Shadowess: I have no excuses for not updating. I am in disbelief that I haven't updated this since October 2009, and it's now May 2011.
Hiei: What the hell took you so long?
Shadowess: -screams- Who are you!
Hiei: ...You must be joking.
Shadowess: Whoa.. gravity defying hair..
Hiei: -smacks me over the head violently-
Shadowess: OW SON OF A MOTHERLESS GOAT!
Hiei: You were saying?
Shadowess: I was saying that I have no excuses. I have facts as to why this was no posted two years ago. Fact: my muse got married. Fact: I was focused on work. Fact: Life induces writer's block. Fact: This chapter was written up in a long dragging boring conversation at Genkai's temple that made me purposely ignore writing in this.
Hiei: And then I burnt it.
Shadowess: Yes. Thank you by the way. So all I can say is this: I am so sorry that this took so long. I'm sorry this chapter is short. I have no intentions of abandoning this story. It'll just take a bit longer to complete.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Chapter 33: News is New
Hours passed as the detectives plus the girls regrouped in the Spirit World. They had undergone some testing to see what state of hypnosis they were under and if any effects on their minds were permanent. Tension was high amongst the group as they waited for results. Both Kyla and Nyssa were seated on the same tables when they had been treated for the vampirism, and they were watching the floor in deep thought.
The dream that they were placed in felt so real… well, up until the point that Nyssa's swords had disappeared. That was a touch surreal and it spiraled from there. But that initial part...
Nyssa let out an audible sigh. "I miss home..."
"Oh, Ny-chan..." Kyla looked up at her friend. "It'll be okay. When we get out of here, you can call home and check up on them."
The door opened to have a doctor come in, followed by Koenma in his toddler form. It was a completely different doctor from who they had before. This one looked mostly human if not for the red-scaled skin and bright yellow hair. Koenma floated up to the girls and looked between them.
"Dr. Ichigato has examined you girls and has the results." he turned to the doctor.
"Physically, you both are exceedingly fine. However, I do need to give you both mental examinations to ensure that the Cardinal Demons you encountered have not left any subconscious tracers." Dr. Ichigato said. "It's a very simple procedure with a mind link. I will be able to hear your thoughts, but I will allow you to hear mine so that we can speak on a confidential level."
"I'll go first." Nyssa volunteered.
"Very good." the doctor approached Nyssa and put his fingertips gently on her temples. "Just relax and focus on me. You'll feel some poking but it's all normal."
She took a slow breath and looked at the doctor's black eyes. Inside her mind, she could hear him explaining where he was searching, asking questions once in a while to give confirmation of things that she was aware of. It felt like a few minutes before broke the link.
"Okay. Now for the other one." he approached Kyla.
Kyla had the same experience. She kept herself calm, but had the doctor remind her to calm her thought process to give him a clearer passage in searching her mind. The psychic link was still pretty extraordinary to her, but this process was a lot more acceptable because of the confidentiality and respect of privacy.
Dr. Ichigato left her mind before picking up a clipboard, jotting a few things down. "Alright. There is still a link nestled in the deep subconscious of their minds. It can not be removed by force. It will eventually wear away, but it may promote sleep walking. Should that happen, return here immediately. I may be able to perform a reverse trace to cancel out the link. It's too minor at this stage to perform anything. Other than that, I see no reason to keep them under observation apart from keeping an eye on sleeping habits." He looked at Kyla. "If I may, Kyla, I would like to speak to you in private. It will only take a moment."
"Oh, uh, sure?" Kyla blinked, wondering what it will be about.
Nyssa hopped off the table as everyone else began to file out of the room. "We'll wait for you outside the door, babe."
Kyla watched as everyone went out the door, it softly clicking shut after Kurama sent her a reassuring smile. She looked at the doctor and waited for him to say what he wanted.
"I figured you would appreciate the privacy, but I believe as a doctor, I should inform you that you are pregnant."
Kyla's jaw slackened before gaping like a fish. "...What?"
The doctor held up his hands. "Allow me." he put his finger tips on her temple again. "Just breathe in and out... Do you hear your heartbeat?" he questioned her.
Kyla shut her eyes and felt her heart beating in her ears. She nodded.
"I'm going to mute everything around you, including your heartbeat. Tell me what you hear."
Kyla was instantly deafened but wait... she heard something, almost like a rapid tapping but softer. Rapid successions of tap-tap, tap-tap, tap-tap. "I hear... tapping..." after she replied, sound was slowly brought back to her ears, drowning out the tapping. The doctor's fingers were removed from her head.
"That tapping is the very first stages of a developing heartbeat. I believe congratulations are in order." Dr. Ichigato smiled at her before jotting another item down on his clip board. "I would recommend waiting a while before seeing a specialist, about a month or two. But if you have questions, I will give you my human alias number so that you can give yourself peace of mind." he tore off the strip of paper from the clipboard before handing it to her.
"T-thank you." Kyla shoved the paper in her pocket before looking down at her stomach. She was really...?
"Yes, you are." Dr. Ichigato smiled. "Sorry, you were projecting. Please take care and just eat whatever your body tells you to." He went to the door and opened it.
"Yeah, okay. Thanks." Kyla went out and saw the group of people there.
"Is everything alright, Kyla?" Kurama went up to her, his eyes shining with concern. When she walked out of the room, her eyes were wide and unreadable.
She looked up at him and felt a switch turn to 'happy' mode. "I'm... great! I'm great, Kura-kit." she glomped him around his waist. "Can we head back now?"
Kurama, followed by everyone else, looked to Koenma. "Yes, yes. You may go. I will contact you as soon as we have the seal for the Lust Demons ready. Botan, have a portal ready before you go to your duty."
"Yes, sir, Lord Koenma." Botan brought up her oar and summoned up a portal. "Genkai's shrine is only a step away!"
The group piled through and ended up outside on the front yard of the shrine. Genkai was waiting on the walk-way and looked at the group of them. "Oh good, you're alive." She went over to the group, holding the paper bag in her hand to return it. Once it was out of her house, it would be out of sight, therefore out of mind.
Nyssa and Kyla glanced at each other before Kyla mouthed to her friend, 'not mine'. Nyssa rolled her eyes before looking at Genkai, putting on a smile that she was used to placing when dealing with elderly customer. "Hello there. Sorry for just appearing like this on your property."
"Don't worry about it. You must be Nyssa. You and your friend Kyla have been causing a lot of grief with your abduction." Genkai went up to her and held out the paper bag. "You apparently dropped this when you were taken."
Recognition flashed in her eyes, double-checking her mental wall before accepting the bag. "Thank you for holding on to this."
"You're welcome." Genkai looked between all the people. "Now it's getting late. Yukina, come have some tea."
"I'll come see you tomorrow to see how you're doing, Yukina." Kuwabara told her.
"I'd like that, Kazuma. Thank you." Yukina bowed and followed Genkai in to the shrine.
"Well, crisis averted for now. We'll see you when Koenma gets that seal ready." Yusuke have a two-finger salute before wrapping an arm around Keiko's waist, walking to the stairs.
"Then we shall return home. Are you girls hungry? You've been gone for quite a few hours." Kurama asked.
"I'm kinda hungry." Kyla confirmed.
"Same." Nyssa nodded, holding the bag to her side.
"Do you girls want me to make something, or do you want to pick up some food on our way back?"
"I want a hamburger." Kyla spoke up right away.
Nyssa gaped at her friend, knowing that she never stated what she wanted first. "Yeah, hamburgers sound good. Any McD's or Dairy Queen's around?"
"I believe that there is a Dairy Queen around. I have never been there before, though."
"Oh it's great. They got burgers, chicken, fries, onion rings, ice cream..." Nyssa listed off before glancing to Hiei out of the corner of her eyes. "Many different kinds of ice cream."
Without any argument from Hiei or Kurama, they descended down the stairway. It took about ten minutes of walking, but they managed to find the DQ restaurant. Kurama had been talking about some of his escapades during high school, escaping hoards of hormone-induced females in the area, making Kyla snicker.
"It's amazing how so many girls can be so love-sick! I mean, stalking?"
"Yeah. But it makes sense in today's society with the internet and cell phones. They can all just populate a single area in the matter of minutes." Nyssa shifted the bag to her other hand to pat her pockets for her money.
"Oh don't worry about paying, Nyssa. I have it." Kurama spoke up. "Now what do you wish to have?" Kurama took everyone's order, and no surprise, Hiei ordered a Blizzard. They took a seat in a booth and the elephant in the room was addressed by Hiei.
"What is in the paper bag?"
"Uh..." Nyssa's eyes shifted to Kyla's, trying to think of what to say.
Kyla reached over the table, taking the bag from Nyssa, having that feeling that Hiei was about to grab it to look inside. "It's actually mine. Ny-chan insisted but I don't need it."
"Don't need it anymore?" Nyssa raised an eyebrow.
"Nah, in fact, we still have the receipt so we can return it, huh?" Kyla gave Nyssa a knowing smile causing her eyes to widen.
"Yeah, we can return it, no problem. Want to do that tomorrow morning?"
"Sure! We can buy you some condoms instead." Kyla grinned at the red flush that covered Nyssa's face.
"Oh, definitely..." she grumbled, looking away from her friend and out the window.
Hiei put his arm up behind Nyssa's shoulders and smirked. "I have no desire to wear a human balloon and loose any sensations."
Kyla laughed as Nyssa's face became redder at the comment. "Wow! I'm surprised you even know what a condom is, Hiei. Who told you?"
"The Detective informed me a couple years ago." Hiei shrugged it off.
"Hiei was delivering a VHS tape to Yusuke from Koenma when he stumbled across a condom package sitting in the middle of the floor. Yusuke found him perplexed as to what the item was and what it was used for." Kurama informed. Their number was called, so he went up to retrieve the tray with their food.
"VHS?" Nyssa blinked. "Seriously? Why not go old-school and use Beta tapes? Or, hey, why not the really old floppy disks that the first computers used?"
"Come on, Ny-chan. You don't expect someone like Koenma to actually be on top of technology, do you?"
"Actually, I would think that he would use his other-worldly abilities to convey a message without technology." Nyssa crossed her arms. "But you're right, I'm expecting too much from an old man in diapers."
Kyla snickered with laughter as Kurama came back. After having their usual tastes, they continued their trek back to Kurama's home. This time, since it was darker, they used their demonic speed to just zip through the shadows and trees to get there faster. Kyla was quick to call for the shower first, somehow convincing Kurama to join her to 'save water'.
Nyssa stowed the paper bag away in her room, changing out of her clothes in to clean, comfortable clothing to lounge around the house for the evening. She went in to her demon form and started to braid her hair, sitting on the edge of her bed, thinking of the day. It felt like it had been at least 12 hours, but it had only been 3... She picked up her cell phone and looked at the time. It was far too late to call her parents, since they would already be asleep due to the time difference.
With a resigned sigh, she put the phone down and tied her hair off. She could feel Hiei petting at her mental wall and closed her eyes. He was still riding the high... Already, it felt like days since the encounter, but it had only been one since she had sex with him. A gentle pulse between her legs reminded her of that.
Maybe Kyla had a point, about her flirting with Hiei. Besides, she knew that things were never going to go back to the way they were, but if she played along and got Hiei back to thinking with his head instead of his hormones, then she wouldn't have to be on constant guard with her mental barriers. Sex was nothing to be ashamed of.
Hell, she read enough stories online to know what goes where and how much fun it could be. Nyssa took a deep breath and got to her feet. When she was given attitude, she gave back just as good. And if the attitude was about sex, then she'll give as good as she got!
She reached out with her mind to find where Hiei was, and he was in his room. Nyssa reached in to her nightstand drawer and popped a pill in to her mouth. Opening her window, she jumped to the tree then up on to the roof. Walking over to the other side, she let down her wall and contacted Hiei.
'Hiei, are you busy right now?' Nyssa asked.
'Not at the moment.'
'I'm coming in through your window. I need your help with some training.' she peered over the edge and saw Hiei crack his window open.
'Window's open.' His mind steeled at the thought of training.
'Thanks.' Nyssa jumped down and got inside his room. The dark interior of the room was lit up by a bedside lamp.
"What sort of training do you need help with?" Hiei was leaning against the wall, watching her.
"I believe it goes under stretching but when we finished dealing with that ogre army, the sword didn't quite go in to my sheath as smoothly as I wanted." Nyssa didn't look at Hiei while speaking, instead took to looking at barren walls, noting the markings that would be caused by the tip of a sharp weapon. If she looked at him, then her face would go red.
"Where is your sword then?" Hiei raised an eyebrow.
A smirk went on to Nyssa's face as she finally looked at Hiei. "I never said anything about my sword..."
Hiei's eyes widened then darkened. Nyssa didn't move as she saw him move away from the wall towards her, lust returned to his gaze once more. A fog enveloped Nyssa's mind before she stepped towards Hiei, lifting her hands up to his hair and pulling him down so not to meet his lips, but she brought her mouth to his neck just below his ear. With a growl, Hiei moved his hands on to her hips and began stroking up and down, pushing material out of the way to feel her skin against his.
The night was warm. Kyla and Kurama were asleep in Kurama's room while both Nyssa and Hiei were out in the backyard. There was a gentle breeze, insects were making slight noise, vehicles echoed from cities in the distance. It actually felt peaceful. But in a moment, Kyla and Nyssa slowly sat up and looked at the guys. Their eyes were empty, as they just watched, sitting, barely moving. Nearly twenty minutes passed before they laid back down. Their eyes shut then three seconds passed before...
Kyla gasped awake, vivid images of Daniel Rabcliff, Asmodeus, and the vampire Yoji pulling Kyla out on to a bridge with the two of them laughing and calling her 'dove'. She was forced to look over the side to see Kurama, half-changed between himself and Youko, drowned in the blood-saturated water below. Kisses were put on the back of her hands before she was pushed off the edge. Once the momentum of falling registered in her mind, Kyla tried to scream. She fell rapidly down to the water and almost hit it when Kyla woke up.
Kurama sat up, his hand pulling the rose from his hair, ready to change in to a whip at Kyla's gasp. He looked around, not seeing, smelling, or hearing anything abnormal. He looked at Kyla and saw her wide frantic look.
"Kyla, shh, it's okay." he took her hand and pulled her to his chest.
"Oh shit... That was... oh shit..." Kyla felt her eyes water at the fear that she felt.
"Nothing happened. You never left the bed." he pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "It was just a bad dream."
Kurama soothed her, trying to calm her down from her state of fear-induced panic. When she was calmer, he asked her to talk to him about the dream.
Outside, Nyssa had just closed her eyes before the three seconds passed. Her eyes shot open, making her sit up faster, jostling Hiei this time. Hiei didn't open his eyes but grabbed her wrist. Startled from the disorientation of shooting awake, Nyssa opened her mouth to scream but only managed to get a strangled gasp out.
Hiei sat up and had Nyssa turn to him. 'Relax, it's me.'
Not trusting her voice, Nyssa replied back with her mind. 'I'm sorry. Oh man... Horrid dream.' She brought a hand up to her chest, trying to calm the erratic rate of her heart.
Crisp images of Rabcliff, 'Ivan', and Gaap had her tied up and gagged, taking turns carrying her in to dark cave. She couldn't burn the ropes away, no matter how hard she struggled. Nyssa had tried to call for Hiei with her mind but it only prompted laughter from all three guys who took turns carrying her. She was abruptly dropped to the ground, landing on her side. Just ahead of her, all the eyes of Hiei's enraged demonic form glistened in the dark, purple irises everywhere but the two for his actual eyes. Hope glimmered in her chest for a brief moment before she saw his body get lifted in to the darkness after a splash of red, like paint. All his eyes closed except for his third eye. The eye fell away from Hiei's form and rolled over to her, blinking on its own before looking up, reflecting the image of Hiei's body being torn in half by a huge spider.
All three demons who brought her there, laughed, and echoed together in bidding her 'farewell, dove'. The reflection of the spider got larger as it dropped down towards her and the eye. It was then that she shut her eyes tight in the dream and opened them, waking up.
Hiei reached in to her mind and replayed the nightmare in to his. It was very detailed and made him growl in anger at the ridiculousness of it all. He pulled her in to his arms and stroked her back to calm himself.
'Back inside.' Hiei stated, getting to his feet and pulling Nyssa up with him.
Somehow, he was not surprised to see Kyla and Kurama sitting on the couch, Kyla clutching a mug in her hand that smelled like tea. Kurama looked up at Hiei and Nyssa.
"Nightmare?" Kurama questioned. Hiei nodded as he brought Nyssa in to the kitchen.
Kyla sipped her hot tea and sighed, her fox ears drooping from exhaustion. "I hate this..." she whispered.
Kurama rubbed his hand up and down her back, "I know."
'Can you grab me a freezie or something cold?' Nyssa leaned against a counter, rubbing her throat, which felt raw despite hardly making any noise at all.
Hiei opened the freezer and pulled out an orange freezie, handing it to her. Nyssa took out a pocket knife from her pajama pants and cut off the top before suckling gently on the orange ice. Hiei watched her then smirked.
'I believe you can substitute that sweet ice for something else.' His smirk grew at her confused face before she blinked twice, her cheeks reddening in realization.
'Hentai. You're just distracting me.' she allowed a smile to go on her features before stepped to him, licking his lips instead of her ice treat. "Thank you." she whispered before pulling away, resuming to eat her freezie.
After being in silence for a bit, Kurama was the one to break it. "Since I believe that none of us will be returning to sleep any time soon, I believe we shall distract ourselves with a film." he went to the cupboard.
"Kyla can choose." Nyssa spoke up, not caring to watch anything specific.
"No scary movies... Action or comedy." Kyla stated, setting down her cup. She got up and went to look at the movie shelf, grabbing one that she recognized.
Kurama placed the movie in the player as Kyla sat down. He sat down next to her, allowing her to cuddle up against his chest. Hiei nodded his head to the living room as Nyssa turned.
"What did you put on?" she asked.
"Death Race." Kyla replied.
"Where vehicles get smashed and smashed and break my heart." Nyssa sighed.
"But it has Jason Statham in it. He's such a good actor and he's good looking."
"Yes, but the Mustang is beaten up, modified, and broken down to be reassembled in to a Frankenstein monster." Nyssa looked at Hiei then back at the TV. "Seeing cars that were once beautiful get trashed over and over is saddening. I'll show Hiei some stuff on my laptop instead." she went over to Kyla and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Okay, see you later, babe." Kyla gave her friend a peck on the cheek as well. Hiei and Nyssa went upstairs as Kyla and Kurama got comfortable with their movie.
Hours passed and it was already dawn. Kyla and Kurama had fallen asleep on the couch with another racing movie playing at a low volume. They were both laying down on the couch, Kurama's arm secure over her waist. Upstairs, Hiei was looking through the animated images that Nyssa had collected on her laptop as she slept against his side, curled up. He didn't understand the appeal of the two-dimensional images. They were flat, had too many colors, were ill-proportioned, and failed to convey actual emotion.
But something he had noticed was that most of the males had red eyes... dark hair... and featured dragons. On the subconscious level, he thought, she had indeed missed him. He closed the laptop and set it on the floor, shifting Nyssa and himself in to a more comfortable position.
"Lord Koenma, sir?" The blue ogre stepped in to Koenma's office.
"Yes, what is it?" Koenma stamped a sheet with red ink before looking up.
"I-It seems that a demon has made it's way on to Earth... getting past our guards." He stated, without making eye contact. Koenma looked up and stared at the ogre, waiting for him to elaborate. "And... he's been inducing violent behavior through radio... Causing many humans to be hospitalized and loosing recollection of why they were fighting."
"And how long as this been going on?" Koenma hit another paper with his stamp.
"For... nine months give or take a week?" The ogre already winced at the oncoming reaction.
Koenma slammed his little palms against the desk, sending papers flying all over the office. "WHAT?" His face reddened. "How could this demon have been hiding under out noses for so long? Why hasn't anyone noticed?"
"I-uh... you see..." the ogre was at a loss for words.
"Just never mind that for now! Get on this and get Yusuke's team here as soon as we have the mission itinerary!" Koenma throw his stamp at the ogre. "And get someone in here to clean up this mess!"
The stamp hit the blue ogre in the face, leaving a purple stamp mark from the red ink. "Yes sir..."
Kurama walked in the backyard, analyzing his garden for any unwanted weeds. Nyssa sat in the afternoon sun, reading her book. Hiei was training up on the roof with his sword. Kyla was inside, folding some laundry. Everyone slept through the morning, thankful not to have any disturbance.
Kurama spotted some weeds and focused on them. The pesky weed became animated and uprooted itself, and slowly shrank down in a reverse-chlorophyll process until all that remained was a tiny seed. He walked over to each little seed and picked them up, pocketing them to experiment on a hybrid plant for later.
Nyssa closed her book and groaned, knowing that she had been sitting for too long. She got up, stretched, and went inside to see Kyla with a basket of clothes. But the clothes weren't her own. A pair of shorts fell as she got half-way up the steps.
"I got it." Nyssa went over and picked up the boxer shorts, which happened to be Kurama's. "Bored already?"
"No, just restless." Kyla smiled and let Nyssa put the boxers on top of her pile.
"I get what you mean. Mind if I help fold?"
"Oh sure, I don't mind." Kyla led her up to her room and dumped the clothes on to the bed. They each grabbed an article of clothing and started folding. "I'm not psychic but I know what you want to ask."
"About our purchase at the drug store." Nyssa nodded.
"Well, I don't need it cause the doctor yesterday already talked to me about it." Kyla picked off a piece of fluff from one of the shirts she folded.
"What did Dr. Ichigato say?" Nyssa paused and looked at her friend.
"He had me listen to this quiet tapping... which is actually the heartbeat." Kyla placed a hand on her stomach.
Nyssa's eyes widened as she did the classic impression of a fish before whispering. "Should I be giving you a hug of 'omg' or a hug of 'it'll be okay'?"
"The first one." Kyla laughed lightly as she was glomped.
"Oh my goddess! Congrats, darling! Have you said anything to Kurama yet?"
"No no, I'm thinking of just waiting until I'm further along. I wanna surprise him when the time is right. So hush hush." Kyla put a finger up to her lips.
"Hush hush." Nyssa smiled. "So I'll bring that baggy back to the pharmacy this afternoon then."
"Why not keep it for yourself? You might need it if we get dragged away for a few days and you can't get to your pill thing. Or we can give them to Keiko as a gag gift." Kyla snickered to herself.
"Oh that'd be funny, especially if we give it to Yusuke and say that we were worried for Keiko's health and hoped it'd bring her some reassurance." Nyssa plotted.
"Excellent!"
They laughed and joked about what they could do to their re-found friends before there was a knock at the door when they reached the bottom of the pile.
"Enter if you dare!" Kyla called as she straightened the piles of clothes.
Kurama opened the door and popped his head in. "Hello. So this is where my laundry went." he chucked at Kyla's innocent grin. "Botan is downstairs and wants us to go to Koenma's for a mission briefing."
"Okay. Be down in a minute." Kyla nodded.
Nyssa walked towards the connecting door, thinking of taking a sword or dagger along with her just in case. "Is Hiei already downstairs?"
"Yes he is. See you down there." Kurama kept the door partly open as he went back downstairs.
It took both girls only a minute to make sure they were decent and armed before descending to the living room. Botan was waiting with Kurama and Hiei while dressed in her usual pink kimono. She looked at Kyla and Nyssa and gave them a wave.
"I'm sorry guys. Koenma said this was an urgent mission. Personally, I would have let you rest for a couple days after that ordeal you had to go through." she told them with sincerity.
"Not your fault, Botan." Kyla shrugged it off.
"Well let's go then. Yusuke and Kuwabara are already waiting there." Botan had her oar appear and made a portal appear in the middle of the room. With a small hop, Botan flew in to the portal. The four followed right behind her in to the office. Kuwabara and Yusuke were already waiting as Botan had said.
Koenma waited for the portal to be closed before he had a screen come down, showing a radio station. "Do any of you recognize this building?"
"Yeah, that's the DAS radio station." Yusuke spoke up. "They play crappy pop music."
"The music sounds weird, like it's on a bad frequency." Kuwabara added.
"That's because this radio station has hidden wavelengths that induce violent behaviors in humans. A school was playing the music over its sound system when the majority of students went on a violent rampage." he brought up another image of the school being closed with all the students freeze-framed of fighting each other. "When the music was stopped, the fighting stopped and no one could remember what happened or why they were fighting."
"So they are broadcasting subliminal violent messages." Kurama summarized.
"Like listening to country music." Nyssa commented, earning a smack in the arm by Kyla.
"I happen to like country music. And I know some really nice songs." Kyla crossed her arms.
"I'm just teasing, sweet."
Koenma cleared his throat, drawing their attention back. "What we have learned is that a demon has taken control of the station, going by the alias 'Shriek'. We managed to record this audio sample." Koenma hit a button on the remote he held.
"Hey hey ladies and gentlemen, that was the remix of The Beatles 'Twist and Shout' by—" There was a bunch of static before it resumed. "Why just twist and shout and scream, when you can shriek? Let's hear your battle cries! All right! This is your radio Host Shriek, coming at you live from DAS radio."
Koenma shut it off and looked at the group. "What are you initial feelings to his message?"
"Made me want to punch Kuwabara in the face, but that's a normal day to day thing." Yusuke shrugged.
"Funny, the guy's voice made me want to kick you where the sun don't shine, Urameshi." Kuwabara commented, glaring at Yusuke for a moment.
"His voice was grating." Hiei commented, Kurama voicing his agreement.
Kyla shrugged. "Sounded like a regular dude to me. I usually tune out the radio spokespeople when they're talking. I didn't feel anything."
"I like The Beatles. But it sounded like there was background noise. Can you play it again?" Nyssa changed to her demon form, taking off her glasses.
"Very well." Koenma played the sound byte again.
Nyssa had her eyes closed as she listened to the message again. "It's like whispering. Can you hear it, Kyla?"
Kyla changed in to her fox form and closed her eyes and Koenma played the message a third time. "Yeah. It's like he's talking over top of an old re-recorded tape."
"I'll have a digital specialist take a better look at it. In the mean-time, I need two of you to go in and take Shriek in to custody. Kuwabara, I know you're not an official detective but you're not as well known to demons and would be better to go in instead of Yusuke."
"Sure thing."
"Now… Kyla and Nyssa, I would like for one of you to go with him."
"Sure, I'll go." Nyssa volunteered. "I just better not have to wear another one of Botan's 'outfits'." She sent a glare at Koenma.
"That will not be necessary. But you can not carry any obvious weapons with you." Koenma said, ignoring the glare. "You'll need to get in to the building, stop the broadcasting, and bring Shriek back here without killing him or causing serious damage."
"We'll get it done then, Lord Koenma!" Kuwabara said with confidence.
"Good. Here is a map on how to get to the station from Genkai's place." He pushed forward a piece of paper with a map that seemed like it was printed off of Google for some reason.
Kuwabara picked up the map and looked at Nyssa. "You don't have to worry about a thing, Nyssa! This shouldn't be too hard compared to what Urameshi and I used to do." He shot her a big smile.
Nyssa blinked, not sure how to respond to that. She looked to Koenma. "When should we get this done?"
"The sooner the better." Koenma nodded at Botan.
She went up to them. "These are communicators so that you can contact us in case something goes wrong. Everyone will rush in and take everything down."
"It's a last resort in event of near-death, or if Shriek escapes." Koenma clarified.
Kuwabara and Nyssa each picked up a small communicator. Kuwabara's looked like a cigarette holder while Nyssa's looked like a make-up compact. Nyssa looked up at Kuwabara.
"How about we meet at Genkai's tomorrow morning to get a plan together?" she suggested.
"Sure. What time?"
"Ten?"
"Sounds good."
"Good, you're getting along. Now you can be sent home." Koenma hit another switch on the remote, bringing up a portal that was to the steps of Genkai's.
Hiei voiced his complaints when he and Nyssa were alone that evening. He did not like her volunteering her time to be alone with 'the oaf' while she could be training with him. Needless to say, he was given quite the argument and he ended up steaming on the roof in solitude. Kyla and Kurama had voiced to him that it wasn't a big deal, and that Kuwabara was a good-hearted character.
Nyssa sat in the living room, sighing to herself for the third time in a matter of minutes, wondering why Hiei was being like this when she remembered that Kuwabara had romantic interest in Yukina; Hiei's twin sister.
No wonder he was being such a grouch.
Kyla was sitting in the living room with Nyssa when she saw Nyssa's face suddenly get an expression of realization. Kurama was outside in the garden, experimenting with a dandelion weed.
"What are you thinking about?" Kyla questioned.
"I think I know why Hiei is so upset about Kuwabara." Nyssa replied. "And I know that he's going to have to get over it on his own terms."
"Gee, that's reassuring." Kyla rolled her eyes. "When will that be? Fifteen years?"
"Who knows." Nyssa sighed and looked at the clock. "Screw this. I'm going to get comfortable." she got up and gave her friend a kiss atop her head. "Want to watch a movie or play a game when I come back down?"
"Sure. I'll think of something for when you come back." Kyla grinned up at her friend. When Nyssa disappeared up the stairs, Kyla decided that getting in to comfortable lounge clothes was a compelling idea. She jumped off the chair she was on and bounded upstairs.
While getting changed, cell phones rang. Kyla and Nyssa each went to their respective phones to see text messages.
'Hey, are you and your friend okay? It's Ian.'
Kyla dropped her phone in shock before picking it up, checking to see the message again, only to find it gone. Nothing in history, nothing in message notifications. Nyssa stared at her phone in shock, hitting the reply button but her phone gave her an error message, saying no message was selected. As though the message wasn't even there.
Shadowess: I do plan to go somewhere with this. I appreciate the reviews I have gotten the past two years. Please, send some ideas, critique this. Reviews stating 'Awesome please update!' won't get another chapter out any faster. Let me know if you want more por- I mean... If you want more.. sensual moments between the characters.
Yusuke: So you're going to have more porn on here?
Shadowess: AAH! ANOTHER WEIRD GUY! -runs-
Yusuke: Uh.. okay? Reviews are loved but not forced.