A Kurama tale

"Kuronue?!" Kurama whispered as he sat up in his bed. Looking down at his clutched sheets, he thought quietly to himself. "It's the same dream again... perhaps its more than a dream..." He pulled his legs around to the side of the large bed. "No... I can not think that way Kuronue died long ago."

He sighed and poured some tea into his favorite glass. A groan escaped his lips when he saw what time it was. Stepping outside he looked at the moon as if to receive an answer from its soft silver glow.

"It's the third time this week Kurama." Hiei spoke softly to his red haired friend.

"I didn't know you were keeping tabs on me Hiei." Kurama retorted without looking at the demon sitting on a low branch of a nearby tree. "Would you like to come in?" Kurama asked.

"Why not?," he asked rhetorically as he momentarily disappeared and repapered on the entrance to Genkai's temple.

"I had a... dream...," He paused for a much needed sip of his tea. " Kuronue returned but he was... different, something about him was so strange and different then the way I remember him." Hiei looked over his shoulder and turned around revealing a poured cup of tea for himself.

"You might just be having flashbacks of the day that demon god took his form the difference was the evil that was his soul." Hiei said as he sat on the floor and set his cup on the table.

"No he wasn't different like that, no it was the outside rather than the inside." Kurama remembered out loud.

Hiei shrugged and replied, "Is it bothering you so badly because you think he might come back?"

"He can't come back he is dead..." Kurama said as dryly as he could perhaps to convince himself of it. Hiei finished his tea in the mean time and stood.

"I must leave now Yukina has been alone with Kuwabara for much to long." Hiei said without so much as a grin. Kurama smiled slightly as the demon leaped out the partially opened door.

Kurama then gazed into his tea and thought his saddened words to himself. "Kuronue, if only I could have saved you. none of this would have happened. But now your spirit haunts me, could you have done what I did? Did you survive where you reincarnated somehow?" Kurama bit onto his lip as the door of his room flew open.

"KURAMA!! There's been a massacre! A very powerful demon escaped spirit world! It's attacking the temple, let's go!!" Yusuke yelled as he turned and ran towards the beast. Kurama stood knocking over the short table and the tea that rested on it. His eyes closed slightly as he followed the boy outside.

"Fools... You can not harm the god of all demons!" The beast bellowed with a chuckle.

"What's this?" Kurama said quietly as he noticed a figure fighting violently within the palm of the snarling beast. His eyes widened, noticing a small charm glowing a tiny red glow, from around the thrashing being's neck. A long pony tail was the next thing he saw moving wildly about.

"Let me go foul demon!" Kurama herd a voice ring out, but it wasn't the voice he was desperately, deeply wanted to hear. The demon's large nose pulled the flailing creature towards it. "DIE!!" the female voice screamed as she sliced deeply into the demons nose.

A scream leapt from the bleeding creature. Tears and blood writhed from it as it threw its hostage into the air. The girl flew into the air momentarily then she began to fall.

"Kuronue?..." Kurama whispered. He raced over to the falling female and outstretched his arms for her. She wiggled as she fell, chanting in her head,

"What I wouldn't give for some wings right about now."

Kurama repositioned himself still trying to catch the girl. The demons cries continued as it blasted the falling creature. It's blast was blue/green that burned like fire. It was pure spirit energy relentlessly ripping at her body.

"No...Not this time!" Kurama said as he jumped up to the vile "god" while drawing his favorite weapon the rose whip. He ensnared the creature's mouth and forced it's own attack into its throat. It violently threw its head back and forth until it fell. Kurama landed gracefully next to the beast putting his chosen rose whip away. He then looked to the sky the now smoking non moving figure continued to fall.

He dove under her catching her in his arms. He nudged her gently " Kuronue? Kuronue! Come back to me damn it!" Kurama pleaded.

A cough answered him "Ku...rama", she looked up at him with darkened blue eyes. His eyes grew dark with concern as he drew her into a hug.

"Kurama, do you know her?!" Yusuke. Kuwabara got a hentai look on his face and elbowed Yusuke.

"Leave them alone you fool." He stood tall and tried to give a speech to his friend. "It's plain to see if you know love" Kuwabara smiled hugely. Yusuke had been gone by now. Kuwabara blinked twice and mumbled "Jerk..." as he walked away.