Kali: Oo Took me like 3 weeks, but I finally updated. *Sigh* Sorry, its school. You go there for 6 1/2 hours a day, and then they give you 3 hours of homework, so by the time I'm done its about 6:30 or 7 and I have to eat, and then its about 7:30 to 8 and then I have to take a shower so its 9. And then I have 1 1/2 hours to relax before going to bed and starting the process over *Hisses* Don't you just hate school? Well its friday now (9/12) and I have little to no homework. ^^ Let the story begin! Oo err... Continue?
Kurama(Youko): Yes... One more minute of your ranting and I'll kill you... *Sorting through a handful of seeds*
Kali: Oo WHy are you complaining? You have school too in your human form!
Kurama: But I don't complain.
Hiei: Thankfully...
Kurama: What was that supposed to mean?
Hiei: *Shifty eyes* Nothing... Nothing at all
Kurama: ... If you don't tell me... Kurama is not talking to Hiei (XD Inside joke between me and Sam)
Hiei: *Grummbles, Grabs Kurama nad drags him off to explain*
Kali: *sulks* They left! Oh well They would only distract me any way...
Disclaimer: You know the drill, I dun own YYH, only the plot and original characters.
~ = Thoughts
* = Flash back, memory clip
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Yuusuke grummbled and gave a soft sigh as he ran his hair, which by now was ruffled. He glanced up at the sky, purple ircles under his eyes. The peaceful morning was soon broken by his monsterous yawn. They had been searching for Kurama all damned night! Damn him and Hiei and their speed. Lord knew how long they had been running and he had lost Kuwabara some where back in the woods. With the brains of a slug, Kuwabara was probably already lost and half dead in a ditch, but they could fix that later. Right now he was far more worried about Kurama. Yuusuke would have thought Suiichi to react like that but not Youko... even if they were half and half. Growling her slapped his forehead, he kept forgetting! ~Yuusuke you baka! Suiichi and Youko are the same person... they may act different... but they are one soul made of two halves melded together...~ Yuusuke knew that if he watched closely to Kurama's actions he could see a ancient look in his eyes, and non-human grace when he moved.
There were times where Yuusuke wondered how the other kids or adults never noticed it. Some times he would notice golden flecks start to appear in his eyes, usually only when he was nervous when they were doing investigation for a mission, and once when another student snuck up on him and suprised him, for a split second he saw Kruama's eyes go gold, and for a moment a great annoyance to them, before he seemed to calm and relax. His thoughts were broken when he spoted them. He gave a soft smile, though he wasn't used to the idea, seeing Hiei and Kurama together really did fit. Though when in his youko form, the height difference between the 7 foot youko and the 5'3 fire demon was quiet halarious looking, but spirit detective had learned by now not to poke fun of Hiei's height, not to mention when he made a height on the crack difference onces Kurama gave him the evil eye, but latere settled for teasing Yuusuke, with a great deal of hentai, causing Hiei to turn as red as his eyes.
His moments of thoughts were broken as Kuwabara stummbled up to him, a twig sticking out of his hair. Yuusuke was suprised that neither of the demons were woken by the boy, either that or they were ignoring him. Kuwabara hadn't noticed teh two yet. Hiei was leaning back against the tree trunk, on seemingly the largest branch in the whole tree. His legs wqere spred slightly, enough for the slim youko to curle up between them and rest his head peacefully on the fire demons chest. Yuusuke almust snickered as he saw Kurama's nose twitch, and then his two ears, which her flopped to the side, twitch slightly, the expression was almost too cute and silly to bare. Yuusuke jolted slightly when Kuwabara nearly shrieked upon spotting the two. A quick punch to the side of the head stopped him, leaving him to grummble and sulk on the ground. The teen knew what was going to come, and it was annoying to hear.
Kuwabara, brought up by religious parents, though it didn't look like it, was very immature on the subject of gay relationships at times. The first time they had found out, Kuwabara said a rather nasty comment, that Yuusuke didn't really want to repeat. That ended up getting the boy a real nasty bruise from Hiei. Kurama had to hold the koorime back from hacking off the other boys head aswell. Kurama on the other hand was more reserved, but just as frightening. His eyes looked sad for a moment, slightly hurt by the way Kuwabara had reacted, but in the blink of a eye his iris' were pure gold, and looked annoyed to no end. Obviously Youko hadn't liked the way Kuwabara had treated his human side, but he calmed down quickly and soon his eyes were back to normal. Yuusuke quickly shook his head, getting back to the present. Grinning he picked up a small stone, and against better judgement, he took aim and threw it.
The stone sailed through the air, thwacking Hiei in the side of the face. Taken by suprise teh fire demon jolted, his eyes flying open. for a second he forgot he was in the tree, and lost his balance. In a rare moment of extreme emotion activity, or atleast obvious emotional activity, the fire demon flailed his arms, grabbing onto the nearest thing... Unfortunitly for Kurama, that happened to be the unfortunit Youkos tail. Youko gave a high pitched yelp was Hiei fell out of the tree, grabbing his tail, and dragging the youko down with him. Yuusuke whinced as Hiei landed with a thud, Kurama quickly landing ontop the poor Koorime. Kurama quickly scrambled off Hiei, who was now on the ground twitching, his eyes swirling. Kurama frowned and poked him slightly, but when he saw it had no effect he shook his head and stood. Chuckling slightly Kurama turned to Yuusuke, "You might want to start running now."
Yuusuke paled slightly giving a nervous laugh. He started backing up when suddenly Hiei appeared before him and socked him one in the side of the face. It was now Yuusuke's turn to fall over on the ground twitching. Kuwabara blinked and wrinkled his nose slightly as Hiei made his way back over to Kurama. And wrapped his arms around the youkos waist, and Kurama leaned forward so the two could kiss. Yuusuke sad up rubbing the side of his face, now having a matching bruise with Kuwabara. He gave a all knowing smirk at the two though. He blinked as they broke apart, and then kissed again. This seemed to go on for a while, causing Yuusuke to sweat drop, "Eh... Hey love bird! We do have a demon to catch you know!" That seemed to catch their attention slightly. Kurama straighted, his eyes narrowing, and Hiei seemed to let out a low growl, his costumary scowl on his face. Yuusuke stood dusting himself off as he padded over to the two demons.
"Hey Hiei. Can you use your jagan to find him?" Hiei shrugged, "Depends of weather or not he wants to show himself. Not even my jagan can tell the difference between his illusions and the real one." Kurama nodded slightly, his arms crossing over his chest. "He is a master a illusions, even the scent is the same." Yuusuke sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, this was proving to be a problem. Unless Crevan wanted to be found, there was no way they were going to find him... Unless... Yuusuke paled slightly, slapping his forehead. "ARG! WE'RE SO STUPID!" Hiei was about to correct him by saying, YOUR so stupid, but He held silent when Kurama asked Yuusuke what he was talking about. Yuusuke sighed, though he still seemed panicky. "Crevan always goes to kill those he has bitten right?" The two demons nodded. Kuwabara came up beside Yuusuke and blinked, "So?" Yuusuke's frown grew deeper at this point, "Keiko, Shizuru, and Shori were all bitten... and we left them and Yukina and Botan alone back at my place."
Kuwabara and Kurama seemed to pale slightly at that, and Hiei's frown and scowl grew darker. The two demons cursed, they were far from the apartment, and Yuusuke and Kuwabara were tired and far to slow to get their in time to help them. Kurama winced slightly, he knew Hiei wasn't going to like the idea... but... "Hiei, Your going to have to carry Yuusuke." The fire demon nearly blanched and Yuusuke blinked bewildered. Hiei growled and glared up at Kurama's serious face. "What the hell are you talking about!?" Kurama sighed, "Yuusuke and Kuwabara got little to no rest last night trying to find us, and we are at least 4 miles from his house... With their speed it will take them far to long to get there, and you already know we can't fight him on our own." Hiei growled again, but mumbled something that sounded along the line of agreement. Kurama wasn't very happy about it either, he had to carry Kuwabara, and he was heavy, plus extremely paranoid about Kurama's youko form.
Glancing over at the teen Kurama motioned for him to come over. Scurrying over Kuwabara tilted his head slightly, "What?" Kurama turned, his back facing Kuwabara, his arms spread out slightly from his sides. "Get on my back." Kuwabra face vaulted. Quickly getting to his feet and rubbing his injured nose he yelped, "What!?" Kurama sighed, getting slightly irritated, "Hiei is carrying Yuusuke, and I'm carrying you. Hiei might be strong enough, but with the size difference, he can't carry you. Hurry up and get on Kuwabara, your sister might be in danger." That was all it took to get the ningen to eagerly hop on his face. The sudden pouncing of Kuwabara nearly made Kurama fall on his face, but he steadied himself and glanced over to see Yuusuke and Hiei in a similar position. Kurama smirked slightly, "You might want to wrap yours arms around me Kuwabara." Kuwabara made a face and shrieked slightly, "There is no waAHHHHHH!!!!" Before the boy could finish the two demons bolted off.
Yuusuke stiffened slightly as the world around them became a blur, even Kurama was was running right beside Hiei was slightly blurry, but more so his legs then anything else. He snickered slightly when he saw Kuwabara trying to cling to Kurama, who gave him a particularly nasty glare when at one point Kuwabara grabbed his ears. That caused Kurama to shakes his head, making the teen loose his grip and end up clinging to Kurama's shoulders and hair. The youko shook his head, still looking mildly annoyed, but at least he didn't have a look of pain on his face. Yuusuke yelped as they came suddenly to a stop, his body getting pressed into Hiei's. He glanced around and suddenly realized they were at his apartment, but the front door was broken. Inside he could hear Yukina shout in alarm, and Shizuru shouting. "Damned demon! Go to hell!" Shori spoke quickly after Shizuru's cry of anger. "It disappeared!" Kurama and Hiei frowned and the little demon disappeared, while Kurama silently stepped into the house.
Yuusuke blinked bewildered as Kurama walked over glass, broken wood, and spots where he knew the floor was creaky, and yet not a single sound was made. Kuwabara almost ran in but Yuusuke stopped him. It was obvious Hiei and Kurama wanted to catch him off guard by the way they were moving silently. Kuwabara frowned and opened his mouth to comment when Crevan's voice stopped him. "Awww... Look who's back! My two favorite play toys! Where are your human friends huh?" Yuusuke took that as his cue to enter. He quickly stepped through his apartment, papers, furniture, glass, and wood strewn every where. He mentally sighed, his mother was going to kill him for this one. He found them all in his mothers bedroom, thankfully nothing there was out of place, but with Hiei holding his katana, and Kurama his rose whip, he wasn't sure how long that was going to last. Crevan seemed to perk up a little, as if Yuusuke were a good friend, not some one wanting to kill him.
"Yuusuke, Kuwabara! How nice to see you." Kurama took at moment to lash his hip at the distracted Crevan. The demon paled as the whip lashed through him, but he flickered and faded. Kurama cursed quietly, it was just a illusion. Another Crevan appeared behind Kurama. "Now now...", His voice caused the youko to whirl around and step back with a quiet growl. "No need to get hasty fox boy. You'll have another chance to fight me, though I'm not sure how well that will work out for you my friend." Yuusuke would have grinned when he saw Hiei's eyebrow twitch at the fox boy part, if the situation hadn't been so serious. Hiei looked as if he were about to hack Crevan's head off when the demon disappeared. A startled cry from behind them caused them all to turn. Crevan had Shori, a blade against her neck. A snarle quickly errupted from Kurama, his ears folding back. Yuusuke blinked surprised at the sudden animalistic actions. He hadn't really realized just how fox based Kurama was.
The youko's ears were back and his lips were pulled up, his white fang like teeth bared. He was giving a deep snarle, and his tail was fluffed up in anger. The other women, expecially Shori were slightly taken a back by his sudden fit of rage. Normally Kurama was highly calm and even has his human form wasn't eager on showing anger. It seemed his problems with Shori the night before had made him hyper sensitive on cases where her health was involved. Hiei stepped up beside Kurama, gently resting his hand on Kurama's arm. The youko jumped slightly, and turned to Hiei. His ears were still back, and his tail slightly fluffed up, but he was no longer starling and his fists had unclenched. Crevan gave a slight giggle. "I need to get my own youko some time, they are far funnier then I thought." That got its own growl out of Hiei, and another "glare of death" from Kurama.
Yuusuke was starting to grow pissed by this point. Crevan was taking to long. By the fact that Shori could touch him with out him flickering away or her going through him was sign enough that this was the real Crevan. Shori at this point was looking ready to pass our. Her skin was pale and her breathing was quick. Before any one could say anything, Crevan hopped out the open door that led to the balcony coming from Atsuko's room, and leapt ontot eh roof of the nearest building. He heard Shori yelp in surprise and fear. Kurama growled slightly and quickly followed. Hiei having disappeared in a black blur was already there. Yuusuke cursed, there was no way he could jump that far, and even if he could, Kuwabara deffinitly couldn't. Thats when Botan pulled out her oar and ran out onto the balcony. "Come on you two!" Yuusuke nodded and ran out, hopping onto her oar, Kuwabara following quickly.
Yuusuke cursed loudly as just the second they reached the 4, they flitted off again. It was obvious Crevan wanted to lead them on a wild goose chase, tiring the 4 of them out before they would fight. Crevan had weak fighting powers, but his skills at illusion were good enough to cause others to hurt their partners. Botan sped off after them. She wasn't quiet as quick, but she could go straight, where as they could only go where there was a place to stand. Botan was thankful it was 5:30 in the morning. Very few people were out, and those that were weren't eager to look up, plus Botan kept low to building tops and was cautious on going out in open air before she knew weather or not some one was looking. Eventually the fight led to the park. She felt them stop and when she finally caught up Crevan was standing in the woods, with Kurama infront of him, and Hiei behind him, Shori still in his grasp.
Botan let the two detectives off, letting them take up positions on either side of Crevan. Yuusuke gave a grin of confidence. "We got you surrounded Crevan, and with a ll four of us here, one of us is bond to catch you." Crevan chuckled, "My dear spirit detective... I think not..." With that a silvery aura surrounded him. Occasinally a whisp of crystaline blue would appear in the silver youki. Suddenly Shori, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara all stiffened. Yuusuke frowned and yelped as he noticed a dark purple fluid ooze from their bite wounds, seeping through any clothing covering the bite. Crevan smirke dnad let go of Shori, letting the woamn drop to the ground. Soon Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara all fell over aswell, and quietly their eyes shut. Yuusuke yelped and snarled at Crevan, "What did you do to them!?" Crevan smirked slightly, "Nothing big, I just put them to sleep. I'm letting them wander through their dreams... or should I say, nightmares."
When he said the word nightmare his grin grew insanly large, his eyes growing big. Yuusuke made a face, that expression was quiet sickining coming from him. Every now and again he would hear a mummble, whimper, or growl from the 4 others in the clearing. He glanced at them worried, this was only the beginning. He had to hurry and kill Crevan now. If he didn't the dreams would grow worse. He didn't know much about Kurama and Hiei's past, but he was quiet sure there were a lot of unpleasent things in them. Kuwabara didn't have too much to worry about, unless Crevan started making up things for his future. Shori he wasn't sure about, but he figured he would use Kurama's demon form against her, or maybe even her deceased husband. Kurama hadn't said a lot about his dead father, but by the way he spoke of him, Yuusuke got the idea that Shori was still upset about it, and that Kurama felt in a way that it was his fault. Yuusuke growled, standing in a fighting position.
He wouldn't let his friends suffer with guilt, anger, and sorrow. "Sick bastard... fight me!" Crevan smirked. "Oh so gladly... You know... There was something Koenma never told you that might have been helpful." Yuusuke frowned slightly. He didn't like where this was going. Crevan held his left hand palm up, and a black flame appeared in it. In his other hand appeared Kuwabara spirit sword. "When I send them into dream sequences, I can use their abilities, so I don't need to have my own attacks." Yuusuke paled. He could call Hiei's balck dragon, and grow Kurama's acid dripping plants? Now this was something to worry about. Yuusuke never had a head on encounter with Hiei's black fire, and he sure as hell didn't want to. Now though, it seemed like he wasn't going to have a choice in the matter. The black fire disappeared and suddenly Crevan lunged at him. Kuwabara sword grasped tight in his hands. Yuusuke smirked slightly, Crevan was slow, this would be easy.
His triumph though was quickly shot, as at least 20 other Crevans appeared, all holding Kuwabara's sword. The world seemed to buck underneith him and the world swirled about. Before he could fall though everything righted itself... But now all the Crevans were in different spots. He cursed, now he didn't know which one was real and which one wasn't. As one the 20 Crevan's lunched. Yuusuke dodged, leaping about and swinging his fists, occasinally using his spirit gun. Everytime he hit the real Crevan, which had only happened twice at this point, and only with his fists, the world would spin around, and the Crevans would all be in different spots, aswell as the fact that every time he took down a illusion, another one took its place. Yuusuke was growing highly frusterated at this point, and he was sporting one fairly deep gash, and several bruises. He frowned, where the hell was Botan? A quick look around told him that where ever she was, it wasn't here.
He was distracted by a loud cry from Kurama, one of anger. He looked up for a moment, thinking that the youko had awoken and was joining the fray, but his hopes died as he saw Kurama still laying there with his eyes shut. He crushed and leapt back as he felt a blade gash at his leg. Crevan had taken advantage of Kurama's distraction and lashed at the boy. Yuusuke was starting to grow weary. There was no way he could hold this up if every time he actually found Crevan the demon disappeared.
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Hiei yelped as another fist dug into his side, sending him tummbling. He landed, his back agianst the wall, legs spread out. He flet something warm trickle down his chin... He frowned wipping it away. He already knew what it was, he had smelled his own blood enough to have memorized the scent. Three older demons, 2 males and a female towered over him. He glared back un in diffiance. They were his "mentors". They had been teaching him for a long while how to steal, and now it was time to learn how to fight. He had gotten caught on his last mission, and they felt he was at least good enough to go and save, but they made sure to note that wouldn't happen again, and if he wanted to stay alive, he would have to learn how to fight. The female lashed out, racking her claws along his chest, dugging deep. He snarled and latched down on her arm. He was rewarded with a yelp and a string of curses as the woman tried to dislodge him. He quickly let go and grabbed a dagger beside him and threw it.
It firmly lodged itself between the eyes of the man who now stood where the woman used to be. She he moved, and he had come forward to grab Hiei, not noticing the dagger the koorime held. The other two paused for a moment as their friend slummped to the ground. The woman yelped, "Brother!" She held his body for a moment, slowly taking in that he was dead. The man snarled, "How day you kill Hintaru! We were supposed to train not kill! Damned bastard!" With that his hand closed over Hiei;s throat. Hiei was young. At least in demon's world. He was about 54 now. He was far quicker then most demon, and unfortunitly, he had joined up with 3 demons who were actually faster then him. Hiei growled and spit his blood into the eye of the male. He cried out, dropping Hiei and stummbling back. The male knew that if he didn't clean out his eyes, he would go blind, or at least his vision would be damaged.
The female hissed, a yellow aura appearing around her, "Don't. Touch. MY mate!" With that she lunged at Hiei, claws outstreched. It was a foolish move though. Her mate had left his sword beside Hiei, and soon it was shoved between her breasts. Her eyes flew wide and her mouth opened to cry out, but instead a flood of blood spurted out. Her mate, though he couldn't see, he could smell her blood. In a fury he managed to fin dnad rip out the dagger in his brother-in-laws head before moving to attack Hiei. The fire demon already had pulled out the sword, shoving the now dead female aiside and quickly slew the male. He stood over their bodies and frowned. This wasn't right... Gella, the female, had always thought of him as a little brother... Why were they attacking him... He killed them. They were the only people to accept him and he slew them. The unusual feeling of guilt flooded his mind. He frowned and rubbed his chest slightly.
It hurt... a lot... It didn't make sense! But before he could think about it, the world faded and he lay in darkness, waiting for the next dream to come.
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Yuusuke slammed into the tree and slid down slightly. His front was sorched, his shirt hanging off him in charred pieces. He wipped the blood from his lip away and stood shakily on his feet. Crevan had gotten bored with Kuwabara sword and his illusions. They had disappeared and he started using Hiei's fist of the mortal flame attack. Crevan packed a hard punch then Yuusuke thought. It seemed that when he used Hiei's attacks his strength increased. Not by a lot, but just enough to cause problems. Crevan let out a laugh, "You are very fun to play with Yuusuke... But I'm afraid that I will have to end this fight and move onto one of your friends now." Yuusuke fidgeted. The otehrs were quiet except for the occasinal moan or gasp coming from their mouths. Kuwabara and Kurama's breathing had quickened, and Yuusuke swore he heard Hiei whimper. He had heard Shori cry out a couple of times as well Yuusuke growled Holding out his fist. "SHOT GUN!"
This would use up the last of his energy, but Crevan wouldn't be able to dodge this. Yuusuke suddenly paled. At the last second Crevan shot up a barrier around himself, and Yuusuke suddenly remembered his first encounter with Crevan's forcefeild. Just like with the spirit gun, all his shot gun attacks reflected back at him, and there was no time to dodge. He gave out a cry of pain as they slammed into him, and he soon joined his friends in the darkness. Crevan frowned slightly and the barrier faded. He flexed his fingers slightly. He was growing low on spiritual energy. He felt comfortable leaving the 5 here. It was far to early for people to come this far off the park path, and the only ones that would find them would be ningens. Crevan could keep the 4 ones with the bites asleep, though it used energy, and Yuusuke deffinitly wouldn't be getting up for a while.
Flitting off he went to find one of his bite victumes. His aura spiked for a moment, causing the bite to react and the ningen to fall unconcious. He smirked and slowly absorbed their spiritual energy, aswell as life energy. He turned and left the now dead human where they were, going to find 2 or 3 more until his energy was full once again. Now it was all a question of who to fight next. Too busy on thinking about who he was going to fight next, he didn't notice his power over the other 4 flicker and die for the moment.
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Kali: Sooooo, how did you like it? ^^; I think this is my longest chapter yet. From where Kurama started poking Hiei, to this part there here I did on 9/14. Sorry I waited 2 days to finish this, I got bored and distracted, plus I had a lot of homework. I hope you enjoyed it! There is about only 2 or 3 chapters left in the story!
Kurama: Thank Inari.
Kali: *Sulks* Don't make me have my kougabot have Kurama insults...
Kurama: It already does... well... in a way.
Kali: ^^; eh heh... yeah...
Hiei: Damned Onna, hurry up and end this damned thing.
Nuria: WHEEE! DAMN SHIT HELL!
Kurama: Hiei.... Stop teaching her to curse.
Hiei: ^^; It wasn't me... It was erm...
Kurama: I can smell when you lie...
Hiei: DAMN!
Nuria: DAMN!
KUrama: *Growls* Hiei...
Hiei: Gomen!
Kali: *In the background chanting* divorce court! divorce court! divorce court!
Kurama: *Knocks Kali out*
Nuria: R&R! *Flails and turns into her fox form and dives under the couch to take a nap*
Kurama(Youko): Yes... One more minute of your ranting and I'll kill you... *Sorting through a handful of seeds*
Kali: Oo WHy are you complaining? You have school too in your human form!
Kurama: But I don't complain.
Hiei: Thankfully...
Kurama: What was that supposed to mean?
Hiei: *Shifty eyes* Nothing... Nothing at all
Kurama: ... If you don't tell me... Kurama is not talking to Hiei (XD Inside joke between me and Sam)
Hiei: *Grummbles, Grabs Kurama nad drags him off to explain*
Kali: *sulks* They left! Oh well They would only distract me any way...
Disclaimer: You know the drill, I dun own YYH, only the plot and original characters.
~ = Thoughts
* = Flash back, memory clip
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Yuusuke grummbled and gave a soft sigh as he ran his hair, which by now was ruffled. He glanced up at the sky, purple ircles under his eyes. The peaceful morning was soon broken by his monsterous yawn. They had been searching for Kurama all damned night! Damn him and Hiei and their speed. Lord knew how long they had been running and he had lost Kuwabara some where back in the woods. With the brains of a slug, Kuwabara was probably already lost and half dead in a ditch, but they could fix that later. Right now he was far more worried about Kurama. Yuusuke would have thought Suiichi to react like that but not Youko... even if they were half and half. Growling her slapped his forehead, he kept forgetting! ~Yuusuke you baka! Suiichi and Youko are the same person... they may act different... but they are one soul made of two halves melded together...~ Yuusuke knew that if he watched closely to Kurama's actions he could see a ancient look in his eyes, and non-human grace when he moved.
There were times where Yuusuke wondered how the other kids or adults never noticed it. Some times he would notice golden flecks start to appear in his eyes, usually only when he was nervous when they were doing investigation for a mission, and once when another student snuck up on him and suprised him, for a split second he saw Kruama's eyes go gold, and for a moment a great annoyance to them, before he seemed to calm and relax. His thoughts were broken when he spoted them. He gave a soft smile, though he wasn't used to the idea, seeing Hiei and Kurama together really did fit. Though when in his youko form, the height difference between the 7 foot youko and the 5'3 fire demon was quiet halarious looking, but spirit detective had learned by now not to poke fun of Hiei's height, not to mention when he made a height on the crack difference onces Kurama gave him the evil eye, but latere settled for teasing Yuusuke, with a great deal of hentai, causing Hiei to turn as red as his eyes.
His moments of thoughts were broken as Kuwabara stummbled up to him, a twig sticking out of his hair. Yuusuke was suprised that neither of the demons were woken by the boy, either that or they were ignoring him. Kuwabara hadn't noticed teh two yet. Hiei was leaning back against the tree trunk, on seemingly the largest branch in the whole tree. His legs wqere spred slightly, enough for the slim youko to curle up between them and rest his head peacefully on the fire demons chest. Yuusuke almust snickered as he saw Kurama's nose twitch, and then his two ears, which her flopped to the side, twitch slightly, the expression was almost too cute and silly to bare. Yuusuke jolted slightly when Kuwabara nearly shrieked upon spotting the two. A quick punch to the side of the head stopped him, leaving him to grummble and sulk on the ground. The teen knew what was going to come, and it was annoying to hear.
Kuwabara, brought up by religious parents, though it didn't look like it, was very immature on the subject of gay relationships at times. The first time they had found out, Kuwabara said a rather nasty comment, that Yuusuke didn't really want to repeat. That ended up getting the boy a real nasty bruise from Hiei. Kurama had to hold the koorime back from hacking off the other boys head aswell. Kurama on the other hand was more reserved, but just as frightening. His eyes looked sad for a moment, slightly hurt by the way Kuwabara had reacted, but in the blink of a eye his iris' were pure gold, and looked annoyed to no end. Obviously Youko hadn't liked the way Kuwabara had treated his human side, but he calmed down quickly and soon his eyes were back to normal. Yuusuke quickly shook his head, getting back to the present. Grinning he picked up a small stone, and against better judgement, he took aim and threw it.
The stone sailed through the air, thwacking Hiei in the side of the face. Taken by suprise teh fire demon jolted, his eyes flying open. for a second he forgot he was in the tree, and lost his balance. In a rare moment of extreme emotion activity, or atleast obvious emotional activity, the fire demon flailed his arms, grabbing onto the nearest thing... Unfortunitly for Kurama, that happened to be the unfortunit Youkos tail. Youko gave a high pitched yelp was Hiei fell out of the tree, grabbing his tail, and dragging the youko down with him. Yuusuke whinced as Hiei landed with a thud, Kurama quickly landing ontop the poor Koorime. Kurama quickly scrambled off Hiei, who was now on the ground twitching, his eyes swirling. Kurama frowned and poked him slightly, but when he saw it had no effect he shook his head and stood. Chuckling slightly Kurama turned to Yuusuke, "You might want to start running now."
Yuusuke paled slightly giving a nervous laugh. He started backing up when suddenly Hiei appeared before him and socked him one in the side of the face. It was now Yuusuke's turn to fall over on the ground twitching. Kuwabara blinked and wrinkled his nose slightly as Hiei made his way back over to Kurama. And wrapped his arms around the youkos waist, and Kurama leaned forward so the two could kiss. Yuusuke sad up rubbing the side of his face, now having a matching bruise with Kuwabara. He gave a all knowing smirk at the two though. He blinked as they broke apart, and then kissed again. This seemed to go on for a while, causing Yuusuke to sweat drop, "Eh... Hey love bird! We do have a demon to catch you know!" That seemed to catch their attention slightly. Kurama straighted, his eyes narrowing, and Hiei seemed to let out a low growl, his costumary scowl on his face. Yuusuke stood dusting himself off as he padded over to the two demons.
"Hey Hiei. Can you use your jagan to find him?" Hiei shrugged, "Depends of weather or not he wants to show himself. Not even my jagan can tell the difference between his illusions and the real one." Kurama nodded slightly, his arms crossing over his chest. "He is a master a illusions, even the scent is the same." Yuusuke sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, this was proving to be a problem. Unless Crevan wanted to be found, there was no way they were going to find him... Unless... Yuusuke paled slightly, slapping his forehead. "ARG! WE'RE SO STUPID!" Hiei was about to correct him by saying, YOUR so stupid, but He held silent when Kurama asked Yuusuke what he was talking about. Yuusuke sighed, though he still seemed panicky. "Crevan always goes to kill those he has bitten right?" The two demons nodded. Kuwabara came up beside Yuusuke and blinked, "So?" Yuusuke's frown grew deeper at this point, "Keiko, Shizuru, and Shori were all bitten... and we left them and Yukina and Botan alone back at my place."
Kuwabara and Kurama seemed to pale slightly at that, and Hiei's frown and scowl grew darker. The two demons cursed, they were far from the apartment, and Yuusuke and Kuwabara were tired and far to slow to get their in time to help them. Kurama winced slightly, he knew Hiei wasn't going to like the idea... but... "Hiei, Your going to have to carry Yuusuke." The fire demon nearly blanched and Yuusuke blinked bewildered. Hiei growled and glared up at Kurama's serious face. "What the hell are you talking about!?" Kurama sighed, "Yuusuke and Kuwabara got little to no rest last night trying to find us, and we are at least 4 miles from his house... With their speed it will take them far to long to get there, and you already know we can't fight him on our own." Hiei growled again, but mumbled something that sounded along the line of agreement. Kurama wasn't very happy about it either, he had to carry Kuwabara, and he was heavy, plus extremely paranoid about Kurama's youko form.
Glancing over at the teen Kurama motioned for him to come over. Scurrying over Kuwabara tilted his head slightly, "What?" Kurama turned, his back facing Kuwabara, his arms spread out slightly from his sides. "Get on my back." Kuwabra face vaulted. Quickly getting to his feet and rubbing his injured nose he yelped, "What!?" Kurama sighed, getting slightly irritated, "Hiei is carrying Yuusuke, and I'm carrying you. Hiei might be strong enough, but with the size difference, he can't carry you. Hurry up and get on Kuwabara, your sister might be in danger." That was all it took to get the ningen to eagerly hop on his face. The sudden pouncing of Kuwabara nearly made Kurama fall on his face, but he steadied himself and glanced over to see Yuusuke and Hiei in a similar position. Kurama smirked slightly, "You might want to wrap yours arms around me Kuwabara." Kuwabara made a face and shrieked slightly, "There is no waAHHHHHH!!!!" Before the boy could finish the two demons bolted off.
Yuusuke stiffened slightly as the world around them became a blur, even Kurama was was running right beside Hiei was slightly blurry, but more so his legs then anything else. He snickered slightly when he saw Kuwabara trying to cling to Kurama, who gave him a particularly nasty glare when at one point Kuwabara grabbed his ears. That caused Kurama to shakes his head, making the teen loose his grip and end up clinging to Kurama's shoulders and hair. The youko shook his head, still looking mildly annoyed, but at least he didn't have a look of pain on his face. Yuusuke yelped as they came suddenly to a stop, his body getting pressed into Hiei's. He glanced around and suddenly realized they were at his apartment, but the front door was broken. Inside he could hear Yukina shout in alarm, and Shizuru shouting. "Damned demon! Go to hell!" Shori spoke quickly after Shizuru's cry of anger. "It disappeared!" Kurama and Hiei frowned and the little demon disappeared, while Kurama silently stepped into the house.
Yuusuke blinked bewildered as Kurama walked over glass, broken wood, and spots where he knew the floor was creaky, and yet not a single sound was made. Kuwabara almost ran in but Yuusuke stopped him. It was obvious Hiei and Kurama wanted to catch him off guard by the way they were moving silently. Kuwabara frowned and opened his mouth to comment when Crevan's voice stopped him. "Awww... Look who's back! My two favorite play toys! Where are your human friends huh?" Yuusuke took that as his cue to enter. He quickly stepped through his apartment, papers, furniture, glass, and wood strewn every where. He mentally sighed, his mother was going to kill him for this one. He found them all in his mothers bedroom, thankfully nothing there was out of place, but with Hiei holding his katana, and Kurama his rose whip, he wasn't sure how long that was going to last. Crevan seemed to perk up a little, as if Yuusuke were a good friend, not some one wanting to kill him.
"Yuusuke, Kuwabara! How nice to see you." Kurama took at moment to lash his hip at the distracted Crevan. The demon paled as the whip lashed through him, but he flickered and faded. Kurama cursed quietly, it was just a illusion. Another Crevan appeared behind Kurama. "Now now...", His voice caused the youko to whirl around and step back with a quiet growl. "No need to get hasty fox boy. You'll have another chance to fight me, though I'm not sure how well that will work out for you my friend." Yuusuke would have grinned when he saw Hiei's eyebrow twitch at the fox boy part, if the situation hadn't been so serious. Hiei looked as if he were about to hack Crevan's head off when the demon disappeared. A startled cry from behind them caused them all to turn. Crevan had Shori, a blade against her neck. A snarle quickly errupted from Kurama, his ears folding back. Yuusuke blinked surprised at the sudden animalistic actions. He hadn't really realized just how fox based Kurama was.
The youko's ears were back and his lips were pulled up, his white fang like teeth bared. He was giving a deep snarle, and his tail was fluffed up in anger. The other women, expecially Shori were slightly taken a back by his sudden fit of rage. Normally Kurama was highly calm and even has his human form wasn't eager on showing anger. It seemed his problems with Shori the night before had made him hyper sensitive on cases where her health was involved. Hiei stepped up beside Kurama, gently resting his hand on Kurama's arm. The youko jumped slightly, and turned to Hiei. His ears were still back, and his tail slightly fluffed up, but he was no longer starling and his fists had unclenched. Crevan gave a slight giggle. "I need to get my own youko some time, they are far funnier then I thought." That got its own growl out of Hiei, and another "glare of death" from Kurama.
Yuusuke was starting to grow pissed by this point. Crevan was taking to long. By the fact that Shori could touch him with out him flickering away or her going through him was sign enough that this was the real Crevan. Shori at this point was looking ready to pass our. Her skin was pale and her breathing was quick. Before any one could say anything, Crevan hopped out the open door that led to the balcony coming from Atsuko's room, and leapt ontot eh roof of the nearest building. He heard Shori yelp in surprise and fear. Kurama growled slightly and quickly followed. Hiei having disappeared in a black blur was already there. Yuusuke cursed, there was no way he could jump that far, and even if he could, Kuwabara deffinitly couldn't. Thats when Botan pulled out her oar and ran out onto the balcony. "Come on you two!" Yuusuke nodded and ran out, hopping onto her oar, Kuwabara following quickly.
Yuusuke cursed loudly as just the second they reached the 4, they flitted off again. It was obvious Crevan wanted to lead them on a wild goose chase, tiring the 4 of them out before they would fight. Crevan had weak fighting powers, but his skills at illusion were good enough to cause others to hurt their partners. Botan sped off after them. She wasn't quiet as quick, but she could go straight, where as they could only go where there was a place to stand. Botan was thankful it was 5:30 in the morning. Very few people were out, and those that were weren't eager to look up, plus Botan kept low to building tops and was cautious on going out in open air before she knew weather or not some one was looking. Eventually the fight led to the park. She felt them stop and when she finally caught up Crevan was standing in the woods, with Kurama infront of him, and Hiei behind him, Shori still in his grasp.
Botan let the two detectives off, letting them take up positions on either side of Crevan. Yuusuke gave a grin of confidence. "We got you surrounded Crevan, and with a ll four of us here, one of us is bond to catch you." Crevan chuckled, "My dear spirit detective... I think not..." With that a silvery aura surrounded him. Occasinally a whisp of crystaline blue would appear in the silver youki. Suddenly Shori, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara all stiffened. Yuusuke frowned and yelped as he noticed a dark purple fluid ooze from their bite wounds, seeping through any clothing covering the bite. Crevan smirke dnad let go of Shori, letting the woamn drop to the ground. Soon Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara all fell over aswell, and quietly their eyes shut. Yuusuke yelped and snarled at Crevan, "What did you do to them!?" Crevan smirked slightly, "Nothing big, I just put them to sleep. I'm letting them wander through their dreams... or should I say, nightmares."
When he said the word nightmare his grin grew insanly large, his eyes growing big. Yuusuke made a face, that expression was quiet sickining coming from him. Every now and again he would hear a mummble, whimper, or growl from the 4 others in the clearing. He glanced at them worried, this was only the beginning. He had to hurry and kill Crevan now. If he didn't the dreams would grow worse. He didn't know much about Kurama and Hiei's past, but he was quiet sure there were a lot of unpleasent things in them. Kuwabara didn't have too much to worry about, unless Crevan started making up things for his future. Shori he wasn't sure about, but he figured he would use Kurama's demon form against her, or maybe even her deceased husband. Kurama hadn't said a lot about his dead father, but by the way he spoke of him, Yuusuke got the idea that Shori was still upset about it, and that Kurama felt in a way that it was his fault. Yuusuke growled, standing in a fighting position.
He wouldn't let his friends suffer with guilt, anger, and sorrow. "Sick bastard... fight me!" Crevan smirked. "Oh so gladly... You know... There was something Koenma never told you that might have been helpful." Yuusuke frowned slightly. He didn't like where this was going. Crevan held his left hand palm up, and a black flame appeared in it. In his other hand appeared Kuwabara spirit sword. "When I send them into dream sequences, I can use their abilities, so I don't need to have my own attacks." Yuusuke paled. He could call Hiei's balck dragon, and grow Kurama's acid dripping plants? Now this was something to worry about. Yuusuke never had a head on encounter with Hiei's black fire, and he sure as hell didn't want to. Now though, it seemed like he wasn't going to have a choice in the matter. The black fire disappeared and suddenly Crevan lunged at him. Kuwabara sword grasped tight in his hands. Yuusuke smirked slightly, Crevan was slow, this would be easy.
His triumph though was quickly shot, as at least 20 other Crevans appeared, all holding Kuwabara's sword. The world seemed to buck underneith him and the world swirled about. Before he could fall though everything righted itself... But now all the Crevans were in different spots. He cursed, now he didn't know which one was real and which one wasn't. As one the 20 Crevan's lunched. Yuusuke dodged, leaping about and swinging his fists, occasinally using his spirit gun. Everytime he hit the real Crevan, which had only happened twice at this point, and only with his fists, the world would spin around, and the Crevans would all be in different spots, aswell as the fact that every time he took down a illusion, another one took its place. Yuusuke was growing highly frusterated at this point, and he was sporting one fairly deep gash, and several bruises. He frowned, where the hell was Botan? A quick look around told him that where ever she was, it wasn't here.
He was distracted by a loud cry from Kurama, one of anger. He looked up for a moment, thinking that the youko had awoken and was joining the fray, but his hopes died as he saw Kurama still laying there with his eyes shut. He crushed and leapt back as he felt a blade gash at his leg. Crevan had taken advantage of Kurama's distraction and lashed at the boy. Yuusuke was starting to grow weary. There was no way he could hold this up if every time he actually found Crevan the demon disappeared.
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Hiei yelped as another fist dug into his side, sending him tummbling. He landed, his back agianst the wall, legs spread out. He flet something warm trickle down his chin... He frowned wipping it away. He already knew what it was, he had smelled his own blood enough to have memorized the scent. Three older demons, 2 males and a female towered over him. He glared back un in diffiance. They were his "mentors". They had been teaching him for a long while how to steal, and now it was time to learn how to fight. He had gotten caught on his last mission, and they felt he was at least good enough to go and save, but they made sure to note that wouldn't happen again, and if he wanted to stay alive, he would have to learn how to fight. The female lashed out, racking her claws along his chest, dugging deep. He snarled and latched down on her arm. He was rewarded with a yelp and a string of curses as the woman tried to dislodge him. He quickly let go and grabbed a dagger beside him and threw it.
It firmly lodged itself between the eyes of the man who now stood where the woman used to be. She he moved, and he had come forward to grab Hiei, not noticing the dagger the koorime held. The other two paused for a moment as their friend slummped to the ground. The woman yelped, "Brother!" She held his body for a moment, slowly taking in that he was dead. The man snarled, "How day you kill Hintaru! We were supposed to train not kill! Damned bastard!" With that his hand closed over Hiei;s throat. Hiei was young. At least in demon's world. He was about 54 now. He was far quicker then most demon, and unfortunitly, he had joined up with 3 demons who were actually faster then him. Hiei growled and spit his blood into the eye of the male. He cried out, dropping Hiei and stummbling back. The male knew that if he didn't clean out his eyes, he would go blind, or at least his vision would be damaged.
The female hissed, a yellow aura appearing around her, "Don't. Touch. MY mate!" With that she lunged at Hiei, claws outstreched. It was a foolish move though. Her mate had left his sword beside Hiei, and soon it was shoved between her breasts. Her eyes flew wide and her mouth opened to cry out, but instead a flood of blood spurted out. Her mate, though he couldn't see, he could smell her blood. In a fury he managed to fin dnad rip out the dagger in his brother-in-laws head before moving to attack Hiei. The fire demon already had pulled out the sword, shoving the now dead female aiside and quickly slew the male. He stood over their bodies and frowned. This wasn't right... Gella, the female, had always thought of him as a little brother... Why were they attacking him... He killed them. They were the only people to accept him and he slew them. The unusual feeling of guilt flooded his mind. He frowned and rubbed his chest slightly.
It hurt... a lot... It didn't make sense! But before he could think about it, the world faded and he lay in darkness, waiting for the next dream to come.
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Yuusuke slammed into the tree and slid down slightly. His front was sorched, his shirt hanging off him in charred pieces. He wipped the blood from his lip away and stood shakily on his feet. Crevan had gotten bored with Kuwabara sword and his illusions. They had disappeared and he started using Hiei's fist of the mortal flame attack. Crevan packed a hard punch then Yuusuke thought. It seemed that when he used Hiei's attacks his strength increased. Not by a lot, but just enough to cause problems. Crevan let out a laugh, "You are very fun to play with Yuusuke... But I'm afraid that I will have to end this fight and move onto one of your friends now." Yuusuke fidgeted. The otehrs were quiet except for the occasinal moan or gasp coming from their mouths. Kuwabara and Kurama's breathing had quickened, and Yuusuke swore he heard Hiei whimper. He had heard Shori cry out a couple of times as well Yuusuke growled Holding out his fist. "SHOT GUN!"
This would use up the last of his energy, but Crevan wouldn't be able to dodge this. Yuusuke suddenly paled. At the last second Crevan shot up a barrier around himself, and Yuusuke suddenly remembered his first encounter with Crevan's forcefeild. Just like with the spirit gun, all his shot gun attacks reflected back at him, and there was no time to dodge. He gave out a cry of pain as they slammed into him, and he soon joined his friends in the darkness. Crevan frowned slightly and the barrier faded. He flexed his fingers slightly. He was growing low on spiritual energy. He felt comfortable leaving the 5 here. It was far to early for people to come this far off the park path, and the only ones that would find them would be ningens. Crevan could keep the 4 ones with the bites asleep, though it used energy, and Yuusuke deffinitly wouldn't be getting up for a while.
Flitting off he went to find one of his bite victumes. His aura spiked for a moment, causing the bite to react and the ningen to fall unconcious. He smirked and slowly absorbed their spiritual energy, aswell as life energy. He turned and left the now dead human where they were, going to find 2 or 3 more until his energy was full once again. Now it was all a question of who to fight next. Too busy on thinking about who he was going to fight next, he didn't notice his power over the other 4 flicker and die for the moment.
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Kali: Sooooo, how did you like it? ^^; I think this is my longest chapter yet. From where Kurama started poking Hiei, to this part there here I did on 9/14. Sorry I waited 2 days to finish this, I got bored and distracted, plus I had a lot of homework. I hope you enjoyed it! There is about only 2 or 3 chapters left in the story!
Kurama: Thank Inari.
Kali: *Sulks* Don't make me have my kougabot have Kurama insults...
Kurama: It already does... well... in a way.
Kali: ^^; eh heh... yeah...
Hiei: Damned Onna, hurry up and end this damned thing.
Nuria: WHEEE! DAMN SHIT HELL!
Kurama: Hiei.... Stop teaching her to curse.
Hiei: ^^; It wasn't me... It was erm...
Kurama: I can smell when you lie...
Hiei: DAMN!
Nuria: DAMN!
KUrama: *Growls* Hiei...
Hiei: Gomen!
Kali: *In the background chanting* divorce court! divorce court! divorce court!
Kurama: *Knocks Kali out*
Nuria: R&R! *Flails and turns into her fox form and dives under the couch to take a nap*