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Unspoken Thing

The hardest thing about life is
when the person who gave you the most memories
becomes a memory.

how odd it is to be

haunted

by someone that is still alive

Date
※ 01/27/24 Injured: ⋙ Dark Tournament
※ 01/29/24 Insomnia: ⋙ Dark Tournament
※ 02/11/24 Intimate Bathing: ⋙ Post Series
※ 02/25/24 Loss: ⋙ Post Series
※ 03/04/24 Unspoken Thing: ⋙ Resurrection [completed]
※ 03/19/24 Defrosting: ⋙ Post Series
※ 04/17/24 Garden: ⋙ Resurrection [completed]
※ 06/03/24 Kurama's Return: ⋙ Resurrection [completed]
※ 08/06/24 Picnic: ⋙ Post Series
※ 08/22/24 Domestic Fluff: ⋙ Post Series
※ 09/20/24 Sickness*: ⋙ Resurrection
Chronologically
※ 01/27/24 Injured: ⋙ Dark Tournament
※ 01/29/24 Insomnia: ⋙ Dark Tournament
※ 02/11/24 Intimate Bathing: ⋙ Post Series
※ 02/25/24 Loss: ⋙ Post Series
※ 08/06/24 Picnic: ⋙ Post Series
※ 03/19/24 Defrosting: ⋙ Post Series
※ 08/22/24 Domestic Fluff: ⋙ Post Series
※ 03/04/24 Unspoken Thing: ⋙ Resurrection [completed]
※ 04/17/24 Garden: ⋙ Resurrection [completed]
※ 06/03/24 Kurama's Return: ⋙ Resurrection [completed]
※ 09/20/24 Sickness*: ⋙ Resurrection
Pending
※ MM/DD/YY Kissing Scars: ⋙ Timeline
※ MM/DD/YY Eating Together: ⋙ Timeline
※ MM/DD/YY Swear To Me: ⋙ Timeline
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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."

“Suit yourself.” Kurama has not forgotten who he was talking to, or the way Hiei persistently remained awake long enough to say whatever he was driven to, regardless of the dragon's use or the various tea concoctions offered to him by the fox. Which is exactly why he'd said that, in the first place. He's not about to argue why or how the other demon should be handling any of this though, even if he is fairly certain a break from their present back and forth might do him some good.

His eyebrows lift as Hiei says she's unaware of his presence there, as if that should make any difference at all in any of this. If the fire apparition had remained at the temple since, the fox might entertain the idea that Mukuro was unaware of his reasons for being there so long, but Hiei had come and gone enough times now after Kurama's return that he can't imagine she'd be so oblivious to miss the signs.

“Afraid she'll be jealous that's the reason you're spending so much time here?” He doesn't think that's the case at all, as evidenced by the blatant tease in his tone, but the quip comes so naturally that it's out before he thinks better of it. It's more that he's calling the fire apparition's bluff, even if it could just be denial on Hiei's part to think so.

“You don't truly think she hasn't noticed, do you?” Maybe saying nothing is tactical on her part, deliberate to keep Hiei from knowing she's realized, whatever her own reasons. The fox may be old, but Mukuro is older, it's hard to say what motive she may have for how she operates, but he doubts she's saying nothing without cause. Even if her logic is just to give Hiei time to work it out and bring it up on his own terms.

Time would tell.

Part of his stanch position that she did not know was mostly the fact that he wished she did not. Of course it would explain a lot of his absences lately - and sometimes his volatile moods when he would return - but it wasn’t as though the former king had ever out and out asked. He was her right hand and her ally - but it didn’t mean she kept tabs on him day and night.

They had an understanding, still. Even after all these years she knew that there was something there, no matter how wrung out he had been returning to her compound knowing Kurama was gone. Even after he’d spent countless hours doing absolutely nothing but wallowing in his own miseries simply because he could.

“Jealous?” A huff of an actual laugh leaves him, shifting slightly as drowsiness begins to settle in, but not quite ready to lay down. His arms cross over his chest, a subconscious move to close off.

“If she does, she hasn’t yet told me I am an idiot.” Because he is, and he knows it. For being here, for spending time around the one person he both wanted with all his being and yet knew he ought to stay away from. “And I prefer her quiet, on that subject.”

She can beat him in to the ground infinitely for all he cares - he simply does not want to hear the lecture or the subtle jokes.

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