This chapter has a new character. And yes the name is Karasu spelled backwards. This is where Karasu's brother, Usarak comes into the story. He is another dirty crow that loves Yoko more than he does Kurama, as for Karasu loves Kurama more than he does Yoko. Usarak has Yoko remembering his past as he holds him prisoner, and now he has shown up making the silver fox uncomfortable. What will happen to the fox, will Kurama find him in time? Well that is going to have to wait, for this chapter is only the start.

Disclaimer: I do own Usarak, I made him up. SO NO TAKING HIM!

"Seems you have a lot of things have happened to you in your past…Yoko. Did you ever think that your life would just end now…and that everyone would be happy that you are gone?" Came a voice that was really new to me. It sounded a lot like Karasu's voice, but a bit darker. I moved my hands slightly slowly waking up. Black-gold eyes looked at me, reminding me a lot of Karasu. I moved my arms a bit only to find that I was chained. Of course I was chained up, why wouldn't I be chained up. Being a silver kitsune who is always wanting to be used…should have learned by now that you will always wake up to find yourself between a rock and a hard place. The voice still didn't make much since to me. I have never really heard it before.

"My life doesn't matter to the one I have feelings for so what do I care…if everyone is happy that I am gone or not." I answered. I knew this wasn't true though. Etelka loved me, but I didn't love her the same way. The one I love loved me a bit…like a friend that you couldn't get rid of. I knew at this very moment that they were all looking for me, but to be found would be a real challenge to them. I lowered my head a bit, my silver hair hanging in front of my face. I sighed softly as cold, soft hands reached out and touched my chin. I didn't move. I didn't have the energy to move. I realized then that I had given up. That triggered something… a memory.

Flash Back

Author's Note: It is Yoko talking as if he is reliving this flash back.

I ran through the fields, quickly. A man following as I ran. I heard a loud BANG, then everything went black. I felt my spirit leaving my body, and I moved it quickly to the human world. I had to find a body soon that is when I found a mother. She was to have a baby. I went into her…taking over the baby boy who decided to become friends with me for some godly reason. He liked that I had silver hair and ears. What a strange person to think of me as a kitty. He soon realized that I was kitsune.

We became friends over the years and I learned to love him as family. A brother I guess you would say. One day we had been attacked by a fire demon. He looked familiar, but I couldn't figure out who he was. His black hair was up, and he was hiding a third eye. Because of my power, we won…barely.

"I will kill you, you damn kitsune." Hiei said as he attacked again. Kurama fell to his knees and I watched from the back of his mind. He cried out in pain, and I cried out as well. His pain was mine; I didn't understand it at all. I closed my eyes as I felt Kurama loosing consciousness. He would have been killed.

/Kurama get up…don't you dare give up on me now./ I growled from the inside of his mind./ You have to live. Ihaven't come to live this long to have you die because of some damn fire demon./ I was upset. I was going to die again in a world I have only just begun life in. This wasn't fair…life was against me for some reason.

+I'm sorry, Yoko.+ He answered me suddenly. +I don't have demonic power like you do, I am weak and can't fight him off like you would.+ I could hear the sorrow in his voice. He didn't know what he was doing. He was loosing because I never took the time to teach him how to use my power. I let out a soft sigh and began to instruct him.

Is there a rose bush around? I asked him softly. He nodded his head in response, and I smiled. Move quickly to your right now. Then go to the rose bush and grab one of the roses. He did so quicker than I thought he would and held the rose out in front of him. Now concentrate all of your mind into my memories and use my power to make a rose whip. I told him. He did well making a rose whip and flinging it at Hiei. He was rather good at it to tell the truth.

The battle came to an end quickly, and we both smiled greatly. We had won our first battle together. He really liked it too. Then I spoke, You should never give up, there is always a way to free yourself from a rock and a hard place.

+Same to you, my friend, same to you.+ We laughed a bit as we became friends that day with the fire demon.

End

I growled slightly at the man who had just put his lips against mine. I wasn't going to go through this again. My life would be controlled by a man and some chains around my wrists and ankles again. I pulled away from him and bit his nose. He yelped in pain and growled, slapping me across the face. It was all happening again. Just this time, there was no one here to help me. Kuro was dead. Hiei was with Kurama, and Kurama was on his way to become a husband to his lovely girlfriend, Eryn. I had no one…this time.

I sat up rather dizzy, but I smiled at Rosie anyway. She seemed rather worried looking. "Seem that I caught a cold?" I said softly. Rosie just nodded her head and hugged me. She was crying now. I didn't understand what was going on.

"I thought that you would die. That my friend was going to leave this world, and it would have been because I am too stupid to figure out when someone is in pain." Rosie said. I was still rather confused at what she was getting at. "Etelka said you would get better but you seemed to get sicker and sicker, paler and paler. I was so worried that I might have killed you." I understood now that she though that she was the cause of my illness. I don't know why but she did. I smiled a bit and hugged her back then let her go.

"I am okay now. So you no longer have to worry about me. I feel better than I did and I wish to go out for a walk…would you like to come with me, just in cause I fall from my sickness?" I asked her. I knew that I could continue talking about Yoko if we went on a walk, and she would be able to watch over me, just in cause the illness made me weak again. Rosie nodded, seemed she thought the idea was a great one.

Rosie helped me out of my bed. We slowly walked down the halls and outside. The sun was warm against my cold flesh, the breeze playing with my hair as we walked down the garden path. I smiled slightly and began to talk about Yoko's past once more.

Yoko pulled out a black rose and made his whip. He smiled greatly and slowly took steps towards the stunned Karasu. Karasu finally moved and hit Yoko with a bomb. Yoko winced a bit as he felt the sticky blood going down his left arm. He didn't mind though. It would matter if he died here. His friends would find away to become free, but Yoko knew that he wasn't going to die…he had something to live for. Someone that wanted him to live and to win.

Yoko moved quickly taking his whip from one hand to another. He attacked Karasu again. Karasu stumbled back slightly. Yoko's eyes were dirty gold; he had the eyes of a killer. He wasn't going to stop this time. Not this time. Karasu had gone too far, and Yoko wasn't going to let him live. The whip flashed again and hit a bomb. Yoko flew back and landed on his feet. Blood ran down his other arm. He now had two injured arms, but he wasn't going to give up now.

Yoko moved quickly and pulled out a new whip. This one was a bit faster with his flick and it hit Karasu. Karasu stumbled back a bit, but bombs went all around Yoko, trapping him. He growled slightly as the bombs got closer and closer. One by one they tore at his flesh with small blows. He yelped in pain as blood coated the ground below his feet. His silver hair was no longer live, but a tint of red blood coated it. His long arms and legs had blood sticking to them and running down it as well. His eyes narrowed as he growled at the crow in front of him.

"What is it, my little kitsune? Are you having troubles?" Karasu asked Yoko. Yoko could feel the blood running into his eyes, which caused his eyes site to blur. He swayed a bit on his feet for the impact was a little to much for him to handle. He moved his whip again and attacked Karasu. Karasu dodged this one easily, and Yoko almost fell to the ground. If he lost this one he would loose his, and he wasn't going to have that because he wanted freedom. To live a life out of the cells, as a normal demon.

"I am not having troubles. I am just in between a rock and a hard place at the moment." Yoko replied to Karasu and moved quickly to attack. Karasu went to dodge, but Yoko pinned him to the ground. "You will not get away from me this time, my crow." Yoko said to Karasu. Karasu growled slightly as Yoko summoned his death tree for the final kill.

Karasu made a large bomb and blew Yoko off him. Yoko was on the ground and the judge began to count out loud. Yoko struggled and struggled, finally he stood up just as the judge said, "Nine!" Yoko's hair was in his face so you couldn't see what his face expression was, but the energy coming off of him was stronger than before. Karasu took a step back feeling the strange power.

Yoko took a few steps forward speaking in a rather firm, confident voice. "You made me a promised Karasu," he started out, "that if I won you would let us all free, Washi, Koru, Hiei and I. Then you told me that if I lost, you would let everyone free, but myself. I don't plan to loose to you today. I don't plan on loosing to you in the future. I saw what you were going to do to me and that poor human boy and I don't plan on that happening." Yoko looked up showing the anger in his eyes. He was never so angry in his life, until now.

Trees sprouted from the ground and with those trees was the death tree. Yoko pulled out his whip and swung it at Karasu. Karasu of course blocked it with a bomb, but doing so made them both fly back. Karasu flew right into the death tree and a plant saved Yoko. The death tree supposable killed Karasu that night, but some how he got away.

Yoko fell unconscious after the battle. His friends ran up onto the ring and check him over. Kuro quickly bandaged any wounds that was seeable and made sure that Yoko was still breathing. Washi came up onto the ring as well and bent down rather worried about the silver kitsune. Tears were in her eyes as she stroked his knotted sticky hair. She closed her eyes as she felt his ears twitch a bit.

The silver kitsune lifted his head slightly with a smile on his face. "I won…I really beat him." He said happily, and Washi began to tear up some more, out of happiness. Yoko could barely stand so Kuro helped him up. "We have to go now. If I didn't kill Karasu then he is going to kill us before we can get out of this place." Yoko stated rather weakly. His friends around him nodded, and they headed for the door.

As the slowly began to leave someone grabbed Washi. All of the demons looked back to see that there was a dagger to Washi's face and Karasu was holding her. Yoko stopped leaning on Kuro and growled at the crow. "Let her go now…or I will have to kill you." Kuro looked at Hiei who was glaring at the crow and girl. Karasu just laughed as she brought the dagger closer and closer to Washi's neck. Yoko pulled out his whip.

Washi looked at Kuro and with her eyes told him to get them out of there. Kuro nodded softly and grabbed Yoko, trying to drag him away. Hiei noticed this as Yoko began to thrash at them. They both slowly dragged him away, hearing the death cry of the female eagle. Yoko's ears drooped as he called out Washi's name, but he never got an answer from her. Tears rolled down his face as he traveled with his friends. His heart was broken, and he didn't think that anyone would ever be able to fix it.

Slowly the three demons made it to a small cave in the forest of the Nether world. They didn't mind where they were located at the moment for they only had to worry about food, when they could get a house to live in they would worry about it, but at the moment the cave would do.

Yoko sat down in the back of the cave, crying to himself. Kuro felt bad for him as Hiei sighed and stood up.

"I am going now. You two take care. There are better things I could be doing with my life then sitting around and doing nothing at all." The fire apparition said. He then left the cave and Kuro sighed softly. Hiei was off on his own and that left the two older demons. Yoko looked at Kuro, who had sat beside him.

"Everything will be okay, Yoko." Kuro tried to calm him down. "There was a reason why she died. There is a reason why Karasu is still alive, along with you and me." Kuro told him looking outside to see that it had begun to rain. Kuro leaned on Yoko a bit so that they could stay warm that night.

Author's Note: This is not a YokoXKuro, it isn't an AmayaXRosie. It is more like a YokoXKurama, but it doesn't show it yet…so don't think Kuro and Yoko like one another that way.

"I know that she died for me and that I should just put it aside, but she was always there. She was the nicest person to me other than you and Hiei." Yoko said suddenly, breaking the silence. Kuro just nodded as he slowly began to fall asleep. Yoko looked over at him and then looked outside. The rain soothed him a bit and he too fell asleep.

Rosie looked at me as we sat down on a rock near a creek. I sighed a bit and then looked over at her as well. "The rain soothed him a bit and he too fell asleep. Kuro and Yoko woke up in the morning…." I was interrupted by Rosie's gasp as she fell back into the water. I laughed slightly at her.

"That isn't funny." Rosie growled as she got up and looked around. "We should get back to the house now. I don't think Etelka would be happy to find out that we have been gone for more than an hour." She suggested. I nodded softly and looked away slightly. She then walked off and I followed her. Something was bothering Rosie, but I decided not to make her mad in any way and stayed quiet the rest of the way.

I was thrown up against the wall and pinned. I growled at the man slightly as he elbowed me in the stomach. "What do you want from me? What am I to you?" I asked him weakly. My body had received a good beating for not answering his questions. He looked at me closely and moved closer to me. I could feel that he was in heat as he pressed his lower body onto mine. My ears went back as he did so.

"My little kitsune, you are so stubborn sometimes. When I saw you at Karasu's castle, on the mission to capture him, I fell in love. I wanted your body all for myself, and I finally have it to myself." He said with a great smile on his face. Suddenly I found that I could no longer move. I had figured out his power at that moment. It was to paralyze and control the power of lightening, his brother was a bomb maker while he was a lightening user, what differance. He was an electric demon, and I was an earth demon. What I could do was nothing? Like Karasu before him, he was using some chains with the power to lock my power away. I was defenseless now. All I could do was growl at him. Nothing else.

That is all I can do at the moment, I will update as soon as I can. I am not good at this update quickly, doing all this packing and trying to get my homework for next year done...smiles slighlty. Well Read and review for me...please.