AbhorsenSabriel87: Okay, I'm back again with chapter 6. I'll move quick through the reviewer responses because I wanna get this chappie over with too.
Jessica – Don't worry about it too much. You'll see what happens here.
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KayHiei – Here's the update. Enjoy.
Hiei one with the darkness – Take a look and see if he does.
Fallen Angel Akane - --bows gracefully-- Enjoy my avid reader, and delight in the completion of this part of the tale.
AS87: Done. Let's go.
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---Time stopped. For a moment, all anyone could hear was that steady tone, the sound that meant the death of another living person. Kurama's gold eyes welled up with tears as his mind and heart registered what this meant. "Hiei!" he shouted, and before anyone could stop him he was banging on the glass hard, as if doing so would awaken his ally. "Wake up! Don't leave me here! You can't die, you bastard!"
---"Kurama!" Botan exclaimed, rushing over and trying to take a hold on his shaking shoulders and calm him, but the kitsune was so lost in rage and sorrow he did not notice her presence.
---"We need to start his heart now!" the healer screamed out at the crowd of people around here. "I need voltage immediately!" A lightning demon on standby came over and placed her hands on his chest, giving a jolt to his body. The tone remained.
---"Increase the voltage!"
---Again, a jolt of energy, more powerful this time. Again, nothing.
---"Hiei, wake up! You can't die! What about Yukina, your life… what about me, you damn arrogant ass!" Kurama's words could be heard inside as the strain of his demonic strength began to crack the glass and his tears spattered against the stone floor.
---"Stronger! I will not lose this patient!" The jolt shocked through his limp body, enough to electrocute a human to death.
--- "Wake up! Don't die, you bastard! You can't leave us yet! WAKE UP!" The tone remained again… then a slow and erratic blip appeared on the screen. The nurse backed away as the white-haired teen sighed. "Good, now let's fix him before he can give us another scare like that," she said, returning to her duty of healing him.
---On the other side of the glass, now thoroughly spider-webbed due to the pounding it took, Kurama stood, shaking at the realization. "He's… he's alive…" he whispered, his whole body shaking. "He… he came back…" Without warning the kitsune's legs collapsed beneath him and he stared at the floor, his body wracked with choked sobs. Botan knelt beside him, placing her arms around his shoulders and whispering quietly to him to calm him. Yusuke, who had been damn close to knocking Kurama against a wall if things had gotten too bad, sighed in relief and looked over at Kuwabara, who was staring through the window.
---"What do you think would have happened if he'd actually died for real?" Yusuke asked, turning his brown gaze to the window as well. "You think the fox might've actually gone overboard?"
---"If he didn't, I would have," the other replied quietly. "I happen to both hate and like that short guy too much to let him get away with death so easily. I did the same for you, Urameshi." Yusuke chuckled slightly. "Yeah, ya did. You made that idiot Iwamoto think that you were fuckin' basket case." The two teenagers shared a split-second smile, then continued to watch over their two friends; one who was barely alive, and the other who was on the table.
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---After another hour or eternity (no one could tell either), the door pushed open and the doctor wheeled the table down the hall. Instantly, Kurama sprang up and ran towards the sound, but the teenager that they'd spotted earlier stood in his way. Instead of running after the cart, he turned his golden gaze to her, frantic and worried. "Is he going to be all right?" he asked, although it sounded like he was demanding her to agree. "Please just tell me, will he live?"
---The doctor looked over at him, her icy blue eyes glancing over his composure as if she'd seen it a hundred times before. "He'll live," she said simply. "But I'm afraid that's all he'll be doing for a while yet."
---"What's that supposed to mean?" Kazuma asked, walking over with Yusuke. "Is he gonna be okay or what?" The doctor look at the human, her eyes icy cold and expressionless, as if answering their questions was more her job than anything to try and console them. "Due to the extent of the damage on his body and mind," she started, brushing a stand of hair back behind her ear, "it's hard to say if he'll ever be who he was again. The damage to his brain cause massive cerebral hemmoraging, as well as immense blood loss that caused essencially a stroke throughout his entire brain. Add in the other injuries that required surgery, his state of shock, and the minute and a half that he spent at Death's door, his mind and body could not take it completely. As expected of something of this magnitude happening to anyone, even a demon, he may be alive, but he may never awaken from his currently comatose state, which will last for an undetermined amount of time."
---"Will ya stop with the doctor jargon and tell us if he's gonna be okay or not?" Yusuke demanded, growing impatient. The teen gave him an icy glower, then finished her report. "He's alive, but he's in a coma and we have no idea when he'll come out of it."
---Silence swept the room and Kurama lowered his eyes to the floor in despair. The two human boys glanced at each other, ready to grab the kitsune if he even started to burst into outrage again. But Kurama simply nodded, looking back into the girl's blue eyes, his own slowly gaining flecks of green. "So, he'll live?" he asked, hope barely touching his voice. The woman nodded, showing no deterrence from her emotionless expression. The kitsune sighed and nodded, muttering, "Good." He then promptly collapsed in exhaustion, caught only just by his two companions and the doctor, who called out for another medic to aid her. The others came and carried Kurama off, the teen following closely behind. At the middle of the hall, she stopped and turned around, looking directly at the two Detectives still standing.
---"They'll be taken to a human hospital in Ningenkai where I work," she said to them. "Go there if you want treatment. I'll be waiting for you." Without another word, she turned her back again and left, leaving the two humans and the ferry girl alone.
---"I'll… bring you back… to Ningenkai," she managed through sniffles of tears that still fell in light of the situation. The boys looked to each other then to her as they both put a hand on her shoulders.
---"We can wait a bit," Yusuke said. "You're in no shape to fly right now, so don't worry about it, okay?" Botan nodded and allowed herself to be led out of the room by the two injured boys. As the door closed behind them, the room stood silent for a moment.
---Then the glass fell in on itself, shattering on the floor after its massive beating.
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AS87: Yeah I know, another short as Hell chapter, but I needed something to leave you hanging with and I wanted to save a flashback for the next chapter. So please, wait for it and enjoy what I have so far. --smiles-- Happy New Year reviewers! Hope you all had a good holiday!