BACK WHEN WE FIRST MET written by HieiKitty

Written on November 17th, 2005

Chapter Forty: Questioning

"Why were you with the kitsune last night?"

"Hey, that really isn't your business, you know!" Kari said as she tried to defend her sister. Rei just stared at him as if she was trying to process the question that he had asked. Hiei turned his glare from Rei to her twin sister. "This has nothing to do with you. Stay out of it."

"This has everything to do with me. She's my sister and I don't appreciate how you've been harassing her lately. Make up your mind about her. Some days you actually seem nice to her but then there are these kind of days where you're an ass like always!" Kari yelled at the fire youkai and the two just glared at each other. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at each other, wondering what the heck was going on exactly. Rei, on the other hand, finally realized what was going on and stopped her sister. "Wait, Kari. I don't mind telling him why I was with Kurama last night. It's not that big of a deal anyways."

Kari turned her head and looked at her sister questioningly. Rei just shrugged her shoulders and walked into the classroom. She didn't walk over to Hiei, though. She walked right pass him and over to her desk. Once there, she sat down and began to look through her stuff, bringing out a book. "Well, first of all, Hiei, I was with Kurama last night because he took me back to my apartment since I didn't feel like staying at Genkai's anymore and Kurama volunteered to take me home. He was even nice enough to get my stuff and bring it to me."

"That's not what I'm talking about, Onna, and you know it." Hiei sneered at her. Rei just gave him a look then opened her book. She held it up and it appeared as she was reading the book. Just as Hiei was about to say something about answering him, she spoke up. "I know what you're talking about, Hiei. But I also know you know what went on. Why do you ask questions that you already know the answer to? Is it so you can torture the person? I'm sure that all of us would like to know the answer to that question."

Hiei just glared at her while the others just watched on. Before another ordeal could happen, people started to come back to the classroom, shoving Kuwabara, Kari, and Yusuke out of the doorway and into the classroom. Toga and Kurama were included in the group coming into the classroom. The two of the could sense the tension in the room and looked over at Hiei and Rei. Hiei scoffed and walked to the back of the room and sat down in a desk while Rei appeared to be reading a book. Kurama and Toga looked over at the others for answers but they just shrugged.

"Okay, class, if you would all take your seats..."

The rest of the school day seemed to have gone rather quickly since they only had classes left. Rei tried to avoid Hiei as best she could even though he was in all of her afternoon classes. Every time Kari was in one of their classes, she would make sure that Hiei wouldn't speak to her but that didn't get them very far. Hiei continued to question Rei even after he got scolded by a teacher for talking and not doing his work. Finally, in the last class of the day, she was fed up with his constant questioning. Rei turned her head and glared at him. "You know what? I don't care what you think because I know that everything I once thought you were is a lie. You only see Dusk! Get over her! She's dead! I'm alive and you still don't see me!"

The room immediately went silent and everyone in the classroom was looking over at the two. Rei glared at Hiei for a moment later before turning and walking out of the room even after the teacher called after her. The upset kitsune hanyou walked through the empty hallways, not really caring where she ended up. She just wanted to get away from Hiei. The next thing that she knew, she was sitting on the ground in a daze. Rei looked up to see an apologetic face. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I should have been watching where I was going! Are you alright?"

"Oh...I'm fine." Rei said as she took in what had happened. The person she had bumped into seemed to be a second year, a classmate. The girl smiled nervously and quickly offered her hand to help her up. Rei took it unconsciously and with the girl's help, she was now standing on her feet. She was about to walk off when the girl stopped her with a gasp of realization. "Wait, you're Shuichi's girlfriend, right? I bet you're here to talk to him. Do you want me to go get him? He's in the classroom right here."

Before Rei had any clue what was going on or even give a response, the girl disappeared into the classroom she had just came out of. Rei heard voices inside the classroom and recognized one of them as Kurama. Deciding that it would be best to just walk away right now, Rei turned to leave since she really didn't want to talk to anyone at the moment. But once again, before she could do anything, the classroom door opened again and this time it was Kurama who joined her in the hallway. "Rei?"

"Oh, um, hi, Shuichi. How's it going?" Rei asked a little bit nervous as she turned to face him. Kurama watched her body movements as he closed the door to the classroom so they could have some privacy. He interpreted her body movement as distress and uncomfortable. The kitsune looked at her questioningly. "Is there something wrong, Rei?"

"Um, not really unless you count yelling at Hiei and then rushing out of a classroom as something wrong." Rei told him, trying to joke about it. Kurama looked at her sympathetically as he walked over to her. Rei, on the other hand, gave him a weak smile. "Hey, don't worry about me. I should have known something like this would have happened. After all, it is Hiei that we're talking about. He doesn't care about anybody besides himself. It was stupid of me to think that he would actually care for me."

The next moment, Kurama had Rei in his arms as she began to sob in his shirt. He looked down at her with soft eyes. He couldn't imagine the pain that she was going through but he did know that he was pissed as hell. Kurama hated Hiei for doing this to Rei. How he stole her heart. How he abandoned her and betrayed her. How he lead her on. Kurama hated it all.

"I hate him! Why does he have to be so selfish! Why can't he just understand how I feel! Why can't he understand that I love him not Dusk! She doesn't even love him! She always loved Youko even when she was with him! She was just using him and he knew it! She was using them both!" Rei sobbed as she fisted her hands into Kurama's shirt. Now, this definitely got the kitsune's attention as he stared down at her. Besides the information on Dusk, Kurama was surprised how passionate Rei still felt about Hiei even after everything that had happened. His eyes narrowed and he wrapped his arms around Rei tightly, his head resting on top of hers.

"Do I even have a chance?" Kurama harshly whispered as he spoke into her hair. Rei seemed to not have heard him for she continued to sob. Finally, after a few minutes, she began to calm down and she was no longer crying but she did remain to stay in Kurama's arms. When she tried to pull away, Kurama had to reluctantly let her go. Rei wiped the tears off of her face and tried to make herself look presentable. She laughed nervously and smiled slight at the red head. "Sorry, I came crying to you again, Kurama. I shouldn't be taking all my problems to you. I'm sure that you have enough problems of your own."

"Don't worry about it, Rei." Kurama told her as he tried to get ride of all his anger. He didn't want to end up taking it up on her so it was best for him to keep the anger inside and let it out when he was alone. Rei smile grew and nodded. "Thank you, Kurama. You're a good friend. Well, I guess that I should head back to my classroom before I get really into some trouble with the teacher. I'll talk to you later, Kurama."

With that, Rei gave him a small wave and walked off back towards her class. She was feeling a little bit better now that she got those things off of her chest. Maybe it was better to talk about things than to keep them inside. Rei let out a relieved sigh and smiled. At least she had that afternoon with her sister to look forward to. When she reached her classroom, she took a deep breath and then walked in. The room immediately went quiet when she walked in, closing the door behind her. Rei walked over to the teacher's desk and looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry for the outburst earlier. I realize how rude it was and I'm ready to take any punishment for it."

"Oh, don't worry about it, dear. Just take a seat and finish up your assignment." The teacher said with a smile and shooed her away. Rei nodded and walked back to her seat. She was grateful that the teacher understood what had happened and she was surprised when some girls immediately rushed over to her. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know that Hiei was so heartless! Are you okay?"

Rei heard more things like that but she reassured the girls that she was fine. She tried to get them to leave her alone but it was no use. The girls didn't leave her alone until the final bell rang of school. Finally being free of the annoyances, Rei sighed in relief as she gathered her things. A shiver went down her back as she felt that someone was standing right behind her. When she turned around, it was the person that she had expected. There stood Hiei. But before he could say anything, Rei smiled slightly and said something herself. "Good thing, school's finally over. Let's go. I bet the others are waiting for us."

With that, Rei quickly walked out of the room, heading to the front of the school. She heard Hiei walking behind her and she was glad that he didn't bring anything up. Even though, she was relieved, she felt that it was unusual for the fire youkai. Shrugging it off, you continued to walk through the school heading for the entrance. At the entrance, she met with the other Spirit Detectives. She smiled at them and gave a small wave. "Hey, guys. Oh, Kari, do you want to go to karaoke? That would be fun."

"Karaoke?" Toga asked questioningly as he looked between the twins. Kari gave him a look. "Rei and I are going out for a girl's night. No Togas or guys allowed."

"HEY!" Toga said as he returned the look. The twins smiled then began to laugh as they lead the group away from the school.

End of Chapter Forty

HieiKitty: Well, I think that's about the same length of all the other chapters but you never know. But then again, there was some drama in this chapter and what would life be without some drama? Ew, I hate drama. You never know when its going to end. :Cough: I won't mention any names...Anyways! You know what? I'm thinking of making future chapters longer. I bet all of you would like that, wouldn't you?

Youko: Yeah, they would. Anyways, please review!