Lei: I'm Baaaaack!!!!!! Did ya miss me???
Vulpus: I highly doubt that they missed you…
Lei: Awww! You're so mean!!! –Pouts-
Vulpus: … well… maybe SOME of them missed you…
Lei: -looks hopeful- you think…?
Vulpus: -trying hard not to look into Kitty eyes- …Yes….
Lei: Yay!!!!!
Vulpus: Shouldn't you do a disclaimer?
Lei: … Hey… Kurama???
Kurama: Very well then… Leikaru doesn't own YuYu Hakusho, only the idea for this story; all the rights belong to Togashi Yoshihiro-san
Lei: Now on with the fiction!!!!!
Makai
Kurama slowly made his way towards anyplace he felt safe within the Makai. Preferably one that was close by. He didn't think that he would be able to make it very far in his current state. Unfortunately, it did not seem as though luck was on his side.
With blood dripping down his back, and from various other places on his battered body, Kurama came to a dead halt, and stopped to listen. The sounds of an angry search party reached his ears, making him realize, that in order to escape, he would have to transform into his demon form. Sighing in frustration, for he knew that his youko form was in even worse condition than his human one, but he had no choice. He had to transform.
Concentrating, he quickly slipped into the form of a tall silver fox demon, but before he was fully changed, a chorus of excited yells reached his now sensitive ears.
"There he is!! Quickly!! Before he transforms completely!!!" it was the search party. And he had been found in one of his most vulnerable states. Kurama cursed softly, and uttered one thing before attempting to escape.
"Hiei… I'm coming…"
Ningenkai
It had been several days since Sniper had joined their search party, and still no sign of the red locked kitsune was to be found. Despite the sizeable search party and the amount of time that had passed, one would think that even a small clue would have been discovered. But apparently three years was not an adequate amount of time to be of any use in a search.
Thus were the thoughts of the small fire Koorime as he sat musing on the branch of one of the trees that surrounded Genkai's temple. He sat above Yusuke, Kuwabara, Sniper, Botan, and Koenma as they once again tried to look for clues based on what information they had accumulated separately.
" Oh it's hopeless!" Koenma's voice whined, as once more, the group could not find a single piece to the mystery.
" Unfortunately that's fairly close to the truth I'm afraid." Sighing Botan added her piece, but did not look all too happy about it. Yusuke looked at the ground while Kuwabara glared at the sky, hoping some answer would come to him. Sniper just sat there with a thoughtful look on his face. Hiei decided to call him on this.
" You're thinking something." The group all looked up at Hiei. Who was pointedly scowling at Sniper. Shrugging he just looked at Hiei.
" I'm not sure if it has relevance or not." The group now turned to their once enemy.
"If what has relevance or not?" they chorused, all save Hiei who just raised an eyebrow. Sniper now looked at the group.
Well there has been a mass kidnapping over the past three years here in the Ningenkai…" Hiei immediately stomped Sniper's theory.
" True. But Kurama was not one of the victims of that. He disappeared while in the Makai."
"But what if he came back, and before he could reach anyone, he was taken?" Hiei scowled, as if the answer was obvious.
"Not possible. I've been on constant watch for Kurama's ki to reappear in the Ningenkai since he left. No matter how depleted he was, I would have sensed him return." Dejectedly, Sniper once more turned his face towards the ground, hoping to think of something better.
Yusuke looked up at Hiei and wondered just how close the fire Koorime was to the kitsune. The way the two looked out for each other, or how the other knew what one was thinking was uncanny. He watched as Hiei once again adopted a scowl, before turning back to thoughts of the groundwork they had done in an attempt to find their friend.
" I supp…" Hiei cut himself off as a look of astonishment crossed his features. One last word slipped from his lips before he leapt to his feet and flitted away. One word they all heard as though he had shouted it through a megaphone. The one word that gave them all hope. " Kurama…" and at that moment, they all felt the entering of a familiar ki into the Ningenkai.
Lei: So…hmmm… I wonder… how bad will Kurama's condition be, and has he been followed? Will Kurama survive his horrendous wounds, or will he fall victim and die? Find out in the next chapter!!!!
Vulpus: Puhlease. You sound like some end of episode announcer.
Lei: So…? Your point?
Vulpus: I give up… Can I go wash off this fake blood now that you're finished writing the scene where Kurama's escaping???
Lei: … I suppose… Though you'll probably need it next time I start writing…
Vulpus: -twitch- great… Well, hopefully, she won't take too long in getting the next chapter up… see you next time.
