Yes! I have finally updated! I am so sorry I took so long, but I couldn't think of what to write. I then wrote it, scrapped most of it, and couldn't bring myself to just write it... finally now I did. Again, I'm sorry I haven't updated in one year. My life has been... strange. To appease, I would like to point out something funny. I was just in Little Shop of Horrors, which features a man-eating plant. There was a person named Seymour. I was thinking, gee, who else do we know that can make a man-eating plant? Kurama of course! It just reminded me of him. Right... now you're probably mad at my pointless babbling. So, onwards! Thanks to my reviewers:

Woodsmaster

Sugar HighYusukeholic (special thanks for niisan/niichan -)

Madame Arrow Foxfire

Senko S Jaganshi

Rogue

Two blondes plus a lightbulb (love the name. but see, he was trying to save her life, not his, and he would do anything to save her. I agree with you that if he was held at gunpoint he wouldn't tell her but if she was held at gunpoint and for some odd reason he couldn't just blur and save her, he couldn't blurt it out fast enough)

Candy for everyone! Yay!

Last minute notes:

I still can't do italics, or dot dot dot. Any information on how to would be greatly appreciated. Any weird periods (but. are you sure? I didn't think.) should probably be dot dot dot.

flash backs are in parenthesis. "Words" are speech, and 'words' are thoughts. Word is scene change. -word- is italics. And... rolling!

"Hiei! Yukina!"

The twins looked up and squinted against the sun to see the ferry girl race towards them.

"Hello, Botan-chan," greeted Yukina. She and Hiei were sitting on the edge of a slightly raised and protruding rock, dangling their bare feet into the cool lake. They had spent the past week and a half there and similar places catching up on missed time.

"Having fun?" The blue-haired girl grinned.

"Hai!" Yukina exclaimed, and Hiei smiled at his sister's happiness.

"Listen, you two. I'm here for a reason. I need to know your decision: life or death?"

At Genkai's Temple

Kurama sat on the cushy couch, deep in thought. Hiei and Yukina's bodies lay on two futons in the next room of the temple. Hiei's was fully restored if—no, -when-, Kurama corrected himself—he came back. He -was- coming back. They were -both- coming back. They had to... Fresh tears rolled from his forest green eyes, and he reached up a slender hand to brush them away.

Yukina's death had been horrible enough, but that he couldn't have stopped. Hiei's... he should have been able to prevent it, should have been able to realize... All the signs had been there...

He had been so childish... clingy, almost, right after she died. He needed someone else to tell him what to do. The sight of Hiei laying on the futon, surrounded by perfect, ebony tear gems... it had nearly broken his heart.

("Hiei, you need to leave. Do you want to go home with me?"

"I can't leave."

"Why not?"

"Because. When Yukina comes back I want to be here for her")

Not wanting to leave her side... He had finally convinced him to leave by saying Yukina wanted him to stay. But the teargems – he hadn't known what to do about the obsidian spheres that kept dropping. It had actually been Hiei himself that had provided him with the answer, after Kurama had wiped the tear tracks away.

("Do you want me to stop crying?")

He had never thought that he would ask him about crying. Then, later, he was so depressed. He thought now that it would have been better if he had stayed childish.

("Hiei, even if you were there, there was nothing you could have done."

"I should have been there anyway! There must have been something! I was supposed to protect her, and I let her die...")

When Yukina chose to stay dead, that was the end of everything. Hiei simply gave up, even more so than before.

("She's dead! Dead for good and it's my fault!"

"Hiei-"

"Don't even -try- and say anything. You -know- it's true! If I had just told her--!"

Then... the actual suicide.

A ping on the edge of his consciousness alerted him to another's presence, and he turn to find Botan standing in the middle of the room. He unconsciously stood.

"They've decided, Kurama."

Kurama got a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. She didn't seem happy. Then again, she could be playing a trick on him. She was the type to do that.

"What did they decide? They chose to come back, right?"

"Anou... Kurama, they wanted to stay dead."

"What?! Why?!" His heart pounded, exploded, he couldn't think straight. His knees buckled, and he sank to the couch, burying his head in his hands, kneading his once again wet eyes. "Why.... Why would they choose that?"

"They said—they said that so much ill fortune had come to them in life, that they were worried what might happen were they to come back. They wanted to let you all know that was nothing you had done, and that they loved the time they spent with you and really valued your friendship. They want to be buried here in Nigenkai. They said that they had had much better experiences here than their home world. They also want you to pick the spot."

"Me? Why me?" Kurama was bewildered. It was too much information at once, and he decided to focus on that one, completely puzzling fact.

"They felt you the best one. I don't know why. Will you?"

"Of course..."

"I have to tell the others. Goodbye, Kurama. And... I'm sorry."

Two Weeks Later

The funeral had been prepared with surprising speed, probably because the only people attending were the close friends: Kurama, Yuusuke, Kuwabara, Botan, Keiko, Shizuru, Koenma and Genkai. As they approached the closed, polished wood caskets at the front of the church and said their final goodbyes, two spirits that had been given special permission to be there were perched on the rafters above.

"Hiei-oniisan, do you think we made the right decision?"

"Hai, Yukina-neechan. To us, it won't be long until we see them again. And now we have all of eternity to search for okaasan and otousan."

"Finally a family," Yukina murmured, then pointed and exclaimed "Look! They're moving the caskets!"

They followed their bodies to the graveyard, and watched their coffins being lowered into a spot near the temple, where a small pond lay, sparkling in the sunset, and birds chattered all around. The tombstone had a statue of a small boy angel and girl angel, made in the likeness of Hiei and Yukina, playing together in the snow, birds and foxes surrounding them. The inscription read "Two dearly loved twins lie here. Their hearts and souls are forever intertwined. May they find happiness wherever they are, and may they always know they will be missed. Goodbye, Hiei and Yukina." There was nothing else on the tombstone.

At the end of the service, when everyone was leaving, one red-headed Youko looked up and murmured to the departing day:

"Goodbye, you two. I'll see you again some day."

Wai! It's finally done! Once again, please, please, please, PLEASE, I'm BEGGING you, SOMEONE tell me how to do bold, italics and underline. Despite the fact that in the preview some showed up, some is now. Also, please tell me how to make something two, or even all three things at once. I really need it, as I am starting another fanfic (it is being planned out ahead of time, to avoid this updating fiasco).

Japanese Translations:

Anou means um

Nigenkai means the human world

Oniisan means brother (in this case, a suffix, no o)

Oneesan means sister (same as above. It can have an o if it's a suffix)

Okaasan means mother

Otousan means father

Youko is the type of demon Kurama is