Mei: Welcome to another chapter of KID! (puts on fake smile) Ok. I'm done. Yeah… This is chapter… 8.

Chapter 8

Shinobi Temple

"Ok… We're here…" Yusuke panted as they all ran up to the temple doors.

"Humans are so easily tired…" Hiei commented to everybody standing around him. Yusuke got ready to run into the temple. Then he started going upwards, as if he were going up invisible stairs.

"What the-?"

Hiei looked at it with his jagan. "An illusion…" He muttered. "Let me lead." So Hiei went ahead and everybody else followed.

Actual Shinobi Temple

"Where's Umi?" Risho asked furiously as he hung Shousei and Sapphire up with all the other "hostages." Then Umi walked in, dragging Touya.

"T…T… Touya…" Jin mumbled, struggling to stay conscious. He looked at Touya, who was covered in burn marks. Umi was smirking as she tied him up with everyone else.

Yusuke ran in, panting. Then Hiei, Kurama, and finally Kuwabara.

"G-get outta 'ere! They'll kill you!" Jin yelled as loudly as he could, looking at them.

"What are you talking about, Jin? We can beat them!" Yusuke smirked cockily.

"Get out!" Jin repeated.

"No way!" Yusuke yelled, not about to go down all the stairs empty handed. The teenaged Spirit Detective got into his shotgun stance.

"Stop it, Yusuke!" Kurama yelled, putting his hand in front of him, preventing him from attacking.

"What? Why?"

"If you fire you risk hitting Jin and Touya!"

"You're right…" Yusuke turned to Hiei. "Hey, Hiei…"

"What?" Hiei asked without taking his eyes off the enemies.

"Go try and cut Jin and Touya off the ropes, ok?"

"What about the demon girls?" Kuwabara asked them, in his own, perverted way.

"Who cares? We don't know 'em," Yusuke was right, but Jin wasn't ready to put his friends' life on the line. Hiei gripped his sword and got ready to go cut the rope. Hiei ran, top speed, to cut the group of youkai down, but was then slammed back into the wall.

"Hiei!" Team Urameshi yelled together.

"I'm fine, don't take your eyes off them," Hiei came out form the pile of rocks he was under.

You awake, Mei?

Yeah.

Ok… We need to get us all down.

We're in our Kitsune forms, so let's bite away! Mei and Thorn started biting the ropes at an attempt to get down.

Risho hasn't noticed?

Probably too occupied with our enemies.

They paused.

A Youko's blood? Mei and Thorn thought together.

Yeah, it's weak, but it's defiantly a Youko's blood… They stopped biting and looked at Kurama.

Keep trying to get yourselves down! Hiei told them telepathically. They looked at Hiei with a confused look Just do it!

They nodded and continued. Then Tashi woke up, stared at Hiei (love at first sight), and then started trying to get down too.

"Those girls are youko's…" Kurama said slowly to himself…

"Somethin' wrong, Kurama?" Yusuke glanced at him through the corner of his eye.

"No, Yusuke… It's just that Youko usually work alone, but those 2 are working so well as a team…" Kurama told him, barely over a whisper.

"Is that gonna be a problem?"

"I hope not…" Kurama said, bringing out his Rose Whip. Hiei already had his sword out, ready to attack. Kuwabara stood there, unable to think (for some reason…).

Kumi pulled a lever just as Thorn and Mei bit the rope in half. They fell, but luckily Jin had enough energy to raise the group and fly them back to safety.

Tashi used her poison power to melt the ropes and get everybody out from the grasp of the evil rope! Mei held the unconscious Touya, while Jin took care of Sapphire, Thorn took care of Shousei (against her will), and Tashi took care of Kashin. Risho hit the 4 youkai in the face, forcing them all to fly back into the wall. Then Touya slowly opened his eyes.

"Touya, don't try to move…" Mei said, still holding on to him.

"Aye…" Jin panted. "You'll only be hurtin' yerself."

Mei wrapped her arms protectively around Touya, he blushed slightly and thought how stupid a time this was to be blushing.

"Jin… Are we gonna die…?" Thorn asked.

"No, Thorn! D'un worry! We're gonna get out o' here alive!" He smiled.

Risho, Kumi, Bakken, Gama, and Umi were all fighting Yusuke, Kuwabara (who finally brought out his Spirit Sword), Kurama, and Hiei. Yusuke shot his Spirit Gun at Kumi, who jumped over it and turned to see in going at Sapphire, Shousei, and Kashin! Thorn, Jin, and Tashi's eyes widened, not only were their friends going to die, but they all were too! But Yusuke's Spirit Gun wasn't strong enough, so it only hit the first 3 and killed them. Tashi's eyes swelled up with tears. Thorn hugged Jin and fought back tears, cursing. Jin tried to comfort her, also fighting back the urge to burst into tears. Mei started to cry, and hugged Touya. He tried to comfort her, just now realizing that she was the youngest 1 out of all of them.

Yusuke stood, frozen, unable to move. He killed them… (Possibly) innocent youkai girl.

Then Kurama yelled out in pain and fell backwards on to the floor, motionlessly.

"Kurama!" Hiei ran to his friends aid.

Then Bakken used his White Mist attack to conceal everything.

Mei: Did you like it…? I hope so… We're nearing the end of the story so yeah… Keep reading, it gets better… Much better. And better than what I have written on paper!