AN: ^_^;; I really did get a death threat! ~sparkle~ How cool! ~giggling uncontrollably~ Ok anyway I already stated before but I think I need to make it clear once again... I hate Mary-Sues! Holly will not end up with Kurama... besides if I was going to do a Mary-Sue (which I would NEVER do) she would end up with the sexy Hiei! So okies that said... I really love the way these chapters are working out, it's even better then I thought! The line that Hiei is remembering in this chapter, by the way, is from chapter 18.

Disclaimer: The race of Sirine and more importantly Holly Summers (Harultoryo) is mine. Yu Yu Hakusho is not mine

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'Stop it! Just let Kurama go...'

Holly let silence fill the space around them. She was going to make Hiei understand.

'No.'

'What do you mean 'no'?!' Hiei screamed at the Sirine. 'You can't have him! Give him back!'

'Hiei,' Holly's voice took a warm tone as if speaking to a child. 'He doesn't want to go back.'

'Wha- Why?' Hiei was fighting with his growing pain. 'Kurama has to come back and live... He just has to! What possible reasons could there be for him wanting to die? I had this conversation with the fox once before -'When you love someone Hiei, you'll understand that no matter how irrational you will always give whatever you can for their happiness'- could he wish to die for the Sirine?'

Holly had to laugh, 'No... Kurama and I have reached a mutual understanding of each other, Hiei, but nothing romantic.'

The relief that filled the Void made Holly smile. The fire demon truly didn't understand his own feelings much less the kitsune's. 'Go back to the living Hiei. Leave Kurama in peace...'

'I can't! I can't let Kurama die!' Hiei growled. There was a phrase echoing in Hiei's mind, 'When you love someone Hiei, you'll understand that no matter how irrational you will always give whatever you can for their happiness'... When I love someone... 'Sirine, take me instead... let Kurama live! He is happy living in the Ningenki with his mother...'

'But he'd be sad then that you died, Hiei,' Holly refused.

'Then erase me from his mind! Erase me! All I cause is pain... if I was gone then he'd have peace, his mother wouldn't have gotten sick... he wouldn't have gotten in trouble with the Spirit World... he wouldn't have gone to the Tournament and almost gotten killed by Karasu... he wouldn't have been bound to you...' Hiei's despair was filling the Void; Holly had a distinct feeling of drowning in the sorrow. 'It's all my fault! Please let him live, kill me instead...'

'Why would you want to die in his stead?' Holly asked quietly.

'Because...' Hiei couldn't even complete the thought in his own mind. 'Why do I feel like I have to repay him? Don't I live for myself?' 'When you love someone Hiei, you'll understand that no matter how irrational you will always give whatever you can for their happiness'...

'Do you want to ask him to trade places with you?'

'NO!' Hiei yelled at the Sirine as she turned from him. 'No, please Kurama has become far too soft as a human... he'll refuse.'

'Too soft? How do you mean, Hiei?'

'He has become kind and... Not like any other demon I've ever known,' Hiei replied quickly. Sudden warmth filled the space and Hiei's stomach suddenly fell into his feet. Kurama... Kurama was there! Kurama heard what he had said! And more importantly the feeling behind the words... 'Does he understand them better then I do? What is this warmth?'

The warmth was immediately masked and Kurama's presence seemed to shrink back.

Holly laughed bitterly, 'Even now neither of you understand! Why should I not take Kurama with me Hiei if you can't comprehend the feelings you both have? Why should I allow you to hurt my friend?'

'Hurt him?' Hiei screamed. 'What about you?! You're ki-'

'Hiei! I choose to be with Holly,' Kurama interrupted. 'I can finally sleep.'

'NO!' The feelings that flooded Hiei confused him but he just couldn't let this happen... anything but that! 'Please you can't leave... don't leave...' -'no matter how irrational'-

'I'm tired...'

'I don't care!' Hiei screamed to drown out the words he couldn't listen to. 'You have to come back! Please Holly! Don't listen to him take me instead and let Kurama live!'

'Hiei!... Why? You'd give your life for mine?'

'Y-yes,' Hiei murmured. 'I'd do anything for your happiness.' -'When you love someone'-

Holly could feel both minds click in realization as to what Hiei's feelings truly meant.

Both demons fell into silence for several moments, their minds desperately trying to process what had just happened.

'I'm dieing, Holly?' Kurama's heart echoed with sorrow. Love found and love lost just as quickly.

Holly couldn't help but laugh. 'I never said we were dieing. All I said is that I took Kurama with me, our bodies are healing from the damage done to them.'

'You said that I was too late to break Kurama's bound! That you killed him on purpose!' Hiei growled at the Sirine, his fury at her was very apparent.

'I already broke the bound after I caused Kurama to fall unconscious with me, otherwise he would have died if I broke the bound while he was awake,' Holly calmly explained as she gently unlinked their minds.

"Sirine I'm going to kill you and make sure you stay dead!" Hiei snarled in a new found fury while drawing his sword.

Keiko was already in his way when Holly opened her eyes, "Holly! I thought you were dead for sure!"

Yuusuke and Kuwabara were looking at Kurama wide eyed as he sat up. "Dude, you gotta teach me the trick you used to live through that!" Yuusuke patted Kurama on the back gently.

"I'm not entirely sure what it is I lived through," Kurama winced from the movement.

Holly gave him a rueful smirk; it was obvious both were in much pain but not in any fatal danger.

"Man! I swear all or your blood poured out of your body and then parts of it went into Holly!" Kuwabara tried to explain.

"Just the pieces of the Bell that was inside Kurama" she smiled more broadly. "The bound is broken. You are now released from your Nightmare, Youko Kurama."

Hiei was still glaring at the Sirine ready to slice her into bits at any moment.

"My granddaughter is very complicated it would seem," Enma laughed deeply.

"You can put the sword away, Hiei," Yuusuke whispered aside to Hiei. "Your masculine image is already well protected."

"After I kill the Sirine I'm going to kill you Urameshi!"

"Damn!" Yuusuke pouted. "And I used to be on the top of Hiei's "To Kill List"."

Holly yawned loudly enough to interrupt the rest of the conversations that had broken out among the group. "I've had a rather long day how about everyone else?" She blinked comically at them before falling immediately asleep.

"I agree," Kurama nodded once before also just falling asleep where he sat on the cold tiles.

The rest of the party looked confused at each other before shrugging in unison.

"I guess we should take them to Genki's," Keiko mentioned.

"We could do that," Botan nodded excitedly. "I love sleepovers!"

The men all rolled their eyes at the girls. "I'll be glad to get back to my wife," Ken mentioned.

"I'll need to speak with you first, Ken," Enma demanded, traces of his old self showing.

Ken nodded and looked at the others in an obvious dismissal.

Yuusuke shook his hand before going to pick up the Sirine. "We'll be in touch, Ken Shields."

"Indeed!"

Kuwabara picked up Kurama and the team happily left Enma, Ken and Koenma behind.

"Botan?" Keiko whispered to the other girl. "If Kurama has been unbound from Holly, how long do you think his hair will stay pink?"

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AN: Oh this is far from over! I tend to make things very hard for Hiei and Kurama ^_^ I'm so evil ~cackling~

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