Hiei swayed back and forth ... then he smiled foolishly to the figure in the doorway. "Hi!" he waved, falling over onto the table. "Come in."

Obediently, Yo-mawari stepped into the eating area regarding each member with a greeting-look.

Hiei pushed himself up from the table, sending himself tumbling over onto Kurama. He caught the drunken boy by the shoulders and steadied him. Hiei blinked his vision to focus and held a hand out to the tall man. "Kurama ... say hello to your brother."

*CRASH!*

"BROTHER!!!!!!" The entire room screamed from their various positions on the floor.

Yo-mawari bowed with a flourish, standing with his arms crossed across his chest.

"But who ... "

"Why is he ... "

"How did..."

"When was ... "

The group all asked at once.

Kurama's jaw hit the floor as he stared up at the man. He was indeed tall... taller than Kurama, with flowing black hair and black eyes. The simple features of his face hinted at the same feminine features Kurama's possessed ... large, wide eyes, full lips and a curved face. The man regarded Kurama with a simple nod of his head and turned to stare off into the wall behind the table.

Kurama reached over and nabbed Hiei by the scarf, pulling him over. "Explain!" he gasped.

"Well, ya see ... " Hiei rubbed an eye and yawned, hanging his dreary head.

"HIEI!!" Kurama shook the boy, watching him flop awake.

"Heh heh .. wanna see sum'in' funny?" he wobbled his head up to the man above them. "Act like a chicken."

The group stared in awe as the man bent down, tucking his hands under his arms. He waved his outstretched elbows up and down as he squatted on the floor, waddling along. "Cluck-- cluck cluck!" He bent his nose down and jabbed at the floor a few times, waddling along like a deranged frog. He clucked and crowed again, and stood to his feet, crossing his arms back over his chest as if nothing happened.

Hiei flew into drunken hysterics.

The rest just stared dumbfound at the man before them, jaws hanging wide open.

Kurama's eyes rolled back into his head and he fell over backwards off his cushion, crashing with a dull groan on the floor.

Hiei broke up again, patting Kurama on the knee. "Itoshii ... " he called, shaking the leg. "Wake up!!"

Keiko's jaw hit the table, followed soon by Koenma and Yukina. "Did he just call Kurama ... "

"... his beloved?" Koenma finished, rubbing his neck.

Kurama groaned but remained passed out. "Hiei .. I'm going to kill you, you know that?" he groaned.

Hiei laughed like and idiot, toppling over onto the table.

"What else does he do?" Kuwabara asked quickly, receiving a swift kick from Keiko. "OW!!" He reached under and rubbed his leg, turning quickly to the man. "Be a ballet dancer!"

The man stood on his toes and raised one leg, positioning his hands ... one on his waist and the other on his head. He began to flit and jump gracefully all around the eating area, stopping occasionally to spin and twirl before bounding off again. Kuwabara hit the table in hysterics as the man tipy-toed along, fingers on his head. He leapt like a dismembered goat, flailing his arms about as he took to the air. His dismount landed him on the discarded sake carafe, sending him clutzing out in a flurry of arms and legs into the refrigerator.

Quickly he regained his footing and stood straight up, awaiting new orders.

"A MONKEY!!!" Yusuke yelled with a smile, receiving a pounding from Keiko.

The man hung his arms and hunched his back. "Ooh -oo-oo ... Ahh-ahh-ahh!!" he screeched, lumbering around the room like a prehistoric moron. He swung from the overhead lights and rafters, screaming deranged monkey sounds throughout the house.

"Enough!!" Keiko yelled.

The man suddenly stopped and stood to his feet like a robot, awaiting further instructions.

She turned to Hiei. "You're a sick little bastard, you know that?"

Hiei looked at her, turning his head down as if was trying to listen to his shoulder. He blinked at her confused and then turned his view to the tall man.

Kuwabara laughed maniacally. "Flush yourself down the toilet!!"

The man lumbered off for the bathroom as Keiko screamed at the top of her lungs, dashing across the table to strangle Kuwabara flat.

Yukina screamed.

And soon, the ominous sound of a toilet flushing echoed into the room.

Hiei looked down the hall at the sound of splashing water and flushing. "Yo-mawari. Come back here."

In a few seconds, the man strode confidently back in, his pants soaked from the knees down. He stood confidently and proudly, crossing his hands back across his chest.

Kurama managed to sit up, regarding the wet man with a look. "What the heck ... why's he all wet?"

Kuwabara choked and screamed under Keiko's grip, trying to pry her small but strong fingers from his throat.

"STRANGLE HIM!!" Hiei yelled, egging Keiko on, popping up onto the table to cheer and scream.

The man began across the room toward the two fighting teens, picking past Botan and Koenma. He reached down and pried Keiko off, setting her down lightly in the table.

"Hey .. thanks man ... " Kuwabara said, rubbing his throat. "Thanks for...ACK!!!"

Yo-mawari caught Kuwabara around the neck and began to strangle him...

... and Yukina screamed, taking up a plate and bashing him over the head.

"STOP IT!!" Kurama yelled at the top of his lungs.

All motion stopped, except for Yukina who was frantically clubbing the tall man over the head. She bashed away, the plate holding up under the strain of the man's head. "AHH!! Leave my Kazuma-chan alone!!"

The man stood to his feet, dropping Kuwabara to the floor. He turned back to face Hiei who now sat pouting, leaning down on his hands as he sat on the table.

"You're no fun, koi-bito," he whined, crawling down into Kurama's lap.

"Deh ... " Kuwabara choked, pointing a finger at Hiei. He sat framed like a picture under Kurama, Kurama blushing in a deep shade of red at the slip Hiei made in calling him his lover.

He chewed on his bottom lip, refusing to meet the glances of the rest of the room. It was deathly quiet as he looked down to Hiei who leaned back to rest his head on Kurama's chest. He looked so completely angelic, staring off at the others, occasionally looking back up to Yo-mawari.

Kurama closed his eyes and shook his head. "Hiei, you are going to be so pissed in the morning." He rubbed his forehead, and looked over to the tall man ... his newly found brother. He felt ashamed watching the man stand there like a statue, dripping wet from the knees down. "Hiei, send him back to Yomatsu."

Sigh ... "Okay. Yo-mawari, go back home."

In a flurry of sparkling lights, Kurama's brother disappeared from view.

Hiei passed out on Kurama's shoulder, still sitting comfortably in his lap, his little head rolling over to lean up against the man's cheek.

Kurama leaned down and whispered in his ear. "Darling, you've got a lot of explaining to do.