Bewitched Chapter 5
Kurama knit his brows together and thought 'What could Yusuke have wanted?' he shrugged and entered his home.
"Shuichi is that you?" his mother asked.
"Yes mother" he replied as he stopped to take off his shoes.
"Welcome home dear, you just missed some of your friends they came by to ask for some homework help."
"Yes" Kurama said "I spoke with them a second ago and we agreed to meet some other day so I could help them."
"That's wonderful dear" Shiori said happily. Kurama sat at the table and watched his mother as she cleaned. He started to feel funny and soon drifted off to sleep. He awoke and instantly knew he was dreaming, he was once again in Makai, he looked around and saw bodies, hundreds of them. The littered the fields in front of him, he looked down and saw blood coating his hands its coppery scent filled his nostrils. He began to laugh menacingly as he walked through the field surveying the carnage.
He heard a voice in the calling out; it seemed so far away. He started to feel as if he was being pulled towards something. The voice sounded familiar and he jumped when a hand landed on his shoulder. He quickly reached out and grabbed a hold of the stranger's wrist and slowly opened his eyes. When he was finally able to focus once more on where he was he saw that it was not an enemy he had by the wrist, it was his mother. She cried out in pain and he immediately let go. She massaged her wrist and asked "Shuichi what's the matter?"
"Oh mother I'm so sorry" he said sincerely "I must have fallen asleep and was having a nightmare, you startled me a little, that's all."She reached out and patted his cheek and said "That's alright dear, are you sure you are feeling well?"
"Now that you mention it I do feel rather out of sorts. I think I'll go lie down for a while." He said as he moved closer to kiss her cheek in apology. He walked out of the kitchen and headed upstairs to his bedroom. His mother was shocked at her son's behavior but hoped he would get to feeling better after he rested for a while. She decided to make some soup for him, he always enjoyed it when he was little and was under the weather.
Meanwhile outside Hiei witnessed the entire exchange, now more than ever he was convinced Kurama was under some kind of spell. He decided to take his concerns to Koenma, and in a flash he was gone.
Hiei arrived in Spirit World in record time; he made his way down the corridors silently. He had a look in his eyes that warned the ogres to not dare speak to him; he was almost to Koenma's chambers when he heard his name being called.
"Hello Hiei, what brings you here today?"
He turned to see who had spoken to him and rolled his eyes when he saw the blue haired deity of death. He continued to walk down the hallways without acknowledging her greeting. Botan crossed her arms and mumbled "typical Hiei" as she went back to her duties. Koenma was sitting at his desk stamping away when his doors were flung open, his head snapped up and he was about to yell at the person who dared disturb him when he noticed the koorime advancing towards his desk.
'For Hiei to be here unannounced this must be bad' the young lord thought. Koenma acknowledged Hiei and asked what he was doing in Spirit World. Hiei immediately began to describe Kurama's bizarre behavior to the prince. Koenma listened intently to the fire demon and when he was finally finished Koenma spoke.
"If what you say is true then this will be quite a problem" the prince got down from his chair and began to pace the floor. He began to mutter to himself and then after a few moments he turned to the dark haired demon and said "watch him closely." Hiei nodded and slunk away without another word.