I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or X-Men: Evolution. I also do not own the story "Mission X" by Kurome Shiretsu
THe purpose of this FanFic is to finish the story that started me into writing fo FanFic. I am honored to be able to complete this abandoned Fan FIc and hope that this revival of the story will live up to the story which it was based. Thank you for reading and lending me your support!
Terms to note:
Youki= Demon Energy
Reiki= Spirit Energy
Makai= Demon World
Ningenkai= Human/Living World
Reikai= Spiritual World
Reikai Tentei= Spiritual Detectives
Toushin= Demon Lord
Kitsune= Fox of Japanese Folklore
Jaganshi= One who possesses the Jagan Eye
Kurorashi= Demon heading the mutant uprising/means "Black Tempest"
Other notes (since there are three languages here):
"English"
"Thought "
"Makai"
****Chapter 02: Coming Together****
Rogue and Kurt hurried to the entrance of the Xavier grounds large gates that defended against the unwanted from entering the grounds. Blood and energy could be sensed still thick in the air from where Logan and the unknown intruder had fought briefly. Yusuke, Rogue couldn't help but identify. The strange aura hanging in the air like a curtain was strangely familiar to her. Familiar and also part of her, as if was her own Youki. Rogue frowned slightly, the term sounding wrong in her mind. Yet, some part of her knew what it was. Demon Energy.
The two mutants reached the gate with no notice from security or certain psychic mutants. With a quiet bamph, Kurt and Rogue teleported to the outside and ducked behind the brick wall that housed the gate. Rogue inhaled, sniffing for familiar scents. Despite the hours that have passed, the distinct smell of Suichi, Hiei, and Yusuke still radiated the area, their scents so different from any animal making it rather hard to miss with her heightened senses.
North.
"Come on," Rogue said to her step-brother and started in that direction.
"Rogue," Kurt spoke nervously as he fell more or less into step next to her. "Vhat is going on? Vhere are ve going?"
"We are goin' ta find Yusuke and the others," Rogue said. "Ah have a bad feelin' 'bout them." They only managed a few feet when bright lights illuminated them accompanied by the sound of screeching tires.
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It seemed to becoming a habit these days, Lance thought as he and Pietro sat watching Blob shovel cereal into his mouth with milk that was six days past expiration date, that boredom had seemed to have taken up permanent residence in the Brotherhood home. Or rather, if boredom had been a living, breathing thing, than its less interesting cousin would be there instead.
"Aaaaah!" Pietro roared at last, gripping his head as if he was in actual, physical pain. "I can't take this anymore! I'm outta here!" With that, Quicksilver flew out the door, creating minor whirl winds of trash and paper and half eaten food that littered the floor. Lance watched him disappear into the night without even bothering to move from his seat on the half demolished couch.
"Hey," Toad asked, peeking his head around the corner that hid the stairway to the upstairs. "Where's he running off too?"
"Probably going to race a train or somethin'," Lance answered, looking hard at Toad. This was the second time now he could feel that something was wrong with good 'ol Todd Telansky. No "Yo," and Toad was talking with actual correct grammar. Definitely not their frog-boy.
"Hey, Toad," Lance said, finally forcing his body up into motion. "I need to talk to you."
"Can it wait?" Toad asked, ducking back behind the corner and hopping himself back up the steps. "I'm jumping into the shower."
Double whammy. "Blob, get him!" Lance yelled and tore off after him, causing the frog to yelped like a little girl. Lance lifted his hands and focused, bringing the stair case crashing down. Toad managed to stay on his feet and hopped to safety and around the corner.
"Follow him," he yelled to the large Blob as Lance ran out the front door. "I'll cut him off. " He darted outside as Blob tried to carefully tried to climb the wreckage and hurtled around the edge of the house. He could hear Toad scream and a sudden rumble from Blob, then Toad could be seen leaping out the window like a javelin. Lance watched for a very brief second then lifted his hand and sent a wave of earth upward. Like a javelin, Toad hit the lifted ground and stuck just long enough for Lance to run over to him and hold him down as Blob fell out of the window to the ground with a rumbling thud.
"Alright you," Lance said, grabbing the fidgeting Toad by the neck. "Start talkin'. Who are you?"
"Come on, Lance," Todd whined. "Todd Telansky."
"Wrong answer." Lance stood up, keeping a foot on the imposter and motion for Blob. "Sit on him." Blob looked back and forth between the two for a second then reluctantly sat his heavy self onto the tiny Toad imposter.
"I ain't gonna ask again," Lance said, crouching down next to his prisoner. "Who are you?"
"It's me, Toad. Honest," the imposter yelped again, sounding as pitiful as the real one did.
"No way you're the real Toad. He almost never says a sentence without "Yo" being apart of it and he has the worst grammar than anyone else I know."
"And he never takes a shower," Blob added. "You actually smell nice. You can't be him."
"I am. I swear it!"
"Fine," Lance said, standing up. "Let's go find out. Bring him, Blob."
Reaching down, Blob grabbed hold of Todd and carried him - kicking and screaming like a hellion - back into the house. Lance was waiting with rope and bungie cord ready and was the work of only a few minutes to trust up the frantic frog. Tossing him into the back of Lance's Jeep, they heading down the road to the Xavier Mansion. If anybody could tell them who this guy was, it was the annoying professor.
"Is this really necessary?" Todd whined from his spot in the back of the Jeep. "Couldn't I prove who I am with a joke or something?"
"Shut up," Lance yelled, scowling back at his captive as they came around the last turn to the Institute.
Seeing what may be his final opportunity, Toad struck. Lance lost control of his Jeep as Toad covered his face in sticky green slim, a particularly gross talent that aided more to his name Toad. With a screeching of tires, the Jeep, Lance, Blob, and Toad, skidded to a nearly tipping over stop just outside the gates to the Xavier Institute.
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The Jeep came to a halt just as Rogue and Kurt popped back into reality, the tire marks clearly cutting across the place that they had been seconds before. Rogue let go of Kurt and walked toward the Jeep, growling deep in her throat. Yelling could be heard coming from the stalled vehicle, the lights pointing away from the Institute and casting an eerie shadow upon the ground.
"Darn it, Toad," A voice shouted. Lance, Rogue identified. She could almost see the shadowy outlines of three individuals. The driver, already identified as Lance, looked as if he was trying to pull something nasty and slimy off of his face and the large bulk in the rear clearly indicating Blob. The third shadowed person appeared to have no arms and was hobbling away from the Jeep as fast as it could go before disappearing out of sight in the woodland.
"Get this crap off of me," Lance was shouting as Blob lumbered over to help. "When I get my hands on you Toad, you're gonna be road kill!" With a sickening swak sound, the goop came off, sending Blob tipping over backwards.
Lance barely had time to blink out the remnants of the goo before Rogue reached him. Grabbing him by the shirt front, Rogue pulled bodily from the vehicle and slammed him up against the brick near the gate, hard enough to hear the soft crack of skull meeting brick. "What the hell are you doin', Shakes?" Rogue roared, the uncommon rage from absorbing Hiei and Yusuke flaring to the surface, worse than before. "Ah should gut you clean fur nearly runnin' us over, ya yahoo."
"Nobody move," Kurt said, bamph-ing onto the hood of the Jeep. "Stay vhere we can zee you."
"Ack," Lance said as Rogue tightened her grip. "Toad," he managed. "Get Toad!"
Rogue dropped Lance gasping on the ground as she turned to look for the slippery mutant. Nothing. Rogue couldn't even smell the disgusting creature. All she got was the fresh scent of pine needles and cucumbers that seemed oddly out of place. Certainly not Todd Telansky. She growled again and turned back to Lance. "What're you doin' here?"
"We came to see Xavier," Lance said, brushing himself off and rubbing his neck. Rogue winced a little at seeing her own claw marks embedded around his neck.
"It's like midnight," Kurt piped up, still crouched on the Jeeps hood. "Vhat could be so important?"
"Toads been actin' funny ever since he came back to the Brotherhood," Lance answered, obviously rocked a little by Rogue's vicious greeting. "I mean really weird. He takes showers now, brushes his teeth, and doesn't say "Yo" anymore."
"There's world changin' news," Rogue commented hotly. "Yeah, let's wake the professor up for that."
"No, you don't get it," Lance said. "Toad not saying "Yo" is like Kitty not saying "Like"." Lance shrugged. "You take notice."
Rogue thought for a minute. "You said when he got back to the Brotherhood. Where was he?"
"We dunno," Blob said. "All he said was he was doin' a job for Magneto." He cut off as Rogue and Kurt both hissed reflexively at the name.
"Was he with anybody?" Rogue asked, a sudden suspicion cutting across her mind.
"Uh, yeah," Lance said. "Some weird dude that ran off when Toad came back. Those Japanese kids went after him. Don't really know anything else about it. Look, Toad is getting away while we just talk here. Let's move our butts."
Rogue paused, looking through the memories of Yusuke and Hiei for the event Lance had just described. There, a crazed human, not mutant, but with the strong scent of demon about him. She remembered through Yusuke the blankness in his eyes, the feeling of unnatural control over him. She remembered the sharp pain of a demonic barrier crackling hotly across Hiei's hand and the end to that little disaster.
"Toad's not important," Rogue said suddenly, hauling Lance forward and throwing him at the Jeep. "Kurt, get in. Lance, you drive."
"Hold on a second," Lance said, finally fed up with taking orders. "Where are we even going? And what about Toad?"
"Don't worry 'bout Toad," Rogue said, hopping into the front passenger seat while Kurt scrambled in next to Blob. "Ah think what's happened to frog-boy is related to what happened ta me yesterday. And Yusuke and the others are in the middle of it. For now, head north. Ah'll pick up their trail as ah go."
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Toushin Urameshi Yusuke held very still as the demon Kurorashi ran one finger lazily along the back of both children's necks as he gazed unblinkingly at the Demon Lord. Behind and to his sides, Yusuke could hear the soft breathing of his friends, Hiei and Yoko-Kurama as they searched desperately for a strategy. All around them, demon voices slowly rose, anger and fear swirling together at the revealing of who this Toushin really was; Urameshi Yusuke, son of Raizen.
"I'm listening," Yusuke growled, stalling for time. The roar of the crowd dipped slightly, as was natural for low class trash when their king spoke.
"Son of Raizen, you came to us from Human World on a mission to liberate us from evil. You disrupted the balance of chaos that reigned on the Demon Plain for centuries, forcing all of demon kind to choose a new path in order to evolve from our primal selves." Kurorashi removed his hands from the twins shoulders, licking them absently, showing which side of the three way war of Raizen's time he had supported. "It is now humanity's turn to undergo the evolution, with me as its messiah. In order for the Humans to complete its evolution, they must be liberated. I ask you to join in the movement that will cure the human disease." The crows of demons murmured in approval at this wack-o's words, shifting on their feet - or talons or whatever - waiting to see what was going to happen.
"Right," Yusuke scoffed. "And with your divine ass condemning any humans that you deem tasty food, I suppose."
Kurorashi rumbled in amusement. "You seem to have misunderstood my intentions, Mister Urameshi. I intend only to bring the dominant beings to their rightful place. Is that so wrong?"
"Yeah, it is when they can't figure it out for themselves," Yusuke snarled. He took a step forward. "How about I make it official?" Yusuke lept forward, his Toushin hair streaking along behind him. The Demon Kurorashi smirk deepened as the hands resting around the two children's necks tightened and lifted them in front of himself.
Yusuke skidded to a somewhat ungraceful stop as Kurorashi hide behind the blank eyed children. "Beware, Urameshi Yusuke," the ugly demon purred in his deep voice. "I am aware that your ability to concern yourself with only one small objective at a time. Do try and keep in mind that your decision now will effect countless in the future. Take this time to consider with your council."
Yusuke glanced back at his team. His thoughts were reflected in the eyes of Yoko Kurama and Hiei, telling Yusuke that no lame council meeting was needed to kick Kurorashi's ass. Yusuke turned, ready to give this "Black Tempest" one last chance to kill himself before Yusuke did, but Kurorashi was gone, leaving the children unconscious on the demon slimed floor.
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"My lord," the ugly, deep voiced demon rumbled, kneeling down in front of his master in the heavily darkened chamber. "The errand has been completed, my master. Urameshi Yusuke and his men have been given the choice."
"Excellent my pet," another voice rumbled, not nearly as deep as his servants. "You have done well. With the children now back in their possession and the thought of Mutant Rebellion eclipsing their minds, we shall be free to conduct our plan." The demon lying on the elaborate couch lifted a hand and dismissed the creature with a flick of his wrist. "Fetch me Ashanri."
"Yes, my lord." The over sized brute stood, keeping his eyes fearfully pointed down and exited his masters chambers.
There was a rustling behind the demon resting unconcernedly. A girl, human, took up stand behind him and stared unblinkingly down at her master, her long grimy black hair hanging down almost hiding her face. "What is it, my pet?" the demon asked soothingly. The human girl did not respond. "There is no need for your talents at present. I will find you some fun in a short time. I know how you enjoy using your powers."
The human girl raised her eyes to the chamber entrance as another human hurried in and knelt in front of his master. "My lord, I live to serve."
"Yes, indeed," the demon spoke. "It is now time to proceed. Do not fail me. It would be a shame to allow my pet to have a little fun at your expense." He gestured lazily at the girl standing behind him.
The man shuddered, his eyes held low. "I will not fail you," the man said, "Kurorashi."
To be continued...
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