Chocolate Chapter 4, a yu yu hakusho fanfic

Chocolate : Chapter 4: Prelude to the Result

By TearStar

I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho…

Kurama woke up the next day, expecting a rose or a present from Yusuke. He bathed first and watched the clock turn 8:00. And as he expected, the door opened…

"Good morning, Kurama!"

"Yusu- ?!?"

Kurama turned and saw it's not Yusuke but Youko.

"I brought you breakfast."

"Where is Yusuke?! What did you do to him?!"

"You really want to know?... Follow me."

Youko showed him into an abandoned room outside the temple.

"He's inside, your 'boyfriend', that is."

Kurama glared at Youko and slowly opened the abandoned room's door. Inside he saw Yusuke; chained to the floor.

"Yusuke!"

"Hold it!... Don't step any closer…"

"What are you trying to do?! He has nothing to do with our fight!"

"He has. He is the outcome."

"What do you- don't touch him!"

Youko ran his clawed middle finger along Yusuke's cheek, leaving a trail of dripping blood, followed by the excruciating screams of the detective.

"Sounds so nice."

Youko attempted another scheme to pull another scream from Yusuke.

"STOP!"

Kurama set a foot forward but found himself tangled in thorny vines.

"Don't you dare tell me to stop, Shuuichi… this is what you'll do to Yusuke in the end. You'll hurt him… like this!!!"

Youko pushed a five inch long rose thorn through Yusuke's chest. Kurama could see and feel it pierced Yusuke's heart. Kurama screamed of protest in the midst of the dark, rotten, old room with Yusuke's screams of agony; making the whole situation resemble hell. Youko stabbed another thorn and another, and another.

"STOP IT!!!"

"Give up control over me, Shuuichi."

Kurama thought a plan to get out of this without losing Yusuke.

"How about we work together?"

"…"

"Your power combined with mine would be great. We would be invincible."

"Sounds great but your power came from me. Without me, you are nothing, Shuuichi."

"… If we unite, if we become one, your power would double. You know that, Youko."

"…You're offering me to be one with you? To be one person?"

"Yes."

"…Still, who would be in control?"

"Both of us, because we have become one by then."

"…I disagree."

Youko brought out another thorn and pricked Yusuke's heart like a voodoo doll over and over.

"No! NO! Yusuke!"

"Kurama? Kurama!"

"Kurama!"

Kurama sat up and heaved. "Y-Yusuke?"

Kurama lifted Yusuke's shirt and checked on his chest.

"H-Hey… Kurama, what are you doing?"

"You're not wounded?"

"…We're just sleeping. Why would I be wounded?"

"…Oh…"

"Another bad dream, neh? What about it?"

"… I don't want to remember."

"Come on, tell me."

Kurama hesitated for a while, but gave in.

"Youko, my other self, is hurting you. He is piercing your heart. I tried stopping him but he said that's what I would do to you in the end."

"You would do to me in the end? That's a worthless dream. You won't do that to me. No need to worry about it."

"Yes. It is a worthless dream."

Yusuke tucked Kurama into sleep, but the dream of his new boyfriend didn't leave his mind.

'What could that mean? Kurama piercing my heart?'

A sheet of paper with a list of names, some of them crossed out, is being pressed between wrinkled hands. The crossed out names grew in number as its carrier walk out the cave…

Genkai have been roaming around different worlds to search for a healer that could cure Kurama. She's passed the half of the list, wishing that she won't need to go to the very last name to find one probable healer. Her next destination led her to the shore of darkness sea.

"Who are thee? Why'd you come to my territory?!"

"I didn't mean any harm. I am here to ask for help of your expertise."

The said healer went of the dark and examined Genkai. The healer is a female fox demon of late 30's in age.

"…Thy conscience is clear. How could I assist you?"

"May I know your name first?" –Genkai made sure she isn't talking to the wrong person.

"Ishra." –as it was written in the list Koenma gave her.

"Ishra. You see the situation is very complicated. A human suffers from the desire of a demon, inside of him, wanting to take control over their whole personality. And that demon happens to be the human's former self, rather, his original self."

"How did that happen?"

"The demon was close to dying that time, when he decided to escape the demon world and went to the human's world. He found an unborn child to dwell into. And now that that child was born and grew up, he attained some of the demon's memory and power, but possessed a different personality, different values, manners, and beliefs. Now, the demon is trying to kill his human form to gain control again and be dominant. But this demon is bad, very bad, losing that kind of human for him is truly a waste."

"…I understand thee… show him to me."

Genkai went back to the human world and caught Yusuke and Kurama in a rather 'unusual-of-them' situation. Yusuke is playing the guitar as Kurama sings along.

"Uh… Stupid ass and smart one?" –Genkai called them.

The two teenagers broke away from each other, shy as if the heavens are giving judgment.

"Kurama… Where art thou?" –Ishra

"Kurama is here, he's the one with the red hair."

"Uhm, who is she, grandma?" –Yusuke asked, protective of Kurama.

"She is Ishra, a healer."

Ishra asked a time alone with Kurama, and that sent Yusuke pacing to and fro.

"Relax, Yusuke. She's a healer, she's not stealing Kurama or something. Don't be jealous." –Botan scolded.

"I'm not jealous! I'm… nervous. What if that healer can't cure him again? He'll breakdown again."

"Just wait and see, Yusuke." –Genkai assured him.

One and a half hour passed before Ishra came out. She glanced at Genkai who got the message. Genkai blinked and sighed before following Ishra.

"What's so private that even Kurama's boyfriend can't hear?"

"Genkai… I can heal him. I can heal his wound. His wound is the physical hold of the demon inside of him. If I cure the wound, his inner dispute against himself will also be healed."

"You can? So why not heal him right away."

"Kurama's relationship with Yusuke kind of held me back."

"What do you mean?"

"…The operation has a consequence."

Ishra proceeded. The operation is really something big. Something you should really think hard about.

"Isn't there any other way than 'that' process, Ishra?"

"No other way…"

"Did you tell Kurama about it?"

"No… it would be best if he doesn't know. Because I believe he will choose to die than be cured. We wouldn't want that, right?"

"Yes… I cannot decide this. I will talk to Yusuke."

Chap 5! What's the consequence?!?