Catse: Hey people! Here's the first chapter of the third story of Dance of Swords called, Dance of Swords 3: Search for Revival. Of course you already know the summary from what I have written, but in any case here's the first chapter! Hope you like it! Well I'll go so you can read it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or its many characters, but I do own the ones I created. : )

"Sir, another one has been annihilated. What must we do?" Inquired a small man before the throne. He was short and scrawny, with large bulging eyes that revealed every feeling he had in the world no matter how much he tried to cover them up.

The room was dark, lit only by one small lamp that sat next to the throne, and the man sitting there had his legs crossed, the light shining off his glasses.

"I see. These…detectives are becoming quiet a nuisance…" There was silence for a moment as the man thought. The little one could not see him well for the darkness, and in fact, had never seen his master for all the years he had worked for him. He was merely lucky to be in the same room with him.

"Have a message sent. I want Dark Invader to take care of them."

"But sir! They are a group of four! Spirit World's most powerful and dangerous detectives! Are you certain you want Dark Invader to fight them! He may not survive!"

"Do as I say or your head will be the next on my wall of trophies. Understood."
The little man seemed to crumble beneath his master, and, trembling, he nodded. "Yes sir! It will be done as you ask sir!"

"Good. And Dismal?"

The little man looked up, and nearly shrieked when a dagger came flying at his head. It missed, but it left him in a shake of jitters that reached from his toes to his eyes. "Do not fail me."

The forest was silent. Not a bird peeped. Not a twig cracked. The sun was cast with clouds. The leaves danced on the winds in peace. The animals safely buried in their homes. Overhead, a cat like dragon creature flew, huge wings of lightning lifting it up as it scanned the area. He turned about a few times, and upon spotting what he was looking for, returned to his master with a chirp. Seika extended his arm out for Niko to land on, as Haku reviewed the plans.

"The enemy will search out a place to hide. Considering the forest is dense, we'll have to track him on foot. Seika, you will create a barrier around the perimeter of the forest."

Seika nodded, Niko settling into his shoulder quietly.

"Katai, we'll need you and Kenya to lure him into the clearing in the center. Once there I will trap him."

Katai snickered. Now a girl of fifteen, she had allowed her short squeaky dark brown hair to grow down to her waist, and her brown eyes seemed to dance mischievously as she looked over the map Haku had made in the dirt. She wore a pair of baggy shorts, and a t-shirt with an upside down catch phrase that one had to look at from a strange angle in order to read. She loved that shirt, and wore it as much as possible because it confused people, and gave her a reason to beat up on any one if they attempted to take the right angle to read it with.

Haku, now a boy of twelve, still was the smartest of their team. His red hair was still kept short and straight, his glasses a little smaller to frame his maturing face more, and his cerulean blue eyes seemed a little sweeter than the way they had been when he had first met his team. His apparel was simple: a plaid button up shirt and a pair of somewhat tight jeans that framed him well. Much different compared to four years ago, when his daily clothing was his school uniform.

Seika, the eldest of the team at seventeen, had decided a while back that he would not cut his hair, but let it grow out and keep it in a braid. When asked, he insisted he wanted to look cool, but Katai's only comment on it was that he looked like a girl. His grayish blue eyes danced like the winds, and he had of recent acquired an earring in his left ear, in which he stated made him look cool, but Katai insisted only made him more feminine. His pet Niko, red in fur and gold eyed in nature, sat on his shoulder with the cutest stance it could produce, with his cat tails wrapped around Seika's neck and one paw up to his dragon like mouth as he cleaned himself.

Kenya, now sixteen, was no where to be seen.

"Where is our leader anyways?" Katai inquired, standing up to look at the forest from the cliff they were standing on.

"He decided to get a closer view of the forest. You know him. He likes to know his surroundings." Haku answered, rubbing the plan in the dirt away with his shoe.

"Well, he better get back soon so we can review the plan with him."

Haku smiled. "He already knows the plan and is waiting for our signal to carry it out."

"What? Really? Okay, what signal?" Asked Katai, hands on hips.

Seika turned around to his teammates. "It has to be discreet, right?"

"If Niko could do one last run, I'd like him to tell Kenya to be ready?"

Seika glanced at the pet on his shoulder. "You ready to go little guy?"

Niko chirped and in an instant his electric wings had spouted and he was gone.

"How long will it take Niko to reach Kenya?" Katai asked, kneeling on the ground in preparation to jump.

"About two minutes. You better get going Katai." Seika answered as he placed his index fingers on his temples, concentrating on the barrier he was trying to rig up around the forest.

"Right, meet you on the ground!" Her legs extended and sent her flying over the cliff side, in which she stopped her freefall by landing on a branch. From there, she leapt to the forest floor and ran as fast as her well trained feet would carry her.

Haku stepped over to the cliff, and pulled a leaf out of his pocket. Upon throwing it to the air, it grew to be as large as a surf board, and he jumped on and floated to the clearing elegantly, gliding just above the trees.

Niko flew between the trunks, ignoring his instincts to follow certain peculiar scents as he followed Kenya's. Just ahead, he could hear the slight patting of Kenya's feet on the soggy ground and fallen limbs. His heart rate was fast, and his breath strained, proving that he had been running for a little while.

Niko increased his pace and finally came up to fly right next to Kenya.

"Chirp!"

Kenya glanced only a brief moment at the flying dragon cat, and smiled.

"I got it Niko. Just tell Katai to be ready. I'm going to the South side to keep him from that direction. Tell her to be in the East near the clearing."

"Chirp." Niko stated with a nod, and disappeared.

Kenya kept running, his quiet tennis shoes old and battered, but his favorite none the less. His pants were loose fitting, but not too baggy, and black considering he had picked up his father's taste for the color. His shirt was a simple loose hanging of cloth over his shoulders and chest, and his hair was still short and similar to Hiei's, only a tad bit longer.

He had grown taller too, coming to about an inch or so taller than his older sister Yoru had been, but he was still no match for Seika's six foot two height. Kenya kept no jewelry. He liked stealth and jewelry made noise. On his back were a re-creation of his Twin Dragon Blades, considering both had been destroyed four years ago during what had come to be called the War of the Innocent, by the evil scientist Lord Rioko. Kuwabara's demon friend, Ukiniki, had done the recreation, and instead of having the blades as normal silver, had transformed them into crystal masterpieces.

Kenya stopped for a moment to take a look around him. His eye-sight was the best of all of his friends because in the past, during their first mission, he had been bitten by a demon spider and the venom had done a slight change on his senses. He had the best sight, the best ability for scent, and the best ability to feel vibrations as if they were sounds, and over time he had come to attain a sort of mastery of them.

So far, from what vibrations he received from the forest, and what his eyes were telling him about the trees quivers, the demon they were after was running in a straight line out of the forest, perhaps hoping to find a hiding spot or a dwelling they wouldn't be able to locate him in. A sudden vibe entranced the forest, and Kenya smiled.

It looked as if the barrier Seika was to make was up and at full power, ready to hold everything that could possibly be held, in.

'Wonderful. Okay, now it's up to the rest of us.'

Kenya, stood for a moment to listen for where the demon was, and upon finding his vibration traces, took off after him.

About mid-way through the forest he could feel Katai, and figured she was almost to her right position at the East of the central point where Haku was waiting. The man he was chasing kept running the right way, and it seemed as if this mission was to go as planned.

Suddenly though, the man stopped, and began running to the West, completely diverting away from where he was being forced.

'Dammit! Looks like this will be a little more difficult than I thought. Alright…' Kenya stopped and closed his eyes, searching for an energy signal that would link to Seika.

Upon finding it, he opened his eyes.

"Hey! Seika! You readin' me?"

"Sure am Kenya. What's the problem?"

"The suspect is attempting an escape. Although he can't break through your barrier, there's always the chance that there might be and exit for him some where on the outskirts!"

"You want me to shrink it?"

"Yes."

"Alright. One much smaller barrier coming up!"

Another pang of vibrations erupted through the forest, causing leaves to fall around Kenya.

He smiled.

"Okay. Thanks Seika!"

"Don't mention it. After all, I'm bored as hell on this cliff top!"

"Don't you know the rest of the plan?"

"What do you mean by the rest?"

"Ah…sounds like Haku decided to hold out on the best part for you!"

"Oh no! Not again! I swear! Does he just do that for the kicks or something?"

"Don't know."

"What's the end of the mission?"

"Haku traps the guy and you get to have the fun of beating the hell out of him."

"Oh boy! He never told me that! I'm gonna have to hit him hard the next time I see him!"

"I'll have to talk with you later Seika. The suspect is now coming back to his original position. I have to keep him running. Over and out!"

"Over and out!"

Kenya sighed. Seika was the only one he could talk to through telepathy. Neither Haku nor Katai had the ability, and if they did, he didn't know about it.

He started running again, his red eyes looking over the trees as he kept in tune with the vibrations of the running.

He followed them, until the guy ran into the clearing where Haku was hiding, in which he felt that Katai had started chasing him as well.

Suddenly, another vibration erupted through the forest, and the barrier fell.

Kenya knew then, that they had him.

A few moments later, after running as fast as he could, brought him to the man they had been chasing. There was nothing of importance of the demon whatsoever, except that he was clutching a letter in his hands so tightly they were certain it would snip in half cleanly like a pair of scissors had gone through it.

The man was wrapped in a twining of vines with thorns that dug into his skin, and Haku stood behind him, his hand on a root that had risen out of the ground so he could control the tightness of the constriction he had produced as if it were a remote control. Katai stood off to the side, rubbing sweat from her eyes with Niko on her shoulder, looking around expectantly.

Seika jumped in at the last second, walking up to the guy.

"So this is the one that gave us all that trouble eh?" He inquired, glaring at the man's face. "You don't look like much."

The man spat in Seika's face and fought with the vines he was in, not caring one bit about the wounds it was causing.

"I will not talk with you you bastard!" The man snarled, razor sharp teeth showing through his lips.

"Hah! That the best you can come up with! You're worse than Haku when it comes to cussing!" Katai hollered with a chuckle.

"I heard that." Haku growled.

"Enough."

Everyone turned to see Kenya walking into the clearing, and quieted down.

Even the man stopped struggling, and stared, as if he knew his life depended on his actions.

Kenya took the opportunity of silence, to come up to the man and stare at him, face to face.

"Where were you headed?" He inquired, not even taking the time to ask for the man's name.

"None of you business!" He spat back, some of it landing on Kenya's face.

"Hey! You give some respect to him you little bastard!" Katai snarled, fist raised in preparation for a strike.

"Katai. That is enough." Kenya told her calmly. When she quieted down, he returned to the man. "So your main base is none of our business. You do realize who we are right?"

"Yeah! You're nothing but scum!"

"I'm sure we are, but we are not heartless beings. Tell us where you were heading, who sent you, and the information of that letter, and you will go free and we will forget about you. How about that?"

"I don't listen to spiky haired freaks!" he snarled.

"Kenya is not a spiky haired freak!" Seika snapped, but Kenya turned and glared at him to be quiet. Niko jumped from Katai's shoulder to land on Seika's with a chirp.

"I see. You are like the ordinary messenger. Haku."

Haku nodded and tightened the vines, the man giving a yelp of pain.

"Now don't get me wrong. I hate to see torture. But if you are a messenger for a being that will destroy the peace we have strived for four years to keep, then I will watch you suffer myself. Just tell us who sent you if you can, and we'll let you go."

"Never!" The man snarled, and before Kenya received the chance ask again, an arrow whizzed through and got him in the head, killing him instantly, but miraculously without blood.

"He's a decoy copy." Haku announced, as Kenya turned to find who had shot the arrow. A dark figure began to run away.

"Katai, Seika, track him down and capture him. He may have the answers we need." "Right!" They chorused, leaping away through the trees. The vines let go of the suspect, and Kenya reached down, patting his pockets in search for any sort of identification. He found none. Finally, reached over and picked the letter out of the man's hands, and opened it.

He read it, but found only one line of writing on the paper.

"This is a decoy. The real messenger will not be caught so easily. –The Dark Lord."

"It looks as if there is another following in Lord Rioko's and Shadow's footsteps." Haku murmured after reading the note.

"It seems all demons put that down as their new year's resolutions. Must take over world and everything in it." Kenya replied, just as Katai and Seika returned. "Well?"

"We couldn't find him. He managed to disappear before we could get a good tracking of him." Katai reported, and Seika huffed heavily from having run so fast.

"I see. Hm." Kenya closed his eyes and felt out the vibrations. There were none that would show where the man was. "He must be a flyer. That's why we can't locate him. Either that, or he can teleport."

"What do we do now?" Seika inquired, finally standing up straight as Niko tried to cool him off with use of his swishing tails.

"We head home. There's nothing left here to do."

"What did the note say?" Katai asked.

"Nothing much. Merely that this was a decoy and the real messenger is gone."

"Then why don't we go after him?"

"Because we have no idea of the route he has taken or even what to look for. We might as well head home and wait for further news." Haku answered simply.

"Right…." Katai mumbled.

"Oh yeah! Hey Haku! Why didn't you tell me the rest of the mission?" Seika inquired loudly.

"The rest of the mission? What do you mean?"

"The part where I beat the guy's ass in!"

"Oh that…I thought I had."

"Yeah right…You did it on purpose didn't you!"

"Did not."

"Did too!"

Kenya ignored them and turned to Katai, requesting a teleportation to Spirit World so they could report their findings.

She smiled and opened up the portal, and they entered.

At Spirit World, they're boss Koenma listened to their report with earnest. When they had finished, he announced that they should go home and get some sleep, and that Spirit World would inform them if anything happened. They returned almost happily.

Considering that their mission had started early in the day on a week day, they had skipped under the excuse that on some days, they had to go and teach at other schools and places like that as a group. The school understood, but made it a request that they couldn't leave unless their grades were in good condition, therefore Katai, Seika, and Kenya made sure to work extremely hard in school to ensure that they kept their grades higher. In fact, Seika had actually jumped a grade he had worked so hard, which was unusual for anyone other than Haku, so now he had tougher projects and work than everyone else.

Kenya and Katai remained in the same grade, and usually worked together on projects they had the same class for. They even studied together! Haku came by every once in a while with lunches, still claiming that his mother had cooked them, although by now they knew that was false. Haku's mother could no more cook than she could sew. Her usual hobby was writing novels and teaching at Harvard. Then again, many geniuses have trouble with common things. Take Haku for example. He has trouble the normal wrist watch unless it's digital, and yet he can give you a hundred line version of Pascal's Triangle on a board without even blinking.

In any case, because they were not in school, they decided to pick up their tiny siblings a little early.

When they got to the school, it was only a few minutes before the bell was to ring, so they waited.

When it did, it only took a moment to spot the three they were waiting for.

Satou Nohara, Tsuki Kuwabara, and the newest addition to the family, Yujiro Urameshi, came out of the school with large smiles on their faces as they talked. When the three noticed their older siblings, they came running in an instant.

"Kenya!" Satou exclaimed, running to him with a big smile on her face, to present him with a new picture she had taken with her new camera. Suta, their mother, had just given it to Satou because her birthday was a few days ago, and she had since been taking pictures like crazy with it.

"Seika!" Tsuki shouted, handing him a picture she drew in art class of a butterfly on a flower.

"This is beautiful." He announced. "I think I'll put it up in my room when we get home."

"Yujiro! Get you're little hiney over here!" Katai shouted, and, grumbling, Yujiro obeyed.

He was only four now, this being his first year in school, and still, even though school had tried to change him, he still didn't have a manner in his body. He loved to disobey anyone if he could, just to see their reactions.

Fortunately, there were two people he wouldn't do that with: Katai, and Keiko.

"Did you make anything in school today?" She inquired nicely.

"No." He replied, walking past her. "Let's go home now."

"Did you do anything today?"

"Nope."

"Kick any ass?"

"Nope. There was none to kick."
"Tell off a teacher?"

"Nope. There was nothing to be told off on."

"I see. Okay. Sounds like you had a boring day."

"Yep."

Yujiro was very different from his family. Where Yusuke and Katai were loud and loved to cuss and fight, he was more quiet, less likely to through an angry remark or punch anyone unless he was truly ticked off.

His hair was loose around his forehead, similar to when Yusuke didn't gel his, and his dark brown eyes revealed a sort of wisdom that a child of that age usually wouldn't have. He only got into arguments with Katai, never Yusuke, and usually, it ended with him winning. He was smart…not as much as Haku, but smart none the less.

"How did the mission go today?" Yujiro inquired as they began to walk home.

Yujiro only had one idle, and it was the same for all the others. He idled Kenya for his strength and ability to think before reacting. He thought that Kenya was one of the greatest people around.

"Not as well as we would have hoped. The man we chased was not the one we were looking for." Kenya answered.

"Oh."

They walked the rest of the way home with Satou and Tsuki the only ones really talking, telling about how their day went and how they were couldn't wait to get home to train. After all, they were trying to become detectives like the other kids, so they worked hard to get to the level they were at. In fact, they had been promised by Spirit World that the next easy mission that came around, they could accompany on, and the Spirit Detectives had agreed.

Catse: So, what did you think? Like it so far? This is only the first chapter, and I'm sorry it's late, but considering it's close to Easter, we've got all sorts of people coming into the house, so I wasn't really able to get around to uploading it and everything until now. Okay then, thanks for reading, and if you have any questions, just tell me! Ja Ne for now!