Chapter 10: Sight Unseen

"Damn it, where is she," Yusuke mumbled.

Yusuke, Keiko, Hiei, and Deirdre had been looking for Jo for the past two hours now and still no luck. Jo had said that she was going on her own little "adventure", meaning that she was going to look for some stray demons lurking around.

Deirdre tried to lighten the mood. "Maybe she's playing a game with us, she always like to….."

The other three turned and glared at her.

"Okay, I'll stop now."

Silence.

"I'm telling you, she's just playing around."

"Deirdre, would you stop already," Hiei yelled.

Deirdre struggled to get something out, but nothing came and she gave up.

Another forty-five minutes or so past and just when they were about to give up, Keiko found something.

"You guys, look at this."

When the others came were Keiko was standing, jaws dropped.

It looked as if a bomb had gone of. There were rocks and rubble all around, fires in various places, and then there was blood, not a lot, but it was there and it wasn't necessarily Jo's.

Yusuke looked around the wreckage, it looked like Jo's work, but where was she. As he continued to look around, a flash of blue and purple caught his eye. When he locked his eyes on the spot, he noticed Jo's amulet tangled in the rocks.

"She's here, we just have to find her."

Yusuke walked over to the tangled amulet and tore it out of the rocks. Without showing the others, although Hiei did notice, Yusuke stuffed the amulet in his jacket pocket.

"Jo, can you hear me?"

Hiei watched as Yusuke climbed over rocks in search of Jo, screaming her name every couple of seconds with no answer in response.

"Jo, answer me, damn it."

Finally a cry of pain was let out, even though it made the others cringe, at least they heard it.

"Yusuke, it's really dark."

'Jo, where are you?'

"HIEI? I can't see anything."

That struck the others as kind of odd for Jo. What did she mean she couldn't see anything.?

Fearing the worst, Keiko climbed up by Yusuke.

"Call her, keep her talking. I'll look for her voice, just keep her talking."

As Keiko started walking off, Yusuke started getting Jo to talk.

"Jo, I want you to talk to me, Keiko's looking for your voice, okay?"

There was no answer.

"JO?"

"I'm here, it just hurts to bad."

Hiei joined Yusuke in the questioning while Deirdre joined Keiko in looking for Jo.

"Onna?"

"Hiei, don't be mad, but I am scared."

Hiei looked over at Yusuke, who nodded.

"What happened?"

"Someone was here, they-they threw something in my face and I passed out. When I woke up, it was really dark and it's still dark."

"Are you okay now?"

"It's still burns really bad, but...I lost my amulet."

"Yusuke has it."

"Is it alright?"

"Onna, it's an amulet, you'll live without it."

"PFT, that's what you think. Where did Keiko go?"

Keiko stood by what looked like an entrance, but it was blocked by even more rocks.

"Jo, honey, are there alot of rocks around you, possibly surrounding an entrance?"

"I think there was, you want me to try and move them?"

"No, don't get up?"

Yusuke laughed. "Keiko, remember she's telekinetic."

"Oh, that's right. Jo, do you think you could move the rocks?"

"I'll try."

The cavern shook as the rocks began to seperate and the entrance became bigger. When the rumbling stopped, Keiko and Deirdre walked in.

"Josephine, will this lead directly to you or do we have to take a different route at one point."

When no answer came, Deirdre and Keiko began to take the path. About twenty feet down the path they heard Yusuke yell from outside the little cavern.

"Did you find her yet?"

Keiko yelled back. "Not yet, but I think we're close. I think she's using her fire cuffs."

Keiko was right, when the orange-yellow glow was finally in complete focus, they saw Jo sitting against a wall with her head down.

"Yusuke, we found her."

While the fire still burned around Jo's wrists, Keiko grabbed Jo's chin and lifted her face up. What she saw made her heart break and made a fire grow within her.

The skin around Jo's eyes was different hues of red and pink, it looked more irratated than burned. Her eyes were still violet, but they seemed unfocused. Keiko followed the redness on Jo's face to her right ear. From the way the redness was, it did indeed seem that Jo was attacked, but by who?

"What happened to her?"

Keiko turned around and saw Yusuke and Hiei standing behind her, apparently quite disturbed by what they saw.

Jo lifted her head slowly and looked around.

"Where are you guys?"

No one said anything as Jo lifted her right hand and started to feel for bodies.

Yusuke seemed to understand what his sister was asking for and knelt down infront of her. He then grabbed her hand and put in on his cheek.

"Yusuke?"

He nodded, moving her hand with his head.

"Are the others with you?"

"If others you mean Keiko, Hiei, and Deirdre, then yes they are here. We have to get you out of here."

Jo nodded, her eyes still looking down.

Yusuke helped Jo get to her feet, then started to walk off. Deirdre and Keiko followed behind.

Hiei watched as Jo stood confused and never moved an inch. Finally Jo took a step and fell into a boulder.

"Baka, are you blind, it's not that dark in here?"

Jo raised her head and looked around.

"Hiei, I still can't see anything and I can barely hear on my right side."

Hiei's eyes went wide with anger.

'Yusuke, get your ass back here, NOW!'

Hiei walked up to Jo and waved a hand in front of her face, no reaction. He then brought his hand by her right ear and snapped his fingers, Jo's head turned a bit.

"What are you doing, I heard something."

"Jo, you're blind and almost deaf in you right ear, who did this to you?"

Hiei helped Jo stand up again and let her lace her arm with his.

"I don't know what happened, I remember I killed a demon then I heard someone chanting something, so I went to see what it was. I ended up getting a some kind of powdery stuff thrown in my face and it started burning, then I passed out."

As soon as Jo finished, they were at the entrance of the little cavern, Yusuke was standing there.

"Why did you want me to come back...and why is Jo clinging to you like that?"

Hiei and Jo began to walked off again, but Hiei did answer Yusuke's question.

"Your sister's blind and partially deaf in her right ear."

Then they walked out of the cavern. Yusuke stood there for a second then caught up with Hiei and Jo.

"What did it, what did this to her?"

"We'll have to find out, then kill them."

Yusuke nodded then laced his arm with Jo's free arm and the three of them walked out of the caverns.

Back in the cavern a person in the shadows watched them leave. Who ever it was laughed, then too jumped out of the cavern in another direction.

M'kay, now that I can say didn't wasn't just made up out of the blue, but was based on a dream I had a couple of nights ago. I know who blinded Jo(me) and that will be revealed soon, but probably not in the next chapter.

Well, I'm gonna have to cut this short 'cause we're under a bunch of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings...the life I live. Plus, I'M PANICING 'cause it's windy as hell out there, so I hope I'll live.

Rowan-chan

P.S- This is after the storms, I LIVED, nothing happened...as usual.