Chapter Nine; 3 Days Left

Hiei was constantly with the Hanabi-no-tama he never left it to do anything. The group constantly talked now about….everything and anything.

Even Kagome and Yusuke became friends. And then Kagome suggested something.

"Why don't we play truth?" She asked everyone.

"What's that?" InuYasha asked in return.

Rin had taken a liking to Kagome while Shippo moved on to Hiei and Sesshoumaru, so Sango was left alone but she had gradually gotten closer to Miroku and so it wasn't that bad that she had been left alone.

Kagome explained that it was just like truth or dare, which they sometimes they played in the Feudal Era, but you don't do dares, you only do truths.

"Yes. Let's play," Said Kurama.

And finally they got Hiei and Sesshoumaru to play. Yusuke started to everyone except Miroku's dismay. They had found they had a lot in common.

"Okay," He said.

"Hiei…" It lingered for a moment and Hiei looked up hearing his name and frowned.

"Are you a virgin?" Yusuke asked.

All heads turned towards Hiei. Hiei tried to look indifferent but was finding it very hard.

"No," He finally said after a long awkward silence.

Yusuke smiled, this was fun.

"What was her name? Was it even a she?" Yusuke asked.

"You only get one question," Hiei told him with a smirk playing across his lips.

Yusuke frowned slightly and pouted.

But Miroku was next.

"Hiei, What was her name?" Miroku asked the fire demon.

Hiei rolled his eyes.

"Her name was Hotaru," Hiei told the large group.

And then it was Kuwabara's turn.

"What'd she look like?" The fool asked Hiei stupidly.

"Why is everyone so interested in my personal life?" Hiei asked in reply.

No one answered. Hiei sighed.

"Oh well. She had green eyes and light lavender hair." Hiei answered.

Next was Kurama. They were going clockwise.

"Hiei, What happened?" He asked quietly.

Hiei was dreading this question and Kurama was dreading the answer.

"There was an ambush by thieves, she protected me because I was injured and they killed her. After she was dead they left." Hiei spoke reluctantly.

The words seemed to ring in the room. It was times like these that Kurama was reminded that Hiei wasn't always cold and heartless to everyone all the time.

Hiei's eyes were blank and the emotion was locked behind steel bars. No one knew what to say.

"Sesshoumaru-sama it's your turn," Rin said breaking the silence that had eclipsed them all so suddenly.

"Oh yes, thank you Rin," Sesshoumaru replied.

And the conversation continued without interruption and no more questions directed toward Hiei about the girl, Hotaru or his love life.

And the questions were now directed towards Youko Kurama. About the people he killed and so on.

Most people begun to get more open about their secrets and past and present loves. This game was really helping them to get to know each other.

They did a few more rounds then people began to get tired of it and they stopped. Again they offered and made suggestions about what the question could be and what the answer could be also.


He was in crisis.

The voices took over and never left him alone. There was nothing to do but wait, Until Nanashi left him alone or he killed someone or the voices got him killed.

One or the other was bound to happen soon enough. But what was he going to do about it?

He couldn't try to protect Nanashi or Rena because he wasn't strong enough to even help himself.


The scars had gotten worse.

The group made a habit of showing each other their scars to make sure they didn't get or weren't infected or anything.

They made a pact to tell each other if they had another dream or another scar popped up or anything but so far nothing had happened.

Nothing at least note worthy.

Their scars had changed color every now and then but that was it.

Nothing serious until today.

Sango showed her wrists to Kagome and Kagome gasped. Sango looked down and did the same.

The scars had grown over night and were now almost forming little bracelets around her wrists.

The same had happened to all of them except for Rin, Sesshoumaru, and Jaaken because they hadn't had dreams.

They might not have has dreams but they were informed on the other's dreams. Kagome tried to help them and herself but nothing worked much.

The group had been in the house for a little over a week and food wise were just barely getting by. But they could manage.

They only have less than 3 days to figure out the question and answer to answer it. There was no sense in running they knew the voice would find them.

They never dreamed they'd have to live their lives so guarded.

Is there any wonder why the execution petrifies?

Is there any wonder why the group was scared?

The whole situation was very surreal.

Night fell very fast that day.


A/N: I wanted to thank all my loyal reviewers for breaking my record. And I hope you will continue to read my stories and review as this story is finally coming to an end soon enough. There are 3 chapters left. The next chapter will be out on Friday or Thursday. As soon as I finish it and if it's out on Friday know that I have started for finished chapter 11 too. R&R. Thankx.