The next morning, Tsuki got up and dressed as she would any other morning. Pulling her hair back into a half ponytail and putting on her glittering makeup she thought about yesterday. Yesterday the past that she had tried so hard to hide and forget came back and bit her in the butt. She calmly walked downstairs to where the others were waiting. She hadn't spoken to them since she had stormed to her room last night. Sesshomaru had borrowed some of Kuwabara's uniforms and used his magic to alter them to fit him. Though he looked older than any senior she knew, that was what Yusuke had hurriedly registered him as last night over the phone, realizing that Sesshomaru wasn't leaving anytime soon. Takashi followed surely beside his master.
Tsuki walked right passed the four boys and headed out the door followed by Taka and Sesshomaru, then the four boys dashed after them. Although Tsuki was dreading going back to school after what had happened yesterday, she wasn't about to let it show. She walked confidently and coolly through the schoolyard gates. No one said a thing. She walked up to her first period class that she shared with Hiei. Taka followed and Sesshomaru split off to the right in one hallway heading to his senior classes.
The morning went without incident. PE finally arrived and Tsuki debated whether or not to skip it. Eventually she walked out onto the track in her horrendous gym uniform, and took her place next to the cheerful Keiko who smiled sweetly and greeted her just like any other time. Tsuki looked around puzzling over the kids' strange behavior. 'Why isn't any one saying anything about yesterday?' she pondered as she ran. This time she didn't play games. She just ran with Keiko and her friends not caring if she was first or not.
The seniors were on the field in the middle of the track playing a game of football. Sesshomaru turned to her and winked when she looked at him with that confused expression. It dawned on her so suddenly she tripped, rolled and then lay sprawled on the track in front of her. She jumped up and spun toward Sesshomaru.
"What did you DO?!" She screamed at him, half afraid of the answer. Everyone turned and looked at her like she was crazy. Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei turned to see what was going on and began heading towards the two.
"It was just a little memory altering spell," Sesshomaru replied sheepishly scrunching up his shoulders and backing slowly away from Tsuki with a nervous grin on his face.
"You ALTERED their MEMORIES!?" Tsuki screamed. "You KNOW that's against the RULES, you BAKA!" Thankfully the coach came over at that moment and ended the conversation. "We'll talk about this later," Tsuki mumbled firmly before she turned back towards the track. Yusuke and the others relax.
On the walk home from school Tsuki was constantly scolding Sesshomaru, who kept apologizing. Hiei, who was walking in front of the rambling Tsuki, suddenly stopped causing Tsuki to run into him and almost fall.
"We're surrounded," Hiei stated.
"Y'know, if you had told us earlier we could have avoided this entirely," Kurama joked.
"Shut up" was Hiei's only response. Out of the bushes and trees around them jumped about thirty demons of every shape and size.
"Oh, fun," Yusuke commented as he powered up. "Six each. Think you can handle that, Ms. Ryu?"
"Bring it on," Tsuki replied. Hiei pulled out his sword as the others pulled out their various weapons.
"Rosewhip!"
"Spirit sword!"
"Shotgun!"
"Wind torment!" Tsuki watched as one by one each of the other's enemies fell. Finally she turned to her six opponents. Folding her hands before her chest and closing her eyes she said "Hotaru, queen of Saturn, planet of silence, guardian of destruction, lend me thy weapon, lend me the Glaive of Silence." Then she opened her eyes and stuck her right arm into the air, hand open, palm forward and into her hand formed the deadly Glaive of Silence.
Smiling, she twirled the weapon around a couple of times and did a couple of fancy tricks. The demons just stared at her in astonishment. She defeated them easily with only one swing of the mighty glaive. She then hung the blade over one shoulder and rested her hand on the long wooden shaft of the weapon.
"Well, that wasn't any fun," she pouted. The others snickered at her innocent expression and tone. "I got out my cool weapon and they didn't even put a good fight." Then she shrugged. "Guess I overestimated them. Too bad." She lifted the glaive over her head and whispered a small 'thank you' and the glaive disappeared.
"What was that?" Kurama asked.
"That was the Glaive of Silence used by the Destruction Queen of Saturn, Hotaru. It's my favorite weapon other than Pluto's scythes, of course," Tsuki explained.
"Pluto's scythes? Saturn's glaives? I didn't know planets had weapons," Kuwabara admitted.
"Each of the nine planets and some of their moons have kingdoms. Each kingdom has a ruler, a king or queen. And my father rules each of those kings or queens and they are still loyal friends of mine. They each have a holy weapon special to the kingdom. Pluto has scythes, Uranus has an iron fan, Neptune has a broad sword, Saturn has the glaive, Jupiter has a long sword, Mars has a staff, Earth has twin swords, Venus has whips, and Mercury has daggers. Our moon has short swords and Calisto, one of Jupiter's moons, has a Japanese style sword. There are more, but I don't use them as much," Tsuki explained in detail each weapon.
"Good, you have plenty of weapons to use in the upcoming war," Yusuke grumbled.
"Upcoming war?" Kuwabara and Tsuki said in unison.
"I discussed the Mau problem with Taka and Sesshomaru last night. When we get home this afternoon we are going to send another SOS we sent some last night, but we are going to do it again just in case. From what I've been told, Mau should be commonly known and we should get a lot of answers," Yusuke sighed.
"Like from who? There aren't enough dragons or wind people that would care enough to respond and normal humans won't stand a chance against his machines and magic. Who else is left?" Tsuki asked.
"You don't honestly think that there are only two dimensions, do you?" Hiei asked as they turned into the neighborhood.
"You called across dimensions!? But Taka's the only one who can…" She trail off. "You called across dimensions?!" She demanded of her dog. "You know you're not supposed to do that." Then Taka began barking away.
'I called everyone from every story or legend I could think of. Past, present and future. It took a lot out of me but still, I should expect most to come, or at least to reply.' Taka informed her.
"Give me some examples of who you called."
"Tama and his crew, the Gundams, Inuyasha and his crew, Ayato, the Sanzo crew, Goku and his crew, Cardcaptor, Sakura Taisen, too. Oh, and Kyo and his group. And many more.' Taka named them off. The six of them stopped short when they saw six figures standing outside of Yusuke's house.
"That was fast," Kurama commented. Tsuki ran up and hugged the first guy.
"Kyoshiro! I'm so glad you could come!" Tsuki exclaimed hugging the man tightly.
"Lady Tsuki, we came as soon as we could. Is it true what Taka has said? That Mau has really come back?" the gentle Kyoshiro Mibu asked.
"Mostly. He is regaining power and though he hasn't risen yet, it isn't that far away. Are you and Kyo still…?" Tsuki trailed off and left the question unfinished, but Kyoshiro knew what she was talking about.
"Yes. But I will only call on him if I absolutely need him," Kyoshiro stated.
"That's good to know!" Tsuki then turned to the other five and gave each in turn a hug. "Benitora! Yuya! Yukimura! Sasuke! Saizo! It is so good to see all of you again!"
"And you as well, Tsuki. I swear you get cuter every time I see you," Yukimura commented her. Tsuki blushed.
"Hush." Yusuke coughed loudly from behind her. "Oh!" Tsuki jumped. "Y'all this is Kyoshiro, Yuya, Benitora, Yukimura, Sasuke, and Saizo. They are from Japan four years after the battle at Sekigahara." Tsuki pointed to each as she introduced them. "And y'all this is Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei. Of course you already know Sesshomaru and Taka."
"Y'know, I think is fun and all but can we move it inside?" Yusuke asked pushing towards the door. He opened it and let the others go inside before he went in. Kurama and Tsuki went to find the newcomers a room and Kuwabara, Hiei, and Yusuke went to crash in front of the TV. The three of them stopped short when they saw a boy sitting in Yusuke's favorite recliner. On his shoulder was a black bird.
"Who the HELL are you?" Yusuke yelled at him. The boy turned to face him.
"Tsuki called, we came." Then the boy turned back around and ignored them. If they didn't know any better, the three boys would think he was asleep.
"Tsuki! You better get your ass down here right now!" Yusuke yelled up to her furious.
"You shouldn't talk to her like that," the boy in the chair stated.
"Shut up. No one asked you punk," Kuwabara yelled at him. Tsuki came running into the room.
"Jing! Kir!" she said when she saw the two in the chair. Jing got up and embraced her when she came in. "I'm so glad you could come!"
"I hate to ask, but who is this, Tsuki?" Yusuke asked annoyed.
"This is Jing, the king of Bandits, and Kir, his best friend and side kick. They are the best bandits around. See for yourself," Tsuki said at the bored expressions in the three boy's faces. She pulled back the flap of Jing's coat, and there was all three of there valuables that they had been carrying. Yusuke's gold watch, Kuwabara's rare leather wallet, and Hiei's Koorime pearl he always wore among with various other valuables hung inside the flap. When Tsuki saw the pearl she grimaced and Hiei growled. "You'd better not take this," Tsuki informed Jing as she removed the jewel. She walked back to Hiei and put it gingerly over his head. "Sorry," she whispered to him. Then she stepped back. "Well! I better get you a place to sleep, and don't steel anything else right now, okay. Give them back there stuff, all of it."
After Jing had emptied all of his pockets of his findings, Tsuki led him upstairs and into a room that he would share with Saizo and Benitora.
"I don't apperciate the help you have called so far. A thief and a bunch of bullies. Great help." Hiei was ranting to Tsuki about the "help" she had called.
"They may not look like much now, but they are awesome fighters. And they each have there own special techniques and secrets," Tsuki tried to explain. Hiei turned away form her.
"I don't care about how good of fighters they are. You should have just called some of the lower class demons who would do anything to fight. Then we wouldn't have to be concerned with things such as possible rebellions and differences of opinions," Hiei informed her harshly.
"There is no way we could beat Mau with a bunch of blood thirsty lower level demons. Mau could easily manipulate their weak wills and make them mind slaves. That wouldn't do us any good. For this war we need people who can rebel and have their own opinions. We need people with strong wills so that they will not fall prey to the enemy easily," Tsuki spat frustrated. A knock at the door cut off Hiei's response and Tsuki stormed towards it and threw the door open.
"What do you want?" She yelled at them.
"If we had know you were so upset, we would've brought something to cheer you up," a kind voice replied.
"Goku?!" Tsuki looked at the man standing in front of her. Surely enough it was Son Goku, the son of Bardok, the strongest Saiyan in the world. "You made it!" she squealed. She looked around and saw the rest of the crew. Besides Goku there was Chi Chi, Gohan, Goten, Videl, Pan, Vegita, Bluma, Trunks, Bra, Master Roshi, Launch, Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, Buu, Uub, Piccolo, Krillin, and Dende. "Come on in!" Tsuki ushered them in, but she bumped into Hiei who had moved silently behind her.
"No one else is getting in unless I test them first," He informed her.
"That's not fair!" Tsuki whined. "Some aren't here to fight, like Bulma and Bra, they're only here too help out around the house especially with since we are going to have a lot more coming."
"I will not have weaklings hanging around doing nothing and taking up space that could be fill with demons that are willing to fight," Hiei turned his cheek to her in a look that said 'and that's final.'
"I will repeat this one more time! I REFUSE to have ANY LOWER CLASS DEMONS in this HOUSE!" Tsuki screamed at him. Goku and his crew took a couple of steps back. Hiei's eyes shot wide in shock. "Goku and his friends have saved the world TEN TIMES as many as you four spirit detectives have. And UNLIKE YOU, they have actually lost some battles, but never a war."
"She's right, Hiei," Kurama said coming up behind the fighting pair. Then he turned to the cowering Goku. "Welcome. If she scares you when she is like this, she must be the devil when she is truly angry." Goku nodded his head fiercely. "Please, come in. Hiei quit growling. We'll have to find a place for all of you to stay. We're starting to get jammed already and you all—"
"Y'all," interrupted Tsuki.
"—Are only the third group so far," Kurama finished glaring at Tsuki. She only smiled in response.
An hour later everyone was settled in and siting around the kitchen table waiting for dinner. Everyone, that is, except for Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama. They went out to figure out some new living arrangements. Bulma, Launch, Bra, Chi Chi, and Tsuki were all in the kitchen preparing a boatload of food.
"Some of us are definitely going to have to go get some jobs. With everyone here we are going to eat enough food in one sitting to feed all of Tokyo!" Tsuki exclaimed.
"IS THE FOOD READY YET?" Hiei called form the other room.
"Almost!" Tsuki called back.
"Hurry it up! We're starving out here!" he replied.
"You really should treat her with more respect," Yukimura informed him. "She could kill you in two seconds flat. Literally."
"And don't think that your precious Dragon of the Darkness Flame will help you," Vegeta spat at him.
"It has yet to fail me," Hiei informed him. Laughter went up from around the table. "What the hell do you find so funny?" Hiei demanded.
"You haven't figured it out yet then?" Trunks asked.
"Figured what out?"
"Though you may have learned to call forth the dragon and get it to do almost what you want, you will never be able to make it choose you over the one who has shown it kindness and love. The dragon will never pick you over its princess," Kyoshiro informed him.
"Tsuki."
As they all sat down for dinner, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama came trudging in. They collapsed into their separate chairs and began pigging out.
"We have the entire block to ourselves. The neighbors are going to stay with relatives while we have a 'family reunion.' They said that we could use anything of their stuff as long as we paid for everything we broke or destroyed," Yusuke said between bites.
KNOCK, KNOCK!
"I got it!" Tsuki jumped up. As she opened the door a younger boy shot through the door.
"Food. So hungry. Need food," he said, then he began digging in. Three other men came in followed by Tsuki and stood in the doorway.
"Hey, monkey boy!" Both Goku and the new boy looked up him, both their faces stuffed with food. He was the tallest of the three with red hair that fell a little past his shoulders. "Save some for the rest of us." Hiei snorted.
"Who the hell are these fools?" Hiei smirked. Tsuki turned a glare at him. Four more people came up behind her.
"Who the hell are you calling fools, you punk ass bastard?" The red head turned on him.
"Uh, Gojyo, please try not to upset them yet. We just got here and Tsuki doesn't seem to be in the best of moods," A brown haired boy with a dragon wreathed around his neck whispered.
"The stupid squirt started it," Gojyo whined.
"Just shut the hell up," said the last of the first three dressed in white robes commanded.
"You have to try this food, Sanzou, it's great. Ten bucks says that Tsuki didn't cook any of it," the boy who was gouging his face piped up.
"Goku, please try to show some sort of manners," Sanzou asked rubbing his temples.
"Hey what can you expect from a monkey?" Gojyo laughed. Little Goku jumped up and started yelling back at Gojyo.
"Why don't you just shut up you stupid water sprite!" Goku retaliated. Tsuki turned to them.
"Hush, all of you!" She commanded and the room fell silent. "I would like to introduce Genjo Sanzou, Son Goku, Cho Hakkai, and Sha Gojyo. And the four standing behind me are Kougaji, Dokugakuji, Yaone, and Lirin." Tsuki pointed to each in turn and said each name slowly. Then the big Goku jumped up.
"He has my same name!" Goku whined pointing at the small Goku.
"I know, I'm sorry. We'll just have to think of a nickname," Tsuki apologized.
"We could call little Goku monkey boy," Gojyo put in hopefully.
"No." Tsuki said at once.
"Shut up." Goku elbowed Gojyo. "Water wimp."
"How about we call our Goku by his real name Kakarot," Vegita suggested.
"Goku, is that alright with you?" Tsuki asked turning to the older man.
"Of course," Goku answered cheerfully. "As long as we get to eat first."
"I think we're going to need some more chairs," Tsuki stated.