---Deceased Romance With New Revelations---
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.
I'm so sorry! I'm starting to go brain dead on this story! TT
This chapter is fairly short, because I don't want to worry you…ano…I'll try to make it longer…
Chapter 24: PanicOverall POV… Higurashi Shrine…
How much longer can I stand not being by your side? Seeing you is like a dream, one that I wish never to wake up from…
His hands shook, nearly cracking the teacup as he lifted it to his lips.
In a corner of the room, a person stood there, seemingly lifeless.
On a nearby chair, another man bit his lip, shaking in his seat, seemingly deep in thought about something.
And behold, in front, stood Yusuke, pacing back in forth in the room, causing havoc, and panicking about his cousin… "Who-whoever did this to Kagome – and Sango, will DIE!" he roared, pumping his fist into the air.
Kurama steadied his teacup warily, "As much as I hate to say this…we don't have any leads"
Hiei closed his eyes, leaning against the wall, "I believe Kuwabara had found something"
"Wha-me?" Kuwabara perked up at the mention of his name, "Oh…oh yeah! I did find something! It didn't seem very important though…"
Yusuke ran up to his friend, shaking him violently on the shoulders, "You know? Show us! Hurry up! C'mon guys!"
He turned around to drag along Kurama and Hiei, only to find that they had already left; the only evidence was a knocked over chair, some tea stains on the table (that looked like a person had knocked over some drops in their rush) and the unsettled dust in the corner of the room.
"Well!" Yusuke burst out the door, his grip firmly clamped around the poor boy's wrist, "Show me now!"
"Urameshi!" Kuwabara nearly scowled, "I can't do it with you trying to kill my hands!"
"Oh…"
Still The Higurashi Shrine…
"Kuwabara…where did you find this…evidence…?" Kurama inquired, scrounging the area with no luck whatsoever.
"Over here" He wrenched himself from Yusuke's death grip and pointed to a spot on the cement road, "The kidnapper dude dropped this or something when he left through the portal"
Hiei picked it up, then tossed it almost, but not actually carelessly to Kurama, who caught it effortlessly.
"I…I know this place" Kurama announced to the Spirit Detective group, "This found in eastern Makai; it's a bamboo forest" He was clutching onto a bamboo tree twig, "It most likely flew out when the kidnapper grabbed Sango and Kagome…it's very windy in that area, so that would explain it"
"Hey-!" Kuwabara realized, "Where did Botan, Miroku, and Keiko go anyways…?"
"To the toddler" Yusuke nodded at Kurama, "let's go"
"So…" Kurama stared at Yusuke, "Who's going to create the portal?"
Hiei snorted and just slit one with a sharp dagger in his pocket, "Go"
He whisked himself into the swirling vortex first, followed by the three others behind him.
Eastern Makai, Kagome's POV…
"…And do you know why you're here?" A snake youkai hissed into Kagome's ear, his tongue flicking disgustingly out at Kagome's earlobe.
Kagome gritted her teeth, glaring at the demon.
"It's because your soo damn famous! You think you're so great…ne?"
'I never asked to be famous' Kagome's eyes darkened as she struggled with her bonds.
Sango's mouth was being held forcefully closed across the clearing, her eyes rooted on Kagome while trying to bat away a snake sliding down her shirt. The deep wound on her leg stung with every movement.
When it succeeded, the demon exterminator froze in fear, whimpering sounds heard, muffled by the sleek scales of the snake.
"If you struggle" The snake youkai smirked, "I'll ask that snake to bite that friend of yours over there. You wouldn't want that to happen now, would you?"
Kagome's glare turned harder, but she grudgingly ceased her movement, finding a stray rock on the ground and clenching it in her first so she had something to take her anger out on.
Eastern Makai, Spirit Detective's POV…
They say when two people are apart; it only brings them closer together; mentally.
Irritated, Hiei drew his sword and sent another clump of bamboo trees clattering to the ground with a hollow sound.
Strange.
All the plants were hollow, very hollow. The bamboo was very hard, but when cut down, it was, well…thin and empty.
Grabbing two for the sake of it, Kuwabara held them in a sword stance.
Yusuke, in his worried state, snatched one and absently started peeling it apart, strip-by-strip.
"Where do you think they could've gone…?" Kurama questioned, snapping yet another stick in half.
"Anywhere!" Yusuke bit his lip out of anxiety. Were Kagome and Sango okay…?
"I just traced the demon exterminator's smell" Hiei stated, suddenly bolting off without waiting for a reply, 'It doesn't smell right…it smells like-" Hiei came to an abrupt stop in front of a sticky mess.
"-Blood" Kuwabara gasped, "That's Sango's blood?"
Hiei made a mixed sound – somewhere between annoyed and worried.
"What about Kagome, then?" Lines creased over the bridge of his nose as Kurama clenched his fists in worry.
"Yeah" Yusuke gritted out, "What about Kagome?"
Hiei turned to look at the two, "I don't know. I can't smell her anywhere and this seems old. You see how the blood has already started to crust on the ground?" He was frustrated, you could tell.
Kurama walked up to a slightly deformed tree, everybody else questioning what he was trying to do.
"Look at this" He pointed to a cracked part of the plant, "It looks like something was broken violently off it…" Kurama pondered on it for a minute, while the rest was still confused.
"Feh" Yusuke mumbled, "Don't think a tree is that important" It was half-heartedly though.
"No…wait, look at this" Kurama dug through his pockets, searching for something, while Kuwabara and Yusuke raised an eyebrow.
"Here" The red-haired man drew out the bamboo twig that Kuwabara had found earlier and turned it around; it fit perfectly into the tree.
"What does that mean then?" Kuwabara squinted at the twig.
"It means that they were kidnapped in exactly this area," Hiei stated, swinging his katana again to topple over some more hollow plants.
Eastern Makai, Sango's POV…
She winced, the blood flowing freely from her leg.
Sango jerked the other way as the snake made further movement under her shirt.
The demon slayer twitched. What the hell? This snake was like a…demon Miroku!
'Wait…' Sango froze, straining her ears for some faint and distant noise, 'I think I just heard Hiei somewhere out there…'
Alright…gomen nasai everybody…this is so short…
I'm starting to go brain dead on this story…I was just wondering…should I put this on hold for a while, because I can't make good quality while I'm out of ideas. Onegai! Please tell me because I'm hesitating… It seems so successful so far, but I'm starting to…well, run out of ideas…
Don't worry, if you want to put it on hold for a while, then don't worry, I will never discontinue my stories… Reply by either reviewing or PM-ing please!
Read and review onegai!
Sayonara,
Tenshi-Battosai