A/N: This is the last chapter of the story. I have to say, I'm very surprised it went this far and followed this path, but I'm glad it did. I am very grateful to all of you who reviewed, it helped make this story what it is today. This will start in the POV of Yusuke.

Chapter Fourteen

Lone Wolf

I remember it as if it was yesterday, a month could have passed, but that made no difference. It was cold, and raining, the day of Kurama's funeral. We all stood in black; tears rimmed our faces. I looked down at Kurama's coffin, it had a reddish hue to it; he would have like it.

Throughout the ceremony, I didn't see Hiei; I thought he would have been the first one here. It was only till after his funeral did I finally see him. He was walking off into the rain. He seemed to want to be left alone, but I had to ask him something.

I ran after him. "Hiei, I talked to Koenma. He'll let you back into the Makai Realm, he thinks you deserve it-"

"Like I care," he snarled back.

"Calm down Hiei, his death means a lot, I know, but you can't just go and kill yourself over that. You still have a life to live, and he would want you to live it."

"I'm not going to commit suicide, if that's what you're thinking."

"You're leaving aren't you?" Kuwabara had asked from nowhere.

"I have no other reason to stay," Hiei said, turning his back on us, he began to walk away.

"Good bye, Hiei," Yukina said, solemnly, "Good bye, my brother..."

--------Change POV to Hiei--------

It's been a month since Kurama's funeral. I haven't felt the same since the day he died. I haven't done anything worth mentioning since then either. I haven't slain any demons, I haven't even begun my work back in the Underground either. I knew that I wouldn't be able to open the doors without remembering his face.

I didn't understand what I was feeling; what ever I did just brought his face back in my view. It was like seeing a single rose stand out from the crowd only to loose it in a heap of other flowers. It pained me to see his face.

He would still be here if it wasn't for the evil demon, Ryokha, he would still be alive if she never had walked this earth, but he isn't. I had come to terms with myself days ago, but it didn't lessen the pain.

It seemed I had walked for eons, only to find nothing in what I searched for. There wasn't any way to free myself from this pain. I didn't want to forget him, I just wanted him to join me, or for me to join him.

I was just wandering before I found what I was standing in front of, the doors to the Underworld, my imaginary child. I walked past those doors to see its entrails come before me. Something, probably a demon, came and destroyed it.

I turned my back on it. It was my past, something I couldn't so easily look upon. I left it behind me, to forget about it, and to leave it.

'My entire world had been destroyed when your last breath was drawn, and yet, your face, just seeing it, wouldn't allow me to join you. So I would travel on, just for you,' I thought to myself.

Another month passed and another until I couldn't hold on to life any longer, and that's when Yusuke found me, on the brink of my eternal damnation.

"Someone is looking for you," he said to me. He seemed dreamlike, and unreal.

"Who," I whispered.

"Follow me." He helped me up from that damnation I had willed upon myself and made me follow him to where ever he wished me to go. "Stay here," he soon said. "Your friend will be here soon." Yusuke then disappeared into mist, leaving me.

I waited for hours for this 'friend' of mine. I soon found that 'Yusuke' was a dream I had willed upon myself, a hallucination. I was trying to save myself; by hoping something would happen in this place.

I looked around. I had lead myself into a small grove. One carrying flowers, but only two caught my eye. A red rose; tall and exuberant, and a white rose; smaller than the first, but just as beautiful.

"What is this?" I said out loud.

"Our new home," a soft voice from behind me said. I quickly turned to see what had spoken to me. It was what I had been searching for.

"Yoko Kurama," I whispered, smiling for the first time since I was left truly alone.