Mei: Hello, people… Thanks for any reviews you may have sent… This chapter's kinda long… So hang in there. See ya' at the end. Oh… And there are many O.C.'s (original characters) in this story… So hang on tight.
Touya sat up quickly.
"Where…?" He whispered to himself ", this is the Shinobi temple… This is my room"
He sat up and looked around at his old room. It was ice blue, just as he had left it before the Dark Tournament. He looked at the 1 wall that had a shelf full of weapons on it. He looked at another wall, it was plain, it had the door, which had a medium sized dream catcher on it.
The dream catcher was nothing like the ones they had in Ningenkai. His was made with an eagle demons feathers, and another demon's hide. Unlike the ones in Ningenkai, the one hanging over his door didn't keep out nightmares.
"And that's why I always slept outside," He looked at one of the remaining walls, which wasn't even a wall anymore, it was a clear glass door leading out to the balcony of his room. He stood up and walked past the remaining wall, which had a table in the corner. He stopped to look at it; he remembered that was where he ate by himself, and if he was feeling up to it, some friends.
He looked out the window and saw the beautiful forest that the temple lay in. Then he snapped back into reality. He needed to go find Jin, so he went to the only place he could think he would be. His room.
Touya knocked on the door that was supposed to be Jin's. He heard loud footsteps drawing closer towards the door.
"Wrong room!" He told himself as he got ready to go search for Jin again, but a large, dark skinned man, opened the door.
"Touya! I haven't seen you since the Dark Tournament!" He was the walking scar, Bakken.
"B-Baken!" Touya looked up at the large man ", I thought you died!"
"Touya!" A voice called in the background. Touya recognized the accent as Jin.
"Uh… Don't mind that, Ice Master!" Bakken exclaimed, worriedly.
Touya ran past Bakken and slid into his room, only to see Jin hanging upside down from the ceiling. Jin's face was bruised, that was it, apparently Bakken wasn't strong enough to hit him and do something serious. Touya formed his ice sword, he hasn't used it in quite a while, he jumped and cut Jin down from the ceiling.
Jin hit the ground and smiled up at Touya ", Thanks, but watch out!"
Touya didn't catch his teammates warning fast enough and was pinned to the ground by Bakken. Touya kicked furiously, trying to get out from under the enormous man.
"Ge' off 'o' 'im Bakke'!" Jin yelled, as he got ready to attack him.
"No! He ruined my fun!" Touya was disgusted; Bakken's fun was apparently "beat up on Jin while he can't fight back."
Touya smirked, as he kicked Bakken in the stomach. Bakken grunted painfully, but didn't get off Touya's frail body.
"TORNADO FIST!" Jin yelled as he punched the large man off of the Ice Master. Touya jumped up and charged at Bakken, his sword had just reached his neck when a sharp voice came in through the doorframe.
"Oh… Risho told me I could find you here." Touya turned and looked to the female voice.
"Who t'e 'eck're you?" Jin said staring at her also.
"First, remove your sword from my comrade's neck. Then, I shall tell you my name."
Touya had seen her around the temple before the dark tournament, but he never bothered going to talk to her. He didn't know much about her, he did, however, know her what her element was. Water. It wasn't hard to tell; blue hair put up in braids that went down to her shoulder. A blue fishnet shirt under a purple tank top. He watched her as she adjusted the purple belt, holding up her short-shorts. The glint of the jewel's she had caught Touya's pupil-less eyes, the gems on her purple choker and belt were a dark, dark, blue color.
"Oh. Hi, Umi," Bakken grinned, making Jin worry slightly. But she walked right past Bakken, ignoring him completely.
"My name is Umi, Risho told me to come meet the two shinobi that wussed out after the dark tournament," She told them, smirking.
Jin walked out. Touya glared at Bakken, then Umi, then followed Jin out.
"T'anks fer 'elpin' me!" Jin smiled.
"No problem," Touya replied quietly.
"Touya the ice master and Jin the wind master! What a surprise," rang another female voice, Touya and Jin knew this voice, however.
"So… How are your kids doing?" She laughed, she loved the very thought of yaoi.
"Shut up, Kumi! I'll kill you if you ever say anything like that again!" Touya yelled, turning to her.
"Now, now Touya… If you hurt my beloved Kumi I'll kill you!" The confident earth demon wrapped his arm around Her waist; they've been together for a while…
Kumi was the master of illusions; she was very weak if her opponent had a resistance, forcing her to go to Risho for assistance.
Touya hated how she was always in that purple cloak of hers, saying all this junk about how gay people are, or could be.
"Oh, Jin. I gave Bakken your room! Hope you don't mind," Jin flinched slightly at those words. Touya elbowed him and went to his room, Jin followed silently.
Ningenkai
"Just open a stupid portal!" Yusuke yelled angrily at the 1-foot tall baby.
"It's not that easy, Yusuke. We would have to make sure nothing would come back through!" He explained, hopefully thorough enough for Yusuke to understand.
"We'll kill anybody that tries! This is so FRIGGIN' stupid!"
"Calm down, Yusuke! We'll have a portal open in an hour!"
"An hour?" The angered teen punched a wall.
"Yusuke, you have o be patient. I'm sure Touya and Jin are fine, they're good fighters. They can take care of themselves," Kurama attempted to calm him down.
"How can you all be so stupid calm! Our friends are stuck with some crazy earth demon that beat down his own teammate during the Dark Tournament!"
"How are you so sure we can even trust them!" the highly annoyed fire demon yelled over the young spirit detective.
Yusuke was silent for a second "I-I just get this feeling…"
The room went silent.
"Go home and rest up guys," Koenma ordered as he opened a portal to Ningenkai. They all walked through.
Shinobi Temple
Touya sat on the balcony outside his room, lost in his own thoughts.
"How did he get to Ningenkai…?" He asked himself quietly.
"Who t'e 'eck knows?" Jin asked, walking up behind Touya surprisingly. Touya turned around and looked at him; he didn't expect anybody to be listening.
"Aye, dun git all upset 'cuz he got us! Remember: it's easier t' be laughin' than screamin'!" Jin grinned, as his ears flicked energetically. Touya smiled slightly at his companion's cheerfulness.
There was a knock at the door, and the words "Dinner time!" were heard by Jin and Touya.
They both walked out of his room and into the dining room. Touya looked at the possibly poisoned food.
Jin ate all of his food abnormally quickly.
He seemed fine.
Until he fell over, unconscious.
"Jin!" Touya turned to Risho ", What did you do to him?"
"Some friend you are. You knew it was poisoned, but you didn't tell him!" Risho smirked as everybody went back to their rooms.
"What's wrong with Jin?" Asked yet another female voice.
"Risho poisoned the food," He turned and looked at the girl.
She had silver hair, with ice blue highlights. She had a gray fishnet shirt under a light blue shirt. She had black pants, which were being held up by a black belt with an ice blue gem. She scratched her silver fox ear with her hand as she walked over to Touya and the unconscious Jin. A green kitsune followed the youko.
"Mei, Thorn, will you help me?"
"Yes, of course!" the human-ish looking girl said. Touya put Jin on the green kitsune.
"Thorn, take him to my room," Touya told her, and then she nodded and carried Jin off. "Mei, come with me to get some herbs and water."
"Ok!" Mei and Touya ran out of the temple.
"Don't worry, Jin…" Thorn was in her much lesser used form in order to try and comfort the wind master ", they'll get back soon."
"T-Thorn?" He smiled as much as he was able ", I haven' see' you in ages!"
"I know; I'm happy too! But don't try and talk, you're sick!" She smiled, he smiled back at the youko girl taking his advice.
Thorn played with her silver, highlighted green, hair. When she got bored with it she let it fall back onto her gray shirt, and black pants. She tightened her black belt, which had a green gem on it.
Thorn wasn't acting like her normal self at all right now. Normally she was pretty carefree, but not now. Not since she found out that Jin got poisoned. She was normally hyperactive, but not right now.
Mei and Thorn were good fighters, but they were better as a team. That's the only reason Risho didn't take them to the Dark Tournament. Touya and Mei ran in.
Mei checked Jin's temperature ", you're burning up!" She put a cloth in the cold water she and Touya had gotten, then put the cold damp cloth on his head, in an attempt to cool him down.
There was a knock on the door.
Everybody stared at the ominous door.
Touya stood up and opened the door, formed his ice sword and attacked without seeing whom it was.
There was a female scream.
Mei: The end of chapter 2! Mwhaha… You just have to wait to see who screamed. So HA! xp.
"I AM NOT!" ;; Inside joke for anybody that reads this and had no idea what I'm talking about…