Chapter 15
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Ummm…well if you really cared about this story, you're probably wondering what happens to Keiko. Well hopefully this chapter will tell you what happens, I'm hoping she won't die.
Well, lets see what happens…
Disclaimer: I WILL NEVER OWN YU YU HAKUSHO….WAHHHH!!!!!
"Are you guys done melting the ice!" Hiei asked angrily. "This is complicated we don't have that much power left to spare!" Mariah yelled, her face pale.
"Hell with it!" Yusuke yelled, generating his power to his index finger. "What are you doing?" Yukina asked.
"Damn if they can't do it, I sure can!" Yusuke yelled firing his spirit gun, knocking down the ice wall into scattered shards.
"OH MY GOSH…." Mariah blabbered out, seeing her fallen leader…no… fallen best friend on the ground…lifeless.
Hiei quickly ran to her side, patting her cheek lightly. "Keiko wake up…wake up…" He whispered, a sorrow expression on his face.
" Hiei is that you…is it…." Keiko gasped, caressing his cheek gently, with her bloody hand.
A stain was left on his cheek, making it visible of his tears, which left clean trails on the red mark.
"Yes it's me Keiko…it's me…" He smiled.
"Look I defeated her…by myself…I've grown stronger…" Keiko laughed, holding up the bloody medallion.
"Yes Keiko you've grown a lot stronger…" Mariah whispered, holding back tears…in the end failing, as rivers of tears fell down her face.
Kurama held her as she cried, he too, trying to hold back his sadness.
"Come Keiko…keep on living…" Yukina cried.
"What…what do you mean?" Keiko asked.
"She's numb, she can't feel her wounds, she probably doesn't know she's bleeding to death…" Tracey mumbled, tears staining her pale cheeks.
"Am I really dieing…?" Keiko asked looking at her blood stain hand.
"NO…no…" Yusuke whispered, knowing he couldn't do anything, no not even the great spirit detective could save her now.
"Keiko please be strong we'll find a way…we'll find a way…" Hiei said, caressing her hand lightly.
"I'm sure…Hiei…please live on for me…just for me…" Keiko whispered smiling up at him.
"What are you talking about…?" He asked alarmed.
"Face it Hiei I'm not going to make it…you know that…" Keiko gasped, her breathing getting heavier.
"Keiko, no…please…y-you just can't leave me…you just can't!" He stammered, hugging her gently.
"Hiei please don't make this harder…please…" Keiko whispered returning his embrace.
"Keiko listen to him, you can't leave us…you still have a wedding to attend…remember I'm your bridesmaid…!" Mariah wailed, running to her fallen friend.
"I wish I could fix all this, I truly do…" Keiko mumbled, tears trailing down her face.
"Keiko no, you can't die!" Botan yelled.
"She's right Keiko what would we be with out you…!" Tracey shouted.
"Come on Kei…live on for us…for Hiei…" Kuwabara spoke.
"Please…for me…" Hiei finished kissing her lightly.
"I love you Hiei…so much…thank you for making me happy…for helping me…I lo-o….." And there Keiko stopped her hands falling to her sides, her eyes closing, as the last tear drop fell down her face.
"Keiko…no, Keiko!" Hiei yelled hugging her tightly.
"This can't be happening…this can't be happening!" Mariah shouted, kneeling down, holding her head as if it were in pain.
"Keiko…keiko…no…NO!" Tracey yelled, her spirit energy surrounding her.
"It's all your fault…all yours!" Botan shouted at the medallion as it lay in her hands silently.
"Botan…botan calm down…" Kuwabara said placing a hand on her shoulder.
"NO I won't…this is what started everything!" Botan yelled slamming the medallion into a rock, destroying it.
"Botan!" Mariah yelled, as pieces of the medallion flew around her. The shards of the medallion sparkled like the milky way up in the sky…each twinkled with the spirit of the elements.
"What's going on?" Yusuke asked.
The shards disintegrated into dust as they flew in the wind towards Keiko. The dust fell onto her wounds healing them slightly, as her chest went up and down…she was breathing again.
"Oh my…" Mariah whispered, seeing the miracle being made in front of her eyes.
A form appeared besides Keiko, a spirit…it waved at them and smiled.
"Tell her thank you for avenging my death, and that it's not her fault I died, she tried her best...and Botan, I miss you…" were the words that left the spirits mouth as is disappeared with the wind.
Botan was brought to tears, waving a hand on where the spirit once stood.
"Sister…" She whispered, smiling.
"Botan, are you okay?" Mariah asked.
"Of course I am…"
"I was hoping that" Mariah said hugging her friend.
Hiei looked at Keiko as her eyes twitched showing that she was truly back alive. She opened her eyes slowly squinting at the sunlight that hit her delicate face.
"Why, why am I alive?" Keiko asked looking at her hands in disbelief. "It was destiny, you weren't supposed to die…" Hiei said embracing her tightly.
"All right!" Tracey said, getting Yusuke in a headlock.
"Watch your boyfriend!" Yusuke yelled.
"She's alive, ALIVE!" Mariah said, getting Yukina's hands as they danced in circles joyously.
"You sound like I'm Frankenstein…" Keiko laughed.
"I'm glad to see your okay Keiko…" Kurama smiled.
"Same here!" Kuwabara nodded.
"Thank you…"
"OH Keiko, my sister says thank you, she helped you Keiko…" Botan smiled as tears stung her eyes.
"How…how did she help me…?" Keiko asked.
"Simple…the shards of the medallion are a life force, that's how we've been living with our powers, well anyways…when Botan accidentally broke it the life force was scattered…Botan's sister carried the wind with the medallion's dust to you…which in therefore your body sucked in the life-force of the medallion…" Mariah explained, as all eyes were turned on her surprised.
"Tracey don't hit me on the head like that, then I start talking all funny like!" Mariah wailed holding her head.
"Then how are we going to live with the medallion gone!?" Botan asked alarmed.
"Well I guess as long as the spirit of the medallion lives on we live on?" Mariah said sheepishly.
"Oh that explains a lot!" Tracey shouted.
"It's simple…the medallion's gone but it lives within us…" Keiko answered.
"No it lives within you!" Botan said.
"NO…not anymore…" Keiko smiled, as the three sorceress's felt a spark in their souls.
"Oh KEIKO I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!" Mariah yelled, hugging Keiko firmly.
"OH KIEKO!" Tracey, Botan, and Yukina, yelled in unison hugging her also.
"You guys don't want to kill me again do you?" Keiko laughed.
"Um…time alone?" Hiei asked, well mostly demanded.
"Oh…of course lets go Mariah…" Kurama said, leading Mariah away.
"Wha…where are we going?" She asked as he whispered something in her ear.
"OOOOOOOHHHHHHH….have fun you two!" Mariah called smiling.
Keiko and Hiei only blushed a deep red.
"I guess that's a signal to go too…" Tracey smiled, as the rest left.
"Keiko I thought you were going to leave me!" Hiei cried, hugging her tightly, and kissing her gently.
"Hiei, calm down…I'm alive and here with you, forever…" Keiko whispered, smiling fully.
"How long is forever?" He asked.
"As long as you want it to be…" She said pressing her forehead to his.
"I love you…" He said gently kissing her on the cheek.
"I love you too…"
"Prove it?" He teased.
"OH really?" she said kissing him fully on the lips.
And there the couple stood in the sunlight as a light wind circled around them, the wind that made the miracle come true. Now how long is forever, for them, no one knows…
*** A Few Months Later***
"Will you Hiei Jaganashi take Keiko Yukimora to be your lawful wedded wife…?"
"I do…" He answered.
"And Keiko Yukimora will your take Hiei Jaganashi to be your lawful wedded husband…?"
"I do" She answered.
"I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride!"
The two shared a kiss as family and friends cheered their uniting.
"That is so sweet…Kurama when are we getting married!?" Mariah yelled looking up at him.
"Um…um…" Kurama stammered.
"Mariah don't scare the guy!" Tracey yelled.
"What's that suppose to mean!" Mariah shouted.
"What do you think!"
"Get over here!" Mariah yelled chasing after the laughing Tracey.
"Oh come on you guy this is Keiko's wedding!" Botan yelled, only to be knocked down by Mariah.
"Oops, sorry!" Mariah yelled as she knocked down Tracey with her bouquet of flowers.
Yukina only laughed at the scene in front of her eyes.
"It's time for me to throw the bouquet!" Keiko yelled.
"YEAH!" Mariah and Botan yelled, glaring at each other.
"Ohhh competition…" Yusuke laughed
Keiko got at her place ready to throw the flowers. "Ready!" She called as all the girls gathered.
"Ready!" They called back.
"This is mine" Mariah shouted.
"In your dreams!" Botan shot back.
The flowers were tossed back and Mariah and Botan both made a jump for it, knocking into one another.
"OWWWWWW!" Mariah whined.
"OOOHHHH who got it!?" Botan yelled rubbing her head.
"Wow, I got it!" Yukina yelled happily holding the bouquet in the air.
"Congrats!" Tracey laughed out, as so did the others.
"Things will never change will they?" Keiko asked walking to Hiei.
"I guess not, Mrs. Jaganashi…" He said kissing her.
"I like how that sounds" Keiko smiled hugging him.
"Amazing, how this all started and how it ended…" Mariah said to Tracey.
"Yeah I know…so should we tell her?" Tracey asked.
"Tell her what?"
"That we're all going to die…" Tracey said.
"WHAT!?" Mariah yelled.
"I'm only kidding!" Tracey yelled poking her ear making sure she could still hear.
"So Keiko tell me again how long is forever?" Hiei asked.
"As long as you want it to be…" She answered again, kissing him.
"I like the sound of that…"
END
A/N: This is the real ending.
Mariah: Well that took forever, hey you people out there, yeah you…you better review you hear me I won't take you lightly.
Tracey: Don't listen to her, you know she's a little coo-coo
Mariah: I am not!
Keiko: Please review…
Mariah: Yeah review…hope you enjoyed…buh-byes…forever…how long is forever really…huh Keiko?
Keiko: Um I really have no clue…
Tracey: Don't hurt yourself on thinking Mariah…
Mariah: SHUT UP!