-1Doi Co Bao Lau
Summary: Name's taken from a Vietnamese song (which rocks, find the band Cardin and listen to it) and it means 'To Be Alone.' Or something like that. Anyway, onto the actual summary. Kuronue, wandering around Ningenkai, learns of Kurama's kidnap by Yomi from listening to Yusuke's conversation with the others. Of course, he didn't believe that Youko could still be alive, but his curiosity got the best of him and he heads off to find Yomi and Kurama. However, what he finds is not what he was looking for.
Category: Yu Yu Hakusho
Genre: Angst. Romance. Crap like that.
Rating: M/NC-17
Couples: Karasu/Kurama (forced), Yomi/Kurama (forced)
Warnings: Look at my couples section. Don't ask questions like that. I will fill this in as I go along, however.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Sigh.
Kuronue glanced around the street boredly, watching all the ningens walking, pretending to have important things to do, yet all they were doing was trying to fill the voids in their lives. Kuronue knew what that was like. After living through that damned time and losing Youko, he'd found and been trying to fill that void himself. However, ningens were lucky; their lives were very short. Kuronue, however, would live on, remembering Youko's warning not to go after the necklace, that it wasn't worth it. He would also live on, remembering the sudden pang when he learned of Youko's death by the hands of that bounty hunter. Of course, he'd gotten revenge for his love, but that wouldn't bring the fox back to him.
Having nothing left to tie him to Makai, Kuronue slipped into Ningenkai, hoping to find some sort of entertainment or at least something to keep him occupied and off of the subject of Youko Kurama. Yet he found the same thing ningens did in the pointless struggle against the void; it was just that, pointless. Nothing he did could tear him from the sorrow of losing his fox and it was killing him. He only had a little while longer, in his own thoughts. Maybe a year or two, and he would just die from lack of caring. He no longer cared to take care of himself, and this would be what would kill him.
"…Kurama?" Kuronue stopped, hearing the name most precious to him. Glancing around, he saw four people standing together, one being a yokai, one being half-ningen, half-yokai, one being a damned Spirit agent, and one being a normal ningen.
"Yeah, where is he? He said he'd meet me after school to help me out with my school work." The half-breed commented, looking at the yokai.
"Why do you ask me? Kurama does not fill out a planner for me so that I would know where he is at all times, Detective." The yokai sneered.
"Look, shrimpy-" The ningen said threateningly, leaning forward as though to intimidate the yokai.
"Guys! I know where Kurama is." The Spirit agent exclaimed, effectively drawing everyone's attention to her. "He's in Makai."
"How did he get back there? Koenma told me that I could not return!" The yokai glared at the Spirit agent, causing her to cringe.
"He's not there willingly…He's been abducted by a higher level demon. I don't have any details as to how this was managed, but we believe that this demon has something against Kurama." She explained, edging away from the yokai.
"That's understandable…" the yokai muttered to himself.
"Hiei, what are you hiding from us?" the half-breed Spirit Detective demanded of the yokai.
Kuronue, having hidden in a tree earlier on during their conversation, inched closer to the four of interest. He managed to catch a bit of the yokai's mutterings, and fell out of the tree in surprise.
The three males of the group had surrounded him immediately, impressing Kuronue slightly. Of the three, the yokai was the only one that he recognized, now being face to face with him. It was the Forbidden Child that Youko had wanted to see when he was still alive.
"Forbidden Child. You say that this person, 'Kurama' is the Youko Kurama? Surely, you are delusional, that fox died many years ago." Kuronue ignored the Detective and ningen for the Forbidden Child.
"You are behind on the times. Youko fled to Ningenkai and took a human form after being fatally shot. Now, he goes by Kurama only." the Forbidden Child sneered, turning away from Kuronue with disinterest. "He is still powerful enough to protect himself from those who wish him harm."
"I wouldn't wish him harm even if he had attempted to take my life. Where is this yokai in a ningen guise that acts as my fox?" Kuronue demanded, setting a hand on Hiei's shoulder and spinning him around. "I'll not allow anyone to sully his name."
"He's not sullying his name," the Spirit Detective stated, setting a hand on Kuronue's shoulder. "Apparently, Kurama means a lot to you, so I think maybe you should just let Hiei go…"
"Do NOT presume to tell me what you believe is truth!" Kuronue swung around, glaring death at the Spirit Detective. "That is why yokai hate your kind so much! You believe something without even attempting to find out if it was truth or not!"
"Look, I don't know if Kurama is the person you seek or not, but he told me himself that he was once a spirit fox and had learned the art of thievery, which was his downfall. As for where he's at, we don't know. Well, we know that he's in Makai. Other than that, maybe Botan'll know more…" the Spirit Detective looked at the female, who shook her head.
"We only know that he's held in Makai by someone known as 'Yomi.'" Kuronue's heart skipped a beat as that name was uttered. Youko and Yomi had many problems that Yomi would never let go.
"Yomi, you said?" The female nodded. Kuronue nodded to himself and dashed off towards the nearest portal into Makai that he could find. He would find this 'Kurama' and if it wasn't Youko, he would kill him after killing Yomi. It was the least he could do for his fox, after all.