Where it all Started

Author: The Freak - Freak Moister
Warnings: This story contains yaoi PG - 13 for now.
Disclaimer: All Yu Yu Hakusho characters belong to Yoshihiro Togashi
Also the throne name "Dragon Throne" and territory name "Alaric" belongs to Mina Lightstar
Summary: All great journeys begin with the first step; well here it is my first step in this hopefully interesting expanded series of YYH. See it as YYH book 3 if you want. As the three worlds settle down for a long time in several hundreds of years, new mysterious happenings around the Makai bring about unrest in the Reikai and Makai. Is this just another ambitious lord who wishes the impossible or something more sinister that no one has yet suspect. As the dark menace slowly spreads it's cruel fingers and the people of the three worlds slowly being lured into its grasp can anyone stop it's unrelenting stride or will the darkness once again spread it's poison into the hard won peace.

By the time Mukuro had finished talking to Murishiko her mood had not lifted a bit, in fact it made it worse because now she was even sure that there is something fishy going on in Silvana and not only did Murishiko know he was covering it up. Just then another thought struck her, Mukuro wondered if it had been such a good idea to Murishiko know that she had found out about the bandits, it may spur him into action to destroy the evidences and cover up his tracks.

Just then a green light flashed on the console of the communicators control board on line one, line two's light came one almost right after. A crackling sound could be heard on the board before Muzui's voice came out of the speaker.

"Call on line one from Enki-sama and call from Yomi-sama on line two."

Mukuro's eyebrows rose and wondered briefly why the two lords would be contacting at this time of the day, nothing important had happened lately. Quickly thumbing the two lines Yomi and Enki face appeared on the screen which Murishiko's had been on a moment ago.

"Hello Enki, Ear-boy."

"Honestly Mukuro I do have a name..." Yomi protested mildly with the years of experience he had dealing with said name.

"Ah, save it for someone who cares..."

"Mukuro, Yomi I would appreciate it if you'll stop this childish banter, I did not contact you two to be judge to your petty arguments, we've got more pressing matters." Leave it to Enki to be formal...was the common thought, however they complied and Mukuro leaned back on her seat.

After a moment of pause Enki began again, "I'm not sure if you have heard Mukuro but there has lately been on disturbances in our land. It has something to do with small bands of youkai who are raiding border villages. Yomi had just spoken to me and there seemed to be not only one group about but several and they are related and in contact with each other."

Mukuro's ears immediately perked up; sitting up from her slouched position on the chair Mukuro suddenly became very interested in the conversation, or was it that the conversation became interesting. Mukuro didn't know and didn't cared. Enki eyed Mukuro sensing the sudden perk in interest.

"You know..."

"Only just then. Kogaru came in fuming like a boiling kettle; mind you it was a rather funny sight. When did you guys found out?"

"I also just found out a moment ago from Yomi..."

"Ah yes, I believe I'm the first this time..." Yomi looked rather smug to Mukuro, "Anyway as I was saying to Enki, I'm not actually calling from Gandarra, I'm currently traveling and inspecting my...properties and hey ho, just yesterday did I arrive at Giochi and was immediately attacked by them bandits, rather unfortunately for them I must say." Enki snorted then and Mukuro rolled her eyes. The guy's full of it...

Enki continued the story from there, "As you know Giochi is a border town between my and Yomi's territories and after studying their habits for attack and retreat we've established that they cross borders in order to escape pursuit. Does that strike a bell Mukuro?"

Oh it certainly does..."How are you certain that there's more than one group and that they're related?"

"Oh that's rather simple, as I said I was attacked yesterday right. So after some the bandits were captured and question - which naturally gave me quite a bit of insight, I sent out a number of spies and they reported back this morning." Yomi retreated back from the camera then, reaching for something out of range of the camera. "The problem seemed more serious than I first thought it was...," he continued before swinging back into view with a piece of paper in his hands. It was a map of his territory with several large red Xs drawn on the borders. "They overheard one of the leaders talking about sending messages to these places and they were also talking about recruiting some more youkai as it is." Showing the map to the other two lords, Yomi pointed to the various crosses and said, "If you look closer, most of these spots are on main trading routes or in mountainous or forest areas. So that's either good pickings or easy hiding. Giochi is a trading town, the bandit group that attack wasn't so bit but certainly larger than usual about 70 to 100 youkais approximately..."

Mukuro frowned. Kogaru had said that the bandit group that attacked his border villages was rather large, like a small army that would need to be at least several hundred. The only thing that didn't match was the size of the group. Then again the border between Aulam and Silvana was a dense forest, which would fall into the easy hiding category, maybe that allowed then to have a bigger group. "Have you confirmed the other sites yet?"