Only You
by Misty
Chapter 6
Kuwabara rubbed his eyes sleepily. Who in the world would
make such an infernal racket?
“Please let me in, Kuwabara! I need your help! It’s
Yusuke!” that person continued to shout.
What the…? Urameshi? He opened the front door. Yusuke was
there, and Kuwabara noticed that his left arm was severely wounded.
“Urameshi! What happened to you?” Kuwabara said
worriedly, and let Yusuke in. Yukina, who was waiting in the living room, gasped
at the sight of Yusuke.
“Yusuke-san! What happened to you?” she said, a
bewildered expression on her pretty face. “I’ll just get some towels and
water to clean that wound.” With that, the petite Koorime went out of the
room.
Kuwabara helped Yusuke sit down on the living room couch.
Blood trickled from Yusuke’s wound, and stained the front of Kuwabara’s
shirt.
“Did you fall into a thorn bush or something?” Kuwabara
asked.
“No, stupid baka,” Yusuke said irritably. “I got into
a fight with Kurama, He hit me with his rose whip, and that’s how I got this
wound.”
“Kurama?” Kuwabara said in disbelief. He couldn’t
believe what he just heard. Kurama? Nice, ever polite Kurama would dare hit
Yusuke with his rose whip? How strange! He would actually believe it if Hiei did
that—he wouldn’t put it past that grouchy demon—but Kurama?! Kurama
wouldn’t—would he?
Kuwabara just shrugged. Maybe Kurama had a hidden dark
side – who knows? He thought. Wait a minute…Kurama does have a dark
side! Wasn’t he once an evil youko in the Ma Kai? Maybe…
Kuwabara decided to stop thinking. It made his head spin!
What he had to worry about this time was Yusuke’s health, anyway.
While Kuwabara mulled this over, he didn’t notice a sly
smile pass over Yusuke’s face.
Yukina then came out, carrying a container of water, and a
small towel. She put down the container, and sat beside Yusuke. She then dipped
the towel in the water and cleaned Yusuke’s wound.
Kuwabara gave her an affectionate glance. He remembered the
first time he met her. He had fallen head over heels in love with her, and up to
this very day that love still hadn’t disappeared. Now, looking at her blue
green locks and her childlike face, he felt a warm feeling
go through him. Oh, how he loved her! Maybe later, when Yusuke was gone,
he would tell her how he felt.
Yukina then began to heal Yusuke’s wounds. And with the
help of a little ki, the job was done.
“Wow! This is great! The wounds just disappeared!”
Yusuke said.
Yukina smiled, and she carried the water and towel back
into the kitchen.
“You can go home now,” Kuwabara said. “Keiko might
get worried! She might be wondering where you ran off to.”
Yusuke just stood there, unmoving. What in the Ningenkai
was he doing?! Kuwabara wanted him out of there. He wanted to talk to Yukina
now!
“Yusuke! Get out of here now! I need a little privacy
here!” he shouted in his impatience.
“After I’m done with you first.” Yusuke said, smiling
wickedly. A ball of energy suddenly formed in his hand.
Kuwabara didn’t know what hit him after that. He just
slumped to the floor, unconscious.
Yukina ran into the room, and kneeled beside Kuwabara.
“Kazuma-san! Kazuma-san!” she cried.
She felt a shadow above her. She looked up, and a small
gasp escaped her lips. Yusuke looked down at her with an evil grin.
Yukina started to move backward. She felt that something
was seriously wrong with him.
“Tsk, tsk, Koorime,” Yusuke said in contempt. “Looks
like you’re next.”
Yukina felt a chill up her spine. Panic seized her. She
managed to run from the room, screaming.
Yusuke went after her. “You can run, Yukina-chan, but you
can’t hide.”
Hiei was watching her from atop the tree where he was, and
she looked very happy. She was glowing brightly, and that smile on her face lit
up the whole place. Yukina…
She smiled and gave him her tear gem. How did she get
there? Hiei didn’t have a clue, and somehow, he didn’t seem to care, either.
She embraced him with warmth.
Suddenly he heard a scream. He saw Yukina’s frightened
face, and he ran to get her. But she was slowly fading away, and then she
disappeared…
“Yukina!!!” Hiei screamed, sitting up. Because of that
sudden movement, he fell off the tree branch he was sitting on.
Hiei looked around him. So…it was all just a dream. He
must fallen asleep, somehow. He sighed. It had seemed so real.
Suddenly, he heard someone scream, “HELP!” inside the
house. He rapidly stood up, and saw with his jagan that Yusuke was chasing
Yukina inside the house.
He started to run towards the house, when two figures
suddenly appeared beside him. He recognized that one person was Kurama, but the
other was a green-haired girl he didn’t know. He barely noticed them. He just
went on to the door.
Meanwhile, inside the house, Yukina had just run to the
front door. She was about to reach out to the door knob when Yusuke blocked her
path. She ran towards the opposite direction.
Suddenly, a strong force hit her. She was pushed by that
force, and she hit the wall.
Yusuke smiled in satisfaction. “No wonder Urameshi Yusuke
is a powerful youkai,” he said. “This rei gun really works.”
He started to form a small ball of ki in his hands, and
Yukina sat helpless on the floor. Her eyes grew wide with fear.
Outside the house, Hiei tried to open the door. Yet it
wouldn’t budge. He leaned his whole weight into it, but still it wouldn’t
open.
“It’s locked,” the girl said. She formed a fireball
in her hand. “Stand clear, I’m going to—“
Suddenly they heard a scream. Hiei recognized that voice.
Yukina!
In his rage, he brought out his sword and, in one swift
stroke, sliced the door into two pieces. He then ran inside.
Kurama and Naomi followed. “He sure is fast,” Naomi
commented dryly.
Kurama glanced at Hiei briefly, and said, “He’s really
like that.”
Hiei was furious. That Yusuke! He’s going to pay!
He found him in the living room, absorbing a red ball of glowing energy. This
was his chance. He lunged at Yusuke with a furious yell.
Kurama went after him. “Hiei, no! You don’t know what
you’re doing!” Hiei did not heed him. He swung at Yusuke with his sword in
his rage.
A fire blade stopped his sword. Yusuke was able to jump
away, unharmed. Naomi glared at Hiei. “You could have killed him!” she said
sternly. “He’s just being possessed by some demon! You should have sensed
that. Don’t let your feelings get the best of you!”
Kurama ran to Yukina. He felt that her ki was already very
weak.
Yusuke suddenly appeared beside him. “You’re next,”
Yusuke said with a sinister smile. “Rei ken!!!” Kuwabara’s spiritual sword
suddenly formed in his hand, and he swung at Kurama. Kurama was able to avoid
it, and ran to where Hiei and Naomi were.
“He’s already absorbed Yukina’s and Kuwabara’s
powers,” he said hurriedly. “There’s nothing more we can do now.”
Kurama ran out the door. Naomi followed him, pulling Hiei
after her.
“Come back here!!!!” Yusuke yelled, and chased them.
Kurama led the way, and they all went outside the city.
They ran into the protection of the forest nearby, but all their efforts seemed
useless, since Yusuke just kept up with them, slashing the trees around him with
Kuwabara’s rei ken.
“Let’s get inside this cave!” she whispered, pointing
at a cave nearby. Kurama nodded. They entered the cave, and ran all the way in
it, only to find their way blocked by a huge boulder in the path.
“Ch, you lead us right into a dead end!” Hiei shouted
at Naomi.
“You’ll see,” was all Naomi said in reply. Kurama
just kept silent.
Yusuke fired his rei gun at them, which Naomi easily
deflected using her fire shield. Yusuke cursed, and began to form his reiki-absorbing
ball in his hand. “Let’s see you defend yourself against this, then!!!”
Enraged, Hiei lunged at Yusuke. “We’ll see who gets the
last laugh you darn ningen!!!” he shouted.
“Hiei, no!” Kurama yelled, and summoned one of his
plants to hold Hiei back.
“Let me go! Do you want us to die?”
Yusuke laughed. “Bunch of cowards!” He raised his hand
to throw the spirit ball at them.
“Kurama, now!” Naomi shouted.
Kurama closed his eyes, and collected his ki. Plants grew
from the ground, and wrapped Yusuke within its branches. A single branch went
up, and connected itself to Yusuke’s forehead. The plant continued
grow…until it stopped, turning into a dark-colored, tree, an air of evil
emanating from it.
Hiei’s eyes widened. “The Evil Thoughts Tree…”
“DIE!!!!!” Yusuke yelled, and threw the ball at the
tree. He gasped in shock, and collected power again. “Why? Why didn’t you
get hit?”
“But I thought that tree was supposed to be deadly…”
Hiei asked, shock still on his face.
“It’s a temporary version,” Kurama replied.
“It’ll keep him entrapped there for three hours or so. It’ll buy us enough
time.”
“Were you two planning this all along?” Hiei gestured
towards Naomi.
“Actually, no.” Kurama smiled, and started to walk out
the cave. “I just…had this plan already, and I just needed a suitable place
to pull it off…”
“And I just realized what he was planning, so luckily I
saw this cave,” Naomi finished. She shrugged. “I guess I just know all
Kurama’s tricks. Besides, he used that tree on me once. Good thing it was the
temporary version, though.”
“You still remember that?” Kurama said sheepishly.
“Yup. Gave me one heck of a headache afterwards, you
know,” Naomi said good-naturedly.
“Ehehe.”
Hiei interrupted impatiently. “So what are we going to do
now?”
Kurama thought for a moment. “We need to go to the Ma
Kai. I know of only one weapon that could stop Yusuke, and we need to get
that—”
“You mean….” Naomi stared at him. “But that’s
dangerous! You died before when you tried to get that weapon.”
“It doesn’t matter.” Kurama’s expression clouded,
remembering that fateful day in the Ma Kai, the day he was shot by that hunter.
Hiei stared at them with mild confusion. How in the
world do they read what’s on each other’s minds? he thought, puzzled.
“What do you plan to do, Kurama?”
“I’ll explain later,” Kurama answered, and Hiei
shrugged. With a last glance, he turned his back on the cave, and with a soft
“Hn,” he followed Kurama and Naomi, ignoring Yusuke’s cries of terror and
anger in the cave behind him.