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The Art of Loving Oneself	By : Megallica Category: Yuyu Hakusho > Yaoi - Male/Male > Hiei/Kurama Views: 4288 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, this is a work of fanfiction for which I do not get money.

Chapter List
- 1-1
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-6
- 7-7
- 8-8
- 3
- 4
- 5
Author's note: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS GORE, AND BODY HORROR, other warnings at the bottom. It's a sad chapter. I suggest not reading it if you're in any kind of dark mood. IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE GORE, I SUGGEST THAT WHEN YOU REACH "Hiei considered himself to be a comrade to pain" that you ctrl + F to "There was barely time for Yuusuke to register what happened." Also, the gore and body horror was written by my beautiful fiancée and beta haskap over at deviantART. A big thank you for her contribution and here's to hoping it doesn't get me banned from ffnet!
Chapter 4
"Wake up, damnit!" Yuusuke's voice echoed off the walls and sounded unnaturally loud in the cave. Kurama was out of the tree but he still wasn't moving. Not a twitch, not even a slight rise and fall of his chest that Yuusuke could see. Nothing. "Kurama, come on. Not like this... Not now. Please."
Kuwabara stood and was at Yuusuke's side in a moment. "What's goin' on? How come he ain't awake yet?"
"I don't... I don't think he's breathing..." Yuusuke stood up and backed away. "Wh-what do I do? F-first they attacked my mom-"
"Atsuko-san is okay, Urameshi!" Kuwabara hesitantly patted Yuusuke on the shoulder. "Our families're all fine, remember? They're with Botan-san at Genkai's."
"Kurama, you BASTARD, wake up!" Yuusuke wasn't listening. He knelt beside Kurama's prone form and touched his friend's shoulder. Kurama stirred slightly.
"I... I am..." Kurama's eyelashes fluttered but he didn't open his eyes. "I am fine, Yuusuke..."
"You're NOT fine, stop talking, damnit!" Yuusuke helped Kurama sit up against the wall of the cave and started pacing back and forth. "How the hell are we supposed to get him to Yukina, huh? Are you gonna carry him 30 miles? Would he even survive?"
"I do not..." Kurama closed his eyes. "Yuusuke... I am alright. Please calm down. I am far sturdier than I look."
"SHUT UP, KURAMA, JUST SHUT UP, I CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW, I GOTTA GO KILL THAT BASTARD-"
"You will do no such thing." Hiei unsheathed his sword. Up until now, he'd been standing in the corner, silently observing Yuusuke's panic. This was too much, however. He held his sword to Yuusuke's throat, utterly calm, the look in his eyes mostly blank. Yuusuke froze and Hiei's sword bit slightly into his skin, just the top layer, enough to make a bead of blood appear before the wound closed on its own.
Kuwabara started forward but Hiei merely turned his sword on the redhead in turn. "You will stay beside Kurama while I deal with the vermin. It is already on its way here."
"Who said YOU get to kill him?" Yuusuke demanded but Kuwabara grabbed Yuusuke's arm before Yuusuke could advance on Hiei.
"Let him do it, Yuusuke. Y'didn't see what that tree did t'Kurama's brain. This is Hiei's fight." Kuwabara was defending Hiei. Kuwabara was defending Hiei. What was the world coming to? Well, it was better if Yuusuke didn't ponder that too closely right now.
For the first time in his entire life, Yuusuke grabbed Kuwabara by the hand and dragged him back over to Kurama. Neither Yuusuke nor Kuwabara were any good at binding wounds but they did the best they could, cleaning them with some of their spare water and a first aid kit. There were fingernail scratches up and down Kurama's arms and a weird, circular wound near the nape of Kurama's neck. "Hiei... what-?"
"Toguro bit him, obviously." Hiei adjusted his sheath, standing at the mouth of the cave. "In any case, Kurama did not do that to himself."
"I don't get it," Yuusuke muttered to Kurama. "How did you get here, Kurama? If Toguro bit you, why'd he bother hooking you up to this tree? He coulda killed you while he had you before."
"I do not remember how I got here, Yuusuke." Kurama reached up and grasped Yuusuke's shirt. He was so weak. It made Yuusuke panic a little. "I do not remember... much."
"What's the last thing you do remember?" Kuwabara asked, kneeling on Kurama's other side.
"Going to bed on a calm Sunday evening. I visited you at college the day before." Kurama coughed slightly. "I woke up the next day and the world was empty. I suppose that was part of the hallucination."
Kuwabara caught Yuusuke's gaze. Kuwabara had graduated three months earlier.
"Are you still having trouble with Calculus?" Kurama opened his eyes and looked at Kuwabara.
"No. I understand it all now. Thanks fer helpin' me." Kuwabara stood in front of Kurama and Yuusuke did the same. "Just stay quiet, Kurama. Don't move."
"He has no idea what's going on," Yuusuke muttered so softly Kuwabara could barely catch it.
Kuwabara shifted and kicked some rocks away from his feet. "Worry about that later."
There was a rumbling sound, a horrible laughter echoed down the cave walls but Toguro's smell hit all of them before the sound of his voice. Kurama recoiled slightly before passing out against the wall of the cave. Neither Yuusuke nor Kuwabara noticed the kitsune becoming still, they were too busy watching Toguro's only entrance.
Unfortunately for them, Toguro was sneaky and stealth, he managed to sneak up on them. Kuwabara saw him first and summoned his reiken in time to block most of Toguro's long fingers from hitting him. The bastard was still after Kurama! Kuwabara sustained a few scratches before, in a movement that was too fast for any of them to see, Hiei grabbed Toguro and tore him away from his three allies, slamming the disgusting creature against the cave wall before he began slowly, methodically torturing him to death. Kuwabara caught a flash of Hiei's utterly sereneexpression before looking away. He didn't want to see this. And he trusted Hiei to get rid of Toguro for all of them. Hopefully before their other pursuers caught up.
Hiei considered himself a kind of comrade with pain. He had known it for so many decades that it was now an old, dear friend of his. Hiei knew pain better than he knew himself, and was more than delighted to introduce it to Toguro.
He said nothing as he had burnt Toguro's arms and legs off, even as the youkai taunted him. Hiei ignored his words and screeches, and when Toguro's flesh had been reduced to ashes, Hiei began to skin him.
A quick Y-shaped incision made on Toguro's chest and Hiei peeled one of the edges free of muscle and bone before it could seal up. He paid no mind to the blood gushing over his hands as he passed one hand over the muscle that was exposed. Burning it to a crisp so Toguro's skin could not reattach and hardly paused before shoving his hand through fat and muscle.
Hiei actually smiled as Toguro let out visceral noises of agony while the hiyoukai pulled his intestines loose, using black fire to obliterate any chance of healing. When he had emptied Toguro's abdominal cavity and caused his lungs to burst with steam did Hiei stand and laugh, "Now, you will become little less than a stench in the air," Said with a smile, while the rock beneath them cracked and popped, the air itself burning along with every atom of Toguro's flesh and even his blood.

There was barely time for Yuusuke to register anything that had happened between Hiei and Toguro, however. The stench still lingered in the air and the cave was silent once more but Yuusuke paid attention to none of that. "W-wake up, Kurama, this isn't funny."
"Yuusuke, we gotta go," Kuwabara muttered.
"Kurama. Come on, man." Yuusuke gently shook Kurama but the kitsune didn't stir. He was so cold. He looked fragile and empty. Yuusuke was too scared to listen for a heartbeat. "Kurama, come on, man. W-we gotta go to Makai and get you fixed up. I-I'm sure Yomi'll help us. Just... pl-please..."
"Yuusuke!"
"He's not breathing, Kuwabara! He's really not breathing!" Yuusuke clutched Kurama's shoulders, then reached over to feel his neck for a heartbeat. Kurama's human form always had a heartbeat before. If he was still alive-
Nothing. Kurama was gone. "No. Kurama, please. No."
"The SDF is coming. We gotta go." Kuwabara grabbed Yuusuke's shoulder, hiding his own agony. He had to get Yuusuke out of here or the SDF would kill them all. "They musta tracked us 'cause of Hiei's youki."
"Let them come." Yuusuke stood up and shook Kuwabara off, his voice hollow, his eyes as dead as Kurama's. "This is THEIR fault!" The ground shook, Yuusuke's markings flared over his skin, his hair grew at an alarming rate and the cave around them echoed with an eerie wailing. "He's my brother, Kuwabara! What am I gonna do?!"
"Get him out of here!" Hiei shouted as the cave began to collapse. He stood beside Kurama's corpse, youki flaring hot. The rocks that fell from the walls disintegrated and none hit Kurama's body. "Get him out NOW, Kuwabara!"
"I'll kill them all! Let them come! LET THEM SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY FUCK WITH ME!"
The cave was going to collapse. Yuusuke had completely lost it, Hiei was, for whatever reason, still standing there just making sure that the rocks didn't hit Kurama's body. Kuwabara didn't have time to process any of it. He grabbed Yuusuke around the waist, letting him kick, scream and claw at him, not caring that he was bleeding in the least or that the air smelled like Toguro's burned flesh. He didn't even get a chance to cry over Kurama. Kuwabara summoned his jigentou, cut a hole in reality and dragged Yuusuke through.
Half of the Forest of Fools was destroyed before Yuusuke managed to calm down enough to collapse against Kuwabara. Sleeping and utterly drained. It was only then that Kuwabara allowed himself to cry, silently so as not to wake Yuusuke.
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