Hiei, Kuwabara, and Yusuke sat with the Healers, tears streaming down their faces. No words were spoken, and Hiei sat still, so still you would think he was dead from a distance. He was in shock, how had this happened? Just like that Kurama, the strong warrior he'd known for so long....was gone.
Gems poured off Hiei's face like there was no tomorrow, but he didn't care. Let there be no tomorrow! Let the whole dam* world know his pain. He just wanted Kurama back.
Yusuke pulled at his loose hair. He was crying, his eyes red, and face flushed. His lips quivered from holding back screams, and he clutched onto Kuwabara's hand.
Kuwabara could not weep as they did. Kuwabara could only suffer. His Pneumonia had become so severe in Hiei's and his short but horrible time at the prison they were locked in. He coughed weakly, and cried when his body stopped shaking from his convulsions of pain.
Hiei cast his eyes on him. 'Your like that because of me....they're all gone because of me....and now the fool....now Kuwabara is going too.'
"I'm losing everyone." Hiei suddenly spoke what he had just been thinking.
Yusuke looked up at him.
"What?"
"Mali...Kurama..." Hiei looked at him. He was not angry or clam, He looked as if he was dead, and had lost everything that held any importance to him. This was the most horrible face Yusuke had ever seen on Hiei.
"I never said this. And I don't intend to again. He was my best friend. He's dead." Hiei looked at his hands, and starred at them his body and mind closed to the outside world. Yusuke grabbed his hand. "He knew that Hiei. He's coming back. As soon as this thing is over he's coming back...Hiei! Look at me!"
"Kuwabara....hes already half way there....then you...and finally me..." Hiei ranted. Yusuke swore loudly, finding nothing he could say. When he finally found the words he whispered, "Please Hiei...just look at me."
Hiei's face tilted slightly up, and Yusuke pulled him into a hug. Hiei looked like a lost child, separated from his home. "It okay Hiei. Everything will be okay..." Yusuke said clutching onto him. "Your not going to be alone. Your not losing me, or Kuwabara."
Kuwabara's loud sickly cough interrupted the hug, and they both cried out when they looked at their human friend. He was coughing up blood, his eyes wide. He tried to stop, but blood kept coming for a full five minutes.
A Healer stopped what he was doing, and looked at Kuwabara. He reached down and took Kuwabara in his arms, turning away.
"Where are you taking him?!" Yusuke cried panicked, his throat closing. "He's going into a personal tent. He is gravely ill, and this cold air isn't helping him any. We'll be able to keep better track of him in here." The demon told Yusuke and Hiei who trailed behind. Yusuke followed him, taking Hiei's wrist and dragging him. The red eyed demon starred vacantly, his soul lost, and gone with Kurama's body.
The three, along with the healer entered a tent. Kuwabara was stripped down naked, and his two friends starred at him in horror. Kuwabara's body was wasting away before their eyes. His arms where small compared to his normal look, and his legs seemed too bony, and the veins were easily seen. His body had a gray tent, and you could tell he was undernourished.
He was redressed in something warmer, and longer. "He's lost almost 60% of his muscle mass, and has no food, or nutrition in his body. He isn't doing to well. But he is very strong, probably the strongest human fighter here. He might just pull out of this."
He piled up blankets on Kuwabara and whispered, "But if not, at least he died warm..." and with that said, left shutting the flap of the tent. "Kuwabara." Yusuke whispered, he and Hiei went to him. Hiei looked tired and old, his voice came at hoarse as he whispered, "Not you too."
Kuwabara reached out, and grabbed Hiei. "Don't do anything stupid." He gazed at them with fevered eyes. "If something hap...happens to me, which it..it won't, don't do anythin' stu...stupid. Promi..Promise me..." Kuwabara choked, and Yusuke nodded, "Fine Kuwabara."
Hiei gave a slow nod, and looked at Kuwabara. His hand came to rest on his forehead. "Showing emotion shorty?" Kuwabara whispered still crying from the loss of Kurama, and the incredible pain he was in. "He loved you, you were his family." Kuwabara's voice was going softer, and coming out in short gasps with each word. He was trying so hard to keep talking.
Yusuke dropped on his knees and clung to Kuwabara's sleeve. The copper haired teen's face was so frightening. His eyes were wide, and looked like little dots on his face. His lips were cracked and bleeding, a bit of dried vomit from earlier clung to the corner of his mouth. Purple veins, like tiny roots could be seen on his face, as his sopping wet hair stuck to his face.
"Ku...Kurama is...still here. He's not leavin' yet." Kuwabara gasped, Yusuke held Kuwabara in his eyes, and with his soul. "Kuwabara...don't die." His face rest on Kuwabara's stomach. "I can't lose you again...I THOUGHT YOU DIED AND IT DESTROYED ME! DON'T DO IT FOR REAL! PLEASE DON'T! DON'T YOU LEAVE ME, YOU AS*!"
Kuwabara gave a small smile. "Just listen...to me. The war's almost over...I can fe...feel it." He was gasping out the words painfully. "Soon...it will end soon...and we'll all...be...to...together...again...." Kuwabara sighed and passed out, going into a deep sleep.
Hiei slumped next to Yusuke's side and pried Kuwabara's hand off him, their emotions on the verge of breaking, Yusuke hugged Hiei crying onto his shoulder. Hiei brought a comforting arm up, tear gems still littering the ground. "Everything will be okay...it will." Yusuke sobbed, and Hiei nodded. "I hate this...how could I care so much about things like you?" Hiei asked out loud, burying his head in Yusuke's shirt, clutching to him tighter.
The two jumped to feel a hand on their shoulders. A familiar demon with Gold hair and silver eyes was kneeling at their sides. "Yuki?" Yusuke gasped surprised, and wiped his tears, Hiei doing the same. Yuki was their friend they had met when Kuwabara had been shot all those times not too long ago. "I'm so sorry, I heard about Kurama..." Hiei turned away.
He knew what it was like to lose someone you cared about, having lost his brother and friends. Only he and little Hope remained.
Yusuke punched the ground, and he noticed his power was building up as it had done when he thought Kuwabara died, and now that *Kurama* was actually gone...
"Where is Hope?" Yusuke finally asked, forgetting about his power increase. He relaxed his hand, his tears slowing, and began looking for the 13 year old girl with lime green hair.
Yuki gave a sudden choke of a cough, and tears filled his eyes. He turned away shamefully.
"She...She was killed...when the water flooded the trech...she...she didn't know how to swim."
There was a sad tension in the air, and Yusuke closed his eyes tight thinking of that little girl trapped in the water, struggling to breathe.
"We're sorry for your loss as well." Hiei spoke, starring back at him. Yuki shook his head, not looking up at them, "You know...I had a dream, that when...when this was over, every one of us would all..all wind up in this great big hall, and we'd all be together again. Looking at each other...as if...as if none of this had ever happened."
"Hope, Kai, Janson, Kuseem...all of my friends....Do you think that will happen?"
The room was silent. "I...I don't know...but we'll meet...whether it be in death of life." Yusuke said taking Yuki's shoulder. After a moment, Yusuke ventured, "So, Hope drowned?" "Saving me." Yuki broke in. Hiei winced, just like all his friends had been doing for him.
"I'd been shot. I couldn't move on my own. She took my arm, and dragged me to the Healers, and went back for my jacket. I was healed quickly and got up in time to see her getting my jacket. I waved, and she....she waved back." Yuki shook hard, "Then a tidal wave swept her away..."
Yuki looked up, "She was coated with blood when I found her, eyes open, and the Healer's told me her lungs, and stomach were filled with water. If...If I just hadn't waved she'd be fine." Yuki gave a light laugh, "We had been talking, maybe a month before this war." Another laugh. "I am very fond of her...she's like a sister...and she told me she didn't know how to swim. So I offered to teach her."
Yuki smiled, "I was going to teach her, but then this war started, how ironic is that?" Hiei seemed to be calming down, but his mind stayed on Kurama. He remembered their missions, and quiet days that had together. He never needed to talk with Kurama for him to understand him. Yuki's story was flooding all these thoughts back...of him.
Of Kurama.
Hiei saw Yusuke look back at Kuwabara, and Hiei knew it was the same with them. Yusuke and Kuwabara mourned with him, but Hiei suffered more. Kurama was his first and real friend. The first thing to enter his cold heart. And the longest person to stay in his heart.
"Kurama died standing up, victorious from saving me and the fool." Hiei stated starring off.
Yuki and Yusuke looked at them, both crying.
"Even in death he was graceful."
"Hiei..." Yusuke reached out for him, but Hiei rose.
"I'm going to kill those bas*ards...every one of them. They won't be forgiven. I won't let any of them leave this battle, unless they are dead!" He headed for the tent flap, the other two's eyes on him.
He stopped when he heard Kuwabara cough, and the sound of blood. "Yusuke, don't let him die." Yusuke looked at Hiei. Hiei was crying again and looked back at him as well as Yuki. "I don't want you to lose your best friend." Hiei closed the tent flap leaving behind his final words.
"I don't want you to be feeling what I'm feeling."
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Hmm...mentally stable? I doubt it...PREVIEW FOR NEXT CHAPTER:
Kuwabara is close to death, and uses his spiritual awareness to enter a realm for the dead so he can talk to Kurama....well that's all I can think of...oh wait. Hiei tries to smother Kuwabara! ^__^ Ha! I remembered!
Gems poured off Hiei's face like there was no tomorrow, but he didn't care. Let there be no tomorrow! Let the whole dam* world know his pain. He just wanted Kurama back.
Yusuke pulled at his loose hair. He was crying, his eyes red, and face flushed. His lips quivered from holding back screams, and he clutched onto Kuwabara's hand.
Kuwabara could not weep as they did. Kuwabara could only suffer. His Pneumonia had become so severe in Hiei's and his short but horrible time at the prison they were locked in. He coughed weakly, and cried when his body stopped shaking from his convulsions of pain.
Hiei cast his eyes on him. 'Your like that because of me....they're all gone because of me....and now the fool....now Kuwabara is going too.'
"I'm losing everyone." Hiei suddenly spoke what he had just been thinking.
Yusuke looked up at him.
"What?"
"Mali...Kurama..." Hiei looked at him. He was not angry or clam, He looked as if he was dead, and had lost everything that held any importance to him. This was the most horrible face Yusuke had ever seen on Hiei.
"I never said this. And I don't intend to again. He was my best friend. He's dead." Hiei looked at his hands, and starred at them his body and mind closed to the outside world. Yusuke grabbed his hand. "He knew that Hiei. He's coming back. As soon as this thing is over he's coming back...Hiei! Look at me!"
"Kuwabara....hes already half way there....then you...and finally me..." Hiei ranted. Yusuke swore loudly, finding nothing he could say. When he finally found the words he whispered, "Please Hiei...just look at me."
Hiei's face tilted slightly up, and Yusuke pulled him into a hug. Hiei looked like a lost child, separated from his home. "It okay Hiei. Everything will be okay..." Yusuke said clutching onto him. "Your not going to be alone. Your not losing me, or Kuwabara."
Kuwabara's loud sickly cough interrupted the hug, and they both cried out when they looked at their human friend. He was coughing up blood, his eyes wide. He tried to stop, but blood kept coming for a full five minutes.
A Healer stopped what he was doing, and looked at Kuwabara. He reached down and took Kuwabara in his arms, turning away.
"Where are you taking him?!" Yusuke cried panicked, his throat closing. "He's going into a personal tent. He is gravely ill, and this cold air isn't helping him any. We'll be able to keep better track of him in here." The demon told Yusuke and Hiei who trailed behind. Yusuke followed him, taking Hiei's wrist and dragging him. The red eyed demon starred vacantly, his soul lost, and gone with Kurama's body.
The three, along with the healer entered a tent. Kuwabara was stripped down naked, and his two friends starred at him in horror. Kuwabara's body was wasting away before their eyes. His arms where small compared to his normal look, and his legs seemed too bony, and the veins were easily seen. His body had a gray tent, and you could tell he was undernourished.
He was redressed in something warmer, and longer. "He's lost almost 60% of his muscle mass, and has no food, or nutrition in his body. He isn't doing to well. But he is very strong, probably the strongest human fighter here. He might just pull out of this."
He piled up blankets on Kuwabara and whispered, "But if not, at least he died warm..." and with that said, left shutting the flap of the tent. "Kuwabara." Yusuke whispered, he and Hiei went to him. Hiei looked tired and old, his voice came at hoarse as he whispered, "Not you too."
Kuwabara reached out, and grabbed Hiei. "Don't do anything stupid." He gazed at them with fevered eyes. "If something hap...happens to me, which it..it won't, don't do anythin' stu...stupid. Promi..Promise me..." Kuwabara choked, and Yusuke nodded, "Fine Kuwabara."
Hiei gave a slow nod, and looked at Kuwabara. His hand came to rest on his forehead. "Showing emotion shorty?" Kuwabara whispered still crying from the loss of Kurama, and the incredible pain he was in. "He loved you, you were his family." Kuwabara's voice was going softer, and coming out in short gasps with each word. He was trying so hard to keep talking.
Yusuke dropped on his knees and clung to Kuwabara's sleeve. The copper haired teen's face was so frightening. His eyes were wide, and looked like little dots on his face. His lips were cracked and bleeding, a bit of dried vomit from earlier clung to the corner of his mouth. Purple veins, like tiny roots could be seen on his face, as his sopping wet hair stuck to his face.
"Ku...Kurama is...still here. He's not leavin' yet." Kuwabara gasped, Yusuke held Kuwabara in his eyes, and with his soul. "Kuwabara...don't die." His face rest on Kuwabara's stomach. "I can't lose you again...I THOUGHT YOU DIED AND IT DESTROYED ME! DON'T DO IT FOR REAL! PLEASE DON'T! DON'T YOU LEAVE ME, YOU AS*!"
Kuwabara gave a small smile. "Just listen...to me. The war's almost over...I can fe...feel it." He was gasping out the words painfully. "Soon...it will end soon...and we'll all...be...to...together...again...." Kuwabara sighed and passed out, going into a deep sleep.
Hiei slumped next to Yusuke's side and pried Kuwabara's hand off him, their emotions on the verge of breaking, Yusuke hugged Hiei crying onto his shoulder. Hiei brought a comforting arm up, tear gems still littering the ground. "Everything will be okay...it will." Yusuke sobbed, and Hiei nodded. "I hate this...how could I care so much about things like you?" Hiei asked out loud, burying his head in Yusuke's shirt, clutching to him tighter.
The two jumped to feel a hand on their shoulders. A familiar demon with Gold hair and silver eyes was kneeling at their sides. "Yuki?" Yusuke gasped surprised, and wiped his tears, Hiei doing the same. Yuki was their friend they had met when Kuwabara had been shot all those times not too long ago. "I'm so sorry, I heard about Kurama..." Hiei turned away.
He knew what it was like to lose someone you cared about, having lost his brother and friends. Only he and little Hope remained.
Yusuke punched the ground, and he noticed his power was building up as it had done when he thought Kuwabara died, and now that *Kurama* was actually gone...
"Where is Hope?" Yusuke finally asked, forgetting about his power increase. He relaxed his hand, his tears slowing, and began looking for the 13 year old girl with lime green hair.
Yuki gave a sudden choke of a cough, and tears filled his eyes. He turned away shamefully.
"She...She was killed...when the water flooded the trech...she...she didn't know how to swim."
There was a sad tension in the air, and Yusuke closed his eyes tight thinking of that little girl trapped in the water, struggling to breathe.
"We're sorry for your loss as well." Hiei spoke, starring back at him. Yuki shook his head, not looking up at them, "You know...I had a dream, that when...when this was over, every one of us would all..all wind up in this great big hall, and we'd all be together again. Looking at each other...as if...as if none of this had ever happened."
"Hope, Kai, Janson, Kuseem...all of my friends....Do you think that will happen?"
The room was silent. "I...I don't know...but we'll meet...whether it be in death of life." Yusuke said taking Yuki's shoulder. After a moment, Yusuke ventured, "So, Hope drowned?" "Saving me." Yuki broke in. Hiei winced, just like all his friends had been doing for him.
"I'd been shot. I couldn't move on my own. She took my arm, and dragged me to the Healers, and went back for my jacket. I was healed quickly and got up in time to see her getting my jacket. I waved, and she....she waved back." Yuki shook hard, "Then a tidal wave swept her away..."
Yuki looked up, "She was coated with blood when I found her, eyes open, and the Healer's told me her lungs, and stomach were filled with water. If...If I just hadn't waved she'd be fine." Yuki gave a light laugh, "We had been talking, maybe a month before this war." Another laugh. "I am very fond of her...she's like a sister...and she told me she didn't know how to swim. So I offered to teach her."
Yuki smiled, "I was going to teach her, but then this war started, how ironic is that?" Hiei seemed to be calming down, but his mind stayed on Kurama. He remembered their missions, and quiet days that had together. He never needed to talk with Kurama for him to understand him. Yuki's story was flooding all these thoughts back...of him.
Of Kurama.
Hiei saw Yusuke look back at Kuwabara, and Hiei knew it was the same with them. Yusuke and Kuwabara mourned with him, but Hiei suffered more. Kurama was his first and real friend. The first thing to enter his cold heart. And the longest person to stay in his heart.
"Kurama died standing up, victorious from saving me and the fool." Hiei stated starring off.
Yuki and Yusuke looked at them, both crying.
"Even in death he was graceful."
"Hiei..." Yusuke reached out for him, but Hiei rose.
"I'm going to kill those bas*ards...every one of them. They won't be forgiven. I won't let any of them leave this battle, unless they are dead!" He headed for the tent flap, the other two's eyes on him.
He stopped when he heard Kuwabara cough, and the sound of blood. "Yusuke, don't let him die." Yusuke looked at Hiei. Hiei was crying again and looked back at him as well as Yuki. "I don't want you to lose your best friend." Hiei closed the tent flap leaving behind his final words.
"I don't want you to be feeling what I'm feeling."
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Hmm...mentally stable? I doubt it...PREVIEW FOR NEXT CHAPTER:
Kuwabara is close to death, and uses his spiritual awareness to enter a realm for the dead so he can talk to Kurama....well that's all I can think of...oh wait. Hiei tries to smother Kuwabara! ^__^ Ha! I remembered!