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Recapr of what happened last time:

"Hahahaha!!! Shorty has feelings for Hinageshi!!! Hashanah!!!"

Everyone hit Kuwabara and then they went on their way. Murkuro immediately went and wrote a note for Reikai like she said she would. It seemed that things were going good for the Reikai Tantei.

With the girls in their cell

"Botan?" "Yes Yukina?" "Where are we?" "I don't know." "WHAT? IT'S BEEN ATLEAST A YEAR AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT WHERE WE ARE? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SMART AT THIS KIND OF STUFF BOTANN?!!!" "Calm down keiko. And by the way, it hasn't been a year. I've been here for about a month now, and you all have been here for about three weeks." "IT'S THE SAME THING BOTANN!!! WHAT IF YUSUKE NEVER COMES TO GET ME?!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?" The strange kidnapper came to the cell "Shut-up now, before I decide to sacrifice you. Your prince charming is coming, so just be quiet. Afterall, it's not you I need." "THEN WHAT DO YOU WANT YOU OVERSIZED BABOON?!!!" Girl, it would do you good not to go calling me names. You're merely bait to get the Tantei here. Once they're here then I can make my request, I don't care about you, you're not my problem." And with that, the shadow left. "Botn, you still haven't told us who that is." "I can't tell you Shizuru. Because it's impossible for him to be who I think he is." "That's a he? No eay!! I thought it was a girl with a messed up face." "No. I'm pretty sure I know who he is, but it's absolutely impossible, unless someone is messing with fate." "Messing with faet?" "Yes. Messing with fate. Trust me. I'm a ferry girl, I should know of these things, but this is completely new to me. He shouldn't be alive." "He shouldn't be alive?" "He's supposed to be dead." "YOU MEAN WE'RE BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY A GHOST THAT YOU SUPPOSEDLY KNOW THAT SHOULDN'T BE HERE RIGHT NOW, JUST SO THE BOYS WILL COME AND SAVE US AND HE CAN MAKE HIS REQUEST?!! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR ,IND BOTANN?!! DO YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT?!!" "Yes. Because it's true, no matter what you say."

With the boys

"Kurama, are you okay?" "Of course Yuseke. Why wouldn't I be?" "Because you're even more quiet than usual, and you haven't corrected Kuwabara on his horrible grammar yet." "I'm just worried about Botan, that's all. Don't worry about it." "Yeah I know what you mean. I'm worried about Keiko too. Do you think they're going to hurt her?" "No." "Are you sure?" "No." "Is that all you're going to say Kurama?" "Maybe." "Fine. Where are we going anyway?" "Deeper." "Deeper?" "Yes deeper into the heart of Makai, to a place where very few demons dare to go. If I'm right, the girls are going to be held there, becaue whoever kidnapped them, isn't going to expect anyone else to go there and take them." "Huh? What was that?" "I said that no demon is dumb enough to walk through here just for a meal." "Meal?" "The girls would be considred a meal to demons." "Oh, ok…WHAT?" "Shut-up Yuseke. I don't want them to know we're here yet."

"Too late. So this is the Tantei? The group Koenma sent to save his beloved ferry fril? Is that right?" "We are the Tantei, and we are here to sav the girls, but Koenma didn't send us, we don't have any idea where he is." "Darn, what a shame." "Now show yourself." "Very well. You might as well get used to me becase I will be leading through the cave, and to the lair. There will be fights in each of the rooms, and I warn you, there a lot of rooms. Do not think lowly of our fighters either. There is more than meets the eye." The voice belonged to a young female kitsune. She was tall and lean, almost the same sixe as Botan. She had silver hair, red eyes, and her tail was the silver/golden. She was smirking an almost Hiei-like smirk, rather than smiling. "Since we're going to be stuck with eadh other for a while, why don't you tell me a litle bit about yourselves? Hm?" "No." "No?" "You hearf me, no. you're going to take us through the cave and to the lair now. Is that clear?" "Sutpid ningen, I don't think you understand, you are in absolutely no position to tell me what to do." There was a bright light and instead of the Suiichi-Kurama that everyone was used to, there stood youko Kurama. "I don't think you understand. You will take us there now, is that clear?" "Very well, but for a small price. I still want to get to know you, but only you, and all of you. What do you say?" Kurama growled a very vicious growl and the girl immediately backed off. "Fine then, but you're going o regret that honey." Kurama switched back to his ningen form in the blink of an eye. *kitsune, how did you do that?* *I don't know. I just was having another one of those inner conflicts and youko said he wanted out so I just sort of let him out.* "Come on boys." Kuwabara, who was still somewhat shocked that the girl was very beaitful, finally broke out of his daze.

"So what's your name? Mine is Kuwabara." "The name's naomi." "Whenever the two of you are done flirting I'd like to hurry up and get down to the lair. I don't want Botan to have to wait much longer." "Very well then, let's go." Naomi led them down a carefully concealed staricase, and to the entrance of a door. But before she opened the door she looked at them with a warning look.

"Beyond this door is the first of your challenges. I will now tell you how these work. When we reach a door, I will tell you about your challenge, some will be easy fights while others will much harder. You will then have one minute to choose your figher, if when I ask you have not chosen your fighter, your fighter will be chosen for you. It is always a fight to the death. It is also always one on one. If your fighter should fail and die you will be given one minuite to chose a new fighter. If you haven't chosen a fighter by the time I ask, your fighter will be chosen for you. You cannot interfere. You may shout and cheer or give warnings, but any form of interfering with the match will cause you each to have a one on one match with all of our guardians. This is a sure death. When the door is opened the fighter will go into the center of the room while the rest will follow me to a side to watch the fight. Is that clear?" Everyone nodded yes. "Good. Your first match, the one behind this door, is with the wolf demon Jiango. He is extremely fast and is much smarter than your average wolf. This fight will take place in a closed ring, meaning you may not use spirit energy attacks. This will test your speed and strength in basic fighting techniques such as punching, kcking, charging, and tackling. You now have one minute to choose your fighter." After the minute was over. "Have you chosen your fighter?" Evryone nodded yes. "Good, then let's begin." Naomi opened the foor.

The room was very large with a black floor, a black ceiling, black walls, and no windows. There was enough light so as to not blind the fighters and to give them a goow view od the entire room. Yuseke walked into the center of the room while the others followed naomi to one of the side walls.