miscsporadic:

This one’s based on @counting-sinful-stars‘s suggestion, and I might’ve gone overboard with it.

Anyhow, here’s Reverse!Fox Dad, where a much older Hiei takes to feeding and caring for an ancient fox who one day accumulates enough spiritual power to become a youkai, whom Hiei adopts because, well, he was already taking care of the aging fox and the new one is a cocky piece of shit.

This is also a Hiei who’s already contacted and made peace with Yukina, so he’s more emotionally grounded and can admit to himself wanting company isn’t a sign of weakness.

Youko is an over-confident youth with sticky fingers and a proclivity for making up rumors about his personal achievements (”One day they’ll whisper my name in fright, Hiei, you’ll see”). Hiei spends a lot of their time cleaning up after Youko and keeping them on the run from demons Youko steals from. Youko has great potential, but Hiei wishes he would learn to measure himself and have some self control.

Then Youko involves himself with a couple guys who want to steal the Three Artifacts of Darkness, has to flee to the human world with Hiei hot on his heels, and gets them involved with the new Spirit Detective, Yuusuke Urameshi. Banished from returning to Makai as payment for their involvement in the heist, Hiei is merely glad there’s now more babysitters for Youko.

Hiei wears his tear gem on his ear because I felt like it, things would obviously go different towards the Three Kings arc so Mukuro doesn’t need to have it.