Aherm! I'm mostly updating this for two reasons...

#1 People like it. (Astonishing. I'm so loved. WAAAAAHHH)

#2 It's been a while since I typed it, soooo... yeah.

#3 Erm... THERE IS NO #3! AHHHH! The horror!

Yeah, woot and such...

Chapter Nine...Basically Equal

"Nmhh...," Huh? Where am I? I was... fighting, last I remembered... And I died...? I'm confused.

"Shuichi? Shuichi! You're awake! Thank goodness!" Kaa-sa? Ergh, can't breathe!

"Shiori, you're choking the poor boy," Kazuya? (Shiori's new husband)

Shiori relinqueshed her tight hug, but stayed close to her son as he sat up for the first time in a day and a half,"Kaa-san," Kurama said as his vision finally cleared.

"Shuichi, you've been out for about a day. What happened?" his mother asked.

What happened? Hn, I can't tell her the truth, naturally. I'm normally good at coming up with an excuse; Why can't I think! "Ow!" Kurama hissed as he cluchted a sore spot on his head. Maybe that's why he couldn't think straight...

"Ah, Shuichi. You're in pain? Don't answer if it hurts you," Shiori stood up,"I'll be back in a minute or so...," she walks out the door, as she does so, she nudges her husband in the ribs.

"Huh? Oh, right," Kazuya said, then put a hand on Shuichi's (Kurama's younger step-brother; very conufusing, ne?) shoulder, and says,"Come on, we should go, too."

"Huh? Why? I wanna know what happened!" Shuichi exclaimed, but was practically pushed out of the room by his father. Kazuya closed the door behind himself.

Kurama stared after them for a few seconds, then removed his hand from his head. He looked at his palm and sees that it's bleeding,"sigh... Is that why she left? She does know that Shuichi's hemophobic (scared of seeing blood)...," Kurama gets out of his bed with some difficulty, do to injures. He walks into the bathroom and cleans himself up.

As he does so, he tries to remember details of that night... He remembered Hiei standing there, but it wasn't him. Well, it was his body, but not his consciousness. Ugh, this is making my head hurt worse...

Kurama sits at his desk and tries to think, but that was rather difficult for some reason. And, he must have fallen asleep, because when he looked at the clock next, it was three hours later.

(What he heard while sleeping; memories, perhaps?) "Kurama... You're alive. Barely. I can't do anything... Maybe your ningen mother can... I can't take you to Yukina; that would need too much explaination... Goodbye, fox..."

Hiei...? What did he mean, goodbye?

Kurama stood up as he figured it out. No... Hiei, that's not... Please let that not be what he thinks...

"I endanger you... So, I leave your side for the rest of my exsistance, so you can be safe...," is what Hiei meant.

No... It's not your fault... It's not... Please, don't leave me. You know what will happen...

"Hn? What're you doing?"

"It's a special technique. If we ever leave eachother on bad terms, we'll feel pain."

"And... Why are you doing this?"

"Because we're meant for eachother. I don't want either of us to be apart on bad terms."

"What if it's not on bad terms?"

"It doesn't matter. If we aren't confident that the other will come back, then the one who initially left will feel more pain than the other. That way, you can go to Makai to do your job."

"Just as a question, what happens if that scenario comes to pass and the one who left never comes back?"

"...They'll die."

"Hn, omoshiroi..."

"You're really willing to kill yourself to protect me? You shouldn't...," Kurama places a hand over his mouth and sits down on his bed. That's how Hiei probably felt when Kurama fought the demon that night...

Kurama was sure he was going to die...

Hiei knows he is going to die...

That's basically equal, right?

Hiei... Bakayaro... Your so sweet, willing to die for me, and all... We've come really far, ne?

Ai Shiteru.

THISTHEENDOFTHISCHAPTER

Wow, Kurama's a little warped there, ne?

Yeah, anyway, sorry this chapter's short. Next one will be longer 'cuz...

IT'S THE LAST CHAPTER!

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Yeah, it is. This was so cool to write.

Hm... It doesn't necessarily end here though...

Readers: Huh?

Please review and also tell me if I should continue this story with a sequal, or just cram the sequal onto the end of this one!

And now, a random quote,"It's violent and educational, but mostly violent! Yay, VIOLENCE!" haha, gotta love The Fairly Odd Parents.