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Chapter XIV
Hiei smirked as Genkai left his room and Kurama's into another part of the building. Finally he would be able to get up and stay up instead of having the old hag putting those damn sleeping curses on him! Besides, he really needed to get up and stretch. His muscles were stiff.
So he slowly untangled himself from Yumi who didn't seem disturbed at all. In fact, she didn't groan or move one inch. His eyes immediately widened in panic.
No it can't be!
He quickly checked her pulse to make sure she was still alive. He let go the breath he wasn't aware he was holding when he felt the sure beat against his fingers. So she wasn't dead and the fever was down. He smiled to himself. He was relieved that it worked. He'd have to thank Kurama later for giving him the idea…or at least had a part in the idea.
He quickly pulled his, now clean, shirt back on and hastily put on his boots. Then, he slipped to the next room after taking one last look at Yumi. He couldn't be safe enough when it came to her. For being such a powerful demon she sure was vulnerable. He shrugged it off. He knew from pretending to be asleep that Yukina frequently checked in on everyone.
Inside Kurama and Aya's room, Hiei stumbled upon a very cute, fluffy, lovey, dovey scene.
He couldn't stand it.
"Wake up Kurama," he growled into his friend's ear. Kurama jumped a little and quickly jumped from the bed and Aya's arms.
"What? What's wrong?" he whispered so as to not disturb Aya, although the jumping from the bed would've probably woken her up from the start.
Of course these were Hiei's thoughts exactly.
"No need to whisper," the fire demon stated as he walked over to a clothes pile that he assumed Yukina put there for Kurama, seeing as how Aya was in his shirt. He picked out Kurama's intended shirt and threw it at him. Gratefully, Kurama pulled it on. "If she was going to wake up it would've been when you jumped a mile high."
Kurama turned to Aya who still had her arms outstretched as if she held something. He then turned to Hiei. "Is she alright?"
"Hn, she's obviously alive if that's what you mean."
Upon closer inspection Kurama realized with satisfaction that her wounds were completely healed. "Yes she does seem to be alive, thank goodness."
"Hn."
"How's Yumi?"
"Alive. The fever has gone, but…"
"But?" Kurama prompted.
"But she is in the same condition as her," he gestured to Aya. "Sleeping like a rock."
"So nothing disturbs them and they don't move?" Hiei nodded. "Hm, perhaps something's still wrong." Again Hiei nodded his head. "We'll speak of it to Genkai then. Is she here?"
Hiei pierced his lips together like he had just swallowed something fowl. "Yes."
Kurama coked an eyebrow. "What's with the look?"
"Hn. If you must know, the women wouldn't quit putting stupid sleeping curses on me. She insisted that I sleep," he answered coldly.
"Yes and you needed it, idiot."
Hiei and Kurama turned to find Genkai standing in the doorway of Hiei and Yumi's room. Hiei's eyes narrowed while Kurama greeted her properly. She walked in her confident way to Aya's side where she placed both hands on the girl's forehead. Kurama and Hiei watched as a dim blue light quickly engulfed the room then disappeared just as quickly as it came. Kurama noted the grim expression written on her face when she stood up straight once again.
"What's wrong with them?" Kurama asked though he secretly wished he hadn't. He couldn't take it if something was seriously wrong with either of the girls, especially Aya.
"I'm not sure, though I do have a vague idea," she answered. "Everyday since I first found you all here I've been keeping a special eye on the two girls. At first they showed signs of improvement: Yumi's fever went away and Aya's cuts and bruises were healed in a short amount of time.
But as time went by, the two showed no signs of moving. They, of course, are still alive and well but--asI'm sure you both know-- don't move at all. They show no signs of knowing what's going on; they won't wake up."
"How long have we been here?" Kurama asked voicing the same question Hiei had on his mind.
"Three days." Both Hiei and Kurama's eyes widened at the unexpected news. Kurama had only suspected a day at the most as had Hiei. Genkai apparently noticed their astonished expressions so she said, "Don't worry. Yusuke and the others have already been here to ask if you had stopped by. I told them you were fine and well, resting." Hiei twitched. He didn't like the thought that Yusuke or Kuwabara would've seen him like that with Yumi. Hopefully the old hag didn't let them in the actual rooms….
"When did they come by?" Kurama asked bringing Hiei back from his thoughts.
"The day after I found you here."
"Good. At least they know where we are," Kurama muttered.
"Never mind that, what's wrong with them?" Hiei asked impatiently.
Genkai glared at him but answered. "I know that they aren't dead if that's what you mean." This time Hiei glared at her. "But since they obviously aren't reacting with the living world then they must be in limbo."
"Limbo?" Hiei asked skeptically.
"Yes limbo. What? Do I need to talk a little more slowly for you?"
"I know what limbo is, women." Hiei hissed.
"Good. I don't feel like lecturing idiots," she replied while walking into the other room to Yumi. Kurama could see Hiei start to fume. He held out his hand in front of Hiei to keep him from going after her.
"Behave Hiei," he warned. "She's the only one who can help us right now."
"Hn."
"Good now let's go." They walked into the room Genkai was currently occupying. She was hovering over Yumi now, the same light filling the room only this time it seemed to last a bit longer. "What are you planning Genkai?" Kurama politely asked. She straightened up as the light faded then she smiled.
"I plan on getting them back with a little help from the both of you."
"Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remember yet? Do you remeb—"
"SHUT UP!" Yumi yelled punching her sister on the head. She had been asking the same thing for an eternity. "I might remember if you'd just shut up for one second! Is that really too much to ask for!"
"Fine," Aya pouted while rubbing her sore head. Her assumptions earlier were evidently correct--you could get hurt in this place. She smiled wickedly as she thought of another, satisfying way to pass the time by.
"Ahem. THIS IS THE SONG THAT NEVER ENDS, IT GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS! THIS IS THE SOONG THAT NEEEVER ENDS! THIS IS THE SON—"
"SHUT UP! Quit singing and be good!" Yumi demanded, her eyebrow now twitching dangerously. Aya pouted once more then smiled as she started to hum some other annoying songs she had recently learned from Kuwabara and Yusuke.
SMACK!
Aya flew off in the air doing backflips as she held her growing sore on her fore head. Yumi, however, was pleased that the annoying sounds had ceased to exist enabling her to get back to meditating. As soon as Aya could regain control of her body, she quickly flew to her sister and glared at her. Yumi didn't even notice.. or care...
"Fine! Be that way!" Aya pouted as she floated further away from her sister who had taken her earlier position of sitting mid-air cross-legged.
"Why can't I just wake up already!" she asked herself once again. She squeezed her eyes shut while trying desperately to reanimate her body.
It wasn't working.
"Uhh! I can't take any more of this!" She screamed at the fog. "Let me out! Let me…out…what in the?" Amidst the fog there appeared a dim blue light. Curious, she floated over to it. She reached out her hand and tried to touch it, but before she could get to it, it disappeared.
For a minute she thought she saw her body on the bed with Genkai staring down at her. What in the world is going on? She thought before turning around and running (er, floating?) as fast as she could back to Yumi.
"Yumi! Yumi!" Aya screamed, flailing her arms about wildly,as soon as she caught site of her older sister. Yumi was crouched down …and a familiar blue light surrounded her. "Yumi! What's goin' on? What's with the light? Yumi?" Yumi didn't respond to her sister's questions, instead she merely sat still in the same crouched position concentrating. After what seemed to be a hundred years to Aya Yumi finally sat up, the blue light evaporating from behind her.
She smiled at Aya with a smug expression. "Seems like were getting out of here sooner than expected."
"What! Really?" Yumi nodded. "How?"
"With Genkai's help," she simply stated. Judging by the clueless expression written on her sister's face, Aya had no idea what she was talking about. Either that or she wasn't even listening. "That blue light you just saw was Genkai's doing. She was trying to contact us."
"Oh! That's what that light was?" She giggled. "Yeah, I ran into the same light not too far from here. That's why I came back to ask you about it Miss. Know-it-all." She teased
Yumi frowned. "Anyways, Genkai asked me if I knew if there was anyway I could think of in order for the transition from here," she gestured around her, "back to our bodies." She gestured downwards.
"And?" Aya prompted
"And I finally remembered something."
"Well what?"
Yumi glared at her. "If you'd let me complete my train of thought then you might get some answers." Aya looked down at her feet without saying anything more. "Good. Now, I told her to get our pendants back."
"What? How? Yours is in a box that only you can open and mine…well is it time for it to open yet?"
"Probably not, but we'll find a way around that."
"Right…"
"We WILL. Trust me."
"Okay, but how will our pendants help?" Aya really only took hers because she thought it was pretty and, well, she wanted it.
"For goodness sake Aya, didn't you notice that they had magical properties?" Aya didn't respond instead she merely laughed feebishly while scratching her head. "Guess not…" Yumi sighed. "Oh well, since you obviously neglected to pay attention I will have to explain once again. The only reason we stole those particular amulets was because I knew of their magical properties. They can do just about anything if you call upon their power."
"I thought you only wanted them because you had a dream, or vision, or whatever about them." Aya interrupted, looking up.
"Don't interrupt me, but yes you're right. I don't know if it was a memory from our lost childhood or what, but something told me I had to get them…" she stared off into the distance pondering on what exactly could've happened.
A couple, okay about a hundred, years ago she woke up from a very disturbing dream of who she assumed to be their father, holding up those exact pendants to her when she was but a child. She felt strongly that that was indeed her father, but since they had lost their memories about their childhood it didn't really matter anymore. Sure, she had glimpses of her past, but not enough to be sure. Then the dream seemed to fast forward to some time after that… but that part didn't matter. She shook her head trying to get the images back out of her mind. That was one dream she could've lived without…or possible couldn't…
"Hello? Anybody home?" Aya repeated waving her hand in front of Yumi's face. After about the tenth time Yumi finally came out of her trance-like state and grabbed her sister's hand.
"Quit it, I'm awake." She simply stated. "Anyways, back to the point. Genkai will contact us once they've gotten the boxes containing the pendants. Then, we'll simply have to come up with a way to open them. After that, well, Genkai should know what to do."
"Right!" Aya cheerfully stated saluting to Yumi. Yumi merely sighed while rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"They better get their butts in gear," she muttered to herself while trying to drown out her sister's sickeningly cheerful voice from her head.
"Hey! HEY! Stop right there thief!" Kyo yelled while grabbing on to Kurama's ankle. Kurama was in Aya's room in the process of completing Genkai's order of taking the box that held Yumi's pendant.
"Let go," Kurama ordered trying to kick the annoying ottsel off. "I told you already that I need it!"
"Lies!" Kyo yelled. "Aya told me not to let anybody come near this box herself."
"I'm sure she did, but she's in desperate need of this box right now."
"LIES! If she wanted, or needed, the box sooooo bad then she would've come and taken it herself!" Kurama stopped trying to kick Kyo and instead stood there staring down at him, his expression intense.
"She is…incapable of coming here at the moment," he replied in a low, somewhat dangerous voice. Kyo stared at Kurama with pure malice.
"What did you do to her!" he demanded.
"I didn't do anything. She's hurt right now, in a way, but with this pendant we can get her back."
Kyo let go of Kurama's leg and instead scurried up his body and perched on his shoulder. The ottsel looked Kurama straight in his intense emerald eyes trying to decipher whether or not he could be trusted.
"Hmmm. Fine, I'll buy it for now, but mark my words if I find out that you did anything to her I will kill you," he threatened. Deep down he knew that Kurama could be trusted and that he wasn't that bad of a guy, but still. He took Aya away from him and THAT he could not forgive, nor accept.
"Good. Now let's go and see If Hiei is ready yet."
"Dangit! Where's that box!" Hiei yelled in frustration. He had already checked the shelf that he knew Yumi had put it on before. There was no mistaking it, it wasn't there. She must've put it somewhere else, somewhere safer when her sister tore her room apart. Hiei thought to himself. He let a smile grace his lips at the memory before searching once again.
"What are you looking for?" a smooth voice asked behind him. He turned around only to find no one there. He felt his shoulder suddenly become slightly heavier as familiar claws dug into his skin.
"Shiva?" Hiei asked. She smiled in her dragon-like way as she nudged his face with her head.
"Yes master?"
"Where is—wait a minute. Master?" he asked raising an eyebrow in disbelief.
"Yes, master," she replied just as smoothly as before. "My master is Yumi and from the looks of it she is your mate and you hers." This made Hiei smirk slightly. He liked the way this dragon thought. He quickly shrugged away any possible nice thoughts and got down to the task at hand.
"Where is the box that Yumi placed her sister's pendant in?" he asked. Without a word Shiva flicked her tail onto Hiei's chest letting a small, square, velvet box drop. Hiei caught it easily then peered down at it. It was indeed the very box he was desperately searching for.
"Why did you have it?" he asked.
"Yumi entrusted me to protecting all of her things, especially that box," she gestured with her tail to the box he was holding. Hiei nodded his head in response. "She's in trouble isn't she?" Shiva asked quietly. Slowly Hiei nodded his head again.
"She was, but now we need to get her soul back in her body." He could feel Shiva nod her head slightly.
"Well then, shall we get going master?" Hiei smirked and headed towards the door only to find it opening inches from his face. Kurama walked through the opened door with a grim Kyo perched on his shoulder.
"Are ya done yet or what? We need to get going and we can't have you two holding us back!" Kyo snapped. Hiei glared at him sharing the same thought with Shiva: breaking his little neck and having BBQ ottsel for dinner.
"Be quiet you obnoxious rat before I have you for dinner," Shiva threatened hissing for good measure. Kyo gulped and hid in Kurama's hair.
"I do have to agree with him on one thing though," Kurama said looking hopelessly behind him at Kyo's tail, "we do need to hurry up." Hiei nodded in reply.
"Hmm, fine then. Go to the window," Shiva ordered. Kurama and Hiei exchanged puzzled looks before following wordlessly. As soon as he reached the opened window Shiva leapt from his shoulder and glided outside. There, she transformed into a full-size version of her former mini-dragon size.
Hurry climb onto my back. I'll fly us there. She stated in their heads.
"Hey! Why don'tcha talk like a normal person!" Kyo demanded. He was back from the shelter of Kurama's hair. "And since when could you transform into a very very big dragon!...Geeze, showin' me up..."
Shut up you pathetic runt! I could do this all along and I'm not talking out right because it burns my throat in this form. Now all of you on my back now!
Obediently (they didn't want to invoke her wrath) they all jumped from the window to her back in a matter of seconds. Without any further delay they sped off to Genkai's temple to deliver the boxes and hopefully bring back the two girls.
"You know what?" Adrian demanded as he slouched down into the nook of the tree.
"What?" asked Jase halfheartedly. He wasn't in the mood to argue right now or--
"It isn't fair! The plan WAS going perfectly, but no. Those damn bastards had to go and take them to a temple! Not just any temple but Genkai's temple. Then that stupid hag just had to go and put up boundaries! Give me a break!" he yelled while balling up his fists.
-- his whining.
Jas merely sighed while looking threw the mirror at the 'sleeping' form of his ex. He could hardly take it anymore—his brother's constant whining that is. He had been like this since they had arrived two days ago to take the girls, and instead was singed and burnt being blown back by an invisible force. He was going to have to add that annoying old hag to his list of people to kill.
"Look on the brightside, Adrian," Jase said sarcastically. "Kurama's not there anymore." Jase laughed as Adrian's face darkened considerably.
"Why didn't we just go and finish those two off when they went? We could've easily killed them now."
Now bored with the enchanted mirror, Jase simply threw it to his brother who easily caught it. Once again he ran the steps to the spell he recently learned in his mind with a smirk plastered on his features. He would now have the upper hand on those two without them even suspecting a thing. Oh how sweet revenge would be—and he would get it soon.
"Hello, Jase? Come back to reality, there's work to be done."
"Argh, I know you fool!" Jase yelled, throwing a little bolt of lightening at Adrian.
"Prick!" Adrian yelled as he threw some fire back. Jase grinned mirroring his brother's own face. Adrian was getting ready to throw another blast when a sharp voice quickly diminished the thought.
"Y..yes my queen," Adrian stuttered as he looked down at the mirror he held. His slightly embarrassed and fearful face met the queen's stern and angry one.
"What are you doing?" she asked coldly.
"Um…waiting."
"Yes, I see that. Why are you waiting?"
Saving his brother from sure death at the rate he was going, Jase snatched the mirror before giving his brother an 'idiot' glare. "We are unfortunately waiting because of the barrier surrounding the temple."
"Hm, why should a mere barrier stop you?"
"Because it was put up by a powerful psychic, Genkai." He added when she gave him an impatient glare.
"Yes, that does pose a problem I suppose…Fine then. Keep an eye on the place and inform me of anything that happens."
"Yes we will do, and what should our actions be if the girls wake?"
She smiled wickedly before responding, "Whatever you deem necessary. Just remember—I want those two alive." With that she cut the connection leaving her two subjects to themselves.
Jase grinned as he glanced to his brother who was grinning as well. They each loved nothing more than having orders to do whatever they wanted. Too bad those exact orders--doing whatever they wanted--were the reasons they lost the two girls in the first place...
"Come on Adrian. We have plans to make." Jase said as he quickly gestured a spell with his hands and they both disappeared in a bright green flash.
Hiei's head snapped up and to the west of where they were currently flying above the forest, just outside of Genkai's temple. He had thought that he had sensed something, or at least seen something. A green flash…and two familiar energies…
"What is it Hiei?" Kurama asked, noticing Hiei's furrowed brows and somewhat troubled look.
"…nothing." Hiei mumbled as faced forward again. Kurama raised an eyebrow before dismissing it. He knew that Hiei would tell him if he wanted and if he didn't then…well, he would never know.
I wonder how Yusuke and the others are doing… Kurama thought as they finally arrived at the temple. He clutched the box tighter as he jumped from Shiva's back and ran through the front doors.
"Hey," Yusuke said as he looked out the window, puzzled. "Did you guys just see a big dragon flyin' around outside a little bit ago?"
Kuwabara turned from the game he was playing and looked at Yusuke as if he had just grown another head. He shook his head no before turning back to the game. Botan merely poked her head out from the kitchen where she was cooking lunch and answered no as well.
"Maybe you saw Shiva catching herself some lunch or something," she said nonchalantly while turning back inside to finish the meal.
Hm…guess I'm just hungry then… He thought as his stomach rumbled slightly, protesting the fact that he hadn't eaten yet. Maybe if he ate something his head would start working properly and he would quit seeing crazy things. Shrugging, he ran into the kitchen to see if he could steal some food while Botan was busy…
Ta da! Couldn't leave out Yusuke and the others you know. Anyways, I don't hate Genkai or anything, in fact she's awesome, but when I write I'm a different person, and Hiei and her just starting fighting. So…yeah.
Anyways, I hope you guys like it.
Oh yeah! Disclaimer… I always forget to put these things up…
(Playing poker.) Ha! That's it! I've won it finally! Mwahahahahahahhaahahaa! (Dude who actually owns it lays down better cards...-so sue me, I don't know the guy's name alright?) NO! I was soo frickin' close too! (crys)
Hiei- shut up you big baby.
You shut up Hiei! Next time I'm playing for the rights for...you! Yeah, that's it! I'm gonna play for you!
Hiei- (gulps) ...yeah right. Like you could actually win.
I almost did last time! Oooh, I'll show you...I'll show you...
Hiei- (rolls eyes) baka onna...
(completely changes subject) Hey Hiei. (snickers) Do you wear boxers or briefs?
Hiei- (glares) What?
oooohhhh! I bet you wear a thong! NO! You gocammando don't you? LOL
Hiei- (eye starts to twitch) What had possibly possessed you to even think about such a thing...
(trys, yet fails, to look innocent) What? I can wonder ya know...
HEY! If you review, tell me what you think! I was reading this one fic in dbz and it was hilareous! Anyways, it had this poll that asked what do you think Vegeta would wear beneath his spandex (cammando if you ask me) and so I started thinkin' : What does Hiei wear...
Hiei: NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!
Hehehehehe...Anyways, if you want you can review and I'll keep score. If not, then well, I'll just quit asking...Did I have waaay too much coffee today? Yes, yes I did...-smiles-