Chap 4. The Storyteller

Hello again. Thanks for the reviews and suggestions, I welcome many more. Especially Fey Wind for her suggestion, which led me to an awesome idea that'll you'll see down the road. Let me explain one thing to the rest of you though: this is not going to be a romance. There may be a scene or two down the road but I don't want to play with emotions too much here. Also, I'll be having no damsels in distress, quite the opposite in fact. You'll see what I mean. So anyway on with the story:

It was on the third day that the group ran into trouble.

"You know Keiko," said Yusuke, "you should probably go home. It's not to late and your Mom'll probably be worried about you by now."

"I've already thought of that," said Keiko. "I figured I'll just tell her that you dragged me off with you and I can't tell her the details under penalty of law. I told her about your "job" when I thought you were still some kind of intern so she'll believe me."

Yusuke swore silently, he'd been trying to think of a good excuse for her to go home for days and she shot down every one of them.

In reality Keiko knew exactly what he was trying to do and had gotten sick of his mutterings so she moved up to talk to Kagome and Botan.

"I've been wondering for awhile," said Botan, "how did you get Inuyasha to fall like that back when he was fighting Yusuke without using a spell or anything?"

"It's thanks to those beads around his neck," Kagome pointed to them. "Whenever I say the "word of subjugation" which in this case is sit (crash) he falls." Kagome hurried over to Inuyasha to calm him down and explain why his face had suddenly met the ground again.

"I wish I had a word like that for Yusuke," both Botan and Keiko said at once. They looked at each other a little surprise and started to laugh.

Just then Miroku popped up behind them and hung his arms around their shoulders. "I have been watching you two for sometime now," he said, "and I must say I am in love though my heart is torn between the two of you." Keiko sweatdroped and Botan just stared but the strange monk continued. "I'm afraid love on me would be wasted however for my fate has been sealed in my right hand. If I only had a son, who could stop this family curse of mine," he looked at the girls again. "Would either of you do me the honor of bearing my son?"

Unfortunately for Miroku, he had spoken loud enough for the whole group to hear. There were several seconds of silence where everyone just stared but it was soon broken as everyone lunged at him at once (many bareing weapons). There were many voices shouting stuff like pervert, jerk, pig, etc. and when they finally stepped away all that was left was a giant bruise in a hole in the ground, especially after Yusuke finished with him.

Minutes later they had barely gotten over their grumbling when the demon from before appeared before them with about a thousand henchmen. Yusuke barred his teeth, "Get out of here you guys!" he shouted to the girls and Shippo. Right away, all of them except Sango ran off for the safety of the forest.

Some of the demons started to go after them but their leader stopped them, "Leave them alone they're not the ones I'm after, at least not yet."

With that they turned back to face Inuyasha, Yusuke, and Sango (Miroku was still in that hole). Then without warning, they all sprung forth to attack.

Damn, thought Yusuke, they're strong. I could take them easily if there weren't so many but they're starting to overpower me.

He used his shotgun to throw off a few dozen of them but most of them just got back up because they didn't get a direct hit and kept on coming.

On the other side of the road Sango and Inuyasha weren't doing much better. Some of the smaller demons had gotten into Inuyasha's hair and were using it to tie him and strangle him. Not that they were succeeding (hey it's not that long) but it was making it increasingly difficult to continue fighting.

Sango had managed to get on Kirara and go up in the air. Fortunately none of the demons could fly and she was taking out as many as she could with her boomerang but she couldn't be sure that she wouldn't hit her friends because they had a very small amount of space to fight in.

Suddenly it was too late. The demons had a hold on Inuyasha and Yusuke that couldn't be broken. They dragged them to their leader.

"Don't look so upset," it said to the scowling boys, "I'm not going to kill you, at least not yet. I'm going to have a lot more fun with you first." Carefully it placed a scroll on the ground before producing a strange yellow bubble. It began to grow until it was bigger than both captives and pressed onto them until they were inside it where try as they might they could not escape. The bubble began to shrink again, reducing the boys inside it as well. Finally it was small enough to go in the demon's pocket and with a laugh it took it and said, "Now let the legend of the storyteller demon begin!"

Then suddenly it and all its minions were gone in a puff of smoke.

Author again: and that's the end of that chapter. I hope you liked it so please review. After finishing it, I have a much better idea of where this story is going but I'm still open to your opinions and suggestions. Who knows you may inspire something great. However, in the mean time, I don't mean to leave you hanging and I'll update it as soon as I can. Also, I soon plan to have another story up under Yu Yu Hakusho. It'll have nothing to do with this one but it's called A Wish (or maybe something similar if that's taken) and I promise it's going to be good 9though once again little to no romance). So thanks for reading this and please enjoy anything I may write in the future. Bye!