Chapter 6: Finding Out

Kurama couldn't stand it. He couldn't keep lying to them. He couldn't keep saying that it was going to be alright, that Akamery was going to be fine. They had to prepare for the worse. No matter what goes up or down. They had to know what was going on. He couldn't lie.

Yukina was lying to her own mate just to make sure that no one knew about this. He knew that it was hurting both of them and were now on the edge of thinking who was going to fall first, if the relationship was even a good thing at all. Something that Akamery based it off of.

Her work would vanish, Hiei was going to go down, Yukina was hurting, Touya suffering, no one else seemed to notice anything else up. It was a wonder why. Jin was nervous though and he had every right to be. He was sure that Hiei had dropped a hint on him that Akamery wasn't feeling good or something of the sort.

Biting his lip he stood up from the stood right when Yukina walked in, "Kurama?" She asked, noticing the pained expression that Kurama held.

"I'm going to tell them," Kurama admitted, "I can't watch them suffer. I can't watch you and Touya suffer."

"We're not suffering. No one has any idea..." Yukina frowned.

"That's the point," Kurama stated to her softly, "They have to know, have an idea on what's going on."

"Don't you think your bringing more pain into this?" Yukina demanded tears filled her eyes up slightly, "What would Aka say?"

"If I was on the bed, she would have done what I'm going to do. Yet I hesitated. I know that she would be ashamed," Kurama walked out of the room, leaving Yukina speechless at the moment.

The main room held everyone. They could tell when Yukina walked out that something was up. They weren't stupid. They knew that there was a shift going on, for what they didn't know. A cold or an illness wouldn't need two healers unless something bad was really going on.

Right when Kurama entered, the first one to speak wasn't Jin like he thought it was going to be, but it was Touya. "What's going on?" he asked finally.

Kurama sighed and sat down, "There was a C-class rouge demon near the forest bordering Mukuro's territory. Hiei and Aka went after it. The demon held poisons, deadly poisons that have the same cure, Dokudokushii Yuki and Mugen Ankoku."

Jin and Touya exchanged a glance. They knew how deadly the poisons were since they had to learn the poisons other shinobi were going to use against them. They also knew how deadly they were because they had seen other shinobi die from it. "Aka might not make it." Jin said faintly.

"Hiei's at her library," Kurama soothed, "there is a cure, I know this for a fact, not for a myth."

Touya glanced at Kurama, "Why hide this from us?"

"To keep from pain," said a familiar sweet voice.

They all glanced up at Yukina who was looking at them sadly, "We agreed not to tell anyone to make sure that we didn't cause anymore pain then there already was," she said trembling slightly. She looked as if she would cry, but she was holding herself pretty well. "We just thought we were acting out for the best."

"Yet the act was all in shame," Jin snapped. Before anyone could even try to comfort the Wind Master, he left the room to grieve alone. Kurama was almost expecting the reaction, but it hurt none the less.

Yukina was the most upset out of anyone. She knew that there was a slight chance that there wasn't going to be a cure, if there was then it must be just as rare as the poisons. She just hoped that Hiei was really looking for a cure.

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Hiei left the mansion. He could tell that he was just as well might waste time on her death, but not when her life was on the line. After that reassuring thought, he flitted off into the sky and started to make his way back to the temple.

While that was happening, thoughts began to swarm. What would happen if she was cured? Was she going to even remember what happened? Were they going to keep her in the dark about how worried they were? How will she react when she gets out of the coma that the poisons placed her in? Would she realize how near death she was?

He wouldn't let her die.

He swore to her that if she gave up on life then he had no reason to stay. It was almost a pact. It was that simple. If she gave up then he would too, if he gave up...well then it was up to Aka.

"Why did this mission have to be harder then what we needed?" Hiei asked himself, "A rouge C-class demon nearly kills me, and places Aka on the edge, and then just leaves."

'Just as long as she keeps breathing and she's fighting for her life, I will stay by her side. There will be NOTHING that can change that.'