Hey everyone! Okay well, I know that was short in-between updates, but I had the idea all in my mind and all last night I was going threw it and improving it in whatever way I could and so if I think right and put stuff in enough detail this will be a long chapter!
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Chapter 11: Chiles!
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Hiei's P.O.V
I followed Kurama out the front door and down the driveway, I could only imagine what type of things would happen tonight.
Honestly said, I didn't really want to go, but if it made my koi happy then I would go. Then again, maybe a fight with the baka, Kuwabara, would help to clear my mind somewhat.
We walked silently side by side as we normally did every so often. I would look up at his smiling face and wonder what I had really done to deserve him in any way. It seemed to good to be true, he was perfect in everyway and I was forbidden by all means.
"Kurama?" I started as he looked down at me.
"Do you think we should tell the detective and the baka about us?" The words felt strange to me in a way and I couldn't figure out why. It was the truth, despite how hard it was to believe it, but it still felt so strange.
"I don't know, if you don't want to we won't though." He answered, yes leave it to the fox to be so worried about someone else first before himself.
"I don't want to." I replied silently not even wanting to think of what the two's reaction would be if they found out.
"That's fine." So understanding, but then again, I should really expect nothing less then that from him.
We walked the rest of the way to the restaurant that was named, 'Chiles'. Yusuke and his idiot friend waited outside and ran over to us when Yusuke spotted us.
"Hey you two made it!" He said happily. "You owe me two bucks Kuwabara!" He said, turning to the orange haired baka who had a look of disbelief on his face.
"What for?" He almost shouted, I never really understood why these two were so loud.
"I bet you two bucks that Kurama could get Hiei to come and you said he wouldn't so you owe me two bucks!" He explained as I rolled my eyes at there stupidity that had become so normal for them.
Kuwabara grumbled something under his breath and gave Yusuke two bucks. Then a black device that Kuwabara held started blinking red lights all over.
"Hey, we can go eat now!" He said, looking at the device as they started back towards the front door.
"How long have you two been waiting?" Kurama asked.
"Two hours!" Yusuke and Kuwabara said together, but for some reason they seemed happy about it all.
"You know, you really didn't have to wait that long?" Kurama stated, but I knew to well that they either weren't listening or just choose to ignore him.
"Oh well, we got the table now!" Kuwabara said as we entered the building. Instantly my nose was filled with the scent of different spices.
I liked this scent and I drew in breath smelling all the different foods and different ingredients they used in there foods.
"Hello, welcome to Chiles. Here, I'll take that." Said a girl who picked up four laminated papers and took the black device from Kuwabara.
"Please follow me." She said, leading us down a long row of people eating food and waiting for it; now I hated being in this place full of ningens.
She finally stopped at a booth on the far wall with a light hanging overhead lighting the tiled table and on a window letting in natural light as well.
I slid in one side next to the window and Kurama sat next to me while. The other two took the other side and the girl placed the papers down in front of each person.
"Your server will be by momentarily." With that, she walked away and to another table. Yusuke and the other two flipped threw the pages looking at different things while I sat there utterly confused.
Kurama noticed this instantly and smiled. "You have to order a drink first." He said, flipping the menu open and to a certain page then pointing to a variety of different names written in red.
I looked threw it still confused and now I didn't understand why ningens even came to these stupid places in the first place.
A person came back to our booth and pulled out a little tablet. "My name is Yumi, I will be your server tonight. Can I start you off with some drinks?" (I couldn't think of any other name.)
"I want beer!" Kuwabara almost shouted as Kurama shook his head silently.
"I'm sorry, we don't serve youth." The woman quickly answered. Yusuke laughed at the baka now.
"Fine, I want coke." He said in a defeated tone.
"Sprite." Yusuke replied.
"Water." The fox said.
"Same." I would not have any tainted water, if I didn't have to.
"Alright, I will be back to take your order in a few moments." She said, flipping the cover over the tablet cover and walking away again; I had to admit this was very simple.
I flipped the page over and looked threw the red lettered words. I didn't understand what was good and what wasn't now.
"Hey, Hiei? What did you do to your hand?" Yusuke questioned as he nodded to my hand that was wrapped around with the white bandage.
I stayed silent, not exactly knowing what to say. "None of your business." I finally said, turning another page.
"Maybe not, but we want to know." Kuwabara said. Was there really no way out of this? How many times was I going to be interrogated today?
"Yusuke it's his business. It's okay, if he doesn't want to tell us." Kurama said and I was grateful he had said that, even though I would never show it with these two around.
"We're just concerned friends." Kuwabara said, folding his arms over.
"Yes, I know." The fox said, focusing back on the menu.
I looked back down also and found that the words were blurry for a moment I closed my eyes and reopened them, clearing my vision for, but a moment.
They became blurred again, and I looked down trying to shake it off, but it proved useless. "Hiei?" My head shot up and I looked flatly at Kurama. "Did you find anything you want?" he asked.
"No." I said simply.
"Well, what do you want?"
"How should I know?" It took him a moment, but then he smiled. "Okay, well maybe you'll like a quesadilla." (So sue me I know that's spelled wrong, but it is a hard word to spell.)
"And that is?"
"It's a like bread with cheese melted onto it and chicken then more cheese and another type of flat bread. It's very good." I didn't really like the way it sounded, but if my fox said it was good, then I would try it.
"Fine." He smiled and I knew I chose a right answer.
I closed the menu and sat back in the booth as things started getting blurry again and I felt like I was spinning. Had I truly lost that much blood?
I wasn't really surprised since I had lost some blood from the wound on my hand and the one on my shoulder that had continued to bleed.
The spinning got larger and I was barely now aware of what was going on around me. I wouldn't let myself go now, sure I was losing blood even now, but I wouldn't let myself collapse from it.
The fox liked being here with the other two and I would not cut that short for anything. I liked when he was happy and I wouldn't disturb that if I could help it.
My eyes shut and I heard someone that sounded like Yusuke say something, but it came in muffled to me.
Kurama's P.O.V
"Hiei, you seem kind of out of it." Yusuke said as Hiei closed his eyes I had to wonder what was going on in his head.
No response came from my koi and I wondered if he even heard him. Of coarse, he did, but was he just choosing not to say anything?
Something seemed very wrong, I smelt blood, but I think it is from the wound on his hand. I can't be sure though.
"Hiei?" I asked, waiting for a response.
Hiei's P.O.V
I heard my fox's voice, but I didn't know what he had said. I had to answer, but how could I when I didn't know what he even said.
"Nani?" I finally asked, opening my eyes to the other three.
"You seem out of it. Are you sure your okay?" The fox asked me. I never said I was.
"Hai." I answered as the server returned the three gave there orders and Kurama gave mind which was good because I wouldn't have known what to really say anyways.
I sat there with my gaze pointed down at the table almost mesmerized by the different tiles. After the server left, Yusuke and Kuwabara talked about our last mission that had been about a week if not two ago.
Kurama sat silently beside me and something inside me told me to say something, anything, but I didn't know what to say.
"Why do humans come here again?" I finally asked looking at him.
"Some come to escape having to cook at their own home, while others come just for pleasure and to eat the places good food." He explained as I listened only half way listening.
"Sounds pointless."
"Only Hiei would think that." Yusuke said as I glared at him.
"So?" I asked.
"Nothing, never mind." I new he was thinking some insult about me, but I wasn't in the mood to say anything more.
"Hn." I said simply, leaning forward now onto my hands. The feeling of myself spinning came back and I closed my eyes trying to make it subside, but it proved useless this time.
I let out the breath I wasn't aware I was holding and opened my eyes looking at the people around me who looked at me with odd looks on there face.
"What?" I asked, looking from one to the other.
"You're acting odd too." Kuwabara said.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Kurama asked.
"Hai, I just have a headache." I admitted, twisting around the truth a little. "Quit looking at me." I ordered, leaning on my sealed hand and looking out the window into the darkening sky.
"Whatever you say." Kurama said and I could sense him turning back to looking in front of him
The three talked together as I just sat there mesmerized by nothing. Every once and a while the effects of my loss of blood kicking in.
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By the end of the meal, I had learned that cheese was hot if you ate it right as you got it, but being a fire demon the heat didn't bother me as much as it would a normal human.
The other three finished there meals as well and paid for it all. When we were starting to leave, my dizziness started coming in closer together now.
I slid out of the booth, but as I stood up my legs gave way and I started to fall back down. Thankfully, Kurama caught one arm while Yusuke caught my other and pulled me back up. I stood up and finally got my balance.
"Hiei is something wrong that your not saying?" Yusuke asked as we started out.
"No." I answered, trailing behind some. I never really understood why, but for some reason, I liked being in the back.
"Would you tell us if something was wrong?" He asked.
"No." Well that proved something to them, but I didn't understand what.
"Well, whatever it's your own fault." He said shrugging lightly.
As we exited out the front door, the chilling temperature met us. My head started throbbing as it had before as we walked down the sidewalk.
Before I could even catch myself, I felt myself falling again, but this time darkness met me and blocked all my vision.
Normal P.O.V
Everyone turned just in time to see Hiei falling down again. This time it took until he was a few inches from the cement for Kurama to catch him.
"Hiei!" He said as Kuwabara and Yusuke ran over to him as he lifted the limp form of their fire demon friend.
"Is he alright?" Kuwabara asked stupidly, but no one paid attention to how stupid the question was.
"I don't know." Kurama said worried about his koi. "Hiei?"
Hiei's P.O.V
I heard them call my name, but all my strength had left me and I couldn't bring myself to try and move. I knew I had to answer and I had to move, but my head was spinning uncontrollably.
Finally, I forced myself to move and stand on my own. "Hiei, what happened?" Kurama asked a worried look on his face. I honestly couldn't believe I had allowed myself to do that.
"Nothing." I looked away which obviously gave them their first clue that something had happened, that I was holding back on.
"Hiei, you need to tell us what is wrong. It's not like you at all to collapse for no reason." The fox said as I looked up at them. I saw that they all were concerned even the baka, Kuwabara.
"Nothing is wrong, I'm just…. tired." I then realized how stupid that sounded. Everyone still didn't seem that convinced about the whole thing, but they seemed to let it pass, if only for the time being.
We walked in silence until we finally reached Yusuke's apartment building,
"Well, we'll see you two later." Kuwabara was obviously staying with the detective for the night. "Watch after Hiei I think something is going on and you're the most observant person here." Yusuke said trying to whisper it to Kurama so I wouldn't hear, but I heard it all.
Kurama only nodded and Yusuke and Kuwabara started up the road leading to the building. My koi and I were silent as we walked back to his house. I could tell something was on his mind and I think I knew what it was to.
"Hiei?" I looked up at him, giving him my full attention. "Why don't you accept our help?" He asked. I thought about it and I realized that I really didn't have an answer for him.
"I don't know." As I said it I felt a drop of blood fall from my hand onto the pavement. The blood had made it's way down my arm now and I wouldn't be surprised if the bandaging around the palm of my hand had soaked up a lot of the blood.
"I wish you would." His words hit me in a spot that now made me feel guilty for not telling him of it. "It kind of hurts to know that you can't even tell your best friend, who loves you so much." I felt so guilty now, but something told me not to tell him.
But I wouldn't, I would heal myself on my own and just let this pass on my own. It wouldn't be so hard for me to just heal it and then just let the incident fade away until nothing was left.
Then again something told me that that wouldn't be so easy.
"I-I'm sorry." I admitted, looking down again as we continued to walk. The dizziness in my head returned and it was strong this time. I felt myself falling forward again as a sick feeling entered my stomach.
Hands wrapped around me and kept me from falling onto the cement for the third time. This time the pain stayed in me.
"Please, Hiei! What is going on?" His voice was full of worry and concern I knew I should tell him. I needed to tell him if no one else or else I would die before I had a chance to even attempt to heal myself.
"I'm fine, Koi, really." I said as he pulled me back to a standing position and I continued to walk. He stayed close to me, I suppose he was afraid of me falling again.
"I worry about you, Hiei."
"I know you do." I said, looking down to the pavement.
We walked the rest of the way in utter silence. I could sense him moving threw different thoughts in his mind and I did the same.
Finally, we got back to his home and I instantly went down the hall into his bathroom to find the white box and try to clean my arm up. I put the box on the counter and opened it just as I felt my vision start to spin. I couldn't figure what anything in it was.
I swallowed hard and went back down the hallway and into the living room where the fox sat. I grasped the wall for support as I did so. He looked at me and I thought I saw confusion linger on his face.
"Kurama?" I started, "I'm bleeding." I finally said before loss of blood as well as energy took me and I collapsed right there.
Kurama's P.O.V
"Hiei!" I said, getting up quickly and going over to my love. "Hiei what are you talking about where?" I asked, but no answer came from him. I picked him up and instantly felt moisture on his left arm. (I finally figured out that his un bandaged arm is his left one!)
Not wanting to spare any time, I went to my bathroom where the first aid kit lay open on the counter. Obviously Hiei was going to try and heal himself, but I'm glad he didn't try.
His energy was very low now and I scolded myself for not noticing it before. I sat him down and took off his cloak that was covered in a moister I could only imagine was blood.
Instantly, I saw that his arm was bleeding badly and had soaked down his arm and had been soaked up by the bandage on his hand. This is why he was falling over and so out of himself. He was suffering from loss of blood.
I quickly got all the needed material and started working on covering the wound up, that was still bleeding. He had obviously lost a lot of blood and it would take a day or two to get his energy back to what it had been.
Then I started cleaning up the blood that had fallen down his arm and rewrapped the wound on his hand.
I didn't care about that now, all I cared about was getting the bleeding to stop and hoping he could regain the needed blood. Finally, I finished and it really hadn't been that big of a job. Sitting back, I noticed how pale his face was, I had to wonder why he didn't tell me in the first place.
I picked him up again, careful not to move him to much, and went back to the living room. I laid him down on the couch and then went back down the hall to clean the bathroom up.
Hiei's P.O.V
The pain stopped and I know longer felt like I was spinning. I opened my eyes and looked around to find myself laying on my Koi's couch in his living room.
My arm was bandaged up and the blood had been cleaned off my arm I sat up and looked around more clearly. Kurama was not there now so I figured I would go find him.
Night had set in already making the room dark in most places, but was also lit by a light in the corner of the room.
I seemed sturdy now, but I could feel that my energy had dropped. I also felt exhausted for some reason, I felt like I could sleep for days on end now.
I found my koi in his room getting ready for bed and I didn't really blame him. It had to be about that time of night anyways.
"I didn't expect you to be awake yet." He said, smiling when he saw me. I stood there silent, a blank look on my face.
Suddenly his look changed to worry again, but it seemed he was trying to hide it well. "You lost a lot of energy." He said, turning his head slightly away from me.
I still didn't say anything. I just walked a bit more into his room and shut the door silently.
"It will take you a few days to get it back." He stated.
"I know." I finally said. I knew what I wanted to say to him, but the words were hard for me to actually say. I suppose I have to though, it's my love and he deserved to hear them from me.
"I'm sorry, koi." I brought myself to say, looking away, but also feeling his emerald eyes lock onto me once again.
"It's alright, Hiei, but next time, please just tell me when you're having problems like that or anything else." I looked at him and could easily see the sadness in his eyes.
I walked over to him and stood next to him as he turned more to me, I looked up at him, "I will." He smiled, I had made him at least some what happy that was good.
He leaned towards me and took me in a hug that I instantly returned. I absolutely loved being in the fox's arms, it made me feel safe and loved.
Letting go of me finally, he got into bed and patted a place next to him which I teleported to instantly.
I had always loved the night for some odd reason, maybe because then everything was silent and it seemed more calming, but now I feel like I love it even more because I can be with my fox undisturbed for hours on end.
As I laid down, the fox wrapped his arms around me and flicked off the light now behind him, flooding the room with darkness and the feeling of peace.
"I love you, Hiei." He said, laying against me.
"I love you too, Kurama." I said leaning into him, feeling his warm breath against me. Yes, I completely loved being with him.
He soon fell asleep, but I lay awake. Just moments before I could have fallen asleep anywhere, but now? Now I couldn't get myself to fall asleep. Too many things were running threw my mind.
Like what would happen to us in the future? Why did I continue to cut myself time and again? I sighed deeply, looking over at the window that filtered in the moon light and couldn't help, but realize what I had now.
I had what I had truly longed for almost all my life. I was finally being loved by someone I knew would never hurt me in any way.
I looked over at the form of the sleeping kitsune and snuggled in closer to him, turning so I could be consumed in only him. This seemed to have disturbed his sleep.
"What are you thinking about?" Came his quiet voice, pulling away enough to look me in the eyes, his emerald orbs glimmering from the light.
"Why?" I asked.
"You're not asleep yet and you're seeking comfort, signaling something is on your mind." I had to admit he was right.
"I was thinking about what will happen to us in the future." I admitted, holding the other thing back.
He sighed and smiled at me, pulling me closer radiating heat onto me. "Don't worry about that now, Koi. We will deal with things one day at a time." He said. "For right now you need to sleep and regain your energy."
I simply nodded and shut my eyes as he leaned into me again. I didn't want this night to end, I felt now like we were meant to be this way and were not meant to ever be moved from this spot.
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A/N: Wow talk about long man! It took me two days to really find a way to word everything in this and even now, I don't like that way it came out. Anyways, I have decided to GIVE A PREVIEW FOR EVERY CHAPTER IN THIS!
Preview: I can't let Hiei be the only one with the problems in this I mean it started out with Kurama so it has to stay that way! Now what happens when Kurama has one of those nightmares about his past and Hiei can't seem to pull him out of his nightmare?
(Yes I understand that isn't really a true preview, but I like asking the questions like that and having EVERYONE ANSWER THEM. But you don't have to if you don't want. Anyway, next chapter ASAP!)