Part three: The man with a cross shaped scar
I was about to do the same when Botan came to see me, she came to me and said. "Kei, there is something that I didn't tell you yet." I looked at Botan in concern. "Is there something else wrong?" Botan then stepped closer to me and said. "Yes, there is something wrong, but not with Rei or any of that, it is... well.... "She started to blush and I noticed she was sweating, which was unusual for her. I asked. "Come on out with it Botan, I hope I didn't do anything to upset you." Botan looked away as if to say she was hurting and then snapped her head back and drew into me so fast that I didn't have time to flinch. She kissed me on the lips long and hard. She wrapped her arms around me and kissed with passion she had never had before for anyone. I struggled in her embrace a moment but since she had me tight, I couldn't go anywhere. "MmmmmMMMmmmmmMMM." I tried to draw back and say. "What is this for but she had me and she had me good. She finally let go of my lips after 5 minutes and said. "You have stolen my heart, and I love you." I pulled away from her and was really shocked at her actions. "Botan, I um.... well this is really strange I like you too." I pulled Botan into me and hugged her. We came back out and joined the others in a game of cards.
Meanwhile back in Spirit World, Koenma was reading a report about the Break in when a siren sounded. He nearly jumped out of his seat. Jeoge came rushing in and handed Koenma a piece of paper. He read it and jumped out of his chair this time and was panicking now. "Why didn't you tell me this demon could sense Spirit Energy in the time line?" Jeoge was shocked. "Sorry Koenma, sir, we just found out now." "Iserit has just eliminated 300 people from the timeline that can use Spirit energy, we have his next targets." Jeorge handed Koenma a picture of six people. In the front row was a man with red hair and a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek, with a sword on his belt on the same side. Next to him was a girl no more then 19 years old with beautiful blue eyes and a commanding demeanor. Next to her was a guy with spiky haired and had a red head band around his head with white Gi on and his abs were taped up, so were his hands and feet to his ankles. Next to him was a 11 year old kid with a yellow kendo Gi on, with a bokudo on his back, he was smiling and holding up his hand which had a "V" shape to them. The back row had a girl no more then 16 in a ninja outfit with long braid coming from her head with ice blue eyes as well. Finally next to her was the last person in the picture. She was much older looking then the others somewhere in her mid twenties to mid thirties. She had long black hair and looked like she was a sly one like a fox. Koenma studied the picture carefully. "Do we have anything on these people?" Jeorge thought for a moment and then said. "Yes we do sir; the one with the cross-shaped scar was once called "Batuosai the man slayer". He can sense a huge amount of Spirit energy, but we don't know if he can use the energy himself." Jeorge then looked at the picture again and said. "The others, we have no information on them except they helped Kenshin atone for his past and help stop the evil Shishio from carving up Japan." Koenma got out of his seat and walked to the door to his office. "Ogre, we need to get them and bring them here to help Yusuke and the others." He then turned and opened the door and left.
In anther time and place Kenshin Himura was sitting with his friend Sanosuke Sagara, outside the Kamyia Dojo talking about how they almost died at the hands of Makato Shishio, when Kenshin sensed something wasn't right. He stood up and walked to the small pond by the Dojo and listened to the wind. Sano looked up as Kenshin rose and asked Kenshin. "Hey, Kenshin what is it?" Kenshin looked over at Sano and said. "There is something wrong here, it is as if I can sense spirits coming to life that I can." As he spoke those words a vortex of blue light appeared to the right side of Kenshin and a demon minion stepped out of it. It was black and looked like a devil with horns from some huge bore. It smiled evilly and turned to face Kenshin. Sano was right beside him at this point. "Well, well, well, it looks like we get to blow off steam after all." Sano said as he made a run at the demon. The demon put up his hand and Sano hit an invisible barrier and flew backwards against the Dojo wall. Kenshin drew his reverse- blade sword and got ready. "Who are you and what you do you want here?" Kenshin demanded. The demon put his hand down and said in a deep guttural voice. "I am here to kill you, Kenshin Himura." "I don't think you will have time to kill me, as to your energy is too weak to face me." Kenshin said using his "Batousai" eyes to freeze the demon. Just as Kenshin was about to strike, Karou and Misao walked out from the inside of the Dojo to tell Kenshin he could get dinner ready when they saw the demon. They screamed in fright and Misao produced her Katas and rushed the demon. She came at him low as if to strike from the midsection, but when she got within 3 feet of him she straightened up and jumped. Throwing her Katas at the demon. They sailed toward the demon, which could not move, but they hit and bounced off. Misao stopped her charge and got confused. "What the .... Hey I threw those with everything I had and they bounced off him, what's the deal Himura?" Kenshin got bugged eyed and said. "I don't think you should be out her Miss Misao, this is no place for a young girl like yourself, that it is not." Misao walked over to Kenshin and screamed at him. "Argh, Himura, I am 16 years old and I can fight, and you know that, why you treating me like a kid?" The demon fell over. "Hey." But Misao ignored the demon and continued to yell at Kenshin. "Himura, I swear, I am going to take that sword of yours and sell it like I should have in the first place." The demon got up and said. "Hey I am talking here." Kenshin noticed the demon and got ready, but Misao was still screaming at Kenshin. The demon walked up behind Misao and smacked her on her ass. Misao blushed at first and turned around to see who had done that, and saw the demon waving his hand at her, and smiling. She got a confused look on her face and got really embarrassed. "Hey, pervert, what did you do that for?" She screamed at the demon. The demon smiled more and said. "You all were not paying attention to me so I decided to do something so you all would see me again." Kenshin went over to Misao and patted her on the shoulder. "Now, I am sorry I was treating you like a kid, Miss Misao, but it is dangerous for you to be here with that demon here." The demon tried to walk up behind Kenshin but was hit from behind by a small rock. The demon turned around and saw two people coming up from the entrance to the Dojo. One was a woman with long flowing black hair, and a doctor smock on, the other was a little shorted then the woman, with spiky hair and a yellow Gi on with green samurai pants on, with a Kendo stick on his back. Megumi and Yahiko had come back see how everyone was. Megumi was coming from the clinic she works at and Yahiko was coming back from seeing Tsabame.
"Now we can't have guests who are rude to their hosts, now can we?" Yahiko said as he produced his kendo stick and held it ready to strike. The demon rushed him, which was countered by Yahiko striking the first blow with a hit to the head and then he feinted to the right and swung from his left, which caught the demon in the midsection. The demon groaned once and fell over and laid still. "Alright, that guy was nothing." Yahiko said as he walked up to Kenshin. Kenshin looked at the demon and smiled at Yahiko. "Nice work, Yahiko, you have improved since yesterday." Karou joined Kenshin and Yahiko to see a small pill box drop from the demon's left pocket on his back. "Hey what's this?" Asked Sano as he came up to see the demon as well. Everyone turned to him and saw the pill box that he had taken from the ground. "It looks like the demon has a condition, or something." Megumi said as she walked over to Sano and held out her hand. Sano looked at her with a confused look. "What is it, Megumi?" Sano opened the box and saw five small pills in it. He took one and examined it for a minute. He then was about to ingest it when a powerful force hit him from behind, which made him drop the pill. "Hey!? That hurt you know." Megumi scooped the reaming pills up and said. "Don't put foreign stuff in your mouth, HN I swear I think I am friends with a little boy not a man." Sano's face sank and got the "I really didn't mean to" look as he got up from the ground and went out see if Megumi could find out what the pills were. Megumi had put the pills in a small towel she had with her, and then produced a razor edged tool. She spliced the pill in half. She squealed in excitement and horror at what she had found. Everyone rushed to her side and were all peering down at the spliced pill. "What is it?" Asked Kenshin. Megumi smiled like the fox she was and said. "This is most incredible, this compound that is made from the pill is opium and some other chemicals I can't identify, but if you wanted to kill someone and look as if it was an accident, drop two of them in their drink and they will dissolve and leave no trace. Just then they all heard a small boy's voice pierce the air. "So that is how they are doing it." The boy appeared in front of Kenshin and looked up at him. Karou and Misao looked at the toddler and screamed again, and backed up. "Where....where did you come from?" Asked Karou. Koenma turned to her and said. "I came from the Spirit World to ask you all a favor." Everyone at this point had come over to the little boyish person and was staring at him. Misao picked up a stick and started to poke him. "I think he is a puppet, no boy could have that good of speech at his age." Koenma was fending off the stick but got real irritated and then screamed at her. "HEY, stop that, I have important news fro you all to hear!" Misao jumped back in surprise and then got a hurt look on her face like she was going to cry. Kenshin saw this and got bug eyed and came over and tried to tell her it was ok, but as he was doing so she screamed at him. Himura, this all your fault, IF you had only told me where Lord Ashoi was the first time I wouldn't have fallen for you!!!" Everyone sweat dropped as she said that. Koenma cleared his throat and they all turned back to him. "OK, first I would like to thank you for helping us captured that guy." He pointed to the demon. "We have been receiving reports about unnatural deaths in the timeline and could not explain why, until we found out that this guy had escaped our prison, and was no where in our time. We couldn't explain the deaths, only that there was no trace of any poison in their blood, but now we know what to look for."
Back in the modern world Botan and I were having our time to ourselves at the mall. It had been three days since she had kissed me and expressed her love for me, and in that time I had realized that she was making me happy just by being there and around me. I was happy every time she smiled, and comforted her when she was sad, which was a weird concept if you knew she was the grim reaper. You would never have guess she was a normal teenage girl with wants and hopes too. We were rounding the corner by Suncoast when a huge crash was heard all over the mall. We quickly went to find out what it was. We finally came to the open area that looked over the ice rink at Diamond Center, and saw an awful sight. A huge demon with fanged shoulders was clutching a girl no more then 12 years old in his hand. He turned towards us and saw me and Botan. He opened his mouth and out spewed fire. It engulfed 5 onlookers as if they were nothing at all. They blew apart like paper in the wind. As the fire came towards us we jumped out of the way. I got up and got in front of Botan and told her to go get help. As she was running away, the demon saw her and he glared at her with his eyes, which produced blue beams that lanced out to strike her down. I jumped din front of the beams which hit me and blew me back into the wall. I moaned in pain and Botan ran to me. "Oh, Kei, are you ok?" She asked. I nodded yes. "Go, get Yusuke I need his help." She nodded and kissed me on the cheek and then vanished. I ran along the side towards the hall leading to Boscos. I ran into the store and borrowed a Katana from them telling them I would pay for it if it got damaged. As I was coming out of the store, the demon fired his eye beams again, which I blocked, but the spill off from he blocked energy hit my left arm and burned me. I howled in pain and dropped the Katana, and grabbed my arm and fell to the floor. The demon rushed me then and tried to hit me. I grabbed the sword up and tried to strike at him but he was too fast and hit me with his fist in the chest, which sent me flying towards the glass widow at Boscos, but before I hit the glass he came up behind me and kneed me in the back. I heard a loud cracking sound as three of my ribs broke and I went down to the floor. "Now do you give up, pathetic human?" He asked me. I coughed up blood and got to my knees. "Never, you bastard, you kill 5 innocent people and you want me to give up?!" "I will fight you till I either die or pass out first." I told him. He laughed and rushed me drawing back his fist, which started to glow. I got up and held the Katana at the ready, it started to glow. The demon came in to the left and was closing fast. I moved forward sluggishly, but only to conceal my power to move fast. He was within 6 inches from me when he threw his punch. I disappeared and reappeared right in front of him and slashed out with my sword which struck in the right rib, the energy that had been stored in the sword exploded out and ripped though the demon's right side. As I was finishing my swing his fist that had been glowing hit me across my face, and the energy that was in his fist exploded and we both went flying in opposite directions and we both laid still. After like what seem twenty minutes, a portal opened and out stepped Yusuke and the others with Botan. They looked around and saw me and the demon both not moving and both hurting badly. Botan rushed to me, as did Rei, after looking at Yusuke. "Oh my god, Kei is you alright?" Botan asked franticly as she held me ion her arms. Rei blinked and said to Botan. "Hey, let my try something." Botan put me down and Rei put her hands on my chest, found I was still breathing, but it was labored. Rei concentrated and her hands began to glow and my body began to glow with her touch. My breathing became better and I opened my eyes and saw my beautiful Botan looking at me with concern. Rei stopped whatever she was doing to me and took a deep breath as if she had just ran a marathon, and fell over. I tried to get up but the pain from my broken ribs was too great. I looked over at Rei and saw her resting on the floor. Her cute fox ears still on her head. Botan came over to me and kissed my cheek. "Are you ok, darling?" She asked me. I smiled and put my hand on her face and brushed away the tears. "Yes but I don't think I will be running any marathons anytime soon." Hiei had come up to us and gave me a sneer. "I am surprised Ningen, you didn't get killed, with that demon right there, he is one of the best at killing humans." Kurama came over to me and said. "I hope you didn't injure yourself too severely, I was not supposed to tell you this but Rei was worried about you." I looked down and her sleeping, and put my hand on her head. "Oh, well I am ok I guess, if you think getting beat up by a semi truck as being ok." Kurama laughed at that, which woke up Rei. She sat up and yawned, then looked over at me. She blushed at me and then got up and dusted herself off and ran over to Yusuke. Kurama turned to Botan and said. "Botan, I think we can handle it from here, why don't you take Keiichi to the hospital for treatment." Botan nodded in agreement, and picked me up and took up her oar and we both disappeared.
Back in the Meji era of Japan, Koenma was addressing Kenshin and his group when someone from Spirit World appeared and gave Koenma a note. "Iserit is attacking now and you didn't tell me!?" He screamed at the messenger. The messenger shrank back and said. Sorry, sir, we just learned that Kei and Botan were attacked by one of Iserit's minions, without warning. Kei is in critical condition in the hospital after the fight and the demon is being transported to the Spirit World now by Kurama and Hiei." Koenma then straightened. "Tell Hiei to have to demon ready for questioning when they get there." Koenma then turned back to Kenshin. "With all that is going on in the timeline and in the present day, we need someone of your skills to detect the demon long before they strike." Kenshin pondered this for a moment and Sano came up to him and asked. "Hey, there pip squeak, are you telling us that time travel is possible and there are demons like this one running round in the time line causing deaths that aren't supposed to happen, and we are to help you fight some demon named Iserit?" Koenma nodded. "Yes, Sanouske, we need your help in finding them, and we also need you to guard a person for us till he is better." With that Koenma opened a portal and said. "This is the doorway to the world I am from, we need your help in finding the demon Iserit, and stop him from using the bracelet he has with him." Kenshin got up and started to walk over to Karou. "Now Miss Karou, I don't know if you should go with us, it might be even more dangerous in the future then we know about." Kaoru walked over to the portal and stepped in without saying a word to Kenshin. "Man she seems determined to go." Yahiko said as he ran into it as well. Kenshin sighed and looked at Megumi and Sano. "Well I guess we have to go to now, that we do." He then walked over to the portal and stepped in. Sano and Megumi behind him.
A few hours after the incident at the mall, I was in the hospital recovering. Everyone was there, Hiei and Kurama and Yusuke were there talking to themselves about how the demon knew where to find Botan and me, while Botan and Rei were talking to me. "So are you all right, Kei?" Asked Rei. I said to her and placed a hand on Botan's cheek to stop her from worrying. "Yes, I am fine I just need at least 5 months to recover from this attack." Kurama had overheard what I told Rei and walked over to us. "Actually we need you ready to go within three months; GenKai wants to train you to fight Iserit." "What the hell is that old hag want with him?" Asked Yusuke. "It appears that he has some spirit powers like yours, but he has a unique way of using it." "Instead of using it like you for a blast of energy like a gun or sword shaped energy form like Kuwabara, he can use objects to empower them with his energy and release that energy when he strikes." Yusuke was taken aback by this statement. "You are telling my that the hole on the side of that demon wasn't caused by a spirit blast like mine, and his sword that he used at the time was the powered by his spirit energy and it made the hole?" Kurama nodded and walked back over to Hiei. Yusuke stared at me and grinned, thinking to himself. "Man that guy is tougher then he looks."
I was about to do the same when Botan came to see me, she came to me and said. "Kei, there is something that I didn't tell you yet." I looked at Botan in concern. "Is there something else wrong?" Botan then stepped closer to me and said. "Yes, there is something wrong, but not with Rei or any of that, it is... well.... "She started to blush and I noticed she was sweating, which was unusual for her. I asked. "Come on out with it Botan, I hope I didn't do anything to upset you." Botan looked away as if to say she was hurting and then snapped her head back and drew into me so fast that I didn't have time to flinch. She kissed me on the lips long and hard. She wrapped her arms around me and kissed with passion she had never had before for anyone. I struggled in her embrace a moment but since she had me tight, I couldn't go anywhere. "MmmmmMMMmmmmmMMM." I tried to draw back and say. "What is this for but she had me and she had me good. She finally let go of my lips after 5 minutes and said. "You have stolen my heart, and I love you." I pulled away from her and was really shocked at her actions. "Botan, I um.... well this is really strange I like you too." I pulled Botan into me and hugged her. We came back out and joined the others in a game of cards.
Meanwhile back in Spirit World, Koenma was reading a report about the Break in when a siren sounded. He nearly jumped out of his seat. Jeoge came rushing in and handed Koenma a piece of paper. He read it and jumped out of his chair this time and was panicking now. "Why didn't you tell me this demon could sense Spirit Energy in the time line?" Jeoge was shocked. "Sorry Koenma, sir, we just found out now." "Iserit has just eliminated 300 people from the timeline that can use Spirit energy, we have his next targets." Jeorge handed Koenma a picture of six people. In the front row was a man with red hair and a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek, with a sword on his belt on the same side. Next to him was a girl no more then 19 years old with beautiful blue eyes and a commanding demeanor. Next to her was a guy with spiky haired and had a red head band around his head with white Gi on and his abs were taped up, so were his hands and feet to his ankles. Next to him was a 11 year old kid with a yellow kendo Gi on, with a bokudo on his back, he was smiling and holding up his hand which had a "V" shape to them. The back row had a girl no more then 16 in a ninja outfit with long braid coming from her head with ice blue eyes as well. Finally next to her was the last person in the picture. She was much older looking then the others somewhere in her mid twenties to mid thirties. She had long black hair and looked like she was a sly one like a fox. Koenma studied the picture carefully. "Do we have anything on these people?" Jeorge thought for a moment and then said. "Yes we do sir; the one with the cross-shaped scar was once called "Batuosai the man slayer". He can sense a huge amount of Spirit energy, but we don't know if he can use the energy himself." Jeorge then looked at the picture again and said. "The others, we have no information on them except they helped Kenshin atone for his past and help stop the evil Shishio from carving up Japan." Koenma got out of his seat and walked to the door to his office. "Ogre, we need to get them and bring them here to help Yusuke and the others." He then turned and opened the door and left.
In anther time and place Kenshin Himura was sitting with his friend Sanosuke Sagara, outside the Kamyia Dojo talking about how they almost died at the hands of Makato Shishio, when Kenshin sensed something wasn't right. He stood up and walked to the small pond by the Dojo and listened to the wind. Sano looked up as Kenshin rose and asked Kenshin. "Hey, Kenshin what is it?" Kenshin looked over at Sano and said. "There is something wrong here, it is as if I can sense spirits coming to life that I can." As he spoke those words a vortex of blue light appeared to the right side of Kenshin and a demon minion stepped out of it. It was black and looked like a devil with horns from some huge bore. It smiled evilly and turned to face Kenshin. Sano was right beside him at this point. "Well, well, well, it looks like we get to blow off steam after all." Sano said as he made a run at the demon. The demon put up his hand and Sano hit an invisible barrier and flew backwards against the Dojo wall. Kenshin drew his reverse- blade sword and got ready. "Who are you and what you do you want here?" Kenshin demanded. The demon put his hand down and said in a deep guttural voice. "I am here to kill you, Kenshin Himura." "I don't think you will have time to kill me, as to your energy is too weak to face me." Kenshin said using his "Batousai" eyes to freeze the demon. Just as Kenshin was about to strike, Karou and Misao walked out from the inside of the Dojo to tell Kenshin he could get dinner ready when they saw the demon. They screamed in fright and Misao produced her Katas and rushed the demon. She came at him low as if to strike from the midsection, but when she got within 3 feet of him she straightened up and jumped. Throwing her Katas at the demon. They sailed toward the demon, which could not move, but they hit and bounced off. Misao stopped her charge and got confused. "What the .... Hey I threw those with everything I had and they bounced off him, what's the deal Himura?" Kenshin got bugged eyed and said. "I don't think you should be out her Miss Misao, this is no place for a young girl like yourself, that it is not." Misao walked over to Kenshin and screamed at him. "Argh, Himura, I am 16 years old and I can fight, and you know that, why you treating me like a kid?" The demon fell over. "Hey." But Misao ignored the demon and continued to yell at Kenshin. "Himura, I swear, I am going to take that sword of yours and sell it like I should have in the first place." The demon got up and said. "Hey I am talking here." Kenshin noticed the demon and got ready, but Misao was still screaming at Kenshin. The demon walked up behind Misao and smacked her on her ass. Misao blushed at first and turned around to see who had done that, and saw the demon waving his hand at her, and smiling. She got a confused look on her face and got really embarrassed. "Hey, pervert, what did you do that for?" She screamed at the demon. The demon smiled more and said. "You all were not paying attention to me so I decided to do something so you all would see me again." Kenshin went over to Misao and patted her on the shoulder. "Now, I am sorry I was treating you like a kid, Miss Misao, but it is dangerous for you to be here with that demon here." The demon tried to walk up behind Kenshin but was hit from behind by a small rock. The demon turned around and saw two people coming up from the entrance to the Dojo. One was a woman with long flowing black hair, and a doctor smock on, the other was a little shorted then the woman, with spiky hair and a yellow Gi on with green samurai pants on, with a Kendo stick on his back. Megumi and Yahiko had come back see how everyone was. Megumi was coming from the clinic she works at and Yahiko was coming back from seeing Tsabame.
"Now we can't have guests who are rude to their hosts, now can we?" Yahiko said as he produced his kendo stick and held it ready to strike. The demon rushed him, which was countered by Yahiko striking the first blow with a hit to the head and then he feinted to the right and swung from his left, which caught the demon in the midsection. The demon groaned once and fell over and laid still. "Alright, that guy was nothing." Yahiko said as he walked up to Kenshin. Kenshin looked at the demon and smiled at Yahiko. "Nice work, Yahiko, you have improved since yesterday." Karou joined Kenshin and Yahiko to see a small pill box drop from the demon's left pocket on his back. "Hey what's this?" Asked Sano as he came up to see the demon as well. Everyone turned to him and saw the pill box that he had taken from the ground. "It looks like the demon has a condition, or something." Megumi said as she walked over to Sano and held out her hand. Sano looked at her with a confused look. "What is it, Megumi?" Sano opened the box and saw five small pills in it. He took one and examined it for a minute. He then was about to ingest it when a powerful force hit him from behind, which made him drop the pill. "Hey!? That hurt you know." Megumi scooped the reaming pills up and said. "Don't put foreign stuff in your mouth, HN I swear I think I am friends with a little boy not a man." Sano's face sank and got the "I really didn't mean to" look as he got up from the ground and went out see if Megumi could find out what the pills were. Megumi had put the pills in a small towel she had with her, and then produced a razor edged tool. She spliced the pill in half. She squealed in excitement and horror at what she had found. Everyone rushed to her side and were all peering down at the spliced pill. "What is it?" Asked Kenshin. Megumi smiled like the fox she was and said. "This is most incredible, this compound that is made from the pill is opium and some other chemicals I can't identify, but if you wanted to kill someone and look as if it was an accident, drop two of them in their drink and they will dissolve and leave no trace. Just then they all heard a small boy's voice pierce the air. "So that is how they are doing it." The boy appeared in front of Kenshin and looked up at him. Karou and Misao looked at the toddler and screamed again, and backed up. "Where....where did you come from?" Asked Karou. Koenma turned to her and said. "I came from the Spirit World to ask you all a favor." Everyone at this point had come over to the little boyish person and was staring at him. Misao picked up a stick and started to poke him. "I think he is a puppet, no boy could have that good of speech at his age." Koenma was fending off the stick but got real irritated and then screamed at her. "HEY, stop that, I have important news fro you all to hear!" Misao jumped back in surprise and then got a hurt look on her face like she was going to cry. Kenshin saw this and got bug eyed and came over and tried to tell her it was ok, but as he was doing so she screamed at him. Himura, this all your fault, IF you had only told me where Lord Ashoi was the first time I wouldn't have fallen for you!!!" Everyone sweat dropped as she said that. Koenma cleared his throat and they all turned back to him. "OK, first I would like to thank you for helping us captured that guy." He pointed to the demon. "We have been receiving reports about unnatural deaths in the timeline and could not explain why, until we found out that this guy had escaped our prison, and was no where in our time. We couldn't explain the deaths, only that there was no trace of any poison in their blood, but now we know what to look for."
Back in the modern world Botan and I were having our time to ourselves at the mall. It had been three days since she had kissed me and expressed her love for me, and in that time I had realized that she was making me happy just by being there and around me. I was happy every time she smiled, and comforted her when she was sad, which was a weird concept if you knew she was the grim reaper. You would never have guess she was a normal teenage girl with wants and hopes too. We were rounding the corner by Suncoast when a huge crash was heard all over the mall. We quickly went to find out what it was. We finally came to the open area that looked over the ice rink at Diamond Center, and saw an awful sight. A huge demon with fanged shoulders was clutching a girl no more then 12 years old in his hand. He turned towards us and saw me and Botan. He opened his mouth and out spewed fire. It engulfed 5 onlookers as if they were nothing at all. They blew apart like paper in the wind. As the fire came towards us we jumped out of the way. I got up and got in front of Botan and told her to go get help. As she was running away, the demon saw her and he glared at her with his eyes, which produced blue beams that lanced out to strike her down. I jumped din front of the beams which hit me and blew me back into the wall. I moaned in pain and Botan ran to me. "Oh, Kei, are you ok?" She asked. I nodded yes. "Go, get Yusuke I need his help." She nodded and kissed me on the cheek and then vanished. I ran along the side towards the hall leading to Boscos. I ran into the store and borrowed a Katana from them telling them I would pay for it if it got damaged. As I was coming out of the store, the demon fired his eye beams again, which I blocked, but the spill off from he blocked energy hit my left arm and burned me. I howled in pain and dropped the Katana, and grabbed my arm and fell to the floor. The demon rushed me then and tried to hit me. I grabbed the sword up and tried to strike at him but he was too fast and hit me with his fist in the chest, which sent me flying towards the glass widow at Boscos, but before I hit the glass he came up behind me and kneed me in the back. I heard a loud cracking sound as three of my ribs broke and I went down to the floor. "Now do you give up, pathetic human?" He asked me. I coughed up blood and got to my knees. "Never, you bastard, you kill 5 innocent people and you want me to give up?!" "I will fight you till I either die or pass out first." I told him. He laughed and rushed me drawing back his fist, which started to glow. I got up and held the Katana at the ready, it started to glow. The demon came in to the left and was closing fast. I moved forward sluggishly, but only to conceal my power to move fast. He was within 6 inches from me when he threw his punch. I disappeared and reappeared right in front of him and slashed out with my sword which struck in the right rib, the energy that had been stored in the sword exploded out and ripped though the demon's right side. As I was finishing my swing his fist that had been glowing hit me across my face, and the energy that was in his fist exploded and we both went flying in opposite directions and we both laid still. After like what seem twenty minutes, a portal opened and out stepped Yusuke and the others with Botan. They looked around and saw me and the demon both not moving and both hurting badly. Botan rushed to me, as did Rei, after looking at Yusuke. "Oh my god, Kei is you alright?" Botan asked franticly as she held me ion her arms. Rei blinked and said to Botan. "Hey, let my try something." Botan put me down and Rei put her hands on my chest, found I was still breathing, but it was labored. Rei concentrated and her hands began to glow and my body began to glow with her touch. My breathing became better and I opened my eyes and saw my beautiful Botan looking at me with concern. Rei stopped whatever she was doing to me and took a deep breath as if she had just ran a marathon, and fell over. I tried to get up but the pain from my broken ribs was too great. I looked over at Rei and saw her resting on the floor. Her cute fox ears still on her head. Botan came over to me and kissed my cheek. "Are you ok, darling?" She asked me. I smiled and put my hand on her face and brushed away the tears. "Yes but I don't think I will be running any marathons anytime soon." Hiei had come up to us and gave me a sneer. "I am surprised Ningen, you didn't get killed, with that demon right there, he is one of the best at killing humans." Kurama came over to me and said. "I hope you didn't injure yourself too severely, I was not supposed to tell you this but Rei was worried about you." I looked down and her sleeping, and put my hand on her head. "Oh, well I am ok I guess, if you think getting beat up by a semi truck as being ok." Kurama laughed at that, which woke up Rei. She sat up and yawned, then looked over at me. She blushed at me and then got up and dusted herself off and ran over to Yusuke. Kurama turned to Botan and said. "Botan, I think we can handle it from here, why don't you take Keiichi to the hospital for treatment." Botan nodded in agreement, and picked me up and took up her oar and we both disappeared.
Back in the Meji era of Japan, Koenma was addressing Kenshin and his group when someone from Spirit World appeared and gave Koenma a note. "Iserit is attacking now and you didn't tell me!?" He screamed at the messenger. The messenger shrank back and said. Sorry, sir, we just learned that Kei and Botan were attacked by one of Iserit's minions, without warning. Kei is in critical condition in the hospital after the fight and the demon is being transported to the Spirit World now by Kurama and Hiei." Koenma then straightened. "Tell Hiei to have to demon ready for questioning when they get there." Koenma then turned back to Kenshin. "With all that is going on in the timeline and in the present day, we need someone of your skills to detect the demon long before they strike." Kenshin pondered this for a moment and Sano came up to him and asked. "Hey, there pip squeak, are you telling us that time travel is possible and there are demons like this one running round in the time line causing deaths that aren't supposed to happen, and we are to help you fight some demon named Iserit?" Koenma nodded. "Yes, Sanouske, we need your help in finding them, and we also need you to guard a person for us till he is better." With that Koenma opened a portal and said. "This is the doorway to the world I am from, we need your help in finding the demon Iserit, and stop him from using the bracelet he has with him." Kenshin got up and started to walk over to Karou. "Now Miss Karou, I don't know if you should go with us, it might be even more dangerous in the future then we know about." Kaoru walked over to the portal and stepped in without saying a word to Kenshin. "Man she seems determined to go." Yahiko said as he ran into it as well. Kenshin sighed and looked at Megumi and Sano. "Well I guess we have to go to now, that we do." He then walked over to the portal and stepped in. Sano and Megumi behind him.
A few hours after the incident at the mall, I was in the hospital recovering. Everyone was there, Hiei and Kurama and Yusuke were there talking to themselves about how the demon knew where to find Botan and me, while Botan and Rei were talking to me. "So are you all right, Kei?" Asked Rei. I said to her and placed a hand on Botan's cheek to stop her from worrying. "Yes, I am fine I just need at least 5 months to recover from this attack." Kurama had overheard what I told Rei and walked over to us. "Actually we need you ready to go within three months; GenKai wants to train you to fight Iserit." "What the hell is that old hag want with him?" Asked Yusuke. "It appears that he has some spirit powers like yours, but he has a unique way of using it." "Instead of using it like you for a blast of energy like a gun or sword shaped energy form like Kuwabara, he can use objects to empower them with his energy and release that energy when he strikes." Yusuke was taken aback by this statement. "You are telling my that the hole on the side of that demon wasn't caused by a spirit blast like mine, and his sword that he used at the time was the powered by his spirit energy and it made the hole?" Kurama nodded and walked back over to Hiei. Yusuke stared at me and grinned, thinking to himself. "Man that guy is tougher then he looks."
