Authors note: Re-edited
Disclaimer: Characters do not belong to me they belong to Naoko Takeuchi and Yoshiro Togashi...You know what i mean
Chapter 1: the Beginning
From above the tops of the buildings, two shadows slipped from rooftop to roof top in silence. They stopped, overlooking the city on top of Tokyo Tower "Welp, we're here..." The one in short blond hair whispered. The roaring wind whipped through their hair, it has been many years since they have fallen into this dimension.
A whole diffent world, a new life, and growing up once again...
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There was a meteor shower, the sky above china flared up as sparks of strokes cut through the sky. An old man of infinite age stood upon the hill, watching. He gasped as two huge sparks of light surged towards him. The balls of light emitted green and blue sparks, fell towards his way.
The huge blast landed right inside the waterfall. The light was nearly unbearable, like jewels with an endless shine, the power and the glow.
As the light disappeared he reached the cave where the glow was. There, layed two children.
The old man was struck in awe. "What!" he exclaimed, "after a million years of waiting finally they have arrived! Whew, and I thought that I had to wait another million years." He muttered to himself, stopped and picked up the flower bunch and stared at the two babies fast asleep inside the pram. He stroke his long white bear, his wise eye's shining with certainty.
"Awwww! What the heck, they are who I've been waiting for right?!" he grinned in a childish way "Guchi, guchi, guchi, guuuu!" He said gushed, he was more like a child himself.
"Awww littwal, littwal giwls Oji is going to take you home and look after you OK?" He then picked up the two children and disappeared into the darkness.
Three years later...
"Haru chan! Where are you!" God man where'she gone? She thought.
A little girl in two pigtails emerged from behind a bush, the air was cool with the tinge of the fresh morning dew. She looked around in the huge forest and mountain sloaps which met with a huge waterfall and finally found who she was looking for.
"Haru chan!" She exclaimed.
"There you are! I was looking everywhere for you!" she said running towards a little girl. She stopped and raised an eyebrow "That again, did Oji ask you to do that again!"
"Sh...shut up! Mako y...you know how hard it is to...argh! d...d...do a handstand upside down using one arm! a...and h...h...having to speak to...to you at the same time...without f...falling..." Struggling to keep her balance the blond hair girl slightly tried to lift her head and look up at her companion and friend.
Yes, although the were about the age of five years, but they still had a memory from the before. She remembered when they had fallen into nothingness, the sudden nausea and...
(sweat drop)The sudden scare of a huge old man pulling faces at them like a maniac...
She sighed and it had been from then that they both started a new life. "Hey Mako chan. I still have half the day to go so why don't you just ggg..go and do your routine's instead of staring at me!"
"Yeah I know, but Oji chan told me to tell you that you don't need to do this for that long today, he has something else to teach us"
"Nani?"
"Yeah...OK...bu..." She suddenly paused, her face started to turn red "Oooooooohh...um..."
"What's wrong Mako-chan?" Haruka said struggling to look up again.
"I...think I need to go to the potty..." Said with while she was crossing her legs together, but by the time she finished her sentence she couldn't hold it in anymore. She felt her pants going wet...
Haruka burst out laughing, lost her balance and fell to the ground sprawling then crunched herself up like a ball due to the pain.
Little Makoto turned red with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. It wasn't the first time that has happened, even Haruka had done it herself. Damn it! What is it with 5 year olds, she thought. They just have to pee in their pants! She turned around and glared at the still laughing Haruka then turned around and ran.
Although they had the memory of the past, but for some reason they couldn't control the functioning of their bodies. It acts just like that of a five year olds'. They kept on doing things which they knew they shouldn't do(like peeing in their pants or gaping at somethig that is cute.), but they just couldn't resist the doing.
The late morning sun rose to it's peak of meeting the afternoon. Makoto jumped in the nearby river for a quick bath, and changed out from her soggy pants and went outside again.
This was the deep forests of China. The view was breathtaking, the deep forests and clear rivers, away from the combustion and noise. She let out a breath and walked to the everyday place she went to practice. They were living deep in a ancient forest. She closed her eyes and slowly stood up tall and straight, hands clutched lightly in a fist bent in an L position placed beside her.
She felt the force of the 'Ki' flow around her body. "HYA!" she shouted as she shifted her position to a low punch, legs bent, left arm out. Oji-chan had tought them since they were 3yrs old and not to mention her background as a senshi and karate, so she caught on very quickly with the techincal moves and skills.
The training was hard and painful at times but Oji-chan had trained them well and taught them skills that they have never lerant before. I was comforting for some reason--to live in a serene place where there was nothing but nature. Apart from that she knew that the old man loved them and cared for them very much. He taught them the secrets of the other worlds of Reikai, Makai and the never before seen Mekai (Although they often would wonder how he knew about it in the first place).
"HA" she shouted again shifting her position swiftly into anther attack. She recalled of when she had started her training, everyday from day till night--doing the basics, running, climbing jumping, streching. She had only used two years and already she was a better fighter that when she first met Usagi. She stopped at the thought Usagi.
She missed her very much. Her presence, her ditz, her laughter her warmth and every now and then she would sit under the stars with Haruka and look up into the sky where the moon hung.
She'll always be with us, she will always shine over the earth and protect it.
She remembered how she first met her. She was the only one that wasn't afraid of her, who gave her sincerity and offered to be her friend. She sighed and continued on her practicing.
Haruka had still kept her handstand going. It had been three hours since makoto came to see her. She brought herself up-right and stretched. It was already about three o'clock and also time to go practice other things. Then she had to go fishing for dinner, this was not like 'civilization' as people called it, it was an old way of living, without relying on the conveniences of man made future. It was a simple life, and she felt like she liked simple at the moment, after all the rest of their lives were not going to be...right?
She turned and looked at the huge waterfall and at the roaring water. She had often like this place, the sound of the water made her feel relaxed, she smiled and skipped away but cursed herself for looking like a maniac. From that position, she could see the tall wooden house high above the mountain, it was located near the waterfall, they had lived there since they came and they had grown use to this way of living simply.
Haruka stared at the mountain and thought about Tokyo Tower. She had slightly missed the place, and the thrill of speed, the wind caressing her hair when she rode her supercars, and ofcourse the adrenaline, but she knew that they had a reason for coming here.
She ran off.
The forest seemed exceedingly quiet she noted suddenly. There was something wrong.
Something was near her and senses sharpened ready to strike. She had never actually encountered anything lurking in the forest before, well maybe the occasional panda, but they just snorted at her and turned their backsides at them, but she had a feeling that there was this...thing...that always followed her. Sweat started to from on her little forehead. She got ready as she felt the force of it comming closer and getting stronger, but for some reason the thing started to turn away. It headed in the other direction and at a second it was gone.
She turned around, the wind was getting bigger as the autumn leaves danced. She paused as she glimpsed something in the bushes, her skin rose at the sight of the tail. 'Not that again!' She turned around and ran.
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The air of Tokyo Tower smelt familiar, the combustion, the people and alas--"Civilization!". The two girls stood in top of the tower and looked down below. People were like ants scurrying along doing their everyday jobs.
"So, we have finally come back." The girl in the short blond hair said bluntly, her face blank, but her eyes gave away her anticipation.
She looked at the silent girl next to her who was slightly lost in thought. "I wonder what dimension is this? We've stayed in the forest too long I think I don't know how to interact anymore" She said.
The blond hair girl looked at her with a surprised expression, "Well, looks like your doing fine to me." She looked back raising an eyebrow. They hadn't relaxed for long, things were happening in the city and both of them had been from place to place changing schools so many times that they lost count, yes they had to go back to school. They both sighed, without a word they parted in their different directions.
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"AAAhhhhhhhchooooooo! Yoshi..."
"What's wrong Yusuke?" A wide eyed girl with long brown hair just below her shoulders asked as she stared in concern back at her boyfriend. The boy grinned widely.
He had short black hair which sort of stuck up a little at the front. "Man the weathers changing bad!" He turned to his girlfriend "Don't worry Keiko, a measley cold's not gonna kill me!" Yusuke made a muscle man gesture, smiling back at the concerned girl.
"Kurama asked me to meet him at the coffee parlor." The huge grin seemed to be stuck on the boy's face.
It's been a pretty long time since they have come together for a proper meeting, he was looking forward to it. He hadn't seen kurama for a pretty long time since he's always either at school, at home or doing things for Koenma. He chuckled at the thought of Koenma, he thought that this meeting was another of those Reikai Tantiei assignments again.
"Yoshi." he thought he'd been bored to the bone since he's last assignment. "I haven't had a proper fight for a long time and all the guys at school were losers!" Cracking his knuckles his eye's sparked with a rebellion.
Becoming a Reikai Tantei has changed his life, many strange things have happened to him, aka since he died. Spirits, youkai, enma, you name it. Things that only happened in movies had become real.
Meeting the king of the underworld, well actually the prince of the underworld Koenma, making friends with a demon fox Kurama and a fire Demon Hiei, becoming the son of Raizen (one of the three kings if makai). This wasn't suppose to happen to him, but it did, and it had all become a blur.
But now...Yusuke looked up at the sky.
He felt something unexplainable. He had never felt this uneasy before, lowering his head he looked around. Everything seemed fine.
"Yusuke...Yusuke are you alright?" Keiko softly asked again. He looked at Keiko with a blank face. Then, he laughed sheepishly "Gomen, gomen, I was just thinking for the moment."
The girl frowned and put her hands to her hips. "You're always like this Yusuke every time I ask you to come out with me you always have run off during the middle of it!" blah blah blah... Yusuke stuck his fingers in his ears. As much as he loved her, she was always more like her mother when she scolled him. She was always like this. Pulling a face at her he took off with her running after him. "But..." He thought "Seeing her red faced and angry was cute..." It was making fun of her which made him smile. It was seeing her care about him which made his heart warm...she was the only one.
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In a coffee shop somewhere...
"Kuwabura san! Over here." a low velvetty voice called to him from behind the tall young man with orange hair.
"Ahhhhahaha Kurama! Ahhhhhhahahahahaha!" The young man laughed awkwardly (everyone in the cafe sweat dropped at him). He walked towards where Kurama was sitting, looking always, and very gentleman.
"So, have I grown Hansome in these few months?" He boomed.
The young man with red hair whom he called Kurama opened his mouth to say something, he couldn't help but smile, but was cut of by Kuwabura "Don't say anything, I know what you're going to say, I know I know, I kuwabura the manly is as hansome as ever!" And laughed again.
Kurama sweat dropped, but sat down again waved his hand for an order. A waitress came, she raised her head and looked at the customer but turned red as soon as she met with Kurama's gaze.
"M...m...m...m...m...may...I...I...I...help you...you...okyakusan..." She stuttered badly.
Kurama couldn't help but chuckle quietly at her reaction, his dazzling eyes sparkling as usual, but unfortunately that only made the waitress stutter more, and if not faint in the next second.
"I'll have orange juice thanks." He said with a sincere smile, he turned to Kuwabura who was grinning at the pretty waitress while he ordered something to eat and when he finished the waitress nearly ran back to the kitchen with the order with embaressment and a very struck heart.
He turned to kuwabura. Yusuke's not here yet isn't he. "Hn, that baka Yusuke's always late, why I'll bash his head in when he's here!" Kuwabura snickered.
"Kazuma!", struggling to stand up after the bash on the head Kuwabura looked up, "Shizuru! What are you doing here!?" An older girl with long brown hair just below her shoulders appeared, "Kazuma! You said that you were going to do the house work today! the dishes are piled up as tall as the roof, you said that you were going to them first thing in the morning then come out...(She Turned to Kurama)Uh Hi Kurama...(Resuming to her younger brother)and you didn't , you..." She continued where she left it, which was slapping her brother.
Kurama sweat dropped again and watched as Kuwabura's sister bash up her brother, Never mess with Shizuru, he knew that a long time ago.). He chuckled at the thought of how Shizuru could say so many things in one breath.
Yusuke walked through the door "Oi, Kurama!" He shouted out happily, he turnd to see Kuwabura and and sweat dropped at the sight as well.
"So. I thought that Kuwabura was going to have a good fight with me, buuuuut I guess his busy right now." He turned to Kurama "Is there anything wrong? Did you miss me or something? Ne? Ne?"
Yusuke sat down, "Yo." Kurama greeted him with a smile but his calm and pleasant face immediately turned serious after. Yusuke knew kurama, every time there was something wrong, Kurama would always have that, Koenma-said-there's-something-wrong, expression on his face.
"It's Koenma" He started "According to the diety's reports, there's something un-natural happening within the cities, but they don't know what. There are already many people who have suddenly fallen sick and are hospitalised." His eye brows furrowed deeper as he continued "Doctors could not find anything wrong with the patients but a few if not all have fallen into coma's... like a deep sleep. Botan, says that their bodies are alive but yet th..." He choked on his words "They don't have a spirit within their bodies. Their souls are gong. They've searched everywhere for their missing souls. They haven't been taken to reikai or afloat in Ningenkai either. Enma sama is really angry about this and Koenma is desperate to find out." Kurama turned his face at Yusuke who stared back at him with a blank face "Nani! I didn't do anything, why are you staring at me like that." everybody turned to look at him. "It's up to you again Yusuke..."
"Yamete!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, he screamed too loudly this time that the people in the whole store turned and looked at him, he ignored that and went on but he lowered his voice again, then he was interrupted by the voice of Kuwabura "Yusuke! Why is it always you who get to the heroic stuff! Well this time it's my turn. I Kuwabura the courageous will take over for Yusuke, he's no better than me!" (followed by a laugh).
"Baka! Me look like you? Shut up Kuwabura just shut up OK! You can't even fight an ant!" He jumped up. They were at it again, just like it when the were in Junior High, little did they know, they looked more like a couple then anyone else.
"who are you askin' ta shut up?! Your baka! Bakayarou!" Kuwabura and Yusuke started to fight.
Kurama couldn't help but to grin. They were always like that, but his expression turned serious again as the thought of their new assignment ran through his mind again. He had never seen so much mystery before, well at least not since the fight with Meikai. This time they knew nothing of the strange shadow, which seem to disguise themselves very well with world. There were no flaws, at least not ones that they can see. If it wasn't the message sent by Koenma he would find nothing wrong. He clenched his fist together at the thought of his mother. All this needs to come to an end soon, he didn't want anything or anyone putting his mother in danger.
Kurama had been a famous Youko in Makai. He was famous for stealing precious treasures untangling the ancient spells and curses. Then because of a hunter, he fled hurt and with peril losing his previous body and form and escaped to Ningenkai. He took the body of an unborn baby of a pregnant woman. It was a cowardly act, and he became half human and half youkai. But because of the true love that his mother had given him he started to understand what emotions were and did anything for his mother in order to make her happy, to protect her. He sighed.
When someone walked through the glass sliding doors, naturally he looked up. A girl with short blond hair, tomboyish, walked through the doorway. She had a pair of huge, thick long-sighted glasses on. She walked over to the tables in the opposite rows across the other side slightly diagonal to their table located next to the huge window of the store. There, on the seat sat another girl.
Kurama turned back and looked back at Yusuke and Kuwabura. They were still fighting. "I'll break your leg Yusuke!" Kuwabura shouted while he pulled Yusuke's cheeks.
"Tweye und thee wu pupid bwainweff Ogaa!"
(Translation: "Try and see you stupid brainless ogre!)
It was amusing watching them throwing words, and puches, at each other. Shizuru had a angry symbol on her forehead, "KAZUMA!" Shizuru finally burst out again with anger. She had been so quiet since Kurama had spoken that they nearly forgot she and Keiko were there.
She slapped her brother across the face and grabbed his shirt.
Keiko sweat dropped "Uh...Shizuru san." She turned back at Keiko abruptly, her expression totally different to the monstrous attack on his brother.
"Yes." She said politely with a smile.
"M...Maybe you should stop." So Shizuru let go of his shirt. Keiko already had one hand on Yuusuke's ear and he was yepling in pain apparently.
"Alright then" She turned back to the half dead Kuwabura "Kiite Kazuma, if it wasn't for Keiko I wouldn't be stopping, baka get serious." Kurama chuckled, but nodded to thankyou, as he continued his conversation.
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Haruka walked through the doorway of the coffee parlour. She had on these huge ridiculous glasses which made look like geek, or more precisely a freakin' nerdy geek. She and Makoto had done this purposely since they found out that being attractive is not a very good option if your secretly doing things that you don't want people to notice.
Since they came from Crystal Tokyo and being the princess of planets and all that, things have changed. They had gained a sense of something that the rest of the people didn't have, but none-the-less they couldn't tell what it was and they didn't care except that it was bringing them too much attention and pain in the bums so they decided on looking unappealing, and it worked!
She and Makoto had said to meet at the coffee parlor at one, but she was late. She hurriedly walked to meet her friend who was waiting patiently already. She took a glimpse over to her right hand side and raised an eyebrow when she saw two guys quarrelling
"Who're you calling a baka..." She heard. It reminded her of Usagi and Rei, but sweat dropped when she saw the orange hair guy's face.
She pictured that guy with Rei's hair and the other guy with Usagi's hair, she shivered and looked away, but couldn't help but smile. She approached the brunette.
"You're late." She said cheerfully, she was eating cake.
"Gomen, Mako-chan I had some problems on the way, and the so called 'shadows' was annoying someone so decided to have a little fun with them." She pulled out something from her pocket and placed it on the table in from of Makoto.
It was a clear red flawless crystal bead no bigger than that of a marble, and if you looked closer, deep in the centre of the bead there was a star, trapped within the star was something glowing.
"So, you've caught another one?" She took a sip from her orange and mango juice.
Haruka put away the bead and waved for a order. "Haruka-chan, after back breaking work I've found something important at last." Makoto said releasing her straw from her lips "They seem to be looking for...how should i put it...beings."
She leaned close in case something or someone was listening. "I've checked around in the hospitals, there are 3 people who have disappeared completely and a few that are in comas from sudden reasons where there's no trigger of any stroke or anything, I think that they have something on their trail behind them, so what do you think?" she finished it off seriously.
"Ok Neko chan, we need to get rid of them, yeah. But, the two of us? we're gonna need more information than this." she couldn't help but frown. The waiter came over with her order "And plus..." She thanked the waiter and continued after the waiter left "...many of the..." She looked around again "Shadows lurk around like normal people, only to strike at their chosen prey. We don't even know how many there are and we don't even know if there's anyone behind it!"
Despite their minimal knowledge, they only vanquished no more than four, five including the one that Haruka done up today. Concern swepted over them both.
Since coming to this dimension they have prevented themselves from changing into their Sailor fuku too much and mostly did things secretly. Many reasons was because they wanted to up grade themselves without their powers, and another was because Oji-chan had taught them enough.
Writing things on those little papers like Rei did, incantaions, and also their little invention of the beads. (I'll get into this later. It's something that I invented myself.)
"They're looking for someone or something, I think" Makoto said fixing up her pair of thick glasses which were sliding off her nose, "We need help, someone which would have their ways with spirits...if we need to find out what's going on, we need to start with the spirits. It's affecting them."
"But Mako you tell me how! I know that we could catch them but half of them that know have already flown to reikai." She pause and added a quick "I think" and continued in a un-assuring tone "With...enma" she swallowed at the thought.
Makoto's face turned funny, she knew what she was talking about. She swallowed at the thought too. The picture of his angry bearded, fanged face popped up into their heads, really, fancy acctually meeting Enma.
"...well we have to take the risk." She stuttered.
"This is the only clue we have left."
Haruka thought about it again, she knew what Makoto was talking about was right, but they have never been to reikai which existed in this world, and possibly in their world as well, and yes, they have heard about it from Oji-chan but they never took it seriously since they never thought it was necessary to go there, but now...
She picked up her drink and drank it in a gulp "Ok , Mako-chan we'll have to go."
Makoto smirked slightly then stood up to leave and caught a glimpse of a young man from the corner of her eye. He had flaming red hair, which stood out among anyone here, how come she didn't notice him before?
Dreamy she thought, because he was. But nah, she's gotten over that he-looks-like-my-old-boyfriend thing nine hundred and ninety nine years ago. She raised an eyebrow at the thought of herself of becoming Yuri, Uhhhh. Maybe she was? Maybe she wasn't? She didn't know and they both left the parlour.
Author's note: I think i was very lazy becuase my mistakes in here are horrid!! Horrid I tell you! I didn't think i ever edited it properly! sorry for anyone who was reading this because it sucked!! It should be much better now. Story Re-edited8)