From the sounds of the reviews I'm making everyone just as crazy as poor little Keaka. –Laughs evily - Anyways lets see what else I can pull out from the corners of my twisted fantasy world.

Kuwabara ran to the park as fast as he could feeling his lungs burning as his body begged him to stop. He ignored it until he had reached the park and was the last one to arrive as usual. Hiei's message had been short and vague but to the point none the less. Kurama sat on a bench with Yusuke beside him both attempting to look as if nothing was wrong when things most defiantly were. Kuwabara on the other hand was a wreak. He hadn't attended school in well over a month, hadn't slept much in that time either and it was apparent he had lost a tremendous amount of weight. At least he wasn't like Shizeru who had given up all together and lay in bed all the time crying.

"Hey guys. What are you still all sitting around for lets go." Kuwabara said excitedly.

"Waiting for you." Yusuke said jumping to his feet as well as Kurama and Hiei appearing from who knows where.

"Well I'm here so lets roll." He said.

"Yuuuuusuke!" Botan's voice rang out. The tantai's looked up to see the ferry girl flying towards them on her oar.

"What's up Botan? We're kind of in a hurry so make it short and sweet." Yusuke said. She hovered in front of them a few feet and sighed gripping her oar tightly.

"Listen Koenma needs you guys in his office now. There's something urgent that he has to tell you."

"No way! This is the closest we've been to finding Keaka in weeks! There's no way in hell we're not gonna waste any more time!" Kuwabara yelled. The others stayed silent echoing his feelings.

"It's urgent. Koenma has found out valuable information about her kidnappers and their reasons for taking her." Botan replied trying to ignore the harsh looks that were being thrown her way.

"Fine. Let's go then." Yusuke said finally.

"Lord Kamowe is a powerful demon that has ruled a region of the Makai yet to be controlled by Reikai. His followers are numerous however his three right men are also his brothers. Kintaro, Shura and Tetsuo. They each have different abilities but there power is nothing compared to that of their older brother." Koenma stated sitting at his desk sucking furiously on his pacifier as he did when he was nervous.

"Alright well that clears up whom her captors are now what are their reasons?" Kurama asked impatiently.

"According to these particular demons customs every millennia a human sacrifice is made to please the kusabi no yumi."

"Kusabi no yumi? Sacrifices dream? That doesn't make sense." Yusuke said becoming interested.

"Many centuries before any of us were born, and this goes for you too Kurama, it appears they were quite peaceful actually and not of any threat to anyone let alone Reikai or humans however one day their village was destroyed and the only survivors were these four brothers. Kamowe's mate Yumi was taken from him and murdered before his eyes. The body was thrown into a dark void. According to legend she became an evil spirit that swallowed up everyone and everything except of course for her family. Ever since Kamowe takes young maidens on the day of the attack for a sacrifice for his bride." Konema said. The quartet looked at him in mute disbelief. This was by far the most disturbing twisted case ever.

"If he was such a threat then why didn't we ever hear about him before?" Kuwabara asked.

"He is much stronger than any of you. I felt there wasn't a need to cause trouble with him if it wasn't necessary." Koenma stated folding his hands in front of him casually.

"So if he's so much stronger than we are how in the hell are we going to beat him." Kuwabara asked shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Our best tactic would be the element of surprise. If we can pin point their location again that is." Kurama stated glancing over at Hiei whom only stared straight ahead.

"Hm." He said and walked out the door. The three others followed close behind.

"So what should we do now?" Yusuke asked.

"For now we should all keep our schedules open in case the need to leave quickly arises." Kurama said. The three friends agreed and went their separate ways knowing well that the demons were long gone with Keaka. Once home Kurama sat at his desk staring down at his calculas homework. He occasionally glanced over at Hiei whom sat on his window sill with his eyes closed tightly and jagan glowing brightly. Kurama sighed and stared past his friend out the window. He stood up wondering how anyone could have problems on such a warm day. He glanced down at Hiei again and gasped lightly.

"Hiei your bleeding.": He said as blood dripped slowly out of the fire apparitions nose. Hiei didn't seem to notice. Kurama grabbed a wash cloth from his drawer and placed it to his friends face. Hiei's eyes shot open as he stared confused at Kurama.

"You were bleeding." He said softly. Hiei sighed taking the cloth from Kurama and wiped at his nose sniffling.

"I've never used my jagan so frequently for such long periods of time." He said more to himself.

"Thank you for helping us Hiei. You don't know how much it means to us." Kurama said sitting back at his desk. Hiei looked at Kurama biting his lower lip looking almost nervous.

"Despite popular belief I'm not heartless. You should know that better than anyone." He said after a moment of silence.

"Yes I am aware." He replied.

"There are only two people I feel truly understand me and accept me for who I am." Hiei said gazing out the window. He sighed.

"I know." Kurama said mildly encouraging him to continue.

"You're one of them and Keaka…." Hiei said trailing off. "She's annoying and gets on my last nerve." Hiei said clenching his fist and gritting his teeth.

"There are days I just want to take that kid and pound her." Hiei said hitting his fists together gently. Kurama grinned and shut his eyes.

"However she is my friend and the fact that this happened to her right from underneath me makes me sick to my stomach. This feeling of fear that I'll never see her again but what's worse is knowing she'll meet a horrible end makes me want to cry." He stated softly.

"You care for her." Kurama said reopening his eyes. Hiei didn't say anything he only stared out the window as the rain poured down.