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A/N: Yay, here's the next chapter I got this story idea when I was reading the book Fahrenheit 451 (which I don't own), and I still can't figure out how this kind of story came from that kind of book. Oh well I just kind of wanted to say that… just being random!
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or Fahrenheit 451… even though I didn't use anything from it in this chapter.
Chapter 2: The Second Hell
Hiei stepped off of the bus and onto a nearly empty bus ramp, halfway down the ramp he saw a familiar redhead leaning against one of the metal poles that held a roof over the cement.
Hiei could feel eyes on him and he didn't care, he had gotten used to it, stares were the least of his problems. He had yet to clean and bandage his laceration leaving it to bleed continuously.
The pain from it was starting to annoy him more than anything but he knew it would be fixed soon, he stood in front of him for a moment until Kurama registered his presence and looked up.
"Good morning Hiei." He said with his smile.
Hiei had always thought that Kurama was beautiful, and despite all the girls asking him out he never once accepted them, and he had never really explained why. He and Kurama had been friends for longer than either of them could remember and he was the only one Hiei considered his friend.
Sure there was Yusuke and Kuwabara to but they weren't Hiei's friends, they were Kurama's, he had never considered them his friends; they just didn't understand him like the redhead did.
"Why are you bleeding?" Kurama asked suddenly getting a worried look on his face. Hiei closed his emotionless crimson orbs so he wouldn't have to see the expression in his green eyes and his beautiful face.
"I cut myself on the way to school, I need you to get me a bandage from the infirmary." He explained, he hated to lie to Kurama, it always left a bad taste in his mouth, but it was the only way to keep him from asking questions and getting involved.
"Why can't you get it?" He asked as they began to walk towards the main building of their school.
"I've already been in there three times this week, any more and they'll think I'm doing this to myself." He stated looking ahead, and feeling the redhead watching him now.
"Are you doing this to yourself Hiei?" He asked; after a moment of silence he went on, "I wouldn't put it past you to do something like that."
Hiei scoffed talking before he really thought about his answer, "I would never harm myself for the wrongs that aren't mine."
Kurama watched him for another moment then looked ahead of him with a grin on his face, "even after all these years I still can only barely read you." Hiei got a grin of his own as they entered the air-conditioned building, he intended to keep it that way.
Kurama went into the infirmary and retrieved the requested item and some from his own request, then offered to tend to Hiei. Kurama usually was the one who took care of him when he was hurt, Hiei had fought against it in the beginning.
But after awhile he had gotten used to the softness of his touch instead of the constant beatings, and their light conversations that he knew he could have at any time whether it was in the middle of the day or the middle of the night; he had just never known Kurama to get angry at him for anything.
The first bell rang just as Kurama was finishing, he stepped back with a bright smile that made Hiei want to match it; but he held back. "There, done." The smile left for a moment while he took a wet cloth and cleaned the line of blood that had been running down the side of Hiei's face.
"There, now I'm done." Hiei stood up from the tile floor where they were in the hallway and touched the bandaged area lightly; he nodded in gratitude.
"Anywhere else?" Kurama asked with a light smile, Hiei just rolled his eyes and turned towards the closest door, "go to class baka." He said in a fake serious tone that he knew Kurama could see through then went into the classroom.
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At lunch, Hiei and Yusuke sat at an empty table in the cafeteria while Kurama and Kuwabara got food, Hiei never ate, he rarely if ever had the money to get the school's provided food.
"What happened to your cheek Hiei?" Yusuke asked looking at a side angle to see around where Hiei was leaning against his hand.
"None of your business." Hiei said without opening his eyes. "No… but if you don't tell me I'll annoy you till you do tell me." Hiei's eyes slid open in a blank emotionless stare at the black haired kid in his green school uniform.
"Don't make me slit your throat today Yusuke I'm really not in the mood." He then closed his eyes again just as Kurama and Kuwabara returned. The two sat down, Yusuke and Kuwabara across from Hiei and Kurama.
The redhead looked over at Hiei, "what do you want?" Hiei shrugged, he really didn't want anything being in this place and around all of these people made him feel sick, all he wanted to do was skip school today.
Kurama set a plate of fries in front of him and instantly he began to eat; it was another thing that he had become accustomed to.
As Hiei began to pick at the food before him he felt eyes watching him from across the table. "Hey Hiei, what happened to you?" Came Kuwabara's annoying voice.
"Don't even try, I already asked him and all I got was a death threat." Yusuke said with a hint of frustration.
Kurama chuckled, Hiei chanced a glance at him to see his smile. "Easy Yusuke, you should've learned by now that if Hiei wants to tell you anything, he will." Hiei nodded, "if not, then you won't be getting anywhere." Kurama's smile grew, Kuwabara crossed his arms and muttered something about 'anti-social midget'.
Yusuke sat in silence for a moment, then his brown eyes lit up suddenly, "hey I forgot to tell you!" His voice was louder now. "My Mom's going to be gone this weekend so you guys want to come stay over?"
Kuwabara instantly nodded, "yeah man that'd be awesome!"
Kurama shrugged, "I don't know, it depends on how much homework I have to do." Yusuke groaned, "oh come on, you always say that, you need to get out more, it's only one weekend!"
His emerald green eyes looked back and forth between the two anxious boys and finally nodded after giving a sigh.
"What about you Hiei?" Hiei stayed where he was, unsure of what the right answer was. In truth he really did want to go, he would go anywhere just to not have to stay at his house; the group that was posing the offer was what made him re-think it.
The moment's delay caused Yusuke to jump to conclusions. "Hiei your more anti-social that anyone, it wouldn't hurt you to just spend one night with friends." Hiei almost chuckled, Yusuke had no idea how wrong he really was.
"Fine, I guess."
"Good, you know we should do stuff like this more often, jeez it's been like a year since we all actually hung out together." The overly happy kid said with a grin on his face.
"We all have begun to lead very different lives Yusuke." Kurama had a calm look in his eyes. "Very different." Hiei added, the redhead's look turned to him, then back to the two across the table. "But the idea is very good and not entirely impossible."
They nodded, "yep, so I'm having this on Saturday, yeah it'll be awesome." Kuwabara nodded and they began to talk again.
Hiei felt himself getting sick of this lighthearted talk, and as much as he liked to hear it instead of the constant yelling in his ears were accustomed to, there was only a certain amount of 'normal' conversation he could take.
He suddenly stood up, the group's eyes went to him, his hollow crimson eyes starred down at the fake wood table under his hands. "I have to go, the happiness is making me sick." He then forced himself away before the confused eyes could burn a hole straight through him.
Outside in the warm air he let himself walk without destination, somewhere that wasn't populated. He finally grimaced at what he had said to them.
This kind of event was becoming more and more frequent, he would say something, anything, that somehow connected to his life's epidemics and he wouldn't realize it till after it was said.
He grimaced again at the thought of it all, when posed with the question Hiei knew he would say that he had everything under control and he didn't need help.
But a deep pit in his center screamed and clawed at anyone who would even remotely listen to him, because deep in the back of his mind he knew he needed help, and knew he wanted it.
This life just couldn't go on any longer, he could no longer live this double life that burned him and suffocated him.
He stopped suddenly hearing a familiar sound, looking to his right he saw three older, more muscular guys picked on a younger boy, probably only a couple of grades younger.
They poked and taunted him time and again, laughing as they did it, and in the end they would make up some excuse to beat him up and leave. Hiei knew this whole depressing event to well, because it often happened to him and he knew he couldn't do anything about it (or back to them).
'Only the strong shall survive in the end.' He thought walking away from the scene, he couldn't intervene without the same thing being done to him. 'If such is the case who determines who is the strongest?'
His eyes slipped closed as he walked past a group of people to avoid their glances. 'Them for pushing their limits on power, or him for being able to get back up?'
He sighed, 'maybe it makes a person stronger to just stay down… either way there is no answer to the question.'
A/N: Oh I love this chapter and I love the ending part of it! I think I'm actually pretty good at writing these, I mean I can even think of ideas for future chapters! Anyway thanks for reading, ideas and comments (no flames please) are accepted!!!!
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