A/N: I never thought, when I envisioned this story, that it would be so complicated! How come no one warned me about how I would be getting writer's block for almost every chapter, and only one idea to work on for each one? Whatever let's see what I can pull out of my sleeve…… besides a rabbit.
Hiei: Baka, they pull rabbits out of hats!
FS562: Whatever it's my story I can say what I want! … How would you know anyway?

Disclaimer: I do not own YYH or any other copyrighted thing that I may use in this story, it is purely for the experience of writing and I am in no way making money off of this! And please don't sue me!

Chapter 5: One Strike Needed For Total Demise

Hiei's P.O.V

The next morning I was still awake, I closed my eyes just before Kurama's alarm clock was about to go off, who knew what kind of speech I would get if Kurama knew I hadn't slept.

The loud beeping sound that I hated so much went off and I grimaced at the high-pitched sounds. In a matter of moments Kurama moved and shut it off then sitting up, "good morning." He said.

"Hn," was the only thing I could think of to say, after the embarrassment I put myself through last night I was a fool to think I should even try my hand at words.

Kurama nearly smiled then got up and went to take a shower. I got up as well and went to his closet, he usually had some clothing of mine that I would leave over here, why, neither of us was sure, it just happened.

I was dressed in my normal black attire, most of my wounds didn't seem to hurt so much, but the one on my shoulder hurt even more than it had yesterday. 'Maybe because I didn't do a good job at cleaning it yesterday.' I thought to myself.

I sighed when I realized that I didn't have any of my stuff for school here, it didn't matter, I never took school that seriously, why should I when my mother could care less then I did about what I made?

I went out into the kitchen and looked around, I knew exactly where everything was and how everything worked, but I dared not touch any of it (it wasn't mine anyway).

Nearly ten minutes later Kurama came out in his school outfit and his bag, "ready?" I asked; he looked at me confused.

"We have some time Hiei, I can make us something to eat first."

I shook my head, "I have to get there early today to meet with some of my teachers." I lied, a simple excuse so that I would be able to walk around and collect my thoughts before they were stolen away from me by the presence of class.

"Okay." He said with a smile, Kurama cared more about my schooling than I did and I never figured out why.

But then again he cared about everything more than I did, if he knew my situation he would undoubtedly care more about my life then I did as well.

And then we left for school, one single question burned in my mind that I knew I needed to ask him before the end of the day, but not right now, right now I needed to think about what was going on.

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The day went by slowly, every minute seemed to pass by like a whole year, and I spent most of my time counting down each minute and each hour, I was starting to think it was a bad habit.

By Speech class I felt like I was about to collapse from sleep deprivation, somehow I forced myself to stay awake for the beginning part of our teacher, Mrs. Yukatta's, lecture.

This is always how the class is, the beginning half is a lecture about speech and then the last half is to partner up and either speak or debate with the person.

I don't know how Kurama was able to convince me to take this class, I think he told me I need to improve my social skills.

About halfway through Mrs. Yukatta's lecture, the battle I had been fighting with my eyelids was not going well, with each passing minute they became a little bit heavier and it became harder to catch myself when I did let them close.

I finally gave up and let my eyes close, and my head lean forward, instantly the black of sleep took me.

Normal P.O.V

Mrs. Yukatta finally released the class to their partners, the students got up to find their partners and begin their daily exercise.

Kurama stood over with two other students in their class, beginning to talk about who would be paired with who; a girl named Samii walked over, "hey," she said, "look at that kid over there." She motioned with her head over to the sleeping Hiei.

One of the boys, Kasu chuckled, "oh wow, is he really sleeping through class?" The other, Nitsu, chimed in, "what an idiot, who does that? He's going to get in so much trouble when Mrs. Yukatta figures it out."

Kurama, who had remained silent couldn't stand to hear their words, "you two partner with each other, I'll be with Hiei." They obviously didn't give Hiei enough respect to even remember his name, not many at the school did.

"Are you sure dude, I mean you don't have to lower yourself down so much as to be with him." Nitsu stated. "I mean if he wants to fail then let him." Kurama shook his head and walked away from them.

He went over to Hiei's desk and stopped by his short friend, he couldn't help but notice how unbelievably innocent he looked when he was asleep.

His knee propped his chair back on it's back two legs, his arms were crossed over his chest but his face was softer without the emotionless crimson eyes to hide it.

He was almost dissuaded from waking him.

"Hiei?" He gently shook his arm

Hiei's P.O.V

Not again, I thought I had finally freed myself of them! I can hear them now, my mother and that damn Yusa! Their shrieking laughs fill my nightmare and there's no escape.

"Hiei you're the reason that your father left us, if it weren't for you he'd still be here and everything would be perfect!" I heard her shout at me.

Suddenly a deep laceration dug into my skin from the crook of my arm down to the wrist. I shrieked at the pain, trying not to scream as the fire filled my body and the blood flowed over my arm and down into the blackness that was around me.

Whoever said that it was impossible to be hurt in a dream was an idiot.

… Or what if this wasn't a dream and somehow I was back in Hell, it did seem like everything that I deserved.

And it certainly did feel like I was beginning to die from extreme blood loss, I knew what dying felt like, we'd flirted together more times than I even wish to remember.

"You're a failure Hiei," Yusa now, "what are you going to do when everyone leaves you and you're alone for the rest of your life? At least you'll know that it was all your fault, that you drove everyone away. The world would be better off if you weren't even here."

Another gash down my other arm, if I could collapse right now I would.

Where are the arms of safety and comfort I long for so badly? Where are they? What ever happened to them never leaving me?

… Or did I ever hear that… maybe I was never promised that and I'm just wishing that it was true. Maybe everybody is slowly being driven away from me.

No… no if they're going to leave me then do it in one vengeful shove and not little by little, that just hurts so much more.

Suddenly I see them, I see Yusa coming closer to me and suddenly grabbing my arms, I feel him shaking me, no this can not go on and I will not let it!

"Don't touch me!" I suddenly backhanded him away, squeezing my eyes closed.

When I re-opened them I was back in my speech class, everyone was spread out for their groups… but everyone was starring at me, in silence. I myself was now standing with my chair thrown back, probably from when I jumped up so quickly.

And then I saw it, Kurama was against the wall, one hand on it and the other on his cheek, and then I knew what I did.

He starred straight at me with those confused, and hurt emerald green eyes; my heart dropped suddenly.

Before I was even able to come to my senses enough to even try and apologize to him the teacher came over. "Kurama are you okay?" Yes, first attend to him, I didn't mean to hit him I swear I didn't!

Kurama nodded but I could see he was horribly shaken up. She then came over to me, "Hiei what were you thinking, hitting him?"

"He was mad because he wasn't getting to do what he wanted." One of the students, Kasu said with a superior look at me, I tried my best not to run over and beat him senseless, that would just be worse for me. I glared hard at him and clenched my fist.

"Hiei." I looked back at her, "you have yet to answer me."

"I… I don't know… I wasn't." How was I supposed to tell her that I was being killed in my dream and I was just trying to defend myself, I didn't know it was Kurama, the very thing that I had so badly wanted at the time!

She sighed heavily then turned back to Kurama, my eyes went to the floor, it would kill me to see his look again.

"Kurama I think you should go to the infirmary, I really don't want to keep the two of you in the same room together."

My hand clenched further, I could feel my nails digging into my skin. I needed to set this straight with him before someone was able to plague his mind with false lies.

He must have nodded because I heard him heading to the classroom door, I looked up just as it closed shut again.

"Alright everyone, return to what you were doing." The teacher announced, and little by little the students did as told, she stayed where she was in front of me.

"Hiei you're exactly the kind of student that I would have thought would do this kind of thing, but why Kurama?" I wasn't sure if she meant for that to be as much of an insult as I took it to be. "I thought you two were friends."

"I thought so to." But now he's leaving me… along with everyone else.

Even so he didn't deserve to be hit for it, he deserved to be shown the way out; if he wanted to leave I would be extremely hurt but I would never blame him.

"Then why did you do that?" Did she really think I was going to open up and spill every thought out to her? She was my teacher for an hour and that was it, nothing more, she didn't deserve the explanation, Kurama did.

"I'm going to get water, to clear my head." I stated, slipping my hands into my pockets and walking out the same door Kurama had gone out.

The hallway was empty, the redhead was no where to be seen… did I really expect him to still be here?

I briefly thought about going up to the infirmary to speak with Kurama myself, but there would be to many people around I'm sure.

And then I thought about just skipping the rest of class completely, but Mrs. Yukatta's expecting to see me return I'm also sure.

Baka school and it's flawless ways of keeping me here!

A/N: That was such a good chapter, oh the suspense! How will Kurama take it? What will Hiei think now? You know I have to say I really do like telling the story in Hiei's P.O.V, I may start doing that more often. We'll see, next chapter soon!

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(Oh and I really need a muse for this story, so please let me know if anyone's interested If you are it will require you being able to stand hearing/reading future chapter.)

-Forbiddensoul562