Konoko: ::Congratulating the cast on a very successful number:: that was
wonderful Hiei. I expected no less considering I heard Wild Wind with you
and Kurama. You were awesome! And Yusuke you played that out cold! And
Keiko that was just beautiful between; you and Kuwabara I don't know who
played the dance better. And Kurama that was wonderful. You should think
about goin' into Movie dramas!
Hakana: Um Konoko. We have a problem.
Kurama: Let me guess Karasu?
Konoko: he still won't come out?!
Hiei: he's probably still pissed about that blow to the head.
Konoko: oh no! he is not ruinin' my damn fic! ::stomps to Karasu's dressing room and kicks down the door:: RAVEN!
Karasu: O.O() ::cringe::
Konoko: ::Holding the diamond bat:: You either get your demonic psychopathic masochistic egotistical bitch ass out there and ready or I swear I'm going to put you into a damn coma!
Karasu: ::rushes out in a hurry with his tail between his legs::
Yu Yu cast : OO ()
Yusuke: some one's pmsy!
Hakana: Nope she's just a little stressed.
Kurama: must be that flu she's been suffering from.
Kuwabara: it's a shame they haven't found a cure for that.
Kurama: there is one.
Konoko: seriously? ::starry eyed with red nose::
Yusuke: ::points at the nose:: with your complexion that should be impossible!
Konoko: ::whacks him with the bat:: you were saying Kurama?
Kurama: sorry but it's a plant in the Makai.
Konoko: ::screams in frustration then sneezes like a mouse. Turns a glare to the cast:: Not ONE word.
Yusuke: okay :: counts on fingers:: how bout three.
ALL but Konoko: AWWWW! HOW CUTE!!!!
Konoko: :Yells and fries them all with firagra fury:: gotta love FFX . Yomi come here.
Yomi: ::putting out the fire on his jacket:: what?!
Konoko: don't get pissy with me or I'll burn you. you memorized the song?!
Yomi: No shit! ::pat pat pat::
Konoko: I'm warning you don't start with me! Anyway get into character and we'll kick this stuff off.
Yomi: right what ever.
Konoko: Hakana do yo' job.
Hakana: () right ahem. Formal thank you to all who are enjoying the fic for reviewing. And to let you know that her other fic frozen is on total hold until writer's block is over came. And for now she's on this one and in the process of making another until she can complete "Frozen" ......did I miss any thing?
Konoko: ::sneezes:: no of course not. and now ON WITH THE SHOW ::cough hack sputter::
All but Konoko: O O()
Konoko: shut up!
Act VII: The Show Must Go On
Yusuke stood by the window looking dismally at the rose tower. He turned towards the door when he heard hurried footsteps. The door swung open and Kurama stood there gasping with puffy eyes and tear stained cheeks. He practically flung himself at Yusuke breaking down into more sobs. The detective embraced the redhead and did his best to calm him. Kurama finally spoke in fragments between sobs.
"I couldn't do it. When I got there I felt different and then I saw you and I couldn't go through with it I didn't want to do it! I didn't want to pretend anymore! I don't want lie about anything else!"
"That's right you don't have to pretend on anything. You can stay with me."
"But Yusuke he knows. He saw you! he knew and when I told him I couldn't do he tried to..." Kurama cut himself off with more crying. "I'm sorry I did this to you. Oh Yusuke I love you."
"I know. I love you too. We'll leave. We'll go to my world. No one will ever bother us ever again. We'll leave tonight."
Kurama looked at him surprised. "But what about the show. What about Hiei and Yukina and Shizuru and Kuwabara. We can't leave them."
"They'll come with us! Hiei!"
"What?" he asked leaning in the door way.
"Take Kurama back to his room help him back. Get the Kuwabaras and your sister too. Make sure no one knows where we're going! Got all that?"
Hiei nodded. Kurama smiled as he raced out the room with Hiei. In the tower, Karasu's wound was being treated and he was beyond all definitions pissed. Yomi stood nervously across from him.
"It's that ningen boy. He's bewitched Kurama with words. Find my fox and tell him that the story will end my way and he will come to me when the curtain falls or I'll have the boy killed."
Yomi looked at Karasu then at Tuguro who towered over the sitting demon. "Killed?"
"Killed!"
When back his room, Kurama began to grab any and everything that belonged to him. he changed into a better set of clothes. He began stuffing things from his dresser into a bag but froze when he saw Yomi in the mirror. He whipped around and gazed at the youkai.
"Forgive the intrusion, red."
"You're wasting your time, Yomi."
"Stop it you don't understand. Karasu is going kill Yusuke and anyone else who gets in the way of him getting to you. Unless the play ends his way and you sleep with him tomorrow night he'll kill as many as it takes to get to you. He's obsessed."
Kurama looked at the floor quietly and sighed with a nod to himself. He smirked at Yomi. :"He can't scare us."
"He's a powerful youkai. You know he can do it!"
Kurama didn't say anything. Instead he continued packing. Yomi furrowed his eyebrows.
"What are you doing?!"
"STOP IT! I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE! ALL MY LIFE YOU'VE MADE OTHERS BELIEVE I'M WORTH WHAT THEY WOULD PAY FOR ME!" Kurama yelled. "But Yusuke loves me, Yomi. he truly loves me. and that worth more than Karasu could ever offer me. we're leaving together. We're taking Shizuru, Yukina, Kuwabara and Hiei with us. we're going away from you, away from Karasu, away from the KITSUNE ROUGE! Good bye Yomi!"
Kurama grabbed his things and was about to walk out when Yomi spoke again. It stopped him dead his tracks.
"You're dying, Kurama."
Kurama didn't turn. He refused to show the horrified look on his face to Yomi. He whispered softly, "another trick, Yomi?"
"No...the doctor said that you have consumption and...it's slowly killing you."
Kurama suddenly lost the strength to hold his things. They fell to the floor with an echoing thud. A dismal smile crept to the fox's face as his already red eyes spilled more tears.
"I'm dying..." he whispered as he sat down on the bed. He hopelessly laughed and sang. "I was a fool...to...believe. A fool to believe...it all ends today...yes it all ends...today..."
"You have to let him go."
Kurama shook his head. "he'll fight for me."
"Not is he thinks you don't love him."
"Wha-"
"It's the only way."
"No."
"You're a wonderful actor. Make him believe you don't care."
"I can't"
"You have too. Use your talent to save him...hurt him to save him."
"NO! I can't do it."
"You have to. the show must go on...Kurama we're creatures of the underworld...we can't afford to love. The world outside ours is not made for us."
Kurama watched the sleeping caged bird Yusuke had found for him. he suddenly felt like that bird. No hope escaping his cage.
"Today's the day...
Yomi & Kur: when dream-ing...
Kur: ends...
Yomi trudged down the stairs of the still under construction stage. He muttered to himself as he walked.
"Another hero...another mindless crime...behind the curtain...in the pantomime." He looked toward Kurama's door and lifted his voice to sing. "On and on, does anybody know what we are living for. what ever happened we leave it all to chance. another heartache, another failed romance. On and on, does anybody know what we are living for..."
Yomi looked out from the top of the stage to where the audience would be seated. He stood there trying to remember the reason for all this nightmarish pain. It had to go on. It just had to. why? He couldn't answer it. it just had to keep going.
"The show must go on! The show must go on. Outside the dawn is breaking on the stage that holds our final destiny! "
He was joined by some of the prostitutes along with Yukina and Shizuru.
"The show must go on. The show must go on!"
Kurama sat in the mirror preparing himself for his greatest performance, to break Yusuke heart. "Inside my heart is breaking...my make up maybe flaking...but my smile...still stays on!"
"The show must go! The show must go on!"
Yomi had made to the audience portion of the theater as Kurama appeared center stage.
Kurama: I'll top the bill! I'll earn the kill! I have to find the will to carry on with the...
Yomi & Kur: On with the
Kurama: On with the show!
Yomi watched Kurama walk towards him with cold eyes. Kurama stopped just on the side of him.
"On with the show." Yomi muttered.
Kurama took a deep breath.
Chorus: The show
Yomi & Chorus: the show must go on!
Kurama walked out of the theater holding his head high. When he reached Yusuke's apartment, he found the detective gazing through the window. The boy turned to him.
"Hey, Kurama. You ready to leave."
"Y-Yusuke...Karasu came to me last night...and he apologized for everything that happened. He offered me everything...everything I ever dreamed of...but on one condition...I must never ever see you again."
"What?! what are you tryin' to say?"
"I don't expect you to understand! The difference between you and me is that you can leave anytime you want. But I can't. the Kitsune Rouge is a part of who I am. It's my home, I'm sorry!"
Yusuke gave him a disbelieving look. "NO! No something's off. what happened. Tell me the truth!"
Kurama turned away to leave but Yusuke grabbed him and turned him around.
"Kurama, why are you doing this. tell me the truth."
"The truth? The truth is...I am the hindu courtesan...and I choose the maharaja." Kurama said pushing Yusuke away and leaving the detective in his sorrow.
The rain poured down on Yusuke as he banged at the gates of the Kitsune Rouge.
"KURAMA!" Yusuke yelled.
Two of the bouncers tore him away from the gate. He fought them which resulted in a black eye for him. Yukina and Hiei found him lying in front of the establishment. Yukina lowered her head as Hiei picked Yusuke up and walked/dragged him out of the rain to their place. Yukina healed his eye while Hiei started a fire in their small fire place. Yusuke didn't move nor speak the whole time. Yukina gazed at him with sad eyes.
"Yusuke...listen you might see us as a bunch of drunken vice-ridden hopeless people. But we know a lot things. Like about art and...and love. Probably because, though we don't admit, we long for it with every fiber of our being. Keiko may come off as evil to you but because she was made that way over time. She had talent too but she lost it when she lost someone she loved. Love plays a big part in the way we operate here. Though it may seem nonexistent or fake from time to time...the real thing is still there. The same goes for you and Kurama. He loves you I know he does. There's a reason he's pushing you away I know it. but unless you fight for him there won't be away to save what you have...believe me Yusuke...he didn't want to do this. I know he didn't and if you love him the way you say you do then you know it too."
"Stop..."
"What?"
"Stop it. just go away!"
"But Yusuke, you're not well enough to be left-"
"GO AWAY!" he yelled.
Yukina pouted. "because I understand I won't take this personally." She rose and walked out the room. Hiei stood and looked at Yusuke.
"Don't be angry because she right. it's your problem that you won't except it."
'I wanted to shut out what the twins had said. But their words had filled me with doubt. And so I had to know...I had to return to the Kitsune Rouge one last time.'
A/N: alright the final chapter of Kitsune Rouge is next. This was a fun fic. And I have a bonus chapter coming up a little song fic. So see ya next time in Act VIII: The Finale!
Hakana: Um Konoko. We have a problem.
Kurama: Let me guess Karasu?
Konoko: he still won't come out?!
Hiei: he's probably still pissed about that blow to the head.
Konoko: oh no! he is not ruinin' my damn fic! ::stomps to Karasu's dressing room and kicks down the door:: RAVEN!
Karasu: O.O() ::cringe::
Konoko: ::Holding the diamond bat:: You either get your demonic psychopathic masochistic egotistical bitch ass out there and ready or I swear I'm going to put you into a damn coma!
Karasu: ::rushes out in a hurry with his tail between his legs::
Yu Yu cast : OO ()
Yusuke: some one's pmsy!
Hakana: Nope she's just a little stressed.
Kurama: must be that flu she's been suffering from.
Kuwabara: it's a shame they haven't found a cure for that.
Kurama: there is one.
Konoko: seriously? ::starry eyed with red nose::
Yusuke: ::points at the nose:: with your complexion that should be impossible!
Konoko: ::whacks him with the bat:: you were saying Kurama?
Kurama: sorry but it's a plant in the Makai.
Konoko: ::screams in frustration then sneezes like a mouse. Turns a glare to the cast:: Not ONE word.
Yusuke: okay :: counts on fingers:: how bout three.
ALL but Konoko: AWWWW! HOW CUTE!!!!
Konoko: :Yells and fries them all with firagra fury:: gotta love FFX . Yomi come here.
Yomi: ::putting out the fire on his jacket:: what?!
Konoko: don't get pissy with me or I'll burn you. you memorized the song?!
Yomi: No shit! ::pat pat pat::
Konoko: I'm warning you don't start with me! Anyway get into character and we'll kick this stuff off.
Yomi: right what ever.
Konoko: Hakana do yo' job.
Hakana: () right ahem. Formal thank you to all who are enjoying the fic for reviewing. And to let you know that her other fic frozen is on total hold until writer's block is over came. And for now she's on this one and in the process of making another until she can complete "Frozen" ......did I miss any thing?
Konoko: ::sneezes:: no of course not. and now ON WITH THE SHOW ::cough hack sputter::
All but Konoko: O O()
Konoko: shut up!
Act VII: The Show Must Go On
Yusuke stood by the window looking dismally at the rose tower. He turned towards the door when he heard hurried footsteps. The door swung open and Kurama stood there gasping with puffy eyes and tear stained cheeks. He practically flung himself at Yusuke breaking down into more sobs. The detective embraced the redhead and did his best to calm him. Kurama finally spoke in fragments between sobs.
"I couldn't do it. When I got there I felt different and then I saw you and I couldn't go through with it I didn't want to do it! I didn't want to pretend anymore! I don't want lie about anything else!"
"That's right you don't have to pretend on anything. You can stay with me."
"But Yusuke he knows. He saw you! he knew and when I told him I couldn't do he tried to..." Kurama cut himself off with more crying. "I'm sorry I did this to you. Oh Yusuke I love you."
"I know. I love you too. We'll leave. We'll go to my world. No one will ever bother us ever again. We'll leave tonight."
Kurama looked at him surprised. "But what about the show. What about Hiei and Yukina and Shizuru and Kuwabara. We can't leave them."
"They'll come with us! Hiei!"
"What?" he asked leaning in the door way.
"Take Kurama back to his room help him back. Get the Kuwabaras and your sister too. Make sure no one knows where we're going! Got all that?"
Hiei nodded. Kurama smiled as he raced out the room with Hiei. In the tower, Karasu's wound was being treated and he was beyond all definitions pissed. Yomi stood nervously across from him.
"It's that ningen boy. He's bewitched Kurama with words. Find my fox and tell him that the story will end my way and he will come to me when the curtain falls or I'll have the boy killed."
Yomi looked at Karasu then at Tuguro who towered over the sitting demon. "Killed?"
"Killed!"
When back his room, Kurama began to grab any and everything that belonged to him. he changed into a better set of clothes. He began stuffing things from his dresser into a bag but froze when he saw Yomi in the mirror. He whipped around and gazed at the youkai.
"Forgive the intrusion, red."
"You're wasting your time, Yomi."
"Stop it you don't understand. Karasu is going kill Yusuke and anyone else who gets in the way of him getting to you. Unless the play ends his way and you sleep with him tomorrow night he'll kill as many as it takes to get to you. He's obsessed."
Kurama looked at the floor quietly and sighed with a nod to himself. He smirked at Yomi. :"He can't scare us."
"He's a powerful youkai. You know he can do it!"
Kurama didn't say anything. Instead he continued packing. Yomi furrowed his eyebrows.
"What are you doing?!"
"STOP IT! I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE! ALL MY LIFE YOU'VE MADE OTHERS BELIEVE I'M WORTH WHAT THEY WOULD PAY FOR ME!" Kurama yelled. "But Yusuke loves me, Yomi. he truly loves me. and that worth more than Karasu could ever offer me. we're leaving together. We're taking Shizuru, Yukina, Kuwabara and Hiei with us. we're going away from you, away from Karasu, away from the KITSUNE ROUGE! Good bye Yomi!"
Kurama grabbed his things and was about to walk out when Yomi spoke again. It stopped him dead his tracks.
"You're dying, Kurama."
Kurama didn't turn. He refused to show the horrified look on his face to Yomi. He whispered softly, "another trick, Yomi?"
"No...the doctor said that you have consumption and...it's slowly killing you."
Kurama suddenly lost the strength to hold his things. They fell to the floor with an echoing thud. A dismal smile crept to the fox's face as his already red eyes spilled more tears.
"I'm dying..." he whispered as he sat down on the bed. He hopelessly laughed and sang. "I was a fool...to...believe. A fool to believe...it all ends today...yes it all ends...today..."
"You have to let him go."
Kurama shook his head. "he'll fight for me."
"Not is he thinks you don't love him."
"Wha-"
"It's the only way."
"No."
"You're a wonderful actor. Make him believe you don't care."
"I can't"
"You have too. Use your talent to save him...hurt him to save him."
"NO! I can't do it."
"You have to. the show must go on...Kurama we're creatures of the underworld...we can't afford to love. The world outside ours is not made for us."
Kurama watched the sleeping caged bird Yusuke had found for him. he suddenly felt like that bird. No hope escaping his cage.
"Today's the day...
Yomi & Kur: when dream-ing...
Kur: ends...
Yomi trudged down the stairs of the still under construction stage. He muttered to himself as he walked.
"Another hero...another mindless crime...behind the curtain...in the pantomime." He looked toward Kurama's door and lifted his voice to sing. "On and on, does anybody know what we are living for. what ever happened we leave it all to chance. another heartache, another failed romance. On and on, does anybody know what we are living for..."
Yomi looked out from the top of the stage to where the audience would be seated. He stood there trying to remember the reason for all this nightmarish pain. It had to go on. It just had to. why? He couldn't answer it. it just had to keep going.
"The show must go on! The show must go on. Outside the dawn is breaking on the stage that holds our final destiny! "
He was joined by some of the prostitutes along with Yukina and Shizuru.
"The show must go on. The show must go on!"
Kurama sat in the mirror preparing himself for his greatest performance, to break Yusuke heart. "Inside my heart is breaking...my make up maybe flaking...but my smile...still stays on!"
"The show must go! The show must go on!"
Yomi had made to the audience portion of the theater as Kurama appeared center stage.
Kurama: I'll top the bill! I'll earn the kill! I have to find the will to carry on with the...
Yomi & Kur: On with the
Kurama: On with the show!
Yomi watched Kurama walk towards him with cold eyes. Kurama stopped just on the side of him.
"On with the show." Yomi muttered.
Kurama took a deep breath.
Chorus: The show
Yomi & Chorus: the show must go on!
Kurama walked out of the theater holding his head high. When he reached Yusuke's apartment, he found the detective gazing through the window. The boy turned to him.
"Hey, Kurama. You ready to leave."
"Y-Yusuke...Karasu came to me last night...and he apologized for everything that happened. He offered me everything...everything I ever dreamed of...but on one condition...I must never ever see you again."
"What?! what are you tryin' to say?"
"I don't expect you to understand! The difference between you and me is that you can leave anytime you want. But I can't. the Kitsune Rouge is a part of who I am. It's my home, I'm sorry!"
Yusuke gave him a disbelieving look. "NO! No something's off. what happened. Tell me the truth!"
Kurama turned away to leave but Yusuke grabbed him and turned him around.
"Kurama, why are you doing this. tell me the truth."
"The truth? The truth is...I am the hindu courtesan...and I choose the maharaja." Kurama said pushing Yusuke away and leaving the detective in his sorrow.
The rain poured down on Yusuke as he banged at the gates of the Kitsune Rouge.
"KURAMA!" Yusuke yelled.
Two of the bouncers tore him away from the gate. He fought them which resulted in a black eye for him. Yukina and Hiei found him lying in front of the establishment. Yukina lowered her head as Hiei picked Yusuke up and walked/dragged him out of the rain to their place. Yukina healed his eye while Hiei started a fire in their small fire place. Yusuke didn't move nor speak the whole time. Yukina gazed at him with sad eyes.
"Yusuke...listen you might see us as a bunch of drunken vice-ridden hopeless people. But we know a lot things. Like about art and...and love. Probably because, though we don't admit, we long for it with every fiber of our being. Keiko may come off as evil to you but because she was made that way over time. She had talent too but she lost it when she lost someone she loved. Love plays a big part in the way we operate here. Though it may seem nonexistent or fake from time to time...the real thing is still there. The same goes for you and Kurama. He loves you I know he does. There's a reason he's pushing you away I know it. but unless you fight for him there won't be away to save what you have...believe me Yusuke...he didn't want to do this. I know he didn't and if you love him the way you say you do then you know it too."
"Stop..."
"What?"
"Stop it. just go away!"
"But Yusuke, you're not well enough to be left-"
"GO AWAY!" he yelled.
Yukina pouted. "because I understand I won't take this personally." She rose and walked out the room. Hiei stood and looked at Yusuke.
"Don't be angry because she right. it's your problem that you won't except it."
'I wanted to shut out what the twins had said. But their words had filled me with doubt. And so I had to know...I had to return to the Kitsune Rouge one last time.'
A/N: alright the final chapter of Kitsune Rouge is next. This was a fun fic. And I have a bonus chapter coming up a little song fic. So see ya next time in Act VIII: The Finale!