Okay, so I didn't get it done by Halloween. Maybe writing an entire chapter story in two days was a bit of a stretch for my capabilities. My family will just have to read it late, that's all.

The Demon House

Chapter Three

Icelena stared straight at Kuronue for at least five minutes. This was BAD.

"Kuronue..." she whispered one more time "What are you doing here? I thought you were dead. You aren't another imposter like last time are you?" Kuronue laughed.

"No, dear, I'm the real thing...no...scratch that. The real thing is rotting in Demon World underground. I'm the spirit of the real thing!" Then Kuronue disappeared out of nowhere. Hiei and Icelena looked around trying to find the living dead bat demon. He reappeared beside Kurama and took him, disappearing once more. Icelena's eyes were wide. she closed them reluctantly as her heart filled to the brim with fear. She screamed like a frightened woman in a haunted house, which is what she was. She started bawling as Hiei turned his back on her. He said, in a deep, angry voice:

"Suck it up. He'll be alright. That fool couldn't do anything to a fox like Kurama."

"What? He couldn't hurt him? Kurama's fainted from blood loss and got captured by a blood-sucking bat and you're saying he'll be fine???? You just don't want to admit we might lose him!!! I can't deal with that, Hiei. -her voice began to waver- I just can't deal with that....I can't...." Hiei made a face, obviously hiding the fact that he cared. a scowl he wore, angry at not only Icelena for being weak, but at Kuronue for attacking his friends. He may not like some of his friends, but a lot of them he owed debts, and not in money or jewels.

"Icelena, I can just as easily leave you here to be killed by Kuronue when he comes back! You don't want that, do you?"

"...."

"Come on." And the two of them searched the house for Kurama and Kuronue.

It had been about fifteen minutes since they had begun looking for the two demons. No sign of either one. Icelena was about ready to jump out of her skin with nervousness, Hiei was about to kill her. They were aproaching Kurama's bedroom, which they had checked almost five times. Why they didn't notice what they were about to see was unknown. The two entered the room and saw a shrine...almost. Kurama was in his bed covered with a white cloth with small candles all around the room. Kurama was obviously still out cold because his eyes were still shut and he was still calm. Almost too calm.

Icelena and Hiei slowly opened the door and went inside. Kuronue was standing over him with some kind of bubbling purple liquid in a test tube. He had a huge smirk on his face and there were bats surrounding the bed as well. The sight sent a chill down their spines. Fear gripped their hearts as they both came to a depressing conclusion. One that would be confirmed very soon. Very, very soon.

Icelena walked up to the bed and stared down at Kurama. She made her way through the bats and put an hand to his cokld face. This was bad. Her own face paled as she realized what had happened. The frightened human ice maiden looked up at the bat demon beside her. He felt the girl's eyes burning into his shoulder and looked down at her. she shrunk away in the fear that he was going to hurt her. But Kuronue didn't attack. He just stared. Stared with cold, dead eyes. He held up the test tube and laughed.

"This, you impetuous girl, is used to put the fox's spirit to rest, which is what we were doing when you two fools interrupted us. Now you get to witness it. What luck!"

Icelena stared with frightened eyes as Hiei walked up to him and grabbed him by the collar, unfortunately, not spilling the test tube. Hiei screamed like a madman at the psycho bat demon like Icelena had never heard him before.

"You had better not pour a DROP of that stuff on that demon!!! Do you hear me? You will NOT!!!"

"Who are you to question me? You are a traitor. You've been one ever since the Dark Tournament! Yes, I do know about that. Every demon in Demon World does! -then he turned to Icelena- You should be trying to kill him, not me! I didn't bring shame to my people!"

Icelena looked at Kuronue, then at Hiei, Kuronue, Hiei, and so on. she finally focused on Kuronue and jumped him. Which spilled the test tube. Good, right? Wrong. It spilled right on top of Kurama.