Recovery and Traitors

A few hours later in Spirit World, Shiei and Nuema were in rooms on different ends of a hall in the hospital wing of the underworld. The short old woman named Genkai had seen to both of them, but Nuema's wounds refused to close and she remained unconscious. As for Shiei, all that was left was to hope that she would be stubborn enough to liver. Whenever Genkai had tried to heal the wound, black energy lashed out at the nearest living thing, usually Genkai's hand. So all that could have been done was the wounds being bandaged.

Hiei was pacing back and forth in the hallway, end to end, he had been in Shiei's room after Genkai had left. He hadn't been told about the problem with Shiei's injury and thought that it had been healed. Meanwhile, Kurama was sitting on his knees next to Nuema's bed. Nuema should have been up by now, but she was still asleep.

Kurama had started to lean over but stopped. "Youko! What was that for?" He thought angrily at the fox spirit in his head.

'What? You're being pathetic.'

"Why did you have to do that?" All Kurama got was an annoying snicker from the back of his mind.

In Nuema's mind, she was floating in eternal darkness, completely alone. She was scared or sad, she was used to being completely alone. Now she felt peaceful, she knew there was no one around to hurt her.

"I walk alone, I always have."

Suddenly the dark in her mind broke and she woke up. Suddenly there was a large crash. Outside, Hiei heard and turned to walk into the room, hopefully so he wouldn't be so bored. Yusuke, who had just come into the hall also heard the crash and ran into the room. Inside was some sight. Nuema was sitting up in the bed, one hand clenched over the sheets and glaring at Kurama. Kurama was sitting against the opposite wall, rubbing a cheek. He stood up and let his hand drop as Yusuke and Hiei came in. On his abused cheek was a hand print. Yusuke looked between Kurama and Nuema.

"What happened?"

"Kurama was in striking distance when I woke up."

A mischievous looked crossed Yusuke's eyes, "How far in?"

"Far enough," Nuema quickly changed subject, "How's Shiei?" She looked at Kurama. Hiei left suddenly whilst Yusuke stayed put.

"She's still unconscious from what I last heard."

"I see." Nuema stood up and looked at Kurama. "Where is she?"

"Across the hall." Nuema started to walk, but nearly collapsed, she still needed to recover, "Perhaps you should rest some more."

Meanwhile, Hiei had been standing outside the door to Shiei's room. He eventually opened it and walked in, getting hit by a fireball. He looked over at Shiei, startled as she was sitting up in the bed on the other side of the room, glaring.

As Hiei dodged another fireball, Nuema walked in. She took not of the scorch marks on the wall and looked over at the very irate demon.

"Stop it, Shiei."

"Hn. Like I'd waste my time on a traitor." Hiei felt hurt and partially angered by the loathing in her voice, he had never betrayed her so long as he had known her. However, all he did was glare at the air.

"Hiei, why don't you step out for a bit?" Nuema gentle pushed Hiei out the door and slammed it shut. She turned to face an extremely pissed off demon. "Shiei, cool it, Hiei didn't mean to do it."

"Of course he didn't. He was just planning to break his sword against the wall in anger, but just happened to miss and hit me." Her voice was practically dripping with sarcasm.

"That's not quite what I meant." Nuema sat down, rubbing her temples, "You see, Gura has three tests. The first is always beat her in her game. If you loose that, she takes control of your mind and forces you to do something you wouldn't normally do, resisting her mind control is the second test." She looked up at Shiei who was impatiently waiting for the point of all this, "Since Hiei lost at the game, so she took control of his mind. He had to pass the mind control test, and the third one, which he did, otherwise the both of you would be dead. I think Gura meant for Hiei to kill you, but he didn't listen to her completely, so you're alive. He never did mean to hurt you."

"Hn. Fine. I'll talk to him, but I'm not promising anything else."

Nuema nodded, "Without killing him or hurting him," and got up. She opened the door and told Hiei, who was waiting right outside, that Shiei was willing to talk to him. Hiei walked into the room and gentely closed the door behind himself. She looked up to spot Kurama holding the Phoenix Talon Blade.

"Kurama, what?"

"Delis wished me to give this to you." He proffered the sword to her, but instead held her shoulder up as her feeble strength gave out at last. "Perhaps you should rest now?"

Nuema nodded and Kurama helped her back into her room to get some much needed rest.

"Two Halves One whole" Extra comments by the author

Yay! I'm finally done with this story! –big arse grin of doom-

This ish Digi here. I've had a lot of fun writing this. I had as much writing the fights at the end as I did writing the humor and the random hints of romance. 'Though I suck at romance.

Oh yeah, I made many many changes to the story. So go check out the first two chapters to get the most of it. Then the fourth to get the revised look of Shiei. The most of the other updates were minor editations to make it more accurate. Like instead of "Shuichi" I changed it to "Shuuichi" to make it more accurate to the spelling it is supposed to be. I did a few other things to make the culture of the Japanese click more, and got rid of most of the Japanese in the story because I felt like it.

I should have a sequel to this story out in the next week. With a slim chance before hand of a one-shot coming out before the sequel explaining practically all of the major events between Two Halves One Whole and Troubles. The one shot is called What Happened Then, so keep an eye out for it.

This is Digi signing out until the next time.

Ciao!

Digi