Chapter 25

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"So Kuwabara? You know who the traitor is?" Yusuke stated.

"Yeah, I got this strange feeling last night in my dream." He said

"Please elucidate, Kuwabara?" Kurama edged on.

"Well I'm walking through a bizarre forest and at the end I see a form, a girl, I get a bad feeling form her. Then I start walking again and she that this form is talking to Natsu." Kuwabara said. "I walked a little bit further and I see a graveyard." Kuwabara stopped.

"Get on with it." Hiei ordered.

"We are all names on a headstone." He ended.

"Wait? You woke me up from my beauty sleep because you had a bad dream?" Yusuke yelled.

As everyone started to turn from the room, disappointedly, Kuwabara yelled. "Wait! It was not just a dream, I felt something weird okay." He tried to say but they were all gone, all but Yukina that is. "Man." Kuwabara said sadly.

"Oh, Kazuma, I believe you." She said innocently.

"Really?" he asked and she nodded. "Heh heh, don't worry baby, I'll protect you." he said.

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"All that for a dream?" Kurama asked himself out loud as he walked Hoshiko home.

"I don't know. Dreams sometimes are premonitions of what is to come. " She said. 'I need to run away, I won't end up killing you guys.' She thought.

"I suppose" Kurama said, "for now we need to deal with the matter at hand." He stopped at her door and looked into Hoshiko's eyes. "You had something to tell me earlier?"

"Umm, yes... I needed to tell you that... I'm not a safe person to be around, I don't want to hurt anyone and I don't want you to stay here with me anymore. You are all better off without me."

"No," he said and grabbed her arms, pinning her to the front door. "I don't want to leave you."

"Oh, Kurama." She looked away so she would not have to look into his eyes. "Why are you doing this?" tears started to stream down her face.

"We all need you to save us, you and your extraordinary power, which we have yet to discover, but I will be here to help you," he said and let her go. "Just get some sleep."

Hoshiko went to her room but she did not sleep, she packed her bags instead. 'I'll go to me secret place and figure out what to do there.'

'You think that is wise?' Natsu's voice popped into her head. 'I can find you, wherever you go.'

'Leave me alone!' Hoshiko said. 'They will not have me anymore so you have won. What more do you want?'

'Aw, you poor girl do you not know what your power is?' he asked. 'The way to gain your ultimate power?'

'What the hell are you talking about?'

'I require your life blood.' He said and was gone. Hoshiko was worried. "Kurama! I have to tell you something very important." She said out loud, but no answer came. "Kurama?" She stepped from her room with her bag in hand. She looked everywhere for him, but he was gone. "Where are you?" she whispered. "She closed her eyes and tried to listen for him, to see him. Her powers were very accurate when I came to finding someone. "There he is." She envisioned a clearing with a lone swing set and a clear black top. (A b ball court.) "How did he find that spot?" she thought. That was her thinking spot it was a place where she could be alone.

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"I have had enough of this." Natsu said, "We need to get those stupid detectives away from that girl."

"What do you have in mind?" the blue minion hissed.

"We need a demon, a weak one, to lure the Urameshi team to one spot." Natsu said, 'she will get rid of them for us." He laughed.

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Kurama was twirling the rose whip around and practicing again. Hoshiko was lost in his beauty, his perfect form, and his faultless dance of death. She was hiding behind a bush watching every step." Oh, Kurama." Cindy whispered and closed her eyes to think. When she opened them again he was gone. "Kurama?"

"You should really stop spying on me." he joked. He was behind her he was in his demon form as well. His silver hair and gold eyes make Hoshiko's heart beat faster.

"Oh, god!" she held a hand to her heart as she stood up. "Kill me why don't you." she said and felt Kurama's tail wrap around her waist. "What are you doing?" she asked him as he pulled her closer.

"What are you doing out here? I told you to get some sleep." He said inching his face closer. "It's not safe out here," he said.

"Listen you, don't tell me what to do." Hoshiko protested and felt his lips brush past her lips and to her cheek then to her ear. She flinched.

"I'm sorry." He whispered. "I just don't want you to get hurt." He said. His lips felt soft against her ear and Hoshiko took in a deep breath.

"Kurama. I don't want you to get hurt." She whispered.

"Don't leave." He said

"What?" she said

"I know that your are planning to leave. Don't leave and I shall not be hurt." He said

"What does that mean?" she asked him.

"I have fallen in love with you." he said in her ear and brushed his lips past her lips once more. Hoshiko began to cry as his lips caressed hers.

"Kurama?"

"Hmm?" He purred.

"Why did you have to be so wonderful?" Hoshiko said and started to kiss him back, she ran her fingers though his hair and heard him purr louder. She giggled against his warm lips.

It was at that moment that a huge demon ran into them and it grabbed Hoshiko. "Get the others over here or she will die." Said the demon.

Oh no, Kurama loves Hoshiko, but how can she love him with her secret, yet involuntary, alliance with Natsu? And what dose he have up his sleeves this time? The story is drawing to a close.

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