Because She Died
Dane Soar
Sucky miscommunication, eh? Then again, Yusuke and Kuwabara probably thought that Hiei took Kurama to Genkai's or somewhere other than his house. Whoops.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who reviewed and I'm looking foreword to hearing what you think of this chapter.
Part 8
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"What the hell is that?" Hiei demanded, an indignant finger pointing at the flames leaking from the windows of the house. Kurama's house.
"Koenma said to burn it," Yusuke told him.
"Get rid of the evidence," Kuwabara added.
Yusuke looked from Hiei's furious expression to the fire, then he got it. "You're not saying that— hey! You can't go back in there! The whole place is about to go up!"
But Hiei wasn't listening, he had dashed inside with no attention to the flames in the doorway.
"Shorty's lost his mind!" Kuwabara shook his head. "What does he think he's doing?"
However Yusuke had an inkling, it had hit him in one cold moment when he saw Hiei's face. "I think… oh no." he looked up at the second story.
Kuwabara followed his gaze and got it too. "Don't tell me that's where the midget brought Kurama?!" And without knowing it, they'd almost burned him to a crisp. "Damnit!"
But there was nothing they could do, they didn't have any immunity to the heat and flames, like Hiei. They couldn't get in.
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The room was burning, thick smoke filling the air and Hiei was stood, torn. Yukina, was coughing too hard to run, the smoke was disagreeing with her lungs and Kurama, was still dead to the world.
Who to help first? His sister or his teammate? Neither would get far without help and not even a demon could survive a piece of burning debris falling on them. He might not get a chance to go back in and get the one he left behind.
So who should he take? Who?
Like almost everything Hiei did, when he choose, he choose fast.
He grabbed Yukina; grabbed his sister, and ran.
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TBC