Youko felt the wind surge around him as he ran from the fortress cradling his new treasure as if it were an infant. On occasion he would glance down at it simply to feel the small tug at the corners of his mouth. It was said the keep was in penetrable. No being could infiltrate it regardless of what world they belonged too.

'The fools.' Youko thought briefly to himself as his pride surged sparking a new rush of adrenaline to pump fiercely into his veins.

A warm wind brushed against his back as if in an attempt to match his speed and surpass him. The smirk widened considerably as he decided to have some fun. His pace soon slowed as he came to a dense wooded area of the makai before coming to a hault. He dropped his prize to the ground to hide it behind a tree before turning to face the one who had come looking for him.

She appeared before him, hazily at first but taking humanoid form with in seconds. Long auburn hair flowed down her back swaying gently as if caught in the warm breeze she herself in fact was. Brazen eyes changed their coloring in the dim light, 'violet, gold, orange', as she stood before him a frown crossing her demure lips arms folded aross her ample chest.

"Kyuuka. What a pleasant surprise." Youko mused watching as the other remained nearly stoic.

"Youko, mother is not pleased." She replied her voice low however holding no threat or authority behind it.

"Oh is that so?" He asked advancing towards her slowly. Kyuuka nodded. "What exactly is she not pleased with. I am the most by far successful child that she ever bore. One would think a mother would be proud of a child who has achieved to much."

"You already know the answer to that." Kyuuka stated as he stopped a few feet in front of her. She tilted her head up slightly resting her hands against her hips giving Youko ample view of her skimpy outfit. His mortal shell began to stir as it did from time to time. The feeling that he had come to know as 'excitement'.

"Perhaps she is jealous of me. Perhaps she feels as if I have out done her supposed greatness in some way shape or form." He stated. The girl only shook her head.

"Some how I doubt that." She said. Youko took another step closer to her.

"Tell me something, why is it that mother has sent you after me Kyuuka?" He asked calmly. He saw her body stiffen slightly at the question as her eyes cast downwards.

"Well the truth is…." She began her shoulders slumping.

"You came of your own accord I see." Youko interrupted. She nodded her head once acknowledging what he already knew from the moment he felt her presence. "Now why is that?" In an instant her head shot back up as her eyes were lit with a fiery determination.

"I know that if you go back to her then all will be forgiven and her sadness forgotten." Kyuuka stated. Youko watched as hope crossed her features and couldn't help but be amused at her whimsical idea.

"Just alike the season you are Kyuuka you are filled with ideal's that the world is always brighter the next day. Your hope is undaunted and the promises you make are filled with warmth and sunshine." Youko said as he quickly closed the gap between them causing her to gasp . Quickly he seized her wrists in one of his hands holding them in front of her tightly as his free hand ripped at the top she wore exposing her to him. "I have grown weary of that light. I do believe it is time to extinguish it."

The agonizing pain was nearly unbearable as Kurama felt his leaden eye lids flutter open weakly. He meekly made to move a hand to his head but found he was unable to knowing instantly he was bound. Slowly he lifted his head letting out a small whimper of pain as he felt a sting in his temples as if something were being pulled out from underneath his skin as he did so.

"Now, now Youko don't go doing that." He distantly heard Hekireki say as a hand pushed down on his shoulders. Kurama blinked his eyes a few times in an attempt to clear the haze coming face to face with Raikou once it did. The other's face hovered mere inches from his looking more than just a bit displeased. Eyes so angry that they were merely slits glared down at him as he struggled to keep his eyes in focus.

"Nice to see that you are finally awake brother." Raikou spat out.

"What is the meaning of this?" Kurama asked his throat aching as his voice reverberated making a gravely sound as he spoke.

"You mean the great Youko Kurama has yet to figure out exactly what is going on; you with your superior intellect." Raikou stated. Hekireki took her hand away from the Kurama stepping out of his line of view.

"What is it that you seek to accomplish?" Kurama asked as he weakly tested the binds that held his arms and legs down.

"Accomplish? Oh we wish to accomplish nothing Youko. It is what we seek that you should be asking about." Hekireki said from his left side.

"Fine then." Kurama began his patience wearing thin. "What is it that you seek?" Raikou allowed an unpleasant smile to cross his features. A smile that Kurama had only seen on the most blood thirsty, power hungry demons in his centuries of traveling the more darker regions of the makai. The smile made his blood turn to ice.

"I would have thought it was clear by now. What with you bound and all." Raikou stated. Kurama stared at him his green eyes dulled by pain but sending a deadly message all the same.

"Now now dear brother, stop toying with him and tell him what he wants to know. After all he has come all this way." Hekireki stated. Raikou closed the gap between himself the kitsune.

"Yes yes I suppose you are right sister." He said softly as figners outstretched to wrap around the crimson locks. When he had a fistful he pulled Kurama's head painfully to one side so that his ear was exposed. Raikou bent down slowly relishing in the way that the other trembled under his grasp. The breath was warm but gave Kurama chills all the same as lips came closer to his ear to breathe a single word into it. "Vengeance."

The means to bind Kyuuka had been relatively simple. Easier then what Kurama had anticipated which only made the task more pleasurable. She lay on the ground at his feet dirty, bloody, naked; tainted. He enjoyed watching her as she slowly stood up her eyes scanning the area around her as means to escape knowing full and well that with whatever spell Youko had cast upon her she would be unable to return to the space in between where she normally dwelled.

Her gaze met the golden ones of her assaulter and she couldn't help but flinch.

"Release me." She stated her voice low but slightly demanding all the same.

"Now what benefit would that be to me? Why after I worked so hard to conjure the sorcery to keep you by me would I simply release you?" Youko asked a deadly smirk forming upon his lips. The final realization of her situation fell upon her as true fear overtook her. He knew that she had felt relieved when she believed the ordeal to be over but this new sense of knowing her torture had only just begun was a fear so thick he could taste it. It made him all the more sure of the idea that had come to him while he was reaping the fruit she offered.

Casually Youko walked to the tree where his stolen treasure waited for him. He glanced over his shoulder knowing well the terrible fate he had submitted her too. Her body would obey him while her mind remained of its own free will to think for itself and know there was no escape for her.

"Kyuuka come." He commanded turning his back to her knowing as she sobbed miserably behind him her feet would follow.

The images were forced to play behind his closed lids as he know knew the true nature of exactly what the arashi twins had in store for him however the realization of the room that he had been brought to hit him too late. His mother had always called it the chamber of memories; a place where those who had committed wrong doings and acts of evil were brought to relive their past crimes through their victims. To feel the emotions of those they had hurt drove most mad within a few moments of the 'treatment' however Kurama willed himself to remember that these were memories, nothing more. They were in truth horrible acts and atrocities most could not even begin to imagine but they were only now figments in his mind of a life he had sworn to put behind him.

'I am Minamino Shuichi. I am Minamino Shuichi. I am the son of Shiori. I have been good….be good….be good….good…good…good.' The thought tumbled in Kurama's head as sought to hold onto himself. To remain aware at all times no matter who he thought he was at that particular moment, whatever emotion instilled in him he had to remember ultimately who he truly was. He knew, though the ideal was fading into some subconscious realm of his mind, to lose his identity was to lose himself to madness.

Raikou smirked as the other writhed in emotional torment.

"Good, let's see how he likes it for a change." He stated as Kurama let out a strangled moan. Hekireki watched as well however not taking the same enjoyment that her twin seemed to in the others punishment.

"How long do you intend to keep him hooked up to the reverser for?" She asked. Raikou glanced over at her before his gaze returned to the kitsune.

"What does it matter?" He asked.

"You know he can't stay like this for long. We do after all have to return him intact physically as well as mentally." She replied.

"Do whe?" Raikou questioned a treacherous smirk crossing his lips. Hekireki felt her mouth open as she stared incrediously at the other.

"Yes brother we do." She stated her voice booming with authority.

"Please do tell me why?" Raikou replied back a vicious and dangerous tone lace his words. "Why is it that we should turn this murdered back on the world? Let alone that fact that the one he now dwells in is the human one. Need I remind you dear sister that it has taken us nearly six hundred years to finally get close enough to capture him or have you forgotten all of the planning that has been put into this?"

"What is time to us Raikou? We are immortal, we are the elements! As long as there is a sky and winds blow we exist!." She shouted back at him.

"Time has been cruel to me Hekireki and you know that. Every moment that…" Raikou himself off short turning away from her. The cold realization of what her brothers true motives for trapping and torturing Youko became evident.

"It's because of her isn't it? This is what all of this is about, what it's always been about. You didn't give a damn what Youko did before he took Kyuuka from…"

"Enough! I do not wish to squabble over the matter any longer." He interrupted.

"If it brings some semblance of peace to your mind then squabble we must over the matter. It was a sickening thing that he did to her yes but you cannot allow it to consume you the way it has Raikou." She replied.

"How can it not consume me? Kyuuka was mine. I was hers. We were to be together. I told her not to go on that damn fools errand but she assured me all would be well and me being the fool believed her. That she would be fine to face up to him. For two hundred years she was gone. Yes we are ageless, timeless and it should mean nothing to us but to have to go on living without her was an eternity. To wait for her hoping that all was well and she simply went her own way for a while only to have her return a broken shell of the season she once was. To have her damaged to the point of never being able to speak let alone perform her duties. To have to watch he be replaced by another when she herself had been so very…so very…" Raikou felt his body quiver threatening to spill him down onto the floor.

"Brother…" Hekireki said simply taking a step towards him only to be taken aback by the sinister glare that fell her way.

"I will break him just as he broke her and no one is going to stop me."