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Kougo no Jigen
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Alternate Dimensions
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Chapter Two: Secret - Himitsu
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Arutoi turned to the boys, and said, "I will lure them into this dimension. They will be sent to the Red Fish Warehouse at the docks. I hope that you boys will be ready around the hours 10 and 11 o'clock."
Kuwabara boasted, "You can count on me!"
Hiei snorted, "To screw up."
"Shut up, shorty!"
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The Ningenkai was at peace for a time. This meant that Zouba, Yuujo, and Kuwabara could have more time for school. Yuujo had struck some kind of deal with Takenaka. He had tricked her into going to school. That wasn't how she saw it, of course, but Tobikage knew better. She had been screwed over into doing something that she didn't want to do.
Why she was thinking about it she didn't know. Maybe it was because Yuujo wasn't around for her to train with.
That must have been it.
Tobikage was bored, and when she was bored, she trained. It was more fun with an opponent, but, since the others were busy, she couldn't train with either of those three. Not that she would want to train with Kuwabara, of course. But it would have been better than training alone.
Ever since the Ankoku Bujutsukai had ended, her Jagan had seemed to sense something foreboding coming, and she wanted to be prepared.
"Tobikage-san!" Came the bubbly voice of Botan.
She leapt onto a treebranch, sheathing her katana, "What do you want, Ferry Girl?"
She smiled brilliantly, ignoring Tobikage's demeaning tone, "Koenma wants to talk with you four. Where are they?"
"They're in school," she said, "where they always are."
"Okay!" Botan zipped away on her oar.
The hi youkai sighed, and headed toward the Reikai. So, the Ningenkai was in trouble again. She knew that the peace that Koenma had unknowingly offered when they had called to him a couple days ago had been too good to be true.
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"Okay, screw it! I'm going to quit school!"
"You said that last time, Urameshi," Kuwabara replied.
"Well this time I mean it!" Yuujo said.
Zouba giggled, "You said that too."
"Man, I want a day-off from school!" Yuujo shouted.
"Yuujo!" Botan yelled.
They all exclaimed at the same time, "Shimatta!"
And Urameshi mumbled to no one, "Not that kind of day-off, Koenma."
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When Tobikage arrived at Koenma's office, the others were already there.
"Ah! Tobikage is here! Now I can tell you what's going on!" Koenma said. Tobikage raised an eyebrow. Since when did Koenma wait for her? She was half-expecting them to be leaving already. Not loitering here. Koenma stood, looking them all over with a serious expression, "Four young men are going to destroy our dimension!"
"Whoa! Wait! Doushite?!" Yuujo asked.
"I'm not sure why. But I know they are going to," Koenma said.
Zouba tilted her head to the side, "So, what do you want us to do?"
"I want you to go to their dimension, and kill them before they destroy our dimension!"
That was also highly odd. Koenma would usually want them arrested, and, if there was no other way, to kill them. He wanted them to go straight for the kill?
"Tobikage!" Yuujo yelled in her ear.
Tobikage growled, and slapped her hand away, "Nani?!"
"We're leaving. Are you coming?" Asked Kuwabara.
"Of course, I am," she snorted.
Koenma told them, "Go to the Red Fish Warehouse, and go through the portal there. There will be a sort of time warp as you travel through it, so, when you get to their dimension, a couple hours will have passed. It should be around 10 to 11 o'clock when you get there."
Tobikage bit her lip. And what was this? Koenma usually didn't give this much information. Where was her silly Koenma with his hazy mission orders? Where was her Koenma?
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"Whoa! Dude! Where are we?!" Yuujo asked.
They had ended up in a dark warehouse, which Tobikage assumed was the Red Fish Warehouse. The only thing that could be seen was the stars in the high windows.
"If I knew, then I'd tell you!" Kuwabara shouted.
Zouba said, "Everyone that made it though, please, say something!"
"Something!"
"Something!"
"Well then, I guess that I'm not here."
"Tobikage!" Admonished the youko.
"You are all baka."
Zouba said, "Anyway, we're all here."
"Where is *here?*" Yuujo asked.
"The warehouse, usubaka." Tobikage said.
"Oh!" As she and the others moved, Yuujo said, "If you hit something, say 'Itai!'"
Kuwabara wasn't listening, and walked into a box, "Itai!"
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Yuusuke snickered, "This is too rich. They're exactly like us."
Kuwabara smiled, "Yeah, they are. It's kind of weird."
"Hiei," Kurama whispered, "I don't think that Kuwabara has figured it out yet."
"What gave you that idea?"
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"What did you hi-?" Yuujo smacked into Zouba.
"Itai!" Came from the lips of both the ningen and youko.
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The three more vocal of the boys hung off of each others' shoulders stifling their laughter, but Hiei shook his head in annoyance, 'Baka walking around in the dark.'
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Tobikage suppressed a smile. Yuujo and Zouba smacking face first into each other was greatly amusing.
"You hit something."
"Shut your piehole, Jaganshi!" Yuujo shouted from the floor.
"What, Urameshi?!" Kuwabara stepped on Yuujo and Zouba's hands.
"Itai! Kuwabara!" They both said.
"Oops. . . Gomen nasai, guys!" Kuwabara exclaimed before stepping backward, and falling onto Tobikage.
"Gah! Get off of me, chikushoume!" She no longer found anything amusing.
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Yuusuke and Kuwabara weren't sure if they could hold it in much longer, and Kurama was getting to their point. The Koorime was finding this amusing after all.
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After all the girls got off the floor, Yuujo and Zouba were laughing.
"Urameshi?"
"Can you believe it?" She asked.
"Believe . . . what?" Kuwabara replied.
"That we're going through hell right now!" Zouba said.
Tobikage backed away from the two girls, and Kuwabara did the same. This wasn't good. Yuujo then punched a hole in a crate and Zouba kicked a crate, and broke it.
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Yuusuke and Kurama looked at eachother. Two pissed females were not fun to deal with.
And what was wrong with them?
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Yuujo yelled, "I'm going to kill Enma Daiou for making me go through with this pain!"
Zouba nodded in agreement.
Yuujo snapped out of whatever was wrong with her, and said, "Tobikage, go look around for those things or whatever we're looking for."
Tobikage searched the building with her Jagan while Zouba counted to ten. There was something . . .
Rei'ryoku and you'ryoku. But where?
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"Come on, guys, we need to get to Tobikage first. She would be the hardest to take down if she sees us," Yuusuke said. "Hiei, you take care of the other three."
Hiei nodded, and went to the girls that were just watching Tobikage.
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"Tobikage?!" Yuujo yelled.
Kuwabara exclaimed, "I can't see her!"
"Can you sense her?" Zouba asked.
"Oh yeah!" There was silence before she said, "I feel that she's close. . . Tobikage why are you behi-?"
Tobikage heard the sound of flesh hitting flesh several times - all in a very rapid succession - and three bodies hitting the ground.
'Kuso! Where's the enemy?!' She looked where the other three had been, but only saw the flash of red eyes. She squared her shoulders, and spread her legs to steady herself, "Show yourself!"
She only saw their eyes reflecting off of the starlight, but she didn't see the red eyes again. Unsheathing her katana, she barked, "Show yourself, cowards!"
Their eyes were cruelly familiar. Zouba, Yuujo, even the baka's eyes were among them. But she had heard them fall. What was going on?
"Rose Whip!" A masculine voice! Not Zouba's!
And then her katana was wrapped around by the thorny appendage. She tried to yank the katana away, but it snapped because of the whip wrapped tightly around it. Her eyes widened slightly, and she growled, "Bakayarou!"
The whip lashed out again, and almost wrapped around her forearm, but she pulled away at the last moment, and bumped into someone behind her. The big person held her shoulders down, and someone else grabbed her head, ramming their forehead against hers.
Screaching pain shot through her body from the hit to her Jagan, and she fell to, her knees. Well, she would have if the person behind her would let her go, but he didn't, and she just hung in his hands.
The other person headbutted her again, and she softly called out. The being behind her dropped her this time, saying lower than a whisper, "Yuusuke, this doesn't feel right. It's a girl."
She managed to growl, but little else. Tobikage was in too much pain.
"Just shut up," she didn't know who he said it to. Herself or the being to whom the raspy voice belonged.
Someone picked her up, and jammed her forehead against something else.
Nothing.
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When Tobikage awoke she had a headache so bad that it couldn't have been a migraine.
'So this is how that ningen feels after drinking . . . What was her name? Yuujo said her name once I think.'
"Hey, babe, you awake yet?" Yuujo asked.
"Itai . . . What happened?"
Zouba said cheerfully, "Well, we got captured."
"I knew that . . ." She tried to move her body, "Nande kuso?!"
She and the other three were bound in chains inside a storage room filled with crates.
Kuwabara stated the obvious, "We're all tied up." And then she continued in a slightly more feminine voice, "Leave a message after the beep . . . Beep!"
"Hey Zouba! This is your girlfriend calling . . . I don't think that things between us has been working out, so . . . Can I have the key to my house back?" Yuujo said.
"Beep!" Kuwabara said.
"So, all you've been doing is cracking jokes?"
Yuujo smiled, "Pretty much, yeah."
"You haven't been trying to find a way out?!" Tobikage asked.
"We did, but Yuujo and Kuwabara kept falling on their sides," Zouba snickered.
"Hey, Tobikage, you want to do plan B?" Yuujo asked.
"Isn't Plan B when we run for it?"
"It is when we can ran. I'm talking about the other Plan B."
Tobikage smirked, "Oh. That Plan B."
"Tobikage's in," Zouba said. "They're going to be sending in that one guy with the orange hair again soon. Be ready."
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A tall orange-haired boy walked in, looking quite perturbed. The three girls were cracking jokes as Tobikage pretended to be passed out. The oaf didn't seem to think that she wasn't unconscious. In fact, he looked at her for quite a bit before turning to the other girls.
His raspy voice asked Kuwabara, "What are those two doing?"
In the background, Zouba was also pretending to be passed out, but it was obvious that she was faking it because Yuujo was crying out in the worst actress' voice possible, "Don't die on me! Zouba, we've been through too much together! Subeta! Taking the easy way out!"
Kuwabara Chimayu said, "I'm missing my favorite soap opera; they're acting it out."
"Urusai! I'm doing the best I can!" Yuujo shouted, "It's hard acting as a guy, especially when I can't kiss the other chick! No, wait . . . that would be bad."
"If you kiss me, then I'll slap you!"
"I wouldn't be able to kiss you even if I wanted to! I can't reach you!"
"Oh! I like this show!" Kuwabara said.
"What show?" The tall, ugly boy asked.
"I don't know, but I like it!"
Tobikage took this as her que, and emitted a mewling sound. The oaf looked around, "What was that?"
Yuujo answered, "That's just Tobikage. She's been doing that ever since we woke up."
"What did you guys do to her, anyway?" Zouba asked, squeaking.
"She's probably faking it," Chimayu said.
Yuujo said, "I don't think so. Not when she sounds like that."
The black lump on the ground known as Tobikage made a louder moan.
The tall oaf said, "Urameshi smacked her in the forehead."
"Nani?!" The two non-Urameshi Yuujo looked at Yuujo.
"I didn't do anything to her! I didn't knock her up! - I mean! I didn't knock her out! That's impossible for two chicks to make a baby!"
"Great!" Zouba exclaimed, "Now, her Jagan is in the back of her head!"
Kuwabara yelled, "Serves her right!"
The Jaganshi's mewling sounds grew louder.
"Is she all right?" He asked.
Zouba's eyes began to tear, "I don't know!"
Urameshi pretended to think for a moment, and then said, "I know! Check her Jagan, first! Make sure that it wasn't smashed into her brain!"
"Anou . . . It's covered by her bandana . . ." he said.
She snorted, "Then take it off, baka."
He scowled at her before going back to Tobikage, lifting her gentling in his arms, and undoing her bandana. Tobikage chuckled, and the Jagan - which seemed to have healed rather quickly from the other boy's unslaught - glowed green. A more stupid look passed over the oaf's ugly face, and she said, "Undo our chains."
He did as she commanded, and when they were all free, Tobikage set to work chaining him in the same chains that he put them in. She used her Jagan to make him unconcsious, and he began to snore.
"Hey," Yuujo said, "that sounds like Kuwabara."
"I don't snore!"
Tobikage snorted, "Like hell you don't."
Urameshi asked, "Okay, are there any missing body parts?"
"Iya."
"Iie."
"Iya."
"Has anyone been groped?"
Tobikage slapped the back of her head, "Enough! I want to get out of here!"
"No, you're not."
"Urusai, Yuujo. I am whether you like it or not."
"Anou . . . Tobikage, that wasn't me," whispered Yuujo.
"Yes, it is. Don't lie."
Tobikage watched Yuujo's mouth as it didn't move when a voice similar to hers said, "You girls aren't going anywhere."
She grimaced, "Yuujo, please, tell me that you learned how to throw your voice." She shook her head. Tobikage sighed, and turned around, scowling when she saw who it was, "Kisama! You're the reason that I have a headache!"
"Gomen, koibito, but after you tried to destroy our dimension, I think that you deserve that headache," said the boy with the black gang style hair-do, and dark brown eyes.
"Duck and cover!" Yuujo shouted, and the three backed quickly away from the angry Jaganshi.
"Koibito?" With her speed, Tobikage easily punched the boy several times rapidly, "Chikushoume!"
He stepped back from the force of her punches, and gritted out through his teeth, "Damn, that's one hell of an arm!"
Tobikage backed up toward the other girls, spreading her legs for balance for the upcoming battle. Yuujo pointed her finger at the boys, readying her Rei Gun. Kuwabara's Rei Ken was already out, and she prepared to charge. Zouba was searching through her hair, and she frowned, "Where are my seeds?"
"Sumimasen," murmured the redheaded boy whom looked strikingly similar to Zouba. "I've taken all of your weapons." He smirked, "For safety reasons."
"For safety reasons?" She grumbled. And then her face lit up, and she reached down her shirt, pulling out a seed. It grew into a sword of bamboo, "Nakemitsu!"
"Did she just do what I think she just did?" Asked the black-haired boy weakly.
The redhead chuckled, "I had always wanted one of those, I just never had enough room."
The black-haired boy started shouting at the redhead, "You should have let me check! Then we would have found her other weapons!"
"You mean: I should have let you feel her up?"
"Hai! I mean . . ."
"You what?!" Suddenly, Zouba's Nakemitsu was in the boy's face. She murmured, "I think that I'll kill you first, hentai."
Yuujo cheered, "Zouba claims this one's bloody corpse!"
"Is that my nickname, sweetcheeks?" He asked.
"Hey!" Shouted Yuujo. "Only I can call her that! You hentai!"
'What? What was . . . ?' Tobikage looked around. For a moment there, she had felt something. Like another mind touching hers. No, not touching, joined. Like similar minds parallel to one another. Her Jagan glowed slightly as it searched the room.
"You're a hentai, too!" He shouted back.
"How dare you! Don't reveal my secret!"
Chimayu said, "Anou . . . We're supposed to be fighting, not flirting."
"We're not flirting!" She yelled. "If I was flirting, I'd literally be on him right now!"
'There! That shorter boy! It's coming from him . . .' Tobikage looked him over. There was a bandana wrapped around his forehead, and Tobikage was willing to bet that it covered a Jagan. However, this discovery didn't explain why he was dressed exactly like her. And why their minds were so similar that it seemed that they were one.
The boy's eyes brightened, "Really?!"
"Anou . . ." the redhead said, "Yuusuke . . ."
"Nani? . . . Oh right! Damn that little - no wait . . . Damn that huge detail!"
"Zouba! He's checking me out! Cut him!"
"With pleasure," she neatly sliced his cheek.
"Subeta!" "You deserved it, Urameshi!" Shouted the oaf behind them. He had finally awoken.
"Tobikage, shouldn't he be out longer than that?" Asked Kuwabara.
Zouba murmured, "Yeah, the only one that I know that can wake up so quickly is Kuwabara."
Kuwabara Chimayu mumbled, "Let's change the subject. As in, let's kick ass."
Zouba nodded, and smiled cruelly, taking a swing at Yuusuke's head. However, a familiar rose whip wrapped around her sword, "Not so fast, Zouba-chan."
"You seem to know my name. Would you mind giving me the same honors?"
"I am Youko Kurama," he pulled the rose whip away from around the sword, and then pulled out another rose from his hair. "Rose Whip!" Now, he was armed with two rose whips.
Behind them, the oaf stood in his chains, and shouted, "I don't want to fight a girl!"
Yuujo faced off with Yuusuke, and pointed their fingers at each other.
Tobikage's eyes widened. This dimension . . .
She whispered to herself, "The people we are supposed to kill . . ." Tobikage looked up at the other Jaganshi, "are ourselves? . . . No."
The male Tobikage didn't seem to share her views, and unsheathed yet another familiar, deadly weapon. The exact replica of his katana, however, was lying - broken - in the Red Fish Warehouse. Unless she wanted to pull out her En Satsu Koku Ryuu Ha, and kill herself and everyone else in the room, she was weaponless. She didn't want to fight him, but Tobikage would have no choice if he decided to attack.
'So, I have to convince him to not fight, but how?'
He closed in on her, and Tobikage flitted down the hallway, him chasing after her. She had a tiny advantage. She was female, and thus she was just barely faster than him. Either that or he was just playing with her, which was extremely likely if she knew herself well enough.
She couldn't talk to him when she was running from him, so she turned around, and met his attack head-on. Tobikage dodged the several slices at her person, and finally found a slight slip-up on his part. Very slight, but she was desperate to end this as soon as possible, so that she could stop the others from any harm.
She grabbed the hand holding the handle, and she carefully gripped the blade. It sliced her hand, but she ignored the pain. He grabbed her cut hand, and they started a push and pull match. Him trying to cut off her head, and her trying to get the katana away from them both.
She spoke through her Jagan, hoping that he'd catch it, [Tobikage . . . Whatever your name is . . .]
"Ch!" [What do you want?]
[I don't want to fight you.]
[Nani?!] He scowled, and roughly shoved her back, and she fell. The male Tobikage landed on top of her, the katana still just barely balanced between them.
She growled, and took a risk. She released the blade, and let it cut into her shoulder as she reached up, and tore off his bandana. Tobikage gritted through her tightly clenched fangs, "Let's talk, futago."
Her and his Jagan glowed green at the same time, and Tobikage was taken back in time. Their lives flashed before their eyes, and they came across several differences and similarities.
They were both thrown from the Floating Isle of the Koorime, they were both picked up by a group of thieves, and they both reached A-Class at the age of five. However, while the both of them had been abused whenever they slipped-up, they were abused differently. The first time that Hiei had been caught, he had been raped, and then the thieves had lost their taste with that type of stuff with the little boy. With Tobikage they continued such fun with her when she slipped-up. The memory made her shudder slightly, her eyes stinging, and Hiei unconsciously wrapped his arms around her. The katana had fallen from her shoulder, but the pain and the wound were long forgotten because their lives kept going on.
For a while things kept the same. They left the band of thieves, and did it solo for a long time. Then they lost their hiruiseki. The surgery to gain the Jagan. Meeting Kurama and Zouba while searching for Yukina. Teaming up with the other two to steal the Reikai Treasures. Being beaten by Urameshi. Joining the team. Maze Castle. The Ankoku Bujutsukai.
This was when things changed more. Hiei and the others' visit from Arutoi. Arutoi lying. Tobikage and the others going to the beach on their 'day-off.' Koenma revealing the death of his other self. The obviously fake Koenma telling her and her team their new mission orders. The video showing Tobikage and her team's 'day-off.' Tobikage and her team arriving in the dark warehouse after going through the portal.
All of this in the span of ten seconds.
Tobikage gasped, and clutched her shoulder, "Itai . . . Koenma . . . He's . . . ?" Hiei didn't need to nod. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, and a lone hiruiseki fell. Tobikage took it, and shoved it in her pocket, "Enough of this. We have to tell the others."
A large explosion was heard from the room, and Tobikage and Hiei lurched to their feet, running toward the room. The force of the explosion had forced Yuusuke out into the hallway.
They could hear Yuujo in the other room, "Shimatta! I'm not supposed to have backpains at this age!" She was silent before they heard, "Note to self: two objects with equal force don't move, but me and that guy do. That is our physics lesson for today." The two Jaganshi peeked into the room, and saw that Yuujo was patting a lead pipe that had been inside the wall - which was now broken - "Tomorrow's lesson is to see how many hits the ningen skull can take from a heavy metal pipe." She looked at an imaginary watch on her wrist, "No wait! It seems that we can squeeze another lesson into our packed schedule! We have the metal pipe, now, all we need is a test subject!"
She stalked toward Yuusuke, but Tobikage stepped between them, "Yamero!"
"Nande yo?!"
"We shouldn't be fighting," out of the corner of her eye, she could see Hiei talking to Kurama and Zouba.
She frowned slightly, looking back and forth between Hiei and Tobikage, and then she smiled, "Aw! My Tobikage is all grown up! She's going to get laid, and get married, and have kids, and live happily ever after! In the name of love, I will cease fighting for you!" Yuujo did a ridiculous Sailor Moon pose.
Rubbing her temples tiredly, Tobikage said, "Un, that's right. Now, help me stop Kazuma and Chimayu from hurting themselves or others."
Her grin grew, "Hai!" She turned to the two oafs, "Oi! Kuwabara!"
Both of them stopped, and asked, "Nani?"
"Stop fighting!"
"Gladly," the male Kuwabara exclaimed, and his Rei Ken disappeared.
Kuwabara Chimayu frowned, "Nande?"
"Because I'm the team leader, and I said so!"
She grumbled, but the Rei Ken disappeared.
Yuujo turned back to Tobikage, and asked in an annoying voice, "So, when did you meet him? How long have you been going out? How long have you two been screwing like rabbits?"
"Tell us!" For once Kuwabara Chimayu understood something, "Tell us! Is he cute?! Is he cute?!" - She wasn't paying attention enough - "Is he good in bed?!"
Tobikage growled, and then grabbed their hair at the base of their scalp, ramming their heads together.
Zouba approached slowly, "Anou . . . Tobikage, did you not tell me something?"
"I didn't tell you a lot of things," she turned to face the half-conscious Yuujo. "I lied. There's another reason I told you to stop."
"I give you my love, and this is how you repay me?!" Yuujo shouted, now, awake.
"Stop being sarcastic, hentai."
"Stop telling my secret!"
Tobikage sighed, "Anou . . ."
This caught their attention. Tobikage usually didn't hesitate in telling them news.
"What's wrong?" Zouba asked softly.
"Everything," she whispered.
The three looked at each other, and scowled slightly when the boys approached.
Yuusuke grumbled, "What's going on, Hiei? You like fighting!"
He spoke for the first time, "I don't like fighting myself. I do enough of that in my mind."
Yuujo mumbled, "What's going on . . . ?"
"Long story short, Yuujo," he said, "you four are us four."
Kuwabara Chimayu blanched, and looked around - Kuwabara Kazuma was too busy trying to undo the chains to pay attention. She spotted him, and squeeked, "Ew! No way! No way! No way!"
Yuujo snickered before turning serious, "So . . . Koenma - our Koenma told us to kill our evil selves from destroying our dimension, but you're not really evil?"
"Exactly!" Yuusuke exclaimed. "Wait a cotton picking minute . . . You guys aren't the bad guys either?"
"So, now, that that's cleared up . . . Tobikage, what's wrong?"
"Our Koenma . . . that wasn't our Koenma . . ."
Hiei looked at the ground, and shuffled his feet. Which caught the guys' attention, and then they looked at Tobikage in understanding.
"What do you mean? It looked exactly like him," Yuujo protested.
Zouba and Chimayu nodded, but the Koorime shook her head, "Iya . . . Koenma-sama . . . he's . . ." Hiei reached over, and rested his hand on her shoulder. She took a deep breath, "Koenma-sama is dead."
"Nani?!" Yuujo and Chimayu exclaimed at the same time. Chimayu's lips quivered, and her eyes filled with tears. Yuujo looked around helplessly.
The youko-turned-ningen turned away to look at the far wall for a while before asking, "How?"
She said through gritting fangs, "I don't know . . ."
Clenching her fist, Tobikage headed out of the room. Kuwabara Kazuma had finally gotten free, so he caught up with the others who followed the Koorime, and asked, "Hey, what's going on?"
Zouba spoke, "We're not trying to kill each other."
"Well, yeah, I see that, but why?"
"Arutoi was lying."
"Ah! That's terrible! And I was starting to think that he was okay!" He growled, and then noticed Tobikage, "Hey, she's taking it pretty hard . . . Don't worry, Tobikage-chan!" - the girls and Hiei winced - "I, the great Kuwabara Kazuma, will help you with your plight!"
She twirled to face him, rage apparent on her face, "What the hell did you just call me?!"
"Anou . . . Tobikage-sama?"
She nodded before walking down the hall again. He laughed nervously to himself, and Hiei chuckled, "Bakayarou."
Yuujo shouted after her, "Oi! Tobikage, where are you going anyway?!"
"To find out who killed Koenma-sama."
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Alastair: End!
Yasha T: I'm being threatened! Threaten Alastair! She's the co-writer!
Alastair: You're the one who's coming up with the ideas!
Yasha T: The funny shit and the sad shit! You're the one that's coming up with the rest of it!
Alastair: You're the one that thought up of the plot! And you're still continuing doing that.
Yasha T: Oh . . . Well, you told me to do it!
Alastair: I didn't tell you to do anything! I just commented that I've never seen a YYH fic like this, and that I see quite a few GW ones like this.
Yasha T: Well, Alastair and I must go now. I have to show her a picture! So goodbye, my beloved readers, or whatever you are! Come, Alastair, we must leave!
Alastair: Why do I get the feeling that I don't want to see what she's going to show me?
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Kougo no Jigen
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Alternate Dimensions
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Chapter Two: Secret - Himitsu
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Arutoi turned to the boys, and said, "I will lure them into this dimension. They will be sent to the Red Fish Warehouse at the docks. I hope that you boys will be ready around the hours 10 and 11 o'clock."
Kuwabara boasted, "You can count on me!"
Hiei snorted, "To screw up."
"Shut up, shorty!"
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The Ningenkai was at peace for a time. This meant that Zouba, Yuujo, and Kuwabara could have more time for school. Yuujo had struck some kind of deal with Takenaka. He had tricked her into going to school. That wasn't how she saw it, of course, but Tobikage knew better. She had been screwed over into doing something that she didn't want to do.
Why she was thinking about it she didn't know. Maybe it was because Yuujo wasn't around for her to train with.
That must have been it.
Tobikage was bored, and when she was bored, she trained. It was more fun with an opponent, but, since the others were busy, she couldn't train with either of those three. Not that she would want to train with Kuwabara, of course. But it would have been better than training alone.
Ever since the Ankoku Bujutsukai had ended, her Jagan had seemed to sense something foreboding coming, and she wanted to be prepared.
"Tobikage-san!" Came the bubbly voice of Botan.
She leapt onto a treebranch, sheathing her katana, "What do you want, Ferry Girl?"
She smiled brilliantly, ignoring Tobikage's demeaning tone, "Koenma wants to talk with you four. Where are they?"
"They're in school," she said, "where they always are."
"Okay!" Botan zipped away on her oar.
The hi youkai sighed, and headed toward the Reikai. So, the Ningenkai was in trouble again. She knew that the peace that Koenma had unknowingly offered when they had called to him a couple days ago had been too good to be true.
*-*-*
"Okay, screw it! I'm going to quit school!"
"You said that last time, Urameshi," Kuwabara replied.
"Well this time I mean it!" Yuujo said.
Zouba giggled, "You said that too."
"Man, I want a day-off from school!" Yuujo shouted.
"Yuujo!" Botan yelled.
They all exclaimed at the same time, "Shimatta!"
And Urameshi mumbled to no one, "Not that kind of day-off, Koenma."
*-*-*
When Tobikage arrived at Koenma's office, the others were already there.
"Ah! Tobikage is here! Now I can tell you what's going on!" Koenma said. Tobikage raised an eyebrow. Since when did Koenma wait for her? She was half-expecting them to be leaving already. Not loitering here. Koenma stood, looking them all over with a serious expression, "Four young men are going to destroy our dimension!"
"Whoa! Wait! Doushite?!" Yuujo asked.
"I'm not sure why. But I know they are going to," Koenma said.
Zouba tilted her head to the side, "So, what do you want us to do?"
"I want you to go to their dimension, and kill them before they destroy our dimension!"
That was also highly odd. Koenma would usually want them arrested, and, if there was no other way, to kill them. He wanted them to go straight for the kill?
"Tobikage!" Yuujo yelled in her ear.
Tobikage growled, and slapped her hand away, "Nani?!"
"We're leaving. Are you coming?" Asked Kuwabara.
"Of course, I am," she snorted.
Koenma told them, "Go to the Red Fish Warehouse, and go through the portal there. There will be a sort of time warp as you travel through it, so, when you get to their dimension, a couple hours will have passed. It should be around 10 to 11 o'clock when you get there."
Tobikage bit her lip. And what was this? Koenma usually didn't give this much information. Where was her silly Koenma with his hazy mission orders? Where was her Koenma?
*-*-*
"Whoa! Dude! Where are we?!" Yuujo asked.
They had ended up in a dark warehouse, which Tobikage assumed was the Red Fish Warehouse. The only thing that could be seen was the stars in the high windows.
"If I knew, then I'd tell you!" Kuwabara shouted.
Zouba said, "Everyone that made it though, please, say something!"
"Something!"
"Something!"
"Well then, I guess that I'm not here."
"Tobikage!" Admonished the youko.
"You are all baka."
Zouba said, "Anyway, we're all here."
"Where is *here?*" Yuujo asked.
"The warehouse, usubaka." Tobikage said.
"Oh!" As she and the others moved, Yuujo said, "If you hit something, say 'Itai!'"
Kuwabara wasn't listening, and walked into a box, "Itai!"
*-*-*
Yuusuke snickered, "This is too rich. They're exactly like us."
Kuwabara smiled, "Yeah, they are. It's kind of weird."
"Hiei," Kurama whispered, "I don't think that Kuwabara has figured it out yet."
"What gave you that idea?"
*-*-*
"What did you hi-?" Yuujo smacked into Zouba.
"Itai!" Came from the lips of both the ningen and youko.
*-*-*
The three more vocal of the boys hung off of each others' shoulders stifling their laughter, but Hiei shook his head in annoyance, 'Baka walking around in the dark.'
*-*-*
Tobikage suppressed a smile. Yuujo and Zouba smacking face first into each other was greatly amusing.
"You hit something."
"Shut your piehole, Jaganshi!" Yuujo shouted from the floor.
"What, Urameshi?!" Kuwabara stepped on Yuujo and Zouba's hands.
"Itai! Kuwabara!" They both said.
"Oops. . . Gomen nasai, guys!" Kuwabara exclaimed before stepping backward, and falling onto Tobikage.
"Gah! Get off of me, chikushoume!" She no longer found anything amusing.
*-*-*
Yuusuke and Kuwabara weren't sure if they could hold it in much longer, and Kurama was getting to their point. The Koorime was finding this amusing after all.
*-*-*
After all the girls got off the floor, Yuujo and Zouba were laughing.
"Urameshi?"
"Can you believe it?" She asked.
"Believe . . . what?" Kuwabara replied.
"That we're going through hell right now!" Zouba said.
Tobikage backed away from the two girls, and Kuwabara did the same. This wasn't good. Yuujo then punched a hole in a crate and Zouba kicked a crate, and broke it.
*-*-*
Yuusuke and Kurama looked at eachother. Two pissed females were not fun to deal with.
And what was wrong with them?
*-*-*
Yuujo yelled, "I'm going to kill Enma Daiou for making me go through with this pain!"
Zouba nodded in agreement.
Yuujo snapped out of whatever was wrong with her, and said, "Tobikage, go look around for those things or whatever we're looking for."
Tobikage searched the building with her Jagan while Zouba counted to ten. There was something . . .
Rei'ryoku and you'ryoku. But where?
*-*-*
"Come on, guys, we need to get to Tobikage first. She would be the hardest to take down if she sees us," Yuusuke said. "Hiei, you take care of the other three."
Hiei nodded, and went to the girls that were just watching Tobikage.
*-*-*
"Tobikage?!" Yuujo yelled.
Kuwabara exclaimed, "I can't see her!"
"Can you sense her?" Zouba asked.
"Oh yeah!" There was silence before she said, "I feel that she's close. . . Tobikage why are you behi-?"
Tobikage heard the sound of flesh hitting flesh several times - all in a very rapid succession - and three bodies hitting the ground.
'Kuso! Where's the enemy?!' She looked where the other three had been, but only saw the flash of red eyes. She squared her shoulders, and spread her legs to steady herself, "Show yourself!"
She only saw their eyes reflecting off of the starlight, but she didn't see the red eyes again. Unsheathing her katana, she barked, "Show yourself, cowards!"
Their eyes were cruelly familiar. Zouba, Yuujo, even the baka's eyes were among them. But she had heard them fall. What was going on?
"Rose Whip!" A masculine voice! Not Zouba's!
And then her katana was wrapped around by the thorny appendage. She tried to yank the katana away, but it snapped because of the whip wrapped tightly around it. Her eyes widened slightly, and she growled, "Bakayarou!"
The whip lashed out again, and almost wrapped around her forearm, but she pulled away at the last moment, and bumped into someone behind her. The big person held her shoulders down, and someone else grabbed her head, ramming their forehead against hers.
Screaching pain shot through her body from the hit to her Jagan, and she fell to, her knees. Well, she would have if the person behind her would let her go, but he didn't, and she just hung in his hands.
The other person headbutted her again, and she softly called out. The being behind her dropped her this time, saying lower than a whisper, "Yuusuke, this doesn't feel right. It's a girl."
She managed to growl, but little else. Tobikage was in too much pain.
"Just shut up," she didn't know who he said it to. Herself or the being to whom the raspy voice belonged.
Someone picked her up, and jammed her forehead against something else.
Nothing.
*-*-*
When Tobikage awoke she had a headache so bad that it couldn't have been a migraine.
'So this is how that ningen feels after drinking . . . What was her name? Yuujo said her name once I think.'
"Hey, babe, you awake yet?" Yuujo asked.
"Itai . . . What happened?"
Zouba said cheerfully, "Well, we got captured."
"I knew that . . ." She tried to move her body, "Nande kuso?!"
She and the other three were bound in chains inside a storage room filled with crates.
Kuwabara stated the obvious, "We're all tied up." And then she continued in a slightly more feminine voice, "Leave a message after the beep . . . Beep!"
"Hey Zouba! This is your girlfriend calling . . . I don't think that things between us has been working out, so . . . Can I have the key to my house back?" Yuujo said.
"Beep!" Kuwabara said.
"So, all you've been doing is cracking jokes?"
Yuujo smiled, "Pretty much, yeah."
"You haven't been trying to find a way out?!" Tobikage asked.
"We did, but Yuujo and Kuwabara kept falling on their sides," Zouba snickered.
"Hey, Tobikage, you want to do plan B?" Yuujo asked.
"Isn't Plan B when we run for it?"
"It is when we can ran. I'm talking about the other Plan B."
Tobikage smirked, "Oh. That Plan B."
"Tobikage's in," Zouba said. "They're going to be sending in that one guy with the orange hair again soon. Be ready."
*-*-*
A tall orange-haired boy walked in, looking quite perturbed. The three girls were cracking jokes as Tobikage pretended to be passed out. The oaf didn't seem to think that she wasn't unconscious. In fact, he looked at her for quite a bit before turning to the other girls.
His raspy voice asked Kuwabara, "What are those two doing?"
In the background, Zouba was also pretending to be passed out, but it was obvious that she was faking it because Yuujo was crying out in the worst actress' voice possible, "Don't die on me! Zouba, we've been through too much together! Subeta! Taking the easy way out!"
Kuwabara Chimayu said, "I'm missing my favorite soap opera; they're acting it out."
"Urusai! I'm doing the best I can!" Yuujo shouted, "It's hard acting as a guy, especially when I can't kiss the other chick! No, wait . . . that would be bad."
"If you kiss me, then I'll slap you!"
"I wouldn't be able to kiss you even if I wanted to! I can't reach you!"
"Oh! I like this show!" Kuwabara said.
"What show?" The tall, ugly boy asked.
"I don't know, but I like it!"
Tobikage took this as her que, and emitted a mewling sound. The oaf looked around, "What was that?"
Yuujo answered, "That's just Tobikage. She's been doing that ever since we woke up."
"What did you guys do to her, anyway?" Zouba asked, squeaking.
"She's probably faking it," Chimayu said.
Yuujo said, "I don't think so. Not when she sounds like that."
The black lump on the ground known as Tobikage made a louder moan.
The tall oaf said, "Urameshi smacked her in the forehead."
"Nani?!" The two non-Urameshi Yuujo looked at Yuujo.
"I didn't do anything to her! I didn't knock her up! - I mean! I didn't knock her out! That's impossible for two chicks to make a baby!"
"Great!" Zouba exclaimed, "Now, her Jagan is in the back of her head!"
Kuwabara yelled, "Serves her right!"
The Jaganshi's mewling sounds grew louder.
"Is she all right?" He asked.
Zouba's eyes began to tear, "I don't know!"
Urameshi pretended to think for a moment, and then said, "I know! Check her Jagan, first! Make sure that it wasn't smashed into her brain!"
"Anou . . . It's covered by her bandana . . ." he said.
She snorted, "Then take it off, baka."
He scowled at her before going back to Tobikage, lifting her gentling in his arms, and undoing her bandana. Tobikage chuckled, and the Jagan - which seemed to have healed rather quickly from the other boy's unslaught - glowed green. A more stupid look passed over the oaf's ugly face, and she said, "Undo our chains."
He did as she commanded, and when they were all free, Tobikage set to work chaining him in the same chains that he put them in. She used her Jagan to make him unconcsious, and he began to snore.
"Hey," Yuujo said, "that sounds like Kuwabara."
"I don't snore!"
Tobikage snorted, "Like hell you don't."
Urameshi asked, "Okay, are there any missing body parts?"
"Iya."
"Iie."
"Iya."
"Has anyone been groped?"
Tobikage slapped the back of her head, "Enough! I want to get out of here!"
"No, you're not."
"Urusai, Yuujo. I am whether you like it or not."
"Anou . . . Tobikage, that wasn't me," whispered Yuujo.
"Yes, it is. Don't lie."
Tobikage watched Yuujo's mouth as it didn't move when a voice similar to hers said, "You girls aren't going anywhere."
She grimaced, "Yuujo, please, tell me that you learned how to throw your voice." She shook her head. Tobikage sighed, and turned around, scowling when she saw who it was, "Kisama! You're the reason that I have a headache!"
"Gomen, koibito, but after you tried to destroy our dimension, I think that you deserve that headache," said the boy with the black gang style hair-do, and dark brown eyes.
"Duck and cover!" Yuujo shouted, and the three backed quickly away from the angry Jaganshi.
"Koibito?" With her speed, Tobikage easily punched the boy several times rapidly, "Chikushoume!"
He stepped back from the force of her punches, and gritted out through his teeth, "Damn, that's one hell of an arm!"
Tobikage backed up toward the other girls, spreading her legs for balance for the upcoming battle. Yuujo pointed her finger at the boys, readying her Rei Gun. Kuwabara's Rei Ken was already out, and she prepared to charge. Zouba was searching through her hair, and she frowned, "Where are my seeds?"
"Sumimasen," murmured the redheaded boy whom looked strikingly similar to Zouba. "I've taken all of your weapons." He smirked, "For safety reasons."
"For safety reasons?" She grumbled. And then her face lit up, and she reached down her shirt, pulling out a seed. It grew into a sword of bamboo, "Nakemitsu!"
"Did she just do what I think she just did?" Asked the black-haired boy weakly.
The redhead chuckled, "I had always wanted one of those, I just never had enough room."
The black-haired boy started shouting at the redhead, "You should have let me check! Then we would have found her other weapons!"
"You mean: I should have let you feel her up?"
"Hai! I mean . . ."
"You what?!" Suddenly, Zouba's Nakemitsu was in the boy's face. She murmured, "I think that I'll kill you first, hentai."
Yuujo cheered, "Zouba claims this one's bloody corpse!"
"Is that my nickname, sweetcheeks?" He asked.
"Hey!" Shouted Yuujo. "Only I can call her that! You hentai!"
'What? What was . . . ?' Tobikage looked around. For a moment there, she had felt something. Like another mind touching hers. No, not touching, joined. Like similar minds parallel to one another. Her Jagan glowed slightly as it searched the room.
"You're a hentai, too!" He shouted back.
"How dare you! Don't reveal my secret!"
Chimayu said, "Anou . . . We're supposed to be fighting, not flirting."
"We're not flirting!" She yelled. "If I was flirting, I'd literally be on him right now!"
'There! That shorter boy! It's coming from him . . .' Tobikage looked him over. There was a bandana wrapped around his forehead, and Tobikage was willing to bet that it covered a Jagan. However, this discovery didn't explain why he was dressed exactly like her. And why their minds were so similar that it seemed that they were one.
The boy's eyes brightened, "Really?!"
"Anou . . ." the redhead said, "Yuusuke . . ."
"Nani? . . . Oh right! Damn that little - no wait . . . Damn that huge detail!"
"Zouba! He's checking me out! Cut him!"
"With pleasure," she neatly sliced his cheek.
"Subeta!" "You deserved it, Urameshi!" Shouted the oaf behind them. He had finally awoken.
"Tobikage, shouldn't he be out longer than that?" Asked Kuwabara.
Zouba murmured, "Yeah, the only one that I know that can wake up so quickly is Kuwabara."
Kuwabara Chimayu mumbled, "Let's change the subject. As in, let's kick ass."
Zouba nodded, and smiled cruelly, taking a swing at Yuusuke's head. However, a familiar rose whip wrapped around her sword, "Not so fast, Zouba-chan."
"You seem to know my name. Would you mind giving me the same honors?"
"I am Youko Kurama," he pulled the rose whip away from around the sword, and then pulled out another rose from his hair. "Rose Whip!" Now, he was armed with two rose whips.
Behind them, the oaf stood in his chains, and shouted, "I don't want to fight a girl!"
Yuujo faced off with Yuusuke, and pointed their fingers at each other.
Tobikage's eyes widened. This dimension . . .
She whispered to herself, "The people we are supposed to kill . . ." Tobikage looked up at the other Jaganshi, "are ourselves? . . . No."
The male Tobikage didn't seem to share her views, and unsheathed yet another familiar, deadly weapon. The exact replica of his katana, however, was lying - broken - in the Red Fish Warehouse. Unless she wanted to pull out her En Satsu Koku Ryuu Ha, and kill herself and everyone else in the room, she was weaponless. She didn't want to fight him, but Tobikage would have no choice if he decided to attack.
'So, I have to convince him to not fight, but how?'
He closed in on her, and Tobikage flitted down the hallway, him chasing after her. She had a tiny advantage. She was female, and thus she was just barely faster than him. Either that or he was just playing with her, which was extremely likely if she knew herself well enough.
She couldn't talk to him when she was running from him, so she turned around, and met his attack head-on. Tobikage dodged the several slices at her person, and finally found a slight slip-up on his part. Very slight, but she was desperate to end this as soon as possible, so that she could stop the others from any harm.
She grabbed the hand holding the handle, and she carefully gripped the blade. It sliced her hand, but she ignored the pain. He grabbed her cut hand, and they started a push and pull match. Him trying to cut off her head, and her trying to get the katana away from them both.
She spoke through her Jagan, hoping that he'd catch it, [Tobikage . . . Whatever your name is . . .]
"Ch!" [What do you want?]
[I don't want to fight you.]
[Nani?!] He scowled, and roughly shoved her back, and she fell. The male Tobikage landed on top of her, the katana still just barely balanced between them.
She growled, and took a risk. She released the blade, and let it cut into her shoulder as she reached up, and tore off his bandana. Tobikage gritted through her tightly clenched fangs, "Let's talk, futago."
Her and his Jagan glowed green at the same time, and Tobikage was taken back in time. Their lives flashed before their eyes, and they came across several differences and similarities.
They were both thrown from the Floating Isle of the Koorime, they were both picked up by a group of thieves, and they both reached A-Class at the age of five. However, while the both of them had been abused whenever they slipped-up, they were abused differently. The first time that Hiei had been caught, he had been raped, and then the thieves had lost their taste with that type of stuff with the little boy. With Tobikage they continued such fun with her when she slipped-up. The memory made her shudder slightly, her eyes stinging, and Hiei unconsciously wrapped his arms around her. The katana had fallen from her shoulder, but the pain and the wound were long forgotten because their lives kept going on.
For a while things kept the same. They left the band of thieves, and did it solo for a long time. Then they lost their hiruiseki. The surgery to gain the Jagan. Meeting Kurama and Zouba while searching for Yukina. Teaming up with the other two to steal the Reikai Treasures. Being beaten by Urameshi. Joining the team. Maze Castle. The Ankoku Bujutsukai.
This was when things changed more. Hiei and the others' visit from Arutoi. Arutoi lying. Tobikage and the others going to the beach on their 'day-off.' Koenma revealing the death of his other self. The obviously fake Koenma telling her and her team their new mission orders. The video showing Tobikage and her team's 'day-off.' Tobikage and her team arriving in the dark warehouse after going through the portal.
All of this in the span of ten seconds.
Tobikage gasped, and clutched her shoulder, "Itai . . . Koenma . . . He's . . . ?" Hiei didn't need to nod. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, and a lone hiruiseki fell. Tobikage took it, and shoved it in her pocket, "Enough of this. We have to tell the others."
A large explosion was heard from the room, and Tobikage and Hiei lurched to their feet, running toward the room. The force of the explosion had forced Yuusuke out into the hallway.
They could hear Yuujo in the other room, "Shimatta! I'm not supposed to have backpains at this age!" She was silent before they heard, "Note to self: two objects with equal force don't move, but me and that guy do. That is our physics lesson for today." The two Jaganshi peeked into the room, and saw that Yuujo was patting a lead pipe that had been inside the wall - which was now broken - "Tomorrow's lesson is to see how many hits the ningen skull can take from a heavy metal pipe." She looked at an imaginary watch on her wrist, "No wait! It seems that we can squeeze another lesson into our packed schedule! We have the metal pipe, now, all we need is a test subject!"
She stalked toward Yuusuke, but Tobikage stepped between them, "Yamero!"
"Nande yo?!"
"We shouldn't be fighting," out of the corner of her eye, she could see Hiei talking to Kurama and Zouba.
She frowned slightly, looking back and forth between Hiei and Tobikage, and then she smiled, "Aw! My Tobikage is all grown up! She's going to get laid, and get married, and have kids, and live happily ever after! In the name of love, I will cease fighting for you!" Yuujo did a ridiculous Sailor Moon pose.
Rubbing her temples tiredly, Tobikage said, "Un, that's right. Now, help me stop Kazuma and Chimayu from hurting themselves or others."
Her grin grew, "Hai!" She turned to the two oafs, "Oi! Kuwabara!"
Both of them stopped, and asked, "Nani?"
"Stop fighting!"
"Gladly," the male Kuwabara exclaimed, and his Rei Ken disappeared.
Kuwabara Chimayu frowned, "Nande?"
"Because I'm the team leader, and I said so!"
She grumbled, but the Rei Ken disappeared.
Yuujo turned back to Tobikage, and asked in an annoying voice, "So, when did you meet him? How long have you been going out? How long have you two been screwing like rabbits?"
"Tell us!" For once Kuwabara Chimayu understood something, "Tell us! Is he cute?! Is he cute?!" - She wasn't paying attention enough - "Is he good in bed?!"
Tobikage growled, and then grabbed their hair at the base of their scalp, ramming their heads together.
Zouba approached slowly, "Anou . . . Tobikage, did you not tell me something?"
"I didn't tell you a lot of things," she turned to face the half-conscious Yuujo. "I lied. There's another reason I told you to stop."
"I give you my love, and this is how you repay me?!" Yuujo shouted, now, awake.
"Stop being sarcastic, hentai."
"Stop telling my secret!"
Tobikage sighed, "Anou . . ."
This caught their attention. Tobikage usually didn't hesitate in telling them news.
"What's wrong?" Zouba asked softly.
"Everything," she whispered.
The three looked at each other, and scowled slightly when the boys approached.
Yuusuke grumbled, "What's going on, Hiei? You like fighting!"
He spoke for the first time, "I don't like fighting myself. I do enough of that in my mind."
Yuujo mumbled, "What's going on . . . ?"
"Long story short, Yuujo," he said, "you four are us four."
Kuwabara Chimayu blanched, and looked around - Kuwabara Kazuma was too busy trying to undo the chains to pay attention. She spotted him, and squeeked, "Ew! No way! No way! No way!"
Yuujo snickered before turning serious, "So . . . Koenma - our Koenma told us to kill our evil selves from destroying our dimension, but you're not really evil?"
"Exactly!" Yuusuke exclaimed. "Wait a cotton picking minute . . . You guys aren't the bad guys either?"
"So, now, that that's cleared up . . . Tobikage, what's wrong?"
"Our Koenma . . . that wasn't our Koenma . . ."
Hiei looked at the ground, and shuffled his feet. Which caught the guys' attention, and then they looked at Tobikage in understanding.
"What do you mean? It looked exactly like him," Yuujo protested.
Zouba and Chimayu nodded, but the Koorime shook her head, "Iya . . . Koenma-sama . . . he's . . ." Hiei reached over, and rested his hand on her shoulder. She took a deep breath, "Koenma-sama is dead."
"Nani?!" Yuujo and Chimayu exclaimed at the same time. Chimayu's lips quivered, and her eyes filled with tears. Yuujo looked around helplessly.
The youko-turned-ningen turned away to look at the far wall for a while before asking, "How?"
She said through gritting fangs, "I don't know . . ."
Clenching her fist, Tobikage headed out of the room. Kuwabara Kazuma had finally gotten free, so he caught up with the others who followed the Koorime, and asked, "Hey, what's going on?"
Zouba spoke, "We're not trying to kill each other."
"Well, yeah, I see that, but why?"
"Arutoi was lying."
"Ah! That's terrible! And I was starting to think that he was okay!" He growled, and then noticed Tobikage, "Hey, she's taking it pretty hard . . . Don't worry, Tobikage-chan!" - the girls and Hiei winced - "I, the great Kuwabara Kazuma, will help you with your plight!"
She twirled to face him, rage apparent on her face, "What the hell did you just call me?!"
"Anou . . . Tobikage-sama?"
She nodded before walking down the hall again. He laughed nervously to himself, and Hiei chuckled, "Bakayarou."
Yuujo shouted after her, "Oi! Tobikage, where are you going anyway?!"
"To find out who killed Koenma-sama."
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Alastair: End!
Yasha T: I'm being threatened! Threaten Alastair! She's the co-writer!
Alastair: You're the one who's coming up with the ideas!
Yasha T: The funny shit and the sad shit! You're the one that's coming up with the rest of it!
Alastair: You're the one that thought up of the plot! And you're still continuing doing that.
Yasha T: Oh . . . Well, you told me to do it!
Alastair: I didn't tell you to do anything! I just commented that I've never seen a YYH fic like this, and that I see quite a few GW ones like this.
Yasha T: Well, Alastair and I must go now. I have to show her a picture! So goodbye, my beloved readers, or whatever you are! Come, Alastair, we must leave!
Alastair: Why do I get the feeling that I don't want to see what she's going to show me?
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