Aaaaand...Here you are! The next chapter of 'Similarities'...as if anyone's still actually reading this thing.
To Sakura's surprise- considering the speed Jaganshi had left at, and the head start he had- She and Kurama actually caught up to him.
He'd obtained a blade from somewhere, the gleaming weapon held loosely in an expert swordsman's grip. The tip of said sword dug into Kabuto's collarbone.
Jaganshi looked up as they entered. A flicker of emotion- surprise, perhaps- flashed through the carmine depths, but that was quickly hidden away. "Fox." he said to Kurama in greeting. 'Fox?' Inner Sakura wondered.
"Hello, Hiei." Kurama returned. 'Hiei? There's that name again.' Inner Sakura grumbled. "You don't know what a relief it is to see you alive." Hiei-slash-Jaganshi-slash-whatever the hell his name actually was, snorted. "As if a pack of weak ningen could kill me." He dug the sword a bit deeper into the medi-nin's neck. "They're barely F-class."
"Whaaaaat?" Sakura burst out. "He-" Here, she gestured to the fallen medic, "-and Orochimaru are S-class missing-nin!" Two sets of eyes- 'Not human, no way, no how…' Inner Sakura commented- emerald green and bloody crimson focused on her, cat-like in their calculating gazes.
Hiei looked away first. "Not even F-class." he corrected himself.
"Well, they are ningen, Hiei." Kurama agreed. "Oh, and Koenma said you can kill them, if you like."
"I was going to anyway."
"I believe he's trying to make it seem like he has some level of control over his Tentai."
"He doesn't."
"Of course."
Sakura couldn't just listen to this. "How can you be so…so…You're talking about killing people!"
Hiei-slash-Jaganshi-slash-whatever, glanced at Kurama. "Why did you bring her?" Kurama shrugged. "She was going to come anyway. Boton just assigned me baby-sitter."
Sakura bristled. 'I'm not a baby." Kurama didn't twitch. "My apologies, cherry-blossom-chan. Boton assigned me ningen-sitter."
"Same difference." Hiei scoffed.
"I wanted to help!" Sakura snapped, glaring at the shorter male.
"Ummm…Perhaps we should get moving?" Kurama suggested. "Hiei, if you could finish up here?"
Hiei glared back at the pinkette. "Well, you're not." he shot back. "Stupid ningen, you're going to get yourself killed."
"Having trouble, are we?" Kabuto managed to snark. Hiei turned his glare down at the silver-haired medi-nin. "You, shut up. I'll kill you in a moment."
"Actually," Kabuto replied, "I don't think you will."
And without any further warning, the medic disappeared in a 'poof' of smoke, leaving Hiei to glare murderously at the unfortunate log that had taken his victim's place.
So, there ya go. A new chapter. Love me. Worship me. Adore me. And don't ask me when the next update will be. I will not answer.
But, seriously, like I said in 'One Shot of Jin, Please', it's all written up in my NOTEBOOK OF JUSTICE! (I really do call it that.) I just have to fix it, so that I am happy with it. Which might take awhile, for I am nothing if not a perfectionist.
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