'If only it had ended there,' Yusuke thought, as he continued gliding down the endless hall of darkness.
Unfortunately it did not end there. There was a large explosion behind Yusuke and a rush of wind came towards them. Yusuke turned to see his fair city on fire, and saw a large tree growing in the middle. "Not Kurama and Hiei too," Yusuke whispered to himself, as he began running in the direction of the destruction.
When he reached the center of excitement several minutes later, his jaw dropped. A large, silver haired man, with ears and a tail, was standing in the middle of a large square, throwing cars with vines from his tree at a small black haired man in a black cloak. The man pulled out a sword and cut through three cars in half; the leftovers flew into people and buildings behind him.
"HIEI!" Yusuke screamed, the man looked in his direction, "WHAT'S GOING ON WITH KURAMA!?!"
Hiei quickly darted towards Yusuke, dodging vines and branches that swung at him along the way.
"I don't need your help handling him," Hiei said, as he passed by Yusuke, chopping off a particularly large branch that was on its way towards Yusuke's head. As Hiei attempted to run away from the Spirit Detective, he was caught by the hood of his cloak and fell on his back.
"I don't care if you do, I need your help, tell me what the hell is going on!" Yusuke yelled at the small demon.
"Fine, I will humor you, but start moving, or we will be crushed by that branch," Hiei said pointing at an incoming tree limb. Yusuke released Hiei and rolled out of the way of the smashing tree, and Hiei simply stepped casually to the side. "I see we are still with the dramatics," he said, starting to run in his large arc around the huge tree. Yusuke ran beside him with difficulty; it's hard to keep up with a fighter whose main strength is speed, they don't fool around.
"So," Yusuke said, in a humorously casual voice as they ran, "How ya been?"
"You are not in the least bit humorous," Hiei said, "Stop trying."
"Ouch, now that hurts big guy."
"Silence! You asked me to provide you with the information I have about what is happening with Kurama. I was watching him and…"
"Wait, you were watching him? That's kind of creepy man."
"Will you shut up, I have no time to explain why, let's just say I was bored, and he is interesting to watch. Anyway, I was watching him when he suddenly collapsed in the center of this square and started to writhe on the ground." Hiei leapt over an ankle height branch; Yusuke did the same, as they continued their run around the fox-demon. "His hair turned silver, and his transformation began. I hope I don't need to explain that. He planted a seed and started feeding his spirit energy into it, and it grew, and started to attack the pitiful humans that gazed upon it so stupidly."
"And you tried to save them?" Yusuke asked disbelievingly as he ducked and rolled under several sweeping waist level branches.
"No you fool! The tree locks onto spirit energy and kills the carrier. I happened to be the most powerful around, so it attacked me soon." Hiei responded spitefully.
"Okay, well do you know how to kill this tree?"
"I believe I have figured it out, but you may not like it."
"What do you mean?"
"This tree is feeding off of his conscious thoughts, and is acting upon his wishes. Therefore, we will need to stop him from thinking consciously."
"Right," Yusuke said, starting to dart in towards the Yoko, "I'll just knock him out," he yelled back to the small fire-demon.
"Fool," Hiei whispered to himself before grabbing a branch swinging near him and leaping off of it to other swinging branches. He jumped that way to the center as Yusuke just ran headlong, ducking and jumping when necessary. "However, I must admit, it is quite more effective than I thought it would be."
Yusuke made it to the center and attempted to throw a punch at the motionless Kurama. He nailed the demon hard in the face, but he didn't move. As a matter of fact, Yusuke's arm bent over itself, because there was nowhere for his hand to go. Kurama's neck didn't bend; he didn't even appear to feel it. Yusuke turned to see Hiei leaping off of a large branch towards him. Yusuke caught one quick glimmer of Hiei's eyes as they flashed red and pierced Yusuke's soul. Hiei came down with his sword moving in the direction of the paralyzed Yusuke. Yusuke barely pulled off a back handspring to escape the slice, creating a large cut on his chest.
Yusuke reached his hand to his torso and felt the scar from the blow. It extended from his left shoulder to his right hip. He traced it with his fingers; they were cold and made his hair stand on end. Good, he needed that feeling; he needed to be on edge. His mind fell back to the fight.
Yusuke landed back on his feet directly in front of Kurama. He looked into the face of the unblinking fox-demon. His eyes were glowed red, and Yusuke couldn't find even a glimmer of Shuichi. He looked back to Hiei who advanced on him quickly with a death stare. Yusuke could not take them both, even if they weren't his friends.
He turned and ran as fast as he could. He ran for a very long time. He didn't understand what was happening. All of his friends were either turning on him or unconscious. The weirdest part was how sudden it was, for Kuwabara, Botan and Hiei at least. He had been talking to them casually, joking with them, and he turned his back for one second, then all of the sudden they were trying to kill him.
He circled the city once before stopping on the second trip at his house. He still had that suitcase with the video connection to the toddler.
Still oddly broken up but I like the story. If you don't stop reading, if you like it though, review and tell me.