Yusuke:...when are ya'll even moving.
I don't know...I'm tired...ah...
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"Finally," Hiei sighed to himself as the group reached Karu's castle. The place was nothing special, it seemed old, and on the brink of collapsing, and heavily guarded, by terribly weak demons. Taking them out was no problem. Once inside they came upon three hallways. "I'll go this way." Yusuke muttered pointing at the center one. "I sense demons down there." Yusuke left without another word, and Kurama tried to lighten the mood by saying, "He's turning in to you." Hiei turned towards the left hallway and whispered, "God forbid."
Hiei roamed the long hall and found no problem. Everything was white, except for a line of rooms that lined the halls. The rooms were a dull gray, and a glass wall separated people from getting in the room. Inside he frowned as he say several rotten corpses of small things. The bodies were too decomposed to see what they were. As he walked further, he found most of the strange rooms to be empty, but the last room wasn't.
Hiei pressed his hands to the glass, eyes wide in terror, there was a small child who hung from the ceiling. A girl who had cut off her long black braid to hang herself. She could be no more than eight. "How...How can a child so young even think...even be pushed..." Hiei stared at her mind swimming, and as he looked back along the line he realized that the other corpses must have been children. "What did these basXards do!" Hiei starred at the child, and her wide yellow eyes. He wondered if the yellow eyes were also apart of the experiment. The child was human, not demon, he could sense that much.
Walking away from the room, he reached the end of the hall, and came upon a red door. After seeing all the white he had to blink a few times to get used to the intense color. He opened the door, and let his eyes fall upon everything in the room. A low annoying buzz had filled the air, and their seemed to be a green glow about the room. He searched for the source, and found it to be a huge diamond shaped glass case in the middle of the wall.
Approaching it, he noticed two more bodies of children, one human, one demon. The demon boy was maybe four, and had purple hair and purple eyes. Hiei turned away from him, he too had killed himself. Slit his wrists. Again Hiei puzzled over how these kids could think of this? Were they helped? Surely if Kuwabara was here there were other adults, did they show them what to do? He looked at the boy with brown eyes and blue hair, 'Did they change his hair? What is the purpose of what they were doing.' Hiei adverted his eyes quickly, blinking to get the image of the sicors gripped in the small boy's hand, while out the other hand a steady flow came out his wrist.
Hiei came to the glass case finding it to be filled with glowing green water. But that wasn't all. A girl, no more than five was floating inside. Every now and then a tiny bubble would slip past her lips, and float to the top. She was dressed like a porcelain doll, with white lace trimming around her sleeves, neck, and at the bottom. Her skin was pale, and her hair blue. He placed his hand on the glass, "Yes. She's human." He briefly wondered what color her eyes were, and if they were odd like the other children he'd seen. He sighed turning away, and cried out when he heard a loud thump.
The girl had sprung to life, and slammed her small fists against the glass. She was starring at him, with bright orange eyes. He felt frozen under that gaze, when he realized :she: was passably the sole survivor of all the children. Taking his sword he cut the glass open, and caught the girl as the water spilled out. Her small arms wrapped around his neck, and looking around feeling as if it was no longer safe, took off out of the room, carrying the precious bundle.
When he reached the hall he felt a little safer, and walked holding the wet girl. He could hear her breathing, and feel her heart. Not knowing what else to do he finally said, "You have a good strong hurt." Feeling awkward for even addressing the girl, he felt more nervous when she didn't say anything back. "What's your name?"
No answer.
"Do you know how you got here?"
No answer.
"Did they hurt or touch you in any way?"
No answer.
Hiei sighed and tried to pull her off, when she spoke her first word, "NO!" was her cry. He stopped trying to pull her off, and shushed her. 'Well at least I know she can talk,' He thought with a sigh. He found himself back at the entrance to the castle, where Kurama and Yusuke were waiting. Yusuke was covered in demon blood eyes looking dead. "I didn't find him. I didn't find Kuwabara." Kurama looked at him, "I found some demons I took care of them...I'm guessing you found the ring leader behind all this?" Yusuke said nothing.
Yusuke turned to Hiei, not even noticing the small girl in his arms, "Did you find Kuwabara?" Hiei stepped over to them, "No...I found dead children, this one," He looked down at the girl, "Was the only survivor I found." Yusuke didn't even bother taking notice of the child, instead he turned his back on them all, pulling at his hair, trying not to break down. "Yusuke..." Kurama whispered reaching out to put his hand on his shoulder.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!...Don-don't touch me." Yusuke's loud bark broke into a meek voice that seemed so unlike him. Kurama and Hiei starred at their friend, pity in their eyes. Hiei turned away from Yusuke, shame filling his tired frame up.
"Urameshi."
Everyone stiffened and looked at the girl in Hiei's arms. Her large orange eyes starred intensely at Yusuke who was starring at her. "That's what the man called you...Yusuke Urameshi." They starred at her, as she rest her head against Hiei's chest. "He spoke of you...Yusuke Urameshi. He loved you." Yusuke reached for the girl, Hiei placing a hand on her waist worried what Yusuke would do. But the small child reached out for him, and kissed Yusuke's brow-kissed the bloody, sweaty dirty brow. "I love you he said. And he wanted to kiss you before they took him away." Yusuke held the girl, tears streaming down his face, "Tell me...How did you know him, where is he now!" The girl placed her head under Yusuke's chin, "I'm so tired..." Hiei took the girl back, before Yusuke could start to shake her. "Come, she has been trapped in the place for God only knows how long, let us go to Koenma, she can tell us more later."
Yusuke pressed his palm to his eyes, and forced a smile, a strange deranged look in his eyes. "She didn't say Kuwabara was dead...She didn't say he was dead." Hiei swallowed, "No Yusuke, she didn't."
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So we meet the little girl. Koenma and boeton examine her, and do some blood work, to find out all what have happened. Mean while she stays with the four at Genkai's following Hiei around he doesn't seem bothered by her presence. But that's not all, for the little girl is able to offer some peace to the grieving Yusuke, telling him all she can remember about Kuwabara.