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Hiei's eyes fluttered open and the feeling of someone softly stroking his hair. 'Hn, must've fallen asleep,' he thought to himself. The stroking continued until he turned around to have his rubies meet with glazed over emeralds.

"Ohayo, Hiei," Kurama whispered, his voice seeming to practically fail him.

"Hn. Ohayo, Fox," Hiei replied. Kurama's mouth moved to form a small smile. Hiei smiled back a bit, showing care for his ill kitsune. He gently brushed a few strands of crimson hair from Kurama's cold-sweat beaded forehead.

"How are you feeling?" Hiei asked.

"Sick," Kurama said, sticking out his tongue.

"Well, you are. You should go back to sleep.”

“Okay, but… promise me something.”

“What?”

“That’ll your beautiful face will be the first thing I see when I wake up,” he smiled weakly and with that said, Kurama fell back into the realm of dreams. Hiei smiled, “You can count on that,” he replied, even if the fox could hear him or not.

Minutes ticked by slowly, the fire-demon sitting and daydreaming about him and his beloved fox. His dreams wandered to questions.

Why isn’t Kurama at his own home? Usually his beloved mother would be all over the redhead when he was sick, why not now? Was he out when he suddenly got a fever? What about… Questions quickly came up into line, waiting each their turn to be answered by the koorime.

But with no prevail.

The poor fire-demon could not answer a single question. More soon came up after a few more moments. Soon after, he gave up trying to answer them; he was getting a major headache. He held his head in his hand, massaging his temples, easing away the cursed headache.

Hiei turned back to look at his fox, looking over him, noting signed of his sickness. He’d already noted that the redhead’s eyes were dull and glazed over before he had gone to sleep. Kurama was paler, beads from a cold-sweat dotted his forehead, and he looked weak and venerable.

The koorime softly and soothingly stroked Kurama’s crimson mane, traveling his hand down to caress the fever flushed cheek, running along the smooth pink lips, down his slender neck and back up, holding the redhead’s head his both hands.

He leaned over to place a quick, loving kiss on Kurama’s luscious lips, showing the fox, whether he felt them or not, that he was there and would stay. He smiled a warming smile rarely given by the fire-demon.

Knowing once that Kurama fell asleep, he wont be back up and about for a few hours, he got up and went upstairs to Yuusuke’s room. He entered the room and found the two delinquents sitting on their beds and chatting. “Hey, Hiei,” Yuusuke said once he saw the fire-demon. “Hn.” “Any reason for this humble visit?” Yuusuke asked in a joking tone. “Do you know why Kurama is here and not at home?” Hiei asked, trying to answer at least a few of the million plus question he still had in his mind.

“Nope,” Yuusuke shook his head. “Tell me what you do know,” Hiei demanded. Yuusuke smiled inwardly, he knew if it had to do with Kurama, Hiei would do anything.

“All I know is that he wasn’t at home when we, me and Kuwabara, found him,” Yuusuke said. Kuwabara nodded in agreement, “He was sitting by the road, blank. You could tell he was out there for a while too. He was more drenched than us!” “Drenched… He was sitting out in the rain?” “Yup, we couldn’t believe it neither,” Kuwabara said. “He’s usually more cautious about his health,” Yuusuke noted.

Hiei nodded and sat cross-legged on the floor. “Anything else?”

“He said he couldn’t go back.”