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Keshiki, Kurai, Fuyu & Minora are mine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "What the...." Kurama leaped agilely on his feet as the glass on his window exploded into pieces, still blazing with fire. The redhead quickly put off the fire and glanced cautiously outside. Some of the neighbors were already running across the street toward his apartment, awakened by that explosion and the sound of splintered glass. "Shuuichi! What happened?" A concerned neighbor asked and gasped. Kurama looked in the direction where her eyes had settled. The broken window was all red. Th youko hesitantly put out a hand to touch the stain, frowning worriedly. It was blood, a warm blood and an achingly familiar ki. "H-Hiei...." Kurama whispered hoarsely. Something must have happened to Hiei! *************** Shizuru was smoking in her room. It was about midnight, but she still wasn't sleepy. She yawned and almost dropped her cigarette butt on the bed when Yukina screamed in her room. Cursing, Shizuru quickly put off the cigarette butt and raced her brother to the ice maiden's room. "Yukina, Yukina, I'm coming!" Kuwabara called frantically as Shizuru almost knocked her brother out of the way. The ice maiden was shivering on the bed, looking very pale. "Yukina, what is it?" Shizuru asked concernedly, squeezing the young woman's tightly clutched hands reassuringly, while Kuwabara kneeled in front of the bed. "I-I feel that something's wrong. I-I felt something hot exploded on my chest and then I thought I was bleeding and I-I felt so cold." Yukina sobbed. "Yukina...." The carrot-hair young man clinched his fist. He hated seeing his fiancée cry. "Yukina, it was just probably a dream." Shizuru whispered, but her hands were shaking. Stood up abruptly and took out another stick of cigarette. Yukina and Kuwabara stared at her. Shizuru felt very uneasy. Yukina was right. Something was wrong. Her senses were feeling very queasy. The three jumped as the phone rang. Kuwabara ran to the living room to pick it up. "Shizuru, will you and Kuwabara take me back to Genkai's temple?" The ice maiden quivered, while Kuwabara's heavy running footfalls could be heard. "Something's up. It appears that Kurama's been attacked, but he's okay. But he said that Hiei's probably needing our help right now." *************** Kuso! He was bleeding very badly. He needed to get help fast! Hiei gritted his teeth at the pain on his wounded chest. The fire demon tore off his cloak and covered his wound. Not wasting much time on it, he had to get away fast from Kurama's apartment before the redhead could find him out. He was glad that his opponent had taken off after he was thrown against the window before the awakened neighbors had seen the both of them. Hiei just wasn't prepared to look into Kurama's coldly accusing and disdainful emerald eyes. So here he was, half walking, and half crawling. He had to get himself to Genkai's temple. "Hiei!" A familiar voice called out to him as the fire youkai finally succumbed to the darkness. *************** Yusuke cursed darkly and stared worriedly at Hiei's pale features. The wound on his chest was still bleeding badly. It was a good thing that Kurama had called him up and appraised him of the situation. Hiei moved to lift the fire demon as a shadow stepped from the dark. "Yusuke...." "Yukina is his only chance. We have to get him to her quickly." There was a lengthy silence and Yusuke gazed up impatiently at the redhead. Finally Kurama knelt down and stared inscrutably at the pale face. "Yusuke, give him to me." Kurama said softly, not daring to look Yusuke in the eyes. Yusuke supported the fire youkai's tall body and slowly gave him to Kurama. Kurama held Hiei's body tightly and closed his eyes. The youko's green ki began to rise and enveloped both his and Hiei's body. Yusuke sat back and watched solemnly as Kurama continued with the ki transfer, watching with lifted spirit as the wound on Hiei's chest began to mend. The fire demon's pale cheeks began to suffuse with color and his breathing became regular. Kurama slowly opened his eyes and stared at the fire demon's much improved condition. He turned back to a stupefied Yusuke. "Please take him to Yukina now." Kurama murmured and handed the fire demon back to Yusuke. "Whew, that was very close! I'm glad you're here Kurama." Yusuke said enthusiastically. "And Yusuke...." "Yeah?" "Not a word to Hiei, dozo." Yusuke frowned at the redhead. "But Kurama, why?" "I have my own reasons." Kurama said slowly and gave Yusuke an imploring gaze. "Really...." Yusuke snorted exasperatedly, rolling his eyes. "Really you have my word." He said again and turned his back on the redhead. *************** "You didn't kill him?" Fuyu asked angrily. "Apparently some youkai had known of our plan and waited for me right there. I managed to wound him, but humans were already coming out of their houses." Minaro muttered frustratingly. "So what, Minaro? Are you so afraid of ningens that you panicked and fled?" Minaro frowned darkly at Fuyu. "Don't talk to me like that, Fuyu! You should be happy that someone else is doing the dirty work for you!" "Should I be? Next time, Minaro, I'll be the one to go and kill the youko!" "Or better still, we go together." "Fine, then." "But remember our deal, Fuyu. Don't touch Keshiki." Minaro warned him. "Who's touching?" Fuyu drawled and smiled secretly. If he had the chance, he'd kill them all!
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