Chapter 3: Kurama's Goodbye

Kurama tears by his mothers death bed. But then he thinks about what just happened to him. He thinks about the flashback.

"Brother?" He says to himself. "I have a brother..." Kurama thinks about the flashback.

Flashback

" Here are these necklaces Kurama and Kioto. If you two should ever be separated, use these necklaces to guide you to each other." Then she puts the necklaces around their necks.

Kurama thinks about that for a while, still trying to grasp the idea. "I have a brother..." He says to himself. Kurama then kisses his mother one last time and packs some things up. He takes his father's sword and thanks him for giving a good life. "Father... is you can here me, I wanted to thank you for giving me such a wonderful life. Although our time was short as father and son, I will never forget it, never. Take care of mother now." Kurama says softly as usual. Kurama leaves his home going to find his friends in the city for one last goodbye.

Forest

"Kioto... are you sure your okay?" Kagome asks again.

"Yeah I'm fine, I'm just running from someone." Kioto looks around.

"Kagome! Kagome!" The two hear a voice calling.

"Who's that?" Kioto asks.

"Oh thats just my friend, Inuyasha. I'm here Inuyasha! By the stream!" She yelled to him.

"Oh, Kagome. You were suppose..." Inuyasha stopped after seeing Kagome with Kioto.

"Who's this?" Inuyasha asked.

"Oh this is Kioto... right?" She replies. Kioto then nods yes. "Kioto meet Inuyasha and Miroku... they're my friends."

"Hi." Kioto said.

"Hi Kioto." Inuyasha said.

"Hn." Replied Miroku.

Kioto stands up. "Is there a problem?" He asks Miroku.

"Oh don't pay any attention to him Kioto... he has a girl deficiency!" Kagome said.

"WHAT?" Miroku yelled.

"So where'd you say you were from Ki-oto?" Inuyasha quickly asked.

"Umm... I'm from... uh, Hyrule." He said.

"Hyrule?" Inuyasha asked.

"It's a far away land... far far away." Kioto replied.

"What were you doing in that stream?" Kagome asked.

"I was fishing and I fell in. Yeah... My father and I sell fish at the market place." He said.

"Oh. Do you need to get home?" She then asked.

"Umm... Not just yet." He replied.

"You need any cloths?" Inuyasha asked. "I mean you look kind of wet."

"Uh... sure." Kioto said.

Kurama approached the gang in the city park.

"Hey Kurama." Yusuke said.

"Kuwabara shut up!" Hiei yelled and then punched him in his nose.

"AHHH! Hiei my nose!" Kuwabara yelled.

"Kuwabara! Are you okay?" Yukina asked as she helped him up.

"Oh, Kurama!" Hiei yelled.

"Hello everyone." Kurama said.

"Didn't you say you had to take care of your mother and study for a test, tomorrow?" Yusuke asked.

"My... My mother died..." Kurama said slowly and sadly.

"Oh Kurama! I'm so sorry." Yukina said to him.

"Hn." Hiei said.

"Sorry, Kurama." Yusuke said sincerly.

"Ahhh... huh?" Kuwabara said confused.

"Kuwabara!" Hiei yelled before punching him again.

"AHH!" Kuwabara said.

"Where are you going? You have all your stuff with you." Yusuke asked.

"Huh?" Hiei said.

"I have to find someone... My brother." Kurama replied.

"Your step-brother lives here Kurama, in Tokyo." Said Yusuke. "No, my real brother. We were separated at birth... I have to find him. My real mother... she gave this... to me and my brother, Kioto." Kurama said showing them the necklace. "She said to us, that if we were ever seperated that we would beable to find each other using these necklaces. My mother would have never showed this to me if she didn't want me to find him or my past." Kurama said sadly, talking about his adopted mother.

"What about school?" Yusuke asked.

"Oh please, you act like you go!" Hiei said.

"This is more important. I want to find him." Kurama said.

"I have to be on my way." Kurama said before he started walking off. The others were shocked at this revealation. They watched as Kurama began to walk off. Perhaps they would never see him again.

"Kurama! Wait!" Hiei said. "I'll... I'll go with you!" Hiei said to him running up. "I mean... I've got nothing else better to do." Hiei replied.

"Sure, Hiei if you'd like to." Kurama said.

"Good. Well let's go. I haven't any clothing just me and my sword." Hiei told him. "Well let's be on our way Hiei. Bye everyone." Kurama said waving back to them. "Bye... bye guys!" Yusuke, Yukina, and Kuwabara said waving back.

Forest

"Thanks for the cloths, Inuyasha." Kioto said.

"Your welcome." He replied.

"So where are you headed?" Kagome asked.

"Um I'm actually... looking for my brother... yeah, we were seperarted at birth and well, my mother gave me this necklace." He showed them. "She said if I were to ever be parted from him that the necklace would guide me." Kioto told them.

"Oh really?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah." He replied.

"Would you like to stay for some dinner? I mean you probably have a long journey ahead of you and you probably are gona want to have something to eat and need a place to stay." Inuyasha told him.

"Really? Thanks Inuyasha!" Kioto said. Kioto was sitting down now up against a tree going through his stuff in his bag. He came across his necklace again. He put it around his neck and it started to glow. "Hm?" He said confused.

"Who are you?" A young man approaching asked.

"Uhh...who wants to know?" Kioto replied. "

I do." Said the young man.

"I'm... Kioto." He said. "Who are you?" He then asked him.

"I'm Kouga. What are you doing here?" he asked. Kioto didn't feel the need to answer and became a bit suspicious of this rude stranger.

"Kouga, leave him alone!" Kagome said approaching with some food.

"Here you go, Kioto." She hands him the food.

"You know him Kagome!" Kouga asked.

"Yeah, he's on a journey, searching for his brother." Kagome explained.

"Your brother, heh? Where is he?" Kouga asked.

"I... I dont really know." Kioto replied.

"How you gona find him then?"

Kioto explained the long, complicated story. Kouga seemed a little impressed by it.

"Well, with my help you should surely find your brother!" Kouga said proudly when he shruggled his shoulders back and put his chest out.

"Yeah, sure 'ya flea bitten wolf." Inuyasha said under his breath.

"Huh?" Kouga said turning around.

"Umm... it's getting pretty late. Shippo should be here soon and we should be getting some sleep... especially you Kioto." Kagome said.

"Yeah your right, Kagome." Inuyasha said. "Lets get some sleep!"

"Yeah, 'ya mutt-face!" Kouga whispered to himself.

Shippo soon arrived. "Kagome! Kagome! I'm here! Sango wouldn't stop with that boomerang... I couldn't get outta there!" Shippo said, explaining his lateness.

"Huh? Sango?" Miroku asked.

"Well, where is she?" Kagome asked.

"She wouldnt stop with the boomerang! She kept doing it and was ignoring me... so I just left. Who's that?" Shippo said. "What is he?" Kioto asked with a confused face. Kioto, trapped behind castle walls for his entire life left him a bit ignorant to his own species.

"He's a fox demon. He's just a little kid." Kagome explained.

"Oh, I see..." Kioto replied, smiling a the kitsune. Kioto then had a slight flashback. He saw his brother's father, and his mother talking about him, and his brother, Kurama being kitsunes themselves. Kioto then snapped out of his dazed memory when he heard InuYasha speak.

"Well I guess this means we can finally make camp." Inuyasha said.

Tokyo

"We're never gonna get anywhere... open a portal! Or I will! Your brother live where, exactly?" Hiei asked in frustration.

"Umm..." Just then the necklace around Kurama's neck began to glow. It started pulling him. Just then the necklace started opening it's own portal.

"Kurama!" Hiei yelled as he was watching Kurama be sucked through a portal.

"Wait guys!" Yusuke called from behind.

"Yusuke!... Yukina!" Hiei said. Then, Kurama grabbed Hiei's arm and the two began being pulled into the portal. Yukina grabbed Hiei and Yusuke grabbed Yukina, sucking the four of them through.

Forest : Night

Kioto is sharpening his sword when Kagome walks up.

"Hey, what are you doing?" She asked. Kioto was sitting under a tree.

"I'm sharpening this sword, I have a feeling that my father might come after me." Kioto told her.

"Huh?... Father?" She asked. Kioto looked around to make sure none of the others were around.

"I'm not a fisherman, Kagome." He told her.

"You're not?" She asked suprised.

"No, my father is a king. He is the king of Hyrule. He wants me to take over the throne as soon as he's ready to give it up. But thats not what I want, I want to become an explorer... and finding my brother is the start. I think I was destined to find him." Kioto replied.

"Really?" She said.

"So..." Kioto said trying to change the subject. He prefered not to go into anymore detail about himself.

"So...?" Kagome replied.

"So whats with you and that Inuyasha guy?" Kioto asked.

"What! What are you talking about!" She said madly.

"Oh come on, Kagome. I could sense the love between the two of you." Kioto told her.

"Uhh... shut up!" Kagome said fast.

"Whatever-" Kioto told her before he turned on his side and went to sleep.

Kagome then just walked over to the fire. InuYasha and Miroku were sleeping. Kagome sat down and thought about what Kioto had said. She then too, drifted off to sleep in front of the fire. As everyone went to sleep a man watched them all dozing off from behind a tree. He was waiting for something...