My Demon Escorts (Hiei x OC)

Missing Pieces

I run. I started running when I got out here and I had time to run, building my stamina was a pain but I actually enjoy it now. I know Hiei is following me because he is supposed to be and because I can feel him. He's in the trees where he seems to live when I don't drag him down.

We need an answer Hiei's voice should be a surprise but I'm so completely aware of him its not that strange.

You'll get it when I decide. I try to snap the thoughts at him and are you gonna do something about the shadow following me or do I have to do your job for you?

I'll join you in a moment.

Hiei threw himself across the trees and attacked the shadow thing that was following me. He made quick work of it before appearing beside me.

"How long did you know that was there?" He was curious about me.

"Since I left the house." I offer a smile "morning by the way."

"When will you have your answer?" Hiei ignores my greeting.

"When I give it to you."

"Pfft." Hiei just shook his head "why don't I just tie you up and drag you there, collect the bounty for real and then kill him anyway?"

"While all that sounds like something you would do, pretty boy wouldn't go along with it and still, I can take you."

"You have a vivid imagination." Hiei countered. "While I have come to tolerate these little talks I need an answer, now."

"I don't know," I snapped getting annoyed with him.

"What happened to your memory?"

I stumbled and struggled to regain my footing. "what are you talking about?" I demanded.

"You relocated here some months ago but there are missing pieces in your memory, particularly the reason you chose to leave your life behind." He watched me as if he were reading a book.

"I suppose I'd want to get away from a mother like yours too." He scowled.

"What gave you the right to-"

"But that wasn't enough to leave, you have a sickening sense of loyalty to people that treat you no better than a piece of garbage. They get what they need from you and discard you and yet you still feel obligated to them..." he wrinkled his nose "you even love them so intensely it makes me sick to my stomach."

I hadn't realized we stopped running until I found myself starting at him. I had pushed all of that stuff to the back of my mind, had gone even a few weeks now without suffocating myself with any of those thoughts at all.

"Who told you that?" I demanded my hands balled up into fists.

"No one, you fool, put two and two together." His lips curled back and he looked very much like the villain all accept his eyes. He looked like he had hurt people or demons or whatever but he didn't look like he killed just anyone and anything.

"You can read my mind." I took a step away from him because that was possibly the worst thing that could happen. There are things I don't want people to know about me. This whole move was my fresh start. I could start over and no one would look at me and pity me. No one would worry about me when I went home and I didn't have to cut people off to avoid being asked why I did what I did or pry into my personal life to find out what was going on behind closed doors.

"You are still disgustingly happy for someone that's been through what you have." He leaned closer to me to whisper in my ear. He was so close his cheek touched mine