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Chapter 14: Overcoming the Night
The boy being questioned entered all the way before closing the door behind him. He sniffed a few times, giving away to the dark haired one that he had been crying, "I... I don't want to leave until she wakes..."
"I thought the doctor said the sedative was wearing off hours ago?"
Red hair drifted forward to cover puffy eyes, "It seems that a nurse misread the dose and gave her too much... but Sielgan-san said she still would have waken up before eight..."
"Maybe she's just sleeping? She has to be exhausted," Hiei tried to offer.
"Maybe..." Shuichi let off a shaky sigh before pulling a chair over to sit next to Hiei, "I just want to thank you Hiei... Even if you don't match up or if something goes wrong, I want you to know that... I mean there's nothing I can-"
"Oh, shut up."
Startled green eyes looked up only to see a smirking Hiei, "I'm doing this to do it. No need to thank me."
Kurama ran a hand slowly though his hair and merely bowed his head slightly.
"Hn. You look like shit. Go home and get some rest. I'll keep an eye on her, alright?"
Shuichi shook his head no, "I don't want her to have to wake up and-"
The other boy hooked his finger under the redhead's chin and forced him to look up, "Tf. I'm not one that's used to cheering anybody up so I'll be blunt. Your mom's not going to want to see you if you look like shit. Come back when the bags under your eyes are gone and your head is working."
Hiei frowned slightly before adding, "The Phatinis aren't great but if you need a place to stay Yukina's there and you won't have to be alone... I'm sure they wouldn't mind picking you up either."
The green eyes cast themselves down before shaking his head no again, "It's alright... I'd prefer to go back to my house..."
With a shrug Hiei let his hand slip from under the redhead's chin onlyfor it tobe grabbed. He quirked his head and raised a questioning brow.
"I-I'm sorry I never told you she was sick... I should have."
After turning his gaze towards the wall again Shadow spoke, "I knew. She told me. Now get off the guilt trip."
The shorter one looked back at his friend before continuing in a different direction, "Things happen so it's either do something about it or stand there like a deer caught in the headlights. You've got to stop blaming yourself baka. It's not helping anyone and only causing you to look shittier."
He chuckled a bit before meeting his green eyes with those ofred, "You know, I always did like to be called shitty three times in a row..."
"Hn. Sorry to upset you than because I said you looked shitty," Hiei smirked and tugged on his hand.
The redhead looked down at their joined hands before jerking his away with a nervous chuckle, "Sorry... I-I guess I wasn't paying attention to what I was-"
Hiei snorted and put a finger to his lips, "Just go and get some rest. I'll talk to the doc when he comes to tell me the results."
With a blank look, Kurama nodded and stood before looking back at Hiei, "I'll see you tomorrow...?"
He shrugged, "If you want. Uh, give me your cell number so I can call you tonight or tomorrow morning-"
"I'll give you my cell instead so I can call you... Let me just call Botan to pick me up- Never mind, scratch her out.. She's with Koenma uh...", he nibbled on his lip and leaned against the door thinking.
"Well, if you don't want Tian and Ping to drive you there's still that Hatanaka guy... Where is he?"
"He went home to take care of his son... Well, he did say I could call him... Alright."
Kurama went through his recent calls before pressing send. After a minute on the phone the short talk ended and he handed the phone to Hiei.
"I don't know where I'm going to hold it but whatever..."
Shuichi chuckled and looked at Hiei, only now seeing something, "What's that around your neck?"
The boy shrugged, "Something that was my mother's..."
"Well you can hang the cell phone on it if you wanted... Or just hold it. Can I see it?"
Hiei turned from the extended arm, "Tomorrow. Now get going before I kick you out myself."
The redhead smirked, "Now that would be highly entertaining. I'm sure the women would find that up lifting."
A touch of pink rained over the boy's cheeks before he grinded his teeth and pointed to the door, "Just get out, baka."
Rosey opened the door and smiled sweetly at him, "Thanks again..."
"What did I just say-"
Kurama closed the door with a chuckle, cutting his friend off in mid-sentence.
"Oh, you're still here Shuichi?"
He jumped, yet again, when the doctor spoke from behind him.
"Hmm... Well, I have the results but seeing that you're leaving..."
Green eyes widened as he locked them with the doctor's.
"I'm kidding, let's go back in there so I can talk to both you and Hiei, okay?"
He nodded quickly before turning and going back through the door he had just exited. The small boy gave him a look before he saw the doctor trailing behind.
Sielgan gestured for them to sit before shifting through a file in his hands, "Hmm... It seems, Mr.Jaganshi, that you were correct on your blood type."
Hiei rolled his eyes and 'tff'ed in a 'no-shit' way.
The doctor smiled, "It seems there's a strong possibility that this could work out. Oh, and Shuichi, you're mother's just sleeping now. We did a quick check and the drug is out of her system..."
After scribbling down a few notes in the file, he opened the door again, "Now let's get you situated in a room for the night, Hiei. I'll see you tomorrow, Shuichi."
The redhead smiled brightly and pulled Hiei into a bear hug, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
With a grunt Hiei tried to pull away, "Need to breath baka!"
A small chuckle met their ears, "Alright you two, it's getting late and I'm sure you both need your rest."
"I'll see you tomorrow Hiei! Call Hatanaka-san's cell if you're going to call after eight."
"Hn. Whatever," he smiled in such a way it could have been taken as a sneer.
Puffs of white misted through the air as the car waited outside. Kazuya waited a bit fidgetly inside it, clenching and unclenching his hands over the driver's wheel.
The door opened slowly and an unsure teen soon sat himself in the passenger's seat.
"Hello, Shuichi... How are you doing?"
He smiled meekly, "Fine. Mother's also doing fine. Hiei's a match."
Kazuya sighed in relief as he drove away from the large medical building, "That's good to hear. How is Hiei?"
"Good..."
The ride on the way to Shuichi's house remained silent. Neither one knowing what to talk about or how to start off a conversation with the other.
Kurama had tried his hand at it. He tried to talk about how Kazuya knew his mother and find out more about his son. He even offered the man a stick of bubble gum in hopes of it stringing off that. But nothing but a brief explanation was given and it left nothing to question more on.
He had found out that Kazuya and his mother met at his school's conferences and that his son was also named Shuichi, but he was a freshman. That was the only things he had managed to pry from the otherwise nervous man.
The car slowed as it neared his house and, when it finally halted to a complete stop, Shuichi said his thanks and crawled out.
"I'll pick you up at seven forty tomorrow. Good-bye."
"Farewell, I'll see you tomorrow."
Shuichi neared his door after watching the car disappear in the night's unforgiving darkness. With a small sigh, he twisted the door's knob and froze.
"It can't be..." he whispered in disbelief as he pulled on it more.
He let out a frustrated cry and let his head fall against the door, "Locked. Should have known... Damn it. I told her to get me a set of keys..."
Reluctantly he removed his head from it's spot on the door and blew into his cold hands as he glanced around.
"I could try to get through my window by climbing the willow tree... but the neighbors- ah screw the neighbors..."
He laughed at what he had just said and shook his head, "I'm spending too much time with Hiei."
After making his way into his backyard he started climbing. He threw his hair over his shoulder as he made it to the branch closest to his window, it was above it but rather above then too far below.
A frown marred his face as he was brought back to a time in which he used this same branch as an escape route and quick entrance way.
As quickly as he remembered it he pushed it to the back with a growl, "I have to stop wallowing in my self-pity... It's either do something about it or stay caught in the lights..."
With a graceful jump he landed steadily on the ledge and fiddled around with the window until the lock inside popped open and it slipped up.
Quickly, he shut the window and though his body told him to sit, to sleep, he forced himself into the bathroom to wash away the grime and dirt the day had brought.
The heat the shower brought as it flooded from its head massaged his exhausted mind and tired muscles. He all but moaned as his tense legs and back relaxed and went slack under the welcomed pressure.
He finished what he had to and once checking to see if the alarm was on, he promptly passed out.
"Alright Hiei, here you are. Someone will be in at about seven or eight to explain the procedure to you and answer any of your questions. Then, at about, nine we hope to start. It all depends on how Minamino-san is doing though... Well, you get your rest, I'll see you in the morning. Goodnight."
"Hn. Night."
The lights faded slowly as the switch was flicked off, and the steps went continued once the door was firmly shut.
Hiei turned in his bed and stared out the window which gave off a touch of light from the street lamps and passing cars below. He closed his eyes but they snapped back opened when flashes of gashes and blood took haven behind his lids.
After growling in annoyance, he flipped himself onto his stomach and sought comfort in the stiff pillow. Finding his eyes still refusing to shut, he hid them behind his arm and took his unoccupied arm to seek the pressure point between his neck and shoulder before placing careful fingers there and applying force.
His face showed a calm and relaxed look after he knocked himself out and his arm lolled forward to rest upon the pillow.
It looked like a natural sleep, but to the one who was under its spell it was just darkness, unawareness, and it held no dreams to speak of.
Shuichi twisted and turned as his nightmares grew worse and worse over the course of the night. It got to the point in which he snapped up in his bed and fell to the floor with a large plop.
A few ragged breathes left his agape mouth before his heart slowed and his breathing pace grew steady. He frowned and reached for the almost empty bottle of sleeping pills before he angrilyfed them to the darkest corner of his room.
The small sound, that could be taken as pebbles falling down a mountain's side, echoed throughout the small room followed by dry sobs that forced their way out of the shaking redhead's tightened throat.
He held himself and rocked back and forth on his behind letting the tears fall for the moment. This, he promised, would be the last time her ever cried for himself. The last time his selfish tears would spill their acid upon his cheeks and the last time that white coated bitter-sweet sleeping pill graced itself in his room.
The blankets pooled at his side where he now sat and gave the slightest feeling of an embrace, an embrace he craved so much to have right now.
After pulling the blanket up to rest upon his shoulder, he wiped away his tears and nuzzled it.
With shaky legs he rose and laid himself back in his bed, making sure to first cocoon himself in the blankets. He hoped by doing this he could finally make his body realize what his mind had just begun to. Hoped it would show his being that he was never alone, that wherever he was he had a friend to help him.
A smile, no matter how small it was, graced his lips at that thought and for now the nightmares ran in fright of him and not the other way around.
Aww... Isn't that sweet? lol Well, tell me what you think in a review right after this teaser! XD, By the way, don't forget to guess my age!
"Wait... that's not my alarm clock that's..."
"It's Kuwabara. Try using his name and no they don't know and I would thank you kindly not to inform them either..."
"How the hell do those things last so long? Normal flowers start to wilt at the first sign of fall."