I know, I know, another really short chapter. But I keep getting to the cliffhangers!! @_@ I know where I want to put them, so some of the chapters are really short. Please bear with me, and enjoy the show! Hey, the shorter the chapters, the greater suspense! :-P I WIN!
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A little girl materialized out of seemingly nothing and stood right in front of Hiei. "Why did you abandon me, He-man-chan?" She asked him wistfully. "You hugged me so passionately that last day we saw each other..."
Hiei tried to protest, to say that he hadn't done anything of the sort, but his lips were sealed shut, as if by ice. The girl smiled at him. "You are not allowed to speak here, lest you tell more unforgivable lies. You are the one I love, the ONLY one."
Why me? Was the only thing that ran through his head. Why did I get stuck with this stupid little girl?
"If you keep thinking like that, I'll haunt you until the day you die. If death finds someone still unsatisfied, then they shall NOT rest in peace as the headstone says, but they shall wander the earth until their business is complete." She leaned forward, her cold blue-green eyes boring holes into his own. "I'll make you fall in love with me, Hiei. You can count on that." And with that, she leaned forward, and an icy chill ran through Hiei's body as her lips found his.
"ARRRRRRRGH! AURA!" He woke up screaming, still dangling from a branch. His knuckles were white, and beads of sweat hung from his brow.
Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara ran up from where they'd been headed for school. "What is it, Hiei?!" Yusuke yelled.
Hiei glared at him and didn't say anything. Yusuke shrugged, gave him the finger, then continued on down the street with Kuwabara.
Only Kurama still stood underneath the tree. "A nightmare?" He inquired.
"None of your beezwax," muttered Hiei. "Where is Sayaka? I need to speak with her."
Kurama looked at him strangely. "But I though you hated--"
"JUST SHUT UP AND ANSWER THE QUESTION, GODDAMMIT!" Hiei sprung lightly down from the tree and glared at his best friend.
The redhead sighed. "Sorry, your majesty, but I haven't seen her since last night. She left shortly after you did. Why do you ask?"
"MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!" Hiei tore off down the street away from a bewildered Kurama.
A smile spread across Kurama's face. His eyes seemed to flicker gold for a little while. "I think Hiei is in way over his head on this particular matter," Youko said to himself. He laughed and let Kurama take over again. Kurama looked around to make sure no one had seen his sudden transformation, then ran after Yusuke and Kuwabara.
Dammit! She's always around when I don't want to be in the same universe with her, and when I actually WANT to see her, she's nowhere to be found! HOW THE HELL DOES SHE DO IT?! He rounded a building and smacked right into Sayaka.
"Jerk! Watch where you're going!" She rubbed her head irritably. "What's with bolting around these stupid corners like that?"
"Shut up I need to talk to you." He grabbed her arm. "In private."
She looked at him scornfully. "Make up your mind. Do you want to talk or be left alone?!"
He didn't answer, just led her to the middle of the park. Once there, he climbed a tree and motioned for her to follow.
"Uh-uh. I don't do trees." She started to walk away, but Hiei grabbed her wrist.
"You're not going anywhere until we talk." He yanked her hard up into the tree.
"OW! Bastard!" She rubbed her shoulder. "What's so important that you have to yank my arm out of its socket?!"
"Why are you haunting me?"
"Whatever do you mean?" She looked at him sideways.
"You...you're haunting me! And...you appeared in my dream...and you were my friend Aura..." He was sounding more stupid by the minute. Now that he thought about it, she had no connection at all with Aura.
"What the hell are you talking about?" She looked at him incredoulously. "First you try to get fresh with me, then you claim I'm haunting you! It's no wonder spirit world has you on its top wanted list-" She stopped short. "Wait; ARE you on their top wanted list?"
"You just SAID I was," he said irritably. "And you SOUNDED like you knew, and YES I AM."
"But I didn't know that..." She said, her voice a low whisper. "All I knew was that I'm supposed to be tracking you..." Her voice was near hysterics. "Hiei, what's going on?!"