Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Shura's Quest ❯ Scene 5 ( Chapter 5 )

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

* Jin and Suzuka join Kurama and Rinku. Jin moves to look Kurama in the eyes.

Jin- Somethin's been a-troublin' ya for nigh two weeks now, Ku.

Kurama- Yes, Jin... When Shishi, Touya, and Chu get here I'll explain.

Suzuka- If somebody's threatening you we know how to handle that.

* Kurama closes his eyes, but remains quiet. It isn't long before the final three members enter. Chu moves over to scowl down at the redhead.

Chu- If somebody's threatenin' ye..

Suzuka- I already played that, Chu

* Touya and Shishi, the two more 'sensitive' members of the group, open their senses completely as they watch Kurama raise a hand to pat one of Chu's crossed arms.

Kurama- Relax, friend. I don't think it's any kind of threat.. Not on us, at least...

Suzuka- Does this have to do with your current assignment?

* Kurama looks at the blond-haired demon.

Kurama- I got everything I need on Hanoi for Chief Izuki, Suzuka.

Suzuka- Beautiful. Another case brilliantly closed by our illustrious...

Chu- Shut yer yap, Blondie.

* Suzuka glances at Chu, then pouts and turns half away mumbling.

Suzuka- (Mumbled) I still think I should've been the model...

Touya- Don't make me freeze you, Suze.

* Kurama lowers his eyes with a soft chuckle, knowing that the group is just feeling his tension. Touya looks back at Kurama.

Touya- Okay. We're all here. Let's hear it, Kurama.

* Kurama takes a deep breath.

Kurama- A recent development has made me edgy. I apologize for the tension.

Jin- Be stoppin' the chatterin' and suspense a-ready.. Criminy.

Kurama- For a couple weeks now, I have been troubled by dreams and.. sightings.

Shishi- I haven't felt any evil auras around here...

* Rinku leaps up waving the tape.

Rinku- Just wait till you hear this tape, though.

Kurama- In a moment, Rinku.

* Rinku nods and sits back down.

Jin- What kind of visions and such?

Kurama- Up until today only a couple old friends... No contact or words.. just their faces in my dreams or... standing around when I'm awake... But today a third one has showed up..

Shishi- Old friends?

Suzuka- You mean.. them?

* Kurama nods.

Kurama- Up until today, I figured them to be just.. memories... Homesickness, perhaps.. But today... I think contact has been attempted.

* Kurama nows nods to Rinku. The boy hurries over to Kurama's tapedeck in the wall. As he plays the tape Shishi and Touya look at each other. Suzuka shudders when it finishes.

Suzuka- Ooo, man, that's spooky.

* Touya looks at Kurama.

Touya- Is that his voice, Kurama? Hiei?

* Kurama nods.

Kurama- It certainly does sound like him..

Shishi- Hiei? There's a name I haven't heard in a while... But I can't picture him screaming like that.

Jin- There be more, Kurama?

Kurama- Yes, Jin. At the end of my photo shoot today the photographer shifted form to look like Hiei.. Then after Hanoi left the dressingroom I seen his image in the mirror.

* Kurama lowers his eyes as he remembers the look he seen in Hiei's eyes.

Kurama- His eyes were searching.. Like he wasn't really looking at me... but looking for me...

* Kurama shakes himself then looks back up at his group.

Kurama- Afterwards the photographer followed me out to my car.. Just before I pulled out he shifted to look like Hiei again...

Chu- Could this photographer be him, ye think?

* Kurama shakes his head.

Kurama- No... But this is what puzzles me, Chu... I can see them, clearly.. but I never get any sense of their presence.

Shishi- Ahh, so I'm not losing my touch.

* Kurama half smiles toward his blue-haired friend.

Kurama- No, Shishi, you're just fine.

Rinku- Play it now?

Kurama- Yes, Rinku.

* Everyone listens to the taped voice. For several moments afterward silence fills the room. The Suzuka looks at Kurama.

Suzuka- Could be.. a premonition... He sounds.. trapped or... hurt...

* Slowly Kurama turns and moves to look out the large bay window. He tilts his head curiously when he spots the small dark figure on the branch of a tall tree behind the mansion.

Kurama- Shishi, come here.

* Shishiwakamaru goes over to look out of the window beside Kurama. The redhead keeps his eyes locked on the shadow's bright red eyes.

Kurama- On that branch.. Do you see him?

* Shishi concentrates on the branch as the others come over. Both Shishi and Touya's 'second' vision makes out a shadowy form.

Shishi- Yes..

Touya- I can see a dark shadow.

Kurama- I see.. him.. clearly... His collar and.. head wrap are.. blood-stained...

Touya- Let me try something.

* Touya concentrates until his eyes begin to glow. As the tree outside begins to freeze the shadowy figure disappears. Shishi looks all around.

Shishi- He's gone now.

Touya- It's like you said, Ku.. No feeling of any presence...

Jin- Chu an' I could go check th' grounds.

Kurama- No. It was just a vision... Don't kill my tree, Touya.

* Kurama moves to sit at his desk. Touya pulls his energy back. The tree thaws, but doesn't return to life. Touya sighs.

Touya- It'll need some of your energy, Kurama.

* Even though he's lost in thought, Kurama hears Touya. When life returns to the tree Touya and Shishi move back around the desk.

Kurama- I have to go back home...

Chu- Correction, mate.. We're going back home.

Rinku- Yeah!

* Kurama raises his green eyes to look at his friends.

Jin- It may be a trap that some ol' enemy be a-tryin'.

Kurama- I guess we'll find out.

Shishi- So who were the other two?

Jin- Tell me one be the Urameshi...

Kurama- Yes, Jin. The other...

* Shishi places a couple fingers on the bridge of his nose and moans.

Shishi- Oh no... Please don't tell me...

Kurama- Yes, him, Shishi... Kuwabara.

* Jin raises into the air spinning.

Jin- Wee!! We be goin' to see our ol' pal Urameshi!!

* Kurama smiles softly a moment, then he takes the file back out of the drawer.

Kurama- We have to wrap this Hanoi case up first.

Chu- Right. I'm off then.

* Chu heads for the door to go do his clean up of Kurama's latest identity. Jin whooshes down to hover beside Kurama.

Jin- And I be deliverin' to the Chiefy.

* Kurama doubles checks everything in the file, then nods and hands it to Jin.

Kurama- You have the good tape?

Jin- Yeppers.

* Jin takes the file and leaves through the window. Suzuka sighs ezasperatingly as he straightens his longish blond locks back into place.

Rinku- I'm going to go pack up some things.

* The boy leaves excitedly ticking off all his game gear that he'll be taking.

Suzuka- I'll go make the trip plans.

* When Suzuka leaves Shishi and Touya look at Kurama.

Shishi- You haven't seen them in over two years.

Kurama- No... Maybe it does mean that I'm homesick.

Touya- You can't chill the ice master, Kurama.

* Kurama looks up at Touya.

Touya- Tell us.

Kurama- They're not trying to contact me.. They visions I see are as they were the last time I seen them... Except for Hiei..

Shishi- You mentioned blood.

Kurama- Yeah... He's been hurt.. I think.

* Shishi and Touya look at each other. Kurama leans forward to rub his temples.