“Hiei, get up.”
Kurama shook him awake. The fire demon rolled over and looked at him, “What the hell do you want, kitsune? I was sleeping.”
“You’re lazy. Come on, I need to go to the store.”
“And you need me to go with you? Honestly, Kurama, I don’t like the world you live in. The human world, mind you. I’m not going.”
“Fine. Then you can watch Tali while I go to the store. But I’m not going to the human world today, Hiei. I’m going to the village. Your village. The one where gangs and thievery are popular. Now, I can’t go without you, so get up.”
“Alright, but do we have to take the brat?”
“Yes, we do.” Kurama walked down the hall. Hiei sighed and sat up, pulling on his cloak. He put his cloth around his head to cover his third eye and went to the open window. He turned around when he heard Kurama walk in his room.
“Surely, Hiei, you’re not thinking of going out by means of the window?”
“Don’t I always, kitsune?”
“Fine.”
Hiei smirked and stepped through the window and onto the roof. He jumped down and onto the ground and stood, waiting for Kurama and that little brat of a child to come around. He was absent-mindedly playing with a ring on his engagement finger when Kurama came around the corner.
“What are you doing?”
Hiei looked up and shrugged.
“It’s your own fault you let her go, Hiei. So don’t sulk about it.”
Hiei snarled at Kurama, “Damn you, kitsune. Is it all right if I miss her? The only person I’ll ever,” his voice dropped in volume, since nobody knew about the girl he was speaking about, “love is her... and now she’s gone.”
“Because you let her leave. You know nothing about loving another, Hiei. Your stubborness drove her away. Yes, she did love you and for a while, longer than I had expected, stayed with you, but you let your arrogance and pride get in the way and wouldn’t admit to her what you felt.”
“Shut the hell up. If you want to go to the village, go. I need this walk anyway.”
Kurama nodded and picked up Tali. He started walking with Hiei towards the village. About halfway there, Kurama spoke.
“You know you can get her back.”
“I don’t want her back.”
“That’s a lie, Hiei. You just told me that you loved her.”
“Still, I don’t want her back.”
Kurama nodded, “Mm, I can understand why not. After all, she was pregnant with your child when she left. She didn’t leave you a note or anything. But you know, Hiei, maybe she did it for her own reasons, rather than you driving her off.”
“Kurama, for once, just shut up about it.”
Kurama nodded. Hiei walked forward into the darkness. He smirked once he was free from Kurama and started to run, but was cut short when he ran straight into something, or somebody. Kurama heard a startled cry and ran forward. He started to laugh at what he saw
