Disclaimer: I can only wish I owned InuYasha and Yu Yu Hakusho, but tear I don't.. So, STOP REMINDING ME ALREADY!! grumbles about stupid lawyers
(.....) Is author's note.
"...." Is character speaking.
'.....' Is character thinking.
{....}Is telepathy.
........ Is other languages. At the end there should be translations.
-People:
Yuko: Kagome
Kimiko: Sango
Mariko: Rin
Isamu: InuYasha
Nori: Sesshoumaru
Kiyoshi: Miroku
Ryo: Kouga
Takeshi: Shippou
Title: Nakama
Scroll 3, Passage 1, Part 1
"Where the hell are Yuko and Kimiko!?" Isamu yelled after a few moments of silence in Nori's office. "I swear each time they get later and later! Don't they know that this is important!?"
Kiyoshi hit Isamu with his staff. "You know they are trying to keep up appearances with everyone," Kiyoshi reminded him, "You know they can't just leave school or wherever they're at. They have to stay and make it look like they have nothing to do and nowhere to go."
"The houshi is right," Nori said from behind his desk, "If Yuko-sama and Kimiko-sama where to leave out of the blue, then the ningens will begin to wonder about them. We can't have that anymore."
"Yeah, inu! If ningens start to wonder then reikai will feel the need to poke their noses in our and their business," Takeshi pitched in after everyone said their two cents. "You know that if reikai starts to investigate then they'll eventually uncover who we really are and then all of makai will know about us and what we're guarding!"
"Shut it runt," Isamu growled at Takeshi and Takeshi immediately shut up. "Why'd you stop runt? Keep on talking that way I can cut you another hole in your face," Isamu had picked up Takeshi and hit him on the head.
"OSUWARI! How many times have I told you not to hit Takeshi-kun!" Yuko yelled at Isamu from the doorway, looking extremely pissed.
"Yuko-chan!" Takeshi cried out as he latched himself on to her legs and began telling her all about what Isamu had did.
Yuko looked about to 'osuwari' Isamu until he reached the other side of the world, but Nori cleared his throat and saved his younger brother. "Yuko-sama, calm yourself. Isamu can die after the Dark Tournament. Right now, we have business to discuss."
"Ii-desu Nori-sama," Kimiko answered for Yuko and took Takeshi's hand, "come on.. Gomen ne, but you can't be involved in this conversation Takeshi-kun."
"Aww... I wanted to stay," Takeshi whined as Kimiko led him out of the office.
"Now, we just wait for Kimiko to come back," Kiyoshi said as he sat down.
"Iie. Yuko-sama can tell her about what she missed. I do not want to waste anymore time because all of us need to start our training," Nori told him in a firm voice.
"So.. What'd ya want to talk us about?" Isamu asked in a bored manner.
"Hai, Nori-sama, what did you want to talk to us about?" Yuko asked more politely when she saw Nori's jaw clench.
"It is about the other teams that will be in the Dark Tournament," all of them sat up and gave their full attention to Nori. "My spy in reikai was able to get me the files on all the teams. I want all of you to memorize these files," he pulled out a box and put it on the table, "that way you will not make friends or become attached to what you must kill. And also, so that you may have the knowledge of their weaknesses in case you have to resort to that."
"You want us to fight like that?" Kiyoshi asked him, not believing if what he heard was true, "you want us to go in there and taunt them with their weaknesses and kill them like that!?"
"If the need arises, hai," Nori told him simply.
"Look, I've done some stupid shit, but never did I fight dishonorably!" Isamu shouted at Nori.
"You think every youkai there is going to fight fair or have your morals?" Nori asked them calmly, "in the Dark Tournament, it doesn't matter how you win as long as you win. The youkai in it fight by the same guidelines," everyone looked at the ground at hearing his true words, "morals mean nothing in those battles."
Everyone was silent for awhile, "I know that that's true," Yuko spoke up first, "but just because all the other youkai there will fight dirty, doesn't mean I will. I won't stoop to their level and throw away my morals!"
Kimiko chose this time to walk in, "...Nani?"
Kimiko just looked at everyone as they watched Yuko and Nori glare at each other, battling silently.
Nori smirked, "good.. I had to make sure you all would hold true to your beliefs. By talking back to what I said, you proved to me that you were all the same people I knew all that time ago," everyone was once again shocked at what he told them.
'He was... testing us!?' Kiyoshi thought as he watched the elegant youkai leave the office.
Everyone was silent again, "well, that redefined weird," Isamu said as he began digging through the box and pulling out file after file.
Yuko sighed at his antics as she eyed the files that were falling to the ground. A file landed on her lap and stamped across the front in big, bold, red letters were the words TOP SECRET: REIKAI TANTEI FILES. Undoing the bindings, five files fell out. Kimiko was over at her side, reading over Yuko's shoulder. One file caught her eye and she gasped.
"The forbidden child is on the reikai tantei!" She said to no one in particular as she opened the file. The read the profile slowly, looking it over. 'So, the forbidden child's name is Jaganshi Hiei, huh,' she thought as she read the file, 'Out of all the youkai I've fought, never have I had the chance to fight a Jagan user.'
Yuko looked at Kimiko after she said those words. She never believed that the higher beings in Reikai would put a forbidden child on the team. Looking back down at the files on her lap, the file on the top caught her attention. It was open to the profile of the person and one of the names under childhood friends made her gasp in shock. Kimiko's attention was drawn to her once again, and she, too, was in shock.
Childhood Friends:
- Kuwabara, Kazuma
- Yukimora, Keiko
It should be noted that Urameshi, Yusuke is still friends with the two of them. Also that Kuwabara, Kazuma is participating in the Dark Tournament of his own free will because he feels the need to help Urameshi, Yusuke. It is not known if Yukimora, Keiko will appear at the tournament, but it is likely.
Yuko dropped the file in shock at what she had just read. Sure, she knew that Keiko had a boyfriend, that sounded oddly like Isamu, but she never knew that he was a part of the Reikai Tantei. Both Yuko and Kimiko had become close to Keiko and considered her a best friend. 'But now... we will never be friends again, since we will most likely have to fight and... kill them..' Yuko thought sadly and shook her head, 'iie.. If I do that, I won't be any better than Naraku.. I have to find some way for none of them to be hurt.. No one deserves to suffer like that.'
Scroll 3, Passage 2, Part 1
"So, toddler, any reason why you called us in here from our training?" Yusuke asked the chibi ruler.
"As a matter of fact, yes there is," Koenma told Yusuke seriously. Everyone stared at him, they knew it was important since he didn't yell at Yusuke for that remark.
"Well, what is it then!?" Kuwabara asked when no one said anything.
"Shut up baka," Hiei told Kuwabara coldly, "I'm surprised you don't see how important this is."
"Make me you short bastard!" Kuwabara shouted at Hiei.
"You two really should stop fighting," Kurama said calmly, "because you two are acting like a married couple."
This immediately shut both of them up and Koenma sighed, "A spy working for the protectors of the Shikon no Tama took the files on all the teams participating in the Dark Tournament.. Including all of your files," he told them gravely.
"NANI!?" Yusuke and Kuwabara yelled at the same time.
"Why would they do that Koenma-sama?" Kurama asked the serious Koenma.
"Hn. There is only one explanation- they're participating as well," Hiei answered for the ruler.
"Hai," Koenma confirmed Hiei's words.
"Then, that means that they know all of our weaknesses and strengths," Yusuke said thoughtfully.
Koenma sighed again, "hai. They do now. And not just your weaknesses and strengths, but all the people that are close to you," everyone became shocked at these words, "so, they know who to threaten to hurt you."
'okaasan,' was the one word that passed through Kurama's mind.
'Keiko and haha,' was what went through Yusuke's mind.
'Yukina,' went through Kuwabara's and Hiei's minds at the same time.
"I sent out a few of the Reikai Special Forces to follow them from a safe distance to make sure no one harms them. Yukina is safe in the Korikai, Shizuru is still at home, both of yours mother's are fine, well as fine as they can get, and Keiko is safe. She's been going to school and hanging out with two new students at school," everyone seemed relieved at his words.
"New students? Who are they?" Yusuke asked.
"Apparently their names are Nakamura, Kimiko and Nakamura, Yuko. But, I don't think they're real because their files are too clean and the way their files are, it's like they're trying too hard to hide something and you can tell," Koenma told them as they started to get a little worried again, "but, I sent one member out to tail them to see if they could find out something more on them. I was waiting for all of you to get here and I would show you what we found out."
A screen popped up behind them and Koenma motioned for all of them to have a seat as the screen turned on.
A small, peaceful forest that had no unusual life in it, except for the two young girls. One girl had long, wavy, black hair with a bluish tint to it and blue/grey eyes. The other had long, dark brown hair and brown eyes. The one with black hair was sitting on a rock, watching the stream while the other stood off to the side, watching her.
"Yuko-chan?" the brown haired girl asked.
"Hai, Kimiko-chan?" Yuko answered.
"Why have you been so..so spaced out lately?" Kimiko asked her.
Yuko sighed, "I guess, I've been thinking about what I was able to read on that file of Urameshi, Yusuke... He's the one Keiko's dating."
Kimiko looked shocked, "the two of them!?" she shouted. "Well, I can see them together because Keiko is just like you and, from what I've heard, Yusuke is just like InuYasha. You two were totally different, yet you still feel in love, kami-sama knows how."
"Ya-ho! That's mean!.. and anyways, InuYasha chose to be with Kikyou, so you shouldn't compare the two relationships together, it's bad luck Kimiko-chan," Yuko told Kimiko in a slightly scolding way.
"So.. They really are close if you're standing up for their relationship... Keiko must be close with the other members too, then?" Sango asked her.
"Hai.. Which means that if Sesshoumaru's team and the Urameshi team meet in battle.. We can never be friends with Keiko again because..." Yuko broke off and started to tear.
"Because they'll die," Kimiko said for Yuko as if she was discussing the weather. "If those two teams meet in battle, even if they don't die, we'll never be able to look Keiko in the eye without seeing that accusation of not doing anything to stop it."
"We have to make sure that doesn't happen.. For Keiko, and for everyone else," Yuko told her.
"Everyone else?" Kimiko asked Yuko as if she had no clue as to what she was saying.
"Hai.. If Sesshoumaru and his team kill the Urameshi team, then all of us would be no better than that.. That bastard," Yuko spit out with disgust. "Because we'd be killing Keiko's, and everyone else that knows them, loved ones and making them live through life wanting revenge on everyone that had a part in it... No one needs to know that, especially her," Yuko told Kimiko quietly.
"I see.. We have to find some way to make it so that they never meet in battle, because if any do fall and they win the Tournament.. They will wish for the ones that fell to have their lives back.. And knowing Reikai, the people would be restored but could act just like.. like Kohaku(1)..." Kimiko whispered as she remembered something.
"Or like Kikyou-san(2)... Such a horrible way to live," Yuko added, just as quietly, as she remembered something too.
"Oi! What'cha you two doing out here!?" A 19 year old looking dog demon called out to them.
"Thinking! Something you need to do more InuYasha!" Kimiko shouted back at him.
InuYasha was in front of her in an instant. "Are you saying that I'm stupid onna!?" he yelled at her.
"Hai.. When are you not?" Kimiko asked him innocently.
"That look only works when Mariko does it, not you!" InuYasha flexed his claws. "I suggest you start running now."
Kimiko just yawned and InuYasha charged at her.
"InuYasha! OSUWARI!!" Yuko shouted and InuYasha kissed the dirt an inch away from Kimiko's feet.
"You never learn, do you InuYasha?" Kimiko asked him as she walked away with Yuko.
The screen became static as the video ended. Everyone looked shocked at everything they saw in that video.
"Now you see why I don't believe that those are their real names?" Koenma asked them and they nodded their heads. "You most likely will meet up with them at the Dark Tournament a couple of times, so don't cross them or else you will find yourself dead. Sesshoumaru-sama doesn't like it when his..friends are threatened or harmed. And he especially doesn't like Reikai or the Reikai Tantei. At this tournament, you'll be in a tough spot," Koenma told them, "if you piss that team off, Toguro will be the least of your worries."
Japanese words used:
houshi- monk/priest
-sama- honorific suffix, literally means lord or lady
ningen- human
inu- dog
reikai- Spirit World or Spirit Realm
makai- Demon Realm or Demon World
osuwari- command for a dog, translates roughly as 'Sit boy'
ii-desu- okay
-chan- suffix used between close female friends and young children
gomen ne- I'm sorry
-kun- suffix used between males to show familiarity
hai- yes
youkai- demon
nani?- what?
Reikai tantei- spirit detective(s)
jagan- the third eye Hiei has
iie- no (strongly)
chibi- short/small
baka- idiot/stupid
Shikon no Tama- Jewel of Four Souls, or Four Souls' Jewel
okaasan- honorific way of saying mother
haha- slanderous way of saying mother
Korikai- Ice World or Ice Realm
Kami-sama- God
Ya-ho- female way of saying 'Hey!'
Oi- male way of saying 'Hey!'
Onna- woman
1-When Kimiko says this she is thinking about how Kohaku was killed and brought back to life with no memories of his family or village. She says this because she doesn't want anyone to know what it's like to have a loved one forget all about you.
2-When Yuko says this, she is thinking about how Kikyou and InuYasha 'died' and how they were 'brought back to life' with hatred for each other and how they weren't able to let it go for awhile. She says this because she doesn't want anyone to lose a loved one only to have them brought back to life and try to kill them.
I know this doesn't really go anywhere in this chapter, but think of it as a filler chapter. It explains a few things and shows a slightly deeper side to some characters. The next chapter will be longer because it's the ending of one thing (I have no clue what to call it) and the beginning of the Dark Tournament! How exciting. And if you're wondering how I will get the main pairings going... well, you'll just have to wait and see (which means I have no clue).
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