Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Endless Consequences ❯ The Demon Tree ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Nori: Serious chapter right here!

Tama: That's shocking for you…you're never serious.

Nori: I know, I know…it's scary, but I do what I must…KURAMA DISCLAIMER!

Kurama: If this is Noriko serious, I don't really want to see her crazy, but she does not own YYH or any of it's characters, she does though, own all the OC's and ideas.

Nori: GET IT ON!

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Yusuke ran into the forest to where the heart of the fire was. There he saw Hiei picking up Kai, who looked to be hurt badly. Yusuke ran to Hiei's side.

“Hiei! What's going on?” he shouted over the roaring flames. Hiei looked at the Spirit Detective.

“There's no time to explain,” he told him. “We have to get the wolf to Kurama and fast.” Hiei looked down at Kai who was lying in his arms with her eyes closed. Her eyebrows furrowed indicating that she was in pain. Her breathing was still not regulated.

“Follow me,” Yusuke said. Hiei followed him out of the woods with no objection. It took what seemed like forever, but was really only a matter of minutes, to get to the campsite. Everyone stood up when they saw the two boys running over to them. They noticed Kai in Hiei's arms. Reina ran over to them and looked down at Kai in horror.

“What happened to her!?” she shouted.

“She was hit by an attack with some kind of spirit energy that her body cannot handle,” Hiei quickly explained. “It's tearing away at her organs and fire spirit energy, there is an antidote for this type of wound.” Hiei looked at Youko. “Do you know anything of it, kitsune?”

Youko thought for a moment.

“I think I may have heard of something,” he said. “It's a very rare medicine, I know for a fact I don't have it though.”

“Find a way to get it, kitsune,” Hiei growled, dangerously. “We don't have much time! Get it, or I will KILL you!” Youko looked at Hiei in shock. He had never heard the hanyou talk to him in that tone. Reina looked at Youko with tears in her eyes.

“Please, Youko,” she said. “There has to be some way you can get it. If you need me to, I'll get it myself! Just as long as Kai gets better, I don't want to lose her!” Hiei had put Kai down on a towel while Keiko and Yukina were trying to keep her from passing out from blood loss.

Youko began to think quickly. He knew about this kind of injury and that you couldn't waste any time.

“I just remembered,” he said. “I know how to make the antidote. But…we have everything, except for the last ingredient.” Reina looked at him.

“What is it?” she asked, there was still hope. Youko sighed.

“A plant from Makai, it's called Demon Tree, you need two pieces of bark from this type of tree,” he explained.

“Alright, I'll go and get it!” Reina said.

“How?” Keiko asked. “You have no portal to get to the Demon World.” Reina looked down and tried thinking.

“I have my communicator,” Yusuke said. “I'll call Botan!” Youko looked at Reina.

“You're not going alone,” he said. “Yusuke is going with you.” Reina raised an eyebrow.

“I'll be fine,” she said. “I know Makai like the back of my hand.” Youko looked at her.

“Whatever,” he said. “Yusuke is going with you, though.” Reina rolled her eyes and just gave in so Youko would shut up and they could hurry. Just then a portal opened by the gang. Botan jumped out of it.

“Go guys,” she said. “You don't have much time.” This was the first time Reina saw the ferry girl worried. She didn't say anything though because she knew they didn't have much time.

“Come on, Yusuke,” Reina said before jumping into the portal. Yusuke nodded and followed suite.

--In Makai—

“So, where the hell do we find this Demon Tree?” Yusuke asked Reina as the two walked through the forest the portal led them to.

“It should be around here somewhere,” Reina said. “It has to be if Botan sent us to this part of Makai.” She looked around.

“Do you know what it looks like?” Yusuke asked her. Reina nodded.

“I have an idea,” she said. “It's vague, but enough so if we see it, I'll know what it is.” The two continued to walk until they came up to a very large tree. They both looked up.

“That's gotta be it,” they both said in unison and awe. The tree was large and had a swirled trunk. Instead of green or orange or red leaves, it had black.

“How do we get the bark off?” Yusuke asked. Reina's eyes widened…it was the bark they needed and she hadn't even brought and axe, knife, or even her double crescent blades. What the hell were they going to do?

--Back In Ningenkai—

Everyone sat there in fear and sadness as they watch Kai roll around clutching her sides and screaming. Every now and then she would spit a little blood. She didn't have much time left.

After she had calmed down Botan rolled her back over and Yukina put a small, damp towel on her forehead. Kai would calm down a little, but she kept shivering. She would open her eyes every now and then and it looked like she had no clue where she was.

There was nothing anyone could do for her then. They had to just sit and wait.

--In Makai—

“Yusuke! I have an idea,” Reina said. “Use your Spirit Gun to get some of the bark off!” Yusuke jumped up.

“That could work!” he said. Yusuke pointed his forefinger at the tree and gathered up his spirit energy in the tip. “Spirit Gun!” he shouted as a blast of his blue spirit energy in the form of a bullet rushed towards the tree about twenty feet in front of them.

The bullet was a direct hit…only problem was, it didn't even leave a scratch on the tree. Reina and Yusuke stared at it in awe, again. Yusuke walked over to the tree and touched it; it was only a little warm where his Spirit Gun had hit.

“What the FUCK!?” Reina shouted. “Why didn't that work!? Your Spirit Gun is powerful enough to take down a whole fucking forest of trees!? WHY CAN'T IT TAKE DOWN THIS ONE!?” Yusuke had a worried look on his face.

“I'm not sure! It should've worked! I put enough energy into it, I know I did!” he shouted. Reina began to get nervous and ran over to the tree. Her claws quickly grew and she rapidly scratched, punched, and even kick the tree. After a few minutes she stopped, out of breath. Her claws grew back to normal and she hung her head in defeat.

“Youko didn't tell us it would be this hard just to get a stupid piece of bark off this stupid tree,” she said. Yusuke thought again.

“We're running out of time,” he said. Reina glared at him.

“I know, you didn't need to remind me,” she said in a dangerous tone. Both were worried about losing their wolfie friend. They didn't want that to happen, they couldn't let it.

“You're doing it wrong,” a deep voice came from behind Yusuke and Reina. The two spun around in fighting stances just in case it was an enemy. The owner of the voice smiled sheepishly with his hand behind his head. “Sorry, didn't mean to put you on edge, but I was watching and saw that you couldn't get the bark of the Demon Tree.”

Both Yusuke and Reina let down their guard and took a good look at the demon. He was about the same height as Yusuke and had the same build. This man wore fighting clothes similar to Hiei's. He had a yellow tank top with black pants and black boots with a yellow dancer's belt. At his hip were three daggers. His hair was blonde and spiky with red tips and he had reddish-brown eyes. He had a scar under his left eye on his cheek. He was a wolf demon. He had reddish-brown wolf ears with a matching wolf tail

“Can you help us?” Reina asked after deciding that they could trust him. Plus they didn't have a lot of time left so they needed all the help they could get. The demon nodded and walked up to the tree. With his fore and middle fingers he tapped twice on three parts of the tree. Once on the bottom of the trunk, once on the middle of the trunk and once on one of the branches. For a moment the tree glowed an eerie purple color, then it slowly faded.

“How many pieces of bark did you need?” the demon asked.

“Two,” Yusuke told him. He was amazed how he knew what to do.

The demon took out one of his daggers and chipped away two good-sized pieces of the bark and handed them to Reina. He smiled, flashing his fangs.

“There you go!” he said. Reina smiled.

“Thank you so much!” she said. “We have to get back now, come with us! We can do proper introductions later, we are in a rush.” The demon shrugged and decided to follow the two back to Ningenkai. They all ran through the portal, Yusuke and Reina hoped they hadn't run out of time yet.

--Back in Ningenkai…again—

Reina, Yusuke, and the new demon all jumped out of the portal. Yukina, Botan, Keiko, Hiei, Youko, and the now awake Kuwabara all looked at them.

“Who's that?” Kuwabara asked. Hiei glared at him.

“Shut up, baka!” he said, “did you get the last ingredient?” Reina nodded and handed the two pieces of bark to Youko, who had a cup with ocean water, a crushed Koorime gem from Yukina, and a small amount of Kai's blood. Youko quickly crushed up the Demon Tree bark and added it to the mixture. He stirred it and helped Kai sit up.

She looked horrible now, it seemed like she was just seconds away from death. Her skin was paper white and it didn't even appear like she was breathing. Her screaming had stopped and blood trickled from the side of her mouth. Her wolf ears were down and her tail didn't even move like it usually did when Kai was her normal self.

The demon that came back with Yusuke and Reina stared at the small wolf girl in shock.

“Kai?” he whispered. Reina heard him say this and she looked at him.

“You know Kai?” she asked. He nodded, but was unable to say anything. He just kept staring at Kai in horror.

Youko helped her take a sip of the medicine. Kai shivered at the taste. He then laid her back down on the towel and put the rest of the mixture on her wound. As he was doing so he said,

“This might be more painful than the wound itself, we should take her back to Genkai's, she will be fine no matter what now, but I want her to be able to rest in a real bed.” Everyone nodded.

“I'm going back to Spirit World to inform Lord Koenma that she is alright now,” Botan said. Everyone said goodbye to her and she jumped through a portal back to the Spirit World.

“Do you want us to come back to Genkai's with you?” Yusuke asked. Youko transformed back into Kurama. He shook his head.

“She needs to rest now,” he told her. “Plus the first twenty four hours are the worst when using this antidote, I don't think she will want many people around.” Yusuke nodded and got into the car with Kuwabara and Keiko. They had packed everything up and drove off.

Kurama got into the driver's seat of his car and Yukina sat in the passenger's seat. Hiei carried Kai into the car and the demon along with Reina got in back as well. As they drove Reina decided this would be a good time to introduce everyone. She noticed the demon was in a daze looking at Kai with pain in his eyes.

“Hey, are you ok…um, what's your name?” she said. The demon nodded.

“I'm alright,” he said. “My name is Takeshi Pyrrhus.”

“I'm Reina, and this is Kurama, Yukina, and Hiei, and I take it you know Kai already,” she said. She thought for a moment. Pyrrhus. That name sounded familiar. “Wait,” Reina said. “You have the same last name as Kai.” Takeshi nodded again.

“Kai is my little sister,” Takeshi said. “I haven't seen her for seven years I think, what happened to her? How did she get so hurt?”

“I was fighting a demoness,” Hiei explained. “The wolf jumped in the battle without a weapon, and was attacked.”

“While she's healing I'll take care of her,” Takeshi said. “It's partially my fault this happened.”

“Why would you say that?” Reina asked. “You haven't seen her for a long time.”

“If I was there to keep her in line she wouldn't have become so reckless,” he said. No one said anything. Everyone was silent all the way back to Genkai's.

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Tama: I'm shocked again, the serious went pretty well.

Nori: (smiles) I know, I'm just awesome…

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