Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Shadow Fox Tale ❯ One More Night ( Chapter 5 )

Hi every body! I am soooo sorry that I didn't update. I was having a *little* problem with my PC, that and I couldn't read my reviews, which got me *veeerrrry* pissed off [suddenly brightens up] but all are fixed. And I thank all of you who reviewed my ficcies!

To Sabs, who just *happened* to my friend, JK, thanks for your 4 reviews through I still don't know why you bother to read it when you absolutely HATE yaoi…

To dragonfoxloversforever, who reviewed 3 times, thanks for your encouragements, they are greatly appreciated. [jumps up and starts dancing around]

To koto: yes, the old goat part is one of my favorites too. ^^

To KitsuneLover: [chuckle] you'll see… I don't want to be a spoiler therefore I won't tell you… You have no idea how hard it is for me…[sobs]

Special thanks to my friend, Sue, whom I don't know her penname, that proofread my stuff. ^^ I'm weird, I know…

One more thing before the fic, this fic is Work in Progress, which I hoped most of you guessed, so the updates are kind of slow… Okay, so it's very slow… Besides I'm working on another three fics right now. I have to think of names for them through… But don't worry, I'll be back writing this fic in no time…

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Just so you know, this chapter isn't proofread, be prepared.

Enough of my extremely annoying ramblings, ONTO MY WEIRD LITTLE FICCIE! (Sorry, I just HAD to say that.)

Chapter Five: One More Night

"You saw him." Yomi stated calmly as she found her way to an armchair oppisite of him. She smiled and answered him just as calm as he was.

"You always have the best sources on things like this. Yes, I saw him, I hid in the shadows while he walked passed it with his new playmate. He was crying."

"That's what I heard. He still loves you, doesn't he? You should be very happy, not many people can capture Youko Kurama's heart not to mention keeping it, and if they do, it was certainly NOT FIFTY YEARS."

Kiko signed, "But he's not Youko Kurama anymore. You saw him, he looks AND acts like a human! It's disgraceful. I know he was never a generous or kind youkai, but a HUMAN! He had sunk too low. Of all the creatures for choosing, he just HAD to choose a human!" She ended up shouting and after she relaxed, she was still panting, and her aura shot up all around her like flames.

"First of all, I didn't see him; in fact, I COULDN'T see him. However, I did met him, and yes, he does act like a human. And second, you have to take it easy, Kiko, anger won't get you anywhere." Yomi comforted, slightly frowning. Kiko sank back into her chair and breathed in deeply.

"I guess you're right for once in your lifetime, old goat. I think I'll go to bed now," she said as she stradened herself up from the comfortable chair and walked over to Yomi. But instead of smacking the Maikai Lord on the head like the six-eared goat half-expected, she bent down and gave him a peck on the cheek, which made the pale-skined youkai blushed fiercely, the girl giggled softly at the reaction. "Good night, old goat." She said sweetly before she left his chamber. He slowly reached up to the spot which her lips had touched ever so slight only moments ago and as his lips slowly curved up to become a smile. With the goofy smile still on his face, he swiftly changed and went to bed. He was sure that he was going to have VERY sweet dreams that evening.

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That night Hiei and Kurama were laying together on their shared bed, the koorime had his cheek on the youko's bare chest and his arms around the slim waist while his fingertips caressed the soft flesh of his lover's thigh teasingly and lovingly. (For those of you hentais who are wondering, it the OUTTER thigh. Sheesh. <smile>) The spiky-haired boy had his eyes closed while his partner who had his arm around the red-eyed youkai's shoulders, however, his emerld gazes were upon the stars out the windows, the recarnated youko's expression was blank and distant as if he had lost his mother. The fire demon noticed the odd behavior and tilted his head up to look at his friend and lover, "Kurama?" he asked softly and uncertainly. Silence answered him. So he tried again, louder, "Ne, Kurama." The youko turned his gaze to his koibito, questioning the koorime with the green orbs. "Diajabou ka?"

He smiled warily, "Diajabou."

"Honto, koi?"

"Honto," the answer came in a whisper as the emerald gaze turned back to the stars, "I was just thinking."

"Of what?" The youkai lifted his head off the chest and laid on his side facing the other, elbow up, cheek in palm.

"...Just...stuff."

"What stuff?" Hiei was determined that he was going to get his fox's mind off whatever...or whoever that had been bothering him lately TONIGHT.

"...Just...stuff...and...people..." The boy couldn't help but sobbed as he barely finished the sentence without breaking down and cry his heart out. Hiei understood immediately.

"So...You're still thinking about her?" The redhead turned sharply to look at his lover, eyes wide. If it weren't for the fact that Kurama was suffering, Hiei would have laughed his head off, instead, he just smiled sadly at the youko, "It's not THAT hard to figure out. You were very obvious, fox." The green eyes relaxed a little and the shock disappeared, however, sorrow and something else that looked suspiciously like longing remained.

"Gomen ne, koi." Kurama apologized quietly to the smaller demon, Hiei looked at him with questioning crimson orbs. "I shouldn't let you worry about me so much..." But he never get to finish the sentence for Hiei silenced him by placing his index finger on the youko's lips, shaking his head lightly.

"Don't apologize. I WANT to help, besides, by talking about it will you feel better, go ahead and do it. I don't know how upset I'll be if somebody like Yomi hold you or Yukina hostage." For the first time since their encounter with the Shadow Fox team, Kurama truly smiled.

"Arigatou."

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At breakfast the next morning, Yusuke was very excited, not to mention he didn't mutter a single curse all morning, which in his case, according to Kuwabara, was a miracle. "Just three more hours until we can punch the lights out of those caped freaks, right, Kuwabara?" The latter nodded for his mouth was filled with white rice that was served as breakfast along with miso soup and some unidentified Maikai dish. "Today is the last round of the tournament and still only Shuenn took off his blasted (What? He cursed? No, 'blasted' doesn't count. Not for Yusuke anyways.) cape!" He paused to finish his miso soup, which he choked himself with and "sprayed" it all over Kuwabara. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and ignored his teammate's protests and continued talking as if nothing happened, "And what's up with the fact that Shuenn acts like a puppy around Ying anyways?" No one answered him, or listened to him for that matter; they were all occupied with something else: Kuwabara was busily drying himself, all the while muttering colorful Maikai curses which he learned from Yusuke and Hiei, though he had no idea what most of them mean. Kurama was thinking about Kiko and Hiei was watching the youko, concern written all over his face that he didn't even bothered to hide like he normally did. But on the other hand, this isn't what you would call a typical day.

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He pulled up his pants and glanced over his shoulder to make sure nobody was watching while they silently got dressed; they weren't; so he resumed his task of getting dressed. What he didn't know was that someone WAS watching him; well, what he didn't know couldn't hurt him, right?

Wrong.

The shadow watched him with interest as it leaned on the wall on the other side of the room, he didn't noticed the shadow's gaze and it preferred to keep it that way, however, somehow he did. He turned his gaze to where the shadow's eyes are and stared intensely into them, the silence continued as they held their gaze until he turned to see the others only to find that they weren't there anymore. 'They must have got dressed went to the arena,' he thought, 'I'd better too.' He turned his slivery gaze back to the emerald orbs, and breathed lungs full of air before speaking to the shadow.

"See you in the arena?" he turned to leave, but somehow the shadow had appeared in his path, standing in between him and the exit. It grabbed his shoulders with fragile-looking but strong hands and leaned to him very slowly as if afraid that he would run away if he only moved a tiny bit faster, which he probably would have if he could. Then ever so slightly, their lips touched, or rathered brushed. The shadow pulled away just far enough so he could see its victim's beautifully flushed face one last time before the slow youkai finally realized what was going on all along, it leaned to him once again, half-expecting him to pull away, but he didn't, in fact, he leaned closer as well. Their lips touched again, still light. Then it turned into a passionate kiss as the shadow lessened its grip on his shoulders and let it moved down to his slim waist, while he put his arms around its neck; their tongues entwined as he was ready to remove its clothing when a voice shouted from outside the dressing room as a fist pounded on the door, "Ying, Shuenn, are you two ready yet? That old goat is getting pretty mad! Besides, the fight is about to start!"

They broke the kiss and he shouted back, "We'll be right there, just hang on!" And then he directed his next sentence to the shadow in a whisper, "Yih always pick the BEST timing, ne?" he joked. The shadow snorted quietly and let go of him to put on its min cape as he teased it, "Come on, Puppy. Let's go." He smiled as he watched the shadow's eyes turned from shock to annoyance.

"If you call me that again..." it said through clenched teeth.

"What are you going to do about it?" he mocked playfully, amusement dancing in his sliver eyes. The shadow leaned to his left ear and whispered something under its breath. He chuckled softly, "If that's the way you punish me..." he gave it a peck on the cheek and pulled up his own min cape, "Then I'll call you 'Puppy' for the rest of my life." He smirked then suddenly turned serious as he led them both out of the room and toward the direction of the arena, where they would either make that stupid kitsune realize the truth or kill him this very day.

With no mercy.

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Now, that sucked, didn't it? ^^

What do you people think; should I do a Yomi/Kiko romance or a Ying/Shuenn romance? I can't do two, since I think you kind of noticed that I had too many pairings already…

Review to tell me what you think!

C.K.