Kurama left then and Hiei lingered in the observation room.
With one red eye, he watched the rising and falling chest of the human who had kidnapped his sister and with the other, he watched the fox go.
As for the other eye...
The jagan lazily blinked on his forehead, the purple pupil dialated. Hiei concentrated and he watched as the fox wondered back up the empty halls of the mansion. Thinking he was alone, he had dropped the obvious pretense and his face was animated with his thoughts.
The damn fox always thought too much.
Hiei sighed as the image vanished.
It had been hard to watch for that long. Hiei reached up and the eye closed. The fire demon ran a hand over the closed lid. There was something wrong with his jagan.
Why hadn't he been able to see what Tukurune was up to? Why hadn't he been able to protect Yukina?
Why did things not add up?
And then the fox was acting strange.Why did things not add up, indeed?
"Hiei?"Hiei turned.
In the doorway stood Yusuke. The Spirit Detective was suporting Kuwabara. The red haired giant of a teen didn't seem all that happy for the help had it not been that Yukina was suporting him on the other side. He didn't seem to notice that Yusuke and Hiei were talking, let alone that they were in the same room.
"Hn." said Hiei. His eyes were on Kuwabara and his sister.
One day he would kill the human.
"Where's Kurama?" Yusuke asked, looking this way and that as though the fox would jump out at any second.
"Why would I know?"
"I don't know." Yusuke said in a smart-ass voice. "Lately you've been keeping tabs, so I'd thought you'd know. I need help with my homework since I've just crossed off "save the day" from my to-do list."
Hiei's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean 'keeping tabs'?"
Yusuke's eyes rolled. "Keeping tabs. Watching out for. Stalking. Get the idea?"
"I haven't.."
"You came to my place just the other night looking for him. Anyway. I doesn't matter. Do you know calculus, Hiei?"
Hiei didn't answer. It seemed he was about to ask something else, or deny something, but instead, he just turned and vanished. For a second, in his mind, amid his thoughts on so many things, his failure to save his sister this terrible experience, his memories of a world of ice and falling, fighting, fear, came a memory closer to a dream than reality. It might have been an image from a dream, but for a moment, it was clear, so clear, he could reach out and grab it, taste it. Then it was gone except for one thing. A familiar face. "Kurama..." Hiei said to himself.
Yusuke watched him go. The Spirit Detective was looking desperate. "Yukina," He asked. "How about you?"
Yukina just laughed, but through the corner of her red eye, she, too, watched Hiei go.
...to be continued...
Author's Note: Sorry about the short update! Hopefully I can write more this weekend. If the story sounds kinda weird, like there's something missing, just know this is the fourth in a series. You can read them by clicking my name "danceDANCEdance" at the top of the screen, or there's a short summary at the start of this story. More updates soon! Sorry if this update was strange or confusing! Am really tired! O!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR REVIEWS!!!!!! I truly appreciate it (I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!) :)