Tamashii no RUFURAN; Soul's Refrain "To Quick To Heal"
Blu huddled close to Shinta as the two stood very near to Kurama. The redhead looked down at the two shivering pups and kneeled to soothe them.
Yuusuke nodded to Yukina, after promising to give them a call once they reached the hospital. The Koorime patted one of Lii's bloody hands as she was hooked up to machines with an oxygen mask over her mouth. Once the doors had closed; the ambulance hurried off. Yuusuke looked back at the mess where the demon was and scratch his head.
I wonder how Koemna is going to pull this one off? He thought. Whimpering caught his attention and turned to look back at the two pups. Walking over there, he notices that both pups were trying hard not to cry, as they were clad in their human forms.
Yuusuke watched Kurama trying to soothe them and sighed. "Come on," He said. "We can go back to my place." Kurama nodded and scoop both kits up.
Hiei turn away from the demons corpse and watch Kurama and Yuusuke pile into his truck. He gave one last look at the demon and walked towards the Spirit Detective truck.
The ride home was a deathly silent only to be interrupting by sniffing and whimpering. Yuusuke bit his bottom lip, trying to figure out how to start a conversation since the silent was really getting to him. A soft humming began, slow and sorrow. He looked in the mirror to see it was Blu and he heard Shinta join the humming. Hiei, who was sitting next them, seemed to get himself comfortable while looking out the window.
Shinta opened his mouth slightly, and sang softly. "Please come back to me, following memories to the source of gentleness and dreams, in order to be born, and shine to the stars once again...."
Both pups sang the next verse together. "Soul's Refrain."
Blu leaned her head on her nephew's shoulders, singing the next verse. "Your naked skin wrapped in blue shadows trembles quietly in this moment. Your fingertip searches for me, as if asking for the whereabouts of life."
The ambulance raced towards the nearest hospital, its sirens wailing loudly; warning others to get out of its way. Yukina sat next to Lii's body, holding her hand, watching the kit with sorrow eyes.
"The you that was embrace by fate blooms in season like an ephemeral flower. Leaving behind the scent of hope on your chest scattering hurriedly in splendid form.
"Please come back to me, before you are born to the earth you spent your days on. Please come back into my arms, to meet again. Miracles do happen, however many times.
"Soul's Refrain."
The nurses and doctors hurried Lii's body to the ER room for immediate attention. Yukina followed after, seeing more blood flow from the open wounds. She stood behind the glass as the wheeled the girl's body into a room. She covered her mouth as the heartbeat monitor went flat.
The sound to clacking as tear gems hit the tiled floor.
"When eyes are closed as if in prayer the world simply disappears there into the darkness. Even so, my heartbeat starts again looking for a bounded eternity.
"Please come back to me, following memories to the source of gentleness and dreams. You, too, please come back, so we can love each other. Heart and body.
"Soul's Refrain"
Yukina was sitting against the wall on the floor, crying but making sure the hiruisekis dropped on her dress. She heard footsteps stopped next to her and lifted her head to see the doctor that was with Lii's body smiling. She blinked in confusion and then smiled hearing him say the girl was going to be all right and that they had already put her one of the hospital rooms.
Yukina wiped the tears from her eyes and let the doctor lead her to Lii's room. There she saw the girl's skin clean from the blood and dressed in a white flannel long shirt and pants. She lay in the bed, sleeping soundly as she was still hooked up to machines. Yukina sat next to the bed and watched her for sometime.
"Please come back to me, before you are born to the earth you spent your days on. Please come back into my arms to meet again. Miracles do happen, however many times.
"Soul's Refrain."
The young voices died out. Kurama turned his head as he sat in the front to see the two pups passed out. He smiled and looked at Yuusuke, who smiled as well. Hiei had slowly reached over and stroke Shinta's auburn hair and Blu's ash-grey hair.
Yuusuke cell phone decided to ring.
The two boys in the front jumped, startled. Kurama quickly grabbed the dark hair's boy phone from his pocket and answered it. "Moshi moshi?"
"-Kurama-san? It's Yukina. We arrived at Aoi Hospital.-" Kurama nodded and repeated to Yuusuke what Yukina said.
"Cool, we're not far from there," Said Yuusuke, grinning. He looked at Kurama. "Ask her how's Lii's doing." The redhead nodded, as if not about to ask the same thing.
"How's Lii?"
"-Oh! She's doing great! The doctors said that she probably go home in about a 3 weeks, but I took a look at her wounds and they seemed to be healing a bit faster then usual. So I probably say in about week.-" Kurama nodded.
"Okay, we'll be over there soon. Ja ne." He hung up the phone and gave out a sigh of relief. Yuusuke grinned, knowing that everything was going to be okay.
"I knew that pup was to stubborn to die." He said. Kurama smiled and looked back at the sleeping pups and chuckled to see small smiles on both of their faces.
Aoi Hospital
The group had gathered around Lii's sleeping body. Blu had one of her sister hand in her own as Shinta sat on her bed, looking at her with sorrowful violet eyes. Kurama reached over and stroked the soft black blue mane and gave a wistful smile as he leaned back.
"She will be alright?" Keiko asked as they group filed out. Yuusuke nodded, forcing a reassuring grin.
"Of course Keiko. This is Lii we are talking about after all?" Keiko nodded and clutched her chest, looking at the tiled floor, still looking unsure.
"I know but it just feels like there's something different about her as she laid in bed." She looked up at Yuusuke with worried eyes. The boy just put his arms around her and rubbed her shoulder.
"Nah, if there was something wrong with Lii; Kurama, Hiei or Kuwbara would have told us." Keiko nodded.
"Yes, your right."
Yuusuke smiled at her and looked up to see the back of Kurama's red hair.
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3 Days Later
Dr. Yamatawa opened the door to Lii's room to see the nurse that worked with him, already in there. He gave a friendly smile as he shut the door, locking it behind him, clipboard at hand. "So, how's our young patient, Milly?"
The brown hair nurse smiled. "Doing well, sir." Suddenly her voice dropped to a very low, frightful whisper. "Though, there something you should see." She said. The Doctor raised an eyebrow and leaned over as Milly pulled back the covers to reveal the gashes in Lii's arm had vanished. The Doctor almost dropped his clipboard.
"B-B-But that's impossible!!! Those wounds should have taken at least a month or so to heal!" He looked at the nurse with wide eyes. Milly nodded in agreement.
"And that's not all." Gently, Milly lifted up Lii's white flannel shirt to reveal the cuts and the long gash across her stomach had vanished as well. As if she never had any wounds to begin with and looking healthy as ever. The Doctor stumbled back; looking at the sleeping girls face with wide eyes, face pale.
"I-I-I..." He stood up straight and fixed his tie. "I need to make a call." He said and wobbly walked toward the door and unlocked it. He locked from the outside before he walked off; face still pale.
Milly looked at the closed locked door and back at Lii's body. "What are you??" She murmured and slowly reached out to pet Lii's bare smooth stomach.
The eyes flew opened.
Kurama's House
"Moshi moshi?" Kurama said as he picked up the ringing phone.
"-Uh, yes. Is this Minamino Shuuichi I'm talking too?-" The voice asked over the line. Kurama nodded.
"Hai?"
"-Ah, Minamino-san I would like to discuss something about your cousin, Lii?-" Kurama's heart froze. Hiei, who was passing by at the moment saw the foxs body tense up. He cocked an eyebrow.
"Wuh-What about her?" He asked slowly.
"-Your cousin wounds seemed to have.. uh... how do I put this... Vanish?-" Kurama breath hitched. It was too soon for Lii's body to heal. Sure she was a S-class demon, maybe way beyond that, but trapped in her human body, her youki had been cut down to at least between a B-class and A-class. And besides that, the wounds she had were very deep to the point it caused her to lose so much blood and cause her body into sleep mode.
"What do you mean?" Asked Kurama and looked at Hiei with wide eyes. Hiei eyebrow rose higher until it completely disappeared beneath his bandanna.
The doctor sighed on the other line. "-I mean, your cousins wounds seemed to have healed at a very fast pace, unormal for a human being. Especially with cuts like those...-" There was screaming in the background. Kurama clutched the phone, straining to hear the doctor asking somebody about the screaming.
"-Remember the patient you've just check on?-"
"-Yeah?-"
"-She's awake and just slaughtered Nurse Milly.-"
"-NANI!?-"
Kurama heart began to pound against his chest as he clenched the phone tightly, eyes wide with fear.
Slaughtered?
Lii?
She slaughtered a nurse?
She wouldn't do that! She wouldn't... it's.. it;s not like her to...
Slaughter???
Hiei immediately knew something was wrong but just studying the waves coming from Kurama's body.
"-How could she slaughtered a nurse?-"
"-I don't know sir. Maybe from the machinery inside the room. All I know is that there's blood splattered on the window an-" Kurama slammed down the phone hard onto the receiver and gasped for air, not realizing he had been holding it for sometime. He clutched his chest and looked at Hiei, fear clearly in his eyes. It startled Hiei.
"Fox?" He said. "Kurama?"
"Lii," The redhead gasped out. "Something's wrong with Lii." Hiei opened his mouth to ask a question, but Kurama squeezed his eyes shut as tears strolled down his cheek.
"SHE KILLED ONE OF THE NURSES! No.... SLAUGHTERED!!!"
Hiei eyes widen.