Well here is another chapter, as told by Senshi. I seem to be in the same mood I'm always in. Not a very good one. Well I won't let that interfere with my writing, actually it will, L.O.L, but maybe for the better. Now to the actual story.

"I will banish you to the deepest pits of the netherworld to let the dark lord, Culthulo, flog you for all eternity."- Mole (Our economics project warning)

Chapter Eight: Cavernous Perils

Hiei and Kurama found themselves in an elegant room, furnished with all sorts of antique furniture and lavish paintings. The two demons looked around at the paintings that hung around the giant room. One painting was of the Hakuba shrine. The picture showed two figures, who looked like the hooded figure and the shrine maiden, sitting at a table, seemingly to be carrying on an intense conversation.

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"My Lord, who were those two people?" The hooded figure pulled down her hood, her golden wavy hair tumbled down from the top of her head. She then removed her dark sunglasses.

"Not people my dear, demons, they are here looking for ingredients for a potion." The shrine maiden gasped.

"Demons?! Here?!" She franticly looked around the shrine interior. "We must get rid of them! Where is the high priest?!" The woman exorcist grabbed the young maiden's hand.

"No, you must not disturb them." The shrine maiden looked at her suspiciously, the golden haired exorcist continued with her statement, "Not all demons are evil my lady. These two are pure of heart, one maybe a little rough around the edges, but they are good nonetheless." The maiden didn't look convinced.

"If you say so, my lord." The exorcist smiled in a sly way.

"Yes, I do, I do say so. Now lets monitor our friends' progress, shall we?"

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Hiei and Kurama were walking down crumbling corridors of Dracula's castle. The kitsune smiled at the surroundings.

"It would seem that our friend here hasn't been up to remodeling the place, huh Hiei?" Hiei stared at his lover.

"Hmmmph. What do I care about this castle?" Hiei stared at the holes in the walls. Moonlight streamed in and glinted off the black haired youkai's fiery red eyes. "Let's get that damn bottle of 'Holy Water' and be done with it." Kurama looked in Hiei's direction and offered him his special smile.

"So eager to be done with this, Hiei?" Hiei offered his special smile to the yoko. It was a sort of twisted half smile.

"Yes, I wish to see you in your complete and perfect form, Foxboy." Kurama smiled widened a little, and looked at the map.

"Hmmm. The world map transformed into a castle layout map." He studied the map intently. "The second ingredient is in one of the highest rooms here. If my castleography (Not a real word, but it sounded important like.) is correct, it is in the throne room." Hiei looked around.

"Ok we know where the ingredient is, but where the hell is the throne room?" Kurama laughed.

"Where the second ingredient is." Kurama's joke was met with a scowl. Kurama continued chuckling. "We will find our way, Hiei." Hiei walked over to a door at the end of the corridor to find a cavernous room filled with towering stalagmites and deadly stalactites that threatened to fall at the sound of a pin drop. The black dragon walked in and stared in wonder.

"From a fancy room, to crumbling corridors, and now an indoor cave, is there anything this guy didn't have?" Kurama followed his lover through the door way and he too stared in amazement.

Inside the cavern's interior ledges were scattered through out and the sound of rushing water was near by. The demon pair looked around, above them the ceiling was so high it was shrouded in darkness, only the tips of the stalactites could be seen. Hiei was getting annoyed over the whole predicament. "Where the hell do we go from here?" Kurama pulled out the map and studied it. The red haired demon then pointed upwards as he spoke.

"We need to go up, that way, there is a passageway up there to the next section of the castle." Hiei looked upwards.

"Hmmph, it's to dark to see up that way." Kurama smiled and pulled out one of his seeds. He focused a small amount of demon energy, but his aura faded, and his eyes went wide with shock and pain as he fell backwards to the cave's cold hard floor. Hiei rushed to his fallen companion's side. He put his ear to Kurama's chest, no air was passing through his lungs, and even his demon heart stopped beating.

Hiei pounded the ground as he cried out, "You idiot!" Hiei started to cry, he was stuck here, with no one to turn to. No one who cared. He was on a mission for someone, to help them, and the person was now dead. Hiei remembered what the shrine maiden said...

"You will not be able to return until..."

HAHAHA! That's it! That's "the end" well not really, but in this amount of space I would like to advertise another story I have written. Please if you would, focus your attention to "Price of Pride" I personally like this story, but you should check it out too. But back to this one... (announcer voice) WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIEI AND KURAMA? WILL HIEI HAVE TO MAKE HIS WAY THROUGH ALONE?! AND IS KURAMA REALLY DEAD?! FIND OUT –whispers "if there is a" and then comes back to announcer voice- NEXT TIME, ON YUYU HAKUSHO!