A/N: YAY for update ….Almost over thinking about doing 3 more chapters although I don't know how to end it XD. So who knows when the next chapter will be up.

Chapter 7 Truth be told.

"K-Kuronue?" Kurama stood slowly, unsure if what he was seeing was real. "You're…You're dead. How could it…?" Kuronue stepped forward showing his face more clearly, he hadn't changed - even his slight grin which was now filled with an evil pleasure of seeing Kurama so disorientated. Kurama noticed the small blue pendent around his old comrades neck the one thing he had cherished, the object that had been the death of him.

"So sorry to disappoint, but I am very much alive."

"I saw you! There was no way you could survive that. Not even Kari could survive something like that!" Kuronue laughed.

"You thought you saw me. Handy things illusions; get a master to perform one and even the great Yoko Kurama can be fooled." Kurama couldn't believe what he was hearing…Kuronue's death had been an illusion?

"Kari…She…She lied to me."

"Just like you lied to her." Nanashi had tracked Kuronue down easily knowing that he was going after Kurama. She appeared out of the shadows into the kitchen beside Kuronue. "You deserved it. You were going to kill him…" Kuronue placed his arm around Nanashi's shoulder as she lent against him. "Then you were going to kill Kari, then naturally Elyza. When would you have stopped?" Kurama saw the anger building in the fire demon's eyes, but he still didn't believe it. He never would have wanted Kuronue, Elyza and myself dead.

"He doesn't remember." Kuronue and Nanashi stood to the side to allow me to enter the small kitchen. I first noticed Kurama's human mother unconscious on the floor and glared at Kuronue.

"She's not dead." He said immediately with a frown.

"Nanashi will you move her somewhere more suitable, please?" I asked calmly. She nodded and disappeared the same way she had arrived taking the woman with her, she returned moments later.

"Why? Kari…You acted like he was dead when…you tricked me. Why?" Kurama asked again stood now, his eyes focused on the three demons stood in the dim light.

"It was the only way." Nanashi answered. "You think she would just stand by and let you kill him? Saving him wouldn't be good enough his death had to be faked."

"But why would I want him dead! I never wanted your death." Kurama pleaded to Kuronue to listen…he knew that he never wished for this didn't he?

"You trying to say you never saw me as a threat? You tried to kill Yomi because he was too reckless; he never listened. You wanted me dead Yoko. Face up to it."

As the old leader of the once famous bandits gang tried to make sense of the words being spoken to him he knew he was falling victim to an illusion. One of my illusions.

The kitchen in which we stood slowly began to fade away as my illusion took over more of the Kitsunes senses. He could feel the warm breeze on his face and smell the dew of morning, it was going to rain. He looked up to see the dark clouds overhead, not only was it going to rain but there was going to be a storm. He remembered this place, a small glade just south of the group of thieves' hideout, where one could rest slightly before returning. He had always liked this place, so peaceful in its solidarity. He took in a deep breath forgetting for a moment this was an illusion, forgetting everything. The young demon opened his eyes when he picked up an all too haunting smell on the wind, the smell of blood. The more he concentrated and turned into the breeze the more he could smell. The scent was strong and coming from his once home.

Walking down the concealed path the scent turned vile, the blood was old but it was too much, too much for one person. Decay and blood and bodies is what he could smell it surrounded him like the forest he was walking in, a wave of sickness passed over him as he saw the source.

The camp was covered in blood, everyone was dead. Weapons were drawn; signs of demon magic were clear on the burnt out tents and trees. Were they raided? When? A week maybe a little longer perhaps. He walked slowly among the dead taking in their faces; he knew them; could list their stats like he done with Nanashi's. The air was cold, it was too quiet, walking among the dead like this Kurama couldn't help but feel he had seen this all before but he knew he hadn't, he knew at the back of his mind this was still an illusion but why as he looked down at the blood and the pain covering his comrades faces did he feel like he had done this before?

He stopped as he came to the centre of the camp, more bodies, more blood…but one body among them all caught his attention. She lay on her back, blue eyes wide staring blankly as if she hadn't expected the attack. Her body was fresher than the others, he could tell; she had died not long ago but how? He knelt down slowly and closed the eyes of the young storm demon. How had she died? Why was he trapped in this illusion?

"EL-CHAN!!!" Kurama turned around as he heard Nanashi's voice echo across the camp, the winged demon flew into view and stopped dead as her ice blue eyes rested on her friend's lifeless form. "El-Chan…No not you too…" Suddenly a loud piercing scream came from the forest. "KARI!!!" Nanashi flew off in the direction of my scream, she had never heard me like that before, but Kurama had; it was like when Nanashi had stabbed me with her clawed hand back in front of his home weeks ago.

Before Kurama even realized he had moved he was stood facing my own dead form. Nanashi slightly behind him looking through him at the hole in my chest where my heart had been ripped out – the one sure way to kill me.

"It can't be…" Kurama stared into my lifeless eyes as I hung down, suspended by vines…plants. He knew it the moment he had seen it, this was his doing.

"These are your thoughts…Or were fifteen years ago." I released Kurama from the illusion and returned his senses back to himself; we were still stood in the dark kitchen, the sound of a wind chime in the distance.

"You thought about killing them, knowing it would be difficult to kill me you would have sent me away. Kari saw these thoughts in you. It's what made her turn against you." Nanashi turned her right arm into the armoured claw she was known for as Kuronue drew his crescent moon scythes.

"I've been waiting fifteen years for my revenge…And interest's a bitch."

A/N: XD Yup I just had to put in that quote from Saiyuki... Please Review.