Chapter Achtzehn
Botan shivered in the cold and waited on the couch, leaning back, she looked up at the ceiling and began to remember better times but they eluded her. This was truly the end. "Hiei?" She looked over at him; "we aren't going to make it through this one, are we?"
"Hn." He replied and took a seat next to her. "Are you giving up?" he smiled darkly "I couldn't wait to see the day when you gave up hope."
"What?" Botan looked more intently at him, "Are you saying…"
"That's exactly what I am saying." He said,'But it's not as satisfying as I thought it was going to be.' He thought.
"You are such a jerk, Hiei. I swear! Well I want to help Yusuke. Kuwabara and Kurama." Botan stood up boldly.
"That's good, just go out there and save them." he said sarcastically, "you know if Yusuke and Kurama couldn't handle it, what makes you think, that someone as weak as you are will save them?" He smirked, "We are all just going to die anyway so just welcome it."
"W-Welcome death?" Botan said.
"That's right."
"What do you mean? We can't do that; the world is depending on us, Hiei! We have to think of a plan." Botan's hope suddenly returned and Hiei smirked inwardly
'Wake up! Shuichi you are not so weak as to let this poison run through your veins.' Yoko screamed in the back of his mind.
'I cant.' Shuichi replied with a painful inner grown. His head hurt, everything hurt. He still didn't know where he was and the coppery taste of blood was still lingering in the mouth.
"Ah, Kurama I see you are awake, the dark lord is excepting to see you." Yukina chirped and skipped away to get her master.
The dark lord walked in slowly and smirked, "so you are the legendary thief, you don't look like much to me."
"G-go away!"
"So the poison doesn't work on you, well it seems you will need a little more work before you fully join us." He smirked and made his way to Kurama and hovered over him.
"Get away from me, I will not join you." Kurama spoke as angrily as he could.
"Shh, you have no choice. You just need a little motivation."
"We need to get to Spirit world some how and see if I can use this pacifier."
"How will you get there? You can no longer fly, and you don't know what state it is in. the dark lord could be there."
"Well Hiei I don't know what else to do."
"Hn. He hasn't gotten to demon world yet. And he doesn't have that damn suck toy. He wouldn't dare move without it."
"So then we need to get to demon world and find someone who will help us." Botan smiled
Hiei rolled his eyes, "Well?"
"Lets go!"
The dark lord brought up a hand and placed his fore and middle finger to his forehead and smirked darkly as Kurama tossed and turned to remove the fingers but little could be done. "Relax Kurama. This is going to be a fun little game."
"Stop!" Kurama growled out in warning when all of a sudden his eyes shut and his mind blacked out.
"What is haunting you? We'll bring that to the surface." He spoke softly to himself then turned to Yukina. "When he stops struggling you give him another dose of the poison and he should be on our side."
"Yes sir." Yukina said softly and her lord left but not before giving her a lustful kiss.
"Kurama." Came a seductive voice in the darkness making Kurama cringe in memory. "Hello Beautiful."
"Karasu." Kurama breathed in recognition and looked around for him.
"I know I still haunt your mind, why don't you run? Still not running from things you can't see?" Karasu smirked as he slithered from the darkness and stood before him.
"What are you doing here?" Kurama growled trying to keep calm.
"What? You aren't happy to see me?" Karasu skimmed his hands lightly up Kurama's arms and into his hair where it grabbed a fistful and forced Kurama up to meet his gaze. "That's too bad because I have some fun in store for you."
Kurama's eyes watered lightly but he blinked back against the pain. "No!
On the outside Kurama struggled to get free his binds becoming tighter and more restricting. Yukina watched in horror at what was happening before her and waited patiently for him to stop.
"Don't touch me, Karasu!" Kurama ordered in his comatose state.