Why?

This chapter is gonna make all you Yusuke fans hate me, ok? But I thought it would make a nice ending overall. Please forgive me for my mis spellings in this and last chapter. (I don't have a spell check in this cheep ass computer )

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Yusuke tossed and turned on the couch. He was hot, sweaty and he couldn't sleep due to the summer heat. His fore head and body was sweaty and his bangs stuck to his head. He looked to Hiei who was sleeping soundly and didn't seem to have any trouble with heat. The little Youkai slept in the couch next to Yusuke, it seemed like he hadn't moved the entire night. He had however sneezed once and Yusuke couldn't help but go "aw". Yusuke got up and quietly went out the front door to cool off. The cool wind against Yusuke's face was refreshing. He sat there for a few minutes and walked back into his apartment to see Hiei sitting up in the couch looking at Hiei. Something about the way Hiei looked at Yusuke couldn't help but make him laugh.

"What's so funny?" Hiei asked, arching a brow.

"I could't help it. The way you looked at me made me laugh." Yusuke snickered.

Yusuke wiped his sweaty forehead and walked to his couch. Hiei watched Yusuke sit down and yawn.

"Yusuke." Hiei said.

"Yea?" Yusuke yawned.

Hiei stared at Yusuke for a few moments and then shook his head.

"Nothing. Nevermind." Hiei said.

"I'm going to the bathhouse later today. You wanna come?" Yusuke asked, suddenly feeling sleepy.

"Bathhouse?" Hiei asked.

"It's a place where you take a bath." Yusuke explained.

'Knowing him he probably just bathes at hot springs and stuff.' Yusuke thought to himself.

"……"

"Today's Monday so the chances of any other people being there are slim." Yusuke said reassuringly.

"……"

"Hey if you don't want to go just tell me." Yusuke said, laying on his couch.

"……"

Yusuke shrugged and tried to sleep. He kept looking at Hiei who's gaze seemed to be fixed on something. He sat up and looked to where Hiei was staring. There was a picture on Yusuke's wall. It was a picture of the Japanese Goddess of Fire, Fuji. Behind her was a white wolf howling to a full moon. The picture looked out of place, but it was never noticed in Yusuke's house.

"Oh, that? My mom got it as a present from a friend of hers. It's kinda new. We got it the day you and I started seeing each other." Yusuke said, looking at it a little deeper.

Yusuke had never noticed how the picture seemed to watch him. The Goddess's eyes were on him. They didn't blink, but they were always on him. Yusuke shivered and stood up, walking to the picture. He looked at it like it was new, like he had never had it before. He stopped right infront of it and extended his hand to touch it. His hand touched nothing but wall. He didn't touch a painting, but a solid wall. There was nothing there. Yusuke stared bewildered.

"What the hell? What is this?" Yusuke said aloud.

Hiei came and drew his sword, he sliced at the picture and cut it in half. A thick black fog came from out of the cut that Hiei had made. Hiei dodged it as it came and hit Yusuke directly in the chest. Yusuke flew back hitting the wall on the other side if the room. Hiei dodged the fog until it became evanescent. Hiei rushed to Yusuke's side to see what was wrong. Yusuke seemed fine, but there was a black shadow on his chest. He also seemed to be unconscious.

"Yusuke." Hiei said, shaking him gently. "Yusuke, wake up."

Yusuke's eyes opened and he rubbed the back of his head.

"Damn that hurt." Yusuke said. "What happened?"

"You got hit." Hiei said.

"By what? That fog?!" Yusuke said loudly.

Hiei nodded. Yusuke sat up and rubbed his chest.

"Shit, my chest hurts." Yusuke said standing up.

Hiei watched as Yusuke stumbled to get back to his couch. He layed down on it, back turned to Hiei. Hiei stared for a moment and walked to Yusuke.

"Yusuke?" Hiei asked softly, putting his hand on Yusuke's shoulder and shaking him gently.

"Get off me!" Yusuke yelled, shrugging Hiei's hand off.

Hiei gasped in surprise. He took a few steps back, staring at Yusuke, who's back was still turned. Hiei's face went from surprise to sudden anger. He turned on his heel and dissapeared. Yusuke ignored it and tried to sleep.

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Hiei jumped from treetop to treetop furiously. Held his fists in clenched tight in his pocket fearing that if he pulled them out, he would have the urge to kill. Was this their first argument? What was wrong with Yusuke? Why was he acting so…mean? It made no sense to Hiei, but it pissed him off nonetheless. But those thoughts brought him to more questions. What was that painting? Who had given it to Yusuke's mom? What kind of trap was inside it? Hiei hoped that nothing serious would happen to Yusuke. If something really bad happened, Hiei couldn't forgive himself. He stared at the moon which looked almost full, but, a small sliver of it was missing. He gave a small sigh and jumped away.

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Yusuke lay on his couch hardly breathing. He was sweating and was holding tight to his chest where he was hit. He curled into the fetal position in pain.

"Hi..ei.…I…I'm…sorr..y…" Yusuke managed to say.

'What the hell hit me? Why am I in so much pain? Argh. I'm sorry for yelling at you, Hiei. I don't know what came over me.' Yusuke thought to himself, curling up tighter as the pain grew stronger. The pain was growing unbearable to Yusuke. It was even worse then the spirit wave technique from Genkai. Yusuke suddenly let out a scream of pain unnoticed by anyone or anything around him. Yusuke now found it harder then ever to breath, he couldn't at all. He tried to let yell, scream or cry out to no avail. His eyes widened as a large surge of pain struck his chest and he passed out.

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The moon light shone brightly on the Minamino residence showing how beautiful Kurama's house really was at night. Hiei sat on level with one of the windows from a tree branch. He purposly made himself noticable to Kurama by increasing his spririt energy. Kurama opened his window and greeted Hiei inside, which he just sat in the window sill.

"Good evening, Hiei. What brings you here this late?" Kurama asked, smiling.

"Let's cut the small shit, I need to talk you." Hiei said, almost sounding hurried.

"About?" Kurama said, his expression getting serious.

"I was with Yusuke. And something attacked us." Hiei said, looking Kurama dead in the eye.

"What attacked you?" Kurama asked seriously.

"I wouldn't have called it something if I had known what it was, now would I?" Hiei said shortly. "Nonetheless it was a black fog and it hit Yusuke. He hasn't been himself scince. I think it should be something that you should check out scince I don't know what's wrong with him or what could have happened." Hiei said.

"I'll be right there." Kurama said walking away from his window.

Kurama and Hiei met at the door of Yusuke's apartment. Kurama unlocked Yusuke's door with great ease and opened it. Once he opened the door, the air became severly humid like something was about to catch on fire. Hiei's eyes widened and he rushed inside. Yusuke lay on the couch he was on that night, curled in the fetal position. Hiei brought his ear close to Yusuke's face to hear any breathing . Yusuke was breathing, but it was very shallow and it sounded like he was frail and weak. His eyes were closed and his forehead felt was like it was on fire. Kurama stood back and watched in disbeleif. It was the first time Kurama had ever seen Hiei looked that worried; even when Yukina was in danger. It seemed that Hiei found something that mattered as much to him as his sister. Or was Kurama's mind playing a very sophisticated trick on him? It had to be the humidity.

"Kurama! Quickly, tell me what's wrong with him! Will he die?" Hiei asked, his voice shaky.

"Calm down, Hiei." Kurama said, closing the door and walking to Yusuke.

He put his hand on Yusuke's forehead and leaned to his face as Hiei had done moments ago.

"Get me a cold, wet, towel. The first thing we must do is cool him off." Kurama said, unbuttoning Yusuke's shirt.

Hiei stared for a moment unsurely at Kurama and then went to go get a wet towel. Hiei searched through Yusuke's house unknowing where the towels were. After five minutes of searching, he finally found a towel. He moved swiftly to Yusuke's kitchen and soaked the towel in cold water. When he returned to the livingroom, Hiei jaw nearly dropped in disbelief. Yusuke lay on his couch in nothing but his boxers.

"What the hell did you do?!" Hiei said loudly, clenching his fist.

"I told you once before we needed to cool him off. Clothes keep heat." Kurama said, opening a window. "You might wanna see this." Kurama said, pointing to Yusuke's chest.

Hiei walked to Yusuke and Kurama. He handed Kurama the wet towel and looked at Yusuke's chest. Around Yusuke's neck was the silver raven's claw with the chain through the leg. It looked ok, but Hiei's tear gem was gone. Where the raven's claw would have been holding the gem was a large black mark on Yusuke's chest in the shape of Hiei's gem. Kurama stood up.

"I don't know entirely what's wrong with him. The black mark is something that I've never seen before so I'll go get Genkai to check further into it. I'll be back in a few." Kurama said walking out.

Hiei hadn't heard anything past "wrong". He was too busy staring at the large black mark on Yusuke's chest. The little fire demon reached out and touched the black mark, was soft and it seemed to hold a little of Hiei's spirit energy in it. The gem seemed to have merged with Yusuke. But what would be the outcome of this? It must have been the tear gem that caused Yusuke so much pain. Was the black mark on his chest was a result of the black fog hitting him? Or did the fog force Hiei's tear gem to merge? Or was the black fog in Yusuke and Hiei's tear gem shattered in the middle? Whatever it was it couldn't have been good. Just then, Kurama and Genkai walked in. Hiei looked at them almost like he was in a daze. Was Hiei loosing it? Kurama looked at Hiei with pity in his eyes. He could tell that Hiei was greatly stressed. Kurama had never seen anything like that from Hiei in their whole time of being aquaintances. Kurama stepped forward.

"Hiei, you need to rest." Kurama said.

"No." Hiei said, stationing himself in a corner.

Kurama simply nodded an undersandment and stood behind Genkai waiting an order. Genkai stared at Yusuke and put a hand over his chest. A small blue light appeared between her hand and Yusuke's chest. She stood there for a moment and waited until the blue light dissapated.

"I don't know what it is that attacked you and Yusuke, but apparently, it forced itself into him through your tear gem. So it's feeding off Yusuke's physical strength and the little amount of spirit energy you put in that gem, Hiei. It'll slowly kill Yusuke from the inside out…" Genkai said sadly.

"What do we do to get rid of it?!" Hiei said loudly.

"……Hiei I know how much Yusuke means to you and all…But there's nothing that can be done about it." Genkai said, sighing and turning away.

"Listen to me you old hag! I don't know what makes you think Yusuke is willing to die so easily, but I sure as hell won't let him." Hiei said, looking to Yusuke's unconscious body.

"Hiei, I know that. But there is no cure. In all the years I've been alive, there was never a cure. There can never be a cure. I'm sorry, Hiei." Genkai said, dissapearing behind the door.

"Hiei, what are you're actions now?" Kurama asked quietly.

"………"

"Be aware of you and Yusuke's position. Should something go wrong, don't forget that you have friends who can help." Kurama said walking to the door.

"Kurama." Hiei said, leaning against a nearby wall.

"Yes?" Kurama asked, turning to face Hiei.

"About everything in the past, you can forgive me, right?" Hiei asked quietly.

"Why do you ask? You say it like it's a final request."

"Just answer me. You can forgive me, right?"

"Hiei, I trust you aren't planning anything stupid when I say yes. I forgave you that day… Even though you and I aren't what we used to be, I still love you and I always will." Kurama said softly.

"But.."

"Don't ask about that Ningen girl. She and I weren't together. She, to me, was someone to redirect my hurt away. What you and I had was the most special years of my life. It pains me to see you with someone else, but I know it's what you truly want. This is where your heart truly lies and I respect your decisions." Kurama smiled faintly.

"Kurama… You know, you were the last person that Yusuke and I were gonna tell. We were afraid of your reaction that and that your smart ass atittude would make you be able to figure it out sooner. So we kept away from each other in public. That way we could be who we wanted to be in here, Yusuke's house." Hiei smiled and gave a small chuckle. "Now look; you're the first besides Genkai to figure it out and be told. Everyone else is clueless."

Kurama simply smiled. It hurt him deeply to talk to the one person who he loved the most about his boyfriend. The fire demon's eyes never glowed the way they did when he was around Kurama. Instead, Hiei's eyes did seem to brighten a little when someone mentioned Yusuke. Kurama felt like his heart had shattered. Hiei looked at Yusuke and sighed lightly. Kurama's feelings were never going to be the same due to Yusuke. Yusuke was handsome, but dull witted at times and usually resorted to brute force to resolve his problems. Kurama worried that if Yusuke and Hiei got into an argument, Yusuke would try to physically harm Hiei. It made Kurama tremble with fear to think of Hiei with bruises or scratches from the one he was with. Hiei walked to Kurama and placed a hand on his shoulder gently.

"I can tell you how much Yusuke cares for me, and it's a lot. He wouldn't harm me in the slightest. He cares for me as much as I care for him. And don't say you weren't going to say anything, your eyes say otherwise." Hiei smiled reassuringly.

Kurama smiled and walked out. Hiei sat next to the unconscious Yusuke. He placed a hand soflty on Yusuke's forehead and brushed back his hair.

"Don't die on me, Yusuke. You know I wouldn't, so don't you even try." Hiei said softly to Yusuke.

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Yusuke sat up and checked his surroundings. He was in his livingroom still. Hiei was at his side sleeping soundly. Yusuke smiled and kissed Hiei's forehead; it was so cute to see Hiei sleep. His facial expression was blank and relaxed and he seemed so peaceful in his sleep. But Hiei's sudden moment of tranquility stopped when he woke up.

"Yusuke…You're awake!" Hiei said, sighing with releif.

"Hiei, I'm sorry for what I did last night. I didn't mean to yell at you and be that way. I don't know what came over me." Yusuke said softly.

"It's ok, Yusuke, I forgive you." Hiei smiled.

"What happened last night? I could have sworn I had clothes on last night." Yusuke said, looking at his boxers.

Hiei took a breath and told Yusuke everything, leaving out the conversation with Kurama.

"I'm not giving up on you, Yusuke, so you hadn't give up either." Hiei said seriously.

"Ok, Hiei. I won't give up. But where will we start looking?" Yusuke asked.

"Uh……"

"So we're S.O.L., huh?" Yusuke said. "But if it makes a difference, Hiei, I'm not afraid to die."

"But I don't want you too. I'm afraid for you to die. Because if you go, I have no one else."

"You have Yukina. If I really do die, you still have you're younger sister to watch." Yusuke said reassuringly.

"I know. But Yusuke, I can't be with her like I am with you. My life wouldn't be the same."

" I know that it's hard to be happy when you lose someone you care for, but you may have to see that some things were destined to be that way. I'm sorry, Hiei. The cure sounds like something that we can't find." Yuske said softly.

"Yusuke, I refuse to let you die without you fighting it. You've survived several beatings, so why can't you survive this?" Hiei asked, becoming angry.

"It's ok. Until the day I go, I plan to live the life I had before this stupid curse thing." Yusuke said, attempting to stand.

Hiei watched silently. Hiei knew that there was nothing he could do to change Yusuke's mind. It was too hopless. What was to happen now? How long did Hiei and Yusuke have together before Yusuke left permanantly? Yusuke stumbled to his room to get some clothes on, cursing under his breath.

'Why? Now of all times, why? Life seemed to be going pretty well for me with few exeptions. Now, I'm dying and there isn't a damn thing that I can do about it.'

"This is all so stupid! I'll bet you anything I won't get to see my mother again or I'll never see another birthday or anything interesting like my own house or family!" Yusuke yelled, falling to the floor and crying.

Hiei simply watched from afar, holding back his own tears. It was a first for Hiei, crying with sympathy. Hiei usually never cried, but Yusuke's grief was reason enough to cry in Hiei's eyes.

"Hiei…This might be an odd question to ask, but… Do you think that I… Can have a little time to myself? I need to think I need to cope." Yusuke said, stumbling to standing up.

Hiei watched as Yusuke turned around and faced Hiei. His eyes were soft and he smiled to Hiei warmly. Hiei nodded, gave a small smile, and was gone.

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Yusuke walked out in the park alone. He had a grin on his face like he knew a cheep secret. He partially was in shock. He couldn't believe that he was dying. It was almost as new to him as the day he died the first time. Death just didn't scare him like it did normal people. He'd been through it once, he could go through it again. He suddenly started to laugh. Maybe it was denial, or maybe he was going crazy, he didn't know or care, but it seemed to make him feel better. But it didn't last long because he was soon on the ground, crying. He cried until his eyes were dry.

"This makes no sense! Why? Why now? Why me?!" Yusuke yelled, pounding his fist on the floor.

He stopped crying and stood up in a fit of rage and began running. He couldn't stand aside like this and do nothing. He had to do something! But there was nothing, no one to turn to. The spirit wave only healed external wounds, not internal. What was he to do?! Genkai was as smart as she was pretty. She was no help what so ever. Kurama was smart, but he was here the previous night and didn't seem to help. Maybe he was jelous that him and Hiei for seeing each other. Or mad at Yusuke for taking Hiei. Yusuke didn't care, Hiei was everything to Yusuke. There was no way Yusuke was letting Hiei go. Yusuke suddenly tripped and fell hard on the concrete. He didn't bother getting up; his chest began to hurt again, worse then last night. He couldn't believe the pain and how intense it was. Yusuke cringed and writhed. Holding back his screams of torchure. He was in severe pain, but didn't know what to do about it. He was immobilized by it and there seemed to be nothing else for him to do, but try to take the pain. He struggled greatly to stand. He was having trouble breathing again and it complicated his attempt to stand. He struggled back to his home where he could rest.

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Hiei waited in Yusuke's window sill for him. Something kept telling him to go to Yusuke, but Yusuke wanted to be alone for a little while. But whatever was telling him to go to Yusuke felt like a strong vibe. When Hiei couldn't take it anymore, he pulled off his bandana and opened his Jagan, in search of Yusuke. His Jagan found him at the park, struggling and dragging himself in the direction of Hiei and his house. Hiei couldn't help but shiver as he watched Yusuke drag himself like that. How could he stand it? Hiei couldn't believe it. Yet still he thought that this was all his fault. He rested the back of his head against the window and watched Yusuke pretend like he was ok in case Hiei was watching; which he was. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, someone swift appeared and kidnapped Yusuke. Hiei stood on the balcony of the window and quickly jumped to the tree near Yusuke's apartment. He jumped fast towards the park to find Yusuke and his kidnapper.

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Well that's the end of the fifth chapter! - tell me what you think. It's gonna get a whole lot more interesting after this! R and R!

UrameshiYusuke ( '-')