Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Thinking Of You ❯ Pictures ( Chapter 20 )

Thinking of You

I looked out the window of our apartment. The sun was shining low in the sky. It was the sign of a new day. I looked at the angelic creature that lay beside me. It was you. Why wouldn't it be? I carefully swept a strand of hair from your face. You are so beautiful, yet so oblivious of your beauty. It was the perfect picture. You lying on a bed of white, sheets tangled about your body, as the sun rose in the sky. I wished I had a camera. I carefully climbed out of the bed, picking up my discarded boxers, now forbidden from entering the bed. I put them on and headed towards the closet. You kept a camera in there somewhere. I opened the door and peered inside. It was a mess. I had expected that. I used this closet more than you. I left the room and grabbed a chair from the kitchen. I placed it on the floor and climbed up on it. Damn my being short! I stood on my tiptoes and looked at the top shelf. Sure enough, there was the camera… at the back of the shelf. I cursed quietly, checking over my shoulder to see if I had awoken you. Nope. I got off the chair and turned it around. I would be able to balance on the back of it long enough to grab the camera. I got on the chair and stepped hesitatingly on the back of the chair. You would kill me if I fell, and that was if I didn't kill myself. I reached onto the shelf; fumbling around until I found what I thought was the camera. I got off the back of the chair and looked at my prize. It wasn't the camera. It was a small photo album. I put it on the floor next to the chair; I would look at it later. I got back up on the chair and reached back up on the shelf. If I didn't hurry the sun would get to high and you'd wake up. I grabbed the camera.

"Now how do I work this thing?" I muttered to myself. My eyes shot back up. You were still soundly asleep. I sighed softly and examined the camera. It looked simple enough.

I turned the thing on. It made a strange high pitched sound. I muffled it with my hand. Then I turned my attention to you. Still as picturesque as you were when I woke up. I smiled to myself. This would be the perfect picture. I raised the thing to my eyes. You were out of focus. I cursed silently. I fumbled with various buttons until I found one that brought you in focus. Now all I had to do was take the picture. I pressed the wrong button and the thing zoomed in on your face. I tried to draw it back. It went out of focus. I growled. This stupid contraption was more trouble than it was worth. I finally found the button that took a picture, and accidentally took a picture of the floor. I zoomed out, to get the sun and focused on your form. I snapped the picture. I tried it from a different angle. I snapped a picture. I zoomed in on you. I zoomed in on you angelic face, your heavenly body. I took one final picture of you in the sun.

"Uh…" you groaned. I looked at you more closely. Your eyes fluttered open a you pulled yourself up form your stomach. I snapped a picture. You turned startled eyes to the source of the sound. You giggled softly. I raised an eyebrow and looked at myself. The boxers were slipping from my hips. I blushed and pulled them up. I looked at you. You smiled and beckoned to me to `come here.' I walked over to you. You snatched the camera from me. I made a disappointed sound and was slightly surprised when you shove me on my back. I looked at you quizzically. You smiled angelically.

"Look sexy Hiei," you purred. I raised an eyebrow. You giggled. "Pretend I'm being unresponsive (like that will ever happen) and you're trying to seduce me."

I shrugged and sat up. I slid off the whit sheets and onto the floor. I got on my hands and knees. I crawled my way over to where you were standing, wagging my rump in the air, keeping my chest low to the ground. You purred. A few clicks were heard. You move to stand on the bed. I crawled over to you. I got on the bed. You laid me on my back. Then tangled a blanket in my legs and put a pillow and my arms behind my head. I closed my eyes as your fingers ran lightly over my abs.

"Hiei?" you asked. I opened my eyes. You stood a few inches from the end of the bed. "Will you take a picture with me?"

I blinked.

"How?" I asked. You smiled and snagged a `tripod' from the closet. You set it up and put the camera on it. I looked at it distrustingly. You set the timer and crawled on the bed with me. You wrapped the blanket around your waist and pulled me into an embrace. The camera took a picture. I smiled. You got up and set it again. This time you sat and put my head in your lap, gazing into my eyes and running your fingers through my hair. The camera snapped a picture. You set it once more. I pulled you into a passionate kiss, and conveniently forgot about the camera.

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"Kurama?" I asked you as we cuddled on the couch. We had eaten breakfast and you had gone out and given the roll of film we used to a one hour photo place. "What are these pictures of?"

I handed you the picture album I had found earlier. You blushed. You quickly leafed through its contents.

"They're pictures I took of you," you replied. "Before we were together."

"I never got my picture taken," I retorted. You only laughed.

"I was a very good thief Hiei. I'm very good at not being noticed," I told me. You snuggled close and opened the album. It was a picture of me reading in the tree outside your window at your mother's house.

"This is relatively old," I said. You nodded.

"It was the first one I ever took of you."

The next picture was of me arguing with Yusuke and Kuwabara on a pervious mission. I had been mad that they hadn't even considered the possibility of there being demons guarding that stupid artifact we were to recover.

"I thought you said that that camera didn't work," I said. The picture was in black and white.

"It works perfectly. It's one of the best black and white cameras there is," you replied.

The next picture was of me gazing out of your old room's window. The next was me passed out on your bed. The next was of me fighting a demon we had encountered. The next was me sitting on a hill during a sunset. I wondered how you had gotten some of these. I wondered how many there were.

You flipped to the last picture. It was the only picture I knew of that had been taken of me, up until today. It was you and me. I was professionally done. You had begged me to take a picture with you. I agreed, on the terms that it would be only one picture. You had dragged me to the place. I had been in the not so great of moods. They put us in front of a black screen. You were wearing your infamous pink school uniform. I wore my usual outfit. I stood there. My arms at my sides. I was stiff. The next thing I knew your arms were about my shoulders and you hand tugged at my ear. I gave you a look and they snapped the picture.

"I wondered what had happened to that," I muttered. "I had meant on getting a copy of it."

"I got doubles, if you still want it," you replied. You pulled the second out from behind the first. I held out my hand, and I carefully took it. I walked into the bedroom, found my scabbard and put it into the chink I had made especially for the picture of my loved one. I decided that this one was good enough. I didn't look too bad. I went back to you. You smiled at me.

"Hiei," you began. "I'm sorry about last night…"

"Kurama," I cut you off. You looked at me quizzically. "I don't care what upset you. The fact that you were upset was enough. I'm glad I told you all of that. I `m rather ashamed I hadn't told you earlier. You deserve to know what I feel. Everything I said is true."

"It's just that… Shizuru…" you tried. I put a comforting arm around your shoulders and pulled you close. "I didn't know how to handle it. It made me think that everyone had been lying, or hiding something… even you…"

"I won't hide anything from you," I said.

"I know that now. It just made rise to all of these stupid doubts that are un-true. I wish…"

"Don't worry about it. What's done is done. She'll eventually get over you."

"How did you know? I know I didn't tell you…"

"It wasn't hard to see."

"Oh."

"Worry not, beautiful kitsune. I'll be here for you. Always."

Guten Abend! (Good Evening!) I hope you guys like this chapter. I will try to keep up the story updates to every third day or something, but I can't guarantee anything. Let me know if you have any suggestions. I am open to almost anything. Anyway, another touching chapter. Hopefully I'll write something a bit more chipper next time. Please Review!