Blood Red Roses
Chapter 7
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I am a flower quickly fading
here today, gone tomorrow
a wave tossed in the ocean
a vapor in the wind
Who I am Casting Crowns
His hand felt cold…..almost weak. There was some warmth to it, though. Not much,but he could feel heat where their fingers touched. His grip- firm but not crushing like he'd suspected it to be. In a way it was almost gentle, the way he clasped it like that.
The feelings of warmth and coolness …strength and weakness. They both comforted and scared him.
It was odd…his head felt clear for once. He could concentrate on the feeling of his hand. The texture of it. He could hear the yelling out side….feel the rumbling of the floor. No thoughts of cutting his skin. There was no need to see his blood spill out over his wrist. For once….for now….right this moment , he was free.
With the others (This is mostly in Hiei's P.O.V )
"Spirit Gun!"
"Damn it! Why…. won't….this…work!" Yusuke yelled punching the wall after his third failed attempt at breaking the wall.
They'd been using various attacks on the wall for almost two hours. Nothing worked. At first Hiei hadn't even though Kurama was behind the wall, that the rose was a teleporter to some other place farther away….not five feet like some dunderheads thought.
He glanced up from his crouching position as Kuwabara ran at the wall with his spirit sword. He looked back down when the red head flew back across the room. Why were they wasting their time here when the fox was some where else?
"Hiei! Get off your lazy butt and help us break down this stupid freakin' wall!" Urameshi yelled. He blinked once then gave Yusuke his long slow stare. He knew he was pissing him off and he relished in his anger. It felt good to be hated. That meant he could hate back.
"Please explain to me, detective, why you and the baka are staying here launching yourselves at the wall while you have no idea if the fox is even there?" He said all of this with his best calm smart aleck voice. The vein that was making itself known on Yusuke's head almost made him smile. Almost….
"So what do you think we should do, Hiei? Sit here and wait for Kurama's body to appear up here with all the others?" the detective screamed at him in anger.
"Shut up you guys! Us standing here arguing is doing nothing. We need to band together! That means you too shorty!" Kuwabara yelled
Hiei was quiet for a moment staring hard at the red head in front of him. Kuwabarra had a hopeful smile on his face.
"You are an imbecile."
Hiei allowed himself a smirk as the teen in front of him crumpled, but what the red headed idiot said was true. Even though all this arguing felt good it was doing nothing to help the fox. Every second he was gone made him worry more.
Kurama's energy had been changing lately. His entire aura was shifting and re-arranging . It worried him.
It was odd to wonder about some one other than Yukina… but he did worry. The fox was at a dangerous point right now where he could easily be manipulated. Gone were his nerves of steel and quick wit. He'd been replaced with someone new. Someone who paused in place where the person he'd known would have kept going. Blinked and balked where the old would have charged ahead. He walked and stood differently even though he smiled the same.
Something was changing…
And he wasn't going to be able to fight off a direct assault- physical or worse….internal…..
"We need to track the fox. If he is here you're not going to be able to get to him just by throwing yourselves at that wall. If he is behind it there is no way in any of the seven hells you're going to break it that easily."
Yusuke and Kuwabara blinked in shock at him. He stared back at them harder. He didn't need to read their minds to know what they were thinking. It came as no shock when Yusuke began to nod slowly.
"Can you trace him?' He asked slowly staring hard at Hiei.
"I don't know. Can't you feel how his energy is shifting in and out from strong to weak to gone?" Hiei asked his gaze locked with Yusuke's.
"So that means he's in battle, right?" Kuwabara asked slowly, not really processing the information.
"Not really. He could be but he could be moving or….." Yusuke trailed off as he began to run towards the wall. Hiei followed reaching it well before Yusuke. He reached out to touch the rose feeling the blood cold on his fingered tips. A message to Kurama… a form of invitation. The fox had to know it was a trap. Hiei knew he had to have felt these sensations coming off of it. So why had he allowed himself to be pulled into it?
"Guys what's going on?" Kuwabara called as he jogged over. Yusuke was kneeling beside him now, reaching out to touch the rose.
Yusuke turned to look at him his eyes wide. "You don't think?"
Hiei didn't meet his eyes. Or maybe he couldn't. He could feel Yusuke's fear. Hell, he was even afraid. How was he supposed to say that yes, maybe the fox was finally giving up?
"How are we going to get through?" Yusuke didn't wait for his answer. He knew it too.
"I could try calling the dragon…" he wasn't sure where that came from. The dragon was hard to call. It took so much out of him, but right now none of those things crossed his mind.
"Maybe ." Yusuke said nodding. " If I fire my spirit gun at it at the same time.."
"What the heck is going on!" Kuwabara yelled
"Kurama just really needs some help right now…right Hiei?" Yusuke said to the red head but looking over at Hiei. Once again he saw the fear in his eyes. Hiei gave a slow nod not taking his eyes from Yusuke's.
"He just needs help." Like a chant he repeated that over and over in his head. He will be fine. He will be fine. He just needs help.
Closing his eyes he began to focus on the dragon. Calling it up from the depths of hell where it rested. Keeping his chant over and over again in his head.
He could feel his energy surge. It coated him and wrapped him up in its warmth. The pain came later. The slow, mind numbing ache. Now all there was surrounding him was power. Sweet protection and power.
This power… Normally he almost got drunk over the high the power gave him. This time it was different, though. This time he could hear the chant ringing out above all his thoughts to the very core of him, keeping his thought in order.
He will be fine. He will be fine. All he needs is help. All he needs is help. He will be fine.
Now he opened his eyes. Nodding at Yusuke, he advanced on the wall.
They raised their arms slowly and in time each preparing for the unknown.
He will be fine. He will be fine. He will be fine. He will be fine.
"Black Dragon!"
All he needs is help. All he needs is help. He will be fine.
"Spirit Gun!"
He will be fine. He will be fine. He will be fine. All he needs is help.
Kuwabara watched in amazement as the two almost equal attacks collided with the wall. He had to shut his eyes though, as the after shocks bounced back on him and the surroundings. He felt the hair on his arms stand up. He felt the blasts rock the whole building. The roof groaned and the whole place seemed to sway. He flew backwards, losing his footing.
When he did finally open his eyes and stumble to his feet, groaning and moaning, he almost yelled in shock.
The first thing he saw was Yusuke and Hiei standing in the same place in front of the wall. Or where the wall had been…..
Hiei was in shock. The attack as usual had drained him but now he was coming to his senses. At first he thought he was hallucinating. Then ,in utter shock he realized the sight in front of him was real.
Blood. So much blood, dripped from the ceiling to the floor. He took at step closer to it. Some thing as floating in the blood. Thousands of little specks.
He will be fine. All he needs is help.
"Roses. Blood and roses." Kuwabara whispered beside him.
Rose petals float in the blood. Thousands, Millions of pure white rose petals stained red with blood.
He will be fine. He will be fine.
Slowly Hiei walked up toward the waterfall of blood and roses. The blood stained his shoes but he kept on moving towards it, slowly shuffling towards his goal.
He will be fine. He will be fine. All he needs is help.
Yusuke and Kuwabara exchanged confused looks but then began to move towards the bloody falls too, flinching when it touched their feet.
He will be fine. All he needs is help.
Stopping about a foot away from touching the blood, Hiei finally turned around and looked back at the others. They nodded at him and slowly he turned back to the falls .They didn't hear him whisper a near silent prayer under his breath. Nor did they see him hesitate. They just saw him step into the flowing blood and roses.
HE WILL BE FINE.
A/N So yes I did just make the cliffhanger worse…so so sorry! Next time some one dies….but who?
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