Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ L'Amoreux (My Kitsunep4) ❯ L'Amoreux ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

L'Amoreux 3 NYC (11-22-02)
by : Baby Nyx


For the second time, I went to the men's room
digesting my lunch and what Hiei just said. He was
kidding, I know, but gods! It made me realize he's got
me wrapped around his little finger!

I was watching everything, keeping really quiet
because Shuichi was in interrogator mode. I guess he
got annoyed because of the mess we made, there were
bottles, popcorn, and clothes everywhere. I don't
remember making that much of a mess and I admit we got
carried away, but that's no reason for him to get so
grumpy, it's not as if he's doing the cleaning.

That's why I didn't respond to any of his calls or
questions, just sat there at the back of his mind
watching the boring meeting, where that lawyer tried
hitting on me, and that diamond merchant interrogated
me.

Then my handsome lover finally walked in and made me
his in front of everyone. Shuichi thinks he shouldn't
be doing things like that because it attracts the
wrong kind of attention but he didn't want to stop
him.

I agree and I'm not going to stop him either.This is
Hiei in love, and it's highly possible that I'm his
first love too. Let him enjoy it, let him explore and
discover how wonderful it is.

He looked so delicious in his 3 piece suit, he
didn't wear his jacket, he held it over one shoulder
with a hooked finger and everyone could see how sexy
he is. He exuded danger, he inspired respect, he
looked exotic. I couldn't smell him, I couldn't feel
him, but I watched him eat and watched his eyes as he
took in everything we talked about.

When the old man finally left, Hiei delivered his
light humored threat.

//Behave yourself fox or your not getting any.//

I was... mortified.

And Hiei could do it too, he's a Koorime! A damned
Snow maiden! What did he say back then? All he has to
do is ignore it and it goes away? Dammit I can't do
that! I need sex like I need food and water, it's a
vital necessity.

And after a taste of his sweet hot flesh... Inari! I
wanted nothing more. Nothing will compare to his heat,
his strength, his scent, those damp lush places on the
terrains of his well developed self. I've had other
lovers and I have broken many hearts during the course
of my 400 year something career. But Hiei is like...
he's like...

He's like having Black Angus steak after years of
hotdogs and hamburgers. Like, like Dom Perignon after
years of Coca cola. Like Mozart, or Bach or a nice
Verdi opera or... well you get my point!

He wasn't serious was he? He did smirked at me...

Dread followed me as I walked into the men's room and
locked myself in one of the stalls. I straightened,
looked up at the porous ceiling and sighed, serves me
right for loving a Koorime. I chuckled and tossed my
hair back, glad there was no body in there as my voice
deepened a little. Hm! He wants me to walk with him,
ME, in my own form, this is so exciting.

Me and my warm little neko-chan.

Hm? Well he cuddles, he purrs, he bites and
scratches, so he's my little kitty cat. I just have to
remmeber not to call him that to his face or 'I'm not
getting any'.

I leaned against the marble wall of the bathroom
stall and banged my head lightly. I have it soooo bad.

Last night when I changed into me he was waiting, he
was looking steadily at me like a cat about to pounce.
And when I winked at him he smirked and settled
himself against me. Just his back against my chest,
and dammit it was enough to turn me on. Good thing I'm
not out of practice when it comes to suppression. I
had to distract myself though... hmmm?.. I had some
beers, I remmeber going downstairs...

Well that's not good... I don't clearly remmeber what
happened, I guess I had a little too much to drink.

O well. I'm sure if I had been dumb Hiei will tell me
off.

But I guess I wasn't because he wants me to go out
with him. He wants me to go shopping with him! I'm
going on a date!

I can't help the stupid grin on my face, how many
demons cowered when they saw me grin like this. A
friend told me once he'd rather see me frowning than
grinning because that meant trouble.

Noo, I'm not going to cause trouble for Hiei. He
threatened me, he's going to kick me off the bed and I
have to sleep on the cold couch if I don't do as he
says.

I shuddered. I have 'personal property of Hiei
Jaganashi stamped on my forehead' and without batting
an eyelash he lets everyone know I'm his fox.

And that's how I know I have it bad because it made
me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I slapped my
forehead.

Gah! I'm married!

Ooh! And he was actually jealouse of that Schmidt
guy? He kissed me full on the lips and lingered, he
didn't shake his hand and he told everyone he gave me
the diamonds to raise the bracket so it will be harder
to impress me.

Daaammm... I guess my days of fooling around are
finally over.

Ah well, he's well worth it. 100% worth it.

But it's Shuichi's fault, he couldn't resist running
his hands up his inner thigh. Mou... I've been
threatened with the cold couch..!

But that kind of attention coming from Hiei is
something.

He had built those walls around his heart to protect
himself from being hurt, he has known nothing but
rejection, abuse, pain. No one loved the forbidden
child, no one cared for him, so he stopped caring,
stopped feeling, covered that warm, loving fire demon
nature with the cold, callous, uncaring shell of the
Koorime.

Only the occasional fiery outburst of anger and fury
revealed the flip side of that nature's coin.

Like any person my baby has facets to his peronality.

I found the Fire Demon Hiei in a trial that gambled
my heart, my sanity, even my desire to live. Hiei the
Koorime is his cool collect stone cold self, he's the
arrogant little bastard we all love. I only got
glimpses and hints of his warm fire demon nature.
Breaking his cold control over that side of his
personality was very long work, I had to chip the ice
around his heart one bit at a time.

And it was well worth it. I have my warm affectionate
baby, my submissive little demon, my cute little
neko-chan...

But didn't he just threaten me?

Wait... maybe that's the reason he wants to talk to
me, I must have done something stupid last night...

Waah!!! I can't remember! I remmember ordering beer,
and him throwing popcorn at me, I stole the last
chocolate dipped cookie, and wrestled him for the last
chocolate covered pretzel... I won because I pinned
him down and he couldn't move, was he angry over that?
Gosh I hope not, I sort of remmember going downstairs
through the fire exit, aannoo, I was following my nose
and I almost fell over because I was getting tipsy,
uhhh Hiei was shouting...

//Behave yourself fox or your not getting any.//

I grinned, ducked and instinctively held my ears,
that was my cold Koorime... I can almost see him
frowning at me with his arms crossed over his chest,
he looks so cute even if he's pissed off. Hiei isn't a
sore loser but here I am reacting like my mom's about
to pull my ears...

I took a deep breath straightened up and banish the
image of my frowning lover. I reined myself in and
promised I will behave, he was kidding but that was a
very potent threat to me. More potent than getting an
earful of lectures from my mom or getting dragged to
the den by my ear.

Youko ears are very sensitive.

I keep remmebering my mother because I have to rely
on some of the early tricks she taught me. I barely
use these tricks because only the young ones do them.
When you reach a certain age it's considered juvenile
to go around trying to change your apperance. Well
amongs white Youkos at least, the red youkos from the
southern territories don't mind much, they love doing
it.

I closed my eyes remembering how my mother held a
leaf out to me and told me to impress upon it the
image I wanted to be, and little me slapping it over
my head to change my apperance. I thought it pretty
complex, then she changed into her 2 legged form
without it and I was entranced.

My mother? One of the most beautiful foxes in the
entire northern territories, she always kept her
silver hair in intricate braids, and her arms are
twined with fragrant flowers she uses for her craft.
She's a healer and our den is always littered with
fragrant medicinal herbs, flowers and leaves. She was
a 3 tail, young enough to be playful, and old enough
to pass me her lore with plants. I was her first kit
to survive and I lived longer than her, she had twins
before I was born but they died young.

I got to live older than her...

She was so proud when I changed into this form
without the leaf after only seeing her do it twice.

The sad part is I'm beggining to forget her.

I only remmeber her when I have to do these old
tricks I had to learn as a kit. I blurred the image of
my ears and my tail so they are inviscible to humans.
Hmm... but really, even after the ears are gone I'm
still way too tall. Tall is good though, commands
respect, different weather pattern but...

And it won't make any difference to my baby if I
lopped off a few inches because he'll see right
through it anyway. It's going to be... awkward.
There's almost 2 feet of height difference between us.

I grinned, so what? I like him as he is.

So I kept my hair as it is too, even though it's
going to pull every eye towards me, well... you don't
get to see an almost 7 foot tall drop dead gorgeous
guy walking around with more than 3 feet worth of
silver white hair everyday do you?

Well it's true! I'm merely stating facts. I know how
I look like to humans and demons, and humans find me
totally irrisistable. It's part of who I am, and in my
case kinda annoying because of the trade I'm in.

You don't try to attract attention when your a thief.
You try to look common so people and demons won't
remember your apperance. Yeah that's part of the
reason why I'm famous, I'm not easy to forget.

But here, I am neither thief, nor demon. I'm
pretending to be human.

Oooh, this is going to be fun!

Plus, Hiei likes my hair, he keeps tangling his
fingers in them. Hmm... I love it when he plays with
my hair.

Yes and he loves my tail too! I'd bat it away from
him and he keeps trying to catch it, like a kitty cat,
he does that absently like when we were watching that
interesting movie last night. I was torn between
watching the movie and watching my baby fondling my
tail and without looking away from the TV reach for it
when I flick it away from his hands.

Just remmebering how he scratched and fondled my ears
and how he rubbed his cheek on my tail made my knees
weak.

This is bad. I want Hiei, I really, really, REALLY
do.

I think I will fail this new challenge he's given me.
Shopping means trying on clothes, then taking them
off, then... damn... I'm getting a hard-on.

I'll give in now so I won't have that much of a
problem later. All I have to do is keep quiet.

I closed my eyes and brought out of memory the
picture of my Hiei in the throes of completing
himself, his body undulating as he rode me hard and
fast, his fingers turning into fists on my chest,
sweat glistening on his face and on his chest. I
touched myself in time to his dance, stroking my need.
I put the toilet seat down and made myself more
comfortable.

I want to see his face, his crimson eyes burning with
unearthly light begging me, his lips parted, swollen,
gasping, his voice husky when he said my name
"Kurama!" I stroked myself pausing to poke a long
nail at the slit that had began leaking precum, I
tasted my scent and imagined Hiei's hot lips engulfing
me. Wet, hot, slick, he's never done that to me yet. I
bit my lip to keep myself from moaning when I finally
came, the very idea of him on his knees taking me in
pushed me over the edge. I fell back against the
watercloset trying to catch my breath, I heared the
door open and someone came in, I'm taking too long,
Hiei might worry.

I bent over fast to hide myself, I know that youki
anywhere!

"Baby, I'm not done." I said and shook my head
because my voice is tight with arousal.

"Hn?" I looked up and found him hanging on the door
by his fingers, his curious crimson eyes looking down
at me, Inari he's being cute again, I'm powerless when
he does that to me. The good part is he dosen't know
that yet... I think...

"Damn, your done." he said. "I felt you getting
worked up over something."

"Hiei." I said in a light warning tone.

"Gomen." he dropped from the door and I saw his boots
land almost noiselessly on the tiled floor. "I was
wondering why you were taking so long. Hurry, get
dressed, I already paid for our meal, I'll meet you at
the foyer."

He left after washing his hands. I didn't risk
uncovering myself just yet, because if he wants to,
Hiei can see my youki image through the door. When he
was finally gone I took a deep breath and began
cleaning myself and my mess.

Was I sated? Hell no! I wanted to drag him back in
here and-and... I put my face in my hands. Patience,
relax, tomorrow will come soon enough.

I have to keep my hands off him while we shop. It
made me groan, because that is easier said than done.

Okay, clothes, I'm wearing what I'd like to call my
'default' clothes. It's that white tunic and pants
that I preffer in the Makai, it's loose and allows a
great range of motion when I move. Let's see Hiei is
wearing all black, the best way to complement him is
if I wear all white. Hm... white 3 piece suits would
look too formal, I shook out my baggy pants into a
pair of immaculate white slacks, a white silk shirt
that hugged my body added a little shimmer, I left the
top 2 and lower 2 buttons open, then over that a
matching immaculate sport jacket that had gold buttons
and gold cufflinks. Suede off white boots would look
nice, I'll think of the coat later, it's with Hiei.

Let's face it, I'm going to attract attention no
matter how I dress. I don't have to look at the mirror
to know I look good. All the white I'm wearing will
bring everyone's focus on my chest throat and face.
And if I put Hiei in front of me, no matter how big I
am, they will all look at my dark paramour. I grinned,
this is gtting me all excited.

Someone walked into the men's rooms just as I was
walking out of the stall I occupied. I looked at him
and his eyes almost bugged out of his sockets as his
jaw went slack, he stammered an apology then went into
the nearest stall.

Hmm?

I made my way to the sink and the mirrors there and
gave myself a once over.

I look absolutely stunning.

I tossed my hair back over my shoulders and raked a
few stray strands into place. The man must have been
admiring me and at the same time was afraid of me.
It's the overall effect, freakishly tall, beautiful,
hip long silver white hair, all white clothes, pale
eyes...

That's exactly the mix of come on and intimidation I
like.

I smirked, now for the tricky part, no one saw me
come in so no one must see me go out.

I went to the restroom doors and fast as a whip of
wind ran from there to the foyer. I stopped just
behind a potted palmera and looked around for my
boyfriend.

Ah, there he is, in a loveseat facing me. His eyes
are closed, his arms and his legs crossed, and my
black rose sat on Minamino's jacket besides him.

This part of the lounge consists of 2 love seats
facing each other, a long couch and 2 seats separated
by a table supporting an art deco lamp. On Hiei's
right is a man on a phone further down in the other
seat is another man fiddling with his palm pilot as he
sorted through his briefcase. The left long couch is
occupied by three young girls having coffee as they
talked noisily, they kept stealing glances at my Hiei
who is obviously shutting out distractions as he
waited for me. Directly opposite him a woman I can't
see, because I'm right behind her.

So many peole... there's the cafe over there and the
reception area, lots of people walking around, there
must be a function tonight because there wasn't this
many people yesterday or the day before... Ch, if I
go out there I would turn Hiei into my shadow. My
light would swallow his dark exotic beauty.

I can't let that happen now can I?

I stood straight and flashed my 10,000 kilowatt
killer smile. As I walked in I felt eyes fall on me.
Gasps and murmurs followed me as I made my way to
Hiei.

I'm a thief by trade and this kind of attention was
something I used to avoid. I'm not comfortable yet
but... I like this attention!

And my dark angel's eyes opened to reveal those
crimson orbs and the awe I saw in them made me blush.
I wonder what he's seeing? Does he see me in my old
clothes? Does he see me now in these clothes? Whatever
it is he likes it!

I knelt in front of him, took his hand and kissed his
knuckles "Hello love." I said, I heared a muffled
scream somewhere. I leaned closer to him asking
permission, when he didn't move I kissed his lips.
Just a quick brush of a kiss, the kind that makes a
smacking sound because he kissed me back.

"Hn, took you long enough." He stood up "Hurry we
have a 2 o'clock." he said and I pulled him back down
on the seat.

"You know there's no one for me but you?" I said in
all seriouseness "That I love you and I can't live
without you?"

He smirked "I know, gomen."

"Don't apologize, I love you just the way you are." I
put a finger on his lips and lowered my voice for his
ears alone "Sorry if people come on to me koi, they
can't help it, specially when I'm in this form."

"I can see that." he lowered his voice "You should
have seen how many hearts you broke with your first
words." he gave me my rose back "Put this away you
might need it." he looked and sounded amused but his
eyes glittered with something akin to pride.

Inari, he's proud of me. I felt myself blush deeper.

I had made the right decition. I put the rose under
my nose and smiled I gave it a kiss and pressed it to
his lips. "I want you to keep this." I broke the rose
stem and tucked the rose into his jacket lapel. I
stood up and held my hand out for him. "I have a
spare."

"Someone wants to talk to you desperately." he said
suddently in Japanese "He's coming over very fast."

"Hm?" I turned around and a man dressed in a casual
suit was half running straight towards me. I stood and
watched as his head tilted up as he got near.

"Pardon me I can't help but notice you from over
there at the cafe," he said with a thick Italian
accent, he had sandy brown hair and glasses hid his
soft grey eyes, he looks like he's in his middle 30's
and was practically gawking at me. He held his hand
out "My name is Giovanni, please call me Gio."

I took his hand and shook it firmly "I'm... Fox and
this is my partner Hiei." He shook Hiei's hand while
my dear neko-chan eyed me with a raised brow. "What
can we do for you?"

He took out an invitation and programme from his coat
pocket and handed it to me "Your simply stunning to
say you have the x-factor is an understatement, are
you busy tonight?" he asked. "I'm a designer for
Versace, there's going to be a benefit ball downstairs
at the grand ballroom tonight and I was wondering if
you could model for us."

My brows went up, for a minuite there I thought he
was hitting on me. Well... in a way he was, "Yes,
actually we were planning on going somewhere." I saw
the headings on the programme and the red ribbon.

"It's for a good cause signore Fox, may I call you
that? I'm sure you will agree." His soft grey eyes
looked up at me with open admiration and sincerity. I
felt no ill will from him but I can smell his anxiety,
his fear. He mustered his courage to come here and
approach me like this, but generally he's completely
harmless.

I smiled at him, "Please, just Fox." He's right
though, the ball is for a good cause, several
designers from the US and Europe are here to put on a
fashion show. New York's elite as well as the worlds
big names will be here.

Hmm... Versace, Armani, Boss, Kors, Lang, Gucci,
Prada, CK, Anne Klein, Lauren...

This could be the ball those women were talking
about, I remmeber their faces how they looked at
Shuichi implying he couldn't possibly get in.

Aaah!!! I remmeber! Hiei and I went downstairs to
their rooms and we...!

Ohhh she's going to be there? She's going to see me!
I wanna go! I wanna go! I could barely contain the
glee I felt.

I smiled and looked at Hiei he was looking at me with
both brows this time raised in question, he must have
seen how excited I was because he shrugged at me. "If
you want to..." he said letting the sentence hang.

Oh but we have plans for tonight, Hiei wants the eye
out of me so he can be closer to me. He's letting me
have my way by saying that, he's being patient with me
"We're suppose to go to Staten Island tonight..." I
said, hoping we didn't have to.

He frowned then looked at the human Gio "What does
this thing involve?" he asked him gesturing with a
careless hand on the programme.

"Modeling clothes for a benefit ball, it's for the
World Aids day this coming December 1st. We need to
raise funds for various activities and research." He
saw how Hiei's frown got darker so he changed tactics
"We are going to dress him up and he's going to
show-off the clothes, people buy the clothes and a
substancial amount of the money they pay for it will
go to research that will end this plague." he looked
at Hiei begging him "Please signiore, I assure you no
harm will come upon your Fox, it's for a good cause, I
will personally guard him."

A snicker escaped me, I covered my lips with my
fingers. Is my Hiei that obvious? This man is a
charmer, I could see Hiei relenting even as he fought.

He saw my amusement and in Japanese asked me "Aren't
we suppose to be hiding?"

I felt my bubble burst. "Haaai." I sighed as I agreed
with him. O well, it would have been fun. I shrugged a
little and picked up Minamino's jacket, my jacket.

He sighed "But if you really want to do it, I can
wait." he said continuing our conversation in what
seems to be our secret language.

"No, that's okay, your right. This is where I wanted
to loose all our connections to Tokyo. Getting famous
would be counter productive." I have to change my SIM
card, I have to end my contacts with my agent, I
haven't answered any of Kuwabara's text messages...

"Kurama, your not happy." that simple statement
nailed me to the floor.

"Your why I'm happy, I don't need this-" I stopped,
it felt like I'm lying.

"You were excited back there, I like that look on
your face. It makes me afraid that you'll do something
stupid but... you look alive and radiant." he reached
out and took my hand, he ran his thumb over my
knuckles " Besides, I get to show them what they can
never have."

I snorted and shook my head, "Demo..."

"Ma excusi, signiore, I did not understand what you
were discussing but, it seems to me your business
tonight is not that urgent and well, if I have to,
I'll go down on my knees and beg you to be there." He
put his hands together and gave Hiei the puppy dog
eyes. "Please signiore Hiei? Please let Fox model for
us? Only for tonight? We'll make it worth your while.
My knees are bending, see?" He said batting his
eyelashes.

The look on Hiei's face was priceless, his eyes we're
almost bulging as he tried to find a way out of there.

"I'm going to do it," he said grinning at Hiei "I'm
desperate and Fox is worth it." he threatened, his
brows going up and down his hands clasped together in
entreaty his knee almost bent. "Please signiore, just
for tonight, please, please, please."

I laughed, Hiei glared at me "Kurama!"

"But we have to go shopping this afternoon, and we
have a 2:00 appointment we can't miss." I said to
Giovanni, I like the man, he's funny, charming and not
at all shy.

"Shopping! Shopping! Signiore! The ball IS shopping!
What are you looking for? Name your brand, and we can
get it for you and even custom fit it for you. You'll
get clothes at the discounted price because you
modeled for us, plus you'll be able to help out yes?"
he said giving ME the puppydog eyes.

"But..." I began because what Hiei said was true I'm
suppose to be hiding not flaunting my image to the
entire world and with names this big in this kind of
benefit... damn, this is huge, I'll get splashed on
international magazines by tommorrow.

"The ball is downstairs at the main conference hall,
at 8:00 pm, the fashion show is at 9 pm, we'll have to
get you to a fitting, at 4pm the prep squad will be
here the models arrive at 6ish, I want you in at 5 ish
because we have to make sure the custom made pants
will fit you perfectly, you look 7 feet tall and that
is not common, your," he picked up the edge of my open
jacket and peered at my waist line "Signiore you put
me to shame your a 33 and I'm a 34 I have to go on a
diet."

He began measuring me out right there and then,
estimating the length of my arms, the length of my
legs, the circumference of my chest. I realized I was
standing with my arms out while he peered at me
mumbling measurements, as he walked around me.

Hiei's badly suppresed chuckle broke my helpless
gawking.

"Signore Giovanni," I began.

"Please just Gio," he said "You are so sexy Fox, and
so well endowed, the crowd will worship you." I
blushed furiousely, he sighed heavily and I felt
fingers lightly touch my hair.

"Signiore Hiei, your tastes are impeccable, it must
be so hard fighting off those people who want a piece
of your archangel. I am happily living with the man of
my dreams but I just can't help admiring your amore,
he's like a bright light. The room lit up and focused
on him when he entered, on the catwalk he will
overshadow anybody who dare walk with him. And it was
so sweet the way he knelt before you. Alfredo will cry
his eyes out."

He bent towards Hiei "Your a size 24 no 23, signiore!
Are you feeding your amore?" he mock glared at me
"Excusi may I lift your arms please? Ah yes, extra
small, 30 length, hmmmm, your eyes are beautiful, red
clothes are perfect on you, exotic that's what you are
signiore." It was Hiei's turn to blush.

I was so right about this man he IS a charmer.

"Excuse me Gio, but I don't recall saying yes yet." I
said, I couldn't help the smile on my face.

"Fox you know you waaant it," he said emphasizing
that word, "if you want to be famous all over the
world this is your ticket. I can see money is not a
problem with you two -"

"But that's exactly it, I don't want to be famous."

"Well, I cannot contest your desire to remain
anonymous signiore but all you have to do afterwards
is refuse private shoots and other photo ops, and
interviews. Designers and modeling agents will seek
you out of course because of your beauty but if you
don't want to be famous, if you do not wish to share
your beauty then..." he paused for drama "Ah, signiore
my heart is breaking, excusi." he said a hand over his
heart, clutching his shirt as he looked at the ceiling.

What the-?

Hiei threw himself back on the couch and started
laughing he is clearly amused by all of this. Then he
said the thing that's been in the back of my mind
recently "I say we draw her out so we can finish off
that bitch once and for all. Let her know where we are
so we can end in here." he said in Nippon-go then
added in English "Your call Fox."

I sat besides him and said in our now official secret
language "This is big, I'll be in magazines in Japan
by next week or even earlier."

"So? We'll be done sooner."

"I do have a plan, I think we can destroy her..."

"Excellent. Let's discuss it later because I think he
needs you now."

"Hiei..." I bit my lower lip still uncertain.

"Go do it, have fun, I'll watch your back."

"Hiei." I said again and bent closer to breathe
against his cheek.

"I can be patient fox, but my patience has limits. I
think this is a good idea because you can always hide
in your human form. But if you decide otherwise,
that's still alright with me." he said opening an eye
and glancing at me. There it is in his eyes, his
undying support, his pride in me. "Now make a
decition."

Hmmm too bad, I was just starting to enjoy the
limelight. But yes, he's right I can always hide in
Shuichi's form. Which means this might be my last day
and night to be out in the open. But... it doesn't
have to end yet, not while I'm in New York. I can be
who I am while we are here, it's when we leave that I
have to fall back on my nocturnal apperances. I felt a
ray of joy wheedle itself into my heart.

And maybe he did want to show me off, someone no one
can never have except him.

I smirked and nuzzled his cheek "Thank you Koibito."

"I trust you Youko." he said softly but sternly.
Warning ME against doing crazy things. I snorted, I'm
suppose to be the expert here.

"I will never break that trust. I won't survive it."
I replied as I pulled away from him.

"Good, because I feel the same way." we nodded at
each other.

"Giovanni?"

"So beautiful together." he moaned "Alfredo IS going
to cry his eyes out."

"Hm. I'll do it but I want an invitation for my
Hiei,"

"Done, front table, special back stage passes." he
clapped his hands together looked up at the ceiling
and repeated under his breath "Graciegraciegracie."

"He'll need a long coat..."

"Yes, we'll make a list of what you need, we'll get
it and tailor fit it for you and your amore. I'll show
you design sketches and if we don't have it I'll ask
around where we can get it. I am well connected. Do
you require a fee?"

"Oh no, it's a benefit right? Whatever fee I'm
suppose to get just..." I shrugged.

"Ah... generous AND beautiful. You ARE an angel
signiore, heaven sent, do you have time now? We need
to get you fitted now so you can get to your
appointment at 2:00 and we'll need you around 4 again
to prepare for tonight, Signiore Hiei can come too,
I've got your measurements but you'll want to choose
colors and style si? Ah!" he clapped his hands "I'm so
happy!" I stood up.

"Gio!" We spun around to the cry and saw a man in
blue jeans and sweats half running towards us.
"They...O my God..." he slowed down and stared at me.
He did a pretty good impression of a fish before Gio
patted his cheeks.

"Tom wake up, hello?" but he ignored Gio and he went
up to me.

"Hello I'm Tom," he held his hand out to me "Sorry
I'm staring, I can't seem to stop myself either." Then
he grinned, "Wow, whose your agent? What's your name?"


"Fox, this is Hiei my partner." I said as I shook his
hand. He tore his eyes off me and gave Hiei his full
attention.

"Pleasure to meet you sir, partner? Like
partner-partner or, partner.... you know?" he asked.

"Tom, Signiore Hiei will cut your fingers off if you
so much as touch his angel the wrong way. And I'll cut
your arms off because he's mine I found him first." he
said standing between me and the new comer.

"What!?" he cried.

"What are you doing here I thought your with the
crew?"

"What?" he looked at Gio puzzled "Oh yeah, The agency
sent 2 models to replace the one who had a stupid
skiing accident, they want us to choose between them.

Gio grinned "Send them both home, I have found my
model."

"But Gio, he's too tall, the clothes-"

"Will get altered. Fredo and the gang are doing last
minuite preps, I'm bringing Fox over right now."

"Marie told me you were here." he looked at me again
"Did you know he's going to be here? He's absolutely
gorgeous, I'm in love already."

"Actually I was waiting for a Japanese gentleman with
long shocking red hair, I asked Misty the desk clerk
in passing if she happened to see any beautiful men
walking around and she told me about him." Gio looked
at Hiei "Signiore you are Japanese yes? Do you know a
Mister Minamino?"

I choked and covered my mouth. Hiei raised his brows,
he decided to evade.

"Fox, you know what I require, I'll be upstairs in
our rooms. I think I'll have a nap." He stood up in
one graceful movement and surprised me by pulling my
forelocks down so I was eye to eye with him. "Be back
before 2." he said but he didn't let me go.

He wants something from me, he's letting me go with
them, we'll be away from each other for almost 2
hours. I gave him my wordless assurance, looked him in
the eye, and left myself open to his thpoughts "I
will, love." I whispered as I kissed his lips briefly,
I felt his fingers loosen. "Your why I'm happy." I
whispered softly to his ear and he let me go.

"Hn." I saw the look of vulnerability in his eyes
fade, replaced by his calm collect self. He nodded
then he walked pass us and without looking back headed
for the elevators.

"Oh, that was... Alfredo will cry his eyes out." Tom
said softly as he looked at Hiei's straight back.

"Like I said Signiore Hiei is Japanese and he moves
like a martial artist. I'm sure he keeps a sword
somewhere, if anyone so much as touch Fox the wrong
way I. Am. Dead!" He looked at Tom and shook his
shoulders "Do you understand?" he asked, in a voice
pitched to near panic.

"Yes, yes, lemme go she-man." he said slapping at the
offending hands.

You have to help me guard him, you have to help me
watch over him."

"I will but he will model for us, all of us. Please?"
he asked looking at me with the same shining puppy dog
look in his eyes.

I shrugged "Sure. Whatever."

"Great! I love you! Come, let's get you fitted." Tom
clapped his hands "Let's go to Versace's the Italian
Line is there right now for last minuite preps, I
designed Gucci's fall winter collection, I know
exactly which clothes will be stunning on you..."