Hello everyone. I just read a chapter for a story with a REALLY weird couple that I'm not going to go into (because I don't know if people would like it) well anyways I now want to write this and see if it becomes any good! Please enjoy!

Chapter 20: A loss of energy with a sickness

Two weeks after the incident with Ryu, Shinku and Hiei everything seemed to quiet down at the temple except with the slight essence of a lost of energy or a light pain in the head on Ash's part.

Everyone seemed more aware of everything now, Yusuke and Kuwabara were busy trying to figure out what this secret was between Hiei and Ash, Kurama was constantly reading old books that confused Ash entirely and he would never tell her what they were about or what he was doing.

And Hiei, he had left about a week and a half after the incident with only a note left for Ash simply explaining that he was leaving for examination; no one knew what he was talking about.

Ash walked into the living room on a quiet morning to find Kurama writing in a notebook. She sat down next to him and rested her head against the headrest seeming to tired to even look at what the kitsune was doing.

To look, but not to ask, "Kurama what are you doing?" His emerald eyes looked over at her examining the paleness in her complexion and the hollow look the closed face held on it.

"Making notes."

"On?"

"Nothing really it's not that important. How about you, you look like you haven't slept in ages." Her gray eyes slid halfway open towards the parallel wall just to avert over to Kurama.

"I feel tired, no energy, and sick." She explained. "We don't have any medicine either."

"Do you want me to go get you or make you something for it?" Concern filled his own look; she breathed in slightly and then exhaled the breath. "No that's okay it'll pass, maybe it's just stress."

"About?"

"Hiei being gone, and about my own predicament."

"Hiei will come back he seemed very protective of you while he was here, I'm sure he'll come back soon." He offered her a smile but she didn't seem to take it.

"I don't get it." She said sitting herself up, "I feel tired but I've been sleeping ten hours a night, sick but I haven't eaten anything that bad, and no energy but I haven't been doing that much anyways."

Kurama thought a moment he knew what was wrong; she was dying. He had seen it before and in the exact same case as she had it now, but he couldn't bring himself to tell her, how would he anyway?

'Ash you're just dying,' yeah that would seem real comforting towards her.

"I'm going to go and get you some medicine, it'll help you." He stood up and went to the door. "It's okay Ku-."

"I'm sure Hiei wouldn't like coming back to know you had gotten yourself sick now, I'll be back in a little while." He moved out the door and into the cool morning air that seemed to be making an effortless stride to warming the temperature as the new spring would want it to be.

Pale blue covered the overhead with white clouds moving across the plain making everything seem so peaceful, as if nothing else truly mattered in the now silent world.

Meanwhile inside the house Ash laid her head back against the couch and let the sound of nothing fill her alert ears. Five minutes she sat in this state before: "Can't you ever use the door?"

"I do use that stupid ningen door." Gray eyes opened and locked onto her mate who sat on the window frame.

"Where have you been?"

"Out."

"Doing what?"

"Nothing."

"Hiei!" She glared at him but he simply smirked almost unnoticeably.

"You'll find out in two weeks." He said simply appearing next to her. She gazed into his crimson eyes searching for whatever it was he had been doing but he blocked her easily from anything she might be able to find easily; or what might have been unguarded.

"Two weeks." He repeated.

"Two weeks?"

"It's not there yet." She looked confused. He looked confused right back at her. "Ash?" She could tell he was questioning about the way she was now.

"Nothing."

"Ash." His tone was firmer with her his eyes burned into her own. "I don't feel that well right now; no big deal."

"It is and you know it." He stated and she stood up. "No it's not look I can stand up walk around I'm allowed to get sic-." As she paced in a circle, her voice was broken by her knees turning to what felt like liquid and starting to fall to the ground; though Hiei caught her before she hit the wood floor.

"Nothing huh?" She scowled at him. "You're not allowed to be sick; where's the kitsune?"

"He went out to get medicine, I told him not to but he persisted." She explained getting herself out of Hiei's tightly held arms and coming to stand in front of him.

"You're being very stubborn."

"And yet you love me so."

"Who said I did?"

"You." He glared at her and placed her back on the couch ending the conversation but leaving her with a broad smile on her face. Both sat in silence a moment Ash did exactly what she had been doing all morning; remembering.

"Hiei."

"Hm?"

"Do you remember when my dad hurt me in the arm and you put that stuff on my arm?" Hiei was quiet a moment with his eyes closed yet staring ahead of him giving him a sense of a obvious weakness; though Ash knew well this was and would never be the case.

"Hai."

"What was that stuff you put on my arm? Was it really something to help with the infection?" His eyes slid open and met hers. "Why are you asking such a irrelevant question?"

"I don't know."

"No, it was also to see if you were a demon or not, living with humans had somehow masked your now clear energy." He explained. "I thought I told you that."

"I don't know maybe, I can't remember."

He continued to watch her with questioning eyes, "why are you asking that Ash?" He repeated, her eyes met his only this time a small look of sorrow filled them.

"I want to remember every time I had with everyone before I die."

A/N: I know bad ending writers block sucks. I'm now choosing between two endings but have no way to get to them! Maybe I'll post the first one then a alternate ending, we'll see what happens.

Ideas are greatly appreciated!