2. A Question And A Kiss

"Kurama?" Hiei asked in a weak voice with his eyes closed. Yusuke was supporting him.

"Yes?"

"How did you know about the venom?"

"I study the subject of roses and other fox demons."

"Yoko asks you to, does he not?"

"Yes..." He was cut off by Hiei's scream. He ripped his bandanna off and started to scratch his own face.

"Grab his hands, Kurama! Hold him tight, Yusuke!" I yelled over Hiei. "We can't have him scratch out his wonderful dark eyes!" Behind me I heard,

"Put him down, let him go, and step back." It was her.

"Why, so you can finish him off? I won't let you!" I screamed. Yusuke placed Hiei on the ground, and stepped away from him. "Yusuke! No, you can't... you can't give him to her!" I ran to stand by the screaming Hiei.

"I'm not going to kill him." Talabinya sighed. "I must ask him a question."

"A question? Fine, only a question." I told her, walking to stand by Kurama. "Nothing more... I'm warning you!" I glared at her.

She got down on her knees, and whispered in his ear. "Where is Yoko?" She looked at his face. Hiei pointed to Kurama. "Thank you." She leaned down and kissed Hiei's still screaming mouth.

"I said nothing more!" I tried to hit her, but she had jumped straight in the air, and landed behind Kurama. Everything was now quiet. "Tenosa, stop. I think that was the cure." Hiei said, shocked at the lack of burning in his body.

"That was only a temporary cure. The rest is way more painful." Talabinya now stood next to Kurama. "For the both of us."

"How much more painful?"

"I mean worse then the bite and the burning combined." Talabinya said dryly.

"That's impossible!" Exclaimed Hiei. "Even Kurama would die of the pain."

"Yes, Yoko would surely die in this form, it is true. But not as a fox."

"Oh...kay...Hiei...I think you've lost it." I said.

"Everyone go sit there." Talabinya pointed to the sidewalk. "Unless you want to die." She stood three feet in front of Hiei. We sat six feet away from the man I love and a woman we did not know.

The sky got dark, lightening flashed, thunder rolled, and a funnel came swooshing down to swirl behind Talabinya. I heard her say, "I need my other form to completely cure you." At that she stepped back into the cloud. As lightening licked the edges she screamed from within.

The scream stopped and the funnel disappeared, revealing a black fox with nine tails.

"The Dark Fox!" Botan turned to Kurama, who was the spirit fox, and asked, "Did you know she was still alive?"

"No. I was told on my search for her that she had killed 60 humans before killing herself. That was after she had heard that human hunters had killed her love."

"Fascinating."

"Not really." Said Yusuke. "Now, be quiet. I'm trying to watch this."

We all looked back to see the Dark Fox on one of Hiei's hands, trying to climb up his outstretched arms as if to get higher. She finally made it only to flip off, changing shape (yet again) and landing on two human-like feet, facing Hiei.

"There we are." She spoke in a sexy fox voice. "We may begin." The sky got darker, the thunder hurt our ears; it was getting louder. The lightening hurt our eyes, it was getting closer. "We will have a series of things we will have to do... after..." She dropped off.

"After... After what!" Asked Hiei.

"After all the burning comes back."

"What!" Hiei and I yelled, or more, Hiei yelled and I screamed.

"As the storm becomes harder to stand, your pain will come again. That same screaming pain that had once surged through your entire body will hit the thing you treasure most on your body hard and long." (A/N: and no, it's not his fourth eye)

We sat waiting for seven hours then Hiei screamed, "My Jagan!" He screamed it over and over as Talabinya stood.