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KALERAGETSUEI

CHAPTER XC

BACK IN THE FUTURE

MAKAI…24 years in the future

It had been a long, grueling battle but he had finally won his independence. He hated the being that had kept him from going to see his best friend and love for the last Makai year-10 human years-and wished that by some amazing happenstance that the being would contact the human virus and expire. Inadvertently, his wish came true, and the being ate a piece of infected human flesh, became ill and violently angry then died in the battle he had just fought against her.

Hiei had been Murkuro’s captain since after the Makai Tournament in which Kurama, Yusuke, six fighters from the Dark Tournament and himself had all fought to decide who would be soul ruler of the Makai. At first his position wasn’t so bad as he could wander as he pleased and would often wind up in Ningenkai with Kurama on the pretence of visiting his sister, Yukina. That arrangement carried on for years until Murkuro had eaten that bit of tainted flesh and her bitterness had grown into hatred and anger. Suddenly, she forbade Hiei from stepping foot in Ningenkai and fought with him constantly that it was she he owed his allegiance to and not some fickle Youko who sold his yokai birthright to remain in the human world. It was that very human being who had been a source of discord between the two high powered yokai often resulting in a brutal battle that would leave Hiei just clinging to his existence. At such times he would always have strength enough to open a portal to Ningenkai, straight to his favorite healer and best friend. This battle, however, left him completely spent and he barely had enough energy to walk to the next territory which happened to belong to the once infamous Spirit Detective, Uremeshi Yusuke.

Uremeshi Yusuke was the ancestral love-child of King Raizen and a peasant woman and had been born with a natural ability to fight hard. One day, after pushing a child out of the way of a speeding car, he himself took the hit and died. His spirit left his body and he wandered around until he was found by Botan, the Grim Reaper who was anything but grim. Nonetheless, Yusuke had to undergo several trials before he was elected as Spirit Detective whose first big case involved his rounding up three powerful yokai that had stolen rare artifacts from King Yemma’s vault. One of those thieves had been Hiei and following their grand fight the pair had developed a respectful friendship. When the virus hit Human World, not even Yusuke’s Mazakouh blood could save his human body from death, however, it was only in death that his true form and power could awaken. Once his human body had expired, the Mazakouh was set free, thus he became known as Raizen the Second, the Great Unifier of the Makai.

It was on King Raizen’s territory that a pair of guards on patrol found a black heap barely breathing. They could tell from the appearance that the heap was Hiei and that he was in bad need of healing.

“Tell the King we have company and to send a gurney,” one of the guards instructed.

“No need, Hezera, I heard. He’s far too injured to move. How he ever made it this far is beyond me,” King Raizen spoke as he had materialized out of nowhere.

“Raizen, allow an old friend to lend a hand. I’ll create a small wind under him enough to carry him into the palace then place him in the tank,” a Gaelic sounding voice spoke.

“Jin! Long time, buddy. Do what you just said and we’ll put him into a tank then send someone to fetch Kurama,” Raizen nodded.

With a nod, the scarlet haired wind master sent a cushion of air under the injured Fire yokai that lifted him off the ground so that the group could take the being to a healing tank then move on to finding Kurama.



NINGENKAI….24 years in the past

Mirai Shuichi walked with his younger counterpart, barely listening while the younger man told him of his life. The elder Shuichi had a strange feeling that something was wrong in his reality and it concerned Hiei. ‘But why should I feel him here? Like he’s in dire need of me?’ the elder Shuichi mused.

“Thinking of your fireman, again, are you? Go back to him. You will not be happy here until you settle things there. You were the last one out of the time machine, correct? Let’s go back to it and send you back to the future,” younger Shuichi sniggled at the pun.

“I’ll go with. I’ll stand a better chance of convincing myself than anyone else. I shouldn’t be gone long, fox. I love you,” Hiei expressed and Shuichi nearly melted into the floor.

For younger Shuichi, hearing any declaration of affection from the taller fire yokai was more precious than the black tear gems his black clad partner cried. Overcome with emotion, younger Shuichi fell onto Hiei’s neck in a strong hug, kissed him then turned so that the neither elder Shuichi nor Hiei would see him crying.

“Baka kitsune. You know you don’t have to hide how sensitive you are anymore. Take care of the kits and we’ll return ASAP,” and with one more kiss, Hiei took elder Shuichi to where the group had landed in the time machine. “Besides being insensitive, what’s my counterpart like?”

“Very strong, master of the dragon, Purgasus, loves to test himself against S and Super S-Class yokai. Until ten years ago he’d come to me for heeling and just to be in the human realm,” Elder Shuichi sighed.

“After the Makai Tournament, were the two of you offered to sign pacts with Yomi and Murkuro?”

“Yes, we were. He would complain about her training and only giving him breaks when he was nearly destroyed. I hated her as much as he did. I went sometime to the Makai, especially after Yusuke expired and became Raizen the Second. In fact, for a while that’s where Hi-chan and I would meet and share ourselves,” the elder red-head went on.

“Let’s go to the Makai. If he’s been confined to home the last ten human years, we’d stand a better chance at finding him,” Hiei suggested and Shuichi agreed.

Opening a portal to King Raizen’s former territory, Hiei and Shuichi stepped through. As luck would have it, Yusuke, himself was in attendance.

“Well, if it isn’t Raizen Jr., taking advantage of the location to do his weekly check in with the nobles,” Hiei quipped.

“Hey, Hiei, hey, Kurama. KURAMA!!!! When did you turn back into a boy?” Yusuke gasped as he noted the red-head with Hiei.

“Idiot, I outta let Purgasus swallow your ass. You have the same power as I do and you can’t tell this is not my partner? I sense some very intense training headed your way,” Hiei shook his head.

“Not your partner? Then…” Yusuke trailed off then moved to investigate the new arrival. Taking a surreptitious sniff of the air surrounding Kurama, Yusuke nodded. “You’re right, how could I have missed it. Your partner always smells of roses, spicy pine and berrycynths. He just smells like roses.”

“How perceptive. Well, we’re just passing through. He has to return to his time to bring someone back here,” Hiei said.

“He’s from another time? Well, he’s not the Legendary Bandit, so he’s not from the past and he’s more mature in the face than our Kurama, so you’re from the future?” Yusuke gathered.

“I am,” Kurama replied.

“That’s cool. So, do I marry Keiko, settle down and have an army of brats or do I say to hell with human life and take up permanent residence here?” Yusuke tried to dig for information.

“Not now, King Jr., we’ve got a run to make. He might tell you more after he retrieves my counterpart,” Hiei said.

“It’s gonna be really weird with so many doubles running around here,” the young king pointed out.

“Hn. It might be interesting. Now, excuse us,” the fire lord said then left with Kurama to find a spot to uncap the time machine.

Hiei lead the elder human-fox to a clearing behind the castle where he told Kurama to uncap the Time Machine. Once the machine was uncapped, the two boarded, Kurama advanced the settings, closed the hatch, powered up the engines then the two were off like a shot from a cannon.


MAKAI…24 years in the future

The Time Machine materialized in the same clearing as the one in the past and after powering down and storing the capsule, Kurama and the past and taller version of Hiei headed towards Raizen the Second’s palace.

“Raizen, in an alliance with Yomi, has brought about unity among the yokai, only Murkuro and her followers were the hold outs. Hiei told me on one of his visits that he hated the discord and disorder that governed this place,” Kurama mentioned.

“Hn, it is a well known fact that Yomi wants unification but the Makai is a vast world and will take eons to truly unify,” tall Hiei responded.

The pair continued until they entered upon a scene that caused the blood in Kurama’s veins to freeze.

“No. No. NO!!!!! HIEI!!!” and with that the fox broke into a run that matched either version of the fire yokai.

“KURAMA!!!” the gathered group gasped when the fox suddenly appeared from thin air followed by…

‘HIEI? But… Kurama, if Hiei’s here on the ground, how can he be standing beside you as well?” a Celtic accented voice asked.

“Mirai Jin of the Wind, I am his past but not his direct past. You see, I’ve gotten taller and I no longer treat the humanity as if it was created just to satisfy my eating habit. I take it he just fought one helluva battle,” tall Hiei noted then reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out a bag.

Opening the bag, Hiei lifted a small pit from within, handed it to Kurama and told the fox to give it to his future self.

“It won’t heal him completely, only just enough to take him back with us to my time era,” Hiei nodded as the fox place the pit into the slackened jaw of the fire prince then worked the muscles to swallow the bean.

“What is this? Will it hurt him?” Kurama asked as he held Hiei’s unconscious form.

“No. It’s called a Senzu bean. Sire and everyone in my time use it to heal wounds, restore strength and curb appetites. He should start to heal up in a few seconds. His wounds are rather severe,” the taller Hiei mentioned. “So, I gather you were trying to lift him from the ground. You must have a tank on the premises, your majesty.”

“All the larger territories do and we have access to the serum against that virus that took my human life. Why didn’t you contract it, Kurama?” Raizen the Second asked as the group sat waiting for the bean to take affect.

“I was one of the purveyors of the serum, don’t forget plus, my species is naturally resistant to a host of infections, viruses and bacteria. I’m just glad he didn’t catch it,” Kurama sighed and gave into an urge then kissed Mirai Hiei on the mouth.

“GAACK!!!! Do that again fox, and I’ll hack out your spleen,” Mirai Hiei’s gruff voice sounded and he jumped out Kurama‘s arms. “What the hell’re you all looking at?”

“I thought you said it wouldn’t heal him completely?” Mirai Shuichi remarked.

“I didn’t think that it would but I’m glad it did so transporting will be easy,” taller Hiei observed.

“Who the hell are you and why do you have my face?” Mirai Hiei snipped.

“Perhaps because I am you from a past that does not exist in this time constraint,” younger Hiei shrugged.

“You mean there’s another past reality different from this one?” Mirai Hiei asked.

“Very different. Our parents are alive and we have family that care deeply for us,” younger Hiei nodded.

“Come back with us, Hiei. I’ve left this world and gone back to his. Oh, Hiei, we’re together in that world,” Mirai Kurama blurted out and several pairs of eyes glared at him.

“You implied to my fox that you weren’t together,” younger Hiei stated.

Kurama hung his head but it was Mirai Hiei who responded. “We’re…not officially together. Whenever I’ve been badly injured or just needed rest and comfort, I’d go to Kurama. We’ve been intimate on occasion but because of other constraints, we could never be together. Besides, a relationship such as ours would have been frowned upon. Plus, I would have been a liability and had every lab rat and hunter after me. I can breed like the Koorime that tossed me aside and shed black Hiroseki stones.”

“Youko Kurama’s a breeder, as well, but he cannot bare children in his present aspect so when we return we‘ll have to fix that if he wants to have kits,” the younger fire yokai smirked.

“I made a promise to myself to never take on that aspect again and so far I have not,” Kurama shook his ruby head of hair.

“My fox made the same promise but found that the fox could not be shut out so easily, so we went and had a discussion with the sire to one of his best friends and that helped him a lot. So, c’mon,” younger Hiei invited.

It was Mirai Hiei’s turn to hang his head but in thought and not sorrow. “I can’t leave her. I promised I’d watch over her.”

“Watch over who?” a voice sounded like the coo of a dove.