Something moved to the left of Bat wings. She had fallen asleep in front of
the fire and Fox ears was sleeping in a makeshift.. "tent". The movement
ceased for a minute then started again. It very steadily moved closer and
closer to the camp.
Bat wings shifted slightly and groggily opened her eyes just as something darted out of the bushes towards her. She let out a scream and scooted back a few inches. Suddenly she felt vary hot in the face as she stared down at a small mouse like creature, standing on its hind legs and sniffing the air.
Fox ears popped her head out of a curtain of large leaves in front of the "tent". "What's going on?" She asked looking at the rodent. "Oohhh! You got freaked while sleeping! Haha! Wimp!" Almost as if by habit Fox ears ducked and a chunk of wood flew over her head.
The rodent came closer to Bat wings and sniffed her bare leg. Bat wings jumped as the rodent bite her to see what she tasted like. She swung her hands at the creature, trying to shoo it away. "Go! Go! Leave! Shoo!"
Fox ears crawled out of the shelter and picked the rodent up. It nibbled slightly at her hands then ceased. Then it curled into a ball in her hands and started lightly snoring in more of squeak than anything.
"You and your ways with animal." Bat wings said.
"What are you jealous?" Fox ears commented back.
Bat wings glared at her. "Hardly." Then she turned and pulled some food out of Fox ears backpack. "Baked beans? Why do you carry around baked beans?"
"Well I like baked beans and you never know when you could get lost out in the wilderness!" Fox ears snapped back at her.
"Oh yes. It happens so much in the suburbs!" Bat wings said in a smart-ass tone. "Fox ears why don't you just give on the idea that everywhere we turn there's danger."
Fox ears spun around with a knife from her spine sheath in hand. It came down on something next to Bat wings hand. Bat wings jumped to the side and stared at a rattlesnake head with the blade stuck in the middle of its skull.
"Ah, but there is." Fox ears took the snake off by then neck then chopped its head off and threw the head into the bushes.
"What are you going to do with the body?"
Fox ears grabbed a stick, set it down next to her, then pulled out a knife and started gutting the snake. "Well since we will run out of food soon I decided to try snake out. It can't be that bad."
Bat wings cringed slightly at Fox ears. She grabbed one of the bowls from Fox ears bag she had used earlier and got up. She started to walk off. "I'm going to go wash my bowl in the creek. I'll scream if anymore snakes come."
Fox ears rolled her eyes and spun the knife in her hand around and stabbed it straight into the ground. She wrapped the snake around the stick she had next to her and poked at the fire with the other. Hot flame shot up at her then died down to a low flicker. She put the snake over the pit waiting for it to cook.
The stream gurgled happily and almost to loudly for anyone alone in the dark to comfortable. Bat wings crouched down and lowered the bowl into the water. It was ice cold. Some bushes in front of her moved slightly. She snapped her head up and dropped the bowl in the water.
"Hello?" Bat wings asked with out thinking. She stood up straight and walked towards the bushes cautiously. Quickly she parted them. Nothing was there. More bushes moved, but this time behind her. She rolled her eyes and grabbed the bowl. "Fox ears." She mumbled.
Fox ears walked Bat wings walk back into camp. "Fox ears why were you trying to scare me?"
"But I wasn't! I was here cooking. this. snake." Fox ears said defensibly but slowly started to realize something.
Bat wings eyes had widened a little in realization at how much trouble she could have been in. She silently sat down next to Fox ears. "What do you think it is this time?" Her voice was barely a whisper.
Fox ears nearly broke a whisper when she spoke. "How the hell should I know?! Geez!" The bushes moved a little to her left. She tensed up a bit. "How bout this. You stay here and I move around back to surprise them."
Bat wings nodded. "But it will have to be in fox form. You're too clumsy in human."
Fox ears smiled slightly then crawled off in the direction of the creek so "it" wouldn't know she was sneaking around.
In the bushes four men crouched waiting. "Who do you think they are?" Asked a red haired one. He has pure emerald green eyes that shown in the dark almost like a glow.
"I don't know but they look demon." One said.
"No duh, Urameshi!" Another added. Two of them hushed him.
"Kuwabara! Quiet! They aren't deaf you know!"
One man with black hair added in a comment. "Yes you stupid oaf. While you're at it why don't you tell them our names?"
"Hiei I swear I'm going to hurt you!"
All three of them said in a harsh whisper at once. "Kuwabara!"
Bat wings sat there in front of the fire watching the snake cook. She had heard the entire conversation going on between the four men and was straining hard not to laugh. One side of the snake burst from the heat and Bat wings cringed slightly.
Fox ears crawled around behind the four men. She had changed into fox form of a small gold fox while she snuck around the bushes by the creek. Quietly as she could she squeezed under a log behind them and lay in front of it waiting for them to be fully concentrated on Bat wings so she could move again. That chance didn't come.
The men shifted slightly and sat down in a circle to discuss what they should do. Fox ears made her move, growling first to get their attention.
They looked over in her direction not seeing her in the dark shadows next to the log. She bared white teeth, which glinted from a few spots of firelight that came through the bushes. Their eyes widened a little from surprise.
She launched at them coming a bit short of them but still baring fangs to keep them at bay. Bat wings walked over to the bushes and swept it aside bathing them in full firelight.
"Well, now that you are here why don't you come in." She said more than asked.
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Bat wings and Fox ears sat them down in front of the fire and stood on the other side looking at them. "Friend or foe?" Bat wings asked. Fox ears had changed back into human form so she was twirling he 9-inch knife from one finger to the other.
"Depends on what you are." One of them said who was wearing green clothing. "Are you good or evil."
Fox ears snorted. "More like lost than any of those." She stopped twirling her knife and held it in one spot. "If we don't know where we are then we can't be foe. And if we don't know who you are then we can't be friend. See my point."
The one with red hair laughed. "Very true and clever. We are apart of the Reikai Tantei. We are friend if you are too. But as you stated you do not know us."
Bat wings and Fox ears looked at each other in confusion. "Uh. what? What's Reikai Ten- whatever?" Bat wings asked.
All four men eyes kind widened then went back to normal. "Just how much do you not know where you are?"
Fox ears spoke before Bat wings could even open her mouth. "Let's just say this. Are we even on Earth?"
A few of them laughed lightly. The black haired one answered. "You are in the Makai. Or the demon world, as some call it. Is that enough to answer you're question."
"You mean to say we are in a completely different world than Earth?!" Fox ears yelled.
"Well, yes." The one in green clothes answered.
Fox ears fell down onto the ground legs folded out to the side. Her ears fell down to the sides of her head. Bat wings watched her for a little then spoke. "Can you guys get us back to Earth because we really, really don't belong here."
"Ok, no problem! First I guess we should properly introduce ourselves." The one with green clothing said. Fox ears lightened up a bit and got dusting herself off. "I'm Yusuke Urameshi," he said.
The red haired man said, "And I am Kurama."
Kuwabara, the one with blue clothes stepped forward. "I'm Kazuma Kuawbara."
The last one with black hair said, "I'm Hiei."
"Ok, nice to meet all of you. I'm Bat wings. This is my friend Fox ears."
The snake roasting over the fire, now black and charcoaled, burst and splayed everywhere. Bat wings and Fox ears jumped at the small explosion. "Well um.. Oops!" Fox ears said innocently.
Bat wings turned on Fox ears and glared at her. Fox ears backed up a few steps. "Well make yourselves at home I guess. We don't have much food left and no shel-," Bat wings said but was cut short by Yusuke.
"Don't worry about that! We have tents, food, drinks, and everything else!" He said happily. Yusuke pulled a backpack and a duffle bag out of the bushes.
"Sounds like you guys came prepare. How'd you know to bring that stuff?" Fox ears asked.
Kurama spoke for Yusuke. "We were sent on a mission to find some one around here. They said that they could sense to new forces enter the demon world and they wanted some one to cover it. So naturally we thought it would take a bit longer to track you and get into your camp."
Fox ears nodded with understanding. "Need help with that um.Kuwabara?" She watched as Kuwabara struggled with putting up a tent.
"Damn thing! Work! COME ON!" He yelled.
Fox ears walked up to him, grabbed the tent polls, and shoved him out of the way. In thirty seconds, flat, she had the tent up and a sleeping bag rolled out in it. "See how easy it is um. what's your name again?"
"Kuwabara." He said like he was insulted.
Kurama who was still sitting by the fire started cracking up laughing. A streak of red appeared across Fox ears face and she quickly turned away.
Kuwabara looked from Fox ears to Kurama then back to Fox ears. "I see what's going on here. You like Kurama huh?"
Fox ears turned around and brought her fist into Kuwabara's nose. There was a distinct crack then Kuwabara screaming. "YOU BITCH! YOU BROKE MY NOSE! GAH!" He ran off to the creek to try to stop the bleeding.
Kurama blinked once, twice then started laughing again. Fox ears turned even more red and pretended to be packing some things into the tent. Bat wings walked up behind Kurama and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Why is that freak sleeping up in a tree?" She asked pointing at Hiei.
Kurama stopped laughing and looked up at Hiei. He was stretched out along a mid-tree branch just barely the same thickness as he was. One leg hung over the side of the branch. Kurama shrugged. "Never really bothered to ask. I guess he just likes it up there. I mean no one will bother you because who would go up in a tree at night?"
Bat wings stared at him for a minute then turned and walked away. "Who's taking first watch?"
Everyone but Fox ears, who was to busy pretending to do things, said, "NOT ME!"
"Ok then. Fox ears!" Bat wings said.
Fox ears pulled her head out of the tent. "Huh?"
"You got first watch."
Her ears drooped down in annoyance. "Goody."
Bat wings shifted slightly and groggily opened her eyes just as something darted out of the bushes towards her. She let out a scream and scooted back a few inches. Suddenly she felt vary hot in the face as she stared down at a small mouse like creature, standing on its hind legs and sniffing the air.
Fox ears popped her head out of a curtain of large leaves in front of the "tent". "What's going on?" She asked looking at the rodent. "Oohhh! You got freaked while sleeping! Haha! Wimp!" Almost as if by habit Fox ears ducked and a chunk of wood flew over her head.
The rodent came closer to Bat wings and sniffed her bare leg. Bat wings jumped as the rodent bite her to see what she tasted like. She swung her hands at the creature, trying to shoo it away. "Go! Go! Leave! Shoo!"
Fox ears crawled out of the shelter and picked the rodent up. It nibbled slightly at her hands then ceased. Then it curled into a ball in her hands and started lightly snoring in more of squeak than anything.
"You and your ways with animal." Bat wings said.
"What are you jealous?" Fox ears commented back.
Bat wings glared at her. "Hardly." Then she turned and pulled some food out of Fox ears backpack. "Baked beans? Why do you carry around baked beans?"
"Well I like baked beans and you never know when you could get lost out in the wilderness!" Fox ears snapped back at her.
"Oh yes. It happens so much in the suburbs!" Bat wings said in a smart-ass tone. "Fox ears why don't you just give on the idea that everywhere we turn there's danger."
Fox ears spun around with a knife from her spine sheath in hand. It came down on something next to Bat wings hand. Bat wings jumped to the side and stared at a rattlesnake head with the blade stuck in the middle of its skull.
"Ah, but there is." Fox ears took the snake off by then neck then chopped its head off and threw the head into the bushes.
"What are you going to do with the body?"
Fox ears grabbed a stick, set it down next to her, then pulled out a knife and started gutting the snake. "Well since we will run out of food soon I decided to try snake out. It can't be that bad."
Bat wings cringed slightly at Fox ears. She grabbed one of the bowls from Fox ears bag she had used earlier and got up. She started to walk off. "I'm going to go wash my bowl in the creek. I'll scream if anymore snakes come."
Fox ears rolled her eyes and spun the knife in her hand around and stabbed it straight into the ground. She wrapped the snake around the stick she had next to her and poked at the fire with the other. Hot flame shot up at her then died down to a low flicker. She put the snake over the pit waiting for it to cook.
The stream gurgled happily and almost to loudly for anyone alone in the dark to comfortable. Bat wings crouched down and lowered the bowl into the water. It was ice cold. Some bushes in front of her moved slightly. She snapped her head up and dropped the bowl in the water.
"Hello?" Bat wings asked with out thinking. She stood up straight and walked towards the bushes cautiously. Quickly she parted them. Nothing was there. More bushes moved, but this time behind her. She rolled her eyes and grabbed the bowl. "Fox ears." She mumbled.
Fox ears walked Bat wings walk back into camp. "Fox ears why were you trying to scare me?"
"But I wasn't! I was here cooking. this. snake." Fox ears said defensibly but slowly started to realize something.
Bat wings eyes had widened a little in realization at how much trouble she could have been in. She silently sat down next to Fox ears. "What do you think it is this time?" Her voice was barely a whisper.
Fox ears nearly broke a whisper when she spoke. "How the hell should I know?! Geez!" The bushes moved a little to her left. She tensed up a bit. "How bout this. You stay here and I move around back to surprise them."
Bat wings nodded. "But it will have to be in fox form. You're too clumsy in human."
Fox ears smiled slightly then crawled off in the direction of the creek so "it" wouldn't know she was sneaking around.
In the bushes four men crouched waiting. "Who do you think they are?" Asked a red haired one. He has pure emerald green eyes that shown in the dark almost like a glow.
"I don't know but they look demon." One said.
"No duh, Urameshi!" Another added. Two of them hushed him.
"Kuwabara! Quiet! They aren't deaf you know!"
One man with black hair added in a comment. "Yes you stupid oaf. While you're at it why don't you tell them our names?"
"Hiei I swear I'm going to hurt you!"
All three of them said in a harsh whisper at once. "Kuwabara!"
Bat wings sat there in front of the fire watching the snake cook. She had heard the entire conversation going on between the four men and was straining hard not to laugh. One side of the snake burst from the heat and Bat wings cringed slightly.
Fox ears crawled around behind the four men. She had changed into fox form of a small gold fox while she snuck around the bushes by the creek. Quietly as she could she squeezed under a log behind them and lay in front of it waiting for them to be fully concentrated on Bat wings so she could move again. That chance didn't come.
The men shifted slightly and sat down in a circle to discuss what they should do. Fox ears made her move, growling first to get their attention.
They looked over in her direction not seeing her in the dark shadows next to the log. She bared white teeth, which glinted from a few spots of firelight that came through the bushes. Their eyes widened a little from surprise.
She launched at them coming a bit short of them but still baring fangs to keep them at bay. Bat wings walked over to the bushes and swept it aside bathing them in full firelight.
"Well, now that you are here why don't you come in." She said more than asked.
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Bat wings and Fox ears sat them down in front of the fire and stood on the other side looking at them. "Friend or foe?" Bat wings asked. Fox ears had changed back into human form so she was twirling he 9-inch knife from one finger to the other.
"Depends on what you are." One of them said who was wearing green clothing. "Are you good or evil."
Fox ears snorted. "More like lost than any of those." She stopped twirling her knife and held it in one spot. "If we don't know where we are then we can't be foe. And if we don't know who you are then we can't be friend. See my point."
The one with red hair laughed. "Very true and clever. We are apart of the Reikai Tantei. We are friend if you are too. But as you stated you do not know us."
Bat wings and Fox ears looked at each other in confusion. "Uh. what? What's Reikai Ten- whatever?" Bat wings asked.
All four men eyes kind widened then went back to normal. "Just how much do you not know where you are?"
Fox ears spoke before Bat wings could even open her mouth. "Let's just say this. Are we even on Earth?"
A few of them laughed lightly. The black haired one answered. "You are in the Makai. Or the demon world, as some call it. Is that enough to answer you're question."
"You mean to say we are in a completely different world than Earth?!" Fox ears yelled.
"Well, yes." The one in green clothes answered.
Fox ears fell down onto the ground legs folded out to the side. Her ears fell down to the sides of her head. Bat wings watched her for a little then spoke. "Can you guys get us back to Earth because we really, really don't belong here."
"Ok, no problem! First I guess we should properly introduce ourselves." The one with green clothing said. Fox ears lightened up a bit and got dusting herself off. "I'm Yusuke Urameshi," he said.
The red haired man said, "And I am Kurama."
Kuwabara, the one with blue clothes stepped forward. "I'm Kazuma Kuawbara."
The last one with black hair said, "I'm Hiei."
"Ok, nice to meet all of you. I'm Bat wings. This is my friend Fox ears."
The snake roasting over the fire, now black and charcoaled, burst and splayed everywhere. Bat wings and Fox ears jumped at the small explosion. "Well um.. Oops!" Fox ears said innocently.
Bat wings turned on Fox ears and glared at her. Fox ears backed up a few steps. "Well make yourselves at home I guess. We don't have much food left and no shel-," Bat wings said but was cut short by Yusuke.
"Don't worry about that! We have tents, food, drinks, and everything else!" He said happily. Yusuke pulled a backpack and a duffle bag out of the bushes.
"Sounds like you guys came prepare. How'd you know to bring that stuff?" Fox ears asked.
Kurama spoke for Yusuke. "We were sent on a mission to find some one around here. They said that they could sense to new forces enter the demon world and they wanted some one to cover it. So naturally we thought it would take a bit longer to track you and get into your camp."
Fox ears nodded with understanding. "Need help with that um.Kuwabara?" She watched as Kuwabara struggled with putting up a tent.
"Damn thing! Work! COME ON!" He yelled.
Fox ears walked up to him, grabbed the tent polls, and shoved him out of the way. In thirty seconds, flat, she had the tent up and a sleeping bag rolled out in it. "See how easy it is um. what's your name again?"
"Kuwabara." He said like he was insulted.
Kurama who was still sitting by the fire started cracking up laughing. A streak of red appeared across Fox ears face and she quickly turned away.
Kuwabara looked from Fox ears to Kurama then back to Fox ears. "I see what's going on here. You like Kurama huh?"
Fox ears turned around and brought her fist into Kuwabara's nose. There was a distinct crack then Kuwabara screaming. "YOU BITCH! YOU BROKE MY NOSE! GAH!" He ran off to the creek to try to stop the bleeding.
Kurama blinked once, twice then started laughing again. Fox ears turned even more red and pretended to be packing some things into the tent. Bat wings walked up behind Kurama and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Why is that freak sleeping up in a tree?" She asked pointing at Hiei.
Kurama stopped laughing and looked up at Hiei. He was stretched out along a mid-tree branch just barely the same thickness as he was. One leg hung over the side of the branch. Kurama shrugged. "Never really bothered to ask. I guess he just likes it up there. I mean no one will bother you because who would go up in a tree at night?"
Bat wings stared at him for a minute then turned and walked away. "Who's taking first watch?"
Everyone but Fox ears, who was to busy pretending to do things, said, "NOT ME!"
"Ok then. Fox ears!" Bat wings said.
Fox ears pulled her head out of the tent. "Huh?"
"You got first watch."
Her ears drooped down in annoyance. "Goody."