Random: Hey peoples! Sorry it took me so long. I had finals. (die die die!!)
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Kai: Oops........-'' Sorry
Random: Geez......... oh yeah, the disclaimer...
Disclaimer: I own nothing. So please stop making me do this. If I did own it, Toonami would not have restarted the entire series last Saturday night! THATIS NOT RIGHT!! THEY LEFT IT AT A WORSE CLIFFIE THAN I EVER COULD!
Last Time:
Yukina stood in Mariko's doorway, her hands on her heart, and leaning on the doorframe for support. Kurama,
Botan, Keiko, and Kuwabara were running down the hallway toward her in a panic. Yusuke reached her first, just as
she fell backwards in a dead faint. Yusuke caught her, trying frantically to see in Mariko's room so he could know
what had shocked Yukina so much. Kurama took Yukina and Yusuke elbowed his way into the room, Kurama peering
in behind him.
"Ye Gods," breathed Kurama as a horrible sight met his eyes.
Chap 13
The room was a wicked mess. Curtains hung in tatters at an open window, the cool breeze giving the room an eerie feeling, not that it took much. Broken glass was shattered on the bed and floor. One, bloody broken katana lay in the middle of the floor. Dark bloodstains streaked across the bed, showing signs of a gory struggle.
"Mariko's gone," hissed Yusuke as he steeped into the room.
He walked in a few steps, then stopped and turned to Kurama with a frustrated glare. He opened his mouth and it moved as if he was speaking. But no sound was heard.
"What?" Kurama said nervously, brows furrowed in confusion.
Yusuke's mouth moved a second time, a great expression of shock on his face. Kurama stepped into the room as well, in hopes of hearing what Yusuke was trying to say. Though Kurama's shoes stepped on broken glass on the floor, his footsteps made no noise. He, too, opened his mouth and spoke, but to no avail. The room remained eerily quiet. Cold as death silent.
"…" Kurama tried again.
Yusuke shook his head in disbelief as all their friends remained still and silent outside Mariko's door. He turned and snatched a small black vase up off of Mariko's bedside table and hurled it into the wall. It shattered; the pieces tinkling across the floor, but still no sound was made. Yusuke and Kurama hurried across to the door and out of the room.
"Holy…" muttered Yusuke, not able to finish his sentence.
"It's a spell," Kurama sighed, "A silencing spell."
"That's why we didn't hear anything and there was quite obviously a struggle," commented Botan.
"But was there really?" Yusuke asked, darkly and suspiciously.
"Beg pardon?" said Yukina, who had woken from her earlier faint.
"Was there really a struggle," Yusuke started again, "or did Mariko set this up to lead us to believe she'd been kidnapped, not just run off?"
"No," Yukina said decisively after looking around the room, "She's a-not run off. Taru's stench is al over this room. That isn't even her blade there on the ground. But the blood streaks on the bed are hers and she wouldn't be able get out on her own after the lose of so much blood. She was obviously taken out be force, there is no doubt about it."
"Uh…how did you know that?" Kuwabara asked slowly as everyone stared at her in shock.
"I'm a koorime," shrugged Yukina, her hands clasped behind her back, "and, again, Hiei is my brother. We can both make such simple deductions."
"Understandable," Kurama said, coming to her defense.
"Alright then," Yusuke said, sounding defeated, "I suppose I knew Mariko hadn't run off. I just didn't want to believe that Taru had gotten to her."
"So Taru has her," whispered Keiko, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"Yes," Kurama sighed.
"Can we save her?"
"I don't know…"
"Please, " whispered Keiko, searching everyone's eyes pleadingly, "please, someone tell me we can save her."
Yusuke placed his arm around her shoulders, pulled her close, and kissed her forehead. She turned to him, burying her face in his shirt, sobbing.
"You know what we need to do, right?" Kurama said quietly, addressing Yusuke.
"Don't say it Kurama!" Yusuke warned.
"Do you know?"
"Don't say it!"
"Do you?"
"Stop it, Kurama, I don't want to hear it!"
"Well?!"
"Okay," Yusuke sighed in defeat, "I know, but do we have to? We don't even know where he is, but we do know that he will be pissed."
"Yeah, he'll be mad. Furious is more like it."
"What are you two blathering bout?" demanded Botan.
"C'mon, Kurama, we can't! You and I both know its too dangerous!"
"What?" Botan asked again.
"I know," Kurama replied simply to Yusuke.
"What?!" all three girls shrieked.
Kurama turned to them, hands in his pockets and a dangerous glint in his eyes.
"We have to get Hiei."
Random: Sorry, guys. Short and slow.
Kai: Slacker.............
Random: I said I'm sorry! The next chappie will be way better and longer, aiight?
Kai: Whatever......
Random: Here,I'll give ya'll a preview...
Kai: Ya'll? Heh......thats funny.....
Random: do you want a preview or don't you?!?!
Kai: ............
Random:Anyway. Hiei could possibly be getting drunk in the next chappie and We wil see where Mariko is and what exactly Tarureally wants! SO THERE!! Get offamy back, Kai!
Kai: .....................
Random: Are you eating donuts behind my back again?
Kai: MPH! (her saying no with a donuts stuck in her mouth)
Random: Gimmie!!
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