Author's Note: Hai
Chapter 6: Road to a cure
"Rin!" It's been almost two minutes now and Rin has shown no signs of gaining consciousness any time soon. "Shoot." Shura stood up quickly rubbing the back of her neck. She then noticed the other scientist standing in the front of the room, probably too scared to leave, unsure of what to do with themselves. Shura walked over to them fast grabbing a woman with brown hair pulled back in a messy bun and small glasses. "You are going to help us save him, you understand..." The woman nodded slowly. "good."
Bon looked at Rin's pale face unable to look away from the purple growing in his veins. He then noticed Shiemi staring blankly at Rin, immediately knowing she was going to blame herself. "It's not you're fault okay, it's this idiot's fault, he should have mentioned something."
"Yeah Shiemi you did all you could have done." Shima put his hand on her shoulder for comfort, but she knelt down to feel Rin's forehead.
"When has he ever admitted he was hurt." Everyone grew quiet, even Shura who was still yelling at the doctor's. "Truth is there is no way he could have known that it got into his system, it's like a silent killer, the only way to get it out is to remove it from his system." She looked up at the female doctor who began to walk slowly towards her.
"However it is in his bloodstream and the only solution would be to remove the blood in his arm and replace it, but we don't know if there is holy water that isn't purple somewhere and removing that much blood in his system at his condition would kill him in minutes maybe less." The room was beginning to grow very dim as the thought of Rin dying set in. "Unless.."
"THE TUBE!" Shiemi screamed with hope jumping up and running over to the tube with Akari pointing at it while facing the scientist who was now smiling.
"My thoughts exactly, we could use the spare tube and this way we could better analyze the poison and prolong the spreading."
"Now that sounds like a plan." Shura walked over picking up Rin's body. "Hang on kid."
"So you're saying that Shura took your sword and replaced it with a wooden one and you had to practice controlling your magic on three candles." Akari giggled, as they lay on the grass staring up at the stars.
"Yeah, and it sucked, but I have my sword now so I guess we're all good."
"And the name of you're sword is Kurikara? I've heard that name before, I believe it was stolen from a friend of mine?"
"You know Suguro's father!?"
"Yeah I had to pass through his town once with Shura."
"Whoa you must be pretty old then, with all the missions you tell me about." Akari punched him the shoulder, Rin couldn't help but laugh.
"I am not old!" Her face was beginning to grow red, but it went away and was replaced with a shy smile. "I've been training to be a exorcist since I was 11 and let's just say I have a fast learning curve." There was a silence between the two before Akari's curiosity got the best of her. "Why do you need Kurikara anyway?"
"It helps me contain the true power of my flames, if it breaks..." Rin held out his hands and a big puff of blue flames erupted and made a mini explosion. "Not good... The council would probably kill me even if I somehow got under control."
"Do you think Shura would help me?" She reached out her hand towards the stars as if hoping she could grab one. "I mean, if I can't control whatever I am."
"A half demon... Yeah I'm sure, I just don't understand how you are one." Rin sat up and looked down at Akari who rested her hand on her stomach.
"I don't know, but I don't think I was born one like you and your brother." She paused as if relieving the past as a flashback. "About a year before they kidnapped me my memory is a little fuzzy. My comrades say that I was missing for three days before they found me wondering the streets. I don't even remember much except for being in a bright room and looking to my right to see a needle filled with god knows what being injected into my arm. Then I remember pain shooting up my arm and seeing black lines all over my right arm. I passed out and woke up in the hospital back at True Cross." Akari sat up and shrugged, the wind moving her long hair almost into Rin's face. He didn't know what to say, 'I'm sorry', 'They'll pay for what they did.' None of it mattered unless they could get out of there.
Rin looked down to see the light from his injury fade to just a little glimmer of light and both Rin and Akari's eyes meet for a moment both filled with hope.
"Okay so now that he is in there what do we do now?" Everyone could tell Shura was growing impatient pacing back and forth and constantly asking what was taking so long.
"Miss Kirigakure, please remain calm. I am trying to split up the blood and the poison from the sample and the container is scanning his body for information that could lead us to a permanent solution."
"Shura should we notify True Cross and inform them on what is going on?" Izumo asked, the last time they talked with True Cross was when they located the building.
"Yeah, she's right, we need to tell Yukio that-
"No." Her response shocked everyone, cutting Konekomaru off. "Let them know we have the scientist and disposed of the demons, we will be heading back shortly, minor injuries but nothing serious."
"But what about Rin, Yukio has a right to know that his brother's life is in danger, he's dying!" Koneko covered his mouth, but continued to stare at Shura's back. Shura turned her head towards Koneko.
"The last thing we need right now is to make that Four-Eyes worried. I promised I would watch over Rin and all of you and I'm not losing anyone on my watch. Now go and tell them what I told you, Izumo go with him." They both nodded as they walked out of the room and Bon walked up behind Shura, both looking at Rin.
"He is too stupid to die anyway. If he did, he would just come back just with his stubbornness." Shura gave a slight laugh.
"Looks like you might have a brain in that head of your's after all."
"Hey!"
"How is it possible to lose this many times in a row at rock, paper, scissors!" Rin threw his arms in the air in defeat.
"Look's like your not good at everything after all." Akari laughed as Rin stormed off, she chased him to the side of a cliff that looked out into nothingness.
"Whoa."
"Yup. Crazy isn't it. Nothing but stars, endless gentle winds and this." Akari pointed out to the black nothingness. "A real beauty if I do say so myself." She elbowed him gently on his arm and he smiled. A laugh that almost sounded crazy came from behind them and they both turned around.
Behind them was a silhouette and crazy white teeth. The figure slowly walked forward. "Good to see you again, Akari." Akari stepped forward, Rin grabbing her arm as to not go any closer.
"Akihiko? But how?"
"Long story, but you won't live long enough to hear the tale."
"Have any good news?" Izumo and Konekomaru walked into the lab and sat down with the others who sat at the table, Shima taking a nap, snoring slightly.
"Well I have news." The scientist, Dr. Mina almost whispered and a small gasp escaped Shiemi's lips. The others walked over behind the two woman and saw a display screen that showed an outline of Rin's body, red spots covering most of his arm and making it's way to the left of his chest.
"Is that red the holy water?" Shura asked growing impatient.
"Yes, but it seems to be on a clear path... to his heart." Besides the low curses it was silent. "If the holy water gets to his heart he is as good as dead, he would be if we didn't put him in the glass tube, but he doesn't have much time. My other colleagues are creating a program that can remove it, but that needs time that I'm afraid we don't have."
Shura suddenly grabbed Dr. Mina and picked her off of the ground by her lab coat. "You better find a way!" She stared at Dr. Mina's scared eyes.
"Shura let her go." Suguro pulled Shura off of the doctor who was trying to catch her breath. "This isn't helping."
"I assure you, I am doing all that I can." Shima, was now walking over rubbing his tired eyes. Just as he was about to say something Koneko grabbed him and pulled him out of the room, Shima holding his arms up in surrender.
"Is there anyway you can slow down the process even more, to give us more time... Please Dr." Shiemi asked and Mina sighed pushing up her glasses.
"There is one solution, but it is risky I would have to-
"Dr. Mina it's complete." An older man came up with a vile containing a blue liquid. "However it hasn't been tested and we don't know if it will work or make things worse."
"Do it." Everyone looked at Shura while Shima and Konekomaru walked back into room.
"But Miss. this cure might not even be a cure afterall."
"I don't want to hear any of it. I don't want to hear the possible outcomes or what might go wrong. Just do it." Shura took the vile from the male doctor and handed it to Dr. Mina.
Author's Note: I'm sorry for the mistakes and I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for all of the positive reviews. :)
