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The Unchosen Path II

Chapter 1: Unusual Thief

WindEmpress: I'm not very good at cross-over anime, so this may not sound like a good story, but its-
Firestar: Perverted!
WindEmpress: No . . . When did you show up?
Firestar: Oh, I just pop up every now and then.
WindEmpress: More like always
Firestar: L You don't love me no more . . .
WindEmpress- Don't start it!
Firestar: Hiei had sex with Leanna!
Hiei: What did you say?
Firestar: AHHHHHHHH! RUN FOR MY LIFE!
WindEmpress: Anyway, while she causes trouble-
Firestar: DO NOT!
WindEmpress o-O I'll start the story . . .


"Yusuke, this is an important mission," Koenma said in his teenager form in Yusuke Urameshi's apartment.

"What could be more important than relaxing?" Yusuke asked as he leaned back in his chair.

"A lot!" Botan said pushing Yusuke's chair onto the ground.

"I could have died . . . Again from that!" he said getting up from the ground.

"Like it matters to you!"

"Botan!" Koenma said trying to get everyone's attention again.

"Yes?"

"Do you mind filling everyone in?" Koenma said walking towards the corner.

Botan smiled. "Ye . . . Yes, Lord Koenma." She stepped towards the group and laid down two files. "This case has to be handled with extreme care other wise we could lose more than one life."

Hiei looked down at the files, then towards Botan. "What's so bad about that?"

(Background: BOOM! Firestar: OWW! WindEmpress: That looked like it hurt . . .) Everyone looked at him, but no one bothered to answer his question. Hiei leaned back into the shadows against the wall.

"Well . . . Its an odd case . . ."

The black falcon flew into the air on its fourth time for patrol. Nothing had happened the past few weeks since the last night of the full moon.

At least nothing's here to do harm . . . the falcon thought. It soared higher into the air and circled the area in the currents. It was about to fly away when it spotted movement within the forest: four humans walking together looking for something. Closing its wings for more speed, it descended at top speeds and let out a screeching caw.

"Damn, must they be so loud? Stupid birds . . ." Yusuke said plugging his ears.

"Don't be fooled, Yusuke," Kurama said as he tried to block out the sound, "That's no ordinary falcon."

"How can you be so sure?" Hiei asked as he tried to evade the sound.

Out of nowhere, two white tigers leaped from the forest.

"Crap! As if things couldn't get worse!" Yusuke said as a tiger went for him.

Kuwabara tried to hit the tiger that went for Yusuke, but the second head-butted him in his back, causing him to fall forward.

A black wolf raced from the forest and pounced on Hiei, who dissolved before the wolf could bite him. The wolf turned back and raced after Hiei as he drew his sword. "What kind of animals are these?"

A second wolf raced from the forest, this time a gray wolf, and went at Kurama. He drew his rose whip and wrapped it around its neck, but a flame engulfed it before he could blink. What sort of creatures are these! The wolf growled and stopped in front of him. It howled to the moon and leaped into the tree changing to the black falcon. The other wolf and the two tigers disappeared back into the forest.

"Oww . . ." Kuwabara said standing up.

"What was that?" Yusuke said as he watched the bird fly into the sky.

Kurama watched the bird fly away for a minute when he realized what it was. "I've got the feeling that we're dealing with shape-shifters and demons."

"What?" the other three said at the same time.


Rin raced around the area that the group was stationed at with a white wolf slowly chasing her. "You can't catch me!" she said as she passed by it. She passed by a white tiger who followed the girl with her eyes.

"I'm gonna get you!" the wolf said

"You can't get me!"

The wolf pounced, but intentionally missed. "Aww . . . She got away . . ."

Inuyasha growled. "Where are they? They said that they're patrols wouldn't take long."

Sango looked up at Inuyasha. "You were the one who let them go. Its pointless to have a patrol if you keep complaining about it."

"Well, I could have finished it in a few seconds!"

"Then why didn't you go with them?" Kagome asked as she worked on her Chemistry homework.

Inuyasha kept silent and watched the three girls. It had been a month since they had taken them from their nightmare. They had gained new abilities and had become more agile and versatile in their new surroundings. Inuyasha sighed and leaned against the tree in thought.

A distance off, they heard shuffling of others approaching.

"Somebody approaches," Miroku said as he picked up his staff.

A black bird flew towards the ground and shifted to a young female. Three more appeared after the first.

"About time! I was thinking that you'd gotten lost."

"Ha, ha, funny, funny," said Ken'oshi as she walked towards them.

The girl that had shifted from the falcon fell to her knees and put her hand to the back of her neck. "Oww . . ."

"Aris?" Tsuki said as she took a hesitant step towards her.

Sifa moved over to her faster than anyone could think. "What in the heck did you do? We were barely attacked!"

"You weren't, but I was."

"Well!"

Aris kept silent.

"I hate the fact that you're silent."

Miroku walked over towards Aris. (WindEmpress Firestar: Oh, no . . .) Rin, Angel, and Alexia stopped running around and watched the two. Angel knew what was to come and told Rin to go pick some berries.

"How do you think she'll react?" Alexia asked.

"Do I look like I would know?"

"Well, you created her!"

"I know it's a critical moment, but I must ask . . . Would you consider bearing my children?"

Aris' eyes went wide.

SLAP!

Alexia and Angel opened their eyes and saw a red mark on Miroku's face. "Did she just hit him?" Alexia asked.

"No," Tsuki said.

Sifa was standing up facing Miroku. "Does she look like she's in the mood to answer stupid questions like that! Besides, she's already taken!"

"WHAT?" Aris said standing up. At that moment, her wound hurt her neck.

"Oops . . . I didn't say anything. . ." Sifa said.

"Who would that be?"

"Hello! You're with him the entire time, you should know! Or are you cheating?"

"What!" Aris said with surprise.

"I never knew you to be the two-timing kind."

"I-"

"You should see Inuyasha; he's always two-timing," Shippo said as he walked passed Inuyasha.

"WHAT!" Inuyasha said hitting him.

"OWW! That hurt!"

Angel and Alexia watched each of them talk back and forth, both having a confused face on them. Both of them had noticed that the winds had shifted a lot lately; which they figured was a bad omen.

"I'm back!" Rin said carrying a hand full of berries.

Angel jumped. "Uh . . . Over this way, Rin," she said as she moved towards the back of the trees. They sat down and relaxed. Both girls shifted back to their human states and took a deep breath, but Angel scented something in the distance moving closer. "Alexia," Angel whispered to her

"What?"

"Go to Inuyasha and tell him that there's an odd scent moving towards us. Take Rin with you."

"And what are you going to do!"

Angel smiled. "I'm going to see who, or what, it is." At that, she shifted back to her wolf form and stealthily moved towards the scent.

"Where's Lady Angel going, Lady Alexia?" Rin asked.

"Um-uh . . . Come on, Rin. We have to get back to the others."

"Okay, but-"

"Just follow me."

Rin nodded and followed.

Alexia came back to them and found that they had all settled down. Sifa was putting herbs on Aris' neck muttering a bunch of nonsense, Kagome was still at work on her homework with Shippo watching her, Sango and Miroku were both talking together (angrily, that is), Sesshomaru was sitting against a tree lost in thought, Tsuki and Ken'oshi were having a staring contest, again, and Inuyasha was up in a tree. Alexia ran right into the middle of the area. "I'm disappointed in you, Inuyasha. I can't believe you didn't smell that!"

Inuyasha looked down at her. "What are you talkin' about?"

Alexia rolled her eyes. "Don't tell me you lost your sense of smell."

He leaped out of the tree and in front of her, causing her to jump back five feet. "What are you talkin' about?"

"Angel's smelled something near the forest and told me to tell you."

"And where is she at?"

"Um . . ." Alexia knew Inuyasha would get upset if she told him the truth, but the truth hurts! "She's following the scent."

"WHAT?"


Angel slowly and cautiously approached the scent she'd found. Her eyes quickly found the source because of the odd assortment of colors. Three stuck out fairly well, but the third hid well because of the cover of night.

Wow, this is a weird bunch, she thought as she watched them. The darker one turned to her direction and watched the area. Angel became stiff and didn't dare breath.

"What's wrong, Hiei?" asked a red headed one. She could catch a faint scent of Aris coming from him.

So these are the ones they fought!

"Nothing, but I thought I heard something from that direction."

"Let's go look," said a taller red head.

Angel became rigid and her body refused to move.

"No, its nothing," said the one called Hiei.

The black haired one growled and put his hands behind his head. "How are we supposed to find two freakin' people in such a remote forest?"

"Don't forget the shape-shifters we ran into. The one that I fought was injured badly; following her blood will be easy," Kurama said.

The taller one (WindEmpress: Kuwabara, that is) turned to the other. "How do you know they were girls?"

"The one that shifted to a falcon was easiest to tell because of her mind. It was easy for anyone to tell because an image of her appeared into your mind as soon as she approached."

"What! You mean I went against my own code?"

"They were disguised, so you could not tell," Kurama said.

Does he mean Aris?

Again the dark one turned to her.

"Are you sure there isn't anything there, 'cause you keep looking at that area like there's something there," the black haired asked.

In a blink of an eye, Hiei threw his sword at the area that had distracted him. When he was certain that it hadn't hit a tree or the ground, he started towards it. "Now I'm sure."

Kurama looked at Yusuke and followed Hiei. As they moved the brush aside, they found a white wolf with Hiei's sword.

"Well, we found number one," Kuwabara said.

The wolf bared its fangs and growled.

"Ahh! It growled at me."

"For all we know, it might just be a normal wolf, Hiei."

Hiei looked at Kurama. "Oh, no, this one can think much like a human. I don't think ordinary wolves can do that."

Kurama went to touch it, but it snapped at his hand before he was an inch of its fur.

"Not much like a fox, huh Kurama," Kuwabara said.

Kurama kept silent.

Another growl sounded from behind. They all turned and found another black wolf. "Not you again!" Yusuke said.

"Yes, me again!" it said.

"Ahh!"

"It spoke!"

"What are you doing with such a little puppy?" Inuyasha asked as he walked into the area.

"What do you think he's doing?" Sifa said in an amused voice.

"Oh, you idiot!" Aris said.

Kurama noticed that Aris had the wounds around her neck. "Who are you?" he asked her.

"Who cares?" Inuyasha said. "Just leave the wolf alone and we'll leave."

"I'm afraid we cannot do that," Hiei said.

While no one paid attention to her, Angel worked the sword out of her shoulder to prepare for her next move.

"Oh, yeah, why can't you? You have a body, get up and MOVE!"

Aris hit her forehead with a sigh.

"I'm just saying the positives"

"Everything you say that's positive comes out negative!"

"These are two ordinary humans who crossed the border line. Isn't that a feat one couldn't accomplish?" Kurama asked.

"What do you care for it?" the black wolf asked.

"Nothing," Hiei said with a shrug.

"Hiei!" Yusuke said.

"You don't know what class they even are. If they are a class S, then they could cause serious problems!" Kurama said.

"Who cares what class they are!" Inuyasha said.

"Hey, I'm classy enough!" Sifa said.

Everyone looked at her but kept silent.

"What?"

Angel slowly back up, with Hiei's sword in her mouth. (WindEmpress: Oddly, she'd forgotten it was still in her mouth and wanted to get away as fast as she could) As she was within fifteen feet from them, she turned and disappeared into the forest.

"Angel!" whispered a voice from beyond.

Angel turned and found Alexia walking towards her.

"What's that in your mouth?"

"Where'd she go?"

Angel's wolf eyes widened.

"My sword's gone!"

"Angel!"

Angel took off as fast as she could through the forest with Alexia following close behind. What Angel did not know was that her blood was leaving a clean trail to follow her.

When she returned to the campsite, everyone stared at her funny. She put the sword down and shifted back to her human form. "That was NOT fun!"

"It doesn't look like it," Ken'oshi said. She walked over to her and cleaned out her wound as Alexia came.

"Hey, you do have a heart! I knew I made a heart for you!" Alexia said.

Ken'oshi stopped and looked at Alexia.

"I didn't say anything. . ."

Inuyasha, Aris, Sifa, and Tsuki returned to the others.

"Hopefully you lost them," Ken'oshi said with irritation.

"Of course!" Inuyasha said, "Why do you ask."

"Judging by the item that Angel carried and the way that character reacted and by the amount of blood-"

"What are you saying, Ken'oshi?" Tsuki asked.

"They're going to find us a lot faster than we thought."

"Angel stole something?" Aris asked looking towards the girl. She found the sword in front of her. "How could you?"

"I thought it would make them leave me alone . . . And that hurt! They deserve to have their sword stolen! Actually . . . I forgot it was in my mouth and instinct told me to run . . ."

"Angel . . ."

"We should leave as soon as possible," Sesshomaru said standing up, "or do you wish to stay and fight?"

"Don't give them options like that!" Aris said.

"Well, those are the only two choices. . ."

"Oh-"

"Or you could just give up to us," someone said from behind.

"I like that idea!" Alexia said pointing her finger up towards the sky. "Wait . . . Who said that?"

"I did."

Alexia turned and found that Yusuke was the one who had spoken. She slowly started walking away. She moved faster and faster until she was safely behind Angel. "They're scaring me!" She noticed Hiei. "Hey, look! Shorty!" She said pointing towards him.

"What did you call me?"

She shrunk behind Angel. "I didn't say anything . . ."

"What do you want?" Aris asked.

"First, we want Hiei's sword back," Kurama said.

"So he will stop whining about it," Yusuke added.

"What? What is with you humans?" Hiei asked.

"Picking on Shorty," Alexia whispered into Angel's ear causing her to smile.

Aris picked up the sword and handed it to Hiei. "Here, take your sword and be gone."

"I don't leave that easy ," Hiei said taking the sword.

"Then what the hell do you want?" Aris asked.

He pointed towards the two girls. "Those two."

Angel and Alexia opened their eyes wide.


Firestar: (rubs her head) Oww . . . I have scars on top of scars. (realizes what she said) EWWW!
WindEmpress: We just got over this!
Firestar: My instinct told me.
WindEmpress: Instinct is when something tells you to run away from danger.
Firestar: Dang'it. Too bad my instinct doesn't tell me to run when I need to. I could dodge a LOT of beatings!
WindEmpress: Hey, look, Hiei's here!
Firestar: Where!
WindEmpress: And Broken Neck Woman too!
Firestar: Where? I want her autograph!
WindEmpress: O-O She's dead and her hand can't even hold the pencil!
Firestar: Fine then, tell her to sign with her ectoplasm.
WindEmpress: O-O