Title: Part of Your World
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.

I want to be part of your world.

Sunlight beat down silk rays between the tree branches. The great arms of the trees reached out to the sky so blue. It was summer now, the prime of the year's youth. Heat boiled the spring away from Tokyo. July was coming, the month of summer festivals. It all happened under that sky so blue, the reflection of the ocean.

Kurama walked under the arch of the tree branch, continuing on his way as if hunting down some prey of his. A butterfly flew overhead and held out his finger for it to land. It perched upon his finger before floating away to the golden silk sunlight.

Hiei looked down at him, the silk shone on Kurama, making him look like something so pure. He was like butterfly constantly floating from one flower to another. An untouchable beauty.

"You known when the sunlight hits you like that it makes you look like an overgrown cherub, Hiei?"

Hiei had no interest in conversation at the moment. He thought it over for a minute anyway, though. A cherub? Him? No! Those were two opposite things weren't they? One thought to hold all good and the other said to have committed unspeakable evil. It didn't make any sense to him. In any case... "What do you want, fox?"

Kurama looked up, so innocent. He leaned back against the tree and watched another butterfly float by. "Did you ever feel that you needed to want something?"

"What? Are you trying to pull another one of your human ideals on me?"

"No I just... Last night I saw a moth. I had a candle on and it flew towards it. Dangerously close. I asked him why head did it and he told me," he paused as if trying to remember, "'I want to be part of beauty.' I asked him why he wanted to kill himself for it, if it was worth it. And he told he that if even for a second, it's worth being part of beauty."

"What's your point?" Hiei saw nothing in the fanciful anecdote. He sighed and looked down at the redhead who was looking at him. The redhead climbed up on a branch adjacent to Hiei's.

"I just wish there was something I could want so much that I would do the same."

"What a petty feeling. Just because you want something doesn't mean you have to kill yourself for it."

"I think I've finally become mentally human. It's in human nature to be materialistic. I think I may have come to that point."

"Well good for you."

"You don't understand the point I'm making, are you?"

"As a matter of fact, I don't. Nor do I care. Just leave me alone."

Kurama looked away as if ashamed. He jumped off the branch to dig a hole to plant a seed. "Let's create our own world, Hiei. We'll be the only ones who need to be there and it will be our own little secret."

"I thought you would grow out of that kind of thing."

Kurama stared at the bare earth. "They go so fast." He reached into his bag and produced a jar with a butterfly caught inside. He released it and watched it on its way to freedom. "Some things never seem to die. Nothing lasts forever though."

Hiei jumped off the branch. "I'm going."

"You know. In this short time I've thought it over, what I would jump into the candle for."

"What's that?"

"You?"

The butterflies flew off into the sunlight til they reached a candle where the merged with beauty.