Chapter 1: The Mission
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"What's up now pacifier mouth?" Yusuke said bored as ever. The Rekai prince shrugged off the insult the now 22 year old young man used against him. It had been years since Koenma had seen Yusuke and even longer since he had seen the rest of the team. He had hoped that their next meeting would be one of genuine happiness and carefree, but as usual his hopes were diminished. The young prince sighed and looked away from the team.
"It's been a while." He stated simply as if trying to bring light to a dark and dreary situation. Yusuke cocked an eyebrow.
"Okay…" he mumbled in attempt to try and come up with a smartass comment to get an explanation from Koenma. "What is this a reunion?" he finally sarcastically remarked, "As much as I love parties I would rather them in a setting where my head is not on the most wanted list."
"I know Yusuke," Koenma said sadly, "Believe me when I say this is not the way I wanted any of this to go. I never believed for second, and still don't, that you are some kind of horrible monster." Koenma glared at the wall his eyes were fixated on and clinched his fists angrily. "It just doesn't make any sense! We can allow two demons to work alongside our spirit detective, but our actual spirit detective can't have a little demon blood?! How that hell does that make any sense?!" Four sets of eyes stared at Koenma in shock.
"Koenma…" Yusuke tried, but trailed off when he realized that he had absolutely nothing he could say. Koenma sighed attempting to control his rage.
"Forget it." He whispered and turned back to the team. "For this next period of time all of you will not be targets. As for afterwards, I am unsure."
"K." Yusuke said as usual glancing at the team standing beside him. It had been so long since he had seen all of them. Kuwabara and Yukina were now engaged, much to Hiei's disappointment. The little three eyed demon still he not informed either the "fool", as he so kindly put it, or Yukina about his little relation secret. He glanced at Kurama. If possible, the fox found a way to be even more appealing. He never like Kurama as more than a friend, but he knew when to admit someone was beautiful and the fox was most definitely radiating beauty. He had heard from Shiori that Kurama had graduated college and was now starting a true career. He would be a botanist and work with engineers in hopes to create more efficient and effective methods of creating energy through the use of plants. It sure suited the fox well. As for himself, well he and Keiko were married now and Keiko was expecting as anytime. The two were still debating on whether or not human world was still safe for them or if they would be best to flee to demon world. Either way, they would spend the rest of their lives fighting to keep themselves safe. Yusuke redirected his attention back to the prince.
"My father has a mission for the four of you."
"You can stop right their, prince." Hiei interrupted darkly. "My allegiance to you Spirit world has long past expired. I refuse to continue and be its slave. I have a life of my own now far from your misguided judgment." Koenma nodded,
"I had a feeling you would say that Hiei."Koenma stated simply.
"Oh?" The fire demon inquired now curious.
"However," the prince continued, "perhaps you should wait and hear the mission before you irrationally decide not to be involved." The fire demon growled, but surprisingly held his tongue.
"Fine Koenma we get it." Yusuke said bored yet again, "Can you just spill the beans already? If I don't get home soon Keiko is going to kick my ass." Kuwabara snickered,
"Geez Urameshi, I knew you were whipped in high school, but I didn't know Keiko was the one wearing the pants." He laughed loudly.
"Shut it Kuwabara!" The raven haired boy yelled angrily, "Or do you want me to kick your face in to a point that even Yukina can't fix it?!" Kuwabara opened his mouth to retort, but Kurama interrupted the both of them.
"If the two of you finished I would like to hear the rest of what Koenma had to say," Kurama's eyes flashed gold dangerously, "if that is okay with you all." Kuwaraba laughed nervously and Yusuke smiled,
"Awe lighten up fox boy," He said walking over to his and patting his back, "Besides, foxy I thought you rid your dark and 'evil Youko' side?" Kurama sighed,
"Not exactly Yusuke. It is true that during out battles in the Makai that I was having trouble juggling all three personalities. However, as I aged so did my ability to juggle all three adequately." Kurama glanced at Yusuke and smiled, eyes gold yet again. "However, if you wish to talk to Youko you need not ask twice." A dark smirk now covered the normally docile human features. Yusuke laughed.
"Whatever Kurama, I could care less who I am talking to. Afterall to me you are still just the plain old Kurama I've always been around foxylicious or not." Kurama merely shook his head his eyes returning to their emerald shade. He turned back to Koenma who took that as his motion to proceed.
"As I was saying before I believe this will interest all of you. Recently, my father received word of a human made facility that specialized in genetic testing. It was said that these humans could not only manipulate the gentic coding a creature possessed, but that they now harnessed the power to combine DNA from two separate strands and create one infused with both strands. This new strand, which would eventually develop into a living creature, you possess traits from the strands that were used to create it. With word of this my father became worried, especially when he found out that some of the DNA strands they were using were coming from demons." The prince glanced at the four and then continued. "Not wanting the humans to create a uncontrollable being that could not be stopped and would ultimately lead to the destruction of the Earth, my father sent in his SDF unit to shut the place down. However, what they informed him after completion of the mission was that one of the creations was missing from those gathered up. When the unit went back to find the missing specimen they returned empty handed. Desperate, my father demanded that we search through all of the files to determine who and what it was we were looking for. It was here that we were successful. The specimen missing was experiment 1289. This specimen was a creation from two powerful A class demons DNA. What's worse is that the creature was also infused with an extra kick of power ranking it in the S class. Now here is where is gets interesting. This so called creature was not supposed to have been created. The doctor behind it's creation did it merely by mistake. His name is Walker Smith. Doctor Smith tragically lost his daughter 6 years before when she died suddenly in a car accident. Driven to madness and grief he became obsessed with his work of genetic experimentation. Thus he was the one who created this lab in which these experiments were being done. The man he partnered with was a member of club similar to the Black Black Club. His name was David Taylor. The two of them joined up with David providing money and power and Doctor Smith providing the brains behind the operation. Doctor Smith went into this deal with the understanding recreating a daughter would be top priority." Koenma opened his eyes narrowing them slightly, "Mr. Taylor had other objectives however. He used the doctor so that he could hire others who could learn from Doctor Smith and create an army that would follow Mr. Taylor and lead to the destruction of the world. Upon realizing this, Doctor Smith decided to take matters into his own hands. He used the DNA that Mr. Taylor had specifically storn away because of the power it held. He also used the chemical make-up Mr. Taylor has as well to create his daughter. He wanted her to be powerful and unable to die in something like car crash so that he would never lose her. He began his creation of her one year ago and infused her genetic make-up traits and memories his deceased daughter possessed so that she would believe herself to be his as much as he wanted her to. Once she was created he took his daughter and left the lab. By the time we had arrived the two were long gone and Mr. Taylor still was unaware of Doctor Smith's betrayal, that is until we informed him. We had no record of the DNA the doctor used and we needed to know just what we were dealing with. From what we have narrowed out the doctor and her escaped to the northern part of Tennessee."
"In the US?" Yusuke asked in shock. Koenma nodded.
"Hn, you still have not told me why I should be interested." Hiei spat, "What do I care if some human genetically creates mutated demons to destroy the world?"
"Because Hiei," Koenma said calmly, closing his eyes. "The DNA used was yours and Kurama's."