No More Reason To Live "Angel of Sadness"

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He's crying again.

The whimpering and the sniffing reached her ears, she looked up from the stove where she was cooking and looked towards the hallway.

Should she go find him?

Should she go comfort him?

Should she go bother him?

Should she go call the others?

Should she go call his mother?

Or...

Should she just leave him alone?

It's been only a week since he disappeared withoug a trace, without a clue, without saying goodbye to the person that would ever care for him. She did her best to comfort him in anyway.

They all did their best.

Yusuke...

Kuwabara...

Keiko...

Botan...

Koenma...

Puu...

Shizuru...

Yukina...

Shiori...

Yomi...

Shura...

And even Mukuro.

They all did their best. And he did his best to be grateful, but it just didn't work out at all. His mother came over whenever she could, and his cousin did her best to get him to lighten up. But...

He's still crying.

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Lii slowly moved towards Kurama's closed door and used her free hand to genlty knock on his door. "Kurama? Please, Kurama you've got to eat. You haven't ate anything all this week."

She opened up the door to see it was darken just a bit. Sighing, Lii put the tray down and went to go open up hte curtains. A hand reached out and grabbed her shirt, she gave a squeak being turned around quickly and a face being buried against her stomach.

Right away, Lii felt her shirt dampen and not before long, the wetness reached her skin. Kurama clinged onto her, holding her stomach close to his face as he mourn and cry and cry and cry.

He felt arms warp around his head, holding him close to her. And they both stayed like that for sometime, before Kurama finally pulled his head away and looked up at his cousin with glistening green eyes.

"Kurama, kurama, kurama..." Lii repeated his name over and over, as if to make sure he would stay alive and not fade away into nothingness. She cupped his face in her hands and looked him into his eyes.

"Kurama, you've got to pull yourself together. You've got stop going the way you are, if you continued. Then.. then..."

Now, she was crying.

He had stopped crying, but she was crying.

Kurama sat up onto his knees, wondering why she was the one crying. And genlty and swiftly he folded her into his arms.

"You will die and you promise me," She looked up into his face with her blye eyes. "That you wouldn't leave me alone, that you'll always be there for me. Like I.. like I..." Her voice died away.

Kurama kissed her forehead and buried his head in her soft black hair. "Like I promise my human mother, before she died." She sat up and looked at him.

"'Koji.. you got... you got to stay alive. You got to stay alive until... until you find out what life really is... until then... you got to stay alive....'" She quoted her mother's last words. Kurama watched her.

Watched her tears slide down her cheeks.

He reached over and pulled her close for an embrace. She was right, he couldn't keep going the way he was going.

He couldn't leave her again like he did last time. He had a promise to keep and somebody he loved deeply, to find.

Kurama promised he was going to heal and once he did.

He was going to find him.