Yusuke awoke, and sat up quickly, sweat on his brow. It was quiet, and through the shield he could see staggering men and woman, including demons, trying to hold their own. Both sides were weak, and by the looks of it, there would be one more attack, and then the victor of this battle would be decided. How long had he been asleep?

"Your awake."

Yusuke turned seeing Hiei. The small demon stood there, a smile in his eyes, as well as his face.

"Whats happening?"

"This is the closure...its almost done...this war...its finally going to end."

Yusuke pulled himself out of bed. "Over? Look at all of them...its not just over. Its the end for all of us." Yusuke looked outside, "Sure it's over. One last attack and we'll know who has won." Hiei nodded, "Yes Yusuke...don't sound so bitter. It will all end soon, and we will be the victor." Hiei paused, "Yusuke you've been out for almost a week...there is much you have missed."

Yusuke paled, his thought turning to his bestfriend, who he remembered wheezing as he did a simple task of sleeping. "KUWABARA! WHERE IS HE?!"

"Easy Urameshi...Easy."

Yusuke spun around to see Kuwabara sitting on the other side of him. He was still pale, and now resembled Kurama's body. Looking like white powder had coated his skin, his lips cracked, and parts of his body blue. His body still to small and thin to be the Kuwabara they knew.

"Kuwabara...why...why do you look like that?" Yusuke asked slowly. Kuwabara smiled, "My life is coming to a close, but as I've said before, if I die...I'm going down fighting...and I would have diea all over again if I died while you were asleep...cus I know you would die."

Yusuke leapt out of bed, crushing Kuwabara in a hug sobbing, "Your not dying! YOUR NOT!" "Yusuke...it's not as if we're parting ways...We're just saying good bye. And after a good bye, there's always a hello, right?" Kuwabara said laughing, as he ran his fingers through Yusuke's hair."

Yusuke clutched at him, and sobbed, "I know...I don't care if its only a little while, I can't lose you." Hiei came over, and pat Yusuke's back. "Yusuke have faith...have faith everything will be fine...everything." Yusuke looked at him. He gave a faint smile.

"Have you found peace with your self? About Kurama?"

Hiei nodded, "I just needed to have a talk with him."

Yusuke rose, and scrubbed his eyes, Kuwabara slowly pushing himself out of his chair. He placed his arm around Kuwabara's waist, supporting his friend. "If...If you want to fight, then I'll help you. If Hiei can find peace with this, then I'll be okay, right?" Kuwabara nodded, smiling slightly so not to crack his lips.

"All right then." Kuwabara smiled, taking a bold big step, swinging his arm up in the air, "Lets go kick some Demon as*!" Kuwabara looked at Hiei, "Bad demon as*." Hiei shook his head giving a small amused smile, "Baka..."

Kuwabara shrugged and Yusuke smiled.

No snappy response.

That was a first.

"Strange how people come together..."

"I don't like him like that!"

"HE MEANT AS IN FRIENDSHIP WAYS YOU DUMB SH*T!"

"WATCH IT ANKLE BITER!"

Kuwabara stopped, and coughed, bending down choking, bringing Yusuke with him. Hiei went over to him, arms up, and looking panicked. "Gotcha!" Kuwabara turned smiling, sweat on his face. Hiei growled at him and marched off.

"You weren't faking that were you?"

"Nah, but I couldn't have the shorty feel bad."

"So you two really have gotten closer?"

"Not much but its a start...Your still my best buddy."

"I don't have to worry about that, your mine too you oaf."

"Watch it...I may feel like k-rape *word I made up with my friends* but I can still whoop your A*s!"

"K-rape? How can you rape a 'k'?"

"Ah shut up."

~*~

The trio stood down at the trench, Yusuke holding onto Kuwabara tightly. Kuwabara had his hand gripped on Yusuke's shoulder, and Hiei's back. They all three knew these were Kuwabara's last moments. They hadn't had time to say good-bye to Kurama, and they weren't going to miss out on saying Good-bye to Kuwabara.

For not being able to say good-bye to their fox friend, had left a far greater scar than anyof their battle wounds.

"Knowing your luck, somehow you'll live. You always seem too." Hiei humped.

"Aw...how sweet of you."

"Yusuke, you cocky bas*ard..."

"Whats with your guys' mouths? Geez you sound like sailors..."

Kuwabara coughed, blood splattering the trench.

The first blood shed of the day.

"Are you guys ready...looks like they're about to start firing." Hiei, and Kuwabara nodded, and Yusuke pulled Kuwabara closer, giving his friend a hug. Maybe his last.

But all their thoughts seemed to be resting on Kuwabara's fate...and not Yusuke's.

However, Yusuke was thinking of what Hiei had said, and his brow furrowed as he spoke his thoughts, "Hiei you may be right...Kuwabara always seems to live no matter what the dangers..."

"Now that I think about it..." Kuwabara mumbled, "Rando, Byakko, giving my life energy to Yusuke, Saving Yukina, several times in the dark tournament, my kidnapping..." Kuwabara continued listing and blinked with surprise. "Dam* I'm lucky."

"Now who's the sailor?"

"Shut up."

No more words were spoken as the first blast of energy was fried.

It had begun.

Energy bombs, fire, earth, water, electricity, all flying around out of the air. Both sides suffering attack after attack. The sound of whistling wind in the air. Everything could be heard, could be seen. This was the most important part of the war. The most dangerous. Where more people would die in a single minute, than the last battles. This was the day tears would fall down demon's cheeks, and humans would comfort them. This part of the war would always be remembered, as the worst part of the 9 month hell hole.

The end.

Kuwabara and Yusuke stayed close, though Yusuke could not hold onto him anymore. Yusuke stood over Kuwabara, whenever he could, and only didn't when he was shot in the chest. He fell backwards, and hit the ground cursing. "URAMESHI!"

"Its okay!" Yusuke winced, "It wasn't energy, it was fire. I'm fine." Kuwabara held on to Yusuke forwning at his brun mark, when they heard a demon cry out, "WE HAVE TRAITORS AMONG OUR MISTS!" Kuwabara and Yusuke turned around, and saw five demons, and three humans shooting at their own comrades. Before the two knew it they were thrust into the battle, and were fighting the traitors.

Yusuke could hear no sound, but he saw the blood flying in the air. He heard his heart beat, and felt the cold wind at his back. Blood droplets flew in the air, and he could feel the presence of his best friend fighting with his all next to him.

Kuwabara was in the same state, he could hear his panting, feel the cold sweat on his skin, and worst of all, he could feel his body slipping more and more. It seemed like he had to struggle to keep his spirit inside his body. Like it wouldn't stay inside of him. His soul, his life trying to leave his vessel given by God.

'I can't go yet, not while Urameshi still needs me. I can't leave him.'

Then it happened.

Kuwabara turned around and saw Yusuke pushing down a demon, and struggling to kill him. Another demon had snuck up on him, and had raised his arm. In his hand was a javelin made from spirit energy. He laughed, and threw it. It's path was Yusuke's back.

Kuwabara ran, and it was if there where arms pulling him back. It seemed like his tired, ill body wasn't going to let him get there to Yusuke, or even call out.

'When the cold nights come...'

Wait what was that? Kuwabara blinked. He could have sworn Kurama was in his head singing this sad song. The song was somehow familiar...

'I know, I know, My days are done....'

The Javelin was an inch away from Kuwabara's best friend and he wasn't there! "YUSUKE!!!" Yusuke turned to see the racing Javelin coming at him, and he froze.

Yusuke's pain filled scream flooded the air, along with the sound of squishing guts. Kuwabara's throat closed as he looked at his friend's face. Yusuke was pale, red blood splattered against his cheeks. His face was too white, almost the color of snow, and his eyes watered over.

A single tear dripped down his cheek and he gasped, "Kuwabara."

Kuwabara lay on the ground the weapon sticking out of his chest. His red blood had splashed all over his friend, who had screamed as his friend was hit. Yusuke sat down, ignoring the battle around him, and moved Kuwabara in his lap.

Blood dribbled out Kuwabara's mouth, dyeing his teeth. He coughed, and looked at his friend, and smiled. His lips were purple, and blue was under his eyes. "Its cold." Yusuke began to breath hard, and too quick, "No...NO! YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE THIS WAY!"

"Hush now...I'm glad..."

"NO!"

"I'm glad...I would...would have hated dying from a...an ailment, instead of a fight...talk about an...an honor...honorable death." Kuwabara smiled. "This is what I wanted..."

Yusuke had his hand tangled into Kuwabara's air, and the other wrapped around his shoulder. "NO! I KNOW I SAID I COULD HANDLE THIS BUT I CAN'T! I CAN'T! GOD NO, PLEASE! KUWABARA! KUWABARA!" Yusuke was sobbing, and nothing would stop him.

Kuwabara placed his hand in Yusuke's hair, running his fingers through it. "Yusuke..." Yusuke pulled away from him. "Do you thin..think I would have be...been happy dying that way?...I...I would never...be at pe...peace..." Kuwabara placed his cold hand on Yusuke's face.

"Kazuma don't die!" Yusuke sobbed. Kuwabara smiled, it was funny. Kuwabara had said Yusuke's first name as he was dying, and Yusuke said his own while he was dying. Their first names seemed to be linked to sadness. Kuwabara knew it was going to end soon.

"Its all gonna be fine...I...I'll see you...see you on the...the other side."

'I see the light,

I can't turn away,

I don't want to fight,

take my soul away.'

Kuwabara's eyes turned glassy, and it looked as if tears had filled up in them. His head dropped back, and he went limp. He was pale, and blue. Kurama hadn't looked like this, then again he wasn't struggling to live. Death came quick for him.

Kuwabara had been struggling to live for over a month, since he'd caught Pneumonia so long ago...

Yusuke froze, and crushed his friend to him, and gave such a mournful cry, the fighting going around him, stopped. They starred as the broken man held his best friend, and began rocking him. Both sides surprised at the incredible sadness pouring off him.

Hiei dashed forward, and stood maybe a foot away from his friend. He looked at Kuwabara, and shuddered, Kuwabara's head was tilted just so that his dead glassy eyes starred at him. Hiei looked at Yusuke, and saw himself. And in place of him was Kurama.

"Dam*" Hiei sunk to the ground. "D*mm...DA*M! YOU FU*KING MORONS! I'LL KILL YOU ALL! STOP TAKING MY FRIENDS!" Energy roared off him, but he wasn't the only one. Yusuke's normal self had disappeared. He was once again, in his demon form.

He held Kuwabara, who was like a doll.

Hiei got up starring at him. Not in awe, or shock, but in understanding. They were both going to stop this war.

"They've taken Kurama, and now Kuwabara...they won't take anyone else..." Yusuke growled, long hair blowing with the wind.

'Take my soul away...'

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dun dun! I hope I made you wonder at who died. la. PREVIEW FOR NEXT CHAPTER:

the last chapter T_T oh well. this was fun. The final battle. Its all thats left. Will Yusuke and Hiei destroy themselves, to kill the enemy?...*holds up hands* not syaing anything.

btw i wrote the death song, just in case people don't accuse me of stealing another peeps song (don't wann go through that...^_^() )