Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Lost and Found ❯ GONE! ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3=Gone!

Hiei ran through the roof tops toward Kurama's house. It had been a week since the fight and he needed to apologize to his fox. Hiei did believe Kurama but he was so frustrated at the time he wasn't thinking so he yelled at Kurama and told him to leave. Hiei cringed at the memory. Ever since he met Kurama he promised himself that he wouldn't hurt the fox. When he stabbed Kurama with the Demonic Sword he almost killed himself at that instant if he didn't fight with Yusuke. And after word it was Kurama who told him to stay alive. `Nothing was worth dying over.' That's what the fox said. But this time he didn't hurt Kurama physically. He hurt him emotionally. Hiei could feel it. It was alike a sharp pain in his heart, like someone took his katana and stabbed him.

`I have to apologize,' thought Hiei. `I have to say sorry.'

He landed on his tree, the tree that overlooked Kurama's window. His tree? He started calling it that ever since he met Kurama and started to sleep outside the fox's bedroom till Kurama told Hiei to came in and sleep in his room any time the fire Koorime felt like it. Hiei started to came in everyday just to watch the fox do his homework and help his mother clean the house. He felt that Kurama's home and turned into his home too.

"You mean you actually feel like you have a home," asked Kurama when Hiei asked why he felt comfortable in Kurama's house.

"Why do you call it home?"

"Home is where the heart is," said Kurama and he would say nothing more. Hiei had been pondering that saying for months and he figured it out when he and Kurama came together. Hiei's heart belonged to Kurama and the fox was his home.

Hiei looked into the window and saw nothing but darkness, he couldn't see anything. Carefully landing on the sill he tapped the glass. Kurama would jump up from his desk or bed and run to the window to open it. But no fox. Where was he? Hiei carefully opened the window and jumped in. He looked around the tidy room. That's just what it was, tidy. The bed was made, no clothes on the floor, desk clear of work, and absolutely no fox. Where was Kurama?

The phone rang and Hiei jumped at the sudden noise. It rang three times before it stopped and he heard Shiori's voice downstairs. He carefully opened the door and crept down to find out what was going on.

"I don't care how long it take, just find him!" yelled Shiori. Hiei's ears perked at her tone of voice. According to Kurama Shiori never yells.

"I told you he went to the park and didn't come back... No, I don't believe he's dead. He can't be dead, I would know. I'm his mother!"

Hiei almost fell. Kurama gone? That's way there was no one in his room. Kurama went missing. But why, when?

"Look officer, I'm sorry but I just want my son back but I will not believe he's dead. Not until I see proof…..Yes, I would like you to continue searching….Yes….Yes…That's fine, thank you." And she hung up. She walked to the couch and cried. "Shuichi, Shuichi, where did you go? You said you would come back!"

Hiei walked toward her and stood next to her. She gasped and looked at him tears streaming down her cheeks.

"You're…you're Hiei, aren't you?" she asked and he nodded. "He wanted to see you, so bad. Something was wrong with him but he said it wasn't bad and he had to see you. I got him out of the hospital and took him to the park. He told me to go home and walked in. He never came back."

"Do you know what was wrong with him?"

"The doctors found a parasite or something in his stomach. Didn't he tell you? He went to see you."

"I saw him, but he was fighting with my …..Aunt when I got there. I was mad and I kick him out before I knew why he was there."

"Why are you here?"

"To apologize. I'm sorry. I believe I'm the reason Shuichi left."

"It wasn't your fault. Please help find him. His other friends are, Yusuke, Kazuma and them. Please do."

"Don't worry, Shiori," said Hiei walking to the stairs, "I won't stop till I do. Even if it takes my whole life, I'll find him and bring him back to you."

"That's all I ask." And Hiei disappeared. Shiori ran outside in time to see a small black shadow run through the roof tops.

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Kurama lay huddled in the freezing snow trying to skin the rabbit he caught. He had run away from home and Hiei because Hiei asked him too. When he ran out of Mukuro's palace he ran till he couldn't run anymore not caring where he went. When he finally stopped running he found himself in a winter wonderland. He was near Koorime territory, he knew it. If there was one place Hiei wouldn't go, it's here. So Kurama found a cave and made a giant bon fire toward the end to heat it up. Catching food and uncovering edible plants was the first thing he did. He had taken a La semilla del Cambio (Kurama: It's in Spanish. Kori: I didn't know how to say it in Japanese.), The Seed of Change, to switch genders. He wasn't going to lose his baby just because his love didn't want him any more. But no matter what, she would take care of her child.

In the week she had been gone her facial features again changed. Her ears moved to the top of her head and a tail sprouted from the base of her spine. Her nails sharpened and her hair had a silver hue to it. She was slowly turning to youko. How long it took she didn't know but she hoped it would be soon. She tried to put away the craving that was bombarding her but every now and then she craved the honey staked ham that her mother made or same barbecued ribs. But she settled on the food she had instead on the food she wanted. And she wasn't sure if it was enough for a person and a baby on the way to survive.

Finally skinning the rabbit she skewered it and put in the fire. While it cooked she went looking for more fire wood in the snow. She couldn't grow any for she needed her ki for the baby to develop to full term. Finding enough wood to last a while she returned and put them in a corner. She knew she needed more than just food and fire. She needed warmer clothes and blankets; she left home with nothing but the clothes on her back. She could catch bigger animals and use their fur as blankets and roughly made cloaks but how was she going to catch them with minimal ki levels? Could she do it like a cave man of old Ningenkai? A sharp piece of wood and a club? If they could survive the last two thousand years with just those then she could too.

Walking outside, shivering at the sudden cold, she walked to a sapling she saw earlier and broke it at the base by kicking it hard. Taking it back she stripped it of its branches with a bone knife she made a few days back. Putting one end in the fire she went to the branches till she found a forked one that was strong enough for her to make a stone club with. When she was clearing the cave when she found it she found many sharp stone. She decided to use one for her club. Going outside to where she had piled them she looked through till she found one sharp enough to her satisfactory. Going in she went back to the spear and took it out of the fire. Setting it on a flat rock she sharpened the charred end to a point till she thought it was sharp enough. Setting the spear aside she went back to the club and stripped the branch of its leaves. Carefully setting the sharp stone in the fork she bent the two strong twigs and tied them tightly with leather string she made from the animals she had skinned. Taking an oval shaped stone she chipped away on the new hatchet till it was at a point. After this she was so tire that all she could do was put more wood in the fire and curls up near it, prayed she'd live to see the morning.

*TBC*

I am Queen of Kurama Hiei gender changes! I am evil!

Hikari: I've notice that you changed Kurama's gender more than Hiei's.

Kori: I'm the Torturer of Kurama. I have to be mean to him, plus he looks so much like a girl it's hard to resist!

Kurama: I'm cutting my hair!

Kori, Hikari, & Hiei: NOOOOO!!!!