Kuwabara gasped, suddenly clutching his stomach tightly as something blurred in front of them, using the railings to jump up before it disappeared again.

Looking down slowly, the nigen's eyes widened as a crimson stream of blood flowed down his arms onto the ground, his focus becoming locked on the deep gash that had sliced through his abdomen.

Who could have…

"KAZUMA!!"

As he slumped to the ground on his knees, he was caught by the small koorime, who laid him back into a sitting position, her eyes white with horror.

"Kazuma-kun, are you alright? Does it hurt," she asked worriedly, her voice wavering in the shock as she placed her hands on his arms and moved them away from his bleeding wound.

The cold air whipped inside of his shirt and against the broken skin and he winced with a quick intake of breath, trying his best not to cry out in pain.

"N-No…I-I'm fine…just, kinda…sur…prised…" he forced his throat to say with a fake smile, tilting his head up and exhaling heavily into the air as his breath visibly dispersed away from him towards the sky.

"Shhh, don't talk koi," Yukina whispered, gliding one hand to his back to make sure the wound had not penetrated through. She sighed as she found both his skin and back muscles as they should be, and then she sat down on her knees facing him and reached out with her small palms hovering over the bloody area, her hands beginning to glow an iridescent blue. "You'll be all better soon.."

Meanwhile Kuwabara was struggling to keep consciousness. His vision blurred in and out, and in order to keep his eyes in focus he found himself constantly blinking, the pain not even noticed to its extent yet because he had gone numb from his chest down. "Yu…ki…na."

"I'm right here," she assured, closing her eyes as the blue light around her hands began to grow brighter and spread onto the wounded teen's body. "Please relax Kazuma."

"Re…lax…Right…" Kuwabara's palms braced themselves on each side of him on the ground, and sucking in air through his gritted teeth he closed his eyes tightly and started to feel the warm tingling sensations moving throughout his body. But that didn't change the fact that he was cold. So cold.

Who could've done this, the small koorime wondered in fright as her crimson eyes began to glow ice blue and she tried her hardest to get the wound to stop bleeding. He had already lost so much, and so quickly. Whoever it was obviously wanted to kill him…but why? What had her beloved done to make anyone that angry? Kazuma wasn't capable of that.

As Yukina bit her bottom lip and kept her thoughts silent Kuwabara's eyes opened and he stared up at the sky. He tried to focus on the stars, but his vision still refused to focus. His limbs began to shake and his face lost all of its color, and sweat began to roll down the back of his neck and make his shirt stick to his skin.

That felt like…like it was…No, he was wrong. Why would Hiei attack him? It must've been some other demon. Yeah, just a youkai with a similar energy signature- maybe another fire demon.

Suddenly a pain shot up his spine and he grimaced, sinking his teeth into his tongue so he wouldn't whimper. He was freezing, how did it get so cold all of a sudden?

"D-Don't worry a…about m-me…I-I'm okay," he kept saying over and over, his voice hushing down to a whisper with each word.

He was so tired…maybe he just needed sleep. Yeah, that sounded good.

As his eyes slowly closed Yukina looked up to his face and placed one of her hands upon it, a distressed look plaguing her features as she felt how cold his flesh had become. "Kazuma? Kazuma please don't close your eyes…Stay awake, I-I'm going to make you all better."

Kuwabara's eyelids twitched and he coughed, his face wrenching with pain as a small trail of blood began to leak from the corner of his mouth down his chin.

"I'm not…g-going to…sleep…just…resting my eyes," came the red-haired nigen's faint reply. His rasped voice broke and wavered, unlike that of his usual confident deep alto tone.

"No…no love, keep them open. Please, for me Kazuma. Don't close them." Yukina wasn't able to keep her voice calm. His wound wasn't healing quickly enough. It was too deep, too large. Her eyes began to sting and she blinked back the tears before they would come, and placing her other palm to his cheek she leaned up to him and rested her forehead to his. "Please Kazuma."

That did it. Grunting as his tongue ran across the thick substance in his mouth the teen's eyelids twitched again, then slowly lifted and he looked directly into the koorime's bright ones. "Y-You're…so pretty…" The corners of his mouth attempted to lift in a smile, and his hand rose off of the ground slightly to try and touch her cheek, but before he could a heavy exhale flooded past his lips and his eyes rolled back into his head, his large frame going limp against the wall behind him.

"…Kazuma? Talk to me, please. Kazuma, Kazuma!" Her heart began to race even faster and she didn't know what to do. Soft 'tinks' could be heard as white gems bounced lightly on the ground after rolling from her reddened cheeks. If left unconscious for too long, he wouldn't make it. Pressing her forehead against his a little more she held his head steady with her hands and closed her eyes tightly, her small shoulders shaking a little bit with her sobs.

Can anyone hear me? Help me, please…Kazuma's hurt…he needs help…

Silence came there after, and she cried silently in the night, wrapping her arms around her nigen's shoulders and hugging him closely to her, offering what little body heat she had. She thought that no one would answer, but then in the back of her mind she heard a voice…

Yukina, it's Genkai. Where are you?