Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Secret lover affair ❯ Why? ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Kurama must have been drunk,
Hiei surmised after a restless
night of pondering.
There was no way in all the
Makai would that fox
be interested in him like that
after all, friends... comerades,
his mind stressed, don't suddenly
turn around one day and declare
that they would like to be lovers.
He certaintly never thought of
Kurama in that way...


Therefore, Kurama must have been
drunk, either that, or insanity
had taken a firm grip over his
friend's mind. Ripping out to
piece of bark from his perch on
the tree, Hiei wondered if maybe,
just maybe, he might have misundertood
Kurama's intentions. Perhaps, the
fox hadn't quite meant what he
thought he meant.

Sure, a little voice in the back
of his mind drawled dryly, what
did you think his intentions were
when he stucked his tongue down
your throat.

There in lay the problem - he hadn't
been thinking; his lighting reflexes,
his survival instincts...Everythng
had shut down when the fox kissed
him there on the roof. For the
first time in his life, he had j
ust frozed. Completely. Laid there
like a total idiot while that damned
kitsune took advantage of him.

Unconsciously growling, Hiei ripped
off another piece of bark - if only
Kurama hadn't kissed him a secind
time. Once, he could explain away
as an aberration, a mistake - the
heat of the moment. After all, hadn't
they just barely survived a deadly
encounter with an ice dragon together?
Twice. However, meant that Kurama
hadn't been joking when he had said
that he wanted to be more than just
friends...

Stripping the branch naked, Hiei
wondered what he was supposed to
do - pretend like nothing had
happened, or consider the
terrifying possibility that the
fox might have actually been
serious about it. For a moment,
the fire demon allowed himself to
contemplate that – Kurama; ally,

Letting his eyes drift over to
where the others were seated, he
found that flash of red and green
with an unerring ease born of
practice. Strange, why had he
never noticed that he automatically
sought out the fox whenever his
eyes wandered?

Kurama was laughing at something
that Keiko had said, probably a
ningen joke that he wouldn’t
understand. Those emerald eyes
were flashing with a mixture of
mirth and mischief…he’s beautiful…
Before he’d met Kurama, Hiei had
always thought of humans as clumsy,
overgrown fools – rather like
Kuwabara – but the fox had ruined
his picture of a stereotypical
ningen.

At first, he had attributed it to
the youko soul inside Minamino
Shuuichi’s form, but after seeing
Youko Kurama in action, Hiei was
honest enough to admit to himself
that without the human side of
himself, Kurama just wouldn’t
be…Kurama.

Surreptitiously watching him –
he didn’t want to give that fox
the impression that he cared
enough to even *consider* that
ridiculous proposition – Hiei
confessed to himself that he was
indeed tempted…

His eyes dropped to Kurama’s
mouth; suddenly bringing back
the memory of That Kiss, the
warmth of another body pressed
up against his, that odd,
wonderful, tingly feeling…

Squirming slightly on his branch,
the fire demon flushed uncomfortably
and glared down at the tips of his
boots. His mind had come to a
perfectly acceptable decision –
he was going to ignore Kurama’s
offer, pretend like it had never
happened, return to that nice,
comfortable friendship that he
had always relied on and forget
about the entire thing completely…

Now, if he could only convince
the rest of him.

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Hiei was watching him and trying
to look like he wasn’t…it was cute.

Hiding a grin behind one hand,
Kurama wondered how Hiei would
react if he realized that he was
being stalked and hunted down by
his best friend. Probably run
screaming in the other direction.
Which was why Kurama was playing
this game very carefully – if he
moved too fast, he would scare the
fire demon off, but if he moved
too slowly, he would be giving
Hiei enough time to reinforce his
emotional barriers, and Kurama
didn’t want that…oh, no.

He wanted Hiei to go into this
with all three eyes wide open.
Kurama wasn’t going to risk their
friendship on anything less than
that – Hiei had to make his
decision because *he* wanted to,
and not out of any misguided sense
of loyalty. *That* would be worse
than losing him altogether.

Sighing, Kurama realized he could
no longer feel the fire demon’s
gaze on him. He wanted Hiei to
hurry up…

He wanted Hiei. Period.