This story has certainly taken a strange twist; the four servants are not dead, and they will be seen in the futrue, but for now, I have to try my hand at getting Kurama and Gabi back together.

Chapter 14

Familiar's Betrayal

The mission was over. The Tantei was shocked, save Yusuke. Hiei was furious, Kurama was slightly irked, and Kuwabara had forgotten she was a shaman in the first place. "Deceitful little snake. Does Koenma know she's a demon-slayer or did he put her on the team to kill us all?" the koorime growled, gripping his katana hilt.

"She may have had her reasons, Hiei. Just like you and I have our reasons for not telling certain people certain things." Kurama said, sitting at his desk talking to Hiei, who was comfortable in the maple near his window.

"So you're saying she is ashamed of herself. Feh,"

"She didn't want to scare you guys away or anything," Yusuke protested from his seat on Kurama's bed, "she knew she wouldn't be so readily accepted, least of all among two yokai."

"If I didn't know any better Hiei, I'd swear you were intimidated- no, afraid of her." Kurama said, raising an eyebrow.

"Don't make me rip out your precious voice box, kitsune." Hiei said quietly in his danger-voice.

"Well, she's part of this team weather you like it or not, Hiei. I just hope Daren doesn't find out; he'd have a rhino…"

"What happened to her? She won't be able to hide those injuries from him." Kurama turned slightly in his seat.

"He had to leave to another city for a couple days, so she's all alone at her place. Genkai or Yukina could heal her, we just haven't gotten the chance to go there yet." Yusuke glanced at his watch, "Time for school; see ya later, Hiei."

"Hn,"

The two students walked silently to school, weaving through the streets and crowds of people. Yusuke went off to his own class, while Kurama went to his. The redhead reached the end of an empty hallway and saw Gabi, trying to limp down the corridor. Her left arm was in a brace, and her right hand and ankle was bound. "You ought to be at home, resting," he chided. She turned quickly, "Why are you following me? I thought by now you would have started an anti-fan club for me. Achoo!" she sneezed.

"Your being a tetsujin has not changed our friendship in any way. Though I am a bit insulted you did not tell me your secret when I had told you mine." He smiled and held her arm to support her bad leg.

"Ow! I don't want any help, Kurama! I have to heal on my own." She tried to pull away from him but failed to break his soft iron-clasp.

"You cannot heal if you do not rest, tetsujin."

"Baka kitsune, let me go! Achoo!" she sneezed again as he swept her up to carry her bridal-style. "I'm… going… to kill you!" she hissed. Kurama paid her no attention, walking down the hall to her first period class. Several girls glared at her enviously. He carried her into her room and put her in a desk, sitting next to her, as they shared the same second period. "That wasn't so unpleasant, now was it?" he grinned boyishly.

"I…hate…you!" Through out the class period, she remained under the fox's watch, drawing colorful chibis of him dieing in different and equally gruesome ways in plain view. When they bell rang, he made a move to pick her up again; she swiped at him using her pencil as a dagger, "Don't touch me!"

"How will you ever get to your next period class on time?"

"I can afford to be tardy- damn it! I said don't touch me!" ignoring her, he carried her from class to class, disregarding her punches with her good arm and colorful, multi-lingual curses. At lunch they sat together with Yusuke and Kuwabara on the grass in the courtyard. Gabi kept slapping Kurama's hands every time he tried to pick something up for her, "I don't need any fricking help! Lemme alone!" Kurama seemed to enjoy embarrasing her, and making her angry.

Yusuke whispered something to Kuwabara, who in turn whispered something back and they both erupted in discreet snickers. Kurama, having been able to hear their gossiping, raised an eyebrow. "And what if I am Yusuke?" he said, with a look of superiority.

"What? What if you what? Achoo!" Gabi sneezed, putting her lunch away. Kurama shook his head, "Nothing, these two were merely questioning weather you and I were an item."

"WHAT!"

"Well, you are letting Kurama carry you around like a damsel in distress," Yusuke pointed out.

"All the girls are looking at you with jealousy," Kuwabara added, making a smoochy-face. Gabi's face turned as red as her cranberry blazer, she was burning up; she tackled the carrot top, sitting in his bruised ribs, trying to stab him with her plastic fork. Yusuke and Kurama tried to stop her, but some how all three of them ended up with slap-marks on their cheeks and painful lumps on their heads. Gabi set down her rock-of-death and gathered her things. She leaned against the trunk of a tree to stand up, but poor Kurama just couldn't take 'no' for an answer, and tried to help her.

"TOUCH ME AND I WILL SQUASH YOU!" she roared, blasting him back on his butt. Her cheeks were red with anger and physical strain. She held her lunch bag gingerly with her burnt hand, and steadied her heavy book-bag with her broken arm, walking slow stiff steps on her twisted ankle as if she had no injury, but was stuck on slow-motion. "What crawled up her ass and laid eggs?" Yusuke muttered, rubbing the lump on the crown of his head.

Gabi entered the school building, breathing slow shuddering breaths. 'Maybe I should see the nurse, I feel a little woozy,' she thought to herself. The nurse's office was on the next floor down, underground. She took one look at the stairs in front of her and wavered. 'Should the steps be moving like that? I don't remember the rail having a snake's head…' she withdrew her hand from the reptilian banister. The overhead lights suddenly became the wall in front of her as the floor attacked her from behind. As Gabi fell backwards, a pair of pink sleeves caught her.