Chapter Fifteen

I love hiatus', don't you? Just kidding, I hate 'em just as much. Anyway, I was playing Borderlands 2 and was in Lynchwood doing a mission and while I was walking around, there was a bandit that shot at me and I swear to Jesus Fucking Christ, it was Chuck Huber's voice. I ran around town, chasing the bandit, to try and get him to talk again, but he wouldn't say another line so I ended up killing him when I got fed up (it had been like 10 minutes). So I looked online and apparently Chuck Huber did lots of voices for Borderlands 2 and I didn't even recognize any? So I spent the next 30 minutes teleporting around the maps to find out the voices he did (I only managed to get to hear Mick Zaford's voice since that was the only one I hadn't killed haha) I heard the other voices by watching YouTube videos but like, I was so disappointed with myself, man.

I've also been playing a lot of Show by Rock... oops... Demon's Venom is the best band fightme

Yuki was waiting for the three others to stop thinking when Mitsu started talking to her again.

What do you make of their silence?

She looked up at the enormous demoness and shrugged.

I'm not sure, but it's probably not going to be great for me in the long run.

Do you want to tell them everything now?

No, not really. Too lazy. And I'm pretty sure it'd just get even worse.

Mitsu shifted and stopped talking. Yuki was pretty sure Kurama's eyes widened for a second, but it was hard to tell when it was so dark. Not to mention, it could just be the water's reflection, or a weird shadow. Nope, she was sure he twitched.

You didn't just tell them about me, did you Mitsu?

Yuki was very much not expecting the response.

Tell 'them' what?

Despite the lack of sound, Yuki could feel the contempt and scorn the message contained. It was low and terrifying, sticking in her mind with a ferocity an invading thought probably shouldn't be able to do. She managed to control herself before replying.

That I prefer doing my masturbating as a guy.

There wasn't anything from Hiei's end, so she figured he got grossed out. The barely audible sound of fabric shifting off to the far side of Mitsu reinforced that. She heard Kurama snicker for a split second before clearing his throat.

"Well, since we've made the trip safely and interrogated Yuki, I would hope that it's time to return back to the Human World," he started, clapping his hands together to wake up Yusuke.

When did he fall asleep? Yuki wondered, mildly impressed but also worried.

"Oh thank god," Yusuke yawned. "I'm exhausted for some reason."

That would be an effect of using your brain too much, Mitsu replied.

"Hey!" Yusuke glared at Mitsu. "I may be dumb, but I know an insult when I see one, you big dumb bird... thing!"

Mitsu seemed to enjoy taunting people. The demoness laughed, actually laughed, at Yusuke's comeback. It was a weird sound, a mixture of a bird warbling and a drowning cat.

"That is a goddamn weird laugh," Yusuke grimaced when Mitsu stopped.

"Don't make fun of someone's laugh," Yuki snapped, not able to stop herself in time. Yusuke held up his hands in surrender.

"Yes, well, we should be going," Kurama smiled. "I believe Koenma is waiting for the report."

Yuki was glad to be back in the Human World. It just seemed easier to breathe. Not to mention, red skies were straining her eyes. Genkai, Yukina, and Koenma waited a few feet away.

"Well?" Koenma was the first to ask.

"I believe it would be best to talk in a more private location," Kurama responded, walking up to Genkai. "Do you mind if we use your temple?"

"Go ahead," she grunted and turned to where the pale demon stood.

"Yuki!" she barked.

The white haired demon trotted up to the shorter woman and looked down expectantly. Genkai threw a punch almost immediately that Yuki barely dodged. The elderly woman followed up with a kick that Yuki barely dodged again. Just as Yuki was about to jump out of the way of another punch, the world shifted and she found herself lying on the ground, completely paralyzed. She looked up at the old woman, then to Kurama, and finally to Yukina.

"Wha-" she started, before getting cut off by Genkai.

"She won't be able to move for at least an hour," she told Kurama. "Good enough?"

"It'll have to do, I suppose. We'll just have to be quick," he replied, leaning down and pulling something out of his hair. "I apologize for this."

Yuki felt her hair being moved out of the way and a sharp prick on the back of her neck. The small pain suddenly exploded throughout her neck, quickly spreading to her chest, then her arms, waist, legs, and feet.

Yuki was taken into the temple and moved into a room deep inside.

"I guess the interrogation didn't go so well," Koenma was the first to speak.

"Afraid not," Kurama shook his head, watching Yuki with cold green eyes.

Yuki lay on the wood floor, mostly confused but starting to grow angry. Had she been calm, she would have noticed the cold murderous anger was foreign, but it had already mixed in with her own, much less murderous anger.

"What the fuck, " she growled, her voice getting deeper as the body switched from female to male.

"It doesn't look like the old hag's bindings are going to last an hour, guys," Yusuke's face took on a worried look.

Kurama didn't even get a chance to reply before Yuki punched a hole in the floor. He punched another hole with his other fist, dragging himself to his feet. Kurama pulled out a human shaped plant and squeezed. Yuki barely registered the connection between the sudden squeezing pain in his midsection and Kurama squeezing the plant, but once he got it, he rushed at the redhead, arms outstretched.

Yuki's arms went flying off into separate places of the small room. Kurama watched the demon's now sickly green eyes dart to his attacker. Hiei had managed to get in front of Kurama, severing Yuki's arms and effectively stopping the attempt at the fox's life.

"Try that again and it'll be your head," Hiei growled, his sword stopped just short of Yuki's neck.

The white haired demon's mouth hung open ever so slightly, as if he wasn't all there, and then he stiffly straightened up. He stared blankly at Hiei, red staring down green.

"Who-?" he was cut off as something shot through the side of his head.

Yuki, now with a giant hole in his head, fell to the floor, motionless. Both Hiei and Kurama looked down in shock at the demon's still body, blood and brains leaking out of the gaping hole.

"I-I" they heard Koenma stammer. "I don't know what came over me."

"There's no point worrying over it now," Kurama sighed, still a little shaken. "What's done is done."

He started to walk over to Yuki's body but Hiei stopped him. "Look."

Kurama watched in horror as the blood started to rise up into the air.

"How the hell do you fight blood?!" Yusuke screeched, obviously and understandably perplexed.

The severed arms that had flown off to separate parts of the room were dragged bloody ends first towards the lifeless body that lay on the floor. The blood dragged the limbs to the stumps and began to gently reattach them. As some of the blood did that, the rest began to repair the hole in the side of the head. Kurama vaguely registered Yusuke vomiting in the corner as piece by piece, gore was meticulously put back in place by thin ropes of bright red blood. If one was so inclined, you could probably ace a test on brains after watching this.

Fox.

Hiei's voice rung in his head and brought the redhead out of his thoughts.

Yes, Hiei?

Have you ever seen anything like this before?

It sounded like Hiei was either genuinely grossed out, or genuinely freaked out. Both of which did not happen. Period.

...I have not.

Kurama would have liked to have an answer. Problems were easiest to deal with when you already knew a solution. Multiple solutions, preferably. But this one didn't. Not even one. He wasn't even sure where to start. He supposed that immortal beings were about as easy to kill as one might expect, but this... he felt this wasn't immortal. Whatever this was, it definitely wasn't divine. It wasn't even demonic, although a human might say otherwise. It was an abomination that shook him to his very core and they were going to die.

I feel like the song Abstract Nonsense sums up Melody's existence pretty well. If any of you are into listening to music for that kind of thing, give it a listen. And if anybody knows any high action/hardcore rock with violins that would be great.

NEXT TIME: AGGRAVATION, IRRITATION

DFTBA!