I just have one comment, this is quickly getting out of control for me so some of my reviewers requests may come to pass seeing as this story is taking a life of it's own and I just can't get it to come out right so I'm pretty close to calling it a lost cause and just give my story what it wants.
Just a word in advance so you don't think anything of it later, Yusuke and Keiko broke up.
Chapter Five
Spirit World
Botan saw them in Koenma's office as having them anywhere else would upset someone that a demon was getting medical help, especially from Lord Koenma. When they had entered the office Yusuke had instantly found his way to Koenma's side and was pestering him. Kurama, who had gain consciousness along the way and had ignored Hiei's demands for him to sleep, watched curiously at Yusuke's obvious show of affection for the junior god. The plant manipulator was amazed, even through the haze of pain looking around gave him, not that doing anything else was doing him much good either.
"Oh, Kurama." Botan gasped when she walked into the office to see the fox struggling to a sitting position on the couch where Hiei had gently deposited him earlier. By the looks he was recieving from said fire demon lead the ferry-girl to assume that Hiei didn't approve of this action, in fact she was sure that if Hiei didn't have his honor he would have knocked to kitsune out himself long before.
"Hey Botan." Kuwabara greeted her in his obnoxious voice, his mood impossibly high for the situation. Kurama visibly cringed and whimpered at the pain that assailed him. Even Koenma, buried under his paperwork, heard and felt bad for the sick fox.
"Kuwabara, I need you to go on another mission for me." Koenma stated, quickly trying to produce one.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Um..." insperation struck in the form of Yusuke.
"Botan's gonna be busy helping Kurama." the mozoku started.
"So?" Kuwabara asked cluelessly.
Unseen behind the human, Kurama was tearing up at the effort to keep from screaming. His arms were around his stomach and he was trying to cover his sensitive ears as he curled into a ball. Hiei, Koenma and Botan stood by helplessly while Yusuke tried fruitlessly to get Kuwabara out of the room for a few hours.
It didn't seem to be working though, Yusuke just couldn't convince Kuwabara to jump on an oar to take some souls to Spirit World. Kurama whined and moaned, writhing slightly in agony, attempting to keep himself from completely breaking down and screaming his misery to the world. Eventually Koenma decided that enough was enough, seeing as Yusuke was getting nowhere and an obvious lost cause, and stepped in.
"I'm sorry, Kuwabara." he said apologetically and a moment later the human was gone, teleported back to Human World to wait for the rest of his teammates to come back.
Kurama relaxed slightly, thankful that the loudest of their group was gone, but stayed in his tight little ball, not wanting his migraine to crank up more with the bright flouresent lights. Hiei, naturally, was the first to notice this and demanded that someone turn down the lights. Koenma complied and Kurama finally released his death grip on his sides, blood dripping down his side, a testimony to how much torment he was in, willing to claw himself up in an effort to keep from screaming to agony his head was suffering. All eyes in the room stared in shock at how deeply Kurama's nails had found themselves in his skin.
"Hell, Kurama. Are you trying to kill yourself?" Yusuke joked.
Kurama made an effort to smile at the joke, he really did, but he was forced double as bile rose in his throat, pure stomach acid as he hadn't eaten for so long, burning his assophogus, and splattered on the floor mixed with the kitsune's blood.
Light flashed before him as he the edges of his vision turned black and quickly spread to envelope his whole sight, throwing him into unconsciousness.
So what do you think, sorry it's so short but the next chapter's better, at least in my opinion. Please review. Flames accepted, comments, constructive critisisms and ideas preferred.
I'm still not sure why Kurama's so sick so suggestions about that are welcome, I will consider all carefully and try to pick out the best sounding one and I'll tell you whose idea I chose at the end. Until then, farewell and review.
