When they met back up Kurama noticed Kumiko was gone, he scanned the stadium for her but couldn't find her. He looked to Hiei, then Yusuke.
'Not again...how do I always get myself into these messes?' she thought.
"Yusuke, we need to find Kumiko..." Kurama told him. "Oh no fox boy...I'm NOT helping you this time, she's more trouble than she's worth" he said.
"Dim wit, we could say the same thing about you" Genkai said.
Shishiwakamaru smikred. "You'll never find her Kurama, I've hidden her well" he said. He turned to face him. "What did you do to her Shishiwakamaru?! You better have not hurt her" he said feeling frustrated.
He smirked again. "You have to get Youko to find her, your human nose can't do it" he said scoffing at Kurama.
Kurama growled, because he knew he couldn't leave until after the fights wrapped up for the night.
After a few more fights, they wrapped it up for the night. Kurama ran off after he recruited Hiei to help him. They went to find Kumiko.
"Kumiko! Kumiko, where are you?!" he called. There was to much noise and conflicting smells to pin point hers. Hiei went ahead and found her. 'Found her' he told him through mind link.
Hiei guided Kurama through the sea of demons. When he got there she had her head down.
"Kumiko..." he said in just barely above a whisper. He took the gag out of her mouth, which caused her to cough and threw up. "Kurama..." she whispered. Kurama nodded for Hiei to cut her down. "Hold on, we'll get you out of here" he told her softly.
He did and Kurama caught her. "I got you, you're safe now" he said.
They took her back to the room and cleaned her up, gave her the new clothes Kurama bought her.
She woke a few hours later to see Hiei looking out the window as everyone else slept. Kumiko looked to see Kurama asleep next to her, while holding her.
Kumiko carefully sat up. "Hiei...thank you for finding and rescuing me" she said. He nodded as she slid out of bed and went to the bathroom to freshen up a bit more.
When she came back she found Hiei hadn't moved. "I'm sorry you're getting dragged into rescuing me...I really wasn't trying to cause this much trouble" she told him. He shrugged and looked at her. "Kurama likes you or he wouldn't be going through this nonsense to rescue you and keep you safe" he told her.
"I know...either way...Thank you, I know he likes me, I like him to..." she said looking at him sleep. He nodded again. "Go back to bed, you need your rest, if you don't Kurama will be more worried about you and he'll lost his concentration on his fights, because he'll be focused on you" Hiei told her. Kumiko nodded and got back into bed. She put her back to Kurama's chest and quickly against him.
She felt safe in his arms.