"I dare you," Hiei repeats, his words accompanied by mocking laughter. He
tilts his head back and laughs, and you feel your blood boil. Jerk! Jerk!
Jerk! Jerkjerkjerkjerk –deep breath– jerkjerkjerkjerkjerkjerk! Your hand
closes into a fist at your side, and you look down at the ground. Your
vision is blurred from intense anger, and your thoughts whirl. He's
laughing at you! "Come on, kitten." He mocks softly, his laughter ceasing.
His crimson eyes glint with amusement.
KITTEN?!
"Ooh-that's IT!" You scream in rage.
SMACK!
Hiei gawks at you in incredulity. Your fist still rests against his cheek, and your face is only an inch away from his. You're breathing hard, your shoulders trembling from the impact. Hiei seems beyond words, his arms hang at his sides and his eyes are wider than you've ever seen them. Sparks fly between your eyes and his as you defiantly gaze into them.
"You-you hit me!" He mumbles, and if you hadn't been so mad, you would have found his surprised tone rather comical. Suddenly, the expression on his face falls into a scowl, and his hand jerks up and snatches your wrist. He pulls it away from his face and hold it just infront of your own face. Slowly, he applies pressure to his grip, until your fingers and hand start to turn purple from lack of oxygen and your nerves go numb. He wants you to scream out in pain. But you're not going to do that! But he's going to break your wrist! He's squeezing so hard...
"OKAY! I GIVE!" You shout in his face, spraying him with spit. With a maniacal smile, he begins to twist your arm to the left, harder and harder. He's going to break your wrist, and he's laughing, AGAIN! You try to move your body to decrease the pain a little, but you can't do it. You squirm, trying franticly to pull away from the psycho-demon.
"HIEI JAGANSHI!"
"Genkai," You gasp as Hiei releases you, and you slump forward, holding your searing arm to your chest with your other arm. Tears fog your vision, and you hope they won't spill down your cheeks.
Genkai's elderly face seemed to be chiseled from stone. Her scowl seems to radiate heat, and you take a step back in surprise. She glares-and glares is an understatement, for sure-at Hiei. But when she speaks, it's clearly directed to you. "What the heck is going on here?!"
You give Hiei your "Ooh, you are SO going to get it now, boy!" look, and smile when he gives you a murderous look in retaliation. "Well, Master Genkai, Hiei was just..." About to break my wrist. But you can't say it. But why on earth not? He's standing across from you, seething, not feeling guilty at all! "Hiei was just...Checking my wrist to see if it was broken. He just saved my life...I...uh...got attacked by a demon dog-thing and it dragged me into the forest and was going to eat me." No use telling her that you, being an idiot, wandered into the woods of your own freewill. You look at the oni before you. His face is void of human expression. You raise an eyebrow at him and say, "Right Hiei?"
Hiei lifted a hand to his mouth as if to ward off a yawn. "Nope," He says with a flat tone of voice, "You were going to be eaten, yes, but you were the fool who wandered into the forest, on purpose to prove you're as 'bad' as the Great Urameshi. I killed the demon, but not to save you. He was to hideous to be allowed to live. And he's not the only thing guilty of that." Hiei gazes above your head as your fists shake at your side. "And just now? I was trying to keep you from running even deeper into the forest, you reckless nigen."
A/N: I apologize for the shortness of the chapter. Review it anyway, please? Puppy-dog eyes Please?
KITTEN?!
"Ooh-that's IT!" You scream in rage.
SMACK!
Hiei gawks at you in incredulity. Your fist still rests against his cheek, and your face is only an inch away from his. You're breathing hard, your shoulders trembling from the impact. Hiei seems beyond words, his arms hang at his sides and his eyes are wider than you've ever seen them. Sparks fly between your eyes and his as you defiantly gaze into them.
"You-you hit me!" He mumbles, and if you hadn't been so mad, you would have found his surprised tone rather comical. Suddenly, the expression on his face falls into a scowl, and his hand jerks up and snatches your wrist. He pulls it away from his face and hold it just infront of your own face. Slowly, he applies pressure to his grip, until your fingers and hand start to turn purple from lack of oxygen and your nerves go numb. He wants you to scream out in pain. But you're not going to do that! But he's going to break your wrist! He's squeezing so hard...
"OKAY! I GIVE!" You shout in his face, spraying him with spit. With a maniacal smile, he begins to twist your arm to the left, harder and harder. He's going to break your wrist, and he's laughing, AGAIN! You try to move your body to decrease the pain a little, but you can't do it. You squirm, trying franticly to pull away from the psycho-demon.
"HIEI JAGANSHI!"
"Genkai," You gasp as Hiei releases you, and you slump forward, holding your searing arm to your chest with your other arm. Tears fog your vision, and you hope they won't spill down your cheeks.
Genkai's elderly face seemed to be chiseled from stone. Her scowl seems to radiate heat, and you take a step back in surprise. She glares-and glares is an understatement, for sure-at Hiei. But when she speaks, it's clearly directed to you. "What the heck is going on here?!"
You give Hiei your "Ooh, you are SO going to get it now, boy!" look, and smile when he gives you a murderous look in retaliation. "Well, Master Genkai, Hiei was just..." About to break my wrist. But you can't say it. But why on earth not? He's standing across from you, seething, not feeling guilty at all! "Hiei was just...Checking my wrist to see if it was broken. He just saved my life...I...uh...got attacked by a demon dog-thing and it dragged me into the forest and was going to eat me." No use telling her that you, being an idiot, wandered into the woods of your own freewill. You look at the oni before you. His face is void of human expression. You raise an eyebrow at him and say, "Right Hiei?"
Hiei lifted a hand to his mouth as if to ward off a yawn. "Nope," He says with a flat tone of voice, "You were going to be eaten, yes, but you were the fool who wandered into the forest, on purpose to prove you're as 'bad' as the Great Urameshi. I killed the demon, but not to save you. He was to hideous to be allowed to live. And he's not the only thing guilty of that." Hiei gazes above your head as your fists shake at your side. "And just now? I was trying to keep you from running even deeper into the forest, you reckless nigen."
A/N: I apologize for the shortness of the chapter. Review it anyway, please? Puppy-dog eyes Please?