Hiei: Yeah it really sucked.
:cloud rains on kazima:
Hiei: .
Yusuke: Oh yeah to the girl that asked about Yukina and Kuwabaraness....uh that's a nice couple but.
Kazima: uh...I like kuwabaraxyusuke...:laughs uncomfortably:
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Yusuke sat stiffly as Kuwabara slept now peaceful. At one point he sat up and looked at them. Yusuke shuddered. Kuwabara's eyes were vacant, and the pupils seemed to had faded away. They were so pale...that medicine completely took Kuwabara away. He had motioned for water, and he was given it, before he flopped back down on the ground.
Hiei had gone, saying he didn't care about all that was going on, but the others were too smart for that. They knew he was outside in some tree and would return griping about how Kuwabara hadn't shown up yet. Kurama sat with Genkai, watching Shizuru. She seemed to have sunk into some fever, that couldn't be explained.
"I'm back." Koenma finally returned looking grim. Yusuke looked around. "Where's Boeton?" Koenma looked away. "Didn't she go with you?" Koenma nodded, "She's not coming...I have a video tape...for...You may not want to watch this." The others starred at him, and Yusuke rose, grabbing Koenma. "We are watching it. NOW! SO DON'T YOU DARE BE DOING THAT STUPID SHXT WHERE YOU TELL US NOT TO DO SOMETHING, WHEN IT'S OBVIOUS IT'S IMPORTANT! GIVE ME THAT DAXM TAPE!"
The tape was placed in Yusuke's palm.
He stormed over, Hiei suddenly seemed to materialize next to Kurama, he hadn't made a sound. Genkai was setting up a t.v. she had in her closet. She sighed, muttering about Yusuke's hot temper. When everything was all set up the video was put in, and the movie started.
A voice came on, the screen still black. "Kazuma Kuwabara, age 6. Shizuru Kuwabara age 13." The voice was gone, and the screen was covered with a picture of a man grabbing Kuwabara. He was younger, and looked different, but that hair couldn't be missed. His father took his cigar and burned his arm as he screamed, "WHERE WERE YOU!?"
"Ou-out playing with my friends sir!" He sobbed. The man's face became twisted and ugly, and then calmed, "You want to play?" The boy looked up at him terrified, "Lets go play then." Kuwabara began crying louder, and let himself grown limp as his father dragged him.
Small arms wrapped around the man's leg, "Please father." The girl was SHizuru and her hair was worn up. The man looked at someone behind her, and smiled, "Please dear..." A woman with copper colored hair came and grabbed Shizuru who began screaming as she was dragged away.
The man took the boy into a room, soon followed was the sound of wood on flesh.
Screams filled the air, and the screen darkened out.
More horrors were shone, and Genkai at one point turned away to tend to Shizuru. Koenma did not watch, and flinched at each scream, each sound of pain. He had watched this not long ago with Boeton. He briefly wondered if she was still throwing up. Kurama's face twisted in disgust. The angrier the face, the paler he grew. Hiei watched with unblinking wide eyes. His face was emotionless, but his eyes said it all. Hiei looked ready to kill.
Yusuke was far worse.
He had no emotion what so ever. He just sat there starring, tears streaming down his face. He didn't seem to notice or care. He watched as Kuwabara grew older, and closed his eyes, when Kuwabara's mother made scars on Kuwabara's face. Yusuke had often joked about Kuwabara's ugliness...
He would never do it again.
Then 11 year old Kuwabara appeared on the T.v. His eyes were dark, and calm, his lip bearing a scar from being busted earlier. He looked calm and cold, but his eyes were glazed over with tears. He walked into a kitchen and pulled a long knife out of a cupboard.
He turned holding the knife making no sound. He entered a room, where a girl lay, Shizuru. She was now 18, and obviously old enough to leave, but she wasn't going to. Not without her brother. He looked at her and raised the knife, "I can't let you suffer any more shizu-san. I love you."
Everyone in the room caught their breath, forgetting that Shizuru lay behind them.
Kuwabara stopped when he heard a cough from another room. The young boy looked down at his sister, "I thought of a better way..." a maddening look filled his eyes, "I'll save us...we'll be set free!" The boy was smiling at what ever had entered his head. He'd been pushed over the edge at last, and exited the room. Down the hall he walked, and entered a room where the woman and man, his "parents," slept in. He walked over to his father.
Without hesitation he stabbed him in the gut. The man's eyes flew open, and he cried out, waking his wife. She screamed, and Kuwabara slashed her across the chest, and then stabbed her in the waist as well. The blood on his hands, and the little flecks of blood splashed on his face stood out on his pale skin. They cried and moaned, and begged him to call for help. He picked up the phone, and held it over their heads.
"You want this?" They starred at him, knowing he would not give it to them. The man died first, and the woman sobbed, and not a moment later, she was gone too. Kuwabara stood over them, and raised the knife again. He was going to kill himself. He starred at the corpses on the floor, and broke down in tears.
"I wonder...I wonder Father...what did it feel like to be stabbed?" Kuwabara closed his eyes crying louder, the knife held above him. He pressed the blade to his throat, closing his eyes. Yusuke leaned closer, whispering, "No don't do it...don't do it!" He'd forgotten Kuwabara was behind him. All he saw now, was the small crying boy, preparing himself for death.
Kuwabara was stopped before he could slit his own throat. Arms wrapped around him, and the sound of crying filled the air. "No Kuwabara...no! Please don't leave me." Kuwabara went white whispering, "I killed..." Shizuru ripped off a piece of her night shirt, and took the knife. Holding the knife with the cloth she whispered, "They won't take you...they won't take you."She slashed her self across her arm, and side.
Kuwabara's eyes starred in horror. "I'll do anything to make sure you stay with me." She held the knife over him, "This will hurt." She slashed him twice on one arm, and across the chest. Then placed the knife in her father's hand, pressing his fingers to it. She picked it up again, still using the cloth, and pressed it against her mother's fingers. Smearing her blood, and her brother's blood, she left it on the floor.
"You must start crying." She had tears in her eyes, and he looked at her. "Now! Start crying!" She slapped him, tears welled in his eyes. "You have to cry or the cops will never believe we were scared when this happened!" She sobbed slapping him again. Kuwabara finally started crying, and she picked him up. She held him close, his arms wrapped securely around her neck. Picking up the phone and dialing a number she whispered, "Help me...pl-please. Please help us!" She sobbed loudly, and muttered yes' all the while nodding her head.
When she hung up she sunk to the ground dropping the blood covered phone, and held Kuwabara rocking him. She held him, starring off as a tiny pool of blood formed under them. She didn't get up to answer the door, or when the police showed up, or even when they broke the door down.
The scene ended as a officer came over to them followed by a medic. The voice from before came back on, "Shizuru and Kuwabara having no family, resided together, Shizuru gaining custody after three months of therapy. A year later the case was dismissed as accidental murder by defense."
The group starred at the blank screen, Genkai rubbing her eyes, "What baXtards." Hiei's face was twisted up. Surprised by his own rage he punched his hand into the floor, it smashing through. Kurama was shaking, and clutched at his heart. Yusuke stood up, and screaming with rage slammed his fist through the t.v. He collapsed on all fours pulling out a bloody hand. "DamX. DamX...DAMX!!" He roared choking on tears.
"DAMXIT KOENMA!" He turned his anger on the prince of spirit world. Koenma looked back at him. "DIDN'T YOU SEE THIS? DIDN'T YOU KNOW THIS HAPPENED?!" Yusuke grabbed him when Koenma stayed silent. "ANSWER ME! DAMX YOU, ANSWER!" Koenma looked at him, and in a quite and stern voice whispered, "I see cases like this ever hour a day. I've seen thousands...millions." The others starred at Koenma eyes locked on the teen. He looked at them, "Everyday I see this type of thing. Everyday."
Yusuke released him, starring at the man before him in pity and horror. "In fact, I can guarantee this is not my first time to see this...before I met you I probably saw this." Kurama suddenly cried out, "Then why don't you stop it!?" Koenma looked at him lazily, "I am not allowed to fool around in the live of others, that is what free will is about." Hiei glared at Koenma, "SOME DON'T DESERVE FREE WILL!" He spoke with such passion, the air around him quivered.
Hiei gave a bitter laugh, "Here I thought Kuwabara and I had nothing in common..." He muttered to himself. No one heard him, which was what he intended. He did not care to share his dark secrets of his life as a child living as a thief, and young hit-man.
Those awake were alerted to a quick intake of breath, and turned to see Kuwabara. He must have woken during the video, for his eyes stayed locked on the now broken screen. "Kuwabara!" Yusuke stood up, but did not go to him, afraid of the wild look in Kuwabara's eyes. Kuwabara's chest was rising up and down too quickly as he sat there. The whites of his eyes blending in with the color of his skin. He glanced around saw his sister, and the purse with some of his medicine bottle just poking out.
"No..."
"Kuwabara everyth-"
Kuwabara shook his head, "No...you weren't supposed to know...you weren't...I wasn't-!!" Kurama shushed him gently, "It's okay Kuwabara it's all okay...you did nothing wrong." Yusuke nodded eagerly, "Yeah!" Kuwabara flinched at the sound of Yusuke's voice. "Kuwabara? Kuwabara?...Hey! DXMMIT LOOK AT ME!" Yusuke stormed over to him, "Don't you dare feel ashamed!" Yusuke grabbed his best friend with a fearsome ferocity. "Don't you dare start blaming yourself, or...or..." Hot angry tears welled in Yusuke's eyes as he watched Kuwabara shudder, and shake his head not wanting to believe someone found out his secret.
"Don't you do it Kuwabara...Kuwabara...Please..." Yusuke tried to pull his friend in a hug, or at least out of the corner Kuwabara had forced himself into, but with a sudden strength Kuwabara had pushed himself up, and Yusuke off him. His medicine still in affect, making him tired, dizzy, and confused, caused him to stumble, and he knocked over things. Genkai tried to steady him, the others rising to help the aged woman and Yusuke calm Kuwabara down.
Feeling blind, Kuwabara found the door, and rushed through it. He was in the back, near the forest he'd been through one day, and he looked out at it, and ran. He heard his friends screaming, and his heart beat knowing if he did not get into the woods, Hiei could easily pop up next to him, and grab him. He fell, stumbling into the woods, and ran.
Vines.
Snakes.
Bushes.
Thorns.
Demons.
Spirits.
Trees.
All this he met as he ran. He finally collapsed at an old tree's roots, and lay there heart racing, breath ragged. He realized then that he was bleeding, cut, scratched, and only God knows what else. He lay on the forest carpet, and sobbed in misery. Something he had hidden so long, something he himself had tried to forget, was now out in the open among his friends.
He rubbed at his arms murmuring, "Your dirty Kuwabara, your dirty, dirty, dirty little boy..."
"No Kazuma, you're a good boy..." The voice of his councilor popped in his head.
As if in some psychotic rage, he answered the voice from his past back, "No...I'm a dirty, dirty boy...bad Kuwabara. Bad!" He desperately thought of his medicine he took everyday that made moments like this go away. The medicine that made him normal. That made everything go away. Make it all disappear.
He wanted to disappear.
To fade away....
Fade far, far away....
Kuwabara saw an opening in the roots, and feeling his strength give way, he crawled over to the tree, resting in the opening, falling quickly asleep. Closing his eyes he missed the screams his friends made in the night. The terror in their voices as they called for him over and over again. He did not hear the tears in his best friend's voice, or the deep concern in Kurama's cries, or the empathetic anger in Hiei's shouts.
He heard nothing.
Kuwabara slept through it all.
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the end....just kidding! I can't tell you a preview tho, cuz it's the last chapter. sorry!