catse: Here's my next chapter! And right on schedule! It's coming to a close everyone! Once this is finished I will start working on number three, along with finishing up Blood Red Sign. Anyways, enjoy this chapter, and for those that asked for that picture, I will do my best to finish the coloring of it and send it over. Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: See chappie numbah one!

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The group glared up at the inhumanly thin image of Yoru. Her long black silky hair danced dangerously at her back, and her new warrior garb was much different compared to her usual black T-shirts and jeans. Now she wore a pair of tight black leather jeans, topped off with a black tank top under an open leather jacket with hooks hanging from the shoulders. Sharp hooks. She wore boots with knives at the toe and heel, and from her ears dangled miniature skulls that the group was certain was from tiny demons she had killed. Strangely, almost awkwardly, over her forehead was a black bandana, with the insignia of a black skeleton.

"So, my little brother and his crew of idiots decided to pay this mansion a visit. We are most honored you know."

"Cut the crap Yoru." Seika growled, fist up before his face. "Before I cut you."

"Ooh…tough words from a mini-baddy boy. If it weren't for that weakling soul of Shadow being in your body, you wouldn't have the guts to even look at me." Yoru folded her arms, revealing a pair of whips dangling from her hips that held tiny spiked daggers at the tip. (Is it just me, or did I some how unconsciously come up with a rhyme?)

"Why you?"

"Yo Seika! Calm it down will yah! This isn't exactly the perfect place to be fighting a woman who's had ten times the experience and power you do, and is at least five years older than you." Katai reasoned. She looked determined to keep Seika in one place as his eyes flashed from grey to silver and back again.

"So what should I do?" He asked sarcastically, folding his own arms.

Katai smiled. "Let me kick her ass for yah."

"And steal all of my fun? Hell NO!" Seika shouted back, a play of laughter on his eyes.

Katai put up a pout. "What, you don't think I can?"

"It's not that. I want to take her!"

"No I!"

"No I!"

"No I!"

"Is it just me or did my last statement just sound completely wrong?" Seika thought outloud, remembering the "I want to take her!" phrase.

Katai stopped arguing, and thought to herself as well. Then, finally, she nodded. "Yeah, you're right. That was a completely perverted comment you just said there."

"I know. Finally you see me for what I am!"

"Um…excuse me. You were trying to decide who was going to fight me." Yoru put in, looking thoroughly agitated.

"Oh, excuse me." Seika spoke, turning to look at his leader Kenya. "Hey Kenya. Do you want to take her on?"

Kenya would have answered – if it wasn't for Yoru interupting him. "Of course he isn't going to fight me. He's a coward. A snivelling little—"

"That is enough."

All eyes directed at Haku. He stood completely straight, his calm demeanor still in play, only now he had a play of golden light around his body, causing him to glow almost angelically. "I will fight her. Kenya. It is your duty as leader to get the rest of the team inside. That is one of the main points of this mission after all. I will fight and destroy Yoru for good. So just get going."

"Are you kiddin' me!" Katai shouted, fists at the ready. "I knew it! You just wanted to steal the fun didn't you! You just wanted to have her all to yourself!"

"That also sounded perverted." Seika put in, hand on chin in thought until Katai smacked his arm in a serious rage. He finally stopped his teasing and turned, nodding to Haku. "We should go." He informed, grabbing a still fuming Katai by the wrist.

When she tried to jerk him off, she found him pulling her away from the fight and towards the front gate. Kenya had already unlocked the gate and was standing inside, staring at his older sister Yoru and one of his most trusted friends, Haku.

Haku watched them leave, fulling anticipating when he would finally crush the woman into the ground. After all, she was a bully of the worst sort, and he despised bullies.

Yoru didn't seem to have the same plan.

"You get back here you cowardly bastards! I've still got to kick your asses!" She leapt towards the gate, and would have reached the group in one bound if a large vine hadn't of shot from the soil and snatched onto her boots.

"Bastards? There's a chick here you know!" Katai shouted back, fighting with Seika to get to the older woman.

But it was no use. Seika had grown much stronger since they had first met, and for him it was rather easy to keep the strong woman in check. Afterall, he had Shadow's strength pumping in his veins.

"Hey Haku! You make sure you come back alive alright!" Kenya yelled back as they came to the door.

Haku stared at Kenya in disbelief. Come back? He…He wanted him back.

Haku gave a curt nod, a faint smile on his lips. So there really was life on Earth beyond his books. He would have to remember that last statement.

When the group had vanished into the mansion, Haku let Yoru got and she stood up, glaring.

"How dare you?" She snarled, turning to the eight year old. "How dare someone your age stand between me and what I want!"

"I have learned many a time in the past, as I have learned with this team." Haku murmured, reaching into his pocket for his seeds as he kept Yoru's attention to his eyes. "I does not matter your age or size. If you have the will and determination, then anything is possible."

In a quick swipe of trickery, Haku threw a handful of seeds into Yoru's face and jumped back.

The seeds burst into plants that would have divoured her face, if it weren't for the discovery Haku made. Apparently Yoru was much like her brother in power, in which the area around them began to heat up to an abnormal temperature.

"Plants can't grow when they're too hot." She remarked, smirking.

"Then I'll find those that can." Haku replied, taking a stance as he fumbled in his pocket for one certain seed he had made sure to get in the case that this ever happened. "By the way, what happened to my Parasite Vines. I don't sense them anywhere within you."

"Oh those." Yoru snickered, taking a stance of her own. "Those weren't very hard for Lord Rioko to remove. Just a flick of his wrist and I was free again. Oh, by the way, that seed you're looking for. It won't work. I've already got an immunity to that one."
Haku stopped dead in his tracks.

How could she have known?

Yoru, apparently predicting his thoughts, smiled. "This is how I know."

She reached up and pulled the bandana from her forehead, and there, gleaming evily, was the Jagan eye, in it's most powerful form.

"Pop had one. Now I do too."
Haku stared. He never thought he would ever have to fight an opponent with that type of weapon before. Of course Hiei had one, but he didn't know anyone else was capable of getting it.

"How did you…how?"

Yoru smiled at his question. "Old Lord Rioko. He gave it to me, along with a multitude of other powers. He's a surgeon you know."

Haku's heart felt cold as several things added up.

Suddenly, he knew why Lord Rioko wanted so many children, and why he had kidnapped Tsuki. He had to finish this fast, in order to warn the others.

The group of three kept running after they came into the mansion-castle place.

They were still miffed about leaving Haku behind, Kenya most of all. He didn't know Haku all that well, but he could still say that he held a loyalty to the younger boy, as Haku held a loyalty to him.

When they reached the top of the steps, Seika let go of Katai and walked down a hallway that held many adjourning doors.

"So leader. What do we do now?" Seika inquired, glancing around. Katai glanced at Kenya, and the look of thought that stretched across his face.

Finally, after a moment, he nodded.

"First of all, I want you and Katai to go and find the children. Get them out of here in any way you think fit, but get them out of her and to Spirit World. From there they can be seperated to their families once more."

"What about you Kenya? You can't tell me your going to sit around and watch." Seika replied, glancing at his leader.

Kenya shook his head, a tiny smile on his features. "I've got Lord Rioko. Someone has to kill him. It might as well be me."

"Hey! Why do you get to kick ass and I've got to follow dragon boy and pet wonder to the children! That's not fair you know! You could get killed!" Katai shouted, certain to wake up a few gaurds that hadn't known of their appearance.

"Sorry Katai. My first concern is the children, and considering you can teleport and fight, means you will be perfect for this job. Believe me, from that last shout, there will be plenty of beatings on the way to the children."

"But that's all quantity! I want quality!" Katai replied, as Seika began to laugh. "What's so funny?"

"That's the third perverted thing I've heard in the last five minutes." He whispered between laughs.

Katai bopped him over the head with her closed fist and turned away from him as he reached up to feel the growing lump on his forehead. "Hey! What was that for! It wasn't like I was insulting you or anything!"

"Hey guys. We've got company." Kenya said, bringing them back to reality. When Seika and Katai turned around, they found an entire army of the same fake demons from the city crowding the hallway, a mix of robotic and reptilian demons.

"Don't worry about me! Just get the children out of here! I'll find a way to get back to you in Spirit world! Make sure you take Haku with you! Alright!" Kenya shouted over the demons as they began to chitter about death.

Seika gulped and nodded, while Katai furrowed her brows and prepared for an argument. Kenya wasn't about to wait for one however. He unsheathed the twin dragon swords and began swiping at the demons, running through them as if they were nothing but an obsticle in his way.

Katai frowned in distaste and began punching demons as Seika whapped them away with his staff. They would have to hope they saw Kenya again. Hopefully they did. They disappeared down one hallway, while Kenya traveled down another, using his sense of increased smell and sight to locate the main door that would lead to Lord Rioko's.

Coming to it, he noticed a heavy duty lock that would need to be melted in order to enter.

So he did just that. He melted the lock with his heat abilities, and broke down the door, coming to another one. A wooden one. This one he burned away at the hindges, and as it fell, he came into a fine room of fancy black cushions and couches, and a large fireplace blazing to the left. There was a crystal shandeleir overhead, and a table with an assortment of jars and vases.

In one rather large red chair, sat a figure with a dainty shampaghne glass.

"Hello, Kenya Nohara." The man spoke up with a deep, familiar voice.

In the middle, a man in slim black clothing stood, smiling. In one hand he held a scythe. His hair was long, golden flowing, and his eyes, gold to match, glimmered like coins.

"Who…?" Katai began, but he snickered and replied before she could finish.

"I am Lord Rioko my dear. The very being you are after."

Kenya shook his head to clear it of the visions. That must have been the time when Lord Rioko showed up during their last mission. It truly sucked to not be able to know what happened around that time.

"Do you remember me, Kenya?" The man inquired, standing up. His golden hair dripped across his long black cloak, one hand swirling the shampaghne around in it's glass, the other rested on top of his scthe, which was curently pinned at his waist.

Kenya smirked. "Wish I could, but I don't."

"Good. That makes things more…interesting."

Katai and Seika cursed as the multitude of demons seemed to increase. They were never going to get to the children this way!

"Hey Seika!" She shouted over the uproar of torn flesh and glaggles of screams.

Seika was currently pulling his green lit staff out of a beaten demon. "What?"

"I think we need to make a decision if were to get to the children, and I've already decided. No arguments allowable.!"

"What did you decide!" He returned, thrusting his staff into another demon.

"You go and find the children. I'll stay here and finish off the demons!" Katai shouted, pulling one of her blood soaked hands out of a demon.

Seika stopped for a moment after pinning a demon to the wall and killing it. When he turned back to Katai, it was a look of disbelief on his features that he showed. "What are you talking about? Kenya gave us this mission together and we're going to finish it. After all, we can't get out of here without you."

"I know. But, I can finish these guys off! I have the power to do so! I'll catch up with you later and we'll go together! Alright!"

"Hell no—" Seika tried to argue, but another multitude of demons attacked, causing them to spray blood once again. "Just go you stubborn-ass! If you don't I'll attack you myself and it won't be pretty!"

Seika glared at his female companion, and finally saw the wisdom in her statement. After all, Kenya had said that their first concern was to the children. "Alright! But if you don't make it back I'm coming to look for you! And if you're dead I'm going to kill you!"

"Right! I'm depending on that Seika!" Katai replied, killing another two demons with a thrust of her hand.

Seika nodded and ran through another pack of demons exitting with a stronger reason to complete his mission on his mind. After all, now the entire group was depending on him to finish.

Katai watched Seika go with a smile. Then, turning around towards the demons, she cracked her knuckles with a contented smile. "Now. Let's see what a full blast spirit wave technique can do, shall we?"

Seika ran as fast as his legs would carry him. The halls were mazes, and the only thing keeping him going in the right direction was his pet Niko, who could sense the life spirits of the children he was looking for.

All the while, he kept thinking of how he had left Katai, and how he was doing something he deemed completely stupid.

"I can't believe I let her stay! I should have dragged her out! Then the both of us would be running for our lives from these demons. Not just me!"

A multitude of demons erupted behind him, and he forced his legs to try and go faster than they already were.

"I wouldn't worry if I were you. From what I've seen, she can hold her own." Shadow remarked in his head, as Seika rammed through a set of double doors into a sort of courtyard scene at the side of the house.

"Yeah, you're right. I'm sure she can handle herself. But what about Haku, and Kenya. They've got much more deadlier enemies to worry about."

"Haku is another that can take care of himself. Probably far more than with Katai. And Kenya. He is most likely most capable of fighting the battle he takes onto his shoulders. Afterall, in comparison to my old self, that boy would have killed me easily."

"Kenya's that poweful now eh? How come? He didn't seem that powerful before."

"A spider's bite may do wonders to a creature's system. It can increase strenght, speed, intelligence. Even the five senses of the body, such as eyesight or hearing. Right now Kenya can probably hear the heart beats of the demons he had to fight throught to get to Lord Rioko."

"So he's there already?"

"Yes. And about ready to fight."

"Good. At least he got there."

Niko chirped, jerking his head towards a tree as Seika came to a stop.

Upon looking behind him, he found the demons chasing him had disappeared, and he was all alone again.

Niko chirped once more at that tree, and Seika turned his attention towards it.

Standing at the root of the tree, was none other than Arune herself holding a pair of scythes with a chain leading from one to the other.

"Ah Arune! You're alright! I'm glad! How'd you manage to escape?"

"Don't be a fool Seika. That is not Arune."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

In an instant, he knew what Shadow was talking about. Arune had leapt forward and sliced him in the shoulder, leaving a heavily bleeding knick he was certain would take a while to heal up.

"The hell! Who the hell are you!" He shouted, glaring.

Arune stood over him, a crazy smile on her face as she lifted a bloodied scythe over her head.

"Why little boy, I am Arune. The person you knew."

In an instant, Seika had dodged another flying scythe, and managed to somehow come up in front of her and pin her to the tree with use of his staff.

"You are not Arune. Tell me who you really are? And where is Arune?"

The Fake Arune snickered, a pair of reddish fangs appearing over her lips.

"You're right. I'm not Arune. Arune fell to her death at the depths of the demon ocean. The one filled with the demonic parana your world seems to be so afraid of."

"Then who are you?"

The Fake Arune jeered a laugh, and turned her glaring eyes on Seika. "Wouldn't you like to know?"

"I'm sure he would, right Enura?" A voice inquired from behind Seika.

Instantly, Seika turned around to see whom was standing there.

An almost exact mirror image of Enura stood with a staff in her hands and a glare on her face.

"Impossible! I threw you away! There was no more use for you!" Enura shouted, hurting Seika's ears.

"Yes well. Even parana can be coaxed Enura."

"Okay…" Seika mumbled, looking from one girl to the next. "A little explaining would do nicely here."

Arune sighed. "Enura is my twin sister. She's the one that's been stealing children. Not me."

Enura's laughter interruped Arune's speech. "Dear sister. Why don't you tell him the whole part of the story eh? You see, a good three hundred years ago, we were—"

"We agreed never to speak of it Enura. Don't break that promise now!" Arune shouted, staff butting into the ground that formed a crack along the concrete.

Enura smiled deviously, and nodded. "Fine. I won't. But one day you're little boyfriend will know. He'll know of our history. Our bloody past."

"Your bloody past Enura! I had nothing to do with it but to be blamed for everything you have done! And the fact that you tried to kill me doesn't help!"

"Oh, certainly it does little sister. Your death was going to clear you slate and give me the ability to run around even more than ever before in your account. There won't be you looking for help from these pint sized hero-wanabe's like you did last time you were near them. Now, it will only be me, and the army."

"There will be no army Enura. I'll make sure of that!" Suddenly, Arune's staff leapt up into the air and ran straight at Enura, in which Seika leapt just in time to find that the staff had completely staff right through Enura's heart.

The twin laughed wickedly and pulled the staff out. "You can't kill me. Or did you forget I'm used to pain now."

"Have you forgotten that I'm used to killing now?"

"Not at all. In fact, I find that most impressive with you." Enura kackled, throwing a scythe at Arune. She caught it in her hand and tossed it back, glancing at Seika.

"Get going Seika! You have to get to the children! Keep going straight down this stretch and to a large steel door. Type in the number 056421, and enter. From there it should be no problem freeing the children. The door only locks on the inside, so make sure you leave the door open as they come out."

"Wait a minute! I've got questions that need answering!" Seika shouted, but Arune wouldn't hear it. Another scythe whizzed her way, and the battle between the twins was on at full swing.

Seika shook his head and ran again, a snarling Niko on his shoulder.

'I have to complete this mission. For Haku! For Katai! For Kenya! And also for Arune, the good twin! I have too!' He thought to himself as he came to the steel door. 'I have to.'

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Catse: There, what did you think. All sorts of different information, right? Yoru's got a Jagan eye, Arune and Enura are twins, and who knows what else. There are still a few other things to be reviewed and I'm guessing another four chapters and this story is finished. Oh well, please review and I'll do my best to update on schedule next Friday. Ja Ne for now!