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AN I'm not sure if anybody is going to like this, because something truly horrible happens to Yusuke at the end of this chapter. Eh-heh... please don't hurt me for leaving it at a cliff-hanger again. It just seemed like the perfect spot to end it off until next week. ^__^ I promise, it's good. I've already started it.
Just two chapters left to go after this one. And than it's all over. Erm... this one's for Kuroi.
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Part 8: Lost
Something woke Yusuke, though he wasn't sure right away what it was. All those in Chamber 4 of Hell were still sleeping, including Hiei, who was in Yusuke's arms. As comfortable was the dark haired teen wasn't, lying on a cold floor in a bright white room, there was something about holding Hiei that made comfort unimportant. It brought out a protective feeling and put everything else aside.
So, it could only have been an outside feeling which woke him.
Sure enough, thirty seconds later a door appeared in the wall and two guards stepped into the chamber. One was holding the gold restraining cuffs; the other was holding an injection needle. They looked around, not all that surprised that all the experiments in the room were sleeping. They spotted Yusuke and Hiei, snickering to themselves about how the two chose to sleep before starting over. At the same time, they grabbed Yusuke's arms, slapped the cuffs in place and injected him with whatever had been in the needle. What ever reaction Yusuke might have had was quickly nullified.
The teen stared around dazedly before the world went black.
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Yusuke came back to consciousness slowly, his entire body felt like lead. He deduced that it had to be because of the drug injected into his body by the guards before. His eyes were heavy, he couldn't open them. His body was strapped down to a cold table. If he had to guess, he would say that the table was white, like everything else.
"He seems to be in excellent physical condition," a deep, scratchy voice said stiffly.
Yusuke started, suddenly afraid. Voices talking about things like that could only mean one thing - Doctors. And they weren't happy doctors either, these people were emitting the strongest feelings of hate and anger Yusuke had ever felt. He would have curled in on himself if he was able.
"He could be a run away from here that we don't know about, but I've never seem him before in my life. And I've been around for a long time." Another voice said, just as stiffly, though it wasn't nearly as deep.
"He was brought in with Jaganshi; he must have chosen him for a reason." A third voice put in.
"Let's just put him in the Machine and let it tell us his wave lengths and if he's good enough to test on." The second voice muttered. "If he's not, I'm sure the guards will enjoy having a plaything."
Alright, that definitely didn't sound good. If he could have, Yusuke would have run. But as it was, a pair of strong hands unbuckled him from the table and lifted him into the air, before tossing him on a different but equally cold, and most likely white table. About that time, the teen managed to open his eyes. Not that *that* did him any good either, because all he saw were fuzzy things which could be people, but they could also be coat racks holding white coats. He did see a big black thing, which could have been a door. But even that didn't help because he was once again buckled down and the whole table started moving.
The teen could do nothing but watch fuzzily as the ceiling moved and he was pulled into an enclosed space that, thankfully, wasn't white. Instead, it was a pasty type of green. He wasn't given much chance to admire the new color because the whole machine suddenly went dark. Then it lit back up and started shaking violently. Yusuke would probably have been tossed around like he was trapped in an earthquake, but as it was; he was strapped down to the table so his head lobbed back and forth instead.
Needless to say that Yusuke was just a little more than scared.
The strange thing though, was that even though the Machine was shaking like a volcano just before it erupts, there was no noise. Silent as a graveyard, but as violent as the ocean. Yusuke eventually became used to the shaking, enough that he could keep his head still and watch the green lights above him. They were flashing in the most peculiar fashion. First the light closest to Yusuke's left foot would flash, than the one near his right foot, as though answering. A light by his ear would flare seconds later, before moving down to his chest. Not only that, but the lights seemed to be getting closer as the pattern went on.
Finally, the lights were dancing over Yusuke's skin, and he felt a pricking sensation every time one of the lights went flashed on and then back off. And then, it was over. The shaking stopped, the lights went out, and the table he was lying on slid back out of the machine. Funny thing was... he was no longer buckled down to the table.
"Bring him back to Chamber 4." One of the white clad coat racks barked.
A face appeared in Yusuke's vision, thankfully clear - before everything went dark.
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Yukina gasped and stumbled. She lay on the ground, panting and gasping quietly, trying to regain her breath. She and Kurama had been running for what seemed like hours on end. It probably *was* hours on end. They had quickly given up trying to get themselves caught and then over powering the guard. Instead, Kurama decided that they should try to retrace their route to Hell.
Yukina would have frozen the entire world over if it meant finding her brother and her new friend.
"Come on, Yukina. We must keep going. My connection with Hiei is beginning to fade. We have to get to Hell before it disappears completely."
Yukina stared up at the fox, her red eyes wide with fear. She said nothing but accepted his hand to pull herself back to her feet. They began running again, Kurama leading the way at a pace Yukina could match. Kurama paused after about a mile, his nose in the air.
"This way!"
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Jin was currently having the time of his life. This was in fact, a truly sad thing. He was poking his new friend Yusuke in the shoulder with Botan's oar, seeing how long it would take before one of two things happened. One, Yusuke woke up and beat the living crap out of him. Or, two, Hiei got annoyed and set him on fire.
"Stop it Jin," Botan finally snapped, taking back her oar and making it disappear. "He's not going to wake up for quite a long while."
Jin sighed; option number three was never very much fun. On the other hand, at least he didn't have to worry about being turned into a living torch.
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For the second time, Yusuke opened his eyes to see the garnet red of Hiei's staring back at him. But this time they weren't in a dark cave, they were in a white box. The relief that shone in the Jaganshi's eyes, however, was the same. Neither spoke, words weren't needed. But after a moment, soft tendrils of silver thoughts began wrapping themselves around Yusuke's mind, accompanied with Hiei's presence.
[They think that you are still human.] Hiei told him through the silver threads. Behind the white strip of cloth, his Jagan glowed with warm purple light. [They do not know of your changes.]
[I'm not human?] Yusuke thought back, his eyes widening slightly at the new revelation.
Hiei's eyes were lit with humor. [No, you are not human any more. Could a human live without aging, as we do? Could a human be as wise and powerful as we are? No, I am Jaganshi. You are Toushin. Yukina is Koorime, Kurama is Youko. We are all different, but none of us are human.]
Strangely enough, Yusuke didn't reject the thought. It seemed like something that was just natural, a fact of life.
[I have an idea how to get out of here.] Hiei told him softly. The soothing feeling around Yusuke's mind lessened for a moment before an image of a dark hallway surfaced in his mind. [This is where Toushin died; she killed nearly twenty guards with one blast. She also blasted a hole to the surface. It cannot be rebuilt because her spirit still lingers there. I think that she will let us pass.]
The dark haired boy on the ground allowed his eyes to widen. The girl who had been raped, the one who died and destroyed a section of Hell - had been named Toushin? But that was the name that they gave him, why would they do that? Did it mean something? Yusuke gave a shiver of fear, which was echoed by Hiei. Emotions began pouring into the soul of the newly turned experiment. Fear, hurt, uncertainty, desperation, anxiety, panic and an entanglement of other feelings that had no name or way to describe them.
"Relax," Hiei whispered aloud, letting the soft silver tendrils of his mind leave his friends. "No harm will come to you. I promise I won't let them hurt you."
He instructed Yusuke to take deep breaths and hold them in before exhaling. The teen smiled up at the smaller above him before shifting to look around the room.
Everybody - Botan, Koenma, George, Touya and Jin - were all starring at the two of them with the strangest expression on their faces. At second look, they were all staring at Yusuke with the strangest looks on their faces.
"Um..." George finally said, scratching nervously at his blue skin. "Are you aware that you're glowing?"
Yusuke sat up, staring at himself in awe and shock. He was glowing with a very bright blue light. The light seemed to mist off of his very skin, out of his very being. So, he did what was perfectly normal when one finds out he is glowing.
He fainted.
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About half an hour later, Yusuke once again woke, but this time he was propped up against a wall. He had a great view of Hiei, on fire, chasing the others around the room and cackling manically. There was no real fear in any of the experiments as they ran about. It was more like a childishly playful emotion. Except Hiei, who was indeed, trying to set the others on fire. But suddenly, everybody in the room froze and turned to stare as a door appeared.
There was something different about the guard that walked into their holding chamber. Something... dangerous.
Without any words spoken, in a normal tongue or the language of Hell, the guard strode over to Yusuke, grabbed him by the neck of his white clothing and began dragging him to the door. Yusuke gave a terrified shout, struggling to be free. He could tangibly feel the anger, lust, hatred and other labyrinth of ill-being coming from this man. It wasn't just in his mind; it was surrounding him in a dark cloud that Yusuke alone could see. The others were quick to react. Hiei summoned his dark flames, but they did nothing against the suits of the guards were apparently fire proof. Touya attempted to freeze the air the guard was breathing, but that didn't seem to work either. Botan smacking him upside the head with her oar, Jin attempted to lift him with his winds - but for some reason, none of their attempts were affecting the guard.
And he and Yusuke disappeared out the door.
There was no time to react to that, because three seconds later, a group of guards rushed into the chamber, locked the golden cuffs on all of the experiments arms, and dragged them out as well. Hiei attempted to shout for Yusuke, but a rough hand clamped over his mouth. He attempted to use his Jagan, but the cuffs on his arms must have been strengthened because he couldn't even *open* his third eye, let alone use it. But he still struggled.
Hiei was strong, even without the ability to tap into his fires or his speed. He had spent days on end in Training, or the Fighting Pits, his muscles were no lie. He could take down experiments four times his size without even breaking a sweat. And that was no small feat, because Hiei was so small. Most of the experiments were terrified of him, and half of the guards wouldn't come near him unless he had been forcibly knocked unconscious. But for all of Hiei's struggling, he couldn't break free, and he couldn't rush to Yusuke's side.
The Jaganshi let out a growl of pure anger and, restraining cuffs or not, his body temperature began to heat and small flames began licking against his body.
Meanwhile, Yusuke was struggling just has vehemently. He was being dragged down to one of the darkest corridors. The corridors and hallways that weren't pure white, but dark gray with singe marks and the smell of ash lingered in the air. The teen understood the intent of the guards; it wasn't hard to figure it out. A door appeared, half burned off of its old hinges, and the guard holding Yusuke - and the near dozen that followed, tossed him inside and were quick to follow. Yusuke flinched as he hit the arctic cold floor, and he immediately curled up on himself, trying his best not to whimper or cry.
He was in a storage room, full of vials of chemicals and drugs. All the vials were dusty - the place probably had been forgotten about or though to be destroyed.
"Doctor says we can do what we want." The first guard said, his beady yellow eyes gleaming in the darkness.
"Let's get him ready for a taste of true pain."
The whole group of guards lunged for the teen. Some beating him with fists, others kicking him harshly. His clothing was quickly ripped off, leaving Yusuke panting and quivering in fear. He was pushed onto his stomach, still being physically beaten and abused before it all stopped and something was pressed against his backside.
/"So, I guess if you're raped that you die and take a whole lot with you."/
Yusuke involuntarily let out a sob as Hiei's words filled his mind. He didn't want to die. That something against Yusuke's bask side began to rip and tear into his flesh and the teen let out another sob, panic erupting along with terror. Seconds later, a blast of energy - the same blue that he had been glowing with earlier - exploded from his body.
And everything went white.
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AN I want to thank everybody who has been reading this and especially those people who review it. I'm sorry for not thanking you each by name, but it's a quarter to midnight and my sleeping patterns are a bit off.
So, thanks again and remember to review... please.
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AN I'm not sure if anybody is going to like this, because something truly horrible happens to Yusuke at the end of this chapter. Eh-heh... please don't hurt me for leaving it at a cliff-hanger again. It just seemed like the perfect spot to end it off until next week. ^__^ I promise, it's good. I've already started it.
Just two chapters left to go after this one. And than it's all over. Erm... this one's for Kuroi.
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Part 8: Lost
Something woke Yusuke, though he wasn't sure right away what it was. All those in Chamber 4 of Hell were still sleeping, including Hiei, who was in Yusuke's arms. As comfortable was the dark haired teen wasn't, lying on a cold floor in a bright white room, there was something about holding Hiei that made comfort unimportant. It brought out a protective feeling and put everything else aside.
So, it could only have been an outside feeling which woke him.
Sure enough, thirty seconds later a door appeared in the wall and two guards stepped into the chamber. One was holding the gold restraining cuffs; the other was holding an injection needle. They looked around, not all that surprised that all the experiments in the room were sleeping. They spotted Yusuke and Hiei, snickering to themselves about how the two chose to sleep before starting over. At the same time, they grabbed Yusuke's arms, slapped the cuffs in place and injected him with whatever had been in the needle. What ever reaction Yusuke might have had was quickly nullified.
The teen stared around dazedly before the world went black.
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Yusuke came back to consciousness slowly, his entire body felt like lead. He deduced that it had to be because of the drug injected into his body by the guards before. His eyes were heavy, he couldn't open them. His body was strapped down to a cold table. If he had to guess, he would say that the table was white, like everything else.
"He seems to be in excellent physical condition," a deep, scratchy voice said stiffly.
Yusuke started, suddenly afraid. Voices talking about things like that could only mean one thing - Doctors. And they weren't happy doctors either, these people were emitting the strongest feelings of hate and anger Yusuke had ever felt. He would have curled in on himself if he was able.
"He could be a run away from here that we don't know about, but I've never seem him before in my life. And I've been around for a long time." Another voice said, just as stiffly, though it wasn't nearly as deep.
"He was brought in with Jaganshi; he must have chosen him for a reason." A third voice put in.
"Let's just put him in the Machine and let it tell us his wave lengths and if he's good enough to test on." The second voice muttered. "If he's not, I'm sure the guards will enjoy having a plaything."
Alright, that definitely didn't sound good. If he could have, Yusuke would have run. But as it was, a pair of strong hands unbuckled him from the table and lifted him into the air, before tossing him on a different but equally cold, and most likely white table. About that time, the teen managed to open his eyes. Not that *that* did him any good either, because all he saw were fuzzy things which could be people, but they could also be coat racks holding white coats. He did see a big black thing, which could have been a door. But even that didn't help because he was once again buckled down and the whole table started moving.
The teen could do nothing but watch fuzzily as the ceiling moved and he was pulled into an enclosed space that, thankfully, wasn't white. Instead, it was a pasty type of green. He wasn't given much chance to admire the new color because the whole machine suddenly went dark. Then it lit back up and started shaking violently. Yusuke would probably have been tossed around like he was trapped in an earthquake, but as it was; he was strapped down to the table so his head lobbed back and forth instead.
Needless to say that Yusuke was just a little more than scared.
The strange thing though, was that even though the Machine was shaking like a volcano just before it erupts, there was no noise. Silent as a graveyard, but as violent as the ocean. Yusuke eventually became used to the shaking, enough that he could keep his head still and watch the green lights above him. They were flashing in the most peculiar fashion. First the light closest to Yusuke's left foot would flash, than the one near his right foot, as though answering. A light by his ear would flare seconds later, before moving down to his chest. Not only that, but the lights seemed to be getting closer as the pattern went on.
Finally, the lights were dancing over Yusuke's skin, and he felt a pricking sensation every time one of the lights went flashed on and then back off. And then, it was over. The shaking stopped, the lights went out, and the table he was lying on slid back out of the machine. Funny thing was... he was no longer buckled down to the table.
"Bring him back to Chamber 4." One of the white clad coat racks barked.
A face appeared in Yusuke's vision, thankfully clear - before everything went dark.
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Yukina gasped and stumbled. She lay on the ground, panting and gasping quietly, trying to regain her breath. She and Kurama had been running for what seemed like hours on end. It probably *was* hours on end. They had quickly given up trying to get themselves caught and then over powering the guard. Instead, Kurama decided that they should try to retrace their route to Hell.
Yukina would have frozen the entire world over if it meant finding her brother and her new friend.
"Come on, Yukina. We must keep going. My connection with Hiei is beginning to fade. We have to get to Hell before it disappears completely."
Yukina stared up at the fox, her red eyes wide with fear. She said nothing but accepted his hand to pull herself back to her feet. They began running again, Kurama leading the way at a pace Yukina could match. Kurama paused after about a mile, his nose in the air.
"This way!"
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Jin was currently having the time of his life. This was in fact, a truly sad thing. He was poking his new friend Yusuke in the shoulder with Botan's oar, seeing how long it would take before one of two things happened. One, Yusuke woke up and beat the living crap out of him. Or, two, Hiei got annoyed and set him on fire.
"Stop it Jin," Botan finally snapped, taking back her oar and making it disappear. "He's not going to wake up for quite a long while."
Jin sighed; option number three was never very much fun. On the other hand, at least he didn't have to worry about being turned into a living torch.
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For the second time, Yusuke opened his eyes to see the garnet red of Hiei's staring back at him. But this time they weren't in a dark cave, they were in a white box. The relief that shone in the Jaganshi's eyes, however, was the same. Neither spoke, words weren't needed. But after a moment, soft tendrils of silver thoughts began wrapping themselves around Yusuke's mind, accompanied with Hiei's presence.
[They think that you are still human.] Hiei told him through the silver threads. Behind the white strip of cloth, his Jagan glowed with warm purple light. [They do not know of your changes.]
[I'm not human?] Yusuke thought back, his eyes widening slightly at the new revelation.
Hiei's eyes were lit with humor. [No, you are not human any more. Could a human live without aging, as we do? Could a human be as wise and powerful as we are? No, I am Jaganshi. You are Toushin. Yukina is Koorime, Kurama is Youko. We are all different, but none of us are human.]
Strangely enough, Yusuke didn't reject the thought. It seemed like something that was just natural, a fact of life.
[I have an idea how to get out of here.] Hiei told him softly. The soothing feeling around Yusuke's mind lessened for a moment before an image of a dark hallway surfaced in his mind. [This is where Toushin died; she killed nearly twenty guards with one blast. She also blasted a hole to the surface. It cannot be rebuilt because her spirit still lingers there. I think that she will let us pass.]
The dark haired boy on the ground allowed his eyes to widen. The girl who had been raped, the one who died and destroyed a section of Hell - had been named Toushin? But that was the name that they gave him, why would they do that? Did it mean something? Yusuke gave a shiver of fear, which was echoed by Hiei. Emotions began pouring into the soul of the newly turned experiment. Fear, hurt, uncertainty, desperation, anxiety, panic and an entanglement of other feelings that had no name or way to describe them.
"Relax," Hiei whispered aloud, letting the soft silver tendrils of his mind leave his friends. "No harm will come to you. I promise I won't let them hurt you."
He instructed Yusuke to take deep breaths and hold them in before exhaling. The teen smiled up at the smaller above him before shifting to look around the room.
Everybody - Botan, Koenma, George, Touya and Jin - were all starring at the two of them with the strangest expression on their faces. At second look, they were all staring at Yusuke with the strangest looks on their faces.
"Um..." George finally said, scratching nervously at his blue skin. "Are you aware that you're glowing?"
Yusuke sat up, staring at himself in awe and shock. He was glowing with a very bright blue light. The light seemed to mist off of his very skin, out of his very being. So, he did what was perfectly normal when one finds out he is glowing.
He fainted.
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About half an hour later, Yusuke once again woke, but this time he was propped up against a wall. He had a great view of Hiei, on fire, chasing the others around the room and cackling manically. There was no real fear in any of the experiments as they ran about. It was more like a childishly playful emotion. Except Hiei, who was indeed, trying to set the others on fire. But suddenly, everybody in the room froze and turned to stare as a door appeared.
There was something different about the guard that walked into their holding chamber. Something... dangerous.
Without any words spoken, in a normal tongue or the language of Hell, the guard strode over to Yusuke, grabbed him by the neck of his white clothing and began dragging him to the door. Yusuke gave a terrified shout, struggling to be free. He could tangibly feel the anger, lust, hatred and other labyrinth of ill-being coming from this man. It wasn't just in his mind; it was surrounding him in a dark cloud that Yusuke alone could see. The others were quick to react. Hiei summoned his dark flames, but they did nothing against the suits of the guards were apparently fire proof. Touya attempted to freeze the air the guard was breathing, but that didn't seem to work either. Botan smacking him upside the head with her oar, Jin attempted to lift him with his winds - but for some reason, none of their attempts were affecting the guard.
And he and Yusuke disappeared out the door.
There was no time to react to that, because three seconds later, a group of guards rushed into the chamber, locked the golden cuffs on all of the experiments arms, and dragged them out as well. Hiei attempted to shout for Yusuke, but a rough hand clamped over his mouth. He attempted to use his Jagan, but the cuffs on his arms must have been strengthened because he couldn't even *open* his third eye, let alone use it. But he still struggled.
Hiei was strong, even without the ability to tap into his fires or his speed. He had spent days on end in Training, or the Fighting Pits, his muscles were no lie. He could take down experiments four times his size without even breaking a sweat. And that was no small feat, because Hiei was so small. Most of the experiments were terrified of him, and half of the guards wouldn't come near him unless he had been forcibly knocked unconscious. But for all of Hiei's struggling, he couldn't break free, and he couldn't rush to Yusuke's side.
The Jaganshi let out a growl of pure anger and, restraining cuffs or not, his body temperature began to heat and small flames began licking against his body.
Meanwhile, Yusuke was struggling just has vehemently. He was being dragged down to one of the darkest corridors. The corridors and hallways that weren't pure white, but dark gray with singe marks and the smell of ash lingered in the air. The teen understood the intent of the guards; it wasn't hard to figure it out. A door appeared, half burned off of its old hinges, and the guard holding Yusuke - and the near dozen that followed, tossed him inside and were quick to follow. Yusuke flinched as he hit the arctic cold floor, and he immediately curled up on himself, trying his best not to whimper or cry.
He was in a storage room, full of vials of chemicals and drugs. All the vials were dusty - the place probably had been forgotten about or though to be destroyed.
"Doctor says we can do what we want." The first guard said, his beady yellow eyes gleaming in the darkness.
"Let's get him ready for a taste of true pain."
The whole group of guards lunged for the teen. Some beating him with fists, others kicking him harshly. His clothing was quickly ripped off, leaving Yusuke panting and quivering in fear. He was pushed onto his stomach, still being physically beaten and abused before it all stopped and something was pressed against his backside.
/"So, I guess if you're raped that you die and take a whole lot with you."/
Yusuke involuntarily let out a sob as Hiei's words filled his mind. He didn't want to die. That something against Yusuke's bask side began to rip and tear into his flesh and the teen let out another sob, panic erupting along with terror. Seconds later, a blast of energy - the same blue that he had been glowing with earlier - exploded from his body.
And everything went white.
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AN I want to thank everybody who has been reading this and especially those people who review it. I'm sorry for not thanking you each by name, but it's a quarter to midnight and my sleeping patterns are a bit off.
So, thanks again and remember to review... please.
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