Fifteen minutes later, Kurama pulled into the police station parking lot. He and Hiei walked inside. A cop led them to a back room, where a man was sitting with the doctor next to him. When they entered, the doctor scooted to the far corner in a very quick manner.

"They're monsters!" the doctor exclaimed, pointing a shaking finger at the two boys.

The man ignored him. "Please have a seat. I'm glad you could make it on such short notice."

"We had nothing else to do. Might as well come in..." the fox stated idly, pulling out a chair and sitting down, then crossing his arms over the wooded surface. Hiei preferred the window sill. The officer looked at him strangly, but quickly turned away when Hiei gave him a death glare.

"So you simply said you wanted to ask us some questions?" Kurama wondered.

"Ah... yes Shuichii. Dr. Kurokawa said that he did indeed try to murder Shiori Minamino... your mother... and that he did try to escape..."

The fox nodded in approval towards the doctor, who was still huddled in the corner, deathly afraid of the two boys.

"...but he also said that.." the officer continued as he flipped open a notebook, "that Hiei - was his name?" the fox nodded. "...was able to catch up to his car on the highway, jump in the passenger seat, knock him unconcious, then pull into a ditch, where Shuichii - you - was running along the side of the road at an incredible speed."

Hiei was worried. What could Kurama say? though he knew he shouldn't be. The fox could always cover up.

"Now that was the doctor's story. What do you have to say?"

"It's the truth," Kurama replied with no hesitation.

Hiei nearly fell from his perch.

The officer raised his eyebrows at the boy across from him before turning to Hiei who had quickly recovered before the man had noticed his surprise. "And you?"

"Don't look at me. I'm not very good at telling the truth."

Kurama laughed inwardly. Typical Hiei, he told the boy, who grinned.

The man seemed at a loss of words. "Now tell me Shuichii... how in the world was Hiei able to catch a speeding car?"

"He's a very fast runner."

"Not that fast. There was no way he could run along the highway and not get hit or even seen."

Kurama signaled to Hiei with a nod of his head. In a heartbeat, Hie was at the officer's side.

"Wanna bet?" he challenged, an evil, yet victorious grin on his face.

The officer almost fell over. "Ah..." he started.

"You see officer..." Kurama started. Hiei flitted back to his perch, startling the man once again. "Anything is impossible if you believe it."

Kurama grinned. He was truly enjoying this.

The officer shook his head. "And what about you? You couldn't have sprinted almost five miles?"

"Yet I did."

The man sighed. "All right. I know what I saw, but I'm not going to believe it. That kind of speed is impossible and doesn't exist. And for you, even olympic runners can't sprint five miles. They run that distance... but don't sprint. I wan't you to tell me the truth."

"Officer... I am telling the truth. Cast a truth spell on me, and all you'll get is the same answer."

"The truth, Shuichii," the doctor instructed as if talking to a small child. "Do you understand the word?"

"Of course I understand. I'm not a three year old."

The officer sighed again placed his face in his hands and his elbows on the table. "You two are excused."

"What?" the doctor screeched. "You're just going to let them go like that? They'll use their powers for evil!"

Kurama and Hiei stood up to leave. "Thank you officer, for listening to my side of the story. I hope I could have been of some help. And do not worry, we will not use our gifts for evil," Kurama stated before stepping out the door and earning a glare from Hiei.

"Says you," Hiei growled.

"Now tell me Hiei, do you plan on doing more evil in the future after what has happened these last couple of months?"

Hiei didn't answer.

Kurama's cell phone rang a few moments later. The fox answered, and a smile quickly lit up his face. "That's wonderful!" the fox exclaimed happily. "We'll be over there in just a few minutes."

There was a pause before the fox said goodbye and hung up.

"We're going to the hospital to pick up my mother. She's well enough to come home!"

Even Hiei couldn't help but smile. This was wonderful knews for the fox. His emerald eyes were lit up with pure joy, and Hiei was pretty sure that nothing he could say would ruin his mood, but not like he wanted to ruin the fox's good mood. Better good then bad, anyway.

The fox seemed to float on clouds on the drive to the hospital. He hummed happily away with the radio and tapped his fingers on the wheel.

Hiei chuckled. The fox seemed like a squirrel who had just recieved a life's supply of acorns.

Kurama almost skipped up to his mother's room, with Hiei close behind. He opened the door, and was greeted with the sight of his mother standing by the window, looking outside with a smile on her face. She turned towards the door when she heard her son enter.

"Shuichii!" she called, then rushed over to the boy and hugged him hard. "It feels so good to be going home! FInally! I've been waiting for this day!"

"Mother, so have I, and very much excited! I'm sorry I didn't have time to clean the house... we've been out all day and just got the call."

"Oh it's all right Shuichii, that doesn't matter.."

Hiei stood back as mother and son chatted happily about nonsense. Finally, they were together again, and Hiei thought that was the most wonderful thing that could ever happen to the fox, after his troubles during the past couple of months. Hiei decided to leave. They deserved some alone time. He flitted outside and waited in a tree near the parking lot. He didn't even think Kurama noticed his absence as he left - he was too engrossed with the fact that his mother was going home. Though Hiei was slightly confused: if she wanted to go home so bad, why weren't they? Have they decided that talking in the doorway to the hospital room was more exciting?

Hiei shrugged to himself before leaning his head back and drifting off into a light slumber.


Well, I believe the last chapter will be a closer... the short, happy ending to let all of you know what happens afterwards... but I guess it's pretty obvious. Though to tell you the truth, I was going to have something bad happene to hismother when he walked into the hospital room, like some side-effect of the medication, or just the sickness re-appearing, or the doctor setting a poison bomb under her bed... or something like that, but decided against it. But if enough people want more bad... which means more angst... I'll change it, but I thought it'slong enough as it is... or maybe I'll just make a sequal or something instead of adding to this story, but sequals are never as good as the original, so I don't like making sequals.

I thank all of you who have stuck with my story from the beginning to the end. You all and your wonderful reviews mean everything to me. Arigato.

Stay tuned for the last chapter, which should come soon. :D