Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Requited Fluff ❯ Back in Tokyo ( Chapter 8 )

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Chapter 8

“I'm sorry, Hiei,” Mukuro said, and she really did sound apologetic. “But I have had spies sent to all corners of this world. Wherever Kurama is, it's not Makai.”

Hiei's shoulders slumped. “Are you sure? Maybe you could send them back…”

“I've sent eight already. I'm sorry, but it's useless.”

XXX

“KURAMA!” Kou gasped, rushing over to the crumpled and bleeding figure on the cold stone floor. “Oh, damnit…” Kou reached out and gently shook Kurama's shoulder.

Kurama moaned. “Kou?”

“Yes. It's me. Oh, Kurama, what happened?”

“What, this?” Kurama asked hoarsely. “No worse than usual.”

Kou looked pained, but said nothing to that. “It's time to get you out of here, Kurama. My plan worked like a charm. The only guards left are either in a drugged sleep or well-bribed. Can you walk?” he asked as he cut the pain amplifier and wards.

“Of course,” Kurama said, wincing as he tried to stand. Groaning, he fell back. “All right, I can do this,” he said fiercely to himself.

“Oh, never mind,” Kou said, lifting Kurama as easily as if he was a sack of flour. “Let's get out of here.”

“Thank you,” Kurama said softly.

“Don't mention it. To Tokyo, then?”

“How'd you know?” Kurama asked in surprise.

“The people who clean this place know absolutely everything,” Kou explained, grinning.

“They have cleaners?” Kurama whispered as Kou carried him out into the corridor.

“Well, you don't expect them to keep this place a bloodstained mess, do you?”

It wasn't as hard to sneak out as Kurama had feared. As Kou had said, every guard post they passed was abandoned. It took them very little time to get out, and as soon as they were outside, Kou took off, still carrying Kurama, who had passed out sometime after Abandoned Post Number 3.

Kou proved to be quite the endurance runner. He didn't even slow down until he and Kurama were miles away from the stronghold.

Kou couldn't understand why he hadn't met anything, though he had been running for hours. And though it was a relief not to have to fight, since Kurama definitely would not be able to defend himself, the lack of challengers was also making him uneasy. He knew that his “master” was a very powerful person, and he could have had he and Kurama dead in a few moments, if he discovered that they were gone in time. So either luck was on their side for once, or his old master had another plan in mind.

He hoped with all his heart that it would be the former.

XXX

Kurama woke to see Kou's face looming over him. “About time,” Kou said, grinning.

“W-where are we?” Kurama croaked. Kou held a cup of water to his lips, and Kurama took a few sips. “Thank you.”

“We're just outside Tokyo,” Kou answered.

“What? How long have I been out?” Kurama demanded.

“We've been on the move for six hours. It's night now. I had to open two portals to get here instead of just one, by the way.”

“Why?” Kurama asked, puzzled.

“Because I had no idea where we were. It wasn't Makai, or the Ningenkai—I don't think—and definitely not the Reikai. I ended up in the wrong place the first time.” Kou shrugged. “Anyway, we're just stopping here so I can rest, and to ask you where in Tokyo I'm supposed to take you.” He looked Kurama up and down. “Probably one of your human healers, ne?”

Kurama studied himself, taking in all the dried blood, and the strange angle at which his arm hung. That was what hurt the worst…apart from breathing. “Probably,” he agreed. “The hospital is only a few blocks from my house, anyway.” He managed a smile at Kou's confusion. “The hospital is where the `human healers' hang out. I'll direct you.”

“And what story do we use?” Kou asked.

“We could always just use the car accident story,” Kurama suggested. “You can't argue with that.”

“What's a `car'?”

“Never mind.”

XXX

Half an hour later, Kou carried Kurama through the door of the emergency room at the local hospital of Tokyo. Kurama, now half-conscious, was nevertheless well aware of being moved to an examination room, and then probed by doctors until every bit of pain flared up again, and he was fully conscious again.

As he had expected, he had a broken arm, plus multiple abrasions, scratches, and bruises. These could all be chalked up to injuries from a random hit-and-run accident. The whip lashes on his back were a little harder to explain, but Kurama managed to convince the doctors that he had been caught by some gangsters he never saw the faces of while he was trying to get to the hospital after his “accident.”

The next hours of Kurama's night were spent with doctors and nurses setting his arm, putting it in a sling, and bandaging all his other wounds. Then his doctor checked him into the hospital overnight, and came back and advised Kurama to call home and let Shiori know what had happened.

Kurama, grinning at the thought of finally seeing his mother and Hiei again, requested that all the doctors and nurses stay out of the room for at least an hour, picked up the phone next to his bed, and dialed.

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Author's Note: Okay, mega-short and pointless chapter, but I wanted to update, and I haven't gotten a lot of time to write because we have a party of fourteen living in our house at the moment and there's not a lot of peace right now. So I'm sorry, but I willtry to update soon, okay? And by the way, in the next (maybe final) chapter, I plan to go into Kou's story a little more.

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Reviewers' comments:

IceDragonKatana: Well, Kurama's suffering seems to have ended for now, but you never know where I'll go next…and to answer your question, yes, I did make up Kou. It's not a stupid question. I should have mentioned that in the disclaimer. Happy New Years, and thanks for the review! I feels loved again…

word dreamer 999: Thanks for the review! And I feel bad for Kurama, too, but I wasn't mean for toolong, was I?

darkspirals: Not much new in thischapter, either. But things willhappen in the next chapter! And I'll try to make it longer, too. Thanks for the review!

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