I have a bad cold, hence the reason I haven't been able to update. Along with the fact that the document manager and the log-in thing wouldn't let me on... ::coughs:: AND I tried to update, but just as I finished writing the chapter, I was forced off the computer, deleting all my hard work... And thank you to all of my wonderful reviewers!

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Chapter 8: Where to Next?

"Okay, shrimp, where are we going now?"

"Shut up, Yusuke, and keep running. We're not going to be able to get there any other time of day, you know."

"Why, though," Kurama asked the ruler of Spirit World. "Both Hiei and myself can work perfectly well in day or night. However," he added, looking at the once again fallen Kuwabara, "some cannot work without light. Shouldn't you have just let it be?"

"Yes," the other demon added quietly. "This could have waited until the idiot had woken up completely. He still can't see straight, let alone think that way."

Yusuke looked at him. "I don't think he ever could."

Everyone but Kuwabara nodded thoughtfully, as the person in discussion walked around, attempting to knock over both the Spirit Detective and Hiei. Both avoided him easily. Kurama and Koenma began to walk away, further into Tokyo, as the other three, mostly Yusuke and Kuwabara, stayed in the same place attacking each other.

Eventually, after another few dozen mishaps, the group reached a small shrine. They walked up the steps, carefully trying to be quieter than usual. A crash from the back safely assured that they could walk again.

"Kagome, you don't have to be so hard on him!" a familiar voice cried from the back.

"That's Botan," the Spirit Detective muttered. "What's she doing here?"

There was a shout, a word, and another crash. "You've got to say he deserved that one, Botan!" another girl shouted. More muffled shouting.

Koenma smiled mysteriously. "Now there's a look I haven't seen recently," Kuwabara said as the kid-sized ruler of Spirit World disappeared behind a tree, replaced by the teenage one a minute later. "And what's with the older-Koenma thing?"

The back became visable in a flashlight-lit blast of light. The two humans shielded their eyes until they got used to the much brighter visability from the night-black.

"Kagome!" a white-haired, dog-eared man on the ground said, obviously the source of the yelling. "Cut that out! They've been here almost ten minutes, and all you keep doing is saying that word!"

A girl in a green school uniform stood over him, her black hair in a ponytail as her eyes flashed with annoyance. "SIT!" The hanyou was pushed into the ground by some strange force.

Urameshi sighed, putting down his gun-finger. "Is this what you wanted us to see, Koenma?" he asked, glaring at the ruler of Spirit World.

He looked back at the Spirit Detective. "Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. This is Higurashi Kagome, and that's Inuyasha." He pointed at first the girl, who nodded and smiled pleasantly, then at the nearly unconscious hanyou. "They are going to take you somewhere for training, at least for Kuwabara and Yusuke." He shook his head, almost miserably. "I'm not completely sure that the two demons need it."

Botan popped out, almost magically, from the inside of a small wooden shrine that was nearly falling apart. "Yes, it's in return for the training I gave Kagome," she said, smiling cheerfully. "Oh, and that's Kurama, Hiei, Urameshi Yusuke, and Kuwabara," she added, pointing at them each in order of their names. "You already know Lord Koenma, or at least you should."

"Feh," Inuyasha said, spitting out the dirt in his mouth and dusting off his red haori. "Are you sure this is going to work?"

"Well, it should," Koenma replied, sweeping his cape as if to show off. "I am lord of all of Spirit World, aren't I?"

Kagome smiled cheerfully. "Botan, are you coming, too?"

The blue-haired girl nodded. "Yes, of course! I can come and go between the times as I please. Just in case someone," she said, directing it at Yusuke, who turned his head and looked down, "needs some help, or forgets something."

The Spirit Detective looked up suddenly, remembering something. "Keiko! I forgot to tell her I'll be gone for a week! Botan, can you tell her?" She nodded, and popped her oar out to fly back to tell his girlfriend.

The extremely larger group headed for the well. "By the way," Kuwabara asked as Kagome opened the door, "where are we going?"

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