May 20, 2005
4:00 pm

Dear Hiei,

When you receive this letter I will be long gone. Today was your wedding. I'm sorry I couldn't come I will explain why in this letter. But first, I want to congratulate you. I have left you a wedding present and I hope you take good care of it. Well… I guess I better explain WHY I'm not going to be living here… I think you'll figure it out as this letter goes on.. Do you remember when you first met your fiancé? Correction. Wife? I do. It was a beautiful night. Yusake, Keiko, Kuwabara, you and myself all decided to go out to a club. Just to hang out and goof around. Well.. Yusake and Keiko went to go dance and Kuwabara went to go see a 'pretty lady'. That left only you and myself.

We were talking and suddenly this brilliant blonde woman comes out of no where. She had wonderfully bright green eyes and is wearing a rather revealing top and skirt. She came over to ask you to dance.. You accepted and went to dance with her.. It wasn't even five minutes when you started kissing her and she you. I think that might have been the worst moment in my life.. I knew you had never seen this woman before… and all of the sudden you were kissing her. Five minutes later she takes your hand and pulls you off the dance floor and out the door, I don't think you minded much, you followed like a lost puppy. You didn't say a word to me. Not one.. You didn't even look in my direction.. But she did and she gave me a smirk. A smirk that bragged and told me you were all hers. I thought maybe she was just pretty and you had just wanted to kiss or make you or make love..

But you kept seeing her and I became confused.. What did this woman have? You 'dated' (it that's what you want to call it) for a month and then you asked her to marry you. She accepted of course and told Fuzake, Inu, and I giving me that same superior smirk. Fuzake asked when you were getting married. She told us that you would be married on May 20th at 4:00 pm. The exact date and time you had met me.. When we first became friends… when I first fell in love.. Yes Hiei.. Love.. That's one of the reasons I have to leave. Because I love you and your married.. I thought it was suitable to write this letter at the exact time you and I met and the exact time you got married. Fuzake knows I'm leaving.. As does Inu.. I told neither to tell you. You might be wondering what the other reason for leaving you is. Your wife. She hates me and she will torture me if I live you with any longer.

So I must go.. Far far away. I don't want to but I know I must. Because if I don't your wife will find a way to make our friendship end. I don't want that to happen. Not by her hands. So I'm going to be leaving.. I will leave no way to find me or contact me ever again. You and I aren't friends after this.. I've sold everything I do not need or want except a few things.. Like my katana… the one I got from my father.. Before he started to beat me.. that's my wedding gift to you… I should leave soon.

Hiei.. Live well and happily. that's the one thing I want from you. This is hard for me. Leaving the people I care about behind.. But I know it's for the better. You'll be happy and soon forget about me…I love you.

Kyoki

Brown eyes clouded with tears folded the letter and set it on a white pillow in a cleared out room. The owner of the eyes placed a beautifully carved katana on the bed next to the note. A small sad smile appeared on pale lips.

"Be happy Hiei.. You are loved and married and will live and have children. And I won't be here to keep you from it." she said a tear falling down her cheek and landing on the katana as she gathered a wallet and bag and walked out the door forever.