Mei: Blah. Sorry, I haven't had time to update in a while. School shtuff… And I'm really tired. If there are more errors than usual, tell me… Oh, Oyako… I changed some of the names… xp ("I AM NOT!")

Chapter 3.

Shinobi Temple

"Touya! What the heck are you doing! I was looking for Mei!" The black neko demon screamed. He just stared at the unknown neko girl. "Please remove your ice sword from my neck," She said casually, eyes half closed, while she achieved the 'I'm bored, darn it!' look.

Mei's silver kitsune ears twitched, she got up and ran out ",Kashin! What are you doing here?"

"Oh! There you are, Mei!"

"Touya… You can get off her now," Mei stared at the 'awkward' position they were in.

"Right!" Touya got off of the girl quickly and rushed back into his room.

Mei looked into the nekos bright yellow, light colored, eyes. She tugged on her Chinese-style purple shirt with golden trim and buttons. Her belt and collar had orange-ish yellow gems. Touya walked back out into in the narrow hall.

"One question, how do you know me?" He managed to ask while keeping his cool expression.

"Oh! Mei has told me all about you!"

"Oh really?" He looked at her. She turned pink and walked into the room, faster than she normally would have. Kashin giggled slightly, resisting the urge to say 'Oh! Look at the new couple!'

"What's so funny?" A female voice came from around the corner. Touya heard the voice and immediately got into a defensive stance, facing the corner.

"Hi, Shou!"

"Don't call me that, darn it!" A red and orange neko demon came around the corner. She brushed the lint off her red silk pants, and loose blue shirt. Touya noticed that 'Shou' wasn't wearing a choker like most of the other girls were, she had a belt like everybody else, with dark orange gems, but her necklace was most defiantly not a choker.

"C'mon Touya! We gotta take care of Jin…" Mei walked in to the young ice masters room.

"Right," Touya turned to follow the silver youko in.

"Can we help?" The black neko, Kashin, interrupted.

"No," Touya said, without turning to look at their begging faces.

"Please?" Kashin begged she apparently really did want to help them.

"I don't trust you enough."

"Mei does!"

"I'm not Mei. Her opinion wont let you into my room!" He told them, stressing 'my' than he normally would have. He kept his cocky 'I know everything' expression, while managing to turn around and glare at the two neko girls.

"Fine!" The two neko girls walked off together. Touya smirked as he went into his room, closing and locking the door behind him.

"Sorry, Touya… We have to go to bed, now!" Mei smiled at Touya, attempting to cheer him up. Touya understood the message and tried to smile back, but at his pathetic attempt Mei shot him a 'nevermind' look. Then she walked out and went to her and her sisters room.

"Don't worry, Touya," Thorn assured ", I'm sure Jin will be just fine." Thorn surprisingly didn't smile as she walked out.

( Mei: This is where the story kinda gets to angst-ish stuff… ; )

Touya took a sword off the 'weaponry wall' and went out onto the balcony. He swung furiously at the air as Risho's cold words echoed in Touyas normally clear mind.

"Some friend you are…" echoed through his now clouded mind.

"It's not my fault!" He yelled as he dropped the sword and fell to his knees, pressing his hands to his ears, trying to block out the prissy voice. Then he just stopped. His hands fell to his side. He looked up at the sky. It is my fault, he thought to himself. He should've told Jin. He knew when his oblivious friend did not.

Touya picked up the sword and drew it across his arm. Jin shouldn't be in pain… I should, He thought as he continued to mutilate his own arm. Touya ignored the pain and kept cutting himself, now hard enough to draw blood. Touya stayed up all night, covering his arm in his own blood…

Ningenkai

"What the heck do you mean it'll be open in the morning!" Yusuke yelled, thoroughly frustrated.

"Yusuke! It's midnight, are you really that stupid?" Botan yelled back, highly annoyed by his yelled and screaming.

The black haired punk punched a tree down angrily.

"Hey! Watch it!" The gothic looking demon jumped out of the tree the spirit detective punched down. "I was asleep!"

"How can you sleep at a time like this?"

"I don't care a bit for Touya or Jin, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to sleep when I wont be accompanying you!"

Kuwabara covered his mouth, trying hard not to laugh at the idea of Hiei falling asleep in a tree that was knocked down by Yusuke.

"My mother planted that tree…" Kurama jumped out of his bedroom window, doing a whole bunch of filps.

"Sorry!" Yusuke said once Kurama landed on the ground and started reviving the tree.

"Suichii, is something wrong?" Shiori, Kurama's mother, asked from the window as Kurama stood up and brushed himself off.

"No mother! Go back to bed! Sorry for waking you!" He told her politely.

"Good night, Suichii."

"Good night, mother," He called as Shiori walked out of sight, back into her room. "You should go to bed as well," He told Yusuke and Kuwabara ",In the morning we'll meet in the forest and try to save Touya and Jin."

"Ok!" Yusuke and Kuwabara shouted in unison as they both went back to their houses to rest, or try to.

Cheesy music plays

Mei) Yay! The end of chapter 3! Ok. I put 2 original characters in!

1-Kashin, neko, light.

2-Shousei, neko, fire.

Got it? Ok!