A/N: Long time no see! I'm trying to climb back on the writing train here now that school is out! Also…From here on out my chapters may have some disturbing content that may be triggering for some people. I will try my best to post these at the top of each possible chapter but I'm not well versed on all of the possible triggers. But I will try. I just wanted you guys to be aware!

Well, all aboard the rollercoaster ride to the apocalypse! Hope you brought your sunscreen because shit is about to get heated! I mean, unless you find demons kicking in your door boring. Then I'm going to have to wonder about the function of your adrenal glands because that is not normal. Just so you know.

We handled the entire ordeal with Yana, Kaito and Kido and discovered that Genkai was the mastermind. And I'm actually including myself in that scenario because I had forgotten basically everything that had happened within those ordeals. But she also explained why she included me in the required guests.

"Look Genkai, prepping Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama is all great and well. They take all the fights and front line stuff. But I'm a healer. I don't do any of that. Why was I one of the required people to come?" I asked the older woman bemusedly.

"It's true, you aren't a front line fighter like the rest of them. But with Yumiko showing such intent interest in you, we have to prepare you as well. We have no idea what her motives or goals are so you need to be ready."

I frowned as I settled into my blanket that the boys had provided us. It was really late and we probably wouldn't be getting a lot of sleep. My back was to Kurama but I heard him settle in behind me, the two of us a bit separated from the group. Botan and Kuwabara were bickering a bit so it gave me the perfect timing to bring up what had happened earlier.

"Hey Kurama, when you went inside to change earlier tonight something happened…." I murmured to him, then turned over quickly so I could face him.

The red-head was staring into my face, intensely, clearly concerned.

"I was standing in the lights that were coming from the apartments and I saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes from the darkness. At first it was just one but then more started appearing. There must have been at least fifteen of them but they wouldn't come into the direct light. When you opened the front door, they scattered."

"I know."

I blinked owlishly at him, "You….know?"

"Yes. That's why I came out when I did, I could sense them."

"Oh well…good. That's…that's good."

"I am glad you told me, however, instead of keeping it to yourself." He gave me a soft smile then.

"What were they?" I asked weakly, still a bit nervous with how dark the house was around us.

"Shades." He supplied, "Individually they are next to no threat, only a danger to humans with almost no spiritual power. But their strength lies in numbers. They swarm their prey and overwhelm them."

A shudder rolled down my spine then. Just how many of them had been around me? I swallowed the lump in my throat and wrapped myself tighter in the blanket. It was a flimsy source of comfort but it was one of the only ones I had at the moment.

"When we have handled this I will give you something to help keep them away, don't worry."

I flicked my eyes back to him, curling into a ball within the depths of my blanket. I swear with each passing day I felt less and less powerful and more like a frightened fawn that knows it is being stalked by wolves. I took a shuddering breath in. I didn't want to sleep, I was too on edge and I also knew that sleep would hold nothing but nightmares for me.

"You need to sleep." Kurama patiently pointed out.

"Do I have to?" I whispered back, pulling the blankets up to my chin.

I mean, I could pull an all nighter, I was sure. We probably would only get a handful of hours of sleep. But Kurama seemed to grow more worried when I said that. He knew I had nightmares but he didn't know what happened in them. And they just served as the reminder of what was to come. My fingers began toying with a loose thread underneath the blanket, picking at in a feeble attempt to distract my mind form what was looming over it.

"Yes." The red-head said patiently although he looked concerned, "You need to sleep."

"I don't know if I can…"

"Try." He told me gently, "We are all here, nothing can get to you."

'Something could…' I thought grimly, 'Something really powerful, like Yumiko or whatever she seems to think that I'm going to be necessary to stop.'

But I didn't voice that. Chances were, Kurama knew that and was trying to offer me comfort.

"I normally would give you something to help you sleep but it would be too potent. I'm certain Genkai plans to wake us in a few hours. Get what you can, it will be a long day tomorrow."

With a resigned sigh, I settled in and closed my eyes. This was going to be a rough night.

Xxxx

"How did you know the imposter was Kuwabara?" Kido asked with wide eyes.

"I picked him because if nothing else, he's used me pounding his face in. Plus Kurama and Hiei are way too untrusting, they would have never fallen for your stupid trap."

I blinked bemusedly. This all seemed familiar…

"Now that still left me Botan and Midori. And if you jerks are fucked up enough to go after the only non-fighter then you would have been the lowest of the low and then it wouldn't have mattered. I would have come back from Hell to see you jokers pay."

"My hero!" Botan exclaimed.

I turned my head to the side to look at her but there was no one there. I stared but only darkness was in my line of sight. Where did she go? I knew I heard her.

"Now that brings me to Midori." Yusuke smirked then, "And I'd like to see one of you walk away after getting close to her. If you guys know as much about us as you say then you would be smart enough not to go near that girl. I have to admit, I wouldn't want to fuck with her since she has the ability to melt my face off."

Something was wrong. Not only was all of this familiar but the entire area was covered in shadow. And it was moving. It crept forward and swarmed around Yusuke. Up, up, up it rose as he gasped, thrashed and shouted. Then it swallowed him entirely.

"YUSUKE!" I screamed.

"MIDORI!" Kuwabara shouted.

I saw him writhing on the floor, screaming, contorting in excruciating agony. I looked up to see the darkness snatch up Kurama and Hiei both, pulling them into the depths and into the abyss. I shouted their names but they were long gone.

"So-"

A far off voice, a forgotten memory, echoing across the decades. Who was calling to me? What was going on? I desperately whipped my head around, looking for who it was but it was nothing but the abyss.

"MIDORI!" Kuwabara screamed, arching his back and a stream of blood coming out of his mouth, "MAKE IT STOP!"

I dropped to my knees next to him, ran my hands with my healing over his figure but could find nothing wrong. But something clearly was. God, what do I do? What do I do? WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO?! He was crying now, twisting so hard I could hear ribs break. Kuwabara was clawing at himself, trying to dig whatever was tormenting him out. I frantically shoved my energy into the boy trying to heal whatever may have been causing him such agony.

"Do not call me by that name ever again." A strong voice echoed.

Kuwabara began to seize and I was crying, still trying desperately to fix what was wrong but could find nothing. And then I felt every organ one by one start to fail, start to give out until he sank down into the darkness beneath me and it was just Kido and I. I began to dig at the darkness beneath me, as if I could dig him out.

"GIVE HIM BACK!" I screamed at the abyss, "GIVE HIM BACK AND LET ME FIX HIM, DAMMIT!"

But nothing changed. And I slumped over, crying. That was when I heard it. Laughter. Not the joyous, infectious type that you hear when you tell a joke with your closest friends. But the depths of true malice. Of wickedness. It sounded like the traditional voice that Hollywood liked to give to male demons in possessions. Deep, distorted and bone chilling.

"Mi-do-ri." He enunciated mockingly.

I was looking at Kido and yet I clearly was not at the same time. His whole demeanor had changed. His expression was one of unfathomable cruelty. But his eyes were a different color, instead of the dark almost black eyes, I was staring into vivid blue eyes. Piercing and violent. The shadows were dripping off of him, oozing and crawling, like he was the source of it all.

"Tell me…" he said in that low, growling voice, "Which of your friends should I look like next?"

His shape began to twist, hair lengthening, moving into a ponytail and then flicking to a brilliant blue. Bubblegum pink eyes blinked back at me and despite what I was staring at, they radiated warmth. Had I not seen him shift, I would never have thought I wasn't looking at Botan. And that was even more unnerving. The loving expression that the bluenette would normally make melted off "her" face and she started moving forward.

"Gosh, Midori, you look pale as a sheet!"

God it sounded just like her. I backed away, feeling a shiver of fear race down my spine. I knew who this guy was. Well, I knew but I didn't know. In all of my other nightmares he was just a figure, a shadow with no distinction and he had yet to take on the form of any of my friends. He never spoke before either. He was just there, looming and would flood me with the inky black darkness that seemed so thick I could drown. I always woke up gasping for air at this point.

"How about this?"

The appearance of Botan melted away until I was staring at Yusuke, cocky smirk and all. It was all right, down to the way he held himself, they way he walked –and he was still walking towards me. His hands were shoved in his jacket pockets, a very Yusuke thing to do.

"What's wrong, you old bat? Don't worry! If something's bothering ya I'll let them get a load of my spirit gun!"

I was nearly gasping, trying desperately to keep a hold on my fear but I was failing miserably. What was this? What was happening? Was this what was coming? Or was my mind just coming up with the worst of possibilities.

"Call me by my name." I heard a familiar voice echo. It belonged to the creature in front of me in my nightmare, "That name is long dead…"

A crooked smirk came across "Yusuke's" lips then, the flesh parting to reveal wicked teeth. How do I make this stop? Let me just wake up… He laughed and kept advancing forward with me backing up to match every step he took.

"Or how about this?" came a soft, familiar voice.

My back collided with something solid and the appearance of the monster before me shifted once more. Long, flaming red-hair, emerald green eyes and his smile was soft but held such darkness behind it. I was shaking. That was the most disturbing of all of them and not just because of how I felt close to Kurama. It was because that smile, that hidden wickedness there, I couldn't help but wonder if he had looked at someone else like that in the past before. Back in his demon hay days.

"Say my name…" his voice echoed again from the distance, though his mouth did not move.

The shadows began to bubble up around him, around both of us. It was thick and kept my movements slowed, as if I were trying to walk through water. His blue eyes flashed against the face of Kurama and he laughed as the thick shadows continued to rapidly rise. I thrashed about, hyperventilating as it gushed up to my chest, his laughter embracing me.

"You can't save everyone, Mi-do-ri."

"Shut up!" I shouted at him, trying to free myself of the rising tide of the abyss.

"You can't save YOURSELF."

And then it all closed over my head. It flooded my mouth-it tasted awful- filled my ears, clogged my pores and dragged me down. There was nothing but an abyssal sea that I was floating in like when I died. I felt heavy, I couldn't breathe. God just let me have air.

"Say my name." his voice echoed again.

I wanted to scream at him. Shout into the void that I didn't know his damn name, who he was or if he was even real. What was even happening? I didn't believe in omens through dreams but it seemed to me that this was a good time to start. JUST LET ME BREATHE!

"Koi…My name is Koi."

Xxx

I was roused harshly when I heard someone calling my name and shaking me. Startling and disoriented, I blindly swung my hand out only to have it seized at the wrist. I was gasping from lack of air, sweating and still afraid. I began to thrash, pulling my toxic energy to my free hand and lashing out at the unknown assailant holding me. But that was also unsuccessful as my one free hand was caught.

"Midori!" shouted multiple voices, all out of line with each other.

I slowed down then and really looked around. Everyone was surrounding me. Genkai, Botan, Kuwabara, Kurama, Yusuke, Kido, Yana and Kaito. Panting and still trying to calm down, I blinked rapidly, as if to check to see if they would fade. Kurama was kneeling in front of me, clutching both of my hands. For a delirious moment, I feared that they were all copy cats, and that I wasn't really awake.

"K-kurama?" I croaked weakly.

"Yes." He answered releasing me, "You were having a nightmare, it's alright."

I sighed heavily, hanging my head so I could hide my face and wiped the sweat from my forehead. It had been wishful thinking to hope to not have a nightmare here. If anything that was the worst one to date. I became acutely aware of how I was trembling finely. Frustrated, I fisted my hands in the blanket and tensed to try and stop my shaking.

"Midori, are you alright?" Botan asked worriedly.

"Yeah, you don't look so good." Kuwabara chimed in.

I nodded my head, trying to brush them off. I didn't want to talk about what I had just seen and, frankly, I would rather either get started with the day or sit quietly. After what I had just seen, I did not want to revisit sleep. Not today.

"I'm alright." I said dismissively, stretching and yawning, "What time is it?"

"Just after five am." Genkai supplied, "We were just about to wake you."

Oh shit, based on how the old master was staring at me, she probably saw past my lie and knew that this was not a onetime deal with the nightmares. Damn her, she was just as bad as Kurama. I quickly latched onto something else in her sentence to distract from my discomfort.

"Five am?! That's like, what, three hours that we got? You're trying to kill us!"

Genkai scowled, "Well if you really need your beauty sleep that much, I'll try and see if the apocalypse takes appointments."

"Great idea, grandma." Yusuke chimed in dryly, "Why don't you see if it will come back in three thousand years."

"Can it, dimwit."

"Alright, alright I get the idea." I grumbled grumpily, "Let's not start bickering this early in the morning."

"Oh Midori!" Botan exclaimed, clutching her hands over her mouth to stifle her laughter, "Your hair!"

I grimaced, "How bad is it?"

"Well…I suppose it could be worse…if you were electrocuted."

Irately, I whip my hair back into a ponytail at Kurama's words and used the hair tie around my wrist to keep it in place. Extreme bed head and curly hair DO NOT mix people. Then I heaved myself to my feet, ready to get moving.

"Midori…" Botan began, "Are you sure you're alright? Maybe you should stay behind…"

"I'm fine! Just drop it. No one should be off on their own anyways."

"She's right. We have no idea how many of them there are or what their powers are. No one should be alone." Genkai agreed, "Dimwit, Kido and Yana you three are with me. Kurama you will lead everyone else. And keep your wits about you everyone."

Xxxx

The city was swarming with insects and they looked a lot like what the Saint Beasts used. Only there were thousands more drifting across the city and there was no whistle to destroy to stop them. Instead we had a massive hole forming to unleash an ocean of demons to destroy humanity. People clearly couldn't see them for everyone carried about their day as if nothing was different. Botan, however screeched in revulsion and took out a fly swatter and was swatting at the bugs.

"That is disgusting, I need my spirit bug spray!"

"What bugs? I don't see any!" Kuwabara demanded.

"Well you wouldn't." I explained bluntly, "It takes spirit awareness to see them and you've lost yours."

"Ugh! We just have to bring up my lost powers every hour!"

"Sorry Kuwabara. But you did ask."

"It's fine…" he sighed, pitifully.

I looked around with disgust at the waves of insects drifting around. A shudder rolled through me when I felt one land in my hair, legs sifting through the strands. I swatted it away in a frenzy, not at all wanting any of the foul things to touch me.

"To be honest I'm a little jealous." I admitted, "They are everywhere and I would love not to be able to feel them or see them."

"Yes, being blind sounds perfect right about now." Botan agreed.

The five of us rounded a corner to the park. It was surprisingly low on activity, most bystanders far off in the distance. Kurama looked down at the communicator which held the indicator of where the site of the portal to demon world.

"We're getting close…" he said seriously.

I looked around again but I didn't see any kind of tunnel. Or anyone trying to make one. I saw people milling among the trees across the park but they were going about their own business and Kurama didn't seem to be focused on them. We stop in the middle of a large patch of on the edge, next to some old buildings that no longer appeared to be in use.

"I don't see anything…" Botan said a bit confused.

"Are you sure this is the right place, Kurama?"

"Yes, I'm sure this is the spot." He answered me, "According to the coordinates we are right on top of it."

"Well there's no tunnel." Kuwabara pointed out, "And unless he's invisible, the psychic isn't here either…"

Kaito adjusted his glasses, "We are certainly in the right place. So if the tunnel and the psychic are not here on the surface then obviously they must be beneath it."

There was a brief second of silence before the red-head bristled and suddenly dashed off to the side, whipping around one of the buildings. Bewildered, I reflexively followed after him. I heard Kuwabara call out our names in surprise while they followed behind us. The fox came to an abrupt stop around the corner and I nearly ran into him.

"What's wrong?" I asked, looking up at him.

"Yeah, you gave me a heart attack!" Botan exclaimed-staggering behind us.

"We are being followed."

My blood turned to ice, "Is…is it…her?"

Kurama looked back at me, "No…"

"It is likely one of our enemies, which means that they know we are on to them."

Kaito pushed his glasses up his nose after his observation. That was very true and that meant that our one advantage over our enemy was out the window. I frowned and folded my arms over my chest, casting my gaze back in the direction Kurama had been looking as if the person would appear in front of us.

"So, uh, what do we do?"

I afforded Kuwabara a quick side glance before I looked back at Kurama. He was the team leader here and was going to be making the calls. Although I personally felt this was a good time to rejoin with the rest of the group. Vigorously, I twisted a curl around my finger, still on edge from us being followed.

"I think we should rejoin with the rest of the team." I supplied helpfully, "If we are being followed it's pretty much a guarantee that the others are being tailed as well."

"Indeed." Kaito agreed.

"Yes, I think rejoining the team is the wisest course of action. For now our strength lies in numbers. Before we leave, I need to notify Koenma of our findings."

While Kurama stepped a bit away to contact Koenma and I turned back to the team.

"So, Kaito, how bad of a disadvantage do you think we have now that they know we are onto them?" I asked, fisting my hands into my jacket pocket.

"A severe one. I daresay that this was actually our one advantage that we had. But now they know we are on the lookout for them which means we will have to fight for every advantage and every step."

"That's fine, they can just come out and face us!" Kuwabara insisted, "I'll take all of them on myself! That's how men are supposed to do it!"

"What good will you do?" Botan asked skeptically, "You can't access your spirit power, they'd wipe the floor with you!"

"Plus," I piped in, "They won't be interested in playing fair. They won't reveal themselves, that gives away one of their advantages."

He deflated then and then cracked his knuckles loudly in bravado, "I don't care, I'm a man! I can take 'em!"

Botan pressed her palm to her forehead and sighed in exasperation. I felt the same way although I maintained my silence. Kaito remained silent as well, remaining still with his back straight. I folded my arms across my chest, the fingers on my right hand absently fidgeting with my hair. I wonder if there was a way to kick my healing abilities into overdrive. Maybe I should give the team a boost. But there was no way of knowing when the team would be going into battle and I didn't even know how long the boosts last. Hmm, something to investigate later. I was tempted to start now, boosting Kuwabara or Kurama to see how long the effects lasted. But I also had no way of knowing if it tired them out afterwards. In the Tournament, they were naturally exhausted because they had intense fights. But I didn't know if the boost contributed to the exhaustion afterwards or not.

"Koenma has been notified," Kurama told us with a formal tone, "It's time to go find Yusuke."

"So how are we going to find them in this city?" I asked him.

"We could try reaching the group with the communicator!"

"Yeah but Urameshi almost never carries that thing, Botan!" Kuwabara pointed out.

"Oh dear, you're right…Why couldn't I get a cooperative Spirit Detective?!"

"We are left with little alternative," Kaito finally interrupted sagely, "We will simply have to search the city starting in the district they said they would be hitting first."

"Ugh, this is why the cell phone needs to be invented…" I muttered under my breath, "Hey Kurama, do you think you'll be able to sense Yusuke's energy if we get close enough?"

"Unless we happen to be right next to the building or fairly close to where they are, likely not. The city is very populated and with so many other people and their spirit energy mixing, it will be exceptionally hard to trace Yusuke's own spirit energy."

"But you CAN do it?" Kuwabara persisted.

"Starting here is not a good place." Kaito pointed out, "We know someone is watching us here so it is best if we move. Then we can head to the south eastern district of the city and start from there."

"That's still a large area to cover…"

"It's not like we have a choice here, Midori. And since those punks won't come out and fight me like a man we have to just shake 'em off."

"Let's just get moving. I'm not sure I can stand sticking around here much longer knowing someone might be watching us…"

Xxxxx

You know, you never really get used to seeing Yusuke's spirit gun. Not in person. In the anime, I remember it losing it's impact on me, the only thing changing was it's size. But to see that large orb of glowing light burst through glass and shoot into the sky, scattering the clouds as it goes on for miles into the atmosphere took my breath away once again. Although that might have been partially because it scared the shit out of me.

"That was Yusuke's spirit gun!" I exclaimed.

"Indeed. What do you say we check ourselves into the hospital?" Kurama surged forward and the rest of us followed suit.

The hospital was quite a large one, clearly equipped with a trauma bay and all so we could see it from way down the street. But as we drew closer something was bothering me. There weren't really any people around. Minimal in the street and no ambulances coming in or leaving. Hospitals are busy places and yet this whole area almost seemed to be dead of activity. Kurama came to a stop in front of the building, the main entrance and we stopped alongside him.

"Why aren't we going inside? I'm ready!" Kuwabara asked, a bit put off from the fox demon's sudden stop.

"Just listen." Kurama prompted.

"You noticed too?" I asked flicking my eyes to the side but kept myself facing the hospital.

"Noticed what?"

Kaito tilted his head to the side to address Botan, "It's quiet."

"Quiet's perfect! It's a hospital, not a race track!"

"We saw Yusuke's spirit gun blast through a window in the middle of the day." Kaito pointed out, "But there are no doctors, patients or nurses coming to investigate?"

"So what?!" Kuwabara shouted impatiently, shaking Kaito by the front of his shirt.

"So curiousity is one of man's most predictable forces. If people are not coming to investigate it means they are not able." Grimly the fox turned his head to look back at the quiet entrance, "We assume the worst for everyone in that hospital. They are either hurt, detained or dead and that is why we are no longer being followed."

"Wait, when did they stop following us?"

Man I really needed to work on my awareness. Then again, Kurama just has wicked sharp senses and it wouldn't be fair to me to try and compare my already pitiful senses to his. I mean, whoever had been following us had gone unnoticed for a brief period of time before he noticed.

"Some time back. Since they made a decisive strike, there was no need to continue tailing us." Kurama was still very focused on the hospital ahead of us.

It was amazing and somewhat intimidating when he got this way. He always seemed to have a simmering sense of power and danger beneath his surface when he got focused like this. But it was subtle. Not like the in your face power play that you can see rolling off of Yusuke when he becomes focused.

"So what do we do?" Botan asked, "We have no idea what is going on in there."

"It's too dangerous for us to all go inside. Especially with Kuwabara's condition-"

"Gee 'condition' makes me sound like I'm rabid." He muttered.

"You four stay back –especially you Midori- and watch for developments. I'll go take a look around."

Kurama then tore off into a sprint towards the hospital before any of us could protest. Kuwabara screamed after him his discontent about him making that decision on his own but it was no use. Personally, I trusted his judgement here and I did not want to go into that hospital. I didn't remember what went down in the anime but it was something bad and it was something to do with a doctor there. It was impressive just how fast Kurama could move and even more surprising when he pulled out his rosewhip and wrapped it around the fence on the roof of the hospital and used it as a way to lift himself to the top. It was smart to avoid the main entrances since we had no idea what was waiting inside.

"Now the important question is…" I wondered aloud, "What does he consider a development and what does he want us to do about it?"

"Uh…"

Botan lifted a finger to her head, pressing against her skull as if she were trying to point out the answer in her mind. But after blinking, occasionally emitting contemplative sounds of thought, she slapped her hand to her forehead.

"Oh dear, you are right!"

"We'll just have to keep an eye out." Kaito mused, "And figure out our steps from there."

"Ugh, I still think I should go in there with him!" Kuwabara exclaimed in frustration, his hands flexed in a grabbing motion.

"Stupid boy…" Growled out a voice from behind us.

The four of us whipped around in surprise, facing the new comer. But looking at him, he looked very familiar. Elf like ears, purple skin, lithe frame covered in light weight black robes and a mask over the lower half of his face, I just KNEW I had seen him somewhere. However I DID recognize the blonde demoness next to him.

"Yumiko." I growled out.

She smiled wickedly in response. Kaito looked on, guarded and at the ready, because he knew something was going down even if he did not have all of the facts. Botan grew pale and shuffled backwards behind us a bit. Kuwabara, however, tensed up and clenched his fists tightly together, glaring daggers at the demoness.

"So you're the one who gave a power boost to Toguro and have been harassing Midori. Man do I have a bone to pick with you." He said lowly.

The one covered in robes snickered coldly, "With what? You can't even make a butter knife with your spirit energy out of commission."

Kuwabara ground his teeth, "Well it's a good thing I don't need it to kick your skinny little ass!"

I seized his arm, pulling him back since he had started forward with his mind set on a fight. But Kuwabara stood no chance against Yumiko and even more so now that the memory of this strange demon came flooding back.

"Rui…"

His yellow eyes narrowed above the mask at my speaking his name, "So you remember, do you?" He summoned up a serrated, nasty looking sword in a glow of red, "You killed my mate."

"What was I supposed to do? Let her kill me and my friend? I don't think so, you two came to us first!"

"Midori…" Botan asked behind me, "Who is this guy?"

"He's the mate of that one snake demon that had me poisoned for a few days." I supplied, "I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and guess that he's here for revenge for killing his girl."

"He's the one?!" Kuwabara demanded in shock and snapped his head back to Rui, "Your girl almost killed Midori!"

"Almost isn't good enough!" He snarled back.

"Now, now let's not fight here."

I glared at Yumiko for her interruption. Who the hell was she kidding? Let's not fight, my ass! She brought him here knowing damn well he was going to fight and that's exactly what she wanted. How many tests of my strength was she going to put me through?! Rui stilled then, seemed to grow calm at Yumiko's words. That did not bode well. There was a flicker and he was suddenly gone although Yumiko never moved. Before I even had the chance to look around, Botan gave a scream and Rui appeared before us again. Botan was trapped in his one arm. It didn't look that imposing but it was evidently strong enough to keep her imprisoned with little effort.

"Let me go!" she cried out, thrashing in his hold.

"Botan!" We all shouted in unison.

"Let her go!" demanded Kuwabara, taking a threatening step forward.

"Not on your life. The only way I'm letting her go is if Midori comes and faces me-alone." Golden eyes glared hatefully at me, "See you on the roof of the hospital."

Yumiko chuckled, "You have thirty minutes to reach the top. If you don't make it in time, we'll kill her."

"No!" I snarled dashing forward to throw a punch at Rui.

I never made it for the two of them gave a mighty leap backwards until they were right in front of the hospital. They then jumped again and hovered upwards until they landed on the roof of the hospital. I looked up with wide eyes at how many floors I had to clear before getting to the roof. I don't know what's waiting for me in that hospital but I had a sneaking suspicion that thirty minutes was going to be a tight time constraint.

I guess this counts as a "development".