"dialogue"

'thoughts'

Chapter 2: Who are you?

"Damn!" Hiei kicked at a rat as he walked down the alley. He couldn't believe that he had become so accostom to having another person around. He felt lonely, and hated it, so he dealt with it the same way he dealt with all his disappointments. He took it out in anger. He hated emotions, couldn't stand them. "Why the hell would he let his guard down like that? And on a human, too! Especially one like Susdime!" He drove a fist hard into the side of a dumpster and smashed a big whole in the side of it. Out came everything; trash, old food and.... A body? Hiei leaned closer to the specimen and inspected her. She was fairly proportioned, her legs nice and her chest of a certain bust. She had a nice, soft set face and beautiful hair. Hiei looked her over to see if she was alive and if not why she had died. He found four letters printed on her right arm and picked her up to try and read them. When he did so, she clicked on. "K....I....M....HEY!" The body suddenly came to life and wrapped her arms tightly around Hiei's neck. This being the closest thing to an embrace he had ever experienced, freaked out and pushed her away. When he finally clawed her off, she sat next to him and smiled.

"HIYA!" she yelled. Hiei just stared in horror as he saw the vacant look in the girls greenish eyes. "I'm K.I.M.A." Hiei rubbed the back of his head.

"I'm Hiei."

"H.E.E.-Yay? What kind of prototype is H.E.E.-Yay?" He stared at her. 'Prototype? What the hell was she talking about? Man, this girl is weird.' He had to admit though, in some distant part of his conscience, that the girl was kinda' cute. He took a deep breathe. 'she must be an android.' He thought. 'let's try to explain this'

"No, Hiei is my NAME. Don't you have a name?"

"Hiei is my name... I'm Hiei too." Hiei shook his head.

"You can't be Hiei because I'm Hiei. You have to be someone else." The android's face scrunched up and she thought for a while.

"Can't you be someone else? I like Hiei." Hiei thought for a while and remembered the letters, K.I.M.A. Kim? Ima?...

"You can be Kima!" Hiei said excitedly. He didn't know why he was so excited, but he was. It was sort of fun, sitting with this new thing and playing games with her. Plus, it got his mind off of Kurama.

"Key-ma? I like Hiei better, but okay, I'll be Key-ma." Hiei shook his head again.

"Say it together, make it sound like this... Kima. See? Now you try."

"K-Ki-Kima. Kima! Kima Kima Kima!" She was so proud with herself that she spun in a circle saying her name. Hiei, for the first time in 6 years, laughed at her, so she sat down next to him and watched. She liked seeing him like this. He seemed so, what was the word? She couldn't remember, just like a lot of other things, but Hiei didn't need to know that. Hiei stopped laughing and looked at her.

"What the Hell do you want?" he asked playfully. Kima scrunched up her face.

"What the Hell do you want?" She mimicked. He laughed again.

"Your kinda' cute, you know that? Like a puppy." She jumped up to him and made a barking noise, then licked his face. He was amazed at how fast he turned warm and red, and how life-like her tongue felt. It was hard for him to believe she wasn't a human. Because he was still sitting down and she was being a puppy, she curled up on his lap and yawned.

"Puppy is tired," she narrated. He looked at her and noticed how much he wanted to keep her. Why not? He did find her, someone else was going to throw her away.

"Kima, would you like to stay with me?" She looked at him and nodded.

"Of course," she said, licking his face again. "I'm your puppy after all."

It took Hiei forever to get Kima to come with him walking on two legs instead of on four. She kept wanting ot be a puppy, because he apparently said he liked puppies. (Though he didn't remember ever saying that) He ended up having to let her be a puppy when he got her home. When they walked in the door, Kima forgot about being a puppy. She looked around Hiei's huge apartment and screamed one word before running around the house.

"PRETTY!" She ran around the entire house, pointing at things and screaming "PRETTY, PRETTY, PRETTY!" Hiei watched in what was a mix between amusement and horror. She ran out onto the balcony and was quiet. Hiei, worried that she had fallen over, (and pissed that he was worried) rushed out to see what had happened.

"Kima?"

"Shhhhh!!!!!!!!!!" He stopped and watched as she plucked a baby bird out of a nest and petted it. "You're a pretty birdy, aren't you?" Hiei felt himself smile but didn't try to stop it. She wasn't just cute when the moonlight hit her, she was damn right GORGEOUS. And with that birdy, she looked almost like one of those people you see in your dreams, the angel type. She walked over to him and put the bird partly in his hand and looked him in the eye. "Hold him." Her voice was soft, but sharp at the same time. Hiei took the bird and put it back in the nest. "Why did you do that?" She asked, her voice demanding and disappointed. "That was MY birdy! I just let you HOLD it, you big meenie!"

"It has to stay with it's mommy... mother." Hiei wanted to slap himself for saying 'mommy' instead of just telling her to shut up like he would have most anyone else. He blamed his behavior on the fact that he was lonely and the girl woldn't understand anything else, but he knew what was truly going on.

"What's a ma-mee?" Hiei laughed. She always pronounced things like they were two different words. Like how she first said HEE-yay. It was adorable. Hiei cringed when he thought of that word. This girl was really roping him in.

"A mommy is a person who takes care of you, sorta'." He yawned and rubbed his eye. It was late, and he was getting tired. "C'mon, it's late. I'm gonna' go to bed. You should too."

"I'm sleeping with you." She said matter-a-factly.

"What? Why?"

"Because, puppies always sleep with their owners. You promised I could be a puppy when we got here. You PROMISED, so now you can't take it back." Hiei didn't feel like fighting with so he turned and lead the way.

"Whatever. This way." She barked and jumped onto all fours and ran after him. He removed his shirt and pants and slipped into bed. When she jumped in after him, he realized he was only wearing boxers and blushed. He would have put some pants on, but his "puppy" curled up next to him and layed her head on his chest, and that warm feeling came back. Only this time, it rendered him weak. Instead of just blushing, he wrapped his arms around her and she licked his face again. He kissed her softly and pulled her closer. Her hair was against his face, soft and fluffy, like a...

"I was wrong, you aren't a puppy, you're a panda bear." She snuggled with him and he gave up on trying to discipline his emotions. Tonight he would just let them be. He kissed her again, (he would justify it as kissing his teddy bear goodnight) and whispered in her ear.

"Good night, panda bear"