The Black Rose - Part II

Author's rantings:

I don't get myself sometimes, but right now I'm in the mood to torture my fave characters.  Call me crazy, but it's a season thing.  Sorry to everyone who hates Mukuro, lucky for everyone who hates Hiei and adores Yomi and loves Mukuro!  Our brave Yusuke is here too!  As for the irreplaceable, lovely fox (sigh) he should learn to love me back! (Sorry, couldn't resist this line, ha, ha!)

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Kurama: (Frowning)  So this is really the last part?

Shuriken: Yup!

Kurama:  Good!  (scans the script) Ack!  You gave me a lemon scene!

Shuriken:  (Clears throat) So?  IS there anything at all strange with THAT?

Kurama: (sweating)  Shuriken, I'm a straight guy.

Shuriken: So?

Kurama: So, this is implausible.  You can't write this!

Hiei: Hn!  There you are, let's start the lemon scene now!  (Grabs Kurama red hair)

Kurama: Hellllllllllllllp meeeeeeeee, mmph.

Hiei: (kissing the fox furiously)

Shuriken: (turns to audience) OK.  Actions speak louder than words.  Do I have to spell out the WARNING LEMON, again?  Never mind? Oh, good!

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Hiei surveyed the vast makai landscape with his jagan.  He had been doing this since dawn.  Inevitably, his thoughts went back to Yomi and Kurama.  A violent spasm shook his chest as he imagined the fox bonded to Yomi.  Yomi would then be free to do as he pleases with his fox.  His fox.  Hiei gnashed his teeth.  Kurama was never his.  True that they had made love in the past, but that was all.  They didn't mean a thing to him.  It was just physical attraction and a simple assuagement of his libido.  Nothing more.  And yet he couldn't take it if Kurama was going to be exclusive for Yomi only.  That meant that he would  never be able to touch, taste or possess the enticing youko/ningen again and he didn't like that.  Kurama was no one's.  He was a youko, meant to be free and wandering.  What was Kurama thinking?  The fire demon cursed and finally decided on something.  One day more to go and Kurama would be Yomi's forever.  Not is he can stop it.

 Kurama debated whether he should go see the fire demon.  Hiei had sent him a mental call, asking him to meet him at their usual rendezvous in the makai.  The secret place where they used to meet and make passionate love.  He never wanted to see Hiei again and if the fire demon wanted to see him for something, he should present his thoughts to him and Yomi both.  One day more to go and he was going to be bonded to Yomi.  He sighed.  He knew that this was a logical decision.  Yomi loved him so much, respected and cherished him.  More importantly, the youkai understood him so well.  He did not need to spell it all out to Yomi, the blind youkai knew him, possibly more than he knew himself.  He loved Yomi as a friend, but he would make himself fall in love with the youkai.  Yomi was not hard to love.  The redhead smiled as he thought of Yomi.  He was not going to make him regret his decision either.  The fox licked his lips.  Yomi would be stunned if he were to focus his charm and seduction on him.  No one could ever resist this youko.  Not even Hiei?  A small voice spoke inside his mind.  Kurama frowned heavily and left his chamber.  He'd better make himself useful in this kingdom.

 "Well, I can go to Raizen's territory to deliver the message."  Kurama offered.

Yomi frowned at his `intended.'

"No, I don't think so.  I don't want you travelling on your own, Kurama."

Kurama laughed.

"Come on, Yomi.  I'm not helpless!  Have you forgotten that I'm a centuries old youko?"  Kurama chided.

Yomi smiled slowly, but a worried frown creased his forehead.  The blind youkai caught hold of the youko's elegant hands.

"Kurama."  The youkai pulled the redhead against him and kissed him passionately.  Kura,a responded, embracing the youkai back.  Yomi pushed Kurama's lower body against his tightly, gasping with desire.

"I-I can't wait for you to be mine."  Yomi whispered hoarsely into the sensuous lips.  Kurama's tongue darted out and caught Yomi's again in a love duel, allowing the youkai's hand to rub warm circles on his slender back.  Finally, they broke apart, gasping for breath.

"Is this a preview of what I'm going to get?"  Yomi teased the youko.

Kurama's green eyes glinted mischievously.

"You'll never imagine, Yomi.  You just have to... taste it."  The youko drawled, chuckling as Yomi drew a harsh breath, greatly aroused.

"Ku-Kurama."  Yomi attempted to pull him back, but the redhead sidestepped quickly.

"I need to go to Yusuke's first, then tonight Yomi. We really don't have to wait."  He said softly and left the trembling youkai behind.

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Kurama leaped agilely from tree to tree.  He needed to get swiftly to Raizen's territory.  He didn't like to travel back to Gandara at nighttime.  The makai was a dangerous place to be if you were a half human, half youko.  The redhead stooped when he sensed a flicker of ki.  Someone was masking his ki.  He gasped as Hiei suddenly appeared, standing in front of him.  Kurama almost fell down the tree, but Hiei steadied him quickly.  The rough hands shackled the redhead's wrists in a tight, unyielding grip.  Kurama stared down at his imprisoned hands and spoke very softly to the poker-faced Hiei.

"Hiei, let me go.  I'm in a hurry."  Kurama pulled uselessly at his wrists.

Hiei's grasps tightened.  Kurama gasped as he felt his wrist bones being squeezed very tightly.

"H-Hiei!"  He gritted his teeth.

Hiei loosened the hold a little and spoke in his deep voice.

"Come with me, we need to talk."

"There's nothing to talk about, Hiei."

Hiei's ruby eyes glared dangerously at the redhead.  He pushed Kurama against the tree and titled his chin.

"You're forcing my hand, Kurama.  I'm sorry, but I have to do this."  The fire demon said.

Kurama stared in shock at Hiei's opening jagan. 

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Kurama groaned.  He had a splitting headache.  The redhead sat up slowly and found himself sitting on a makeshift bed.  He gazed up and found the brooding fire demon staring at him.  The youko started to stand up.  Hiei came very near him.

"Do you remember this place, Kurama?"  The fire demon touched a soft cheek.

 Kurama stared angrily at him.

"Who can forget?  This was the perfect place for seduction, wasn't it?"  Came the sarcastic reply.

"So, you do remember."  Hiei smiled a little.

"Oh, yes.  It was fun while it lasted."  Kurama ground out and looked Hiei in the eye coldly. "What do you want, Hiei and where's Mukuro?  Isn't she enough to satisfy your libido?"  Kurama taunted.  Hiei pushed him against the wall, snarling at him.

"Shut up!"

Kurama pushed the fire demon away, but the much stronger fire demon pressed him back against the bed and claimed his lips in a brutal kiss.  Kurama wriggled and Hiei just got more aroused.  The fire youkai gazed down at the redhead with raging desire in his ruby eyes.

"I want you and I will have you again." 

Kurama moaned as Hiei claimed his lips again and explored the inner recesses of his mouth.  The rough hands pushed the youko's tunic away.  A thumb flicked on the hardening nubs of Kurama's nipples.  The youko was lost in his passion.  He knew he should stop Hiei, but the thought died as the fire demon sucked hungrily on his left protruding nipple.  Electricity coursed through his body as the nipple was bitten, lapped and sucked intermittently.  Kurama's slender hands settled on the fire youkai's spiky hair, pushing him against his skin.

"H-Hiei."  Kurama spoke the name in a mindless chant full of passion.  The fire demon heard it and looked up at the lovely redhead.  Kurama's gaze was heavy with desire, a complete contrast to the look he gave Hiei a while ago.  Hiei smiled and bent down again, but this time his lips found the center of Kurama's desire.  Kurama jerked asHiei's mouth worked skillfully on him.  The redhead panted as Hiei grew more and more insistent.  Kurama cried out his release, gazing at Hiei who was still milking him.  Hiei did it looking Kurama in the eye.  The ruby eyes willed the redhead to remember the moment forever.  Kurama groaned, but before he could wallow in a state of shame and self-remorse, the fire demon was on top of him and thrust into him swiftly.  Hiei gritted his teeth as he fought for control.  Kurama was moving his head from side to side, overwhelmed by the sweet sensations inside his own body.  Hiei moved fast inside the redhead, bending down to kiss him on the lips.  Kurama kissed him back.  The kiss was full of desperation and Hiei moved in more abandoned.  Their cries of ecstacy echoed inside the cave.  Kurama gasped for breath and closed his eyes, sated.  Hiei sank on top of him, looking down at the redhead's face with heavy-lidded ruby eyes.  He darted out a tongue to lick the closed lid nearest him.  The emerald eyes opened and stared at him silently.  Hiei spoke in a very low voice. 

"You can never be Yomi's, Kurama.  Not if you are this explosive in bed with me."

Kurama's lethargy left him at those words.  The redhead swiftly stood up, displacing the fire demon on the bed.  Hiei cursed and glared at the redhead who was straightening his clothes.

"So, you're going to run to him again?"  Hiei shouted harshly.  He felt another pain rocked his nucleus, not understanding it.

"Hiei... never mind!  Kurama swore and prepared to walk out of the cave.

"What kind of game are you playing?"  Hiei's harsh words rang inside the cave.  "You and I know that the only person who can locate that goddamn rose is you, yourself!  No one else can control makai plants but you!"  Hiei accused the redhead.

Kurama faced Hiei and nodded.

"You are right, Hiei and you are wrong.  The black rose is my own creation and only I can locate, grow and breed it.  But I created that flower years ago when I was still living as a fox demon.  If you think I lied to Yomi about its presence in the makai, then you're wrong.  It grows here, you just have to look hard enough to find it."  Kurama breathe deeply and continued. "What happened a while ago will never happen again."  Kurama turned his back to go.

"Are you sure?  Are you so damn sure?!"  Hiei stood up quickly unabashed at his nakedness.  Kurama avoided looking in his direction.  "What happened a while ago didn't just happen without your consent!  You were enjoying it as much as I have!"

"So?"  Kurama's emerald eyes glittered coldly.  "That's what it is all about, isn't it?"  It's just sex, Hiei, not love!"  Kurama said cooly, watching with satisfaction as Hiei paled and staggered.  "Look, Hiei.  You've delayed me long enough and I still need to go to Raizen's territory."  The youko said and left quickly leaving a stand fire demon on the cave. 

"K-Kurama!"  Gods what have I done?  Hiei cried in anguish.  The sound of falling tear gems reverberating inside the melancholy cave.

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To be continued ....   

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