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Stepfather
By : Artemick
Category: Yuyu Hakusho > Yaoi - Male/Male
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I woke and tried to speak, grabbing at Hiei. The small demon watched intently. “Tell me.”
I leaned forward, dragging myself by my elbows. My hand fisted in Hiei’s coat and I dragged him down until my lips were in the demon’s ear.
“Night…mare,” I said. My voice was wrecked from crying and begging.
I made a gesture, moving a hand over the back of my thighs. Hiei knew that, because he had felt the motivation to make the same gesture, once long ago. He also knew I feared rape, feared that any arousal signified total depravity.
“It’s not real, Kurama. Look at your clothes. See your uniform? Nothing happened.”
I looked around. I was on my street, half the way to the bus stop. Kuwabara was grinning at me from the side. Yuusuke was shouting into the cell phone at Genkai.
It felt real because it was so strange, so unique a perception. This had never happened before. It could not be a trick of my mind, with no memories to quilt out of. I’d never heard Yuusuke’s voice so angry, or seen the lightsaber tshirt Kuwabara wore.
But it had all been – unique, and terrible.
“I was in a box.” I said. “I was dead.”
“You called us. You're out now.”
“It was real, then?”
Hiei did not know. He held his eyes on me.
Yuusuke shouted, “Then you can drag my dead teammates out!” and cut his phone off. He wiped his arm over his eyes, crying, and sniffed. “It’s some kind of predator.”
“I can’t see it," Kuwabara grumbled.
“My mother’s in there.” I sat up.
“She’s not, Kurama,” Hiei said.
“I saw her.”
“You saw a lot that wasn’t there.” Yuusuke pinched his nose like he had a headache. “All the old bitch said is that it sounds like the demon wasn’t prepared to deal with other beings getting through the barrier and into the house. Maybe it scared your family off before so you wouldn’t notice anything wrong until you were too close.”
“They sealed me,” I remembered, touching my heart. “They were able to seal all my power, even my memories. All of Yoko.”
Hiei made a sound of interest. “That’s a feat.”
I glared, whispering. “I am well aware now. In fact, I remember exactly how to slay a fire demon.”
“Then it’s only fair that I’m curious.” Hiei turned away.
Kuwabara raised a hand. “Hey guys? Shouldn’t we get away from here?”
“It’s gone,” Hiei said. “No one’s in that house.”
“Look, let’s just go to my house,” Kuwabara offered. “It’s pretty close if you take the bus.”
I didn’t feel like moving, but I sure didn’t want to stay there. “Tell me where my mother is, if she’s not there.”
Hiei shut his eyes while he searched. He pointed askance, “That house. She’s playing a game with cards. There’s three other women and some kids. Lots of dishes. Wine.”
I laughed. My chest ached. It was a damn Wednesday night: bridge.
“Isn’t that behind the barrier?” Yuusuke noticed.
“Yes - no,” Hiei was surprised. “The barrier’s gone.”
“I’m not going home,” I said, surprising myself. I stood. The fox’s grace was coming back to me, though I felt bruises and scrapes that Hiei insisted were impossible. “I can’t see them yet.”
“Who?” Kuwabara squinted.
"My family."
“We ought to get evidence,” Yuusuke stretched his arms. “But I’m not really into that, so what say we go tear Koenma a new one?”
Hiei stood next to me, watching the area around us. “That toddler won’t know what happened.”
“Guys, just come on,” Kuwabara grunted. “Chill, please? We look like vandals. I’ll order out and I'll pay if we can just go right now.”

Shizuru sat on the carpet with them while Kuwabara ordered snacks on the phone.
I stared at the carpet, image training.
Shizuru leaned over and blew a breath of smoke out on me. “Honey, you’ve got the most bizarre sort of…energy residue on you. And you smell like an orgy.”
“Aw, sis! Gross,” Kuwabara spun around in the doorway, as if he could walk out on the topic. He came in though and sat. “Kurama’s been fighting some kind of evil barrier thing, not slutting it up with your friends.”
“Don’t – you!” She started to hit him, paused to put the lit cigarette between her teeth, and then smacked him upside the head. He howled.
Urameshi laughed, sprawled with his arms over the couch.
Hiei just smirked.
Shizuru turned back to me. “A barrier, huh? Oh, I’m sorry – does this bother you?”
“It’s okay,” I said, holding up a hand. “I don’t mind.”
“Yes you do,” she leaned back to the table and snuffed it out. “So what about this thing? You’re a mess.”
I explained that I had felt something, even lost time, when passing the barrier before tonight.
“So this took awhile before there was any effect?”
“Yes.”
“Either the barrier took awhile to set up, or he needed to watch you before he did anything.”
“It scared me without any prep,” Kuwabara said.
“I, also, encountered a hallucination when I crossed it,” Hiei said.
“You crossed it?” I asked. “So I did see you.”
“See me how?”
“You were surrounded by fire. People were chasing you. Hundreds of them. Your hand burned straight through me – “
“Yes. That was it.”
“So we both saw the same thing?”
“But you weren’t burned. It wasn’t real. I wasn’t even near the house.”
“Some of it…was real,” I insisted. I felt it. I mentioned the scene in the kitchen, then simply, “I bargained and he sent her away. Sent the image of her away. He began to torture me. I couldn’t do much of anything to stop him. I called Kuwabara then and got his voice mail.”
They turned to look at him.
Kuwabara protested, “Look, I just didn’t want to go out tonight! My show was on. I called Urameshi once I heard the message.”
“I’m glad you all came. I don’t know when he would have stopped. And the dreams were getting further away from reality. I thought they cut me into pieces and I was watching. I thought I was being put in a box.”
“A coffin?” Kuwabara asked, in some sad attempt to be comforting.
“No.” I shrugged. “Thin cardboard with a clear plastic window in the lid.”
“What, like a cake?” Shizuru asked, as obtuse as her brother.
I frowned. “I don’t know what the demon was thinking. I can’t explain it.”
“Actually, you should try,” Kuwabara said. “It was all coming out of our heads, different.”
“Things we’re afraid of,” Yuusuke mused.
“Sounds like a movie, confronting your greatest fears,” Shizuru said.
“Not our greatest. I mean, the cat and everything, it was all things we were scared of, but not the most. I could have dreamed that all of us died, or Keiko. No offense, Kurama.”
“None taken,” I said. “I didn’t dream that my mother was killed, and I think you all know I worry about that happening far more often than being attacked by a human office-worker.”
“Were you worried about that?” Shizuru asked.
“I was. But not – not like it played out. It wasn’t that serious.”
“But it was on your mind?”
“Yes.”
“Then that’s it, maybe the demon just grabbed what was immediately available.”
“No,” Hiei said. “I never thought that. It’s stupid.”
“It might not be so literal. If you were just afraid that your powers might become difficult to control, or that you’d bring trouble to your friends,” Shizuru said.
“Look, I’ll admit it,” Yuusuke grunted. “I’m always kind of worried that I dragged you all into this ghost detective business -- and that you’ll all die. And it’ll be my fault. So tonight, I was worried that we were late and Kurama was never going to see his family again. I'm always worried I'm taking you away from your home, Kurama. I feel like taking you away from there kills you. I do. And you half died while I carried you."
“I was very dead, in the first nightmare,” I added. “So that was still an improvement.”
“It all stopped when we got out,” Yuusuke added.
“True.”
“Maybe he used the dreams…” Yuusuke strained. He disliked complexity. “To cover up whatever he was actually doing.”
“He was targeting Kurama,” Shizuru said. “We weren’t supposed to know or get in.”
“Yes,” Hiei said, sitting up.
“Dammit. Are you saying we really should have done the evidence collection thing?” Yuusuke groaned.
Shizuru spoke, thinking aloud. “This guy sounds kind of weak, to have to sealed so much of you before he could even attack. He must rely on a few tricks. If they don’t work, he runs.”
“Maybe he’s got friends giving him toys he isn't old enough to be touching,” Hiei said grimly.
I agreed, “He completely bound the kitsune in me. That takes power, but – I’m not even sure how that could be done. The souls are completely merged. I never had a problem with this sort of spell, and I’ve been in nearly every kind of prison and shackle you can imagine.”
We all sat, quiet.
Yuusuke picked at his eye. “Let’s wait for Genkai or Eats-and-Wets to show up. They probably know what’s going on.”

I undressed to shower. There was crust over me. I stank of sweat, which became much worse when I took my undershirt off.
I found bruises on my hips. The hands that made them were turned backwards, facing me. Human, but not mine.
“Hiei,” I said aloud.
He came to the door and looked silently inside.
“Come in.”
He cracked the door.
“What do you think happened?”
He looked at me. “Something very sad.”
“Don’t pity me. What happened?”
Hiei shook his head. “I’m sorry. I didn’t see him.”
“You saw me?”
“I was hallucinating.”
“Tell me. If you were ever my ally,” I whispered, venomous. “You will tell me right now everything you saw. Obviously, someone was with me, hidden. I need to know. I could die – “
Hiei put his hand up and thought back. “That will never happen. We’re staying together till this thing is dead.” He put his fist out to me.
“What?”
“Kuwabara said this was a thing. Humans do it to show loyalty. Joint success.”
I laughed and tapped my wet knuckles to his. After that, my anger was fractured, and I could wash it away with the stinging water.

We circled Koenma, who took questions like a PR professional. I sat against Shizuru’s knees while she toweled my hair dry and combed her nails through it. I almost purred.
Kuwabara raised his hand. “So the mutant kids. Like X-men?”
“No!”
Koenma was taking a lot of flak from the group. I felt it was quite deserved, considering he’d been hiding psychics and hell gates right under our noses, but the little prince was getting sick of it.
“We understand the general facts,” I clarified for him. “But not their expression in what happened last night.”
“You ran into a psychic,” Koenma said, resting his temple on his fist. “That’s all.”
“Don’t be a jackass,” Genkai said. “It’s obvious Kurama was targeted.”
“Ma’am, can I ask you to use some discretion?” Koenma growled around the pacifier.
“Wait,” I stopped him. “Why me?”
“You’re the weakest fighter in the group,” Genkai said, tapping out a cigarette. She tossed the box over my head to Shizuru. “Why wouldn’t they pick on you?”
The humans looked at me.
I nodded, feeling small. Hearing the words out loud made my heart race with anxiety. It was like being half dead already. “Of course.”
“You’re also the most intelligent. If you’re taken out, there’s little threat from the rest of the team.” Genkai shrugged.
“Hey,” Yuusuke shouted, over Kuwabara’s wail: "We didn’t ride the short bus here.”
Shizuru guffawed and put her hands over my eyes, pulling me back. I looked through her fingers to see her smiling, a cigarette between her teeth. “Just cause they couldn’t figure out exact change to get on.”
I grinned.
“That’s why you’re our weakness now, Kurama,” Genkai said.
And also our strength, I thought, locking eyes with her. I needed to pull my thoughts together and keep us alive. “I apologize. I won’t leave myself open like that again – now that all the information is on the table. But it helps to know who he’s targeting. We have that advantage."
Yuusuke shoved Koenma over.
“Cut it out!”
“Sorry, sorry. My bad.”
“You can’t beat these types with brawn,” Genkai said. “You three are going to have to learn to think. And Kurama, get out of your mother’s house. It’s too dangerous.”
“I agree.”
“Hey, I think endurance is what matters, not brawn,” Yuusuke said. “And we’ve all got that.”
“Next they’re going to whip them out and start measuring,” Shizuru giggled, slapping my shoulder. “All in how you use it, right?”
“It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion,” I murmured, quoting the blues song. It was too quiet for anyone but her to hear. But to joke about sex hurt.
“Just because you were too dumb to scare,” Hiei said to Yuusuke. “It doesn’t mean you endured anything. So watch your pride."

"It’s the aggressor’s fault Yuusuke was able to get to him before he went completely insane,” Genkai said. “The villain’s plan didn’t account for Yuusuke having a fear that was consistent with his rescue. Let's hope he keeps making mistakes that big, so you can close that rift and I can get back to wiping noobs in Halo.”
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Stepfather	By : Artemick Category: Yuyu Hakusho > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 7320 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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