The Reason-Yukina's Decision

"Bring Yukina back home? You mean to the ice world?" Kuwabara's anger has diminished and replaced with curiosity.

"Hai," replied Rui in a calm manner.

"What for?" asks Kuwabara. He must know all before his love Yukina is taken away from him.

"In the ice world, a tradition takes place once a year. It is a ritual between all young girls in which they return home after their long journey and never leave again. This year is Yukina's turn. After all the years she's been away, it's her chance to return home." Rui was very cool about this.

Kuwabara, however, was not. "You mean Yukina has to stay in the ice place forever!"

"Hai."

"Yukina…did you know about this?" Kuwabara turns towards Yukina and looks at her.

Yukina looks up at Kuwabara with a saddened look on her angelic face. "Kazuma-san, gomen nasai. I…I didn't tell you because it wasn't too important. But now that I see you truly have emotions for me, I suppose I'll tell you. Every ice maiden is to take a long journey once in her lifetime. They go to see how the outside world really is. My journey was to go find my brother. And yet, I have come up empty. But after a certain amount of time, the ice maiden is to return home and never leave again. My time to leave has come."

"No…you can't leave. Not yet…there's so much we haven't done…" Kuwabara looks as if he's about to cry.

"Kazuma-san…" Yukina senses the sadness within him. She sympathizes with him. She knows how he feels.

Kuwabara swiftly wraps his arms around Yukina. He holds her tight in his embrace, not wanting to let her go. Warm tears start to flow down his cheeks. "No more…" he says. "No more will you slip away from me…no more will we be separated…"

Rui speaks. "Yukina, I'm certain that you have some companions here that you would like to say your farewells to. To honor that, I will give you one month. On the night of the next new moon, you are to be back home. Do you understand?"

"…H-hai…" Yukina welcomes Kuwabara's embrace.

With that said, Rui disappears into the darkness. The streetlights remain broken and Yukina and Kuwabara in each other's embrace, possibly their last one.

Cries though I don't like Kuwabara much, it's still pretty sad. Ok, I have said this before but it was kinda unclear. Let me say it again. This story tied in with Hiei's First Christmas and Kitsune's Rose. This part is actually the first part of the 3 stories. The order ish Forbidden Love, Kitsune's Rose, and Hiei's First Christmas. If you have read Kitsune's Rose and/or Hiei's First Christmas, u can see that there are some parts that tie in with the other story. Example: in Hiei's First Christmas, Shizuru mentions that it sucks that her and Kurama didn't work out. Well, in Kitsune's Rose, it explains that relationship. I'll reveal other stuff throughout this story.