Night descends too slowly sometimes.
Hiei sat with his back against the tree trunk, his knees partially bent so he could rest his hands on the backs of his legs. He had his eyes closed but he knew when the night had set in; he could feel it closing in around him. He had told them he knew little of 'hugs and puppies and games,' nor did he care for them. In his life he had no time for that kind of extravagance. No, there was only time to defeat and conquer, time barely to lick one's wounds and collect one's thoughts before the next move. And certainly there was no security to allow such things as video games or walking dogs in the park.
No, Hiei's life was devoid of the frills that marked the humans, and even Kurama at this point. If he had to have anything of the sort the darkness was his hugs, battle his games, the cries of opponents the closest he got to the soft calls of lovers. Was there anything in his life that could correspond to those intimacies humans enjoyed? He could think of nothing, no demonic equivalent of kisses.
They had all gone back to their families afterwards. Just a 'good job team' all around and then the other three had gone running to their mommies. He knew Kuwabara would have had some snirking comment to say if he had had the brains to think about it for three seconds. The shorty left out in the cold, no real home to return to and no one waiting for him who cared. But he would never accept the human's pity, he didn't even see the need for it; this was just his life, and this was how he lived it.
In the morning Kurama would come to talk to him, 'just to check in' and because he had the video. But first the fox had gone home to his human mother. Hiei had stepped back into their lives so easily, so seamlessly, if only for a few long hours, and he had dropped out of it again just as easily. In the morning Kurama would come, but until then he was alone in the embrace of his darkness.
Well that ended up looking pretty short, lol. Pretty certain now that I won't finish these by white day and ffnet is giving me trouble -.-"" shi you dianr bu hao