To the person that asked for a longer chapter...here's one that clocks in at around 2,375 (without added text) so...enjoy

Also..ANIME COMES OUT TODAY!

(Characters don't belong to me, Kagerou Project belongs to Jin)

To say he was about to drop dead from lack of sleep was an understatement, they were half way through picking up the things Kido wanted and Hibiya was trying to walk and stay awake at the same time.

A pole to the face proved he couldn't do both at once.

Hibiya fell back and gripped his face and let out a groan of pain, "that hurt...hurt so badly" he whine and hear Konoha stop and begin walking over to him to make sure he was okay, "maybe you should head back on your own...you know...so you can rest..." Konoha suggests and moves out of the way as the smaller boy jumps to his feet, "im okay...i don't need to go back" he starts and crosses his arms to show he was upset, "besides...i can't leave you alone...id worry to much..." he grumbles and Konoha stares at him for a second before smiling and ruffling his hair with a hand.

"your so childish"

"you say that again...i dare you!" Hibiya growls and rubs at his eyes, he felt like he was never going to sleep normally again with how drained he felt. Konoha looked him over and just sighed, knowing he couldn't change the kids mind once he decided on doing something, "then...we should hurry and get the rest of the stuff..actually.." Konoha reread the note and looked around, "there's only one thing we need left", "well..that's good right?" He asks and his friend nods.
Konoha turned from him and Hibiya froze, the androids body language read...sluggish...not working kind of movements...which wasn't something he'd seen often, the only other times he saw this kind of body movement was when Konoha lost himself.

Oh no..."He" can't be coming out again could he?

"Uh...Konoha wait up" Hibiya calls out and hurry's after his larger friend, he had more of a bad feeling then he had before, can you blame him tho? Kuroha did shot him through the neck last time they met, it was only through Shintaro and Kano's quick thinking that they were able to guilt trip Konoha into coming back.
A warm touch made him look back to see nothing, but he knew it was Kagerou telling him not to worry this time around. That's right, he wouldn't be alone if Kuroha did pop up again, Kagerou could protect him, besides if that failed...his legs still worked, he'd run as far as he'd have to just to escape that psycho.

"Hibiya"

He looked up to see Konoha had stopped and was looking at him, "uh...what is it?" he asks, "your to quiet...i thought you fell asleep walking or something..." Konoha mutters and begins walking again, "sure...i totally just started sleep walking in public...why don't i go walk in front of traffic or something" Hibiya grumbles and follows, then again he was the one that had been so lost in his thoughts weeks before that he almost got hit on the road again.
His luck just wasn't the best now was it?

"Hibiya look out the do-", it came to late and he walked right into a door, once again holding his face and hissing in pain, yep his luck wasn't there today, "that one hurt..." he whines and moves his hands down and glances at Konoha, whom was by his side, "come on...you need to sit down before you hurt yourself" he says and takes him by the hand and pulls him to the nearest park bench.

"im fine" Hibiya whines to his friend but gets shoved down onto the wooden seat, "tell that to the blood running down from your nose" Konoha says and Hibiya gives him a look and feels above his lip and sure enough he felt a warm liquid on his fingers, He pouted and wiped the blood from his nose.
"you need to be careful" Konoha tells him and pats him on the shoulder, "i don't need to be careful...i am careful" Hibiya grumbles and keeps checking for blood just to make sure it stopped, which thankfully it did.

"you sit here...i'll go grab that last thing and come and get you" Konoha says and before he could reply back the white haired boy walked off, "...scared i'll trip or something...geez..." Hibiya grumbles and leans back into the bench. He wasn't going to lie, it was nice to be alone for a bit, it felt so calm for him, it helped with what he had previously dreamed about that night. He exhaled and closed his eyes in hopes of catching a wink of sleep before Konoha came back.

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He awoke to humming and got up off the bench since it seemed he have shifted into a laying down position, his face still hurt so he couldn't have been sleeping for that long, he whinced in pain as he opened his mouth to sigh and looked around, it was darker then it first had been, he looked up at the sky to see the threatening dark grey clouds above, "another storm?...right after the last?" he groans and gets up off the bench.
Where was Konoha? It felt like he should have been back by now.

The humming sounded again and this time it made his blood run cold, he turned to look behind him, behind the bench and there, leaning against the wood was that same person that had shot him last time.

"K-Kuroha!" Hibiya says in both shock and a tad bit of anger. "your really getting better at telling when i pop up...but then again...you and him are good friends" the snake says with that same old grin and comes out from behind the bench.

"I came back here and you were sleeping...so i decided to try and help you rest nicely" he purrs, Hibiya didn't get what he meant till he remembered the humming, something meant to be so gentle, done by him was so sickening, "gah...don't even give me that...you don't care about me..its whats in me that you care about...whats in all of us" Hibiya says in his own defense and takes a step back, if he got caught then it would be the end for him, or at least more injury's for him.

"Maybe so...but then again...your my friend too~" Kuroha says, his grin getting bigger as he spoke, "god you make me sick" Hibiya growls and turns to run but a firm hand on his wrist stops him. "where do you think your going?, didn't you say you didn't want to leave him alone?" Kuroha asks, he was using Hibiya's own words to Konoha against him.

Hibiya gritted his teeth and pulled his arm free, just realizing how loose Kuroha's grip had really been. "...let me get a point across" he says in a slight growl and up right punches Kuroha in the chest, not even phasing him one bit, "you are not Konoha...there for i don't care about you!" he snaps.

"but this is his body" Kuroha points out and Hibiya freezes, the snake slipping his fingers through the boys fingers and held onto his hands tight, "I am Konoha...remember that" he purrs and pushes Hibiya to the ground with full force.

Before Hibiya could say anything a blur of red pushed Konoha a little bit back, 'Don't touch him!', It took a minute for his mind to put together who had just come to his aid but eventually he got it, "Kagerou!" he shouts and looks up at the Heat, 'you have a death wish for touching whats mine' Kagerou growls and stands over the slightly older boy, "funny..." Kuroha mutters and pulls out a knife, 'ha that can't hurt me' Kagerou says and takes a step towards him, "its not meant for you" Kuroha says to him and flicks it through him so it stabs into Hibiya's leg.

Both Hibiya and Kagerou let out a cry of pain, Hibiya grabbed at the shift sticking out of his upper leg and removed his hands since it hurt to much, 'you...YOU!' Kagerou hisses as blood leaks down his leg, "as i thought...you two share pain...no wonder why you wanted to kill the kid a while back...but..i'm curious..what made you change your mind?" Kuroha asks and begins to get closer to them.

'I saw the error in my ways...it wasn't what i wanted...so i changed..i'll protect him..no matter how hard it looks' Kagerou snaps and takes a step towards Kuroha but freezes the second rain started to hit the ground around them, "sorry but...its time you go away" Kuroha purrs and just pushes on Kagerou and to his shock he breaks apart and disperse, 'Hibiya...RUN!' Kagerou managed to yell before he disappeared.

Hibiya didn't need to be told twice and made a run for it, ignoring the pain in his leg, or how he was making it worse by running, Kuroha just smiled and walked after him, "i like a game of cat and mouse" he purrs and watches the boy round the corner.

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Hibiya kept running, but he could hear that foul snicker where ever he went, the rain beating down over him, dragging him down and making it hard to run, his stroke of bad luck stuck again when he went to take a step and slipped on a forming puddle and went crashing into the ground, lucky for him his hands being out saved him from breaking his nose, but in his fall he drove the shift more into his leg and let out a pained whimper as he tried to push himself up, "how bad is my luck going to be today" he snaps at himself really and contemplates ripping the knife out, looking back to see the blood being washed from the ground behind him.

Great more bad news, he left a bloody trail for that sicko to follow, he quickly scanned the area and gritted his teeth as he was forced to drag himself carefully over to an alley way, he rolled over onto his back and panted, he couldn't take the knife out, it would just allow him to bleed out, but then again it really burned with it in, he once again reached for the half exposed hilt and froze when he heard something.

"come out little rat...let me find you~"

"god damn it" Hibiya grunts and pushes himself to his feet, very painful to do at this point and limps down the alleyway, only for something to pull him back his hood, "got ya" Kuroha purrs and lifts him into the air, the collar of his jacket digging into his throat as he grabs at it, "you need to learn..." Kuroha suddenly moved his arm quickly slamming Hibiya's back into a wall, "to sit and listen when someones trying to talk to you" Kuroha growls and holds him there, "i could kill you...you know that" Kuroha glanced at where he could see the still healing scar on the boys neck.

"what a poor thing.." Kuroha says to him and releases him, Hibiya hits the ground and gasps for air, grabbing at his almost crushed throat, "you went and damaged yourself" he says and grabs Hibiya by the ankle and pulls him up, letting the boy's back and head soak in a puddle as he stared at the blade forced into his leg, "really...i should take it out..it must hurt" he says with a grin, Hibiya rapidly shakes his head in a no, he knew what would happen if he did that, and he didn't want to die on the streets like this.

Kuroha stared at the wound before sighing and began to drag Hibiya like this out of the alley, the concrete scrapping up the boys back till he almost bleed as he did, "i didn't want to hurt you this badly..but you had to go and run" Kuroha mutters and rips a bit of the bottom off his shirt before pulling the knife out, the warm spray of blood splatting onto Hibiya's upper body since it as under the wound, while Hibiya was busy wiping the blood off his face and trying to breath right from before, Kuroha looped the cloth through the wound a little, but for wrapping it around his leg and properly picked him up and slung him over his shoulders, Hibiya made a confused noise and looked at Kuroha, noticing concern written on his face.
Could it be possible that Konoha was still awake a little?

"don't get me wrong" Kuroha's tone snapped him out of his thoughts, "i want to kill you...all of you...but...not right now" he grumbles and keeps walking, Hibiya realized that they were walking back to the Hideout and kept quiet, he was still losing a lot of blood, it felt different then when he was shot, had he busted a artery or something?

Hibiya hung his head low and closed his eyes, Kuroha took no notice and kept walking, He was a little mad with himself that he hadn't finished the boy off, but then again he couldn't with that pest clawing at the back of his head.

First was for him to rid himself of Konoha like he had tried years before, then...and only then can he kill off the Dan.

"Don't get used to this act of kindness...you won't see if often" Kuroha warns and when they reach the hideout he collapses against the door with Hibiya, as he give up the body back to Konoha, the door opened and a lot of surprised shouts where heard before they were dragged inside to safety.

But how safe were they really?

Oh boy...i wanted to stop at where he runs..but my friend and lovely rp partner True wanted me to continue..so here you go...thank you True for letting Hibiya get semi tortured early

no one will understand how happy i am right now...i finished a chapter for this fic in a day..so happy right now~

Reviews are always welcome...always remember that