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Chapter 11. Tribulation.

Shadow blinked. Not really sure what to make of her current situation. Besides the fact that she was in trouble. The boy was about her height, maybe an inch or two on her, enough gel in his hair to sink a battleship, and he wore a green jumpsuit, of something along those lines anyway. But anyway, he seemed really, really, angry.
"Uh, Hi?" said Shadow, not really sure of what else to say.
Hiei was a few feet away, and clearly enjoying Shadow's current predicament. He was leaning agent a tree with his arms crossed, and smiling, well, if you call that a smile. Mirae snapped out of her "trance" the moment Shadow got in trouble.
"Put her down...or you won't live much longer.." She threatened.
Yusuke just ignored her. Apparently he deemed her no threat to his own well being. He instead gave his attention to Hiei, without taking his eyes off the Hyanu in his grip.
"I was worried when they kidnapped you. But you're looking alright. They don't have a spell on you or anything like that do they?"
Hiei scowled. Not liking Yusuke's choice of words.
"First, the captured me, not kidnapped. Second, I've been fine for some time now. You haven't been by Genkai's yet, have you, Detective?"
Yusuke sweat dropped and turned his head to Hiei.
"Uh, no."
"And one more thing, it would be impossible for me to fall under such a spell as to control me."
"I wouldn't mind testing that." Mirae chimed in. Glaring at Hiei. Her staff firmly in hand.
"You're welcome to try." Hiei shot back. His hand now on his Katana. The two began glaring daggers at each other.
"Gee, these two are worse together than when Hiei is with Kuwabara." said Yusuke as he watched the display.
"Yeah, tell me about it. Try spending a whole day with the arguing pair." said Shadow. Still in Yusuke's grip.
"Oh man. At times it's probably entertaining, but I'll also bet it's a royal pain."
"You said it. Hey, you think you can put me down now?"
Yusuke's attention shot away from the pair, who just continued to shoot mental threats at each other, and back to the Half demon girl he now realized he still had a hold of.
"Well, I'm still not sure what's going on-"
"Yusuke just put her down! She can do you no harm." came Kurama's voice, which seemed to be on the verge of breaking. Yusuke turned to look at his other friend. His back was to them. Up till now he had remained quiet. Yusuke didn't even know he was there until he spoke. Though, hell if he was going to let that fact slip. Shadow on the other hand, was harboring different thoughts.
'Did he just call me weak?' her left eye began to twitch.
Kurama stood up, picking up the scroll as he did so. At the moment Kurama spoke, Mirae and Hiei stopped arguing, and Yusuke dropped Shadow. Who, of course landed on her feet, which was easy seeing she was only an inch or two off the ground anyway. She 'hmph'ed and then brushed herself off. 'Dumb boys.'
"Hey, Kurama, are you alright? You know, everyone's been worried about ya. I must have been called, what 6 times by the others asking about you when I was out looking for Hiei."
"I already know the others have been worried for my safety, Yusuke." Kurama's voice was a bit calmer sounding now, but still shaky. He turned his head slightly to look at his friends. His eyes seemed a bit damp. Almost like he as trying to hold back tears. This was not like him. Not like him at all.
'Now, it can't have been those two arguing that got Kurama riled up. Otherwise he'd be over it. And he wouldn't be this badly shaken. And it takes a LOT or something really bad to get to him this badly.' thought Yusuke.
"Kurama, what's wrong? And Don't say nothing, whatever it is, is has to be bad to get to you this badly."
Kurama turned to them. And began to explain things to Yusuke. With a little help from Hiei, who put some of what Kurama said, into what Yusuke, and Genkai like to call, Idiot terms.
Mirae however, was paying little to no attention to what was going on or being said. Not all because she already knew the reason, but because her mind was fixed on the griffin. His colors, his eyes, his face, and his voice. OH that VOICE!! She would give almost anything just to forget the sound of that voice! The others looked at that Griffin and saw just another demon waiting to get killed. But who she saw, was very different. The moment she saw his face, those Demonic pools of pure black, it was like she was looking in to the eyes of the god of death. And not the chipper cheerful kind like Boton. The kind that foretell only misery and ill fortune. Her argument with Hiei was only a mask to try and distract herself. It had worked, for a few seconds. But the moment they stopped, it all came back. Especially when she saw how the failure pained Kurama. His mother would pay the price. But...
Images of the destruction of her clan, her people flashed though her mind. It was at that moment, she knew there was no doubt. It was Him. She then turned and bolted into the woods. This did not go unnoticed. Shadow quickly followed.
"Mirae wait!" She cried as she ran after her. She was truly baffled by her friend's behavior.
Kurama also was about to go after her, but Hiei grabbed his arm, stopping him.
"You have important tasks to do. Remember, you're on a time limit. And you've already wasted enough of it."
Kurama looked in to the woods that Mirae had run off into. But after a few short moments, he turned in the other direction and left. Hiei and Yusuke both watching him leave.
"Where is he going?" asked Yusuke.
"To collect another piece of his mother's ransom." answered Hiei.
"Oh." there was a slight pause. "What about the girls?"
"Hn. I could care less if they ever came back." Hiei took a few steps forward before looking back at the woods. Well remembering his alliance.
"…Sill… I suppose we should wait in case they do come back."
Ok now that last comment caught Yusuke completely by surprise. In fact he spent a moment just staring at Hiei. Blinking a few times.
"Ok Hiei, what exactly happened when they 'captured' you?"
Hiei whirled around and glared at the detective.
"That's none of your concern!!" he snapped.
Fortunately for Yusuke, he had had his head snapped off by Hiei, and relived enough death glares, that he was unfazed by this. He bent down to meet Hiei's glare.
"Tell me, or I'll tell a certain some one, something which you don't want her to know."
Hiei got one of his rare wide eyes expressions before turning into one of sheer hatred.
"Damn you!"

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