Never Again Chapter 6

Author's Note: I just randomly decided to update today. I've also decided that in order to finish both the fics I have going right now I'm going to put The Breakdown: Life After Death (my other fic) on hold for a moment and finish this one. I'll probably update The Breakdown every once in a while while I'm working on finishing this fic but updates for this one come first. I would also appreciate it if you checked out that fic. It's a KagomexHiei fic like this one.

Special Thanks: Special thanks to sesshomaruslovelymate for giving me a suggestion for something that should happen in this fic. I thought it was a really good suggestion and I decided to use it. Without it I probably would've been sitting there with writers block for weeks trying to think of a way to get Sesshomaru to revive Kurama. So thanks sesshomaruslovelymate! This chapter is dedicated to you! hands you a sesshomaru plushie

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or InuYasha

Last time:

"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.

Now:

The tantei and the others pulled themselves together and departed from the house. Kuwabara had Kurama's corpse over his shoulder. When they had walked into the village the villagers cheered and thanked them. Though the demon never left the House of Horrors the villagers always worried that someday it. The cheering and praise was very brief because once they saw Kurama's lifeless form and the solemn looks on their hero's faces they realized what had happened to Kurama.

"He could be burried here, in the village." The elder had offered. Kagome had politely declined and the three remaining tantei looked as though they were about to kill the elder for even suggesting such a thing. Talk of a funeral just made it harder to deny that Kurama was dead. Sure they knew that Kurama's organs weren't working and his soul was probably in spirit world right now, but there was still hope for him. They just had to track down Sesshomaru, whoever that was.

"Ok, so where do we find this Sesshomaru guy?" Yusuke asked Kagome after they left the village.

"Well, he usual just travels to wherever he pleases-" Kagome said but then stopped at the look on the detectives' faces. "Great so this guy just wanders around and doesn't hang out in any one place. We'll never find him" Yusuke thought. As if she had read his mind, Kagome said,

"When we did run into him it was somewhere where Naraku was nearby. So when we find Naraku we find Sesshomaru, and when we find Sesshomaru we can revive Kurama."

"Well then, let's get going." Hiei said. Everyone turned to him for the first time and realized that he was a good five feet ahead of them.

"Hang on, just how are we supposed to find this Naraku guy anyway?" Kuwabara asked.

"Well usually InuYasha just follows his scent, but that's kind of a problem since we don't have InuYasha." Miroku replied.

"Detective, couldn't you ask Koenma to find Naraku for us?" Hiei asked.

"Well I guess I could, but I don't know if my communicator will work seeing as though were in a different time." Yusuke said doubtfully.

"Well you'd better try and see if it will work." Hiei said in a threatening voice.

"Ok ok, I'll try it." Yusuke said pulling out his communicator. Amazingly, it did work but it was staticy and sometimes it was hard to hear what the person on the other side was saying.

"Hey Koenma. We were wondering if you could track down Naraku for us." Yusuke said wasting no time.

"Your supposed to be hunting him down for me aren't you?" Came Koenma's staticy reply.

"Well yeah, but you want this done as soon as possible don't you? This guy changes castles pretty frequently and doesn't like to stay in one place for too long. If you could keep tabs on him and let us know where he is that would be great." Yusuke said hoping that this would be enough to convince the young prince of spirit world. Koenma sighed.

"I suppose I could do that for you, Yusuke, but you better make quick work of Naraku!" He said.

"Thanks Koenma. I knew I could count on you. There is one more thing though." Yusuke said. He was going to ask the young prince about Sesshomaru. Although he trusted Kagome he knew nothing about Sesshomaru and he wanted to make sure that his sword really could bring people back from the dead before they went to all this trouble to find him.

"What is it Yusuke?" Koenma asked.

"What do you know about a sword called the Tensaiga?"

"Aaah the Tensaiga. I'm assuming you wish to use this sword to revive Kurama?"

"So it really does work?" Yusuke asked excitedly.

"Yes, it does work. However, you may find it difficult to get the sword's owner to agree to help you."

"Yeah we know already Koenma. Hey listen, could you hold off on sending Kurama anywhere for awhile?" Koenma sighed at Yusuke's request.

"Botan already begged me to not send him anywhere because she said there must be some way to bring him back. Plus he's somewhat of a complicated case because he's been such a good human other than stealing the Forlorn Hope, but he was a thief while he was a demon. And since there is a way he could be brought back..." Koenma said trailing off.

"Thanks Koenma. Let us know when you find out something about Naraku's whereabouts ok?" Yusuke said breaking off the communication.

"Well?" Hiei asked impatiently.

"Koenma said he'd track down Naraku for us and hold off on sending Kurama anywhere until we find this Sesshomaru guy." Yusuke replied.

"So what should our next move be?" Miroku asked.

"Now we play the waiting game." Yusuke answered. So they waited and waited and finally it got dark so they set up camp in the woods.

"I'll go get some firewood." Yusuke volunteered. "And Kuwabara is coming with me."

"What? No way I'm going into the woods at night! You don't know what kinda demons might be in there!" Kuwabara protested. Yusuke just dragged him into the woods against his will. Once they were out of hearing range of the others they began to talk.

"What's the big idea, Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked.

"Don't you wanna spy on the others? I mean, you could kinda tell that Sango kinda liked Kurama but she's in love with Miroku too. And Hiei did go into Kagome's mind to kill that demon. I'm not sayin he likes her, but hey, things could get interesting." Yusuke said. Kuwabara was slightly stunned because he never knew that Yusuke paid that much attention to things like that.

"Spying is wrong. It's against my honor code." Kuwabara responded firmly.

"Aw c'mon Kuwabara aren't you curious as to what's gonna happen? What if somethin really unexpected happens and we miss it?" Yusuke said hoping that his friend's curiosity would get the best of him.

"Well yeah..." Kuwabara admitted. So the two of them find a couple bushes near where Sango and Miroku were and watched silently.

"I can't believe all this is happening. First InuYasha and Kagome have a huge fight and then Kurama dies. I didn't really know him that well but he seemed like a good person." Sango was saying. Miroku didn't reply but instead put his arm around her. He didn't even think about grabbing her butt or doing anything perverted. Sango rested her head on his shoulder. "Miroku may be a pervert, but he's still a good person." Sango thought.

" But Kurama isn't perverted at all" She thought again.

"Where did that come from?"

"You know you like him, at least just a little bit"

"Ok, so maybe I do like him, but I still love Miroku. He may be perverted, but he's a good person."

"But your heart breaks a little every time you see him hitting on another women"

"Well, I barely know Kurama. He's nice and everything but how do I know that he doesn't already have someone? A guy like that must have someone. Besides, I already have Miroku."

"But does Miroku really love you or does he just like you because your pretty? How do you know he's not using you?"

"Miroku only hits on those other women because he needs someone to bare his child because of his wind tunnel."

"But is that the only reason?"

Sango sighed loudly. This was going nowhere. She already had Miroku and Kurama was dead. "But we might be able to get Kurama back again. He wouldn't hit on other girls like Miroku does." Sango's conscience argued. Miroku had heard her loud sigh.

"Something wrong, Sango?" He asked.

"No." She responded tiredly.

"Wow! Did you see that, Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked.

"Yeah Sango looked like she was pretty deep in thought about something and she wouldn't tell Miroku what." Yusuke responded. "I wonder how old short stack and Kagome are doing?"

"Let's go find out." Kuwabara said and he and Yusuke went off to find a good place to spy on Hiei and Kagome.

The two of them were just back at camp. Hiei was sitting up in a tree and Kagome was sitting on the ground while Shippo was sleeping in her lap. Kurama's death was bothering Kagome. Although she didn't know him that well he seemed like a really good person and any good person dying would bother her. Though her vow that never again would she fall in love sounded cold, she was still the same kind, compassionate person she had always been, just a little more guarded was all. She truly hated to see someone good die. Though Kagome was not quite as spiritually aware as the detectives she could sense that Kurama had been a strong fighter. She decided that Kurama dying to the tantei was like Sango dying to her. She shivered. She could only imagine what it would feel like to have Sango die.There was the possibility that Sesshomaru would agree to revive Kurama, but it wouldn't be easy. She honestly didn't know how she was going to get him to do it. She wanted to talk to someone about this.

Her first instinct was to go to Sango, who was like a sister to her. But no, she didn't want to intrude on her and Miroku. Shippo was asleep and she decided that he was too young and innocent to bother with such things anyway. Ordinarily she would've gone to InuYasha. He was not the most compassionate person in the world, and he was definitely not someone you went to when you were looking for sympathy, but he would listen. Kagome got the same sort of feeling from Hiei. He probably wouldn't be as rude as InuYasha, but he would be quiet like him. He would stare off into the distance but yet you knew he was listening. It gave her a comforting sort of feeling. Yes, she was going to talk to Hiei about this.

She started having second thoughts about talking to him. Kurama seemed to be his best and closest friend. Maybe he wouldn't want to talk about it. "No, he's like InuYasha. He just acts cold and keeps his emotions bottled up. He might not say anything at all, but he'll listen." Kagome decided.

"Hiei..." Kagome started quietly not wanting to wake Shippo

"What?" Hiei responded from up in the tree.

"About Kurama-" Kagome started again before being cut off by Hiei.

"Hn." Hiei said. Kagome decided that this was a sign that Hiei was going to listen.

"Well, I know Sesshomaru's sword can revive people, but he won't just do it because I ask him to. He'll want a good reason why he should do it or he'll want something in exchange." Kagome said somewhat worriedly.

"His good reason as to why he's going to do it is because he wants to live. If he wont agree to do it I'll kill him, take his sword, and do it myself." Hiei said flatly.

"It's not that simple, Hiei. Only Sesshomaru can weild the Tensaiga." Hiei said nothing. Kagome took this as a sign that he was waiting for her to continue. "I'll have to give him something in return for reviving Kurama. I don't know what I can give him though."

"Well what does he want more than anything else? You seem to know quite a bit about Sesshomaru. Surely you must know what he would be willing to trade for." Hiei said looking at Kagome for the first time since she had started talking to him.

"Well, he does want InuYasha's sword the Tetsaiga quite badly. But I don't have that..." Hiei looked at her again as if to tell her to keep thinking. "Wait a minute! InuYasha did cut off his left arm! I could use my miko powers to give him the arm back! (A/N: Thanks Sesshomaruslovelymate)

"Hn." Was Hiei's reply. Although his words didn't say much Kagome could've sworn that she saw a small smile tugging at his lips when he heard that it was almost definite that his best friend would be revived. Suddenly, Yusuke's communicator went off, scaring the crap out of him and Kuwabara.

"HOLY SHIT!" Yusuke exclaimed jumping at least three feet into the air. He had been so absorbed in Hiei and Kagome's conversation that he had forgotten all about Koenma. Unfortunately for him neither Hiei nor Kagome was deaf or blind so they had heard him in the bushes. Hiei jumped down from his tree and parted the bushes.

"Detective!" He said with a growl. Kuwabara cowered in fear of the koorime.

"Hiya Hiei!" Yusuke said with a sweat drop and a nervous laugh.

"Aren't you gonna get that?" Kuwabara asked referring to Yusuke's communicator.

"Oh yeah." Yusuke said opening it.

"Yusuke, we've managed to track down Naraku." Came Botan's cheerful voice.

"Well where is he?" Yusuke asked.

"It turns out he's in a village near where you are. The demon weilding the Tensaiga is near there as well."

"Thanks Botan!" Yusuke said brightly and broke off the communication. "Ok guys, we rest tonight and then track down Naraku in the morning."

"Hn, your lucky Botan's news put me in a good enough mood not to kill you." Hiei said coldly. Kagome was watching from under the tree.

"C'mon guys, we should get some rest so that we're ready for the morning." Kagome called to them. Miroku and Sango had already fallen asleep.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea" Kuwabara agreed and with that they all found a place to sleep and despite their excitement for the next morning they managed to fall asleep almost instantly.

Well that's where im FINALLY ending it. That was like the longest chapter I've ever written out of any of my fics. And Jessica wanted me to make it longer -- well anyway I'll probably be updating this again soon like sometime within the next week!

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