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"The Redhead Assassin"

Chapter1: The Fateful Day

The purple-blue sky of Makai mixed with the dark red-orange clouds in the farthest north and the frequent roaring of thunder and sparking of lightning indicate a strong storm is on its way.

In a branch of the tallest tree of the lush forest surrounding the castle of Alaric, sit a certain dark figure hidden like a shadow. The darkness hid the face of the figure and only two blood-red sparkling crystals can be seen, the figure's eyes, that are what it is.

"Onii-san!" a gentle voice called.

The figure stepped out of the shadow, revealing his full features… bluish-black hair with a star burst white mix in the middle stubbornly spiking upward, forming somewhat like a dark flame. Small nose accompanied by the thin lips almost made him look like a child if not because of his towering 6 footer height and wide, cat-eyed shape eyes with the most striking blood-red pupil that tell the otherwise. In those very same eyes can be mirrored years of painful experiences and unfathomable knowledge. Those same pair of eyes made his looks fearful and his emotionless face did not do him any better as well as the cool, dark aura he's emitting. His tight-hugging, open-button sleeveless vest of finest navy-blue silk shows the muscular chest and well-toned arms. In his small waist are four white belts holding his navy-blue pants perfectly hiding those abs and long, strong legs.

"They're here… they're waiting for you…" said the gentle voice whose owner even looked gentler. Said owner has the same red-eyes though hers were clear and sparkling like the undisturbed stream under the light of the morning sun. Same small nose accompanied by the same thin, reddish lips with the unceasing smile that made her look like an innocent child if not because of her full, deliciously curved body. Though unlike the figure standing in the branch above, her long hair is the placid shade of turquoise-blue carefully arrange in a pony-tail tied in red ribbon. Through her silk lavender colored kimono with rose colored obi belt and rose embroideries at the hem, the perfectly-figured body can be seen, thus an indication of being a full-grown lady.

In a split of a second, the dark figure suddenly appears in front of Yukina, the gentle lady below the branch where Hiei was resting a moment before she came. Together, the twins walked towards the castle, Hiei's castle to be exact. He is the heir of Maruko, the queen of the land, his supposed-to-be-but-still-soon-to-be-mate… but now, with Muruko's current health situation, she's not anymore able to rein the land… making Hiei, her heir and once-supposed-to-be-and-hopefully-still-soon-to-be-mate the official, unofficial king, well actually much like a duke since Yusuke is the King of whole Makai, in other word the emperor.

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"King Hiei!" Yusuke, an ex-Reikan Tentei detective, King of the Muzako clan and the new emperor of the Makai world also, Hiei's ex team mate in Reikan Tentei Team bowed jokingly at him. In his left, his wife a ningen turned youkai, thanks to the one special wish to be granted as a gift to a retiring spirit detective, Urameshi Keiko Yukimura. After a few hundreds of years in the Makai and having the muzako bloodline, Yusuke now stands 6 feet just like Hiei but still three inches lower than their tallest friend Kuwabara Kazuma. Wearing a white uwagi with gold lining around the sleeves and golden-yellow hakama complete with silver obi on his waist, Yusuke is a picture of boldness and elegance.

"Moshi-moshi, Hiei, Yukina…" Keiko smiled at the twins after smacking her husband for teasing their friend yet again. Now a youkai, Keiko's own features had improved to help her survived the harsh environment of Makai. She's only an inch or two smaller than her husband, full-grown curvaceous body her elegant white and gold jữnihitoe wasn't able to hide, accompanied by her waist-long shiny, brown deadly hair. She has the ability to control her hair and use it to attack or defend. But her wits is still her most valuable asset for after living for almost six hundred years in Makai with her husband and friends, she'd learn the way of Makai and is now the strongest confidante and adviser to her husband and king.

"Hey brother…" Kuwabara Kazuma like Keiko was also turned youkai much to Yukina's delight and Hiei's disgust. Even after being mated to his sister for nearly six hundred years, Hiei is still having a hard time accepting Kuwabara "the oaf" as his brother-in-law. But of course for the sake of his beloved sister, he's trying… at least his trying and trying really hard. Though in Kuwabara's side, it is not much of a problem… he loved Yukina and will do anything for her even lower his pride for his wife's twin brother. He is quite familiar with the fact that the reason Hiei is not so fond of him is due to his slow coping ability of accepting Makai's weird rules, thanks to his high ningen morality thus giving him the impression of being an "oaf" to Hiei. Aside from him being an over-protective big brother. Though not as gifted as Keiko when in comes to IQ, turning into a youkai, Kuwabara's spirit energy and power dramatically increased and thanks to years of training and mastering this energy, is now one of the strongest in Makai, Yusuke's highest general and second in command.

"Hn!" Hiei grunt at hearing "the oaf" call him "brother". Kuwabara just shrug his shoulder and motion to his wife. Yukina immediately settle to her husband's side smiling and kissing his cheek as an appreciation and apology for her brother's attitude. Kuwabara smiled back and put his arm around his wife's shoulder.

"Lord Hiei, how's lord Muruko?" young lord Shura, Yomi's heir just arrived. Yomi passed away a hundred of years ago with some unknown illness and it seems that that illness is also what making Muruko sick.

"Worst…" is the short reply from him.

"I'm sorry for that… I know you two almost mated if not because of this…" sadness can be mirrored from the voice of the young prince.

"Let's start talking business instead." he ended the interrogation about his personal matter.

"Yeah… Hiei why did you call for the meeting? I heard this has something to do with that certain assassin spreading terror in our land… did you get any information yet?" Yusuke change to business mode.

"No, nothing that useful, just that my highest ranking general has been found dead and a white rose is found in his corpse"

"Him again then" Kuwabara mumbles.

"Yes… and I'm getting really annoyed of whoever that bastard is for sneaking in my castle and killing my second in command"

"It seems that he goes in a certain pattern…" Keiko interrupts.

"…" the silence signaled Keiko to continue.

"umm… you see, he target lower general first of the three kingdoms starting from Tourin then Alaric to Gandarra, then Gandarra's high security experiment room was set in fire, destroying everything to ashes, Tourin's precious mine was targeted next before he proceed to Alaric's medical laboratory room… now just before Gandarra's highest general is Alaric's second in command… did you see the pattern?"

"Hey… you mean your highest general has been killed as well?" Hiei asked Shura.

"Three days ago" was the answered.

"K'so" Yusuke growl in low voice.

"If… Keiko-san, if this assassin is following a certain pattern t-then are you saying that the next target is Kazuma?" panic can be hear in Yukina's voice.

Silent filled the room as they realized the situation.

"Well, if I'm the next target then that's good!" Kuwabara break the deafening silence.

"We can be ready and prepare a trap to capture this assassin" he adds.

"… well you have a point Kuwa… but, still we are not very sure about it. This assassin is very deceitful… we can never be sure nor guess where or when or who will be his next target be… he's so sly." Keiko reply.

As everyone fell into another minute of silence, Kameda, now Shura's advisor enters the room. Young lord Shura, please excuse my rudeness but I have gather some maybe essential information about the assassin.

"Speak"

"Yes. Here sir is the recorded tape of our witness. He is now kept safe in one of our safe houses and under surveillance to assure the preciseness of his statement." Kamada explain while preparing the recorded tape.

After half a minute, a very scared demon appeared in the screen of monitor as big as the wall of that room.

"No…no, no… I don't know, I'm, I'm not sure if he's a man or a woman. But he/she possess the most beautiful red hair I ever saw. So shiny and soft, it looks like a flowing blood…"

"You saw the face?"

"No, I'm not… I didn't see the face because he wears a mask that is somewhat not an origin from here, it is rather cute in fact…" the demon mumbled. "But I saw his eyes, which is the only thing can be seen under that mask. The assassin looked directly at me, he knows I am there… I fell into my knees and unable to run… I froze…really…" they all saw how the poor demon trembled.

"I-I though I was dead… he walks towards me…looking at me with those deep green eyes… I can see myself dead… he reached in his hair and a rose appears in his hand… white rose… then, then he told me…" the demon in the screen suddenly become pale, mouth agape and eyes wide in shock and fear. Then suddenly he went limp in the chair and for several minutes fell quite and then as if possess, when he talked his voice changed, not anymore cracky, too load and annoyingly trembling in fear but rather the sound of beautiful soft-alto, gentle, calm and deadly. Still head bowed and not looking in the screen, he speaks as if a messenger of dead.

"Behold, you pathetic, low-class demon for I will not give you the honor to be killed by me… but do tell them who killed those rugs, lowly general almost like you… tell them it is me, the Redhead Assassin will destroy the peace of the Makai… my next target is the one they'll never expect to be… they can't run or hide because their fate has been decided."

Silence…

"Uggh" is the last thing they heard then the next thing they saw is red-stain, the blood of the demon spread in the screen.

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Ok! Enough for now! Please review… this is my very first attempt of Kurama/Hiei and I decided to make to put it in the angst and hurt/comfort category… yay!