Chapter 7: "Is it just me or is the wind out to get me?"

Matt was paranoid around me but not paranoid enough to stay away. She was up and laying around my neck while I walked around town. She didn't say anything.

"Any idea where Dad is?" I asked her.

She shook her head. "He's been gone for a while now…"

"Hmm…" The people around here were completely use to seeing strange things, like a twelve year old shooting at people, or hitting her father with a door. Therefore I could walk around town without hiding my wings…. Well without hiding them too much. After all, they lived in a town where in one house gun shots went off every five minutes and where four people who have been declared the Humanoid Typhoon. I pulled the make-shift cloak up higher on my shoulders, my wings tucked down and against my back so my wings were covered. People glanced at me but thought nothing of it. They were use to strange sites.

We just wandered and Matt kept quiet. "So… when do you think he'll be home?"

"Dunno."

I sighed.

"Um… You're not gonna try to eat me again, are you?"

"No. I don't plan to."

"Okay…" Matt grew quiet again. "Um, can we go get into trouble or something? I'm bored…"

I sighed. "Fine. You think of something."

"But I can't… You think of something!" I growled. "How about we---"

A cat ran across the street, stopping in front of me. It hissed at me and took off running and I crouched and ran after it without realizing what I was doing.

"Hiei! I understand if you want to get the cat, trust me! I'm a dog demon but let me off of your shoulder before you go running after it!" Matt cried.

I snarled and flared my wings, running down an alleyway, almost tripping over a trashcan. I flapped my wings a few times and regained my balance.

"Hiei! Stop, please!"

The cat was only seven feet ahead of me and I leapt at it, claws ready to tear it apart. I heard the click of a gun and the word 'danger' went through my head as I snapped out of it. I slammed my hands against the ground and tucked my feet under me then leapt onto a building as a bullet hit the ground in front of where I was.

"Hiei! No eating Kuroneko-sama!" Sora yelled.

"I wasn't--" Everything came rushing back to me. "….Ah, damn…"

Matt had climbed down the back of my shirt and was shaking.

"Hiei, it's dinner time, come on. I'm starving!"

Matt slowly climbed out of my shirt and back up onto my shoulder. I glanced at her. "You're eyes look kinda creepy."

I rolled my eyes and jumped down from the building then followed Sora home.

Sora opened the door and glanced back at me. "Hey Hiei?"

"Hmm?"

"Can I see your wings?"

I blinked. "Sure." I stretched them so that Sora could see the wing span and the color and built. She walked over and touched them and they twitched. She spent several minutes studying them. I stood still, trying to stay as patient as I could. It's kinda hard when you're not a very patient person.

"Cool!" Sora finally said.

I smirked and went to fold them again but… The wind caught it again and blew me over. Sora started laughing as Matt dug her claws in my shoulder, trying to hang on. I slid on my chest for the first foot or so then the rest of my body followed. I folded my wings quickly and started swearing in kitsune language.

Matt and Sora blinked and stared.

I stared back. "What? …What? You tend to pick a few things up when you live with a fox," I pointed out.

Matt's hackles went up. I scratched behind her ear and she immediately calmed down. I sighed and walked inside, wings folded tightly against my back. "Is it just me or is the wind out to get me?"

Matt snickered as I pulled out tomato sauce to make spaghetti.