A/N: POV Kurama. This chapter explains a three-day period. This chapter picks up right where Chapter Four left off. O, 'this ladadadada' means the character is thinking.
Chapter Six
Bleeding Roses
Hiei, I thought, if I could have just told you how I felt...
"Why do you stay with them?" the young girl asked. She was feeding me some ripe strawberries.
"What do you mean?" For some reason my voice carried a lot of dread and depress.
"I mean, your so-called friends, they aren't coming for you, they never will."
"You're lying," I felt so weak and tired. We had been playing this 'game' for hours now; at least it was better than Karasu's type of torture.
"No, if I was lying, why haven't you already been saved." She was right, I thought, they would have already been here if she wasn't. "Why do you let them treat you like this? They aren't worth it, they don't care about you, why do you care about them?"
"They are my friends," I kept telling this servant and myself over again and again.
"They never were your friends, they never will be your friends." She then got up and left, leaving me in utter silence.
I pondered what she had said. 'They weren't my friends, but that was impossible, Hiei said he loved me. He wasn't one to lie, not about feelings that deep. Could he have said it so I would feel for him, was this one of Yusuke's jokes? This can't be; I've never questioned myself before; I never had a reason too.'
I don't know how long I had been thinking about this but soon the cell door opened. A dark figure stood in the doorway. It was Karasu. I couldn't think about what was to come.
He walked in he was holding a knife. "It's play time, fox."
This time I was awake for it all. He cut me in every which way with that dagger, near my neck, on my arms, close to my wrists. Wherever he cut me, he made sure blood loss was my last concern. I don't know how long this lasted or when and if Karasu ever left that night or in the next day or the next, but it's over now, hopefully. Near the end of it I didn't react to any type of pain he tried to inflict, I didn't feel it. I had gone completely numb from that pain that no other type of pain would enter me, no feelings.
It was then that I felt the worst pain imaginable, the pain of true loss. I now knew what that servant meant about Hiei and the others never caring about me, it was true. I had now been locked in here for a little less than three days, they didn't care, and they never would...
Playground school bell ring, again
Rain clouds come to play, again
Has no one told you she's not breathing
Hello?
I am your mind
Giving you someone to talk to,
Hello?
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I'll know I'll wake
Form this dream
Don't try to fix me
I'm not broken
Hello?
I am lie living for you
So you can't hide
Don't cry
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello?
I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday...
A/N: I don't own Yu-Yu Hakusho or 'Hello' By Evenescence (sorry about the spelling). The next Chapter will be called Too Late.