[ if Hiei had a middle name it would be “difficult.” At any rate he seems to be in the kind of mood to be difficult and pick, and so here they are. ]

You’re not a fighter and yet you are somehow worried about needing protection? [ it doesn’t add up for Hiei if he’s honest about it, hands tucking in to his pockets.

He isn’t considering the job for a second, of course. He’s had his fill of babysitting human teenagers. ]

I am not a baby sitter. You’ll have to find someone else.