"Was that Keiko?" Yusuke asked as Kurama hung up the phone and nodded.
"Yea. She said Yukina sick with a fever." Kurama said, his eyes flickering from Yuki to Hiei. Hiei's eyes tightened with a worried look on his face, but schooled his face to a frown instead. Kurama opened his mouth to speak, but then sighed. "I'll go then. I'll see you later then Yusuke."
Hiei watched Kurama leave before turning to his other sister. "Yuki, maybe you sho –" He stopped. She was already gone. "Damn it." Hiei muttered under his breath and disappeared after her.
Yuki had followed Kurama.
Kurama didn't find a reason to tell her to stop following him or to do anything else. He just walked his way home. She followed him, up the stairs and into his room. She watched him, as he took out a box from the closest. She stepped closer, peering down at the small packages of herbs she recognized by scent from the Makai.
She hesitated her question.
"You can ask questions you know." He said, with a smirk on his face, as his attention still focused on the different herbs.
"Did . . . you grow those here yourself?" Yuki asked, with a casual tone.
Kurama nodded.
Yuki watched the plants he had packed, knowing the usage of each one. Her eyes grew wide, knowing the concoction he was going to attempting to make. A Lei with the posionous Eto. Not a common mixture she used unless it was used to kill someone slowly, but mixed correctly with the antidote, then it would cure anything.
"Come'on, let's go." Kurama took her hand and led her out of the house. He continued holding onto her hand on their way to the train station. They sat quietly, facing each other. Kurama's face was hidden by a book he had brought with him. Yuki stared out the glass window, but momentarily flickered to Kurama to only catch his gaze at her.
The olive green eyes comforted her. It made her desire for the old days again; back to the past. Back to when they were still thieves and everything was fine, but life was about moving on, not reliving the past. She constantly reminded herself of this.
"Is that why he doesn't want me here in the Human world?" Yuki wondered, as she broke the gaze. He had established a good life here in the Human world, but she had always lived and belonged to the Demon World. Maybe . . . she could be here with him. Her heart ached. It was selfish to ask him to return back with her, but . . .
Kurama watched her turn away. He wanted to look at those eyes again, but he couldn't ask her or do so by force. He would probably never be able to see those crimson eyes anymore. The scarlet color that made him comfortable. The elusive body that gave him everything it could, but still he was not satisfied. He wanted more, more of her tenderness, her affection and most of all, her love.
His thoughts were disturbed at the sudden stop of the train. It was their stop.
"This is our stop." Kurama announced.
Yuki followed him, but observing other people getting of the train. Humans to her, were like animals she could watch for hours at a zoo and the whole human world was a zoo to her.
Yuki stared at the obstacle before her; the long flight of stairs going up to a temple. Kurama had already started climbing upwards when he didn't feel Yuki's presence behind him, but he did feel another as a black blur brushed pass him. Hiei was here now. His sister was sick and he wanted to see her, but he didn't intend to allow Yuki to meet Yukina. And he knew why.
"It's only a little walk for us, compared to humans." Kurama said with a mocking tone and Yuki glared at him. Without a word of complaint, she followed after Kurama.
Yukina was innocent and naïve. She didn't know anything about stealing or what plants to mix to make poisons for people to drink. But Yuki was different, she was the opposite. She knew the price to pay when caught in the Makai. She knew how to kill people fast or slowly. Yukina didn't know anything about the Demon world, but her knowledge about the Human world perfect while Yuki's knowledge about the Demon world perfected. Two opposite halves.
They arrived at the front of the temple. They had arrived in time to see Hiei entering a room, but the door already slid open before he reached it. She caught sight of two girls.
One looked like a cat with blue hair and violet eyes. The other one looked pretty. She had long brown hair and matching colored eyes.
She recognized the blue hair one as Botan. The ferry girl who worked for Koenma in the Spirit World.
The other girl, Yuki assumed, was Keiko. She did appear to be more human.
They ushered him in and was about to close the door when the brown hair one noticed Kurama.