It was warm out. An oddly warm day in the middle of fall, though at the moment no one seemed too worried about the somewhat unusual weather as everyones attention was drawn toward the massive amount of water that was erupting out from every window and door of the elementary school building like a giant water fountain. 'another vandal' he thought to himself as the redhead stood on the sidewalk among the throng of people that had gathered around to examine the newest addition to the recent series of vandalism that had been plaguing the city. Only a few days beforehand a government building had been attacked, apparently by the large statue that had been on display outside the front of a large office building that housed several corporate headquarters. The statue seemed to have been thrown through the front of the building as though by a giant. These attacks and the others that had preceded them only ever had one thing in common, the words 'Think About It' had been painted on all of the sites but other than that it would have appeared to have been random attacks on seemingly random establishments, stores, arcades, fine restaurants etc.
The redhead was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts by someone saying "Its kind of beautiful, don't ya think?". He turned towards the question to see what appeared to be a young man a bit younger than himself wearing an old olive green wool hat, somewhat large dark sunglasses that hid his eyes, a dark somewhat puffy winter vest with a sleeveless shirt underneath and worn baggy jeans smiling up at the display as though truly admiring the spectacle before him like a fine piece of art in a gallery.
"excuse me?" he asked the young man only to have the boy turn his back and walk away with his head somewhat bent towards the pavement muttering something about getting out of the area before the police all arrived. He stared at the boys back puzzled for a moment before once again being snapped back to reality, this time by a very brash "Aww man why couldn't it have been our school?". He turned to see his friends Yusuke and Kuwabara standing there staring at the building that was still gushing water like a geyser.
"O hello." he responded.
"Man go figure, they go and turn an elementary school into a damn fountain but leave ours completely untouched. Not even a damn paint mark or something. Damn brats have all the luck" Yusuke griped clearly still somewhat tired from his last mission and in no way pleased about being forced to go to school.
"Who do you think it was Kurama?" Kuwabara inquired. Kurama looked back toward the building for a moment before answering "I have no idea. But I would imagine it's someone who feels they have a point to make."
"ya don't freaking say" was Yusukes retort "so what the he'll do ya think all this means then?"
"I havnt the foggiest" Kurama answered. -beep beep- Yusukes communicator went off and he groaned looking down on the compact in his hand as though it were some vial piece of trash that someone had just thrown at the back of his head.
"Just one day one freaking day is all I ask!" -beep beep- it continued clearly unaware or unperturbed by the fact that it may well have been facing imminent doom under the annoyed detectives heel.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?" he screamed at the blue haired reaper girl on the other end. She merely replied perky as ever "koenma needs to speak to you all right away" before hanging up.
"Just great just fucking great" Yusuke grumbled.
"Well at least we get out of school" Kuwabara noted, though it failed to brighten his friends mood any as all three men started off toward the park to find their elusive fire demon team mate.
"So, your mission is to find and capture whoever is behind these attacks. Understand?" the pint sized ruler concluded after briefing all four boys on a string of murders that he believed to be some kind of demonic plot against spirit world though he couldn't for the life of him figure out exactly what it was, he only knew that his father wanted the one responsible for the killings apprehended immediately. There had been a series of assassinations on very powerful and influential members of the mafia, black market and CEOs of major corporations in both human and demon world recently. While it would have seemed that none of them were related every attack had been executed almost perfectly by an expert assassin. No witnesses, no traces left behind and what's more, no bullet found in any of the victims though it was clear that something had penetrated their vital organs by the singular holes found in each of the bodies. All of this lead Koenma to believe it was a demon perpetrating these attacks and since they had been in both the human and demon worlds the killer could clearly move seamlessly between the two realms making them all the more dangerous.
"Koenma", the redhead started before they all started heading toward the doors to leave "do you think that these killings could have something to do with the string of terrorist attacks that have been going on in human world lately?". The small ruler considered this for a moment before answering, "I wouldn't think that they would, but all the same maybe two of you should survey the city and two should head to demon world to try and find this assassin. Who knows, there might be some connection" and with that all four boys left, Hiei and Kurama to demon world and Yusuke and Kuwabara to human world.