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What Lies Within Our Heart

Chapter 10

"Yusuke, what information have you gotten?"

"One sec," a few whispers were heard across the line before the man's voice returned, "Let's meet up when I get out of work, there's some... things I need to share."

"Fine, when and where?"

"Seven, at the high school, and bring Kurama."

Hiei's eyes narrowed as he paused in the process of bandaging his shoulder, "Yusuke, why do I get the feeling that you've been hiding something?"

There was a laugh before Yusuke said, "Because you're awakening."

Before he could question him any further their phone line went dead. "Awakening?... Does he mean I'm finally accepting the truth or is there something more?"

With a sigh Hiei finished dressing his wound and returned to his lover with a few pain killers, "Kurama?"

The redhead blushed at being caught trying to dress, "Yes, Hiei?"

"You should have waited," he grumbled as he came over and gently helped him pull his pants up the rest of the way, "Are you going to be okay meeting up with Yusuke later? He asked to see both of us."

"That's strange... The last time I spoke to him he said something about being out of town for awhile- that was about a week ago..."

"What were you doing talking to him anyway?"

Kurama shrugged, "Honestly I don't understand it much myself. He called me out of the blue and asked if I knew anything about a plant, he then said he was going to be out of town for a bit and hung up... I thought nothing of it because I assumed it was for a case. Are we meeting to discus our group's recent attack?"

He inclined his head before dropping the medication into Kurama's hand, "Yes. We should get some rest before going to meet him. I'll be right back after I give your mom a call so she's not worrying, too much at least."

"Thank you, Shadow."

"Are you sure you're going to be alright riding?-"

"Hiei, I imagine it will be painful but I'm far from incapable of handling it."

Kurama leaned into the hand that ran threw his hair before holding it in place and softly mentioning, "Besides, I may be sore but I'm not otherwise hurt..."

Red eyes darted away and closed, his being not willing to rip his hand from the other's, "I've dealt with worse, this is nothing-"

"Nothing? Hiei-"

"It is nothing," he growled, his eyes widening in mild anger, "I will not discus anymore out here. If you're sure you'll be fine, then get on. If not, I'll call a cab and-"

He released the smaller hand and steeled his expression, "I'll drive-"

"Kurama, with all that's going on I should drive. I was a speed racer..." He trailed off as he looked into eyes that flashed pure gold before flickering just as quickly back to fading green.

The distraction left him startled when a helmet was strapped to his head. "I will drive, I may be new to driving a motorcycle but trust me, I wouldn't have offered if I didn't feel I could."

"Kurama, was Youko just talking to you?"

The redhead frowned but otherwise ignored the question in favor of seating himself on his bike and waiting for the other to follow suit.

Hiei touched the helmet's latch, thinking about removing it and placing on his lover but relented and carefully slid in behind him instead, "You can't let your past rule your future like I have, Kurama..."

"The past, whether I wish it to or not, is ruling the present but I can't say it won't also rule the future, Hiei. As you've noticed, Youko is becoming more dominant. As he does the past life which he lived, governs my body, my behaviors, my instincts" he huffed before revving the engine and leaving whatever conversation that might have continued behind, in the park where they once parted many years ago when everything seemed a lot more simple.

Kurama eased off the gas and frowned, his eyes on the building in front of them, "Something feels off..."

The smaller man behind him felt his hair standing on edge as a shiver traveled throughout his body, "I don't know why but I feel like we should leave, and fast."

"Yusuke said he was meeting us here. I imagine he wouldn't have suggested the school unless he knew it was secure. Something feels off, that much we both know, but it doesn't feel dangerous..."

Hiei growled, his fingers fisting into the other's shirt, "That fool has gotten us into dangerous situations before... We're both in no condition to really defend ourselves, are you sure you want to put so much trust in him?"

He kicked down the bike's stand and squeezed the griping hands before disentangling them, "I trust your instincts, Shadow... but mine... Youko's are telling me that whatever is making us feel this way needs to be found."

"Yo! What's taking you two so long? Over here!"

Their eyes found the brunet just beyond the fence of the school's field before watching the same man run off behind the building.

"He's up to something, how can we be sure that we can still trust him?"

Kurama softly smiled as he stood and helped Hiei off, "You've been here these last couple of years more than me but it seems you still don't know Yusuke's true nature. Once you're apart of his team, once you're his friend, he'll always has your back. He may not always show it very well considering how brash he can be, but he's not one to stab someone in the back."

Hiei grunted, his eyes still narrowed, "If I wasn't weaponless I might just agree."

Reluctantly he followed after his Rosey. It was only when they were about to slip between the fences that he grabbed Kurama and shoved him down to the ground.

"Hiei!" The man's red eyes brightened the slightest bit as he looked up from where he knelt, "What was that?"

Kurama gingerly sat up, his own being growing more ridged, "That was ki. Who the hell can use ki here?"

They glanced at each other briefly before Hiei whispered, "Use ki? What the hell are you talking about?"

An irritated sigh meet his ears followed by, "Spirit energy is usually used by those angel fools as attacks. Demons have powers but they're drawn from our youki... not that I can very well do that in this damn form."

"And this unease we've been feeling is because of this?"

The man beside him smirked, "Normal humans wouldn't even feel this presence, Hiei. I don't know much but from what I can feel we're going to be dealing with a person with a lot of ki... it's possible that it's a god. If you want your Shuichi to stay around might I suggest that now that my curiosity has been satisfied, we leave."

Hiei clenched his teeth together, his eyes fixed on whatever lay around the corner of the school before he hissed, "You're curiosity is going to get us killed one day... And why the fuck are you out here?"

"That kit doesn't know what he's dealing with. He felt that energy but still went head first into it. If not for you, who knows what might have happened to him."

The hair on the back of his neck stood on edge again before the dark haired one cursed, "I feel like there's something blocking us from going back-"

Gold eyes narrowed as he inclined his head, "They just set up a barrier... It would seem they're waiting for us to follow the ki to their location. I hope Yusuke hasn't gotten us involved in his mess."

"What do you mean?"

He got up and brushed himself off, "Get up, we're not in danger I just don't want to deal with this being if it is indeed a god."

With mild hesitation Hiei too rose, "If we're not in danger then what the hell was that attack about?"

A smile returned on the face of the redhead as he shared, "It was a test, of course. It could have hurt Shuichi if it hit him, but only because my youki flows through his blood."

"Because his angel is suppressed," Hiei stated, his hand going to his head before going onto say, "You can't access your youki but it flows through his veins... I just don't understand. Obviously this is happening but I just don't understand-"

A hand rested on his uninjured shoulder before its owner spoke, "You understand what's going on, Hiei. You simply don't know what to do, I heard that much from you before. This is not your battle though, I don't expect you to be able to do much, baka."

Kurama suddenly ducked and hissed as pain radiated up his spin originating from his behind, "They're growing impatient... and I'm never going to let you top me again."

"Took you two long enough."

Hiei squared his shoulders as he stared at the men that had been waiting for Kurama and him, "What is going on?"

"Yusuke, I thought you talked to them about this?"

Yusuke snorted, "Yeah, like I'm going to break that news to them, Pacifier-Breath."

"I was hoping your resemblance and name was just a coincidence, apparently I've once more been mistaken, Koenma," Kurama offhandedly remarked, his eyes never leaving Yusuke, "and you, Yusuke, you've must have been trained at an early age to suppress and hid your ki..."

The brunet's expression darkened, "Being around Hiei has finally made Shuichi's other face pop up... just as I thought."

Koenma shook his head and snapped his fingers where suddenly a folder materialized and was grabbed, "Well we needed him in the group, it wasn't like they would stop hanging out anyway so it doesn't really make a difference. The problem I do see is that Hiei's indeed starting to awaken... Whether on his own or due to his exposure to Youko-"

"Hold on, you two need to fucking start from the beginning!"

Kurama smiled wickedly as he leaned over Hiei and wrapped his arms around him, "I think I may see what is going on... Shadow, by chance are you becoming familiar with my Kuronue?"

Hiei growled and pushed him away, "I don't have another in my head like you, fool."

"No, he is indeed not like you, Kurama. You, as I'm sure you know, come from the only lineage that has a gene that suppresses the angels. In Hiei's case he's a descendent of a demon, that's why you feel he's Kuronue. It's unfortunate to have to share this but Kuronue's spirit, by his own deed, is no longer one, in a sense. His descendents hold pieces of him..."

The redhead appeared to have collapsed in to the grass, his fingers digging into the ground, the green blades seeming to sway from wind that in fact didn't exist as he huskily growled, "What do you mean, descendents? I knew him since I was a kit, he had no other relations!"

Koenma backed off, his eyes on the grass, "You're warded, that's why you can't access your youki, so don't try again, you'll only hurt yourself. As far as Kuronue goes, you weren't with him all your life, he had children, none he knew of when he was alive but once he died and found out about them he requested his spirit be passed to his descendents. Hiei's a part of the few lineages that not only holds his spirit but that is naturally demon and human... If that makes sense."

Gold eyes reflected their master in the feral way they gleamed upwards. "It doesn't. Humans are made from an angel and demon spirit... So how is it that Hiei's naturally demon and human."

"Kuronue had sex with an angel, didn't he?" Hiei injected, trying to piece everything together as best as he could, "Or did he have sex with a human?"

Yusuke sat down beside Kurama and tilted his head to the side, "Does it really matter? It's hard to follow things like that. I tried and it's just a waste of time. All that needs to be known is that people like Hiei and myself have demon ancestors rather then just a demon that is taking over a human's body."

Kurama roughly bit into his palm before pressing it into the ground. Before anyone could retaliate the grass lengthened and wrapped around its prey. He heaved a few quick breaths before glaring over at Koenma, "I will not be controlled... not anymore, not knowing that..."

"Youko!" Hiei's fierce red eyes softened when melting gold met with them, "Kurama... I'm sorry that I'm not him... but that doesn't change how I feel-"

The demon gasped as Yusuke tried his hand at ripping through the grass. Pain laced his features for the slightest of moments before his mask came back into place and he forced more energy into the ground, hardening the grass to mimic the sharpness of steel blades.

"Remain still, Yusuke. You destroy his plants you not only anger him, which would most likely lead to your death, but you harm him. He may be threatening but he's still a part of Shuichi, he won't hurt us if we don't first hurt him."

"I thought you said he was warded though, Koenma?"

"It's like I said, I will not be controlled. One cannot restrict the flow of blood and that is where my youki lies... My element is of the earth, earth is life, fool."

"Youko, why don't you tell me what you plan to do now that you have your plants wrapped around us? You harm me and you've got a life time in Reikai jail ahead of you, if not death-"

A dark chuckle cut his speech short before Kurama harshly whispered, "You say that as if you can touch me... The only thing that would die is Shuichi, I would escape back into the Makai, you only lucked out when I had to escape that first time into the human's world."

"Kurama..."

His dull fangs showed as he once more turned to Hiei, "As for you and what you feel, it's bullshit and you know it. I'm a demon, a fox at that, I used you for sex and nothing more you fake, you imposter!"

Despite the sharp blades cutting into his skin he fell to his knees, his shoulder feeling as if fire was being held against it, "I never claimed to be him, you did, Fox!"

Koenma sharply inhaled as blood started staining the grass as well as Hiei's shirt, "Youko, you didn't!It's no wonder we felt his youki spike a few hours ago!"

He ignored Koenma in favor of watching Hiei try to move towards him even when the grass refused to give and instead it bit further at his fragile human skin, "I always knew you were too foolish to be my Kuronue..."

Through blurry red eyes Hiei gazed at him, his breath coming in gasps as the pain and blood loss started getting the best of him, "Youko... you hold my... necklace and ring, you're a large part of the man... I love. But a heart does not have a limit... to the love it can share... but it does have a limit on... the pain it can take... the beats it can make... the blood it can pump..."

They were all too stunned to do much more than watch as an arm covered in scratches and blood pushed through and finally touched his lover's face, "D-Didn't I say... I wouldn't let you break... my heart one more time?..."

The hand that touched his cheek lacked the warmth that he had become familiar with and before he could sort through his thoughts his hand that was controlling the grass lifted and released its hold on the blades, letting them once more become dull and soft. It was then that the man before him collapsed forward, his hand dropping limply to the ground.

"Yusuke, call Botan, tell her to get here as fast as she can-"

"Um..." came a soft utterance from above, "I've been watching, I was concerned for Shuichi when I heard that Hiei was awakening... but..."

"Hiei..."

Yusuke grabbed hold of red hair as its owner went to touch the fallen man, "Whoa, what do you think you're doing Youko, you've done enough damage."

Green eyes glistening with tears met his before sitting back and bending over himself, his body racked with sobs.

"Shuichi, is that you?"

"Yusuke, just watch him, nothing else. Botan, heal Hiei before he does more than just pass out."

The woman jumped off her oar and immediately started healing the heavily bleeding man.

"Why is he bleeding so much?"

Koenma turned his eyes back on his subordinate and sighed, "Because he's on blood thinners. Now just keep an eye on that youko and-"

"It'll be fine, I healed the small tear I felt on his heart but I fear we have more problems than we thought, Koenma..."

"What do you mean?"

She frowned before sitting back on her haunches. While the being before her now lay completely healed it also remained unmoving, "He's going into hibernation to conserve his energy."

Koenma raised an eyebrow at that before rubbing at his chin in wonder, "He should have enough energy to at least wake up now..."

Slim fingers gingerly lifted at the material wrapped around the small man's forehead and just as quickly pulled back, "Yusuke, does Hiei have tattoos anywhere?"

Kurama, who by this time had at least calmed down enough to somewhat understand what was happening whispered, "He has three... one on his right arm, one on his forehead, and the last on his lower back..."

"I feel his power being directed to his arm and forehead, Koenma. They must have originated from demon tribes."

Yusuke glanced briefly up at the god as he asked, "To demons, tattoos are a source of power that require a certain amount of youki. Why do we have to worry about them if he doesn't have the power to call them forth?"

"His youki wouldn't be flowing to them if he didn't have the power to access them. His are unlike yours in that they're self inflicted and therefore not part of his heritage."

The man's hand was pulled forward as the redhead inclined his head and fisted the locks, "I've finally gone insane... This can't be happening..."

"What are you talking about?"

He felt the rough fingers remove themselves from his hair and shuttered, "I can't believe my father... Youko isn't a demon, this isn't happening, I'm just going insane..."

Koenma frowned before once more snapping his fingers producing a blue spiraling circle, "Can you two handle bringing them to Rekai? I need to discus something with my father."

With little hesitation Yusuke hooked his arm under Kurama's but not before saying, "You better have a way of resolving this, I won't let my friends suffer or think they are insane."

The folder in his hand opened to his will before he nodded his head, "Kurama's case is very unique because of his parents and this is why I must first talk to my father before doing much else. I can't very well do much for Shuichi given that if I screw up on my father's favored one, he'd be pissed."

"No! I'm not going anywhere!"

The god snapped the folder shut and sighed, "Feel free to knock him out, Yusuke. We just can't have him running around causing havoc... I'm quite surprised to see him snap so easily though-"

"Snap, easily? You have no clue what you're talking about, Koenma! You try having t-this thing in you and knowing it's there possibly killing, raping, and pilfering since I was nine. Did you even check into the reason Hiei was in the hospital recently? No, I bet you just go around making false accusations... However it's one thing to feel he's possibly doing something and another to finally see the acts being done and yet unable to do anything about it," he yanked his arm from Yusuke's grip and glared harshly at the man he once thought to be nothing more than a vice-principal, "I'm finally going insane but it was by no way something that I didn't fight for as long as I could."

Yusuke shook his head tiredly before wrapping his arm loosely around his friend's shoulder, "This is what I meant about you not keeping secrets from your friends, baka. I figured something was going on, especially when you growled at me that time, you know when you finally told us about your mom. I've been dropping hints from the very begin, hoping with your smarts you'd pick them up, I mean I friggin nicknamed ya Fox, why do you think I did that?"

"Really, you wish to speak to me about keeping secrets? I thought nothing of the nickname nor of the small gang's name for it was essentially child's play, less you wish to share that you actually were putting us into dangerous situations that we were misinformed about."

"I made the group and you were never intentionally put into danger. I exposed everyone of you to this for your own protection and I enlisted in Genkai's help because everyone of you had to be prepared for the future. Yusuke is now officially the Reikai Tantei, at the age of twelve he died and was revived, from then on he's been training for this position," Koenma briefly explained before gesturing towards the portal, "You may feel you're going insane, Kurama, but I've never known you to run from the truth. If you wish for more insight, there's only one place you will receive it."

"You say that as if I have a choice in whether I go or not."

"Yeah, you really don't so just make the best out of it," Yusuke sheepishly admitted before asking, "Does your head still hurt? Sorry about pulling your hair..."

Kurama glanced at his lover and Botan who was scratching her head over how she was going to lift Hiei's unconscious form. "I'm fine... but I hope Hiei will be. Yusuke, can you promise me something?"

"Kurama, I'm not the brightest but I think I know what you're going to ask and I'm gonna have to say no, I won't keep him away from you. You're all going through some pretty difficult shit and need each other... Eh, is Youko still..."

He shook his head and softly told, "He's erected a barrier."

"Okay, well don't be too angry at him. I mean, I was pissed that he took it out on Hiei, but imagine what he's going through... What if it were Hiei who could no longer be reincarnated thus unable to ever meet in the lives that are still ahead of us."

Red brows bunched together, a deep frown on his lips, before he shrugged off Yusuke's arm and walked over to Koenma, "In Rekai, will I be able to access the legendary library that holds the knowledge of every-"

"That library has restricted access, plus I will be informing you with all that you need to know."

With a sigh he leaned back on his left heel and folded his arms over his chest, "Koenma I'm in a very fowl mood so I'll be frank with you, you either grant me access or I will share all your dirty little secrets... Like the one of a certain blond staying a touch too long in your office-"

"Kurama..."

"Oh, was that suppose to be a secret? Fine, how about this, since you're making me go there I can make certain little problems that will cause-"

"Yusuke, knock him out, I don't need him-"

He rose his blood covered hand and picked at a blade of grass that remained stickily attached to it. With a small look of curiosity he forced his youki-rich blood into it, guiding it to lengthen and strengthen, "You were saying, Koenma?"

"You wouldn't hurt any of us, Shuichi. I know you too well-"

"Do you now? Well let's see just how well..."

A wicked smirk crossed his face, something so uncharacteristic of the redhead they thought themselves to know, before he dived head first into the portal.

"Yusuke, go after him, his blood trail goes down the left corridor. Botan, take Hiei to the infirmary. And Jorge," the god looked around his office and yelled once more, "Jorge!"

"Sorry, sir, I was just-"

"Turn on the screen, I want to see if I can find him on the cameras," he grumbled as he reverted to his infant form and pulled out a pacifier like object from his desk drawer.

"Not a single alarm has been tripped and only one camera has spotted him and that was the one in the lobby where we entered," Koenma frustratedly told Botan when she joined him once more.

"Koenma, he has to be getting his skills from Youko Kurama and he wasn't known as the greatest thief of the Makai for show... That and Shuichi is very intelligent, can't he be hacking-"

"He doesn't have the time nor computer to hack in to our systems. As for his skills, I think you're giving him too much credit. He's a human regardless of his angel half being suppressed," the toddler-looking god pressed the intercom button on his desk and yelled into it, "Jorge!"

"Y-yes, sir?"

"Do you have guards stationed at the library's entrance?"

"Yes, sir."

He sat back into his plush chair and rubbed at his forehead, "It was so much easier when they were still under the impression that they were humans leading normal but miserable lives."

Botan huffed and bonked him on the head with her fist, "You just said Kurama was a human and then you say that! They don't deserve to be treated this way, they're not pawns so why do you play with them?"

"I don't play with them I act alongside them. It's my job to weed out the bad seeds- you know that, it's how I found you."

His wife's lips turned downwards and she refused to meet his brown eyes, "Bad seeds? Is that all you consider them now, Koenma? Is that what you consider me and our son to be? Hiei and Kurama may not be your normal humans... but maybe you can learn something from them."

Koenma rolled his eyes at her, "I'm a god, what can they teach me?"

She sighed and finally locked her pink eyes with his, "That one's heart can make them do some crazy things... Things that they themselves have no control over."

Koenma waved her off as he again started scanning through the cameras.

With a wide grin Kurama strolled into Koenma's office, his fingers carefully handling the object he'd obtain, "Tsk, tsk, Koenma-sama, you left yourself unprotected because of a mere distraction... I do have somewhat of an idea of what I could have looked up to benefit us yet I figured this would do so much better."

The god's eyes grew as he stood up in his chair and leaned up on the desk's intercom button. "Jorge," he paused at the fierce look those green eyes gave him before whispering, "Please tell Yusuke to join me..."

"Yes, sir!"

"How did you get in without drawing attention and how did you get into the vault?"

"We all hold our secrets but I will share one, you're people are as foolish as you- you tell them to be on guard for Youko Kurama and they expect to see a silver fox, not a redheaded boy who could pass for a woman."

"Do you even know what you possess? Do you know the danger-"

"It's the fabled Mirror of Darkness... One wish for one life," Kurama looked to the door as it swiftly opened and closed behind his friend, "Yusuke, this is between Koenma and I. I don't care if you listen in but do not interfere."

"Kurama, stop this-"

"As I was saying, one wish for one life, or so was told in the many, many books I've read regarding treasures, in the human world mind you," he carefully shifted the mirror so it was facing up at him, "I can't imagine never even having the hope of seeing Hiei again... and while he may be an ancestor of sorts to Kuronue, he will never be the same for Youko."

"If you plan on wishing Kuronue back to life, do you know how many other lives you'd be taking- including Hiei's! Not only that but you'd be dead and still unable to see him," Koenma yelled, his palms pressed against his desk.

"I understand as much yet the way I figure, one way or another I'll get what I want," Kurama whispered before glancing up through his thick lashes, "The way you treat demons is horrible. They are not creatures unable to love nor those unable to feel and be hurt. They live tougher lives than humans and gods alike because they are the outcasts of society- no help, no guidance, just the constant thought that they are being taken from their homeland to just be placed into humans... that or afraid you'll use their offspring for lackeys..."

"Shuichi, you have no idea what you're talking about-"

"Don't I? You've been training all of us to be nothing more than fighting machines for your Reikai Tantei! Why must demons fight, for what cause? To protect the humans? I turned to Torture Reborn not just because of Hiei, but because I thought that these people understood me, they're not fighting just for others, but themselves... To prevent similar things that happened in their lives from happening to others. And I won't let what happened to Youko nor Kuronue, and countless others, continue. This may be one small step at accomplishing it but it's one small step of many to come."

"Don't make me laugh! Do you think they deserve that nice treatment? Did you not just see what Youko did to Hiei?"

Kurama huffed, his fingers squeezing around the object he still held, "I did, but it's as Yusuke made me acknowledge, Youko just found out Kuronue, his one and only love, is never to be again... and he never got to tell Kuronue that he loved him... he died never knowing it and now never will."

Koenma sat his small form atop his desk and laughed, "Demons can't love-"

"Every being can love. I've felt him love," he smiled tearfully, "He just doesn't know what it is considering demons were told they are cold, murderous, thieving creatures unable of doing much else. Who spread that? Who told demons that they must do evil just as angels must do good? My angel is suppressed, it has been since I was a child, yet I feel love, I feel hurt, and I do just as many good deeds as I do bad... Why must it be black and white when in reality everything is a shade of gray?"

"Shuichi, you're talking to me, a god. I know demon nature, I've watched it for centuries-"

"You mock their nature but in turn use this very nature to create humans, you're a hypocrite."

"That's it, I will not argue with a human!-"

"They're a being of your creation yet looked down upon still- are you then looking down on yourself? Why then should I look up to you? Just the same, am I really human if what makes them such is a mixture of two souls, an angel and demon?"

Koenma slammed his hand into his desk and yelled once more, "That's enough!"

"Here's an idea, maybe I'll wish that all demons souls that were forcibly meshed with angels within humans were set free. It may not help Kuronue too much but I imagine that it will bring about some justice."

"What the hell do you want me to do? What is done cannot be undone, not even by a god! As for trapping demons into humans, it had to be done because demons were starting to overpopulate and take over the human world. Not only that, but humans were far too weak and powerless, at least now they can sense danger, even if they pass it off as mere intuition."

"In the very least... un-ward him, Koenma. He doesn't deserve to be treated like he doesn't have the right to live when he knows that he's living within me, sustaining my life. He's hurting enough and while he has done many things to hurt both Hiei and myself, he does it because he's otherwise powerless. I can only hope that humanity has rubbed off on him... but even if it hasn't I have to give back a life that I only lived because of him."

Koenma suckled earnestly at the pacifier in his mouth before shaking his head, "Youko has lived his life, but you-"

"Did he really?" the redhead touched the cold mirror's surface as the appeal of it started dwindling, "I wonder sometimes how true that is... If he had would he still be hurting from a past that is long gone?"

The god glanced towards Yusuke before tilting his head towards the distracted man yet the action only served to anger his subordinate. "What the hell's your problem? He's spilling out his guts to you and all you think about is the friggin mirror?"

Calculating emerald eyes glittered back up at Koenma before asking, "You haven't been listening to a single word I've said, have you?"

He gulped as the man approached him, before stopping just an arm's length away, "I-I have been."

"Prove it, repeat back to me my request... my final one. In return, I'll give you back the Mirror of Darkness." His slender hand rose with the object before pulling back when the god made a grab for it, "Remember, this is a trade off... now slowly raise your hand and rest it on the mirror. You have my word you'll get it back once my request has been made."

With a large amount of caution the god did as directed before murmuring, "You wanted him to live on in your place?"

Kurama suddenly clasped his hand over the god's before whispering, "I wish for Youko Kurama to be un-warded for the rest of his lives to come."

Honey brown eyes widened before the room flooded with a white light so bright that color could not cut through for several moments to come.

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"...so is your jagan was why you started talking in your sleep...?"

"I was worried you were gone, I thought that after everything I've done that..."

"You better get use to it, it won't be long before Hiei's taken from you too..."