Hiei looks at Kurama-san. "I...told you...she'd reject me..."

Something falls to the ground. I look closer. It's a Koorime tear gem. "Oh, gods!" I fall to my knees. I've killed my own brother!

Kurama-san pulls my brother close. "Hiei..." he whispers, tears falling down his cheeks. "Don't die! Please! I love you..." Could it be? Kurama and my brother..?

Hiei-san gasps weakly. "I'm sorry..."

I start to cry. "Why didn't you tell me?"

He turns his head to look at me. His red eyes are unfocused. "Didn't...want to...disappoint you..." Another tear gem fall to the ground.

"No!" I cry. How can I tell him that I'm not disappointed? I just ensured his death. Moments ago, I hated him. If only I had known...

Hiei-san shivers. "Cold..."

Kurama-san pulls him closer, enfolding him in a hug. "Hiei...Don't leave me..."

I move closer. I have to heal him! Kurama-san looks at me with wild eyes. "Don't touch him!"

"Please," I whisper. My tears fall to clink against Hiei-san's. "Let me help."

Kurama-san looks at me, hope shining through his sorrow, and lets me come closer. "Can you help him?"

"I hope so." I place a hand on the shirt covering the mortal wound that I gave him. I apply my healing powers.

Hiei-san sags in Kurama-san's arms, but continues breathing weakly. He's only unconscious, not dead. Kurama carefully removes the shirt from around my brother's head. The Jagan is healed. There is no sign that it was ever injured.

Kurama-san sighs in relief. "Thank Inari-sama!" He gently dabs the black blood from Hiei-san's face. Then he lifts my brother into his arms and walks toward the temple. I follow him, hanging my head in shame. I almost killed my own brother.

Yuusuke-san runs toward Kurama-san when he sees him carrying Hiei-san. "What happened?!"

"Nothing," Kurama-san says softly. He goes into the temple and sets Hiei-san down on a futon. Yuusuke-san follows us. "He's pretty badly injured."

Yuusuke-san sees me and glares at me. "What did you do to him?!"

I look away. "I destroyed his Jagan."

"Nani?!" He checks Hiei-san's forehead. "No, you didn't! What the fuck are you talking about?!"

Kurama-san talks for me. "She healed it."

Yuusuke-san sighs disgustedly and sits down. "Maybe you'd better explain it from the beginning..."

Kurama-san glances at me. "I'll tell him, Yukina-san." I nod. "He told her."

"Finally! If he'd done that in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess!" Yuusuke-san knew too? Who knew? I ask. Yuusuke-san looks at me. "Everyone except Kuwabara and you. Hiei killed Kuwabara after he said something that he shouldn't have."

"What did Kazuma-san say to Hiei-san? I don't know anything that could have made him lose control that badly."

Kurama-san sighs. "He told him that he thought that Hiei's mother hated him." He glances at Hiei-san's unconscious body. "I think that's what Hiei truly believes."

"But that's not true!" I cry. "Okaasan talked about how she loved him all the time! She wanted to leave the city to find him, but she was watched and couldn't!"

Kurama-san looks me in the eye. "You tell him that. He doesn't believe it."

"I will when he wakes up."

When Hiei-san sees me, something akin to fear passes over his face before he hides his emotions. I speak immediately. "Oniisan..." He flinches as I say the word. I move closer, and sit down next to the futon. "Gomen nasai." I move my hand to touch his cheek.

He is across the room before I can blink. "Don't touch me!"

Tears fill my eyes. "Hiei-san..." I move toward him. Please don't hate me.

The fire demon moves away again. Kurama-san grabs him. "Hiei! She saved your life!"

"She would've let me die if I hadn't told her who I was!" he yells.

"Gomen, Hiei-san. I was wrong to do that." A few tears escape and fall to the floor.

"Hn," he sniffs and disappears.

"Gomen, Yukina-san. He's upset. I'll talk to him."

I nod weakly. Hiei-san doesn't trust me. And I don't blame him. I almost killed him.

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Great...Now I have writer's block.

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