NOTE: I forgot to mention her height and stuff. She's about Hiei's hight, maybe a bit taller (excluding his hair). She looks like around his age but acts young.

To Akane: Nice... I'll try to update every other day, okay?


Chapter 4: Night

(Hiei)

A little after realizing Kurumi was gone for a long time, Hiei decided to go look for her. It was still extremely windy and rain fell like rocks (so basically, it's hailing and raining). He had almost reached the beach when he found Kurumi laying on the forest edge. He ran to her and noticed a small stream of blood trickled down from her forehead. He saw a sharp rock near her head and figured she must have tripped and hit her head on it. He picked her up and carried her back to the cave.

(Kurama)

"Kuwabara!!" he yelled. No answer, no sign of him anywhere. He kept thinking that this wasn't happening and that his friend was still alive...

Something suddenly floated up from below behind him. He spun around (or tried atleast) and saw a small shark (not as big as a full grown) with a blood cloud leaking out of it. Kurama covered his mouth with a hand at the sight of it.

Suddenly something grabbed his ankle and pulled him under for a second. When he bobbed back up, Kuwabara was grinning at him.

(Yuusuke)

Yuusuke snapped awake as something hard hit his back again.

"I hate this place..." he grumbled.

Another rock hit his back. He turned around in frustration but a palm leaf flew at him, covering the entrance to the burrow. He heard rocks and sand tap on it.

"Hm, there. Now I have a door." he grinned and turned back around.

(Hiei)

Hiei carried her inside the cave and set her down and leaned her against the cave wall. He sat beside her, but not too close. He used the blanket to wipe off the blood from her forehead. After he finished, a bit of her blood was on his thumb. He licked it off, it tasted sweet. He noticed a new stream of blood trickling down her forehead. He needed something to stop it from bleeding...

He untied his white headband (his Jagan should be closed, right?) and wrapped it around her forehead. It was pretty much the only thing around he could use... He then sat in the same position as he did before she left. He closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep.

"...Hiei." he heard her whisper. He glanced at her, but she was still asleep/unconscious. He figured she was just dreaming... obviously he was in it. He turned away and rested his head on the cave wall.

(Kurama and Kuwabara)

"Kuwabara you're..." Kurama gasped.

"Yeah, the little fucker got my ankle and dragged me under, but I'm fine. I used my spirit sword to get it off me, but I ended up killing it, heh." Kuwabara grinned.

(it's called a spirit sword, right? o.o)

"Thank goodness... I thought you got eaten by a shark when I saw the blood cloud..."

"It was probably the shark's blood." he shrugged. "But I did get bit, see."

He lifted up his leg to reveal teeth marks above his ankle.

"You should keep that out of the water." said Kurama. "It's salt water, so it could get infected..."

"Yeah, you're right." he rested his foot on the drift wood. Kurama turned around in slight disgust. Kuwabara laughed.

Kurama noticed black clouds far from them. He was glad it wasn't where they were. He hoped the others were alright too. The sky near them was darkening, hinting that night was coming.

(Hiei)

Hiei woke up after a bit. He felt something leaning against him and looked over. Kurumi rested her head on his shoulder. His hand was in hers, but he quickly moved it away. He felt like he regretted doing so, he didn't know why. He didn't know why he felt different about her out of all the other people out there.

Was the feeling what liking was? Kurama had explained to him what love was and what it felt like one day since he was curious. But he had also explained liking, not loving.

(Flashback)

"Kurama, what's this 'love' you're always talking about?" Hiei asked, but it sounded like he demanded to know.

"Love?" Kurama said curiously. "Uhh, well, it's a little hard to explain. Everyone has their own definition of love."

Hiei waited silently for him to continue. No questions asked.

"Love is something you feel, it's like an emotion. Like happy and sad and angry."

Hiei smirked.

"It's when you care about someone a lot, and like them too. You'd die for them and you know you cant live without them... and also you should be very happy when you're with that person."

"But liking comes before that. It's also a feeling, but it's when you just start to realize your feelings for that person. You care about them too, but maybe you're unsure that you want to be with that person forever."

"Hn."

"Does that answer your question a little?" Kurama asked.

(Flashback End)

Hiei wasn't sure. He became so confused that he curled up into a ball and thought for a while until he fell asleep again.

(Yuusuke)

Yuusuke heard the rain and wind stop. He peeked outside and saw the clouds were gone, but in the dark sky, stars were appearing. He sighed and was glad that was over. He huddled back into his burrow and closed his eyes to sleep.

End of Chapter 4.


NOTE: This chapter was a little short. I sorta didn't know what to do. Hope you liked it. And I know it's a lil weird that Kurumi acts like she likes him when she just met him, and that Hiei is starting to realize his feelings towards her on the first day too... but yeah. I might have a lil explaining to do later.