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Warning: violence, language, shounen ai, OCC:ness

Little Myy: Here is the next chapter. Enjoy. I was supposed to update sooner, but well. I have a life too, you know. And school –sigh-

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Chapter 3: What's happening?

About half an hour ago Hiei and Kurama had arrived to Yusuke's place. Kuwabara and Yukina hadn't been there yet. Instead of them there had been Koenma and Botan. It had been even worse than the fox had thought. ::Why did they have to tell everyone about this.:: Kurama really didn't want the whole world to know about his problems. The green eyed beauty liked to keep his own business to himself. And beside that, it was him who always worried about the others. Not the other way round. He really hated this.

The atmosphere had been awful. Nobody talked. For once even Botan was quiet. Keiko had been so nervous she had gone to cook. She hadn't done anything complicated so it had been soon ready and they had eaten in silence. Kurama would have skipped the meal, but Hiei wouldn't allow it.

Just before Yukina and Kuwabara had gotten there, the redhead had had another 'attack', as he called them. He had cut himself with another knife, that had been on his jackets pocket (and which Hiei didn't take this time). The two missing persons had arrived. Yukina had healed his wound and other cut marks. He really didn't want that to happen either. The whole situation was absolutely horrible. Kurama had felted really uncomfortable so he had gone to the bathroom.

Now he was leaning against the wall near the kitchen door. He didn't have much of his youki so nobody knew he was listening.

It was Kuwabara who broke the silence. "So, why are we here? I heard it has something to do with Kurama." Nobody spoke. "Well, what's wrong with him? He looked alright to me except the bleeding arm. But Yukina healed it didn't she."

"Kazuma-san, he had seventeen other cuts", Yukina said shyly. Everyone looked at her like they didn't believe their ears.

"Okay... that's weird... Who did them to him?" the orange haired man continued after a while. Nobody else could say anything among their shocks or didn't want to.

"Kurama", Hiei's deep voice answered to the slow minded human.

"What did you say?" Kuwabara man asked.

"I said. It was Kurama himself", the koorime said extremely slowly.

Yet again there came silence.

"Well, it isn't so bad isn't it? I mean if he can snap out of the hallucinations with cuts", Botan said trying to sound hopeful.

Hiei shot the blue haired girl a murderous look.

"What hallucinations?" The only one, who didn't know the situation, was Kuwabara. The fire demon had talked to Yukina on the phone, of course.

Kuwabara was ignored.

"Botan-san, what I have heard about these things I think if we won't do anything he can't wake up of them at all", Yukina said sadly looking the teacup before her.

"Hey! Will someone listen to me? What the hell is this thing about some hallucinations?" the carrot top almost shouted.

"Kazuma-san, please low your voice. There is a baby", his wife said to him with calming voice.

"Sorry, but what is this whole thing? I don't know anything."

"Well, you see," Koenma spoke. "Kurama is seeing some kind of hallucinations and...I don't exactly know the details"

"What kind of hallucinations?"

"You don't want to know."

Everyone turned to look Kurama, who was standing at the door.

Kuwabara cleared his throat. "Well, I do."

"Believe me, you don't", the redhead said dead seriously.

"They can't be that bad."

The fox was quiet for a moment. Then he spoke again "Okay, I'll tell you." He was fed up of this all worrying about him and the damn hallucinations. It would be the same to give some examples to the curious ignorance. "Picture all your fears coming true, all your loved people dying, saying and doing things you fear them to say or do the most."

It was quiet.

"I can help you with it", Kurama continued dangerously. "Imagine that you are home alone watching television, when Yusuke comes to the room. He needs help, but you can't even touch him. Blood runs from his eyes and ears. His skin and flesh is melting slowly. And just when you're prepared to see his bones, it stops. He comes closer to you begging for help. But you can do nothing. You don't know if you're more disgusted of the sight or yourself being sickened of it..." he kept a long brake. "Or perhaps you are reading in peace, when..."

"Kurama."

"...you hear screaming from another room. You know the screamer. It's Yukina..."

"Kurama!"

"...You burst into the room and see her burning slowly screaming in agony. And yet again you can do absolutely nothing to help. You just watch helpless. When you close your eyes it doesn't go away. You're still watching it. Even covering your ears doesn't..."

"KURAMA!"

It made the redhead stop. All this time he had been staring into emptiness, not realizing what was happening around him. He had even moved closer to Kuwabara. In fact right in front of him, mere feet away. He looked at the others one by one. Their expressions were the same. They all looked at him in shock not sure what to think. Yukina's eyes were watery and looked like she could cry any minute. It had been Hiei, who had called him.

Kurama closed his eyes sighing heavily. He sure was losing his cool. Well, he was losing everything. The fox moved back to lean against the wall.

"I'm sorry. I really didn't mean it. I kind of got carried away", he smiled apologising.

After five painfully quiet minutes Koenma spoke.

"When did these things start?"

"I don't know the exactly date, but not quite a month ago, I think."

Kurama eyes were still closed so he didn't see the look on the toddler's face, but it must have been something quite revealing, because of Yusuke's next statement.

"You know something!"

::Oh no!:: "It has absolutely nothing to do with this", the tall beauty said sharply. He knew exactly, what the little kid was thinking.

"How do you know?" Yusuke questioned. "And what is it?"

"It's nothing!"

"I think it is", Koenma said. Kurama shot him an angry look, but the young prince continued. His words directed to Kurama. "And they deserve to know."

"It has nothing to do with this or them. I killed it."

"Okay. This is enough. Now you tell what are you talking about or we don't get anywhere", Keiko spoke first time in hours.

Koenma and Kurama seemed to have some kind of staring competition, but at last the fox turned his head away.

"Well, not much to tell. There came this demon into the Human world four weeks ago."

"What?!" Kuwabara and Yusuke shouted at the same time.

"Why wasn't we informed", Hiei asked coolly.

"Well, that time Keiko was in the hospital so Yusuke was there and Kuwabara was on his honeymoon in Bali. You were doing some important work for Mukuro, so I asked Kurama to do the job and well, he killed the demon."

"And this has to do with the situation..." Yusuke left the question hanging in the air for someone else to finnish.

"Absolutely nothing", Kurama murmured, knowing that no one would pay attention to what he had said.

"In fact it may have many things to do with your condition. It seemed that the demon was some kind of mentalist."

"I killed him. We probably never get to know", Kurama said ironically.

"Snap out of it Kurama! We are here to help you!" Yusuke shouted at the yoko. The green eyed man sure wasn't like himself and it annoyed the ex detective. But the kitsune just looked the other way not caring.

"I like to have my problems solved by myself."

"What if you can't solve this alone? Isn't it you who always helps us if we need it? Why can't we for once help you?"

"Is there a way to help me?" Kurama asked. No answer was heard. "As I thought." He sighed and turned to leave.

"Where are you going?" Botan asked, not very loud. She had found her voice again.

"For a walk."

Soon after that they heard the door slam.

Hiei stood up. "We'll be back." With that he was also gone.

"Great. Our help isn't even wanted", Yusuke muttered.

"I think Kurama-san really wants to get things back to normal, but he just doesn't want to bother us." Yukina said.

"Yeah I know", the dark haired man smiled. "He just pisses me off. And Hiei looks like he doesn't even care."

"But he did call us didn't he", the Ice Maiden spoke again.

"True, but what can we do? I mean, what do we even know about this? Kurama has some hallucination yeah. But how can we help him, if we don't know what's causing it?" Keiko said quietly.

"It might help if we could get some details about the youkai and it sounded like the hallucinations had some connection to Kurama's fears. I can't be sure though," Yusuke tried to convince the others that there was a chance to help the redhead.

"I think I have the demon's files somewhere and the ogres are searching the library for information about hallucinations", Koenma said hopefully.

"I could go there", Botan suggested. "Maybe they have found something useful. It won't take long when I go with my oar. It seems like we don't have any time to lose."

"For once you have a great idea!" Yusuke teased.

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean? You're so cruel!" the ferry girl cried.

Everybody laughed. It wasn't good to be so tight. After all it made everything look so much worse than what it was. Right?

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Translations:

Koorime = Ice Maiden/ Ice demon

Youki = demon's spirit energy

youkai = demon

yoko = fox demon

kitsune= fox

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Little Myy: So that's that. Review and I'll update. The next chapter is almost ready. Really! I'm not kidding.

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