"Anything, Kuwaba?" Yusuke said.
Kuwabara rubbed his temple. "It isn't that easy, you know." he said and frowned. "But, it's funny I can't sense him at all."
Yusuke looked up at his friend. They had been searching for half the morning already with no sign of the Jaganshii. The look on the red head's face as he sat there wasn't like usual. In other words, "die, Hiei" wasn't written all over it. He looked...worried and that got Yusuke himself very, very concerned.
He never did get the answer out of Kurama.
What had Hiei and Kurama been doing last night and what was that surge of youki?
And this morning, Kurama's eyes had...
"Hey...I think I got something..." Kuwabara said.
Yusuke held back a jibe. He didn't have much choice. The giant there had taken off, running across the street, ignoring the horns blaring. "Hey! Wait! Kuwabara!" Yusuke called out and took off after him.
It was a long chase.
Yusuke dodged pedestrians and cars, crossed whole neighborhood blocks. When Kuwabara had taken off he had expected that Hiei would be...well within a mile at least. Maybe the whole sixth sense thing wasn't as refined as he thought. "Stupid....sixth....sense...." Yusuke breathed as he persued Kuwabara into a park.
There, Kuwabara came to a jolting stop, like he had come against a wall. He stood there, arms hung at his sides and his gaze turned upward and into a tree.
Yusuke came breathing hard next to his friend. For a moment he just held the tops of his knees and let sweet air flow into his lungs. It was Kuwabara's voice that brought him out of his rest, "Uremeshi?" Kuwabara said and his voice was strangely soft.
"Wh..what?" Yusuke said and straightened and looked at his friend. Sweat was falling into Kuwabara's eyes, but he didn't moved to wipe it away. In fact, his face seemed surprised, like whatever he sensed in that tree was wrong, completely wrong.
"He's up there..." Kuwabara paused. "It's Hiei...." He turned to Yusuke and his face suddenly tightened. "What the hell happened while I was sleeping, Uremeshi?"
Yusuke kept his face blank. "That's what I'd like to find out." he said and turning to the tree, he gazed up into the shadows held there between the leaves and the sunlight and then he began to climb.
...to be continued...