Catse: Yays! Chappie nineteen is all done! I've decided that every Friday I will try to update and if not Friday, definately on Saturday, that away you all know when to check! Anyways, this chapter has a lot of major turning points, so I think you'll like it. A few things are explained as well. Well, I better quite blabbing and let you read!
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Koenma fidgeted noticeably as he waited for the three people that were main to the meeting he had called to show up. The meeting, a short notice thing, was a sort of emergency, and it involved all of his detectives, senior and newbies alike.
There was something that really needed to be discussed.
Koenma looked over the people in the room.
Kurama, Kuwabara, Katai, and Yusuke were talking in one corner of the room, chatting about one of the cases they had endured and the like, each putting in their own version of the story.
Hiei, as he usually did, sat in another corner, watching everyone.
Strangely though, near him, were their wives. Yukina, Keiko, and Suta he recognized. The other woman, Kurama's wife, he didn't. She had wider eyes than they did, being as American as she was, and her golden locks floated around her in curls, her blue eyes representing her like an angel who had lost her white wings somewhere. She talked in perfect Japanese, chatting with the girls about their children and how it came about to raising them.
She also asked a little about their husbands, trying to find out more about the people her husband used to travel with.
Koenma's first impression of Jennifer, was that she was perhaps sought after by many for her beauty and intelligence. Kurama had told him that the both of them would get into questionaires and both would answer almost the exact same thing. It was rare that one bettered the other.
It was no wonder Kurama had an interest in the young maiden he had married.
Koenma sighed.
How late were the young boys going to be?
As if to answer his thought, the portal finally opened before them, to lead the grim reapor, Botan, Kurama's son Haku, Hiei's son Kenya, and the street kid Seika draped over them, with one other person following in suite.
"Hey! You made it! Finally!" Yusuke shouted, coming up to the group. He looked them over, and then noticed the girl with them.
"Hey! You caught her! Excellent!" Katai announced, walking up.
"Wait a minute? What happened to Seika?" Kuwabara inquired, helping the with their load.
"It's a little difficult to explain." Kenya answered with a small smile, helping to set Seika down in one of the chairs.
"That's one of the reasons I called the meeting." Everyone turned their attention to Koenma, in his teenage form.
He had found another pacifier to replace the old one he had had, the one destroyed during the time Sensui attacked the world, and so now, he sat before them, elligance with a baby feature.
"So...Now that we're here? Why did you call the meeting?" Came Botan's voice as she ran to join the other girls.
Koenma sighed. Here it was time. He had to tell them.
"I called you here for several reasons. One being Seika, but I don't think he'll mind if he gets the information second hand. First of all, I must state the emergency. It has been found that children are beginning to disappear more rapidly now."
"What do you mean?" Kenya inquired, looking at him weird. "We've been keeping our eye on the children at Satou's school. No one else has disappeared since the first wave did."
"Yes well, whatever was taking the children has gone full scale. Now five hundred children are missing, and not just from Japan. He's taken children from the rest of the world, including America, China, Africa, and India. Lord Rioko must be becoming desperate."
"You mean he's taken five hundred children in two weeks?" Katai jumped in, looking completely surprised. "How? I doubt Arune could get around like that."
They turned to look at the vine-trapped girl. Her mouth was wrapped in a cloth considering she kept shouting after they caught her, so they covered it for her. Now, it was about time she answer a few questions.
Kenya did the honors and pulled the ribbon from her lips, allowing her freedom of speech.
"I can't believe you think I've been stealing children!" Was her first words.
"What do you mean? Everything matches up. You were in prison, you work for Lord Rioko, and you're friends with my kid!" Kuwabara narrowed off, looking thoroughly aggravated.
"Yeah...so...Doesn't mean I steal children." The girl answered with a glare.
"Why not?"
"I think what she's saying is a look alike is running around in her name." Kenya supplied, smiling gently.
"There you go! Yeah!" Arune returned. "It's a look-alike!"
"But then, do you know Lord Rioko?" Kuwabara inquired, looking confused.
"Yeah...that's the sad part. He caught me a while back and kept me as a slave. All though he didn't send me to catch children."
"Why did he send you?" Kurama jumped into the conversation, jade eyes shimmering in interest.
"He sent me to watch you children. Why, I don't know."
"Well in any case, there are still five hundred children missing. But Arune, I was wondering if you knew how the force field on the outer rim of Lord Rioko's land works? My detectives can't get in." Koenma asked curiously. After all, it was information needed for the mission.
"That's an easy one. Only those younger than twenty can enter. In basic, children."
"And why are you helping us like this?" Hiei inquired, glaring at everyone. He didn't really believe the girls story. Years of being a bandit of the sort himself taught him never to believe anyone else.
"I hate Lord Rioko. That's why. That and I have no real choice. When you're pinned up on a four-legged plant that looks like it could strangle you, you don't have many actions to choose from."
Koenma sighed. "Well, I guess that leads to the next part of this meeting. It's been decided that we must take drastic action. Considering only children can enter, then that means all of your children must go. That's all we can do about it. You've all been training your young for a case like this and it's finally here. We will give two days to watch the children's missing cases increase, then you all must go inside. What we'll need you to do is find a way to break that barrier so the other detectives will get inside. This mission will include Kenya, Katai, Haku, Seika, and Yoru. If possible, maybe you can show them through Arune."
Everyone grimaced when they heard the name Yoru. She wasn't exactly the person everyone wanted on their team.
Of course she was skilled with experience and training, but she wasn't exactly in her right mind as all of them knew.
But it was also apparent that this was a desperate mission that would require more than what they had on their own.
"Hell no!" Arune answer. "I finally got out of there and you want me to go back. In that place, I'm as good as dead for helping you out. No way you're going to make me help!"
"What if we could guarantee protection for help." Koenma added, becoming a negotiater instantly. "If you haven't already noticed all the children here have certain skills and abilities. They would make sure you weren't killed."
Arune remained silent after that. The only words she admitted were: "I'll think about it."
"Okay. Now we must return to the matter at hand. All of my last detective groups were either single detectives on their own, or a group with a leader. The last one had Yusuke as a leader, so, considering the children of this group must go into the field, a leader must be chosen of you. I took some consideration in the choice, so it must be given."
Kenya sighed now.
He had a good idea of who was to be chosen.
Katai, although just like her father was a prime candidate, but couldn't really think on her feet in a quick situation that required emergence.
Haku, although intelligent, didn't have the abilities to socialize like the rest of them.
Yoru was far to full of herself, not to mention crazy and deadly to everyone around her, and Satou and Tsuki were far too young.
Kenya himself, although good for it, didn't have the right qualities needed to be leader. He couldn't quite list them, although he knew he had a similar problem as Katai, with freezing on his feet.
The best person for it had to be Seika. He was fast on his feet, didn't freeze, was social, street smart, and now, he had skills in fighting and producing his spirit energy to take a weaponry form. He was perfect.
"The leader I have chosen took some debate from your parents, but finally, we came to a conclusion. The leader of the team is..."
Katai looked as if she knew it was her. After all, her father was leader. Why shouldn't she?
Haku sighed, knowing it wasn't himself, similarly to how Kenya sighed.
Seika was still knocked cold, and the parents paused, looking at each other to see the other's expression.
"...Kenya. You're the leader. Do you accept the responsibility?"
Kenya's, Katai's, and Haku's jaws dropped when they heard it.
"What?" Katai shook with confusion. "I thought I would be leader."
"Yeah well you ain't quite there Katai." Yusuke answered, using her head like an arm rest. "Believe me, it took a long time to debate, but a decision had to be made. I wanted you as leader, but they needed someone quick to make a choice, and a good one. But don't worry, he still needs someone to kick his ass every now an then to remind him he's just like you."
Katai brushed her father's arm off with a smile. "Yeah...But now I get to do that any time right!" She said playing along, although they could all see she was anticipating me leader.
"'Course kid. Why not?"
Haku walked up to Kenya and extended his hand. When Kenya took it, Haku whispered something only his excellent ears could hear. "I knew you'd be leader. You've got the right qualities. Besides...I don't think I'd listen to meathead."
Meathead was Haku's nickname for Katai, just as Ken was Seika's.
"Yeah...right." Kenya whispered back. Then Haku stepped away to walk to her mother and father, who were now standing next to each other. Keiko came up to Katai and rubbed her hair from her eyes as she gently scorned Yusuke for setting his arm on her daughters head. Then she turned to Kenya and bowed to him, congradulating him. "You'll do well."
"Thank you." Kenya replied with a bow in respect.
Katai did the same, blushing as she did so.
After everyone had congradulated Kenya on becoming leader, it was on to other business. And by the way Koenma looked at them, everything was extremely important.
"The next matter is something Kenya asked me to do. He noticed that Seika has been having a little trouble with a "demon possession"." All the parents nodded, all apparently having seen it.
"He was creeping me out when I was training him on his spirit awareness." Kuwabara confessed sadly. "I could sense the demon and I recognized it, but I couldn't tell who it was."
"Do you know who it is?" Yusuke inquired, looking serious for a moment.
"Yes." Koenma answered, waiting for everyone to discuss and wait for his answer.
"Kenya told me that the demon that had invaded Seika's body was someone we all knew...and that it was an apparent runaway, so I began investigating demons that had recently managed to escape Spirit World. But when no one else turned up that matches the description, I began to look a little farther back. For a record, I searched twenty years into the past, and found one candidate that perfectly suited the position. He escaped right after dying and set to work looking for a good body to take over. I think what he needed was a body that had freshly died, that was still warm, and had little to no family or little to no reputation. That, and he had to have a thick spiritual ability. All signs leading to Seika. It took him twenty years, but he finally found him. I'm sure you all remember him."
"You can't mean...?" Kurama started, but paused, reviewing the information in his head.
Haku looked at his father with encouragement, waiting for the answer same as everyone else.
"Remember...Shadow?"
Instantly everyone quieted.
'No...he's back...'They all thought.
Hiei and Suta were the ones most affected by this information. If you remember, Shadow was Suta's uncle, the maniac demon who had slowly killed off her family until it came to her, the last being to inherit the Sword Dancing technique.
Then, in her uncle's attempt to destroy the rest of the world and everything in it, he kidnapped Suta to keep the field from being repaired with her spirit energy, and fought Hiei in a long drawn out battle for her freedom and the barrier's repair.
Everyone knew the story, even those that weren't there on that night.
"You mean...you mean..." Katai stuttered, staring at Seika. The boy was still knocked out, but now, everything that had happened to him made sense.
"But wasn't Shadow's eyes golden in color? When Seika transforms, his are silver." Kenya acknowledged, and everyone nodded their agreement.
"Silver is most likely the color that occurs when greyish blue and gold mix. Only instead of making a rich green like it usually would, it's made a silver color." Kurama added.
"So that's what he meant when he said we all knew him. Our parents killed him and they told us about him." Katai replied with interest.
"It all makes sense." Botan agreed, having been the one to drop them off at the Kekkai barrier when the event occurred.
"Exactly." Koenma added, nodding. "Shadow has taken Seika's body, but both of them are fighting for control. Most likely, when Seika gives into the demon in his body, we will have to find a way to subdue him and bring the original spirit back to consciousness. He will have to have someone with him at all times in the case of fighting until we can find out what to do with him. Until then, he's stuck with Shadow's spirit. Now, I have one last thing to say before this meeting is concluded."
Everyone remained silent as they waited for Koenma to finish the meeting he had called.
"Train everyone up and prepare them for the big day. Remember, they have two days to prepare. Nothing more, and nothing less until things run into a system of emergence. This meeting is dismissed."
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Catse: What did you think? You like it? Please review! Did you suspect it was Shadow from my last story? Or did you think it was someone else. I know one of you had it as one of your guesses. Well to you I say you must be really good at predicting. Then again, my story isn't that different from the other ones out there so who am I to talk? To the rest of you, I'm sure you knew it or were close, so you too are good predictors. Well, I have to go now, so Ja Ne for now and review for me please!.
