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Chapter 29: Between the Fight for Answers: Transfusion from Dark to Light part II

Karuka was sitting bedside at Yukina's side and her hands were placed on her forehead and a dark light was illuminating from them. Karuka had her eyes closed as she thought of what she was doing. Soon enough, Karuka's hands were shadowed into Yukina's face and she was freaking out.

"SHHH! Please! You need to be calm!" Karuka said opening her eyes to meet Yukina's red ones.

"I can't!" Yukina managed to say hoarsely behind Karuka's hands.

"You need to be! It is the only way this will work!" Karuka said. Yukina obeyed the best she could, and stifled her coughs as she let Karuka cure her.

A dark orange light surrounded Karuka as she kept her eyes closed, concentrating. Her hands started shaking as her own healing power was being absorbed into Yukina. The way for Contrary Sway syndrome to be cured was for a strong enough healer of the elements to transfer their own healing power to the victim. The best element for this was shadow because shadow acts as the bridge between all elements. It can't affect any element to lessen its power because it just shadows the other power, making it change to the victim's element, making them stronger, and allowing them to heal themselves from within. The process of elemental exchanges is harder and longer with the other elements. They just wouldn't fit in this case. Only Karuka could help her. And that's what she was doing.

"I feel better." Yukina said.

"Good, because you'll need to do the second half of this healing. I'm not quite done with this just yet though." Karuka said. Yukina lightly nodded her head in understanding and smiled under Karuka's warm hands. Karuka was happy she was helping this girl live, but she didn't know the consequences of this healing session, and what it would do to her. If Karuka was a decade or two older, she could heal Yukina in this state no problem, but at such a young age her powers aren't enough to divide between the two. And she is giving most of her healing power to Yukina, which will leave Karuka dry. But she didn't know this. She didn't know that the fact with her healing power still fresh and raw and only half of it working as shadow, that she might die if she gave it to someone else. She didn't know that she, herself, was living off of that power.

"I'm almost done. This may hurt." Karuka warned. She moved her hands to Yukina's stomach and drove them further into her. A bright light was illuminating from the spot as Yukina's now clearer voice boomed out in new pain. As the disease was being slowly controlled from the inside to make it better for Yukina to handle and heal later, some of it touched Karuka, causing the light to shine because it was the opposite of Karuka's power as a shadow. Then, as Karuka put it back, it changed to fire for a brief second before finally converting to ice to heal from the inside. However, Yukina was still in a great deal of pain from the sudden entrance of power and a single tear gem fell from her eye. Its color was strange, and not like any other tear gem she had cried before. One side of the gem was black from the shadow power that was in her, and the other was red, from the burning disease that she was going through. It clinked to the floor as Karuka took her hands from out of Yukina's stomach. She looked flustered and tired as she breathed with odd difficulty. Her hands were glowing a bright yellow and it slowly started to spread to the rest of her body. Karuka stared in fear of what was happening. She had just been infected with Contrary Sway syndrome. But how? This was the healing process, she shouldn't be infected.

At the moment, since she was only seeing a bright light, Karuka thought that she was in fact infected, but the truth was that she was suffering from the absence of her healing power. Since Karuka was so young and hadn't worked a lot on her healing power it was just raw power that was yet to be tamed, which meant that she needed it. Her eyes were wide as her body stiffened in pain and she fell to the ground. Just then, Ruka and the other women entered the room since they could see the bright light from outside and what they saw scared them horrifically. Ruka stared at her daughter that was on the ground and ran to her side. She looked at Karuka's weak and skinny body, she was a lot skinnier then she was when they arrived on the island. Ruka knew what she had done. She had healed Yukina by giving her her own healing power to help her from within which was the only way of curing the disease. This was the whole reason Ruka didn't want to have Karuka attempt to heal the girl because she would literally lose half her own power. Why hadn't she told Karuka of this side effect? If she had Karuka would have never attempted this impossibility. Now there was only one thing to do. She carefully picked Karuka up and set her along side Yukina who was looking a whole lot better than before. It seemed Karuka's work had helped and she saved the little girl, but if Karuka died it would be the exact same affect and lose to the world.

"Are you ok Yukina?" Ruka asked shakily to her. Yukina nodded and turned her head to look at Karuka's shocked face.

"Is she ok?" She asked as Karuka's eyes were doing a weird shaky thing as their color was sort of changing. Ruka didn't answer her but put her full attention to Karuka. She felt her forehead and it seemed just fine. She checked Karuka's palms to see if they were clammy and they weren't. She put her ear to Karuka's chest to make sure she was still breathing and she was. Finally, she looked into Karuka's eyes and watched them change to a pale green.

'This is her transformation.' Ruka thought. As she was watching Karuka's eyes change from yellow to green she thought of the past where her four sons went through the same change. When Pyro went through it he said his eyes burned like fire, when the twins went through it they too had a burning sensations and also skin irritation. When Tadashi changed eye color he went through both those symptoms and an ear infection. Therefore, now that Karuka is going through it she would have the same affects and one more that no one was sure of. What could it be?

"Ow…" Karuka whispered. Everyone in the room looked over to her as she was having weird convulsions that made Karuka's body twitch madly on the bed. Ruka, scared that all of these symptoms would take her only daughter, quickly attempted to fill her daughter with power of her own so she could fight against the symptoms of change like her brothers had done.

"My eyes!" She yelled. As she yelled in pain of the burning feeling she had in her eyes she madly scratched at them to relieve herself. She flayed her limbs in all directions trying to escape the horrible pain. She madly tried gauging her own eyes out to relieve herself of this horrid pain. However, Ruka knew this was bad because Pyro had attempted the same thing so she quickly grabbed her daughter's hands and removed them from her face. Karuka still shook with the odd wrenches of pain inside of her stomach. Everyone in the little hut was afraid of what was happening. Hina ran to the bed side and quickly grabbed Yukina away from the havoc and tripped on her way back as she was still watching Karuka cry out in horror.

"AHH!" Karuka was now being subject to the skin irritation. She scratched at her skin causing flakes to fall from her body to the light snow that plated the ground on the island of Koorime even indoors. She rolled over past her mother and hit the floor with a thud trying to soak up all the snow she could to relieve herself. She was screaming into the ground and converting all the snow around her to shadow to further ease the pain.

With Ruka's soft hands on her daughter's stomach, she quickly moved some of her more refined healing power into Karuka's body. Slowly and surely, Karuka's was able to fight off the symptoms she was being subject to. However, Karuka was still in a great deal of pain as the ear infection went by oddly well. You'd think being a tiger, Karuka would have a horrible trouble with the ear infection but with her mother's temporary healing she was handling it just fine.

'What could it be?' Ruka thought about the last symptom. Just as the thought ran through her head, a bright light shined into her eyes. Ruka fell back from the sudden pain in her eyes and screamed. As she was screaming, another voice joined her. It was Karuka. Because her mother's hand left her stomach, Karuka was reintroduced to the pain. Looking up, Ruka and the others saw where the bright light was coming from.

"Karuka!" Ruka yelled as loud as she could, as if the light was not only separating sight between them but sound as well. As she inched herself back to her daughter she could see where the light was coming from exactly. Three very distinct lights were illuminating from Karuka's eyes and mouth. What kind of symptom was this?

Before a legitimate answer could be thought, the light that had resigned inside Karuka's body exploded, sending all the women flying back and the little shack was destroyed.

Moments later, all the women and remnants of the shack were lying motionless on the snow covered ground. All the light that was coming out of Karuka was gone. She was only resting on her back in the snow, allowing the substance to soak through her clothes. The bed she was lying upon had blown up as well and only black dust surrounded her. Ruka started to stir and opened her eyes to look at Karuka. Quickly, she scurried over to her side.

"Karuka! Karuka can you hear me!" She screamed at her daughter. She grabbed her shoulders and rested Karuka's head in her lap. Then, she slowly started to cry.

All the other women crowded around the two tiger demons after they had found the strength to stand up. Yukina, at her mother's side, shed a tear. However, unlike her deranged tear she cried from before when she was sick, this one was her normal white. Hina gripped her daughter's shoulders tightly, knowing full well that could have been her if she was still in the bed.

Ruka's silent crying continued as the snow fell steadily, slowly covering up the black residue that Karuka was in the middle of. Cradling her in her arms, she was surprised to hear Karuka's voice travel through her mind.

"Mother?" Hold on, that wasn't just her mind, that was out loud. Ruka opened her eyes and looked down. Her expression was that of surprise. Slowly, her tears started drying up, and her frown was replaced with a smile as she gazed into her little girl's green eyes.

End flashback-

"Karuka?" Karuka shot out of her reverie and looked at Yukina. She looked exactly as she did in her flashback.

"Are you okay dear?" Genkai asked the next question.

"Yes, yes. I'm fine. Um," Karuka shook her head from its confusion, "I think I'm ready to start figuring those symbols out now." Karuka quickly stood up and hurried to the door before she could get a reaction. Genkai and Yukina looked at each other confused, but Genkai stood up and followed her to finally decode the symbols.

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