Ningenkai!
"I've walked as long as I can remember, I doubt I'll be able to do that!" Touya said as Yusuke forced him and Jin into his bright red car, he himself had just learned how to drive.
"Aye! I can fly, donchya know! I don't need to drive t'is t'ing!"
"C'mon! Don't tell me you're afraid!" Yusuke taunted as he started to "bwak" like a chicken.
"Yusuke, don't even go there!" Touya glared at him, Yusuke just laughed and got in the drivers seat. Yusuke drove down to Kuwabara's house and picked him up, then to Kurama's house to get Kurama and Hiei.
"I don't see why I have to come along," muttered the annoyed fire demon.
"Me either," mumbled the even more annoyed ice master. Touya looked at Jin, to see his reaction to the "Yusuke is going to force us to learn to drive" situation. But he didn't see a mumbling, upset wind demon. Jin had his head out the car window, enjoying having the wind rushing through his ubrushed red hair.
"T'is really refreshin', donchya know! Ye shoul' try it sometime!" He managed to yell loud enough so that everybody in the car, and out stared at him and his loud voice. He sat there, enjoying himself, not caring what everybody else thought about him looking like a dog.
"You really should sit down," The fox said from the back seat of the car.
Kurama wasn't selfish at all so he chose last and got the dreaded back seat. The only reason Hiei was sitting next to him was that the combined forces of Yusuke and Kuwabara forced him to sit in the back.
Hiei looked out the window, seemingly annoyed by the situation and everybody else in the car. Especially Touya the ice master, and Jin the wind master. He didn't even know why Yusuke trusted them so much! There was no proof that they had really changed at all! They could still be part of the shinobi! Hiei couldn't believe he hadn't drawn his sword to attack them yet! He tensed up, and kept glancing at the almost innocent looking Touya, and the idiotic Jin.
"I don't think he heard you," the young ice master informed them. Kurama sighed deeply as Hiei finally started to relax…
"Lets listen to music!" Yusuke yelled randomly.
"Yeah!" Kuwabara agreed as Yusuke turned on the American radio station. Hiei jumped and let out a small yelp as the un-translated music started suddenly behind him.
"I've become so numb, I can't feel you there!" Yusuke and Kuwabara sang in unison, in the language they clearly didn't understand. Kurama sighed, and thought about leaving the car before Yusuke drove them into a building of some sort, and set the car and everybody inside of it on fire.
"Wheeeeeeeeeee-oooooow!" Jin shouted painfully as he sat down in the car, his hair completely full with leaves, and a couple branches. Hiei smirked, as if he knew that would happen, but than again… Who didn't see that coming?
The car stopped suddenly, causing everybody to jerk forward.
"C'mon! What's the hold up!" Yusuke yelled over the music and several honking horns.
Kuwabara's eyes widened as the ground started to shake.
"Jishin!" Yusuke said, shocked.
"No… Demon energy," Kuwabara went through his own memories, trying desperately trying to remember where he's felt the energy before.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Sang a cold, prissy sounding voice that Touya and Jin recognized as Risho. Touya climbed over Jin and jumped out the window, Jin followed, flying.
"…They could've used the door…" Yusuke whimpered, he would be quite upset if they damaged his "baby" in any way. Everybody else got out of the red car, figuring that it must be important.
"Shards of winter!" Touya shouted.
"Tornado fist!" Jin yelled, as they attacked Risho together. Risho dodged their attacks easily, and sent rocks flying towards them. Jin grabbed the back of Touya's ningen shirt and lifted them both into the air.
"Thanks…" Touya said, happy he wasn't down on the ground, dodging the raging rocks (of doom).
"No prob! It's wha' frien's 're fer, aint it!" Jin said, slightly quieter than a yell.
"Now Jin, Touya that isn't fair!" Risho smirked, and sent the rocks flying up at them.
A rock hit Jin in the back, causing him to drop Touya. Touya flipped and landed evenly on the ground then looked up to see if his companion was ok or not.
"Jin!" He yelled as the bruised and bloody wind master fell to the ground, Touya ran over to him.
"Jin! Jin, are you ok?" The worried teenage demon shouted. Jin groaned slightly, but a ring of clay binded his arms to his chest, and his legs together. Then more rose out of the ground and binded Touya in the same way. Touya struggled to get out of this horrible trap, but Risho came up behind him and hit Touya in the back of the head, rendering him unconscious. Risho then grabbed the back of their shirts and dragged them off.
The young boy looked up at his older brother "Ryou… What was that?" the child sounded worried.
"…A bear… A demon bear." He started running up the stairs that lead up to their temple. Touya followed.
"Ryou! Take Touya and get out of here!"
"No! I wont leave you!" He used his energy to form an ice sword. All the woman had to fight with was a dagger! She stabbed the bear in the stomach, it growled at her and attacked. She jumped over the bear and sliced open it's back. It turned around and grabbed her by her short kimono and threw her into Ryou.
"Mom!" He was about to say more but the wind was knocked out of him. They flew into the wall of the temple.
"S-sorry, Ryou…" She got off of him and attacked the bear again. Ryou got up and attacked the bear, once it got hit by his bone-chilling ice sword it ran away. Both Ryou and Touya ran over to their mother.
"Mom! Are you ok!" The teenaged demon yelled.
"Ryou… Touya…" She smiled ", I love you both… you need… to be strong…" Ryou held her tightly in his arms.
"Mom! Don't die! Please don't die!" The little boy cried.
"Be strong." She smiled.
He cried.
She died.
Preview man: What will happen to Touya and Jin? What was the thing you previously read? Find out, in chapter 2 of Kept In Darkness!
Mei: That's the end… Dear god I love cliffhanger endings! They're so funderful! Yeah… Review if you like it. Flame, review, same difference.