I love you… Wait! You killed my fiancé?

Chapter 2: The hangover and confusion

Aiko woke up lying face first on her bed. Her head was throbbing with pain. "Where the hell am I?" she asks herself. She looks around and sees she's in her room. She figured she had gotten drunk again. She put a hand to her head and mutters, "Damn.. Overdid it with the drinks again." She then runs to the bathroom and throws up twice. She then says, "I've really gotta stop going to that bar. I always come home a wreck," while undressing.

She got in the shower and as the water hit her body she gets a confused look on her face. She remembers going to the bar, and she remembers seeing this really handsome guy there with spiky black hair, crimson eyes, and he was wearing all black. Who exactly was he?

She strained as hard she could to think of his name but failed. She got out of the shower and went into her room. She saw on her desk a black binder that was slightly tattered. She smiled; it was her sketchbook.

Aiko had a talent for drawing and she loved doing it. She used to go around, sketch what she saw, then paint or color it when she came home. She opened the book and the first page was a drawing of school children on the play ground, the next one of her ningen best friend that got into a car accident; she didn't survive. The next few drawings were all of her beloved Sniper.

Aiko shed a tear and says, "Sniper.. I miss you so much." Then Aiko thought of the man at the bar. She felt her heart flutter. She then blushed and thought, 'Strange, I used to only get this feeling around Sniper.' Then she wondered what it was she truly missed: Sniper? Or was it just the feeling of loving someone?

Aiko then sketched a picture of the man with red eyes. She colored it from memory and she sighed softly. He seemed like the type that's independent and reckless; Aiko liked that in guys. She then answered her own question: she missed both. She missed Sniper because he always made her feel good, but she also missed being in love with someone you actually have a chance at-someone alive. But then… how is she to know she'd ever see the man with red eyes again? She then shed two tears; one over Sniper, the other over the man from the bar.

------ With Hiei --------

Hiei woke up feeling dizzy. He then thought, 'Damn alcohol.' He saw he wasn't at the bar, but in a tree. 'Must've gotten drunk again. Way to go, Hiei,' he thought to himself. He then tried to remember exactly what had happened last night. He remembered coming into the bar, getting a drink, then talking to a girl. The girl had cobalt blue hair and dark brown eyes.

Hiei thinks, 'Who is that onna?' He remembers her gentle voice and he lets out a sigh. 'Whoever she is, she's cute… Wait a second! Did I just think she was cute?! It must be the alcohol,' he thinks. "You know as well as me that's not true," says a voice.

"Who's there?" demands Hiei. He scanned the area and saw no one. "Great, I'm hearing things," he says out loud. "And talking to yourself? Let's get you to the mental clinic," says the voice mocking him. "Who the hell are you?" demands Hiei, both angry and confused. "I'm you. Well, the more understanding you, at least." "Damn it! Quit playing games with my mind!"

"Quit speaking out loud dumb ass! People will hear you and think you're talking to yourself!" "Well if you are me, then technically I am talking to myself." "Well I.. um.. I.. Look, just think what you wanna say ok?"

Hiei gave in to the voice and thinks, 'Fine. Why are you talking to me?' "To let you know about your true feelings for that girl. I know you like her." 'How's that?' "It's something called your heart, Jaganshi. Look: when humans or demons fall in love, their heart gives off energy waves within their body. No one can pick up on the waves but they sure as hell exist. I'm a part of you; I'm in your mind. In fact, the mind receives the most of these energy waves and you are giving off some pretty huge one's for this girl."

'Hn,' was Hiei's response. With that the voice in his head silenced. His face was red. Did he really love this girl? He had never experienced love before so he didn't know whether he was or not. 'Am I sick? I feel.. lighter, calmer, and I can't stop thinking about her! Maybe the fox knows. He seems to know a lot about illnesses.' With that, Hiei left to tell Kurama of his "sickness".