Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Under the Floridian Sun ❯ Going into Heat ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two

Going into Heat

Note: Male demons do not really go into heat, but I will say they do.

A few days later, you, Yusuke, Kurama and Hiei are all on the plane. Yusuke is acting weird, you think. He's very drowsy.

The plane has rows of seats, two seats in each row. Hiei and Kurama are sitting together, Hiei by the window. You are next to the window in your row. It's not like you like Yusuke or anything, it's just that he look's really sickly.

And besides, Hiei and Kurama chose those seats. They had said they needed to talk about something. Something important.

You have no clue.

So you decide to listen in on their conversation.

H. "When are you getting yours?"

K. "April 5th"

H. "I've got April 5th, too!"

K. "Great. Now there are two demons going into heat. Joy."

H. "Keh, stop giving me sarcasm. I wouldn't go into it if I could help it."

"Heat?" you think. You've heard about that somewhere before, hmm… oh yeah! Your friend Tara's hamsters go into heat. It's when…

The realization hits you like a smack in the face.

You gulp.

Your face turns red at the thought. You lean over the seat to them. Kurama looks at you from over the rim of his Sprite can. Hiei is turned, facing Kurama, as if he was about to say something, but his eyes are turned to you.

"Would you mind keeping it down?" you hiss.

Kurama abruptly chokes on his soda and spits it back into the can, turning red. Hiei looks like he's going to explode.

"You heard us?" he asks quietly.

You nod. "It's not that hard."

Kurama, still blushing, puts the can down and stutters, "I-It's not what you're thinking, heat to demons is just when we get hot~"

"~~Or cold~" adds Hiei.

"~or cold body temperatures, we sleep more, we're more prone to sickness, nothing like that…" Kurama said. He tried to drink his soda, again, and almost killed himself.

Hiei nods anxiously. "What he said."

Kurama coughs again. "Plagiarist."

You watch them argue for a few minutes more, then lean back over the seat. You watch the TV built into the seat in front of you. As you watch a soap opera, Yusuke wakes up, yawns and stretches.

He blinks drowsily a for a few minutes before looking at you in a daze and saying, "Hello."

He gets up and says, "I'll be in the bathroom."

You nod and say, "Good luck." He laughs, but you're serious.

Airplane toilets are things from Hell.

A while later, Kurama gets up and comes over to your row, and sits in Yusuke's empty seat. Hiei is watching a soap opera with murder and romance in it, and is eating popcorn the stewardess gave him. He's not blinking. Hypnosis.

"Hello there" Kurama says, looking at your every movement. You turn the TV off. "It's been half and hour, have you seen Yusuke?" you ask.

Kurama shrugs and looks around at all the other people walking around. "Nope." He gets up and goes over to his own seat. He grabs Hiei's sleeve. "Come and help _____________ find Yusuke" he says, pulling.

But Hiei is nailed to his seat, not taking his eyes off the soap for a second, frantically stuffing popcorn in his mouth, and eating faster every time Kurama pulls.

"Come on!" Kurama says, pulling. Hiei doesn't budge. Or blink. He just eats faster. On the soap, a woman was telling a man something in French. Kurama pulls again.

"No Kurama, no!! Deborah is about to tell Jon she loves him- in FRENCH!!!!!" Hiei says, yanking his sleeve back. Kurama shakes his head and gives up.

You wait for him to come with you to look for Yusuke, since he's the only one who can go in the men's room. Outside the door, you see a huge line. Waiting for Yusuke to get out.

Kurama holds your hand as he pushes himself to the front of the line to get Yusuke out, but the other people don't know that. They think you're just trying to cut, so they shove you around and throw you.

"Ok, human pests, move to the side. Part the `Red Sea'," you hear a voice say. It's Hiei.

Finally.

He has his sword out, and he's swinging it around. Just to scare people. He doesn't feel like killing anyone now. After the people move fearfully aside, he puts the sword back.

"Kurama, ___________________, I'll be back at my seat if you need me. Deborah's either about to do the kissing scene or the dirty dancing in the next episode!!" he says, and runs off.

"Rightttttttttttttttttt…"

Kurama pulls open the bathroom door, and there is Yusuke, asleep and standing up, his hands in the sink, his head nodding. "Oh great" you say. Kurama pulls him out.

Yusuke's still asleep.

Kurama drags him back to his own seat, dumps the limp figure next to Hiei, already absorbing a kissing scene in the soap, and sits next to you.

You look at him. "Hmm?" you ask.

"Remember how I said demons go into heat?" Kurama asks you, his eyes shining.

You nod and say, "Let's not get into that again."

Kurama shakes his head. "You're not listening to me! Yusuke is in heat. I felt his pulse when I picked him up-he's scorching. His ancestor was a demon. Generally, half demons like him go into heat longer then full demons because the human part of them says, `Hey, why is this happening? I'm human', and the demon part says, `Hey! We have to go into heat!'. So, basically, right now, he's fighting with himself."

"So…it's like he's in lock-down mode?" you ask. Kurama nods. "Until he can calm down and his hormones rest."

"Does that mean he won't wake up for the concert? We have three weeks of vacation, and then the show. He's bound to wake up, right?!" you ask frantically.

Kurama, with a concerned look, says, "I'm afraid not, ________________. He may sleep through the whole thing."

You gulp again. Yusuke is the lead guitarist. If he couldn't perform…the thing was off.

"What do we do now?" you ask. Kurama leans back in Yusuke's chair, and puts his hands behind his head. He closes his eyes.

"We pray."

TO BE CONTINUED…