[AN: So I have a really long note at the bottom regarding power levels and what not so check that out at the bottom so you can have your many questions answered. In other news, I'd just like to shout out gaisent11, asredwer and General Warthog for being such awesome reviewers and reviewing every time like the amazing human beings they are. Please have a free hug.]
"Okay, I'm sorry. Let me take this from the beginning. He slit Kido's wrists, killed seven doctors and injured a nurse because he was. . . helping them?" I asked.
"That's what we gathered," Yusuke said.
"We are not dealing with regular villains. These legitimate psychopaths," I said. "And not just any psychopaths—humans, humans who, for whatever reason, think that humanity has gotten so awful that we all need to be eradicated. That is the most fucked up thing I have ever heard in my life."
"Tell me about it," Yusuke said.
I sighed.
"How many did you say there were?" Kurama asked.
"Seven—Doctor, Gourmet, Game Master, Seaman, Sniper, Gate Keeper, and Dark Angel," Yusuke said.
"Well doctor was obviously the loony who attacked everyone at the hospital," Kuwabara said.
"And Sniper had to be the guy who shot the psychic that helped you in the head which prompted your visit to the hospital in the first place," I said.
"And we can assume Gate Keeper is the one digging the tunnel," Kurama said. "That leaves four unaccounted for."
"And we've only got three weeks to figure this all out," I said. "Six psychopathic humans still on the loose and we can't do anything but sit around twiddling our thumbs until we get a lead."
Yusuke shook his head. "I saw the guy."
"You saw him?" I asked.
"Whoever's leading them. . . I saw him. He looked right at me," Yusuke said. "Like he knew me."
"That makes me really uncomfortable," I said. "Even demons know us by reputation only. If he knew you, he's been keeping tabs on us. He knew how to find us."
"He was waiting for me there," Yusuke said. "Sending us to the hospital was a trap they'd had set up all along."
"I'm seriously creeped out right now," Kuwabara said.
"Me too," I said. "I might actually be in danger walking around Karakura Town alone."
"It does seem a bit more dire than random thugs coming after you now," Kurama said. "If they know you can't use your energy you may very well be a target. I certainly wouldn't want to wait around for you to get your energy back. We're not always going to be around to babysit you."
"Hmm. . . Oh! You might not have to. I think we might actually be able to get help on this case," I said, suddenly remembering the day before.
"From who?" Yusuke asked.
I then took the time to finally explain to the rest of my team what I'd learned yesterday about the Soul Society, Soul Reapers, Hollows, and my classmates Ichigo, Uryu, Chad, and Orihime.
". . . Well no wonder they picked Karakura Town! It's already full of freaks! Where the hell does Koenma get off not telling us about this?" Yusuke complained.
"Well, it's like Botan told me, we never went near Karakura Town before because we thought it was weird and even if we did their soul reapers are better at their jobs than we are at ours. The first sniff of a hollow and they're on the case," I said.
"If my memory serves me correctly Hollows are drawn to more powerful levels of spirit energy?" Kurama asked. I nodded. "So with the increase of Demon Energy currently making its way through Karakura Town it stands to reason that Hollow activity is expected to increase."
"And since we go to school there and have unnaturally high levels of Spirit Energy we may as well be pinning targets to our backs for Hollows too," I said.
"Gee, can this day get any rougher?" Kuwabara asked.
"Probably, but let's not jinx ourselves, shall we?" Kurama asked.
"Yeah. Let's all just go home and get some sleep and reconvene here tomorrow after school," I said. "And I'll talk to Ichigo. If he senses anything out of the ordinary coming from a human I'll make sure he lets me know."
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Somehow, I just wasn't able to get to sleep knowing that there was a group of humans running the streets looking to destroy the rest of humanity. It wasn't like with Frieza who was able to create genocide on a mass scale for years because he didn't know or care about the people he was destroying. This was a group of seriously messed up individuals.
We had no leads and only three weeks to figure out what was going on. I wasn't going to be getting any sleep any time soon.
Then I heard a gentle tapping on my window. I sat up in bed and looked over to the window and saw Trunks there.
I rolled out of bed and lifted it open for him to climb inside.
"What are you doing here? It's almost one in the morning," I said. "Shouldn't you be home sleeping?"
"Shouldn't you be sleeping too?" he asked.
"That's irrelevant. I'm not creeping into anyone's bedroom in the middle of the night. You do know Kurama is right next door to me, right?" I asked. "Not to mention my aunt Shiori has mom ears."
Trunks shrugged. "I needed to talk you. We haven't talked in a few days."
"Sorry about that. Spirit Detective stuff came up as you know," I said sitting down on my bed.
"Yeah," he said as he plopped down next to me. "Horrible timing."
"There's not really any good timing for Armageddon," I said.
"True," he said.
"So what did you want to talk about?" I asked.
He sighed. "You know I really like you, Kairi."
"And I like you too," I said. "I'm sorry I'm dragging my feet with this whole relationship thing. I guess I didn't really plan for things to turn out like this after the tournament. It looks like I've put you on the backburner where you don't belong again."
"Shame on you," he said.
"Right," I sighed. "And now I'm just a big ball of stress because the world is ending and there is very little I can do to stop it."
"That is rough," he said.
"More than anything right now I just want a lead on this case," I said.
"A lead?" Trunks asked. I nodded. "Or a distraction."
I scoffed. "I don't need to be distracted right now. Especially with my powers on the mend and Yusuke being a moron and Hiei's gone and Kuwabara's still useless and the only one who isn't running around like a chicken with its head cut off is Kurama."
Trunk chuckled. "You don't follow me at all."
"Evidently not," I said.
Trunks raised his hand up to the side of my face and then leaned over and kissed me.
Of course. I was a moron and generally failed at being a teenage girl. What other reason would a boy have to sneak into my bedroom through the window in the middle of the night except to make out with me?
I thought about the fact that this fell under the category of emotional terrorism big time, but I was too distracted by his lips to actually try to fess up to anything that had happened with Hiei right now.
Trunks twisted my ponytail between his fingers and we slowly fell backward onto my pillows. His other hand was resting gently resting on my waist, tracing circle with his thumb on the slightly exposed skin of my midriff.
I slid my tongue into his mouth, taking in the taste of him. His hand on my waist began to creep a tad lower to the elastic band of my pajama shorts. His thumb slowly slipped down into them and slid over my bare skin causing a small gasp to escape from my mouth. Then my hand, out of reflex, reached down and grabbed his, guiding it away from my pants.
"Keep it above the belt. I don't need to be too distracted," I whispered to him.
Trunks followed my instructions and quickly brought my lips back to his.
Not a moment later did my bedroom light flick on. Trunks and I immediately snapped away from each other and sat up.
"Hello, Trunks," Kurama said gently from the door.
"Yo. . . Kurama," he replied casually.
"You should probably go home now," Kurama said.
"Yes, you should, Trunks."
From behind Kurama, Shiori appeared. I mentally rammed by head into my wall. I was now in a metric shit ton of trouble.
"And use the door this time," Shiori said.
Trunks stood from my bed and scooted uncomfortably from my room.
"I'll be called your parents in the morning!" she shouted to him. Then she turned to me. "And yours."
"I figured," I said, listening as Trunks walked out of the front door downstairs.
"Good night, Kairi," Shiori said. She smiled at me and then walked back into her room across the hall.
Kurama chuckled.
"Oh, shut up," I said.
"You are going to be in so much trouble," Kurama said. "It tickles me a bit actually how much trouble you're going to be in. First with the getting expelled, then with the disappearing without a word, and now finding a boy in your room at one in the morning. I feel as if an angry phone call from your mother isn't going to quite be enough for you."
"Do you hate me or something?" I asked.
"No. I came in here because I couldn't just go to sleep knowing that you were possibly in the room next to mine losing your virginity," Kurama said.
"I cannot believe you just said that," I said. "What kind of girl do you think I am?"
Kurama shrugged. "The kind that has boys in her room at one o'clock in the morning."
". . .Touché," I said.
"Evidently, my mother must've heard the two of you as well. And here you are, drowning in trouble," Kurama said.
I shook my head. I hated Kurama, but he was right. I was in trouble. I wasn't going to be scolded by my mother via phone call tomorrow like she did when I disappeared. As much as my parents let me do whatever I wanted there was a line, and I'd been overstepping it frequently since I'd gotten back from the tournament. A boy in my room, Trunks for that matter, was going to be the last straw.
If my dad didn't punch me through a wall tomorrow I'd be lucky.
"Well at least I know my dad can't murder me until the case is over," I said.
"At least that gives you time to make out your will," Kurama said. "You should leave me your computer."
"Fuck off," I barked at him.
He chuckled again. "Goodnight, Kairi."
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"That's some pretty heavy stuff to drop on me and I've only known you for two days," Ichigo said when I saw him at lunch the next day.
I sighed. "You're not the one who has to deal with all of it personally."
"Although I guess it makes sense. There has been a lot more activity than usual around here," Ichigo said.
"Have you sensed anything out of the ordinary, I mean, as far as humans are concerned," I said.
Ichigo thought for a moment. "I don't pay a lot of attention to that stuff."
"Wow, you're so useful. Now I know how the Soul Society can sleep at night knowing you're patrolling the streets," I said.
"You'll probably have better luck asking," Ichigo said with a chuckle.
I frowned. "Awesome. I wonder if he still hates me."
"Why would he hate you?" Ichigo asked.
"I was super mean to him in elementary school and I know that usually you get over stuff like that, but I was down right evil," I said. "I used to put sand in his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I took our classroom fish in third grade and shoved it down his pants and everyone called him 'Fish Penis.' I put his head between the railings on the stairs and the fire department had to come and get him out. Not to mention all of the times I just beat him up for no reason. He finally transferred after he threw up this one time and I made him eat-."
"I don't want to hear the rest of this story," Ichigo said.
The roof door opened and Uryu walked in, joined by Orihime and Chad. They walked up to us and Orihime smiled widely at me.
"Hi, Kairi! It's nice to meet you! I sit next to you in art class during last period! Ichigo told us everything about you!" Orihime said excitedly. "I think it's so weird all of the stuff he was telling us you can do and that you did—you must've been super stressed out this summer."
"Something like that," I said. "But out of the frying pan and into the fire. Trouble doesn't stay gone from me for very long."
"No it doesn't," Uryu said.
I smiled at him. "Uryu Ishida."
"So you still remember my real name do you?" he asked.
"I swear that I will never call you 'Good ol' Four-Eyes' or 'Fish Penis' ever again. You're a Quincy. You deserve some respect," I said. "Although that 'Fish Penis' thing was pretty funny in retrospect."
"No," he said.
"Okay. Obviously you still haven't developed a sense of humor," I said.
"You made me eat my own vomit," Uryu said.
"I was suspended for, like, two weeks and I was super grounded," I said. "I'm sorry for emotionally scarring you, but I need your help."
"Help?" he asked.
I nodded. "From Spirit Detective to someone who's interested in being alive three weeks from now, I need a favor."
"What's wrong?" Orihime asked.
I explained the whole ordeal with the tunnel to Chad, Orihime, and Uryu in full detail about everything I knew.
"That sounds really bad," Chad said.
"It is," I said. "I live in West City, so I'm not exactly close enough to Karakura Town to be able to tell when humans are acting out with strange powers, but you guys are."
"So you want to know if we sense any of these psychics?" Uryu asked.
I nodded. "Not all of them are bad obviously, but we don't have any other leads right now."
"These guys could be anybody," Ichigo said. "And there are seven of them you said?"
"Game Master, Gourmet, Sniper, Dark Angel, Gate Keeper, Doctor, and Seaman," I said. "We're pretty sure that their code names are related to their powers."
"You said the Doctor guy was the one who killed all those people in the hospital yesterday?" Uryu asked.
I nodded. "Sniper is probably the guy that shot the psychic that helped Yusuke in the head. We think Gate Keeper is probably the one digging the tunnel."
"Well he can't be one of the psychics can he," Orihime said.
"Why wouldn't he be?" I asked.
"Well, you said all the humans started getting their powers after the tunnel started being opened a month ago. If he was digging the tunnel for almost two then he didn't his powers from the tunnel did he?" she asked.
". . . I actually never thought of that before," I said.
"So if the guy digging the tunnel isn't one of the humans. . ." Ichigo started.
"Gate Keeper is probably a demon," I said. "That would explain why his abilities are so powerful."
"Do you think he's the leader?" Chad asked.
"I doubt it," I said. "No demons are going to convince a bunch of humans to destroy their own race. You'd need another human to do that."
"But who?" Orihime asked.
"That's the million zeni question," I said.
My phone started buzzing in my pocket. I fished it out and saw that it was Yusuke calling so I answered.
"We've got trouble. You need to get Kurama and get to my house right now!" Yusuke shouted.
"I can't. Kurama walked me to school and then left. He said he had something he needed to take care of and left," I said.
"Damn it! Of all the days for everyone to bail on us they choose today! Stay put! I'm coming to Karakura Town to get you!" Yusuke shouted.
"Coming to get me? Why?" I asked. "What exactly happened?"
"Koenma says the tunnel is going to be open in a week," he said.
"A week? But two days ago he said we had three weeks," I said.
"He said something about it being underground and geometry and blah blah blah. The point is we've only got a week," he said.
"All right. Okay. This is bad," I said. "Look, Sariyaski is clear on the other side of West City and my school is clear on the other side of Karakura Town. There is no point in running all the way. We'll just stick with our original plan and meet at your house after school."
"Well don't flake on me like everyone else," Yusuke said.
"What do you mean 'like everyone else'?" I asked.
"Freaking Kuwabara bailed on me to go to some stupid concert," Yusuke said.
"Oh, that's right. He's supposed to go see Megallica or something. He's had those tickets forever," I said.
"Saving the world is a bit more important than a stupid concert!" Yusuke said.
"Yes, but being angry is not going to fix it," I said. "We'll just grab him after the concert. Don't sweat it. Relax. I'll see you after school."
I hung up the phone and took a deep breath. Things were certainly starting to take a turn for the worst.
"Problem?" Uryu asked.
"So, we've just gotten new information and apparently we now only have a week before the tunnel fully stabilizes and humanity is doomed," I said. "Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara are all missing and Yusuke is starting to go a little bit nuts."
"What are you going to do?" Ichigo asked.
"Hope for the best at this point. There's still not much any of us can do," I said.
"You know," Uryu said, "there is a system of tunnels and caves running underneath the city."
"Is there?" I asked.
"Yes. That's probably where your digger is hiding," Uryu said.
"Oh, right! There's that creepy cave just outside of town that leads underground," Orihime said.
"Oddly enough it's called Demons Door Cave," Ichigo said.
"Apparently whoever is doing this to us has a sense of humor," I said. "Now I just need to call Trunks so he can come pick me up after school since my cousin has disappeared."
"I could walk you home," Ichigo said. "I know it's probably a pretty far walk, but it's not like I've got anything better to do."
"Well, thanks," I said. "I guess I won't call Trunks."
[Regarding Power Levels: So it was pointed out to me that if you looked at Raizen's power level, as the strongest S class demon, in comparison to the DBZ universe, Raizen actually ranks to be about the same level as Frieza. To quote Vegeta (from Dragon Ball Z Abridged, of course) "Power levels are bullshit." And by that I mean that after the Frieza saga they became superfluous because everyone got to be so unfathomably strong that it was meaningless to keep track. You That being said, if Raizen was in fact the strongest S class demon then that would put Cell and Buu in the Super S class category because Frieza would be an S class. And I originally WAS going to put Buu and Cell in that category because they are strong as hell, and Buu's power in unimaginable, but that would decrease the element of danger in the story. No one would be pressed about getting the tunnel closed if everyone was able to kick the ass of any demon that came through. Realistically, everyone on Dragon Ball Z is SO much more powerful than everyone in YYH by a whole hell of a lot. In order to have a universe where YYH and DBZ coexist the playing field has to be leveled, in which case, everyone's power levels in DBZ had to be taken down a few pegs or whenever there was trouble you could just say "fuck it, Goku and Vegeta could do this no sweat." There has to be an element of danger, and in a world where Goku and Vegeta are more powerful than every single demon in Demon World, there is no danger. And that is why Frieza is an A class in this story.
Additionally, someone also asked in Kairi was getting her powers back because she used the barrier or was it more of a psychic ability, it is more of a psychic ability. She uses her mind to create the barrier which would stop any physical attacks, like from the insects, but would essentially be useless against energy because I reckon it'd take a lot of concentration to stop an energy blast with your mind. Also, Kairi's powers aren't technically gone. She still has all of her energy, but has been disallowed from using it because of the massive increase of energy she got post her fight with Toguro because of the injury she took (and as you know, in addition to getting stronger after every battle, a Saiyan's strength increases exponentially after taking a near fatal injury). Because the increase is so large, releasing her energy could be dangerous because she wouldn't be able to control it. Think of it as when you shake up a bottle of pop and you can't open it for a while otherwise the soda will fly everywhere.
Hope this has been informative! Send anymore questions you have and I will gladly answer them for you!]