"Whoever is digging this tunnel," I said to Hina, "sure as hell wants something large to fit through there." I stay crouched in my positon behind some rocks in the mountains. Low class garbage were lining up just to get a taste of human blood. They could all fit through that barrier easily enough.
She asked, "Who is creating this tunnel, and why?"
"Don't know," I replied, then I felt it. Powerful beings were coming this way from human world. "What the hell?" I asked, looking through the hole.
"What is that?" she asked, "I can feel it. Who are they?"
"4," I said, "that can't be. There aren't any demons strong enough for produce that much power in the living world. How did that happen?" I stared at the tunnel and saw a human come out of it, then 3 others were behind him, all males.
"Kunsei!" Hina said, "It's Hiei!"
"Yoko Kurama?" I asked, "I thought that fox died years ago. They're with humans too. Is that sacred energy?" I watched the first human use his energy to lift himself off of the ground. That itself wasn't that impressive, even I could do it with enough fire power, but his was golden.
Hina asked, "What's sacred energy?"
"It's a level of power that takes decades to perfect," I explained, "I've thought of it at one time but there are downsides. It's only at one level, demon energy and I suppose spirit energy as well, can surpass it with enough training, but it would take centuries. I don't think most humans live long enough to ever get to that level even if they can control spirit energy. Also, sacred energy weakens a certain part of you, especially if a human uses it. If I lit an electrical fire under his ass he'd be dead before he even knew what hit him." I watched in the distance as they all started fighting each other after they reached the ground.
"Are they all fighting each other?" Hina asked, "What are they doing?"
"Watch," I said, "it's obviously 3-on-1 combat. It looks like Hiei has actually made some friends, and one of them is a human." Considering his streak of terror maybe it was a good thing he went to human world, I thought, I wonder if he found Yukina.
She asked, "Does that mean he's not going around killing for no reason anymore?"
"I believe so," I said, "but he's letting this human beat him. All of them are. Can you feel that in the air?" She looked at me in confusion. "It's almost like there's a sadness among them. Someone must have died."
After watching the fight slowly come to an end someone else came from the tunnel. A powerful demon energy came with it. Another demon? I thought, How the hell did he get to human world with that much strength in the first place let alone make it through on the way back?
A boy on a giant blue bird with Koenma from spirit world appeared out of the tunnel. They all had a brief reunion before he attacked the human with sacred energy. "What kind of demon is that bird?" Hina asked.
"I don't think it's a demon," I replied, "but I didn't know they had such animals in human world. It must be one of them."
The young demon that came from human world didn't stand a chance against the one with sacred energy. He was going to get himself killed if someone didn't step in, then, I heard it. He stopped in his tracks and an enormous amount of demon energy exploded out of him. He was suddenly covered in tatoos and had long back hair.
"What was that?" Hina asked.
"He looks like Raizen," I replied, "I wonder if they're related."
He proceeded to kick the human's ass like no tomorrow, then shot a blast of energy so strong it cut down half the forest. "Whoa," Hina whispered.
"Such a display of power," I replied, "come on, I have to see this. Get on my back." I grabbed her and she held onto my back as I used my speed to get over there.
I haven't been this invigorated to fight in years, I thought, who is this demon? I raced over just before everyone in the group did and hid among the trees. The human with sacred energy was a goner, but the boy that did it wasn't very happy about that for some reason. He died anyway.
While I wasn't paying attention Hiei passed out. "Load up, Puu, we're going home," the boy said.
I gave Hina a sign to stand back and said, "Wait," as I came out of the woods.
Koenma jumped, and said, "Kunsei? Is that you?"
"You kind of look like Hiei," the human boy with the weird orange hair said.
"What are you doing with the fire demon, Koenma?" I asked. I looked over and saw Hiei was fast asleep on the back of the giant blue bird.
"About that," he said, "he tried to take over the human world not too long ago and spirit world confines him to human world for now."
What the hell? I thought. The jagan eye must have made him mad, what was he thinking? "So you're taking him back to human world? What does he say about that?"
The human boy said, "He probably doesn't want to go back, to be honest. Maybe we should leave him here."
Koenma said, "It's not like he has a choice. He stole the artifacts of darkness and started hypnotizing humans with his jagan eye. He has to be watched for now."
"How long?" I asked.
"Well he has been helping us out a lot," Koenma said, "I'll review his file if I can ever get back to spirit world without my dad killing me. Why do you ask?"
I looked over at the bird and asked, "What kind of bird is that?"
"Puu?" the boy who looked like Raizen said, "He's my spirit beast. Who are you?" The bird made a "puu" sound after hearing that.
"Nevermind that," I said, looking at the boy, "I'll pull some strings." If Raizen invited Hiei back to demon world, he could return, I thought, no matter what Koenma ruled in spirit world.
"I don't believe it," Hina said, "he tried to take over the human world so they confine him there? This place gives me the creeps." We looked up at Raizen's tower. Lightning and thunder struck and rolled through. "Is this going to work?" she asked me nervously as we entered the building.
"Out of the three rulers Raizen is the easiest to talk to, Yomi second but he'll want something in return, and Mukuro is worse than talking to devil himself," I explained, "come on."
At the top of the tower I opened the doors to see him sitting smug on his throne like always. Hina hid behind me in fear as I walked forward. "Kunsei," he said crypically, "don't tell me you're here to fight again."
"Shut up," I demanded, "you look like hell."
"I see you watched my descendant's fight," he replied, "I'm surprised you didn't join him."
"I reserve my fights for those that are worthy," I replied, "that child you call your descendant is going to need a hell a lot more training if you want him to take over your land when you die. He's pathetic."
"Is there a reason you're here?" he asked coldly.
I explained, "I want a demon to come here from human world. They confine him there but I'm sure an invitation from you to Hiei will make spirit world shiver so bad they'll send him here faster than he can blink." Maybe I should ask about Yukina too, I thought.
"Hiei?" he asked, "No I can't do that. Mukuro's already requested his services."
"What?!"
"Don't worry," he continued, "he'll be back in demon world soon."
Son of a bitch, I thought, there's no way in hell Mukuro will talk to me. He's far to crazy. As I turned and left I said, "Have fun starving to death."
"So this Mukuro demon," Hina said, "you're sure you can't talk to him?"
"I'm not even sure if he's a guy," I replied, "his energy feels more like a woman's. No matter the case, not unlike Hiei, Mukuro's been killing any demon in his path for centuries. One wrong move with him and you're a dead man. They might even become friends."
"I don't want Hiei to become friends with someone so murderous," she said.
"It's out of our hands now," I said.
