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*~*Chapter one*~* Sitting in the window sill, our little fire demon is just watching the rain fall, yet again, and wishing he could go out there but Kurama said if he caught him in the rain one more time he’d do something he’d regret. That usually means, don’t do it any more. With another heavy sigh, he sees something, or maybe someone come up the path. It looks beat up. Trying to ignore it he gets out of the sill and goes to the kitchen for some left over rice balls from last night. Then a knock at the door startled him out of his mind. So he takes his time getting to the door and chomping down on a rice ball, when he opens the door, much to his surprise, a young woman, battered, is at the door and collapses before he could do anything. “Gah! What the hell?” he looks at the woman and feels a sudden surge of energy come from her. He picks her up and puts her in his bed, takes her wet clothing off and puts one of Kurama’s shirts on her. He takes a quick look at her and he feels, weird, he hates the way he feels, and the way she looks. He puts the covers over her and takes the soaking wet clothes, puts them in the dryer. About an hour later, Kurama gets home from his part time job and goes into Hiei’s room to take his wet clothes off, ‘Seeing as how someone broke the umbrella, not pointing at anyone in particular.’ Kurama thinks to himself with a small chuckle. Kurama sits on the other side of the bed and feels something just beyond where he put his hand; he looks over and sees the woman. “ AH! Hiei!” Hiei comes running to his call, “ what?” then he remembers the woman and stands there stupidly. “What is this? She is wearing my favorite shirt you know that! Are you not getting enough from me, so you go behind my back?!” Kurama says angry because he was going to wear that tonight after dinner and he was planning on some fun but if Hiei doesn’t love him any more. “What?! She just knocked on the door and collapsed in the door way, then I felt something weird, like a sudden burst of energy and she had wet clothes on… so I just grabbed any one of your shirts, I didn’t do it on purpose.” With a stupid smile on his face, trying to ask for forgiveness. “Are you telling me the whole truth?” He asks. “The whole truth and nothing but the truth!” Hiei replies to try and make his friend smile, even though he would rather not make himself sound stupid. “Ok Hiei, I believe you, but, isn’t there somewhere else she could go?” he asks impatiently. “Only your room or Yukina’s old room.” He tells him not wanting to put another girl other than Yukina in that room. “I know you don’t want any one in Yukina’s room, but put her there until we know more about her, k?” Kurama tells him in more of a command then a request. “Yes, sir,” he picks her back up but halfway there you hear a thump. Then you hear a girl scream and Hiei runs back to Kurama, clinging to him. “AH! She tried to kill me!” “Oh gods, Hiei…your not scared of anything other than this girl?” he says, making him sound very wimpy. Then the girl pops her head into that bedroom and kind of jumps back. “Hello, I’m Kurama, and you have already met Hiei.” The girl replies in a weak voice, “h…hi. I am Yume,” looks to see what she’s wearing and sees only a shirt. “Uh, why am I here?” Hiei replies, “I don’t know you just kind of showed up!” madly he jumps down at the sound of a buzzer and disappears. A couple minuets later he comes back with her clothes, “there… happy?” “Oh… uh… those aren’t mine… I was just wearing them.” She says, with a weird expression and then realizes all the bruises and scrapes she has. Kurama says very gently, “Could you give me my shirt? You have some clothes to wear and since you were--” suddenly a shirt flies at his head and a naked body appears in front of them. “Fine,” she says, fully aware of her nude body, not that she cared. Hiei gawked at the body, “so that’s what the men are always talking about,” when Kurama covers his mouth. “What is that supposed to mean shorty? Huh?” getting closer to them and in Hiei’s face. “HEY! Watch it with the words Bitch!” Hiei says fuming at the woman and fed up with her. Kurama gets between them and says, “Now Hiei apologize that wasn’t nice.” Then after a small mumble of what was supposed to be sorry, Kurama turns to the nude woman, he felt just the top of her shoulder and thought to him self, ‘That’s right, a woman has very soft, skin, wait! Stop thinking that!’ Then out loud to Yume, “now Miss Yume, say sorry for what you said.” “No. Why should I listen to you? Are you my mother or father; no are you my older brother or sister, no. Are you my lover, No.? I am not going to apologize for what I said.” She says very snobbish. Hiei replies, just about to kill her, “HEY I SAID SORRY! You listen to Kurama!” then he slaps her in the face and brings tears to her eyes. She backs away holding her left cheek and fumbles to find something to cover her self with. Kurama replies in a mixed tone, “Hiei, go to another room ok? I’ll talk with you later.” Trying to get Hiei out of the room, seeing the fear in her eyes. Then turns to her, “Yume, its ok.” He gently tries to touch her and comfort her, but she slaps his hand away. “NO! YOU’RE ALL THE SAME! G…get away!” she is crying, choking, gasping for breathe and at the same time, trying to be strong and independent. “No, he just has a short temper, its ok. Don’t worry, I’ll help you.” As he is reaching his hand out she slaps it away again. “NO! I wont fall for that again!” He just has to use force to get to her. He leans in despite the kicking and attempted scratching; he manages her undergarments onto her until she realizes his really is there to help. Hiei on the side can’t bear any more of this and attempts to walk out of his room to the living room when he gets a deadly stare from Kurama so he stays put. He doesn’t’ want to die tonight. Kurama replies very sweetly, “There see, I am here to help you.” “I. I am so sorry, Kurama. I just can’t trust any one, s…sorry” she says, now lying limp and tired from trying to get him away from her body, she thought she was going to get raped again. It scared her. With a slight chuckle he says, not meaning it to be true, “What did you think I was going to do?” “I wasn’t sure, because men would be nice and then they would try to you know” she brings her arms over her chest and crosses her legs. “ Oh…. My.” He says getting up. Then he looks for his shirt that is older and a pair of pants too small for him, but too big for Hiei, and hands them to her after about ten minuets of searching. “Well, here, these look more comfortable then the ones you were wearing.” Then a nice smile appears on her face and he smiles back. “Thanks… thank you so much.” Knowing what she has to do next, “H...Hiei?” she asks awkwardly. “What?” he says aggravated by how Kurama can just say everything’s ok. “I… I am sorry for being, as you put it, a bitch. I am I was just, afraid ok?” she says and does really mean it. “Well I could forgive you for that, I guess.” Then he sees her jump up and walks towards him and gives a hug, engulfed in a lovely embrace, feeling soft hands. They reminded him of Kurama. At least if he knew it wasn’t Yume he would have just looked up and kissed the person, but he knew better. He suddenly feels a small peck on the cheek and a rub on his back. Then he shivered, but a good shiver. He doesn’t know what the hell is going on. After she walks away, his face turns to an awkward red. Kurama sees this must be his first encounter with a real woman, other then his sister. “Kurama, I want to say sorry again. I should have trusted you; after all I guess you guys sort of trusted me when you let me in your home.” Walking up to Kurama and gives him a kiss and that pissed Hiei off. “GET AWAY! HE’S MINE!” he jumps on her and pulls his sword to her neck. “Don’t you touch him like that again?” To his surprise, she got out of the grab she was in and gets his dagger to his back. “I don’t think you should try such maneuvers on me.” She says with a giggle and puts Hiei’s hidden dagger away in the place she took it. “I am more skilled than you think.” “Then why do you need our help? I am only assuming you do.” Hiei says very cocky and mad. He thinks to himself, ‘stupid… stupid… how could you let your guard down. I hate that Bitch.’ Yume says in an uncolored type of voice, “These people are too skilled for my level. I haven’t trained up to theirs. They trick me one after another and when I don’t do what they say, they beat the shit out of me. I… I can’t believe myself.” After a long pause she comes to terms with herself, “Alright well, thank you for everything, I am sorry to have burdened you for anything, of all things I should have just done what he said.” Starting to walk off and out the door, much to everyone’s surprise, Hiei reluctantly grabs her arm and says, “No, just stay. It’s no burden at all. Besides, we could use a woman’s touch around here.” “And what is that supposed to mean Hiei? You’re the slob.” Kurama says dodging the glare he is getting from his aggressive fire demon. “Really? Do you really mean it?” she asks almost pleading and thinking, ‘YES! Score!’ “Yes… I really mean it” he drops her arm and walks back to the windowsill. The rain stopped and he swore under his breath quickly. Kurama says very gently, “Well welcome to the Kurama and Jaganshi house hold. Welcome, home.” Those few words meant the entire world to her, she never heard them except when her ‘mother’ would call her and tell her to come home. Yume never really had a home but now she does. “Thanks Kurama. Now. Is there anything in particular that I need to know about you guys?” “Yes, don’t let Hiei in the rain, he is under house arrest,” he says with a little grin and Hiei looks over with a small frown. “And Kurama is under a court order, no sexual contact of any sort for two weeks,” he says watching Kurama almost drop his jaw to the floor and flip out. “I see, you guys are…gay?” she says little bit confused. “You could put it that way, kind of…” Kurama says with a laughable expression and hoping she doesn’t walk out like others had in the past. “Ok. What ever, where is my room? I need to know so when I get back home tonight I don’t just… keel over and lay down on the couch… yah know?” she says kind of embarrassed as how she has done that before. Kurama thinks to himself, ‘what? She doesn’t care? That’s weird? Oh well I guess its for the better.’ Hiei speaks up in a half trebly half strong voice; “You can… sleep in the room down the hall to your right.” Then he looks away very quickly because he felt his face get hot. Yume then walks over to him and puts her hand on his shoulder, “Hey, Hiei its ok.” Then he just shrugs her hand off of his shoulder. “Ok, well, I’ll treat the room with respect seeing as how is belongs to someone special to you. I’ll leave for town in just a little. Thank you.” “Leaving so early, you just got here.” Kurama says, wanting her to stay the night and have her wounds healed and her stomach fed. “Your not becoming attracted to her, are you Kurama? I know you have had some past with woman as well as men but.” Hiei says skeptically. “No… no not at all Hiei, I was just concerned about her wounds and her formal state of health, we don’t need her dieing after we just met her. Do we?” Kurama sees how Yume could fill in that space that’s missing right now since Yukina left to live with Kuwabara. “No we don’t need her dieing.” Then his face lights up a little and he sneaks a smile on his face. A little while later he almost fell asleep listening to the rain yet again. A couple hours afterward she asks Kurama if there is anything to eat around here because she hadn’t eaten anything in days. “Oh sure we have leftovers from last night, unless our little demon here ate it all today…” he says as Hiei tiredly looks over to see what he’s talking about. “Guess he didn’t, ok lets see, rice balls, some beef and Sake!” “Oh wow sound’s great; I haven’t had anything like that in a while! Thank you!” she says sitting down at the table. “Uh… ok. I’ll reheat it.” while he walks back into the other room just beyond the wall. Hiei realizes its time to eat so he takes his normal spot, which just happens to be next to her. “What are we having tonight?” “According to Kurama, leftovers and Sake.” She says trying to make a conversation. “Oh, ok.” They ate and talked for an hour or so. Hiei was just going a little over board with the sake and got a bit drunk but Yume didn’t repeat anything he said. Kurama kept on telling him to stop drinking but he didn’t listen and he tried to touch Yume. He just let him. She didn’t care cause she knew he didn’t mean it. Kurama on the other hand kind of started yelling at Yume for letting him just touch her. Yume thought it was time to retire for the night so she walks down the hall and to the room she was supposed to stay in. Kurama carried Hiei into the room, dresses him and then gets in bed himself. After Yume sees the light go out she feels safer so she gently lies down on the bed and instantly falls asleep. Hiei goes into the room, silently and watches Yume sleep. She reminded him of Yukina. Now that he thinks about it, it has been over six months since Yukina left. He gently touches her forehead and smiles. Then he leaves the room and shuts the door. “What were you doing Hiei?” as he walks out with a small smile upon his face. Kurama just happens to be looking for him and notices he has something on his face he hasn’t seen in a while. “Well lookie here, is that a smile on your face today?” Kurama asks sarcastically. “Yeah so what if it is? Huh?” he says to answer to his sarcasm. “I like it, you should do that more often, and you look cute.” Then with a slight giggle he gives his love a nice hug and showers his face with quick little kisses. “Go, go! Your going to be late for work!” he kisses him a few more times before he literally pushes him out the door. “Don’t worry I wont kill her today?” Yume had awoke but just lied in bed and listened to them talk and giggle. She thinks to herself about a lot. She could never get that close to any one. She wishes she had some one to kiss and hug… but the closest she could ever get to any one was like a sister or mother; she thinks she could become a sister to Hiei. Oh well, she doesn’t mind. Since Yume is so lazy she just lies in bed until Hiei comes in at ten o clock. “GET UP!” he comes in the room and pulls the covers back, “you have been in bed too long. Come one get up!” he pushes her to her side. “But Hiei I don’t want to!” she just rolls on her side and tries to fall back asleep. “Yume! Get up don’t play games with me, I want to go out today!” he says climbing into the bed and about to jump on her. “Hiei I don’t want to get out of bed, I don’t want to get out today!” as she rolls to her back Hiei jumps on her stomach and sits on her shaking her shoulders. “GET UP! I AM TIRED OF BEING IN THIS HOUSE!” continually shaking her shoulders. “Ok, ok fine, I’ll get up!” she shoves him off of her stomach because she was becoming dizzy and he lands on the floor, “Oh my gods are you ok?!” as she sees him laughing she starts to giggle and gets down to help him up. “I bet you don’t know how many times I have fallen off this bed.” Laughs even more, “She used to push me off, just like you did.” “Yeah ...I see well at least I can actually see a real smile once in a while from a hostile little fire demon.” She giggles some more and walks down the hall to the couch and finds the clothes she stole, she puts the pants on but keeps the shirt that Kurama gave her, and she is never going to wear that again. “Well Hiei, what do you have planned today?” “I don’t know I just want to get out.” “Well, is it raining today?” “No it’s not supposed to today.” “Uh-huh, I find that hard to believe but I have to go to town anyway for some stuff.” “Ok.” “I have to eat, I am so hungry, where is the cereal and the bowls?” she says making her way into the kitchen. “Uh.” He says with a long pause. “You don’t eat in the morning I guess.” He shakes his head and she continues her search. “AH-HAH! I found them. Ok!” she sits down at the table for a nice bowl of cereal and reads the portion of the newspaper that Kurama or Hiei already did. “You done? I want to go before it gets too late,” he says very anxious to get out. “Ok, ok, ok I am done!” as Hiei is practically dragging her out the door and into the day. After hours of being outside, of course it starts to rain. Yume sees Hiei standing outside for some reason and she see the raindrops. With force she drags him inside and buys a towel and throws it at him. “Hiei, you hate me that much?” “I don’t hate you. That much…” He says with a small snicker. Yume gives him a look of ‘oh gods...’ and a sweat drop falls down her face. So she makes sure he is dry before they walk along the side of the buildings and he is in front of her. Hiei makes one good choice today and that was to go see Kurama at work. Seeing as how they have been out for eight hours doing nothing but looking around. Sure she bought some stuff but those were necessary. Kurama seeing them walk into the store walks up to them, “Hey guys, what are you doing here?” he sees that Hiei’s hair is wet. “Hiei what did I tell you about the rain?” “What? It just started to rain and we were caught in it right, Yume?” he looked back at her because she was trailing behind just noticing she is wetter then he is. Then he catches Kurama looking at her chest, seeing as how it is mighty see through. “Yume, why are you just walking around town with a soaking wet shirt?” Kurama asks while Hiei is tugging on his shirt. “Huh, oh what is it Hiei--” when he is suddenly pulled by the hair to Hiei’s eye level and forced into an emotional kiss. Seeing as how he now knows his partner is feeling left out he just waits until he’s done. “What is it Hiei?” he says now focused on him. “Why do you look at her that way?” he asks pointing at her chest. “What is so important there?” “I am sorry Hiei, I was just concerned.” He says grabbing his coat off the coat hanger and telling them he is out on his dinner break seeing as how it is 6 o’clock. “Concerned… right.” Hiei thinks to himself, ‘Concerned my ass… there is something about her chest that he must like.’ He has a frown on his face all the way home until after Kurama left and Yume changing clothes. Yume walks past the kitchen into the living room, when she sees Hiei sitting there again. She walks over to him and sits underneath him. “Hey Hiei, what’s up?” while grabbing a random book out from under the coffee table. “Nothing that concerns you.” He says cocky and stiffs up. “Well obviously I am concerned, I am asking you duh.” She says turning to the page where the story actually starts. “You’re funny.” He says yet again very meanly. “I am not trying to be funny; I am trying to find out what is wrong with you.” She says looking up to him. “Why do you want to know so badly?” he says now looking at her. “I just want to help you, I am sorry I wont push it anymore.” She starts reading the book when Hiei slips into her lap and sits quietly. After about ten minuets she asks, “What do you want?” “Could you read that thing to me?” he manages but very shyly. “You want me… to read to you? Don’t you know how?” she asks puzzled but very nicely. “I don’t know how to read Ningen.” He replies feeling weak. “All right. I’ll read to you.” She says and immediately starts from the beginning and reads. By the time she finishes four chapters, Hiei had fallen asleep so she gently picks him up and puts him in his bed, closes the door and walks back into the living room to find Kurama back early. “Oh. Hello.” “What were you doing in my bedroom? Where is Hiei?” He asks impatiently. “Sorry, he wanted me to read to him so I did, and he fell asleep four chapters through… I was just putting him your guys’ bed. I didn’t think it would be a big deal.” She bows respectfully and heads for the couch. “Oh, he wanted you to read to him?” he asks very interested, Hiei usually thinks there is no significance in the books he reads so he pays no attention to them. Curiously, Kurama asks, “Which one did you happen to read?” Sitting on the couch next to her. “I was reading Something Truly Rare.” She says putting a bookmark in her place and puts that book down. She looks around the bottom of the coffee table and picks another one up then reads the back to see if it’s worth reading. “Why don’t you continue to read it? It’s a good book.” He says watching her. “Because I promised him I would read to him every night at 9pm and I would stop when he says and not to go on.” She says flipping through the boring introduction and critic’s pages. “Since he fell asleep I just assume he doesn’t want me to go on because then he would miss some of the action.” She says with a slight giggle. “I see so you’re getting pretty close with him? Guess you’re starting to grow on him.” He says with a smile and pats her shoulder. “What he doesn’t like many people?” she says looking at him. “No not at all… You’re really the first, besides me. Well I am going to go to bed…k?” while getting up and taking his shirt off. “Ok… good night.” She opens the book and gets into reading it. About two hours later she starts to tear up over a part that reminds her of her past. She sets the book down and goes to the kitchen for a paper towel to wipe her eyes, and returns to the couch. She hugs her knees and attempts a small cry to herself. She thinks to herself, ‘I should go to my room to cry, so if they come out for a midnight snack and see me they don’t become concerned. If only I could move, get up and walk away or go back to from I came.’ She shifts her weight and is now looking at the ceiling. ‘I also don’t understand him… or even them together. I should just stay out of their lives and stay in mine, that will do just fine… stay in mine.’ She gets up after a little bit, leaving the book on the table wide open to any one who wishes to see, a page with a tear stain on it. Then while walking down the hall thinking and debating with herself, ‘with just one look they could guess who it was if they wished. They would probably come in and try to comfort me, or at least I know Kurama would. Hiei I don’t exactly know. He seems so confined; he is trying to keep his feelings in. When I come to think of it, we truly aren’t that different. Maybe I should just stop thinking and get some sleep; I can always deal with the consequences myself.’ She lays her head down and falls asleep for a couple of hours. *~*~*Chapter 3*~*~* A couple of days past and she has mainly stayed in her bed. One day someone just can’t handle it any much longer. So they decide to open her eyes and make her get up and enjoy what little she has. On a Thursday morning, Yume feels better but not much, trying to sleep a little more but a pressure on her stomach awakens her so she opens her eyes. “Huh?” she mumbles to herself as a figure of a person appears in her blurry perception. “Hello.” A small voice comes forth. He takes his hand off her stomach and sits it on the side of the bed as she sits up. “Hi… how are you this morning?” she asks still very unaware of her surroundings, where the hell she is or even who this person is… even though she has a feeling of whom it might be. “I was just watching you, making sure you are ok.” A kind smile forms on a pretty kitsune’s face. “Thank you Kurama, I appreciate your concern,” she says feeling his hand on hers. “Do you really love Hiei? Even though it’s none of my business.” She asks purely out of question. “Yea, I love him dearly- why do you ask?” he says wondering about her question. “You seem to have changed, even though I haven’t been here long. I just have noticed a change in Hiei as well; he’s mellower and tolerates a lot more since I came. Do you think he is becoming attracted to me?” she asks hoping there isn’t an answer of maybe… or back off! “Well, I hope he isn’t because if that is true…it would ruin my life. I work for him and then I make him happy I hope. If he is really becoming attracted to you I don’t know what I would do with myself.” He answers very truly. “I see, well are you becoming attracted to me? I see him looking at you, looking at me… and the other day he asked why you keep on staring at my… ahem…” she says looking at him strait in his seductive emerald eyes to see him avoiding her piercing full green eyes, she is trying to figure out if he is lying or not. “Uh, you see it’s been so long since I had any contact with a woman in that way, I hope I am not making you uncomfortable… I just find myself longing for something different. Maybe its just a phase you know?” he says still trying to avoid the eye contact she is trying to give still. “No, I don’t know. If you truly love Hiei that is all you should be looking at. He really loves you Kurama you’re a brother, father, and lover to him. You really should stop this “phase” your having. Keep your eyes to yourself, unless you are willing to break his heart, which is growing but shrinking at the same time.” Yume says getting right to her point; she’s good at that. Hopefully this is what is right for both of them. She doesn’t want to tear their relationship apart because they have fallen for the same person and they can’t have her. “You’re completely and totally right. That is all I should be doing, but the funny thing about being half human, is the human side is well an individual… there isn’t much I can do about feelings, I just hope they never advance.” He gets off the bed and walks out the door. “Me too. I know how you feel” She gets out of bed and goes to the window in her room. She looks around the dim room to see the way Yukina was. The bed’s too elegant for Yume; the room’s four walls are a luscious maroon, and the carpet Berber sand. This woman was a well-organized person. She stopped looking at the room and walks to the couch, picked up the book and reads until Hiei wakes up at eight-thirty. “You’re up. That’s a first, you up before me.” He says trying to keep up his mean image even though she can see right through him. “Say what you want Hiei… Oh and there is some breakfast if you want it.” She returns to her story. “Hey you’re not reading our book are you? I thought I told you not to.” He says angered for a minuet and about to snag the book from her hands. “No, no I am not. I found another book that has caught my attention.” She continues reading. He thought about a smart-ass remark but he didn’t say anything he shrugged it off and collects what he wanted from the plate of food and walks onto the porch then sits. Yume can’t keep track of where she is in her book. She keeps on having Kurama’s words stuck in her head. Over and over in her head, ‘the funny thing about being human, is your well an individual … there isn’t much I can do about these feelings.’ So she sets her book down, finds another bookmark and replaces it under the coffee table then she gets up and goes outside to sit next to Hiei. “What?” Hiei asks just looking out again. “Nothing… I just don’t like being alone, I feel, useless. Do you want me to leave? I can yah know-” she says about to get up seeing as how she in unwanted. “Nah… you can stay. I don’t mind as long as you don’t tick me off.” He says cocky, but being sarcastic at the same time. “And if I do happen to tick you off, what might you do?” she says looking at him in disbelief. “I’ll kill you.” He says while crossing his arms but otherwise not moving an inch or even smiling his evil smile. “I don’t think you would. Besides who would read to you?” she says cockily back then crossing her arms. “I could always learn from Kurama.” He says thinking he has the upper hand. “Kurama is never home except late at night and maybe on the weekends. Is that not your guys’ pleasure times?” she says letting a laugh out and knowing she has won the battle. “Besides, even if you were to have him read to you, you two would fool around.” She says with a small shrewd smile. “Would not!” he says getting the clue that she is trying to prove something to him. ‘She will not take the better of me!’ he thinks to him self. “Oh yea? I don’t believe you,” she says looking at him in suspicion. “Yea? I could sit and read with him, without fooling around.” He says getting defensive. “ Sure you could, just like you two and sit at the dinner table with out touching each others legs and playing-” when Hiei cuts her off. “That’s different, ok Yume, you’re on! Tonight he gets home early I’ll have him read to me… if I win… you have to be on our beck and call all weekend… seeing as how he has this weekend off…” says the angered yet confident Hiei. “Ok. And if I win…I get Kurama for the weekend.” She says awaiting his answer and thinking, ‘well Kurama, hold your part of the deal.’ “No! You can’t!” he says jumping onto her and grabbing her collar. “I was just kidding… you will just have to be on my beck and call all weekend, you can have Kurama… really! Get off of me you oaf!” she pushes him off and he gets angry. They fight for a good hour when Kurama comes in and sees them outside. Hiei on top of Yume and Yume is holding Hiei’s arms from touching her neck and strangling her, they are both out of breath. “What are you doing?” he says very calmly but with a hint of anger in his voice. Yume lets out a laugh and pushes Hiei off. “We were fighting…” “Do you think I could-” Hiei says when Yume covers his mouth and nods her head no… it’s a secret. “Could what Hiei?” Kurama says not knowing what to think but thinking of something very wrong in his mind. “Nothing! I was… just thinking aloud.” He says getting up off the ground to stand and hug Kurama. Yume sits and watches but Hiei just has to drag it on to say, ‘Ha, Ha I have a lover and you don’t!’ so she gets up and slowly walks into the house to sit and read. By the time she gets to the couch and sits down, they are already teasing and touching, kissing and licking. It made her sick. So she got up and went to her room to continue reading and finish the book. Kurama caught Yume leaving out of the corner of his eye. He stays put because he was listening to what she had to say that morning, ‘Keep your eyes to yourself, unless you are willing to break his heart, which is growing but shrinking at the same time.’ Then it clicked, ‘oh yea… that thing, this must be it.’ But still, her words from before keep on just replaying and replaying in his head. He doesn’t know what to do. Eventually Hiei got the clue that it was enough for being outside and he wanted to prove Yume wrong. ‘I can too have him read to me…I can too. She is going to regret it!’ Hiei then goes inside dragging Kurama in with him. He looks for the cover of the book Yume read to him and he holds it out. “Read it to me now.” He says now trying to get him onto the couch and start reading. “Uh… well isn’t that yours and Yume’s book?” he asks puzzled. “Yea but she is reading another book and doesn’t want to be disturbed… now sit and read to me…four more chapters.” “Oh, well if she doesn’t mind. But first let me go and change into some comfortable clothes ok?” he walks slowly and tired looking into the room. Five minuets later he returns in a white T-shirt and black slacks. He sits on the couch and Hiei sits in his lap. “Ok… four chapters here we go.” “Yes… now read!” he says pointing to the small pencil mark. “You’re awfully anxious… and you’re acting weird. But if you want me to read I will.” He has a smile on his face and he starts reading. About two chapters through his mouth gets dry but he gets over it. Kurama also begins to become fidgety to temp him. He slides his other hand that is occupant to Hiei’s stomach and pokes it while reading and enjoying him wiggle. Hiei almost forgets and begins to go along with his fun but then remembers his deal, so he says, “Stop Kurama and continue reading.” He points to where he thinks Kurama is and he nods. When Yume happens to finish her book, she walks down the hall and since you can’t see the living room from the hallway, Hiei can easily get away with any sneaky moves. So she was expecting to see him and Kurama fooling around, but much to her surprise she comes in and sees Kurama finishing up the eighth chapter. Hiei spots her and has a grin on his face. “That was actually amusing.” He hops out of Kurama’s lap and goes to the porch. Yume follows Hiei to the porch to await a report. “Well, I was wrong… I want to know, did you?” she asks hoping to get an honest answer. “Not one bit, just as I had said I could.” Of course that is a bit of a lie but mostly true. “Now…you are at our beck and call all weekend starting at seven tonight… in thirty minuets.” He says with a shrewd smile. “Fine as long as you answered truthfully.” She leaves with her head sort of low to keep up the act and walks to the coffee table. Hiei has a proud stance and keeps the smile on his face. She puts the book back when Kurama grabs her arm. “What did you two do?” He asks very skeptically. She looked at him with an expressionless face and explains, “I made a bet with him and lost. At seven I am at your guys’ beck and call… now don’t try to talk Hiei out of it cause he truly proved me wrong. So, I’ll be in my room if you will let go of my wrist.” She says with a wink… and to keep the act up, tries to get out of his grip. “Uh-huh, and what exactly was the bet?” he asks not giving it up for the sake of the act. “Ask Hiei… he’ll tell you.” She says as he gets up. She doesn’t exactly get out of his way quick enough so she falls on her butt. He said he was sorry and helped her up and went strait to Hiei. *~* Chapter 4 *~* Yume sits in her room just meditating on how she can keep sane in this house. Hiei for one is just driving her crazy. Kurama is just tempting her way too much but she can’t say anything back cause he will hurt Hiei. Sure he is a big pain in the ass but she just doesn’t want him hurt, that’s bad for any person, good or bad. At seven fifteen, Hiei had called her to the room. Hiei was sitting up on the bed and Kurama was lying next to him with his shirt unbuttoned. Hiei’s fingers were going up and down in a little place on Kurama’s stomach. Yume replies, “ yes Hiei? What?” very nicely not trying to sound irritated but it might have came out that way. “ Don’t talk to me that way! It’s, yes sir? What might you want at this moment.” He says with a smirk on his face and a devious one at that. She gives him a steady glare and manages, “ Yes sir? What might you want at this moment?” “ Well since you put it nicely, Dinner would be nice. Rice balls, sushi, and some beef soup.” He says trying to make this night completely horrific because she doubted him. Kurama wasn’t helping either; he just giggled and continued lying there with his hands behind his head, lounging. He would probably add to it later. “ Yes sir.” She says unenthusiastically and goes off to the kitchen to start the dinner Hiei had commanded her to make. She slams a few things but then decides, ‘Maybe if I am nice about it, and pretend I like him ordering me around, he will not get as much pleasure out of it… cause I am enjoying it! That’s it… I just have to be nice about it.’ She goes to her room to get into different clothes and finishes cooking. While Yume is cooking Kurama asks, “ Isn’t that a bit harsh Hiei?” with a bit of concern but not much seeing as how he is not supposed to develop any feelings for her. “ Heh, that’s easy for her, at the moment. Just wait… wait until later when the real fun begins.” Then Hiei begins his fun with Kurama, stroking, teasing, and the usual. One hour later she lightly knocks on the door and Hiei says to come in. “ I made your dinner!” and she puts a big smile on her face. “ Beef soup, sushi, hand made, and Rice balls, my own recipe. I found some Chopsticks but there are also forks if you wish. Just call if you need anything,” and she closes with a nice smile while closing her eyes pleasantly then she bows respectfully and walks out closing the door behind her. Hiei’s shocked face made Kurama laugh. Yume on the other side, kind of eavesdropping, also giggles at the sound of Hiei’s bafflement. Kurama says, “ So, you making her night miserable yet? She doesn’t seem so mad.” With some more giggles and pushing. Yume satisfied, walks away cleaning up her mess and eating some while cleaning. She plops down on the couch. Thirty minuets later she hears Hiei and gets up, puts on a nice smile again and lightly knocks and opens the door. “ Yes sir? What might you call me for?” “ Get these dishes out of here. And Thanks the dinner was great. Maybe I should win bets more often.” He says with a smirk hoping that will make Yume snap and she’ll have to do it longer. “ You’re funny Hiei, I don’t plan on making any more bets with you seeing as how you can always prove me wrong.” She smiles again and bends down to pick up the trays and bows her head politely and leaves the room. “ It’s not working Hiei, she has figured it out. What are you going to do?” Kurama asks, hoping Hiei will have fun with this cause he hasn’t seen him smile or been that determined in a while. “I don’t know, you think of something Kurama. I maybe the one to have won that bet, but, I said at our beck and call, not just mine. So come up with something good later, as for now, lets get busy. I miss you at night.” He says with a smile the fox could not resist. They immediately get intimate. Yume, starting to dose off, hears some disturbing noises and without delay gets out of there and to her room. “ Gees… they must be having, LOTS of fun.” She plops down on her bed and falls asleep. A few hours later, Kurama and Hiei had their fun, finally fall asleep totally forgetting about the bet. In the morning they awake to the smell of breakfast and feeling suddenly hungry. Yume had woken up early to make breakfast for them to get off the hook for tonight. Quite honestly, she did not like to do that or hear what she did. So when they emerge, one without shirt and the other without pants but with shirt, she smiles and fixes them their plates. “ G’mornin, how are you today?” she asks not really wanting to know but yah know, do what you got to do. Kurama replies before Hiei, “ Wonderful. And yourself?” with a pleasant smile as well and patting her on the back after getting his plate before she could set it on the table. Yume, wondering why he didn’t just let her put it on the table, nods her head fine and continues to fix Hiei’s plate. “ What’s the catch Yume?” Hiei says knowing she is up to something. “ What… I still have three hours left. So I thought I would make breakfast. Why do you care, free food any way.” She says with a shrug and a smile. “ Right.” Hiei skeptically looks at her then resumes his place next to Kurama and starts to eat his bacon and hash browns. “ Hiei, what’s your problem? We had a nice night last night, you should be grateful for Yume making the bet.” Kurama says trying to convince him that she is a good person. “ Yea. We did and it is all her doing. Did you plan that Yume?” he asks out of curiosity. “ Well… to tell the truth it was mine and Kurama’s doing.” She says as they both giggle. “ What?!” Hiei says in rage. “ Yes that’s right. I thought we needed some time, so I told her to make you flustered about something and I would play my part, came out great didn’t it?” Kurama explains and asks. “ Yea… I guess.” Hiei says shrinking in his seat a little bit. Then he thinks to himself, ‘ oh gees I am dumb to think Yume would actually be so nice to do what I ordered, I should have known.’ When Yume interrupts his thought with a hug from the back and a peck on the cheek. “ You know I would never doubt you.” She says then walking to the shower. Kurama’s laughing can be heard as Hiei sat there blushing and Kurama trying to eat but can’t take his eyes off his lover’s expression. ‘ You did a good thing there, Yume, you should be good more often.’ She thought to herself as she starts to undress and get into the warm shower. Kurama gets up to search for the Syrup. He practically searches the entire kitchen before he just walks into the bathroom to just ask when he sees Yume standing there, just getting out of her quick shower. “ Uh… hello Kurama, what might you need?” while she slowly continues to dry herself off not trying to look alarmed. “ W…well, I just wanted to know where the syrup is I didn’t mean to… ahem... Walk in on your shower. I am terribly sorry,” as he goes to shut the door she wraps the towel around her. “ It’s no problem, you have already seen me naked… remember the first time I met you?” she says with a giggle trying to make a joke out of his and her embarrassment. “ Right. I just feel more weird because we have lived with each other and developed a respect, yah know?” he says following behind her to the kitchen “ Yes… yes I understand.” She goes to the fridge and pulls out the syrup. “ Did you not look here?” she asks as she sets in on the table and Hiei immediately grabbing for it. “ No… that was the last place I would have ever thought of looking for it.” He says kind of embarrassed and looks down at his plate of food and starts eating again, although it’s hard to concentrate when you have a hot woman standing in a towel right in front of you and your love touching your leg. So he just stands up and excuses himself to his room and sits on the bed to figure out everything. “ What did you do to him Yume?” Hiei asks with a bit of cockiness and sarcasm while giving her a glare. “I… I did nothing; he walked in on me in the shower, actually just getting out. It’s his doing, not mine.” She says starting to walk down the hall to get some clothes on when Hiei tugs on her towel. “ What do you mean…” he says stern. “ What… he saw me naked and freaked out.” She says tugging the towel out of his hands and trying to get to her room to change into clothes to see what is wrong with Kurama. “ Hey! I am not done talking with you!” Hiei says spinning her around and scaring her, making her startled and she drops her towel. Her face gets bright red and stands there stunned. “ W...what?” he says staring at her. She gathers herself back together and grabs her towel and walks into her rooms. She comes back out almost as quickly as she left and walked right past Hiei to Kurama. She knocks three times and asks, “ Hey, Kurama, you ok?” she walks into the room and sits on the bed next to him. “ Huh?” he says very confused and preoccupied. “ You ok? Or are you traumatized for life?” she says trying to lighten the mood. “ Oh, Yume. Yes, yes I am ok. I am just, shocked it affected you affected me so much. I don’t understand because you look nothing like her, you are, almost like her, but completely opposite. I… said too much.” He turns around and Hiei is standing in the doorway on the verge of tears but trying to hide it. Yume gets up and walks over to Hiei. He tried to get away but she caught him and he hugged her. “ Hiei… are you ok?” she asks not forgetting about Kurama but trying to get Hiei situated. “ No… I am not ok. Kurama doesn’t love me any more.” Hiei says digging his face into her chest. This is very unusual for Hiei, to cry. Black pearls falling from his face and landing on the floor. Every clicking sound it made, Kurama would flinch and his heart would ache. ‘Great, I have now broken his heart, just like she said.’ He speaks up, “Hiei, I love you. What makes you think I don’t?” he says starting on his way over to Yume and Hiei. “ You’re starting to think of Botan again!” he says shouting even though Yume hugging him muffles his voice. “ Yes, yes I am thinking of her, but you know I have an unconditional love for you Hiei. I love you more than anyone…” he says as Yume moves over to let Kurama embrace him. But Hiei clung to Yume. “ No! You… you are just saying that!” he holds on tighter to Yume. Yume looks at Kurama with a smile and then brings Hiei’s face out and looks at him. “ Hiei, will you look at me and listen to me?” she asks very nicely and very sternly at the same time. She feels his head nod and he looks at her. His puffy eyes and sobby face made her tear up but she quickly blinked them away. “ Hiei, Kurama loves you so much. You have no Idea how much he loves you. Him and I created that skit so you guys would have a great night and you did. So he is thinking of a past love after accidentally seeing me naked. It’s ok Hiei, he just had some issues with himself, and he wants you there to help him through it. Will you help him?” she says wiping a tear from his face and giving him one last hug to work on Kurama. “ Now think about it for a sec. Alright? I’ll be right back!” Kurama, hurt by Hiei’s actions solemnly walks with Yume’s hand on his back practically keeping him up. “ What have I done?” Kurama asks aloud. “ It’s ok. I’ll get him around. I promise… or maybe I am just the problem and I’ll…” while she is closing the door and Kurama interrupts her. “ No, you can’t leave. I never saw Hiei this happy. I want him to be happy. But if it’s because of you, then I shall leave. I only want him happy.” Kurama says sitting on his side of the bed and putting his face in his hands. Yume, not wanting to break them apart, says, “ No. Kurama, you are so important to him. He may be saying this stuff now, but he will try to ask for forgiveness later. You know he loves you unconditionally as well.” Just as she finishes Kurama breaks out into tears. Here are two grown men breaking into tears because they don’t know if one loves the other. And it’s because one saw her bare in the bathroom. She tries to make him feel better by hugging him but he pulls away and wipes his face with his sleeve. “No. I don’t need you.” Kurama says. “Ok. Fine. I’ll leave you then.” She starts to walk out and reach for the doorknob when Kurama comes from behind her and slides his hands gently through her hair, bringing it to the front and to rest his crossed hands above each breast and covering her shoulders. She feels a sudden surge go through her body. “I thought you didn’t need me.” She says in a tasteless tone. “ I didn’t need you then. I need you now.” he brings his lips to her ear and says, “I need you in this, special way.” “ I can’t be here in this special way. You have Hiei…” she says looking away and finding an invisible spot on the floor. “ I wasn’t asking you.” He says firm. She snaps to reality. She is standing here with a man hanging on her, and a man who needs her most standing or sitting down thinking how he could probably get his lover back from this lost stage he’s in. She says the first thing that comes to mind after thinking some things through in her head, “ Then I am supposed to have no choice.” She tries to take a step further to reach the safety of Hiei, when he holds her back. “ That’s right. You must stay. I think I need you more than he. He is just… a person who doesn’t understand emotions. You know what? I think this is the first time he ever cried. I never saw it.” As he falls off the end of the, his first impression of viciousness seemed like only a whisper even though he was quietest at the end. “So teach him Kurama.” She says to bring him back from his thoughts. “ Teach him to love, cry, hate, and smile. Teach him like you taught me.” She says as his hands slides off of her body and to the bed he falls. “ I can’t believe I just did that! Yume, I am just so. Confused and… why?” he stares blankly at the wall. “First you need to sit up and wipe your face off.” She wipes his tears away and helps him to sit up. “ Second, you need to march out there and ask for forgiveness… not sorry, forgiveness.” She watches as his face returns to his normal color. “ And, last but not least, put this all behind you and pretend like it never happened.” She smiles to make him smile and it worked. Kurama then marched out there and asked for forgiveness and Hiei accepted. I then, being there for almost a month, decided I should probably leave to find a better life, and someone to love as well. They taught me so much they haven’t a clue. Kurama promised he would work less and Hiei promised to not be such a pain in the ass when I visit them in a year to hopefully show them they made the biggest difference in the world to me. So I started a new chapter in my life, walking that path I had crawled up a month earlier and standing proud. |
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