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Volume 2 Chapter 2
Hiei tossed the small red package in the air and caught it several times. He opened it and stared at the contents. Cigarettes… I shouldn't start this again, he thought. Kurama had a fit when he found out I was a smoker the first time. But I need something to take the edge off. At least it isn't pot. That was a mistake; even if it made me forget… for a while anyway. Hiei pulled a cancer stick out of the stolen package and lit it. The first drag made him cough but after a few pulls, he got used to it again. The buzz was there and Hiei felt better then he had in years. Yet it still wasn't enough.
"That's a terrible habit, Kid," an old man said as he passed. Hiei blew smoke in his face. The old man just shook his head and walked on by. "It'll kill ya."
Not that I care much. Hiei finished the cigarette and tucked the package away, tossing the butt into a trash can.
"Well, at least you didn't litter," Kurama's voice said from behind him.
Hiei turned and glared, startled. "Don't sneak up on me like that," Hiei said.
"It wasn't sneaking. You would have felt my approach if you hadn't been inhaling noxious chemicals into your lungs."
"What's it to you?" Hiei laughed. "It isn't as if you really care."
"As much you know," Kurama said. "I happen to care quite a lot."
"Then why didn't you call or use telepathy? Why did you just drop me like some pile of garbage when I still…"
"'Still' what, Hiei?"
"When there was still something between us."
"You are in love with Yusuke now. What was or wasn't between us all those years ago doesn't matter and I suggest you find Yusuke before he gives up on you completely."
"You mean the way you did?"
"You chose to leave, Hiei. I didn't tell you to."
"You may as well have! You didn't come after me."
"What was I to do? You went with Mukuro and I went with Yomi," Kurama was practically glowering with anger. "But don't change the subject. Why did you leave Yusuke? Yusuke is now living, if you can call it that, at my house. Yusuke is in terrible pain, pain that you brought him."
"What was I supposed to do? Let him love me?"
"Yes," Kurama said as if that were obvious. "And love him back."
"Whores don't fall in love."
"Don't call yourself a whore. You're not like that anymore. You have every right to fall in love. Just as much as I do or Yusuke does.'
I wish he'd quit saying his name. It's bad enough without being reminded over and over. It's a clever use of psychology. "I give up," Hiei said.
"Don't say that," Kurama said exasperatedly. "If you would just go see Yusuke-"
"Shut up! I don't want to see Yusuke or you or anyone!" Hiei started to flit away but was stopped by an invisible barrier. He rubbed his forehead where he had hit the barrier head-on.
"You can't leave until I'm done with you."
Hiei launched himself at Kurama, with the intention of choking him but Kurama had his rose whip ready and flicked Hiei away. Hiei received several cuts to his stomach and glared daggers at Kurama. "You attacked me first," Kurama said simply. "If you won't go see Yusuke, that's fine. But if you kill yourself…" Kurama used his Yoko voice, "I'll resurrect your ass and kill you myself."
Hiei felt the barrier fall and took off, a hand held to his stomach. When he stopped, he'd realize that Kurama had carved Yusuke's name in his stomach with the whip's thorns.
Okay, so it's still not substantial… I should write more but I don't have the inspiration.
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