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Chapter 11: Tears of Mixed Emotions
Once again, the doors of the hospital opened and Kurama entered. He walked into the waiting room where he spotted his friends. "Where is she?" Yusuke turned around to meet him. "She's in the room. You might want to go comfort her." The red-head nodded and went upstairs to Sanzo's room. He knocked and slowly opened the door.
Inside, Kurenai was sitting in a chair next to the bed. Sanzo lay motionless. He had cuts on his face, his arm was in a cast, and he was hooked up to a monitor. Kurama slowly walked next to Kurenai. "Let me out!" Yoko yelled in the human's head. "No. We're in a public place. There are humans around." "There's no one in the room except Sanzo and he's unconscious." "Oh, fine." Shuichi gave in and Yoko took over.
Kurenai felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up. Her godfather saw tears that were threatening to fall. The walls she had built around her emotions were crumbling. They had been rebuilt when she came to the human world, but this put a hole through them. Along with this, Yoko saw the gash on her cheek. "What happened?" he asked as he slowly ran his hand across the cut. She turned away from him. "I fell off the stairs into a mirror." Her voice was soft.
The spirit fox knew there was something she wasn't telling him. "Don't lie to me. I've known you since you were born. I know your habits and I can tell you're lieing." Kurenai whipped around to face him. "How could you possibly know me that well?" she shot back in a pissed off tone. "You left Makai seventeen years ago! Not even a year after Father died. Mother raised me the best she could up until nine years ago when she was murdered. You may have been my father's friend and you may be my godfather, but that is not reason enough to tell you anything!"
Yoko was speechless. Frozen in his spot, unable to move. her outburst surprised him to the full extent. "Kurenai," he whispered. She stared hard at him before turning and facing the wall. "Do you even know what being a godfather means? It means taking care of a child when the parents die. When both of my parents died, were you there to take care of their child, Yoko!" Unable to control her anger anymore, Kurenai rammed her fist into the concrete wall. Fresh blood seeped through the bandages.
Kurenai fell to her knees, tears freely falling. The fox knelt down behind her and wrapped his arms around the girl. "Kurenai, I'm sorry. If there was anything I could've done, I would have. But now I must watch over you. Please understand that coming to the human world was my only option. Now that I've found you, I won't leave." The komori turned into his embrace. Yoko could hear her mumble apologies into his chest.
When he finally pulled back, he asked her once again what happened. She wiped away the tear trails from her face. Then she stood up and sighed. "It was a fight." "With a demon?" Yoko pressed on. "Yes. His name is Shinya. He was at the club last night." The scenes from the previous night played over in his head until he remembered the guy she had talked with. "He was that strange man from the club? Why didn't you tell us that he was there?" It was then that the kitsune noticed how much she was bleeding. Not only were her knuckles busted, but her injuries from the fight had reopened from the force of the punch.
"Nevermind. You can explain everything at your apartment after we get you cleaned up." The kitsune switched to his human form and allowed Kurama to take control. He walked over to the door so they could leave. Before joining him, Kurenai kissed Sanzo on the forehead. She gathered her things and followed him to the waiting room. Kurenai barely turned the corner before Togusa caught her by the shoulder. Ryo and Iwasaki came up behind him. "How is he?" Ryo asked. The bat demon looked him in the eye. "He's stable according to the doctor. But they've got him hooked up tooxygen machine."
The three guys became tense. "Sanzo is sleeping, but you can see him. Look, I'm going home so call me there if anything happens." Kurenai said softly like before. Togusa squeezed her shoulder lightly. "It's okay." "Yeah, we understand. We'll see you later." Iwasaki added. The teen nodded. Kurenai left the hospital with Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara.
The trip back was uncomfortably silent. They arrived at Kurenai's place quicker than they thought. The bat demon quickened her pace so she could get inside. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara struggled to keep up. They almost ran into her when she suddenly stopped. "Do you find pleasure in creeping around my apartment?" The guys looked in each direction to see who she was speaking to.
Hiei jumped down from the tree. He glanced at Kurenai's bleeding arms and then at her face.
"Find anything interesting?" she asked. "Why did you allow me to read your mind?" The others waited to hear an answer. Kurenai stared hard at him without anger or fear, but with grief. The bat demon pushed Hiei out of the way and entered the building. "Now look what you did, shrimp." Kuwabara said mockingly before following Kurenai and Yusuke inside.
"Please, Hiei. She's going through a tough time right now." Kurama told him. The fire demon crossed his arms over his chest. "We need information on the demon. She is the only one who can give it. Kurenai must put aside her feelings in order to help complete this mission. If you won't push her to do this, then I am fully prepared to do it for you." With this said, Hiei left the kitsune and went after their source. Kurama slowly strolled upstairs behind him. 'First the spying, now the protecting. He really does like her.'
Ya like Kurenai's little emotional scene? I just realized that I forgot to put a disclaimer on this and my other story. Whoops. Well I'll do it now. I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. There we go. Let's see, I want atleast 20 reviews before I will post the next chpt. That's only five more ppl. U can do it.
