~*too late to go back*~

A/n: sorry it took so long to update! Florida, deleted copies… -_- I've had a not fun time getting up the chapter! ^_^;;; by the way, I looked back on this story and discovered that I have a lot left! So I hope you all stick with me because everything from this point on is all action!

            "Keiko, what were you thinking, jumping out of the shield?" Yusuke barely whispered.

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            Keiko lay on the ground, unconscious to everything around her except for Toguro tugging at her soul.

            'I can't die like this…' she told herself.

'not without saying goodbye to him…'

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            "Baka girl, what does she think she'll benefit by running out of the shield?" Hiei asked, fairly annoyed. (baka= idiot)

            "It doesn't matter! We gotta save her!" Kuwabara yelled.

            "Chill Kuwabara." Kuwabara." Koenma said calmly while he 'popped' away. (well! How else would you describe it?)

            Then 'popped' up next to Keiko and picked her up gently. Than he 'popped' over to Puu and the girls and left her there and 'popped' back to the guys.

            "Well, this is an unlikely turn of events, errr… Koenma has gotten the girl who jumped out of the force field and fainted and took her back to the small cheering session for team Urameshi, and than reappeared by it's members. While Yusuke us still laying on the ground and Toguro is just well, standing there! What kinds of horrible ideas are running through his head right now? We can only pray we get to see it!" Koto yelled over the loud speaker.

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            'Thank god! She's okay.' Yusuke thought as he stumbled to stand up (no, thank Koenma!)

'Now it's time to get serious, the warm up's over.'

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            "Keiko! Keiko! Speak to me Honey!"

            "Bo-tan?" she questioned. (I realized that there has been about, one piece of Koenma and Botan fluff in this whole story… I'm really sorry! I'll try to add more!)

            "Oh thank God!" Botan yelled as she let out a sigh of relief. (no thank Koenma! Grr… how annoying.)

            "Please Keiko, don't do that again!" Yukina pleaded.

            "But I couldn't just stay here and watch! He was in pain!"

            "Oh, Keiko! For someone so smart, you're being very stupid! You would have been DEAD by the time you reached him!: Botan cried.

            "Meow!" Everyone looked down to see a gray and white cat by Keiko's feet.

            "…I believe he's agreeing with you Botan." Yukina said astonished.

            "Or he's mocking you." Shizuru shrugged.

            "Aawww! He's so cute!" Keiko petted him.

            "Never mind the cat! Yusuke just unleashed a huge among of energy!"

            ~*~*~

            "Why do you think Urameshi kept those spirit cuffs on?" Kuwabara wondered.

            "I don't know, but I don't have enough energy to 'pop' anymore, so you better make sure that she doesn't leave again." Koenma told Hiei.

            "Hn. What do you suppose I do?" Hiei snorted.

            "…"

            Hiei: -_- "why do I even bother? Oh well, here it goes." Hiei's hair spiked up more than usual and you could see a faint trace of glowing light behind the snow white bandanna.

            'Keiko.'

            Keiko's eyes averted from Yusuke's fight to an oblivion of a world. (ya know, when you're thinking and you aren't staring at anything.)

            'who is this?'

            'Hiei, why on earth did you leave the shield?'

            'What did you want me to do? Huh? Leave him there?'

            'do you realize that if you died, he would have died too?'

            '…what do you mean?'

            'despite my warnings to him that emotions only complicate things, you're he's reason to go on, I've seen him in fights. Ones that seemed hopeless, and yet; he gets through it to see you again. Pathetic.'

            'I still don't understand.'

            'Idiotic human. I suppose it would be necessary to give you an example. Do you remember when you first saw Botan?'

            'Yes, she was on the roof with Yusuke.'

            'She was on the roof, warning him about me.'

            '…I still don't get it. What does that have to do with anything?'

            'Do you recall later that day, when you were walking home?'

            'Somewhat, it's all blurred.'

            'Tell me what you remember.'

            'I was walking home by myself, thinking about what a jerk Yusuke was, and then I heard someone say something and then I remember being in my bed at home.'

            'I was the one who talked to you. I said 'don't worry, he likes you well enough.'  After that, I cut you with the shadow sword. The shadow sword turns humans into demons, you would have been my slave if Yusuke didn't come along to save you like I hoped he would.'

            'YOU KIDNAPPED ME?'

            '-_- yes, now shut up so I can finish my story. There were two other items that I wanted. With all three of the items in my control, your world would have been under my control. Yusuke was in charge of them both at the time, so I offered a swap, you for the other items. And he took it.'

            '…'

            'To make a long story short, you were still going to turn into a demon. So he was trying to get me to turn you back and get the three items. I had him, he was about to die; that was until the foolish onna Botan told him that you had about no time left.' (onna = woman)

            'Why don't I remember any of this?'

            'You were knock out. The sword had its toll on you. I don't understand it. One minute, he's practically  dead, the next, he has all this energy just by hearing you're in trouble.'

            'I never knew he would do all that for me.'

            'That's not all, before that When I was researching him to get all of the items, you foolishly went in the fire to save his body; he sent his spirit best egg into the fire to save you.'

            'Spirit best egg?'

            'Puu in an egg. He was supposed to hatch and bring Yusuke back to life, but when he put it in the fire, all of his chances of life were gone. All to save you.'

            'wow.'

            'That's not all. When the infected humans were chasing after you, he died for you. Sent his life energy to you to save you. Then used the rest to defeat the mad man so he wouldn't harm you if he energy he sent didn't last long. I wasn't supposed to, but I ease dropped on him with my Jagan, and his last words were, 'for you Keiko, I'm sorry I wasn't there to…' fortunately, the big kitten obsessed fool saved him.'

            'Yusuke… Thank you Hiei, for telling me this.'

            'Hn, in case you still don't get it, don't leave the force field.'  And that was the end of the conversation between Hiei and Keiko.

After her talk with Hiei, Keiko that of all the times she and Yusuke had spent together. (I love the flash backs that Keiko has of her and Yusuke's child hood, so try thinking of that right now. -_- I can't remember everything they say…)

'Let's get through this, together.' She thought as a stream of tears flowed down her face.

            ~*~*~

            "Well. This is most disappointing. I thought that the receiver of the spirit wave would be more powerful that this."

            "SHUT UP! You know I haven't unleashed it all yet!"

            "That may be true, but I doubt it would make that much of a difference. Perhaps you need some encouragement, a little push."

            "What are you talking about?"

            "Sayko, is everything ready?"

            Sayko chuckled.

            "Yes, everything is as requested."

            "Perfect, do it."

            "Very well," Sayko reached into his pocket and took out a walkie-talkie and spoke into it.

"Proceed."

A/N omg! WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? ^_^ I know! And maybe a few select smart people have figured it out already. Oh! And to one reviewer who asked about what was fan fiction and what is really in the story, T_T I'm so sorry I haven't e-mailed you yet! I swear I'll get to it!! By the way, has anyone seen a picture of the guy who does the voice of Sayko? HE'S SO HOT! And with that voice, OMG!  He's name is Eric Vale. Go on the internet and find him!