Dreams and Reality

Near dawn, the kitsune began to sweat and writhe in pain. Hiei looked on, concerned. “Fox?”

“It hurts, Hiei!” The voice sounded doubled, as if somehow, two people were speaking through the single mouth. Her…his…back arched, showing Hiei that the body was undergoing transformation. The flesh of the chest was smoothing, returning to its prior masculine state. As he looked closer, he could see other changes indicating that the kitsune was returning to his prior form. Hiei glanced at the sky. It hadn’t yet been 20 hours. Would his fox be in pain for four hours? Could he bear it?

A keening wail brought his mind back to the present. The redhead’s brow was covered in sweat and contorted in pain. Gently, Hiei laid his hand on the red hair and soothed the kitsune in the only way he could think of. Softly, his lips pressed against the red hair, “I’m here, Kurama. I will not leave you.”

It what seemed a final surge of pain, Kurama collapsed, unconscious, panting heavily. Hiei looked over the body before him. All signs of feminity seemed to be gone. The chest was again flat. The hips narrower, the torso tapered instead of hour glass shaped. These were the lines he knew so well. His eyes returned to the fox’s face, flush and still damp from the pain he’d experienced. He brushed his fingers through the red hair, “Kurama?”

Green eyes opened blearily, “Hiei? Is it over? Am I…am I me again?”

In answer, Hiei kissed the kitsune, his hands tracing the contours he’d dreamed about, from shoulder to waist. He hesitated a moment, and then allowed his hand to explore lower. What met his hand made him smile in the kiss. The fox was already growing excited and the results were…obvious to his questing hand. Pulling back, Hiei murmured, “It seems I have a debt to collect on.”

Kurama smiled, and said in his own voice, “And we have four hours before anyone will come looking for us.” He brought his hand up to Hiei’s cheek and gently drew the koorime down, bringing their lips together, allowing passion to enter and consume their souls.

Hiei moved to cover the kitsune’s body with his own, his hands wandering slowly returning to caress the kitsune’s chest. He could feel Kurama’s hands on his back and in his hair. Passion began to fill their actions, consuming both of them as their lips remained joined and their bodies began to move together. Hiei sighed as his hands again traveled over the smooth lines of the kitsune’s chest.

Kurama pulled back from their kiss, “How is it you wish to collect you debt, Hiei?” His green eyes were dark with lust as he asked, “How do you want me?”

This question caused a flame of desire to course through the koorime’s body. He crushed his lips to the kitsune’s, devouring him. After a time, he pulled back, “I want you every way I can have you, Fox. And don’t think that just this once is going to fulfill that debt of yours.” He kissed the redhead’s lips deeply. “But, for now,” he kissed the fox again, “I want you under me.”

Kurama groaned and rolled his hips into Hiei, enjoying and relieved when he felt his own erection rubbing against the koorime’s. Gasping, “Yes, it’s going to take a while to pay off my debt to you.” He pulled Hiei down into a bruising kiss, his hands moving to free the koorime of the black cloak when he was sure the little fire demon would not pull away from him.

Hiei groaned when he felt the kitsune’s cool fingers brush against his warmed skin. He arched into that touch, craving more contact, his hips rubbing more firmly into the fox’s below him, causing him to gasp slightly at the contact, breaking their kiss.

Quickly, Kurama took advantage of this break and pulled Hiei’s cloak and tank top over his head, throwing them aside. He then sat up slightly, chasing the petite demon’s lips, pulling off his own shirt before relaxing back to the ground, his fingers moving to undo the belts that bound the pants of the one above him. He groaned when his arms were forced away, pinned out to his sides and Hiei pulled up from him. “Hiei, please…!” he cried out before looking at the koorime’s face. The expression in those red eyes caused him to pause, gasping at the depth he read there.

“This is my debt, Fox, and I’ll take it how I want,” the dark haired demon countered, hunger written across his face, “and I want to see you. I want this to be more that just sex. Understand, Fox?”

Kurama swallowed thickly, relaxing in the restraining hold, “Whatever you want, how ever you want it, as long as you want me.” His eyes returned Hiei’s hunger, surrendering completely to the hiyoukai.

Hiei’s hands traced up Kurama’s arms as he bent slowly to the kitsune, hands reaching the fox’s face before his lips ghosted over the other’s lips with a whispered “mine.”

Kurama groaned, but kept himself still, accepting Hiei’s dominance of the situation, surrendering because he knew that was the way to receive what he, too, desired. As their kiss deepened, his hands found their way to Hiei’s hips and rested there briefly before moving to caress the other’s firm ass through the rough material of his pants. This encouraged the hiyoukai to rock his hips against Kurama’s, drawing out delicious groans from the redhead.

Hiei’s hands traced paths down the kitsune’s chest and his mouth followed, tasting the skin that lay exposed before him, his ears taking in every sound the fox made, his mind making note of the places that drew out the loudest, most delicious noises, the tightest squeezes, the most arching of groans from the expressive redhead. When his fingers ghosted over the darkened circles of skin on the fox’s chest, Kurama’s body arched delightfully and he gasped, begging for more. With a smile, Hiei replaced one of his hands with his mouth, drawing a cry of pleasure from the writhing kitsune as the redhead’s hands traveled up his back and into his hair.

Hiei slowly devoured the delicate bud of flesh, delighting in each gasp and groan that escaped his fox. Slowly, he crossed to the other nub and repeated his ministrations, the fox’s reactions becoming more wanton, more passionate. The kitsune’s fingers tightened in Hiei’s hair, massaging and trying to pull the dark head lower. Hiei stopped his actions, slowly bringing his head back up to eye level. The fox’s green eyes were darkened, his lips red, moist, parted, his breath uneven and ragged. Hiei drank in the sight a moment before claiming those red petals, slowly exploring them, tasting every bit of skin before his tongue sought entrance into the kitsune’s mouth. After a long exploration, the hiyokai slowly made his way down the fox’s neck, lovingly caressing every bit of skin. Slowly, passionately, his lips traced a path down the center of the redhead’s body to his navel.

Kurama’s body arched into Hiei’s questing touch, a panting gasp escaping his lips at the koorime began to trace the rim of navel with his tongue, circling slightly wider before bringing his tongue into the indentation. The kitsune’s body quaked, his hands gripping almost painfully in the black hair as he cried out, “Hiei!”

Hearing the fox call out his name so passionately sent a burning arrow of desire through the koorime, almost causing him to abandon his quest to find all of the kitsune’s delightfully sensitive areas. His hands went to work on the kitsune’s pants, slowly, torturously working the fastenings.

The red head’s body was shaking with desire, need, as he fought within himself to not change their position, to allow Hiei to continue to work his body. He forced his hands out of the koorime’s hair and to the ground. He gasped and sighed in pleasure as he felt the petite demon’s hands pushing at the fabric of his pants. His gasp became a cry as his hardened shaft brushed against Hiei’s chest. His hands came back to clutch at the koorime’s shoulders, his body arching to repeat the contact.

Hiei could feel the desire to posses the kitsune fully building in him. Abandoning the delightfully sensitive indent, he trailed kisses slowly down the redhead’s taught quivering abdomen, his hands moving to still the bucking of the fox’s hips. He bypassed the redhead’s weeping member, kissing a trail to his thigh. He could hear Kurama whimpering for more, begging to be taken, pleading. Hiei took a moment to look up, watching as the flaming locks were tossed side to side, Kurama’s body writhing in pleasure and need. He could feel the fingers on his shoulders digging in. He lowered his head and licked the tendon. This caused the redhead to cry out again in pleasure and try to buck against the restraining hands. Unable to torture his fox anymore, Hiei took the pulsing shaft into his mouth. Kurama cried out, his body desperately trying to deepen that contact. Knowing that if he didn’t act soon, he wouldn’t get what he wanted, Hiei’s fingers worked clumsily at his belts, his mind cursing that he wore them, as his mouth worked up and down along the delightful shaft, devouring it repeatedly, to the audible delight of the fox. He was about to rip off his pants when the belts finally gave way to his fingers and he pushed the fabric down, kicking it away.

Kurama cried out at the loss of Hiei’s mouth around his throbbing erection, his eyes opening, though he didn’t know when they’d closed, to look at the koorime, now fully naked, straddling his hips. He blinked in confusion. Hiei had said he wanted Kurama under him, but this position, with the koorime balanced on his toes over the kitsune’s hips would not…”Hiei?” he asked softly as his hands came to rest on the koorime’s hips.

In answer, the koorime took the redhead’s shaft in his hand, carefully aligning himself over it, and slowly lowered himself, a drawn out groan escaping his throat as he maintained eye contact with the darkened green eyes before him. Fully seating himself against the gasping kitsune’s hips, he managed to say “I said I wanted you under me, Fox.”

Kurama groaned, struggling to maintain eye contact with the dark haired demon. He wanted to close his eyes, to drift, to focus solely on the tight heat around his aching shaft. He desperately wanted to thrust into that heat, to flip them over, to take Hiei quickly, but the koorime’s words and the burning fire in his eyes kept him still. When Hiei rocked slightly, he lost the battle to keep his eyes open, his upper body arching back in pleasure as his lips cried out for the koorime, his hands moving to grasp the grass beneath them.

The kitsune’s wantonness drove Hiei’s passion higher and he began to move in earnest along the redhead’s shaft, his own eyes drifting shut as his head arched back in pleasure, the kitsune’s name ghosting its way out of his lips, almost lost in the groans of pleasure. After a time, he bent forward to claim the fox’s lips, pleased when he felt the redhead’s arms wrap around him, holding him tightly. Their bodies moved together, their motion becoming more frantic, more desperate until they both arched away from their kiss and screamed the other’s name in ecstasy. After a time, and eternity or no time at all, Hiei fell bonelessly onto the panting redhead, whose arms now held him loosely and they rested together, allowing the breathing to return to something resembling normal.

But, there were other debts to pay before they could continue with their desired activities. They both knew Koenma would summon them if they did not appear, so they left the clearing, intent on returning to Kurama’s house to allow him to change and clean up, but their tryst had consumed too much time. Botan was waiting for them near the open portal. A near silent groan escaped both demons at the sight of the blue haired guardian of death.

“Koenma sent me to get you two. The boys are already there.” She looked more closely at Kurama, who had to this point been walking behind Hiei and now drew even. “It wore off!” she exclaimed, clapping her hands in excess of joy.

“So it would seem,” the redhead replied evenly. “Do we have time for me to go home first?”

“No, he was insistent that you come quickly. Something about trials and holding prisoners without one…” her voice trailed off, indicating that she didn’t understand what she’d been told.

Kurama smiled, “Fine, we do not wish to hold up the wheels of justice.” He was certain he heard Hiei laugh once at this statement. With a quick bow, he passed through the portal, Hiei following him, Botan last of all, puzzling over the kitsune’s comment and his disheveled state.

As they traveled through the portal, Botan began, “Uh…Kurama?”

“Yes?”

“What does it mean, about the trials and things?” This wasn’t really the question she wanted to ask, but she couldn’t think of how to ask what she really wanted to know.

Kurama chuckled. “There are laws that say a prisoner can be held for only so long without charges being filed. And, since the barrier breach has been repaired and I seem to have no lasting ill effects, there are no real charges to hold Seimigaku on, so Koenma is obliged to release him.”

“Why…why was I sent for you?” She still couldn’t bring herself to ask what she really wanted to know…why the two were together, why Kurama looked so disheveled.

The redhead chuckled, and the ferry girl questioned the wisdom of asking him anything. “We have a debt to repay that has nothing to do with the Reikai system of justice.”

At that moment, Botan decided she didn’t want to know anymore.

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A/N: Well, I don’t have much to say, really…there will be one more chapter…and an epilogue ;) I did promise a second lemon, and I will deliver. See what we did to Yusuke in the next chapter ;) This chapter was, obviously, edited to post over at ff.net (don’t you feel sorry for them…it’s already a short chapter…) Anyways, to reply to reviewers, since I lacked time last time we posted a chapter, I will answer them all here…feel free to skip and review anyways :D

shiorisfoxiesmom: Glad you like it :D
Suryallee: Danke…aber…”foot”…wie fuss? Order “food” wie essen? (Colleen studiert Deutsch seit drei Jare im Uni ;) ) Hofenlich, finden Sie es gern :D (und, hofenlich sind meiner Deutsch nicht so schecht…)
BWinner: Glad you enjoyed yourself :D Laugher is good :D
Crimsonfox: Good to know bribery works…and yes, there is a second lemon coming.
Kettricken: :D Thanks for the review
vampslyr: I’m sorry I didn’t write the lemons that way…this is sad to admit, but…writing het pairings in a lemon scene is a bit…dull for me…I have no problem reading them, I just don’t care to write them. Hope I didn’t disappoint you too much.
Tendrilrake: Yeah, we poor women get paranoid over stupid things, don’t we? But, guys get paranoid over stupid stuff, too…I think…yeah, I’m sure they do…:D Glad you’re enjoying this little romp…and see what we did to Yusuke in the next chapter :D
Kogas Hentai Luver: You’re queer? lol…I know Shadow’s real name and still call her Shadow…and she’s starting to sign her homework that way in school…poor girl. As you know…we much enjoy your work and thank you for reading our story…We’re glad that we could make you reconsider a pairing you don’t care for, even if it’s just for us :D *hugs*
Blue Utopia: Sorry the emotional neediness bothered you a bit…but there is a logical explanation…beyond just the potion and plot development…women’s hormones are a lot different than guy’s…so the sudden transformation is bound to screw with anyone’s head…but, you didn’t want a biology lecture, did you? lol…anyways, We’re happy you’re enjoying the story.
Fuzzy Eared: Yes, long time…we’re happy you decided to read our little work. Yes, there are reasons, as I just mentioned…other than simple plot development (which is never quite enough of a reason)…and even though we were screwing with his character, we both wanted Kurama to stay as true to character as possible, despite the forces (both biological and chemical) pulling him out of character.
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comicfancat: Sorry, no het lemon…hope you’re not too sad…but, yes, for sure, two lemons. We’re happy you enjoyed it 
Eye of Ra: Hey :D “weird ass things” Is that what I write? lol I guess that’s a good thing, then, eh? :D (Actually, I think that’s a compliment :D )

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