CHAPTER 11 KICKED OUT

"I'd better be going," Raven said getting up.

As she headed for the door Hiei's voice made her stop when he stated. "Your friends don't trust me."

Raven looked back at him in shock. What does he mean? "What are you saying?" she inquired. "How do you know they don't trust you?"

He looked up at her and they locked eyes for a moment. "They don't want me around anymore," he explained.

When did they say that? she wondered but didn't ask.

"I can tell by the way they look at me," he went on as if he read her mind. "Especially the one you call Beastboy."

Beastboy. She should have known. Beastboy had it out from Hiei ever since the fire demon had been allowed to be put in Terra's room. Maybe the shape shifter ws holding some kind of grudeg? Though I never really knew Beastboy to be the type to hold a grudge. she reminded herself. I bet he thinks a grudge is some kind of candy bar...

That thought amused her and she snickered.

Hiei heard her and gave her a curious look. "What's so finny?" he asked.

She told him. He snickered too. "I bet he does," the demon agreed. "He seemes like the type."

"I know," she said. "Sorry that my friends don't seem to trust you. Maybe Robin and the others are just a little scared of you after what happened in the training room yesterday."

"It had been their idea," he reminded her.

"I know," she said. "But maybe now they're thinking it would be best to figure out a way to send you back home..."

"Home..." he said in a strange longing voice.

For some reason the tone in his voice made Raven's chest hurt. Was she upset that he wanted to go home? If so, why?

"I'd better go," she said abrumptly.

"Why?" he asked then wondered why he even asked that question. Why did he even care if she left?

"I just do," she said as she walked over to the door. "I have to meditate."

Then she left the room without even using the door. She was just surrounded by dark power then vanished into the floor. When she came out of the floor she was in her room. The reason she went through the floor was to keep from running into anyone who might see that she was upset and want to know why. She ws too upset to talk to anyone anyway.

She walked up to her bed and sat down on the mattress, only then realizing she was shaking.

When Robin told Starfire Hiei had said he was sorry the alien girl had been happy to hear it and had forgiven the demon. Beastboy wasn't so forgiving. He thought Hiei should have told Starfire himself.

"He doesn't seem like the type of person who has an easy time saying things like that," Robin told him. "Just give him a chance. I'm sure he'll open up to us."

"I doubt it," Beatboy grumbled. "The only person he seems to get along with is Raven and that's probably because she's just like him."

Robin said nothing. He'd also noticed how Raven and the fire demon got along with each other. He's also noticed that Hiei seemed to speak freely and be more compliant with the pale girl, almost as if he didn't trust the others. I wonder what Hiei and Raven talk about? Robin wondered. What couldthey talk about?

"Well give him a chance," he said again.

"Fine," Beatboy said glancing at the doorway and spotting the demon walking toward the room. "Maybe he'll want to play a game with me and Cyborg." Beastboy got off the couch and started for the demon.

Hiei noticed Beastboy coming toward him and wondered what the green idiot wanted. I hope he's not going to give me a hard time about somthing, the demon thought, feeling his dislike for the shape shifter getting stronger. Well whatever he wants it can't be anything good.

When Beatsboy did speak to him the fire demon was taken by surprise by the question. "Wanna play Stank Ball with me and Cyborg?" the green one asked, spit splattering all over the demons' face as he spoke.

Hiei wouldn't have considered it anyway but for some reason getting spit on, especially in the face, put him in an even fouler mood. Now he was angry and his dislike for the green idiot worsened to an almostt hateful feeling. "No," he told Beastboy, angrily. "Now get away from me, fool!" then he roughly shoved Beastboy back.

Beastboy lost his balance and fell onto the floor. "Ow!" he grunted.

"Hey!" a voice shouted.

Hiei looked over his shoulder. Suddenly Robin had him by the collar of his coat. The Titan's leader glared at him angrily. "I don't know what your problem is," he began. "But don't take it out on Beastboy! Whatever Raven sees in you is beyond me!"

"Friends," Starfire began.

"Shut up!" both Hiei and Robin ordered.

Starfire backed off, now afraid to get involved with their problem.

Robin focused his attention back at Hiei. "We've tried to be nice to you but all you've been doing is treating us like dirt!" he went on. "If that's how you repay people who show you kindess then you'd better just leave."

"Are you kicking me out?" Hiei demanded.

"What do you think?"

The demon already knew. He grabbed Robin's fist and loosened it from his coat. "Hn, Fine!" he growled, turning away from the human. "I'll go. I don't need any of you anyway."

He headed toward the door and disappeared down the hall.

"Robin, do you think that was a good idea?" Starfire asked, when the demon was gone and she was sure it was all right to talk again. "He's not from here. He might get lost in the city."

Robin could care less at the moment. "He'll be fine," he told her. "We don't have any reason to worry about him."

Starfire could have corrected him on that but she decided not to. He wouldn't have listened anyway.

Hiei left the Tower without looking back. He was in such a foul mood that he hadn't even bothered to say good bye to Raven. If they wanted him out, he was leaving. The demon stared across the bay at the city for a moment deciding what to do then, in a flash of black, disappeared.

A/N

Sorry If I'm making Hiei act like a jerk I didn't mean to.