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This is HakushoRurouni with an update for The Tenken (finally!). Anywayz, I just want to tell all those of you who have bothered to read my other story, Palett High, that I have updated it with chapter five. Well, here's chapter five!

Ch.5- Captured!

He knew it was stupid, the mission I mean. From the moment he had sent the Tentei to look for the "Tenken", he knew they were screwed.

'Well,' Koenma reasoned with himself, 'if Botan and Hiei hadn't been busy sucking each others faces off, they probably would've had a chance.' He sighed, "Why in the bloody hell did they have to go and admit their love for each other right in the middle of a mission? Why couldn't they wait until after the mission?" Koenma growled. "But nooooo, let's make out with each other in the middle of godforsaken Makai and see if we survive!" He chuckled in spite of the situation. "Ah well, kids these days, only aware of what they want and what kind of pleasures the opposite sex can give them."

He sighed again, looked around the room once in a confused daze, and slammed his head into his desk…hard.

"Ow." Needless to say it took him a while to get back up and get the stars out of his eyes.

There was a cautious knock on the door, which was barely audible due to the door's rather, immense size.

"Come in." called Koenma in pain clutching his head and wondering what had possessed him to crash it into the desk in the first place.

The door opened and in walked…was it George? No, no George was blue…or was he green? Magenta? Naah…it was January! Koenma couldn't be too sure, but he might just have rendered himself colorblind. So, he decided on Ogre.

"What is it Ogre?" he asked. There ya go, always an easy way to classify employees after you bang your head into a rather hard desk at an extreme speed.

"Well sir, you told me to inform you the minute the two human girls were in sight sir."

"So?" Koenma snapped in agony.

"The two human girls are in sight sir!" stated the Ogre proudly. Koenma nodded.

The ogre went into the corner of the room and stayed there silently.

A minute passed.

Then two.

Three.

Four.

At ten minutes, Koenma was getting impatient. He looked over at the ogre who was apparently; still proud of himself for having informed Koenma, this assumption was supported by the fact that he still had a smile on his face.

Finally, Koenma spoke, "Well?"

The ogre looked at him in an almost confused way. "Well, what sir?" he questioned.

"Well where the hell are the two human girls that you said were here!" snapped Koenma angrily.

"Oh them? They're still in Nigenkai!" Koenma's head fell from his supporting hands, and crashed into the awaiting desk below.

Koenma lost it. "THEN WHY IN THE BLOODY HELL DID YOU TELL ME THAT THEY WERE IN SIGHT IF THEY'RE STILL IN NIGENKAI!" he bellowed.

Koenma could have seen color; he would have seen the ogre go from blue to a pale, pale, pale white. However, he did see the sudden change from pride to fear that was evident in the ogre's eyes.

"YOU KNOW WHAT? DON'T ANSWER THAT! GO AND GET ME A BOTTLE OF ASPIRIN!"

Without a word, the ogre ran out the door, or tried to at least. In his haste, he had forgotten that he'd closed it when he entered with the "news".

However he recovered remarkably quickly, jumping to his feet, and wrenching open the door he took off down the long hallway to the medical wing he'd heard of, tripping over himself as he did.

Koenma watched him go and sighed, " I hope he finds the aspirin, I'm going to need it when Keiko and Shizuru get here." With that, he clutched his still smarting head in his hands and pondered how he was going to explain this to the two over protective, slightly psycho human girls.

There was going to be hell to pay and he knew it.

It wasn't smart for him to have requested Keiko and Shizuru come to Rekai, but in situations like this, it was unavoidable. They were bound to come anyway, once they realized that their friends, not to mention boyfriends, were not back in the usual day or so that it took them to complete an assignment.

He wanted to get it over as soon as possible because either way, he was going to have a major headache and a sore neck after this, and that was being optimistic about it.

He knew it was bad when he heard the first crash that rang throughout Rekai.

'Please let me live, I'm too young to die! Please let me LIVE!' he thought desperately to no one in particular as he clutched at his giant armchair.

He knew they were pissed when he heard the second, third, fourth and fifth crashes in quick succession and they were even closer to his office then they should have been. He knew he was dead when both of the doors of his office flew open, crashed into the walls on which they were hinged, and he saw the two angels of death in the door way.

'Oh………shit.' He thought uselessly. "Well, hello Keiko," he gulped as he looked at the two literally fuming with rage teenagers, "Shizuru."

Ever so slowly, one step at a time, and inch by inch, the two women walked closer and closer to his desk.

"Uhh…um…I've been expecting the two of you." He said hurriedly. The two kept advancing, dangerously slow… "Uh…haha…um…nice weather huh?" He was merely postponing his death or demise, whichever you prefer, and he damn well knew it.

They were right at the edge of his desk where they finally stopped and Keiko spoke, "Where are our friends."

Koenma gulped, the mere statement was scaring the crap out of him. "Well, uh…you see…I, well, no they…but then…" he was stumbling over his words and trembling in fear.

"Answer the question pacifier breath!" shouted Shizuru who, despite her raised tones, still looked the calmer of the two.

"They…they're, uh, a…" he couldn't form a sentence anymore, he was trying, but he just couldn't.

"Not talking?" Shizuru asked, "Well than I hope you already have a replacement chosen to take your place you squinty eyed midget, because when we're done with you, it won't even matter that you're a god or an immortal being, you'll be dead."

This seemed to snap Koenma into action. "Okay, okay I'll talk, just don't kill me!" He pleaded desperately.

Keiko and Shizuru looked at each other, nodded and then turned to Koenma and at the same time said, "Talk."

He jumped in fright, no wonder Yusuke was so scared of Keiko.

"Well, you know the mission I sent them on two days ago?" They nodded. "Well, um, ha, they, umm…sorta got captured by the Tenken." He finished in a whisper.

"What was that?" snapped Keiko angrily.

"Uhh…I've got a funky chicken?" Koenma threw out. The two females didn't buy it.

"Are you lying to us munchkin?" Shizuru asked now deathly quiet.

"What…er..no of course not, I just remembered that I had to feed my funky chicken today, he 's been so good lately." He was met by raised eyebrows. "Okay, here's here is the truth." He started to say, but was cut off by an extremely pissed Keiko.

"You mean you were lying to us?"

"No! Of course not! I would never dream…" Again he was interrupted, however by Shizuru this time.

"Then just tell us what the hell happened to the others!"

"Yeah, talk you little, short, err…person!" Keiko added.

"Fine. They went to Makai to capture the Tenken, one of the deadliest humans on the planet. They underestimated him and now they're being held captive in some cave that we currently can't locate." He said in one breath. Stunned silence ensued.

And then…

"WHY THE HELL DID YOU SEND THEM IF YOU KNEW THEY WEREN'T GOING TO WIN, WHICH YOU MOST LIKELY ALREADY KNEW!" Screamed Shizuru. Then it was Keiko's turn…

"WHY HAVEN'T YOU SENT ANYONE TO MAKAI TO HELP THEM!"

"That's the problem, Yusuke and the others were," he saw the looks of rage on the two women's faces and quickly corrected himself, "are the best we have, even if we sent someone else in they'd just get slaughtered. At least the team is still alive."

"WHY DID YOU LET THEM GET CAPTURED!" questioned a still steaming Keiko.

"Now that wasn't my fault, well entirely anyway."

"YEAH WELL WHO'S FAULT WAS IT THEN?" inquired Shizuru wrathfully.

Koenma knew this was his last chance, and it was a matter of life and death. Botan would understand…but Hiei? Well, he wanted to be around to find out.

"It was Hiei and Botan's fault." He said.

"OH DON'T GO BLAMING THIS ON TWO OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING HELD CAPTIVE!" screamed Keiko with rage.

Here it was, the moment of truth, it was now or never, and, he went for it.

"It was! If they hadn't been busy sucking each other's faces off, they probably wouldn't be prisoner." There he had said it.

And it had the exact effect on the girls he'd hoped it would have.

The girls faces went from went from rage filled to curiously questioning in a matter of milliseconds.

"Are you serious?" Shizuru asked.

Koenma nodded.

"No way!" You're kidding right?" Keiko asked faintly.

"Nope, I saw the whole thing." He snapped his fingers and a little video screen popped out of the wall like the previous time. "If you want, I can show it to you."

At their questioning glances, he added, "We have to keep everything on file."

They nodded and accepted his answer. The screen turned on and showed the Tentei coming out of the portal one by one.

Koenma cleared his throat, "Whoops, much too early!" He snapped again and a little remote appeared in his hand. It had only five buttons on it. He hit the fast forward button and had to squint as the image on the screen was suddenly met gray/black almost snow like lines. He saw Yukina and Botan both jump and latch on to Hiei and pressed the "play" button.

"Here we go."

It played.

"Onna." They heard Hiei's voice say. Koenma tuned out at this point, not needing to see or hear the whole Hiei/Botan fluff again, he'd had enough of it.

It had nearly cost his best team their lives. Not to mention, his life was nearly taken from him as well.

'I'm gonna have to have a talk with these youngsters once we get them back.' He thought while suppressing a light laugh. 'Funny really,' he thought as he turned to the screen to see Hiei once again wrap his arms around Botan, 'I never thought in a million years, that Hiei and Botan would ever be together.'

He didn't know why, it had just been obvious. The two worked together to finish the missions and then turned on one another for doing the slightest thing wrong. Well, more Hiei than Botan.

'It's funny how life works,' he thought amused, 'very, very funny indeed.'

He turned toward the screen again and saw Hiei and Botan moving closer and closer to each other. Three…two…one…

Right when they kissed, there was a shout from both Keiko and Shizuru about how "cute" and romantic it was.

Koenma however, started a ten second count down.

'Ten…nine…eight…seven…six…five…four…three…two…one.'

Now there were two screams as Keiko and Shizuru paled at the sight that befell them on the screen. Hiei had just been hit over the head and knocked out.

"Who are you?" Botan asked, obviously afraid as she tried to pull Hiei's unconscious body closer to her.

Before an answer came, Botan was hit over the head and knocked out as well.

There was a small laugh from the black and blue clad man.

"The Tenken." Was all that he said as he picked up both of the unconscious bodies and then vanished.

The screen went blank, and then disappeared into the wall.

A moment of silence and then…

"That was so cute! Who would've thought Hiei and Botan! They look so cute together!"

Well there ya have it. That's chapter five of The Tenken. Anywayz, now that it's summer and there is no more school, I am finally free to update and write. As always, R&R! I appreciate those of you who take your time to read this fic as well as any of my other fics! 'Til next time!

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