Last Chapter: In the Name of Love

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Sapphire stared at the fire cage where Kurama and Batty were in. It had been exactly one hour since her messenger left. She hated to wait, but she knew she had to be patient; it's possible that Yomiwould give a sudden attack when she lost her self control.

Then she felt it, a huge intention to kill from the north. She faced that direction and saw Yomi was there, enraged.

"What a speed…oh I love you so much because of that." Sapphire chirped playfully. Yomi looked at her in disgust.

"Oh, don't be that mad…" she continued, "don't worry, I won't hurt your precious whore if you release my sister Pearl."

Yomi's demon energy increased rapidly and threatened Sapphire, but that woman didn't afraid. In contrary, she felt so great because she could make the usually-composed ex-demon lord this mad.

"I give you only one choice. Release Kurama and I will notkill you. how about that?" Yomi said coldly.

"Certainly no," Sapphire decided to play with the six-ears demon more, "it's you who have only one choice. Release my sister and I won't harm your red head bitch. If you don't…"

the fire cage that trapped Kurama and Batty spun. Batty closed her eyes in fear, while Kurama finally started to regain her consciousness. When she hardly opened her eyes, all she could see was a bright red fire surrounding her. Looking at it made her felt dizzy, and she thought she saw something…strange. She couldn't clearly see, but that something was slowly eating the fire slowly.

"Hurt her even a little and I will certainly kill you with the worst torture you'll ever know!" Yomi stated angrily. By acting all enraged and lose control, he planned to make Sapphire fully focused on him and didn't realize that his son secretly released Kurama.

sapphire laughed. A horrible laugh that made Shuura wanted to shut her mouth with his shoes. But the boy knew he couldn't do it now. Controlling micro-size fire eater devices (made by Youda) while pretending to be one of the rebels was difficult task. He had to control it using game-console-like controller while he almost had no sight because of wearing very loose hood and cloak.

"You bitch!" Yomi roared, "you and your sister are only good at cheating! Using hostge to save your life, what a weakling! Kurama is a great fighter, I'm sure you have used a cheat to trap her, right?"

Sapphire flied closer to Yomi, "Aw…don't say that…I'm not cheating. I'm just too good at strategy."

Yomi's demon energy attacked Sapphire, but she shielded it with her own red aura. "Stop it or I'll kill the red head!" She said with a queen-like tone.

"Hmph, you can't kill her, because you know you'll lose the hostage and then your life soon after you do so." Yomi said calmly.

Sapphire raised one of her eyebrow, "then…how about wounding her little by little?" she fired a flash of red light, right to Kurama. It passed through the fire cage and stabbed Kurama's shoulder. Her scream made Batty opened her eyes in shock. Yomi stopped his demon energy attack in instant. A long tense silence hung after that.

While the bat was trying to stop Kurama's blood, she saw that there's a part of the fire cage that lost its thickness and heat. If she took the risk of burning, they could escape from that 'hole'.

She prepared her heart to take it, concentrating when and where she should jump out. Right before the next full-hatred Sapphire attack hit Kurama again, Batty flew out of the cage, protecting Kurama with her wings as they passed through the fire cage. They passed through the 'hole', and landed hard on the ground. Shuura removed his cloak and checked Kurama's condition. When he had seen her wounds, he stood in anger, more than willing to kick all the rebels that ready to attack them.

"What???" Sapphire turned around and intended to trap the three in a new fire cage. But a ball of green light hit her back, followed by another green light. Now she's the one who's enraged. She released a huge amount of red threatening aura and started a fight with Yomi. "Get that red head for me! Get that red head for me!" She commanded her follower, but none of them could accomplish that.

Fighting Yomi wasn't easy for Sapphire, as Yomi didn't care at all with her beauty. Furthermore, this time Yomi was as merciless as ever, so it did not take a long time that finally Sapphire and her follower was finished. Besides, Yusuke and the others came to help Yomi get over the rebellion.

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"Less than a day!" Yusuke shouted.

"When the government of spirit world and demon world work together nothing is impossible!" Botan said cheerfully.

Yusuke and friends talked loudly, while Yomi and Shuura who sat right beside Kurama said nothing. But in the end, Shuura argued heatedly with Yusuke about which side that had contributed the most. Yukina and Keiko had given up telling their friends to just lower their voice since Kurama was bed ridden there.

A moment later, all shouting and laughter were silenced. Kurama had woken up, and she looked very angry. Yomi still sat beside her calmly; even her anger was directed to him obviously.

"I need to talk to you, privately." Kurama said in her coldest tone.

"Sure, which one do you prefer, the beach or the park?" Yomi answered in his warmest tone.

Kurama closed her eyes in irritation, "Up to you! Even hell is fine!"

"Well, Kurama, we can't go to hell except we ask your friend Koenma to drive us there, shall we?" Yomi said playfully. Kurama replied his words by giving her deathly glare, but that only made Yomi's smile even wider.

"May we have some private conversation here?" Yomi asked to the others. They obediently left the room, full of curiosity. When everyone had left, Yomi said, "So Kurama, what are you going to talk?"

"….Why….Why did you change my self into a woman?"

"Isn't that obvious? You're better like this."

"No-I-am-NOT! Change me back!" Kurama shouted, all of her friends who secretly heard their conversation through HTC had to close their ears for a moment.

Yomi replied coldly, "No, I will not. Kurama, don't you understand why I did that to you?"

"I believe I know why. You did that to me because you want to destroy my life here as a human, right?" Kurama said even colder.

Yomi sat closer to Kurama, "And why do you think I would do that? Revenge? That's impossible. Come on, think of it clearly. If I want to destroy your as-human life, it's easier by killing your family and your friends."

"DON'T-YOU-DARE!"

"I dare, but I won't do that, Kurama, since I love you. And I did that changing thing because I love you."

"…..what…"

Yomi smiled, "I studied your past, Kurama, and I know that when you was a boy you've fallen in love with a girl—not for so long and you have stopped [see YYH's comic vol 7], but it proves that you are straight. So even if you love me, you wouldn't want to be my bride. Then, if you want a straight relationship I would make one for us. In the name of love that I have for you I would do everything."

"….." Kurama opened her mouth to say some denial, but she couldn't say a thing.

"Don't deny it. I know for sure that you like me. You may have that poker face but you can never fool me. Heartbeat doesn't tell lie." Yomi moved closer, "and my assumption, you didn't kill me for betraying you because…you love me."

"That's…that's not! It's different! I…didn't want you to die, that's all."

"Hm…? Is that so? Fine, but how about this time? Your heartbeat goes faster and faster as I'm getting closer to you." Yomi shortened the space between his and pretty flushed Kurama's face. "What do you think it is?" Yomi said in whisper.

They both stayed still like that for about three minutes, but both of them felt it like forever, and it's a kind of 'forever' that filled with peace and joy.

"Would you marry me and stay by my side? Or do you want me to leave?" Yomi said finally.

Kurama couldn't say a thing. But she knew that Yomi knew, her heartbeat paced with worry when he said he would leave, and it paced with happiness when he asked her to marry him.

Yomi smiled, "I take it as 'yes'." Then he kissed Kurama passionately.

And Kurama didn't deny her feeling anymore.

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I really LOVE you guys because you've stayed with me till the end (cry of joy)

You really be so good to me…I don't know what else can I do to repay your kindness…really….

Sorry, I'm really sorry that I always updated the story late…I've made you wait for a long time…I hope you forgive me.

And, thank again ^_^ if only someday I make a sequel…I hope you'll read it. Or, if you want to make a sequel, I'd like to read that too!