Nakoruru: Chapter 2 of "Once More Under The Moon". Maybe I should have
entitled it "Once More In The Name Of The Moon", well, I guess it doesn't
matter. Hello my happy reviewers. Chapter 2 is up and going.
Ryo: You aren't going to glomp me again, are you?
Nakoruru (^u^): Nah, I have my Ta-kun.
Ryo (blinks): The kid from FLCL?
Nakoruru: Not that Ta-kun. Takao, or rather Tyson, from Beyblade. It's just so fun saying it and his name does start with t-a, so I decided calling him Ta-kun.
Ryo (U_U;;): Well, at least you aren't glomping me. Now on to the reviewers, thanks good story for liking it even though it is just starting. Nicole, sorry the prologue is confusing, it will make more sense once it takes off the ground. Mai-Ly, is it really interesting? We're happy it is.
Nakoruru: And Masked Mistress, glad that my stories have such a gravitational pull to them. That's what I try to do when I write. Sit back and enjoy, it's definitely going to be a great ride. And now here's the story. If some of the details aren't right from my other two stories, it's that I'm working without noting what the heck I'm doing. Sorry, if things are shaky.
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Serena smiled as she watched Hiei teaching their four-year-old son, Ryo the proper way of sword fighting. She could see the determination in the little boy's crimson eyes. Rini, now of age six was clapping her hands rapidly, cheering her "otou-chan" on.
"You look so cool otou-chan!" shouted Rini.
The male shifted an eye to her with a slight crooked smile before placing his full attention on the little boy with black hair and blond streaks. "Ryo, I thought I told you to raise the blade up more. If you lower it anymore, you're going to be seriously hurt."
"Okay!" The little boy rose the blade up more as Hiei attacked him once again. The two blades clashed together, though it was obvious that Hiei was still more powerful than the little boy was, by the way Ryo stumbled back from the recoil. "Tou-chan!" Ryo winced as the sword was struck again, sending him back. The sword clattered from his hands. Ryo looked up into his father's eyes as he walked up to him. Ryo looked down, feeling really bad that he had disappointed his father.
His sister had showed more promise in handling a sword than he had. Ryo didn't want his father to think that he was a weakling. Hiei knelt beside the little boy whose eyes were becoming wet with tears. Hiei placed a hand to the little boy's head and smiled. Ryo, sensing his father's smile, looked up at the male. "Don't worry kid, I don't expect you to get it right away. It took Rini a while to handle a katana too. There's no need to cry, now get up."
"Tou-chan." Ryo wiped his eyes and stood up, going to pick up his sword again.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Yusuke inquired as he walked up with Emi and his three-year-old son Kazuya in tow. Emi was now of age seven and very good friends with Rini by now. Emi ran up to Hiei with a giant grin.
"Uncle Hiei!" Emi hugged Hiei around the legs as she waved at Rini. "Hi Rini."
"Hi Emi! Let's go play!" Rini said.
"Sure let's get go." The two girls ran off together as Kazuya walked up to Ryo. The two younger boys had started to hang around each other more frequently since the previous year.
"Wanna go climb a tree?" inquired Kazuya.
"I guess so," Ryo shrugged.
Serena, Hiei, and Yusuke watched their children walk off to find things to do. Serena smiled, then turned to Yusuke. "What are you doing around here, Yusuke? Trying to get away from Keiko?"
"Nah, just thought that me, Emi, and Kazuya would get out of the house. So you two had to get away from Crystal Tokyo for the day? Setsuna starting to worry you about acting more like the queen of the future rather than a young woman in love who has two beautiful kids by a man she loves?" Yusuke chuckled to himself, seeing the sour expression that Serena wore. Setsuna, Haruka, and Michiru hadn't changed in the four years that passed.
"They still think that Darien is the right choice for me," Serena sighed as she brushed a blond strand of hair out of her eyes. "I guess that won't change until I proclaim it to the whole world or something." Yusuke chuckled again, noting that Hiei hadn't said a word, but could tell the young man would have rather set all three women ablaze if Serena didn't need them.
"Don't worry about them, they'll come around, eventually," Yusuke advised. "If not then they'll become the first ever senshi that will know what the sun feels like." Serena gave the male a puzzled look, not seeing the glint that filled Hiei's eyes.
"What?"
"Don't worry about it Serena. It was a joke," Yusuke said. "Oh, by the way, there was a reason for me coming this way. Hiei, Koenma said he wanted to speak with not only me, but you, Kurama, and Kuwabara. Something about a new mission or something."
Since almost four years ago, the flow of youkai to the Ningen Kai had slowed down rapidly. From time to time youkai spilled through the barrier of the two Kais. Others had even been successful in traveling to Serena's world, but the youkai had always been dealt with. No mission to find youkai had been given so far this year, but there was always youkai that managed to get through without detection. Everyone that was spiritually aware had no trouble finding them and dealing with them.
"A new mission? Do you know what it's about?" Hiei asked, but found that Yusuke shook his head no.
"I wish I knew, but Botan came by and told me that much and left. She was in a big hurry, I know that much," Yusuke said. "I don't know a thing about what Koenma wants us to do."
"Maybe Koenma doesn't know either," Serena stated. She had become the chief detective for her dimension. The other senshi backed her up when she needed it. If there were a problem in her world, Koenma would have contacted her too.
"I don't know. That would explain things a bit more. But shouldn't he have told me to tell you to come too?" Yusuke said.
"Maybe it doesn't have to deal with my dimension," Serena said. "But don't worry, I'll watch everyone. Go find out what Koenma wants, things will be okay down here."
"All right cool. Now all we have to do is go get Kurama and Kuwabara. We'll be back soon as possible Serena." Yusuke and Hiei started to walk off to go get Kurama and Kuwabara.
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"What did you need to see us about Koenma?" Yusuke and the others walked into the office of Koenma where the small ruler was stamping papers as if it was the end of the world. For a moment he stopped to study the four males, then went back to madly stamping the papers. "Um, Koenma, if you knew you were going to be busy, you should have called us at a different time. I have better ways to waste my time than standing here watching you stamp paper."
"We have a big problem! Stay right there!" Koenma continued to stamp papers, stamping faster in fact. "This is serious."
"What could be so serious that you won't stop stamping papers to tell us?" Kuwabara said.
"You don't understand. There could be serious problems. Give me a second." Stamping the last paper that was on his desk, Koenma calmly sat down his stamper before looking at them.
"Now are we going to find out what was so important that you didn't want us to go anywhere?" Yusuke crossed his arms over his chest, staring down at the child ruler of the Rei Kai.
"There's been a series of missing youkai in the Makai. Not that any of them have made it through the barrier, but they've gone missing completely," Koenma started. "It seems that all of the missing have been young males."
"And what does that have to do with us?" Yusuke wondered. "You think someone has been kidnapping young youkai males. Well. . .if you haven't noticed, me and Kuwabara are ningen, and Kurama and Hiei can take care of themselves. I don't think we have anything to worry about."
"You don't understand. All the youkai that have gone missing have been exceptionally beautiful. Whoever it is kidnapping youkai has an eye on the very beautiful ones. I want you to keep an eye out for any suspicious characters. After all, we have four targets that live in the Ningen Kai."
"Four?" Kuwabara said stupidly. "There's Kurama. . .who are the other three?"
"Kurama, Jin, Touya, and Hiei," Koenma said. At the mention of Hiei's name, Kuwabara's eyes widened as he stared at his brother-in-law. (A/N: *falls over laughing* Oh my god! I forgot that completely. That is funny. They're related. *continues to laugh*) Why would anyone want to steal someone as polar as Hiei?
"So you want us to keep an eye on them or something?" Yusuke asked, not seeing the big deal. The four could more than handle themselves when it came down to it. Was Koenma worried that something would happen? That there was another really strong youkai out there that was threatening the whole balance of peace?
"I know that they can each handle themselves, I was just giving you the heads up on what's going on. Keep an eye out on things." Koenma didn't think it was necessary just yet to tell them that one of the missing youkai had actually been found. Only the male had not been alive when they had found him.
Or what was left of his body. It had taken nearly four hours for them to piece the pieces of his head back together for them to recognize it as one of the missing youkai. The body had been sliced into small pieces by some sharp object. Along with the body there had been small chucks of what appeared to be ice, but that couldn't be. Ice was not black.
It was only myth about there being that certain type of ice existing, and that was a long time ago. Surely the one that had been able to create it was not still alive. Rumor had it that years ago, Mukuro had killed that youkai. (A/N: I don't feel like getting into detail about Mukuro, but anyone who watched the entire YYH knows who she is. That hussy. *growls*) There was no way that that certain youkai was still alive. Or could it? There was no need to get them all riled up before he had a chance to study up on the subject in question.
"All right, if that's it, then we're going." Yusuke had a feeling that there was more to this than what Koenma was telling him. For now he would sit back and not question the tiny ruler, but if things went further than expected, he was going to make Koenma spilled everything, even if it meant pounding in the all mighty son of King Enma.
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So this was what the Ningen Kai was like. The young woman with her long black hair up in a high ponytail looked around, receiving a few interested stares from several men that passed her on the street. Her ruby eyes flickered over a few males, her lips curling into a displeasing frown. How could ningens have survived so long while they looked like that? Of all the males she had seen so far, none could have made her want to second glance them.
"Highly disappointing," she said dryly. Just as she was about to turn around and wait around to sense her target's youki, she saw the individual that she wanted. Her heart swelled with joy to see that he was even more beautiful than when she last caught sight of him. Which of course had been during the Dark Tournament. Masking her youki, she sashayed towards the figure with raven hair that was streaked with blue and white.
Upon reaching him, she felt his crimson eyes met her ruby ones in a curious and slightly suspicious manner. He could barely sense her youki, which was an amazing feat. He continued to amaze her by the minute. He would make a great new lover for her. With him by her side, she could do anything she wanted.
"What do you want?" Hiei said in a neutral tone. His eyes were as neutral as his tone. There was something powerful about this youkai. Could she be the one that Koenma had been warning them about? This youkai seemed no older than him. If she was older it couldn't be by more than one or two decades. Her painted plum lips curled up in a seductive smile as she looked at him with eyes that screamed want.
"You are Hiei, am I right?" she purred.
"Yeah. What do you want?" Hiei repeated. He definitely didn't like the way she was looking at him. It was like he was a steak and she hadn't eaten in a very, and I mean very long time.
"You've sparked my interest, Hiei," she said in a low sexy tone. (A/N: Or at least a tone she thought must have sounded sexy, cause I don't think Hiei feels it.) "I want you to be my new lover."
"I'm already taken, no thanks. Go find someone else to try to clamp onto." And with that, the koorime bleeped away, leaving the woman to stare at the spot the koorime was just at with indignation. Who had stolen her koorime from her?
"No one still Alshra's prey without a fight," the woman growled. "I'll find out who dares to steal his heart away from me and make them pay dearly." With a slight fling of her hips, she turned sharply, following the streak of youki that would lead her to Hiei, and the person that dared to make an enemy out of her.
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Nakoruru: Okay, there you go. Chapter two explains a little bit more for you Nicole. Hope you aren't confused anymore. So, how did I do people? Was it shaky? Or did it go smooth?
Ryo: It's time for you to review on. Hope you all enjoy this. And want to let everyone know that the next chapter will be out Wednesday.
Rinka: Why Wednesday?
Nakoruru: Oh, hi Rinka.
Rinka: Why Wednesday? Why not tomorrow?
Nakoruru: Because there's a lot to get down tomorrow and I don't have to work Wednesday. The only free time I have unfortunately. . .besides tomorrow that is. So it's Wednesday people. I'll be there, Ryo will be there, so I hope you're there. Bye now!
Ryo: You aren't going to glomp me again, are you?
Nakoruru (^u^): Nah, I have my Ta-kun.
Ryo (blinks): The kid from FLCL?
Nakoruru: Not that Ta-kun. Takao, or rather Tyson, from Beyblade. It's just so fun saying it and his name does start with t-a, so I decided calling him Ta-kun.
Ryo (U_U;;): Well, at least you aren't glomping me. Now on to the reviewers, thanks good story for liking it even though it is just starting. Nicole, sorry the prologue is confusing, it will make more sense once it takes off the ground. Mai-Ly, is it really interesting? We're happy it is.
Nakoruru: And Masked Mistress, glad that my stories have such a gravitational pull to them. That's what I try to do when I write. Sit back and enjoy, it's definitely going to be a great ride. And now here's the story. If some of the details aren't right from my other two stories, it's that I'm working without noting what the heck I'm doing. Sorry, if things are shaky.
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Serena smiled as she watched Hiei teaching their four-year-old son, Ryo the proper way of sword fighting. She could see the determination in the little boy's crimson eyes. Rini, now of age six was clapping her hands rapidly, cheering her "otou-chan" on.
"You look so cool otou-chan!" shouted Rini.
The male shifted an eye to her with a slight crooked smile before placing his full attention on the little boy with black hair and blond streaks. "Ryo, I thought I told you to raise the blade up more. If you lower it anymore, you're going to be seriously hurt."
"Okay!" The little boy rose the blade up more as Hiei attacked him once again. The two blades clashed together, though it was obvious that Hiei was still more powerful than the little boy was, by the way Ryo stumbled back from the recoil. "Tou-chan!" Ryo winced as the sword was struck again, sending him back. The sword clattered from his hands. Ryo looked up into his father's eyes as he walked up to him. Ryo looked down, feeling really bad that he had disappointed his father.
His sister had showed more promise in handling a sword than he had. Ryo didn't want his father to think that he was a weakling. Hiei knelt beside the little boy whose eyes were becoming wet with tears. Hiei placed a hand to the little boy's head and smiled. Ryo, sensing his father's smile, looked up at the male. "Don't worry kid, I don't expect you to get it right away. It took Rini a while to handle a katana too. There's no need to cry, now get up."
"Tou-chan." Ryo wiped his eyes and stood up, going to pick up his sword again.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Yusuke inquired as he walked up with Emi and his three-year-old son Kazuya in tow. Emi was now of age seven and very good friends with Rini by now. Emi ran up to Hiei with a giant grin.
"Uncle Hiei!" Emi hugged Hiei around the legs as she waved at Rini. "Hi Rini."
"Hi Emi! Let's go play!" Rini said.
"Sure let's get go." The two girls ran off together as Kazuya walked up to Ryo. The two younger boys had started to hang around each other more frequently since the previous year.
"Wanna go climb a tree?" inquired Kazuya.
"I guess so," Ryo shrugged.
Serena, Hiei, and Yusuke watched their children walk off to find things to do. Serena smiled, then turned to Yusuke. "What are you doing around here, Yusuke? Trying to get away from Keiko?"
"Nah, just thought that me, Emi, and Kazuya would get out of the house. So you two had to get away from Crystal Tokyo for the day? Setsuna starting to worry you about acting more like the queen of the future rather than a young woman in love who has two beautiful kids by a man she loves?" Yusuke chuckled to himself, seeing the sour expression that Serena wore. Setsuna, Haruka, and Michiru hadn't changed in the four years that passed.
"They still think that Darien is the right choice for me," Serena sighed as she brushed a blond strand of hair out of her eyes. "I guess that won't change until I proclaim it to the whole world or something." Yusuke chuckled again, noting that Hiei hadn't said a word, but could tell the young man would have rather set all three women ablaze if Serena didn't need them.
"Don't worry about them, they'll come around, eventually," Yusuke advised. "If not then they'll become the first ever senshi that will know what the sun feels like." Serena gave the male a puzzled look, not seeing the glint that filled Hiei's eyes.
"What?"
"Don't worry about it Serena. It was a joke," Yusuke said. "Oh, by the way, there was a reason for me coming this way. Hiei, Koenma said he wanted to speak with not only me, but you, Kurama, and Kuwabara. Something about a new mission or something."
Since almost four years ago, the flow of youkai to the Ningen Kai had slowed down rapidly. From time to time youkai spilled through the barrier of the two Kais. Others had even been successful in traveling to Serena's world, but the youkai had always been dealt with. No mission to find youkai had been given so far this year, but there was always youkai that managed to get through without detection. Everyone that was spiritually aware had no trouble finding them and dealing with them.
"A new mission? Do you know what it's about?" Hiei asked, but found that Yusuke shook his head no.
"I wish I knew, but Botan came by and told me that much and left. She was in a big hurry, I know that much," Yusuke said. "I don't know a thing about what Koenma wants us to do."
"Maybe Koenma doesn't know either," Serena stated. She had become the chief detective for her dimension. The other senshi backed her up when she needed it. If there were a problem in her world, Koenma would have contacted her too.
"I don't know. That would explain things a bit more. But shouldn't he have told me to tell you to come too?" Yusuke said.
"Maybe it doesn't have to deal with my dimension," Serena said. "But don't worry, I'll watch everyone. Go find out what Koenma wants, things will be okay down here."
"All right cool. Now all we have to do is go get Kurama and Kuwabara. We'll be back soon as possible Serena." Yusuke and Hiei started to walk off to go get Kurama and Kuwabara.
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"What did you need to see us about Koenma?" Yusuke and the others walked into the office of Koenma where the small ruler was stamping papers as if it was the end of the world. For a moment he stopped to study the four males, then went back to madly stamping the papers. "Um, Koenma, if you knew you were going to be busy, you should have called us at a different time. I have better ways to waste my time than standing here watching you stamp paper."
"We have a big problem! Stay right there!" Koenma continued to stamp papers, stamping faster in fact. "This is serious."
"What could be so serious that you won't stop stamping papers to tell us?" Kuwabara said.
"You don't understand. There could be serious problems. Give me a second." Stamping the last paper that was on his desk, Koenma calmly sat down his stamper before looking at them.
"Now are we going to find out what was so important that you didn't want us to go anywhere?" Yusuke crossed his arms over his chest, staring down at the child ruler of the Rei Kai.
"There's been a series of missing youkai in the Makai. Not that any of them have made it through the barrier, but they've gone missing completely," Koenma started. "It seems that all of the missing have been young males."
"And what does that have to do with us?" Yusuke wondered. "You think someone has been kidnapping young youkai males. Well. . .if you haven't noticed, me and Kuwabara are ningen, and Kurama and Hiei can take care of themselves. I don't think we have anything to worry about."
"You don't understand. All the youkai that have gone missing have been exceptionally beautiful. Whoever it is kidnapping youkai has an eye on the very beautiful ones. I want you to keep an eye out for any suspicious characters. After all, we have four targets that live in the Ningen Kai."
"Four?" Kuwabara said stupidly. "There's Kurama. . .who are the other three?"
"Kurama, Jin, Touya, and Hiei," Koenma said. At the mention of Hiei's name, Kuwabara's eyes widened as he stared at his brother-in-law. (A/N: *falls over laughing* Oh my god! I forgot that completely. That is funny. They're related. *continues to laugh*) Why would anyone want to steal someone as polar as Hiei?
"So you want us to keep an eye on them or something?" Yusuke asked, not seeing the big deal. The four could more than handle themselves when it came down to it. Was Koenma worried that something would happen? That there was another really strong youkai out there that was threatening the whole balance of peace?
"I know that they can each handle themselves, I was just giving you the heads up on what's going on. Keep an eye out on things." Koenma didn't think it was necessary just yet to tell them that one of the missing youkai had actually been found. Only the male had not been alive when they had found him.
Or what was left of his body. It had taken nearly four hours for them to piece the pieces of his head back together for them to recognize it as one of the missing youkai. The body had been sliced into small pieces by some sharp object. Along with the body there had been small chucks of what appeared to be ice, but that couldn't be. Ice was not black.
It was only myth about there being that certain type of ice existing, and that was a long time ago. Surely the one that had been able to create it was not still alive. Rumor had it that years ago, Mukuro had killed that youkai. (A/N: I don't feel like getting into detail about Mukuro, but anyone who watched the entire YYH knows who she is. That hussy. *growls*) There was no way that that certain youkai was still alive. Or could it? There was no need to get them all riled up before he had a chance to study up on the subject in question.
"All right, if that's it, then we're going." Yusuke had a feeling that there was more to this than what Koenma was telling him. For now he would sit back and not question the tiny ruler, but if things went further than expected, he was going to make Koenma spilled everything, even if it meant pounding in the all mighty son of King Enma.
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So this was what the Ningen Kai was like. The young woman with her long black hair up in a high ponytail looked around, receiving a few interested stares from several men that passed her on the street. Her ruby eyes flickered over a few males, her lips curling into a displeasing frown. How could ningens have survived so long while they looked like that? Of all the males she had seen so far, none could have made her want to second glance them.
"Highly disappointing," she said dryly. Just as she was about to turn around and wait around to sense her target's youki, she saw the individual that she wanted. Her heart swelled with joy to see that he was even more beautiful than when she last caught sight of him. Which of course had been during the Dark Tournament. Masking her youki, she sashayed towards the figure with raven hair that was streaked with blue and white.
Upon reaching him, she felt his crimson eyes met her ruby ones in a curious and slightly suspicious manner. He could barely sense her youki, which was an amazing feat. He continued to amaze her by the minute. He would make a great new lover for her. With him by her side, she could do anything she wanted.
"What do you want?" Hiei said in a neutral tone. His eyes were as neutral as his tone. There was something powerful about this youkai. Could she be the one that Koenma had been warning them about? This youkai seemed no older than him. If she was older it couldn't be by more than one or two decades. Her painted plum lips curled up in a seductive smile as she looked at him with eyes that screamed want.
"You are Hiei, am I right?" she purred.
"Yeah. What do you want?" Hiei repeated. He definitely didn't like the way she was looking at him. It was like he was a steak and she hadn't eaten in a very, and I mean very long time.
"You've sparked my interest, Hiei," she said in a low sexy tone. (A/N: Or at least a tone she thought must have sounded sexy, cause I don't think Hiei feels it.) "I want you to be my new lover."
"I'm already taken, no thanks. Go find someone else to try to clamp onto." And with that, the koorime bleeped away, leaving the woman to stare at the spot the koorime was just at with indignation. Who had stolen her koorime from her?
"No one still Alshra's prey without a fight," the woman growled. "I'll find out who dares to steal his heart away from me and make them pay dearly." With a slight fling of her hips, she turned sharply, following the streak of youki that would lead her to Hiei, and the person that dared to make an enemy out of her.
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Nakoruru: Okay, there you go. Chapter two explains a little bit more for you Nicole. Hope you aren't confused anymore. So, how did I do people? Was it shaky? Or did it go smooth?
Ryo: It's time for you to review on. Hope you all enjoy this. And want to let everyone know that the next chapter will be out Wednesday.
Rinka: Why Wednesday?
Nakoruru: Oh, hi Rinka.
Rinka: Why Wednesday? Why not tomorrow?
Nakoruru: Because there's a lot to get down tomorrow and I don't have to work Wednesday. The only free time I have unfortunately. . .besides tomorrow that is. So it's Wednesday people. I'll be there, Ryo will be there, so I hope you're there. Bye now!