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Chapter 2: Training, Second Dream

Kurama walked down the street towards the park. What he needed right now was a nice, calm, peaceful walk.

The park was quiet, except for the laughter of the children. Kurama walked deeper into the park, away from where the other people were. Why? Well, his fan club was stalking him, so he made a quick escape into the trees. The group of girls stopped just beneath the tree that he was hiding in.

He figured that he shouldn't risk the fact that one could look up and see him in the tree, so he decided to travel through the trees to somewhere with less human inhabitants. He needed to talk to Hiei anyways.

The distant cries of 'Where'd Suichi go?' could be heard as Kurama jumped from tree to tree. He was vaguely reminded of his thieving days. He kept going until he came to one of the more secluded areas of the park. It was normally the place where Hiei hung out.

"What do you want, baka kitsune?" a deep voice asked. "Hello to you too, Hiei," Kurama said sarcastically. "Hn. So, what do you want?" Kurama sighed. "I was going to ask you if you wanted to come to Genkai's to train. Yusuke called me this morning about it." "And you agreed? What happened to 'I'm going to live a peaceful life in the Ningenkai from now on'?" "I have some stress to get rid of. Besides, living a peaceful life doesn't mean I can't train. Life never goes the way you want it to. So, are you coming?" Kurama asked, already having turned his back and started to walk away. "Hn." Kurama chuckled slightly. "I thought so."

"HEY GRANDMA! I'M BACK!" Yusuke yelled as he reached the top of the steps to Genkai's Temple. He hadn't even broken a sweat coming up, which was an astounding feat considering how many steps there were going up the mountain to her compound.

"SHUT UP, DIMWIT!" Genkai yelled as she reached the front of the courtyard. "Yeah, whatever ya old hag. Is Kurama here yet?" the black-haired Toushin asked. "No. You can wait for him inside," she growled. Yusuke glared at the pink-haired psychic, before nodding his head and starting across the courtyard towards the temple.

"There'll be no need to wait for me, Yusuke," Kurama said calmly. Yusuke began to look around frantically. "Huh? Kurama? Where are you!" Kurama chuckled and leaped down from the tree he had been hiding in, over to where the three fighters were.

"I'm right here, Yusuke. No need to panic," Kurama taunted, silently laughing at the ex-spirit detective's antics. "Yeah, yeah. Can we train now? I'm bored," Yusuke complained loudly.

"Sure. By the way, how's Keiko?" Kurama asked conversationally. "She's fine. Gets really excited whenever someone mentions plans for our wedding, though. Yesterday, she told me that some guy asked her why she would want to marry me. Said that I was a punk who never graduated because I went 'missing' for 3 years and then didn't even bother to make up the work, so why would she want to marry a loser like me. Keiko really told him off after he said that. She told him that I was on special business in a foreign country and that I found my dad while I was there. Then she slapped him a few times and walked off, leaving him in the dust," Yusuke said while they walked to the training grounds.

"Is that why you called me for training this morning?" Kurama asked. "Yup," Yusuke answered simply.

"Is shorty comin'?" the carrot-topped member of their party asked. He was tired of being left out of the conversation. "He said he might," Kurama replied. "Did he really say that, or did you get that from a 'hn' again?" Yusuke asked accusingly slowly. "Alright, alright. I got it from a 'hn'. Happy now?" Kurama said, putting his hands up in mock surrender. They all had a few laughs at that.

"We're here," Genkai announced. Yusuke looked at the small training ring. "Don't you think this is a little small, Genkai? I mean, we're not weak little kids anymore. Besides, the rings for the Makai tournament were twice this size. If not bigger." Genkai turned around to glare at her successor. "Yes, well, you weren't training in that ring were you? You were fighting to rule over an entire world. Of course those fights would need a bigger ring. I want you to wear yourselves out physically."

"Why would we want to do that?" Yusuke asked angrily. He had wanted to get rid of some of this excess energy. "Because it will make you even more tired than if you trained with energy. You could go for days of training with the amount of energy you have and never get tired. This way you will get tired," she lectured. "But I wanted to get rid of some of this extra energy," Yusuke whined. "Stop whining. You can use small amounts of your energy, too." Yusuke sighed with relief.

"Alright. Now let's train!" Kuwabara exclaimed excitedly. "Hold it, dumbbell. You still need to divide into pairs, which means I'll train with one of you until Hiei decides to come and join us." Yusuke had already grabbed Kurama's arm and begun dragging him into the ring halfway through her speech, determined to not get stuck with someone he could beat blindfolded and tied up or his sadistic teacher intent on making him suffer. This order of disqualification left him with Kurama, which was completely fine by him since they were in the same level of power.

Genkai sighed as she realized that she was stuck with Kuwabara and hoped to any god that was listening that when Hiei got here, he wouldn't kill Kuwabara during training. The two pairs moved further away from each other and got into their fighting stances. They would start off with just physical fighting, and then they would move to using energy.

Half an hour went by and all they did was kick and punch at each other. Of course, it was even more amazing, since Kurama and Yusuke had been permitted to fight with their demon speed, while Genkai tried to get Kuwabara to move faster and swing more skillfully instead of his usual wild technique. By the time Genkai said stop, both Kurama and Yusuke were breathing hard with numerous bruises and sore spots on them. Yusuke was holding his stomach where Kurama had kicked him, while Kurama was nursing a large purple bruise on his arm. Kuwabara had a black eye from several of Genkai's punches and his face was slightly swollen and rather misshapen than normal.

Hiei had yet to appear; probably because he had started to come and then sensed that he would have to train with Kuwabara. Though it might help his self control, he would not do it unless his or Yukina's or maybe the fox's life depended on it. If it were Yusuke's life, Hiei would tell him to get out of this mess himself, seeing as he was the 'almighty' ex-spirit detective and demon lord. Genkai wasn't happy about this, but found that it would be a good chance to train Kuwabara without him getting killed.

Genkai herself was doing fine. She had no trouble fighting Kuwabara. "Geez, ya old hag! Can we fight with our energy now!" Yusuke yelled, obviously annoyed about having to hold back. "Yes, Dimwit. You can use your energy," Genkai stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

They each got in the battle positions. Kurama took out his rose whip, while Yusuke charged up his spirit energy. "Ya ready Kurama?" Yusuke yelled. Kurama nodded slightly and they each rushed towards the other.

Kurama swung his whip in a variety of patterns. Yusuke was barely able to dodge the first barrage of hits as he tried to get in a hit of his own. Yusuke pulled back his fist and it began to glow. Kurama saw this and easily managed to dodge. Yusuke chased Kurama around the ring while he dodged most of Yusuke's punches.

Kuwabara and Genkai decided that it would be safer to not train in the ring. They quickly moved out of the ring and a little further away from it. There, Genkai resumed beating Kuwabara to a bloody pulp. What they didn't notice was the shadow in the trees nearby.

Kurama quickly lashed out against Yusuke, giving him a few cuts on his arms and one on his cheek. Yusuke smeared the blood on his cheek as he subconsciously tried to wipe it away.

Yusuke had gotten in the way of that last attack in order to find an opening in Kurama's technique. His risk had been worth it. He noticed that Kurama leaned slightly to the right as he swiped at him. This left an opening in his left side. He made a mental note to tell Kurama that after training.

Kurama made a side swipe at Yusuke. He ducked and through a punch at Kurama's left side. The hit made brief contact as Kurama jumped back to try and avoid the hit.

As he landed, Yusuke made a carefully aimed and low level Spirit Gun blast. He didn't want to kill his friend, or seriously injure him, but he wanted to win this fight. Though, he realized that the power he had put into the blast was way too little to bring him victory. Oh well, drag it out. Makes it more fun anyways, he thought.

Kurama saw the blast just as he landed. No time to dodge. Great, just great. He felt the weak blast hit him and knew it wasn't enough to do any real damage. So why was he beginning to black out?

The colors around him blurred as he fell back. For some reason, everything was swirling. He could hear someone calling to him, another shaking him, but none of it mattered. He suddenly felt very tired. Now he could rest. He closed his eyes blearily. And the darkness swallowed him.

(Group's POV)

He fell. Yusuke knew Kurama could've stood up to that easily. He shouldn't be falling. Genkai knew this too, as did Kuwabara. They all ran over to the fallen kitsune.

He wasn't getting up. Something was wrong, but what? Kurama had seemed fine all day, up until that point. They had watched him fall back, his eyes dull and glazed, as if he were no longer there. He had hit the ground, they expected him to get up, he did not. He lay there, no longer moving. They rushed forward to see if he was alright. They didn't know. They feared for their friend.

Yusuke tried to shake him awake and began calling out to him, Kuwabara did the same when he knelt down beside him. Genkai was carefully observing Kurama, trying to figure out what was wrong with him. They stared into those soulless eyes of his.

Hiei came over from the trees. He had tried to see what was going on from there, but was unsuccessful. He had come over to meet the sight of the other three trying to get Kurama to wake up.

His eyes slid closed and the rest of his body went limp. Genkai could think of nothing else to do but call Yukina and see if she knew what was wrong.

Yukina prepared a bed quickly and Yusuke carried Kurama in. Yukina tried to figure out what was wrong with him, but to no avail. She could find nothing. No serious injuries, no lack of power, absolutely nothing. There were the few bruises and cuts he'd gotten from training, but those weren't capable of making him collapse.

Yusuke sighed in resignation, deciding to wait until he woke up. Hiei, though, decided he would check his kitsune-friend's mind.

Hiei slowly walked to Kurama's side and knelt down. "Whatcha doin', Hiei?" Yusuke asked. "I'm checking his mind. It's the one thing we haven't checked," Hiei said blandly. Yusuke nodded his consent and sat down to watch.

Damn, the figure in the trees thought. Can't let that Koorime get into his mind! It'll ruin my whole plan! A mix of red and silver began to twirl around the figures fingers.

, the figure in the trees thought. A mix of red and silver began to twirl around the figures fingers.
Hiei began to get into Kurama's subconscious. He managed to catch a glimpse of a child Yoko, a small dark blue-haired vixen, and another boy with black hair and bat wings. They were playing in a meadow, until a large man came out of a hut nearby and began to kick them around, supposedly 'punishing' them for playing instead of working. He saw Yoko and the bat-boy try to protect the vixen, who was bleeding slightly, only to be kicked out of the way.

He wanted to see what was happening but something began to push him out of Kurama's subconscious.

Yusuke saw a purple light trying to push Hiei away from Kurama. Next, Hiei was thrown backwards into a wall. Yusuke quickly ran over to him. "Hiei! What happened?"

Hiei slowly got up. "I saw something in Kurama's mind; I think it was a memory. Something was pushing me out; someone doesn't want us to look in his mind." "But who? Kurama wouldn't have done that, he'd just tell you to get out."

"I don't know. It was obviously someone with mind powers. It felt like an A class demon," Hiei said, small, almost unnoticeable bits of fear dripping in those last words.

The room was very silent. All contemplating what could be going on. Maybe it was time to pay a visit to Koenma for a favor.

MA: Alright! Finally I got the second chapter done! Now you all must review! REVIEW!

Hiei: You have no idea how long she's been wanting to write this.

MA: Shut up Hiei! Or I'll write a story where stuff like this happens to you!

Hiei: O.O REVIEW FOR MY SAKE, YOU BLASTED HUMANS!

MA: Thank you!