"What are you looking at, Fox?" Hiei asked.
"Wha..." Kurama started. He realized he had been staring at the Jaganshii. He couldn't even say how long.
Hiei frowned.
They stood in the the observation room of Turukune's mansion. At the current moment, said owner of said mansion was relearning how to breathe on the floor. That was only thanks to Yukina. Had Hiei had his way, the man would have been dead and Hiei would have been punished...
It had been close.
"I was just thinking..." Kurama said. Hiei raised an eyebrow. "About a classmate of mine. He...got in an accident today." Hiei just stared at him for a moment. The moment stretched and Kurama blinked slowly. "Hiei?"
"Hn. I didn't ask what you were thinking, Fox." He started to leave the room and paused. Kurama had turned to gaze out the observation window. He could see Yukina now. She was tending to the injured Kuwabara. Kurama had never seen her before. It was strange how at once she was so like and so different from her brother. "Coming?"
Kurama started. His thoughts had started to wonder again. "I can't Hiei. I have to go visit my classmate in the hospital."
Hiei regarded him for a moment. Kurama kept his expression schooled. It didn't matter that the fire demon knew he was hiding something.
It was strange. Seeing Hiei for the first time since Kurama had saved the Jaganshii's life felt like he was meeting him for the first time. He felt nothing in the gaze that watched him. Here was a new face than the one he was used to. Here was a Hiei who would never crush his mouth to his own with no more warning than a "Hn.". This Hiei, in fact, watched him with eyes full of suspicion. Kurama saw this and redoubled his efforts to keep his thoughts off of his face.
Instead he thought of Tohru.
The human had fallen onto his chest, head bleeding. It had been when Tohru had thrown them both to the concrete. Tohru himself had fallen forward hard and fast. Kurama had looked down at the ribbons on blood on his head, and touched his hair and in that instant that he thought him dead.
It was at that moment that he had looked at the boy had for the first time since meeting him, and distinguished him completely from Hiei.
"Tohru..." he had whispered, the crowd gathering around them, the owner of the car that had almost killed Kurama and the boy in his arms was yelling something about being in the middle of the street.
Tohru looked nothing more than human.
Hiei now seemed to come to some decision. "After, then. I have something to ask you."
"Ask me?" Kurama said.
"Yes." Hiei said and there it was again-that suspicious, knowing look. Kurama met the Jaganshii's red-eyed gaze and smiled.
"Very well." Kurama said.
It was not the reunion he had imagined.
...to be continued...