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Kuwabara's mouth was moving but not a sound could be heard. His arm was bleeding, and his face was overflowing with emotion. They dripped down his cheeks like silent rain. His mouth moved again, still not a sound could be heard. Hiei reached for him wanting to say something to him, but a hand was clutching his throat preventing him from saying a word. The one choking him laugh-a laugh that could be heard while everything was so silent. Hiei was thrown down on the ground, everything hurt, and everything was so quiet, but so much was going on!
It was the loudest silence he'd ever heard.
Kuwabara was grabbed, and the hand assaulted his orange hair, tearing it out of the hard cocoon. Kuwabara kept his eyes shut, another hand on his hip, sliding down too close...to close..."Yes I can use you." Kuwabara's mouth opened as a fist crashed into his stomach, his face turned white, and his body went slack. The one that had choked Hiei, and hurt Kuwabara picked him up. The demon held him to him smiling at Hiei, who screamed angrilly reaching for Kuwabara. He screamed the name of the demon that was doing this, that was taking the copper haired man.
Karu.
Hiei cried out sitting up, startling the others. "Hiei?" Kurama gasped talking Hiei's hand, who looked at him with concerned green eyes. Yusuke turned from starring at the fire to looking at him, his eyes were red and puffy from tears. Hiei looked at them, and then at the forest they were in.
A dream.
A nightmare.
A memory.
Hiei rose, "That's enough rest-shouldn't we keep traveling so we can rescue Kuwabara?" Kurama nodded, taking the small demon's hand, "Just waiting for you...you've head a very hard day today." Hiei turned from Kurama's loving gaze, but didn't pull his hand away. Hiei's eyes drifted to where Kuwabara should be sitting. He could picture the human asleep as he sat Indian style on the ground. He did that a lot. Most likely Yusuke's head would be in his lap, and he'd be watching Kuwabara sleep. Hiei growled, "That...that fool."
Hiei allowed Kurama to embrace him, to hold him in his strong arms. Kurama's face rest against Hiei's shoulder, "Hiei," he whispered saying nothing more, not knowing what else he could say. The small demon put his arms around Kurama's slim waist, and stayed silent. Kuwabara had done something that had touched Hiei that he thought only Kurama could do. Hiei had never felt bad for treating Kuwabara the way he did...until now.
/FLASHBACK/
"Leaving me alone with you...God must hate me."
"I didn't even know you believed in God...asXwipe."
"I do now. There had to be a higher being if someone like :YOU: can be created, and allowed to live."
"Goto Hell!"
"Been there."
"Oh yeah..."
"Moron."
Kuwabara growled turning away from Hiei, "You such an asX, you know that!" Hiei looked at him, sitting up on a tree. "Yeah I know." Kuwabara sulked, "Don't see why Kurama loves you so much." Hiei's scowl turned darker, "Same can be said about you and Yusuke." The two growled, and finally Kuwabara got up. "We were told to wait here, until Yusuke and Kurama come back with the fire wood." The two were in a forest journeying home from a successful mission. Kuwabara spun around, hands on his hips. "They won't be back for at least ten minutes! I'll be perfectly fine." He stalked off, still fuming from their fight.
Hiei sighed, he never did understand why they always picked fights. Kurama would joke and say he was secretly lusting after him, and then would ask if Hiei wanted to dump him. That led to a very serious make out session, and just make Hiei want to kill Kuwabara more-even if Kurama was joking. The red eyed warrior turned to the bushes when Kuwabara was sent flying out of them. "What the hell!" Hiei jumped down, and touched the unconscious boy's head, which was bleeding steadily.
Familiar laughter filled the air. "Nice to see you again Hiei." Hiei froze up, and in fast jerky movements spun to look around at a tall demon that stood behind him. The demon had green eyes, and long black hair. He wore black robes, and a smile that stretched creepily into his face. "K-Karu!" Hiei snarled, throat closing. Karu smiled, "You remember me...I'm glad." Silently and quickly the demon had grabbed Hiei around the throat, his strength showing as he squeezed his throat. "I remember you too Hiei...and the sounds of your wife and child screaming as I took their lives." Hiei stopped struggling, felling as if he couldn't breathe as the pain that he'd kept back, came back hitting him full force. "How old was your son...5? And your lovely wife only 21? Didn't I promise you I would always kill the ones you loved?" Karu smiled, "So, where is Kurama?"
Hiei gasped, and closed his eyes, "NO!" Karu laughed, "Yes, he is your new love, so I'll be taking him." Karu leaned down and whispered hin his ear, "You should have stayed with me...my little slave." Hiei cried out as the grip on his neck tightened. "Where is Kurama?"
"Here I am."
Both turned to look at him, he who claimed to be Kurama. It was not Kurama, it was Kuwabara, who had silvery tears dripping down his face. "I'm Kurama. Please..." Kuwabara's voice was shaking, and he fell on his knees, "Please leave him alone!" Karu shoved Hiei into the ground who managed to growl, "No Ku-" Karu kicked him hard in the face. "So you are Kurama." Karu swept him on his feet, and Kuwabara starred at him, eyes wide with fear. As Karu studied him, Kuwabara let his eyes drift to Hiei, the injured demon starring back at him horrified about what was taking place, and angry that he couldn't get his body to move.
Surprising Kuwabara, Karu suddenly began to tear at Kuwabara's hair until it was in loose curls instead of his hard cocoon. His one hand held his chin up, while the other was on his hip, rubbing up and down on it making Kuwabara close his eyes. "Yes Kurama...Yes I can use you." He jabbed Kuwabara in the stomach. The human instantly went limp and collapsed in Karu's arms. Karu formed a bubble of energy around him, and sent Kuwabara away inside it. "I send your love away to my lab-where we can experiment on him." Hiei feeling as if he'd done a terrible deed to his friends at letting this man send Kuwabara to only God knows where, rose up screaming, and charging him.
/END FLASHBACK/
Hiei was beat almost senseless when the others arrived, and Yusuke managed to Kill him. Before Hiei passed out he told them what had befallen Kuwabara, and what he had done. At that moment, Kuwabara had become the truest friend Hiei had ever known. There was one week of recovery for Hiei, and another two days of finding where Kuwabara had been sent, and now another day of travel. It felt as if it was taking years to get to Kuwabara.
Hiei broke the hug, and offered his hand to Yusuke, "Come on. Lets go get him."
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Well thats it for this chapter but next chapter-they find a little girl inside Karu's castle, along with several other children-DEAD children