It really creeps me out when she does that. Hiei thought as he leaned casually against the stone door frame of Naiyo office. She laid over her scrolls at her desk eyes staring ahead into nothingness. The first time that had happened he had nearly had a heart attack. The night after they made love after their reunion after having been separated for a year and a half, he awoke the next morning next to the soft, warm body of his mate. He turned to embrace her and stopped dead in his actions. Her eyes were blankly staring at the ceiling, still and unmoving. Hiei latched onto her screaming her name. It wasn't until she blinked confused and peeved at him that he learned that she had the unshakable habit of sometimes sleeping with her eyes open. Even now he could not get used to it. He walked over to her silently and tiled his head as he stared. She worked herself to exhaustion… again. As the new leader of a demon nation, she was always on guard, always busy. The cubs were used to it, but Hiei found himself sometimes jealous that her work seemed to come before everything else. He reached out to brush a braid from her forehead. As his hand neared, it was suddenly clenched in a death grip. She flinched from her position and jerked upright staring at him blinking heavily. They stared at one another for a long moment as she got her bearings.
"You fell asleep at your desk again." he calmly informed her. She made a confused expression and looked down at her hand painfully clenching his own before releasing her grip and rubbing her dry eyes. She turned away from him and leaned her elbows on the granite desk pressing her face into her hands and sighing tiredly.
"I had to go over these reports by tomorrow." she drawled robotically. Hiei shook his head and embraced her from behind.
"You work too hard. Mukuro gave me a few days leave. Why don't we go to ningenkai? It has been too long since you've seen Kani. Genkai tells me she was become quite good with her training." he suggested. Indeed Naiyo had not seen Kani since she left her with Genkai. All they have from each other are letter. Naiyo's were always short and direct, almost cold. Even the way she wrote them with her firm pen strokes and hard pressing seemed calloused. Kani's letters were sometimes pages long and greatly detailed. She was excited about being an aunt and begged Naiyo to visit and bring the cubs. Yet Naiyo always seemed to be too busy. Hiei had managed a couple times to get back to the ningenkai to see Yukina and her children. Kani would always greet him in the same way, with a polite bow before launching herself at him. Hiei smiled at the memory. Kani was quite strong. But every time he would show up without Naiyo he would always catch that look of disappointment. But she would brighten up as he would produce a quickly scrawled letter from his pocket. It had become a game between the two. He would flit his hand away when she would get close to grabbing it until she managed to get a hold on it. She would sit in a chair and read the letter again and again as if memorizing it. But he knew that it was never the same. He knew first hand. Because even though Naiyo never denied him, even though they lived in this same cave, it seemed that often his mate seemed as far away from him as she was before she returned to him. But he never complained. How could he? Not when he himself would have to disappear for days and weeks at a time to work for Mukuro and escort lost ningens back to their world. It would make him a hypocrite otherwise. Still, he could see that is was also having a negative effect on the cubs. They were too grown up. Oh of course they were still cubs, wrestling, arguing and causing all types of mischief. But there was something to mature about them. The could capture their own food. They could clean their own clothes. Naiyo could leave them for days at a time and they would be just fine. Demon children did often have to grow up fast, but Naiyo's lack of mothering was bordering to neglect. Even though they never complained, just like him, they missed their mother and seemed to have a strange shared fear of bothering her when she was working. Hiei was brought out of his thoughts when she shifted against him turning in her chair to look at him.
"What is it, Koi? One round wasn't enough?" she asked seductively rubbing her leg against his own. That was another thing that irritated Hiei. Even though he found her flirtatious ways quite stimulating and very entertaining, she had the habit of using sex to make him forget a conversation. But it was not going to work this time. Ignoring the pull of arousal between his thighs he pulled away from her and crossed his arms.
"Why are you avoiding this?" he asked defensively. She just sighed and tilter her head to look at him. She knew what was coming. There had been many heated debates over this same subject, but it all boiled down to one truth. She did not have time for pleasantries right now. She crossed her legs and bite her lip in thought.
"Fine. We will go next week."
"That is
what you said last week. And the week after that." Hiei countered.
Naiyo frowned at him and he frowned back as they locked into one of
their glaring battles.
"Hiei, I have work to do."
"Damn it Naiyo! You always have work to do! So do
I! But at least I make time for my cubs!"
"What is that
supposed to mean?!"
"Fuck, Naiyo! Don't you see it? What
the hell did you do to them where they are scared to death of even
coming into this room when you are busy?!" Hiei saw as she flinched
at that statement. She did notice that they never strayed in this
room. They made that mistake a long time ago. All she remembered was
that she had gotten really angry when they interrupted her. She was
trying to read and they were in the room playing, making too much
noise. Then, they were all cowered together in the corner of their
room scared to death as if they had seen a ghost. She pinched the
bridge of her nose and counted back from twenty fighting an oncoming
headache. Hiei's eyes narrowed. He did not know why, but every time
she got one of those bad headaches, she would change. She would get
extremely angry and they would fight. It only happened a couple times
but that was too much. The cubs would look up from whatever they were
doing and then walk into their room silently. Too routine, too
planned. It was as if they had been doing a rehearsed fire drill.
They never even looked scared. Then after blood was drawn and they
had worked everything out of their system, they would have passionate
angry, makeup sex. It was strange. Almost as if she did not remember
what had happened. Naiyo squeezed her eyes shut and blocked out the
strange buzzing she would get in her ears. If she did it right she
could avoid blacking out as she periodically did. It was weird
because when she would come to, she would either be in the throws of
orgasm with Hiei or she would be lying by his side after a long
session of lovemaking. She never told him about the blackouts. She
did not want him to worry. She was used to it. It was not as bad as
they used to be when she was younger. Wilder. The buzzing seemed to
build and grow louder until it felt as if her eardrums would bleed.
She heard Hiei softly call out her name.
"Naiyo?" he called and he could hear the concern in his own voice. She seemed to snap out of her personal séance and smirked up at him.
"You are right, Koi. I have not been spending enough time with you and the cubs. I am sorry." she said truthfully. Hiei was a little surprised. Naiyo would never apologize unless she had done something horribly wrong. She turned back to her desk and began writing something in the wolf language. Hiei been picking up on it a bit and saw that it was some kind of important document. "We will visit the ningenkai tomorrow after I deliver these papers." she said with a touch of finality in her voice. Hiei nodded victoriously and then leaned in to nuzzle her ear.
"While you're doing that, I'm gonna put the cubs to bed. Then I'm gonna come back in here and ravish you on this desk." he growled lustfully. She chuckled.
"I have no doubt that you will, Love." she said as she continued. Hiei kept his promise.
Hm, what's with Naiyo? No really I'm asking because I have no idea. LOLOL I'm making this up as I go. But I have a pretty good idea…. REVIEWS PLEASE! ;)
