Author's Note: Hey everybody! This is Kurama'sGirl88, coming to you with my second story! I had so much fun with 'Catch Me When I Fall' I just couldn't wait to write another one. Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed my first story. Ok, this one is from Kurama's point of view. Hope you enjoy it! Oh, and once again, all the boys are just friends. Nothing else. Thank ya!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.

'Kurama! Behind you!'

I turned just in time to dodge the demon's fist. I ducked under his arm, landing a massive punch to his jaw. I smiled inwardly with satisfaction as I felt his dog-like maw shatter.

The demon fell back, howling in pain. Pulling a rose from my hair, I quickly silenced the thing by slitting its throat.

I turned around. My friends had just finished up with the rest of the low-life demons. They had been crawling around the city, murdering innocent humans.

Well, they wouldn't anymore.

Yusuke came running up to me, grinning from ear to ear. He ran a bloodied hand through his hair. 'Well, we showed them, huh?' he jeered. I nodded, smiling. Kuwabara came running up, too, though he didn't look nearly as pleased.

'Aw, man,' he grimaced as he peered down at his jacket. It was bloody and torn. 'I just bought this. Why did these stupid demons have to bleed so much?' He pulled off the tattered piece of clothing, letting it fall to the ground disgustedly.

Hiei appeared abruptly by my side. Kuwabara, surprised, jumped. He landed on a patch of blood, slipped, and landed on his butt in the middle of the gore. Yusuke didn't even try and hold back his laughter. I, too, started laughing. Hey, it was pretty funny.

'Yeah, yeah,' Kuwabara grumbled. 'Laugh it up, fox-boy.' He stood up, but only succeeded in falling back down again.

'Sorry, Kuwabara,' I apologized, though in truth I wasn't the least bit sorry. Watching Kuwabara play the klutz was not the least bit old. Really.

'Well, I'm gonna go home,' Yusuke announced. 'Keiko's making dinner, since my mom's out on the town. You're all invited, if ya wanna come.' Hiei glared a flat out refusal at the detective. I declined politely, seeing as how much homework I had.

Kuwabara went along with Yusuke. I swear, those two wouldn't go anywhere unless free food was involved.

I turned to Hiei. The little fire demon was cleaning his katana, looking murderous. Huh. That was odd. Killing demons usually put him in a good mood.

'Well, Hiei?' I asked. He turned to me, looking as though he had just noticed I was still there. 'What are you planning for tonight?'

He just glared at me. Fine. I was going to ask if he would like to sleep at my house, since it looked like it was about to rain, but if he was going to act like a little jerk, he could just get wet.

I turned, and, with a wave goodbye, set off toward my house. My mother was supposed to be home, but her new job sometimes had her working late. That was ok with me. Sure, I would have liked her to be home more often, but this job made her happy. And if it made her happy, I was willing to sacrifice a few hours without her company.

I entered our apartment a few minutes later. Odd, I thought, everything is so quiet. That building usually had some manner of noise that seeped through the walls. As I walked down the hall to my bedroom, a strange sense of foreboding settled in my heart.

What is going on? I peered into my mother's room.

What I saw scared me.

My mother, Shiori, was laying in her bed, deathly pale and weak. Some doctors were crowded around her bed. One of them looked up, and, seeing me, motioned me inside the room.

'We have some bad news, Suichi,' he said to me. I nodded, numb. What was wrong with my mother?

'It seems your mother has contracted a very deadly illness,' the doctor continued. 'We don't now exactly what it is. It looks like a new disease.'

'Why isn't she in the hospital?' I demanded. She needed emergency care, not a house call!

'…That's the thing,' the doctor finally replied. He refused to meet my eyes. 'This disease is very, very contagious. Five other residents of this building have caught it.' He paused, studying my face. 'We can't move any of them to the hospital. The risk of infection is just too great.'

I guess I already knew what he was about to say. I just didn't want to hear it.

'And…?' I prompted.

'And,' the doctor sighed, 'we have to quarantine this apartment building. No one can leave. If they did, they could spread this sickness across town. We want to keep it as isolated as possible.'

'I don't understand,' I said. Actually, I understood perfectly. I needed it to be said out loud, though. That was the only way I would believe it.

'It means that you, your mother, everyone in this building is stuck. You can't leave the building. Not even us.' He motioned to the other doctors in the room. 'You are quarantined, Suichi. For now, there will be no contact to the outside world until we find a cure.'

I noticed as a shadow passed across the doctor's face. 'There's something more,' I stated. It wasn't a question; it was fact.

'Since this disease is so contagious,' the doctor said, 'all of us, every healthy person in this building, is nearly guaranteed to become sick.' He looked at me sharply. 'In fact, you could be infected right now.'

I was stunned. An epidemic had seized my apartment building. Five people were sick, my mother included. The rest of us were trapped, unable to leave the building. We would become sick.

What could I do?

To be continued…

Author's Note: What is this sickness? Who else will become infected? Is there a cure? Will it be found before it's too late? So many questions. Don't worry; they'll all be answered in the chapters to come. I hope you all enjoyed the beginning of this story! Please, please review! Please! Thanks! Until next time!