*Taps her foot* Must I still say it *sighs* I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho *sniffs*

Thanks Arctic_Fox for continuing to review *Leaves a BIG bag of candy for Arctic*

Jin- *walks in with Touya and looks about* Eh? Where is everyone?

Kurama- *comes in with Hiei, Kuwabara and Yusuke* That's odd. Era's usually here by now.

Era- *Voice is stifled since it was going through a closed door* Die you stupid evil prince! DIE!

Yusuke- *sweat droplets* Is she playing that game again?

Era- Die already Luca Blight!

Touya- seems that way. Suikoden II was it? ((I don't own this either *cries* I love that game to death))

Kurama- *laughs* yes. She's beaten that game countless times, I wonder why she's still playing it.

Jin- *walks up to the door Jen was behind and quietly opens it*

Era- Stop attacking me you lunatic and die *Click buttons on the play station controller*

Jin- *creeps up behind Era and grabs her*

Era- *Yelp and took the controller with her. The system went off* NOOOOOOOO! You killed it!

Jin- *laughs lightly* You're suppose to be out there.

Era- *looks around* Ops. Hi people *gets away from Jin and runs into the other room*

Touya- *smirks* You're late.

Era- *smile and pounces on Touya* Love you too Touya.

*Everyone laughs at the little game she had started with Jin and Touya and continues it even now*

Era- *gets off Touya and pounces on Jin*

Yusuke- *laughs* Enjoy the story and don't forget to Review!



Chapter 6

The Spirit Detectives, the Shinobi and Koenma walked through one the dark and treacherous forests of the Makai. Yusuke, who now was wearing his full green uniform, thought back to what Koenma had told them three days ago, before they started out on this journey.

*****

"We must be the ones to find the hero first. We mustn't let the evil monster roaming now find him before us. If that does happen all hope is lost," Koenma told them very seriously. "The fate of all living things depend on you and you alone, at this moment."

"Do we have any clue as to where to look? The Makai is a huge place I hope you know" Hiei said right out dryly, his attitude showing.

"Yes I know Hiei. I'm afraid I do not have that kind of information for you, nor do I think I ever will." Everyone looked at him dumbfounded, Koenma continued, "The one and only book I have on the information we need is extremely old, it's a miracle that we even have the tiny bit of information we do. I pored over that book for hours and to no avail, those little pieces of information I gave you are all I have."

"Are there places were the water demons lived, that could help us?" Kuwabara asked.

"These 'places' are called regions, Kuwabara, and the answer is no" Koenma said, "Any known regions have been ransacked over the year."

"Kurama were you one of those people," Yusuke yelled.

The old demon thief sighed, "I did go through one in my younger years, and I remember they were underground. But they were everything but disgusting," Kurama said with a light laugh. "Even after millennia's of no use, they were so beautiful, the glowing stone gave a peaceful aura to the place. I remember I wanted to stay there, in that place which demons now, in today's time, could only dream about living in or seeing for that matter."

"I have never seen one myself, but I have heard of there beauty," Koenma said. "The stones that gave that aura off Kurama, as you probably already know, are worth a fortune. Humans and demons alike are willing to pay millions for just one stone. But this is off topic, I can give you the area's which have been covered the evil creature already, so we don't have to recheck them and waste our much need time."

Everyone was about leave to get ready for the long journey when Koenma said "You should also know, that just because the hero is a water demon, it doesn't mean he will be found in an area were water demons use to flourish."

Touya who had contemplating something the whole time spoke up "I think I may know something that may help."

Everyone stopped moving and looked at him, waiting for him to continue, "Ice demons and the ancient water demons are closely related"

"Ai, how could I forget," Koenma exclaimed.

Touya continued what he was saying only slower, "I guess the term used for the ice demons in the ancient world were, well, rouges. They wanted to be more aggressive that the peaceful water demons, whom only fought their lives was in danger. So some water demons left and went to the colder climates, where they soon learned ice attack and started calling themselves ice demons. When it comes down to it all the water demons were killed off because they didn't like to fight so their fighting skills weren't that good. Where as the ice demons were more powerful, in some cases anyway."

"Yes well that makes sense, ice is only frozen water after all," Genki stated. "But how do you know all this Touya? Is it because your old master taught you?"

Touya just nodded his head and said a simple "Yes."

*****

'So here we are,' Yusuke thought, 'wandering around the Makai, looking for someone we don't even know, as usual.'

The power of the evil demon haunted them, all the time. It was at every corner, every turn and every step that they took. They could feel it everywhere, even though they were miles off the beast it self.

"That thing really creeps me out guys," Kuwabara said, he was now wearing his full light blue uniform.

"We know that already Kuwabara, you've only said it ten million times," Yusuke said slightly annoyed.

"You do know that still leaves a million more times, Yusuke," Kurama said jokingly to him.

"Ah, cheer up Urameshi. This'll be over sooner than you think. We'll find that hero and he'll have his powers flyin around like woo and wee and all those fun sorts," Jin exclaimed in his Irish accent, ears twitching in delight.

Yusuke laughed, "That's true Jin, my friend. He's going to kick the snot out of that monster."

So this continued for two weeks. They had been to many places including the ice world, where the ice demons said that they would trying and get information for them.

Botan brought Yukina there, hours later, on her oar, which she could fly on. This is because to humans she was the Grim Reaper. She brought the souls the deceased to Other World, or the Reikai, so she needed easy transportation and her oar was just that (no one but the spiritually aware could see or sense her, when she was acting as the Grim Reaper, but Koenma had given her a human body to help Yusuke on Earth). Yukina was brought back to the ice world, where she originally came from, to act as a messenger if any information was found.

Now they were back on the road, traveling, searching for any clues of the whereabouts of the sleeping hero.

"This sucks," Yusuke declared angrily, "We've been out here for two weeks and still no sign of this stupid hero."

"Please Yusuke, we're all tired of it but we can't stop now, the lives of so many rest on us." Koenma said without looking back at him.

Yusuke sighed, "I just wish there was some kind of Spirit Detective item we could use to find him."

They all silently agreed with him. They had found no clues about any of the things going on. All demons evaded the evil at all costs, not wanting to be killed themselves. If a weak demon got too close to such tremendous power their bodies would be torn apart or if they were strong enough to resist it they were afraid the evil would kill them it self.

"I'm so bored guys," Kuwabara complained. After a moment he said, "Hay Urameshi, wana rematch." Kuwabara was referring to a little game Yusuke had come up with the day before that entertained them for all of twenty seconds. The game was to run to certain point and leap, who ever got the farthest won; needless to say Kuwabara lost last time.

"All right then, but you do know I'm going to win again Kuwabara," Yusuke declared.

"In your dreams Urameshi," Kuwabara stated.

Jin stopped a ways ahead of the duo "Ready" he yelled back to them. Jin was acting as the mark at which they had to jump from.

Kurama, who found great amusement in watching this game, stayed back with Yusuke and Kuwabara to do them count off. "On the count of three, run" Kurama stated, "One... Two... Three," he cried.

The two took of on a mad dash, neck and neck the whole way down. When they came to Jin they leapt in the air, this is where the winner was determined.

Yusuke, who got more air than Kuwabara, yelled, "I won..." as he hit the ground it gave way and he fell into the hole he had just opened, he let out a cry as he fell into darkness.



Era- *Asleep with her head on Touya's lap and legs draped over Jin's lap*

Jin- *chuckled at Era's sleeping form*

*Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama were playing darts while Hiei watched in boredom*

Kurama- Come join us Hiei.

Hiei- *Makes a face* How about not.

Yusuke- *snickers* Maybe he's be happy if we put his in a hot pink dress.

Kurama and Kuwabara- *chuckle*

Hiei- *growls and walks away after thinking it better to not kill Yusuke.....yet*

Kurama- *chuckle lightly again* Review everyone

Due to the lack of reviewers, except for Arctic_Fox who is always reviewing (Thanks so much for that), this story is going to be postponed until I can get at least three reviews. PLEASE REVIEW.

Coming next week: Touya's dilemma. Touya gets turned into a..... FOUR YEAR OLD! Plus to make matters worse he's separated from the group, so everyone is worried about the child. They have to find him before harm does and find a way to return him to normal (warning a lot of child cuteness) ((a new story is not related to this one))