Disclaimer: I don't own anything.! All of the character, except for Mari,
belong to someone else, that sadly isn't me. ^__^
By the way this story takes place after the series has ended so it may
contain spoilers.
Warning: The boy's mouths are very fowl. So the rating is R for that.
Chapter Two: The start of the Journey
"Why did I come on this trip? All we have done so far is walk, walk and walk!" Yusuke said on the evening of the first day's walking.
"Koenma said that we should start ascending towards the youkai hideout carefully. We have no idea what's going on in there. None of Lord Koenma's spy gear can get through the disturbances in that place and it freaks me out! I haven't heard of a place where Lord Koenma's tracking devises haven't been able to make contact", Botan said.
Kurama was out picking fire wood and Hiei was out scouting. The three humans and Botan had stayed at camp waiting for the youkai to come back.
Yusuke had started complaining the moment he learned that it would take some time for them to reach the demon base. Now that they had stopped to rest he had started to protest full force.
"Why can't we just go to the place and blow it up?" Yusuke whined.
"I already told you why!" Botan said and bashed Yusuke on the head with her paddle.
"Morons", Mari said and climbed to the nearest tree, like a chipmunk.
Yusuke and Botan kept on fighting with more shouting and bashings on the head. Mari stayed in her tree and, shaking her head, dozed off.
*****
Kurama stood listening to the distant call of a bird. He couldn't tell if it was a demon that was calling to another, but it did sound unnatural. Well all he could do was to wait for Hiei to come back. He knew that Hiei would come to him first if he just waited long enough. The little fire demon might be sulky and stubborn, but he would never go against a friend.
Kurama didn't have to wait long with his fire wood. Hiei came running up to him, stopping abruptly in front of the kitsune.
"Find anything?" Kurama asked looking down at the fire demon.
"There's a large gathering of weak youkai about 20 miles east and there are some youkai in the mountains in the north, but that's about all the threat I could find. I could have killed them easily" he answered in his arrogant manner.
"Yes. Did you hear the commotion from the camp?" Kurama asked.
"Yeah. I doubt we will be left alone for more then a couple of hours before someone finds the idiots", Hiei winced hearing the racket clearly from where he stood, about two miles away.
"So we will have a fight today?" Kurama mussed looking at the sun. "well, for the time that we still have left".
"They will attack at night. At least we will see if the new girl is any good". Hiei smirked.
"Yes we will see", Kurama said starting to walk toward camp.
Hiei jumped up to the tree and raced off. He was going to enter the camp on the other side.
*****
Yusuke lay on his back looking at the stars. He hadn't seen them for months now. The sky in the Makai and in the Human world where totally different. The youkai didn't believe in constellations so the stars where only a way of navigation in the dark.
The only sound was of the breathing of the others while he mussed about the things in his life.
Kurama was sleeping next to the fire and Botan was sleeping near there too. Kuwabara slept near him and he bet that anything living could hear his snoring a mile away.
Hiei and the girl Mari slept in opposite trees still near enough for quick action. How that human could stand to sleep in a tree he could not comprehend, Hiei he understood, since he had always done that, but the girl? She was made of stronger stuff then he had thought. She hadn't complained at all during the long walk and she had to take three steps for his one, with her short legs.
His guard turn would soon be over and he would have to wake up Kurama. The moons hadn't moved mush from their last place he saw them, but he didn't let that fool him. The moons moved differently here.
He sighed and stood up. He had been lying on a rock and now he had a sore spot there. He cracked his back and walked over to Kurama.
He shook his friend once and Kurama opened his eyes and nodded. He knew it was his turn to watch over the camp.
"There's going to be a fight" he mouthed to Yusuke and he nodded sensing the same thing that Kurama did.
They stood up not wanting to wake Botan or the kid and they walked to the tree Hiei was in and looked up. Hiei looked down and nodded. He wasn't going to miss this fight for anything. They didn't want to risk waking Kuwabara and left him to defend the others.
Yusuke, Kurama and Hiei started out silently trying to be as quiet as possible. They nodded and went in different directions wanting to surprise the attackers. Hiei ranged out farthest and would take them from their back, which was likely to be their weakest spot.
Yusuke went to the right and Kurama went to the left. Not possessing the speed that Hiei mastered they jogged quietly in their directions. They would attack when the attackers would come half a mile from the camp.
*****
"We still have some time", Kurama thought and positioned himself in a good stalking place on top of a cliff above the place he new the youkai would come.
*****
Yusuke wasn't as lucky. He didn't find a good place to hide so he just jumped into a tree and waited with a growing grin on his face.
*****
Hiei ran jumping from tree top to tree top. Until he skidded to a stop on an overlarge branch above the last of the youkai. He had gotten a good glimpse of the youkai and knew they would have no trouble killing them, most of them where just henchmen for a B-level youkai. The only thing that struck him as odd was that there seemed to be no tougher youkai around, but he dismissed the fleeting thought as paranoia.
*****
It was almost time. The boys could feel the youkai coming closer to the camp. All they had to do was wait a little longer.
*****
Yusuke sensed the first youkai coming nearer. He could nearly feel the life force of the demon. Finally the demons started to jog towards his tree. He cracked his knuckles and let a small grin on his lips. The youkai where coming closer.
He dropped from his tree right in front of the first demon. He smiled and punched the demon square in the nose. He could feel the ugly green-yellow blood start to ooze from the wound.
The next demon came to him from behind. He first kicked him in the stomach and the demon winced in pain, but Yusuke didn't hesitate. He kicked at the demon aiming for his head, but missed. He flipped over and kicked the demons neck, hearing a satisfying crack when the demons neck broke.
By now he was surrounded by demons. They laughed at him thinking that they had him overpowered by the shrill number of them.
Yusuke just smirked and started to focus his spirit energy. He lifted his hand and.
"REI GUN!" he yelled and blasted the youkai to bits.
"This is the life! Punishing the ones that have done wrong!"
He shouted another war cry and lunged into the sea of youkai.
*****
Kurama started his assent to the horde of youkai in a more business like manner. He called out his Rose Whip and killed the youkai in one smooth swipe.
"Well that was easy", he said as the other group of youkai advanced on him.
*****
Hiei waited until the youkai started to move again and sneaked up on them. The tailing group was nothing more then a couple of cowering dogs, believing that the first part of the horde would kill the ones they where after.
They never saw what came after them. Hiei sliced them neatly into pieces with his katana and advanced onto the other youkai.
*****
The boys met up half way. Kurama with a pleasant smile, but one that knew him better would have noticed the small lines of worry on his brow. Yusuke was covered in youkai blood and his grin was even wider now. Hiei walked up to them slowly and tilted his head as if listening to something.
"Didn't it seem sort of odd that there where no strong youkai in the whole group?" Yusuke asked, scratching his head.
Suddenly he felt a strange power serge. The boys looked at each other and started to run towards the camp.
*****
The whole camp was a mess by the time they got there. Kuwabara lay motionless on the ground. It seemed that he was knocked out while he slept.
Botan didn't look any better, she laid on the ground her face to the ground and she had a huge lump forming on her head. At least she had defended her self since there were about five dead demons lying near her.
The only one that seemed to still be fighting was Mari. There where demons surrounding her and she was weaponless. They smirked at her thinking her easy fry.
The demons advanced in on her. Yusuke was ready to attack them here and now, but when he was about to step into the fighting zone, Kurama stopped him.
"What?" Yusuke hissed annoyed.
"Let us see how she does", Kurama whispered back still holding his hand in the way..
Now, the demons where almost on top of Mari. She stood still until they almost touched her, then she smirked let the frightened look on her face die. From out of nowhere a scythe had materialized in her hand. She sliced the demons that where close enough and attacked the next row from there.
She seemed unstoppable and soon there was only one demon to fight. He was the leader in every aspect. He was the largest and he seemed to be at least on level-B, unlike the reset of the youkai that had been lowly C or D-level demons.
Mari looked at the youkai and smirked. The demon looked warily at her. He had seen all of his comrades, if you can call them that, die by her blade. There was no way that he would underestimate her.
Mari attacked him wanting to end the battle as soon as possible.
In the middle of her run against the demon, she suddenly seemed to feel some sort of pain. Kurama didn't know what it meant, but her face was twitched in agony.
Mari gasped for air. The momentum that she had built running towards the youkai suddenly seemed too much. Her eyes where full of fear.
Suddenly her scythe vanished and she looked at her empty hand, right before she crashed into the hard chest of the enemy youkai.
*****
Translations: Youkai: Demon Rei Gun: Spirit Gun
From chapter one: Raizen is the father of Yusuke, but it isn't found out until later in the series and this takes place after the series is ended, so sorry for the mix up. ^^;;;
Thank you for the review Yami-AJ Yu-Yu-InuCaptor! It makes me very happy! *tears of joy*.
Chapter Two: The start of the Journey
"Why did I come on this trip? All we have done so far is walk, walk and walk!" Yusuke said on the evening of the first day's walking.
"Koenma said that we should start ascending towards the youkai hideout carefully. We have no idea what's going on in there. None of Lord Koenma's spy gear can get through the disturbances in that place and it freaks me out! I haven't heard of a place where Lord Koenma's tracking devises haven't been able to make contact", Botan said.
Kurama was out picking fire wood and Hiei was out scouting. The three humans and Botan had stayed at camp waiting for the youkai to come back.
Yusuke had started complaining the moment he learned that it would take some time for them to reach the demon base. Now that they had stopped to rest he had started to protest full force.
"Why can't we just go to the place and blow it up?" Yusuke whined.
"I already told you why!" Botan said and bashed Yusuke on the head with her paddle.
"Morons", Mari said and climbed to the nearest tree, like a chipmunk.
Yusuke and Botan kept on fighting with more shouting and bashings on the head. Mari stayed in her tree and, shaking her head, dozed off.
*****
Kurama stood listening to the distant call of a bird. He couldn't tell if it was a demon that was calling to another, but it did sound unnatural. Well all he could do was to wait for Hiei to come back. He knew that Hiei would come to him first if he just waited long enough. The little fire demon might be sulky and stubborn, but he would never go against a friend.
Kurama didn't have to wait long with his fire wood. Hiei came running up to him, stopping abruptly in front of the kitsune.
"Find anything?" Kurama asked looking down at the fire demon.
"There's a large gathering of weak youkai about 20 miles east and there are some youkai in the mountains in the north, but that's about all the threat I could find. I could have killed them easily" he answered in his arrogant manner.
"Yes. Did you hear the commotion from the camp?" Kurama asked.
"Yeah. I doubt we will be left alone for more then a couple of hours before someone finds the idiots", Hiei winced hearing the racket clearly from where he stood, about two miles away.
"So we will have a fight today?" Kurama mussed looking at the sun. "well, for the time that we still have left".
"They will attack at night. At least we will see if the new girl is any good". Hiei smirked.
"Yes we will see", Kurama said starting to walk toward camp.
Hiei jumped up to the tree and raced off. He was going to enter the camp on the other side.
*****
Yusuke lay on his back looking at the stars. He hadn't seen them for months now. The sky in the Makai and in the Human world where totally different. The youkai didn't believe in constellations so the stars where only a way of navigation in the dark.
The only sound was of the breathing of the others while he mussed about the things in his life.
Kurama was sleeping next to the fire and Botan was sleeping near there too. Kuwabara slept near him and he bet that anything living could hear his snoring a mile away.
Hiei and the girl Mari slept in opposite trees still near enough for quick action. How that human could stand to sleep in a tree he could not comprehend, Hiei he understood, since he had always done that, but the girl? She was made of stronger stuff then he had thought. She hadn't complained at all during the long walk and she had to take three steps for his one, with her short legs.
His guard turn would soon be over and he would have to wake up Kurama. The moons hadn't moved mush from their last place he saw them, but he didn't let that fool him. The moons moved differently here.
He sighed and stood up. He had been lying on a rock and now he had a sore spot there. He cracked his back and walked over to Kurama.
He shook his friend once and Kurama opened his eyes and nodded. He knew it was his turn to watch over the camp.
"There's going to be a fight" he mouthed to Yusuke and he nodded sensing the same thing that Kurama did.
They stood up not wanting to wake Botan or the kid and they walked to the tree Hiei was in and looked up. Hiei looked down and nodded. He wasn't going to miss this fight for anything. They didn't want to risk waking Kuwabara and left him to defend the others.
Yusuke, Kurama and Hiei started out silently trying to be as quiet as possible. They nodded and went in different directions wanting to surprise the attackers. Hiei ranged out farthest and would take them from their back, which was likely to be their weakest spot.
Yusuke went to the right and Kurama went to the left. Not possessing the speed that Hiei mastered they jogged quietly in their directions. They would attack when the attackers would come half a mile from the camp.
*****
"We still have some time", Kurama thought and positioned himself in a good stalking place on top of a cliff above the place he new the youkai would come.
*****
Yusuke wasn't as lucky. He didn't find a good place to hide so he just jumped into a tree and waited with a growing grin on his face.
*****
Hiei ran jumping from tree top to tree top. Until he skidded to a stop on an overlarge branch above the last of the youkai. He had gotten a good glimpse of the youkai and knew they would have no trouble killing them, most of them where just henchmen for a B-level youkai. The only thing that struck him as odd was that there seemed to be no tougher youkai around, but he dismissed the fleeting thought as paranoia.
*****
It was almost time. The boys could feel the youkai coming closer to the camp. All they had to do was wait a little longer.
*****
Yusuke sensed the first youkai coming nearer. He could nearly feel the life force of the demon. Finally the demons started to jog towards his tree. He cracked his knuckles and let a small grin on his lips. The youkai where coming closer.
He dropped from his tree right in front of the first demon. He smiled and punched the demon square in the nose. He could feel the ugly green-yellow blood start to ooze from the wound.
The next demon came to him from behind. He first kicked him in the stomach and the demon winced in pain, but Yusuke didn't hesitate. He kicked at the demon aiming for his head, but missed. He flipped over and kicked the demons neck, hearing a satisfying crack when the demons neck broke.
By now he was surrounded by demons. They laughed at him thinking that they had him overpowered by the shrill number of them.
Yusuke just smirked and started to focus his spirit energy. He lifted his hand and.
"REI GUN!" he yelled and blasted the youkai to bits.
"This is the life! Punishing the ones that have done wrong!"
He shouted another war cry and lunged into the sea of youkai.
*****
Kurama started his assent to the horde of youkai in a more business like manner. He called out his Rose Whip and killed the youkai in one smooth swipe.
"Well that was easy", he said as the other group of youkai advanced on him.
*****
Hiei waited until the youkai started to move again and sneaked up on them. The tailing group was nothing more then a couple of cowering dogs, believing that the first part of the horde would kill the ones they where after.
They never saw what came after them. Hiei sliced them neatly into pieces with his katana and advanced onto the other youkai.
*****
The boys met up half way. Kurama with a pleasant smile, but one that knew him better would have noticed the small lines of worry on his brow. Yusuke was covered in youkai blood and his grin was even wider now. Hiei walked up to them slowly and tilted his head as if listening to something.
"Didn't it seem sort of odd that there where no strong youkai in the whole group?" Yusuke asked, scratching his head.
Suddenly he felt a strange power serge. The boys looked at each other and started to run towards the camp.
*****
The whole camp was a mess by the time they got there. Kuwabara lay motionless on the ground. It seemed that he was knocked out while he slept.
Botan didn't look any better, she laid on the ground her face to the ground and she had a huge lump forming on her head. At least she had defended her self since there were about five dead demons lying near her.
The only one that seemed to still be fighting was Mari. There where demons surrounding her and she was weaponless. They smirked at her thinking her easy fry.
The demons advanced in on her. Yusuke was ready to attack them here and now, but when he was about to step into the fighting zone, Kurama stopped him.
"What?" Yusuke hissed annoyed.
"Let us see how she does", Kurama whispered back still holding his hand in the way..
Now, the demons where almost on top of Mari. She stood still until they almost touched her, then she smirked let the frightened look on her face die. From out of nowhere a scythe had materialized in her hand. She sliced the demons that where close enough and attacked the next row from there.
She seemed unstoppable and soon there was only one demon to fight. He was the leader in every aspect. He was the largest and he seemed to be at least on level-B, unlike the reset of the youkai that had been lowly C or D-level demons.
Mari looked at the youkai and smirked. The demon looked warily at her. He had seen all of his comrades, if you can call them that, die by her blade. There was no way that he would underestimate her.
Mari attacked him wanting to end the battle as soon as possible.
In the middle of her run against the demon, she suddenly seemed to feel some sort of pain. Kurama didn't know what it meant, but her face was twitched in agony.
Mari gasped for air. The momentum that she had built running towards the youkai suddenly seemed too much. Her eyes where full of fear.
Suddenly her scythe vanished and she looked at her empty hand, right before she crashed into the hard chest of the enemy youkai.
*****
Translations: Youkai: Demon Rei Gun: Spirit Gun
From chapter one: Raizen is the father of Yusuke, but it isn't found out until later in the series and this takes place after the series is ended, so sorry for the mix up. ^^;;;
Thank you for the review Yami-AJ Yu-Yu-InuCaptor! It makes me very happy! *tears of joy*.