Because She Died
Dane Soar
Previous updates missed due to no internet connection, but I've got my computer back with a clean bill of health from the computer hospital at last! Hopefully this means back to the normal update schedule.
To the person who asked, the one who fell out the window was Kurama, the human is the one who died, he was in the room. Sorry about the confusion.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed, I really appreciate it.
Part 5
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It had been a hard healing for Yukina; she had had to use a lot of energy to heal Kurama. Now she slept, curled peacefully at the foot of the bed that Hiei had laid Kurama on.
Hiei wasn't quite sure what to do now. He wasn't good at emotional things like this. What did a person say to a teammate when their mother was killed?
Maybe it was better that Kurama still slept.
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Botan dropped the boy's hands suddenly, as if an idea had stuck her, and ran for the roof, summoning her oar as she went. Her clothes flickered, changed, and became once more the pink kimono.
She burst out onto the roof and almost ran right through the spirit. The human that had just died yelped, falling backward. "Who are you?" he demanded. "Where am I? And why do you have an oar in your hand?"
"Never mind that," Botan said sharply. "How did you die?" usually she tried to be gentler with the newly dead, but there wasn't time right now.
"What?" the ghost looked at her with confusion. "You're making some sort of mistake, I'm not dead!"
She pointed down. "If you aren't dead, explain that." The ghost was floating several inches off the roof, as spirits were wont to do when they didn't pay attention.
"Oh…" the man looked thoughtful for a moment. "I must be dead, then. How come you can see me?"
"There's no time to explain right now. I need to know how you died."
"I was walking home… after work… and these things ran past me…" the ghost said haltingly, frowning, as if he was running it through in his head as he spoke. "And they couldn't be human… because they had claws and spines and stuff like that… one said something and then they all turned and grabbed me. The next thing I remember I was in this room, the things that took me, they were… happy, like cheering and drinking and dancing." The man frowned even deeper. "I think… I think were going to eat me. They kept looking at me and licking their lips and saying things..." the spirit shuddered.
"Demons do that sort of thing," said Botan. "Abduct passersby, especially if they were in the mood for celebration." Celebration for getting revenge on one of the team that took out the rest of their gang, she didn't add.
"But then, something went wrong, some of the things started falling over, and some were screaming and there was red everywhere! This guy showed up, out of nowhere, and he was taking the things out. One of them grabbed me, he had these claws, and it…" Yusuke and Kuwabara burst out onto the roof, having caught up, but Botan gestured for them to be quiet. The man's ghost, who she realized for the first time, was young, looked at her with despair in his eyes. "It killed me."
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TBC