New story! Yay!! I am just going to absolutely love writing this one
because it has Karasu in it! I got this idea from the movie the cell, about
going into a mind of an insane person. But the story is completely
different from it! Just that idea. I must warn ya, Karasu's mind is
unstable, so inside it is going to be very disturbing. But that makes it
only more interesting. Well anyways, here's the beginning! Hope you like.
"Hahahahahaha! Take that evil Makai scum! Yeah, not so tough now are you?!" Alone in his imperial hall, the prince of Reikai was busily at work participating in a most imperative video game. (That was sarcasm by the way.)
"Oh, uh huh, who kicks undead demon ass? I do! One more level, and I will be the ultimate champion of Makai Zombies 1001! Come on, one more, daddy needs a new high record! Almost, almost there, annnddddd- "KOENMA SIR!!! I'VE GOT AN IMPORTANT REPORT, SIR!" Koenma face faulted to the ground at the unexpected yell.
The toddler then glimpsed up in horror as his mighty video character was engulfed in a swarm of green flames. Koenma got up with his back turned to Jorge as the words GAME OVER flashed over and over on the giant screen. "Aaa, Koenma, sir, about this report- sir?"
Jorge cautiously walked over to the silent figure. He placed his hand on Koenma's shoulder to turn him around. Boy, was he ever sorry. "AGGGGGHHHHH!! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE YOU INCOMPENT ORGE!! I WAS ON THE LAST LEVEL! I WAS THIS CLOSE TO WINNING, BUT NOW I HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN!"
Koenma then took a ruler off his desk and began to chase the poor ogre around his office. "Koenma, sir, remember your breathing steps! Uhhh, count to 10!" "Agghh, count this!!" The little toddler, despite his size, managed to tackle Jorge, and now was repetitively clobbering the ogre in the head.
"But, sir, oww, the report, oww, it's a Class five, oww, emergency!" "Nani?!! A Class five?!! Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?!!" The miniature prince snatched up the tussled folder scanning over it, while Jorge, miserable, rubbed at his newly arisen bruises. "But sir, I tried to tell you"- "No time to talk ogre, I got to get Botan up here!" Koenma reached towards his intercom.
"Hello?" inquired a chirper and cheery voice. "Botan, this is Koenma, and I need to see you in my office immediately!" "Koenma, sir, you sound a bit flustered, is there something wrong?" "Please, Botan, just come up and I'll explain everything." "Hai, right away sir." Botan replied without delay for she could hear the graveness in his voice.
"Oh, my, sir, this is disaster!" Botan exclaimed as she set the papers down. "So you see the fix that Ningenkai is in if we don't figure this out. We'd better contact Yusuke and the others as soon as possible." The young prince stated firmly. "Koenma, sir, I know the team has experienced all sorts of dilemmas, but this by far surpasses anything they have been through. I don't think they could handle it."
"If you think that's a problem, then you don't know the half of it." "Like what sir?" Botan asked in a very concerned manner. "I don't really want to explain myself twice, so let's go down and locate Yusuke and the others." "You want to come with me, sir?" Questioned Botan with shock. "Of, course, it's faster that way. Besides it's not like I never been there before." "Well if you're sure, then we'd better depart for Yusuke's school, since he has it right now."
"Then it's decided, we'll make for the school and have Yusuke and Kuwabara find Hiei and Kurama as well." Exclaimed the toddler. The two then made their way out of Reikai with great haste.
"So, whadda ya want to do today, Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked Yusuke as he lay strewn across a park bench. "Baka, you've ask me that 14 times already, and I've told you I don't know." Yusuke replied in irritation leaning against a cedar tree. "Maybe we should just head back to school, cause I don't see a point in ditching if there is nothin' to do." Kuwabara stated dully.
"Anything's better than that hell hole people call school. What about the arcade?" Yusuke asked bored stiff. "Nah, I heard from Okubo that it's closed down for repairs." "Whatever. Man, this is so stupid! I'm so bored, I'd rather be on a case!" Yusuke cried out in discontent. "Careful what you wish for Urameshi, it could come true." (Kuwabara's sixth sense is stronger than even he knows.)
"What? Getting a case? Come on, you know there hasn't been activity in Ningenkai for two months, all demons are too tired to start anything since the end of the Dark Tournament." Yusuke replied uninterested. "Hai, I suppose you're right." Kuwabara answered dolefully. "Of course I am." Yusuke finished as he slowly sunk to the base of the tree and fell into a bored slumber.
Yusuke was dreaming of being front row at the Martial Arts Tournament when he was awoken by a loud screech. "YUSUKE, YOU LAZY EXCUSE FOR A DECTECTIVE! WAKE UP ALREADY!!" "Nani?!" Yusuke yelled as he was suddenly thrown from his magical dream world into reality, in which Botan was smacking him upside the head. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D BE SLEEPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY WHEN YOU SHOULD BE AT SCHOOL!!" Botan screamed furiously as the young teen cleaned out the ringing in his ears from Botan's piercing voice.
"Go away Botan, I'm not in the mood for your nagging." Yusuke sighed lazily stretching out his arms in a yawn. That was the last straw. Botan threw a sharp punch with her oar into Yusuke's stomach. "OWWW!" Yusuke yelled making the birds in the tree scatter away.
"Sheesh Botan, you sure can hit pretty damn hard when you want to." Yusuke said massaging his abdomen. "Serve you right for being so discourteous when Koenma and I have important news!" Botan shouted back at him. Yusuke rubbed at his eyes and looked around. Botan, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, and Koenma in his teenager form were standing around him impatiently.
"Hey, what's with the faces?" Yusuke asked unthinkingly. "Well, if a certain someone had been awake, he would have known that Koenma has an important case to explain about!" Botan replied, irritated. "A case? That's weird. Kuwabara and I were just talking about that. Wait, how come we got a case? I thought demons were too tired." Yusuke inquired in confusion with a yawn.
"Yes, well you see one demon in particular is restless unfortunately, and it is a situation that must be handled immediately." Koenma stepped up in explaining. "Great. Don't they know when to quit? Yusuke laughed to himself. "I suppose you guys already know about it?" Yusuke asked the rest of his team.
"No, Yusuke, we've being waiting for you to wake up so I could enlighten you all at the same time." Koenma replied annoyed. "Oh, wow, sorry 'bout that." Yusuke apologized getting to his feet and brushing himself off. "Anyway, I shall tell you all why you I have called you together." Koenma began.
"Please do. And make it fast, I don't want any more of my time wasted." Hiei added in coldly. "Yes, Hiei, what a shame it would be to waste your time." Koenma replied aggravated.
"As I was saying, you all have been gathered for an imperative reason. A demon stuck in an unconscious state has somehow gained a great power. Without Reikai knowing of it, he gained the ability to distort this reality from deep inside his mind."
"Wait, what does that mean?" Kuwabara questioned puzzled. "You really are an idiot. I would've thought your brain would be semi-intelligent, considering the fact you've never used it before." Hiei remarked coolly. "Why don't you shut it, Shimp!" Kuwabara said angrily as he got into a defensive stance. "Now, now children, you can play some other time." Botan interrupted.
"I can always explain this when it's more convenient." Koenma stated angrily. No one spoke. "It means, Kuwabara, that this demon, when his power has reached it's maximum, will be able to mold the Ningenkai as he likes, and bring himself to be able to completely dominate the world. His mind world will become reality, and the life as you know it will cease to exist.
Everyone stared at Koenma fully alert at the seriousness of the situation. "Furthermore, once the stages of this have been complete, it will be irreversible, even by the Reikai. We have set up a machine using a portal to travel into that demon's mind and stop him."
"Wait, why don't you just kill the guy if he's sleeping?" Yusuke asked naively. "Well, you see Yusuke, while we would like to do that, we do not know of his location. You see the portal only can connect to the mind, not tell of its location. In order to do so, we need someone to download their mind into his mind in order for the signal from a tracker to find his location. Then hopefully we'll be able to find his body, bring back the person's mind, and kill the demon."
"Are you crazy?!! There are so many things that could go wrong!" Yusuke and Kuwabara both shouted. "I know it's risky, but we have no other alternative. Believe me, if there was any other way, I would take it. It's fortunate we even know before it would be too late. The demon has already possess the power to go into the minds of ningens; we must act quickly." Koenma stated firmly.
"Koenma, one question, have you received information containing the identity of this demon?" Kurama inquired. "Yes." Koenma replied gravely. "Well, who the heck is it?" Yusuke asked impatiently. "You all have met him before I believe. He was a contestant of the Dark Tournament. On Toguro's team." Kurama suddenly grew very pale and his eyes widened as Koenma turned directly at him. "Karasu." Koenma confirmed to Kurama's terror. The fox felt himself trembling from the inside out, but in realizing what he was doing, tried desperately to hide it, hoping no one noticed.
"We believe that Karasu must be getting help in the physical world, but all this is uncertain until we get inside his mind." Koenma finished. "Great that creep's back. Well, we'll just have to put him in his place again, won't we, Kurama?" Yusuke said smiling, patting Kurama on the back. Kurama nodded uneasily to Yusuke with a fake smile, but that phony attitude was replaced with frightened eyes and a frown as the fox looked away anxiously.
"We is not the correct word Yusuke." Koenma started. "Kurama is the only one going to make this journey." Kurama looked directly into Koenma's eyes imploring for a mistake in what he heard, his green orbs filled with rising fear. Koenma felt badly for the fox's uneasiness, but knew he had to keep going. He began to explain futher.
Unfortunately, Yusuke cut him off. "Nani? Kurama? What are you talking about?" Yusuke inquired madly. Hiei and Kuwabara too, were in shock. "It must be Kurama and only Kurama." Koenma stated as he looked at Kurama. The fox felt himself shy away from the prince's gaze like he had just been slapped.
"But why only Kurama?!!" Yusuke shouted perplexed at why not all of them. "I regret to say only one person at a time is capable of this procedure." Koenma started but Yusuke cut him off yet again. "Wait, if one person is needed than why did you being all of us to hear you in the first place?"
"Because Kurama can decline if he chooses, then someone else will take his place." Koenma added, angry at being interrupted. "I hope, however, that will not be necessary. You see I chose Kurama as the candidate for two reasons. In Karasu's mind, physical strength is of no use, only an exceptionally intelligent and crafty person could survive in an environment like that, and Kurama is the most eligible of those categories.
Secondly, Kurama fought against Karasu in the Tournament and knows him on a closer basis, perhaps even able to predict what he'll do. Koenma announced staring at the fox whose eyes were turned towards the ground, in a firm fix, not making a sound.
Hiei, noticing the timidity in the fox, was the first to speak up. "Koenma, you fool, you can't expect Kurama to go into that freak's mind, where he'll be at his mercy if found out. Especially considering the fact that that psycho and Kurama- "Hiei!" Kurama defiantly said as if it was a command to Hiei. "But Kurama- Hiei started, but Kurama turned to him, eyes pleading for him to not say anything more, and Hiei backed down. "Fine, Kurama, let them know the half-truth, let them send you into that nightmare land. If that's what you decided, I don't have a need to be here." Hiei said angrily and with that vanished.
"What the hell is the runt talking about?" Kuwabara asked perplexed. "It's nothing." Kurama replied quietly. "Kurama, this is a lot to ask of you, I would understand perfectly if it is too much for you to handle." Koenma added with concern.
Kurama said nothing but started to walk away. "Kurama! Where are you going?" Yusuke and Koenma shouted at the same time. Kurama stopped and remained still for a while. Then with a heavy heart, he slowly turned around.
There was a sad and troubled look upon his face, but he nonetheless spoke. "I am afraid to do it." "Kurama we all understand, nobody- "But we all do what we must," Kurama cut Yusuke off with intensity in his eyes, "It shall be done."
Oh no! Can't you just feel Kurama's pain! It's so sad! But that's why this is in the Angst section. First chappie done. Just when ya thought Karasu was gone for good! By the way, in this story, I hope to retain Karasu's true image as much as possible. Sure he is psycho, but also understand Karasu is not your ordinary villain. He is very sophisticated and suave, so I don't want to butcher that and make him out to be a flake, or butcher the complicity of his mind. Hope I can do it justice! Bye for now!
"Hahahahahaha! Take that evil Makai scum! Yeah, not so tough now are you?!" Alone in his imperial hall, the prince of Reikai was busily at work participating in a most imperative video game. (That was sarcasm by the way.)
"Oh, uh huh, who kicks undead demon ass? I do! One more level, and I will be the ultimate champion of Makai Zombies 1001! Come on, one more, daddy needs a new high record! Almost, almost there, annnddddd- "KOENMA SIR!!! I'VE GOT AN IMPORTANT REPORT, SIR!" Koenma face faulted to the ground at the unexpected yell.
The toddler then glimpsed up in horror as his mighty video character was engulfed in a swarm of green flames. Koenma got up with his back turned to Jorge as the words GAME OVER flashed over and over on the giant screen. "Aaa, Koenma, sir, about this report- sir?"
Jorge cautiously walked over to the silent figure. He placed his hand on Koenma's shoulder to turn him around. Boy, was he ever sorry. "AGGGGGHHHHH!! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE YOU INCOMPENT ORGE!! I WAS ON THE LAST LEVEL! I WAS THIS CLOSE TO WINNING, BUT NOW I HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN!"
Koenma then took a ruler off his desk and began to chase the poor ogre around his office. "Koenma, sir, remember your breathing steps! Uhhh, count to 10!" "Agghh, count this!!" The little toddler, despite his size, managed to tackle Jorge, and now was repetitively clobbering the ogre in the head.
"But, sir, oww, the report, oww, it's a Class five, oww, emergency!" "Nani?!! A Class five?!! Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?!!" The miniature prince snatched up the tussled folder scanning over it, while Jorge, miserable, rubbed at his newly arisen bruises. "But sir, I tried to tell you"- "No time to talk ogre, I got to get Botan up here!" Koenma reached towards his intercom.
"Hello?" inquired a chirper and cheery voice. "Botan, this is Koenma, and I need to see you in my office immediately!" "Koenma, sir, you sound a bit flustered, is there something wrong?" "Please, Botan, just come up and I'll explain everything." "Hai, right away sir." Botan replied without delay for she could hear the graveness in his voice.
"Oh, my, sir, this is disaster!" Botan exclaimed as she set the papers down. "So you see the fix that Ningenkai is in if we don't figure this out. We'd better contact Yusuke and the others as soon as possible." The young prince stated firmly. "Koenma, sir, I know the team has experienced all sorts of dilemmas, but this by far surpasses anything they have been through. I don't think they could handle it."
"If you think that's a problem, then you don't know the half of it." "Like what sir?" Botan asked in a very concerned manner. "I don't really want to explain myself twice, so let's go down and locate Yusuke and the others." "You want to come with me, sir?" Questioned Botan with shock. "Of, course, it's faster that way. Besides it's not like I never been there before." "Well if you're sure, then we'd better depart for Yusuke's school, since he has it right now."
"Then it's decided, we'll make for the school and have Yusuke and Kuwabara find Hiei and Kurama as well." Exclaimed the toddler. The two then made their way out of Reikai with great haste.
"So, whadda ya want to do today, Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked Yusuke as he lay strewn across a park bench. "Baka, you've ask me that 14 times already, and I've told you I don't know." Yusuke replied in irritation leaning against a cedar tree. "Maybe we should just head back to school, cause I don't see a point in ditching if there is nothin' to do." Kuwabara stated dully.
"Anything's better than that hell hole people call school. What about the arcade?" Yusuke asked bored stiff. "Nah, I heard from Okubo that it's closed down for repairs." "Whatever. Man, this is so stupid! I'm so bored, I'd rather be on a case!" Yusuke cried out in discontent. "Careful what you wish for Urameshi, it could come true." (Kuwabara's sixth sense is stronger than even he knows.)
"What? Getting a case? Come on, you know there hasn't been activity in Ningenkai for two months, all demons are too tired to start anything since the end of the Dark Tournament." Yusuke replied uninterested. "Hai, I suppose you're right." Kuwabara answered dolefully. "Of course I am." Yusuke finished as he slowly sunk to the base of the tree and fell into a bored slumber.
Yusuke was dreaming of being front row at the Martial Arts Tournament when he was awoken by a loud screech. "YUSUKE, YOU LAZY EXCUSE FOR A DECTECTIVE! WAKE UP ALREADY!!" "Nani?!" Yusuke yelled as he was suddenly thrown from his magical dream world into reality, in which Botan was smacking him upside the head. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D BE SLEEPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY WHEN YOU SHOULD BE AT SCHOOL!!" Botan screamed furiously as the young teen cleaned out the ringing in his ears from Botan's piercing voice.
"Go away Botan, I'm not in the mood for your nagging." Yusuke sighed lazily stretching out his arms in a yawn. That was the last straw. Botan threw a sharp punch with her oar into Yusuke's stomach. "OWWW!" Yusuke yelled making the birds in the tree scatter away.
"Sheesh Botan, you sure can hit pretty damn hard when you want to." Yusuke said massaging his abdomen. "Serve you right for being so discourteous when Koenma and I have important news!" Botan shouted back at him. Yusuke rubbed at his eyes and looked around. Botan, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, and Koenma in his teenager form were standing around him impatiently.
"Hey, what's with the faces?" Yusuke asked unthinkingly. "Well, if a certain someone had been awake, he would have known that Koenma has an important case to explain about!" Botan replied, irritated. "A case? That's weird. Kuwabara and I were just talking about that. Wait, how come we got a case? I thought demons were too tired." Yusuke inquired in confusion with a yawn.
"Yes, well you see one demon in particular is restless unfortunately, and it is a situation that must be handled immediately." Koenma stepped up in explaining. "Great. Don't they know when to quit? Yusuke laughed to himself. "I suppose you guys already know about it?" Yusuke asked the rest of his team.
"No, Yusuke, we've being waiting for you to wake up so I could enlighten you all at the same time." Koenma replied annoyed. "Oh, wow, sorry 'bout that." Yusuke apologized getting to his feet and brushing himself off. "Anyway, I shall tell you all why you I have called you together." Koenma began.
"Please do. And make it fast, I don't want any more of my time wasted." Hiei added in coldly. "Yes, Hiei, what a shame it would be to waste your time." Koenma replied aggravated.
"As I was saying, you all have been gathered for an imperative reason. A demon stuck in an unconscious state has somehow gained a great power. Without Reikai knowing of it, he gained the ability to distort this reality from deep inside his mind."
"Wait, what does that mean?" Kuwabara questioned puzzled. "You really are an idiot. I would've thought your brain would be semi-intelligent, considering the fact you've never used it before." Hiei remarked coolly. "Why don't you shut it, Shimp!" Kuwabara said angrily as he got into a defensive stance. "Now, now children, you can play some other time." Botan interrupted.
"I can always explain this when it's more convenient." Koenma stated angrily. No one spoke. "It means, Kuwabara, that this demon, when his power has reached it's maximum, will be able to mold the Ningenkai as he likes, and bring himself to be able to completely dominate the world. His mind world will become reality, and the life as you know it will cease to exist.
Everyone stared at Koenma fully alert at the seriousness of the situation. "Furthermore, once the stages of this have been complete, it will be irreversible, even by the Reikai. We have set up a machine using a portal to travel into that demon's mind and stop him."
"Wait, why don't you just kill the guy if he's sleeping?" Yusuke asked naively. "Well, you see Yusuke, while we would like to do that, we do not know of his location. You see the portal only can connect to the mind, not tell of its location. In order to do so, we need someone to download their mind into his mind in order for the signal from a tracker to find his location. Then hopefully we'll be able to find his body, bring back the person's mind, and kill the demon."
"Are you crazy?!! There are so many things that could go wrong!" Yusuke and Kuwabara both shouted. "I know it's risky, but we have no other alternative. Believe me, if there was any other way, I would take it. It's fortunate we even know before it would be too late. The demon has already possess the power to go into the minds of ningens; we must act quickly." Koenma stated firmly.
"Koenma, one question, have you received information containing the identity of this demon?" Kurama inquired. "Yes." Koenma replied gravely. "Well, who the heck is it?" Yusuke asked impatiently. "You all have met him before I believe. He was a contestant of the Dark Tournament. On Toguro's team." Kurama suddenly grew very pale and his eyes widened as Koenma turned directly at him. "Karasu." Koenma confirmed to Kurama's terror. The fox felt himself trembling from the inside out, but in realizing what he was doing, tried desperately to hide it, hoping no one noticed.
"We believe that Karasu must be getting help in the physical world, but all this is uncertain until we get inside his mind." Koenma finished. "Great that creep's back. Well, we'll just have to put him in his place again, won't we, Kurama?" Yusuke said smiling, patting Kurama on the back. Kurama nodded uneasily to Yusuke with a fake smile, but that phony attitude was replaced with frightened eyes and a frown as the fox looked away anxiously.
"We is not the correct word Yusuke." Koenma started. "Kurama is the only one going to make this journey." Kurama looked directly into Koenma's eyes imploring for a mistake in what he heard, his green orbs filled with rising fear. Koenma felt badly for the fox's uneasiness, but knew he had to keep going. He began to explain futher.
Unfortunately, Yusuke cut him off. "Nani? Kurama? What are you talking about?" Yusuke inquired madly. Hiei and Kuwabara too, were in shock. "It must be Kurama and only Kurama." Koenma stated as he looked at Kurama. The fox felt himself shy away from the prince's gaze like he had just been slapped.
"But why only Kurama?!!" Yusuke shouted perplexed at why not all of them. "I regret to say only one person at a time is capable of this procedure." Koenma started but Yusuke cut him off yet again. "Wait, if one person is needed than why did you being all of us to hear you in the first place?"
"Because Kurama can decline if he chooses, then someone else will take his place." Koenma added, angry at being interrupted. "I hope, however, that will not be necessary. You see I chose Kurama as the candidate for two reasons. In Karasu's mind, physical strength is of no use, only an exceptionally intelligent and crafty person could survive in an environment like that, and Kurama is the most eligible of those categories.
Secondly, Kurama fought against Karasu in the Tournament and knows him on a closer basis, perhaps even able to predict what he'll do. Koenma announced staring at the fox whose eyes were turned towards the ground, in a firm fix, not making a sound.
Hiei, noticing the timidity in the fox, was the first to speak up. "Koenma, you fool, you can't expect Kurama to go into that freak's mind, where he'll be at his mercy if found out. Especially considering the fact that that psycho and Kurama- "Hiei!" Kurama defiantly said as if it was a command to Hiei. "But Kurama- Hiei started, but Kurama turned to him, eyes pleading for him to not say anything more, and Hiei backed down. "Fine, Kurama, let them know the half-truth, let them send you into that nightmare land. If that's what you decided, I don't have a need to be here." Hiei said angrily and with that vanished.
"What the hell is the runt talking about?" Kuwabara asked perplexed. "It's nothing." Kurama replied quietly. "Kurama, this is a lot to ask of you, I would understand perfectly if it is too much for you to handle." Koenma added with concern.
Kurama said nothing but started to walk away. "Kurama! Where are you going?" Yusuke and Koenma shouted at the same time. Kurama stopped and remained still for a while. Then with a heavy heart, he slowly turned around.
There was a sad and troubled look upon his face, but he nonetheless spoke. "I am afraid to do it." "Kurama we all understand, nobody- "But we all do what we must," Kurama cut Yusuke off with intensity in his eyes, "It shall be done."
Oh no! Can't you just feel Kurama's pain! It's so sad! But that's why this is in the Angst section. First chappie done. Just when ya thought Karasu was gone for good! By the way, in this story, I hope to retain Karasu's true image as much as possible. Sure he is psycho, but also understand Karasu is not your ordinary villain. He is very sophisticated and suave, so I don't want to butcher that and make him out to be a flake, or butcher the complicity of his mind. Hope I can do it justice! Bye for now!