He almost makes a comment to ask if the fox has forgotten who he is talking to, but wisely leans back against the wall, waiting for drowsiness instead. In a way, he wishes it was almost instantaneous so that there wasn't time to recognize it. Time to be in the middle of something, a thought that he wants to finish before he allows Kurama to go away, but that's not in their cards. Perhaps something to request if this becomes a continuing theme - though he genuinely hopes that this is not something that will recur.
... Though with the continuing tumult between them.. who knew.
"If I cannot go under my own power, I am not going." Like hell will he allow himself to be carried to the caravan, or anything of the sort, even if it pushes him physically to do so. He still has not told Mukuro about the fact that Kurama was back and.. well. Hiei does not plan to tell her anything before she needs to know, or before it suits him to allow her to know. With everything else going on, the last thing he needs is for Mukuro to add herself to the list of people asking her about how things are going with Kurama, or simply smirking at him in that way she always had when he would return to the demon world, from time to time, after they had begun to live together.
The demoness had always found it amusing, actually. If asked she would make some passing, evasive comment about the smell of roses amid cinder or something like that and, blessedly, had left him mostly alone since Kurama's death. In her own way Mukuro had attempted to encourage him to move on, the occasional 'playful' comment about comment about someone wanting his attention, or how she'd noticed him on another.
The problem persists, though, that 'once bitten, twice shy' remains true for Hiei. Loving and losing has not made him fonder, instead it has made the fire apparition twice gun shy about placing anything close to trust in another person perhaps ever again. He had been steady on his own - and it had been his own foolishness to let the fox in, despite what he knew of it all.
"Mukuro does not know you are back - " Meaning she hasn't said anything about it yet so he is counting that as does not know. " - And I want to keep it that way."
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He almost makes a comment to ask if the fox has forgotten who he is talking to, but wisely leans back against the wall, waiting for drowsiness instead. In a way, he wishes it was almost instantaneous so that there wasn't time to recognize it. Time to be in the middle of something, a thought that he wants to finish before he allows Kurama to go away, but that's not in their cards. Perhaps something to request if this becomes a continuing theme - though he genuinely hopes that this is not something that will recur.
... Though with the continuing tumult between them.. who knew.
"If I cannot go under my own power, I am not going." Like hell will he allow himself to be carried to the caravan, or anything of the sort, even if it pushes him physically to do so. He still has not told Mukuro about the fact that Kurama was back and.. well. Hiei does not plan to tell her anything before she needs to know, or before it suits him to allow her to know. With everything else going on, the last thing he needs is for Mukuro to add herself to the list of people asking her about how things are going with Kurama, or simply smirking at him in that way she always had when he would return to the demon world, from time to time, after they had begun to live together.
The demoness had always found it amusing, actually. If asked she would make some passing, evasive comment about the smell of roses amid cinder or something like that and, blessedly, had left him mostly alone since Kurama's death. In her own way Mukuro had attempted to encourage him to move on, the occasional 'playful' comment about comment about someone wanting his attention, or how she'd noticed him on another.
The problem persists, though, that 'once bitten, twice shy' remains true for Hiei. Loving and losing has not made him fonder, instead it has made the fire apparition twice gun shy about placing anything close to trust in another person perhaps ever again. He had been steady on his own - and it had been his own foolishness to let the fox in, despite what he knew of it all.
"Mukuro does not know you are back - " Meaning she hasn't said anything about it yet so he is counting that as does not know. " - And I want to keep it that way."