Pre note: Ahhhhhhh! I am sooooooo sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry
sorry! Did you know what happened to my files. They were totally stuffed up
and after all my tying and stuff, the bloody computer stuffed up and all
this java script was mixed with my writing. It was so bad that everytime I
opened my chapter that it froze! I had to try revive everything. Even my
backups were stuffed too! I'm soooooo sorry! This might be a little late
but Merry X-mas! And a happy New Year!
Author's note: I am so sorry about the late updates but I've already written about 3 chapters extra the thing is that I just need some time o type it up! So I would probably update like two or three chapters close together! Awwwwww doesn't that sound interesting.
Disclaimer: Everyone knows ne? anyway refer to the disclaimers in my other chapters.
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Chapter 5
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Reikai
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"Koenma sama! Taihen taihen!" Botan came rushing through koenma's office with a flushed face. "The shadows! The shadows!" she exaggerated with her arms.
"What's wrong Botan! Can't you see that I have lots of documents to confirm" he shouted spraying all over the place.
The little toddler was sitting on his overly large chair stamping away at piles of documents placed on his table. He raised an angry eye at the girl and continued on stamping away.
"KOENMA SAMA! It's getting worse! The disappearing of the spirits are affecting the flow of the river of souls!" she stuck a document in front of his face.
Koenma fell off his chair when he saw the document. It was sent by his father. The image of smacks on the bottom welled up into his mind. his father knows he thought. Taking a notice of what Botan was saying now he grabbed the document from her and read it quickly.
"Anymore of this and reikai is going to lose it's priorities!"
"I know! I know! Botan go and get Yusuke and the rest of the gang" he commanded.
"Hai!" she stuck out her hand and an oar appeared. Urgently she flew out the door of his office.
"Jorju!" Koenma looked around his office for his secretary. "Hmm.that's funny he was here a second ago.."
Jorju snapped awake when a egg rose from his head. It was Koenma, he hit his head with the stamp "JORJU! At this time your sleeping!" he got out his note pad and pen "Hn I'll record this and lower your wages"
"Nooooo, Koenma! I.... why don't you tell me what to do?"
he thought for a little while, "Oh yeah there are more important things now!" the blue secretary nodded in relief "Go and get Genkai!" a worried expression appeared on his face when Jorju left.
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Yusuke yawned. Leaned back on his chair and kuwabura bashed him over his head.
"Urameshi" he screeched at the boy flat on the floor. Yusuke's fingers twitched in a crooked way (AN: like you do when you kill a cockroach and they're not quite dead yet) he jumped up and started fighting with Kuwabura.
"Baka! What the hell do you think you're doing! You nearly scared me half to death!" Kuwabura jumped around pulling faces. His friends stood aside and sweat dropped at their quarreling. Too bad Kuwabura's not a girl or else they'd make a great couple, but their faces turned green at the thought of them two as husband and wife. Maybe not....they thought again.
"Yusuke!"
he stopped, he thought he heard someone scream out his name. He looked around at the classroom but there seemed to be no one that did. "Kuwabura did you hear something?" he asked, Kuwabura shrugged.
"Yusuke!" this time Kuwabura heard it too. He looked out the window to see. Flying fast at them was Botan. "Yusuke! Kuwabura!" she shouted.
Kuwabura pointed outside gaping. His friends looked out but they looked at each other funnily. They couldn't see anything, they started to think that they had a problem with their heads. Botan stopped in front of the two guys through the window.
Koenma needs to see you guys urgently!"
"Huh? What now?" Yusuke snorted "I can't see anything wrong with ningenkai at the moment"
Botan didn't have the time to tell "I'll meet you after school! I need to go find Kurama and Hiei!" and she flew off in a hurry.
Kuwabura stood there blank faced "What was that all about?"
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Yusuke and Kuwabura stood at the front of the gate at their school waiting for Botan but she didn't appear, so instead they went first. Both running home to get changed out of their uniforms, Yusuke met Kuwabura at his house.
"Yusuke!" Koenma screamed when he finally came through the door of his office.
"Koenma, What is going on? Is there anything wrong because if there is I can't see it" he went and sat on a seat next to where kuwabura sat.
"Baka!" an old lady with light creamy pink hair walked in, Yusuke nearly fell off the chair at her words. You could see that she was once beautiful, but even though she was older now her wisdom showed through.
"Ba chan!" Yusuke jumped up sheepishly so did Kuwabura. He decided that he would listen more attentively now than he intended to in the first place, he sat back down.
"Ba chan" Koenma began "There is a big problem that is arising in ningenkai and it is directly affecting the progress of reikai. There are unknown things that are lurking around the streets and they seem to be feeding on....souls"
"souls? Is it another on of those monster things" Kuwabura stuck in, he was slamming his left fist into his right palm "I Kuwabura that great will save the day again! Ha ha ha!"
"No! this is the problem it's not that easy. The thing is that we don't even know where these things come from and...and they don't belong to the categories of Makai, Reikai or even..Meikai" Koenma had a worried expression and his eye's showed no light. "So they are dangerous to reikai. If they get here then reikai will cease to exist. Every living thing that has a soul will be eaten by them, an it's through the river of soul's they will start. In other words if the river of souls disappears then reikai will break apart"
Silence hung over the room at those words. Genkai stepped forward "Koenma, I think there maybe a way to stop it." Her eye's seem to sparkle "I have been watching the stars lately..."
"Ba chan, this is monsters we're talking about, not some star gazing club. Besides what has stars got to do with this?" Yusuke interrupted.
Genkai went on "For some reason there have been three new falling stars that had some how disappeared into the earth, and the planets Jupiter and Uranus are shining really brightly, I think that we would have help at hand. The problem is if we could catch the helping rays of light that is emitted by the heavens"
Kuwabura smiled "How do we catch light?" He asked
Genkai sweat dropped "Bakayaru"
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Haruka walked carefully through the house with Makoto following closely behind her. They were suppose to know their way around their own house very well right? but to live in a house so big that there was about four levels and over fifty rooms, it was very difficult to recognise your way through especially if there were only three people, one cat and one dog living in it.
Makoto turned to Haruka "How come I never use to think that the house was so big before?"
Haruka laughed and shrugged but her expression turned serious again. Makoto's cat named Totoro (AN: named totoro not the real totoro Ok.) stood beside her, she bent down and kissed it on it's furry head "You stay here all right" she said, here eye's were soft. Haruka smiled, she always thought that Makoto looked something like..... a mother when she softened. Her femininity glowed at the deepest parts of her eye's. She sighed when she found that she always seem to want to cover her soft parts deep inside.
Turning back around she also bent down to greet her pet inurei (AN: spirit dog) "hey little buddy" she stroked his silky coat, "we get there we don't it's all yours' the dog's eyes sparkled at his owner in admiration. He licked her lovingly with his tail wagging behind him. Leaving Totoro behind to pick up any changes of entering reikai, Haruka put her mask on. She nodded to Makoto and shouted "INUREI EVOLUTION THREE" a flash light glowed from the dog, the gem on it' forehead emitted hug amounts of energy, his eye's started to narrow out and grow bigger. The little puppy paws grew to huge athletic limbs. It's eye's were now gold in colour and it's flawless coat of white smoothed with patches of light blues on his chest and tail. It's evolution lighted up the darkness.
Haruka watched calmly as her pet grew six times her size, it had become a wolf like creature with a slight difference in body structure. Wings struggled out from it's back, it sprang up like the sails of a boat. It's sparkle of it's love for his owner remained in it's eyes resembling the once adorable little harmless puppy it was suppose to be. The huge animal bent his head in respect to his princess and Haruka took Makoto's hand and climbed onto the animal. With a last look at Totoro it spread it's wings, strong surges of pressure flowed from it's movement rippling the calm breeze that was passing by, it beated once and they shot up.
The moon shone at it's brightest as the huge shadow of the animal ripped through the sky. Inurei's gem sparkled connecting reikai's opening, hues of pink and blue clouds developed in circles. With the familiar air of the sky ripping through Haruka's wispy white blond hair she lifted her head and let herself fly. The cool air was delicious the feeling returned, the longing to fly through sky, to free herself form everything. It meant a lot to Haruka. With a last look of the lights that were below them they disappeared into the sky.
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Kurama hurried towards Koenma's office. The timeless space of reikai rippling through it's structure-less warp. His thoughts were rushing really fast and he was really late. Botan had came to see him and because of later lessons he had to leave later. Worried that the situations were getting worse in ningenkai he rushed on. "Kurama!" a girl sitting on a oar with a pink kimono shouted from afar. She was rushing at him with great speed, too fast in fact. He fell backwards as she didn't stop in time and totally crashed on top of him.
"Kurama! Yusuke and the rest of the gang are there already!" she waved her hands about panting "Do you know where Hiei is? I can't find him anywhere! Oh my god did you know that the shadows are getting worse......" she was talking so fast that Kurama couldn't keep up with her "Botan....Botan calm down.....your on top of me" he said calmly.
Botan looked at herself and sweat dropped she looked like she wanted him or something... She started to get up, when from above her head a huge animal flew by, it's strong beats were so hard that it looked like it was going to break reikai. It looked like jelly, causing it to crumple and wobble about.
Two figures jumped from the thing while the animal landed swiftly on top of the entry door of reikai business offices. It laid down, paws crossed like it was it's own home and folded up it's wings. His eye's scanned the whole area and at his two masters and then it licked his paws in satisfaction.
Kurama glanced at the animal with wide eye's. Botan covered her mouth not knowing weather to be scared or supprised.
Uranus and Jupiter landed neatly with their ribbons and skirts flaring through the air, right in front of Kurama and Botan.
Uranus stared at the two people and whistled "Wheeeew! Guess you two couldn't wait to find a bedroom eh?" she mocked.
Jupiter looked at her friend then looked at Kurama and Botan. She put a hand on her waist, "I think we might be here at the wrong time. If they like to play it wild, we can't say anything....maybe it's a custom in reikai" she shrugged.
She threw a glance at Botan again. "Sorry for interrupting" she apologized "just pretend that we're invisible.
"Yeah" Uranus joined in "Continue, we didn't see anything" she covered her eyes and turned around to walk away.
Kurama looked at Jupiter, she was the girl that she hurt the last time. He wondered how her wound was going. Was it better? Was it healed? He wanted to ask her, but somehow he kept his lips shut. She looked at him "We'll take ourselves around" and with a little wave to inurei she ran off after Haruka.
Botan totally turned red. She waved her fists around and turned to kurama. He just shrugged, she jumped away from him and shouted after the two girls "I"m...I'm not doing anything I..I was just .." But they were too far away to hear.
Kurama suddenly put his hand on her shoulder, she jumped "Botan!" his expression on his face was serious again "Quick go and tell Koenma! I think we might have visitors" Botan nodded back and quickly got on her oar and flew towards the gateway, while Kurama ran off after the girls.
Botan sped towards his office in total hurry. The rest of the reikai business men already realized that there was something wrong. By looking up at inurei they panicked, but the huge dog just looked at them and barely yawned in reply. His tail hung down the gateway with the tip flicking up and down.
Botan avoided the big animal and flew into Koenma's working office. 'Koenma sama!" She called out desperately but he wasn't there. Panicking she turned out of his room and bumped into his secretary. She grabbed him by the neck and shook him vigorously.
"Jorju! Where's Koenma sama!" realizing what she had been doing she let go, and he fell stoned and dizzy to the ground. "Wha? Is my mum here" he shook himself up. "Botan san?! Koenma is in the conference room meeting Genkai, Yusuke and Kuwabura, what...."
Botan rushed off with a confused Jorju scratching his head, she burst through the door at Koenma "Yusuke!" she screamed "Koenma sama, there's a monster who's entered and.....and two girls and Kurama told me to tell you and .."
The toddler suddenly turned back into a teenager "Yusuke!" he commanded "Let's go!" Koenma ran. Yusuke was supprised at Koenma's seriousness, he had never seen him like this before, the rest followed closely behind.
Koenma's mind raced, the two girls he thought who are they? he ran on faster and faster blocking out the sounds around him with only the road straight ahead. Memories flashed across his head- two little girls smiled at him, they ran around playing hide and seek "Koenma!" one of them shouted. Koenma's happy face appeared running and chasing around yet everytime he was about to see their faces there always seemed to be a shadow over them- he kept on running he stopped inurei the guardian of souls he whispered, then ran on.
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Kurama followed close behind Uranus and Jupiter. He noticed that they seemed to be looking for something. Jupiter looked around "Uranus we don't know our way around reikai. How do we know where to find the river of souls?"
she stopped and thought for a while "let's split up"
Jupiter shook her head "No this is reikai I'm sure that they are on alert right now of intruders. We have to get this over and done with quick before they start killing us" she felt like she was Mercury, but she shook the feeling off and raised her head to look around.
Reikai was so hard to interpret, there was no sense of realness everything seemed so intangible. Then her eye's widened when she looked over the road side.
"Uranus look!" down under the floating paths there spread a river. Great amount of souls floated through it. Haruka looked worriedly the amount of the river. It should be fuller but it seemed to be less than they thought it to be "Dammit!" Jupiter said under her breath. The shadows are going to ruin everything if the river dries out totally" Haruka nodded in agreement.
Kurama ran up behind them "Wait!" he shouted halting to a stop. Jupiter and Uranus turned to look at him "So, your finished with you girlfriend are you?" Uranus tried not to smile at her remark, but Kurama ignored it and went on.
"the things..."
"Shadows" Jupiter corrected firmly.
"shadows are getting worse. With just two of you, you can't take them all" he took a step close
"and you're saying?" Uranus said unsurely
"Maybe if we could join together we might..."
"Kurama!" it was Koenma and Yusuke. Startling the two girls they decided to change their minds.
"Uranus go now!" with a step over the edge she skydived towards the river below. I'll stay up here and see what they're doing she sent. "Inurei come now!" hearing it's cue the huge dog's eyes lightened up again. He flew with incredible speed to his master, and when she was just nearly to the river he caught her confidently. Haruka took out two of her beads and mumbling something, the two of the beads emitted light and floated in the midst of her palm (AN: empty bead so they seal spirits instead of destroying. Do you get this?)
Genkai watched in amazement as so did Koenma "NO! come back!" he screamed, he was actually afraid that she'll fall into the river.
Kurama turned to Jupiter "What are you doing?! She'll get killed!" but Jupiter didn't say anything. She looked at Kurama through her mask and kept silent. He hated it when she did that. They seem to talk really little to strangers.
Botan gasped at the dangerous moves of Uranus, she knew if she fall into that then they'll be nothing left of her soul. "You again!" Kuwabura said in a high pitched voice "Who are you guys anyway? What the... " but he could feel something funny.
Genkai watched patiently at the two girls. "Stop Yusuke, Kuwabura!" Koenma watched Genkai step forward nobly "do you think by doing this you could work the problem out!" she was angry, but her expression totally changed afterwards. It suddenly turned into a slight smile "I don't know who you are but I think I know....your"
Jupiter looked at the old lady and Kurama understandably withdrew from his position as well, keeping an eye on Jupiter.
Abruptly Genkai rushed forward throwing punches at Jupiter, she staggered backwards moving away from the attacks.
"Ba chan! What the hell are you doing. They're not enemies!" Yusuke blurted out, but she didn't seem to be listening. She threw another series of kicks and chops simultaneously but she either blocked or dodged them. "Ba chan!" kurama couldn't hold himself any longer, but she stopped when he wanted to talk.
A great big grin grew on her face. Jupiter looked confused, she didn't know what to think one minute they were talking and the next she came throwing punches at her.
"That Taihakukinsei (AN: Their Oji chan. He's the god of the golden star) really has an eye out for students eh? Lucky to have two girls like you, and I always use to think that he was a baka, but I guess he got what he was waiting for!" Koenma was half shocked "Ba chan are you telling me that they're Taihakukinsei's students?" He gapped a Jupiter.
Jupiter didn't really say anything, she stood there speechless. She suddenly bowed "Are you Gekai? I've heard many stories about you when I was small from Oji chan. The no.1 beauty and one of the strongest senshi there was. You are one of his friends. Sorry to disturb you" she referred to the others standing around her.
"Nani, all this and you were just mucking about, and you know each other!" Yusuke said.
"Boy, and I though that you were going to kill her!" Kuwabura stuck in.
Kurama smiled, happy to see this was all a misunderstanding. Koenma spoke "What Kurama said is right. We really need to work together, rekai needs your help and you need our help as well. What about joining together?"
Jupiter thought for a little while. Haruka, stop she stopped and looked up. Mako What's wrong?
should we alley? she sent to Uranus.
What?! Are you crazy they could be anything! They're.....youkai! How do we know that they aren't enemies, and besides one of them nearly..took off your arm
she rolled her eye's If they were, then I think that we'll be sweating like a pig trying to get away now, not standing here slowly arguing should we trust them or not. Besides I think what they're saying is right we need each other's resources, we have to work together
Jupiter walked over to the edge and looked down while Haruka withdrew her beads. Inurei flew up, and obediently landed beside her. Koenma's forehead formed cold perspiration when he saw the beast he knew it was them, it had to be them.
Uranus stepped forward "Koenma, right? Give us a few more days!"
"A few more days! do you know how many people are going to die. It's going to get worse" Botan said
Uranus was totally pissed off by her words, but Jupiter stopped her from blowing her volcano. She gave her the let-me-talk look and so she moved back to inurei. "Koenma, we need time" he nodded understandably (he understood Uranus's personality) "we can't reveal anything about us to you yet but you'll find out soon" Kurama found himself a little disappointed he didn't know why, but he had the feeling that he'd seen her somewhere. What the heck he always had these weird feelings these days, but he didn't know why.
"All you need to know is that the shadows are not youkai or youma, they're actually seedlings." Koenma didn't know what to say "Seedlings?"
"The little fairy that you saw last time was a seedling. They are the guardian's of the soul flower having seven petals, each petal representing one spirit of the human." Koenma couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had never heard of this before.
"When a spirit is fertilized by the presence of the black powers they rot and they become.....the shadows, and they feed on other spirits"
"Wait a minute" Yusuke asked "Are you saying that the souls of the people are actually the shadows! And we can't destroy them"
This time Uranus spoke "No, you can revive them but you need to hit it in the right spot" she turned back to her dog.
"Yeah, and there's a sign like a spade. Who ever is doing this is enslaving various spirits that have died and can't get to reikai because they either committed suicide and died at the wrong time or victims with unfinished wishes and they can't leave. They lose their senses and will follow whoever fertilized them"
A pain shot up her left arm it was the wound again, god it just had to happen when she's forgotten it. Kurama notices her wincing and her hand moved up to her arm. He took a step forward but she retreated at his move. He noticed those rose earrings she wore. How come he didn't see it before? Maybe it was the situation and the fighting, after all he never got that close to her.
Jupiter started to climb back up on inurei and Haruka gave a hand "Wait! Is that all? is it just that simple" Kuwabura asked
"If you think that then prepare to lose you soul, because if you don't get it right then you'll end up having to kill it and it means killing all the souls they took, or losing yours to them. Also if you don't know who the souls that are eaten belong to that's a problem too because they can't find their way" Jupiter was really serious although you couldn't see it, it was in her voice.
"Take them back to Koenma!" Genkai said "he is the prince of reikai, he can get them back. Uranus and Jupiter looked at her although they didn't say anything afterwards she was right.
Inurei started to beat his wings and they flew off, the powerful flapping causing them to block themselves. Botan nearly flew off because she wasn't strong enough, but Kurama grabbed her waist. He looked up at the animal, cursing himself ashamed that he couldn't even say simple word "Gomen" (mako saw that! hehe ^^*)
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Author's note: So, what do you think? Is it all right or not? Please review. I hope I haven't lost my fans, yikes! I've been reading Aisha's fics and she writes really good KURAMA/MAKO fics that I could kiss her (not that I will) ^.^* but I've got a hunch for a next fic. It'll probably be a pretty long time until I start but it's another YYH and SM fic. Awwwwww, not another one! Graon Graon Groan. Well yes it's another one and it's still a Mako/Kurama fic so there! Get pissed off all you like! Some people do! Live with it! I think I'm getting to emotional. Anyway hope you stick around. Oh yeah my next fic is going to be called **MY SENPAI** HeHeHe!! /\ _ /\*
Author's note: I am so sorry about the late updates but I've already written about 3 chapters extra the thing is that I just need some time o type it up! So I would probably update like two or three chapters close together! Awwwwww doesn't that sound interesting.
Disclaimer: Everyone knows ne? anyway refer to the disclaimers in my other chapters.
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Chapter 5
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Reikai
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"Koenma sama! Taihen taihen!" Botan came rushing through koenma's office with a flushed face. "The shadows! The shadows!" she exaggerated with her arms.
"What's wrong Botan! Can't you see that I have lots of documents to confirm" he shouted spraying all over the place.
The little toddler was sitting on his overly large chair stamping away at piles of documents placed on his table. He raised an angry eye at the girl and continued on stamping away.
"KOENMA SAMA! It's getting worse! The disappearing of the spirits are affecting the flow of the river of souls!" she stuck a document in front of his face.
Koenma fell off his chair when he saw the document. It was sent by his father. The image of smacks on the bottom welled up into his mind. his father knows he thought. Taking a notice of what Botan was saying now he grabbed the document from her and read it quickly.
"Anymore of this and reikai is going to lose it's priorities!"
"I know! I know! Botan go and get Yusuke and the rest of the gang" he commanded.
"Hai!" she stuck out her hand and an oar appeared. Urgently she flew out the door of his office.
"Jorju!" Koenma looked around his office for his secretary. "Hmm.that's funny he was here a second ago.."
Jorju snapped awake when a egg rose from his head. It was Koenma, he hit his head with the stamp "JORJU! At this time your sleeping!" he got out his note pad and pen "Hn I'll record this and lower your wages"
"Nooooo, Koenma! I.... why don't you tell me what to do?"
he thought for a little while, "Oh yeah there are more important things now!" the blue secretary nodded in relief "Go and get Genkai!" a worried expression appeared on his face when Jorju left.
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Yusuke yawned. Leaned back on his chair and kuwabura bashed him over his head.
"Urameshi" he screeched at the boy flat on the floor. Yusuke's fingers twitched in a crooked way (AN: like you do when you kill a cockroach and they're not quite dead yet) he jumped up and started fighting with Kuwabura.
"Baka! What the hell do you think you're doing! You nearly scared me half to death!" Kuwabura jumped around pulling faces. His friends stood aside and sweat dropped at their quarreling. Too bad Kuwabura's not a girl or else they'd make a great couple, but their faces turned green at the thought of them two as husband and wife. Maybe not....they thought again.
"Yusuke!"
he stopped, he thought he heard someone scream out his name. He looked around at the classroom but there seemed to be no one that did. "Kuwabura did you hear something?" he asked, Kuwabura shrugged.
"Yusuke!" this time Kuwabura heard it too. He looked out the window to see. Flying fast at them was Botan. "Yusuke! Kuwabura!" she shouted.
Kuwabura pointed outside gaping. His friends looked out but they looked at each other funnily. They couldn't see anything, they started to think that they had a problem with their heads. Botan stopped in front of the two guys through the window.
Koenma needs to see you guys urgently!"
"Huh? What now?" Yusuke snorted "I can't see anything wrong with ningenkai at the moment"
Botan didn't have the time to tell "I'll meet you after school! I need to go find Kurama and Hiei!" and she flew off in a hurry.
Kuwabura stood there blank faced "What was that all about?"
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Yusuke and Kuwabura stood at the front of the gate at their school waiting for Botan but she didn't appear, so instead they went first. Both running home to get changed out of their uniforms, Yusuke met Kuwabura at his house.
"Yusuke!" Koenma screamed when he finally came through the door of his office.
"Koenma, What is going on? Is there anything wrong because if there is I can't see it" he went and sat on a seat next to where kuwabura sat.
"Baka!" an old lady with light creamy pink hair walked in, Yusuke nearly fell off the chair at her words. You could see that she was once beautiful, but even though she was older now her wisdom showed through.
"Ba chan!" Yusuke jumped up sheepishly so did Kuwabura. He decided that he would listen more attentively now than he intended to in the first place, he sat back down.
"Ba chan" Koenma began "There is a big problem that is arising in ningenkai and it is directly affecting the progress of reikai. There are unknown things that are lurking around the streets and they seem to be feeding on....souls"
"souls? Is it another on of those monster things" Kuwabura stuck in, he was slamming his left fist into his right palm "I Kuwabura that great will save the day again! Ha ha ha!"
"No! this is the problem it's not that easy. The thing is that we don't even know where these things come from and...and they don't belong to the categories of Makai, Reikai or even..Meikai" Koenma had a worried expression and his eye's showed no light. "So they are dangerous to reikai. If they get here then reikai will cease to exist. Every living thing that has a soul will be eaten by them, an it's through the river of soul's they will start. In other words if the river of souls disappears then reikai will break apart"
Silence hung over the room at those words. Genkai stepped forward "Koenma, I think there maybe a way to stop it." Her eye's seem to sparkle "I have been watching the stars lately..."
"Ba chan, this is monsters we're talking about, not some star gazing club. Besides what has stars got to do with this?" Yusuke interrupted.
Genkai went on "For some reason there have been three new falling stars that had some how disappeared into the earth, and the planets Jupiter and Uranus are shining really brightly, I think that we would have help at hand. The problem is if we could catch the helping rays of light that is emitted by the heavens"
Kuwabura smiled "How do we catch light?" He asked
Genkai sweat dropped "Bakayaru"
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Haruka walked carefully through the house with Makoto following closely behind her. They were suppose to know their way around their own house very well right? but to live in a house so big that there was about four levels and over fifty rooms, it was very difficult to recognise your way through especially if there were only three people, one cat and one dog living in it.
Makoto turned to Haruka "How come I never use to think that the house was so big before?"
Haruka laughed and shrugged but her expression turned serious again. Makoto's cat named Totoro (AN: named totoro not the real totoro Ok.) stood beside her, she bent down and kissed it on it's furry head "You stay here all right" she said, here eye's were soft. Haruka smiled, she always thought that Makoto looked something like..... a mother when she softened. Her femininity glowed at the deepest parts of her eye's. She sighed when she found that she always seem to want to cover her soft parts deep inside.
Turning back around she also bent down to greet her pet inurei (AN: spirit dog) "hey little buddy" she stroked his silky coat, "we get there we don't it's all yours' the dog's eyes sparkled at his owner in admiration. He licked her lovingly with his tail wagging behind him. Leaving Totoro behind to pick up any changes of entering reikai, Haruka put her mask on. She nodded to Makoto and shouted "INUREI EVOLUTION THREE" a flash light glowed from the dog, the gem on it' forehead emitted hug amounts of energy, his eye's started to narrow out and grow bigger. The little puppy paws grew to huge athletic limbs. It's eye's were now gold in colour and it's flawless coat of white smoothed with patches of light blues on his chest and tail. It's evolution lighted up the darkness.
Haruka watched calmly as her pet grew six times her size, it had become a wolf like creature with a slight difference in body structure. Wings struggled out from it's back, it sprang up like the sails of a boat. It's sparkle of it's love for his owner remained in it's eyes resembling the once adorable little harmless puppy it was suppose to be. The huge animal bent his head in respect to his princess and Haruka took Makoto's hand and climbed onto the animal. With a last look at Totoro it spread it's wings, strong surges of pressure flowed from it's movement rippling the calm breeze that was passing by, it beated once and they shot up.
The moon shone at it's brightest as the huge shadow of the animal ripped through the sky. Inurei's gem sparkled connecting reikai's opening, hues of pink and blue clouds developed in circles. With the familiar air of the sky ripping through Haruka's wispy white blond hair she lifted her head and let herself fly. The cool air was delicious the feeling returned, the longing to fly through sky, to free herself form everything. It meant a lot to Haruka. With a last look of the lights that were below them they disappeared into the sky.
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Kurama hurried towards Koenma's office. The timeless space of reikai rippling through it's structure-less warp. His thoughts were rushing really fast and he was really late. Botan had came to see him and because of later lessons he had to leave later. Worried that the situations were getting worse in ningenkai he rushed on. "Kurama!" a girl sitting on a oar with a pink kimono shouted from afar. She was rushing at him with great speed, too fast in fact. He fell backwards as she didn't stop in time and totally crashed on top of him.
"Kurama! Yusuke and the rest of the gang are there already!" she waved her hands about panting "Do you know where Hiei is? I can't find him anywhere! Oh my god did you know that the shadows are getting worse......" she was talking so fast that Kurama couldn't keep up with her "Botan....Botan calm down.....your on top of me" he said calmly.
Botan looked at herself and sweat dropped she looked like she wanted him or something... She started to get up, when from above her head a huge animal flew by, it's strong beats were so hard that it looked like it was going to break reikai. It looked like jelly, causing it to crumple and wobble about.
Two figures jumped from the thing while the animal landed swiftly on top of the entry door of reikai business offices. It laid down, paws crossed like it was it's own home and folded up it's wings. His eye's scanned the whole area and at his two masters and then it licked his paws in satisfaction.
Kurama glanced at the animal with wide eye's. Botan covered her mouth not knowing weather to be scared or supprised.
Uranus and Jupiter landed neatly with their ribbons and skirts flaring through the air, right in front of Kurama and Botan.
Uranus stared at the two people and whistled "Wheeeew! Guess you two couldn't wait to find a bedroom eh?" she mocked.
Jupiter looked at her friend then looked at Kurama and Botan. She put a hand on her waist, "I think we might be here at the wrong time. If they like to play it wild, we can't say anything....maybe it's a custom in reikai" she shrugged.
She threw a glance at Botan again. "Sorry for interrupting" she apologized "just pretend that we're invisible.
"Yeah" Uranus joined in "Continue, we didn't see anything" she covered her eyes and turned around to walk away.
Kurama looked at Jupiter, she was the girl that she hurt the last time. He wondered how her wound was going. Was it better? Was it healed? He wanted to ask her, but somehow he kept his lips shut. She looked at him "We'll take ourselves around" and with a little wave to inurei she ran off after Haruka.
Botan totally turned red. She waved her fists around and turned to kurama. He just shrugged, she jumped away from him and shouted after the two girls "I"m...I'm not doing anything I..I was just .." But they were too far away to hear.
Kurama suddenly put his hand on her shoulder, she jumped "Botan!" his expression on his face was serious again "Quick go and tell Koenma! I think we might have visitors" Botan nodded back and quickly got on her oar and flew towards the gateway, while Kurama ran off after the girls.
Botan sped towards his office in total hurry. The rest of the reikai business men already realized that there was something wrong. By looking up at inurei they panicked, but the huge dog just looked at them and barely yawned in reply. His tail hung down the gateway with the tip flicking up and down.
Botan avoided the big animal and flew into Koenma's working office. 'Koenma sama!" She called out desperately but he wasn't there. Panicking she turned out of his room and bumped into his secretary. She grabbed him by the neck and shook him vigorously.
"Jorju! Where's Koenma sama!" realizing what she had been doing she let go, and he fell stoned and dizzy to the ground. "Wha? Is my mum here" he shook himself up. "Botan san?! Koenma is in the conference room meeting Genkai, Yusuke and Kuwabura, what...."
Botan rushed off with a confused Jorju scratching his head, she burst through the door at Koenma "Yusuke!" she screamed "Koenma sama, there's a monster who's entered and.....and two girls and Kurama told me to tell you and .."
The toddler suddenly turned back into a teenager "Yusuke!" he commanded "Let's go!" Koenma ran. Yusuke was supprised at Koenma's seriousness, he had never seen him like this before, the rest followed closely behind.
Koenma's mind raced, the two girls he thought who are they? he ran on faster and faster blocking out the sounds around him with only the road straight ahead. Memories flashed across his head- two little girls smiled at him, they ran around playing hide and seek "Koenma!" one of them shouted. Koenma's happy face appeared running and chasing around yet everytime he was about to see their faces there always seemed to be a shadow over them- he kept on running he stopped inurei the guardian of souls he whispered, then ran on.
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Kurama followed close behind Uranus and Jupiter. He noticed that they seemed to be looking for something. Jupiter looked around "Uranus we don't know our way around reikai. How do we know where to find the river of souls?"
she stopped and thought for a while "let's split up"
Jupiter shook her head "No this is reikai I'm sure that they are on alert right now of intruders. We have to get this over and done with quick before they start killing us" she felt like she was Mercury, but she shook the feeling off and raised her head to look around.
Reikai was so hard to interpret, there was no sense of realness everything seemed so intangible. Then her eye's widened when she looked over the road side.
"Uranus look!" down under the floating paths there spread a river. Great amount of souls floated through it. Haruka looked worriedly the amount of the river. It should be fuller but it seemed to be less than they thought it to be "Dammit!" Jupiter said under her breath. The shadows are going to ruin everything if the river dries out totally" Haruka nodded in agreement.
Kurama ran up behind them "Wait!" he shouted halting to a stop. Jupiter and Uranus turned to look at him "So, your finished with you girlfriend are you?" Uranus tried not to smile at her remark, but Kurama ignored it and went on.
"the things..."
"Shadows" Jupiter corrected firmly.
"shadows are getting worse. With just two of you, you can't take them all" he took a step close
"and you're saying?" Uranus said unsurely
"Maybe if we could join together we might..."
"Kurama!" it was Koenma and Yusuke. Startling the two girls they decided to change their minds.
"Uranus go now!" with a step over the edge she skydived towards the river below. I'll stay up here and see what they're doing she sent. "Inurei come now!" hearing it's cue the huge dog's eyes lightened up again. He flew with incredible speed to his master, and when she was just nearly to the river he caught her confidently. Haruka took out two of her beads and mumbling something, the two of the beads emitted light and floated in the midst of her palm (AN: empty bead so they seal spirits instead of destroying. Do you get this?)
Genkai watched in amazement as so did Koenma "NO! come back!" he screamed, he was actually afraid that she'll fall into the river.
Kurama turned to Jupiter "What are you doing?! She'll get killed!" but Jupiter didn't say anything. She looked at Kurama through her mask and kept silent. He hated it when she did that. They seem to talk really little to strangers.
Botan gasped at the dangerous moves of Uranus, she knew if she fall into that then they'll be nothing left of her soul. "You again!" Kuwabura said in a high pitched voice "Who are you guys anyway? What the... " but he could feel something funny.
Genkai watched patiently at the two girls. "Stop Yusuke, Kuwabura!" Koenma watched Genkai step forward nobly "do you think by doing this you could work the problem out!" she was angry, but her expression totally changed afterwards. It suddenly turned into a slight smile "I don't know who you are but I think I know....your"
Jupiter looked at the old lady and Kurama understandably withdrew from his position as well, keeping an eye on Jupiter.
Abruptly Genkai rushed forward throwing punches at Jupiter, she staggered backwards moving away from the attacks.
"Ba chan! What the hell are you doing. They're not enemies!" Yusuke blurted out, but she didn't seem to be listening. She threw another series of kicks and chops simultaneously but she either blocked or dodged them. "Ba chan!" kurama couldn't hold himself any longer, but she stopped when he wanted to talk.
A great big grin grew on her face. Jupiter looked confused, she didn't know what to think one minute they were talking and the next she came throwing punches at her.
"That Taihakukinsei (AN: Their Oji chan. He's the god of the golden star) really has an eye out for students eh? Lucky to have two girls like you, and I always use to think that he was a baka, but I guess he got what he was waiting for!" Koenma was half shocked "Ba chan are you telling me that they're Taihakukinsei's students?" He gapped a Jupiter.
Jupiter didn't really say anything, she stood there speechless. She suddenly bowed "Are you Gekai? I've heard many stories about you when I was small from Oji chan. The no.1 beauty and one of the strongest senshi there was. You are one of his friends. Sorry to disturb you" she referred to the others standing around her.
"Nani, all this and you were just mucking about, and you know each other!" Yusuke said.
"Boy, and I though that you were going to kill her!" Kuwabura stuck in.
Kurama smiled, happy to see this was all a misunderstanding. Koenma spoke "What Kurama said is right. We really need to work together, rekai needs your help and you need our help as well. What about joining together?"
Jupiter thought for a little while. Haruka, stop she stopped and looked up. Mako What's wrong?
should we alley? she sent to Uranus.
What?! Are you crazy they could be anything! They're.....youkai! How do we know that they aren't enemies, and besides one of them nearly..took off your arm
she rolled her eye's If they were, then I think that we'll be sweating like a pig trying to get away now, not standing here slowly arguing should we trust them or not. Besides I think what they're saying is right we need each other's resources, we have to work together
Jupiter walked over to the edge and looked down while Haruka withdrew her beads. Inurei flew up, and obediently landed beside her. Koenma's forehead formed cold perspiration when he saw the beast he knew it was them, it had to be them.
Uranus stepped forward "Koenma, right? Give us a few more days!"
"A few more days! do you know how many people are going to die. It's going to get worse" Botan said
Uranus was totally pissed off by her words, but Jupiter stopped her from blowing her volcano. She gave her the let-me-talk look and so she moved back to inurei. "Koenma, we need time" he nodded understandably (he understood Uranus's personality) "we can't reveal anything about us to you yet but you'll find out soon" Kurama found himself a little disappointed he didn't know why, but he had the feeling that he'd seen her somewhere. What the heck he always had these weird feelings these days, but he didn't know why.
"All you need to know is that the shadows are not youkai or youma, they're actually seedlings." Koenma didn't know what to say "Seedlings?"
"The little fairy that you saw last time was a seedling. They are the guardian's of the soul flower having seven petals, each petal representing one spirit of the human." Koenma couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had never heard of this before.
"When a spirit is fertilized by the presence of the black powers they rot and they become.....the shadows, and they feed on other spirits"
"Wait a minute" Yusuke asked "Are you saying that the souls of the people are actually the shadows! And we can't destroy them"
This time Uranus spoke "No, you can revive them but you need to hit it in the right spot" she turned back to her dog.
"Yeah, and there's a sign like a spade. Who ever is doing this is enslaving various spirits that have died and can't get to reikai because they either committed suicide and died at the wrong time or victims with unfinished wishes and they can't leave. They lose their senses and will follow whoever fertilized them"
A pain shot up her left arm it was the wound again, god it just had to happen when she's forgotten it. Kurama notices her wincing and her hand moved up to her arm. He took a step forward but she retreated at his move. He noticed those rose earrings she wore. How come he didn't see it before? Maybe it was the situation and the fighting, after all he never got that close to her.
Jupiter started to climb back up on inurei and Haruka gave a hand "Wait! Is that all? is it just that simple" Kuwabura asked
"If you think that then prepare to lose you soul, because if you don't get it right then you'll end up having to kill it and it means killing all the souls they took, or losing yours to them. Also if you don't know who the souls that are eaten belong to that's a problem too because they can't find their way" Jupiter was really serious although you couldn't see it, it was in her voice.
"Take them back to Koenma!" Genkai said "he is the prince of reikai, he can get them back. Uranus and Jupiter looked at her although they didn't say anything afterwards she was right.
Inurei started to beat his wings and they flew off, the powerful flapping causing them to block themselves. Botan nearly flew off because she wasn't strong enough, but Kurama grabbed her waist. He looked up at the animal, cursing himself ashamed that he couldn't even say simple word "Gomen" (mako saw that! hehe ^^*)
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Author's note: So, what do you think? Is it all right or not? Please review. I hope I haven't lost my fans, yikes! I've been reading Aisha's fics and she writes really good KURAMA/MAKO fics that I could kiss her (not that I will) ^.^* but I've got a hunch for a next fic. It'll probably be a pretty long time until I start but it's another YYH and SM fic. Awwwwww, not another one! Graon Graon Groan. Well yes it's another one and it's still a Mako/Kurama fic so there! Get pissed off all you like! Some people do! Live with it! I think I'm getting to emotional. Anyway hope you stick around. Oh yeah my next fic is going to be called **MY SENPAI** HeHeHe!! /\ _ /\*