Chapter 9:

"How much of that did you hear?" Yuske asked.

"Umm…" I said paling, "I think my mom's calling me!"

I dashed out of there and into my room quickly, locking the door. I sat on my bed, heart pounding.

'What happened? He left crying? Oh God… I think I really hurt him…' I thought.

I put my head in my hands and heaved great sobs. This wasn't like me; I was always in control when it came to breaking up. Always. If I ever dumped someone, it was always the guy who cried, not me. Never me. I wondered where he was right then, probably sitting on a roof.

I slid off my bed onto the floor and curled into a little ball. Hiei used to come in the night and sit on the roof so that he could look down at me sleeping. I only knew this because he told me… so the night after he told me I left my window open a crack, and he slid in. I still remember his lips against mine, and I woke up with him standing there and smiling down at me.

'Hey.' I said blearily.

'Hi.' He replied, he moved a stray hair away from my eye, 'how's life?'

I laughed, and fell out of bed.

'I love you so much.' I said smiling up at him.

He leaned down and smiled back, 'I love you too.'

We kissed each other for what seemed like eternity, and he left around one…

I didn't know what time he came in… but I remembered the time he left.

"There, there love," a voice said and I felt an arm on my shoulder.

I looked up and there was the blue-haired girl… I wasn't afraid though, seeing as how I'd locked my door and she'd gotten in. I just nestled up beside her and buried my face in her shoulder and then cried.

"It'll be okay," she said smoothing my hair, "Hiei is just that kind of a person. He seems so hard on the outside but he is truly a decent person on the inside."

"It's not how he is… it's what he did."

"And what's that?"

"He got into my heart. He took my heart out and sewed in a boulder." I cried.

"I don't quite understand…"

"You wouldn't…" I said.

"But I want to." She told me.

I could fell her voice vibrate her body and I came up to look at her.

"If I tell you… you promise you won't tell?"

"I'm not so good at keeping secrets." She said smiling.

"I don't care." I decided, "I just… I am so used to having the upper hand in these things; that I can just dismiss them with a wave of the hand… but Hiei… he did something no other boy has ever been able to do. He changed my mind. He was able to just take hold of my heart like a vine…"

"Not a very good vine, though." The girl commented.

"No. One that killed me…" I sighed, "I guess that's what's really bothering me… I don't know if I really like him…"

"If you left him, you did that for a reason." She said.

I looked at her, "I don't know why though."

"Of course you do! He did something unforgivable, and you stood for what was right! You did the right thing love. I know it hurts… but you have to move on." She said.

I laughed… it was pitiful.

"Here I am, pouring out my heart and soul to a girl I don't even know." I said smiling, "How ironic!"

"I don't see the irony," she said, "but my name's Boten."

"I'm Yuriko…" I replied.

"Pleasure to meet you!" she said happily.

We talked for about a half hour and I remembered the conversation I'd overheard.

"So… how did you turn into the lady in the bathroom?" I asked.

She grinned, "That is one secret I can keep."

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