Disclaimer: Ugh, fine! I DON'T OWN INUYASHA OR YUYU HAKUSHO!
To: FoxylilRaven: To your review on Chapter 22, umm...Tessa's not a hanyou. She's a full youkai...and just because she has wolf ears and a wolf tail doesn't necessarily mean she's a hanyou...look at Youko! I just thought I needed to clarify that...I hope I didn't sound mean.
To MatrixFighter3: As for the interruptions during Yusuke and Kagome's make out sessions...not yet!
The SwitchChapter Twenty-Four: Koenma's Discovery and the Northern Territory
"GORGE! GET IN HERE NOW!" Koenma shouted. Gorge ran into the office in a rush.
"What's the matter, Koenma-sir?" Koenma's eye twitched.
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU READ EVERYTHING ON KAGOME HIGURASHI BEFORE I TOLD YUSUKE AND KURAMA TO GET HER TO JOIN THE REIKAI TENTEI!!" Koenma shouted, veins popping on his forehead.
"What do you mean, Koenma-sir?" Gorge could have sworn he read everything. At least, he read most of it...there were quite a few more pages but he got bored and hungry before he finished.
"HOW COME YOU NEVER TOLD ME THAT KAGOME HIGURASHI WAS THE SAME KAGOME HIGURASHI THAT WAS IN FEUDAL JAPAN! THE SAME KAGOME HIGURASHI THAT HELPED DEFEAT NARAKU?" Gorge grimaced. He knew he should have waited for lunch that day...but was so hungry.
"Umm...you see sir...I kind of got hungry and..."
"AND YOU DIDN'T FINISH READING THE FILES?"
"Uh...no." Koenma's face was now blotchy and red. "Koenma...remember your breathing exercises!"
"Gorge..." Koenma's voice was shaking with anger. Gorge backed up.
'Why me?' Gorge thought.
"100 spankings." Koenma's eyes narrowed.
"But, Koenma sir!"
With the group
It was official: the wolves were scared. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha just continued to remain uneasy, and everyone else just kept their guard up. They were walked next to a cliff and a forest was to their left. "Kagome, I have a bad feeling, like we're being watched." Yusuke mumbled. Kagome looked at Yusuke, a serious expression on her face.
"You feel it too. So I'm not just being paranoid." Kagome said softly. The wolves were bad enough as it is; there was no need to raise the alarm just yet. Kagome gripped Yusuke's hand tighter. Out of the corner of her eye, a blur appeared for a split second, and it wasn't the same blur that Hiei made when he ran, not to mention that Hiei was in Kagome's view. "Yusuke, did you see that?"
"See what?" Yusuke asked and Kagome shook her head.
"Never mind." Kagome sighed. Suddenly, a spear flew right in front of Yusuke and Kagome, and nearly nailed Yukina in the shoulder, if she hadn't ducked. Everyone stopped and was on guard immediately.
"Well what do we have here?" A gruff voice came from the trees beside them. A wolf youkai appeared, dressed in clothes that were similar to Kouga's, except they covered a little bit more and he had blue markings, not unlike Sesshoumaru's, on his face. "Let me see. Five wolf youkai, their wolves, Lord Sesshoumaru of the Western Lands, Lord Inuyasha, and other various human and youkai." He smirked. "I believe this goes against our territory rules, don't you think boys?"
"YEAH!" Two voices came from somewhere above them, and everyone looked up to see two teenage wolf youkai.
"What do you think we should do?" The first wolf youkai smirked up at the other two.
"Can we kill them? Please?" They begged and the wolf youkai smiled and shrugged.
"Since you said please, go right ahead." He smirked. "I think I'll join you." The three wolves started to attack.
"SPIRIT WHIP!" Keiko shouted and a whip appeared in her hands, with green spirit energy. She struck one of the teenage wolves and they only smirked.
"I think she wants to play..." The other teenage wolf smirked and nodded.
"Well then, lets play." They both jumped at Keiko.
"ROSE WHIP!" Kurama shouted and with a flick of his wrist he hit the wolves and sent them into the side of the cliff. Kouga and the main wolf youkai were fighting, trading blow for blow. Suddenly, the ground started to shake. The wolves smirked and jumped away.
"You idiots fell for it." One of the teenage wolves laughed as he ran away. Everyone suddenly felt sudden dread.
"RUN!" Kouga shouted and grabbed Ayame's hand, making a dash for it. Everyone got his signal just as rocks began to fall down above their heads.
With Koenma
"Koenma, there have been reports of a group of youkai heading for the northern territory." One of Koenma's assistants reported.
"What's so unusual about that? Lots of youkai tend to be idiots and head there." Koenma asked.
"There are quite a few humans with them..." Koenma stood up in his chair.
"WHAT? Do you know the identities of any of these youkai or humans?" Koenma thought.
"There are three figures that were recognized. Lord Sesshoumaru, Kouga of the wolf youkai pack to the west, and Lord Inuyasha. Some other rumors say that there are at least three Taijiya with them, and a priestess." Koenma sat back in his chair.
"Where are they now?"
"They have entered the northern territory." Koenma waved his assistant out and he was in deep thought.
'Lord Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha are traveling together, along with Kouga. That's strange. Inuyasha has a grudge against both of them, and Sesshoumaru isn't very impressed by Kouga. A priestess is traveling with them, and three Taijiya? There haven't been any Taijiya or Miko around for centuries.' Kouga was disturbed. 'I need to investigate.'
Back with the group
The dust cleared. "Damn..." Inuyasha growled, looking at the pile of rocks. "Who's here?" Inuyasha turned to everyone and started to count off everyone.
'Kouga, Ayame, Sesshoumaru, Yusuke, Genkai, Hiei, Yukina, Kuwabara, Kurama, Jamie, Kristen, Shizuru, Botan, Hiten, Manten, Chu, Jin, Touya, Rinku, Miroku, Kagura, Kenji, Yahiko, Kiba, Jinenji...' Inuyasha's ears flattened against his skull. "Everyone start searching!" Inuyasha instructed and Yusuke bolted for the pile of rubble, as did everyone else.
'Kagome!' Yusuke moved a rock. 'Don't be dead...' Yusuke pleaded inside his head as he continued to move the rocks, searching desperately for her. For a half hour everyone searching and couldn't find anyone.
"I FOUND SOMEONE!" Rinku called out. Yusuke ran over to him and helped him move the boulder. "Kanna..." Rinku picked up Kanna's unconscious form and led her away from the rubble and sat her down next to a tree. Yukina ran over and started using her healing powers on her. Kagura ran over, worried about her older sister. Yusuke growled and jumped off to another place to start digging. They soon found Rin and Souta together, and Sango not to far away from them.
'A hand...' Yusuke thought as he pushed away a few more rocks. A rather large boulder was on top of the body and he blasted it with his spirit gun. 'KAGOME!' Yusuke thought, kneeling down beside her. She had blood in various areas on her body, and she was holding a hand. Yusuke cleared the rubble to reveal Shippo and Souten. 'She tried to get them out of there...' Yusuke realized. "HITEN!" Yusuke shouted and the eldest of the thunder brothers ran to him, looking at Souten, he picked up his little sister and Shippo.
"Thanks." Hiten smiled briefly and jumped down to Yukina with the two little youkai. Yusuke picked up Kagome, holding her bridal style, and started to carefully jump towards Yukina. She gasped when she saw Kagome...her best friend.
"I'm almost done with them." Yukina motioned towards Shippo and Souten. When she was done, she motioned for Yusuke to put down Kagome. Looking at her briefly, tears in her eyes, she held her hands over Kagome's body and they started to glow blue from her healing powers. Kagome started to glow the same color as Yukina's hands as the healing process took over. Yusuke wouldn't move from her side and held her hand, gently caressing it with his thumb. Yukina stopped glowing and breathed out a tired sigh.
"Is she going to be ok?"
"Yes." Yukina put a comforting arm on his shoulder. "She'll be perfectly fine. Why don't you rest?" Yusuke nodded and Yukina left to go help Botan heal Kikyou.
Kurama dug ferociously. He had picked up Keiko's faint scent. He unveiled her and picked her up. 'No...' Kurama felt a few tears well up in his eyes. She was unconscious and had blood trailing from her forehead. He dashed for Yukina. "Heal her." Yukina nodded and did the same thing she did to Kagome.
"She's going to be ok, Kurama." Yukina smiled. "She just needs to rest." Kurama heaved a sigh of relief.
'I thought she was...' Kurama shook his head. 'She isn't. That's all that matters.'
Hiei growled. Three more people...Kouga and Ayame were frantically searching. He removed a pile of rocks and found nothing. "GINTA! HAKKAKU! TESSA!" Kouga called out, digging frantically through the rocks. Ayame looked close to tears...
Hiei jumped to an area that hadn't been searched yet and started digging. A hand...Hiei pushed the rocks away and soon found all three of the missing wolves. "OVER HERE!" Hiei called out and both Kouga and Ayame were there in a split second. Hiei picked up Tessa. While Kouga took Ginta and Ayame took Hakkaku.
"Thanks." Kouga said gruffly before leaping down the pile of rocks to Botan and Yukina.
"This means a lot to us." Ayame smiled and looked at Tessa. "She's like a daughter to us." She sighed and jumped after Kouga. Hiei followed her.
"Is that everyone?" Sesshoumaru looked around, naming off everybody in his head. "Good. We'll have to carry the injured and find a place to set camp." Everyone nodded and waited for Yukina and Botan to finish healing everybody. As soon as they were done, they headed out.
'Kagome...' Yusuke smiled. 'You love little kids too much.' Yusuke looked at Hiten, who was carrying Souten.
"Thanks. I don't want my little sister to die before her time." Hiten smiled in relief.
"No problem. I'm just glad Kagome's ok." Yusuke said, looking at the girl in his arms.
"You really love her, don't you?" Hiten smirked.
"You could say that." Yusuke smirked back. "What about you? Do you have a girl?"
"No. I did 500 years ago, but I accidentally put a wind-hole in her face." Yusuke looked at him oddly.
"How do you 'accidentally' do that?"
"I got angry and shoved my fist through her face. I didn't exactly mean to do it though. Kagome saw me do it too..." Hiten sighed. "I wasn't exactly the nicest person in the world back then." Yusuke laughed and looked at the girl in his arms.
"Believe me, I doubt many people were nice back then."
"You do have a point."
End of ChappieTYN: Well, I realized...I suck at writing action scenes.
Yusuke: You also realize how many characters you forgot about.
TYN: Like Rinku. I realize I should have put him with the other kids. Well, people are right! The more people I have to keep track of, the less memory space I get for them.
Yusuke: Yup.
TYN: You're enjoying my misery, aren't you?
Yusuke: Yup.
TYN: Jerk.
Yusuke: HEY! I'M NOT A JERK!
TYN: Just say your line.
Yusuke: I'm NOT a JERK! Read and Review!