Among Icy Hearts

Me: Hello everyone! I hope that you're having a safe and fun holiday break so far. You know the drill, I don't own any part of Yu Yu Hakusho. Here's the next chapter. Enjoy!

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Chapter 13: A Confused Rebellion

Sae still pushed her food around her plate, deep in thought. Kuwabara looked over at her.

"May I have that if you aren't going to eat it?" rolling her eyes, she pushed her plate over to Kuwabara, who managed to wolf the whole thing down in less than two or three bites.

Kurama got up after everyone had cleared the dishes off the table, "Which team should we tell first?" he asked. " I say we should go to that team Tanaka and tell them since they've already lost to us." replied Yusuke. "Well how about going to a team we haven't met yet so we don't get anyone mad, I mean you guys DID kill off three of their team members" suggested Botan.

"We'll vote again, I suppose" replied Kurama. Botan's plan won, five votes to three since Keiko, Botan, Shizuru, Keiko, and Yukina were voting along with the rest of the team.

"Ok then, we'll visit that team Itsumo first then." Walking up to the door of the cabin next door, Kurama kindly knocked on it. A blonde haired girl answered and looked at the team curiously.

"May we speak with you about a matter of importance?"

Kurama asked in his usual warm kind voice.

"Come in" was the only reply, a hint of coldness and impatience lingered in the girl's voice"

When they got inside, each member of the Urameshi Team could tell why her voice hadn't had the kinder tone to it. The other members of her team were running around like wild animals trashing everything in sight, one demon, which was screaming, making sounds that closely resembled those of an African Elephant. She asked in a rushed voice "Why have you come?"

Yusuke, opening his mouth to explain, was interrupted by the girl, who leapt up, face red in anger and screamed something in another language. This caused the demons to stop for a minute but they immediately resumed as soon as they saw her sit down. Sighing in a frustrated way and began, "Name's Motoko Itsumo, yours?" Kurama smiled and bowed politely

"Well, I'm Kurama, that's Yusuke and Kuwabara," he said, motioning over to the two who looked slightly impatient, "And those two over there and Hiei and Sae" Not even looking up at the mention of their names, the two demons remained deep in thought, not in the mood for anything social.

Kurama continued anyways "Well we've discovered, or at least we think, that this tournament is just a plan to kill of all of the teams here. Earlier two of our team members heard this while accidentally stumbling upon a meeting of two of the team leaders. We were hoping to get your support in this and maybe try and get to the bottom of this situation. What do you think?"

She thought for a minute, and then yelled over to the demons running around "HEY! YOU HEARD THE PLAN, YOU AGREE?!?" they stopped running for a minute and one of them muttered, "Whatever, we'll go along..."

"Well, I guess that's a yes" she answered back in an passive tone, while sweat dropping

"Arigatou Doomo Itsumo-san" Kurama replied, bowing again "We really appreciate it" At that moment, Yusuke and Kuwabara leapt up from their seats and said

"YEAH! WE CAN GO!" Kurama sweat dropped and waved back to Motoko "Ja Matta" he said in his usual pleasant tone.

"YAY NOW WE'RE DONE!" cheered Kuwabara when they got outside, jumping up and down a few times. Kurama replied calmly

"You still remember that we still have fourteen more teams to convince ne, Kuwabara-kun?"

"Awww......" Kuwabara stopped cheering and walked normally again. "What a drag."

Kurama chuckled softly as his mind began to wander, but he forced himself to stay focused. 'Where shall we go next.....' He looked and asked aloud "Any ideas of which team to talk to next" The team thought for a minute and Yusuke ended up speaking up next.

"How about that Team Hamasaki(NO not Ayumi Hamasaki.), I heard that was a persuadable team"

Kurama looked at him with a confused expression and asked "Where'd you hear this Yusuke?" he only received a random shrug from Yusuke. "Does anyone have any objections?" Without any reply, Kurama continued to walk toward the location he knew as Team Hamasaki's cabin.

Yusuke looked confused "Hey, Kurama how the hell do you know your way around this whole place?" Kurama smiled.

"If you stayed long enough for that tournament opening ceremony you would've been able to take a tour with the referee. Most unfortunately, excluding me, the whole team went home as soon as she said we were free to go and didn't even hear her offer the tour."

As they approached the door of the next cabin, Kurama stepped forward, politely knocking on the door, this time, a young man answered, he looked no older than Kurama and could've been mistaken for a human if not for glowing amber eyes. Kurama smiled and bowed as a polite greeting, but the boy looked frightened. "Y- you're those cold blooded murderers who exterminate d-demons for fun! W-wha-what do you want?" without waiting for a reply, he slammed the door in their faces.

"Well, that went well!" commented Yusuke in a sarcastic tone. "C'mon, lets go."

Hours passed as they went between the other team's cabins, but luck hadn't seemed to be on their side, only five more teams were convinced by this story, the others had scoffed at the idea, and refused to believe it. Kurama opened the door to their cabin, immediately Yusuke and Kuwabara collapsed onto the couch "That was so freaking useless!" complained Kuwabara.

Kurama tried to look on the bright side, "Well, at least we managed to convince six teams.." his voice trailed off, even his was etched with disappointment.

A knock came from the door and automatically, the whole team stood to go answer it. Yusuke opened the door. "YES?" he asked in an irritable tone. The girl at the door bowed and without a word and handed him a letter and walled off. Yusuke stared down at the envelope in slight annoyance. It was a plan white envelope, across the front was written in a neat script, 'The Urameshi Team'.

Inside was an invitation, "More like an order.." muttered Yusuke as the whole team read it 'Your presence is required at a formal dinner and dance tonight at 6 o'clock. Attire should consist of: Boys- Hakana pants and shirts Girls- Traditional Kimonos. Timing should be prompt and let it be known any teams missing this occasion will automatically be disqualified from the tournament.'

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Me: I'll leave it there. I must apologize. I was denied internet access on my computer for a on time due to wireless connection issues. I do however thank the following reviewers with all my heart-
ShadowSessMarlfox- I've taken your suggestion into consideration, but know, I already have an ending planned. If it's a tear-jerker you'll get it (Unless I mess it up)
Heilana- I'm glad that you like it, thanks for the 10/10 too, but I don't think it's THAT good slancaster113 Youkokurama321 bartFMAgurl38- Dude! I love Ed Elrich, he's so funny!
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