An: Ok spell checker still not working, hope I proof read this enough to get all the errors out and if not... All I can do is say 'I'm sorry'...
All I can say about the long break there is... moving sucks... and I suck at action so this would have taken a while even without the temporary loss of my computer.
Disclaimer: Once again, I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. The Song in the later part is 'Nightmare' which is one of Kurama's image songs. (Which I'm aware I used before but it inspired the whole story and still serves a purpose.)
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Kurama shivered in fear as he took his first look around the 'Void'. It was worse then Holly's memories had made it seem. Through his link to the Sirine he felt her shacking with her own fear of the place.
"Is it always so... dark?" Kuwabara asked quietly.
"And silent?" Yuusuke added.
Holly nodded grimly, "Nothing has changed..."
Hiei growled at his surroundings, making it apparent he didn't like the place much either, "Well then lets hurry and get this over with!"
Kurama gave the fire demon a wary smile and stepped closer to Holly, "So who are we going to look for?"
"My only friend... Jeruthomy..." Holly began to walk forward and froze suddenly.
"What's wrong?" Kurama's chest clentched in panic as Holly's mind filtered the feeling to him. Visions of laughing hyenas bounced into his head before he realized they were surrounded.
"Our entry did not go unnoticed..." Holly gulped.
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Hiei hated being laughed at... which was exactly what the surrounding Sirines did as they circled the dectectives as if they had found easy prey.
He noticed Holly and Kurama had backed up from the front and began to take defensive positions. Yuusuke and Kuwabara doing the same, placing their backs to Holly and Kurama. Hiei ground his teeth, having no choice but to accept this formation of the group and to defend his spot with his sword raised.
The Sirines began a song collectively and Hiei found it difficult to not get lost in the haunting melody. Shacking his head he tried to focus, but found it now even more difficult to determine where one Sirine ended and the next began.
Over the sound of the song Hiei suddenly heard Kurama yelp in pain, he spun quickly determined to protect the Youko.
"No Hiei!" Holly screamed a second too late, the movement had signaled the begin of the actual attack on the detectives.
A wave of bells much like Holly's own seemed to be fired at the group while another wave of lower Sirine followed them as if to make sure the group was killed.
"Shot Gun!!" Hiei heard Yuusuke cry from beside him, realizing Yuusuke had just covered his back and saved him from the low trick the Sirines had tried to pull.
"Shrimp! You idiot what do you think you're doing?" Kuwabara growled, "Spirit sword!" He sliced through bells as they came at him.
"None of your damned business," Hiei snapped in annoyence. Seeing now that Kurama was perfectly fine (aside from having to now fight off the waves of bells and Sirine)... which meant only one thing... the Sirines had somehow managed to trick him. His anger boiled in his head and blood red spotted his vision. "I'm going to kill them all!" He stepped between Holly and Kurama, pushing the Sirine into the middle of the now four person circle. "You Bastards!"
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To say Kurama was a bit surprised by Hiei's sudden appearance at his side would be a bit of an understatment. But there the fire demon was! Slightly confused Kurama tried to rationalize the action and found that Hiei had pushed Holly into the middle of the detectives.
An idea hit him and he sent a quick thought to the Sirine, 'Holly, you have to sing something! Out power these Sirine while we hold them back!'
Feeling Holly's mental agreement, even if it was hesitant, Kurama broke the link and pushed back another Sirine. They were getting closer... if Holly didn't hurry they would be over taken and done for.
Then he heard it... over the noise of the lower Sirines' song Holly's voice and power rang out clear, her bells rushing past the detectives, meeting the waves of others and sparks flew as the battle for power intensified.
The sound of distant, cracking thunder.
Whenever I stand, my steps sway.'
Kurama had to shield his eyes from the brightness of it all, he wouldn't have been able to see if anything came to attack him anyway. he did his best to then reach out with his ki to do his best to continue the fight, only to hit a barrier with a very familiar ki signature. That of Hiei's.
Borrowing the form of nostalgic days
Bad dreams step ever closer.
Nightmare!
As the words hung in the air around him Kurama suddenly felt sufficated, falling to his knees, and in his panic grabbed the strongest thing around him with his mind, the barrier created by the glowing Jagan.
From out of the darkness, they call me.
Again and again, they call me.
What in the world is right?
What in the world is wrong?
Memories! Please,
illuminate this darkness immediately!
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AN: More of this to come! What will happen to the other Sirine? What will happen to Kurama? And What will Hiei do about it all? In the next chapter of 'The Evil Withheld'!
Ok on a more serious note, I had to end it there... sorry! But if you really want more NOW then you'll just have to review to get it!