Ok, I know it took me a really long time to update and I'm really sorry about that. But, surprisingly, I have more time to update during the school year, basically because in the summer I'm over at my grandparents all the time and don't get a chance to update there. Anyways, on with the story!

Don't own DK or YYH. If you thought i did then your crazy.

Chapter 8 One Soul

flashback

Karasu slammed Rune into the wall of the hotel room. The elf fell onto the ground, blood from a cut on his head staining his hair red.

"You know," Karasu laughed, "you're just as pretty as your brother, but I'll just have to use you to get to him. How does it feel, knowing that you will be your brother's downfall?"

"Go to hell," Rune managed to growl at the crow in front of him.

"Now that's not very nice." Karasu yanked a handful of Rune's hair and dragged him up onto his feet. Rune let out a strangled cry that he had been trying to hold back for sometime now.

Karasu pulled out a small vile filled with neon green liquid and pulled off the cap. "Now, it's time for you to die. Unfortunately for you, I don't like slow deaths," Karasu said as he shoved the liquid down Rune's throat. The elf then fell to his knees coughing harshly.

"RUNE!" Kurama had heard his brother's yell and had run to his room. Following him was Yusuke, who had heard the elf as well.

"Rune, come on, open the door!" Yusuke yelled, because, of course, Karasu just had to lock the door.

"Rune please let us in!" Kurama's voice came from behind the door.

"Oh, I don't really think he'll be able to do that," Karasu laughed as the banging on the door stopped.

Outside the room, Kurama froze. He knew that voice all to well. "Karasu," he whispered.

"Alright, that's it!" Yusuke was about to perform his Spirit Gun when Kurama stopped him.

"You might hit Rune." Yusuke nodded and lowered his hands.

"What do we do then?"

"If you want the antidote to the poison I gave him, you'll have to defeat me, Kurama. Though, we all know that's impossible."

"You haven't won yet, Karasu," Kurama yelled at him, his calm composer melting away.

"Really fox, you keep thinking that." And with that, Karasu disappeared from the room.

Hiei jumped into the elf's room through the window, which Karasu had left open. "Are you alright, Rune?" he asked as he walked over to Rune.

Rune looked up at him, and Hiei could see that his eyes were already becoming duller, and it was obvious he was struggling to breath. Hiei sighed before he picked the elf up. He unlocked the door only to be met with the worried faces of Yusuke and Kurama.

"Is he alright?" Kurama asked looking down at the half conscious Rune.

"Karasu poisoned him, and it doesn't really look like he'll make it pass tomorrow night," Hiei answered. "Right now, though, we should get him to a different room."

"Right."

'Hold on, Rune. I'll get the antidote from Karasu,' Kurama thought as he cleaned the blood from his brother's face.

"Kurama," Yusuke called from outside in the hall. "We need to go. Shizuru will stay with Rune."

"Right, be out in a minute," Kurama yelled back at him.

"Take care of him, Shizuru," Kurama said before he left the room.

"Don't worry kid. Just beat Karasu and the antidote back here as soon as possible." Kurama nodded to the girl who had taken his chair by the bed before sighing and shutting the door behind him.

"How did you get so many wounds?" Rune asked Kurama after his brother had given him the antidote. As of right now, everyone was in the locker room, and Yukina and Rune were helping to heal Kurama's injuries.

"At least I got the antidote for you," Kurama shot back at him. Rune just stuck his tongue out at the fox before pouring alcohol on one of the cut on Kurama's arm. Kurama hissed and would have jerked his arm back if Rune didn't have such a good grip on it.

"Hold still, fox. It's only going to take a minute to clean this."

"You warn someone before pouring alcohol on them!"

""It's not my fault you went and almost got yourself blown to bits!"

"Those to," Yusuke muttered and rolled his eyes at the two brothers. They were always like this when one of them got hurt, looking after the other in a wired, yet caring way.

end flashback

Kurama and Rune finally stopped screaming. Though, they were both unconscious and their breathing was struggled. They both seemed paler and they had lost a lot of energy.

"What the hell just happened?" Yusuke asked, finally breaking the silence.

He was greeted with only silence until Lykouleon decided to answer him. "They share the same souls, they're just meant to live in different worlds."

Once again, sorry for the late update and also sorry that this chapter is so short. I'm kind of brain-dead on what to do next. Anyways, I'll try and update soon, but I have to update a few other stories first.