Disclaimer: Still don't own YuYu Hakusho, but Ylena is all mine.

Kamryu, that Bastard must pay for hurting my Kitsune. How dare he steal his soul? I had no idea he had gotten so powerful over all this time. I knew he could manipulate souls and control them to a certain extent from inside the body, but when did he gain the ability to remove one from a body without destroying it, capture it, and be able to keep it and torture it? These thoughts clouded my mind as we approached the gate leading from the Ningenkai to the Makai. I forced them out as I looked at the men that surrounded me. They all cared for Kurama as much as I did, and I knew that they would do what ever it took to bring his soul back safe and sound. "Are we ready?" I asked as the portal opened. They all nodded and we stepped through.

We had no more landed safely before I felt a crushing pain in my heart. I clutched my chest and felt suffocated. "You alright?" Yusuke asked sounding very concerned. "I am alright, but Kurama is fading fast. We have to hurry." And with that we all ran. Hiei sped on ahead. Like a black flash he was off. I pushed though the pain and caught up to him. We both knew exactly where to go. While we ran, more thoughts raced through my head as we approached his castle, "Why was he doing this to Kurama? As far as I knew, they didn't know each other so he wouldn't have any reason to take revenge against him. I was the one fought against him in the past and proved victorious. Was that the reason, he wanted to take revenge against me? But why capture him and not me? Was it because he knew I would defeat him? No, if anything that fox of mine is stronger than I am. He would have shredded Kamryu to pieces with his rose whip before he ever knew what hit him. That must be why he used his lackey to paralyze him first. He must be doing this for the pain and torture that it is causing me without killing me. He knew that by not destroying his soul, but instead torturing it, it would hurt me and make me feel incomplete. How can I feel pain if I am dead? It is a brilliant plan I must admit. He is torturing half of my soul and keeping me form my love. I am just glad that they did not destroy his body. His wonderful body. Shuichi is beautiful enough, but Youko is on a whole other level of gorgeous. I need to have him back. I love him so much, and I know he loves me too. With his body intact, as soon as we retrieve his soul, we will be to together once again. I will kill Kamryu this time. I will not lose.

Once again, another crippling pain hit me. I felt it through my entire soul this time. The guys all stopped to look at me as I stumbled. "Lets keep going. We don't have any time to waste. If we don't stop him soon, there will be nothing left of either one of us." They looked at me and hesitated. I ignored the pain and shouted at them, " Let's move now damn it!" They ran. We ran until we made it to the door of his chamber.

No guards. No noise. It was too easy. With Yusuke to my right, Hiei on my left, and Kuwabara in the back, I opened the door cautiously and we proceeded forward. Much to my surprise, he was sitting right in front of us in a chair that he had fashioned to look like a throne. The room was dark except for a few torches that kept the place dimly lit. He sat there with a look of superiority on his face. It made me sick He made me sick. He looked directly at me and flashed me an evil, twisted grin. He was moderately attractive. Dark evergreen hair with navy highlights that partially hung over his eyes that are the color of a clear blue sky. He stood about six and a half feet tall. He had the body of a warrior. He was young in appearance, but in appearance only. He hasn't aged since I faced him all that time ago. He must have been using the souls that he has stolen to sustain his youthful looks, while at the same time, he was able to harness their powers and use them to his own advantage. When we had faced off against each other back then, he was a low B-class, and I was an A class. He attacked me, I countered, and the battle was over. I knocked him out. I didn't have the same "over kill" mentality I have now. He was too pathetic to waste my time on back then. If it didn't boost my ego, then it wasn't worth doing. Now here he sits before me, holding my future in his hands. Rule one: Always kill them Rule two: Follow rule one regardless.