A/N: O.O This chapter isn't even 500 words… Now that is just sad, even for me… -.- Oh well. Please stick with me and please read and review!

3. Realization of the Horrible Truth – The Last Men on Earth.

After the earthquake, Hiei and Kuwabara set out on a search of the city, looking for Kurama, Yusuke, the girls, or… anybody, for that matter. It seemed as if the usually-busy city had been deserted, wiped out. All the city needed was a tumbleweed and a gust of wind blowing ominously by.

The two boys called out to the wind, hoping that maybe somebody would hear them in the deserted ghost town. No one did.

Finally, after a few hours of searching many buildings and popular rendezvous spots in the city, Hiei and Kuwabara returned back to Kurama's house.

"Did you find anybody?" Kuwabara asked Hiei.

"No," answered Hiei shortly.

"I didn't either," Kuwabara said, his voice full of worry. "I wonder why nobody's in town, they can't have all gone on vacation… could they?"

"Hn, baka," said Hiei, glaring at Kuwabara. "Of course they didn't all go on vacation, you fool. They must have disappeared like Kurama and the others…"

"But why?"

"How should I know?" Hiei snapped. "Stop asking such stupid questions!"

"Well sor-ry!" Kuwabara sassed back. "I'm going into the house…" Kuwabara walked into Kurama's trashed house and turned on the TV. There was nothing but static fuzz on. "What the…? No TV?"

Hiei stood outside, listening to Kuwabara complain about no TV. What an idiot… he thought to himself. Worried over a trivial matter such as no television when there are more important things to be worrying about… Tch. Humans make me sick... One of these days, I'll just rip out—

Hiei was jerked from his thoughts when Kuwabara opened the window. "Hiei," he said, his voice shaky. "Hiei… there's really nobody left on Earth…"

"Glad you finally noticed," Hiei replied wryly.

"But, Hiei… once we die… there won't be anybody left on Earth!" Kuwabara fretted. "We can't reproduce to repopulate the world!"

Hiei's eye twitched, having a sudden vision of himself and Kuwabara trying to have sex to repopulate the Earth. The thought of that nearly made him retch.

"—And if we can't reproduce, then the whole world is doomed—"

Some kind of demon must be behind all this, Hiei mused. Either it is a demon in the Maka, or one still here on Earth… But… if they wanted to wipe out the world… why would they leave us? I can understand a demon wanting to leave me here, since I am a strong and of the youkai race, but why Kuwabara? He can't do anything useful! Surely the demon must know that… So then… why? Who is doing this? And… why were we left…?

NEXT TIME: CURIOSITY KILLED THE KITSUNE – SEVEN BILLION ESCAPED SOULS!

Reviewer Responses!

Animefouryou: Thanks for your run-on review:) Just kidding, but thank you!

Peeka-chan: World War 3: Kuwabara vs. Hiei… That'd make a great movie. XDD Koto's a girl. Thanks for the review:)