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Chapter List
- 8
- 9
- 10
New Chapter. One new
warning, GRAPHICNESS! There will mentions of implements of torture and doctor
stuff. So you are forewarned

By the time Puu
reached Genkai�s temple the pouch that held Kurama had absorbed as much blood as it was going to. Yusuke stared at the blood as it dripped to
the ground. He didn�t think his friend
had survived the flight; there was sooo much
blood. It would be a miracle to find her
alive.
Hiei didn�t give himself the chance to look at the
blood-soaked pouch; he rushed up to the SpiritBeast,
pulled the mouth of the pouch open as wide as it would go and reached both his
arms into it. The small demon placed his
hands, as gently as he could, on either side of her chest, right under her
shoulder blades and lifted the vixen up and out of the pouch.
Four gasps
rang through the otherwise silent clearing.
Hiei cradled the bloody, mangled mess that was
Kurama tenderly against his slim chest; his shirt was
now also covered in her warm, sticky blood.
He placed one slender arm under her rear, cradling it with his elbow
while using the hand to support her bulging abdomen.
Both Yukina and Botan surged forward to
perform what Genkai called a �duel healing�. Botan held her hands
so that they hovered directly over the vixen�s broken jaw and heaving chest
while Yukina, whose skills were superior, tackled Kurama�s mangled leg and the bulge of her abdomen. Maybe, the baby was still alive; and if it
was maybe it could still be saved.
The minutes
dragged on, yet neither of the blue haired females was ready to quit. When Botan started
to sway Yusuke wrapped on arm around her waist and allowed her to lean against
his side. After a moment, however, Botan�s support was called away.
�Yusuke-san,
please I need your help!� Yukina called
to the young demon. He was at her side
in half a second. �Can you hold her leg
up so that the bone isn�t protruding? It
will heal easier that way.�
Yusuke
grasped Kurama�s leg right under the wound her sharp
splintered bone created and pressed the bone back into place. Kurama emitted a
keening yelp; her other hind leg convulsed from where it hung over Hiei�s arm as if she were trying to struggle away from the
pain. But, the leg in Yusuke�s hands lay motionless, that made the demon wonder
if Yomi hadn�t dislocated her hip. With that thought Yusuke stopped Yukina when she went to start the healing again. She looked into his eyes curiously, he
returned her gaze and murmured softly, �Lemme try
something. Gimme
a second...�
Yusuke
grasped the leg both above and below her broken bones. He gently rotated Kurama�s
hip in a full circle; following the motion in one fluid movement he popped her
hip back into place.
The sound Kurama made that time was more of a shuddering
whimper. She sounded like a new born kit
that trembled and whimpered in tune with its body�s shutters. It had that same defenseless and totally
pitiful sound to it.
When Yusuke
looked up, still holding Kurama�s leg gingerly, his
gaze met Hiei�s.
The small youkai�s eyes were shooting daggers
at him.
�What?� He asked.
�It�ll save Yukina energy.�
�Healing
isn�t supposed to bring her more pain you ass!�
Hiei snarled.
�Well, it
worked didn�t it?� He waved his hand at Botan and Yukina who had just
finished up the healing. Kurama�s breathing was back to normal and there wasn�t a
single scratch on her body. �The girls
did a good job. But, that doctor is gonna be here soon to make sure that her baby is alright or...� Yusuke�s voice dropped to a whisper. �Or help
her deliver it if it didn�t survive. So,
either way, we had better get her washed off.�
�But, is it
alive? I mean, can we find it out before
the doctor gets here?� Botan asked in a hushed, panting voice. Her semi-long nails, which were clinging to
Yusuke in an effort to steady herself, dug deep into her friend�s skin.
They all
looked around at another and shrugged. Yukina stretched out a small hand aiming to place it on Kurama�s abdomen.
Her attention was so focused on that one part of Kurama�s
anatomy she didn�t see the vixen�s ear turn in her direction nor did she notice
her eye snapping open, the large golden eyes that had dilated so much that her
pupils were nothing but tiny slits. That
wild, panicked eye caught glimpse of Yukina�s hand
reaching for the place where her child slept within her, out in the open,
unguarded, totally defenseless stomach!
In the
blink of an eye Kurama twisted her body, eyes
blazing, teeth bared in a nasty snarl; Yukina never had the time to move her hand away before
Kurama�s razor sharp fangs sank into hand.
: Don�t you dare.
: Kurama�s
voice was steely; she still had Yukina�s hand
in-between her jaws. The Koorime gasped; her body froze in shock. It took all of them a moment to really grasp
what Kurama had actually done. Yukina broke out of
her shock; she started talking to Kurama softly, her
voice mimicking the soothing coo of a dove.
She reached her other hand out, this time aiming for the vixen�s
shoulder. She kept quietly reassuring Kurama that no one was going to hurt her any more, she was
with her friends and that her baby was fine.
It didn�t work at all. When Yukina�s petite hand got close to the vixen�s shoulder Kurama bit down harder on her hand. A small trickle of blood slid down her
slender wrist.
Now at a loss, Yukina
turned her large crimson eyes turned their pleading gaze to Yusuke. Still in a state of shock himself, called out
to the vixen softly. The reply he got
was a deep snarl. Kurama
hadn�t taken her panicked eyes off of Yukina�s hand,
which still hovered where it froze above Kurama�s
shoulder.
�Hiei,
don�t take this the wrong way.�
Hiei
turned his wide crimson eyes in Yusuke�s direction. He heard what Yusuke said but it just didn�t
click in his stunned brain. One would
never know his eyes could get so large. He�s taking this worse than Yukina! Yusuke
thought with a silent chuckle as he moved to stand behind the small fire
demon. Wrapping his arms around Hiei, Yusuke placed one large hand over Kurama�s
eyes; he pushed a finger gently in-between Kurama�s clenched
jaws. The other hand was placed under
the vixen�s lower jaw, pinching two fingers on either side of the slender lower
jaw. He pulled down on the lower jaw
while pushing up with the finger he had in Kurama�s
mouth.
As soon as the vixen�s mouth was pried
off her hand, Yukina yanked her arm away. Yusuke counted to three slowly and tore his
hands away from Kurama�s face. Her slender jaws closed with a snap.
Everyone watched tensely waiting to
see what Kurama would do next. Yukina, who clutched
her injured hand tightly to her bosom, took a step backward. Kurama was staring
at her with an expression that couldn�t be read. She turned her head to look at everyone who
stood around her then tilted it upward to look her lover in the eye. Hiei could see that
she was confused; those usually sharp, intense eyes were cloudy and seemed
dazed. He stared at the bloody creature
in his arms until she broke the gaze to bury her head in the crook of his arm.
�What the hell just happened?� Hiei asked, his
eyes looking past his trembling sister to the old woman who had come to stand
behind her. The others followed his gaze
until they all stared at Genaki expectantly.
�I�m not exactly sure.� Genaki replied and
motioned to Yukina to give her her
hand. The Koorime
complied and held out her injured hand for the old woman�s inspection. �Perhaps Kurama is
simply scared. She has been though a lot
today, I doubt she realizes where she is.�
�Baa-san!� Kuwabara, who had
been standing on the porch waiting for his companions to come in with Kurama, was walking quickly up to the group. When Yusuke and Hiei
rushed out to wait for Puu to return Genkai sent Yukina and Botan after then. Kuwabara wanted to go along as well but, the old woman
asked him to stay in the house with Keiko to draw a bath for Kurama. She had
instructed the water to be lukewarm because, she explained, that if the water
were too hot it could kill Kurama�s baby; assuming
that the child was alive.
Genkai had watched the healing from
the doorway, Kuwabara saw her leave and after a long
moment he followed. He stood on the
porch for a moment watching as the old woman was questioned and then . . .
started holding . . . Yukina�s hand? That deserved some investigation. Not to mention the bath was getting cold!
�Baa-san, Is she okay?�
�Kurama
is yes, can you tell wither or not the baby is still alive?�
�Yea I can still see the baby�s
energy, it looks t same . . . just bigger. Shizuru said the
doctor will be here in about an hour. So you don�t really have to rush her bath
or anything. Well, the water is getting cold, though.�
�In a moment,� Genkai said slowly,
the way she always did when she was considering something. �I�m not sure what is going on with Kurama right now so we are going to have to be cautious. Yusuke, I want you to help Hiei bathe Kurama and I want all
three of you to be in the room with Narumi-sensei while he is examining her.�
�I- I, y-you,
huh?� Yusuke�s mouth dropped
open. �She�s gonna
be naked. He�s gonna
be,� His hands gestured wildly in front of him.
�You know! Examining, touching
looking . . .WHY!?!?�
�Are you done whining, dimwit?�
�Uh-huh.�
�I just want you in there until she
is conscious. If she can do this to Yukina,�
She held up the Koorime�s hand, showing
them all the puncture wounds. �A person
she loves and trusts, then who knows what she�ll do when a stranger is examining
her neither regions, a place that was violated repeatedly by the youkai who beat her within to an inch of her life. She may also take his actions as trying to do
harm to her child. You�re job will be
making sure she doesn�t attack Narumi-sensei.�
Yusuke and Kuwabara
exchanged pathetic �I don wanna� looks with each
other but both nodded.
�Now, go on and give Kurama a bath; be very gentle and keep your hands away from
her stomach as much as possible.� Hiei walked toward the porch and Yusuke followed. Genkai turned her
attention to Yukina�s hand to start healing it. �Botan, will find Hiei a clean shirt?�
While the blue haired girl nodded
and rushed off to do Genkai�s bidding the old woman
started healing Yukina�s hand.
�Don�t be too upset Yukina-chan.� Kuwabara said, putting a large hand tenderly on her
shoulder.
�I�m not, Kuwa-chan.� Yukina claimed her
fully healed hand from Genkai and looked up at her
love with tear filled eyes. �I just feel
horrible for Kurama-san. I don�t want to think about what could make a
calm creature like her panic the way she did.�
I
have a feeling that this day is going to get worse. Genkai mused
silently.
Kurama
was unconscious all through her bath. Hiei held his lover in the lukewarm water up to her neck
while Yusuke gently scrubbed her clean.
When it came time to wash the vixen�s head, Hiei
lifted the vixen out of the water while Yusuke wrung out her many tails and
wrapped her in two towels, one for her body the other for her tails. Hiei then gave Kurama over to Yusuke to hold while he cleaned Kurama�s head off with more tenderness than Yusuke had ever
seen from the small, usually uncaring Koorime.
�Well, the doctor should be here
soon,� Yusuke informed his friend when Kurama was
fully clean and wrapped in warm, soft towels.
�Why don�t you see if you can convince her to change over to her
humanoid form while you dry her off?�
The small youkai
gave Yusuke such a glare that the taller demon took a confused step
backward. Hiei
said nothing; he continued to glare at his companion as he left for the room he
shared with Kurama.
Yusuke mused on the fire demon�s
grouchiness as he drained all the bloody water from the tub. He came to the decision that Hiei was just sleep deprived and blaming himself for Kurama�s condition.
Yusuke was so lost in his thoughts he didn�t notice that Kuwabara had come in and was helping him clean the
room. When noticed, Kuwabara
turned to his friend and asked,
�You too, huh?�
�Me too what?�
�You have that same nagging feeling
that this day is only going to get worse, too.�
Yusuke nodded.

*hour and a half later*
�That�s one hell of a story.� Narumi-sensei was half an hour later than anticipated. When he arrived he found Genkai
and Shizuru sitting on the porch having tea. The two women bade him to sit down and be
filled in on all that happened. Since
everyone inside the temple had fallen asleep Genkai thought it wouldn�t hurt for them to be allowed to
continue in their current unconscious state of sleep. �now the attack; I
believe I can explain that. Most women
report that their dreams become more graphic while they are pregnant. Some of those dreams turn into night terrors,
which are like nightmares only more vivid most people, not just pregnant women,
wake up from them horrified. In Kurama�s case she most likely thought she was back in the Makai and that Yukina was trying
to do harm to her child. So, I do believe that it is a good thing to have the
boys stay in the room, not only to restrain but also to comfort since Kurama doesn�t know me all that well. Do you think it would be best waking the boys
then?�
�Yes, but you should let us
help.� Shizuru
stated as she accepted the doctor�s offered hand. �Kurama isn�t the
only one who�s known to wake up swinging.�
Genkai
started for the bed room that Kurama and Hiei shared to wake the Koorime
while Shizuru led Narumi-sensei to the living room
where the others had collapsed. Kuwabara was sitting in the lazyboy
he and Yusuke bought for Kurama after she told them
she was going to keep her baby, his strong arms were wrapped around Yukina who had curled up in his lap with her face pressed
into the crook of his neck and her arms wrapped about his shoulders. Yusuke sat on the couch with his arms draped
over the back; one arm was still there the other was around Keiko who was
asleep against his broad shoulder. Botan was laying face down across both of them, with her
face buried in Keiko�s lap and her torso across Yusuke�s. All of them were snoring softly.
Genkai knocked
softly on the large door in front of her before opening it silently and
stepping inside. She only had a moment
to study the image of Hiei asleep where he was
sitting against the headboard; Kurama�s head was
cradled in his lap with both her hands resting above her head with her fingers
intertwined with her lover�s. Apparently
Hiei was able to coax Kurama
out of her fox form. Hiei
awoke a moment later to glare questioningly at the old woman. She didn�t get the chance to explain that the
doctor had arrived for he, Yusuke and Kuwabara came
into the room.
Narumi-sensei went about the full
exam while Yusuke and Kuwabara sat on either side of
the bed with their heads forcefully turned in the opposite direction. Hiei watched with
avid curiosity, his eyes following the doctors every movement. As the doctor
pulled out various creations from his magic black bag Hiei�s
eyes became large as dinner plates, so the doctor thought it would be in his
own best interest to explain their uses �With this I can hear the heartbeat�,
�this keeps her muscles from contracting so I can look inside to see if there
is anything wrong with her,� so on and so forth. Kuwabara had the
constant threat of a nose bleed, how he was ever going to have sex was unknown.
Yusuke was asked to assist the doctor by holding one of Kurama�s
legs in a position that would improve the doctor�s view of. ... will give him easier access to her. . . Yusuke didn�t even
want to think about it. He kept his head
turned in the other direction, refusing to look at his friend�s nude form and
groped for the leg.
�You know,� Narumi-sensei commented
as he watched Yusuke�s and Kuwabara�s faces turn
crimson. �A nude body is nothing to be
so embarrassed about. It�s the same body
you see in playboy or porno or perhaps your lovers. It�s completely natural.�
�Yea, well,� Yusuke gestured
blindly at the nude vixen stretched out on the bed beside him. �Up until a few months ago Kurama was happily male!
Now not only is he a SHE but SHE is also pregnant. A-an-and there is just something about that
that makes me uneasy about . . . about�
�Ogling her naked body?� Narumi-sensei provided with a mild chuckle.
�Do you have to make is sound
disgusting?�
�Isn�t that the way your acting?�
�Well, I guess your right.� Yusuke let go of Kurama�s
leg and buried his head in his hands to start rubbing his aching eyes. �Its weird enough to see Kurama
with breasts and realizing that she�s pregnant but now I have to sit through
her exam and. . . I just. . . I�m going
to stop talking now.�
�I think I understand what you are
trying to say. And I�m happy to say that everything looks fine. Now we can cover everything except her tummy
because its time to do the sonogram.� Kuwabara sighed in relief and threw a blanket over Kurama�s pelvis and legs while Hiei
covered Kurama�s breasts with his cape.
�What�s a
s-sonogram?� The small youkai asked his nervousness displayed by his letting go of
Kurama�s hand to start toying with her velvety soft
ear, something Kurama loved; if she had been awake Kurama would have been purring.
�It is a device that will give us a
picture, of sorts, of the baby. It�s in
the back of my car right now, so I have to go get it,�
�Kuwabara
and I will go get it for you.� Yusuke
spoke up. The doctor handed over his
keys, after the boys left he turned to Hiei.
�Can you see the baby�s ki?�
�I can when my Jigan
is unwarded. Why?�
�I was wondering if you would
describe for me what you see.�
Hiei opened
his Jigan and looked into Kurama�s
belly for a few moments. �The ki takes over and fills her whole abdomen.�
�Can you tell anything about the
baby at all? Perhaps find its
heartbeat?�
�No,� Hiei shook his head. �Its ki signal is
overpowering everything else.�
�What about you Kuwa-san?� Narumi-sensei asked as the boys brought his
sonogram into the room followed by Genkai and three
heads that poked in curiously. Puu was even watching from the open window. �What do you
see when you look upon your friend�s belly?�

Kuwabara�s answer
was the same was Hiei. Narumi-sensei asked the same questions and
received the same answers almost word for word.
�Is something the matter?� Genkai asked from
the doorway, worried by the odd questions he was asking.
�No nothing is wrong. I�m just
trying to prove a thesis to myself. I
believe what you two are seeing right now is not the child�s ki. It is Kurama�s. My theory
is that no matter how much or how little ki a woman
has, when she is pregnant a majority of it forms itself around the growing
fetus to protect it.� As the doctor
spoke he plugged in the portable sonogram machine-thingie,
spread jell over the attachment that went against Kurama�s
abdomen seconds later.
�That�s quite the theory.� Though her voice was no more than a soft
whisper, Kurama�s voice sent a startled jolt through
out the room. The only one who knew she
was awake was Hiei, the small demon noted her head turning in the direction of
the screen to stare at it with a wide-eyed anticipation. �But, how can you tell if my ki and not my baby�s?�
�Mathematics, my
dear. Simple
mathematics. You see, your
friends both counted one, but I count two.�
The doctor turned to face the vixen with a wide smile. Congratulations, you�re having twins!�
�No way!?�
�Oh wow!�
Kurama
silently absorbing the information while all her friends crowded around the bed
to see the babies on the screen.
�Are they both okay?� She asked finally; squeezing the hand she
still had linked with her lover�s.
�Alive and well.�
�Thank the Gods.� Kurama sighed
About twenty minutes later everyone
except Kurama, the doctor, and at Kurama�s
request Hiei stayed and kept his position at the
headboard of the bed. Kurama sat beside her lover now wrapped in her robe. Because Yusuke and Kuwabara
offered to take the sonogram machine back to the doctor�s car they were still
in the room when Kurama was given the chance to ask
any and all questions she could think of.
�Did you perform a vaginal exam?�
�Yes, of course.�
�Did you find any scars or anything
peculiar?�
�No, why do you ask?�
Yusuke and Kuwabara
paused at the unusual tone of their friend�s voice. Kurama never
sounded so unnerved.
�Yomi
used a particular . . . implement that cause a lot of, um, tearing. Usually he would make sure to have a healer
heal any wound of this magnitude so that I might �perform� for him the next
night but, he found pleasure in insuring me a lot of unbearably painful days.�
�What type of implement? The steely voice that asked that question
didn�t belong to Narumi-sensei. It
belonged to Hiei, the small Koorime�s
eyes were fixed on Kurama�s golden gaze; Yusuke and Kuwabara stood rooted to the spot where they halted half
way though the door waiting for the next reason they had to plot Yomi�s demise.
�It was made of some sort of metal,
iron I believe though I didn�t get much of a chance to inspect it, hollow so
that a male�s member might fit inside of it.
On it . . . it had hundreds of blunt nubs. Kala, the midwife,
and I were trying to help the wounds it created heal with different herbs and
such but, I was constantly becoming ill and it just didn�t seem to want to heal
at all. Kala
warned me that the scarring would make delivery difficult.� Kurama laughed
bleakly. �It�s ironic really, Yomi wanted to destroy my babies because he blamed them for
my constant illnesses, he decided to have them destroyed after my most recent
fever broke. He then used that on me for the first time and Kala
refused to allow him to cause a miscarriage telling him that because of the
injury he refused to heal it was too risky.�
The room was silent. Kurama, a creature
who was never hesitant or shy to look someone in the face as she talked to them
about any subject be it intimate or not, was staring at her feet with a morbid
fascination. She refused to meet
anyone�s eyes; she didn�t have to see them to feel their enraged
expressions. Beside her the vixen could
feel Hiei trembling as he repressed the urge to take
off to the Makai right now and challenge Yomi. One pointed
ear twitched when Yusuke and Kuwabara left the room
before something was done or said that would set them on a �lets kill Yomi� tangent that would make them do something extremely
stupid.
*outside the door*
�Do you think that was the bad
feeling we had?�
�Nope. That�s just the tip of an ever growing iceberg.�
::sighs::
�I was hoping you wouldn�t say that.�
�Sorry.�
*back inside the room*
�Well, if that isn�t a good reason
to attack someone in your sleep then I don�t know what is.� Narumi-sensei mumbled; bringing up one soft
hand to run though his hair.
�Nani?� Kurama looked up confused.
�You bit Yukina after she healed
you.� Hiei
explained. �She was going to see if she
could tell whether the baby was alive or not.
You refused to let her hand go until Yusuke pried your mouth open.�
Kurama�s
now started gaze returned to her feet.
It was a miracle that Hiei hadn�t broken her
newly healed jaw. No one treated his
sister like that and lived to hear the tale.
Narumi-sensei placed a soft,
comforting hand on top of Kurama�s jolting her out of
her thoughts. �I didn�t see anything
unusual but if you would like I can take another look while you are awake and
alert. That way I can tell you
everything I see and you are free to ask any and questions you can think of.�
Kurama
nodded and resumed her laying position one the bed with her head in Hiei�s lap.
Narumi-sensei once again talked though the procedure, explaining
everything he did and saw or didn�t see for that matter. Much to their relief there was no scaring.
Narumi-sensei was packed up and
ready to leave about half an hour later.
He reassured Kurama that she looked to be in
very good shape considering what she had been through, now he was giving her a
list of foods. He was concerned at the
amount of weight loss.
�I�m leaving you this list of foods
that is every dieter�s nightmare. You
have lost WAY too much weight and that is not good while you are carrying a
child much less two. You�re eating for
three now so don�t hesitate to eat more than you usually do. Don�t gorge yourself, but eat until you are
full. I�ll bet you�ve never had an extra ounce of fat on you your whole life,
but right now it can�t hurt.�
Kurama
thanked the doctor and watched him leave the room. After a long moment of uncomfortable silence
she turned to her lover.
�Well?�
�Well what?�
�You have something to say to say
to me. I can tell. So go ahead.�
�Why are you allowing this to go
on? Why are you playing this fucking
game with Yomi?�
�What game?�
�He is only going to keep coming
after you until he can get you again.
Destroy his bastards and give him one less reason to hunt you down. You can get your strength back up and be able
to defend yourself the next time.�
�What if there is no �next time�?�
�Don�t be ridiculous. He will come back for you and you know it.�
�Under any other circumstances that
would be considered flattering.�
�Don�t crack jokes.�
�Do you think I enjoy being raped
and beaten? Yomi
is going to do what he pleases wither or not I�m carrying a child conceived by
his seed. He doesn�t want them; he just
wants me to be his whore.�
�So you�re just going to wait until
he comes back. What if he kidnappes the babes?
What then? Will you give yourself
over to him again and come back once again pregnant?�
�If that is what it takes to
protect my children then yes. And
believe or not Hiei I�d do the same for you.�
�That only proves how soft you�ve
become.�
�You�ve never complained about it before.�
�You were never acting this stupid
before. They are unborn bastards to an unwilling
whore,�
�Funny,� Kurama
interrupted her voice becoming steely as her anger started to rise. How dare he
refer to her as a whore! �Yomi called them the same
thing, so I will tell you what I told him.
I love my children, they are a part of me and I�m not going to kill
them. The same way that Yukina is a part of you, and you wouldn�t let harm come to
her.�
�Don�t bring her into this. She has nothing to do with this at all.�
�Oh but that�s where your
wrong. You always protect and watch over
her and I know you would willingly give your life for her and you told me that
your mother tired to do the same this for you.�
�I�m warning you Kurama, keep them out of this conversation, we are not
discussing them. If your so hell bent on
having children now that your female then have them with someone who won�t
continually beat you to within an inch of your life.�
�I never wanted to be pregnant, Hiei. But, once I
realized that there is a life growing inside of me, a life that my body
created, a life that is a part of me as much if not more so than a part of Yomi I couldn�t bring myself to kill it. Don�t make me choose between my children and
my lover.�
�You are not choosing. I am.
As far as I�m concerned we are no longer lovers.� Hiei started
walking toward the open window.
�Then what are we?�
�Acquaintances.� Hiei spat out the
word without looking her or slowing his movements toward the window; his back
turned to her.
�You are willing to give up
everything we have together just because Yomi is a
threat? I never knew you were such a
coward, Hiei.�
Hiei turned, an
angry retort standing on the tip of his tongue.
But, Kurama never gave him the chance to utter
a word.
�I can�t decide what you are, Hiei. A coward or a
hypocrite, but right now I�m opting for both . . .�
WHAP
Kurama
never saw Hiei move but she wasn�t startled when he
backhanded her. In a way she was
expecting it. She knew she had pushed
him to his breaking point. The small demon was in shock at his actions but
still too angry to care; in a flash of dark ki he was
out the window.
Kurama
just stood there, holding her stinging cheek that was going to sport a nice
sized bruise in the morning, until Yusuke barged into the room. He didn�t mean to listen in on their private
conversation, but at the level their voices had taken towards the end of the
fight had made it hard for any one to tune it out.
�Kurama,� Yusuke called
tentatively.
�You know,� Kurama
whispered softly, her voice changing as her body shifted to its ningen form. �Though
out both my lives I have never been backhanded until I was a woman; never
once. Does that count as
discrimination?�
Yusuke pried Kurama�s
hand gently away from her face and winced at the large red hand mark across her
cheek.
�Oi, Kuwabara.� The
carrot-top poked his head into the room.
�Go get me an icepack, okay?�
His eyes grew to thrice their
normal size before he nodded and rushed off.
Yusuke stretched out a hand to gently brush Kurama�s
bangs out of her down cast eyes. They
looked up into chocolate colored irises and unknowingly showed Yusuke the tears
brimming over her lower eyelids.
�It�s okay. Everything will be fine, you�ll see.� Yusuke pulled the vixen�s trembling body to
his own, her head rested against the crook of his neck with one arm wrapping
around her waist the other rubbing the base of her neck. Kurama�s arms flew
around his neck as she allowed herself to let go and bawl for the first time in
both her lives. Yusuke lowered them both
to the floor, gathered Kurama into his arms, cradling
her across his lap and started a rocking back and forth gently; all the while
murmuring and cooing softly, letting his friend know that it was alright to get
it all out of her system.
Kurama
ended up crying herself to sleep on Yusuke�s tear soaked shoulder. Kuwabara seemed to
sense what was happing because he never came back into the room. And eventually Yusuke fell asleep as well,
granted it wasn�t that comfortable on the floor, but he was too tired to give a
damn. If his muscles hurt in the morning
he would have Keiko give him a backrub, but right now he felt like leaving Kurama be and letting her sleep.
After the sun went down Yukina brought in a tray of food for the two of them incase
they woke up and were hungry. Yusuke
woke up the moment she entered the room, though she had yet to notice, when the
Koorime did notice his eyes on her she whispered
�goodnight� and told him to eat if he got hungry and silently left the
room. Kurama
picked her head up when she heard the door close softly. She blinked her large emerald eyes that were
red rimmed and puffy from crying as if she were having problems focusing them
in the darkness. When they did finally
focus, they had captured Yusuke�s gaze.
�Thank you,� she whispered softly,
her voice hoarse from crying.
�For what?�
�For staying with
me and lending me your shoulder.�
�Hey, don�t mention it! What are
friends for if they can�t lend you a shoulder now and then?�
Kurama
smiled softly and sighed one of those shuddering sighs that only came from
crying. The ones you get after the
hiccups and before the runny nose. She
buried her face in the crook of his neck again only to pull back after a
moment.
�It�s all my
fault.� She mumered suddenly.
�He warned me but I still pushed.
I know him like the back of my hand I could tell that he was going to
snap I just didn�t care. And now he�s
gone and I wouldn�t be surprised if he never came back.�
�Didn�t you notice the bags under
his eyes? He hasn�t slept a wink in over
three weeks. He was miserable the whole
time you were gone and blamed himself constantly. He�s lucky we didn�t kill him. Believe me we were close to our breaking
points; all of us. He�ll be back. He
really does love you.�
Kurama
rested her head back on Yusuke�s shoulder with another sigh.
�I�m not so sure, but I hope your
right.� Moments later they were both
back to sleep.

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