Lost

He remembers the last time they met; they have seen each other since, but it is not the same. There are awkward silences and they talk without speaking. Their bond is lost. They are divided now, by more than a world; and they have said everything they had to say and it was not enough, because they aren't, not anymore. And in that last, stilted conversation he never said come with me. He thought it, desperately, but Hiei's mind was already closed, hurting from words as yet unspoken, and Kurama never heard his whispered stay that would have changed everything.

A/N: to express just how much I hated the way the anime ended things for those two.