Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Chaos ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter One

Kurama lay in bed spitting up blood again. I had the feeling that he didn't have the will to live any longer. I didn't either but my body had betrayed me by healing itself in a matter of hours.

I had found a protected building that had been set up for refugees and they had helped us. When they first had seen us they had tried to kill us because we were demons, but then a blond headed woman had come out and stopped them. She knew who we were and explained it to the rest.

The lowered their weapons and had stared at us in a certain kind of respect. The blond-headed woman had asked what happened and I had explained in a cold dead tone of voice. Excusing herself she had left us alone. I had the feeling that she wanted to cry alone.

She had known Keiko very well and when she had asked on Kuwabara's sister Kurama had answered very quietly that she was dead. Kurama had married her three years ago and she had died to protect her stupid brother. She had foreseen this but had decided not to tell us. Why I couldn't even begin to guess. I guess I should have been pissed at her but I just couldn't bring myself to be, she had had her reasons.

Maybe she had been unable to completely see what would happen. The day the attack came she had told us all she could have and we all knew we might not be able to make it alive.

As Kurama fell back into a deep slumber I went around to see what I could do for others. I was no longer the stupid punk from High School, nor the Spirit Detective of Earth. I was now just Yusuke Urameshi, widower and a lost soul trying to figure out what to do.

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"Come on Souta," I called harshly to my little brother as he started to lag behind again.

My face softened as I looked at my dirty brother. Unshed tears clung to his eyes as he suddenly rushed up to me to cling to my body.

"Sis there're dead. Mama and Grandpa, they're dead!" he cried as the news he been trying to deny finally sunk in.

Soft tears ran down my face as I tried to reassure my brother. I said no words afraid he would look up and see that his big Sis and his only foundation of strength would appear weak.

Blinking my tears away I cupped his face in my hands and whispered, "I'm here and I'll always be there for you."

Smiling sadly he nodded and we set off again.

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For days I helped with those that needed to be healed. My healing properties were no were near as good as an ice apparition or even a legendary miko's were, but I could manage to manipulate my spirit energy to heal somewhat. I could heal small burns and manage to make a person's pain go away as a doctor set a broken bone. Since there was no medicine many became sick and had to go in isolation.

No matter what I did though I could not snap Kurama out of the depression he was in.

Finally as another human died I confronted him.

"You asshole! Snap out of it and heal yourself damn it!"

People all over stared but Kurama said nothing. He didn't even look at me.

Grasping his shirt and pulling him close to my face I yelled, "She's dead, get over it! I've lost just as much as you!"

He sighed weakly as shook his head; "I have no will left."

"You know what, neither do I have the wish to continue to live, but if we don't live and fight, all of human kind will die!"

"What does it matter to me?"

"You ass! It should matter to you because your wife would have wanted you to help save her race. The very race we have tried to protect for years!"

Greens eyes stared at me with a strange emotion as he heard my words and smiled, "I loved her."

"Yes and I loved my wife," I whispered as softly as Kurama had spoken, "she carried our child when she died."

He looked at me and nodded, as a truce seemed to come up. I knew when this was all over he would give up on this existence he had strove so hard for.

Turning away from their and prying eyes I went outside to look around and that was when I sense an enormous power come toward us.