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Chapter 13: Death Upon Us

…Kurama…

"Damn it, can't you stay dead!" Koko shouted. "Is this some cosmic joke!"

"No one with my blood will ever die," Tsuki smirked. "But since you are only part me, you get one benefit. It's called pain. I can't feel it."

I growled. How could someone like her ever have brought Bri into this world? Kuronue, Hiei, Yusuke, Kyu, Yuu, Kuwabara, Sakyo, and I surrounded the girls. Hiei and I, in particular, guarded Koko and Bri. If Tsuki were to get her hands on those two… I could only begin to consider the consequences.

"How cute," Tsuki rolled her eyes. She sighed and shook her head. "You, of all people, Gun Wa, should know that does no good."

I saw no more movement, no sign of anything more than her just standing there. But all of the sudden, I collapsed to my knees. I faintly was aware that the other men were in the same position as me. There was no pain, but it felt as if everything had floated far away from me. I lay peacefully where I'd fallen. Music, soft and inviting, played in my head, like a beautiful bird.

"Kurama…"

Her voice was distant, as if called through a thick fog from a mile away. I smiled up at Bri, her face framed in my vision by white haze. Faintly, I was aware of being shaken. It felt more like I was jumping on clouds. I heard the cries, soft and distant. I tried to reach out, to comfort her as I was being comforted by the haze. But she was not consoled.

I heard her voice in the distance. She sounded angry…sad…

The voice continued to speak. But it faded more and more as I came closer to the light. I smiled at the light, uncertain of what it meant. It was very beautiful, like a gem. I saw a pretty blue-haired girl. I knew her, recognized her. Botan. She smiled at me, but it was a sad smile. I floated up next to her, seated on her oar. When at last the light began to fade, I looked down.

At my own bloodied corpse.

…Bri…

He's dead. Kurama is dead.

The words kept rolling over and over in my mind. I refused to believe them, even as I stood before his killer and watched. How was I to kill someone twice as strong as me and had the same ability to not die as me? Koko and Botan and I were the only ones left alive, and Botan was only there because she had been behind me at the time.

The funny thing was, even though I'd felt the blast from Tsuki myself, I felt no pain. I gathered from her smirk that it was supposed to be this way. I let a tear fall for Kurama. At least he'd died quickly and painlessly.

"You will regret killing my fiancé," I growled.

"Damn you," Koko swore.

She was standing weakly next to Hiei's remains. I knew she was fading fast. She was dying, too. It had finally dawned on me why I couldn't die and Koko could. Even though she had the powers our mother had, she had her father's mortality. She would be able to hold out, for a time.

But for how long, I couldn't guess.

"I see this upsets you," Tsuki sighed, as though we were discussing something like two rational adults. Neither of us were. "My daughter, why are you so mindlessly attached to them?"

"Because they were the only ones who ever loved an abomination like me," I scowled. I used the same tone of voice. If I didn't, I think I would have broken down. "I don't think you quite get it, Tsuki. I'm going to kill you. If it's the last thing that I do."

"You can't," Tsuki smirked. "I can't die, remember?"

There must have been a time that Tsuki was vulnerable. There must be. I glared down at the pieces of my broken family. My brothers, whom I'd only just met, Yuu and Kyu. My uncle, Sakyo in the body of Gun Wa Wolf, my father's brother. The man who'd saved my life from my boyfriend's past, Kuronue. Yusuke, who had already died twice. Kuwabara, attempted to die once. And sobbing Botan, who would have to take them all the Spirit World herself. She had already taken three of them. My cousin and sister, Koko Wolf, who was barely hanging onto the last thread of life.

And then my eyes began to trace my Kurama. He had lived for over a thousand years, only to be killed by his soon-to-be mother-in-law. How ironic and stupid is that. His red hair was splayed out like a fan, his green eyes dim and yet shiny and wide open. I knelt beside him, ignoring my mother.

"Kurama…I know a way," I said quietly. I ignored my mother's rants. "I know a way to kill her, Kurama. It's just…that it'll mean…"

I chewed on my lower lip. "It'll mean that I will never see you again."

I gathered him up in my arms and cradled his bleeding head to my chest. If I never saw him again, if I never heard his voice again, I wanted this only. To know that he was alive and well. To know that he was happy and that he was alive.

Even if I wasn't there to be happy by his side.

"What are you doing?" Tsuki asked. "You can't kill me. You know you can't."

I glared at her through tear-streaked eyes.

"I know how. Stay the hell out of my way."

I kissed Kurama's cold, dead lips. They tasted like Pine Sol, so unlike the honey sweetness I was used to. I nestled him next to Hiei, his best friend. Koko grasped for my hand, her breathing erratic and hurried.

"Don't do it," Koko gasped. "Don't do it, Bri. We can…"

"It's the only way," I shook my head. "Say hello to Marion for me, Koko. Don't let him have me. I don't think my heart could take it again."

She nodded once. "Love you."

"Yeah. Me, too."

I glared over my shoulder at Tsuki.

"Good bye, everyone," I said. I didn't care if they were dead. I wanted to say goodbye before whatever happened to me happened…

With one last final wave of my hand, I ripped open the time stream and dove into the red, swirling mass. I knew where I was going. It wouldn't take too long to get there. The ramifications of what I was about to do would make things very different.

Very different, indeed.

Okay, several things. NEXT CHAPTER IS THE LAST! Also, I have put up some fan art drawings of Bri on Media Miner Dot Org. My name there is angelindigo. I think it's called "Heal Me, I'm Heartsick's Bridget Wolf" or Bri Wolf or something like that…sure you can find it…;; Just several different "capture" shots of her, plus an additional drawing of what she would have looked like had she taken on her cat-demon form. Which never happened, but you never know…if I will revive her.

I would like to take this opportunity to also apologize for not putting this up here sooner. If you wish to know why, consult my xanga account, uglykitten. In fact, if you want to follow my life, be my guest. Not like I have anything to hide, which you will find out in my next story, As I Lay Living.

Princess Kandra: Nope, no wedding. Gomen! As you can see…um…things kinda went wrong…

Sillylittlenothing: Hate to break this to you, but I'm 19. Just turned 19 on the 29 of April, as a matter of fact. I'm not telling how Tsuki can't die, that is top-secret information that only the author knows! ;; Okay, I'm being a bit overdramatic…It has to do with her blood. The combination of cat and human somehow created this thing where, no matter how physically injured she was, you can't kill her. Kind of like the elder Toguro in some instances. She's just…weird. O.o I guess that's the best I can put it. But Bri has a plan! Bri has a plan! And it's a bad plan…cause Bri goes bye-bye…

Sonya: Sorry…Almost everything that happened…well, I'll let you read next chapter.

SilverDragon: I didn't say it outright what she's going to do…but do you get it now?

Kuramafan: Well…um…;; It's not just Kuronue…And I don't think they're going to get to go to family therapies…after all…Bri is out for blood. And her own?

Saori: Eheh, actually, I found it quite amusing myself. Even more amusing that I get to undo it, too…;;