Excuse ME?

Last time…

Before anyone could prevent the bulky human from completely annihilating my respiratory system he had crushed three more ribs.

How do I know this? Well the horrid blood spurting from my mouth and the crude crunching sounds that filled the room were exceptional signs.

Somewhere someone had realized that big monkey boy was trying his hardest to rid the earth of a certain fire youkai. It was all a blur but the large head probably belonged to Urameshi who pulled me out from under the hideous man.

"Man Hiei what the hell are you trying to do?" He asked a stupid question. "Get yourself killed."

Instead of answering I choose to pass out.

When I awoke, my side pained me, bandages enshrouded a huge bruise that decided to cling and make sitting up a living hell. Surprisingly it was easier to breathe then what I would have imagined, but I supposed that the little ice maiden had been working while I slept.

"Good afternoon Hiei-san" Yukina spoke quietly from the other side of the room. I nodded acknowledging her presence. She finally sighed after a long excruciating pause. "Botan told me…"

My mind raced with what the girl could have told her. "Told you what!" I snapped with anger in my voice that seemed to frighten the living daylight out of her, for she turned as white as paper.

"…s…sh…she…" Her stuttering voice definitely showed fear the kind of fear you get when your starring a large grizzly in the eyes and he suddenly opens his mouth.

"Look I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come across like that, so please continue." After waiting for what seemed to be an hour but was only a few seconds I pushed further. "What did she say Yukina?"

"She said that you should go on a vacation." The fear was still present but was considerably less. I let out my own massive sigh as I chuckled to myself. "Please don't be mad at her. She only wants to help."

"I think Ill sleep the rest of the day." I laid back down taking care that I was on my left side. "Just don't let that oaf sit on me."

My shoulder was grabbed and I was brutally shaken. Letting out a groan I rolled onto my back and peered into Kurama's face.

"About time!" he exclaimed. "A nuclear explosion couldn't wake you from the deepest parts of your dreams now could it?" It was more of a rhetorical question than anything,I felt the sarcasm. "I went on the internet and booked you a voyage on the best cruise ship." He hadn't even bothered waiting for me to pull myself up before telling me this horrible late breaking news.

I sat up in a rush of pain, my hand automatically clutched at my side. It must have looked funny me, the most serious of serious people sitting, with my pain filled face and my mouth agape.

"I knew you would like it." The red head had now officially been added to my dumbass list. How could he even stand there and say that? I was a goddamed fire youkai for Christ's sake!

"I'm not going."

"Hiei you need a vacation. That was made clear to all of us when you jumped onto Kuwabara like a mad man."

"Made it clear to ALL of you? ALL of you?" How did I get involved with a room filled with crackpots? HOW! I can't even believe Yukina would have agreed to that! "Not everyone did."

"Guys give me a show of hands on who voted that he should go." And there it was. A little reluctant maybe but all the hands where raised even my own sister…that doesn't know she is related to me.

Damn it. They screw me over once again.

They never told me where they were forcing me to go. I had refused to remove myself from the safety of the, blankets but then again it didn't take much effort for Kurama to drag me out from under them. He had even gone so far as to pack for me. The luggage bag was already sitting near the front door before the end of the week. I didn't get to pick out anything and was at the mercy of the guy who ran around with flowers in his hair, wearing pink, smelling of rose petals.

"Alright Hiei its almost time for your flight."

"Flight?" I questioned him. He said cruise on water not in the air.

"Get in the car Hiei." His voice showed that his patience wore thin. I crossed my arms and sat on the ground. A little childish I know, but there was no way I was leaving Japan. "HIEI!" He had gotten out of the car in lightening fast speed, picked me up screaming my head off and threw me in the back seat.

"Kurama! Let me out! I demand for you to open this thing!" I screamed at the top of my lungs but he ignored me and my threats at blowing him up. The fox got in the other side and started the monstrous metal machine.

He kept his eyes on the road. "Don't worry Hiei it'll be a lot of fun. I've heard you speak english pretty well so you should have no problem." I didn't like the sound of that. English speakers, I didn't want to go to America I wanted to stay in Tokyo! I made sure he knew that too.

"Flight 267 will now be boarding…"

A women's voice sounded from out of the ceiling. And stairs that moved upward by themselves, people bumping and touching me from all over. I was so freaked out that I don't care if I attracted everyone's attention when I screamed, "Get the hell away from me!"

Kurama looked over, grabbed my hand, which I find very wrong and dragged me to a large counter that towered above my head. "I would like to check this suitcase in and get a departure ticket."

"Are you the one who is traveling, sir?"

"No ma'am." I watched his face closely as he held a futile conversation with the woman. He smiled. I could see his face turning red as he blushed when she commented on how beautiful his hair was. My eyes rolled, I couldn't help but kick him right in the shin.

Kurama let out a hiss as he bent down to grab the injured leg. "Hiei, why did you do that?"

"Stop talking to her like you know her."

"Its just conversation now stop being so childish." He lowered his voice so only I could hear. "Your 578 years old start acting like it." I crossed my arms and looked away.

"Sir?" The woman behind the counter had pulled up the ticket number on her computer. "Is that Jaganshi Hiei?" Kurama nodded. "You know that flying restricts persons under eight years old from traveling alone."

The kitsune smiled at what I took as an insult. "Despite his appearance ma'am, Hiei is seventeen."

Damn right I am…In human years. I thought and wished so much to pull the owner of that high, pitched girly voice into oblivion. Finished with the woman, Kurama lead me to some sort of portal in which I was to walk through. I did and the thing beeped at me.

"Sir, I have to ask you to remove your coat, scarf and shoes and step over here."

"I am not undressing for you!" I was horrified by his request for me to strip right in front of everyone. Not to mention he was a man and sorry, I don't roll that way.

Kurama was still standing on the other side. "Hiei do as he says." I sighed and stepped forth removing the items. The man took out a long slender object and began scanning me with it. The thing bleeped when he roamed it over my chest.

"Do you have anything implanted from a surgery?"

I immediately thought of the Jagan. "Why do you want to know?"

"Do you have anything metal implanted in your chest?" he was annoyed I could tell. But I was relieved that he wasn't talking about my evil eye. "No." The man ran it over again and sighed.

"Take your shirt off."

This was outrageous! Is this what they called a vacation? I took it off. The man looked at my chest and saw the teargem I keep around my neck. He reached out for it but I pulled away. "No way are you touching this."

"It's not a bomb or anything illegal that you're smuggling out of the country is it." His voice had dropped and he sounded depressed and tired.

I shook my head, he gave my clothes back and I dressed. After that incident I was ready to get out of the place. Kurama gave a slip of paper to the woman and she nodded handing it back. "Its his first time on a plane so do you think he could get someone to show him to his seat?"

A young woman walked up and I followed her. I took one last look before turning the corner to see Kurama waving.

And I didn't wave back.

Thats it for the second chapter!

Like I said in my bio the fanfics are outside of YYH and so in my version of age Hiei is 578 years old which converts to 17 or 18(17 1/2) in human years. This is my first- first person pov so if you have any suggestions on how I could make it better than do please tell.

Also the 'Christ's sake' is used as figurative speach. I am not religious. So over look it if you are, sorry if it offends you.

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