Waiting.
For lilmatchgirl.

Series: YYH
Pairing: Hiei/Mukuro
Request: "after a training session, Hiei reflects upon their relationship. And you can take that as you will."
Word count: n/a.

-I decided that this wasn't going to be a lovey-relationship fic. Mostly because I can't see either of the two making a move to make it such. Well, kill me if you must, and then let me know it wasn't what you wanted so I can redo it.

-A few SPOILERS for three kings saga. It kinda has to be, since one of the characters requested doesn't show up till then.

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Sometimes, I don't know what she is to me.

Or rather, I know what she is to me, but I don't know what I am to her.

She is one of my goals – I strive to have that much power, that much control, because that would be just that much more protection I can give to my sister.

She is not my sister.

She is Mukuro, one of the three 'Kings' of demon world.

She is one of those that trains me. She knows some of my weaknesses, and some of my strengths. She knows what I've done, and she knows how far I've come from the weak fire-child that was thrown from the Ice Maiden's island.

I don't think I'm what she had in mind when she took me in and decided to continue my training.

She is tired now, I can see that clearly, but I will not comment on it. Even in such a state, she still clearly would win a battle with myself, fully strong. I would have a chance of winning, had I the wits of the fox, but I care not for the sneaky ways of his kind.

I'd rather be more straightforward about it; a battle of strength and power, not knowledge.

She understands that.

I, too, am tired now. I am tired from the training session, I don't know what has wearied her.

It wasn't our fight, I can tell you that.

She will continue to teach me until she is satisfied that I will not betray her.

That day will never come. I place my trust in no one. Not in the detective, not in the fox, not even in myself. The only one I trust is my sister. She is the only one safe from betrayal.

Yes, my life is lonely. I don't care. She is the only one of us worth keeping, and for her…I would sell my soul to one as untrustworthy as the kitsune. To one as heartless as Mukuro, before me now.

Yukina does not know this.

Mukuro does.

And so our day continues, because the day we are both waiting for will never come.

THE END.