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"Are you guys sure you want to do this?"

"Yuusuke," the red head said in a steady tone. "He's our friend too and we agreed. If you ask one more time Hiei and myself will hide the Mirror somewhere you'll never find it."

"Oh come on, it can't be that hard to find... You got it from Spirit World," the dark haired boy said and looked to the shortest of the trio.

"I do believe you'e missing some facts Yuusuke," Kurama said. "First off, that we could get it means that we would have a greater skill to hide it."

Hiei cut in before he could say more. "Those fools didn't hide it either. When they saw what you did to the mirror they treated it as garbage. All I did to find it was discover the location in the mind of one who discarded it." The other seemed about to say something but was stopped as the fire demon continued. "It only took so long because there are almost no minds at all in that place to read...."

It was soft enough to be a mumble and so Yuusuke turned away to address a more important question. "Ok, so are we just gonna stand around forever or are we gonna do this?"

Green eyes closed as their owner sighed. "You need to learn patience... We're lucky to even have it fixed in time or we'd be waiting another month."

"And you're sure he did everything he was supposed to?"

"Yes. That demon was one of the few Youko ever trusted and that is saying something."

The apparition mumbled something too soft to be heard, yet sounded something like 'arrogant fox' but the other two seemed to not hear as the one spoken about stuck his hand into the blue backpack and took out a small round mirror. It fit almost completely in the palm of his hand as he set it down on the ground between the three of them.

"Don't even say it, Detective." The teen's mouth had barely opened before he was cut off.

"You know, that mind reading bit gets old fast," Yuusuke grumbled. "I just wanted to know if he even remembered how to activate it."

There was a chuckle as the third person answered. "Of course Yuusuke, I wouldn't be foolish enough to do this if I didn't know it would turn out.

"We're all agreed then," he repeated, offering only the slightest question in his tone. "Once we start this there is no backing out." The other two both nodded and everyone's eyes shifted towards the mirror.

"Let's do this then." The red head exhaled deeply once then knelt beside the mirror.

"Forlorn Hope, we ask that you awaken to aud us in our unified desire. Grant our wish so that it might become true."

There was no reaction at first but suddenly a bright light began eminating from the mirror as it answered the summons. Within the glass was an image of their last friend, grown very old as though to the end of his life.

"This is the person you three want to help. Is that correct?"

"Yes."

"For every granted desire there must be a sacrifice."

"We each offer up our demon selves." As he named each they knelt beside the mirror and reached out a hand to almost touch it. "Half ice, half fire and Master of the Black Dragon with aid from an implanted Jagan eye, Hiei. Mazouku after nearly 50 recessive descendants and heir to the former Demon Lord Raizen, Urameshi Yuusuke. And myself, the infamous Legendary Bandit Youko Kurama.

"We ask that you combine our life energies with that of our human friend Kuwabara Kazuma so that we need not leave him behind to die while we live far-lengthened lives."

Again there was nothing first. Then a blinding light encompassed the three of them and from within the voice of the mirror seemed to resonate throughout.

"Your desire shall be fullfilled."

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So what do you think? It took much longer than I'd intended and I owe a great thanks to my friend () for looking up stuff for me when I couldn't.

This was originally planned for a Kuwabara tribute-esque contest on Gaia but that fell through and I got wrapped up in other matters. I can tell you where to look if you're interested, though I think it's all but died now.