Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Winter Murders ❯ Waiting for Death ( Chapter 4 )

Winter Murders

"What is your name?" Hiei boomed out as the group wandered down the path to the convention.

"My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot." Yusuke replied. Hiei smiled. Kurama shook his head; this was going to be a long walk.

"What is your quest?" Hiei asked.

"To seek the Holy Grail." Yusuke replied. Keiko hit him over the head, he winced. Kuwa laughed.

"What is your favorite color?" Hiei finished.

"Blue." Yusuke said matter-o-factly.

"Right. Off you go." Hiei said. He smiled. Yusuke walked in front of Hiei. The rest of the group trailed behind the fire demon.

"Well thank you. Thank you very much." Yusuke said. He mockingly tipped his hat.

"That's easy!" Kuwa exclaimed. He strode up to Hiei.

"Stop! Who approaches the bridge of death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see," Hiei told Kuwa. Kuwa waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Ask me the questions bridge keeper, I'm not afraid," Kuwa gave Yukina the brightest smile he could muster and showed it to her.

"What is your name?" Hiei boomed.

"Sir Robin of Camelot."

"What is your quest?

"To seek the Holy Grail."

"What is the capital of Assyria?

"I don't know that!" Hiei pushed Kuwa off the path and into a tree. He laughed as Genkai approached.

"Stop! What is your name?"

"Sir Galahad of Camelot."

"What is your quest?"

"I seek the Grail."

"What is your favorite color?"

"Blue, no green."

Hiei laughed again as he shoved Genkai off the path. Kurama shook his head, Hiei liked this too much. Kurama and Keiko approached Hiei. Kurama gave the fire demon a smile and a wink. Hiei blinked back in response.

"Stop! What is your name?"

"It is Arthur king of the Britains."

"What is your quest?"

"To seek the Holy Grail."

"What is the air speed velocity of an unladed swallow?"

"Which do you mean? An African or European swallow?"

"What? I don't know that!"

Kurama decided to wrap his arms around Hiei and give him a deep and fervent kiss before shoving him out of the way. Hiei wandered aimlessly for a moment. He then rejoined the group, a bit disoriented. Kurama wandered back to him and put his arm around the demon's waist. His demon. He smiled brightly at his smaller companion. Hiei gave him a small smile. Kurama kissed the top of his head.

How do dreams come true? Hiei wondered. They come true by ways unknown. Through pain and suffering. Through the strife. What god and found it fit for me to have my dream come true? Who knows? And I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.

The path they were traveling changed from concrete to a beaten dirt path. Kurama looked about his surroundings. They were moving towards the wooded area in front of them. A few more meters and they'd be in the trees. This had been the only convention held today, in a park. Kurama sighed. He hoped they would be able to save all of the spectator's lives. He looked and the field they were currently walking through. There were a group of ten people coming behind our group. They were chatting amongst themselves. The trees came up before them and they walked in. The path was now littered with twigs and dead leaves. Even in the cold harshness of the winter some of the leaves in this forest had yet to fall. The path was dug through the two foot snow. Kurama shook his head. Hiei looked up at him. Kurama was too deep in thought to notice.

"Are we in my mind?" Kurama barely spoke.

"Yes and no. We are in both your mind and in mine, what I have retained."

"Retained?"

"Yes, the one who I `work' for is controlling my every thought, and movement. I cannot break free."

"How did it happen?"

"I honestly can't tell you. I don't know myself."

"Why would someone do that?"

"Power. I am a goddess after all, and a damn powerful one at that. I am Death, Goddess of the Ice. I am powerful. And I need your help."

"My help?"

"Your group of randomly picked people can free me from my imprisonment, and then I will help you kill the one who is creating all these problems. Revenge will be sweet."

"How can we help?"

"You need to meet me at my next assignment. It is in a park across town tomorrow at two pm, there will be forty people assembled. Be in the crowd. The key to my mind control is the scarf around my neck. I assume you all can take that off."

"We will try."

"You will succeed. You will need everyone of your odd bunch though; just four of you stand no chance against me. I am more powerful than the most powerful S-class demon. I am a God after all."

Kurama looked at the trees around him. Hiei sighed. He'd been his fox's lover for less than one day and he was being ignored. Hiei put his arm around Kurama, returning the gesture of affection, hoping to get a reaction. Any reaction. Kurama looked down on him and smiled. His gaze once again went to the trees.

Hiei looked at his companions. Yusuke was getting pummeled by Keiko, Genkai was ignoring them, and the idiot and his sister were trailing behind him and Kurama. They were holding hands. Hiei smoldered over this. He tried to stop when he started radiating heat, and was steaming. He couldn't get the image out of his mind: his sister holding that big, stupid, dense, pathetic, stupid, boring, stupid, poor excuse of a human.

Kurama felt warm suddenly. He looked down at Hiei, he was steaming. Literally. Kurama followed his lover's glare. He saw Yukina and Kuwa happily wandering down the path, their hands were clasped together. Kurama looked at Hiei.

"Hiei?" Kurama asked. The smaller didn't seem to hear him. Kurama pulled Hiei off the path and into the woods. He pushed the smaller in front of him, so he would melt the snow. Hiei didn't notice, he was still staring at Yukina and Kuwa. Kurama turned Hiei around and pressed his back to a tree when they far enough away for no one to see. Hiei was still looking of in the distance, as if the image couldn't leave his mind. Kurama pressed his lips to Hiei's.

Hiei noticed something was different when something pressed to his lips. He felt it suck them gently. Hiei sighed and looked at his fox's beautiful face. He was so beautiful. Hiei returned the kiss. Kurama pulled back slowly for air. Hiei pulled him back. He had cooled off. Now he was generating a different kind of heat as he deepened the kiss. Kurama's arms went about his back. Hiei moaned softly. His arms went about his fox's neck. He ran his fingers through his fox's red hair. Kurama's hands ran up his chest. Hiei moaned again. Kurama pulled off Hiei's infamous white scarf, throwing it somewhere in the snow. He began kissing Hiei's neck. Hiei's back involuntarily arched. They fell to the ground.

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"Where do you suppose Kurama and Hiei got off to?" Yusuke asked Kuwa mischievously. Kuwa shook his head in disgust. They had reached their destination. An open are in the midst of the forest.

"I don't want to know," Kuwa replied. "Not after what I saw last night."

Yusuke laughed. "Maybe they're making love somewhere in the forest. You know, consummating their relationship."

"Urameshi!" Kuwa screeched. Yusuke tumbled to the ground laughing. Shizuru patted her brother's back. Keiko tried to get Yusuke to calm down, but it didn't work. Yukina put her hand on Kuwa's arm.

Kuwa looked to the sky. It was perfectly clear, except for that rising column of water vapor. Wait a sec, water vapor? Kuwa cried out. He didn't want that kind of image in his head. He couldn't close his eyes without thinking of what that meant, and he couldn't look at the sky. He settled on looking at the leader of this seeming cult. She was tall. At least as tall as him, with brunette hair. She was quiet shapely. He concentrated on her, taking his mind off other things.

"Kazuma?" Yukina ask Kuwa for the fourth time. She shook his arm lightly when he didn't respond.

"Don't worry Yukina," Shizuru said, she lead a bewildered Yukina away from her brother. "He's just trying not to think about what our two friends are doing, that's all."

"What are they doing?" Yukina asked innocently. Shizuru looked at her with wide eyes. She shook her head, she wasn't going to explain this to her.

"Just don't think about it," Shizuru replied. Genkai had sat herself down on a makeshift bench, and the two girls joined her.

"Yusuke!" Keiko yelled. Yusuke tried to stop laughing, he really did, but he couldn't help it. It was priceless, that look on Kuwa's face. He broke out again. Keiko slapped him for the fifth time, he didn't feel a thing. Yusuke remained on the ground, rolling around and laughing manically. Keiko gave up and sat beside the other girls. The meeting began.

"Welcome one and all!" began the speaker. She looked about the clearing. She knew none of these people, they were not her disciples.

"What's this all about?" a man in a business suit shouted. The crowd nodded their heads in agreement.

"This was supposed to be a meeting of my elite, but I know none of you people," the speaker said. Kuwa came out of his trance and wandered over to Yusuke. He kicked him in the ribs. Yusuke grunted and got up, ready to pound Kuwa to a pulp. Kuwa pointed to the speaker, who was arguing with the crowd. Yusuke mumbled something and listened to what they were saying.

"I told you I don't know why you're here!" the speaker shouted at the angered mob. "Where are my disciples?"

"We don't care where they are," a woman yelled. "Why are we here?!"

"I don't know!"

Yusuke shook his head, this was definitely the work of Death. He wandered over to the girls, Kuwa in tow. Keiko gave him a questioning look. Yusuke shrugged.

"When do you think she'll show?" Genkai asked.

"About now, when they're arguing, it'll give her cover. No one will notice her presence until it's too late," Yusuke replied. "In this chaos, who would notice if a black cloaked figure showed up?"

"No one except us," Shizuru noted.

"Exactly," Yusuke replied. "If we hadn't come, no one would notice until the scythe was in their back. Of course then it would be too late."

"So she'll pick off the back ones first and then work her way to the front," Yukina mumbled. The group looked at her, stunned. "It would make sense, if the person at your back suddenly disappeared, would you notice?"

"Come to think of it, no," Yusuke replied. He sat on the bench. He looked at the masses. They were still arguing. I wonder when they'll get tired… "I guess all we gotta do now is wait for her to show up."

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"Kurama?" Hiei asked the figure standing in front of him, pulling his pants back on. Kurama smiled down at him.

"Yes koibito?" Kurama asked. He finished putting them on and zipped up. He looked down at Hiei, who was still undressed. "You might want to get dressed."

Hiei looked down at himself and blushed. He quickly got up to search for his pants. They hung in front of his face. He looked at his lover. Kurama smiled.

"Come and get them," Kurama taunted and held them behind his back. Hiei grinned and pinned Kurama to the dried, green grass. Kurama chuckled as Hiei began to lick his chest. Hiei jumped back with his pants, victorious. Kurama sighed. Might as well go back.

"Do you think she's gotten there yet?" Hiei asked as he pulled on his coat. Kurama looked over his shoulder at his lover.

"No. We would've heard something, had she come," Kurama stated. He pulled his coat on and held out his hand. Hiei gratefully took it and together they walked back to the path, and to their original destination. When they got there though, they saw not a group of people being slaughtered, but a group of people being led in the singing of "Kumbaya", led by Kuwa. Their mouths dropped open.

"We were wondering when you two would show up," Yusuke greeted them.

"Why isn't Death here yet?" Kurama asked, still staring at the group.

"Your guess is as good as mine," Yusuke said. He looked in the direction Kurama and Hiei were staring in. "Ah, yeah, them. You missed the riot, and the group activities."

"Group activities?" Hiei questioned. He raise an eyebrow, totally drawn into the scene before him.

"Yeah, me made four makeshift `Twisters', played tag, Red Rover, duck duck goose, Red light Green light, and this is their third stirring melody," Yusuke said. Kurama turned his eyes to his friend. Hiei kept staring at the group.

"You mean to tell me you got all of these people to get along in less than an hour?" he asked. Yusuke chuckled.

"You were gone for way more than an hour," he replied. Kurama blushed. Hiei turned to stare at Yusuke. "Was it good?"

"Yusuke!" Kurama shouted. Hiei blushed a deep red and turned his back to Yusuke. Yusuke chuckled.

"Come on, give me a rating. 1-10, one being not good at all and ten being the best you've ever had," Yusuke said. Kurama turned a deeper shade of red. Hiei started shifting from foot to foot. He briskly walked away. Yusuke looked at Kurama, who was watching his lover go. "Well? It was your first time with him, what do you say?"

Kurama looked about nervously, then replied. "Not on your life."

He walked away, strangely satisfied with himself. Yusuke called out to him. He didn't listen. Hiei came to walk beside him as they approached the group. They held hands.

"For our next song we shall sing a beautiful melody known to the world as…. Does anyone have any suggestions?" Kuwa said. A few hands went up. Kurama and Hiei sat themselves down across from Kuwa, he didn't notice.

"I vote we tell jokes and say funny quotes," the man suggested. There was a unanimous cry of yes. The first to go were a couple of girls. One was 5'4'', with long blonde and pink hair that set off her blue eyes. She wore a black leather trench coat and tattered bell bottomed blue jeans. Her companion was 5'2''. She had frizzy brown hair and brown eyes. She wore a cream colored corduroy jacket with black flairs.

"Doctor Frankenstein?" the blonde began.

"Frank-en-stein," the brunette replied.

"What?"

"It's pronounce Frank-en-steen."

"Are you putting me on?"

"You must be Igor."

"It's pronounced E-gore."

"But they told me it was Igor."

"Well they were wrong then weren't they."

The crowd laughed. Kurama held his side as the girls bowed. Hiei looked at him funny, but there was a smile on his face. Yusuke had joined the group, sitting next to Keiko, Yukina, Genkai, and Kuwa.

"That was a beautiful rendition, uh… what're your names?" Kuwa said.

"I'm Ifurita," the blonde said.

"Beth," the brunette replied.

"Thank you Ifurita and Beth for that rendition of the meeting of Frankenstein and Igor form `Young Frankenstein'," Kuwa congratulated. The girls took another bow and sat down. "Who will go next?"

Another female stood. "My name is Skyre Moonfire. Here are some of my favorite quotes:

`Give a man fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.'

`Save a tree, eat a beaver.'

`Save a donut, kill a cop.'

`The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.'"

The laughter died down after five minutes. They were all clutching their sides and gasping for breath. Ifurita stood again.

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I guess I should have been more specific. A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory. He who hesitates is probably right. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. I intend to live forever- so far so good. I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. He doesn't get lost; he discovers alternative destinations. Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot them? Sometimes I think I understand everything- then I regain consciousness. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Where other people have a brain, he's got resonance. Got the IQ of garden tools. He's so dense, light bends around him. Yo' mama is so fat, you have to take a train and two buses just to get on her good side. Yo' mama is so fat, I ran around her twice and got lost. Yo' mama's glasses are so thick, when she looks at a map she can see people waving. Yo' mama is so fat, when she was walking down the street and I swerved to miss her, I ran out of gas. Yo' mama's so dumb, she got locked in a grocery store and starved to death. Yo' mama is so fat, when she goes swimming in the ocean the whales start singing "We are family!""

The crowd couldn't stop laughing. The jokes came one right after the other. Most of the listeners found it hard to breath.

"And for my last joke: On the first day at work, a recent University of Iowa graduate was handed a broom by his new boss and told to sweep the floor. He looked at the boss with disgust and said, "Hey! I'm a University of Iowa graduate, you know!"

The manager took the broom back and said, "Really? Sorry about that. Here, let me show you how it's done.""

The crowd laughed and clapped their hands. Ifurita smiled and sat back down. Kurama looked around at the group. He looked at each face. He circled the group and then looked at Hiei, he was still laughing. Kurama scrunched his eyebrows and looked back to his right, sure enough, there was Death. She pulled out a dagger.

"Look out!" Kurama shouted. Death's head snapped up to look at him. Her victim noticed the dagger and screamed. Death hit him over the head with the hilt.

"Shit!" Yusuke said. He got up and headed towards Death. She flung him back with a single flick of her wrist.

"Yusuke!" Keiko shouted. She ran to his side. Death froze her.

"Keiko!" Shizuru cried out. She tried to punch Death, but her fist connected with air instead. Death cackled. Kuwa came from behind and tried his luck, no go. Yukina huddled to Keiko and Yusuke. Yusuke shook his head and tried to get up. Hiei melted the ice around Keiko as Kurama's vines encircled Death.

"Now Kuwa!" Kurama called. His vines started to freeze. He grew more to keep her encircled. The freezing one reached his hands as Kuwa grabbed Death's hood. Kurama screamed as his hands began to freeze. Hiei was there a second later, trying to unfreeze them, with no luck. Kuwa yanked the scarf off Death's face.

"Thank you," a lilting voice said. Kurama's hands came back to life. He collapsed in Hiei's arms.

Hello. Author here. Hoped you like this chapter. I will update every chance I get, but the most likely situation will be a new chapter every week. Damn school! Damn play! Oh well. Will update. Thanks for the reviews!