By Die Before I Wake
(The End?)
“Hiei, could you come downstairs, please?” Kurama called out from the living room.
D***. Did they find her? Hiei thought. He walked down the stairs, trying to be calm. Something told him that the “euthanize” thing was not good for the wolf.
He calmed down when he reached the bottom of the stairs and saw everyone, including Koenma and the girls, standing or sitting in the living room empty handed.
“Hiei, we’ve chosen to go out for dinner, seeing as two people who are currently in this room and who know who they are, decided to eat almost everything we bought for tonight’s dinner as snacks,” Kurama said, turning to look at Yusuke and Kuwabara midway through the speech.
“And you’re telling me this...why?” Hiei asked with a rather agitated tone.
“Just shut the hell up and get in the car, emo!” Kuwabara snapped. “I’m hungry!”
“Like I care about whether your gluttonous a** gets any food or not! It’s not like there’s a refrigerator or any cupboards you can raid or anything,” Hiei snarled.
“Hiei, just get in the d***ed car, or I will be forced to lock you away for anger issues!” Koenma shouted.
“Hiei, you can just listen to music and ignore everyone,” Kurama said. “Wouldn’t that be a lot easier than being locked away in some Spirit World mental institution?”
“I don’t want to go. I was out yesterday and the day before. I would like to stay home today.”
“You’re just going to sleep. And then you’ll have too much energy and not want to sleep tonight, and then you’re going to go out and train, and with your luck, some demons are going to attack you, and we won’t notice because we’ll all be sleeping, and you could end up bleeding to death,” Kurama reasoned.
“Bleeding to death would be much better than having to live with you three, in my opinion,” Hiei replied. Before anyone could say anything, he was walking upstairs, hoping to get a glimpse of the wolf as he looked around the second floor hallway. He saw nothing, not even a stray strand of silver fur on the floor. He growled to himself for not making sure that the door was shut and sulked into his room and grabbed the iPod that he had left on his desk next to the laptop that after over a year, he had used for the first time a few days before.
Hiei returned downstairs a few moments later with his iPod and headphones jammed in the pocket of his jeans. He said nothing to anyone and walked outside of the house and took his usual seat in the front passenger side of Kurama’s blue car. He put the headphones in his ears and searched his iPod library. Eventually he gave up looking for something specific and went back to the main menu and selected the convenient Shuffle option. After a fifty five second intro to the song:
“Should have known how hard it is to stop
tearing each other apart.
Separating souls entwined
in all these labyrinthine lies..”
Kurama opened the driver’s side door and sat in the seat. He looked at Hiei, who had turned towards the window upon his entry, before putting the key in the ignition and turning it. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Koenma jumped into the three back seats and Kurama waited for the girls to pile into Shizuru’s car before pulling out of the driveway.
On the way to their chosen restaurant, which no one bothered telling Hiei the name of, no one spoke. Or, at least Hiei didn’t hear if anyone did. He lazily looked out the window of the car and sighed. He saw a little boy and his father walking a large, grey husky and thought of the wolf. I couldn’t find her before I left, he thought, biting his lip. What if she breaks something or gets into something and they think there’s a problem and call someone?
Hiei sighed when they pulled into Keiko’s parents’ Ramen House. I should have known... he thought as he got out of the car when it stopped. He stretched and put his iPod and headphones in his pocket and waited for everyone else. They walked in the restaurant and sat in two booths. The others placed their orders and Keiko’s mother looked at Hiei.
“And for you?”
“Just coffee.”
“Cream, sugar?”
“Black is fine.”
Keiko’s mother nodded and left to get the food and drinks.
