Er, I just realized that I made a mistake. It's nothing big, but I'm
mentioning it. At first, I said, "Two demons in the Spirit World," but then
I went and sent Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama to the Makai. Just to clarify,
I meant the Makai all along. It was a typo, really, I'm just too lazy to go
and change/upload again. Hee hee. Oops.
Hiei: You meant to do that.
Nagem: I did not!!
Hiei: Yes, you did!!
Nagem: *Throws Kurama plushie* HAH! I GOT YOU!!
Hiei: Say the stupid discaimer already.
Nagem: I said you have to say it.
Hiei: Did not!
Nagem: Did too! Give me my plushie back!
Hiei: Never! And you did not!
Kurama: Because those two seem preoccupied, Nagem does not own Yu-Yu Hakusho, or anything.
Nagem: I WANT TOO, THOUGH!! I WILL IN THE END!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!! ONTO THE STORY!!!!
"Do you think we should camp here for the night?"
"How should I know, Urameshi? Ask Kurama."
"Kurama? Kurama. Kurama!"
"Huh? What did I miss?"
"We wanted to know if this is a good place to camp," Yusuke glared at Kurama. He had been staring off into nowhere for the last half-hour, while Kuwabara and Yusuke had been looking for a place to camp. "You know this place better than either of us, so . . . what do you say?" Kurama looked around at the place they had settled for the first time. He had to admit, this clearing was a good choice for a human campsite, but his Yoko side told him that there wasn't enough cover. He got up and walked over to one of the trees.
"Kurama?" Kuwabara asked. (He sure has been acting strange lately,) Kuwabara thought. (I wonder what's up.)
"I'm sorry," Kurama said. His hand rested gently on the tree. "I just thought that we might want a place with a little more cover. If any demons found us here, unguarded . . . " Yusuke winced.
"I see what you mean," he said simply. "C'mon, Kuwabara, Kurama's right, we should move into the forest."
"I didn't mean in the forest, Yusuke," Kurama said.
"Then where?" Kuwabara asked.
"I was thinking," Kurama said. "Now that I remember where we are, I've realized that I used to have a small hideout around here."
"Really?" Yusuke said. "You told us your hideout was somewhere in the mountians."
"My hideouts are all over the place," Kurama said. "Small caves, just to hide in when there were demons chasing after me. But my real home was in the deepest darkest forest in the Makai." (A/N: Don't flame me, I'm just guessing where his den was.)
"Small?" Kuwabara sounded doubtful.
"Big enough for us to fit in," Kurama said, sizing them up. "I don't think there will be any problems there."
"I hope not," Yusuke said as Kurama led them into the forest. "Hey, don't you think after all these years that there should be other demons living in the unused caves?"
"He has a point, Kurama," Kuwabara said.
"I don't think so," Kurama said. "After my little appearance at the Dark Tournament, every demon thinks I'm going to come back to the Makai and wreak havoc on them." All three of the boys grinned, and Yusuke even went so far as to laugh out loud, scaring several small birds out of a nearby tree.
"What do you mean, that's all you know?"
Hiei held one demon by the collar of his shirt, punching information out of him while he kept the other two at bay with a wall of fire. He glared at the demon he held, and the thing winced, and began to babble.
"I swear, that's it," he said. "I heard that Karasu had come back and was looking for demons, but when I came here, I couldn't find him!"
"We're all having about as much luck with this guy as you are, Hiei," one of the demons behind the firewall said. (Perhaps they haven't realized I coul easily flame them all to death from where I stand,) Hiei thought as he threw the demon he held into the fire. The thing screamed, and vanished into the flames. Hiei smirked.
"Now, tell me all you know, and I'll think about sparing your lives," Hiei told the others. They muttered to themselves, and Hiei grew angry. "You know, if I wasn't looking for information, then I would kill you all without a second glance!!" That seemed to work. They looked around, and then at him.
"Well, we know he's not in the human realm," one demon said. "But we're not sure where he is." Hiei opened his Jagan eye, and, skimming over the surface of their minds, he knew this was true. He nodded. The others looked relieved.
"Is ther anything else that you might want to tell me?"
"We know he came back to get revenge on Yoko Kurama," one of the others added. Even the best of Hiei's self-control could not keep the rage from surfacing.
"I know that!" he yelled into their faces. "Why the hell else would I be bothering with this?! I have better things to do!" (Like killing Kuwabara,) he noted mentally. He couldn't help himself. The other demons looked doubtful, and Hiei raised the firewall. They backed away from it. (Perhaps they aren't as stupid as they look,) he thought. The communicater in his pocket beeped.
"Hiei, do you have anything?" Koenma's face appeared on the screen. Behind him, Jorge was looking around nervously, and he could hear Botan yelling at someone or something.
"Is that Koenma?" one of the demons asked. Hiei made the firewall grow until it had eaten several of the demons.
"I have nothing," Hiei said. "All I know is that he isn't in the human world. Although. " He glanced over at the remaining demons. "I'm not exactly sure how truthful these demons are. They'd probably say anything to get out of death."
"Did you try and read their minds?"
"Yes, but I didn't go in very deep," Hiei said. "And the mind can lie as well, if the posseser really doesn't want to tell the truth . . . or doesn't know the truth."
"Oh, well, keep searching," Koenma told him. "Try somewhere else." Hiei smiled. "Huh? Why are you so happy?"
"I've been waiting to do this," he said. With that, he made the firewall comsume all of the demons. "Ah, they were getting on my nerves."
"Only you could take pleasure in killing someone," Koenma said. And he signed off.
"THIS is SMALL?!?!" Yusuke yelled as he, Kuwabara, and Kurama walked into the cave that Kurama had told them about. "Kurama, this thing is huge!!!"
"It was one of my smaller hideaways," Kurama said, looking around at the vine-covered walls.
"If this is his defenition of small, then I want to see a big cave," Yusuke muttered to Kuwabara. Kuwabara nodded.
"Hey, Kurama?"
"Yes, Kuwabara?"
"How do you know this place used to be yours?" Kurama pointed at a large patch of moss.
"That was my bed, when I stayed the night," he said. "It's a bit larger than when I left it, and I bet all of the treasures I left in here are gone . . . but it'll do." Yusuke knelt down and picked something up. "What is it?"
"I think . . . it's fur," Yusuke said.
"It is!" Kuwabara said. They both looked at Kurama, who blushed slightly. They both laughed at him.
"I guess I used to shed," Kurama told them. They continued to laugh. Yusuke was the first to stop. Gasping for breath and wiping his eyes, he looked at Kurama.
"Sorry," he said. "It's nothing to laugh at, but we just found it so funny. . . . " Kurama, who had stopped blushing, laughed a little bit himself.
"I know, I think I can understand," Kurama said. Then he tensed.
"What's the matter?" Yusuke asked, as Kuwabara looked around as well.
"You can feel it, too?" Kurama asked. Kuwabara nodded. Kurama turned to Yusuke. "There's a large amount of Yoki nearby. I don't know who it is, though."
"It feels familiar," Kuwabara added.
"Do you think they're looking for a fight?" Yusuke asked, his hands already moving to form the Spirit Gun. Kurama sniffed the air.
"No, I don't think so," he said. "They're just spying on us. They could be relaying information to the people we're trying to capture."
"I'll go and check," Yusuke said.
"You do that," Kuwabara said.
"And if you need help, just yell," Kurama said.
"Right," Yusuke said.
Karasu smiled. Kurama knew that he was outside the hideaway, but the poor kitsune couldn't place his energy. He heard the three talking about something inside the cave. He stopped moving around so he could hear the three Spirit Detectives.
"I'll go and check," Yusuke's voice said.
"You do that," Kuwabara's voice said.
"And if you need help, just yell," Kurama's voice said.
"Right," came Yusuke's voice again, and he heard the footsteps coming toward him. Karasu smiled. How easily he could just waltz in there and blow all of them up, getting his revenge . . . but he was more artistic than that. He'd make Kurama regret the other demon's death slowly . . . slowly . . . and then Karasu would be satisfied.
"Ah, but Koenma doesn't let the fox know that I'm back," Karasu said. "He thinks to eliminate me before I can touch Kurama. Stupid toddler."
"Who's out here?" Karasu looked down to see the Spirit Detective walking out of the cave. "I'd show yourself if I were you!"
"Ah, but do you want to fight me?" Karasu asked. He moved to jump out of the tree, purposely moving some branches. Yusuke's gaze shifted to where Karasu was.
"Who's there?" he yelled, and there was defenately fear in his voice this time. Karasu leapt down from the tree. "You!"
"Yes, me," Karasu said, "Don't tell me you're not happy to see me, Yusuke." Yusuke shuddered, and began to gather the energy needed for the Spirit Gun.
"Stay away from Kurama," Yusuke said. As if on cue, Kurama's voice rang out from inside the cave where he waited.
"Yusuke? Is everything all right?"
"Fine!" Yusuke yelled. "Just fine!" He tried to hide the fear in his voice, and succeeded-barely. "You want him, you'll have to get through me first."
"Ah, but I don't want you," Karasu said. "I want Kurama to feel the pain I felt, to think what I did when I died."
"Yeah, but you won't!" Yusuke yelled. "Spirit Gun!" He hadn't been hoping for a hit, but he was still discouraged when Karasu jumped to one side.
"Do you want me to take you out now?" He waved a threatening hand. "I can arrange that, you know." He moved toward Yusuke.
"Get away!" Yusuke yelled. Karasu paused.
"That was what Kurama said to me," Karasu said. "You saw the mistake he made after that. I suggest you avoid that at all costs."
"He just got rid of another sadist that this world didn't need!" Yusuke shouted as Karasu retreated into the trees. He heard footsteps and saw Kurama and Kuwabara running out of the cave.
"Are you alright?" Kurama asked. "I heard you fire your Spirit Gun."
"It's fine . . . I mean, I'm fine," Yusuke said. Kuwabara opened his mouth, but Yusuke gave him a look that clearly said, 'later'. Kuwabara nodded, and backed away.
"I think we'd better rest," Kurama said. "I have a feeling tomorrow's going to be a big day." Yusuke glanced at Kuwabara nervously. (Does he know?) Yusuke wondered. Hah! There we go! Another one down.
Kurama: . . . You're crazy. And that's scary.
Nagem: You bet it is! *Starts making creepy signs with hands* What is Karasu planning . . . can Kurama overcome it?
Kurama: Stop it!
Hiei: Baka.
Nagem: I'll leave you alone for now, Kurama. Please review! Otherwise I will not post the next chapter!
Hiei: You meant to do that.
Nagem: I did not!!
Hiei: Yes, you did!!
Nagem: *Throws Kurama plushie* HAH! I GOT YOU!!
Hiei: Say the stupid discaimer already.
Nagem: I said you have to say it.
Hiei: Did not!
Nagem: Did too! Give me my plushie back!
Hiei: Never! And you did not!
Kurama: Because those two seem preoccupied, Nagem does not own Yu-Yu Hakusho, or anything.
Nagem: I WANT TOO, THOUGH!! I WILL IN THE END!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!! ONTO THE STORY!!!!
"Do you think we should camp here for the night?"
"How should I know, Urameshi? Ask Kurama."
"Kurama? Kurama. Kurama!"
"Huh? What did I miss?"
"We wanted to know if this is a good place to camp," Yusuke glared at Kurama. He had been staring off into nowhere for the last half-hour, while Kuwabara and Yusuke had been looking for a place to camp. "You know this place better than either of us, so . . . what do you say?" Kurama looked around at the place they had settled for the first time. He had to admit, this clearing was a good choice for a human campsite, but his Yoko side told him that there wasn't enough cover. He got up and walked over to one of the trees.
"Kurama?" Kuwabara asked. (He sure has been acting strange lately,) Kuwabara thought. (I wonder what's up.)
"I'm sorry," Kurama said. His hand rested gently on the tree. "I just thought that we might want a place with a little more cover. If any demons found us here, unguarded . . . " Yusuke winced.
"I see what you mean," he said simply. "C'mon, Kuwabara, Kurama's right, we should move into the forest."
"I didn't mean in the forest, Yusuke," Kurama said.
"Then where?" Kuwabara asked.
"I was thinking," Kurama said. "Now that I remember where we are, I've realized that I used to have a small hideout around here."
"Really?" Yusuke said. "You told us your hideout was somewhere in the mountians."
"My hideouts are all over the place," Kurama said. "Small caves, just to hide in when there were demons chasing after me. But my real home was in the deepest darkest forest in the Makai." (A/N: Don't flame me, I'm just guessing where his den was.)
"Small?" Kuwabara sounded doubtful.
"Big enough for us to fit in," Kurama said, sizing them up. "I don't think there will be any problems there."
"I hope not," Yusuke said as Kurama led them into the forest. "Hey, don't you think after all these years that there should be other demons living in the unused caves?"
"He has a point, Kurama," Kuwabara said.
"I don't think so," Kurama said. "After my little appearance at the Dark Tournament, every demon thinks I'm going to come back to the Makai and wreak havoc on them." All three of the boys grinned, and Yusuke even went so far as to laugh out loud, scaring several small birds out of a nearby tree.
"What do you mean, that's all you know?"
Hiei held one demon by the collar of his shirt, punching information out of him while he kept the other two at bay with a wall of fire. He glared at the demon he held, and the thing winced, and began to babble.
"I swear, that's it," he said. "I heard that Karasu had come back and was looking for demons, but when I came here, I couldn't find him!"
"We're all having about as much luck with this guy as you are, Hiei," one of the demons behind the firewall said. (Perhaps they haven't realized I coul easily flame them all to death from where I stand,) Hiei thought as he threw the demon he held into the fire. The thing screamed, and vanished into the flames. Hiei smirked.
"Now, tell me all you know, and I'll think about sparing your lives," Hiei told the others. They muttered to themselves, and Hiei grew angry. "You know, if I wasn't looking for information, then I would kill you all without a second glance!!" That seemed to work. They looked around, and then at him.
"Well, we know he's not in the human realm," one demon said. "But we're not sure where he is." Hiei opened his Jagan eye, and, skimming over the surface of their minds, he knew this was true. He nodded. The others looked relieved.
"Is ther anything else that you might want to tell me?"
"We know he came back to get revenge on Yoko Kurama," one of the others added. Even the best of Hiei's self-control could not keep the rage from surfacing.
"I know that!" he yelled into their faces. "Why the hell else would I be bothering with this?! I have better things to do!" (Like killing Kuwabara,) he noted mentally. He couldn't help himself. The other demons looked doubtful, and Hiei raised the firewall. They backed away from it. (Perhaps they aren't as stupid as they look,) he thought. The communicater in his pocket beeped.
"Hiei, do you have anything?" Koenma's face appeared on the screen. Behind him, Jorge was looking around nervously, and he could hear Botan yelling at someone or something.
"Is that Koenma?" one of the demons asked. Hiei made the firewall grow until it had eaten several of the demons.
"I have nothing," Hiei said. "All I know is that he isn't in the human world. Although. " He glanced over at the remaining demons. "I'm not exactly sure how truthful these demons are. They'd probably say anything to get out of death."
"Did you try and read their minds?"
"Yes, but I didn't go in very deep," Hiei said. "And the mind can lie as well, if the posseser really doesn't want to tell the truth . . . or doesn't know the truth."
"Oh, well, keep searching," Koenma told him. "Try somewhere else." Hiei smiled. "Huh? Why are you so happy?"
"I've been waiting to do this," he said. With that, he made the firewall comsume all of the demons. "Ah, they were getting on my nerves."
"Only you could take pleasure in killing someone," Koenma said. And he signed off.
"THIS is SMALL?!?!" Yusuke yelled as he, Kuwabara, and Kurama walked into the cave that Kurama had told them about. "Kurama, this thing is huge!!!"
"It was one of my smaller hideaways," Kurama said, looking around at the vine-covered walls.
"If this is his defenition of small, then I want to see a big cave," Yusuke muttered to Kuwabara. Kuwabara nodded.
"Hey, Kurama?"
"Yes, Kuwabara?"
"How do you know this place used to be yours?" Kurama pointed at a large patch of moss.
"That was my bed, when I stayed the night," he said. "It's a bit larger than when I left it, and I bet all of the treasures I left in here are gone . . . but it'll do." Yusuke knelt down and picked something up. "What is it?"
"I think . . . it's fur," Yusuke said.
"It is!" Kuwabara said. They both looked at Kurama, who blushed slightly. They both laughed at him.
"I guess I used to shed," Kurama told them. They continued to laugh. Yusuke was the first to stop. Gasping for breath and wiping his eyes, he looked at Kurama.
"Sorry," he said. "It's nothing to laugh at, but we just found it so funny. . . . " Kurama, who had stopped blushing, laughed a little bit himself.
"I know, I think I can understand," Kurama said. Then he tensed.
"What's the matter?" Yusuke asked, as Kuwabara looked around as well.
"You can feel it, too?" Kurama asked. Kuwabara nodded. Kurama turned to Yusuke. "There's a large amount of Yoki nearby. I don't know who it is, though."
"It feels familiar," Kuwabara added.
"Do you think they're looking for a fight?" Yusuke asked, his hands already moving to form the Spirit Gun. Kurama sniffed the air.
"No, I don't think so," he said. "They're just spying on us. They could be relaying information to the people we're trying to capture."
"I'll go and check," Yusuke said.
"You do that," Kuwabara said.
"And if you need help, just yell," Kurama said.
"Right," Yusuke said.
Karasu smiled. Kurama knew that he was outside the hideaway, but the poor kitsune couldn't place his energy. He heard the three talking about something inside the cave. He stopped moving around so he could hear the three Spirit Detectives.
"I'll go and check," Yusuke's voice said.
"You do that," Kuwabara's voice said.
"And if you need help, just yell," Kurama's voice said.
"Right," came Yusuke's voice again, and he heard the footsteps coming toward him. Karasu smiled. How easily he could just waltz in there and blow all of them up, getting his revenge . . . but he was more artistic than that. He'd make Kurama regret the other demon's death slowly . . . slowly . . . and then Karasu would be satisfied.
"Ah, but Koenma doesn't let the fox know that I'm back," Karasu said. "He thinks to eliminate me before I can touch Kurama. Stupid toddler."
"Who's out here?" Karasu looked down to see the Spirit Detective walking out of the cave. "I'd show yourself if I were you!"
"Ah, but do you want to fight me?" Karasu asked. He moved to jump out of the tree, purposely moving some branches. Yusuke's gaze shifted to where Karasu was.
"Who's there?" he yelled, and there was defenately fear in his voice this time. Karasu leapt down from the tree. "You!"
"Yes, me," Karasu said, "Don't tell me you're not happy to see me, Yusuke." Yusuke shuddered, and began to gather the energy needed for the Spirit Gun.
"Stay away from Kurama," Yusuke said. As if on cue, Kurama's voice rang out from inside the cave where he waited.
"Yusuke? Is everything all right?"
"Fine!" Yusuke yelled. "Just fine!" He tried to hide the fear in his voice, and succeeded-barely. "You want him, you'll have to get through me first."
"Ah, but I don't want you," Karasu said. "I want Kurama to feel the pain I felt, to think what I did when I died."
"Yeah, but you won't!" Yusuke yelled. "Spirit Gun!" He hadn't been hoping for a hit, but he was still discouraged when Karasu jumped to one side.
"Do you want me to take you out now?" He waved a threatening hand. "I can arrange that, you know." He moved toward Yusuke.
"Get away!" Yusuke yelled. Karasu paused.
"That was what Kurama said to me," Karasu said. "You saw the mistake he made after that. I suggest you avoid that at all costs."
"He just got rid of another sadist that this world didn't need!" Yusuke shouted as Karasu retreated into the trees. He heard footsteps and saw Kurama and Kuwabara running out of the cave.
"Are you alright?" Kurama asked. "I heard you fire your Spirit Gun."
"It's fine . . . I mean, I'm fine," Yusuke said. Kuwabara opened his mouth, but Yusuke gave him a look that clearly said, 'later'. Kuwabara nodded, and backed away.
"I think we'd better rest," Kurama said. "I have a feeling tomorrow's going to be a big day." Yusuke glanced at Kuwabara nervously. (Does he know?) Yusuke wondered. Hah! There we go! Another one down.
Kurama: . . . You're crazy. And that's scary.
Nagem: You bet it is! *Starts making creepy signs with hands* What is Karasu planning . . . can Kurama overcome it?
Kurama: Stop it!
Hiei: Baka.
Nagem: I'll leave you alone for now, Kurama. Please review! Otherwise I will not post the next chapter!
