Not How It Seems
Summary: A series of unfortunate events reverts Kurama back to his childhood form, in addition also separates him from Youko. And what's worse, Yusuke's also transformed. They transfer to Conan's school and possibly end up in more chaos that they want.
YYH time-frame: After the DT, but before Chapter Black, Kurama's mom is still living alone and isn't married yet. Plus, the guys are still somewhat recovering from their fights and Yusuke doesn't know about his demon genes. lol
And just so there isn't any confusion. I'll be calling the human side of Kurama by what the others call him, so Kurama(though, Youko will refer to him as Shuichi) and the demon side will be called Youko.
Rune: I finnaly got around to starting my first fanfic. *grin* Now tet's start this!
Kurama: Aren't you forgetting something?
Rune: If I must... I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Detective Conan/Case Closed, so don't sue! If I did Youko and Kurama would be separated somehow and Kuronue would still be alive. -.-
Chapter 1: And once again we don't know it all...
"Ahhhhhh!"
A frustrated scream echoed through the dusty old warehouse. It was, for the lack of better word, completely and utterly empty, if you don't count the numerous spiders skittering around and the slight squeaking of rats here and there. Two people stood not far from the entrance, one of the two had short gelled jet-black hair and brown eyes. He wore a green school uniform and quite frankly put looked like a street punk. The other, on the other hand, was the complete opposite. He had long, flowing rose-red hair and emerald eyes. He wore a white chines-styled outfit(like the one he wore during the start of the Dark Tournament) and looked extremely well-mannered and smart. They were an unlikely match, though they seemed to know each other very well.
The second looked at his partner and let out a frustrated sigh.
"Yusuke, please do calm down. We won't find anything if you keep screaming the roof down on our heads."
"Ok Kurama... I'll save it for the damn toddler once we finish this." the spirit detective smirked, imagining his encounter with the child ruler of Spirit World.
Indeed, this teen was a spirit detective. His job was it to track down demons that committed crimes and bring them back to spirit world or kill them. The other was also a part of the team. They had two other members but according to Koenma, their 'boss', they weren't needed in this mission.
"Indeed, let us just get this mission over with. I myself would like to say a few things to Koenma, seeing as he once again gave us too little information on the item and demon we are supposed to be after." A small frown was placed on the handsome fox's features.
The young detective turned his head to look at the fox demon. "And it was supposed to be such an easy job too! Just getting an artifact from this week demon..."
He was about too keep rambling, if a small hand signal from his partner wouldn't have stopped him. The read-haired kitsune motioned towards a window and past that at the dark figure that was walking past it.
The two quickly sprinted towards a shadowy corner, hoping that they weren't yet spotted.
The moment the demon entered Kurama used his famous rose-whip to cut the demon down.
"Well, that wasn't so bad." Yusuke mumbled as he watched the box holding the artifact fall to the floor and went to retrieve it. But as always, something unexpected happened. As soon as he opened the box a smoke shot out and enveloped the two detectives.
The pain swept through them and they felt like their bones were melting away, finally they couldn't hold back anymore and two piercing screams echoed as the darkness consumed them.
-oOo-
Unfocused emerald eyes slowly blinked open as their owner slowly sat up, his head felt like it was splitting in two. Kurama raised a small hand to his forehead and then stopped dead in his track.
He looked at his hands and then at his body. He made a swift move to stand up, but almost fell flat on his face, his clothes were now much too big for him. As you probably already guessed it, he had literally shrunk down in size, his current body was about six or seven years old. He looked the same as he did before, just smaller, he even had his long hair. But that wasn't what caused him the most terror, he couldn't feel Youko's presence inside him like he usually did. 'Where... where is he? I've always felt his presence to some degree, but now there is absolutely nothing! ...Youko...' His panicked green eyes darted around until they landed on something white and he, without thinking, rushed to it. It really was Youko, but as he reached to shake the silver fox awake the other tackled him to the floor, growling slightly.
"Y...Youko?" Kurama mumbled in shock, like his body, his voice too had turned into that of a child. The last thing he had expected was seeing his other half in person, right before him, much less being attacked by him.
The silver blinked and his yaw dropped. "Shuichi? How the hell did THIS happen?" The fox climbed off of his other self and stared down at himself. He looked no different than in his adult humanoid form, even his clothes were the same and unlike Kurama's they actually fit in size.
After calming down slightly the red-head stood and looked at Youko. "It seems that in addition to separating us it also made us look like six-year-olds. But what about Yusuke? We need to find him!"
Just then a small groan was heard not far from where they stood and they looked over, seeing a child version of the spirit detective rubbing his head. The boys chocolate eyes turned too look at the two and his eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"Kurama? Wit a minute! There are two Kuramas? And they both look like freaking kids!" Yusuke shot up and tried to run to them, but he didn't get too far, seeing as he tripped over his now far too big clothes.
Youko nearly burst out laughing at that, but Kurama shot him a quick look and ran over to his fallen friend, helping him up.
"Are you ok Yusuke? And to answer your question, the artifact must have separated me and Youko while we were turned into our child-like versions. The same goes for you, except the separation part of course."
"Wait... so you're telling me we all turned into little kids because of that stupid box that dumb toddler sent us after?"
This time Youko took it upon himself to answer.
"Yes. This whole thing kind of reminds me of the box Ureshima used against me and Shuichi during the dark tournament, only this time it turned out a little different."
"Huh? I don't remember that..." Yusuke scratched his the back of his head slightly.
"That was during the match when you were away, mastering the spirit wave."
"Oh, that makes sense. You used something like that when you turned into Youko during your fight with Karasu right?"
Both red and silver shuddered at the mention of that name, it was hard to forget the sadistic crow, especially with only a mare week or so after the tournament. Kurama was still recovering from some of his more serious wounds.
"Yes, but I fear in this case the effects might not be time-limited, like the potion I used."
"You... You mean we're probably stuck like this for god knows how long?" The detective stared at the duo in front of him who only nodded. "Just great, damn that toddler! Damn him and damn the missions he always gives us!"
"Indeed, but if you want something to be angry about, you should be angry about the lack of information he gave us before we left on this case. But first things fist, we need to contact Botan and get to Spirit World."
-oOo-
Botan sighted as she led the three towards Koenma's office. She had sure been in for a shock when she saw the child versions of her friends and had nearly fainted. In the end she just settled on not saying anything and simply took them to see Koenma.
Upon hearing his large door open Koenma looked over, expecting too see his two detectives with the artifact that he sent them to retrieve, but the sight that greeted him was not something he would have ever thought to see. "Yusuke?"
As soon as the door opened Yusuke rushed to the big wooden table and jumped on it, yelling at the prince. "That's right toddler! Why the hell didn't you tell us that the thing could do this crazy stuff!" He slammed his fist into the table, effectively splitting it in two and sending both himself and Koenma to the floor.
"Well, that answers the question, if we still have our powers, to what extent though, that is what we still need to find out." The sly silver fox grinned, but his look soon turned worried as he looked at Kurama. "But I am worried about you Shuichi... our powers might have all returned to me."
The emerald-eyed boy looked at him and took a seed from his long crimson hair. In his hand it quickly transformed into his trademark rose. "It seems I still have my abilities, but now I have to use my reiki for the most part, since I do not have nearly the amount of youki I used to have when we were still one."
"That's good to hear Shu, I didn't want you to be weak and for me to be the cause f it."
Kurama could only blink at the fox's openly showed care. "Youko... I, thank you." He sent his once-other-half a warm smile. 'I never would have thought Youko would care about my safety like that, especially since we are not one and the same anymore. I will have to ask him about that once we're alone.'
"Ok, ok! Now if you're done with the mushy stuff, can we get back to the problem at hand? " Yusuke grumbled as he crossed his arms over his chest.
With a short nod Kurama turned his gaze to the child ruler and started with his explanation.
"As you know, you sent us to retrieve the artifact, the Counter of Change. Well, once we retrieved it from and disposed of the demon thief Yusuke checked on it, but a mist of some sort spread out and transformed both me and Yusuke into our childhood forms. But as it seems, since mine and Youko's soul are not fully merged the artifact couldn't decide on which of our forms it should concentrate so it separated us. In addition it seems that we have kept all our memories and power. What I do not know is if the effect was permanent. Lord Koenma, why didn't you warn us about the abilities of the treasure?"
"Yea toddler-bastard! You could've said something!"
The before-mentioned prince of Reikai stared at his feet, an uneasy silence fell over the room, until he finally said in a small voice. "I had no idea that something like this would happen. And... I'll admit I messed up on this, but I didn't think it could end up like this! I'll look for any information on how to reverse this and you guys should probably stay at Genkai's for the time being until we figure out what to do next."
"Agreed, but I need to pick up something from home before. Botan, if you could just drop me and Youko off there we'll catch up to you later."
Botan only nodded, still too stunned by the whole situation, at the red haired boy and led the shrunk trio towards living-world, leaving Koenma to fix the mess in his office.
-oOo-
For the possibly hundredth time that day Kurama sighed, as he and Youko crawled through his bedroom window into his room and climbed down from the desk. It was exceptionally well organized, though somewhat empty. It didn't have posters on it's walls, like most teenagers rooms would have or games and comics littering every nook and cranny. The room consisted of a big bed to the right corner of the room, on the bed were many fluffy pillows and the silky sheets were black and red with a nice rose design on them. Opposite the bed was a small TV stand with a nice-sized flat-screen TV on it, on either side of it there was a beautiful green plant. Next, in the wall opposite to the window they came through was a walk-in closet, perfect for his many chines-styled fighting outfits and other possessions that he didn't wish his mother to see. Lucky for him, his mother respected his privacy and since his room was always neatly kept she never had too come and clean it instead of him. As previously mentioned under the only window was a big wooden desk which held his school supplies and other small possessions. And last but not least there was his large number of plant-life which were, not to surprisingly, grown with demon energy. They were stored on shelves and the bigger ones on the floor, they made the room look lively and bright. Their other role though, was to protecting the room from intruders with ill-intent.
"We need to do this quick, mother usually brings my laundry today in about half an hour or so." The red-head whispered to the silver, to which the other only rolled his golden eyes. "I know that, we used to be one and the same remember?"
"Of course I do, now just concentrate on getting the things we need." He said going to his light brown, wooden desk, where he opened one of it's three drawers and took out the seeds he had stashed in a box there. He than left for the closet, searching for a small backpack.
"Yea, yea. Whatever." He purposefully strode to the desk where his other had been just moments ago and opened another drawer, taking out their wallet.
"It figures." Kurama mumbled as he looked sideways at Youko .
"What? You told me to look for stuff we would need and we'll definitely need money!" the fox smirked.
Kurama was about to throw a reply at the silver as the door to his room suddenly opened and his mother walked in.
-oOo-
A/N: Got the idea when I re-watched YYH and during the tournament when Ura Ureshima wanted to turn Kurama into a helpless kid, but ended up returning him to his Youko form. The effect of the artifact is similar to that, plus I didn't want to use the organization making them take the poison to shrink them. It just isn't very likely in my mind, that they could somehow overpower Kurama, much less Yusuke.
What I don't know yet is, if I'll make Youko go to school too, he is a kitsune after all and they can use illusions. Since none of the DC characters are exactly spiritually aware they shouldn't notice anything wrong with his disguise, no mater how poorly it might be done(I'm not sure how good Youko is at it, since he never uses it in the series, but I imagine he must have learned it as a kit) XD
But here is something you guys can help me decide on!
Should I find a way to shrink Kuwabara and make him go to the same school as the others?
So, vote yes or no on that one for me.
Just one more thing XD Should I make this a Youko/Shuichi pairing? I'm thinking more about brotherly love for them right now, but if you guys want some yaoi I could do that too.
Rune: Yay cliffy! -evil grin-
Yusuke: You turned us into kids!
Rune: Your point is?
Kurama: -sigh- It's pointless arguing with her Yusuke.
Youko: -sexy smirk- So just Review people, if you want to know what happens to us. Oh and some Detective Conan characters are gonna appear in the next chapter so don't forget to watch out for this promising chapter!
Yusuke/Kurama: Why are you being so helpful to her?
Youko: Well, the sooner she gets the chapters written, the sooner we get our original bodies back. Reviews will give her motivation to write.
Kurama: That makes sense.
Yusuke: Yea readers, so review now! I wanna kick some ass again!