Hiei watched Kurama enter the hospital. He watched him, with help from the jagan, as Kurama stealthly made his way into Tohru's room and closed the door behind him. He watched as he lingered by the door, staring across the room at the sleeping human.
It was very strange.
Kurama had said that the human had been injured in an accident, but the look on Kurama's face was nothing less than guilty.
There was something wrong here. Not just with the fox, although between this little night visit to a human hospital and the way that he had stared at Hiei at Turukune's mansion, as though he was expecting the Jaganshii to do something, say something... But then, there was something else...Yusuke had said he had been "keeping tabs" on the fox...but Hiei had no idea what he was talking about.
He hadn't been watching the fox...
But Yusuke said he had come to his home the other night and asked him about Kurama...but Hiei couldn't remember doing that, but he didn't know why the Detective would lie about something so trivial.
Hiei was thinking that he would confront the fox, but not yet...first he would have his help...
"Tohru..." That was Kurama. Hiei's attention had shifted for a moment, and when he returned his eyes to Kurama and the human, he saw Kurama reach out and touch the other boy's cheek, watched his hand run softly over his lips.
For a moment, Hiei felt his heart lurch, then tighten. His eyes widened and his fists unconsciously balled...
Then Kurama had stepped back from the boy as though the touch had burned him. By the time the boy woke, Kurama had fled.
But Hiei was still watching the hopsital room.
The boy returned to sleep.
The room returned to a late-night stillness, but Hiei still watched it.
His fists were closed so tight his nails dug into his skin. His heart was pounding.
He stared at the empty hospital room and for the life of him, he couldn't say why the sight of Kurama and a human had done this to him....
And far below him, walking among the late night hospital dwellers, Kurama, his thoughts on the human boy asleep in the pale-colored hospital, for his own actions, was equally confounded...
...to be continued...