Mei: Yo koso! Chaputta shi!

For those of you that don't know… I said: Welcome! Chapter four!

Gomen. I didn't mean for the last chapter to be hard to follow… I'll try and make it as clear as I can… Gomen. Any way…. If my story gets hard to follow flame and tell, Ok?

Chapter 4

Shinobi Temple

Touya sat up and looked at his arms, all covered in dry blood. He took off his blue shirt and jumped off his balcony onto the ground. He hurried to the lake, before the sun rose; Mei and Thorn would get up soon. He could only imagine what they would say if they found out what he did to himself.

Jin's elf-ish ears twitched as he heard a knock on the door. The weak wind master tried to get up, his foolish attempts failed. He got halfway up, but collapsed right after. The boy foolishly knocked himself out.

The black neko girl let herself in. She flinched, as she smelt the air. She covered her sensitive nose with her sleeve. She wandered out onto Touya's balcony.

"Blood…" She said softly as she looked at Touya's blood filled shirt. "Touya's blood…" Her bright yellow eyes widened as she realized what had happened… "A cutter…" She looked around for him, useless. He wasn't there.

Umi walked out onto her balcony and looked at the neko and said sweetly ", hello Kashin."

"Hi, Umi," She said back as she watched Umi get up on the guardrail around her balcony. She raised her hands up towards the sky. She started dancing, summoning clouds. And rain. Kashin picked up Touya's sword, cleaned it, sheathed it, and went inside before it started pouring. The placed it back on the rack, up against the ice blue wall.

The neko curled up into a ball and lay next to Jin, then fell asleep.

Jin turned onto his side and held the unknown source of warmth. Jin was shivering, he was so cold…

"Please get up…" The red haired demon said quietly.

"Jin… Don't worry about me…" She coughed up some of her blood ", Remember, It's easier to be laughin' than screamin'!" More blood. She brushed her firey red hair out of her child-like face. "Jin, you'll 'ave to take over as the wind master for me… Train hard. If you don't… I'll come back and haunt you."

"Aye…" he looked down at his older sister, laying in his arms. She closed her sky blue, innocent eyes.

And never opened them again.

Shinobi Temple

Jin sat up quickly, cuddling the unknown neko. He was afraid… He didn't care who it was (although he knew she probably would). She purred softly. He leaned back against the wall, loosening his grip on the girl.

"I wonder who she is…"

"AIEEE!" She screeched, Jin let go of her quickly. "What are you, some kind of sick pervert?" She yelled angrily.

"Sorry, ye were just so warm… And I was really cold!" He whispered.

"What are you doing here?" A male voice said from behind Kashin.

"AH!" Kashin screamed, startled by the drop of water, mixed with the cold emotionless voice. She turned around and looked at the silhouetted figure ", Oh… Touya."

"You're violating my privacy."

"Gomen… I'll leave."

"Good."

"Wait, Touya! She kept me warm while I was sleepin', she did! Give 'er a chance!" Jin said, sitting up straight. Touya looked at Jin blankly; he had no idea he had gotten up.

"Touya! Jin!" Mei called from outside the door. Kashin was already up, so Touya told her to answer it. Mei and Thorn ran in, as if they were in an important race.

"Ha! I won! Now where's my cookie?" The green youko grinned. Mei mumbled under her breath and gave her older sister a cookie.

Mei and Thorn stood back to back, Mei holding out her right hand, Thorn holding out her left hand. They both smiled as the silver and blue youko started a spell, and the silver and green youko finished. Their hands glowed slightly as a small bottle with a red liquid appeared in their hands.

"Here is the antidote!" They told them in unison. Touya and Jin looked at each other, being reminded of Koto and Juri at the end of the Dark Tournament. Touya took the delicate bottle out of their hands and handed it to Jin. Jin stared at the red liquid that was said to be the antidote. He peered through it, as if it were the poison.

"I dunno… It looks nasty!" He said, thoroughly disgusted.

"Don't wuss out now! It took us forever to get it!" Thorn didn't believe he would wuss out…

"Yeah!" Mei agreed.

"A'right, only a wee bit though!" Jin lifted the bottle to his mouth and chugged it. (A/N: his Irish-ness comes out.) They all stared, wide eyed. Jin smiled and tried to get up ", I-I can't feel my legs!" Jin yelled, Thorn ran to his aid quickly.

"Did the antidote have some sort of weird effect..?" Touya mumbled worriedly.

"I don't know…" Mei whispered as she watched Jin fall backwards.

"Jin! Jin! Don't you dare die on me!" Thorn yelled, shaking him slightly. The worried youko (Thorn) put her hand to his neck, checking his pulse, then sighed in relief.

"He's alive… But sleeping…" She figured.

Ningenkai!

Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama went through the newly opened portal.

"We're coming guys! Just hold on!" The black haired teen thought aloud.

"Great, Urmeshi, but we gotta kill this guy first!" Kuwabara pointed at a large demon in a long black cloak.

"Huh?" Yusuke looked up at the demon blocking the way.

"So… You're looking for Touya and Jin?" It asked, it's voice oddly high pitched for 1 of its size. It sounded slightly like a child…

"Yeah, you got a problem with it, cloak boy?" Yusuke yelled angrily.

The demon started laughing "Aw man!" It laughed. "You should've seen the look on your face!" He started laughing even harder.

"wha… What the heck are you laughing at?" Yusuke yelled, as he grabbed it by the collar of his cloak. The hat of the cloak fell off.

They all gasped. A boy with 3 stars under his left eye, and unbrushed brown hair was in the place of where the cloaked figure should be.

"R-rinku?"

"Yeah! I'm surprised you didn't notice that figure had 2 energy sources… Ohwell… As I always say 'once an idiot, always and idiot'!" The child grinned widely. Yusuke hit Riku on the head angrily.

"Oooow…." He said, falling out of Yusuke's hands holding his head.

"So you guys gonna help us save Touya and Jin?" Yusuke asked casually.

"An' go to te' shinobi temple? No way! That's like suicide!" The drunk looking demon swayed slightly.

"Yeah Yusuke, Chuu is right, for once, all the masters there are really strong!" Rinku's grin faded.

"We have to go! If you won't help, fine! See if I care!" Yusuke stomped off.

"You'll have to excuse him… He's angry with Hiei. They just finished an argument," Kurama apologized for Yusuke.

"I wouldn't call it an argument…" Hiei muttered.

"You wouldn't call anything an argument!" Kuwabara yelled playfully as he ran after Yusuke. Hiei growled slightly and darted after him.

"Ooook…" Kurama said slowly. "I should probably go too."

"Ok see ya!" Rinku yelled happily.

"Bye," Kurama ran after everybody else, waving politely.

Mei: That's the end. Again, if it's hard to follow flame. I could care less. I guess I'll see you in chapter 5. Ja ne.