Summary: Based on The Last Mazoku by Tellemicus Sundance, how I see the Dark Tournament going. The world around Keiko is once again in danger. This time, it really is in the hands of herself, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Raizen and Genkai to save everyone that they care about from being harmed by the Dark Tournament. Add into it the wish that each of them gets to make if they win, something that has Keiko slightly torn as to why she is really in this fight. She now has the opportunity to find out what happened to her childhood best friend whom she remembers nothing other than the mistreatment that had befallen him. Will she take it? Will Raizen try to stop her from finding out the truth about him, as he hasn't won the right to go by the name she knows him as yet?

Authors Note: Hello everyone. For those of you that are wondering, this is a story based on Tellemicus Sundance's The Last Mazoku. I got permission from the original author before I started to write it, as it's their story and felt that it was the right thing to do. No back stories have changed from that story, and it is strictly my thought on how the Dark Tournament is going to go.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story. Nor do I own the back stories. Each belong (respectively) to either Tellemicus Sundance or Yoshihiro Togashi.

Rated T for strong and suggestive language.

The Last Mazoku: Dark Tournament

Chapter 1: A Forceful Invitation

Keiko's POV

It was just another normal day, for everyone who had no idea about the supernatural. For me, being the Reikai Tantei, it was one of those few days where everything seems to go back to the way it was before I had my meaningless death by a car. You know, ditching class (unless I had to be there for a test), beating the crap out of those idiots who think they can take me in a fight, teasing Kuwabara about the last time we had an fight and I won. Unfortunately, it never stays that way. This time was weird though, as the Toguro brothers were back. I thought that they were gone when Kuwabara, the cocky, perverted bastard Raizen and I destroyed that building and saved Yukina-chan. Apparently, those two are a hell of a lot better at surviving a building collapsing on them than I thought possible.

To make matters worse, I found all of this out when I found a note on my door (that clearly was written on something that normal people can't read) saying that my parents have been kidnapped AGAIN, and if I wanted them back I needed to come to this abandoned warehouse and fight Toguro. First Hiei does it, and now these two idiots! When will these demon's learn that that only makes me stronger?

"What the hell do you want this time, Toguro?" I yell as I enter the warehouse, ready for anything. With how long I have had the job of Reikai Tantei, it's become second nature fast to be prepared for anything.

He came out of his hiding spot in the shadows, his bother perched on his shoulder like a strange bird/snake thing, with that constant straight face, eyes hidden behind those stupid sunglasses. Despite this, I could almost hear a slight smirk in his voice as he said: "I want nothing from you, other than a rematch."

God, I can't stand this guy. He's worse than Raizen... Wait, no one is worse than that pervert. "Just let my parents go, and I will fight you into the ground, you creep!"

"I think not," hissed his brother, as the big guy suddenly charged me.

What do you know, I am in a fight for my life. Nothing new there, at least when it comes to my cases. I had already been ready for the fight to start to break out.

As we exchanged blows, which was mainly him dodging mine and landing his own, he began to say some things that I found very surprising. Like how there was a tournament coming up that demons fight in with an interesting first price. At first, I don't believe him. Not that I don't believe that demons wouldn't have a tournament to fight each other, but I think that they would just do that for the hell of it. Especially after hearing Raizen, Yukina, Hiei and Kurama talk about what it's like in the Makai. Then he asks a question that causes me to freeze.

"Haven't you ever wondered what happened to your childhood best friend?" clearly too much smugness in his voice as he says this.

I hadn't told anyone about that part of my life. Not the Reikai, nor Genkai, and I sure as hell haven't bought it up with any of the guys. How the hell does Toguro know about a piece of my past that no one knows about but me? How the fucking hell could he know about the reason I fight?

"What the fuck do you mean?"I yell, clearly pissed off. How dare he bring that up! My own parents don't remember him, no one does really. Just me.

"Fight in the tournament," he stated as if it was the simplest thing in the world. "You really have no choice in the matter."

"What the fucking hell do you mean I have choice in the matter?" I spat at Toguro, sending a good kick into his ribs. And Raizen says I can't fight youkai shit when I'm pissed beyond belief. HA! That will show him!

"If you want to protect the people you care about, like your parents, you don't have a choice in the matter, Yukimura. Everything you care about will be destroyed unless you fight in the tournament," he snarled. Great, now it's blackmailed into fighting for my life, and everyone else's. As if I wasn't far enough from normal. "And if you win, you can make a wish relating to your best friend."

I can't help but think about it for a minute. I know I need to protect everyone, it's in my damn job description as a Reikai Tantei. Koenma would kill me (again) if I didn't do it. But then there's that fact that I could have so many unanswered questions finally brought to closure. Like my memories of him with his looks an name, or what the hell happened to him all those years ago. Most importantly, where is he now, is he alive even. But could I live with myself if everything back fires?

"When is the damn thing?" I say. He knows he's won me over to this crazy invitation. "I'm not going to let all those people be killed because of me."

"I knew that you would see it my way. And don't worry, you have time to train."

After that, he sent a massive youki blast at me, knocking me out cold. The last thought to come across my mind was that my best friend, and how I would find him again one day soon.

Normal POV

Genkai's Temple

Everything was quiet, nothing strange as far as the three inhabitants of the temple could tell, until the day got close to mid-afternoon. Yukina was sitting having some tea with Genkai while Raizen was training (as always).

As Genkai and Yukina were finishing their tea, there was a strange youki that appeared in the temple. Both women wondered what could possibly be going on. Youkai generally didn't go anywhere near Genkai's temple, as Genkai was well known for not liking their company. The exception to this rule was the members of Keiko's little gang, who rarely came near the place, and Yukina who had been living there since she had been rescued by the Tantei and her friends, refusing to return to the land of the Ice Maidens.

"Hello Genkai-san. It has been a long time." The youkai said when they came across the two women. It was wearing an all black suit with a blood red tie. Genkai hadn't seen an outfit like that in over 50 years, and she shouldn't be seeing it now.

"Who the hell are you and what the hell do you want? I'm busy." the elderly women snapped at the youkai.

"I am here to request that you participate in the in this year's Tournament."

"You have no right to. I was forced into it 50 years ago, and my wish then gives the committee no reason to even ask me to join that meaningless bloodbath again. My answer is n..."

"Toguro-sama extends the invitation personally," the youkai hurriedly interrupted. "As your apprentice is in the tournament."

Genkai's eyes grew to the size of baseballs at the mention of Keiko. She quickly turned to Yukina and said: "Go find the idiot and let him know that the girl's in danger. Have him bring her back her, NOW!"

"Yes, Genkai-sama." Yukina said as she ran off to find Raizen. Both knew that he would be able to find the young Reikai Tantei.

Raizen was in the forest doing his usual training until Keiko turned up to yell at him as she always did. In the time that he had been in the Ningenkai, this had become his favorite part of the day. He simply loved seeing how his childhood friend, though she didn't know that it was him, had changed in the years he had been missing. She had grown stronger, and more distant from her family. He wondered regularly what had caused that, but Raizen didn't push that matter. He could not reveal himself just yet, not to Keiko-chan at least. Little did he know that she would not be coming on her own today.

Yukina came running through the forest, yelling his name, causing him to stop his training. He cared about the Ice Maiden very much in the way one would care about a sister, something he was sure Hiei was glad for.

"Where's the fire, Yukina-chan?" he asked when she came to a stop in front of him and tried to catch her breath. "It's not like you are going to be kidnapped again and forced to cry by some bastard."

"Keiko-san is in danger!" Yukina exclaimed. Raizen was gone before the word "danger" was even finished.

Raizen's POV

How could that moron be so stupid! I found myself yelling in my head. I don't even know what danger that baka youro got herself into this time, but I should have been able to tell. I mean, I keep tabs on where she is constantly, via her reiki. The last time I physically followed her around, she slapped me damn hard. I still could, and probably should have today, actually follow her around all day, but I think she just needed some space.

I take a deep breath as I continue to run. I need to calm down a bit if I am going to be of any use in this. Focus on her reiki, you know it well enough to track it from the Makai by now. Just focus and follow. Everything will be just fine. And if not, well, there will be quite a bit of hell to pay for whoever did this.

After I manage to reign in my outrage a bit, Keiko's reiki was easy to find. It's weaker than usual though, so I know I have to hurry. I can't help but question why the hell she is in an abandoned warehouse though. Seriously, if it's about a case, she should know not to go in without at least the buffoon to assist her.

I run into the building, looking around frantically. "Oi! Keiko!" I yell, when I spot her on the floor with a huge pail of rubble around her. Running over to the fallen girl, I collapse to my knees at her side and to a quick assessment of her injuries. The worst of it seems to be a few broken bones, like her ribs. It will be painful, but she has survived worse.

"I'm going to take you to Genkai so you can get healed up, you idiot." I tell her, though she is still unconscious and doesn't have a damn clue what I am saying or doing.

Strangely enough, the buffoon ran into the warehouse at that moment, looking around to find Keiko and I with the former being carefully scooped into my arms. "YUKIMURA!" he yells like the imbecile that he is and runs at us.

Keiko lets out a small groan, likely in pain from the injuries that she has sustained from her fight with God knows who. She swarms a little bit too.

"Hey, hold still, stupid. Your pretty badly hurt and that won't help you at all." I snap sending her a soft glare. I've never been able to handle seeing her in pain. Something's never change, I guess.

"My... my parents..." she rasps. "We need to get them out of here."

So that's why she was here, and in this fight. Someone got a hold of her parents. Are the Reikai criminals really that stupid as to cause Keiko to come after them to save her parents? I mean, even I know she has some issues with them, but cares enough to fight like a cornered cat youkai when it comes to getting her parents back.

"We need to get you out of here too, Yukimura." the buffoon, whom I am not sure I will ever really respect, said in his idiotic nasally voice.

"Get them out first..." she managed to whisper before falling back into the land of unconsciousness.

I turned to the buffoon, a serious look on my face. "You get her folks. I got her."

"But-" he began to protest.

"No buts, Kuwabara. Her parents don't know a damn thing about me and won't trust me. Plus, the Tantei has been doing everything she can to keep me from even meeting them. They at least know you and would, possibly, find you trustworthy." I order. Spending all that time around my psychopath ancestor and basically rule the kingdom of the Mazoku has really helped me with the whole giving orders thing. The buffoon just nods and goes about the job given to him.

When he comes back, I have him bring Keiko-chan's parents to their house, and hopefully the two of them will think that this was all some crazy ass dream. I tell Kuwabara to stop by Genkai's when he's done. Something tells me that this is a lot bigger than just Keiko-chan getting into a fight.

Normal POV

Outside to Minamino residents

Kurama could not believe everything that had happened that day. Especially since it had seemed so normal at the start. However, by the time he was home from school he had found out that the day was anything but normal.

He was approached by a youkai dressed similarly to the one that went to Genkai, though he had not known it at the time. The youkai informed him that, because of his work with the Reikai Tantei, he was being forced to participate in that year's Dark Tournament. Something that he had not heard about in his fifteen years in the Ningen, and hardly hear about before that.

"I do not see how you would be able to force me to do something like this. You have no power over me." Kurama had told the youkai. The response that was given to him in return made his blood run colder than ice.

"If you refuse, we will simply kill your dear mother."

He could not allow for that to happen. The woman had done nothing wrong, and knew not of who he really was. He had to join the fight. He wondered if he should bring this up at all with the Tantei, as something told him that she would be there as well.

Somewhere in the Makai

Hiei was finally back home. Or, as close to a home as he had ever had. He despised that Ningenkai, everything about it. Though it now held what was the closest things he had to friend, as well as his dear sister who knew not whom he was, he could not bring himself to care for the place or its people. And really, he never needed friends and thought of them as a weakness. He could not afford weakness.

As he was wandering, he came across a youkai in the same outfit as those that had visited Genkai and Kurama. He had no idea of this of course. He was just happy to be home and in a place that was more his style.

"You are here by invited to participate in the Dark Tournament, Hiei of the Jagan." the youkai said, bowing slightly to the small fire youkai.

"Hn." Hiei replied. He kept walking, as he really did not give a damn about the Tournament.

"If you do not participate, we will go after your dear, sweet twin sister and kill her."

That caught Hiei's attention. What was with these fools and thinking that it would be a good idea to go after Yukina. She didn't even know who he was, and it would make no since to her.

"Try, and I will personally slit your throat." Hiei snarled.

"I am glad that you have agreed." and with that, the random youkai disappeared, leaving Hiei to his thoughts on how to kill the bastard.

Okay, I think that that is good for now. Will Keiko reveal to the gang what Toguro wanted of her? How will they react?

Also, I couldn't resist having a little bit of a change in the dynamic between Keiko and Raizen.