Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Ryuusei no Solitude ❯ Chapter 21

A friend of mine helped me thought of this story and I'm writing it for her! So if you want to kill me and give me death threats go ahead but I shall continue it nonetheless. I like the story line and the idea, plus I'm a sucker for AUs. So this is my AU and I hope you like it. Even if you don't I'm still continuing it.

Ryuusei no Solitude

By: Koritsune Dragonrider

Rating: R

Warning: Here's a hint. If you can't take the heat, get out of the story. Nothing bad! Just not for kids eyes.

Disclaimer: I do not own nothing that is relate to the YuYu Hakusho series.

Summery: Kurama was never shot by the hunter, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Keiko, and Shizuru are demons, and Hiei never left the Koorime Island, because Hiei's a girl! Here is an AU with a lot of twist!

Pairings: Kurama/Hiei Yusuke/Keiko Yukina/Kuwabara

Chapter XXI

Hiei sat in a tree as she watched her teammates walk around camp, doing chores and goofing off in Kuwabara and Yusuke's case. When she and Kurama had been away it didn't take long for Kurama to heal from the slight wounds he had and they left the next day. Kurama was still trying to get her to respond to him after their discussion on her heritage and almost succeeded a few times, but Hiei stay tight lipped through out the journey back. Kurama wasn't very happy with the silence but he made up for it by talking the whole way through. Hiei didn't care if the fox talked or not, just as long as he didn't include her in it.

"Hey, shrimp bait!" yelled Kuwabara and Hiei growled, glaring down at the kitty-boy. "You coming down from that tree or not?"

"I prefer my privacy, oaf," growled Hiei. Since they'd met Hiei and Kuwabara had taken to calling each other names and insults. Kuwabara, despite her girl side, thinks of her as one of the guys and treats her like one. She didn't care as long as he didn't call her something foul.

"You have been in that tree all day, Hiei," said Yusuke. "Don't you want to eat?"

Hiei kept silent. The two youkai friends shrugged and left, taking it as a no. Kurama looked up at his friend and sighed. Even after a month of being back in the den, with a few heist in between, Hiei was still distant toward men. Setting down his dinner, he picked up the plate meant for Hiei and walked over to the hiyoukai.

"Won't you eat, Hiei?" he asked and Hiei looked down at him.

"If you wish me to," she said like a servant should. Kurama groaned.

"I'm not asking as a master, I'm asking as a friend."

Hiei felt a stab in her chest when he mentioned the word "friend." Was that how Kurama say Hiei? As a friend? Not a servant? Her master was a strange person, not wanting life dept and always trying to be her friend. Usually youkai would jump at the chance to have a life dept partner, a servant to do their bidding and you didn't have to make friends with them, for they die quickly. But Kurama seemed to want to be her friend and for that she respected him, and secretly called him friend too. But she was in dept and she had to pay it off accordingly.

She nodded and jumped from the tree, gently taking the bowl of badger stew from Kurama and chopsticks. She sat down at the base of the tree and ate the food, not noticing Kurama had sat next to her and continued to eat his. They both didn't notice the stares their friends were giving them.

"What's wrong with Kurama and chicken legs," asked Kuwabara, his kitty ears and tail twitching from curiosity.

"Haven't you heard the saying," asked Yusuke. "Curiosity killed the Nekojin?"

"That's curiosity killed the cat," said Shizuru. "And that saying's from Ningenkai."

"I know," said Yusuke. "But it fits Kuwabara's situation!"

"Urameshi," hissed the neko youkai as Yusuke laughed at his own joke.

"I sense a spark between them," said Keiko. "You think something will happen so?"

"Maybe, maybe not," said Shizuru. "But I can say this much, it'll get stronger as they stay together."

"What will," asked Kuwabara and he got hit over the head for his idiocy.

Kurama had finished eating and was talking about his childhood, something that surprised the eavesdroppers much less Hiei. Kurama never talked about his pup hood with anyone. First time Yusuke asked, he was imprisoned in a Twisty Twine Tree for a week. And that wasn't a fun week for the Toushin, and Kuwabara loved to bring it up till he figured out Yusuke can kill him.

Kurama had gotten as far as his first kill, a bay dragon to be exact, when they heard a sharp whistle. Looking around Kurama and Hiei had found that Shizuru had taken up the watch duty as Hiei ate, and had spotted a group in their territory. Everyone quickly got ready to fight; Kurama making sure his rose was in place and Hiei placing her katana on her hip. She ran to join her friends.

The group of demons turns out to be frog demons, famous for spitting slime and throwing mud at their enemies. They usually lived in the swampy areas of Makai and this must be an outcast group looking for a new home. There were eight in all.

"Well," said Kurama, "let's direct them to another destination."

They attacked as soon as the frog demons entered the clearing. Shizuru took two as the other's grabbed one. Hiei disposed of hers quickly and went to assist Shizuru, but not before checking to see if Kurama needed some help, who was slicing demons left and right.

"Rei Gun!" was the signal that Yusuke released his attack and the demon exploded in a blinding flash of blue light. Kuwabara had his Rei Ken out and blacking his opponent's attack, the frog demon having out a sword as well. Keiko was currently throwing rocks and boulders every which way and crushing her opponents bone till it was nothing but a twitching mass.

"Rah!" yelled Hiei scratching the demon's body enough to get it away from Shizuru, who had been caught between them. The demon let go of Shizuru and turned to face Hiei as its partner fought the cat demon.

Hiei slashed left at the demon but it dodged and punched Hiei on her temple, the connection made a slimy, wet sound and Hiei crashed into a tree. Standing up, Hiei growled at the demon. Okay, ring leader. Easy enough.

"Joah Enstatsu Ken!" she yelled and her sword became wreathed in black flames. She attacked him with a high arch but when it dodged she turned it into a slash and cut its arm from elbow to wrist. The demon screamed and glared at her. She held her blade in a defensive position.

Suddenly the demon seemed to swell, like it was bloated or had hives. Hiei stared at the demon with a look of confusion on her face. Did her attack have a side affect to this kind of demon? As far as she could tell, fire was supposed to burn, not make someone swell.

Next thing she knew a ball of slime was "burped" at her. She couldn't call it better then that for the slime ball come from the creature's mouth. Hiei managed to dodge the attack and saw it stick to the tree she had her back against. She had to do some fancy foot work to dodge the other slime balls that were thrown at her.

"Ah," she yelled and charged at the demon. She managed a slice in its side before it knocked her away and she slammed against a tree. Then she felt something sticky cover her chest, arms, and legs. Looking down she found herself covered in the frog demon's slime. She struggled to free herself but the slime held her to the tree. And it did feel slimy as it slowly ran down her body, going into every crevice and curve. It was not a good feeling between her legs too as it goosed into her pants.

She looked up at the demon as it laughed and picked up her sword, which she had discarded when the frog youkai slammed her against the tree.

"Such irony," it said. "To be killed by your own weapon."

"Tojikomeru!" yelled Hiei and the demon laughed lifting the katana and positioned it over her heart.

"Say your good-byes, demon girl," it said and raised the sword. Hiei closed her eyes awaiting death.

"Good-bye," said a voice behind the demon and it was cut diagonally. Hiei opened her eyes to see Kurama standing over the now dead demon and walked over to her.

"Let's see if we can get this off you," said Kurama and attempted to tug the slime off his friend. It felt wet and oily under his skin, with the faint smell of mucus and swamp moss. It took all he had to not barf.

"Ew," he groaned pulling his hand away from the slime and a trail followed his hand till he shook it off. "Shizuru!"

"Stand back!" yelled the cat demon and drew her nail. "Cat's Claw!"

In no time Hiei was cut free from the slime, with help of Kuwabara's Rei Ken. Shizuru had the same reaction as Kurama, rubbing the slime off her hands and out of her fingernails.

"That was so gross!" she said.

Hiei however was no better off then Shizuru. Slime still covered her chest pants and arms and ran down her hands. She shook some off and it flung everywhere.

"Watch it," yelled Keiko ducking before any got in her hair. Everyone else had the same idea, but some did stick in Kuwabara's tail and he had a time cleaning that off.

Hiei growled at them and walked off toward the woods.

"Hey," yelled Kuwabara trying to get the slime off his tail as Yusuke got some out of his long hair, "where are you going?!"

"To get a bath!" yelled back Hiei and everyone else shrugged. They went around and dragged the demons out of their territory and into the river, sending the bodies downstream to be lost in the rapids and tides.

When Hiei was sure she had cleared the camp she stripped off her clothes and walked the rest of the way in her birthday suit. No way was she going to walk the one/forth of a mile to the river with slime on her. Bad enough it was between her legs, but now she thinks some went up her nose, in her ears, and she can even taste some in her mouth, and it tastes like rotten eggs.

Reaching the river she unceremonyly dumped her clothes in and scrubbed till the looked clean. She would have Shizuru or Keiko clean them again later. After getting them almost clean enough to wear she set the clothes on the nearby bushes to dry. Drying them herself gave the fabric a musty smell and a crinkling feeling.

After setting her clothes to dry she slipped into the water, raising her temperature to make the water more comfortable for her. Taking a towel leaf that grew beside Makai river beds and started washing herself. It took nearly a half hour to get the slime out of her hair and another half hour to get it off her body; she was making sure she got it all off. When she was done, she didn't really feel like going back and hearing Kuwabara's and Yusuke's banter so, raising the temperature higher so it felt like a hot spring, she settled in and soon fell asleep.

Kurama growled as he looked up and saw the sun almost gone. Hiei had been gone for hours! No one else noticed because at times they forget the petit fire Koorime was even there, watching them play, fight, and gossip. She was never the social one, she never joined the girls in their gossip of fashion and boys, and she never joined Yusuke and Kuwabara for a round or two. Instead she stayed in her tree, occasionally coming down to stand next to Kurama.

Deciding it wouldn't hurt to check he got up and left the encampment, heading toward the river where Hiei would be bathing. As he walked he noticed the air getting thicker and hotter. How did that happen?

Reaching the river he found himself in a thick fog, blindly walking toward the river where Hiei would be bathing.

"Hiei," he called. "I can't see. Hiei?"

But when Hiei didn't answer he started to get worried. Tilting his head upward he tried to find her scent but all he could smell was steamed water. Great, he couldn't find her. Guess forward was the only way to go.

"Hiei," he called again. "Hiei, answer me! Slave!"

He heard a groan somewhere toward his right and a splash. Running toward the sound he found himself at the river and Hiei nowhere in sight through her clothes where visible on the bushes.

"Hiei!" he called again, cupping his mouth to resonate his voice. "Hiei!"

Hiei was having a well deserved rest after weeks of taking cat naps when ever possible when she heard Kurama's voice call her for about the fifth time.

"Hiei," called Kurama and Hiei shook her head from sleep. "Hiei, answer me! Slave!"

At the old name Kurama had called her when he bought her she slipped from the rock he was laying on, crack her head with a groan and fell with a hard splash in the water.

Everything was dark, she couldn't see up from down. She only hoped that Kurama heard where she was and find her.

Kurama looked around the river as the fog started to clear and he could see the complete bank. Everything was still and nothing seemed disturbed.

"Hiei, if this is a game, it's not fun!" he called looking around the river bend.

A soft gurgling sound reached his ears and he looked over to his right to find tiny air bubbles coming up from the river bottom. He had a sudden dreaded feeling.

"Hiei!" he called and stripped off his shirt and shoes, jumping in the water. Relying on his night vision he saw a silhouette in the water that couldn't be from and rock. Grabbing Hiei's outstretched hand he lifted her higher and wrapped an arm around her waist, holding her tight to his side. He swam up toward the surface.

As soon as he broke the surface he heard Hiei gasp for air and sighed in relief. Holding her tight at his side he felt her arms wrap around his neck as he dragged her toward shore. She let go as soon as her feet touch the hard pebbles and rocks.

"What the hell do you think you were doing," asked Kurama in a harsh yell.

"I though it was obvious," said Hiei.

"How the hell did you get in there?" Kurama looked back at the river and shuddered. If he hadn't saved Hiei in time . . .

"I heard you yell," said Hiei. "It startled me."

"It startled you? My yelling startled you?"

"Yes," answered Hiei and they were silent for a minute, looking at each other with far off eyes. Kurama had seen Hiei's torso plenty of times in male form, but her female form was much more, um, rounder in the chest area and her waist was much thinner. Her nipples were erect and smaller compared to other's he's seen. Her legs were sleek from the water and perfectly muscled from training, black pubic hair nestled at the base of her stomach. She was a stunning beauty. It drove him on just looking at her.

Hiei looked up at Kurama as she sat on the shoreline. The moon glistened the water on his chest and hair, making his whole body glow. His chest looked hard and perfectly trained; nipples erect and glistened from the water. He looked like something out of an artist's mind. How can someone look like that? Looking down Hiei saw a slight bulge in Kurama's pants and Hiei had to give a mental smirk.

"Hiei," said Kurama, "are you okay?"

"Fine," said Hiei as she tried to cover herself. "Do you mind?"

"Oh, sorry!" Kurama turned his back as Hiei stood up and dried herself by raising her body heat. Walking over to her clothes she smiled to find they were perfectly dry and smelling like juniper. She got dressed and took the string she used to hold back her hair from the branch she placed it, braiding her hair as she had seen Keiko and Shizuru do before they enter their sleeping blankets.

"You can turn back around," she said having a little trouble tying the string while keeping the braid. Kurama looked to find Hiei struggling with her hair and chuckled.

"Here," he said taking the string. "Let me help." Carefully taking Hiei's hair he kept the braid in place and tied it tight, making a nice bow at the end that would be easy to untie.

"You want to go back to the camp?" he asked and Hiei nodded. They walked back to find the others asleep and Shizuru taking up watch.

"Hey-ya, Kurama," she said softly. "The bakas finally knocked their senses out and me and Keiko had to put them to bed. Is Hiei okay?"

"I'll have to have a look at her head in the morning, but otherwise fine," he said and head toward his sleeping blankets. He was about to settle in when he heard someone behind him and turned to see Hiei standing nervously next to his blankets.

"Yes," he asks politely.

"Can I," started Hiei but seemed a little nervous. "Can I sleep with you tonight? I look like it's gonna rain and . . ." She cut off. Kurama looked outside the cave and saw not one rain cloud in the sky but he gave his consent anyway.

"Sure," he said and moved over for the hiyoukai. Hiei settled in beside Kurama and wrapped her arms securely around his waist, resting her head on his chest.

"Good night, Hiei," said Kurama and Hiei scuffed in response. Kurama closed his eyes and was soon asleep.

"Good night, Kurama," whispered Hiei.

TBC

-Tojikomeru= Shut up

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