U is for Undisguised

Expressive merald eyes were completely blank, no pain, no emotion, nothing. Careful deliberate stride, not a word spoken. Killing that child had brought out another side of him. The ruthless killer Hiei had rarely seen, the cold-blooded assassin, the one who loved his enemies' pain.

The fox wanted blood. Hiei didn't envy his next challenger.

'Kurama,' he said, too quiet for humans to hear.

'Hiei.' Flat acknowledgment. Kurama looked at him, knowing what he wanted, and his fury was for an instant undisguised. Expressed. Declared.

Accepted.

The jaganshi grinned in feral anticipation.

Someone was going to die, oh yes.

A/N: Set directly after Gamemaster's death; for those in doubt of his homicidal tendencies at that point, I present as proof what he did to Ani Toguro not fifteen minutes later. Like, ewww? Next: V is for Video Games: in which Kurama angsts, and Hiei is actually nice. Go figure.