Hey guys! I've been busy cause school's coming up…shopping, vacations, y'know what I mean. Here's the chappie:
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the YYH characters. Ryuichi is MINE though.
Hiei: No, she's mine!
FHY: No, technically, I made her up so she's mine!
Hiei: No…SHE'S MINE!
FHY: MINE!
Hiei: MINE!
FHY: MINE!
Hiei: MINE!
Keep arguing
Ryuichi: (sweatdrops) Hehe….read and review, k? Arigatou!
'thinking' "saying"
Hiei's Love
Chapter 9: Gone/ Search for 'Zaro'
Last Time
"Hiei…" Ryuichi managed to say. Hiei looked at her in his arms. He saw her frightened expression.
"Ryuichi!" He shook her. She didn't move. Her eyes widened with fear, crimson turning more crimson.
"Ryuichi! What the hell? Speak to me!" He became furious. What's wrong with his love?
'Kami, what's wrong with her?'
"Hiei…h-help-p….me-e.."
"RYUICHI!"
'Ryuichi! What's the matter?' Hiei thought as he rushed back to Reikai.
YOU'RE MINE NOW, SWEET RYUICHI! I'm so close…very close! Yes! I'm in full control of your body now!
'NEVER! YOU WILL NEVER TAKE CONTROL OF---- AAAHHH! GET OUT OF MY HEAD, ZARO!'
"AAAHHH! ZARO, GET OUT!" Ryuichi screamed, then Hiei became suddenly furious.
'Damn you, bastard! Get out of her head!' he thought angrily.
"H-Hiei! I'm fighting Z-Zaro…g-get help! Destroy h-him…get t-the….r-ruby…." Ryuichi's last words left a ring in his ears as two drops of water from his eyes came down, commonly known as tears. His were like his sister, Yukina's, turning into pearls as he stopped running.
"R-Ryuichi! You can fight him! Come on!" Hiei shook her, but nothing happened. He lifted her up and with his speed faster than normal, even going beyond his limit, he made it to Reikai.
Reikai
"Yes. I'd love the strawberry rice cake! Get me four!" Koenma cried gleefully as George left the office, mumbling about rice cakes and "his majesty".
'Mmm…I love strawberry rice cakes!' Koenma grinned scarily. He was lost in his "rice cake" world.
"Uh, Koenma! Hey!" Yusuke shouted as he waved a hand in front of his face. He took notice that Koenma's eyes were looking up at the ceiling, so Yusuke looked up at the same place, wondering what made him so cheerful.
'What the hell's up with him?' Yusuke thought. Then Yusuke saw Koenma's world ( Yup, the rice cake one.) through his thought bubble and popped it.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Koenma cried as Yusuke cracked up like crazy, Kurama chuckled, and Kuwabara had a stupid look on his face.
"Wha? What happened?" Kuwabara looked at Kurama for an answer, but he turned away.
"What's so funny!" Kuwabara shouted, getting really pissed off. Then a loud crash came from the wall on his right. There came Hiei mad and furious with Ryuichi in his arms. Everyone was shocked. Some for the wall, but mostly for Ryuichi.
"Oh my goodness! What on Earth happened, Hiei?" Botan held Kurama's arm for support. She blushed afterwards and so did he.
"Hiei, tell me, what happened?" Kurama asked, his eyes burning with concern. Hiei just glared back with his intense rage, fire, and darkness. One tear came out of his eye, and as it dropped towards the floor, it instantly turned into a pearl.
"What the hell?" Yusuke got up after wiping his eyes from the tears.
'What happened to her? Is she dead?' he thought.
'SHUT UP!' Hiei said to Yusuke telepathically, sending waves of anger, making his head hurt.
Hiei walked towards the cushioned bench and laid Ryuichi down. Her figure was still, motionless, and pale. Hiei walked towards Koenma with danger in his eyes.
"You." Hiei pointed his right index finger straight at Koenma's face.
"Aiyaa! Yes, Hiei?" Kownma got scared, but still had a little of his composure left.
"Who is Zaro?" he asked.
"Well, that was our mission, so go with the others and-"
"NO! Tell me NOW!" Hiei yelled. Botan gasped and everyone backed away.
"Hiei, let's move a little more away, 'kay?" Kurama said as he pulled Hiei towards Ryuichi.
"Thank you, Kurama," Koenma said gratefully. A screen popped up, and there was a face of a pale man with bright red eyes and long, dark pupils. He had blonde-ish brown hair with two long bangs in front of his face, and his long fangs were white and pointy. He wore a short sleeve tank with armor on his chest and torso. His muscles were large and black bands covered each wrist. His long cape was held by dark looking claws which were clasped tightly on his shoulders. A dark sash was tied around his waist and dark baggy pants and boots covered everything else. The most noticeable things about this man, was his two pointy ears and the symbol on his forehead which consisted of a small triangle and ¾ around it was a right triangle flipped towards the right with a smaller triangle coming out.
The Reikai Tantei looked at the man, carefully. Hiei saw him and wanted to annihilate the screen itself! Kurama put a hand on his left shoulder and Yusuke on his right.
"Don't." Yusuke said.
'It's hard, but fight it!' He thought.
"Who's the guy, Koenma?" Kuwabara asked, stupidly.
"This, Kuwabara and everyone else, is Zaro. The one Hiei wanted to know SO badly." Koenma explained.
'Ha! This is the fool that took control of Ryuichi! Fuck him!' Hiei's anger started riding. Yusuke and Kurama gripped tighter.
"Go on, Koenma, tell us about the mission." Kurama insisted.
"Ha! Looks like 'King of the Vampires' or somethin'." Yusuke smirked.
"Yeah, I know." Kuwabara agreeed.
"Precisely." Koenma stated simply.
"WHAT?" Yusuke and Kuwabara cried out loud, their jaws dropping in unison.
"'Precisely,' I said. Zaro is King of the Vampire demons.Can't you tell from the ears, eyes, and fangs?" Koenma asked them.
"Oh..." Yusuke and Kuwabara said, understanding.
"Then what happened to Ryuichi? There seems to be no bite marks, like normal vampire demons." Kurama asked.
"I'll tell you what happened. I met Ryuichi and carried her through a forest. She was peaceful and didn't seem to mind. Then suddenly, she went all weird. She started fussing around, and her eyes rolled to the back of her head. She kept on saying, 'Get out of my head, Zaro!' so i assumed he was using mind control. Then her final words were to destroy him and get a ruby of some sort." Hiei explained.
'What ruby could Ryuichi possibly mean?' Hiei thought hard. He had no answer. Botan looked at Ryuichi; She was pale. Botan shook her head and tsked. Hiei saw this.
"You! Deity! What do you mean 'tsk', tsk, tsk'?" Hiei yelled at her with Kurama and Yusuke pulling him.
Meanwhile...
George finally got the rice cakes after waiting a LONG period of time. While George was walking towards the office, Kuwabara came and pulled him away and led him to a dark room. Kuwabara pulled a string to turn the light on.
"What is this, the storage room?" Kuwabara complained.
"No, it's our work and office supplies."George corrected, "Now, why are we in here?"
"Ok. I know you hate it when you get a nice rice cake for yourself and then someone takes it, right?" Kuwabara asked coyly.
"Yeah! How do you know?" george asked, suspiciously.
"My sis takes my food." Kuwabara stated plainly,"Ok, so you have four strawberry rice cakes, huh? So let's split 'em fifty fifty, 'kay?"
"Sure! Man, it's good that someone knows my pain!" George smiled and gladly gave half the rice cakes to Kuwabara. Then, they came out of the closet and went into Koenma's office, enjoying their snack, WHICH KOENMA DIDN'T NOTICE.
Koenma's Office
"Nothing's wrong, Hiei. All ineed to do is bring her to the Super Special Recovery Room." Botan explained, cheerfully.
'What the hell's a Super Special Recovery Room?' Yusuke wondered. Man, he wonderede about practically everything. 'Am I really this stupid?' he thought again.
"What's going to happen to her?" Hiei asked.
"She'll be in the room until she's recovered from what seems to be a coma. The room has special sensors for feeling the spirit energy and life energy of the beings placed in the room. The bed that she's being placed on is able to sense whens she is out of her comatosed state." Botan explained thoroughly. Yusuke, Koenma, Hiei, and Kurama's eyes went wide with shock.
"Didn't think I could handle it, eh?" She winked. "Let's take her there now. Follow me, boys!"
"Right." Kuwabara answered, knowing nothing of the previous conversation.
"Where were you?" Yusuke whispered to him as they followed Botan .
"Strikin' up a deal." he smiled.
"Weirdo." he remarked as Botan lifted Ryuichi off the bench. She went out of the office, took a left then a right. Then, they went through a door on the second to the right which led to a hallway, and then she took a right, then a left and opened the door to the 5th on the left. Yusuke and Kuwabara were exhausted and dixxy from Botan's constant lefts and rights.
"Are...we...there...yet?" Yusuke managed to say after dropping on the floor.
"Hm. Yes!" she smiled as she opened the bright red door which led to a larger room. There was a glass window which was very large, and inside was a bed, a table, and a chair. Botan opened the door to the room and placed Ryuichi on th ebed. Then Botan got this powdered stuff from her kimono sleeve and sprinkled some on each corner of the square room, while saying some words in a different language.She then shut the door and pressed a bright red button.
"There. The sensors are on. Just give it sometime. She'll be fina, I'll assure you, Hiei. Now, let's get back to the mission!" Botan said as she grabbed Kurama's hand and led them back. She also woke Kuwabara and Yusuke up. When they followed her back, with her lefts and rights, they became dizzy again and fell on the floor of the office.
"Motanmnfm my mate moo!" Kuwabara said as he had landed faace first.
"Huh?" Kurama and hiei asked.
"Botan...I...hate ...you..." Yusuke said, seeming that her was interpreting Kuwabara's words.
"Ok..." Hiei and Kurama said as Botan got a nice big bucket of ice cold water and splashed it onto the dizzy boys.
"AHHHHH!" The boys screames as they were running around like crazy. Hiei smirked; Kurama chuckled.
"Geez, Botan!" Yusuke shouted as he sat on the cushioned bench.
"Yeah.." Kuwabara replies as he folded his arms.
"Well, Koenma was going to tell you more about Zaro and your mission. Hiei wants to know SO bad so I don't think you should get him upset!" Botan smirked as Hiei "pretended" to get very upset. He was definitely upset, but he knew that he couldn't do anything to help Ryuichi if he was going to just go and blow up things without knowing any information. He had to keep his cool. Yusuke and Kuwabara didn't even want to look at Hiei's face.
"Ok, Koenma, go ahead. We need to know too." Kuwabara finally said, surrendering.
"Thank you. Now the answer to your question, Kurama, is that her and his minons have evolved. They don't drink blood, but they take over the minds of their victims. " Koenma explained. Everyone was astonished.
'Ryuichi!' Hiei thought.
"When Ryuichi awakens, will she be a victim of Zaro, or herself again?" Hiei asked. He had to get the damn vampire out of her.
"Well...tha...um...depends..." Koenma mumbled.
"What do you mean?" Hiei's voice became louder and more dangerous.
"If the symbol of Zaro apppears on her forehead, then she's been taken over." Botan explained.
'Oh, Ryuichi. I hope you won't let him!' Botan thought,
"Is there, like, a cure or somethin'?" Kuwabar asked.
"The ruby that Ryuichi mentioned. It should have something to do with that. Right, sir?" Botan asked him. Koenma nodded. Kurama thought hard.
'Hmmm...'
"Koenma." he looked at Kurama.
"Yeah?"
"How are we going to save Ryuichi?"
"Hold on. I haven't explained everything yet, so shut up and listen. Now, Zaro breaks through the mind barrier, then enters the actual mind. Once your mind barrier is broken, he can go in and out in a snap," Koenma explained," You have to get to the SSRR to get your mind barrier fixed. 50 yrs. ago, I sent the Reikai Tantei, the ones before you guys, of course, out to take down Zaro. They failed and died. The mission is to go to Makai and take him down. Don't forget to the ruby as well. I'll look it up now." Koenma got out of his comfy chair and dragged George to the library.
"Uh, are we supposed to follow him?" Yusuke raised an eyebrow.
"Got no clue." Kuwabara stared stupidly at the hall.
'Like always...' Yusuke chuckled.
"Go on guys. I'm gonna check how Ryuichi's doing. Besides, Koenma'll need your help. It's a pretty big library." Botan insisted, as she practically pushed them into the hall.
"I
ll stay with you." Kurama offered. SO Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara went with Koenma and George to the library.
Kurama and Botan
"So why did you want to stay with me?" Botan asked suspiciously as they walked down the hall.
"Oh, no reason." Kuram ashrugged and kept walking.
'Why did she have to ask that?' Kurama thought. Botan stood right in front of him, face to face. Kurama blushed lightly.
"Seriously!" She asked him, angrily.
"Whatever do you mean?" Kuram asked with innocence. A little halo appeared on top of his red hair. His eyes had a playful gleam.
"C'mon, please tell me!" Botan pleaded. She had feelings for Kurama but was too afraid that he would reject her, since she was a deity, so she said nothing. Only Ryuichi knew.
"All right." Kurama sighed.
'It's good that I'm not telling her the real thing!' he smirked.
"What?" she eyed him suspiciously.
'My God, he is SO hot! What! Bad Botan, BAD!' Botan blushed.
"Why did you hold my arm?" Kurama asked. Botan eyes widened.
"What on EARTH are you talking about!" Botan stammered. He knew she was lying.
"Come here, Botan and tell me!" Kurama's eyes danced with playfulness. His instincts took over. Amber eyes replaced emerald green ones. He loved to play catch eith his "prey", but unfortunately, Botan didn't want to be his prey.
"Aiyaa! Kurama!" Botan screamed as Kurama lunged for her.
The Others and Koenma
Koenma led them to the library.
"Whoaaa!" yusuke gazed in awe on how big the library was.
"Yeah, well start looking over there by the 'Demons' Section. George and I will look at the 'Jewels and Gems' Section." Koenma directed.
"Right sir," George replied. He saw that Koenma looked at him funny.
"What's wrong sir?" he asked.
"Where are my strawberry rice cakes?" Koenma asked angrily.
"Oh...uh..." George trailed off as he ran for dear life as Koenma chased him.
"AHHHH!" George yelled through the library.
"Get back here, you!" Koenma yelled.
"Righttt..." Kuwabara said as he looked at the two suspiciously.
"Toddlers and ogres...SHEESH!" Yusuke shook his head.
"Let's get started." Hieisuggested as theywent to the Demons Section. Kuwabara hummed the theme song as he searched through the books.
'Isn't he happy!' Hiei thought sarcastically.
"We'll never find anything on Zaro and that ruby! Look how humongous this section is!" Yusuke complained.
"Shut up. Talking won't get us anywhere. Start at the Z's." Hiei said. He was getting really irritated and impatient.
'Don't worry, Ryuichi. You'll be with us soon. I promise.'
Kurama and Botan
Botan ran away from Kurama but everytime she looked behind her and then in front of her, he was always there. Finally, he cornered her.
"Well?" Kurama asked slyly.
"She looks sexy when she's scared.'
"I was scared. You were the one closest to me, so that's why, ok?" Botan blurted out.
"Oh, that's it?" Kurama wondered.
"No...K-Kurama, I-I..." Botan fumbled with her fingers.
"Yes?" he replied.
'What's she going to say?'
'Well here I go! Expect the worst!" Botan shut her eyes.
"KURAMA I LOVE YOU!"
Well, how was it? Thanks for the reviews, please R+R? KK? no flames! Bye bye!