Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Lost and Found ❯ The Search ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5=The Search

Hiei jumped on a branch and looked around. No redhead, move to somewhere else. That had become his routine for the past three months. Mukuro had given him numerous orders to return to the palace for odd reasons but Hiei ignored them and kept looking for Kurama. He had promised Shiori, and himself, that he wouldn't stop looking for the fox. Yusuke was using the spirit compass to find Kurama but the fox had gone too far for the compass's range, all three detectives were searching Makai whenever possible, Hiei all the time, Shiori and the girls were looking all over Ningenkai and Koenma was searching all three worlds, so far they found nothing. But they refused to give up.

He landed on another branch near a stream and looked around. He had sensed something that seemed like Kurama's signature but he wanted to check it out. All youko had the same sense of signature but with a difference, some wielded fire, lighting, but mostly plants. Hiei looked around to find no silver haired fox but he did find a dark spot between some bushes. Jumping down to the fox den Hiei looked inside and cursed. It was Kurama's old den where he store the treasures he wanted to keep. Kurama had taken them to it after a tough mission to rest. He remembered the first time they had came here. Kurama had traps around and they almost died if Kurama hadn't been there. He told them to send their ki out so the traps would recognize them and they did, the traps stopped attacking them and were the reason they didn't attack Hiei when he walked up to the fox cave.

Hiei looked at the sky and saw that it was getting dark. Well, now that he was here he might as well rest. He didn't like the idea of resting while Kurama was missing but Yukina, and Kurama when he found the fox, would be mad at him if he was falling asleep at his feet. Walking inside he went to the bed and curled up in the covers. The sense of Kurama's ki around his territory was soothing and he fell asleep peacefully for the first time in three months. But it was plagued by dreams.

~~~~Dream~~~~~

Hiei ran fast through he woods toward the portal he had set up awhile ago. He had felt his fox's stress and ran to help. To hell with Mukuro's orders! He's going to find his fox and make him better. Even if he had to kill for his fox to be happy again. He stopped when he felt Kurama's signature change direction. He was heading for Mukuro's palace! The fox probably thought he was there! Changing direction he ran as fast as he could toward Mukuro's fortress and waited for them to open the gate. It took to damn long.

"Oil that gate," he growled at the guard who had come to greet him. "Where is Kurama?"
"Yes sir! He is with Lady Mukuro, sir. She wished to see him."

"Why would Mukuro want to see Kurama?"

"I don't know, sir! She said that she wanted to see him!"

"Go back to your post. I'll go see her."

"Yes sir!"

Hiei walked in the fort as the guard returned to his station. Why would Mukuro want to see Kurama? Sure he knew his boss had a thing for him but he always had his eye on Kurama and no one else. But what would Mukuro want with Kurama?

He walked along the corridor when he felt Kurama's signature get desperate and frightened. His fox was in trouble! Mukuro wouldn't….? Feeling the worst for his fox he ran to Mukuro's office and threw open the door.

Two dead guards lay on the floor near Kurama and he looked at Mukuro with anger and loathing. Blood was on the floor and some ran from the fox's mouth but Hiei felt no pain or injury from the fox.

"Kurama!" Both persons looked at Hiei as he looked in shock at the mess around him. "What are you doing?"

"Hiei, I ……" started Kurama but Mukuro stopped him.

"Hiei, he's trying to kill me!"

"What? No Hiei, don't believe her!"

It's true, Hiei. He attacked me!"

"Kurama is this true," asked Hiei. The fire Koorime had to admit, the evidence was right there. Two guards dead and Kurama in his boss' office was pretty suspicious as the humans would say.

"No Hiei, you know me. I don't do that!"

"He's youko Hiei, youkos lie. He's lying!"

"I am not! Hiei, I don't lie, not to you. I didn't attack her!"

"SHUT UP!!" Hiei's head hurt so much he had to yell and it shook the rafters. Kurama became frightened at his love's rage that he cringed away. Hiei didn't want Kurama afraid of him, he tried to calm down. He was unaware of Mukuro's smile behind her mask. "I don't need to hear anymore. I need to think. Kurama, leave."

"But Hiei, I ….."

"Leave!"

Kurama looked in shocked at him and Hiei cringed inwardly. He knew he had hurt the kitsune bad. Kurama hung his head and walked toward the door. Hiei was about to say something when Kurama stopped and said, "You want me to leave, Hiei? Okay I'll leave." And he was gone. Hiei was going after him when he felt a sharp pain in his heart. It hurt worse than when he get torn up in battle, worse than when he used the Black Dragon for the first time. Hiei clutched his heart and grunted, sweating and shivering from the pain coming from his fox.

"Hiei, what's wrong? If that fox hurt you I swear…"

"You'll do nothing, Mukuro," growled Hiei and looked angrily at his boss. "You'll do nothing to Kurama! I'm leaving to think. Don't try to find me!" And he left to Kurama's den, where he was that night. He stayed there to recover from the pain his fox sent him and to think. Who was more important to him, Mukuro or Kurama? Mukuro gave him orders and a job, Kurama gave him love and a home. When he was hurt, Mukuro would heal him to keep him fighting, Kurama healed him to see him again and try to make him smile. After all the time he'd been alive he hadn't really smiled and that's what the fox was looking for. Mukuro just wanted him for his fighting skills; Kurama wanted him for his company and the love he never said. There was no doubt on who was more important.

~~~~~~End Dream~~~~~~

He woke up the next morning feeling lonesome. Several time he tried to find Kurama next to him but he remember that it was the signature he felt, not his fox. Hiei gently rubbed the scars on his neck. He and Kurama had marked each other when they first made love during Kurama's convention Hiei had suggested. He didn't know what had prompted him to suggest a party for the fox; maybe he just wanted to help. But when Kurama had clamed him as the fox's mate he was overjoyed, even if he had claimed the fox first. That had been instinct, to bite something when he felt pain, but that time it was territorial instinct. He wanted to claim the fox as his and he did. When Kurama claimed him too they had made a bond that nothing could break, but Hiei felt he broke that bond when he yelled at the fox to leave.

`I can't feel him anymore,' thought Hiei. `I used to but I can't now, that's why I came back early that day. I felt that Kurama was stressed about something important and went to find him. But when I felt him at the palace I panicked. I didn't know what to do and they were telling me so many different defenses I didn't know who to believe but now I do. Kurama, Fox, I'm sorry.'

He jumped through a portal and ran to Genkai's temple, jumping in the courtyard where Yusuke and the others were. They met there every week to find out if they found any clue of Kurama; Hiei was the last to arrive.

"Hiei, finally," said Yusuke, "Did you find him?"

"I found his old cave, the one he took us too, last night, but nothing else."

"Damn!" Yusuke punch a tree so hard it split. He kept on punching it till it fell. Kuwabara cursed and ran to find a tree to punch, too.

"Where is he," yelled Yusuke as Keiko bandaged his bleeding hand and Yukina went after Kuwabara before the same happens with him. "What could have been so bad that he had to run away? Shiori said he went to see you Hiei, what happened?"

"I told you what happened!"

"Hiei," said Yukina leading Kuwabara to the porch. She managed to find him before he seriously hurt himself. "Tell us again."

"I was coming in from patrol when I felt Kurama in Mukuro's office. I was curious on why he was there so I went there. When I opened the door Kurama and Mukuro were standing each other off and two dead guards were by Kurama, they were to take him away I suppose."

"Was there anything different about Kurama," asked Genkai.

"He looked like his youko and human halves were fighting. His eyes were gold and his had had silver streaks in it, but his energy wasn't spiking like it would. In fact it was unusually down. And there was blood on the floor."

"Blood?" asked Keiko. "Was Kurama hurt?"

"He didn't look wounded but there was blood on the floor. And on his chin too. It seemed to run down his mouth, like an internal injury."

"Blood on the floor and switching aspects," said Genkai. "I need to read up on this but I probably won't find much. Kurama is the first youko to merge souls with a human so we won't know what's really wrong with him. But I will try my best."

Genkai walked into the temple as Yukina said, "What could be wrong with Kurama?"

"I wish I knew," said Botan.

*TBC*

Hiei's side of the story? Cool! Just to warn you this fic will mainly be center on Kurama but I'll get Hiei in there!