Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Child of Bliss and Doom ❯ The So-Called Pointless Chatter ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: Nope, I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. If I did, then all the things I wrote would actually be in the manga and not posted on ff.net and/or mm.org!

I just realized I made one of the most stupid mistakes ever! I made Hiei and Kurama lived in an apartment, with stairs! How is it an apartment if it has stairs connecting two hallways in their apartment, as in individual division?! AHHH!!! For now, I'm just going to ignore it; maybe I'll change it in the future. Maybe.

If you're reading this at ff.net, I can tell you this right now: THERE ARE LOTS OF MISTAKES!!! Spelling, grammar, missing words to just name a few; I do find them, but uploading the whole chapter again and fix it takes A LOT of work since I have to "re-bold" and "re-italics" all of it as well as redo the spacing (if I don't, the whole chapter would appear as one big paragraph). And despite all of my attempts to beta it before I post it, I always find some afterwards. Bloody annoying in my opinion.

And even if you are reading this on MM.org, this is a un-beta version (I'm not sure I'll ever have a beta version… *sweatdrop*), there are lots of mistakes that I'm too lazy -or too busy- to change. Gomen!

SPEICAL THANKS TO:

foxhiei: Thanks! Hakudoshi-chan: Thanks for your reviews! And no, just because I call Kiko a she, doesn't necessarily mean that Kiko is going to be a girl (though it's possible). I simply do it because Kurama's a he, Hiei's a he, Yusuke's a he, and if I also refer to Kiko as a he, my writing is going to be more chaotic than it already is. At least now when I say "she," you'll know it's -probably- Kiko. Thank you, I didn't realize that it was confusing people. Beautiful Dreamer1: Thank you! I know, shopping with Kurama… *shudders* One thing's for sure: I'm not going! Koritsune Dragonrider: That's something you'll have to find out late… HieiAndKuramaLover#?: Umm, no. I want to make it clear that the Kiko's in my two YYH stories are not related in any way, nor are the stories themselves. Thank you for pointing that out.

The Child of Bliss and Doom

Chapter Five: The So-Called Pointless Chatter

The next time Kiko opened her pretty little eyes was when she was back in the nigen apartment room that she had first woken up the day before. The child glanced out the window. Nothing but darkness greeted her. How long have I been sleeping?

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"Are you sure it's safe for her to sleep that long?"

The youko looked up, "And why not?"

"She is from Maikai, after all," seeing his words did not affect his lover in the least bit, the fire demon elaborated, "She will have to go back to that place sometime; it wouldn't be safe for her to have such long and relaxing periods of rest."

Kurama let a small smirk played on his lips, "I see you do care after all."

"Hn. Whatever." The youkai turned away, crossing his arms in front of his chest, unintentionally looking like a child that had just been told that he could not have any cookies from the cookie jar.

Upon this mental image, the redhead burst out laughing.

"I fail to see the amusement in this situation completely." Hiei did not seem to be pleased.

Damn, he gotta stop making up random mental images!

"What did you say?"

"Huh?" How intelligent-sounding.

The Koorime rolled his eyes, "You said something in the Western Tongue."

"I did?"

"Would I point it out if you didn't?"

"Well, you never know-"

"Just tell me what you said."

"I didn't- Wait, you can't understand the Western Tongue?" I thought the Koorimes spoke that language. Thank Inari he did not voice his thoughts, it would not have been pretty to bring up the subject of the Koorimes when the short demon was in such a foul mood. In fact, it would not have been pretty if he brought up the subject when the short demon was in any mood.

"A little, but not much."

"Honestly… I have no idea what I said."

One delicate eyebrow was raised under the white bandana that covered the Jagan Eye from the mortal prying eyes, "So you can talk in languages that you can't understand now?"

"That's not what I meant!"

"Then what did you mean? Please enlighten me."

"I meant I don't remember what I said," he appeared to be in thought, "Do you remember what it sounded like?"

Hiei nodded but frowned, "I can tell you if that was what you said if you voice it… But I can't really duplicate it myself."

"Just tell me what you think you heard."

"Ha…something that sounded like marble in the Western Tongue-"

"Hakuru yane?"

He shook his head, "No… It sounded much more… elegant."

It was Kurama's turn to raise an eyebrow. "Elegant, huh?" A pause. "Hamichinolo?"

"That's it! What does it mean?"

"…"

"Well?"

"Hiei, it's not in Western Tongue."

"It's not?"

"No."

A shrug. "Then maybe I heard wrong."

"What did I say next?"

"After the h-word-"

"Hamichinolo." The redhead oh-so-helpfully provided.

Hiei glared. "Whatever. After the h-word was something that ended in with misu."

"Haumisu?"

"No."

"Hakumisu?"

A shake of head.

"Matteru-misu?"

Another shake of head.

"Kimatsumisu?"

"No."

"Omakemisu?"

"No."

"I give up!" Kurama exclaimed, throwing both his hands up in frustration after another five minutes of guessing the word that Hiei had supposedly heard him say, "I really don't think this is important enough for me to risk my sanity."

"It may mean something, I want to know."

It's official, he has finally lost it.

"You said it again!"

The kitsune perked up, "What did I say this time that I was not aware of?"

"You said the `misu' word!"

"I did?"

"Yes!"

"I was thinking something, maybe I said it aloud."

The dark-haired youkai was getting impatient, "What were you thinking, then?"

The teen mumbled something under his breath and was trying to look at anything and everything but his lover.

Hiei narrowed his blood-colored eyes.

Kurama gulped.

"BEEEEP!"

Both of them jumped at the unexpected doorbell (A/N: My doorbell used to sound like that; drove me crazy, it did.), and while one cursed at the interruption; the other had to restraint himself from kissing whoever it was on the other side of that door.

The demon with the Jagan Eyes reached out with his ki and realized it was none other than Yusuke Urmeshi. He should have been able to sense the latter's ki.

But he didn't.

He cursed under his breath as his boyfriend jumped up way too enthusiastically and practically ran to greet their guest.

Not for the first -nor the last- time, the fire demon known as Hiei vowed his revenge on the unsuspecting Yusuke Urmeshi.

Yessssss, vengeance shall be mine….

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Yusuke Urmeshi was having some problems. Some huge problems.

There was only one place that he knew he could receive both good advice and solutions to his problems as well as a worthy spar with a certain fire demon. The delicious food that Kurama made for them after the spar was just another plus.

The youth pressed the doorbell and winced involuntarily at the sound that the push of a button did. Kurama has gotta change their doorbell. Out of impatience, he ran his free hand through his gelled back hair. He didn't have to wait long.

Hurried steps reached the doorway and a millisecond later the wooden door swung open to reveal a smiling redhead with sparkling emerald eyes. The teen vaguely wondered why his friend looked extra happy to see him -more than usual, that is- before he was pulled into the apartment by the youko-turned-nigen.

"Welcome, Yusuke!"

The addressed teen barely had time before he was pulled into the apartment and thrown -none too gently, either- onto the love seat in the living room while Kurama murmured something about making tea and made his hasty retreat. As if on cue, Hiei walked in. He didn't look very happy to see Yusuke.

"How is my favorite three-eyed demon doing?" said the brown-eyed teen, oblivious to the youkai's foul mood.

"Hn" was all he got before Hiei flopped himself down one of the seats.

"Hello, Yusuke!" greeted his redheaded host as he came back with a tray full of homemade snack and the finest tea Yusuke had ever tasted. He grabbed one of the rice balls as soon as the tray was within his reach and started munching on it. Yum…

"So what brings you here today?" Kurama broke the silence, "Don't tell me it's another one of your `Keiko' problems."

He paused on his nibbling -which was actually closer to devouring- and glanced up, his mouth still full of food, "Hey! Geigo probroms ar burg ones!" (Translation: `Keiko problems are big ones!')

Hiei rolled his eyes while his boyfriend chuckled, "Did you dear mother ever taught you to not speak while your mouth is full?"

He shook his head, "No -swallow- all she said was `Eat as fast as you can, Boy, or there -bite and swallow- won't be any when you come home.'"

"So what is your problem this time?"

"What are you talking about?" Yusuke tried -unsuccessfully- to look hurt, "I can visit friends once in a while."

"We both know you don't come here unless your tail is on fire."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Sorry, Yusuke, Western saying."

"I do speak the Western Tongue, you know."

"You do?" the lovers echoed each other, "Since when?"

"Since I found out that I'm not fully human. My advisers made me study all those Maikai languages as well as local dialogues, saying something about not being left in the dark."

"And you studied?" Kurama's eyebrow had long disappeared into his hairline.

"Unfortunately, yes." He scowled. "Don't look so skeptical. I can study if I want to, okay? Besides, it's hard not to when they were practically breathing down my neck every other minute."

"Can you speak it well?"

It was Yusuke's turn to raise an eyebrow, "Well, yeah! All of my advisers speak the Western Tongue. It's hard to communicate with them if I don't, isn't it?"

Kurama offered him a cup of tea, which he graciously accepted, "Please don't take it the wrong way, Yusuke, we were just surprised, that's all."

Hiei snorted and whispered something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like "that would be the understatement of the history of youkai-kind." Kurama shot him a none-too-happy look before turning back to his guest.

Suddenly, Hiei perked up -something that he refused to do no matter what in the past, "Then you could be of assistance in out little… conversation."

"Hiei," his teammate whined, "I hardly think it's important…"

Too late, Yusuke's interest was already sparked. "What conversation?"

"Oh, it's nothing really…" seeing as his guest -as well as his roommate- wasn't about to let him change the subject anytime soon, he sighed and continued, "You see, Hiei had the craziest idea that something I said was so important that I have to skip my gardening class…"

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Well, that was the end of that chapter, I was planning on writing more, I swear! But then the little plot bunny disappeared and left me all along in the enormous world of fanfiction… *sniff*

I'm really sorry that it took so long to update, I was a little busy this month: first I moved to another city, then I went to a summer camp for an entire week, then the internet was taken away from me… In general, real life was a b****. Hehe.

CK