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"So, what'd ya call me down here for?"

"Well..." Kurama smiled ruefully, stepping back into the Forest's gloom. Yuusuke followed. "I was testing something, and I thought I'd ask your advice... you've had an out-of-body experience, right?"

"If you can call being dead an out-of-body experience, yeah," Yuusuke admitted, scratching his head as Kurama led him past the first line of trees. "Why--?" Kurama led him around a larger tree, stepping carefully over thick Devil's Snare vines, and Yuusuke cut himself off. "Bloody sodding hell--!"

Kurama stopped, standing over the body he'd left guarded by the Snare at the base of the tree, and grinned sheepishly. "I was testing a potion I stole, and, well..." he gestured at the false-body he was wearing, "I'm sort of stuck in the wrong one."

"Damn..." Yuusuke muttered, incredulous, his eyes flicking back and forth between the two identical Kuramas suspisciously. "You just can't have small problems, can you."

"Not dramatic enough," Kurama said easily.

"So what am I supposed to-- no." Yuusuke backed up a couple of steps, shaking his head. "No no no no no."

"No what?" Kurama asked.

"I ain't kissing a guy!" Yuusuke blurted. "Keiko would have my head!"

Kurama blinked. "What?"

"You heard me!"

"Yes, but you're making no sense," Kurama said. "I wanted to ask how you got back into your body. What does kissing have to do with--?" Suddenly, it clicked. "Oh. That's how?"

"Yeah," Yuusuke grumbled. "Something about breathing life energy... and I like you and all, man, but can't you find one of the girls to do it?"

Thoughtfully, the gears in his mind turning, Kurama murmured, "That may not be... no. Of course not. You were noncorporeal, weren't you? Not inhabiting a physical body?"

"Yeah..."

"So you needed the life energy by proxy. But I'm physical," Kurama mused. "I may not need... well." He brushed his hair aside and knelt, tipping his real body's face up. "Only one way to find out." And Kurama pressed his lips to his own.

"GAH!" Yuusuke yelped. "Shit, warn a guy when you do that--!"

Kurama pulled away with a frown, and turned to see Yuusuke red-faced and hastily looking away. "It didn't work."

Yuusuke went even more red. "You gotta... I dunno, like CPR or something. Um. I think. You really should've talked to Keiko, I wasn't even in the room."

"You are so old-fashioned," Kurama commented. "All those hentai manga, and you can't stand to see anything in real life."

"I can too!" Yuusuke sputtered. "It's just... it's you and... and yourself! And that stuff's supposed to be private and special and can I go now?"

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