A Warm Compassion | A Hiei Love Story

Lamenting Beauty

Ranumi's POV

It's been about a week since the mission in maze castle and with the whole town being controlled by the Makai insects, so far things has been pretty quiet.

It was a Friday morning and homeroom was about to start as all of us sat in our seats as our adviser arrived.

"Good morning class." Our teacher greeted us as we greeted back. "Alright everyone, since we'll be having our annual school anniversary, the principal told me and every other teachers in their class that the students are going to perform a class dance for the event." Our adviser said as everyone in the class started to get excited on who will they be partnered with or anything related to the dance. "Of course, which means if you will need to have a partner for the dance you will be performing. Go ahead and use this time in practicing for the dance."

All of us got up from our seats as well all carried our desks to the side to practice for the dance. Chiharu came to me with a big smile on her face.

"Oh my god, Umi. I'm so excited for the dance next week." She said, having her arm around my shoulder.

"Yeah, it will be great and I'm sure we'll have some fun during the event." I replied ,

"So do you have someone in mind of who you wanna go with?" She asked, making me blush a little bit not obvious,

"No and I don't mind." I said faking a smile as she looks at me mischievously,

"Oh?~ Are you sure that you don't wanna ask a certain redhead to dance with you?~" Chiharu teased, making my blush very obvious. "Ha! You should go ask him, girl. I mean you two are practically perfect for each other."

"Chiharu. I'm sure there are a lot of girls that wanted to have Shuichi as their date and I want him to choose any girl that he would like to go with, not put him in a lot of pressure." I explained, "Besides, me and Shuichi are close friends. That's good enough for me if he wants someone else to be his date." I told her, suddenly feeling a slight pain when I said the last part.

"Well, speaking of Shuichi, do you know where he is, Umi?" Chiharu asked seeing that Kurama isn't present in class.

"Not really sure." I lied, knowing that Kurama is in spirit world right now and told me before he left. "But you boys, they have their secrets and we have ours."

"That's for sure." She said as we started helping out in the choreography of the dance for the remainder of the time.

Hayami's POV

I'm currently in the grocery store buying some food that we need. Father was supposed to accompany me in doing this but he was told that he was needed at his work place for an emergency. Hiei was needed in spirit world for something but didn't say anything else about it.

I walked around an aisle I reached out for the last item needed until someone grabbed it before me. I looked at the person, only to see Hiei was beside me, holding out the grocery item. He was wearing his casual clothes that father picked out for him.