Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ venomis spiders and a fire demons love ❯ fading lives ( Chapter 7 )

Inulover:ok here well the people that all reviewed you lucked out ^_^ thanks to all reviewers out there I have posted up the last two chappies for this story ^_^

on to the fic

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Yukina kept exchanging anxious glances from the window and back to Kurama and then the window again. The situation didn't look to well at all considering that the sun was setting, and taking with it the kitsunes life. Not to mention that Hiei was still nowhere to be seen! This was not going well at all. A pained scream came from the ailing Yoko which made the ice apparition dash back to his side.

Kurama was now curled in a little ball on his side, shaking from the intense wave of pain coursing through is entire being. He had his arms wrapped around his chest in a pointless attempt at ceasing the pain.

"Please calm down Kurama", the ice maiden whispered while placing her hand gently on her friends shoulder.

This pattern had been going on for a few hours now, every little while, at random moments; a spasm of pain would shot through his body. Causing him to yell out or whimper in pain, that all depended on what degree the pain was coming at. These spasms would only last up to five minutes before receding enough to send the Yoko back into a restless sleep. This time, Yukina noticed, the pain seemed to be lasting longer. She had lost track of time in her head and looked at the clock. She knew it; this wave had already lasted ten minutes.

Giving Kurama a worried look she tried to ease the pain for him with her healing powers. A fait blue light encased the suffering fox as pain slowly faded and dulled down so that he wasn't screaming or gasping anymore. However his breathing was still very quick and labored, along with being dangerously shallow. His face still contorted in pain, none of that made sense to the koorime, hadn't she ridden him of the pain?

"Kurama? oh this isn't good! Where's Hiei?" she questioned franticly

"He's on his way, how's the patient?" Genkai spoke up. Yukina hadn't even noticed her presence in the room until she spoke.

Genkai had been tracking Hiei's ki since he left. Just to see how far he was with the battle, and she had traced his power near the more deserted area of downtown. Also being able to tell when Hiei and the yokai had engaged in battle, from start to finish. Hiei was still, unfortunately, half way across town and she prayed that he could get back in time.

"Something's wrong! My powers aren't helping anymore!" she replied, her eyes brimming with unshed tears.

The old women looked questioningly at the young girl before moving over to inspect Kurama herself. She checked his tempter, pulse, amount of ki, everything before a grave look graced the normally calm emotionless features.

"The poisons advanced to far Yukina" she said flatly "we're losing him"

"There has to be something we can do" she asked tears streaming freely down her face now solidifying into white gems as they fell. The old women shook her head in the negative.

"It's all up to Hiei now"

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Hiei jumped from building to building as fast as he could he himself had been keeping an eye his yokos wavering level of ki. Once he felt the dramatic decrease of energy and increase of pain from Kurama he stopped and ripped off the ward on his jaggon; in means to see visually how things were going.

He saw a slightly greened image in his mind off the two women fusing over the sickly fox. Focusing more on Kurama and past Yukina and Genkai, he got a glimpse of his face. There was no color in his porcelain face except a deep red flush of fever, made brighter by the pale complexion. His heart went out to the ailing yoko as he saw the pained look on his face and fetal position that Kurama was in. Lifting up the vile and inspecting the blood.

`Is this really all there is to it?' he thought, "that was way to easy, and what was she going to say?!"

At this point he was cursing his own ignorance, not letting her finish after she had said that the blood wouldn't be enough.

"T-that s-still won't s-save him you k-know" the words echoed through his head.

`what did she mean it won't save him?'

"you may have my blood but…." "but what?! Damn it! Why didn't I let her finish!?"

And with that he flitted off again to make it to the yoko before it was to late, if it wasn't already.

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(spirit world)

The small ruler of spirit world sat at his desk going over some new paper work, because king Yama had `punished' him for not doing it earlier.

"hmmm? What's this?" he picked up a form describing the spider youkai and read it over.

"what?!! Why didn't anyone tell me?!" he screamed as his eyes bugged out.

"Botan!!!" a fairly frantic fairy girl came running in to his office panting.

"what is it lord Koenma?" she inquired, the infant just glared at her causing her to sweatdrop.

"why didn't you tell me that the S class spider convict was killed by Hiei today and transported to a jail cell?!"

"what? I didn't know, I didn't bring her in" she looked questioningly at him "why should it matter, as long as she's dead she can't cause much harm, and you wanted her dead, right?"

"yes but now…" he said seriously making Botan look nervous.

"now what?"

"now I have even MORE paper work to fill out!" Botan fell over anime style.

"Lord Koenma!! Why did you get me worked up like that!!!?"

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Meanwhile while the toddler was having a fit about paper work in his office, an evil yokai sat in the dark. Laughing silently to herself as she thought about the `little fire demon' and that `pretty boy'.

"he probably regrets killing me now, doesn't he?" she laughed.

`for my blood is only half of the ingredient for the antidote and the second is none existent, the tear of a male koorime' she thought. `and we all know that's impossible to find, to bad for your little boyfriend Hiei, he should be dieing tonight' her evil laughter rang threw the prison cell.

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A dark blur flashed threw Kuramas room and stopped in front of the bed looking down on the dieing fox. He looked worse in person then he did through his jaggon, how could he have gotten that bad in such a short time. Of course looking out the window would tell you that it hadn't been a short time and the day was coming to an end.

"do you have the blood?" Genkai asked, Hiei glared at her

"of course I do!! Why would I be here if I didn't have it?!" he screamed at her, really, that was a stupid question `do you have the blood' jeesh

"well don't yell at me then!! Give it to him! Kurama's fading fast!"

Hiei grabbed the vile that held the crimson antidote out of his cloak that would supposedly cure his fox. One look at Kuramas poor condition told Hiei that he wouldn't be able to sit up on his own.

`well how am I supposed to… wait I know'

Surprising both the girls in the room the fire demon took the cap off the blood and took a swig. Before leaning down and covering Kuramas mouth with his, depositing the antidote. The red headed fox immediately swallowed the metallic substance leaving a trace of blood on his lips and a little lingering in the back of his throat.

Standing up and wiping his mouth free of blood with his sleeve he turned to face the stunned women. Realizing that he had just done that while THEY were in the room a small blush crept onto his face.

"well how else was I going to get it in him?" he mumbled looking away, he quickly changed the subject "now what do we do?"

"All we can do is wait" the old women replied looking down at the still pained and fevered form of the once proud Yoko Kurama.

"Shouldn't it have started to help already?" Yukina asked tensely noting that he wasn't doing any better. This statement caught the fire demons attention and he too turned to look at Genkai.

"She's right it should already be taking effect" he stated, trying to cover up the obvious worry in his voice.

The pink haired women simply looked gravely at the others,

"there must be another part to the antidote that I don't know of"

Hiei's heart dropped, what had she just said? This couldn't be happening. What the spider youkai said popped back into his head and just kept repeating itself.

"there is another part" he said softly while he grasped one of the foxes hands lightly and sat on the bed. Taking the cloth and wiping away little beads of sweat from his kitsunes face.

"what do you mean Hiei?" the ice maiden asked, this had also snagged Genkai's attention as well.

"right before I killed her" he started, "she said that her blood wouldn't be enough to save him"

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Cliffhanger!!

Inulover: I was going to write more and sort of finish the story but that would make it to long. And I want to make the ending good because I think this chappie sucked! Gomen for the sucky chappie.

Kurama: hello! What happens to me!?

Hiei: yay!

Inulover: have to read to find out, this storys winding down and theres only about one maybe two chappies left to write if all goes according to plan so pleeeeeaseee bare with me and keep R+R-ing onegai

Ja ne