And the hang out continues! Can Hiei stay sane surrounded my Yusuke and Kuwabara's eccentric friendship?! Will Kurama have a bigger part in the next chapter? Find out!
"I will burn this place to the fucking ground," Hiei growled in annoyance.
Looking back on the last several hours, he didn't understand how he got to this point.
The day had started out normal enough; wake up only to promptly kick Yusuke's ass off of the bed, even though the bed the four of them shared was big enough not to warrant such actions. Hiei just liked to fuck around with the greased hair punk.
After rudely waking up Yusuke, Hiei would then blame Kuwabara as the perpetrator of the action. Watching Yusuke punch Kuwabara awake every morning was like opening a present each day. It was a beautiful thing to watch the snoring orangette emerge from dead sleep into a full on brawl within the span of a second. The abrupt call to attack and defend fondly reminded Hiei of his childhood.
Then Hiei would wait, actually wait, for Kuwabara to stumble into the kitchen and start on breakfast. This was a time Hiei greatly enjoyed. When he had first taken up residence at the Kuwabara stronghold, Hiei was able to be in Kuwabara's presence for hours on end, without interruption. Granted, the beginning of his stay was forced and spent incapable of much movement, Hiei was shocked that he could come to associate Kuwabara with a sense of ease and relaxation.
And awe.
Kuwabara lived in a way that Hiei had never imagined. The orange-haired man lived his life with peace and honor. Instead of constantly fighting, training, and anticipating the next grand battle, Kuwabara worked to better himself and not in just a physical way, though he did that too. No, Kuwabara had hobbies, things to do that he found meaningful, studies, friends.
And he could see that Kuwabara was not just a fighter or even predominately a fighter like he, Kurama, and Yusuke. He was so much more and had the potential to be anything.
Hiei had never meet someone that had so much potential. That Kato kid would be a scholar, his genius level smarts already locking him into place. Hiei would always be a fighter. His bloodlust, while tamer and more under his conscious control, would always drive him into battles.
For a while, Hiei got to see it all. He got to see Kuwabara.
Then Kurama came along, Yusuke following closely behind, dwindling the amount of time Hiei could spend with Kuwabara down to almost nothing.
But breakfast was his time. While Kurama showered and Yusuke inevitably falling about asleep for a few more hours, Hiei got to watch from his position on the kitchen counter top as Kuwabara made enough food to feed three demons and his own self. A truly remarkable task made even more extraordinary by how quickly he prepared the food and how delicious everything was. Shizuru was usually at her job already and really joined for breakfast.
Sometimes the entire cooking process was spent in comfortable silence, each other's mere presence being enough to satisfy the both. More often than not, Kuwabara would ask Hiei a variety of questions from demon culture to asking about his childhood. One thing Kurama had taught Hiei about dealing with humans is that their curiosity is easily squashed with a few choice words. Occasionally Hiei would even venture a few questions of Kuwabara's past.
Yes, the day had started as usual, until Yusuke had thrown a wrench into the whole process. Instead of curling up in the bed to sleep another few hours, the mazuka chose to accompany Hiei in watching Kuwabara prepare breakfast. Only instead of watching he was helping. And instead of helping he was actually fucking everything up.
So, Hiei's usual morning routine changed from a peaceful moment with Kuwabara to traversing a human market place on an empty stomach.
Hiei growled under his breath and glared straight ahead, scaring the shit out of the innocent people in front of him. Being in this filth hole was bad enough without having the street punk duo with him to add to the shit. Kuwabara alone was good, Yusuke alone was fine, but the two together wore on his nerve. They feed off each other's stupidity until they both turned into insipid morons.
"I'm just saying, I asked you to set the table," Kuwabara muttered darkly, pushing the shopping cart full of groceries down the aisle.
Yusuke rolled his eyes and sneered. "I fucking did."
"You set it on fire," Hiei deadpanned from his place perched on the end of the cart.
"Yeah! I set the damn thing!" Yusuke reinforced.
"Well, now we're outta a meal and a table! You don't come cheap, Urameshi," Kuwabara yelled, pausing to punch Yusuke in the back of the head.
"Get off my dick, man! I was trying to help!" Yusuke yelled back, slipping his arms around Kuwabara's torso and flipping him face down onto the ground.
"'Sides I got this covered." Yusuke snickered as he held a wad of cash into Kuwabara's face. Kuwabara's eyes widened.
"Whoa! What'd ya do beat down a gangbanger?! You know I don't take your stolen castoffs," Kuwabara said, jumping back to his feet and facing off with Yusuke. Hiei sighed as they started into another fight. Why did he allow these two fools to drag him here.
"No! Geez, I keep that stash for myself."
"So, then what?"
Yusuke slung his arm around Kuwabara's shoulders and pulled him in closer to him. "Well, you know that new catchy song?" asked Yusuke in a conspiracy whisper.
Hiei looked at the duo from over his shoulder. He blushed a little at remembering Kuwabara pulling him in a similar position this morning in order to ask him to accompany him and Yusuke to the store in order to keep an eye on Yusuke's five finger discount.
Hiei jumped from the end of the cart to the top of one of the aisle to get away from the two bubbling idiots as they discussed songs.
"The one that goes dun-dun-ba-beee-ba-dee-dah," Kuwabara sung.
"No, no. The one that's all na-na-na, be-bop-be-bop-be-boo, cha!" Yusuke sang while demonstrating a few dance moves.
"Ohhhhh, that one that starts with that fast pace dance temp and there's that video of a kid dancing like this," Kuwabara tried to confirm by doing a ridiculous jig.
"Yeah, yeah! Then goes all crazy into it!" Now Yusuke was pirouetting circles around Kuwabara.
"Then starts doing all these weird things on the ground!" Kuwabara collapsed to the ground in what looked like a mix between a seizure and humping the floor while Yusuke started moon walking and doing the robot pass him.
The sound of Kuwabara's cell phone going off going off did nothing to stop their dance competition. With a growl of annoyance, Hiei jumped down a fished the shrill object from the basket part of the cart.
"What!" he bit out as he answered the call. There was a hesitant silence on the other end before Kurama spoke up.
"Hiei? What on earth are you doing with Kuwabara's phone? Is everything alright?"
"Oh, just peachy," Hiei snarled turning away from the sickening sight of a crowd forming around Yusuke attempting and failing to do the worm and Kuwabara doing the sprinkler. "We're just at what the humans call a market place. Did you know they are indoors and largely understocked."
"Yes, I suspected that is where you departed to when I discovered the charred remains of the table. Did Yusuke anger you?"
"It was the fool who did it!"
"Oh, really? I was not expecting that."
"As much as this mindless conversation is helping me avoid looking at those two dancing idiots, what do you want." Hiei snapped, gripping the phone tighter. He backed off his grip when he heard the protesting creak.
"I simply wanted to ask Kuwabara is he would pick up the required ingredients for tonight, but I didn't know if he and I should make the lamb or the pork chops. Did you say dancing?"
Hiei pulled the phone away from his ear, already tired of having Kurama's voice in his head. In fact he was tired of the headache that had taking up residence in his head ever since the dancing had started.
"Lamb or chops," Hiei barked at dancing duo as they were impressively krump dancing with each other. Hiei's harsh words served to scare away a few humans blocking his view of Yusuke and Kuwabara, but didn't seem to affect either of them. If anything, it served to fuel their behavior as they began to break dance.
Hiei placed the phone next to his ear again and yelled, "I don't know Kurama! They won't stop fucking break dancing!" before ending the call and throwing the phone back into the cart.
He turned to Yusuke and Kuwabara, eye twitching to see they were attempting to perform spins on their head.
"I do not care what laws spirit world has in effect," Hiei began dangerously, "I will burn this place to the fucking ground."
"What?!" Kuwabara yelped and fell flat on his back. Yusuke gracefully flipped back onto his feet and took a bow to the clapping crowd. As everyone dispersed, Hiei watched as Yusuke bent down and picked up the money people had thrown to the ground.
"And that, my friends, is how you pay for a table," said Yusuke smugly.
"Awesome! Now we can just pick up lamb and chops!" Kuwabara smiled as he pushed the cart down the aisle again, Yusuke walking beside him.
Hiei stared after them with a dumbfound expression, wondering how these two ever made it into adulthood.
"Natural selection my ass," Hiei mumbled as he fleeted to the cart and took up his customary position as sentry on the edge.