See? I'm very easy to please. Just one review makes me do a whole other chapter.
So I hope you guys like it so far.
I realize that the Hiei/Kitara stuff is going really slowly, and it doesn't seem like he has any interest in her; but that's because I like things to be realistic.
And realistically, it would take a lot more than a pretty face to catch Hiei, or for a relationship between these two distant, untrusting people to form.
Also, I decided to start doing a double POV thing.
You know, go to Kitara's point of view, then to Hiei's. To see a more rounded view of the situations.
On with chapter 3…
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Kitara got up from where she was sitting in the library and went back to her room.
"I feel weird." She said to herself. "It's usually a lot harder than that to make me feel better… but he did it so easily… Am I starting to have feelings for this boy…?" She shook her head. "No, I'm probably just confused because it's been so long since I've been around a guy."
She started picking at the few things she had brought in her bag from her cabin; a couple of outfits, a toothbrush, and her shampoo. She sighed. "This is pathetic. I can't believe this is all I had to bring."
Since she had slept for most of the day while the guys were gone, she wasn't tired enough to go to sleep now that it was night, so she decided to go explore around the place that she now called her home.
On the way she passed filing rooms, more libraries filled with books, rooms filled with beds and ogres. And then she passed Hiei's room. She could tell it was his by the sword that was in it, and the clothes lying on the floor, but he wasn't in there.
'I wonder where he went to this late…'
She wanted to find him. Searching through every library in vain, she was puzzled as to where he could've gone. He must be somewhere. When she past his room again curiosity started to overtake her, and since the door was open, maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal if she just… walked in.
It wasn't anything too special. The room was dark and only had a candle or two. His sword was lying against the wall in one of the corners, and some of his pants were lying around the floor of the room. She sat on his bed. It was comfortable, very comfortable. She lay her head on the pillow and accidentally fell asleep. His room was so comfortable and warm it didn't matter if she had slept most of the day or not.
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Hiei walked back to his room after leaving Kitara in the library to dwell on what he had said to her.
'She's an interesting sort of girl.' He thought. 'One moment she seems happy, calm, and put together… the next she's curled in a corner screaming at herself. She has a lot of pain welled inside her body…'
Throwing his cloak onto the floor, he walked back out of the room and headed down the hall in the opposite direction of the library. He had long ago demanded from Koenma that if he were to stay here, a special room had to be created just for him. A sanctuary of some sort, so he could sit there, be alone.
He went down the stairs to the room and sat up on one of the shelves on the wall. 'She's quite confusing to me though. Only a day being here and it seems troubles are following her, I doubt it was a good idea for Koenma to tell her about her mother. He's piling things on her too quickly. People like her can't deal with that all happening so fast. Hn. No point in thinking about her, she's not worth my time anyway.'
He stayed there for a while, subconsciously battling thoughts of Kitara and what was really going on inside of her. He began to get tired and headed back to his bedroom to sleep. But when he got there… someone was already in his bed?
"Her…" He muttered. Something in him didn't want to wake her up. Maybe he felt a tiny bit bad for her, but whatever the reason he just put a blanket over her. His hand softly glided against her skin as he pulled the blanket over her small body.
Her skin was so soft… but where was he going to sleep if he was letting her stay in his bed?
'I can just sleep on the floor. It has to be better than trees.' So he did. He fell asleep on the floor right next to his bed; right next to her.
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"Oh no! I fell asleep in his bed… but did he not come back or something?" Kitara was about to get out of bed when her toe felt something on the ground.
"Hiei… He fell asleep on the floor just to let me sleep in his bed?" She suddenly looked at him differently then she had before.
"Is there some part in him… that cares about me? That's a ridiculous thought though, we just met. It wouldn't matter to me anyway."
She carefully got up around him and went into the room where everyone had been eating the day before.
"You weren't in your room today, Kitara! Where were you?" Yusuke asked when he noticed her walking in.
"Oh, I was just… exploring around the place. You know, I slept most of the time you guys were gone yesterday and I was curious about the other rooms and stuff…" She tried to make up a reasonable excuse, and she really had been exploring for a bit, so she wasn't lying.
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Hiei heard Kitara stirring in the bed next to him. He figured she was finally waking up. She was mumbling to herself, probably had just noticed that he was sleeping next to her on the floor.
'Is there some part in him… that cares about me?' He heard her say.
He laughed to himself. 'Of course there's not, you stupid girl…. Well… then why did I let her stay in my bed if there isn't…' He heard her get up and leave the room.
He got up as well and closed the door when she was far enough down the hall not to hear. 'What the hell is wrong with her? What the hell makes her think I care about her? She's a worthless demon. I can't even stand to call her that. Maybe I'll just have to treat her a little worse than I have been to get that ridiculous and disgusting thought out of her god damn head.'
Hiei walked out of the room agitated and angry and into the area where they ate. Yusuke and Kitara were talking. Kitara was getting up to go get one of the plates when Hiei bumped into her.
"Get out of my way, you worthless girl." He scowled and pushed past her to get his own food. No one but her seemed to even give his behavior a second glance. After all, it was normal for him to act like that towards people, especially a girl he barely knew.
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Yusuke kept battering at Kitara about how bad her hair looked in the morning. Spitting insults back and forth to each other, she was fitting in nicely with these people. She got up to go get some of the food, but she hadn't noticed Hiei walked in, who bumped into her on his way to the same place.
"Get out of my way you worthless girl." He gave her one of the most emotionless looks she had seen him have since they first met. She looked around at the others faces, but no one seemed to even notice what he had said to her. Was this who he normally was? She felt angry.
"I'm not worthless. At least not anymore than you are. Who do you think you are to even talk to me like that when we barely know each other!"
He turned back around to face her. "And who do you think you are to fall asleep in someone else's bed? I can do whatever I want to do, because I, unlike you, know how to use my powers. I'm not a weak and worthless demon. You really might as well just be human, because look at you. You don't know the first thing about using spirit power."
The other guys perked up at this point in the conversation turning fight between the two. They hadn't known that she was a demon until just now.
"So you think it makes you better than me just because I'm inexperienced! And you didn't have to let me stay in your bed! If I'm such worthless scum why did you let me stay? Why didn't you wake me up instead of sleeping on the floor!"
Hiei walked away at this point. Yusuke and the others were still looking up a Kitara, confused.
"You're a demon?" Kurama asked her.
She sighed. 'I should've never told Hiei about all that. I can be so naive sometimes…. But I guess I should tell them, I'm sure they wouldn't find it too shocking with all that they deal with.'
"Yes… my… mother was one… So really, I'm just half demon…" She looked at the floor. "But, it's really not important, and I don't feel like talking about it. Koenma told me yesterday, that's all."
"But then… how did Hiei know if Koenma just told you yesterday?" Yusuke questioned her.
"He was in the library when I was in there last night. I didn't know he was there and I started… talking to myself about it since I was so stressed out about it. He made me feel better about it, and showed me maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to be a demon."
"That's odd." Kurama started. "It's not like Hiei to ask someone why they're upset and then help them with it."
"Apparently not." Kitara muttered and went back to her room.
"What a dumbass… why did he have to bring all of that up in front of the others? He's so fricking weird! He let me stay in his bed and then he starts thrashing at me for sleeping there! He could've just told me to get the hell out and I would have. God, he's so confusing."
"He's just like you." Koenma walked in on her conversation with herself.
She fell over out of surprise. "DO YOU ALWAYS WALK IN ON ME!"
"He really is exactly like you." He ignored her question.
"And how do you figure?" She scowled.
"While you aren't either cold or unforgiving, you are untrusting. How long do you think it'll take for you to get close to any of us?"
"I dunno… I wouldn't say it would take that long. I mean you guys are nice and you did let me stay here when I was living in…"
"That brings me to my next point. Why were you living in those woods Kitara? You were less safe from Zratchmana and his gang there then in a city or town. I'll tell you why, to stay away from people." She looked away from him.
"Maybe that is why… And maybe I am untrusting, but what does being untrusting have to do with his acting one way then another?"
"You'd act just like him in his situation. If he thought that you cared about him, how would you feel, honestly?"
"I would feel…" She stopped and looked at the ground. "Angry."
"Just like how he feels angry that you think he cares about you, see?" Koenma left her with that to stew on.
She plopped down on her bed. So Koenma was right. They were more or less the same kind of person. 'But how does he know that I thought that he cared about me? And why does it matter to him? Why would it matter to me…?'
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Alright, to tell you all the truth I'm not to fond of my story thus far, haha. I need reviews to encourage me to keep writing it. I know that once I get to the good part that I have all planned out in my mind of when they finally let go of their pride and pains and tell each other that they care about each other, then my writing will be on fire and I won't be able to stop. But with this chapter I had some writers block, so bear with me. It's been a while since I've seen YYH as well, make the writers' block even harder to get past. Please give me reviews, I need to know someone liked this chapter.