A/N: YAY I have reviews!! Thank you to my two first reviewers HieiFan666 and Reborn-soul-09! Now, I'm sure you want to know what happens to Hiei, so on with the chapter! Oh, just to let you guys know, Kurama will probably be ooc, and there is attempted funniness. Let's just say Kurama is more tense about Hiei's disappearance than the other guys.
Chapter one: Cellmate
Kurama's POV
My conversation with Hiei lasted about four minutes. Then the connection was severed, which could only mean something had happened to him. Something we wouldn't like. "Hey Kurama! Please re-enter Earth's orbit!" Yusuke loudly prompted. "Something happened to Hiei." I told them. For a second no one said anything, then everyone asked what happened loudly. "He contacted me, said he was attacked and still fighting behind Yusuke's school." "Let's go." Yusuke said grimly. We all ran out the door, leaving Koenma's tape still on pause in Yusuke's VCR.
"Someone was able to take Shorty down? They must be as strong as Urameshi." Kuwabara said as we ran. "There were ten fighters to begin with." I said while we ran. I don't know why we just didn't get a car. "They must have been skilled if he felt he had to contact me. He's never done that before." I told them.
We reached the school, but not quickly enough. Hiei was gone, leaving damage and carnage behind. "Must have been one heck of a fight." Yusuke commented as we saw eight bodies either beheaded, cut up, or run through. There was also damage to a few trees and school windows. We checked inside, but there was only one body and a few weapons.
"Hey! He's alive!" Yusuke said, jumping through the window to the fighter inside we had thought to be dead. 'At least Hiei isn't among the dead, as of yet.'
Abandoning the uncomforting thought I went into the school to join Yusuke and Kuwabara in their questioning. "Where is our friend?" Yusuke demanded for the third time. The guy just laughed, again. This was wasting time. "Allow me Yusuke." I said. "Be my guest." I drew within myself and summoned Youko, my counterpart.
Youko's POV
After the transformation I walked to our victim and lifted him by the front of his blue fighting uniform. I took stock of his injuries quickly. It looked like the result of Hiei using his fists when he was angry.
"I believe my friend asked you a question." I growled. "You better answer." The impudent jerk spit in my face. 'That was not a smart idea.' I pulled a seed from a hidden pocket. "Do you know who I am?" I asked, giving the victim a narrow eyed glare. Our victim shook his head. "I am Youko of thieves, and I have reason to believe you know the whereabouts of our missing friend. This," I paused and held up the seed, " is a Vine of Death seed and if you do not tell me where to find my friend I will shove it up your nose. Do you know what it will do then?" (A/N: Yeah, I made that one up.)
Fear was rolling off the guy in waves, and I was still holding him off the ground by his shirtfront. The victim shook his head again. "Let me have the pleasure of explaining it then." I felt Shuichi struggling to surface again. He told me that we may not have much time. I told him he couldn't rush me if I was to get this guy talking. Besides, I was thoroughly enjoying this.
I continued. "Feeding off my Spirit Energy, the seed will then take root in your nose. Then the vines will begin to grow. Some will travel to your eyes, and come out through them, others will go to your brain, and even more will travel through your bloodstream, going everywhere and eventually coming out through the inside. Ti will take exactly ten hours of excruciating agony, and then you will die." I finished. "Now, tell me where my friend is."
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Kurama's POV
Well, that went rather well wouldn't you agree?" I asked Kuwabara and Yusuke, turning around and in my ningen form. I dropped the guy, he was dead anyway. I'm sure it was from his injuries.
Yusuke was staring at me, open-mouthed. "Where is Kuwabara?" I asked curiously. "Youko scared him off. We could feel the menace in his aura all the way over here. No wonder the guy died." Yusuke answered, still looking at me oddly. "What?" I asked. "Kurama, put the seed away." He said, staring at my right hand. I slipped it into an inside pocket. "Don't worry Yusuke," I said," I'm saving it for later."
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In the Dungeon, My character's POV
The cold of the cell wall bit into my back. I was sitting up against the cell wall, cross-legged on the cot I was lucky to have. 'May not have it for much longer, or my life.' If I kept refusing to do as my captor wanted…. Well, best not think about that now. 'I have to finish my plan of escape.' Though it wasn't much of a plan. It was more of a dream, since I didn't have the strength to; bust out and fight my way past the hundred or so guards. I didn't have a power that would aid me in that way, unless…No, that power was being held inside me somehow. I could still use my healing power, but with the other I could…
The cell door opening knocked me from my thoughts. The two guards at the door were dragging someone by the arms. They threw the person into my cell, and the person landed on their chest, not even waking when his head hit the cold dirt of the floor. I was sure he was a he now; his face was towards my cot.
The guards left without so much as a second glance. I got off my cot after I was sure they were gone, and rushed to the stranger's side. He was my height, maybe an inch or so taller, with black hair that stood straight up in spikes. Except for his bangs. There was a white starburst in his hair that matched the white bandanna around his forehead. He was wearing all black, except for the white collar around the top of his cape and the bandanna.
I looked for his injuries quickly, before any more of his blood could mix with the stains of mine on the floor. His arms were all cut, and he had a slash on each side. I also found two bullet wounds; one on his shoulder (a graze I noticed) and the other on his chest, thank goodness not near any vital organs. That would have been difficult to heal. 'He fought against them more than I did…'
No. No memories now. He needs help if he is to survive. I don't know why I cared, maybe it was because I felt compassion. No one had helped me when I had been injured and was too weak to heal myself. The feeling was horrible.
I wasn't like the other people I had shared cells with, before being moved. I would make sure I didn't become like them. Even if I've seen more death in my fourteen years than most priests.
All the while I had been thinking this I had lifted him onto my cot. Not caring about the red stains for once. I laid him face up, and removed his tattered cloak. The blood came out faster. I held my hands up to his sides first, to slow the bleeding. I still had to take off the shirt underneath the cloak, and didn't want him to die of blood loss.
I quickly removed the blue tank top that had been underneath his cloak and continued to heal his sides. They finally closed up. The skin seeming to knit itself back together without leaving so much as a scar. Also replenishing some of the blood he had lost. Then I worked on the bullet wounds. They were easy to close up, and the bullet popped right out of the chest wound. His arms should have been even easier, but I was growing weaker. I managed to heal a few of the cuts before my vision started swimming.
I quickly redressed him so he wouldn't freeze (trying hard not to notice how hot he was, which had nothing to do with the temperature.) I also didn't want the guards to notice he was healed before I was able to replenish my strength again. I knew I would get punished for healing him. But I didn't care. I just curled up into an opposite corner of the cell and fell into my deep sleep that replenishes my power.
A/N: Hey! So how did you like it? Review! Next chapter Hiei wakes up and meets my character! You also find out why Hiei was kidnapped. (Just a warning: I think the reason is kinda lame, but it fits.) Hey, this chapter was pretty long! OK, I'll let you review now. Hint Hint Wink Wink!
Hasta Luego,
Katana Blade