By Die Before I Wake
(Part 2/3 of MEGAupload)
“D***it,” Yusuke said, jiggling the doorknob. “It’s locked!”
Kurama and Yusuke were knocking on Hiei’s bedroom door the next morning. “Hiei, wake up. You haven’t come out of your room since we came home yesterday.”
Hiei groaned and lifted his head from the pillow. “What?” he asked them.
“It’s time to get up,” Yusuke replied.
“Why? We just went out yesterday.”
“It’s grocery shopping day,” Kurama told him through the door.
“Have fun.”
“Come on, Hiei. The girls are the ones that took you for clothes. We don’t know what you picked out, and we want to see,” Yusuke said.
“Leave. Me. Alone.”
“Hiei, if you don’t come, we’re not lugging cases of your drinks into the car ourselves,” Kurama threatened.
“... I’ll be out in a few minutes... Let me take a shower.”
“We’re leaving in ten minutes. You can shower when we get back.”
Hiei heard the footsteps retreat from right outside of his doorway. He growled to himself as he forced himself to rise off of his surprisingly comfortable bed, which he had used for the first time that night. The pup whined and squirmed into the warm spot that he had been laying in and let out a deep sigh.
I’ll wait until after I dress to move her, he thought. Then she might not whine as loudly while everyone is still in the house. Then he saw the bags on the ground and remembered that he hadn’t put his clothes away in the closet. He was too busy searching the entire top floor of the house for the pup. I had better not turn into a Kuwabara with a wolf rather than a cat... The very thought terrified him and made him shudder as he dug through one of the bags.
Eventually he got tired of searching through the bags and dumped them onto the bed. He found a Marilyn Manson shirt that he had gotten. For once, Yusuke had been right. He needed CDs if he was going to get shirts and jackets from Hot Topic, Spencer’s, and the other stores he went to. They were almost all music related. So, he had shirts of almost all the bands he had gotten CDs for... which weren’t many. But it was a start, right?
He grabbed a pair of dark blue jeans and placed his own pants on the bed after taking them off. He pulled the jeans on and sighed. He wasn’t used to these types of pants. They had very slim legs, and they only went up to the top of his hips. Human clothes are so uncomfortable, he thought. He quickly put on the black belt with silver studs on it and pulled his shirt down to at least cover the small area of his boxers that showed above his jeans. He didn’t understand why the human clothes had to be so... revealing.
Hiei picked up the pup and she whimpered at being woken up. He put her in the closet and filled the same bowl with fresh water. “I’ll have to feed you when I get back,” he said, giving her one last scratch behind the ear before he closed the closet door. He walked to his door and opened it to see Kurama standing right in front of it. The kitsune’s eyes widened a bit, seeing Hiei in human clothes.
“I was just going to knock again. Are you ready to go?” he asked. Hiei nodded. “Don’t you want to bring you iPod for the ride?”
“I don’t know what it’s for.”
“It’s for listening to music wherever you are, as long as the battery doesn’t run out. I recommend plugging it in every night to prevent that.”
“How does the music come out?”
“Through these,” Kurama replied, walking over to the desk and picking up the white headphones that were coiled up next to the laptop. “You haven’t unplugged it yet?”
“It said not to disconnect it,” Hiei replied quickly. Hurry up and leave, Fox... I don’t know when that pup’s about to start whining...
“All you had to do was click the button in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window, Hiei. Didn’t I tell you that last night?”
“I must have stopped paying attention.”
“...” Kurama pulled the white cord out of the iPod and the laptop and showed Hiei how to use the buttons and the headphones. He set it to automatic shuffle for Hiei and handed it to him. “It’ll be useful for car rides. You won’t have to hear Yusuke or Kuwabara’s voices.”
“I’m starting to like this iPod thing already.”
“Well, let’s go, then,” Kurama said, shaking his head. Hiei nodded and followed him out, taking one last look at the closet door to assure that it was shut, and waiting to hear the small click of this door before he let go of the knob.
