The Mission
Standard disclaimer apply and Chiiri, Naori, Kaori and all their stuff..etc. are mine.
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"blah blah" = speech
~blah blah~ =thoughts
//blah blah// = Chiiri telepathy
////blah blah//// = Hiei telepathy
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Kaori turned sharply at the weak command. Chiiri stirred and forced Naori to put her down. "No. You two will leave without me."
The twins gaped. "What?!"
"You two are leaving without me. I'm staying."
"But, but—"
"No buts."
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Hiei had a headache. ~What happened? And that smell… Am I in a garden?~ Hiei peeped an eye open and saw a mass of red silk. He recognized it immediately. Realization hit him and he almost jumped. ~Kurama…~ Kurama was gently half-cradling Hiei in his arms. Kurama was silent and apparently looking at something. Hiei turned his head and Kurama did not notice. Chiiri was standing, albeit in barely visible dizziness, and was saying something. ~She's staying here. But she wants Naori and Kaori to go. I see…~ He heard his name.
"And Hiei-sama? What will he say?"
Hiei shifted and this startled Kurama. Kurama muffled a gasp at his surprise. Hiei looked up at pure forest green. ~Why is he looking at me like that?~
Kurama stared down at still-slightly-disoriented rubies. "Hiei…"
Hiei got up, a hand to his head in an attempt to alleviate his headache. "He will say that Chiiri's right."
Chiiri looked at him. //You okay?//
Hiei glanced at her and back at the twins. ////Yes.////
"Hiei-sama. You're alright."
"Hai. But I think that you two should go home and wait."
"What?!" Naori wasn't happy. She could handle being asked to stand around a little, but telling her to go while they suffered was too much. "You two are being targeted by someone! That much is obvious! And you want us to do what?!" Now under normal circumstances, Naori would never /ever/ raise her voice to Hiei, but she was talking to him as an older sister, not as his loyal guard.
"Go home. I'm not putting you two in this."
"But Hiei-sama..."
"He's right. Go now. At least the two of you can stay clear of this."
"You're determined about this aren't you?"
The two nodded.
"You're going to pull rank if we don't do it aren't you?"
Another set of nods and Naori sighed. She looked to Kaori and the Blue Guardian looked away. "Alright. We'll go. But if anything big happens and we find out, we're coming back whether you want us to or not, got it?"
Hiei glanced at Chiiri and nodded at Naori. "Fine."
A spiral of red and Naori was gone. Chiiri looked at Kaori questioningly, she hadn't left with her sister. Kaori sighed and smiled weakly. She gave Chiiri and Hiei a sudden hug before they could say anything. Neither of them moved; they were shocked. "Don't you two dare die on us you hear me?" A swirl of blue and Kaori was gone as well.
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Chiiri looked at Hiei. "They'll hate us for this."
"Your point?"
"Nothing."
"Okay so now what?" Yuusuke broke in.
Hiei said nothing and Chiiri leaned against a wall. "What were you here for to begin with Hiei-sama?"
Hiei shrugged and looked at Koenma. Kurama narrowed his eyes. "Yes, that reminds me. Why did you say those things to them? That wasn't really necessary and you only made them angry." Kurama recited what Koenma said to Hiei and Chiiri.
Koenma squirmed once more as all eyes were on him and began to sweat as two sharp glares from Hiei and Chiiri were on him. Ruby and violet pinned him. Hiei's voice was icy. "You. Said. What?"
"Umm, I…well you see…"
Chiiri's frosty tone cut him off. "No I don't see. Explain."
Both youkai glared again. "Now."
Koenma felt like wetting himself. ~Hiei was scary enough, but her too? … Wait a minute!! I'm the Prince of the Dead! I don't have to be scared. Hiei's still serving out his sentence anyway!~ "Now see here—"
"No, you see here." Hiei was in his face in a heartbeat, squatting on Koenma's desk.
Kurama bit his lip, thinking Hiei was going to harm Koenma. ~If he does, then his sentence could be intensified…~ He glanced to his right and saw that Yuusuke was ready to stop him if needed. Kuwabara looked unsure and Botan was nervous as hell. "You are wrong. Understand?" He didn't let Koenma answer. "Of course you do. The next time you see them, you're going to apologize to them aren't you?" Koenma nodded slowly. Hiei smirked and jumped off the desk. "Good. Let's go Chiiri."
//Where are we going?//
////To guard.////
//Who?//
////I'm going to make sure no harm has come to my sister. If someone is after me, then they might know of Yukina. I will not risk that.////
//For someone that's supposed to not care for anyone, you sure aren't trying very hard.//
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Chiiri smirked and in a flash of black, she was gone. Hiei shook his head. ~I'm getting too soft…great. That'll get me killed one day.~ Unlike Chiiri, he didn't know how to jump dimensions…yet. He was working on it.
"Hiei wait." Kurama placed a hand on the youkai's shoulder. Hiei had grown a good bit, so he was close to leveling with Kurama…somewhat.
"What?"
"Will you at least meet us at Genkai's? We need to discuss the mission."
Hiei snorted. "What mission?"
"The one we came here for in the first place."
"Hn." Hiei flitted away.
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After a couple minutes…"He's left the Reikai now." Botan piped up after rounding up her scattered wits.
"He's gotten faster…"
"Yeah. Think he's been training?"
Yuusuke pondered over Kuwabara's question. "He probably has. He might do that in his spare time, which is probably all the time, since Murkuro's loosened her leash on him."
"I always wondered about that lady. Scary."
"And Hiei /would/ be the only one who could look at her and not flinch." Botan shuddered. "Murkuro has got to be one of the scariest youkai I've met. She's so…so…"
"Murkuro?"
Botan nodded. "Yeah, that's it."
Kurama turned his gaze towards Koenma. He still wasn't too happy with the Prince of the Dead, not to mention that Hiei was probably in a bad mood now, so getting him to cooperate could be more difficult than usual. "And about this mission…"
Koenma cleared his throat, still sweating from his encounter with Hiei and Chiiri. ~Neither of them will go along easily now…as though it wouldn't be hard enough to begin with.~ "Alright, several powerful and extremely rare items have been taken from there designated vaults." Koenma pushed a button on his remote again and the large screen reappeared.
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Yuusuke looked at the screen. ~Gotta get me one of those someday.~
"Four items were stolen altogether. The serious part is that all items are used for a dangerous and ancient ritual. Here is the first item." On the screen, a thin flute appeared. It was about 2 feet and it curled at the end opposite the pipe hole. The flute was in the design of a blue and black dragon with the pipe hole being behind the dragon's head and highlighted a misty blue color.
"K. So it's a flute. Big deal."
"Well Yuusuke, this flute is called the 'Dragon's Piper'. It is used to lure the dragon caller of the user's choice. The possessor may lure as many dragon users as he pleases. Here's the second item." The screen showed a cube-like contraption that was completely black. There was a symbol on one side only. A small slit was just barely visible on another side, opposite the symbol.
"Hey that the little cube-thing that we found before!"
"Is that it Kuwabara? The thing you said had Spirit Energy? Well then that's one item down."
"Not necessarily Yuusuke." All eyes turned to Kurama. Kurama pulled the device from his pocket. Half of it was gone.
"What?!" Yuusuke moved closer to make sure. "Half of it is gone! What happened?!"
"I've heard of this item. It's called the Dark Submission's Cube. This device let's out a specific frequency and pitch that when aimed at a target can do 4 things. Depending on what the user wants, the target could be knocked out, put in a deep sleep, put in great agony or possessed."
"That's right Kurama. And it works on youkai only. Somehow, over the years, youko have developed immunity to all frequencies and pitches. The noise emitted from Dark Submission's Cube is only a small annoyance now. And it also is ineffective on humans with no Spirit Energy."
"Well what category does that put me and Kuwabara in?"
"Since you're now part-youkai Yuusuke, it cuts off your Spirit Energy completely for a while and Kuwabara would be temporarily paralyzed."
"Well that's nice. So why is it disappearing?"
"Well that is because whoever took is now using an ancient and powerful spell to call it back."
"Just great. Anything else?"
"Yes. There's more. The next stolen item." Now an orb appeared. It looked like an ordinary orb, except for the elemental designs of fire, ice, and plants etched onto it.
"Okay, I see an orb with pictures on it. Big deal."
"Well the 'big deal', Kuwabara, is that this orb can steal Spirit Energy Souls."
"Spirit Energy I've heard of, but Spirit Energy Souls? What the hell is that?"
Kurama regarded the orb with weary recollection. "I remember something like this. Spirit Energy is your actual power and can be recovered, but when your Spirit Energy Soul is taken, it's gone for good unless the one who took it gives it back or unless the orb is destroyed. It's the counterpart to the actual soul."
"That's correct Kurama." Koenma pointed to the elemental designs. "These represent what souls the orb is currently capable of stealing. So right now whoever has it can only take Spirit Energy Souls of fire, earthly, and ice descent."
"K. So what's its name?"
This is referred to as 'Orb of Energy Souls'. Activating it is as simple as calling out, 'Energy Soul Stealer!'. This is the final item." A book appeared. It was old-looking and leather-bound. It had nothing on it except for the words: Kunou no Inochi. Koenma turned the screen off with a frown. "The thing is the book was returned to us yesterday."
Yuusuke shrugged. "So what's the problem?"
"A section of the book is missing. It's been torn out."
"Do you know what spells that section contained?"
"I'm afraid not Kurama. We only know that the whole section is devoted to spells that conjure up mythical youkai."
"Mythical youkai?"
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Kurama's eyes darkened. "Yes."
All eyes were on him, but Yuusuke was frowning slightly. "You okay Kurama?"
"I'm fine. Mythical youkai are youkai that are either one-of-a-kind or just don't exist. Unfortunately, of the ones that exist there is only one kind that is still alive. There was a massive battle amongst the mythical youkai, started by the youkai that conjured them together. Some of the mythical youkai simply didn't get along and destroyed each other. As for the rest, they fell by being used against each other in wars. Youkai were trying to guard and control the land they'd covered. What better way to do so than to just kill those trying to take it from you? So the mythical youkai were used. After all the fighting, only one species of the mystical youkai survived. They are called Nymphs, I think. Their name was more specific, but I don't remember what it was. A male and female were all that was left. There was something special about the pair, but it was never passed down as to what that special 'thing' was. That's all I know."
"Well that's great. So all we have to do is get the items back and kill the thieves right?"
"Sort of. You see Yuusuke, these items, when used together can reincarnate the last pair of mythical youkai, whoever they are."
"Reincarnate?"
"Yes, whoever they choose can be turned into the mythical youkai pair, if they survive the process."
"What the hell could they die from?"
"I don't know any details, which is why I need you to ask Genkai about it for me. She's the only one who knows and would tell us."
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Botan was already on her oar. "So this is the mission: find the thieves, recover the items, and get rid of the thieves before they can reincarnate the pair of mythical youkai, right?"
Koenma massaged his temple. "Yes, that sums it up. Now go back to the Ningenkai and tell Hiei what's going on. He left with the Dark Guardian before I could explain."
"For obvious reasons." Kurama was directing a rather dark look at Koenma.
Botan came over, sweatdropping. "Now, now. We should go. Come on Kurama." Kurama allowed himself to be pulled away, giving Koenma one last look. Yuusuke and Kuwabara followed them.
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Koenma plopped into his chair with a heavy sigh. "First it's the twin Guardians. Then Chiiri and Hiei. And judging from that last look with gold looking at me, I have Kurama /and/ his alter ego, Youko Kurama on my tail as well. This isn't going to be pretty.
Well that's all. The twins went home, wherever that is, and hostility is in air. What will at Genkai's? Read and review to find out!
Standard disclaimer apply and Chiiri, Naori, Kaori and all their stuff..etc. are mine.
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"blah blah" = speech
~blah blah~ =thoughts
//blah blah// = Chiiri telepathy
////blah blah//// = Hiei telepathy
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Kaori turned sharply at the weak command. Chiiri stirred and forced Naori to put her down. "No. You two will leave without me."
The twins gaped. "What?!"
"You two are leaving without me. I'm staying."
"But, but—"
"No buts."
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Hiei had a headache. ~What happened? And that smell… Am I in a garden?~ Hiei peeped an eye open and saw a mass of red silk. He recognized it immediately. Realization hit him and he almost jumped. ~Kurama…~ Kurama was gently half-cradling Hiei in his arms. Kurama was silent and apparently looking at something. Hiei turned his head and Kurama did not notice. Chiiri was standing, albeit in barely visible dizziness, and was saying something. ~She's staying here. But she wants Naori and Kaori to go. I see…~ He heard his name.
"And Hiei-sama? What will he say?"
Hiei shifted and this startled Kurama. Kurama muffled a gasp at his surprise. Hiei looked up at pure forest green. ~Why is he looking at me like that?~
Kurama stared down at still-slightly-disoriented rubies. "Hiei…"
Hiei got up, a hand to his head in an attempt to alleviate his headache. "He will say that Chiiri's right."
Chiiri looked at him. //You okay?//
Hiei glanced at her and back at the twins. ////Yes.////
"Hiei-sama. You're alright."
"Hai. But I think that you two should go home and wait."
"What?!" Naori wasn't happy. She could handle being asked to stand around a little, but telling her to go while they suffered was too much. "You two are being targeted by someone! That much is obvious! And you want us to do what?!" Now under normal circumstances, Naori would never /ever/ raise her voice to Hiei, but she was talking to him as an older sister, not as his loyal guard.
"Go home. I'm not putting you two in this."
"But Hiei-sama..."
"He's right. Go now. At least the two of you can stay clear of this."
"You're determined about this aren't you?"
The two nodded.
"You're going to pull rank if we don't do it aren't you?"
Another set of nods and Naori sighed. She looked to Kaori and the Blue Guardian looked away. "Alright. We'll go. But if anything big happens and we find out, we're coming back whether you want us to or not, got it?"
Hiei glanced at Chiiri and nodded at Naori. "Fine."
A spiral of red and Naori was gone. Chiiri looked at Kaori questioningly, she hadn't left with her sister. Kaori sighed and smiled weakly. She gave Chiiri and Hiei a sudden hug before they could say anything. Neither of them moved; they were shocked. "Don't you two dare die on us you hear me?" A swirl of blue and Kaori was gone as well.
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Chiiri looked at Hiei. "They'll hate us for this."
"Your point?"
"Nothing."
"Okay so now what?" Yuusuke broke in.
Hiei said nothing and Chiiri leaned against a wall. "What were you here for to begin with Hiei-sama?"
Hiei shrugged and looked at Koenma. Kurama narrowed his eyes. "Yes, that reminds me. Why did you say those things to them? That wasn't really necessary and you only made them angry." Kurama recited what Koenma said to Hiei and Chiiri.
Koenma squirmed once more as all eyes were on him and began to sweat as two sharp glares from Hiei and Chiiri were on him. Ruby and violet pinned him. Hiei's voice was icy. "You. Said. What?"
"Umm, I…well you see…"
Chiiri's frosty tone cut him off. "No I don't see. Explain."
Both youkai glared again. "Now."
Koenma felt like wetting himself. ~Hiei was scary enough, but her too? … Wait a minute!! I'm the Prince of the Dead! I don't have to be scared. Hiei's still serving out his sentence anyway!~ "Now see here—"
"No, you see here." Hiei was in his face in a heartbeat, squatting on Koenma's desk.
Kurama bit his lip, thinking Hiei was going to harm Koenma. ~If he does, then his sentence could be intensified…~ He glanced to his right and saw that Yuusuke was ready to stop him if needed. Kuwabara looked unsure and Botan was nervous as hell. "You are wrong. Understand?" He didn't let Koenma answer. "Of course you do. The next time you see them, you're going to apologize to them aren't you?" Koenma nodded slowly. Hiei smirked and jumped off the desk. "Good. Let's go Chiiri."
//Where are we going?//
////To guard.////
//Who?//
////I'm going to make sure no harm has come to my sister. If someone is after me, then they might know of Yukina. I will not risk that.////
//For someone that's supposed to not care for anyone, you sure aren't trying very hard.//
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Chiiri smirked and in a flash of black, she was gone. Hiei shook his head. ~I'm getting too soft…great. That'll get me killed one day.~ Unlike Chiiri, he didn't know how to jump dimensions…yet. He was working on it.
"Hiei wait." Kurama placed a hand on the youkai's shoulder. Hiei had grown a good bit, so he was close to leveling with Kurama…somewhat.
"What?"
"Will you at least meet us at Genkai's? We need to discuss the mission."
Hiei snorted. "What mission?"
"The one we came here for in the first place."
"Hn." Hiei flitted away.
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After a couple minutes…"He's left the Reikai now." Botan piped up after rounding up her scattered wits.
"He's gotten faster…"
"Yeah. Think he's been training?"
Yuusuke pondered over Kuwabara's question. "He probably has. He might do that in his spare time, which is probably all the time, since Murkuro's loosened her leash on him."
"I always wondered about that lady. Scary."
"And Hiei /would/ be the only one who could look at her and not flinch." Botan shuddered. "Murkuro has got to be one of the scariest youkai I've met. She's so…so…"
"Murkuro?"
Botan nodded. "Yeah, that's it."
Kurama turned his gaze towards Koenma. He still wasn't too happy with the Prince of the Dead, not to mention that Hiei was probably in a bad mood now, so getting him to cooperate could be more difficult than usual. "And about this mission…"
Koenma cleared his throat, still sweating from his encounter with Hiei and Chiiri. ~Neither of them will go along easily now…as though it wouldn't be hard enough to begin with.~ "Alright, several powerful and extremely rare items have been taken from there designated vaults." Koenma pushed a button on his remote again and the large screen reappeared.
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Yuusuke looked at the screen. ~Gotta get me one of those someday.~
"Four items were stolen altogether. The serious part is that all items are used for a dangerous and ancient ritual. Here is the first item." On the screen, a thin flute appeared. It was about 2 feet and it curled at the end opposite the pipe hole. The flute was in the design of a blue and black dragon with the pipe hole being behind the dragon's head and highlighted a misty blue color.
"K. So it's a flute. Big deal."
"Well Yuusuke, this flute is called the 'Dragon's Piper'. It is used to lure the dragon caller of the user's choice. The possessor may lure as many dragon users as he pleases. Here's the second item." The screen showed a cube-like contraption that was completely black. There was a symbol on one side only. A small slit was just barely visible on another side, opposite the symbol.
"Hey that the little cube-thing that we found before!"
"Is that it Kuwabara? The thing you said had Spirit Energy? Well then that's one item down."
"Not necessarily Yuusuke." All eyes turned to Kurama. Kurama pulled the device from his pocket. Half of it was gone.
"What?!" Yuusuke moved closer to make sure. "Half of it is gone! What happened?!"
"I've heard of this item. It's called the Dark Submission's Cube. This device let's out a specific frequency and pitch that when aimed at a target can do 4 things. Depending on what the user wants, the target could be knocked out, put in a deep sleep, put in great agony or possessed."
"That's right Kurama. And it works on youkai only. Somehow, over the years, youko have developed immunity to all frequencies and pitches. The noise emitted from Dark Submission's Cube is only a small annoyance now. And it also is ineffective on humans with no Spirit Energy."
"Well what category does that put me and Kuwabara in?"
"Since you're now part-youkai Yuusuke, it cuts off your Spirit Energy completely for a while and Kuwabara would be temporarily paralyzed."
"Well that's nice. So why is it disappearing?"
"Well that is because whoever took is now using an ancient and powerful spell to call it back."
"Just great. Anything else?"
"Yes. There's more. The next stolen item." Now an orb appeared. It looked like an ordinary orb, except for the elemental designs of fire, ice, and plants etched onto it.
"Okay, I see an orb with pictures on it. Big deal."
"Well the 'big deal', Kuwabara, is that this orb can steal Spirit Energy Souls."
"Spirit Energy I've heard of, but Spirit Energy Souls? What the hell is that?"
Kurama regarded the orb with weary recollection. "I remember something like this. Spirit Energy is your actual power and can be recovered, but when your Spirit Energy Soul is taken, it's gone for good unless the one who took it gives it back or unless the orb is destroyed. It's the counterpart to the actual soul."
"That's correct Kurama." Koenma pointed to the elemental designs. "These represent what souls the orb is currently capable of stealing. So right now whoever has it can only take Spirit Energy Souls of fire, earthly, and ice descent."
"K. So what's its name?"
This is referred to as 'Orb of Energy Souls'. Activating it is as simple as calling out, 'Energy Soul Stealer!'. This is the final item." A book appeared. It was old-looking and leather-bound. It had nothing on it except for the words: Kunou no Inochi. Koenma turned the screen off with a frown. "The thing is the book was returned to us yesterday."
Yuusuke shrugged. "So what's the problem?"
"A section of the book is missing. It's been torn out."
"Do you know what spells that section contained?"
"I'm afraid not Kurama. We only know that the whole section is devoted to spells that conjure up mythical youkai."
"Mythical youkai?"
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Kurama's eyes darkened. "Yes."
All eyes were on him, but Yuusuke was frowning slightly. "You okay Kurama?"
"I'm fine. Mythical youkai are youkai that are either one-of-a-kind or just don't exist. Unfortunately, of the ones that exist there is only one kind that is still alive. There was a massive battle amongst the mythical youkai, started by the youkai that conjured them together. Some of the mythical youkai simply didn't get along and destroyed each other. As for the rest, they fell by being used against each other in wars. Youkai were trying to guard and control the land they'd covered. What better way to do so than to just kill those trying to take it from you? So the mythical youkai were used. After all the fighting, only one species of the mystical youkai survived. They are called Nymphs, I think. Their name was more specific, but I don't remember what it was. A male and female were all that was left. There was something special about the pair, but it was never passed down as to what that special 'thing' was. That's all I know."
"Well that's great. So all we have to do is get the items back and kill the thieves right?"
"Sort of. You see Yuusuke, these items, when used together can reincarnate the last pair of mythical youkai, whoever they are."
"Reincarnate?"
"Yes, whoever they choose can be turned into the mythical youkai pair, if they survive the process."
"What the hell could they die from?"
"I don't know any details, which is why I need you to ask Genkai about it for me. She's the only one who knows and would tell us."
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Botan was already on her oar. "So this is the mission: find the thieves, recover the items, and get rid of the thieves before they can reincarnate the pair of mythical youkai, right?"
Koenma massaged his temple. "Yes, that sums it up. Now go back to the Ningenkai and tell Hiei what's going on. He left with the Dark Guardian before I could explain."
"For obvious reasons." Kurama was directing a rather dark look at Koenma.
Botan came over, sweatdropping. "Now, now. We should go. Come on Kurama." Kurama allowed himself to be pulled away, giving Koenma one last look. Yuusuke and Kuwabara followed them.
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Koenma plopped into his chair with a heavy sigh. "First it's the twin Guardians. Then Chiiri and Hiei. And judging from that last look with gold looking at me, I have Kurama /and/ his alter ego, Youko Kurama on my tail as well. This isn't going to be pretty.
Well that's all. The twins went home, wherever that is, and hostility is in air. What will at Genkai's? Read and review to find out!
