A/N: I don't own any Yu Yu Hakusho characters. (You'd think that you'd only have to write that once, not for every chapter, but oh, well. 'It's the price we artist's have to pay'.)

Part 14: Family Issues

Koenma sat in his big chair, reading from a huge volume. "Let's see…d…d…Danish pastries…demonic artifacts diminished legends… doomed historical figures… dracons!" Finding the subject he was looking for, Koenma began to read:

"Dracons, or dragon children, are a race like no other. Originally created to help the dragons of the old world keep evil demonic powers at bay, the last war against the demon Sukeisa left all the dragons and their eggs destroyed, except for one. The silver dragon," he paused as he tried to look through the coffee stain.

"Ogre!" Within seconds, George was gasping for breath in Koenma's office.

"Koenma sir, did you want something?"

Koenma stood up, "I want to know who was reading this book last because they spilled coffee on it!"

George cringed, "It was you Koenma, sir."

"Me?! Don't be ridiculous. As if I would read this!"

"Umm…you did…two months ago, right before that special dinner. You wanted to have Danish pastries for the desert and you wanted to make them. Unfortunately, you spilled coffee on the book as you were trying to find the recipe."

"That's it ogre! I'm going to fire you for lying to your boss!"

George sweat dropped and then came up with an idea, "Have you found anything that will help Aniya, sir?"

Koenma seemed to have come out of his shock. "Ah…yes." He settled down again, "Where was I….here. The silver dragon…Ta…" His face was contorted with concentration as he tried to make out the rest of the name. "…Ta…Taitam." He shrugged and continued, "remained, but realizing that he didn't have the power to compete with Sukeisa, merely used his power to put Sukeisa into a sleep. Then he sent his power to the future, where it was put into a reincarnation of a sort."

Koenma jumped up. "That's it! All we have to do is find this Taitam and he'll be able to fix everything! Ogre!!"

Little did Koenma know that he was completely and utterly wrong…

*****

Walking down the hall, Lord Doukai stopped outside one of the many doors in the underground complex. Opening the large metal door, he peered inside. His son sat chained to the wall. As the father entered, Tarukon stood up and struggled against his bonds.

"What do you want you bastard?"

Lord Doukai chuckled, "Now, now, my son. Is that any way to talk to your old man?" He carefully walked around inside the cell, managing to stay outside of the boundary set by Tarukon's chains. "I understand that this Aniya is of a particular interest to you, so you do understand why I keep you here."

Tarukon scowled, "You obviously don't understand. That's what will kill you in the end."

"I think you must be delusional because the last time I checked, you were in chains, Aniya was powerless and her friends have all their traps set into place."

"Traps? What do you mean?"

Lord Doukai smiled, "It's just a little thing I like to call plan b. In the event that her friends decide to fight the battle for her, I have matters of personal interest kept on hold. Every member of her team that would be a danger to me has a weakness and I have ascertained those weaknesses."

Tarukon snorted. 'Just who does he think he is? And does he really expect me to believe the father crap?'

Lord Doukai looked at his watch. "Oh, I must be going. Please, give my compliments to the rats and dust bunnies. I must check with Nara Ska to see how your little lovebird is doing." Walking out, he locked the door behind him. Tarukon sagged on the stone bench.

'Stone bench? Since when does Lord Doukai have stone benches? Oh yeah, since he built an underground complex just for completely dominating the world.' He put his head in his hands, 'How am I going to get out? I have to get to Aniya before she tries to do something stupid, like fight the bastard.'

Leaning against the wall, he thought about what had happened to him the night that the stone was broken, right after he had danced with Aniya…

"Owwww…my head. Is there any aspirin around?"

"Nope."

Tarukon spun around. "Who the hell are you?"

A bright silver light was across the room from him. (Just some random white room). "I your inner self."

Tarukon looked at the light disbelievingly, "So my inner self is a bunch of pretty light? That sounds plausible."

"I am not light. I am silver dragon."

"What?!"

The silver light began to fade and in its place stood a Chinese man with long, thin, white mustaches. "I am silver dragon."

"So how does that make you my inner self?"

The silver dragon sighed and began to explain. "Before I seal Sukeisa, I had to have plan. Using energy to put him to sleep for long time destroy my body and I realize dracon that I created would have no guide battle against Sukeisa."

"Right. That still doesn't explain why you're my inner self." Tarukon stood with his arms crossed.

"I explain if you patient enough to listen." The little man continued. "I would have to find way to help dracon if trouble occur. I knew that stone would get broken, and result would be Aniya lose her power."

"But if you knew that, then why didn't you think of some way to counteract it?"

"I did. When I create her, I also create someone, that inherit my knowledge and pass it to Aniya if she need of it."

"Ah. So that's what I am. A message boy."

The silver dragon nodded, "Yes. Cannot talk to Aniya. She have no powers of dragon."

"So you want to fuse with me? Is that it? And will this infusion change me at all?"

"It not a fusion. Is like riding on a bus. I go along for ride in your head."

"So I'm a taxi for some old geezer who says he's supposedly the silver dragon, and I have to tell Aniya what you tell me to?"

"Yes. If you want her survival, you must do this."

Tarukon sighed. "Fine. So when do we perform this ritual?"

The silver dragon held up his hands. "First, I tell you something important."

"Okay. What is it?"

"You are not son of Doukai Lord."

Tarukon's eyes widened. "I'm not Lord Doukai's son?"

"Is what I said, no?" The silver dragon looked in puzzlement as Tarukon jumped up and began to dance around.

"You alright, Tarukon?"

Tarukon smiled and did a victory sign with his fingers. "This is great! Are you serious? Lord Doukai isn't my father? Alright!" Then he began to chant.

The silver dragon put his head in his hands and then proceeded to yell, "Enough with "We will rock you" song! Is giving me a headache." Tarukon stopped chanting and sat down. "Now I tell you about history.

"I create you so that in event that something go wrong in future, I fuse with you and can save Aniya and world. But I create you at same time as I create Aniya."

"How come I'm not a dracon too?"

"Dracon easier to find than human child. I create you and try to hide you until sixteen year ago when I awaken you from sleepy slumber thing. At same time, Lord Doukai start looking for human child."

"Why? The prophecy doesn't say anything about a human child."

"No, prophecy says that one friend will help Aniya, but Sukeisa tell Lord Doukai that human child will be most likely to help Aniya. Also, Lord Doukai look for human to be an opponent for Aniya. Human less likely to appear to be threat to her, so easier to attack."

"S o Lord Doukai supposedly adopts me so that I can become Aniya's arch enemy?"

"In way, yes. But as you see, plan didn't work out. You remember hospital incident?"

Tarukon nodded, "How could I forget it?"

"Hospital incident shows Lord Doukai that you cannot fight against Aniya. But he has no time to search for anyone else to fight."

"What about Nara Ska. He found her."

"Yes, so Sukeisa tell Lord Doukai to hire Katomi to steal stone, so that Katomi out of way and Nara Ska work for him. Clever, no?"

"Very clever. So what do we need to do to help Aniya?"

"I will fuse with you now. Then you will wake up and you must find way to get message to Aniya."

"What message?"

"I tell you when you wake up."

"Oh, great."

"Ready?"

"Ready."

Tarukon stopped remembering and snapped out of his dream, partially because he was done with the flashback and partially because the little old man in his head was talking to him again.

'Tarukon!'

Tarukon rolled his eyes and answered, 'Yes? What is it now?'

'You must escape. Is time.'

He looked at the handcuffs around his arms. 'And how I am supposed to do that, oh, all mighty and powerful silver dragon?'

The silver dragon thought about this for a moment. 'Think happy thoughts?'

'How are happy thoughts supposed to get me out of these chains?'

'Wait minute. You say chains?'

'Nooo…I didn't say that at all.'

'You didn't? Oh, okay.' And the silver dragon went back to thinking.

Tarukon mentally slapped himself for agreeing to this arrangement. 'I was joking. Yes, I said chains.'

The silver dragon smiled. 'Okay. Here plan. You snap chains like sticks and then pick lock on door.'

'How am I supposed to do that? And how are you so sure that this will work?'

'Your father, I mean Doukai Lord think you too stup-od to escape. Look at chains carefully. They not very strong, no? Break them.'

Tarukon looked at the chains and suddenly, they didn't look as strong as they had done minutes ago. "Okay, here goes." He pulled his hands apart and away from the wall. Suddenly, he was free. "Wow. That worked."

'Good, now pick lock.'

Tarukon set to work and a few minutes later, he was facing an open door. 'Okay old man, now what?'

'Run like hell.'

"Just great." Tarukon looked both ways before taking a right and running down the hall. 'If I'm right, there's an emergency exit around here somewhere.' He passed many doors soon her came up to a door that looked strangely like an elevator.

"Hmm…what would the code word be to get out of here?" Then he heard footsteps behind him. Whirling around, Tarukon put himself in a fighting stance, and held the stance even though the person was none other than Mr. Timbles the butler.

"Master Tarukon? I assume you need the word to get out?"

"Why yes. How did you know?" Then he mentally slapped himself again.

'Stup-od question. You hated son, you not in cell, you in front of door and you not crossed door yet. What else you need to get through? Pink fluffy bunny slippers?'

'Thank you, silver dragon.' Tarukon looked at the butler again. "You aren't going to tell father are you?"

"Absolutely not sir. The password is 'Open up, you fucking door'."

Tarukon looked at the man again. "Are you sure that's the password? I mean it doesn't seem very pass-word like."

Timbles stood there and explained, "Well, as it would happen, Lord Doukai was attempting to open the door when it asked him what the password was. He misheard the machine and kicked the door, yelling the afore-mentioned words. The door opened, since he was the first person to use the door, he unwittingly assigned the password. Since then, he has not used the door, so only I and a few servants use it and know the password."

Tarukon smiled. "That's Timbles. Remind me when this is all over to hire you."

"Thank you sir."

Tarukon turned around and yelled at the door, "Open up, you fucking door!" And the door opened smoothly. He was about to run through it when Timbles stopped him.

"Sir, if you proceed up the ladder in the second room on the right, it will lead you right up to a street in some urban neighborhood. Best of luck to you sir."

"Thanks Timbles." He ran through the door and proceeded to follow all of the butler's directions.

*****

Aniya was standing in the middle of the park by Kurama's house. There was no one around, possibly because it was ten o'clock on a Saturday morning, and no one in their right mind was going to be up and about at that ungodly hour. Aniya looked at her hands.

'According to the old hag, I should be able to use just regular spirit energy. I have to learn to separate it from my magical energy though. If I don't I'll fucking lose 'cause they'll have the advantage of both power and skills in magical power usage.' She looked at her index finger. 'I can always start by trying a spirit gun. That was an easy one for me to mimic.'

Concentrating on just the energy, trying to block out her training, she aimed at a tree and fired. There was a blast of light purple energy. 'I've never seen energy that color before, or at least, coming from me.' She watched as the tree she blasted exploded in a bunch of little shards.

"That must mean that I've learned how to use my spirit energy without magical training or anything!" She was about to celebrate when a voice stopped her.

"Far from it girl. If you thought that just one blast would enough to cleanse you of your magical training, then you must be stupider than I thought."

Aniya turned and glared at Genkai. "Yeah? How would you know?"

"You shouldn't have been able to mimic Yusuke's attack. The only attacks, as far as any of the books say, that a dracon can do are Lighting of Pain, Death by Cut, and something called the Wave of Lizard People."

Aniya sweat-dropped. "Who would name an attack 'Wave of the Lizard People'? Anyway, so the spirit gun attack I just use was using magical spirit energy?"

Genkai nodded. "Your energy should be a pale blue. Because magical energy is red or pink and that attack was of a purple color. My guess is that your energy had control over the majority of the attack, but the magical power was still there because it was not one of your own attacks."

"So you're saying I've only got three attacks?"

"Yes. And of course, you can always apply spirit energy to martial arts to make your kicks and punches stronger."

"Right. That doesn't sound to hard."

"And you sound like a slacker."

"I'm not a slacker."

"Now you sure look like one."

"Shut up! You're just talking to me like you'd talk to Yusuke. The whole point of that is for me to pointlessly blast you with spirit energy. Some technique!"

"But it works, doesn't it?"

"Shut up! What do you know anyways?"

"A lot more than you, idiot."

"Stop calling me names!"

"Why should I?"

Aniya raised her hands toward Genkai. "Because I told you to!" Electrical energy exploded from her hands and would have nailed Genkai right in the chest if the old lady hadn't moved out of the way in time. When the smoke had cleared (since the electrical attack hit another poor tree), Genkai was smiling.

Aniya looked at her hands and then at Genkai's smile. "What that it? My own spirit energy?"

The psychic nodded, "Yes. Now all you have to do is learn to be able to harness your own spirit energy like that every time, even without provocation." Genkai put herself in an attack position. "Hit me with everything that you've got, but this time, try the slash technique."

"You got it, Genkai!"

A/N: Not as long as some of the other ones, but it's okay. Don't worry. The YYH group will be coming back in the next chapter. I had to get this little thing in here because otherwise, there'd be a lot more talking in the finale and that's boring. (I write a lot of stories where the last scene is good guy trapped, asks why, how, who etc. and bad guy has upper hand and explains everything that hasn't been explained, bwahahaha, etc. So this time, if I do all the explaining beforehand, it won't happen later.) Sani will be back soon too.