Jungle Rescue FINALE [Complete]

[darkknightfall]

WHO: Batman's Rescue Group and the captives
WHAT: The rescue party has finally arrived! But what will it take to free the captives and escape?
WHERE: The caves beneath the waterfall
WHEN: Day 27 (AKA the neverending day)

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[poetryinfashion]

Kaoru might have actually heard Mr. Kent's words. Somewhere, somewhere in the back of his mind, there was probably still a part of it that was functioning properly and which registered Mr. Kent needing the names of the captives or the possibility of incoming dynamite.

But it wasn't loud enough to stop him from pushing past Mr. Kent and then Larsa finally Susumu before running gracelessly towards the bars, nearly tripping on the uneven ground. He gripped one bar with each hand and pressed his face against the bars.

His eyes told him that Hikaru and Shuuichi and Hakkai and Sora were there and very obviously alive, mostly unharmed, but... he couldn't really believe it. Two weeks apart and he just couldn't believe that this wasn't some dream he was going to wake up from any second now...

"Hikaru..."

His voice came out so weak, so dry... he wasn't sure he'd actually said anything. His gaze started darting between Hikaru and Shuuichi and Hakkai and Sora and back to Hikaru again, no more words forming coherently in his mind.

It was... like he'd lost his whole family... been separated from not only Hikaru, but other people who were just as close as family to him now. Susumu and Yusuke and even Lucretia had been there for him... but looking at Shuuichi and Hakkai and Sora there next to Hikaru...

Shuuichi had kept his word. He'd really, truly kept Hikaru as safe as Kaoru could have ever hoped for...

Kaoru just smiled... and started crying as he sagged to his knees, head still pressed against the bars as his right hand tentatively reached out towards Hikaru.

[fox_shuuichi]

Kurama tightened his grip on Hikaru's shoulder, and hoped both boys would forgive him for what he had to do - but his promise wasn't finished yet, wouldn't be until they could touch each other again without fear.

"Kaoru," he said sternly, hoping the boy would hear him, as he had not heard the man who was, apparently, in charge. "Step back from the bars. You and your brother are safe, and I intend to keep it that way."

[poetryinfashion]

"No, we're not safe! Here is not safe no matter where we go!" He cried, still trying to reach for Hikaru.

But his brother looked awful... awful in the sense that he was being quiet for once and really sullen. It wasn't like him at all. Kaoru had known from Hikaru's journal entry awhile back that he was really shaken up by Axel's... death.

But he heard mumblings about dynamite being thrown in the general direction of the bars.

"Hikaru... please, just look at me and then get back so they can try to get you guys out of here."

[fox_shuuichi]

Kurama hissed in displeasure as Hikaru wrenched free of his grip and sped to the bars.

"No!" he called out, one eye on the other members of the rescue party. He'd gotten this far, he was not going to see the boys he'd taken into his protection injured by an overly-hasty hand with explosives.

He moved swiftly to grip Hikaru by the shoulders and tug, but the boy was having none of it - the brothers had eyes and ears only for each other.

"Hakkai," he pleaded. "Help me."