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[hereafteryyh]

New YYH Fic: Before Now, After Then

I don't know if this is going to find its way to anyone who used to read my fics, but crossing my crossables that it might. (And I hope they forgive me that it's not an update to The Unknown Grounds.)

A few years back, a new fic stole my heart. I started it (even started posting it), but writing and I have been at odds for a while, and I lost steam. Happy to say that is over now. This whole story is written, and of all the stories I've ever shared, it is the one I'm most proud of. I wrote it for me, but I hope it finds an audience who might adore it like I do.

So with that preface out of the way...

Before Now, After Then

Summary

BEFORE: Prior to his Jagan surgery, Hiei fights to survive among Demon World's riffraff, but when he meets Nozumi, he discovers there's more to living than being the last demon standing.

AFTER: Years after the Demon World Tournament, the tracker Nozumi receives an offer she can't refuse—find the missing apparition Yukina and a fortune can be hers. But only if her heart can bear it.

AO3: FIRST CHAPTER | LATEST CHAPTER FFN: FIRST CHAPTER | LATEST CHAPTER

TAGS: Hiei/OC, Kuwabara/Yukina, Kuwabara&OC, POV Alternating, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Pre-Series, Post-Series, Demon World Centric, Expands Hiei's Backstory

TEASER (Excerpt from Chapter 3)

As promised, once Hiei had scrubbed his every last crevice clean and climbed the steps to the boarding rooms, he discovered her door ajar. The light of a lantern flickered within, and he slipped inside, the shadows dancing over his toes. 

She sat upon the bed, her tawny hair spilling over her shoulders in loose, riotous waves. Her eyes were closed, her head tipped back to rest against the wall, exposing the long column of her neck. Even in the unsteady light, Hiei’s keen gaze picked out the fragile drumming of her pulse just below her jaw. 

His breath caught in his teeth. 

(Stunning.

She was stunning.)

She wore nothing but a long, threadbare tunic, one clearly knit for a male twice her size, and as her eyelashes batted open, he toed off his boots, reaching for his belts, eager to join her. “Door,” she said, before he undid his first buckle. 

He shoved it closed with his elbow, then tossed a belt to the floor. A second followed quickly. Then his fingers were at the laces of his pants, ready to shuck those as well. 

She watched, her head tilting a degree. “May I ask you something?” 

“Hn. You just did.” 

Though it was hardly a witty response, she laughed. The sound fell between them, gentle as a leaf drifting to the forest floor. “Not a question, then,” she said, “but a request.” 

He let his pants hit the floorboards, then looked up at her. 

She met his gaze squarely. “Tell me your name.” 

His brow furrowed in surprise. “Hiei.” 

“Hiei,” she breathed, soft as a whisper, as if testing it upon her tongue. 

(A shiver wracked down his spine.) 

“Yours?” he asked hoarsely.  

She smiled and drew back the bedding, slipping beneath it. As he climbed in beside her, she answered simply, “Nozumi,” and sealed her lips to his.

[blissfully-lank-artz]

- Getting Older - An older milktea ✨ I imagine they wear alot of those thick wooly cardigans when Thier older to keep warm and such.

[ramayantika]

I made a rukmini vijaykumar edit. This one still has some remaining editing to do like the text and all but tumblr has a 100 mb limit I guess so here you go

[auddidraws]

Not a huge fan of how this one turned out but I love my gaybies so I had to post it ((song: 『LOFI MIX』Brand New Animal ED - Night Running AAAMYYY by Symphonic Brush on YouTube))

[felicityfdfenamouring]

woman in black and white bikini