Chapter 1: Accidents Happen
Kurama
I glance up from the book I'm reading. We are at Genkai's. We just finished another mission, and now we're relaxing for a bit before returning to our normal - sort of - lives. Yuusuke is playing solitaire with a deck of cards and Hiei is dozing on the windowsill. The only reason he's here is because it's raining and I'm here. Otherwise, he'd be sleeping in a tree somewhere or at my apartment...doing other things, instead of hanging out at Genkai's.

He avoids this place like the plague. Not because he dislikes being here though. His sister stays here, but she doesn't know that he's her brother. And he doesn't want her to know. He's afraid that she'll figure it out if he stays around her too much. Instead, he tries to avoid her.

Kuwabara suddenly bursts into the room, yelling loudly and incoherently, obviously drunk. Hiei stirs and jumps off the windowsill. He moves across the room until he's as far away from Kuwabara as possible without knocking out a wall. Then he settles on another windowsill and closes his eyes, intent on ignoring the rambling drunk. I smile, amused by my lover's actions.

The orange-haired boy sways unsteadily on his feet, then pulls some cans of beer from his pockets and chucks one at me, one at Yuusuke, and one at Hiei.

"Look out, Hiei!" I yell as the can heads toward him. At the sound of my voice he opens his eyes. Only his fast reflexes prevent him from getting a nasty bump on the head. The Jaganshi brings his katana up with lightning speed and cuts the can in half, spraying beer everywhere.

Unfortunately, one of the shards of metal grazes his cheek, leaving a deep, jagged cut. The fire demon puts a hand to the wound, wincing as some of the alcohol gets in it. Then he glares at Kuwabara.

Kuwabara mourns over the spilt liquor. "Awww!! Ya wast'd it! Perf'ctly good beer too..."

Hiei growls and resheaths his katana, obviously considering Kuwabara too low a life-form bother himself with killing. "I hate ningens!!"

The drunken Kuwabara giggles, then hiccups. "Well, I hate ya too," he slurs. He grins stupidly. "I bet ev'n yer own moth'r hat'd ya!!"

Yuusuke and I jump up immediately, knowing what Hiei's reaction is going to be. Too late. Hiei's katana impales Kuwabara's chest.

The fire demon pulls his sword out and backs away slowly with a shocked expression on his face. He obviously hadn't meant to do that. The katana drops from his hand as Kuwabara slowly crumples to the floor. Hiei looks at his hands in horror and disappears.

Yuusuke runs to Kuwabara and feels for a pulse. After a moment, he looks up at me with a shocked expression on his face. "He...he's dead..." I just stand there, frozen in place. Hiei's going to be in big trouble...

Suddenly, I hear the door creak. I glance toward the door and see Yukina peeking in. She is looking at Kuwabara's body in horror. Her gaze shifts and she looks directly at Hiei's katana. A look of rage passes over her face and she disappears. Oh, shit! She's going after Hiei, I know. I jump out of the window and run after Hiei, changing into my youko form as I run. With the look that I saw on Yukina's face, she won't hesitate to kill him, and Hiei won't defend himself because she's his sister. He'd be afraid that he'd hurt her. I can't let him die!!

Big problems. Why do I always pick on poor Hiei-san? I don't know... *sigh* Me and my sadistic nature...And this story is just going to get more complicated. Kachime no nai means hopeless. And it fits this story.

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