DISCLAIMER- I owe nothing of the show characters or plot of this anime.
"Ahhh-Hunn" I sigh as I let my back press into the warm bench. I could stay here forever. Could, is the operative word in question. I do have to go to at least five of my seven classes. I would hate to get kicked out of that up standing establishment because of poor attendance. Plus this place is so conveniently located near the school; to mess up would be insane. One jumped fence, a two hundred meter dash across a field, and one yard with an unfed pissed of monster of a dog. Yep, this place screams convenience.
"Times-up" I pout as I pick up my towel. My clothes are on the bench outside the sauna. I figured no one was here so why not go commando style. I strut out in all of my glory, towel in hand and ass to the world.
"I am sorry, I.. didn't….know any……"
I spin around after the long audible pause. I am met face to face with a green haired boy on the verge of jumping me.
"I was just leaving." I wrap the towel around my waist and proceed to do so.
I storm over to the benches that are adjacent to the open showers ignoring anything that green haired freak had to say afterwards. I can't believe some people. He was just staring at….me…..as ….if. Shaking my head my head I quickly divert my eyes. He looks over and smiles.
"Skipping again?"
"And you are not?" I quip back.
"Kitten, I don't skip class." He retaliates smoothly
"Yes, you do have an image to uphold. And don't call me kitten." I snap slightly. "So how did you get here?"
"Got a ride." He says as he soaps up, well I think he is soaping up I don't really know I m not really looking at him it sounds like he is but, opps I am mentally rambling which means I am looking of into space with a blank expression.
"Who?" I shout snapping out of my daze.
"Ummm." He pauses. "Well an old acquaintance."
"A friend?"
"I would not call him a friend seeing that we did not part ways on the most pleasant terms."
"Then why would you even accept a ride."
He looks over at me with and mumbles, "I hate walking."
"Pre-Madonna."
"Well, enough about me why are you here?"
"You were right the first time, I'm skipping."
He laughs tilting his head back to get a mouth full of water.
"What the…." I spin around in circles trying to figure out why I was getting wet. It wasn't until I notice Kurama with a wicked smile did I see the thin stream of water being force between his teeth.
I motion to leave with towel around my waist and now damp clothes in hand.
"Humph, you are no fun."
"Whatever."
I hear him sigh, those long, watch out I am about to tell you a story of personal woe and discontentment sighs. I brace my self for the mournful, 'Hiei 'that is bond to come. Nothing. I turn back around and realize he is not about to talk in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even know I was still here.
Facing the wall, he drops to his knees. He goes back under the downpour. I could hear him gasping for air every few seconds, as the water invades his mouth and nose. He places his hand on the floor in front of him and dropping his head down. The water begins to pound on the back of his head rhythmically. He presses his chest into his thighs, walking his hand away form his knee forcing the water to creep slowly down his spine.
'Hiei, now would be the time most people would be looking away', I immediately scold myself.
I watch in child like awe as he repositions his body. He shifts his feet out so that he is no longer sitting on them he cross his arm and rests his head on them. He closes his eyes.
' OK, Hiei, now would be the perfect time to walk out, you have a class to go to.' My feet are soooo not listening to that inner voice in my head.
He pulls himself back up into a kneeling position, reaches up and turns off the water. I stare as the last drop of water spills from the shower head and splashes on his shoulder.
"Kurama"
"Hmmmm" he moans lost in his on special world. He looks over his shoulder and up at my through a cascade of red bangs and water.
"What are you doing?"
"It is called taking a shower, Hiei it is all the rave now days." He flashes a smile.
He begins to stand up I finally look away. There is a limit to my daily intake if another man's body, and presently I have been served a major overdose. I am now staring at a very interesting discolored tile on the floor to the left of my foot. I can hear him get his towel half dry off. He slowly strolls over to me. He gets so close he is passing the boundaries of invading personal space; he has stuck a flag in my space and claimed it as his own.
"What do you think I was doing, Hiei? Seducing you?" He whispers uncomfortably close to my ear.
My well though out, and immediate reply was a gapping mouth, two stutters and an extended forefinger. I am the king of witty comebacks. Am I not?
