I DON'T OWN THESE CHARACTERS, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO PRETEND I DO. NOW ENJOY THE FIC, AN' PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW IT!!! I also have gotten the permision to use Urako, from my good friend Fannie-dono, also known as Fanfiction Wanderer, so please please please, don't think I"m tryin' to rip her off, cause she's just that cool!!
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Riddles in Darkness
'What the hell was Shi-chan thinking!?!?' Urako thought furiously, unusually pacing in her dojo after her fight with her protege.
'Its not like him to just attack, not say a word, not even try to LEARN from our spars.... I have to go find him, maybe there's something wrong? Come to think of it, I couldn't even detect his spirit energy... Thats defenatly something to worry about, because I havn't taught him how to mask yet--and I don't think he figured it out on his own.'
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(Back in Spirit World, in Kowinma's personal chambers, Botan reviewed with her boss.)
"WAHHHHHHHT!?!?!?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S GONE MISSING!!" The tyke sized ruler of Spirit World shouted in alarm.
"What I mean sir, is that I havn't seen Shidobu for several days," Botan said meekly, her hands raised to her chest in a self defensive stance.
"Why is it that all of the new recruits seem to go missing!?" Kowinma asked rhetorically, pacing on the top of his large desk.
"I don't know sir, perhaps its because they don't have a true training program?" Orge said hopefully, trying and failing as usual to be helpful.
"BE quiet Orge, your not helping!" Kowinma snapped at the large blue fellow, who frowned at the treatment, but went about his tasks. "We need to find him Botan, Daddy will KILL me if we loose a new Detective! Especially in America!"
"Why is America so specail sir, it seems like every other place in the world..." Orge asked, to have Kowinma give him a withering stare.
"Because! America has become the demons play ground! We havn't been able to get a proper agent in there for years, and the demons have started to take over! It's like there own Spirit World there!"
"oh my," Botan whispered, her hand covering her mouth in horror.
"Yes, so we NEED to find Shidobu, and make sure he can do his job!" Kowinma continued to rant.
Botan nodded and started her trip back to the real world, ready to search for Shidobu until she found him.
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Shidobu crouched low against the rough stone of the building. He had changed much over the days. His face was sunken in, his eyes seemed like two dots in a see of unseeing white, gazing from deep caves afraid to see the light. His cheeks are sunken pits, his bones standing out harshly on now agains all to pale skin. His hands are bruised and dirty, and clutch with a some what unnatural strength at the edge of the building. His hair is very long now, covering his face like a shroud, its greasy locks matted with dirt and other things. His clothing is soiled, hanging limply over his body. Rips and tears criss cross it in several places, showing dirty pale flesh underneath. His katana seems to be the only well kept peice on him, which he caresses with one hand absently. His eyes peer silently at a dojo, in the dark, seeming to peirce its walls. His target, still his former Sensei, Urako Himora.
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Botan flew over the city, her eyes scanning the roof tops and ground. She circled several times before finally thinking she had found something. She hovering over a building looking at a dark shape over the edge of the building. She looked out and saw what the thing was looking at. 'Thats Miss Urako's dojo, does that mean this is Shidobu?' She thought, studying the thing. It looked filthy, and smelled horrible, perhaps something that might have crawled out of the sewers. "Shidobu?" Botan asked softly, her eyes hesitant as she hovered an inch or two closer.
The thing shifted, though nothing noticable changed. It had an air of seeing, and then lunged at Botan. She yelped and immiediatly flew up higher, out of reach.
"Shidobu, its me, Botan!" Botan yelled desperatly at the thing.
The thing snarls, a flash of light off of steel, as a katana is drawn, slashing at the hovering woman. She squeaks and flys higher away from the deadly blade. "Shidobu, please, listen to me," She pleads with the animalistic rouge detective.
Shidobu seems to not even hear her crys, slashing his sword furiously, leaping off of a smoke stack forcing Botan to go higher. Finally seeing that he can't harm her, he leaps off the side of the building, dissappearing before Botan can react. Only a small poof of blackness marks his passing, causing Botan to gasp.
"She couldn't.... NO!" Botan gasps as she races to Spirit world to inform Kowinma of the present development.