it for ransom."

Raven pouted, "And I'd go and complain to Mamá and you'd call me a crybaby."

"God I've missed you Raven."

Dolores gave his brother a big hug; Raven sure that Lucia was not in the way and returned the hug. Kurama held Lucia on his lap and watched how the two siblings expressed their joy to one another. The youkai was not exactly used to seeing such affection or love to anyone, unless it was mother and child or between lovers. He was amazed that the two Cortez did not mind the close intimacy, but then realized that perhaps the hug was a norm for them.

After about an hour of talking with his family, Raven finally gave his niece and nephew some gifts that he bought in Japan. For Peter, he gave him many mecha models and posters of his favorite anime and videogame characters. He also gave him a video game that was not yet in the United States, but had already translated into English. For his niece, Raven gave her a lot of Sanrio products and cutesy-type anime toys. Once the gifts had been given, the crow said his goodbyes to his family and took his car from their driveway, waving goodbye and driving to his condo.

"That was a long goodbye."

"We usually have long goodbyes."

"And you kiss each other on the cheeks?"

"Yeah, it's just something that we do when we greet or say farewell."

Kurama sighed, not in boredom but to give more air to his lungs. "I liked your family. They were really nice, especially your niece and nephew. Not to sound rude or obtuse, but how much do you love those children?"

Karasu turned his back Viper to the right. "Those kids are my world. They may not be mine, but I love them that much. I honestly wouldn't mind having any kids."

The redhead smiled.

"What? You don't think I can be a good father?"

"No it's not that. I'm just imagining you if you were a dad. I think it be quite humorous."

Raven smirked, "But that doesn't mean I won't be a good dad."

"No, it doesn't."

"Wait till you see my parents. You'll love them."

"You want me to meet them? That sounds like something kind of formal. Did you tell your sister that I'm your boyfriend?"

"Nah, I told her that you're this guy I met that now works for me and that I'd like to get to know better."

------Raven's Condominium

"You have a nice place."

"Yeah it's nice isn't it? Well you'll be sleeping on this couch and don't worry it turns into a bed. Unless you don't mind sleeping with me on my queen size bed."

"No I don't want to sleep with you," Kurama said almost undignified. "The couch is fine."

"Whatever floats your boat."

"When is the rave?"

"It's tonight around eleven. So I suggest that you bathe, take a nap and eat before we go. You have plenty of time anyway. It's…" Raven looked at the clock in his kitchen. "It's 4:35, so it's about seven hours before we go. And I suggest that you wear leather."

"Why leather?"

"It's a gothic rave, so yeah… it would be best if you wear something that blends in. Do you have any kind of those clothes?"

"If you really must know, yes and do not ask me why I do. And yes I did bring it in my luggage. I had a feeling that you'd do something that would call for that style of clothing."

Karasu laughed, "Okay well just do what you need to do okay? I'll be taking a nice long nap. Food's in the fridge-"

"You have fresh food in that refrigerator?"

"Yes, I got some people to clean and buy some food before I arrived. So take as much food as you'd like. Couch is there to do whatever, TV has cable, my DVDs are on that shelf, videogames, books, it's there. You're at your house."

---- 10:17PM

It has seemed that the day had gone by very fast to Kurama. Karasu had bathed and taken a nap for most of the seven hours, not bothering Kurama one bit. The fox had explored the crow's home and took advantage that he had some food. Later around five, he took a shower and took a nap on Karasu's couch until nine. After that he had eaten again, watched the television and searched his suitcase for some clothes.

By ten o'clock, Kurama was done. He had brought some tight black leather pants that had many belts with silver buckles and wore them. For his shoes, he had a pair of leather black shoes. His shirt was a little more difficult to decide in regards to matching with his outfit. He finally found a black muscle shirt and let Karasu's crucifix show.

When Karasu came out from his room, he wore tight leather pants with black army boots under them. He wore a black fishnet shirt and a lot of spike bracelets, a spike collar with silver studs, and straps of leather in many random areas around his body. Raven's earrings were no longer small hoops, but black studs and wore black eyeliner and mascara. This was the first time that Kurama had seen Raven with his hair loose and not in a ponytail. He was dead sexy in his "full-metal goth" attire, but Kurama did not want to let Raven know that.

"Ready?" he asked munching on a sandwich that he made.

"Yes."

"Good."

"Where exactly is this rave at?"

"The place is called The Underground. It's like a secret community where people, err gothic nightlife people, go to party. It's not really that secret, but not many `normal' people acknowledge it as a place to go. But anyway, it's totally safe and fun."

"If you say so."

"Aw don't say that. Just trust me, okay?" Raven was already holding Kurama by the hips and pressed his forehead against his. Kurama's heart beat faster, feeling the demon's warm breath against his skin and being so close to him. He kissed Kurama's lips quickly and gently. "You look really hot."

Kurama turned a few shades pinker. He hadn't realized that he let Karasu do many things to him that he didn't allow before, like the closeness and the kisses. He didn't even feel his arms move around the crow's neck, giving Raven the message to kiss him again. He complied and Kurama returned the kiss.

He wish he knew why he had these feelings for his estranged boss, who was obviously Karasu reincarnated. Perhaps deep down inside, he knew that he always had felt something for the crow even if didn't want to admit it. When he first met Karasu, he was all worked up and broke his usual serious disposition. No one else had ever done that to him, other than what happened to the Game King back in the time with Sensui. And Kurama knew very well that he had found Karasu very attractive despite how sadistically crazy the demon was.

Karasu planted a kiss on Kurama's throat and pulled away. "We'd better go."

Kurama nodded in agreement.

----The Underground

The outside of the building was ordinary and had nothing special, only that it was a tall brick building and that the main entrance was in the alley next to it. When Raven knocked on the side door, a small slide door opened, showing someone's eyes.

"Who are you?"

"Raven Cortez. This is a friend I brought. I was told I could bring up to three guests."

The eyes lowered down and the sound of a page turning was heard. "Raven Cortez. Alright you can come in."

A big, tall and hefty man who held a clipboard with several names opened the black door and let them in. Raven held Kurama's hand as they went through the door, past the bouncer and down the stairs and into the door that led into the warehouse basement. It wasn't so much as a basement, but like a huge nightclub bar and dance floor with music blaring all over the place.

Upon entering, they walked through the bar area of The Underground. This was the first time that Kurama had seen anything like it. The people in the dance floor looked like they were either dancing or having sex, or that's how it looked to Kurama with all the darkness and bright flashing lights in the middle. At the far side of the bar, there was the DJ with a small stage at the corner, probably for guests or karaoke.

"I'm going to talk to the DJ. Come on."

"Through all these people?"

"No, through that path over there," replied Raven, pointing at another route then took Kurama by the hand and led him to the DJ's table.

"Hey Mike!"

"Raven!? Whoa dude where've you been?" shouting against the loud music.

"In Japan! What up!"

"Everything's been cool! About `bout you?!!"

"Just fine! Hey was the guest today?!"

"Well other than Manson, it's you! Why don't you do some karaoke!?"

"What!?"

"Come on it'll rock! Get your ass on the stage and I'll play you a song!"

"Fine!" Raven quickly jumped onto the stage and winked at Kurama.

"Hey everyone this is DJ Mike and I have a real treat for all of you. For karaoke time, we have a good friend of mine, Raven Cortez. That's right, it's the same guy that created the world famous Erotic Magazine!"

The crowd began to clap, whistle and howl as the lights spotted the karaoke stage and shined brightly at Raven's dark figure. Mike gave the crow the microphone and Raven's face went a few shades brighter.

"In honor of our special guest, we're going to play one of his songs and Raven here has to sing it. Are you ready, Raven?"

"Hit me."

"Here we go!"

With a few buttons pressed the stereo system began to play the intro to a song. Kurama didn't recognize the song or the artist who could have produced such strange music. It must have been something in the rock genre, since it nothing else could seem possible to play in such dark place.

"Everything's been said before. Nothing left to say anymore. When it's all the same you can ask for it by name."

Raven's singing was loud, but very gentle. Although he didn't look like the singing type, his voice was better than great; it was beautiful. Kurama was shocked at the sudden discovery of Raven's talent and continued to listen. Suddenly from behind the stage appeared the infamous Marilyn Manson came beside Raven and sang with him.

"Babble, babble, bitch, bitch. Repel, repel, party, party, sex, sex, sex and don't forget the violence. Blah, blah, blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely stick your stupid slogan in. Everybody sing along."

The Antichrist Superstar stopped singing whenever Raven sang the verses and waited until the verses.

"Babble, babble, bitch, bitch. Repel, repel, party, party, sex, sex, sex and don't forget the violence. Blah, blah, blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely stick your stupid slogan in. Everybody sing. Are you motherfuckers ready for the new shit? Stand up and admit it, tomorrow's never coming. This is the new shit! Stand up and admit it. Do we need it? NO! Do we want it? YEAH! This is the new shit. Stand up and admit it."

After the second verse, he hugged Raven, said something to him, shook hands and left the stage, leaving Karasu to sing.

"Now it's you know who! I got the you know what. I stick ityou know where, you know why, you don't care. Now it's you know who! I got the you know what. I stick it you know where, you know why, you don't care."

For every emphasis he put in a word, he thrust his hips at Kurama's direction and licking his lips in a seductive manner, causing Kurama to be as red as a tomato. It was clear that Raven really wanted to make the youkai feel uncomfortable and somewhat aroused. It almost worked, but Kurama reminded himself that it was just a small game that Karasu was playing with him.

After he finished the song, the crowd clapped and howled in approval. Mike quickly changed the music to something more dance related and the crowd slowly started to dance. Raven jumped out of the stage and walked to Kurama.

"So what you think?"

"What was that?"

"That was This is the New Shit by Marilyn Manson."

"You look like you knew him."

"Yeah I've met him before. He just wanted to say hi before he left The Underground. He already performed earlier today and is off to a hotel to get some sleep for his next gig."

"I see."

"Let's dance."

"Now?"

"Yes now. Come on."

Raven pulled Kurama by his wrist and led him almost to the middle of the dance floor. The music suddenly became fast paced, like the techno music that is played in Japan's nightclubs. The sound was pleasant and almost erotic. It surprised Kurama that the music was indeed some type of techno, but mixed with some rock music in the background.

The crow grinded his hip against Kurama's, nudging him to stop thinking and start dancing. Slowly the redhead began to dance to the beat of the new music. At first he kept thinking about how close Karasu was rubbing against him and if his way of dancing was similar to the Americans.

Sensing the fox's worry, Raven whispered into his ear. "Don't worry, just think about nothing and have fun." He left a warm tingling feeling in Kurama's ear, sending shivers all over his body.

Gaining a little more confidence, Kurama began to loosen himself and danced without any thought. Raven wrapped on arm behind Kurama's back and placed it a few centimeters above his backside. He pulled the boy closer and rubbed his crotch against Kurama's thighs. Kurama seemed to have not noticed because he responded by moving his body up and down, compacting his thighs and hips towards the crow's groin. Suddenly Raven moved so that Kurama would rest on his upper leg, rasping against Kurama's tight groin area.

The fox felt his pants become tighter, if that was even possible. But that didn't stop him from moving up and down Karasu's leg. He loved the feeling of the crow's lithe and sweaty body against his, putting so much friction next to smooth hot skin, engorging his pleasure and desire past the limit.

Raven let his hand swipe down to Kurama's buttocks and cupped one firm cheek and squeezed it tightly, drawing a soft moan from his dance partner. (Strangely he didn't mind the intrusion.)

By the time the music had changed to another song, Kurama and Raven were having dry sex, even though, surprisingly, that Raven didn't even intend to do it. It was all an exotic erotic dance, like some sort of cult gala to praise the pagan gods in an orgiastic manner. But none of them seemed to care at all. Their hardened sexes banged and rubbed against one another, not producing any moans of pleasure, but a bigger desire to dance. Raven lowered his body up and down, stroking his face and cheeks against Kurama's crotch, licking the bulge whenever he could, while Kurama continued to dance against the crow as if nothing was going on.

Finally, after so much rubbing and so much friction between the two demons, Kurama released violently into his tight leather pants extracting a loud scream from the back of his throat. Karasu looked at Kurama in concern, only to receive and hard shove.

"What did I do?"

"You bastard, why did you touch me like that!?"

Raven was shocked at the sudden angry outburst. It was his first time that he ever heard Kurama say bastard. "Like what?"

"You were practically fellating and groping me! Now you've made a damn mess in my pants."

"Itooshi I-"

"Don't "itooshi" me you asshole. God I don't even know why I let you do whatever to me." And with that Kurama struggled his way out of the dance floor and went to the nearest bathroom. He pushed his way into a stall and locked the door, pulling open his fly and pants to examine the mess. It wasn't as bad as he thought, but the fact that Karasu had made him ejaculate into his pants, tight leather pants mind you, infuriated him immensely.

Who gave him the permission to touch him like that? Kurama had never given him any consent to grope and molest him any manner. But then a small voice at the back of his head chided him for being so cynical about his true feelings. The kitsune knew that he had liked the experience, but would never come up to admit that he enjoyed it. Furiously he grabbed some toilet paper and cleaned his pants the best he could and wiped away any traces of semen from his flaccid sex.

After he made sure that he was clean, Kurama pulled up his pants, washed his hands and left the bathroom, heading for the bar. The bar was relatively long, with many strange colorful fluorescent drinks. There were several bartenders serving random people that came from the rave and the tables. Kurama sat down at the bar and sighed.

"Need a drink kid?" replied a gothic girl in the Lolita style.

"Yeah I need some… what's that drink? Give me some clear rum."

"Coming right up."

"Hey bartender, give me some Everclear," said an average looking man. Nothing about him seemed gothic; his clothes were black only because it seemed to have been the uniform for the rave. He had dark blonde hair and olive colored eyes. He had several different piercing on his face: eyebrows, lip, nose, and ears. He wasn't so attractive, but he wasn't that ugly. He was just plain average.

"Here's the rum and here's your Everclear sir."

"Thank you," Kurama and the stranger replied in unison.

"Jinx."

"Huh?"

"I said jinx," replied the stranger.

"Oh, I don't know many of these customs."

"You're not from around here are you?"

"No."

"I'm Alex."

"Shuuichi."

"So Shuuichi, are you new to San Francisco or just this country in general?"

"This country in general."

Very soon Kurama engaged himself in a conversation with the stranger, not noticing that Alex had switched the shots. Kurama's mouth became dry from the talking and took a shot of his `rum.'

"Argh, this burns. It's like gasoline or something."

Alex took a shot of his `Everclear.' " Rum's like that at the first shot, but it gets better in the second and doesn't have that much alcohol. Want another shot?"

"Sure, I guess," said Kurama with a headache rearing its ugly head. Alex ordered another shot of Everclear. "Is Everclear some brand of rum?"

Alex took advantage of the fact that Kurama didn't know so much about the alcoholic beverages in American bars. He began to formulate a plan to get him to drink at least three shots by the end of the night. Three shots were enough to knock down an average weight human. "Yeah." The bartender gave them two more shots of the super alcohol. "Here try it again."

"Okay," and the youkai gulped another shot of the bitter liquid. "Argh. This drink is very strong."

"Here I promise you that this next shot will be better."

"I don't think so. My head is starting to hurt. I'd better go."

"Just another one."

"No. I…" Kurama's vision started to be blurry and waving up and down.

"That's right, have another." Alex gave Kurama the third shot of Everclear. The fox put the glass up to his lips and drank about half of the beverage, spilling the rest over his chin and neck. By that time the alcohol had given full effect and literally screwed up the redhead. Kurama walked and stumbled around, with Alex watching carefully to see if he was completely drunk.

Raven, who had been looking for Kurama for the past half hour, finally caught sight of his bright red hair at the bar, but noticed that he was falling and faltering all over the floor. He saw Alex grabbing Kurama by the wrist, pulling him and groped him.

----Flashback

Raven was sixteen years old and four months and still lived in the United States. He was having the time of his life with his friends, when Joshua had invited him and all their other friends to this party. The party was not a regular kind where high school students went, but a college frat party. There would be a lot of older men, women and tons and tons of drugs and alcohol.

Raven wanted to go very badly, but knew that his mother or father would never let him go to such a gathering. So his friend and him began to connive a lie to tell Raven's parents where they were going that Friday night. They managed to tell them that it was a small party that the sophomores where having to fundraise some money for their class and that afterwards Raven would spend the night at Joshua's house.

Of his group, David was his best friend. During the party, they danced and drank. Raven already knew how to drink and was careful not to get himself drunk. Every time he opened a drink and left it alone, he never came back for it, knowing that someone could have put something in there.

"Yo Emi! Great party huh?" said Joshua. Emi was his nickname that his friends had given him. It was short for Emilio, being that when he lived in the US, he called himself his true name.

"It rocks! How'd ya get invited to this place?"

"My cousin is one of the dudes that's hosting the party! It kicks ass doesn't it?"

"Hells yeah!"

"Thirsty?" asked David, giving Raven an open can of beer.

"Yeah thanks," he replied chugging the drink without any thought.

As the party progressed, Raven began to feel tipsy. He bumped into several people, getting pushed and shoved back in return. Some people began to curse and him, while he punched and kicked many of them back. Samuel, another friend, had to pull him away from beating down a large college jock into a pulp.

His friend placed him on a couch. "Hey Emi I think you'd better go home."

"Nah I'm f-f-fine…" Now Raven's voice had become slurred and his eyes drooped heavily along with his head moving around as if he had no control.

"Hey I'll take Emi home, Sam," said David.

"Alright. Up you go Emilio."

Then everything became dark.

A heavy pressure on chest had woken him up, but he still saw with dizziness vision. He saw that he didn't have his clothes on and that a sharp pain had struck his back. It became black again. When he opened his eyes, slightly though, he saw David, naked as well, taking him without any care. Raven tried to move, but his muscles ached all over and he found no energy to budge.

"I finally have you. Fucking slut. Fucking beautiful slut."

It was dark again.

Several times, he woke up to find his friend still taking him or thrusting his penis into his mouth, triggering Raven to cough out all the release from his mouth. By the time he fully woke up, David was finishing getting dressed. A strong ache began to arise from his stomach. And suddenly, without any warning Raven began to vomit on the bed sheets.

David chuckled as he slipped on his shirt and jacket. "Emi you were wonderful."

"What did you do to me!?" screamed Raven.

"Slipped in a few date rape drugs in your beer. You're such a stupid moron, slut."

Raven was already in tears, mortified for what happened. "Why!? Why did you do it!?"

"Because I always wanted you Emilio, that's why. But the last thing I need is for people to think I was gay or something. What happened tonight was perfect. Slut, you're my slut Emilio and that's all you'll ever be. Dirty whore, thanks for the great time," and walked out the door.

Raven wailed in the room, not caring that the smell of vomit was coming to his nose. His best friend had just raped him and left.

"Why did he do this… what did I do to deserve this. Mama… mama… MAMA! WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME! WHY!?" he sobbed more loudly, covering his eyes with his hands.

The sound of a car was heard outside the two-story building. Raven rushed outside to see whose car is was. It was the red corvette that was given to David on his sixteenth birthday about six months ago. Raven fumed.

"That bastard is not going to get away with his. He won't. He won't. He won't. He won't. He fucking won't! I'll kill him myself!"

The mirror in the room had burst into tiny pieces. The lights had gone out of the building. The emergency escape ladder came loose and fell directly on David's corvette. But it wasn't over. The power lines adjacent to the frat house ripped apart and swung towards the car and electrocuted it, causing a huge fire. People came out from all over, screaming "fire, fire!" and other random words.

Raven looked out the window to see what happened. He began to feel weak against the knees and slumped down to the floor.

"I couldn't have done this. No it wasn't me…"

It was four-thirty in the morning when Raven came back to his house. He came through bus and walked six miles to his house, since he didn't know much about public transportation. Raven didn't dare go to the front door, but when to his back yard and knocked on Dolores' window.

When his sister opened the window, she was furious with Raven for sneaking back home that way. But when she saw his tears, she opened her arms and consoled her brother and slept with him on her bed.

----End Flashback

Raven immediately went up to Alex and punched him in the face.

"Fucking asshole, what you do to him!?"

Alex fell and got back up, "None of your business, bitch!?"

Raven punched the man repeatedly, attracting a crowd of people to the scene. Alex retaliated, but Raven was unfazed by the hits and continued to beat the stranger until the staff pulled him away.

"That's enough!"

Alex was almost unconscious, but Raven was still not satisfied. He picked up Kurama from his fallen stupor and carried him to his car. Later when Alex got into the parking lot, the sign to The Underground fell right on top of him, instantaneously killing him.

----Raven's Condo

Arriving at his home, Raven laid Kurama on his bed and loosened his clothes. Raven quickly changed his pants into something more comfortable, leaving himself bare-chested. When he looked back at Kurama, the fox had just run to the bathroom, vomiting in the toilet.

Raven held Kurama's hair back, as he extracted the disgusting bile out of his system. When he finished, Karasu gave Kurama some Eki-Kyabe and water. He carried Kurama to his bed and laid him in his bed.

Kurama groaned and yelled for some aspirin, which Raven quickly complied and brought a glass of water and more Eki-Kyabe. After Kurama gulped the aspiring and more Eki-Kyabe, he slowly drifted to sleep.

Raven lay next to the redhead, feeling almost no regret. `I saved you from what I went through. I would never ever forgive myself if anything ever happened to you. I regret that I upset you and it caused you to meet some pervert, but I'm so happy that I saved you in time. I love you Itooshi.'

He got up. Carefully surveying his home, he finished locking all windows and doors and went to sleep at Kurama's side.

The sun was starting to rise from the east, lighting Karasu's room with a bit of light. Kurama woke up and looked at the bottles of Eki-Kyabe at the nightstand to his right and smiled. The medicine really did take out the feelings of the hangover that was to come.

The fox looked around the room and saw that Raven had still not awakened from his sleep. He was about to go back to dreamland when he noticed something on Raven's back. At first he thought it was just something from his head, but upon closer inspection, he saw that the blanket was covering something black on his back. Out of curiosity, Kurama pulled back the blanket from the crow's back and almost gasped.

On Raven's back was a large tattoo of a crow, doing the standard frontal pose of a phoenix. However it was all in black and there were two heads. One was a crow, by the straightness of the beak and the other was a raven, which could be easily seen by the curved and humped beak.

At the bottom of the large tattoo was a message:

Only God Can Judge Me.

-----End of Chapter

[1] I know that it's the other way around. I'm not stupid.

[2] Eki-Kyabe is a medicine for indigestion, but also works well for hangovers

[3] He's talking to his uncle Lola! Also Lola is the nickname of people named Dolores.

[4] Pericos means parrots

And Marilyn Manson has not met Karasu nor do I own him. As far as I know it, he's Dita's bitch.

Sorry this chapter took too long, but hey this was going to be a long chapter in general. I hope you liked this chapter as much as I did.

What's going to happen now with Kurama and Raven? And what more strange instances have happened to our favorite crow demon?

Find out in chapter 8!

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