Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, wish I did though of course like everyone else who ever watched YYH ^_^

Oh yes thoughts shall in italics!

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Kurama put his thumb to his mouth to keep his laughs at bay, needless to say it wasn't helping much. Hiei's eyebrow twitched, his face held pure annoyance

"Kurama" he growled slowly

Kurama choked down his laughs and put on a serious face though his eyes still held barely contained amusement

"Well Hiei *snicker* from what you told me I have to say….your in love" it couldn't be contained any longer, the kitsune's room filled with laughter followed by Yusuke and Kuwabara's (Yes they're still there. Kurama: *flat look* they're freeloaders) who despite being sent out of the room still had listened with their ears attached to the door.

Hiei's eyes narrowed and fist clenched tightly but one of them slipped into his pocket and pulled out a small yellow vial

"hn good thing I know this finally has some use"

He tossed the vial lightly making it crash to the ground and exited the room quickly while a white mist filled the room. Once it cleared the remaining three boys held confusion on their faces

"What happened?" Yusuke mumbled rubbing his head, Kurama blinked

"I remember following Hiei and Shizuru, then we went to Kuwabara's house and Shizuru came home the-"

At the mention of Shizuru, the other two went back to cowering while Kurama watched sweatdropping.

The fire demon speeded up racing against light and thinking, so caught up in his thoughts that when he finally stopped his was in front of the Kuwabara home.

"You're in love…."

The words played through his mind; he felt confused which made him angry since he was rarely confused

"Why don't you just except it?" the small voice in the back of his head asked. Hiei glared at nothing in particular

"Except what? There's nothing to except"

"You're in love"

"Fuck off"

"Looovvveee her"

Hiei gritted his teeth "Let's say for a moment I do love" he spat at the word and sneered "her, it wouldn't matter, this isn't in my plan"

The little voice scoffed "You gave up the plan a long time ago Koorime, are you afraid?".

Hiei snorted "Afraid of what?"

"Afraid the forbidden child cannot be loved"

"…..leave me alone"

Hiei sat down in the tree he stood in an leaned against the trunk, he looked at the only window in his view from the corner of his eye and scowled

"Damn emotions".

Shizuru yawned almost swallowing his cigarette, putting the stick out she clicked the TV off and walked down the hall into her room, the female Kuwabara stretched and knew the fire demon was near but didn't feel the need to see why, he could have just been sleeping in a tree like he was usually doing; Shizuru chuckled

"Not likely, he knows Kazuma lives here so he wouldn't be within a 50 foot range"

A bit curious she walked over to her window and pushed it open, just as she predicted she saw the demon. Leaning casually against the window sill she allowed a small smile slide upon her face

"What are you doing Hiei?"

Hiei's head jerked towards her voice, the ends of his lips twitched upward remembering a conversation like this before; his eyes met with Shizuru's and she chuckled

"You know it's not normal for people to stare at other people in their homes"

The fire demon's eyes stirred with unidentified emotions within his ruby depths as they met the Kuwabara's amber color ones

"hn"

Shizuru chuckled once more

"I need to get you a conversationalist dictionary" she mumbled staring at the ground before meeting his gaze again which hadn't wavered "So what are you doing?"

Hiei was silent

"This is supposed to be the girl I love? Not only is she a pathetic human and related to the oaf, she has no fighting abilities and I would have to resort to saving her like Yusuke does with his onna"

But even as he thought this his gaze softened the longer he stared, she had discarded her previous outfit and exchanged it for a sweatshirt and shorts, and her brown hair was tousled giving her a wild look.  Briefly wondered what it would feel like to run his fingers through her wild mane or to have those smooth long legs wrapped around him. The fire demon's eyes widened wondering when the hell he had start thinking like that.

Shizuru lifted a brow in question

"You haven't answered me"

"hn"

Shizuru sighed in irritation

"I'll take that as a 'I don't know'"

Silence filled between then until Shizuru yawned and looked at him half-lidded

"Whatever"

"Sakyo"

This caught Shizuru's attention, he heart clenched a bit though

"What about him?"

The words were at the tip of his tongue; it was just the matter of forcing it from his mouth

"Do…..you still….love…him?"

Shizuru cocked a eyebrow in surprise, taking a cigarette from behind her ear and lighting it she finally responded

"Sakyo….will always hold a place in my…heart, but I moved on we didn't know each other very well anyway"

Silence formed again, crickets chirped and few cars were heard in the distant. Hiei's lips moved and Shizuru listened, her eyes widened then the fire demon scowled and snarled something else before vanishing.

The older Kuwabara closed her window and leaned against the wall beside it, the cigarette made its way to her mouth and she inhaled deeply thinking of the demon's last words that probably weren't meant to say out loud.

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Mawhahahaha! My sad attempt at a cliffhanger ^_^; all well at least you might be dying to know what Hiei said to her. I might have only 3-5 chapters left in this story but I'll make sure there nice and long. Make sure you review; I have the next chapter ready too!

Teaser: "Botan get the Reiki Tantei here now, I also need Shizuru!"