Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Fox or Snake? ❯ Driver's Ed. ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Fox or Snake?
a fanfic by: Tori Singer

Disclaimers: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. I'm just writing for other's enjoyment.
Warnings: This fic contains Yaoi, male male love. Also, this fic isn't for kiddies. Well, you can read it at any age, I don't care, but other people do. Oh well. Such is life.
Pairings: Hiei/Kurama/Hiei Yep, they both take turns! o_~ hee hee.
Thanks: I'm taking this time to thank all my loyal reviewers. Thanks for taking your time to indulge yourself in my fantasy world, AKA my fanfics. Peace out.
-Tori
Chapter five:

"Now Hiei, this is the steering wheel. It lets you move the car in any direction you want." Kurama explained, pointing to said object. Hiei sat in the driver's seat, sweating bullets. Kurama continued.
"This is how you start the car. Put this key in the ignition. Uh, no Hiei, THIS is the ignition." Hiei moved his hand and placed the key in the slot. Hiei glanced over at the passenger seat. Kurama was watching him with an intense gaze.
"Now what do I do?" Kurama smiled softly at the innocent expression on his lover's face. He brought his hand and covered Hiei's over the key. Without breaking eye contact, he slowly turned the key, causing both their hands to turn it. The car started it's low rumbling. Hiei broke his gaze and stared straight ahead. Kurama took this as a time to continue.
"Ok, this pedal here makes the car go, the harder you press it, the faster it will go. This pedal here is the brake, it makes the car stop. The harder you press it, the faster it'll stop. Only slam the brakes when you're in danger of hitting something." Hiei glanced down at his feet, which seemed so far away from the pedals that Kurama was talking about. He felt his cheeks redden. 'Curse my small stature!' Hiei glowered. Kurama, noting his predicament, reached over and pushed the seat button, causing Hiei to jerk in surprise when the seat started moving closer to the wheel. Kurama chuckled. Turning around and facing the back, Kurama spoke to his friends.
"Oh come on Yuusuke, Kuwabara, don't you think the helmets are a bit much?" Kurama pleaded with his fully armor-clad friends. Yuusuke's head rattled as he turned toward his redheaded friend.
"No way Kurama! I wanna live to see another day! I know we're not going to make it without incident." With that, Yuusuke adjusted his army helmet and tightened his seat belt. Kuwabara did the same. Kurama sighed and flopped around and faced Hiei.
"Ok koibito, now I'm going to explain the rules of the road. Ok, this button turns on the blinker, it shows when you're going to turn. You push it this way when you wanna turn left, and this way when you wanna turn right." Kurama pushed the levers in both directions to show Hiei how they worked.
"And when you come to a stop light, when the light's red, you stop and when it's green you can go. And stop signs mean you have to stop before proceding, after you make sure the way's clear." Hiei leaned close to the stearing wheel, inspecting a button on it that had a picture of a trumpet on it. Curiousity got the best of the koorime.
"Oi, what's this button do?" Following Hiei's gaze, Kurama noticed he was about to....
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!!" Hiei jumped back in his seat and drew his katana. Yuusuke and Kuwabara shrieked and covered their ears. Kurama looked frazzled. He widened his eyes as he saw Hiei threatening the car with his sword. He reached over and grabbed Hiei's wrist. Hiei glared at the kitsune.
"It has challenged me, I must fight to the death!" With that, he pulled out of Kurama's grasp. Kurama gasped.
"Wait Hiei! It's just the horn! It makes that noise to signify other drivers that something's wrong or the other driver is doing something wrong. It's just to get somebody's attention!" Kurama took a deep breath after that spouting that out in one breath. Hiei looked like he was contemplating this information. Finally, he sheathed his sword and looked at Kurama.
"Ok then, what now?" Kurama sighed in relief.
"Now, this is the gear shift. See how it has a P for Park, and R for Reverse, which means the car will move backward. D for Drive. To go forward, you put it on the D. It's in Park right now. Whenever you stop and leave the car, you always put it in Park. It's so the car can't go anywhere." Hiei looked confused.
"But, why would the car wanna go anywhere?" Kurama bugged his eyes. 'This is gonna be harder than I thought....' He sighed and explained all he knew about cars to the listening koorime. Their friends sat in the back seat, counting their minutes until their certain doom would be upon them. The moment Hiei started driving.
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"Ok, Hiei, did you get all of that? Do you understand?" Kurama asked, rubbing his temples trying to will away the headache that started.
"Hn, I'm ready." Hiei stated, placing his small hands on the wheel. Kurama smiled and buckled his seat belt, he was uncomfortably seated with his tail curled at the floorboard. He turned to his lover.
"Ok, buckle your seatbelt. Like this." He reached over and grabbed the seatbelt next to Hiei's waist. Hiei watched as Kurama pulled it over his lap and stuck it in a slot on his other side. Hiei placed his hand over Kurama's, still sitting on the belt. Kurama looked up and met intense ruby eyes.
"Greeneyes, we will find a cure for you." Hiei watched as Kurama's eyes filled with joyful tears.
"That we will firefly." With that, he settled back in his seat. Hiei turned his attention back to the car. 'Ok, I can do this, no ningen contraption is gonna stop me from getting Kurama that cure.' That resolved, he put his foot on the brake, and placed his hand on the gear shift. Taking a deep breath, he slowly put the car into drive. Now he was ready to go. Kurama held his breath. Yuusuke and Kuwabara huddled together. Hiei slowly let his foot off the brake. The car started rolling.....toward a tree. Lessons flew out the window as Hiei panicked and yelped.
"Kurama! It's moving! What do I do!?" Kurama frantically looked around.
"The brake! Push the bra-...!" *THUMP
".....................Well I got it to stop." Hiei looked rather shaken as he stared at the tree in front of them. Kurama uncovered his eyes and looked around. There didn't seem to be any damage to the car or it's passengers. He glanced over at Hiei.
"Firefly, next time, push the brake." Hiei nodded at his lover's statement.
"Hn, I'll try." He brought his hands back to the steering wheel. He stopped when he heard a muffled cry from the back seat. He and Kurama turned around and saw their friends huddled together, shaking and scared. Hiei snorted.
"You weaklings. Getting scared over nothing." Kuwabara turned red in the face.
"Well shrimp, I'm not the one who panicked and crashed the car into a tree!" He yelled and huddled closer to Yuusuke, who was shaking and hiding his face. Hiei stammered and jerked around in his seat.
"Hn, I'd like to see you do any better you moron." Kuwabara shook Yuusuke off and lunged toward Hiei, getting detained for he was still wearing a seatbelt.
"You shrimp! I'll get you! I, the great Kuwabara, will crush you!" He frantically struggled to get closer to the fire demon. Kurama silenced him.
"Kuwabara, we need to concentrate on getting to the park. Now, I think Hiei's doing a great job. Now, put it in Reverse Hiei." Hiei beamed under Kurama's praise. He brought his foot to the brake once again, pulling the gear shift into Reverse.
"Now, look behind you, turn around until you can see where you're going." Hiei twisted around and looked behind him. He then slowly brought his foot off the pedal. This time the car didn't go anywhere, they were going uphill. Hiei looked at Kurama.
"Barely touch the gas pedal. Just barely, you'll know how much you need. Then you have to turn the wheel in this direction to face that way." With that, the fox tightened his grip on his shoulder strap. Hiei nodded and slowly pushed on the pedal. The car started inching backward. Hiei beamed. He was doing it! He was doing it! He was.....heading straight for the house! Kurama screamed softly and Hiei frantically tried to turn the wheel, he turned it and nearly creamed a rose bush. Hiei put the brakes on and stopped, facing the sideway leading to the driveway in the front yard. Breathing hard, he turned to check on his fox. Kurama seemed peeved that he got too close to his roses, but other than that he looked fine. Green eyes turned and met red ones.
"Hiei, you did well, we're facing in the right direction, AND you missed the house and my roses." Kurama's face lit up in a bright smile. Hiei felt his heart melting. He couldn't help it. His face broke out in a fangy grin. Gaining courage, Hiei readied the car, ready to head toward the driveway and the road. He was a little nervous about this, all those other people......
"Go on Hiei, you can do it." Kurama reassured his lover. Hiei sighed. He put his foot down on the gas, causing the car to roll toward the driveway. He dodged the few trees and emerged in the front yard triumphant. Yuusuke and Kuwabara cheered. Hiei grinned. Kurama smiled gently at his lover.
"I did it." It was barely above a whisper, but Kurama caught it.
"Of course you did. I had no doubts." Kurama grinned and stared straight ahead. The grin vanished quickly though, as he remembered they had about 10 miles to go.....through town....with all those other cars....oh boy.....
Hiei inched the car along until he reached the end of the driveway, now all he had to do was turn onto the street. Sounds easy, but yeah right. Hiei gulped faintly and barely let the car inch forward. Kurama turned to Hiei.
"Ok Hiei, now, you look down the street that way and see if there is any cars." Kurama watched as Hiei leaned forward and stared down the street. Hiei sat back.
"Nope, none."
"Ok, now you look this way too, if it's clear, and there's no cars coming, you can pull out." He glanced both ways, noting the way was clear, he turned to Hiei to see how he would do. Hiei turned the wheel and started onto the street. Kurama sucked in his breath.
"Ok, Hiei, when you get on the road, keep the car on the right side. See those yellow lines? They mean that cars are moving the opposite direction as you over there. Stay over here at all costs. I'll help you when we get to and intersection." Hiei nodded and focused on straightening the car. Yuusuke was huddled down in the seat, holding his head in his hands. He looked up and stared at Hiei through the rear view mirror.
"Hiei, don't you even think about wrecking my mother's car! I don't know how'll I'll explain to her why it's in a couple of fucking pieces!" Hiei looked at Yuusuke in the mirror, then did something childish. He stuck his tongue out at him. Yuusuke gasped.
"Why you......fucking runt!!" He started ranting and swinging his arms. Kuwabara didn't appreciate getting wapped in the face by flailing limbs.
"Urameshi! Keep damn arms on your own side of the car!" Yuusuke stopped and glared at Kuwabara.
"Phhht, fine carrot top." Yuusuke pouted against the window. Kuwabara looked like an enraged bull. But he kept his temper in check on account that they were about to enter town. He gulped and went back to huddling down in the seat. Kurama noted that they were about to get to the main highway that ran through town. There were cars all over the street. So far Hiei seemed to be doing a pretty good job at keeping the car in the road. He looked over at the driver, noticing that his lover was getting pretty pale. Concerned, he leaned toward him.
"Koibito? Are you okay?" Kurama watched as his lover paled more and glanced at Kurama.
"F-fine.....uh...Kurama?" Kurama was taken aback by Hiei's meak tone.
"What is it firefly?" He was getting really creeped now.
"I'm.......afraid a little...." He trailed off after the last sentence was whispered. Kurama's eyes widened.
"Hiei....." He whispered.
"You can do it. Just don't dwell on it. I'll help you through it." Hiei seemed comforted by these words. He sighed and approached the stop sign. Kurama intervined.
"Remember what I told you about stop signs?" He watched his lover.
"Yeah, stop and make sure the way's clear. Then go and stuff." Hiei shrugged it off. He needed to do this flawlessly. He slowed to a stop behind the sign. He looked at Kurama.
"Ok, now, watch the cars. When there's a space large enough, you can go. Ok, now after this red car you're clear." Hiei looked puzzled.
"Clear? What? What's that supposed to mean? Clear what?" Kurama sighed.
"When I say clear, I mean it's clear to go." Hiei's mouth formed an 'o.
"Ok."
"HIEI!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! I say after the RED car! Not the green one! Oh Inari!!"
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Hiei noted that the silence in the car was immense. He didn't think he did THAT bad......
Kurama still wouldn't talk to him. 'I didn't mean to make him mad. I thought that he meant THAT car. How was I supposed to know it wasn't red?' But as Hiei thought on this, he was doing ok so far. They were now 2 miles from the park. So far, no incidents....exept for that intersection incident...
*Flashback*

"Ok Hiei, this is the intersection, notice the light is red now. When it turns green, you're going to go straight through to the other side." Kurama sounded confident and cool, but he was frightened in reality. He knew Hiei had never done this before....but they didn't have THAT far to go. Nodding to himself, Kurama watched the traffic light. It turned green. He watched as Hiei started across the lane. But luck wouldn't be with them. A brown pickup turned on the red light, cutting Hiei off. Tires were squeeled. The truck barely missed the little blue car. Hiei, peeved at this, lept up and stuck his upper half out the window, leaving the car to drive by itself.....
"Watch where you're goin'.....you ningen fool!" Hiei bellowed, then he flipped the guy off. The truck started honking, and Hiei just screamed back. Kurama, panicked, yelled.
"HIEI!! The car!" The car was swerving around the road. Kurama lunged over and grasped the steering wheel. He fought with it, the car came close to creaming a bunch of kids on the sidewalk, then about took out some mailboxes. Kurama was frantic. Hiei ducked back in the car. He took control of the car, letting it slow down and and cruise on down the street. He glanced at his lover, who looked extremely pissed. Hiei cringed.
"Koi?" Kurama said through clenched teeth. Hiei wished a hole would come and eat him up. By the tone in his koibito's voice, he was in trouble.
"Yeah fox?" He said timidly. Kurama sucked in a breath and looked calmed down. His closed eyes suddenly jerked open and he screamed.
"Hiei! Don't you ever take your hands off the wheel again! You could've gotten us killed! Argh!" With that, he flopped in the seat and refused to look or speak to him. Hiei was crestfallen. He sullenly drove the car.
*End Flashback*

So yeah...he didn't think he was doing too shabby.....now all he had to do was get back in his fox's good graces.
'That shouldn't be too harrrrrd................SWEET SNOW!!!' Hiei stared at the ice cream truck making his rounds on the side streets. Taking a short nap, Kurama was shaken awake as the car suddenly veered to the left. He opened his eyes and looked around. First, he noticed Hiei looked like a raving maniac, and the car was speeding down the residential roads after......an Ice Cream truck?! It clicked with Kurama.
'Ice-cream.....sweet snow.....Hiei's gonna chase it! Holy shit!'
"Hiei! Leave the Truck alone! I'll.....I'll get you some sweet snow later!" Hiei glared at his lover.
"No! Sweet snow NOW!" He knew he was being childish, but he hadn't had sweet snow in like forever.... By now the ice-cream truck noticed someone was speeding after him. Thinking it was highjackers, he sped up and tried to outrun them. Hiei would have none of this.
"You bastard! Stop and give me my sweet snow! Errgh!" Hiei sped up as well, making it 50 miled an hour in a 15MPH zone. ...yeah...
"Hiei! Be reasonable! Slow down! Something!" Kurama wasn't getting through to his koi, he was in what he liked to call the "Snow Mode" in this mode, Hiei was unreachable mentally, for all that his mind was comprehending was that there was sweet snow nearby. Kurama knew that they would be in deep trouble if a cop seen them. He looked in the backseat, only to find the occupants were passed out cold. Kurama couldn't help but envy them....they're out...they won't see how they're going to die! So the chase kept on. Hiei, swerving cars and missing mailmen by an inch or so. Kurama mused that Hiei, when in "Snow Mode" seemed to be a much better driver. 'Go figure, of course, Hiei would do anything, even fuck a horse, if it meant he could have some ice-cream.' Kurama knew that there was nothing he could do now but tighten his seatbelt and brace himself for the crash that was sure to come. Hiei was chuckling to himself in a devilish way.
'I have him cornered now, all I have to do is cut him off.......HERE!'
*SCREEEEEEECH!!!!!
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*Sigh..."Are you done koi?" Kurama was rubbing his temples. Another headache was starting. He was sitting in the passenger seat, watching out the window. The view was pretty. It was one of his lover holding an ice-cream vendor hostage. Yep, you heard correctly. Hiei was keeping the guy with him. The truck had flipped onto it's side, where Hiei was sitting now, with a fudge stick hanging out of his mouth. He'd already eaten about 1/4 of the contents in the truck. His hands and face were covered in the sticky sweetness. The vendor looked about scared out of his wits. He was sitting 4 feet from the sweet toothed koorime. Hiei, looking over at Kurama, smirked. 'That sweet snow guy thought he was gonna get away with the stuff. Hn.' Hiei polished off his ice-cream stick and licked his chops. He jeered at the crowd of people that had gathered around. Then, he hopped off the side of the truck, and approached the driver's side of the car. He settled himself behind the wheel. He smiled at Kurama. Kurama sighed. No matter what Hiei did, no matter HOW embarrasing and such, he couldn't stay mad at his lover; especially not with him smiling at him with ice-cream smeared on his face. He smiled back at Hiei. Then licked his finger, and trailed it across the stickiness that was his lover's face. Hiei seemed alarmed at the offending finger, but relaxed as Kurama started cleaning him off. Sirens in the distance brought Kurama out of his reviere. He widened his eyes in alarm.
"Hiei! We have to go now! Go, drive out of here!" Hiei, not understanding, did as Kurama asked. About 3 miles from the park, Kurama sighed.
'Please, anybody who's up there....don't let there be an ice-cream truck enroute of our destination......'

Author's Notes: Hee hee...did you like? I did.....I hope to get some reviews for this baby! Peace out.
-Tori