Yuusuke heaved, stomach trying to rid itself of contents long gone. Kuwabara rubbed his back in soothing circles, and eventually the organ calmed. The Second Arma wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, disgusted, and then stood.
"Christ, Urameshi. How the hell can you stand on that leg?"
"What, this?" Yuusuke tried to pass off his clenching of teeth as a smile. "This is nothing compared to Grandma's boot camp. Come on, we need to keep moving. There's a shelter around here somewhere, and we need to make sure the citizens are safe."
"Yeah, the prince too. Hey, you okay?"
"Prince Koenma? He was in the city?"
"No, he evacuated with the rest of the civilians. Why?"
"Shit, the idiot. When I get a hold of General Sensui…" Yuusuke made a violent motion with his hands. "Come on, we need to get there quick. Major!" Kuwabara snapped to attention automatically. "I need you to carry me. And you need to run. Fast."
"Yes sir." Kuwabara bit off, before grabbing Yuusuke and hauling him up into a shoulder carry. Yuusuke let out a pained hiss when he wasn't careful with his hurt leg, but made no protest.
He had to get to that shelter as soon as possible. Some Tiumi are blood hungry, and might have gone after the civilians. In which case Koenma would have tried to fend them off, and failed, and been captured.
Shit! Prince Koenma in the hands of the Tiumi. This was very bad.
General Arma Sensui took his platoon silently through the woods, stalking the Tiumi that had felled the Capital. He, being a most respected officer of the Praecantrix Liberal Army, was not questioned when he pulled his men from the palace guard to cover the evacuating civilians. This had left the Tiumi Touya able to infiltrate the castle and kidnap the prince.
And that enabled him to come dashing to the rescue, and take all of the credit for saving Koenma. Koenma would be grateful, and so would his Father, and General Arma would become Cadvat Sensui, commander of the Praecantrix Army.
Silently, Sensui gave the signal to attack. His men burst forth from all sides upon the Tiumi. Caught by surprise, the Tiumi fell rapidly. But then the ground was ice, and things began to worsen. And Sensui, caught up in the fight, let thought of the prince slip entirely from his mind.
Koenma got more warning than the others. That strange silver fox who had been following him turned it's head to one side, as if listening to something, and then it turned to him, wagged it's tails, and vanished into the surrounding bush.
Then everything exploded.
Before he really knew what was happening, Koenma found himself being hauled up a tree by a short Tiumi in black, third rank, and being shoved into the cover of the branches.
"Damn ice users, Touya has no idea how hard he make it to use fire when he changes the environment like that." The Tiumi muttered. It was then that Koenma realized that this was it, his chance to get away. Pushing at that weak spot, the prince started to pull energy to his wrists, where he was bound. A headache started to pound as he pushed harder and longer, and slowly the binds started to be seared away by the intense concentration of his energy.
Before he could finish, however, a blinding pain ripped through his skull. Koenma screamed as it back lashed through his energy and up into his head again. He distantly heard a curse and some shouting, then movement, but he was practically unconscious from the pain.
When he came back around, he was lying flat on his back, unbound, and everything from his toes to his head ached. Koenma moaned.
"You're awake! Good, I was worried there for a while." Koenma blinked, and then turned his head, only to whimper when it screamed in protest. "Stay still, that's a nasty thing to happen. Here, drink this." Koenma sipped at whatever was pushed to his lips, and then opened his eyes fully to see who it was helping him. He just barely managed to check the instinct to use his mind, but he figured that his head hurt enough at the moment.
And when he looked, smiling emerald eyes looked back, set in a smooth face and framed by long locks of brilliant red hair. The person smiled.
"My name is Kurama."