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Hiei's Dare

Chapter 27: Sense of Normality

June 14, 2003

By CCD

A/N: I'm sorry for the wait. It's been crazy and I haven't had time to tweak this the way I wanted it to go. It was a mixture of writer's block, being busy, stress, and I've been sick off and on all summer. Having no A.C. sucks! I'll be back home for my off semester on Aug. 26th and then maybe I'll have more time for writing.

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“Toddler Bitch, you better tell me what's wrong with him or I'll…” Yusuke yelled at his briefcase monitor.

 

“Calm down Yusuke. I'm on my way to the Human World now. I'll be able to explain once I get there,” Koenma said before disappearing from the screen.

 

“Damn it!”

 

Yusuke wanted to punch something. He had carried Hiei all the way back to the house and the ex-demon still hadn't woken up. Kurama had kicked Kuwabara out when he had gotten to annoying and had placed a wet cloth on Hiei's head. He now watched as the Spirit Detective walked over to the wall and punch a huge dent in it.

 

“Yusuke, perhaps that hostility would be better served for our next mission. Right now, our concern needs to be on what is wrong with Hiei.”

 

The detective sighed. He knew Kurama was right, but that didn't help him at all.

 

“I just can't sit back and watch this keep happening Kurama. I know that this was what he had to do to go back to being a demon, but I wanted to be able to help him in some way. He's suffered so much because of the dare you know and it's just hard to sit back and just watch.”

 

“Yes it's hard, but it's something we must do. We have to let Hiei fall and hope that he'll reach back up to one of us. We have to be prepared to grab on and keep him from falling.”

 

Yusuke nodded. Kurama was right. Kurama was always right.

 

“You know, one of these days I'd like to see you be wrong for once.”

 

The two of them laughed. It felt good to get some of their worry and stress out. It was during this time that Koenma showed up in his teenage form.

 

“Nice to see your not angry anymore Yusuke.”

 

“Koenma this isn't really the time to discuss that. We do not know what's wrong with Hiei and we think that you do,” Kurama said quickly knowing that Yusuke would blow up at the teenage ruler if he didn't.

 

“I know that he was suppose to become unconscious when he completed his task so that he could regain his powers, but since my Father decided that his powers were to be taken away longer, I don't really know what this is from. I'm here in case something bad happens. If he doesn't improve in the next couple of hours I'll talk to my father. He probably knows what's wrong with him.”

 

The three of them were silent. They didn't know what they could do to help Hiei.

 

“So what do we do?” Yusuke asked.

 

“I don't know, Yusuke. We'll just have to wait until he wakes up to see what repercussions this has.”

 

“Damn it!”

 

Yusuke marched out of the room. He didn't want to sit there and wait. The detective wanted to know what was going on with Hiei right at the moment. He walked out of the front door and slammed it hard behind him.

 

“He took it worse than I thought he would. Goes to show how well I know him,” Koenma said with a huff.

 

“Yes, well he's gotten protective over Hiei, lately. It stands to reason that this would hit him hard,” Kurama said as he replaced the cloth on Hiei's forehead.

“Do you think we should go after him?”

 

“Why don't we let him blow off some steam? He'll be back.”

 

“You're right.”

 

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“Stupid toddler, stupid girl, and that stupid car, and stupid Kuwabara,” Yusuke muttered under his breath.

 

Everyone moved out of the way of the angry teen. Even if they couldn't hear his ranting, they could tell that Yusuke Urameshi was the last person you wanted to cross at the moment or there would be hell to pay.

 

It wasn't very far before he found himself standing in front of Kuwabara's house. He reflected back on that day that seemed so long ago when this whole thing started off as a dare.

 

“I dare you, Hiei. I dare you to go to school for the rest of this term and I also dare you to act like a human while you're going to school.”

 

The memory was still fresh in the teenager's mind as if it had happened only yesterday. He was a wreck; all of them were over a dare. The teenager took a deep breath. He needed to go back. Hiei was unconscious, he knew, but at least he could show the ex-fire demon that he was there for him when he eventually woke up.

 

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Red eyes fluttered open and shut quickly as the light blinded him momentarily. He shifted and winced at his sore muscles.

 

“Hiei, are you awake?”

 

He opened his eyes once more to see Kurama sitting beside his bed, book in hand. He watched the fox demon place a marker inside the book and place it on the bedside table.

“What happened? How long have I been out?”

 

“You have been unconscious for two days. You saved another apparition from being hit by a car. Both of you were lucky not to get too badly hurt. She walked away with a friend of hers and we brought you back to Yusuke's apartment shortly after it happened. You've been unconscious from the accident scene.”

 

The two of them were silent for a moment before Kurama spoke up again.

 

“We were all worried about you. Yusuke has been taken this hard. I think he's taking this hard because he feels responsible for you.”

 

“I can take care of myself.”

 

Kurama smiled knowing that it was just a way for Hiei to relieve himself of whatever was going on at the time. It was, dare he say it, almost normal.

 

“It's nice to see you're back to your old self, Hiei.” Koenma said as he came into the room.

 

“Hn,”

 

“I pretty sure that you want to know why your were unconscious after that little episode.”

 

Even thought he was silent and wouldn't look Koenma in the face he knew that the ex-fire demon wanted an answer. Koenma knew no matter how hard Hiei tried, he could not deny the fact that he wanted to know any sort of vulnerability he had.

 

“I found out from my father that your body finally over exerted itself. All the things that have happened since the dare just kind of piled up and pushing that girl out of the way was the last thing your body could take. He also said that it was preparing for your demon abilities to come back. You'll probably feel small traces of your power, but you still have a few months until then, you'll just have to settle for the fact that they will come back. Oh, congratulations by the way.”

 

“Hn, on what?”

 

“That's right you don't know. You had to perform a charitable act, like saving another person's life in order to get your powers back at all. I told everyone not to tell you because it had to be your choice to save a person.”

 

Hiei was giving Koenma a look that said, “run if you don't want to die right now.” Koenma smiled.

 

“It's really good to see you back to your normal self. I've got to be heading back to the Spirit World to take care of some things,” he said turning to Kurama, “I'm leaving you in charge, Kurama. Look after Hiei and Yusuke and make sure they don't tear each other's limbs off.

 

Hiei fumed even more at the statement. Kurama stifled a laugh as Koenma exited. It felt good to see Hiei riled up a little. However, since overexertion was the partial cause of his collapse, Hiei would need to get some more sleep and eat something so he could recuperate.

 

“Why don't you lie back down, Hiei while I get you something to eat? You need rest and sustenance. I'll be right back”

 

The shorter person in the room huffed, but laid back down. Kurama smiled and got up to head to the kitchen. As he walked by the living room he saw Yusuke sitting on the couch. Since the Spirit Detective couldn't bring himself to fall asleep, Kurama had sedated him with a heavy dose of sleeping powder so that he would be out for quite some time.

 

“So, you're awake too.”

 

“What'd did you do fox boy? Why do I feel so tired?”

 

“You were a bit restless, so I sedated you so that you could get some rest. Hiei's awake by the way.”

 

That woke Yusuke up really quickly.

 

“He's what?”

 

Before Kurama could answer him, Yusuke was already half way down the hall. He flung the door open startling Hiei who had been drifting back off to sleep.

 

“Could you be any more louder, detective?”

 

“You jerk, if you do something like that again, you'll be unconscious cause I kicked your ass, not because you've overdone it.”

 

“Give it a few more months and we can test that theory. I can assure you that it won't take much to beat you.”

 

Kurama stood in the doorway listening to the argument. He sighed. Things really were going back to normal.