Well, here is chapter 8. Yay.
I don't own YuYu Hakusho. Or this song.
Um... yeah.
And... no one got it. Again. But the group's getting smaller...
So, who's next?
Enjoy this chapter of "Your Horrorscope for Today". Review. And this is dedicated to the Aries out there.
Aries–
"The look on your face will be priceless when you find that forty-pound watermelon in your colon."
They gathered at Genkai's temple the next day. But it felt strange when they arrived – cold, empty.
"Yukina?" Keiko called.
No answer.
She moved through the rooms, slowly. Kaitou followed behind her, and behind him, Kurama, with Kari clinging to him. And then they found her.
Kari and Keiko began crying.
"But why would Hiei want to kill Yukina?" Kurama asked Kaitou.
His sister answered through her tears. "Because he's an ass–"
"But she and Hiei are twins."
The room fell silent except for quiet sobbing.
"How easy would it be to find Hiei?" Kaitou asked.
"Hiei never sleeps far from Yukina, if he's in Human World," the redhead answered. "If he's here, then he's probably nearby."
"Do you think we should look for him?"
"It wouldn't hurt."
- -
They had split up and searched the woods. Kari and Kurama had gone together, and Kaitou had gone with Keiko. They searched separately, but they stayed close enough to be of use if the other needed help.
Kari had been the one to stumble upon his dead body.
Even half an hour later, she was still crying – sobbing – about it. She was upset, upset that Yukina, her friend, was dead. And she was scared out of her mind. The entire time, she had been certain that at any second, death would be coming for her in the form of Hiei. She had been so sure that he was the killer, so sure he was coming for her. And now... now, she knew nothing.
"So if it wasn't Hiei, then who was it?" Keiko wanted to know.
"It was probably Kai-Kai-Kaitou," Kurama's sister sobbed.
"Me?"
"Ignore her," Kurama said softly, patting the crying girl. "She's just upset."
Well, that much was obvious.
"What should we do?" Keiko asked after a while.
"Take precautions... avoid being alone," the redhead suggested. "There's strength in numbers."
- -
Keiko, Kurama, and Kari had volunteered to with Yusuke's wake. Of course, Atsuko wasn't exactly great to be around.
"First by a car, and now by a spoon!" she yelled, beginning to throw things. Keiko and Kari ducked as an empty beer bottle came flying their way. It flew into the wall behind them and shattered. "What a loser!"
Keiko sighed and grabbed the broom, sweeping the shards of broken glass into the dustpan Kari held waiting.
"Honestly, shouldn't Atsuko be helping us?" the brunette asked under her breath.
"She's giving us more work," Kari said. "The more I have to do, the less I have to think."
Keiko nodded as she swept up the last of the pieces. Kari dumped the dustpan. Atsuko began screaming at her son again, but the three teenagers drowned her out.
Kurama went into the fridge and grabbed a beer.
Kari's eyes narrowed. "You don't drink."
"It's not for me, Kari-chan, don't worry. It's for Atsuko."
"She doesn't need any more. She's drunk enough," Keiko told him.
"We should let her mourn in the way she feels most comfortable," he replied. "And perhaps she'll pass out soon."
He walked out into the other room, silently opening the bottle. He slipped the poison into the drink. He was glad this was a slow-acting poison... she wouldn't die while they were still here.
"Choked on a fucking spoon! Oh, thank you, Kurama!" She eagerly reached for the bottle. He gave it to her.
- -
"Ugh... I don't feel so good..."
Atsuko moaned in the darkness. She didn't feel good at all. She felt terrible.
When she moved to get up, she started coughing. She was coughing so hard it was causing her pain. She finally managed to swing over to her side, and then she started vomiting.
Alcohol. Half-digested food. Blood.
After a few minutes of this, she slowly – painfully – died.
The autopsy the next day couldn't determine the exact cause of her death, but it did find, among other things, that her colon had exploded.
- Kuramastrass -