By Die Before I Wake
(Part 4 of 5 of the batch fanfics.)
The pup whimpered and whined and continued trying to jump up at Hiei. He just blankly stared down at her as she finally stood still on her hind legs with her front paws resting against his right shin. Her blue eyes locked onto his red ones and they stared at each other silently until she whimpered quietly and lowered her fuzzy silver ears. Hiei didn’t know why, but he reached down and picked her up.
Do wolves have the ability to control people? I know they can make their prey freeze by looking into their eyes, but what the hell was that? he thought. No. This thing looks too young and dumb to know how to do anything like that.
The pup whimpered again and wriggled. She gave up and dove forwards and rested her paws on Hiei’s right shoulder and tried pulling herself closer to him. Hiei pulled her away and looked at her again. She shivered and squirmed more until Hiei realized that he was holding her by the two spots on each of her sides that she was probably held by when her attacker had gotten a hold of her. He quickly and gently out her down on his bed and she stopped crying and looked up at him.
“I’m going to put you in the closet now,” Hiei whispered. “Stay quiet.”
The pup tilted her head to the side and whimpered in reply.
Hearing footsteps come up the stairs, Hiei quickly scooped up the pup and put her in the closet. He quickly closed the door and sat on his bed, drinking a bit of his Jolt as he blankly stared off into space. His door was opened rather quickly, and rudely, for that matter, by a large, orange haired, bumbling idiot.
“C’mon, Hiei! We’re going out with the girls to the mall and stuff today!” Kuwabara shouted.
“I don’t want to go, baka.”
“Too bad. Kurama’s making everyone go.”
“Screw you.”
Without another word, Kuwabara picked Hiei up and slung him over his shoulder. The fire apparition growled and dug his nails into Kuwabara’s back, making the human yell out and drop him. When Kuwabara came running at him, Hiei stuck his foot out, causing the idiot to trip and fall down the stairs to the first floor.
“You bastard!” Kuwabara screamed from his place on the first floor stair landing.
Hiei sighed and walked to his room and shut the door. He spied a small empty glass bowl that had once contained Ramen noodles sent to his room when he slept in one day. He had dumped the noodles out of his window. Something had eaten them before nightfall that day.
He took the bowl and rinsed it in his bathroom sink. Then he filled it with water and put it on the small table next to his closet. He opened the door and caught the wolf pup as she toddled out as quickly as her little legs and sore muscles would let her. He took off the dangling bandages and put her back on the crumpled blanket on his closet floor as he used his other hand to grab a pair of his plain black shoes. He tossed the shoes onto the floor behind him and put the water bowl next to the wolf’s blanket.
Taking advantage of her eager sprint to the water bowl, he grabbed a pair of socks from his floor and slipped them on. As he was tying his second shoe, he felt the pup pawing his back. He looked back at her and she sat on her haunches and whimpered. Attention w****, he thought as he finished tying his shoe and turned to scratch behind her ear. He heard the slight thumping of her tail hitting the floor be joined by the louder thumping of her foot copying the action. She really is like a dog, after all.
“Hey, Hiei,” Yusuke shouted from the other side of his door.
“What?” the fire apparition replied in an annoyed tone.
“Come on, Kurama’s got the car started. If you make us wait any longer, you’re sitting in the back with Kuwabara.”
“I’m coming. Let me finish putting my shoes on, detective.”
“Alright.”
Hiei pushed the small silver pup back into the closet and stood up. He pushed the door to close it and walked towards his bedroom door. He opened it and walked out. He didn’t look at the Spirit Detective. He just pushed his door to the frame and followed the other boy outside.
Well, so far, so good. No one knows about the pup yet. Maybe I can secretly give her to Yukina to take care of back at the Koorime Island? the Fire Apparition thought to himself. There. Now he had everything planned out perfectly. Bring the pup to Yukina the next time he saw her, explain everything, give it to her, and then it would be out of his hair forever. Perfect. Nothing could go wrong now, there would be no trouble, right? Except for one tiny fact: neither of the doors had actually closed.