500 Years Later

Disclaimer: Don't own YYH or IY. Sorry to say.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Mind Speech

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Chapter 1: Getting a team

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A girl with waist length raven black hair with brownish streaks walked around the palace. She had beautiful honey brown eyes, and wore a long, elegant flower kimono, with only one layer.

Coming to a stop in front of a large wooden door, she knocked a few times softly, before being allowed to enter. Stepping into the room, she closed the door quietly, and stepped in front of a desk that a person, or rather, demon, was working at.

Looking up, the demon had pure golden eyes, with magenta eyeliner over them. On his forehead was a violet crescent moon, and on each of his cheeks, two straight magenta stripes. His long silver-white hair swayed a bit when he looked up. The white with a bit of yellow, haori just barely seen under the thick breast plate with spikes on it.

"What is it you need, Rin?" He asked, placing a strand of hair behind his ear.

"Lord Sesshoumaru, the Dark Tournament is coming in a few days. Did you receive the message?" Rin asked curiously, but not forgetting any of her manners. She was the only one that did not have to bow to him when coming into his presence.

"Yes. You are curious about the team I am going to take?" He asked, arching one elegant eyebrow.

"Yes. Also, will you be bringing any guests?"

Understanding where this was going, he gave an uncharacteristic smile, one he only gave to Rin. "You wish to invite them, you may. Would you like to choose the team?" He asked, holding out the papers for her to look over.

"Yes Milord." Taking the paper out of his hands, she held onto it with both hands in front of her. "Then we will pick them up later?"

He gave a curt nod. "After you choose the team. I have work to do, now Rin. Look them over, and we will retrieve the others in three days. You are dismissed."

Rin gave him a big smile and walked out of the room. Quickly, she made her way to her room to study the papers.

Sitting at her desk, she looked over the files. There were pictures with everything as well. This would be the third Dark Tournament, and she knew, as well as anyone else that the Rekai Tentai would be back in business soon.

Thinking things through a bit, she had the perfect team in mind. Only because they almost resembled the inu-gumi 500 years ago. They also seemed quite strong, if the charts here had anything to do with it.

Thinking through it carefully, she decided to find out what Koga and Ayame were doing with their pups, then come back to this later. Maybe they had some ideas on what team is the best choice. Nodding once, she got up and walked out of her room, putting the papers in a neat stack and closing the door.

She walked into the garden where Koga and Ayame were. They had come by earlier to see what was up with the Tournament, and to make sure everything was alright here. Sure, Koga wanted to go to it badly, but Ayame almost beat him up for not waiting until they were asked to go.

It was actually quite funny to watch the two, but watching the pups were a different story. They had an older boy, who had long black hair and green eyes. In her opinion, he acted too much like a Miroku-Koga mix. That just scared her. The boys name is Hitoshi, who is about three years younger than her in human years.

The girl on the other hand was quite nice, once you got to know her. She had long reddish orange hair with a smoky type of blue eyes. Her personality was sort of a Sango-Kagome mix. The girls name is Hitomi, who was about maybe twelve human years younger than Rin, herself.

Both Hitomi and Rin's favorite past time? Attaching themselves to their nee-san's and oba-san's.

Coming up to the garden, she found the wolves to be sitting down, arguing about something. Sure, she was still afraid of them, but with anyone she knew well close by, she was fine. She had also gotten use to them a while ago, say…maybe about 400 years ago.

Walking up to them, she sat down on her knees.

"About the Dark Tournament…" She trailed off, catching their complete attention, then smiled. "Would you like to come?"

Immediately, Koga replied without hesitation. "Yes! What team are we supposed to be rooting for?"

Ayame smacked his arm, giving him a glare, then calming down and looking at Rin with a motherly look in her eyes. "Will the others be coming as well?"

Rin smiled, then found the two kids also staring at her. Turning back to Koga and Ayame, she answered them both. "Yes I was planning to bring them and what about the human team? Would you mind that?"

Koga stared for a few seconds, thinking about it. "I have never been to the DT, so…ummm…cou-"

"May we see the paper on them?" Ayame interrupted. "If you chose so fast, they must be to your liking. Why did you choose them?"

"It's kind of like the old group. You know…the shard hunting group, a.k.a. the Inu-gumi? I think it would be interesting. Sure they didn't win the last tournament, but they won the first one when they didn't have experience with it. So, yeah…"

"I think I agree with you. Look how many people thought they could stand up to them and ended up losing! I like your decision."

Rin shook her head. "Nee-san said that it is all of us that made up the Inu-gumi, not just them. We all worked as a team. Therefore, we are all the Inu-gumi. Including Kikyo-though she is—was dead."

Koga and Ayame smiled. The other two kids not knowing what was going on, stared at them.

"What's the Inu-gumi?" Hitomi asked, looking at her mother curiously.

"You'll find out as soon as we are all together." Ayame answered.

"Well, what's the team called?" Hitoshi asked, not liking being left out of the conversation.

"You'll find out when everyone else is here." Rin said, a teasing glint in her eye. "Well, I better go tell Lord Sesshoumaru of the team. When does the tournament start again?"

"About…three months…yeah, three months." Koga looked up at the sky then. "You better hurry up. I bet he thought you were coming back a while ago."

Laughing lightly, Rin quickly ran inside to her room, then back to Sesshoumaru's office. Papers in hand.

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"Rin."

"Yes?"

"What team did you decide?"

"I think you'll find it suitable enough. The one closest to what it was like in the past." She answered, playing her nee-san's favorite game of getting straight to the point, knowing he was too busy to even read over the stuff with all of the paper work he has.

"Rin." Sesshoumaru said, barely visible agitation seeping into his voice. "You are avoiding the team name."

"Oh! I didn't know you wanted the name!" Rin joked, fake surprise sneaking into her voice and eyes widening a bit.

"Rin…"

"This one." She said, setting down a piece of paper, then setting the others over to one side.

Raising a brow, he commented. "Some demons and humans will want them in the tournament for their team, and some to see them suffer and die. You are positive?"

When she nodded, he took a piece of paper, and a pen. Handing it to her, she began to write the letter that would go straight to spirit world. When finished, she handed it back, and he signed it, by only drawing a crescent at the bottom.

"You did not write your name." Rin stated, staring at the paper.

"Yet they know me all the same."

Smiling, Rin replied. "Then they will know that you normally do not participate in this kind of thing, and that the first time you do, you are going to give the poor demi-god a heart attack? How sad…"

"Jaken." When the little green toad with big yellow eyes came quickly squawking in, he continued. "Give this letter to Yana. Then send Rin and Akira-if he pleases- to retrieve the others."

"Yes Lord Sesshoumaru!" Quickly waddling out of the room, he went with Rin to find Yana- the messenger for many years- as fast as possible.

Coming to a stop in front of the dinning room doors, Jaken opened it and walked in to find both of the people he was looking for. "Yana! You must take this to the prince of Rekai."

The said leopard youkai stood up and took the slip from him, then walked out the door. Her darkish orange hair swaying behind her, as her kind red eyes looked back at Rin, her baggy black pants tied around her waist, with a dark red tight shirt tucked in. Turning back around, she left a message for the girl.

Shippo is looking for you. He should be training now.

'Thanks Yana.'

Don't mention it.

"Lord Akira!" Jaken squawked. "You are to take Rin to go fetch the others." Then he walked out of the room.

"You do have a choice, you know." Rin said, turning to the dragon demon before her.

He has long bluish-green hair down to his waist, with sunning blue eyes that always seemed to have a joyful look in them. He wore a black haori and hakama, except his haori has blue streaks treading through the sleeves. Over his eyes were light blue eye shadow and two light blue smooth stripes on each cheek. On his forehead was the mark of the east, a clover like thing in green.

"Now why wouldn't I take you to them? I have a reason to go through the barrier, don't I?" Akira said teasingly. "I'll take you quickly so you may speak to Shippo about the team."

"Which one are you choosing, Lord Akira?" Rin asked, walking beside him to the front of the castle.

"A team? I think I will just stick with you guys on this. Besides, wouldn't want to go against them. Geez, she'd probably fry me if I was rooting for someone else." Akira laughed, along with Rin on that.

"I bet she would. Especially since we have all been training our butts off for the last 500 years."

"Very true. Very scary. Hope no one gets them made. They might kill everyone before they even get a chance to fight! Hahahaha"

"Well. Let's go!" Rin said as Akira picked her up and made a portal out of the Makai.

---Rekai---

Yana popped up right in front of a desk, startling pretty much everyone in the room. She quickly did a scan on everyone in the room.

The grim reaper to her right, wore a pink kimono, while having pink eyes and blue hair in a high ponytail. She seemed really cheerful.

Behind her, she knew, there were two of them. One was in a corner by a wall, currently glaring at her back. A demon, or course. He has red eyes with gravity defying black hair with a starburst in the middle front. He wore almost all black except for the white scarf around his neck and gauze thing on his forehead.

The other has flaming red hair with emerald green eyes. He wore a reddish pink school uniform. He was currently looking at her with curiosity; clearly he had a kitsune inside of him, from what Yana could tell.

The ones on her left seemed human enough, though she knew for a fact that one was a hanyou. He, at this point, had short gelled back black hair, and wore a green school uniform. He has honey brown eyes that were also glaring at her.

Then lastly was the guy with the orange hair in an Elvis style. He has brown eyes that just so happened to creep her out the way he was staring at her. '…kind of like the letch…' He was quite tall, and also wore a blue school uniform.

Then right in front of her, behind the desk, was the one she needed to give the letter to. He has an overly large hat, which had the letters JR in the middle of it. He wore a blue shirt, the same color as his hat, with yellow pants and a red sash around his waist. His eyes are also a brown color.

"Koenma, sir. This is your team? Where is your fifth member?" Yana asked, calmly stepping forward.

"Who are you!" The half demon yelled out.

She ignored him, continuing to wait for a reply.

"We will find one in due time. Why do you ask?" Koenma asked curiously, sitting forward in his chair.

Handing him the slip of paper, she listened and watched for his response.

Koenma, she found, almost had a heart attack. He stared wide eyed at her, before stuttering anything out.

"W-w-we w-wou-would love to b-be Lo-Lord Sess-Sesshoumaru's team!" The paper fell from his hands onto his desk.

"Very well." She said bowing. "You are also the team of Lord Akira's. Train up and find a fifth member. If you cannot, we will give you one-at a price. You better be at full strength when it is time for the tournament in three months. The normal area. Good day."

When she was just about to leave, a flashing button caught her eye.

"A really strong demon just went through a portal with a human." Koenma stated, looking at his detectives, then noticed she did not leave yet.

"Do not worry about them. They came to retrieve something, but will do no harm to you, if you do no harm to them. They are under the orders of Lord Sesshoumaru." Sure enough the button stopped blinking as soon as they reentered the makai. "Good day." Then left.

To Be Continued…

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Vocab.

Kaa-san----mother

Ba-san----aunt

Nee-san----sister (Older)

Nii-san----brother (Older)

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