All right here you go the revised episode 10.
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EPISODE TEN: IT'S ALL OVER
When Kuwabara woke up he found Yukina at his side, sleeping near him, a damp rag in her hand. She has obviously been caring diligently for him as he slept. Kuwabara stared at her sleeping face gently feeling bad for making her worried…even if this couldn't be real. Kuwabara was jerked from his thoughts ah he heard and all too familiar voice whisper, "She hasn't left your side."
Kuwabara sat up and turned around to come face to face with his best friend, who looked as if he hadn't slept in days. Kuwabara made a small alarmed grunting sound and felt a cold sweat form on the back of his neck. Yusuke gave a frail smiled rubbing his eyes tiredly, brown eyes set on Kuwabara. There were heavy rings under his eyes, and his hair was messy from being pulled. Kuwabara swallowed hard wondering how long he'd been out. Yusuke chuckled at Kuwabara's blatant discomfort, "Well...I haven't left your side either...Been four days...we were getting awfully worried you fuckin' prick."
Kuwabara looked around the room trying to focus anywhere but Yusuke, 'Is this really real,' Kuwabara thought, 'Or am I just dreaming it all? That look on his face...he seems so real...was...' Kuwabara's thoughts stopped and he grabbed his head, "What's wrong with me! What's going on…I don't get it."
Yusuke grabbed his friend's wrist, and made Kuwabara look at him. "Almost a week ago I came back, remember? We sat on the beach and you complained that Hiei wasn't here. Well, that monk like demon attacked you and he did something to you. While you were out Kurama and I decided to drag Hiei back, in case we needed him. When we got back, we were told you were under that tree in the park..." Yusuke looked at Kuwabara trying to relay same sort of comfort, "Your were scared...When that small demon, or Sage grabbed you, he messed with your head, you've been having nightmares, but it's okay now, we fed you a cure not too long ago. Everything will be okay now!"
Kuwabara listened to Yusuke, and he wanted desperately to believe this nonsense that was coming from Yusuke's mouth. But it all seemed so far-fetched, too simple. "This is...this is all hard to understand," Kuwabara whispered, "I can't tell what's real anymore!" Yusuke scooted closer, throwing an arm over Kuwabara's shoulder, "This is real...I'm real…we're here, and you're okay...nothing can hurt you here...well only I can hurt you but that's because you're so damn weak!"
Kuwabara laughed at Yusuke's typical answer, but then he broke down in tears.
Both he and Yusuke were surprised, and Kuwabara grabbed his stomach. He hadn't meant to break down so pitifully, but everything just felt so awful, like some big fucking lie. "My stomach hurts," Kuwabara croaked. Before Yusuke could do anything, Kuwabara had thrown up all over his and Yusuke's lap. Yukina woke up, and cried, "Oh my goodness! Kazuma-kun!" Yusuke turned to her, "Help me get him in the bathroom!" Yukina nodded, and both of them half dragged, half carried Kuwabara to the bathroom. Yusuke put a fully clothed, and still decorated with badges Kuwabara in the tub. Yusuke ran the water, and ordered Yukina to go talk to the others.
Yusuke pulled Kuwabara's socks off, and his dirtied shirt, tossing them aside. He ran out for the rag Yukina had left on the floor, and used that to clean his best friend. Yusuke completely ignored the fact that he was covered in vomit, and that just annoyed and hurt Kuwabara more.
"Kuwabara...are you ok? C'mon buddy, speak to me. You…you gotta get better."
Kuwabara could not control what his body was doing, and the tears kept flowing. He turned to the side, and puked again, this time on Yusuke's feet. The teen cringed, and made a sound of disgust, but did not leave Kuwabara. "For God's sake Kuwabara if I find out you're aiming for me I'm going to kill you," Yusuke said grimly. Genkai came in, Koenma following her. Boeton, Keiko, Yukina, Kurama, and Hiei stood outside the door, watching anxiously. Genkai grabbed Kuwabara's face after he finished throwing up some more, and looked him in the eyes, "What is it? What is it Kuwabara?" the old woman asked. Koenma looked at Kuwabara, and whispered, "He's awfully pale..." Genkai touched Kuwabara's brow, and hissed between his teeth, "He's freezing! Yusuke, you've done your part, turn him over to me."
Yusuke gripped the rag, but let it drop in the tub. "Okay."
Koenma followed Yusuke out, and the door was shut leaving the old woman, and sickly teen alone. "Kuwabara, look at me, look at me Kuwabara." The teen managed too, barely able to see her through the tears, "You're suffering through a post-dramatic stress attack. The nightmares you were receiving took a lot out of you, but you're in my hands, and the others. You're safe...you'll be okay." Kuwabara nodded, moaning, and making strange sounds as the pain worsened. He coughed and puked again, and Genkai sighed, "I'm not cleaning this up."
That night his puking had stopped, and Kuwabara suffered many random outbursts of crying for no apparent reason, his stomach would cramp up, and Kuwabara suffered from a high fever. Yukina was forced to go to bed, she was apparently unable to bare watching Kuwabara go through this any longer. Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke stayed in the room with Kuwabara mostly, only leaving every now and a then to go to the bathroom or eat...or just because it became unbearable to watch.
Kuwabara would turn, and move his legs fitfully, in his fevered delusion. He whispered the story of what he'd been through so far, and when he was done, his three best friends were more worried than ever. They couldn't fathom what type of nightmare Kuwabara had endured, nor could they understand why Kuwabara was so convinced that hadn't all been real. Kurama dabbed a cool wet rag against Kuwabara mouth, wiping the remaining puke away, and with a second rag he wiped Kuwabara's brow and cleaned his face. Hiei didn't watch Kuwabara much, but his eyes would snap to look at him when Kuwabara would let out a loud grunt of half-scream, and arch his back. Yusuke was closest to Kuwabara, and his brown eyes watched the withering man before him. He eventually moved over, and placed Kuwabara's head in his lap, wiping the wet curls from the sweaty man's brow.
"What the hell...I can't see...I don't understand all he's saying. Losing his soul...Gates of Purgatory...why the hell would that demon want to do this? And why the hell can't Kuwabara believe we're real?"
"Simple," Kurama whispered, "He is your best friend...any intelligent demon would try to kill, or torture him to get a rise out of you."
Hiei snorted, "You mean any foolish demon. I wouldn't touch Kuwabara or Keiko unless I knew for sure I could beat Yusuke, and even then I'd be far too hesitant to attempt it. I've seen what happens when the ones you love are threatened."
Kuwabara heard Sage's voice whispering somewhere in his ear. He was whispering an incantation that was trying to awaken Kuwabara, trying to pry his eyes open. Kuwabara let out a shallow scream, and turned on his stomach, nails scratching at the floor. Yusuke cradled Kuwabara's head, trying to send some sense of strength to his friend. Kuwabara moaned again eyes shooting open, his pale blue orbs rolled in the back of his head.
"Kuwabara!" Yusuke cried, as Kuwabara buried his face in his lap. Yusuke tried to stop the man from scratching the floor, afraid he's hurt himself but Kuwabara struggled still. Kuwabara slapped the floor, panting, releasing out small hoarse cries. His eyes opened again, and Kuwabara cried, "N...NO...YOU WILL NOT HAVE-AGGH!" Kuwabara slammed his own head onto the ground turning away from Yusuke's lap, and let out another scream, as he continued to scratch at the floor, leaving tiny bloody trails on the ground from the damage he was doing to his nails.
Hiei's hands appeared from out of nowhere, he grabbed Kuwabara's wrists forcing his hands behind his back, and pressed his knee between Kuwabara's shoulder blades. "Snap out of it human!," Hiei ordered not expecting Kuwabara to struggle as he was doing. Kuwabara moaned, "I WON'T LET YOU HAVE...ME!" He sounded possessed. "Fight this you bastard!" Hiei snapped as the man continued to thrash under him, "FIGHT IT!" Kurama subdued Kuwabara's legs, and whispered, "Come on, hang in there, come on Kuwabara!" Yusuke grabbed Hiei and Kurama angrily throwing them off, "GET OFF HIM, NOW! You'll do more harm then good!" He cried, and then grabbed Kuwabara's shoulders and flipped the man on his back pinning him to the ground, "I'M HERE YOU CRAZY SON OF A BITCH! DON'T YOU GO AND LOSE IT! I'M HERE YOU STUPID APE!" Yusuke clasped both of Kuwabara's hands glaring fiercely down at the ailing man below him.
Kuwabara and Yusuke's hands shook as they squeezed them, and with in a minute Kuwabara's hand went limp, and he looked at his best friend, who didn't seem surprised that Kuwabara had beat his terrible tremors. Face flushed, and covered in sweat, Kuwabara whispered, "No...I'm not going back there...not going." Kuwabara's voice died away as he fainted, and Yusuke stroked the back of Kuwabara's head, "Yeah, yeah...you're staying here...staying with us."
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Sage cursed, and grabbed Batto, "I can't get his spirit to awaken! Dammit!" Sage shook the necklace in his son's face, "You see what you did!" Batto shrunk away from his father, and whispered, "I don't know what I did father, but..." Batto shuddered, "When I killed the short one, Yusuke went mad, and now he is going to kill me!"
Sage sighed, "No more going after them, we'll worry about then when they attack. Some how you've worn Kuwabara's soul out, just go and rest...it's almost time to open the gates. We need a few more days..." Sage growled angrily, placing a wrinkled hand to his brow. "Let us hope Kuwabara's soul will wake soon...if not this is all for naught, and you my son, will pay for it!" Batto shuddered, bowed, and left his father, hoping that Kuwabara's soul would heal and wake.
Even though both Sage and Batto had handled the necklace many times...they still had not noticed the crack on the red jewel.
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Kuwabara woke again, and found that all the pain was gone. He looked around, seeing Yusuke sleeping while he sat next to him, Kurama was laying on the floor curled up, almost in a cat like manner, and Hiei was in the corner, his face relaxed in slumber. Kuwabara sat up, and removed all the bandages feeling refreshed and better, grinning from ear to ear. He retreated to the bathroom quietly, and took a bath, redressed, and came back his friends still lost in their slumber. He sat there, and turned his head to the open window, listening to the birds.
This place felt and sounded too real to be any type of dream or illusion. He was truly home, and it had all been just one very long bad dream. He looked over at Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei. Kuwabara smirked, he didn't know what was compelling him to, but he decided to wake Hiei up first. Kuwabara plopped down on his own stomach looking down at the sleeping warrior, and waited for those demon senses of Hiei's to force the dark demon to wake. Sure enough, Hiei twitched in his sleep, as if he was annoyed, and low behold, he woke up and almost snatched Kuwabara's head off his shoulders. Kuwabara laughed a little and Hiei just stared at him, shock evident on his face. He sighed, "Damn. You're awake." Kuwabara laughed, and moved over to Kurama lying next to him to wake him up.
Hiei watched in what was almost amusement, and suggested, "Poke his nose." Kuwabara couldn't resist a large goofy grin, from what had to be the funniest statement that had ever left Hiei's mouth. He did so, and Kurama woke groggily, and when he saw Kuwabara, his face lit up. "Kuwabara...you're okay now?" Kuwabara nodded, rolled over, and went to Yusuke.
Kuwabara grinned, and poked Yusuke's brow pushing him over. Yusuke woke cursing, and holding his head, and glared up at the person who pushed him. His facial expression changed when he realized it was Kuwabara. He laughed and tackled his best friend, and managed to collide his skull with Kuwabara. Both boys groaned grabbing their brows before Yusuke burst, "WHY YOU SON OF BITCH! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP WITHOUT TELLING ME?!"
Kuwabara glared at Yusuke, "What?! What do you call what I just did asshole?!"
"You didn't wake me up first! Idiot!"
"Why does it matter? Ass!"
"It matters! Fuck face!"
"Why Goddammit!?"
"'Cuz I'm your best friend dip shit!"
The two finally laughed ending their petty argument, and Kuwabara looked around the room at his friends. Kuwabara sighed, and turned the tables on Yusuke, by putting him in a headlock and giving him a noogie, "I'm home!"
Yusuke shoved Kuwabara's arms off him, "Of course you're home. Where else would you be?" Kuwabara grinned, "Don't worry about it Urameshi," he said releasing his best friend. Hiei rubbed his head; still a little tired to deal with this happy good feeling mushy crap...He had stayed up almost all night listening to Kuwabara's groans and muttered whispers as he dreamed his endless nightmares. Not that Hiei would ever tell Kuwabara that. "So…what were your dreams about?" Hiei asked trying to sound casual and careless.
Kuwabara closed his eyes a moment, and then smiled wide, "Nah…don't worry about it guys. I'm home now, and I'm not sick anymore, that's the important thing, right?" Yusuke wrapped an arm around Kuwabara's shoulders squeezing one gently, "You were always home buddy…you just were delusional or some crazy shit like that…" Kuwabara smiled, feeling a happy warm feeling swell in him, "Yeah I guess I am."
End of this chapter
see Kuwabara is kinda happy... it's a fake reality, but happy. Next part, Kurama thinking of Hiei, and Kuwabara waking from his blissful dream to the real harsh reality.
