A/N: Next chapter of my action series! I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its characters.
Chapter 3: The Warning given
The next 6 days were as normal as any other. There'd been no trace of an Acire. Kurama hadn't been followed anymore, for as far as he knew, and the others hadn't been either.
Koenma found out that the demon thieves were, indeed, behind the assault on the village. The Reikai Tantei had searched for the thieves, but still hadn't found them.
In the afternoon of the seventh day, Hiei was wandering around in the park. He followed the paths to a lake, laying between the trees. He'd often come here, but this time it felt different, almost like he wasn't alone.
'Of course I'm not alone,' he thought. 'Those Ningens walk around here as well.' He sat down on a bench, closing his eyes, the wind playing with his black hair.
Suddenly it became quiet. The wind stopped blowing. The only thing still making sound was the streaming water of the lake.
Hiei quickly put his guard up. He was right after all. He wasn't alone, only the other living creature wasn't human, as he first suspected.
Tiny waves flushed the shore of the lake. Gentle words were whispered. Hiei had difficulty hearing them, but what he heard scared him.
He sheathed his katana and ran of to get Yusuke. He was the one the closest to this place and Hiei's only hope to prevent the thing the song described from happening.
Kurama laid his pencil down and sighed. Finally he'd finished his math homework.
Quite pleased that he got his homework done on Friday evening, he went downstairs to get something to drink.
He took a soda can out the fridge. Sitting down at the kitchen table he wondered what he was going to do this weekend. Most likely going to Makai, trying to find the thieves and murderers that killed the Acire. The picture of the lifeless bodies flew though his mind. He had dreamt about the sight for the past few days and even during the day he couldn't get it out of his mind.
He drank his soda and threw away the empty can. He sighed and was about to return upstairs, when a hand covered his mouth.
Someone quickly bound his hands behind his back before he knew what was happening, while another person blindfolded and gagged him. He tried to struggle free, but the rope was to strongly tied around his wrists.
The next moment he smelled an odor, salty lemon like. He started to feel dizzy and fell to his knees, not able to stand anymore.
One of the two bound his feet together as well. Before Kurama knew what exactly was going on, we was put in a sack and thrown over a shoulder.
"What!" Yusuke yelled at the fire demon, very irritated that Hiei hadn't told him where he was taking him.
The Koorime tossed the black-haired boy on the ground, throwing him a death-glare. "Shut up and listen!" he hissed.
Yusuke was about to make a remark, but before he could speak another glare from a very impatient Hiei told him not to.
Yusuke listened, but heard nothing. "What?"
Hiei started to get annoyed with the linger. Clenching his fists, he looked at the water, without turning his head.
Yusuke got the hint, listening better and this time fully focused on the sound of the stream. First he only heard the waves, but after a while he could hear the voice of a young girl, gently singing a song.
'When leaves have fallen the sky turns to gray
The night keeps on closing another day' (A/N: Don't own, song name: Ice Queen, by Within Temptation. (Good song ))
"I hear her," Yusuke said. Hiei motioned him to be quiet.
'A nightingale sings it's song of farewell
You'd better hide for a freezing hell'
'What did Koenma say? The Acire give a hint about what they're going to do. So... This is their warning... But a warning for what?' Yusuke asked himself.
"Listen and maybe you'll find out," Hiei answered.
"Stop reading my mind, would you?"
As your heart turns to stone
She comes at night when you're all alone
And when she waves, sheds your heart, shed from home
You'd better hide before she finds you.'
'Does it mean that I think that it means?'
'Whenever she is raging
She takes life away
Haven't you seen the ruins of our world?'
"This is defiantly a warning about their revenge. But what exactly are they planning?"
"Use your brain just for once, detective!" Hiei sneered. "Have you even heard what she said?"
"Of course. I'm not deaf!"
"Are you sure? 'She comes at night when you're all alone.' " A moment he was silent before he continued. "I think it's very clear what they're up to."
"..."
"You really are dumb." Hiei turned to Yusuke, a serious expression on his face. "They're going to take one of us down, most likely tonight, the moment one of us is alone. I need to know who's alone tonight, that one will be their victim."
"Lets see. Kuwabara is with Yukina..." Hiei pulled an disgusted face, but decided this wasn't the time to think about what the human was doing. "Kurama is at home, with his mom, normally you'd be alone in the park, but now you're with me and I was just going somewhere."
"So, no one is alone?"
"Nope."
"There must be! Why else would they give the sign they were about to attack?"
"Admit it Hiei, you were wrong." Yusuke smirked.
"Hn." Hiei crossed his arms and started glaring very angry at a nearby rock, not wanting to see the smirk upon the detective's face.
Yusuke got up. "Are you coming with me? That we're not alone now, doesn't mean we don't have to be careful. Spend tonight with me and Kurama."
"Kurama? What do you mean?"
"O, I was going to keep him company. His mother will be visiting some friends this evening."
Hiei's eyes widened with shock. "You mean, he's all by himself?!"
"Chill. His mom isn't leaving until 9 pm."
Hiei looked at the horizon. The sun was already setting. "And what time is it now?!"
"Lets see. It's now...," Yusuke looked at his watch. His mouth fell open. "Nine THIRTY?!"
Without a second thought, Hiei sprinted of, Yusuke following behind him. 'I hope we're not to late...'
"They're gone," one of the two kidnappers whispered. Kurama could hear clearly that this one was male.
The two creatures had placed him against a tree, still inside the bag, while they waited for the coast to clear. Kurama had tried to yell and even tried to raise his Ki, but his friends hadn't noticed him. 'Must be because of this thing where I'm in.'
"Why is Jeresa still singing?" the voice complained.
"Because it's the right thing to do," the other replied. This was the first time this person spoke. Kurama could hear very clearly that the soft voice belonged to a girl.
"She could've blown our cover! We'll have to move, fast and now! The fire demon is fast. He'll find out we took his friends within the next few minutes."
"As you wish. You go get Jeresa, I'll take the boy with me."
Kurama noticed that the boy was in doubt. Clearly he didn't trusted the girl with the task of taking him with her.
"What are you waiting for? You were the one that wanted to hurry? Jeresa is on the other side of the lake and you can swim faster than me." Kurama heard the boy growl. "I'm just doing what you wanted," the girl stated.
"Fine! Just... Just hurry and don't do anything stupid!" The splashing of water could be heard. Kurama knew the boy had gone.
The girl sighed. "Don't worry, I won't. Like always, it'll eventually be you who will do the stupid thing," she mumbled.
Footsteps approached the kitsune. Kurama felt that she laid a hand on his head. He shuck his head, trying to get it of.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you," the girl whispered. "I'm just trying to get you out of this bag."
Kurama stopped his movement. The woman pulled the ropes on the entry of the bag, enlarging the opening. Next thing he knew the bag was already past his shoulders. She put her arms around him and pulled him to his feet, lowering the sack to the ground.
Next she got rid of the ropes tied around his feet. "I think you can walk. Just don't try to escape, because than I'll be forced to stop you and believe me, you won't like it."
She was standing behind him, holding his still bound hands in hers. Her skin was cold and clammy. She gently pushed him in the direction she wanted him to walk to.
Kurama obeyed, making sure his footprints were well visible in the sand, for his friends to find. After some steps he noticed she had led him to the shore of the lake.
He hesitated, but the girl urged him to go that way. He walked on, but within the shortest amount of time the water was at neck-height. Kurama wanted to turn back, or at least give the girl a sign that he wasn't able to breath below the surface, but he still had a piece of fabric in his mouth. Suddenly he'd noticed the girl wasn't holding him anymore.
He knew she was still around, although somehow he couldn't feel her presence. He turned around, taking the chance he'd bumped into her, when all of a sudden he was pulled down at his feet. He tried to scream, from shock and to let the girl know he couldn't breath, but she continued pulling him along at his feet.
Kurama struggled, when it occurred to him he had no trouble breathing. He relaxed, but at the same time wondered how it was possible. After all, the girl had pulled him down.
"You should have more trust in me. You'd really think I'd let you drown?" She let go of his feet, getting back to his hands. She removed the rope, but Kurama couldn't move his hands at will. The water strongly flowed and leaded his hands in front of him, where the girl once again tied them together.
Next she removed the fabric from his mouth. "I can't take the blindfold away, yet. Sorry." Holding his wrists, she pulled him along, further and further down.
"What's going on? How... How can I breathe? Where are you taking me?"
"Lots of questions. I can't answer them yet. I will later, don't worry." Before she could say more the boy which had left to get the other girl yelled at them.
"What in the name of the 4 flows are you doing?! I knew I shouldn't have let you do this alone. How could you be so stupid!"
"You thought I was going to take him all the way to our place, in a bag?! That is barbaric! No one deserves that!"
"He does. He's in the service of the Reikai. Let me show you what we do to people like him!"
Two girls gasped on the background, the girl that took him here pulled Kurama behind her. "Don't! It's wrong!"
"Shut up, Ira!" A strong stream dragged Kurama with it, away from the girl. He still couldn't see what was going on. He tried to swim out of the stream, but had difficulty moving in the water, because his hands were still bound together.
Suddenly he heard a sound behind him. He felt a blow to his head. Just before everything became black and silent, he heard the girl, of which he now knew her name was Ira, call a last 'No!'. Losing the last feeling of consciousness of his body, he noticed that two arms were gently wrapped around him, letting his head fall on a shoulder, just before he fainted.
"How could you!" Ira hissed at the boy, holding Kurama tight in her arms, protecting him from another blow. "I'll have a word with you once we're back in Makai. This has gone to far!"
There it was, Kurama's house. Hiei jumped in the tree next to the kitsune's bedroom window. He knew that Kurama never locked it. He opened it up and landed on the floor without making a sound.
"Kurama!" he called, but he knew it was of no use. His friend's Ki wasn't here.
He started to walk around the house. In the kitchen he stopped. A strange smell approached him.
"Uh! We need to tell Kurama to clean the kitchen with some other cleaning products. This one smell like... like... something gross!" Yusuke entered the kitchen, after he'd put the key to the frontdoor of Kurama's house back under a flowerpot.
Hiei turned to Yusuke. "It's called Reseter. It's a Makai plant growing on cliffs in the Eastern parts of the Makai seas. It's smell can paralyze someone.
"AH!" Yusuke grabbed his nose and ran out the backdoor. Once outside he took a deep breathe. "Safe... He, wait a second... Since when does Kurama leave the door open? He always locks it when his mom goes out..."
"Because someone disassembled the lock in order to get into the house." Hiei pointed at the tiny metal fragments on the ground. "They've got him..."
A/N Chapter 3! Please R&R! Thank you all for your attention