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Last Time:
"Kagome, do you think you could fall asleep :yawn: again? I could go into your dream and we could fight the demon together, and if :yawn: anything happened I could wake you up again." Hiei said trying hard to keep his eyes open.
"I don't know Hiei. I don't want :yawn: to relive those awful nightmares again." Kagome said softly. "But I have to help the others! Ok, let's do it!" Kagome said quickly making up her mind knowing that they didn't have a lot of time. Before Hiei could respond Kagome had already laid down and let sleep overcome her. Falling asleep had turned out to be suprisingly easy, even though she was afraid to. Hiei sighed, took off his bandana, and prepared to enter Kagome's mind once again.
Now:
Hiei felt himself falling into darkness until he found himself in the same graveyard he had been in Kagome's previous dream. He saw that the scene before him was similar to the one in Kagome's last dream. It was pretty much the same except there were more mourners and more tombs. He saw Kagome crying at one of the graves, and as he was approaching her he watched as to his horror she pulled out a sword from seemingly nowhere and was about to stab herself. He ran faster and the sword got closer to Kagome's throat. He quickened his pace even more. The sword got closer. His heart rate increased dramatically. He started thinking about whether or not he would make it in time before the dream Kagome killed herself and the real Kagome died. What would happen to him if he was in Kagome's dream when she died? Would he die to? Would he be trapt in her thoughtless mind forever? He was almost to her now and the sword was almost touching her flesh. He would hear his hearbeat in his head louder and louder as he got closer and closer. "boom boom...boom boom...boom boom boom boom boom" went the sound of his heart. Just when he thought his heart might explode he grabbed the sword out of Kagome's grasp and flung it into the distance.
"Kagome, no! It's not real! They're all ok! Don't wake up though!" Hiei shouted.
"What...?" The dream Kagome asked in a confused tone. Suddenly, the graves disappeared and so did the mourners.
"Kagome, I think your in the state where your half awake and half asleep. You can control what happens in your dream now. No matter what you see in this dream it's your mind and you can change whatever is happening!" Hiei said. The dream Kagome nodded and stood up. As soon as she did their surroundings changed dramatically. The gloomy atmosphere of the graveyard was gone. They were now standing in a beautiful forest, surrounded by tall trees and gorgeous brightly colored flowers.
Just as Hiei had begun to take in the new surroundings, he and Kagome found themselves in the graveyard again. Three lifeless, bloody bodies lay in front of them. "Kagome, you have to fight it. It's just the demon trying to take control of your mind again. Imagine something happy." Hiei said quickly.As soon as Hiei had uttered these words he found himself in a warm, cheery looking restaruant where he saw Kagome sitting at a table with some girls that wore the same uniform as she did. "Those must be her friends from our time." Hiei thought. Kagome and some of the other girls started laughing cheerfully at a joke a girl in the middle had told. One by one the girls stopped laughing and their heads fell off. Kagome got up and screamed. "Fight it, Kagome!" Hiei cried.
Suddenly, a short, dark purple, impish looking demon appeared in the air next to Hiei. The demon had big ears and its pupils were red but the part of an eye that's normaly white was yellow. He had three of those horrible red and yellow eyes. Two larger eyes were in their normal places on a person's face but the third eye was slightly smaller than they other two and it was in the center of his forhead. "You won't win you little wench!" The demon cried in a voice that sounded similar to Jaken's. The demon raised his hand and then the headless bodies got up and started attacking Hiei and Kagome.
"There's no way I'm going to let this happen! This is my dream!" Kagome shouted. The bodies suddenly fell over and turned into adorable teddy bears. Kagome's bow suddenly appeared in her hands and a bag of sacred arrows appeared on her back. She shot the arrows at the demon while Hiei used his katana to slash away anything that the demon conjured up to try and harm himself and Kagome. One of Kagome's arrows hit the demon and it gave a shriek of pain and then disappeared in a bright light. Hiei found himself falling and spining for a second time and then he was still. He opened his eyes and rose to his feet. He looked over at Kagome and saw that she to was awake. "Do you think we really killed him?" Kagome asked.
"Well, I don't feel tired anymore." Hiei replied. The two of them turned around to see Sango getting up.
"What happened?" She asked. Before either of them could reply Yusuke, Kuwabara, Miroku, and Shippo all came running up next to them.
"Did you kill the demon?" Shippo asked excitedly.
"We think we did." Kagome responded. Suddenly a cold blast of air filled the room and the ghostly figures of a man, a woman, and two children appeared in front of everyone. The women was the one who started to speak.
"Thank you for defeating the demon. Now our spirits can rest in peace." She said and with those words she and her family disappeared.
"Well I guess you guys really did kill the demon. Good job!" Miroku said.
"Hey, why isn't Kurama awake yet?" Sango said suddenly, looking down at Kurama's still sleeping form. Yusuke walked over to Kurama and looked at him closely and checked his pulse.
"I hate to say this guys, but I don't think he's sleeping." Yusuke said.
"Detective, do you mean to say that he's..." Hiei began and then decided not to finish his question because he already knew the answer from the solemn look on Yusuke's face. Sango gave a loud sob and started crying. Miroku put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. Kuwabara started blinking back tears as did Yusuke. Hiei just stood there in shock and disbelief. He knew that everyone would die eventually but he had always sort of admired Kurama as both a fighter and a friend. (A/N: No Hiei isn't gay he just thought Kurama was a really good fighter and he was his best friend) It was a scary thing to see someone that you always thought of as somewhat invincible die. It was the cold harsh slap of reality and it didn't feel good. Kagome was upset to see someone so kind and such a good ally go. Everyone stood in silence and mourning for awhile until Kagome had an idea.
"There's a way we could bring Kurama back." Kagome said slowly.
"How?" Yusuke asked.
"Well, InuYasha's half-brother Sesshomaru has a sword that can revive people from the dead. I don't know how we can get him to agree to revive Kurama, but it's worth a shot." Kagome said.
That's where I'm ending it. Sorry for the wait on the update but I had a little bit of writer's block. I know somewhat what I'm going to have happen in the next chapter though so it shouldn't take me long to update again.
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