Being with you all that time . . . I've gotten to know the real you, the same you claimed you'd done with me. How could I have been such an idiot not to see it until after I had walked away? Those deep feelings whispering to my heart "You love him . . ."

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Forth chapter here! If things look a little happy 'n such I promise you that will change!

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I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho

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Mother released Hiei after a moment, turned around and wiped a tear from her eye.

"N-no mother . . . you don't have to let Hiei stay here." I said to her getting nervous from the promising look of death I was getting from Hiei.

"Shuichi! I've never heard such an awful thing in my life! Of course he's staying!" She told me as she ran off somewhere out of the room.

"I tried . . ." I whispered turning to Hiei.

"You are so dead Kurama . . ." Hiei said glaring at me.

Mother came running back in with some blankets and a pillow.

"Okay now you can stay in Shuichi's room- wait no . . ." Mother stammered as she then started to look at us. She smiled sweetly and then nodded. "Yes you'll stay in Shuichi's room, at least for now."

Hiei glanced over at me again, in his eyes a look nearly begging for me to get him out of this, but I simply could not do anything.

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"Good night you two! Now seriously . . . go to bed! You have school tomorrow remember Shuichi! You wouldn't want . . . anything . . . to keep you up." Mother hinted as she closed my bedroom door.

Hiei and I remained silent until we heard mother's footsteps walking away.

"I'm going to kill your mother and you . . ." Hiei said as he threw his blanket off of him and across the room.

Hiei was lying next to my bed on an inflatable mattress. For a few minutes while my mother was in the room he had been cutely cuddled up in blankets and she even threw in a stuffed animal or two while she was at it. He lying there almost made me want to hug him . . . umm . . . wait . . .

"Don't worry Hiei we'll think of something to get you out of this." I said to him . . . hug?

"Like hell you better . . ." Hiei said harshly as he folded arms and sat up.

"Hiei . . . don't tell me you're not even going to sleep?" I asked him hoping he'd just lie back down.

"Who could sleep on this thing?" Hiei said wobbling back and forth.

"What you wanna sleep with me?" I said to him sarcastically.

"NO!" He said standing up and scanning the room.

"Hiei . . . you're not going to find your clothes anywhere in here . . ." I said to him with a slight laugh.

Shiori had insisted that he wear a pair of my old clothes to bed so that she could wash his. For some reason her taking his clothes seemed to bother him more than actually having to stay here. I wonder why . . .?

Hold on!

"Hiei! Does this have to do with that piece of paper?" I asked him slyly.

"What paper?" Hiei asked innocently.

I laughed at his obvious lie. If ever a time Hiei didn't seem guilty he most certainly was.

"The paper you had in your pocket that you were so set in not having me see. C'mon Hiei tell me!" I told him a little too excited.

"Why are you so curious? It's nothing!" Hiei said as he nearly fell over from the wobbly mattress.

"Watch out Hiei!" I yelled in a whisper as he tipped backwards and landed on my bed, in my arms, which had reached out to catch him on their own . . . (Okay I know that seems weird but I didn't make them!)

He looked up me with that face he always put on when my mother was around . . . why didn't he look like he was going to kill me for touching him? Did he maybe- . . . no way! He didn't like me . . . hold on . . . why would he have that expression? OH CRAP!!

"Shuichi . . . what are you doing?" Mother asked walking over a little closer to us from the door.

"Oh . . . m-mother! Well you see Hiei was standing up to- to- to go to the bathroom and he fell over!" I said quickly dropping Hiei out of my arms.

Hiei sunk down and his head hit against the metal part of my bed. He didn't yell out in pain like any normal person would have done, he just looked up at me meanly.

"Okay . . . I just came to give you back your old clothes Hiei . . . I washed the shirt but the pants are just beyond repair, with rips and strange- red- stains . . . well anyway goodnight you two." Shiori said closing the door and walking away.

Hiei rubbed the part of his head that had been hit and then rose to his feet, making sure not to stand on the mattress.

I quickly realized what he was slowly going to do, so I sat on my knees and, most definitely without thinking, reached out and tackled Hiei onto his mattress. I lay on top of him for a moment . . . just feeling him, made me shutter. But then I quickly jumped off of him and ran over to the dresser and picked up Hiei's pants from off of it.

I reached into his right pocket and felt around until I held the paper. I started to take out my hand when Hiei stood up, very fast I might add, and grabbed my wrist.

He twisted it over and a shock of pain was sent through my whole arm. I wanted to yell out but I know that would be awful suspicious if my mother started to hear screaming coming from my room.

"Kurama . . . drop the paper NOW!" He demanded in a whisper.

"Alright just stop it!" I said quickly as I dropped his pants, and the paper.

He released my arm and I held it in pain. Now I really wanted to see that paper.

"You try to look at this again, and I'll kill you." Hiei said holding up the folded piece of paper and staring at me evilly.

"Hiei . . . why don't you want me to see it? What could be so bad about a piece of paper?" I asked him letting go of my wrist which had gone numb for a moment.

"I didn't say it was bad, it's just something I'd like to keep to myself for now, and that's all your ever going to get to know." He said looking as he was fighting himself about something . . .

"Alright Hiei." I said as I walked over and lied back down in bed.

I rolled over to turn away from Hiei. Once I was sure he wasn't watching me I turned around quietly to see him doing something at my desk. I know he had the paper . . . and something else as well . . . I'm not sure what but I did hear the sound tape. I'm not sure if he ever went to sleep . . . because I dosed off . . .

When I awoke the only thought on my mind was Hiei. A very odd thing since I never thought of Hiei.

I just couldn't stop replaying over and over in my mind certain things that had happened. Me falling on him in the woods, bumping into him those times, my hand around his waste, and lying on him just last night. Why was I constantly thinking of these?

I opened my eyes and looked down over at the mattress near my bed. There I saw Hiei, sleeping, completely vulnerable. I'd never before seen him like that . . . I felt my face get a little hot . . . maybe I had slept with one too many blankets on.

Hiei opened his eyes and for that second he looked so- so- . . . normal. He was cutely lying there, staring up at me with his big eyes, but then he scowled at me and grunted.

"What are you looking at?" He asked me as he folded his arms.

What WAS I looking at? Here's a better question . . . why was I looking?

I reached my hand up and felt my cheek. It was so warm . . . I hadn't had too many sheets . . . I was blushing. Uh oh . . .

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