Repreview: Kurama has to make a choice whether to join Hiei in a crime or have his sister be killed. Tough choice. Another thing Kurama's mother has fallen ill and is in the hospital. She might not make it out alive. Read on to find out what happens.
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*Editor's Note: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its counterparts. I do own the characters
Kitty and Alaira though. Please R/R this next chapter of:
Yu Yu Hakusho Revised
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" I am sorry Shuuichi, but your mother has a malignant cancer and probably will not pull through it." These words were weighing heavy on Kurama's conscience as he walked down the street from the hospital. He was in shock at what had just happened that day. He reflects on his mother's smiling, laughing face and his sister's serious, but laughing smile.
" How did this day go so seriously wrong?" Kurama asked himself, " How could I have let Hiei take Kitty or even turned my back on her for a second? I blame myself for this and will not rest until it is put right. I will have to wait three days to get Kitty back, but maybe I can comfort Mother while she is in the hospital."
Kurama quietly walked up into his mother's hospital room. She was laying on a bed covered with starch, white sheets in the middle of the bedroom. She was lying peacefully asleep.
" She doesn't know what has happened to Kitty and I will keep it from her as long as I can." Kurama thought to himself as he walked to the nearby armchair and sat down. " Mother looks so peaceful resting there. I hope the doctors were wrong, but I have a feeling that they weren't."
Kurama fell asleep on the armchair and dreamed that Kitty was calling for him from across a vacant lot, but he couldn't move to reach her she was yelling " Help me Kurama Please Help!!" He awoke sweating like he had been running a long ways. He heard a voice softly speaking " Shuuichi, Shuuichi please come here." Kurama realized that it was his mother and went quickly to her bedside.
" What is it Mother? What is wrong?" Kurama asked in a quiet voice.
" Suuichi, where is Kitana?" his mother answered back. " Where is she?"
" Kitty has gone home to sleep, Mother. You should get some rest too." Kurama answered back feeling bad about lying to his own mother.
He held his mother's hand until she fell back asleep. He then laid it gently down and walked out of the room. He walked to Alaira's apartment and knocked on the door. Alaira answered it in her pink rose night gown. Her dark brown hair was sticking up in different directions and she had dark circles under her eyes. When she saw Kurama, she immediately turned a brilliant shade of red and invited him in.
" What brings you here at this hour, Kurama?" Alaira asked with a yawn.
" Alaira do you know that black-haired teenager that was watching us today at the mall?" Kurama asked.
" Yes, I remember him. What about him? He was looking at you and Kitty like wanted to talk to you or something." Alaira answered sleepily.
" Well, that guy was a fire apparition, a demon. He asked me to join him in a crime and I refused so he kidnaped Kitty. He told me to clear my head and three days from now I'm supposed to go to the park and give him my decision." Kurama explained.
Alaira didn't look as sleepy as she did a few moments before. " You mean that that black-haired boy stole Kitty?"
" Yes I'm afraid it's true and that's not the worst of it. Mother has fallen ill with cancer and probably won't make it according to the doctors." Kurama said sadly.
" Well, I'll help you track this black haired guy down. You know that I'm a demon also right? A wolf demon. I can sniff out spirit energy 20 miles away. It's a good thing to have on your side in this situation." Alaira said in a sleepy cheerful voice. " Let me go get my clothes on and then we can find Hiei and save Kitty!"
" Well that's something Kitty never told me about Alaira. I didn't know she was a demon. That's real nice of Kitty to not mention that." Kurama said to himself as he waited for Alaira to get dressed.
Ten minutes later Alaira came out of her room dressed in a black spaghetti-strapped stomach tank top with the words "Shut Up . . . " on the front in bold red letters and " I'm not wasting my time on you." in the same bold print in white letters on the back. She had on a pair of black mid-thigh shorts with a pair of black zip up ankle boots. Her earrings were two huge silver hoops in the bottom piercing of her ears and little black hoops running up the side of her left ear. Her hair was up in a messy bun. " Ok lets go!!" she said in a cheerful voice as she walked out the door. Kurama just stared at her in awe as she stopped in the doorframe and said " Hello Kurama? Hello Earth to Kurama I said Let's GO!!"
Kurama caught himself and said " Ok. Yea let's go."
*Now we go to where Hiei is holding Kitty hostage . . .*
Kitty opens her eyes as she slowly regains consciousness. She looks around her trying to remember what happened. She realizes that she is in an abandoned warehouse, bound around the wrists and ankles with a rope.
" Well, Well seems that you're conscious now doesn't it?" a humored voice said out of the darkness.
" What . . . who . . . where am I?" Kitty asked confused.
" You're still in Tokyo, don't worry. You're with me until Yoko makes up his mind to help me." the voice said again.
Kitty looks around for the voice and sees Hiei sitting on a box above her.
" YOU!!! Why did you bring me here? And just who the hell are you?!" Kitty snarled.
" You seem to be awake now don't you? My name is Hiei. I'm a demon and I brought you here until tomorrow when we go to the park to meet your brother." Hiei answered with a half laugh.
" That jerk . . . he probably thinks that this ordeal is funny. If I wasn't tied up, he would be getting his ass beat into the ground about right now!" Kitty mumbled to herself.
*We leave this place to go back to Kurama and Alaira who are coming to Kitty's rescue*
" Kurama I think that we're almost there. I've picked up the scent of Kitty's special shampoo. She's in that abandoned warehouse three blocks ahead." Alaira whispered.
" Are you sure Alaira? We had better be careful now. Hiei might be on guard." Kurama whispered back.
" Right. Ok." Alaira whispered back.
They cautiously walk up to a window on the ground floor of the warehouse. Alaira peers in and motions for Kurama to look in too.
" There she is. She's tied up and it looks like Hiei is standing guard." Alaira whispers to Kurama.
" Yes, that seems to be the situation." Kurama replies at a whisper.
" Should we bust in like the guys on Cops to scare Hiei?" Alaira whispered back.
Kurama just looks at Alaira and shakes his head. " No, I don't think that would have any effect Alaira. Do you know how to fight?" Kurama asks.
" Yes I know how to fight. What do you take me for a weakling?" Alaira answered hurtly. She waves her hand and produces a golden staff with a heart with wings adorning the top, little rings hang down from the wings.
" Uh . . . Alaira is that the Staff of Dark Magic?" Kurama asks in a nervous voice.
" Yea. Why?" Alaira replies.
" Uh . . . nothing . . . let's go in through that drainage pipe over there." Kurama states pointing to a huge pipe to the left of them.
" Oh . . . ok . . . let's go rescue Kitty!!" Alaira says in a half happy voice.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Preview: Kurama and Alaira have gotten in undetected by Hiei. Or have they? Kurama's mother has fallen ill with cancer. Will they all make it out alive? To find out, read the next chapter of:
Yu Yu Hakusho Revised