Hiei scowled as he was shackled back into his cell, the pink-haired girl right next to him. Really, he thought, yet again. Pink? What a stupid color. Did it have something to do with the girl's rather apparent idiocy? No…He knew Genkai, and the old psychic was in no way stupid, despite her unfortunate hair pigment.
But, this is not the point.
"You should have run, you fool." Hiei turned his scowl on Sakura. "They were after you. The rest of us…collateral damage."
She glared at him. "We'll get out of here. Naruto and sensei will break me out." The words were as much to reassure herself, as to shut him up.
He snorted. "Relying on someone else to save you, onna? I suppose I should expect nothing less, from a ningen." He spat the last word in disgust.
"Oh, really? And how are you going to get out?" Sakura retorted. "You know, without anyone else?"
His crimson eyes closed, perhaps in fatigue. "Hn."
Sakura sighed. The Kami had an unhealthy obsession with her life.
What other explanation could there possibly be, for her to be stuck with another Sasuke?
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"Uh, Koenma-sama." Boton asked hesitantly. The tiny demigod looked up from his seemingly endless piles of evil paperwork.
"Yes, Boton?"
"Hiei hasn't reported back in a while. Should we be worried?" the blue-haired reaper asked.
Koenma frowned. "…Hiei isn't one to follow rules, but…he has made pretty regular reports on this mission…" His brow furrowed in thought…then…
"Boton!"
"Yes, Koenma-sama!"
"Go check on Hiei!"
"Yes, sir, Koenma-sama!"
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