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To Natala: I was wondering when you would read this...
The Switch
Chapter 15: Three New Recruits
Yusuke looked at Kagome strangely. Lately she had been disappearing for periods of a time with no excuse, and Yukina was going with her. Normally he would have shrugged it off as a girl thing, but this was Kagome he was talking about, or thinking about, or both. When he did ask her about it she'd shrug it off and change the topic.
Kagome stood up abruptly while checking her watch. "I have to go. I'm on babysitter duty for Souta tonight." She kissed Yusuke goodbye and headed out the door, leaving Yukina, Kurama, and Yusuke in Genkai's temple. Yukina excused herself and went into her room. Now that Yusuke thought about it, Yukina and Kagome seemed a little bit more exhausted than usual. Kurama turned his head to Yusuke.
"Did you notice?" Kurama asked and Yusuke nodded.
"I guess they don't have to tell us everything..." Yusuke began "...but they should". Kurama hid a chuckle behind his hand.
"Yusuke, I was wondering about something." Kurama said and Yusuke motioned for him to go on, whether he was listening completely or not was unapparent. "It has to do with Keiko..." Yusuke grinned at Kurama.
"Have you two hooked up yet?" Kurama looked at Yusuke with widened eyes.
"How did you..."
"I have my ways. You two flirt like no other, and I'm getting tired of it. Just ask her out already!" Yusuke was laughing by this point and Kurama was blushing just a little. Yusuke was a little bit more perceptive than Kurama had given him credit for. "If you were wondering, I've known for a while now, a few days before I met Kagome to be exact." Kurama sweat- dropped. He hadn't intended for it to be so obvious.
"Umm...thanks Yusuke." Kurama said, a little bit unsure. He was still amazed by the fact that Yusuke had noticed him and Keiko, much less accepted it. "By the way, what high school are you applying to?"
Yusuke smirked. "Same one as Kagome."
"So then, which High School?"
"Yours. Kagome really wants to get into your school, even before she transferred." Yusuke grinned and Kurama sweat-dropped. What reputation was Yusuke going to give his school?
"Well, I hope you make it..." Kurama then imagined Yusuke wearing his school uniform and sweat-dropped. This was going to be interesting. Standing up, Kurama waved Yusuke good-bye and headed home. A few minutes of sitting around and thinking, Yusuke headed off home as well. Yukina waited until Yusuke was out of earshot before picking up the phone.
"Moshi Moshi!" Kagome's voice chirped on the other end.
"They're gone...lets go now."
"All right, just tell Genkai you're leaving."
"Ok. Ja ne."
"Sayonara." Yukina hung up the phone and got into her fighting clothes, putting a large jacket that covered the majority of her, except for her neck and head, and headed off to the park.
At the Park
Yukina saw Kagome and waved, but immediately stopped. She saw Botan, Keiko, and Shizuru chatting and heading their way. This was not good. Yukina jogged towards Kagome and subtly pointed towards her three friends. Kagome only recognized Botan and paled.
"What should we do?" Yukina asked.
"How often have they seen you in a trench coat?"
"Never." Botan finally looked up and broke into a huge grin.
"KAGOME! YUKINA! OVER HERE!" Botan shouted and waved them over. Kagome and Yukina looked at each other and Kagome shrugged, so they went over to Botan. "What's with the trench coats guys?" Botan asked, while Keiko and Shizuru looked at Kagome strangely, then Yukina with wide eyes. Since when did Yukina dress like that?
"Umm..." Yukina started but Botan snapped her fingers.
"Oh, I forgot. Kagome, this is Shizuru and Keiko. Keiko and Shizuru, this is Kagome, the newest member of the Reikai Tentei! She also goes to Keiko's school!" Keiko nodded.
"I thought I'd seen you before. Aren't you the girl that Yusuke's always around?" Kagome blushed and nodded.
"Yeah..." Kagome was still blushing, and Keiko smiled.
"I hope he's not too much of a handful!" Kagome shook her head and smiled.
"He isn't." Botan smiled and jumped in.
"Keiko, you were going to tell us something?" Botan turned to Keiko who blushed.
"Umm...well...Kagome, you know Kurama, right?" Keiko asked and Kagome nodded.
"Yeah, he's part of the Reikai Tentei."
"Well...umm...uh...you see...we're kinda...going out." Keiko was now blushing like crazy and everyone else was grinning like there was no tomorrow.
"I was wondering when you two would get together!" Botan chirped and everybody (minus Kagome and Keiko) agreed. Keiko was blushing and Kagome was trying to picture them together.
"You take make a perfect couple!" Kagome chirped and everybody laughed.
'Kagome...do you think that...well...they should be included in this? Since they aren't Reikai Tentei it would be easier for Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha to accept them.' Yukina's voice spoke in Kagome's head. They had learned this trick recently and it came in handy.
'Maybe...' Kagome thought. She really wanted to tell Yusuke what was going on, but Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were still thinking on it. They had trusted Kagome but since Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara were also Reikai Tentei who they've never met, they didn't want to risk Koenma finding out about them.
'Please?' Yukina begged in Kagome's mind and Kagome just smiled. Yukina was more than influential. She almost hated it when Yukina used that begging tone, it made her feel a little guilty.
'Alright.' Kagome giggled in her head and Yukina smiled.
"Umm, you guys can keep a secret, right?" Keiko, Botan, and Shizuru looked at her strangely.
"Yeah, why?" Shizuru asked. "Come with us...and make sure nobody sees you." Yukina informed them and they headed back to the clearing in the park. Kagome made sure nobody was nearby, especially any of the Reikai Tentei before chanting the words that opened the portal.
"Yukina and you all have to go in first." Kagome said and everyone nodded, trusting Yukina completely. They grabbed each other's hands and jumped in, Kagome following after them. They ended up at the same area that Yukina and Kagome first showed up in the first time they went through the portal, and the two girls took off their trench coats to reveal their fighting clothes.
"Oh my..." Keiko gasped, staring at both girls in fighting outfits. "Yukina, you can fight?" Keiko asked and Yukina nodded, revealing the mace that Kikyou had given her.
"I've been training with Kagome for a while now, and soon afterwards Genkai found out and she helped train both me and Kagome. Do you know what Kagome did before she became a Reikai Tentei?" Yukina asked and both Keiko and Shizuru shook their heads, while Botan nodded.
"I traveled 500 years into the past." Kagome started to explain as they headed off into the direction of the cave. She was basically done with her explanation when the reached it. "So Yukina and I come here as often as we can and we promised the group that we'd recruit new members." Kagome finished it off.
"What about the Reikai Tentei? Don't you think they'll be good enough to fight this Naraku person?" Shizuru asked.
"I would have asked them first, but...Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha aren't sure that the trust them, even if they know that...well...I'm with Yusuke...they just don't want to alert Koenma that they even exist." Kagome sighed. She desperately wanted to tell Yusuke, instead of keeping it a secret. Yukina suddenly perked up.
"Do you think you can help us convince Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha?" Yukina asked. The three girls looked at each other and nodded.
"On one condition!" Keiko smiled and both Yukina and Kagome nodded.
"We get to help you." Shizuru stated and both girls brightened up.
"Of course!" They said and Yukina jumped down the hole, followed by everyone else.
They landed in the smooth hallway where a few humans and youkai were hanging out. "Kagome! I see you've brought the lasses with you!" A rather quick, accented voice reached everyone's ears and everyone looked at Jin. "I knew they would show up at one point!" (Gomen Nasai, I suck with typing accents).
"You know them?" Kagome blinked and he nodded, his ears wiggling.
"Aye! I met them at the dark tournament!" Jin said rather fast and it took them all a moment to separate the words and replay the sentence in their heads so that they understood what he said.
"Oh. Is Sesshoumaru in the main conference room?" Yukina asked and Jin nodded before taking off. Kagome and Yukina motioned for everyone to follow them, but ended stopping when a rather eager kitsune youkai ran up to them.
"KAGOME! YOU'RE BACK!" Shippo squealed and jumped up and down. Kagome sighed; she really did miss being able to hold the little kitsune youkai. Keiko, Shizuru, and Botan looked at the young kitsune and tried to hold back an 'aww' (I can't hold that back...).
"Everybody, this is Shippo!" Everybody nodded and recognized the name from Kagome's 'little explanation. "Shippo, are Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha in the conference room?"
"Yeah! Kikyou is too! They could smell you all from miles away!" Shippo chirped and took off, most likely to find Jin and Touya. They were helping to train the young kit in combat, though he had no similar powers to them. The five girls went into the conference room.
"I see you have brought three new fighters." Sesshoumaru stated. Kagome and Yukina nodded.
"They will need some training...but other than that, I think they will be fine recruits!" Kagome said and Kikyou smiled at her incarnate. "They are Shizuru, Botan, and Keiko." Kagome pointed to each by name. Yukina and Kagome looked at each other.
"Have you come to a decision?" They asked, simultaneously.
End of Chappie
TYN: DONE!
Yusuke: ....grrrr
TYN: Why so glum Yusuke?
Yusuke: I WANT TO FIGHT NARAKU!
TYN: ...Read and review peoples, while I get Yusuke some mental help.
To Natala: I was wondering when you would read this...
The Switch
Chapter 15: Three New Recruits
Yusuke looked at Kagome strangely. Lately she had been disappearing for periods of a time with no excuse, and Yukina was going with her. Normally he would have shrugged it off as a girl thing, but this was Kagome he was talking about, or thinking about, or both. When he did ask her about it she'd shrug it off and change the topic.
Kagome stood up abruptly while checking her watch. "I have to go. I'm on babysitter duty for Souta tonight." She kissed Yusuke goodbye and headed out the door, leaving Yukina, Kurama, and Yusuke in Genkai's temple. Yukina excused herself and went into her room. Now that Yusuke thought about it, Yukina and Kagome seemed a little bit more exhausted than usual. Kurama turned his head to Yusuke.
"Did you notice?" Kurama asked and Yusuke nodded.
"I guess they don't have to tell us everything..." Yusuke began "...but they should". Kurama hid a chuckle behind his hand.
"Yusuke, I was wondering about something." Kurama said and Yusuke motioned for him to go on, whether he was listening completely or not was unapparent. "It has to do with Keiko..." Yusuke grinned at Kurama.
"Have you two hooked up yet?" Kurama looked at Yusuke with widened eyes.
"How did you..."
"I have my ways. You two flirt like no other, and I'm getting tired of it. Just ask her out already!" Yusuke was laughing by this point and Kurama was blushing just a little. Yusuke was a little bit more perceptive than Kurama had given him credit for. "If you were wondering, I've known for a while now, a few days before I met Kagome to be exact." Kurama sweat- dropped. He hadn't intended for it to be so obvious.
"Umm...thanks Yusuke." Kurama said, a little bit unsure. He was still amazed by the fact that Yusuke had noticed him and Keiko, much less accepted it. "By the way, what high school are you applying to?"
Yusuke smirked. "Same one as Kagome."
"So then, which High School?"
"Yours. Kagome really wants to get into your school, even before she transferred." Yusuke grinned and Kurama sweat-dropped. What reputation was Yusuke going to give his school?
"Well, I hope you make it..." Kurama then imagined Yusuke wearing his school uniform and sweat-dropped. This was going to be interesting. Standing up, Kurama waved Yusuke good-bye and headed home. A few minutes of sitting around and thinking, Yusuke headed off home as well. Yukina waited until Yusuke was out of earshot before picking up the phone.
"Moshi Moshi!" Kagome's voice chirped on the other end.
"They're gone...lets go now."
"All right, just tell Genkai you're leaving."
"Ok. Ja ne."
"Sayonara." Yukina hung up the phone and got into her fighting clothes, putting a large jacket that covered the majority of her, except for her neck and head, and headed off to the park.
At the Park
Yukina saw Kagome and waved, but immediately stopped. She saw Botan, Keiko, and Shizuru chatting and heading their way. This was not good. Yukina jogged towards Kagome and subtly pointed towards her three friends. Kagome only recognized Botan and paled.
"What should we do?" Yukina asked.
"How often have they seen you in a trench coat?"
"Never." Botan finally looked up and broke into a huge grin.
"KAGOME! YUKINA! OVER HERE!" Botan shouted and waved them over. Kagome and Yukina looked at each other and Kagome shrugged, so they went over to Botan. "What's with the trench coats guys?" Botan asked, while Keiko and Shizuru looked at Kagome strangely, then Yukina with wide eyes. Since when did Yukina dress like that?
"Umm..." Yukina started but Botan snapped her fingers.
"Oh, I forgot. Kagome, this is Shizuru and Keiko. Keiko and Shizuru, this is Kagome, the newest member of the Reikai Tentei! She also goes to Keiko's school!" Keiko nodded.
"I thought I'd seen you before. Aren't you the girl that Yusuke's always around?" Kagome blushed and nodded.
"Yeah..." Kagome was still blushing, and Keiko smiled.
"I hope he's not too much of a handful!" Kagome shook her head and smiled.
"He isn't." Botan smiled and jumped in.
"Keiko, you were going to tell us something?" Botan turned to Keiko who blushed.
"Umm...well...Kagome, you know Kurama, right?" Keiko asked and Kagome nodded.
"Yeah, he's part of the Reikai Tentei."
"Well...umm...uh...you see...we're kinda...going out." Keiko was now blushing like crazy and everyone else was grinning like there was no tomorrow.
"I was wondering when you two would get together!" Botan chirped and everybody (minus Kagome and Keiko) agreed. Keiko was blushing and Kagome was trying to picture them together.
"You take make a perfect couple!" Kagome chirped and everybody laughed.
'Kagome...do you think that...well...they should be included in this? Since they aren't Reikai Tentei it would be easier for Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha to accept them.' Yukina's voice spoke in Kagome's head. They had learned this trick recently and it came in handy.
'Maybe...' Kagome thought. She really wanted to tell Yusuke what was going on, but Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were still thinking on it. They had trusted Kagome but since Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara were also Reikai Tentei who they've never met, they didn't want to risk Koenma finding out about them.
'Please?' Yukina begged in Kagome's mind and Kagome just smiled. Yukina was more than influential. She almost hated it when Yukina used that begging tone, it made her feel a little guilty.
'Alright.' Kagome giggled in her head and Yukina smiled.
"Umm, you guys can keep a secret, right?" Keiko, Botan, and Shizuru looked at her strangely.
"Yeah, why?" Shizuru asked. "Come with us...and make sure nobody sees you." Yukina informed them and they headed back to the clearing in the park. Kagome made sure nobody was nearby, especially any of the Reikai Tentei before chanting the words that opened the portal.
"Yukina and you all have to go in first." Kagome said and everyone nodded, trusting Yukina completely. They grabbed each other's hands and jumped in, Kagome following after them. They ended up at the same area that Yukina and Kagome first showed up in the first time they went through the portal, and the two girls took off their trench coats to reveal their fighting clothes.
"Oh my..." Keiko gasped, staring at both girls in fighting outfits. "Yukina, you can fight?" Keiko asked and Yukina nodded, revealing the mace that Kikyou had given her.
"I've been training with Kagome for a while now, and soon afterwards Genkai found out and she helped train both me and Kagome. Do you know what Kagome did before she became a Reikai Tentei?" Yukina asked and both Keiko and Shizuru shook their heads, while Botan nodded.
"I traveled 500 years into the past." Kagome started to explain as they headed off into the direction of the cave. She was basically done with her explanation when the reached it. "So Yukina and I come here as often as we can and we promised the group that we'd recruit new members." Kagome finished it off.
"What about the Reikai Tentei? Don't you think they'll be good enough to fight this Naraku person?" Shizuru asked.
"I would have asked them first, but...Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha aren't sure that the trust them, even if they know that...well...I'm with Yusuke...they just don't want to alert Koenma that they even exist." Kagome sighed. She desperately wanted to tell Yusuke, instead of keeping it a secret. Yukina suddenly perked up.
"Do you think you can help us convince Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha?" Yukina asked. The three girls looked at each other and nodded.
"On one condition!" Keiko smiled and both Yukina and Kagome nodded.
"We get to help you." Shizuru stated and both girls brightened up.
"Of course!" They said and Yukina jumped down the hole, followed by everyone else.
They landed in the smooth hallway where a few humans and youkai were hanging out. "Kagome! I see you've brought the lasses with you!" A rather quick, accented voice reached everyone's ears and everyone looked at Jin. "I knew they would show up at one point!" (Gomen Nasai, I suck with typing accents).
"You know them?" Kagome blinked and he nodded, his ears wiggling.
"Aye! I met them at the dark tournament!" Jin said rather fast and it took them all a moment to separate the words and replay the sentence in their heads so that they understood what he said.
"Oh. Is Sesshoumaru in the main conference room?" Yukina asked and Jin nodded before taking off. Kagome and Yukina motioned for everyone to follow them, but ended stopping when a rather eager kitsune youkai ran up to them.
"KAGOME! YOU'RE BACK!" Shippo squealed and jumped up and down. Kagome sighed; she really did miss being able to hold the little kitsune youkai. Keiko, Shizuru, and Botan looked at the young kitsune and tried to hold back an 'aww' (I can't hold that back...).
"Everybody, this is Shippo!" Everybody nodded and recognized the name from Kagome's 'little explanation. "Shippo, are Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha in the conference room?"
"Yeah! Kikyou is too! They could smell you all from miles away!" Shippo chirped and took off, most likely to find Jin and Touya. They were helping to train the young kit in combat, though he had no similar powers to them. The five girls went into the conference room.
"I see you have brought three new fighters." Sesshoumaru stated. Kagome and Yukina nodded.
"They will need some training...but other than that, I think they will be fine recruits!" Kagome said and Kikyou smiled at her incarnate. "They are Shizuru, Botan, and Keiko." Kagome pointed to each by name. Yukina and Kagome looked at each other.
"Have you come to a decision?" They asked, simultaneously.
End of Chappie
TYN: DONE!
Yusuke: ....grrrr
TYN: Why so glum Yusuke?
Yusuke: I WANT TO FIGHT NARAKU!
TYN: ...Read and review peoples, while I get Yusuke some mental help.