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Hiei ignored Kurama expounding on his possible motives for wanting to fight Seiryu. Don’t pretend you know so little about what motivates me, fox. Or are you still in denial about what you did?
He knew about betrayal first-hand; he knew how it cut through your gut like a knife. But was that the only reason he was taking this fight so personally?
What disturbed him more was how familiar Seiryu’s reasoning sounded. “He was a weapon, not a friend, and like a cheap sword, he rusted.” The words could have been taken from inside his own head. How many times had he formed an ‘alliance’ with another, only to discard them once they’d outlived their usefulness?
He probably would have betrayed Kurama too, if the fox hadn’t got there first.
As he took up a fighting stance against Seiryu, it wasn’t the ice wielder he saw standing opposite him, but himself. Hiei’s spirit energy glowed fiercely as he stared himself down.
This is what you get for thinking you can do without anyone, he taunted. You cling to that ‘honour’ code whilst stabbing everyone around you in the back! I’ll show you what a true warrior spirit consists of.