Hey everyone sorry for the long wait! I'd been trying to finish this chapter when I could between Christmas and New Years, not to mention my birthday YAY! So this ones taken forever to get out I know and again sorry for the wait!

DISCLAIMER: You know this thing gets really annoying to type... obviously ..Kekkaishi!

"Yoshimori! Yoshimori! Yoshi!" Tokine shouted as she unsucessfully tried to wake him, his blank face almost seeming to taunt her as he remained unconscious. She shook his uninjured shoulder as she called his name over and over. "Yoshimori! Answer me!" She sobbed and buried her head into the crook of his uninjured arm, crying.

It was dark... Not the normal; you look out your window and it's nighttime dark. I mean true darkness engulfed him. He couldn't see his own hand if he waved it infront of his face. He couldn't wave even if he wanted to anyways. Yoshimori couldn't feel his own body. It was like he was just floating there, but without a body. There was no sense of time to him. What felt like hours could only be minutes. What felt like minutes could only be hours. What felt like seconds could only be lifetimes. Yoshimori lived, and he didn't.

But what was more strange was he couldn't even remember how he got in this world devoid of light. The only memory he had to clutch close was the memory of someone crying...And the name, Tokine...

She had to stop crying, she knew this. But to see him so broken lying on that mat, something screamed inside her that it was completely wrong, unheard of.

flashback

Yoshimori! Yoshi! You have to wake up!" She pleaded with him, shaking his uninjured shoulder what felt like the thousandth time. Tears constantly streamed down her face as he yet again did not answer.

Tokine gasped back a sob and fumbled in her robe for the two little pieces of paper. She threw them high in the air, and two white doves flew off in different directions.

"Tokine, you'll have to carry him to the house." Hakubi said, the cowardly demon dogs appearing out of thin air.

"Alright."Tokine swallows and oh so carefully placed Yoshimori's arm around her shoulders. Using that she flipped him so he was on her back and staggered under his weight, her wounds protesting. She coughed and took a careful step forward, then another.

You fool! Fool, fool, fool, fool! Her mind screamed every step that she took. It seemed to take forever to walk down the deserted street to the Sumimura house.

"Tokine!" Yoshimori's grandpa exclaimed wehn he was greeted the sight of Tokine covered in blood with his pale unconscious grandson.

"Help him!" She pleaded with tears streaming down her face, "He's been poisoned!"

"First I have to check that gash in your stomach, Tokine."

She gazed at him with wild eyes. Couldn't he tell?

"Yoshimori is DYING!" She screamed and pitched forward into his arms, finally having fainted from exhaustion.

End flashback

Tokine chocked back a sob as her mind once again told her how wrong it was he was lying there. She hesitantly reached out and brushed his hair out of his eyes. His shallow breathing carressed her hand as it stopped on his cheek.

"Yoshi...You have to wake up!"

Tokine...