Catse: Hiyya everyone! Here's chappie numbah thirty-thwee for yah! You're going to find out quiet a bit in this next chapter, about the entire story. Let's just say things get interesting. The next chapter after this, is probably going to be a complete composition of Seika and Katai's points of view, and after that will most likely be a complete Haku tributed chapter, so look out for that Haku fans! In that chapter, you'll finally figure out what it was that Haku's mother, Jennifer, gave him for his fight, and just how well he knows how to use it. Oh well, on with the fic!

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Disclaimer: Nope...don't own them yet...but I'm working on it! (yeah, I had a little caffiene today...Can you tell?)

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Haku coughed up blood as Yoru again hit him with her whip.

'Damn. She's good.' He thought, wondering if he would make it out alive. 'She's had much experience in torture. I haven't.'

"That's right Haku. You can't beat me. Might as well give up. Would make my job so much more easier."

Haku spat once more and stood up, wiping his mouth with the back of his wrist. Wise green orbs glared into gruesome ones. He knew that this was not the normal battle. It would never be. From what he knew of Yoru from his father, since birth she had been a bloody child.

In fact, she had been strangely silent at birth. Didn't even cry when she came out. She merely stared up at them with a dull pale face, as if she knew who they were and what they were, and that they were of no importance to her.

Kurama had heard of it from Hiei, and seen the video Kuwabara had recorded of the birth. Things he had gotten to see because of his long absense from his friends. Even he, as a Youkai, had never seen a baby born with so much malice in her eyes.

As she grew, her skills became evident. She never smiled…not unless she was torturing an animal, and rarely talked about anything other than her hobbies of reading about torture, and performing it.

From what he knew, at twelve she had mastered her demon energy to an extent that many actual demons were frightened of her. When it came around to missions, she followed despite her orders to remain home, and many times killed the cause of the trouble in human world with out even allowing Hiei or Kuwabara to step in. In a matter of minutes, the demon would be dead, and the blood would be spilled across her face.

Of course Hiei didn't think much of it. At his birth, he had been just as malicious. He had loved the blood just as much. He even considered the fact that perhaps she knew what was happening around her at birth, much the same way he had. She had matured fastly, like he, and was merely his daughter, exactly as he saw her.

But at least Hiei had come out of his evil days, and found love, and something to live for other than blood. He had had goals set that were righteous in some ways, if you counted his desire to murder the very women that turned him away when he was born. But Yoru didn't have that past. She had a mother and father that loved her. Cherished her.

And yet she was still an evil child.

She had had men fall for her, but for what reason, no one knew. She had turned them all down, even attempted killing one she was displeased with for only asking her if she would ever decide on anyone.

Yoru was a mean one…and that only lead to more reason why Haku had to kill her.

Sure everyone had the right to live in the world, but not all had the right to take it away like she did. He had to stop her in her tracks, or risk her using her family for all they were worth.

He couldn't bare the thought of his only real friends getting caught in Lord Rioko's hands and tested on like lab rats.

Yes, Haku had figured it all out already.

Lord Rioko was a surgeon. He most likely wasn't one from three hundred years ago, but the place where it was held was bound to have a few textbooks of the procedures still intact for anyone looking around. And for someone like Lord Rioko, that was a playground of death.

The way Haku figured things were going, Lord Rioko had been playing them from the start.

Since he had come to human world and had been picking off human children, he had managed to completely confuse them all. They figured he was taking the children as a way of energy, even though demons harness a lot more. Haku's figuring on that assumption was that demon children, if taken from the wrong demons, would create many enemies that Lord Rioko would rather hide from than fight. And besides, if full demons were tested on, they would receive a mind of their own and fight him off, using the power they had gained from him for their own world domination process.

Otherwise, with human children, the parents were naïve, and wouldn't think to look for a demon lord with a few ideas in his head. Besides, the human children would most likely be failures without a little demon blood in them.

Then he had enlisted the help of the demon twins, Arune and Enura. Haku knew they had to be twins. After all, Arune wasn't the type to cause trouble, and it would take a twin with the exact same characteristics to cause it. The twins were naïve themselves. Lord Rioko could make it look like Arune was the one stealing the children, while the real culprit, Enura was doing it. That clue had been left when Arune had been raving, hap-hazardly about a look-alike. Arune had been left to look after them, and prevent them from knowing the true plans of Lord Rioko. Plus there was the barrier that only children could enter, another reason the twins were fit for the job.

Arune and Enura, although older than they made themselves out to be, still had bodies of children. That was there true form. And they had to be virgins for the fact that they were determined for what they wanted and not for love. They could sneak children in without trouble.

Plus, the new detectives, Kenya, Seika, Katai, and he, Haku, would of course be called in as the situation became more drastic.

Lord Rioko expected allies, such as Yoru and Suki, and he had a figuring that the kind Arune would help. That was of course why he had her watching them. She would grow an affection for them, and protect them if she could. That way, if she were taken back, they might have reasoning to go and get her. Plus, Yoru's dark heart would be perfect help. She wanted power, he wanted lab rats.

Then there was the case of the attack outside of the barrier. Lord Rioko had planned on taking both of the children, as extra incentive for them to enter. What he hadn't planned on, was Satou running into the forest after her brother, so that the only one he could take was Tsuki. The demon spider he left in the forest, was a test.

For a good lab rat, he needed a strong one, with skill, and the readiness to sacrifice themselves for anyone else. Kenya demonstrated that when the spider attempted to attack Satou.

Also, he could see what techniques the group had from above, and keep in check what kind of defenses he would need for the castle, all the while keeping the barrier up so the parents couldn't come in to help.

Another thing that caught him offguard however was Satou's strength, which completely annihilated the spider. He had expected the others to do so. No doubt, when Yoru was done with Haku, she was to go and get Satou. That's probably why she was at the gate, because she was on her way there.

Haku wasn't sure if Lord Rioko knew about the new sword Kenya had received, but so far, he had planned everything out perfectly, and their group had fallen into it easily.

Of course, he already knew that Lord Enma would figure out what he was planning, and stop the kids from going on the mission. Afterall, if they entered on the mission, Lord Rioko would have them, and rare half-breeds in a group, would make for a perfect specimen. If their blood was taken out and given to the other children, they would be testible, and most would be able to come out as similar monsters as the one child before. It would be an army of destructive children. So Lord Enma had ordered that they not enter the mansion, but that's why Lord Rioko tried to take the two smallest children, Satou and Tsuki.

Kenya, as leader, would feel compelled to retrieve Satou, and Seika, with his new power, would feel capable of entering and getting Tsuki back. No doubt, the group would follow. So they would leave, against the parents orders, even though Yusuke and the others didn't know the truth behind their disbandment, and come to Demon World looking for a fight.

Then Lord Rioko would beat them all down, and begin his test.

That was why he kept stealing children. So the pressure would be felt, and the children, would come soon.

"Done thinking?" Yoru inquired smugly, her whips lying loosely on the dirt.

Haku looked up from his thoughts, and nodded. "Yes. Let us finish this." He was tired of her beating him into the ground. Her strength was powerful, and her heart full of darkness.

Just like any other bully.

Slowly, almost regrettfully, Haku reached into his back pocket, and pulled free the single red rose his father gave him. Smelling it's precious fragrance for only a moment, he thrust the pedals away from him, forming a whip with his demon energy. "Let's finish this." He stated plainly.

"Fine by me. I find it funny. The both of us are smartest of those dimwits, and yet our preferred weapons, are the whip."

"I'll have you know that this weapon is not my preferred. And neither is that whip on you."

Yoru stopped a moment, staring, and then snickered. "You're right. You really are as smart as they state." With a flick of her wrist, the whip leapt back into her hand to form a throwing dagger. "I much prefer long distance where you can't touch me."


Kenya snarled as Lord Rioko snickered.

"So. I gather you and your young friends came to stop my plans, right? Heh…You have no idea what I'm up to, do you?" Lord Rioko sipped his champaghne as Kenya answered, looking completely clueless to everything else in the world.

"My little friends and I, may not know your entire plan, but we do know that you are performing an illegal act by the department of Spirit World and must be arrested or killed for the offense. If you come cleanly, I guarantee you won't be killed. If not, there is no gaurantee."

"My. Quite a vocabulary you have little boy. I like that in an opponent." Lord Rioko set his glass down on a table near the seat, and smiled, a confident glint to his eyes. "But no matter the opponent, I cannot loose. I'm am merely too powerful." He stepped up to Kenya, and took his face into his hands, looking over the leader's features with a skilled eye. "And you're not so bad looking yourself. Those features. There's some demon in there alright. Perfect."

Kenya slapped his hands away from his face and stepped back, hands clenching the handles of his sheathed twin Dragon Blades. "Touch me again and I'll make sure you have no hands left." He warned, glaring with his father's meanest.

Lord Rioko stared at him, a look of indifference in his smug face. "You're face is of your fathers. Your eyes though, they are like your mothers."

"You knew them?" Kenya inquired, glaring.

"Nope. Not at all. But I've been watching you're family longest of all of you. After all, your entire family, if working together, could be capable of destroying me and any demon contacts I have."

Kenya's eyes widened in shock only breifly, before returning to his cunning glare. "What do you mean?"

"Think about it. Of all of your friends, whose family is completely trained in every tactic of weaponry and fighting style. Surely not the Urameshi family. Yusuke may have the demon blood and power of his father, and the skill and strength to take me down, but he's weak. His wife has no idea of how to fight, and his daughter, although powerful, has no idea of how to truly use what abilities she's been given. The Kuwabara family is no different. Kuzuma is an idiot whom is merely lucky with his skills, and his wife and child have no mastery of the art of fighting whatsoever. They can't even punch right. The only family even close to you, is the Minamino family. Kurama and his wife are both extremely skilled in their techniques, only considering the woman Jennifer has already given birth, some of her power has been taken for the child, and she already passed on her ability to her son. She is nothing but a kitten now, and although the child, Haku, is very smart for his age, no matter his knowledge, without experience, knowledge is nothing."

"What do you mean, Haku's mother used to have power? She's only a human, isn't she?"

"A human! Hah! That woman is no more human than your father is. Only a demon can match up with Kurama's power. No human has the ability. Heh. No. She's just as much demon as Kurama is, maybe even more."

Kenya wanted to think about the knew information. After all, it wasn't everyday you found out a good friend of yours was completely demon. Haku had to be the most powerful of their group. Katai was only half demon, since her father completely took into his demon blood. Seika had a demon and dragon soul within. And he, Kenya, was three-fourths demon. Yet Haku, was completely demon. But what would a silver yoko marry and bear a child with, to produce an almost exact copy of himself? Unless…

"Yes Kenya. Haku's mother, is a Yoko as well."

Kenya's eyes took a shocked notion once again. Another moment later, he covered it. Suddenly, he began to realize something. Yoru had attacked them earlier, and Haku had taken her on. Yoru was abnormally powerful for only three-fourths demon blood. Yet Haku was confident he could beat her. Kenya, Katai, and Seika met a batch of demons, in which Kenya suddenly received the idea that he had to come to Rioko, as the others went off. Of course, Katai would decide to get Seika to go on further, so she could finish off the demons with out having to worry about him. And Seika would run on towards the children…and…

"That's right as well. Heheheheheh…Don't look so surprised Kenya. Demons do read each other's thoughts every once in a while, if they have the right equipment to do so. I, as a surgeon could easily fix my own brain to see into your thoughts. But I was right about you. You do have an intelligence beneath that young flesh. You're seeing it all now, aren't you."

Kenya growled. "You had this planned from the beginning. You wanted us. You wanted Seika for his demon soul, because then you could figure out how he managed to use the power of the soul in his human body. You wanted Katai because she had the right mix of blood for your experiments. And you wanted me…"

"That's right. I wanted you, to be my experiment. Kenya, with your intelligence, and your power. I've been watching you a while, as so has your father. He knew, same as I, that you are no ordinary child. You are like Yoru. She was powerful. She was pure evil, and perfect for the Jagan I gave her. Even if your little sister and older sister were more powerful than you, you still knew that you're duty was to grow stronger, and protect them someday. That's what I like about you. No matter what, you come out of whatever happens to you, as strong as you did the time before. You used what came at you as your strength, and mastered it. That's why you are good with weapons. You adapt well, even though your power and strength was manual and not natural. You are just what I'm looking for. Katai, her blood can be pulled out and injected, a tiny amount, into the children. When she is done, then I will use Yoru. Her evil blood will certainly give enough for my testing on the children. But you…Heheheh…You cannot be used in such a way. You're blood cannot be used in any one else, but yourself. It is too pure. You are my perfect experiment Kenya."

"You disgust me."

Lord Rioko glanced at Kenya as if he wasn't hearing him right. "What?"

"You heard me, or are a surgeon's ears defective. You disgust me. You talk about experimenting on others, and yet you know the chaos it can cause, the danger to yourself and the rest of the world. And yet you don't care."

"Right."

"And another thing. I know why you sent Yoru out on the grounds."

"Oh."

"You knew we were close. You wanted to start the tests on us, to evaluate our powers and abilities for your experiments. But there was just one person you didn't want. Someone who was far too pure to be tested on, and would figure out the plan before you were ready for it. Someone that would be able to warn us before we got to close. If I'm correct, testees became too powerful and mindful of everything around them if they were completely demon. And considering how intelligent Haku is, you couldn't have him too far into the facility, other wise risk him tricking you and killing off your plans. You figured Yoru would be the only one to fight him while you waited behind doors, and if she didn't kill him, then he'd at least be too weak to kill you himself."

"Right again Kenya. I will most certainly enjoy testing on you." Lord Rioko smiled, his lips upturning in a strange glitter that seemed almost abnormal. Lifting his hand up to the air, in an instant, a spear of sorts appeared in his hands, and he pointed the silver tip towards Kenya. It looked like a giant scapul to be specific, and Kenya thought it was fitting for a man that cut others open just to see the insides function.

"Good luck. I won't let you get close enough to do so." Kenya replied, pulling before him his twin dragon blades. "Let's just see how good of a swordsman you are."

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Catse: Okay well, I finally got that picture of the team finished, so those that requested it, I'm going to try and send them to you. If you don't recieve them, it probably means that my computer ditched me and crashed in on itself, or my e-mail decided to be fussy. Oh well, until the next chapter, Ja Ne for now!