Time for another chapter! This is really more like a filler than anything, but I hope you enjoy it all the same. Thanks to wolfie and rose of death for the support! Please review, your comments mean a lot.
Chapter 9: Curiosity
Two days of intensive recuperation passed before Hiei awoke, glassy-eyed and confused. When he was fully coherent, however, he threw quite a fit; a strong fire demon like him did not need to ever visit the infirmary.
Plus, what did not kill him, made him stronger.
Kurama hoped so, because if Hiei reacted this way to Kuraiko's weakness, he did not want to know what would happen if Kuraiko received the death penalty.
Hiei headed toward the exit to the infirmary, but Kurama cut him off.
"You have yet to fully recover, Hiei," Kurama argued.
Hiei glared.
"And what makes you say that?"
Kurama smirked before answering, "Your legs are shaking and your breathing is irregular."
Hiei scowled once, but exhaustion kept him from holding it for too long.
"Hn," he finally replied before turning around and walking back to his bed.
He did not like this room. There were no windows. And curtains blocked part of his view of the room.
Hiei huffed before sitting back, leaning against the wall.
He knew what that smile meant. He would not leave the infirmary until Kurama let him.
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Hiei sat on his bed, a dark expression on his face.
He watched as doctors and nurses cared for other patients and walked in and out of the drawn curtains quite often.
Despite the extreme loathing he felt at his predicament, he felt a growing twinge of curiosity as to what was behind the curtains.
It grew even more when Kurama, after coming to check on Hiei, had gone behind the curtains only to return with a downcast and worried face.
Why were the curtains always closed?
What lay behind them?
He waited for the one doctor and two nurses then on duty to walk out of the room before he walked over to the curtain.
The muscles in his shoulders tensed as he grasped the edge of the curtain.
"Hey, Hiei! Good to see you up."
Hiei turned around to face the interrupter and scowled.
"What do you want, detective?" he asked.
"Nothing, nothing," Yusuke said airily, "Just checking up on my teammate. So, what were you looking at?"
Hiei remained silent for a moment, sizing Yusuke up.
"Nothing," he finally replied, "Nothing you need worry about."
Hiei walked back over to his bed and sat down.
"So how are you feeling?" Yusuke asked, "Think they'll release you soon?"
"They should have already released me, "Hiei answered angrily, "I am trying to find what is making the doctors, and even the fox, so overly cautious."
Yusuke nodded before walking out of the infirmary. He had something that he had to discuss with Kurama.
Hiei waited until Yusuke's steps had faded away before walking back over to the curtained section.
He had grabbed the curtain and begun to pull it back this time before the doctor interrupted him.
"Young man, that patient is in critical condition and should not be bothered," the bespectacled demon said sternly.
Hiei growled in annoyance, but let go of the curtain.
He would have to wait even longer before his growing curiosity would be satisfied.