(Kurama POV)

Hiei took forever to wake up that morning

Hiei took forever to wake up that morning. His face was skewed and he was struggling all night long. For some apparent reason I woke extremely early, earlier than my alarm clock.

I laid in bed looking at my ceiling waiting for sleep to hit or the sun to come up, either one was bound to happen. I heard Hiei rustling in bed and mumble incoherently.

"Kurama…"

"Yes?" I answered.

No response.

"Hiei?"

No response yet again.

I heaved myself out of bed putting all my weight on my arms and made my way towards Hiei's futon. He was totally unconscious.

"Hiei are you awake?"

He sat up quickly catching me completely off guard and scrambling for my balance.

"Whoa, déjà vu," was all he said.

"You nearly gave me a heart attack! What gives?!" I hissed grasping my heart to keep it from exploding out of my chest.

"I had the strangest dream. Or was it a dream?" He mumbled.

"Kurama," he said sternly. "Did you try to wake me up last night after you took a shower?"

"Not that I could remember…" I said trying to recall my memories.

He let out a huge sigh of relief.

"Good! Now I could sleep better. You should probably get some sleep too. I would hate to have to look at your face and see those nasty bags you get under your eyes. It makes looking at you harder," Hiei joked.

"Laugh it up," I grumbled making my way back to bed and resuming my looking at the ceiling party.

I turned left. I turned right. I turned my pillow over. I took the blanket off. I put the blanket on. I made a 90 degree turn. I made a 180 degree turn. I was doing math in my bed and with each turn my bed squeak underneath me. I just couldn't get comfortable or sleep! I still had a good two hours of sleep and here I was wasting it on what position I was going to sleep in.

"You're irritating me," Hiei growled. "With that incessant squeaking your bed is making."

"Sorry."

"Do you want to sleep with me?"

I lifted my head from my pillow to look over at Hiei. "What?" I asked in confusion. Technically it was more of a shocked than a confused response.

"I didn't saw anything," He slurred.

Random…

I was finally able to get the sleep I needed and nearly fell out of my bed at the sound of my alarm. Hiei was already awake as usual and did me the favor of gathering up my clothes.

How nice of him...Weird…

I freshened up and combed my knotted hair. I fixed my collar and made my way to the kitchen where Hiei was…helping…my mother…?

"WTF?"

My mother and Hiei turned around.

"What's so WTF about it?" Hiei barked setting the table.

"What's WTF?" my mother asked.

Like mother like…son…I guess.

"It means…nothing," I answered not being able to come up with a good enough excuse than the use of profanity.

As we all sat down for breakfast and enjoyed our eggs and bacon, a sudden knock on the door disrupted our silence.

"Excuse me," I said politely getting up to answer the door.

"Hey there, best bud," Karasu greeted me with a nudge.

I could hear Hiei chocking on his sausage link and my mother assuaging him and practically doing the Heimlich maneuver on him hoping that it would dislodge the meat from his tiny throat.

"What's he doing here?!" Hiei finally mustered much thanks to my mom.

"Walking Kurama to school. You could tag along if you want, but far away from us," Karasu answered for him.

"Cool. Do you want some breakfast?" I offered sincerely.

"No. I'm ok. I had some grits at home," Karasu declined.

"Great, more sausage for me and none for the hill-billy," Hiei retorted gnawing loudly on some bacon. "Oh, so good. Way better than grits."

"Just don't choke on it," Karasu jeered.

"Surely you would like a bit of toast at least," my mother offered as well, trying to relieve some of the tension between Hiei and him.

"No, really, I'm fine." He noticed Hiei horking down all the food and half smiled playfully. "You know, maybe I will have some."

Hiei mounted the table and protected all the food. He yelled something about him not having any and continued defending the food until my mother pulled out the broom and whacked him a couple good times.

We finally managed to entice Karasu to some breakfast before leaving. All the while, Hiei was glaring daggers at his direction.

School was the same boring routine. Hiei hated Karasu. Fight. Yelling. Mr. Iwamoto's mutant vein. More fighting. More yelling. I told Hiei to knock it off. He ignored me. I got mad. Fight. Yell. Walked home. Sleep.

That night, I got a surprise call from Karasu.

"No surprise there," Hiei denied.

"What's the matter?" I asked while ignoring Hiei.

I paced around the room while Hiei was trailing behind me trying to eavesdrop on our conversation.

"Do you need me to come over or are you going to meet me?" I asked him, concern in my voice.

"Go where?" Hiei asked persistently.

I shoved him and went into the bathroom to talk with more privacy.

"Mm-hmm."

"Uh-huh."

"Ok."

"All right."

"I'll meet you there then."

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