Chapter 3: We Have To Escape!

Disclaimer: I don't own YYH.

~KURAMA'S POV.~

Ow. I hate ice. Ice is stupid. Ice is cold. Ice… hurts. Stupid ice. Or it could be the fact I just fell into a huge ice cavern underneath the ground, but that brings me back to my first statement: I hate ice. Stop laughing. It's not funny. Especially when one manages to fall directly on their hind quarters, as I just did. Stop laughing! I have some delicate tailbones back there!

"HOLY CRAP! WHERE ARE WE?!" Well that was surprising… Hiei's awake, it seems. Huh? Rattling? Oh, stalactites.

"We just fell into an underground cavern. I don't think it's much."

"Did you slide coming down? At all?" Now that I think about it, there could be another reason my backside feels like Hellfire…

"Yeah, I think so…"

"A lot?" A nod. Odd, Hiei seems paler than usual. Is he that cold? "Hiei? Are you alright? You don't look too well." Nothing in reply; just a hard glare.

"Kurama…" I cocked an eyebrow.

"What?" And the next thing I knew was considerable pain. "OW! Hiei what the heck did you do that for?" I need to get a sword. The hilt makes for a nice skull basher.

"Do. You. Know. Where. We. ARE?!" Had this been cheap cartooning, I would have had the question mark over my head by now.

"No." Hiei glared so hard I was afraid the cavern would melt around us. He took a deep breath and was ready to scream his lungs out when I quickly covered his mouth. "Hiei, don't you dare start screaming. There are stalactites everywhere on the ceilings, and if you yell until the moon cracks we will have a very, very, VERY unpleasant shish kabob, alright?" A nod. Good.

"Mmph mmmm mmmnn mmmm mmph mmmph!" Wha?

"What?"

"Mmph mmph mmnn mm mmmn mmph!!" Huh?

"Huh?"

CHOMP! OW! He bit me! That punk just bit me! I had to cover my own mouth to keep from screaming!

"What did you do that for?!" I bet sparks were shooting out of my eyes now. Droplets of blood trickled from my hand onto the cavern floor and… oooh… look what a pretty pattern they make! Preeeeetty… Okay, Kurama, snap out of it now! Hiei's answering you. Oh crap… and I wasn't even listening to him…

"Get it?" … so all I could reply with was a very eloquent

"Huh?" Hey… what's Hiei doing? I can see his fangs. Is he baring his teeth at me? For some odd reason, I keep feeling like he wants to eat me…

"We're in a cavern under Koorime city. If you want to live, we HAVE to get out of here. Understand?" Wait… that doesn't make sense.

"I thought Koorime City was a floating citadel." A shake of the head from Hiei.

"Koorime City isn't made up of just the city. There's wilderness surrounding it. Lots of cold wilderness. We were dropped off somewhere in the wilderness. NOW do you get it? GET MOVING!" Wilderness? Not like there's a lot of wild things in a snow globe, which was what I felt like we were trapped in.

"Wait… why is this cavern so dangerous?"

"Because," Soon I found myself staring at a pair of wine red eyes, and the front of my shirt being forcefully pulled. He is fast. "The Koorime use this place as a mine. We're lucky none have found us yet!"

"Well how do we get out?" Hiei pointed somewhere to my right. I looked. There was a door.

"Oh."

"MOVE." I reached out for the doorknob, grabbed it, and recoiled at how cold it was. It burned! I looked over to my friend, hoping he'd take the clue. He did. Hiei melted the door, and we were left with facing a black tunnel, with only a few spots of light puncturing the darkness. Everything was going fine. Dodododo… lalalalala… How long does this freaking tunnel go on!? Hey! Light!

I rushed towards the light, but right before I stepped out, I smashed into something warm and soft.

"Umph!" And she turned around. Standing in the filtering sunlight, was a Koorime. The normal aqua colored hair was there, but her eyes were cold and grey. She lowered her flute from her mouth and looked at me with a glare to match Hiei's. Oops.

"Watch where you're going!" She snarled at me, brushing her way past. For once in my life, I was glad I had been mistaken for a female. Not very common, though. I stepped into the sunlight, blinking as the sun hit my eyes. Suddenly, I was knocked down by the force of the Koorime running towards the city, screaming loud enough to deafen me. But as she ran off, I caught most of what she screamed, and my blood ran cold.

"IT'S THE FORBIDDEN CHILD! HE HAS RETURNED!"

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AN: Oh, I'm evil! So, this story will apparently have a side plot, but it'll all tie together in the end… somehow… you just have to wait and find out how! Anyhow, Merry Christmas, Silverkitsune568! Make an authoress happy; please review.

~Koganeiro Kitsune