Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho is the property of Yoshihiro Togashi. I don't own the characters in this fanfic, but the OC's mine.
Author's Note: First, I'll apologize if this isn't an interesting story and it might have grammatical errors that are more than I can count, please don't throw eggs or tomatoes at me (Prepares umbrella) Please review, good or bad, I don't really mind. I'd like to learn from my mistakes, but please have mercy T.T Anyways, enjoy!
Chapter 1 The Rush of Eternity
Ear piercing sounds of alarms shook the whole building. Security guards are running around and everyone is in a panic. "Catch them! We can't let them get away with that artifact!" Koenma shouted over the speaker in a panicked tone. In his office, he and Botan are watching on a screen where the thieves are escaping with guards chasing behind them. A hooded creature followed by a group of demons had just stolen a priceless artifact from Prince Koenma's possession and now the whole of Spirit World is going berserk!
Koenma clutched his fists and gritted his teeth as he watch the thieves escaped through a portal and disappeared with the stolen artifact. "Botan. Call in the boys!" Koenma commanded while trying his best to keep calm.
Botan did as she was told and went to get the boys. Koenma went into a dark dusty room where he kept his most important files where only he and King Yama have access to. He went through hallways and more hallways and searched through selves and drawers for quite a while and finally pulled out a dusty file. He blew out the dust and returned to his office.
The boys were already waiting in front of his desk when he returned. "Hey Koenma, what took you so long? And what's with all this commotion in the Spirit World?" Yusuke asked as Koenma pushed a red button beside his desk and the alarm immediately stopped.
"Now that's better. Now what do you want with us?" Kuwabara questioned. Koenma tossed the file on his desk and frowned at the boys. He held up a remote control replaying the scene where the thieves broke in and stole away the artifact. While the boys watched, Koenma looked away trying to keep himself from exploding.
When the boys finished, Koenma turned off the screen and pushed the file to boys. Yusuke took the file and opened it to reveal data on something called the "Mizuno Clan". There was information on crimes and people that only involves attempts on stealing only one artifact from the Spirit World, the Forlorn Hope.
"The Forlorn Hope? But didn't Yusuke break that last time?" Kuwabara asked.
"We had it fixed after that and it took quite a while." Koenma answered. He sighed and explained to the boys, "The Mizuno Clan, an old shinobi clan, has been trying to steal the Forlorn Hope from since when I can't remember. Every generation of their descendants has been attempting to steal it, but they have never succeeded, until now. They have been trying to fulfill their ancestor's wish, to destroy both the Demon World and the Spirit World for the human race. But up until 500 years ago, they stopped their actions and we assume that they have given up. The Spirit World and I never thought that they would return today with such force."
"Ninjas? Wow, I didn't know they still exist! But if you said that they've only succeeded this time and failed the rest," Yusuke cut in, "then getting the Forlorn Hope back from them will be like taking candy from a baby! I mean, Kurama was probably stronger than them all together back then, but we still got it back!"
Koenma frowned at Yusuke's comment and answered, "Need I remind you, Yusuke that Kurama gave up the Forlorn Hope himself."
Yusuke grinned sheepishly and suddenly, Botan burst into the room and ran towards Koenma. "Koenma sir, we've tracked down the thieves." She said while panting and handed the coordinates to Koenma.
Koenma took them and turned to the boys, "The Mizuno Clan now is opposite of what they were 500 years ago. They've even controlled the demons into working for them and I don't think they'll be easy. Anyway, they'll be your next case."
Koenma left Botan to brief the boys on whom and what they're dealing with. Before the boys left, Koenma reminded the boys that in two weeks there will be a full moon where the Forlorn Hope will be most effective. To save the two worlds from destruction, the boys must not fail.
"Jeez, what is that smell!" Yusuke complained while covering his nose with his hand.
"It's a warehouse next to sea where fishermen keep their stocks. What did you expect, Yusuke?" Kurama said sarcastically, and then turned to face the warehouse.
"I can feel some powerful Spirit Energy in there," said Kuwabara while tightening his grip.
The boys were standing in front of a huge warehouse where Botan said the thieves were. It was dark at night and they were the only ones there. Botan informed the boys that the Mizuno Clan is leaded by a man called Mizuno Kazuhiko. Details of him are unknown but somehow, he has the skills to manipulate demons into becoming his slaves and doing as he pleases. His minions only consist of A-class and possibly a few S-class demons; this could be quite a mission for the boys to overcome. But Koenma trusted the boys with this mission as they have always escaped brushes with death. He only hopes that the boys will succeed this time as well.
Yusuke pushed open the huge iron door and walked in followed by the others. The stench grew incredibly foul, but it was the stench of demons. None of them were in sight but surely enough they were there.
Crates and more crates were found in the warehouse and only a few lights were on. The boys slowly walked to the center of the warehouse. All of a sudden a shuriken was thrown at Yusuke, but he easily side-stepped it. Slowly, the demons begin to appear from their hiding places. Soon, the boys were surrounded by what seems like forty over demons in the middle of the warehouse. They were back-to-back with each other.
Yusuke smirked at the challenge as Kazuhiko appeared in a dark corner and stood above the highest crate facing him.
"You guys can have the demons, but this guy is mine!"
Having that said, Yusuke charged at the man full speed. The boys broke into action as well. Yusuke aimed straight for Kazuhiko and threw a punch at him, but Kazuhiko easily dodged his attack. Every punch and sometimes kick Yusuke throws at Kazuhiko, he manages to either dodge them or block him. Growing tired of playing defense, Kazuhiko clutched his fist and punched Yusuke in his guts causing Yusuke to be thrown back and hit a wall.
Yusuke held his stomach with one hand and wiping away the blood at the side of his mouth with the other.
"That was a nice punch." Yusuke says, half smiling. "But I have something better than that."
He held up his index finger, pointing at Kazuhiko who is looking at him emotionlessly.
"It's time to say goodnight!" Yusuke says while charging his Spirit Gun.
Yusuke fired his Spirit Gun, and just a few inches before it hits Kazuhiko, he disappeared. Yusuke put down his hand and looked to around to find him, "Darn it! He's fast!" Yusuke cursed under his breath.
"Over here," a voice from behind startled Yusuke. He turned around and caught Kazuhiko's fist in time before it reaches his face. Yusuke smirked at Kazuhiko and kicked him with full force. Kazuhiko crashed into a wall causing it to crack. The warehouse wasn't in such a good condition as it has been around for quite a while. Yusuke aimed his index finger at the half conscious Kazuhiko and fired his Spirit Gun once again. Kazuhiko manages to slip away from it, but Yusuke just keeps firing continuously at him.
Suddenly, everyone stops fighting as the ground started to shake. The blasts from Yusuke's Spirit Gun were causing the place to fall apart. Cement pieces were starting to fall on the boys, but Yusuke was still fighting Kazuhiko.
"Urameshi! This place is going to come down! We gotta get outta here!" Kuwabara called out to Yusuke.
Yusuke, who was sitting on Kazuhiko, heard Kuwabara and turned to look around him. Kazuhiko took advantage of the situation and pushed Yusuke off and called out to his demons "Retreat!"
Yusuke leaned up and was about to chase Kazuhiko but was held back by Kurama, "We have to get out of here!"
The boys rushed out of the building just in time to see it crumble.
"Darn it!" Yusuke cursed, "We almost had him!"
"Hey, at least we're safe." Kurama said and put him hand on Yusuke's shoulder.
"Yea Urameshi, don't beat yourself up. Come'on, maybe they left some clues under there, or maybe even the Forlorn Hope!" Kuwabara said half-laughing and ran to the pile of rubble and started to search. Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei follows suit.
While the boys search around, Kuwabara searched deeper under the pile. Suddenly he squealed, "Hey you guys! I think I found something!" Kuwabara starts to dig out the rubble.
The boys went over to see what Kuwabara's found, suddenly, he screamed and backed away, "It's a ghost!"
Kurama went over to the so-called ghost and brushed off some cement pieces and dusts to reveal a girl.
"Relax Kuwabara, it's just a girl." Yusuke said half-laughing, "But wait, what's a girl doing underneath there? When we fought Kazuhiko and his demons, I don't think I remember seeing a girl here."
"Maybe the girl was wandering around outside the warehouse and it collapsed on her." Kuwabara guessed after he recovered from shock.
"Well whatever happened, we better get this girl to the hospital. She's badly hurt but lucky for her, she's still alive." Kurama suddenly said while he carried to girl in his arms.
"Leave that to me!" A perky voice that belonged to Botan suddenly came out of nowhere.
The boys, except Hiei and Kurama were frightened at Botan's sudden appearance. "Hey Botan, you gotta stop doing that!" Kuwabara complained while he catches his breath.
Botan ignored Kuwabara and went over to Kurama. She took a look at the girl and exclaimed, "Oh my, she's hurt pretty badly. We better get her to the Spirit World infirmary quickly!" She led the boys through a portal leading to Koenma's office.
Upon reaching Spirit World, the injured girl was rushed into the emergency room. The boys explained what they did at the warehouse and how they came to find the girl.
Koenma frowned at the thought that the thieves have escaped once again. But when he heard that the boys found a clue, he brightened up a little. He began to order an immediate search on the girl's identity to be made.
"Until we get the results, you boys are going to have to keep an eye on the her." Koenma said to the boys.
"Nani!?"
(Breathes sigh of relief) Chapter 1 is over... Now to think about whether I should continue or not... Please review D Pretty please, with Kurama on top xD Thankies for reading.