Kali: Ahh... Took a much needed break. Blah, not sure if I'm gonna have a lemon. I want to real bad, but I'm too shy to write such things. If I do it will be at the end of my story. ^^; My friends say they can always tell when I'm reading one cause I'm stting there trying not to laugh and my face is turning red. ^^; XD I can tell when Sam is reading one cause she has this certin giggle she makes when some one talks about Kurama and Hiei and her face turns red.
Hiei: And the point of this is?
Kali: Nothing, I just like to blabble on about nothing... Like now.
Kurama: We live right?
Kali: huh? Oh yeah... Life... *Cough*
Hiei: ... *His dragon wards spark*
Kali: Oo Yes sir...
Disclaimer: Don't own em, but I want them... *pets her youko Kurama computer background* I also own all original characters. *Cackles* I can name each one. Kali, Amara, Candice, Nitesh, Crevan, Rain, DogFight, Terk, Iceist, Trythan, Goomba, FireMouse, TigerLily, and Mufasa. Oo All of them except Crevan are dead though. ^^;
~ = Thoughts
* = Sound effects
Blah... just so you know, My dog is fine, and I'm working on making another chapter to Kurama's cat... though I lost insperation half way through, forgive me XD My dog looks kinda like a poddle cause they had to shave her fore legs... crap... blabbling again, damned ADD
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My head hurt badly, my body was stiff and sore, covered in sweat. Slowly I was able to sit up. When I did though I found my self face to face with a pair of angry silvery colbat eyes. Frowning I opened my mouth but before I could say a word I was cut off. "No bother in speaking. I'm the only one to hear you." His voice was full of hate and pain. I blinked confused at him. What was he talking about? There was always 11 of us... wait... My vision flashed white and I held my head as a streak of pain shot through my temples. No... There were 9 of us now... Rain adn DogFight... Ugh... it hurts... Slowly I managed to force open my eyes, pushing away the pain in my head. Sitting up fully I stared back with confused eyes. "What do you mean... The other 7..." He snorted, "Thanks to you they are all dead." My eyes shot open. How could that be? I had gotten the antidote hadn't I? I had brought it back! Wait... no... I had gotten caught, right before I got to the ally.
They had taken teh antidote and knocked me out... "Oh Inari... Korunue..." Korunue hissed, I could tell he wanted to hit me... He almost never did though. We were good friends, but now I could tell he hated me. My tiny hands clenched, "I'm so sorry..." I could feel my eyes get wet, and slowly I felt his anger subdue. He stood and snorted, "Your tears won't help a damn thing..." I winced slightly at his tone. I hadn't meant to get caught, I had been so close... What if they had caught me when I was already at the ally entrance... They would have killed the others... wouldn't that have been a better death then the slow and painful one they had to endure? How old were we now? 14? Yes... 14... And we had raised 8 kids, orphans so much like ourselves... and now they were all dead... Again, I lost my family. All I had now was Korunue... but he hated me... I bit my lip trying to stop any tears that were to come as I saw their bodies. They were covered in blood, lots of it.
Iceist, Trythan, FireMouse, Goomba, Terk, Mufasa, and TigerLilyThey had a odd disease. It made you bleed from every hole in your body... Your eyes, your nose, your ears, your mouth, your anus, even your pours... Each one of them died slowly, contracting it one at a time. It was a miracle that me and Korunue hadn't gotten it either. Slowly I felt the hot trails go down my cheek one at a time. Faster and faster until I felt something slam into the side of my fae. falling over, I slowly rolled onto my back to find a very pissed Korunue standing over me. Growling he spoke, "Stop your crying. Its your fault and here you have nothing to say for yourself." I shook my head, this wasn't right... Korunue had always been so nice and helpful, even when we made mistakes... He hadn't been angry before... why was he now? No... this couldn't be right. I frowned as he pinned me and sat on my stomach, mpurposfully digging his knee into my tail. I whinced, bitting my lip again.
He began to punch me in the face, the shoulder, the chest, over and over. I felt little drops of blood spot my face when I coughed. Whincing, I tried to move my arms to hold my aching head, but they were pinned to my side. He growled and shouted, but I couldn't under stand what he was saying... This wasn't like him. The thought though faded away as my world slowly turned to black.
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Yuusuke tore through the woods. A few minutes ago he had felt the ki's of Kurama and Hiei flare, and now bother were completly gone. That could mean 3 different things. One, They were hiding their ki, two, they ran out, or three, they were dead. He growled and shoved the thought back. No way, Kurama and Hiei wouldn't... no... They COULDN'T die. He could swear the little fire demon was immortal with all the stuff he would go through just to win a fight and Kurama... well, Kurama was Kurama, he just couldn't die, and if he did Yuusuke would mangle Kurama's spirit after he died himself. Kuwabara wasn't too far behind him. At first the two had been goofing around a little, tripping and shouting, now though, there was a heavy, serious air around them. They didn't feel comfortable any more goofing around when there was a possiblity their two demon friends could be in trouble. The main thing that concerned Yuusuke was, shortly before Hiei and Kurama's ki's blacked out, so had Crevans.
If they had beaten Crevan, then why did they feel the need to hide their ki's? Or maybe they had hidden theirs aswell? He sighed and shoved all thoughts but running away again. There was no point in assuming, he would see when he got there. What he saw though, wasn't what he wanted. "HIEI! KURAMA!" The woods had abruptly ended to show a consruction zone. There were dead bodies all over the place, human victumes of Crevan no doubt, possibly a demon or two. There in the middle though, lay Hiei and Kurama, bot laying in puddles of their own blood. The two were so close that their blood had mingled together. What supposed Yuusuke when he rolled them over was their injuries. Kuwabara looked back and forth confused and at the blood covered rose whip beside Hiei. "This isn't right... It looks like... like they hurt each other!" Yuusuke nodded, Kuwabara was right for once. Kurama's rose whip was beside Hiei, where he seemed to have a very nasty gash, and Kurama's entire left side was burnt badly.
Some areas were still bleeding from half burnt wounds. Yuusuke cursed, Hiei was going deathly pale. With Kurama it was hard to tell. He had forgotten weather he already had the pale skin of the youko, or if it was pale from blood loss, but it was better to be safe then sorry. "Kuwabara, tightly wrap your jacket around Hiei's gash, I'll get Kurama." Kuwabara nodded mutely, doing his best to wrap the wound, Yuusuke doing the same with Kurama. Yuusuke hefted up Hiei, letting Kuwabara having the larger Kurama. Quickly they ran back to Yuusukes apartment praying their friends would be alright.
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Yukina's face had lit up when she felt the ki's of Yuusuke and Kuwabara fast approching. She made her way to the door, Botan, Keiko, and SHizuru close behind. Her smile quickly faded when she opened the door saw what they were carring, "Oh my!" She ran out the door and down as fast as her attire would allow reaching them quickly, the rest staying in the door way "What happened!?" Yuusuke sighed and shook his head, "I don't know... we weren't there. When we reached them they were on the ground like this." Botan yelped and ran out after Yukina, Shizuru and Keiko scurrying aside as Yuusuke and Kuwabara came through the door. Shori stood up quickly, but stopped, staring wide eyed at who Kuwabara was holding. He looked like Suiichi... but he had the same attire, ears, and tail of the man in her dreams, aswell as some silver streaks in his hair. She stood up and stepped aside as they set Kurama on the couch, and Yuusuke went to set Hiei on his bed.*Botan frowned looking over Kurama's left side.
"Yuusuke... It looks like Kurama was burned... Crevan doesn't have fire powers..." Yuusuke side from the door way to his room rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah I know... I think Crevan tricked them into hurting each other... I mean, Hiei has a gash, adn the rosewhip was laying right beside him, covered in his blood..." Yukina plced a hand over her mouth looking away. All of them knew of the relation ship between the two demons, it must have hurt them to find out they hurt each other, that is, if they were concious long enough to figure it out. Yuusuke frowned, "You guys better get Hiei, he is loosing alot of blood. Kurama isn't too bad..." Shori stood off to the side against the wall, seemingly forgotten. She couldn't take her eyes off of what seemed to be her son... or half her son atleast. Shizuru and Keiko ran off to get towels. Yukina, being stronger in the healing abilities had started to work on Hiei, Botan checking over Kurama's injuries and starting to work on his.
There was no way they would be able to replace all the lost blood, and hopefully it wasn't too late. If they weren't quick their temperatures would drop fast from the blood loss, and they would be hard to get back up. Shizuru came back, 2 blankets in her arms. She set one by Botan for Kurama and went to give another one to Yukina for Hiei. Kieko ran in a few seconds later, wet towels in her hands. She handed one to Yuusuke who went to help Yukina and Shizuru with Hiei while she returned helping clean the blood off Kurama. Kuwabara stood behind Botan and Keikoe worriedly watching as the two worked. After a moment he finally noticed Shori and frowned. How were they gonna explain this to her? After several slip ups Kurama had told his mother that Kurama was just a nick name for him, so they couldn't play off some fluke that it was some one else. He slowly made his way over there, noting she seemed to be off in a daze staring at her son. He placed a hand on her shoulder, "Ms. Minamino?"
She blinked, coming out of her daze, and slowly looked over at him. her eyes pools of confusion and worry. "Is that... is that Suiichi-kun?" Kuwabra glanced over at Kurama, he knew that the youko probably didn't want his mother to know, but what were they to do? He couldn't lie to her, and if he did, waht would happen if Kurama went completly human when his mother was there? Sighing her turned back, hating himself for the next word. "Hai..." Shori seemed to pale, "But... But... He has..." She shook her head quickly, "That can't be him!" At that Botan and Keiko glanced over worriedly, and Yuusuke glanced up from the door way. Kuwabara gave them a helpless shrugg and Yuusuke came over, leading Shori off to his mothers room where it would be easier to talk. The emotions she were giving off were gonna disrupt Yukina and Botan, and if Hiei and Kurama woke up it wouldn't help them either. He helped her sit down on the bed, sitting beside her cross legged on the bed. They stayed silent for a long while.
Finally she spoke up. "Was... Was that fox man Suiichi... The fox being from my dream? Was that him I was seeing?" Yuusuke swollowed and stayed silent for a moment, before he nodded. "Hai... it was." Shori shook her head. "But how? Why didn't?" She paused, frusterated and stummbling over her words. Yuusuke had visited Kurama and his mother alot, and he rarely saw her like this. He sighed softly, "He didn't tell you, because he didn't want to hurt you, or upset you." Shori frowned, "But how is not telling me and letting this happen better!?" Her voice hadn't raised that much, but it as notable. Yuusuke sighed, "I don't know... You'll have to ask him when he wakes up... He never talked to me alot about it." Shori frowned slightly, looking over Yuusuke. "How long did you know?" Yuusuke frowned, "Shortly after I first met him, a little before you got better. He told me about it, what had happened and what not..." Shori sighed, placing her face in her hands, not sure what to do.
Frowning Yuusuke placed a hand on her shoulder hoping to ease her tension. Quietly he stood and spoke, "I have to go back and check on them okay? Come out when your ready." SHori just nodded and Yuusuke turned stepping out. The second he left the room he was pinned by 4 sets of eyes. He glanced around at Shizuru, Keiko, Botan, and Kuwabara and shrugged. "I'm not sure... I wasn't able to tell her alot cause I want to leave that up to Kurama. He would be better at it then me." Botan sighed and shook her head, going back to tending to Kurama's side. Keiko frowned and started whipping awya any blood again. Shizuru just softly shook her head looking back into Yuusuke's room at Hiei and Yukina. Kuwabara frowned, "But what was her reaction to it so far." Yuusuke shrugged once again. He really wasn't sure what was gonna happen. She didn't seem to be taking to it well, but then again he didn't know if she just needed time to think about it or if she would get over it soon, or if it would take a while.
"I don't know... She didn't seem to take to it well, but she may just need time to adjust to it..." Keiko looked up from her work, "What if we erased part of her memory?" Yuusuke sighed once agian, this really was very frusterating. "It all depends on what Kurama wants. If he wants her never to know then I guess it would be okay to do that, but if he wants her to know, then no. Its not like we can do that any way. Kurama is the only person I know that can do that, and thats using plants and his ki, which he seems to have little of." Kuwabra grummbled something and made his way into the kitchen to get water, Shizuru following him. "Any one else want any thing?" Botan and Keiko shook her head and Yuusuke glanced at Yukina. She had a some sweat trickling down her forehead, tiring quickly from healing Hiei's wound. It was extremly deep, Yuusuke was suprise he hadn't bleed to death by the time they had gotten him back. "Better get water for Yukina." With that Kuwabara seemed to perk up alittle.
Yuusuke rolled his eyes slightly. Atleast some one was some what perky.
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Botan yelped and fell back as Kuram bolted up right and left out a soft cry. His eyes were wide, and pure gold as they darted around the room. His heart was racing, the sound of blood pounding in his ears. Two things were on his mind, Korunue and Hiei. Slowly he came back to normal when he saw Yuusukes worried face infront of his, saying something that sounded like, "Are you alright Kurama?" Quietly he nodded, and one by one his muscles began to relax. The left side of his face felt tight, and he placed his hadn on it and whinced as he felt a sharp pain. ~The burns...~ Yuusuke gave a relieved sigh and sat back. "Oi Kurama. Had me worried there for a moment that you were gonna clobber Botan thinking she was Crevan or something. Eh, What happened any way? When we got there you and Hiei were out..." He tried to hide his signs of worry, but Kurama caught them any way. He sighed rubbing the right side of his head, his temples hurt like in the dream. He sighed shaking his head and getting ready to explain.
"He set us both in a illusionary world. The entire plane was black, and he made up 70 or so illusions of himself, and then made Hiei look like him, and hide himself among all the illusions. Then he jummbled up the world and replaced every one... In the end we ended up hitting each other instead of Crevan. I'm not even sure if he was still in the world when we started our attacks." Yuusuke growled softly. The more he heard the more pissed he was. This was getting out of hand. Eventually Crevan would come for Shizuru, Shori, and Keiko if they didn't kill him soon. Crevan though seemed to become more powerful each time he saw them. Yuusuke sighed and rubs the back of his head, how was he gonna tell Kurama about Shori? Thankfully Keiko took the honors on that job. She stared at her hands, which were fidgeting in her lap the entire time. "Kurama... You might want to talk to Shori... About your appearance." Kurama seemed confused at first, about to question her when he relized.
Yuusuke watched, fidgeting as his eyes slowly grew wider as it dawned on the kitsune what Keiko spoke of. He whinced and touched the two furry ears on his head, relizing he was still half and half. Slwoly he willed himself back into his full ningen form. He glanced over at Yuusuke and Kuwabara, his voice quiet as he spoke, "How much does she know?" Yuusuke placed his hand on the back of his neck, trying to keep he tone calm. "Well, she had a dream about your youko form, probably thanks to Crevan, and so I'm not to sure how well she is taking her discovery..." Kurama glared slightly, not liking the way Yuusuke put that, but it wasn't his fault. Kruama gave a soft sigh and ran a hand through his hair. "How is Hiei?" Before Botan was able to respond Yukina popped into the room adn gave a small reassuring smile. "He should be just fine. Both of you need to rest though, you lost alot of blood. And your left side will be very sore for a while with peeling skin I'm afraid."
The news didn't bother Kurama though. He was more worried about his mother, and how to tell her. He glanced up, seeing her watching him from the door way and he whinced slightly averting his eyes. Shizuru glanced abck adn forth before ushering all the youngin's and young at heart into other rooms to leave the mother and son pair alone. Kurama couldn't bring himself to look at her though. He didn't want to see the look in her eyes as she gazed upon him. Quietly she walked over, seeing that her "son" would never start the conversation. In the other room Shizuru turned on a radio, trying to give the two privacy. Yuusuke grummbled and plopped down, silenced by glares from Keiko and Shizuru. Kuwabara having done similar to Yuusuke sat in a near by chair, hand resting on his fist. "Why didn't you ever tell me?" Kurama glanced up cautiously, and whinced, slightly taken a back but the cold look in her eyes. He averted his again. "I didn't know what you would think, and I didn't want to hurt you."
She carefully grabbed his chin, pulling him to look at her. "So waiting until a moment like this is better?" Kurama didn't like the slight raise in her voice, or the look she was giving him. He wanted to pull awya but he kept himself still. Shori continued, "I thought I had always told you to be honest with me "Kurama"." Kurama's eyes widened slightly with the way she used his demon name, his eyes glancing off some where else again. "I'm guessing Kurama is more then a nickname... What are you really? How did I give birth to a fox like monster?" Kurama whinced and finally willed himself to pull his face from her gentle grasp. Ever so softly he started his story. "Before I was born as Suiichi... I was a youko, a fox spirit... a fox demon. My name was Kurama. I was a theif, considered one of the best and cold hearted. A while back I botched up on a robbery and was caught. I was killed, but I managed to keep my soul from going to the spirit world, and willed it into the human world."
He paused a moment, and then continued. "From there I entered the womb of a unborn child, placing my spirit inside their body, and merging with theirs... You were the carrier of that womb." His voice slowly trailed off and he glanced up at her. Her face was blank, she was taking it all in. Quietly he looked down, waiting for what was to come, her answer. *CRACK*
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Kali: Oo That took a while, but I'm done. The next chapter will be the first to start with out a dream. ^^; I could do a dream for Hiei, but I have no ideas and am getting tired of struggling for words on this fic. And yes, SHori slapped Kurama if your wondering, evil aren't I? *Hides* Sam is gonna shoot me.
Kurama: I'LL SHOOT YOU!
Hiei: Oo *Backs away*
Nuria: *Finally wakes up* O.O Why is Tousan angry?
Hiei: Cause stupid authoress' made grandma slap him.
Nuria: *Gasps* TOUSAN WAS NAUGHTY!
Kali, Kurama, and Hiei: *Face vault*
Nuria: Oo Eh?
Kali: *Gets up and rubs her abused face* R&R please, no flames, as I'm not in a very good mood, I'll take them when I'm cheery, so I can laugh my butt off ^^;
Hiei: And the point of this is?
Kali: Nothing, I just like to blabble on about nothing... Like now.
Kurama: We live right?
Kali: huh? Oh yeah... Life... *Cough*
Hiei: ... *His dragon wards spark*
Kali: Oo Yes sir...
Disclaimer: Don't own em, but I want them... *pets her youko Kurama computer background* I also own all original characters. *Cackles* I can name each one. Kali, Amara, Candice, Nitesh, Crevan, Rain, DogFight, Terk, Iceist, Trythan, Goomba, FireMouse, TigerLily, and Mufasa. Oo All of them except Crevan are dead though. ^^;
~ = Thoughts
* = Sound effects
Blah... just so you know, My dog is fine, and I'm working on making another chapter to Kurama's cat... though I lost insperation half way through, forgive me XD My dog looks kinda like a poddle cause they had to shave her fore legs... crap... blabbling again, damned ADD
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My head hurt badly, my body was stiff and sore, covered in sweat. Slowly I was able to sit up. When I did though I found my self face to face with a pair of angry silvery colbat eyes. Frowning I opened my mouth but before I could say a word I was cut off. "No bother in speaking. I'm the only one to hear you." His voice was full of hate and pain. I blinked confused at him. What was he talking about? There was always 11 of us... wait... My vision flashed white and I held my head as a streak of pain shot through my temples. No... There were 9 of us now... Rain adn DogFight... Ugh... it hurts... Slowly I managed to force open my eyes, pushing away the pain in my head. Sitting up fully I stared back with confused eyes. "What do you mean... The other 7..." He snorted, "Thanks to you they are all dead." My eyes shot open. How could that be? I had gotten the antidote hadn't I? I had brought it back! Wait... no... I had gotten caught, right before I got to the ally.
They had taken teh antidote and knocked me out... "Oh Inari... Korunue..." Korunue hissed, I could tell he wanted to hit me... He almost never did though. We were good friends, but now I could tell he hated me. My tiny hands clenched, "I'm so sorry..." I could feel my eyes get wet, and slowly I felt his anger subdue. He stood and snorted, "Your tears won't help a damn thing..." I winced slightly at his tone. I hadn't meant to get caught, I had been so close... What if they had caught me when I was already at the ally entrance... They would have killed the others... wouldn't that have been a better death then the slow and painful one they had to endure? How old were we now? 14? Yes... 14... And we had raised 8 kids, orphans so much like ourselves... and now they were all dead... Again, I lost my family. All I had now was Korunue... but he hated me... I bit my lip trying to stop any tears that were to come as I saw their bodies. They were covered in blood, lots of it.
Iceist, Trythan, FireMouse, Goomba, Terk, Mufasa, and TigerLilyThey had a odd disease. It made you bleed from every hole in your body... Your eyes, your nose, your ears, your mouth, your anus, even your pours... Each one of them died slowly, contracting it one at a time. It was a miracle that me and Korunue hadn't gotten it either. Slowly I felt the hot trails go down my cheek one at a time. Faster and faster until I felt something slam into the side of my fae. falling over, I slowly rolled onto my back to find a very pissed Korunue standing over me. Growling he spoke, "Stop your crying. Its your fault and here you have nothing to say for yourself." I shook my head, this wasn't right... Korunue had always been so nice and helpful, even when we made mistakes... He hadn't been angry before... why was he now? No... this couldn't be right. I frowned as he pinned me and sat on my stomach, mpurposfully digging his knee into my tail. I whinced, bitting my lip again.
He began to punch me in the face, the shoulder, the chest, over and over. I felt little drops of blood spot my face when I coughed. Whincing, I tried to move my arms to hold my aching head, but they were pinned to my side. He growled and shouted, but I couldn't under stand what he was saying... This wasn't like him. The thought though faded away as my world slowly turned to black.
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Yuusuke tore through the woods. A few minutes ago he had felt the ki's of Kurama and Hiei flare, and now bother were completly gone. That could mean 3 different things. One, They were hiding their ki, two, they ran out, or three, they were dead. He growled and shoved the thought back. No way, Kurama and Hiei wouldn't... no... They COULDN'T die. He could swear the little fire demon was immortal with all the stuff he would go through just to win a fight and Kurama... well, Kurama was Kurama, he just couldn't die, and if he did Yuusuke would mangle Kurama's spirit after he died himself. Kuwabara wasn't too far behind him. At first the two had been goofing around a little, tripping and shouting, now though, there was a heavy, serious air around them. They didn't feel comfortable any more goofing around when there was a possiblity their two demon friends could be in trouble. The main thing that concerned Yuusuke was, shortly before Hiei and Kurama's ki's blacked out, so had Crevans.
If they had beaten Crevan, then why did they feel the need to hide their ki's? Or maybe they had hidden theirs aswell? He sighed and shoved all thoughts but running away again. There was no point in assuming, he would see when he got there. What he saw though, wasn't what he wanted. "HIEI! KURAMA!" The woods had abruptly ended to show a consruction zone. There were dead bodies all over the place, human victumes of Crevan no doubt, possibly a demon or two. There in the middle though, lay Hiei and Kurama, bot laying in puddles of their own blood. The two were so close that their blood had mingled together. What supposed Yuusuke when he rolled them over was their injuries. Kuwabara looked back and forth confused and at the blood covered rose whip beside Hiei. "This isn't right... It looks like... like they hurt each other!" Yuusuke nodded, Kuwabara was right for once. Kurama's rose whip was beside Hiei, where he seemed to have a very nasty gash, and Kurama's entire left side was burnt badly.
Some areas were still bleeding from half burnt wounds. Yuusuke cursed, Hiei was going deathly pale. With Kurama it was hard to tell. He had forgotten weather he already had the pale skin of the youko, or if it was pale from blood loss, but it was better to be safe then sorry. "Kuwabara, tightly wrap your jacket around Hiei's gash, I'll get Kurama." Kuwabara nodded mutely, doing his best to wrap the wound, Yuusuke doing the same with Kurama. Yuusuke hefted up Hiei, letting Kuwabara having the larger Kurama. Quickly they ran back to Yuusukes apartment praying their friends would be alright.
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Yukina's face had lit up when she felt the ki's of Yuusuke and Kuwabara fast approching. She made her way to the door, Botan, Keiko, and SHizuru close behind. Her smile quickly faded when she opened the door saw what they were carring, "Oh my!" She ran out the door and down as fast as her attire would allow reaching them quickly, the rest staying in the door way "What happened!?" Yuusuke sighed and shook his head, "I don't know... we weren't there. When we reached them they were on the ground like this." Botan yelped and ran out after Yukina, Shizuru and Keiko scurrying aside as Yuusuke and Kuwabara came through the door. Shori stood up quickly, but stopped, staring wide eyed at who Kuwabara was holding. He looked like Suiichi... but he had the same attire, ears, and tail of the man in her dreams, aswell as some silver streaks in his hair. She stood up and stepped aside as they set Kurama on the couch, and Yuusuke went to set Hiei on his bed.*Botan frowned looking over Kurama's left side.
"Yuusuke... It looks like Kurama was burned... Crevan doesn't have fire powers..." Yuusuke side from the door way to his room rubbing the back of his neck. "Yeah I know... I think Crevan tricked them into hurting each other... I mean, Hiei has a gash, adn the rosewhip was laying right beside him, covered in his blood..." Yukina plced a hand over her mouth looking away. All of them knew of the relation ship between the two demons, it must have hurt them to find out they hurt each other, that is, if they were concious long enough to figure it out. Yuusuke frowned, "You guys better get Hiei, he is loosing alot of blood. Kurama isn't too bad..." Shori stood off to the side against the wall, seemingly forgotten. She couldn't take her eyes off of what seemed to be her son... or half her son atleast. Shizuru and Keiko ran off to get towels. Yukina, being stronger in the healing abilities had started to work on Hiei, Botan checking over Kurama's injuries and starting to work on his.
There was no way they would be able to replace all the lost blood, and hopefully it wasn't too late. If they weren't quick their temperatures would drop fast from the blood loss, and they would be hard to get back up. Shizuru came back, 2 blankets in her arms. She set one by Botan for Kurama and went to give another one to Yukina for Hiei. Kieko ran in a few seconds later, wet towels in her hands. She handed one to Yuusuke who went to help Yukina and Shizuru with Hiei while she returned helping clean the blood off Kurama. Kuwabara stood behind Botan and Keikoe worriedly watching as the two worked. After a moment he finally noticed Shori and frowned. How were they gonna explain this to her? After several slip ups Kurama had told his mother that Kurama was just a nick name for him, so they couldn't play off some fluke that it was some one else. He slowly made his way over there, noting she seemed to be off in a daze staring at her son. He placed a hand on her shoulder, "Ms. Minamino?"
She blinked, coming out of her daze, and slowly looked over at him. her eyes pools of confusion and worry. "Is that... is that Suiichi-kun?" Kuwabra glanced over at Kurama, he knew that the youko probably didn't want his mother to know, but what were they to do? He couldn't lie to her, and if he did, waht would happen if Kurama went completly human when his mother was there? Sighing her turned back, hating himself for the next word. "Hai..." Shori seemed to pale, "But... But... He has..." She shook her head quickly, "That can't be him!" At that Botan and Keiko glanced over worriedly, and Yuusuke glanced up from the door way. Kuwabara gave them a helpless shrugg and Yuusuke came over, leading Shori off to his mothers room where it would be easier to talk. The emotions she were giving off were gonna disrupt Yukina and Botan, and if Hiei and Kurama woke up it wouldn't help them either. He helped her sit down on the bed, sitting beside her cross legged on the bed. They stayed silent for a long while.
Finally she spoke up. "Was... Was that fox man Suiichi... The fox being from my dream? Was that him I was seeing?" Yuusuke swollowed and stayed silent for a moment, before he nodded. "Hai... it was." Shori shook her head. "But how? Why didn't?" She paused, frusterated and stummbling over her words. Yuusuke had visited Kurama and his mother alot, and he rarely saw her like this. He sighed softly, "He didn't tell you, because he didn't want to hurt you, or upset you." Shori frowned, "But how is not telling me and letting this happen better!?" Her voice hadn't raised that much, but it as notable. Yuusuke sighed, "I don't know... You'll have to ask him when he wakes up... He never talked to me alot about it." Shori frowned slightly, looking over Yuusuke. "How long did you know?" Yuusuke frowned, "Shortly after I first met him, a little before you got better. He told me about it, what had happened and what not..." Shori sighed, placing her face in her hands, not sure what to do.
Frowning Yuusuke placed a hand on her shoulder hoping to ease her tension. Quietly he stood and spoke, "I have to go back and check on them okay? Come out when your ready." SHori just nodded and Yuusuke turned stepping out. The second he left the room he was pinned by 4 sets of eyes. He glanced around at Shizuru, Keiko, Botan, and Kuwabara and shrugged. "I'm not sure... I wasn't able to tell her alot cause I want to leave that up to Kurama. He would be better at it then me." Botan sighed and shook her head, going back to tending to Kurama's side. Keiko frowned and started whipping awya any blood again. Shizuru just softly shook her head looking back into Yuusuke's room at Hiei and Yukina. Kuwabara frowned, "But what was her reaction to it so far." Yuusuke shrugged once again. He really wasn't sure what was gonna happen. She didn't seem to be taking to it well, but then again he didn't know if she just needed time to think about it or if she would get over it soon, or if it would take a while.
"I don't know... She didn't seem to take to it well, but she may just need time to adjust to it..." Keiko looked up from her work, "What if we erased part of her memory?" Yuusuke sighed once agian, this really was very frusterating. "It all depends on what Kurama wants. If he wants her never to know then I guess it would be okay to do that, but if he wants her to know, then no. Its not like we can do that any way. Kurama is the only person I know that can do that, and thats using plants and his ki, which he seems to have little of." Kuwabra grummbled something and made his way into the kitchen to get water, Shizuru following him. "Any one else want any thing?" Botan and Keiko shook her head and Yuusuke glanced at Yukina. She had a some sweat trickling down her forehead, tiring quickly from healing Hiei's wound. It was extremly deep, Yuusuke was suprise he hadn't bleed to death by the time they had gotten him back. "Better get water for Yukina." With that Kuwabara seemed to perk up alittle.
Yuusuke rolled his eyes slightly. Atleast some one was some what perky.
.:*:.
Botan yelped and fell back as Kuram bolted up right and left out a soft cry. His eyes were wide, and pure gold as they darted around the room. His heart was racing, the sound of blood pounding in his ears. Two things were on his mind, Korunue and Hiei. Slowly he came back to normal when he saw Yuusukes worried face infront of his, saying something that sounded like, "Are you alright Kurama?" Quietly he nodded, and one by one his muscles began to relax. The left side of his face felt tight, and he placed his hadn on it and whinced as he felt a sharp pain. ~The burns...~ Yuusuke gave a relieved sigh and sat back. "Oi Kurama. Had me worried there for a moment that you were gonna clobber Botan thinking she was Crevan or something. Eh, What happened any way? When we got there you and Hiei were out..." He tried to hide his signs of worry, but Kurama caught them any way. He sighed rubbing the right side of his head, his temples hurt like in the dream. He sighed shaking his head and getting ready to explain.
"He set us both in a illusionary world. The entire plane was black, and he made up 70 or so illusions of himself, and then made Hiei look like him, and hide himself among all the illusions. Then he jummbled up the world and replaced every one... In the end we ended up hitting each other instead of Crevan. I'm not even sure if he was still in the world when we started our attacks." Yuusuke growled softly. The more he heard the more pissed he was. This was getting out of hand. Eventually Crevan would come for Shizuru, Shori, and Keiko if they didn't kill him soon. Crevan though seemed to become more powerful each time he saw them. Yuusuke sighed and rubs the back of his head, how was he gonna tell Kurama about Shori? Thankfully Keiko took the honors on that job. She stared at her hands, which were fidgeting in her lap the entire time. "Kurama... You might want to talk to Shori... About your appearance." Kurama seemed confused at first, about to question her when he relized.
Yuusuke watched, fidgeting as his eyes slowly grew wider as it dawned on the kitsune what Keiko spoke of. He whinced and touched the two furry ears on his head, relizing he was still half and half. Slwoly he willed himself back into his full ningen form. He glanced over at Yuusuke and Kuwabara, his voice quiet as he spoke, "How much does she know?" Yuusuke placed his hand on the back of his neck, trying to keep he tone calm. "Well, she had a dream about your youko form, probably thanks to Crevan, and so I'm not to sure how well she is taking her discovery..." Kurama glared slightly, not liking the way Yuusuke put that, but it wasn't his fault. Kruama gave a soft sigh and ran a hand through his hair. "How is Hiei?" Before Botan was able to respond Yukina popped into the room adn gave a small reassuring smile. "He should be just fine. Both of you need to rest though, you lost alot of blood. And your left side will be very sore for a while with peeling skin I'm afraid."
The news didn't bother Kurama though. He was more worried about his mother, and how to tell her. He glanced up, seeing her watching him from the door way and he whinced slightly averting his eyes. Shizuru glanced abck adn forth before ushering all the youngin's and young at heart into other rooms to leave the mother and son pair alone. Kurama couldn't bring himself to look at her though. He didn't want to see the look in her eyes as she gazed upon him. Quietly she walked over, seeing that her "son" would never start the conversation. In the other room Shizuru turned on a radio, trying to give the two privacy. Yuusuke grummbled and plopped down, silenced by glares from Keiko and Shizuru. Kuwabara having done similar to Yuusuke sat in a near by chair, hand resting on his fist. "Why didn't you ever tell me?" Kurama glanced up cautiously, and whinced, slightly taken a back but the cold look in her eyes. He averted his again. "I didn't know what you would think, and I didn't want to hurt you."
She carefully grabbed his chin, pulling him to look at her. "So waiting until a moment like this is better?" Kurama didn't like the slight raise in her voice, or the look she was giving him. He wanted to pull awya but he kept himself still. Shori continued, "I thought I had always told you to be honest with me "Kurama"." Kurama's eyes widened slightly with the way she used his demon name, his eyes glancing off some where else again. "I'm guessing Kurama is more then a nickname... What are you really? How did I give birth to a fox like monster?" Kurama whinced and finally willed himself to pull his face from her gentle grasp. Ever so softly he started his story. "Before I was born as Suiichi... I was a youko, a fox spirit... a fox demon. My name was Kurama. I was a theif, considered one of the best and cold hearted. A while back I botched up on a robbery and was caught. I was killed, but I managed to keep my soul from going to the spirit world, and willed it into the human world."
He paused a moment, and then continued. "From there I entered the womb of a unborn child, placing my spirit inside their body, and merging with theirs... You were the carrier of that womb." His voice slowly trailed off and he glanced up at her. Her face was blank, she was taking it all in. Quietly he looked down, waiting for what was to come, her answer. *CRACK*
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Kali: Oo That took a while, but I'm done. The next chapter will be the first to start with out a dream. ^^; I could do a dream for Hiei, but I have no ideas and am getting tired of struggling for words on this fic. And yes, SHori slapped Kurama if your wondering, evil aren't I? *Hides* Sam is gonna shoot me.
Kurama: I'LL SHOOT YOU!
Hiei: Oo *Backs away*
Nuria: *Finally wakes up* O.O Why is Tousan angry?
Hiei: Cause stupid authoress' made grandma slap him.
Nuria: *Gasps* TOUSAN WAS NAUGHTY!
Kali, Kurama, and Hiei: *Face vault*
Nuria: Oo Eh?
Kali: *Gets up and rubs her abused face* R&R please, no flames, as I'm not in a very good mood, I'll take them when I'm cheery, so I can laugh my butt off ^^;