So obviously I can't post chapter two until I've posted chapter one, so here it is.
Disclaimer: I don't own the YYH characters, just the original ones along with my other friends.
Kuwabara's prov.
Kuwabara was in high spirits as he walked into Koenma's office. He had just been to see Yukina and had lunch with her. When he got the message from Urameshi to meet him here, he had made his way over after finishing his lunch. Couldn't be that important since they had already taken out the Netherland guy, right?
As Kuwabara walked into Koenma's office and saw only Botan there, he knew he had been wrong. "Kuwabara, you have to come with me."
Uh oh, very wrong. "Where to?" He said as a bit of fear crept up his spine. "To Murkuro's. The others are waiting." Botan got on her oar and Kuwabara followed close behind and they traveled through the border between the worlds.
Botan walked right into Murkuro's home without knocking and Kuwabara followed hesitantly behind. Murkuro was sitting at a table with an untouched drink, Koenma standing next to her on the table rubbing her back. Urameshi was pacing until he looked up and saw Kuwabara.
"Where the hell have you been? I called you an hour ago!" Urameshi threw a punch at Kuwabara, sending him flying into the walls.
"Yusuke, control yourself!" Koenma barked.
"I didn't think it was that important. What's going on here?!" Kuwabara was in a slight panic, which enabled him to forget about the pain in his limbs from being sent into the wall.
"Yusuke, take him to the room." Yusuke silently turned and started walking down the maze of halls. "Urameshi, where's Kurama?"
Yusuke gulped. "With Hiei." Kuwabara felt more and more uneasy as they continued down the hall. He ran into Yusuke when he abruptly stopped and opened a door. Oddly, Urameshi didn't complain about it.
He just stood there with the door open. "Go in."
"Aren't you coming with me?" Kuwabara heard his voice almost squeak and immediately felt a twinge of shame. Yusuke shook his head and walked back the way they'd come. Kuwabara was more than a little tempted to follow, but steeled himself and walked into the room, sure he would be ready for anything he could see. He was wrong, very very wrong.
Kurama was slumped on the floor, his knees pulled up to his chest and his head down, crying. Kuwabara almost ran to ask him what was wrong when he saw it for himself.
On the bed was Hiei, his shirt off and his pants torn. His torso was bruised badly, his neck slit and there was blood everywhere. No one had closed his eyes, so they just looked up, dead, like an unpolished ruby, never to hold expression again.
Kuwabara ran out of the room, searching for the nearest bathroom as he felt his entire lunch lurch forward. There was no way the little guy could be dead?
"Yusuke, Kuwabara, I want you to go through Hiei's things. I don't think Kurama or Murkuro is up to it and I have to get back to the office." They both nodded at their boss's orders.
Kuwabara followed Yusuke again as he made his way down the halls, but paid close enough attention to tell when he was going to stop. They both walked into Hiei's room. 'Was Hiei's room.' Kuwabara reminded himself.
The room looked like it had never been used, set up like a guest room. The bed was twin sized and had a white comforter and sheets. All of the furniture was made of a dark wood, probably cherry. It was impeccably clean and it look like it had never even been seen before, much less lived in.
The only thing that seemed slightly out of place were the old leather bound books that lined the bookshelves. "Never thought of Hiei as a bookworm, how about you?" Yusuke joked weakily.
Kuwabara picked up one of the books and flipped through it, trying to imagine the little guy reading it. A paper slipped out from one of the pages onto the floor. Yusuke picked it up and glanced over it, half interested.
"Blah blah blah, as published by these records, blah blah, this house is formally yours. Wait, what?!" Kuwabara snatched the paper back as Yusuke stood there, very confused.
"Urameshi, this is a deed to a house in Makai. Why would Hiei have it?"
Yusuke grabbed the paper back and read over it more carefully. "Because it's his house, numbskull."
"But why would Hiei own a house?"