AN: This chapter was kindda long, like all the other chapters in this story…. So I broke it into two pieces. Enjoy!
Something is not quiet right…
Chapter 1: Where in the Worlds is Hiei? (part 2)
Yusuke sneezed.
"I'd say 'bless you', but you happen to be Urameshi Yusuke and that kind of thing doesn't fit your character." Kurama remarked.
"Geez, you're starting to sound like Hiei! Speaking of which, where the hell is that little bastard!? God! We must have searched this city five times, the Spirit Realm three, and the Demon Realm seven!" Yusuke exploded, throwing his hands into the air in defeat. It wasn't as if Hiei had been missing long, he'd only been gone ten days. But what was making Yusuke and the others so stressed was the simple fact that Hiei was missing. They wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't been for the fact that Hiei never showed up for his "appointment" at Kurama's house.
"I can't sense him anywhere! We even have Genkai helping and there's not even a clue! Its almost as if he got kidnapped and the kidnapper never even touched the ground…." Kuwabara was, oddly, the most worried about Hiei. 'I thought he was too strong to get himself kidnapped, and here is missing! Something is very subtly desperate about this. Somebody needs Hiei so bad they had to kidnap him, but why? And of all the people in the world, Hiei?' Kuwabara though to himself. No-one would listen to him when he said that whoever had Hiei was not about to give him away, whoever it was needed him.
"Kuwabara, have you sensed anything about this?" Genkai asked him in a gruff tone. She had joined the search yesterday. All the information they had about it they told which consisted of: he's been missing nine days, we've looked everywhere, and done everything we could to find him.
"Yeah, somebody's desperate. I mean, like, Hiei is life or death for them or something!" Kuwabara was finally happy to get through to someone.
"I see…. Where have you searched in the other worlds?"
"Everywhere!" The boys retorted for the millionth time.
"Even the Land of Glaciers?"
"Yes, Yukina was our guide." Kurama answered.
"Hey Ba-san, since when did you know places in the other worlds?" Yusuke was curious, but he was rude, as usual, about asking.
"My first trip to the Dark Tournament, my second trip, my death, and knowing Koenma helps." She glared at him for not noticing the obvious. "Have you searched through Crystila?"
"What the hell are you talking about!? That doesn't exist!" Yusuke snapped.
"No, we haven't been there." Kurama uttered softly.
"What!? It does exist!? Talk fox-boy!"
"Well the people who live there are very isolated and they've strayed far away from what a Yokai should look like, thus it is very hard to go in without being noticed as a foreigner. I tried to steal one of their crystals, and…let's just say it's the only job I never accomplished and I'm very lucky to be alive.
"The people there call themselves the 'Galen'. I know that they are somewhat," he paused to find the right word, "disturbed by foreigners. As far as the land itself is concerned, it's covered with these crystals. They are filled with massive amounts of Reiki. Time does weird things there. And the weather is always chilly. That's all." Kurama was surprised that Genkai would even think of a place like that. But rather than Genkai telling them that that was where they should look next, Kuwabara did.
"He's there! I know it!" Kuwabara had been sharpening his skills with his sixth sense.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go brake some jaws and rescue our midget!" Yusuke threw a punch into his hand, smirking.
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AN: I decided to break the chapter parts by the scene changes, so be expecting some nasty cliffhangers.
For those who reviewed this story: I thank you for your compliments and got this part up as soon as I found out you had read this story. It makes me feel inspired to write more! (I'm actually somewhere in chapter 5, but I've got to revise the story before I post it or it doesn't make any sense to anyone but me….)
Anyway, R&R!!