Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Kitsunebi ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Yuu Yuu Hakusho nor do I make any money from this piece of fan fiction.

 

Reader Warnings: Shounen-ai (AKA Slash, M/M), lime, pairings: Hiei x Kurama, Yomi x Kurama, Yuusuke x Keiko, Kuwabara x Yukina

 

Chapter specific warning: Non-Con in progress near the end of the chapter. Nothing explicit, but consider yourself warned.

 

AN: Thanks for the few reviews you guys have written thus far; I really do appreciate and enjoy reading them. I love knowing that people are enjoying what I write. And I've just realized that while I'd intended for this to originally to be Kurama x Hiei (aka Kurama on top) I seem to be writing this for, well, Hiei on top. That said tags from this chapter on have been changed appropriately. Also, this is easily the hardest chapter for me to write so far, but bear with me, things will get better soon!

 

Kitsunebi

Chapter 6

 

Hiei exhales, feeling the cooling air of the late afternoon. He had spent the past few hours meditating to prepare himself for the task that lay ahead that evening: Entering Kurama's mind to free him from whatever after effects remained from Yomi's mind control pendant. Failure, Hiei knew, was not an option. Not after the times youko had saved him in the past. Not after the times the fox had patched him up throughout the years. And most certainly not after the friendship the fox had so freely offered him after their first meeting, bringing him to his current position of Jaganshi Hiei, Master of the Kokuryuuha, Ambassador of Alaric, and Mukuro's heir. He owed Kurama that much, even if the fire youkai was sure the fox would never want to be more than a friend. Taking a deep breath, the Jaganshi notices that Kurama was curled up next to him, asleep, if the gentle ups and downs of the fox's body were any indication.

 

“Time to get you dinner,” Hiei mumbles, stretching his arms and legs. Silently, the half-Koorime opens the screen door to the courtyard outside and flits off into the late afternoon.

 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

 

Kuwabara had heard from Yuusuke what had happened to Kurama the day before. Relieved that the fourth member of their team had been found, Kuwabara took it upon himself to visit the temple especially after hearing from Yuusuke what the plan was to restore their now distinctly foxier friend. “Oi, Urameshi, you sure Hiei won't screw this up?”

 

“Can't say for sure, but Genkai couldn't be too far off, even if she is dead,” Yuusuke replies, his voice getting softer and sadder as he is once again reminded that his late master had passed away from old age a few years earlier. “I doubt she's that desperate for company.”

 

“So, what's Kurama like right now?”

 

“Like a wild fox,” Yuusuke starts, “but get this: He's tried to bite anyone who pets him, except Hiei. First time I tried, he tried to rip my throat out, except Hiei snatched him out of the air. You should've seen Kurama hissing at Hiei, it was hilarious!” Yuusuke bursts out laughing at the recollection.

 

Kuwabara joins in, imagining what that would have looked like. “What're the odds Yomi will come for Kurama?”

 

“Doubt he'll be coming; Kurama did a number on his capital when we bailed him out.” The pair fell silent as they both silently wished to all the gods they knew of that Yomi would not come for their friend until he was fully recovered. While they had their doubts as to how much that small prayer would affect things, it still made them feel marginally better about the whole situation.

 

Fifteen minutes later, the two friends enter the temple grounds. After greeting Yukina, Kuwabara had to be reminded that Hiei was around before he made too much of a fool of himself, the two found Kurama sitting in the courtyard, carefully stalking a rabbit Hiei had brought back.

 

“So that's Kurama?” Kuwabara quietly asks, not wishing to startle Kurama's soon-to-be-dinner. Kurama pounces towards the rabbit, but at the last minute, the rodent ran several yards to the right, prolonging its life by a few more minutes.

 

“Hn,” came the response. In a few moments, the hunt was over as the rabbit was neatly strangled by a piece of grass. As Kurama heartily dug into his meal, Kuwabara had to turn away as he felt his face turn green and the urge to vomit rising. “Stupid human. If you're going to puke, do it on the Detective.”

 

“Gee, thanks Hiei,” Yuusuke mumbles. Noticing that Kurama was mostly finished with his meal and was now neatly licking his chops clean of blood - Yuusuke could not help but notice that, even as an animal, his youko friend was still neat and clean as ever - he asks, “Want me to call Botan now?”

 

“Let's not waste anymore time,” Hiei replies. Kurama was now walking back towards the library, where there was a soft fox-patterned cushion in a corner that he currently called his bed.

 

Yuusuke pulls out his communicator, and quickly gets Botan on the other end. “Hey, can you get the toddler to get Genkai to talk to us through Puu again? Hiei's going to go mind diving into Kurama's head in a few.” An affirmative response was heard from the communicator as Yuusuke and Kuwabara head inside.

 

A few moments later, the three were greeted by Genkai's voice. “So, it's time. Alright, Hiei, you know what to do. You two dimwits,” she says moving her head in Kuwabara and Yuusuke's direction, “go outside and make sure Hiei's not disturbed. We may lose them both for good if Hiei gets interrupted.”

 

“Hn.” Hiei sits down in front of his napping fox and pulls off the bandanna. Closing his real eyes, the fire youkai focuses his youki into the Jagan and then turns it onto Kurama.

 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

 

Hiei opens his eyes into total darkness. Remembering where he was, he carefully checks himself. `Seems alright so far. Can't see much of anything, though.' After wandering around for a few steps, the fire youkai catches a glimpse of light in the distance. Flitting straight for the light, Hiei carefully touches it to find himself engulfed in the bright light.

 

The first thing Hiei notices upon reopening his eyes was that he was now in a maze of some sort. Upon closer inspection, Hiei notices that the walls were made of stone and were covered by some sort of thick ivy. Thinking of trying a fast way to get to the end, Hiei jumps up, intending to land on the top of the wall. To his surprise, the walls grew with him, regardless of how high he jumped. Realizing that he had no choice but to navigate the labyrinth, the fire youkai begins to walk forward one step at a time.

 

A few moments later, Hiei finds himself at a literal crossroads. Wary of the walls of the maze, the fire youkai closes his eyes and concentrates, letting his familiarity with the youko guide his intuition. Left, it told him. A few hundred yards later, another fork in the path. Go right, his intuition said. Another right followed, then a left, then another left, until many turns later, Hiei had lost track, and was left with no choice but to press onward.

 

A myriad of turns later, Hiei hears a commanding voice drifting towards him. Concentrating on the voice, the fire youkai identified it as none other than Yomi's. Relying on his intuition once more, Hiei makes the final few turns to exit the labyrinth. What he saw, though, truly stunned him.

 

A large frozen lake lay before him, surrounded by trees and grass. A wooden bridge with red railings was in the background, connecting the two sides of the lake. Looking behind him, Hiei notices the exit of the labyrinth he had been navigating mere moments ago had disappeared, replaced by trees. While there was no obvious source of light, it was clear to the fire youkai that the lake itself glowed, shedding a bluish white light all around the area. But it was what was going on at the lake that made his blood boil.

 

Yomi stood at the center, naked, with a hand in Youko Kurama's long silver tresses, no doubt, as Hiei concluded, intending to force the beautiful creature to pleasure him. Kurama's redheaded human form lay battered and unconscious several feet behind the youko; the wounds consistent with being blasted by the powers Yomi was so famous for. But that, Hiei realized, was to be expected. There was no doubt that Yomi had wanted the half-youko, and even reincarnated, Kurama was beautiful as ever. What made Hiei sick to his stomach, though, was the cold realization that behind Yomi were a dozen crystals and half a dozen bodies. Upon closer inspection, Hiei could make out just who was inside the crystals: Shiori, Kido, Kaito, Yanagisawa, Keiko, Botan, Koenma, Shizuru, Genkai, Kuwabara, Yuusuke, and himself, Hiei. The bodies, Hiei identified as: Shishiwakamaru, Rinku, Jin, Touya, Chuu, and Suzuki. All six youkai were laying in a pool of their own blood.

 

As the fire youkai digests that piece of information, he realized they were the very people that the youko had come to care for during his twenty years of exile in the Ningenkai. Realizing that mind-Yomi, as Hiei now dubbed him, was too wrapped up in getting pleasure from the silver youko, he flits closer to better listen to what mind-Yomi was saying.

 

“Now, now, Kurama, I've already killed six of your friends, do you want me to kill another to prove my point? Who shall it be?” Mind-Yomi swings his right arm backwards, as though to randomly aim at a target. Even though the Makai lord was blind, his ability to sense ki was more than sharp enough to compensate. “One of the humans? One of your comrades?”

 

“P-please, not them, I will do as you say, just leave them be.” Hiei almost did not recognize the voice that came from the youko. He was so used to hearing that voice filled with calculating coldness and arrogance that it seemed completely wrong for it to be so filled with defeat.

 

“Well then,” mind-Yomi replies, jerking on the hair to pull Kurama's mouth towards himself, “you know what to do. And no biting, or I kill more of your so-called friends.” Kurama hesitates a moment to ready himself, but mind-Yomi misreads that and sends a massive ki blast towards mind-Hiei's crystal. It shatters, dropping the petite fire youkai's body to the ground with a thud. Blood slowly begins to leave the still corpse. There was no doubt in Hiei's mind as he watched the display, that mind-Hiei was dead. What he did not predict, though, was Kurama's reaction.

 

“No, no, no, not Hiei!” the youko practically sobs, tears flowing freely now. Eyes wide in shock, Kurama mumbles, “I did not get the chance to tell him I-”

 

“You hesitated,” the goat youkai coldly interrupts. “Now be a good little youko whore and do what I tell you to, or I'll target one of the others this time, like that human mother you treasure so dearly.”

 

“Please, no, not her too,” Kurama begs, broken. He closes his eyes and opens his mouth, seeing no other choice to keep the people he called his friends and family alive.

 

Hiei, though, had seen more than enough and had no other desire than to put down the goat youkai once and for all. Seeing Kurama broken and degraded in such a manner had made the little fire youkai angrier than he had ever been, even angrier than seeing the horrid conditions Tarukane had kept Yukina. He strode out onto the lake - which was surprisingly not slippery for it being an ice lake, maybe it was crystal after all, his mind mused - katana in his right hand, fire burning brightly on his left, Jagan wide open.

 

“Turn around you bastard,” Hiei growls to mind-Yomi. “I'm not quite dead yet.”

 

Kurama, recognizing the voice, can only stare in wide-eyed awe as he sees a very angry Hiei standing behind mind-Yomi. Mind-Yomi, seeing that the little fire youkai was very much not dead and extremely angry, kicks the silver youko aside, where he lands next to his human body.

 

“Do not interfere,” the goat youkai responds, flaring his ki.

 

“Kurama,” Hiei says to the youko, “this is for you. I'll see you out in the real world.” With that, Hiei charges towards the goat youkai faster than he had ever moved, and slices mind-Yomi in half before setting him on fire.

 

To be continued . . .