Weeeee....won't be too many updates for a while. Goin on a trip I signed up with my class...lalalala....

Kuwabara: Your leaving us behind?!

Yusuke: Only for a while.

Hiei: Unless she dies.

:Kazima's eyes wide:

Kurama: HIEI! :Smacks him:

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Kurama awoke, eye bloodshot, bags laying heavily against his cheeks. Kurama sighed. For the past three nights he'd been having trouble sleeping. He knew why.

It was time.

Time to tell Yusuke, the necklace was working, and that it was time to go home.

Kurama quickly dressed and went to the living room, to find Hiei sitting silently at the table. "Hiei?" Kurama looked around the room. "Where are Shizuru, Kuwabara, And Yusuke?"

Hiei glanced at him, "Out at some park, why?"

Kurama reached in his pocket revealing the glowing item. Starring directly into Hiei's surprised eyes, he whispered, "Its time. Time to go home.

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Yusuke pushed Kuwabara on the swing, the little boy squealing as he was pushed higher and higher. Eventually Kuwabara looked back, and proudly told him, "I think I can do it myself now!" Yusuke nodded, and stepped back, as the small boy pumped his legs back and fourth.

"WEEEEEEEE!" He shouted laughing.

Yusuke smiled, and felt a tug at his arm. He jumped a little and turned to stare at Shizuru. "Oh, you startled me!" He laughed embarrassed that she'd caused him to jump.

"I'm sorry." Shizuru smiled, and asked softly, cheeks stained red, "Do you have a minute to spare." Yusuke nodded, "Sure."

Shizuru pulled him to a bench, and sat down. Shyly she looked at her hands and stuttered, "There's something I want to...to tell you!" Yusuke nodded patiently. Shizuru looked up at him nervous, but determined.

"Well you see-"

"Oh my God."

Shizuru jumped. Yusuke had gone rigid and his eyes wide. He starred at something past her. "What?" Shizuru turned to see a young woman, maybe a few years older than her, placing her son down so he could play.

"Yusuke you behave!!" The woman told him, as the small boy ran off.

Shizuru smiled, "He has the same name as you!" Shizuru laughed, and looked back at Yusuke. She noticed his eyes followed the small boy, and that he'd paled. "Yusuke?"

Yusuke covered his eyes as memories slowly came back to him.

Memories of the past...

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Yusuke was six years old when his Mom brought him to the park. He ran towards the swings his favorite part of the park, and accidentally ran into a smaller boy as he was getting off the swing. "Oh 'm sorry!!" The boy gasped helping him up.

His blue eyes scanned over him, "Are you hurt? I didn't mean to knock you down!" Yusuke brushed his overalls off. "Yeah. I'm fine."

Looking back at this new kid he'd crashed into he observed his mop of orange hair, and kind smile. 'Maybe we can be friends!' Yusuke thought smiling and extending his hand.

"My names Yusuke!"

"I'm Kazuma! I have another friend named 'Usuke too!"

Yusuke and him shook hands, and Kuwabara dragged him to the swings.

"Come on 'Usuke! Lets play!"

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"Yusuke!? Yusuke, are you all right?" Shizuru frowned concerned, and Yusuke slowly looked up. Just like his memories, he saw his younger self extend his hand.

Yes...that little boy was him!

Yusuke's hair was brown when he was younger and wouldn't turn black until another year(1) His eyes where more round and innocent, and he was wearing his favorite overalls with a fire truck on the front.

"Yusuke are you okay?" Shizuru asked again concerned.

"Ye-yeah. Just a memory."

Yusuke let out a shaky sigh. He was surprised. He was amazed, and stunned. He actaully :knew: Yusuke when he was younger!? This seemed hard to swallow. But he couldn't see why he never connected this little Kuwabara with the older Kuwabara.

Sure, this younger Kuwabara looked different, and he had called him self Kazuma. But how many times had he heard his best friend say, "I am the great Kazuma Kuwabara!" Why hadn't he made the connection.

'Wait...something else happened...' another foggy memory was floating in his head. He vaguely remembered his dream...the dream of a younger boy standing next to little Kuwabara...He screamed, and Kuwabara fell down. "What happened?"

Shizuru starred at her new friend worried, "Yusuke? Oh Yusuke, tell me what's wrong?" She pleaded with him. Yusuke smiled at her taking her hands, "It's okay...just...just a bad and good memory."

Shizuru starred at him confused, and looked at the little boy playing with her brother. Something about that boy had made Yusuke panic.

'What is going on...?'

Yusuke released her hands, and Shizuru turned back to look at him. "Yusuke, I have something to tell you now..." Yusuke nodded, giving her a sweet smile. "Okay, shoot."

"Yusuke, I love you."

Stunned silence answered her. Yusuke's face went red, and his mouth dropped open, "Uh...Shiz...shizuru...Uh...I...well I..." Shizuru covered his mouth, "But you love someone else."

Yusuke sat there stunned.

She smiled.

"Have you heard how we have red strings tied to our fingers? And that those strings connect us to out soul mate, our true love." Shizuru smiled kindly, her eyes sad. "My string is connected to someone who looks just like you I'm sure. I can see it in my minds eyes, don't ask I just have this weird talent of knowing these things."

"I know." Yusuke spoke up. He was still in shock, Shizuru loved him?!"

Shizuru laughed, "I fell in love with you as soon as I began to bandage you the night my brother found you...but then I saw our strings weren't connected. But I thought who cares? I loved you...but then last night I had a dream.

I dreamed of a man...with longer hair, and a scar, but he looked so much like you. Our strings were connected...and I realized I loved you because you looked so much like him." Shizuru smiled, "When I noticed your string was not tied to mine, I looked for the end of yours. You can guess how surprised I was to find your string connected with my Kazu-chan!"

Yusuke's whole face flushed. "Uh...well I..."

"Its okay Yusuke." She smiled at him, "I've had this feeling that your not from here...especially since that little boy playing with my brother, also has his string connected to him. Am I right...Are you from somewhere else...?"

Yusuke nodded, and watched as tears filled her eyes, "So the Kuwabara you lost...was :my: brother..."My" Kazu-chan." She wiped her eyes but the tears wouldn't stop. "So my brother is doomed to die...at our age..." She sobbed, and Yusuke held onto her tightly.

"Its...its okay...jsut think he's with your parents..."

"But that means I'm all alone...I'll be alone in the future!" She countinued to cry.

Yusuke held onto her, and softly cried with her. "I promise you I won't let you be alone...when I return home...I'll keep you company...I'll always be there for you. Your a great friend Shizuru, and I always stick by my friends."

"YUSUKE!"

Tears still pouring down his face, the dark haired youth looked up to see Kurama and Hiei running towards him. "Yusuke I have something to tell you-Why are you crying?" Kurama looked at Shizuru's tear stained faces.

"She knows we're not from here-I didn't tell her! She figured it out." Yusuke said honestly.

"Yusuke," Hiei sternly looked at Yusuke, bat his eyes held a bitter sadness that no words could describe, as well as pity. "Yusuke we fixed the necklace, its time to go home."

Yusuke starred at him horrified. "Oh no..." he whispered, pain caressing his face, its ugly twisted hand, covering his eyes, bringing the worst tormented gaze they'd ever seen.

"Yusuke you can't-"

"Don't say it Kurama, I know. I'm coming home...theres someone there who needs me." Shizuru looked up at him gratefully, when the group heard a terrified scream.

Their heads snapped to the street on their left where they saw a very bloody Kuwabara laying limply on the ground. The blood poured from his face. A car just behind him, the driver looking horrified.

The younger version of Yusuke was screaming, and his mother swept him up in her arms. She held the struggling boy, just as Hiei, Yusuke, Kurama, and Shizuru came up screaming, and tears streaming down everyone's faces, but Hiei's. He was just very, VERY, pissed.

Yusuke heard his rapid breathing and his heart ripping in two, before he could do anything, the car backed up, and ran over Kuwabara again. Speeding off. Hiei starred at the back of the car, managing to get his license plate.

Hiei refused to turn around. He knew something horrible, something that should never had happened, just took place. Just took place by this man, who showed no remorse only fear.

Kurama fell on his knees in shock, tears dripping down his face, unnoticed by the shocked man. Why didn't the man at least swerve! How could he run over Kuwabara, without a care, HOW COULD HE JUST DO THAT?

How could anyone do that to a child...?

Shizuru swayed on her feet starring at the road. She opened her mouth and said one word. "Kazu..." She swayed again, and crumpled to the ground. Atsuko, and she set the sobbing boy down as she shook Shizuru's shoulders, tears falling down her own eyes. "MISS! MISS WAKE UP!"

Yusuke stood only three feet away. His eyes had gone blank, dull and dead. His tan skin lost its beauty, and turned an ugly gray, ever his black hair seemed to lose its shine.

He collapsed to his knees.

"Why...SOMEONE TELL ME WHY!!!" He screamed mournful words, tears streaming down his face, and soon his words just became mournful cries. Dead mournful cries that caused everyone in the park to freeze.

Sweet little Kazuma Kuwabara's head was flattened. Blood, brains, bone, and a bit of curly hair replacing his head. Replacing his sweet smile, which had one tooth missing, which he showed to everyone with pride. His blue eyes. His lovely little face...everything was now just mush...Just mush.

He was dead.

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(1) Hair changing color is possible in case you don't know. My hair was black until I turned three, then it turned orange. Weird ne?

Hahaha...your going to kill me for leaving you like this...especially since I'll be gone for a few days...hahahaha...-.-()

PREVIEW FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!

The conclusion is up! The last chapter! Little Kazuma Kuwabara is dead, and Shizuru has stopped breathing from the shear shock of loss. Her body has shut down. Now will they lose Shizuru too? Theres nothing left anymore...nothing left but to go home.

Yusuke: IF YOU DON'T BRING HIM BACK...I'LL I'LL....:begins to cry:

:everyone in shock:

Hey come on, at least in my other stories your all together.

Yusuke: SPIRIT GIN.

OoooooooooWWwwwwwwwwWWWW.......