"Speech"
'Thought'
Desire Discovery
It had been a few weeks since that disastrous dinner. Koenma had allowed Kourone to stay in the Human world, and even got him a job at Shuiichi's school.
Yusuke and the others liked him. It was almost like having another Genki in the group, much to Genki's dispose. Kurama believed she liked being the all- knowing one, no matter how much she acted as if she hated it. Everything was going perfect, or at least as perfect it could be, that is except from our favorite young couple.
Kurama still kept two main secrets from his parents. Of course, know they knew of his spirit detective work, or as they called it 'Demon Hunter', and Kourone was his not-so-dead ex-partner. All of which was true, except for the fact that he was also a demon, and not to mention was married to the person his family thought he was dating.
Kurama couldn't help but sigh as he made his way home. When had all the secrets started to pile up? Kurama entered his home. He had arrived later than usual today. Koenma had to explain to all of them about a new demon on the loose.
Kurama went into the kitchen, where his family was sitting down for dinner.
"Hello Shuuichi" Shiori said.
"Hello mother." Kurama replied with a yawn. He, as well as all of the other detectives was exhausted. He and the others hadn't slept for a week.
For some reason there had been a large number of deaths lately, Too much for just the ferry girls to take care of. So Koenma employed the detectives to help. Of course they had all crashed a lot, seeing how they were new to riding an oar, but didn't mean early nights.
Kurama sat down.
"Shuuichi, are you alright?" Shiori asked. As she notice Kurama playing more with his food, then actually eating it.
"Maybe you should stay home from school tomorrow and rest." Kazuya suggested.
"About that" Kurama cringed "I haven't been to school in three days."
"WHAT!" Shiori exclaimed, "Where have you been?"
"Well," Kurama pulled out a note book, "Monday, I was in the states with Hinageshi, she really needs to work with her languages; Tuesday I was in Africa with Hiei, they had a famine; Wednesday I was in the middle east with Botan, and I just got back from England."
"What where you doing travelling the world?" Shiori asked.
"Oh, Koenma has everyone available to help carry souls of the dead to Spirit World to be filter. Usually we wouldn't help, but there has been so many, it is amazing," Kurama replied. "Actually according to records the last time there was this many deaths was during the Black Death." Kurama yawned. He took a few bits of his meal and stood up. " I got to get going. I'm due in Mt. Everest in a few minutes. You would think those mountain climber would learn." Kurama mumbled as he went upstairs and changed. Koenma showed them how to summon an oar.
Summoning his oar he left. After a few hours of ferry he went to Koenma' office. Koenma gave all the detectives some information to look over, before allowing them to leave. As soon as Kurama arrived home, he flopped down on his bed. Collapsing he welcomed the darkness.
Kurama was shook awake. Opening his eyes he looked up; immediately seeing Shiori.
"Mother?" Kurama asked sitting up.
"Shuuichi, why are you doing this, you need to stop before you make yourself sick."
"Mother, I'm fine. What time is it?"
"Almost noon."
What!" Kurama exclaimed " I was supposed to be inn China an hour ago."
"Actually. An old women came by, she said her name was Genki? Any ways, she said and I quote 'Make sure fox gets better. We can't have the only smart detective sick. When we might need him.' then she grabbed your notebook and left." Shiori explained.
"That's nice of Genki. I'll have to thank her the next time I see her." Kurama muttered.
"Shuuichi, now that you are awake, how about we go down to Shuiichi's school and have lunch with him and Kazuya. He's over there for parent's day."
"That's a good idea." Kurama smiled. He was for once glad Botan stayed at Spirit World. She had been doing it often the past few days because of the overload. It had just been easier for her. He guessed he had collapsed after he returned home. He wasn't the first to collapsed; Hinageshi did so the day before yesterday, and Kuwabarra had yesterday. Kurama wouldn't be surprise is Yusuke fell next, after all he was part human.
Getting up Kurama got ready for the remained of the day. His mother went down to make him some lunch to take with them.
The trip to school was quiet. Kurama had been reading up on the new demon, while his mother drove. Before long they had joined Kazuya in Shuiichi's classroom.
"You finally woke up Shuuichi?" Shuiichi smirked as soon as he was able to talk to him.
"Yeah well, I forgot to set my alarm." Kurama smiled, suddenly there was an announcement.
"Could all classes please report to the gym. Thank you"
The teacher looked confused, but did as she was told. Following the class, the parents and siblings, made their way to the gym.
Once inside that building Kurama spotted Kourone.
"I had a planning period, and got bored." Kourone stated as he stood next to him. Suddenly they smelt them, Demons. Lowering their energy immediately, they did not want to be found at this moment. Kourone knew Spirit World was over flowing with Spirits. When he saw Kurama, he knew Koenma got the detectives to help out with this problem. He doubted Kurama was even at an eighth of his power, or even that. Therefore meaning if a fight happened Kourone didn't know if Kurama could keep his end in a fight.
The lead demon stood on stage.
"Welcome, everyone." He held out his clawed hand.
"I hope you like this place. It'll be the last you ever see." He laughed. Kourone looked next to him, and was surprised to see Kurama smirking, That demon had to be at least an A-level demon. Kurama looked at him and whispered his plan.
"Kourone, I'm in no shape to fight, but, I need to stop him. So I want you to keep my family members from following me. If I can't kill him, and then I know I'll severely weaken him, and I want you to finish him off for me. Understand." Kourone nodded. "Good, I'm going in, and don't worry I'll be careful."
"You better..." Kourone replied, wondering when Kurama had become so suicidal.
"Shuuichi, where are you going?" Shiori asked. Kurama felt a pang of guilt. He turned to look at her for a second before wordlessly turned and walked straight.
"Now, Don't tell me that no one wants to fight me. Come on step right up to prove how brave you are."
"I'll do it Elsmero" Kurama said as he walked up. His eyes narrowed as he saw Elsmero smirk.
"You have signed your own death human." Elsmero laughed
"Really, I thought I was dating her." Kurama replied smirking. Elsmero stopped laughing. He motioned for his minions to jump and attack.
Kurama removed a seed from his hair. "Rose Whip Lash!" Kurama sliced them all in half.
"Elsmero, you are under arrest for trespassing into the human world. As well as killing over 150 human. Prince of the Spirit World, Koenma, has already passed your sentence. You are sentenced to death." Kurama spoke in the demonic language, so no one besides those who were demons could understand. Elsmero took a step back. He wouldn't admit it, but he was scared of this person in front of him. Butt he knew better then to allow that fear to control him. He attacked Kurama, Kurama jumped back.
Kurama knew this guy's weapon of choice. They were much like the energy bombs Karasu created. Just thinking of Karasu cause Kurama to momentarily loose his concentration longs enough to get thrown into a wall by a bomb. It exploded on impact.
"Shuuichi!" Shiori yelled. Tears pouring from her eyes. Smoke started to appear, as the smoke cleared a figure stepped out. There was blood dripping from his left arm, but his face showed no signs of pain. Out stepped Yoko Kurama.
"You shall pay." Yoko stated d calmly as he walked closer towards Elsmero. Elsmero was trembling, he hadn't known that the kid was Yoko Kurama in disguise. He knew he was going to die.
"Please Yoko, I mean... Mr. Yoko... Don't kill me. I'll do anything. Please... I'll be good, I promise. Don't kill me." Elsmero begged. But Yoko kept walking. He pulled out his rose whip. Elsmero was trembling.
"No..." Yoko muttered as he shimmered back into his human form, Kurama was even more beaten up. Blood was pouring out of his arms and chest.
"Damn." Kurama muttered as he tried to steady himself. Glad he still had his whip, he used it. Unfortunately he only got Elsmero's arm, before he collapsed.
Kourone saw that Kurama was in trouble, especially after Elsmero stood up with an evil grin on his face. Creating a bomb in his hand Elsmero prepared to kill Kurama. Kourone let out his scythe, killing Elsmero instantly. Kurama was now on all fours. Kourone kneeled down and helped Kurama up.
"Come on, let's get you healed. Botan is not going to like this at all." Kourone stated trying to lighten up the mood.
"True. But my family saw me transform into Yoko." Kurama whispered his eyes were half closed.
"Yoko...Kurama... wake up. We e need you to stay awake." Kourone's shouts fell on deaf ears. The last thing Kurama saw was Kourone's worried face.
When Kurama woke up, he realized he was back in his room. Two things stopped trying to sit up, he, the first was in an unbearable pain, and the second was something on his chest. All he could see was blue.
"Botan?" Kurama whispered his voice hurt. The blob started to move.
"Kurama? " Botan looked at him before jumping up. "Kurama your awake! Are you okay? Do you hurt anywhere?"
"Botan, what happened?" Kurama asked ignoring her questions.
"You collapsed after your fight, Kourone brought you to Genki's temple. Your family came with you... Oh Kurama, we were so lucky Yukina was there, we nearly lost you" Botan started to cry. "We nearly lost you" she repeated.
"Botan..." Kurama place one of his hands on her cheek
"Kurama, your parents wanted an explanation for everything, so I had to tell them everything knew about you, both sides of you" Botan replied
"And..." Kurama asked
"She, Kourone, Hiei and Yusuke brought you home. Shuu... I mean Kurama." Shiori stated from the door. Kazuya and Shuiichi were behind her. Shiori was carrying a plate of food; she was smiling at him.
"Botan, did you tell them about...?" Kurama asked as he quickly turned towards Botan.
"Not that." Botan giggled.
"Good" Kurama sighed
"Umm Shu... Kurama, we were wondering if it was you that we saw in few umm, situations." Kazuya asked
"Was it you at that banquet?"
"Were you on mission at the resort?"
"Who was Sakura and Tuski?"
"Wait!" Kurama shouted. "One question at a time. Yes, I was at the banquet; I stole the jewel as part of a mission. Tuski and Sakura were both Botan."
"Really?" Shiori asked slightly surprised. "Do you have any demon friends?"
"Well, Kourone, Hiei,Yomi, Touya and Jin are demons, Yusuke is half, and Yukina is the only female demon. All the others, except for Botan and Hinageshi are human." Kurama replied
"Hon, that's only four and a half people. Well three and a half, I think Hiei is going to snap and attack Kuwabarra soon." Kurama nodded in agreement.
"I wonder if Koenma knew what he was doing when he assigned us partners." Kurama replied.
"Wow Shu... I mean Kurama, I never knew you had such... interesting friends." Shuiichi muttered.
"Son, you never mentioned what you were doing at the resort."
"A Failed vacation." Kurama sighed. He noticed a sad look in his mother's eyes, so he added "It wasn't your fault, it just so happened to be that the area was crawling with demons, and then were got attacked by a group of stupid ones, before we got sick."
"You said we. What do you mean?" Kazuya asked
"He means him and myself. Koenma sometimes pairs us up. And when we went to the resort, we met up with Touya and Jin." Botan replied
"So I guess almost everything is out in the open now." Kurama stated
"What do you mean almost everything?" Shiori asked.
"Well, I wouldn't be good fox if you discovered all my secrets." Kurama replied with a smirk. Botan just giggled.
Hope you like, Please RR, I don't remember if I've asked you that in Another story from this series. Any who, until next time.
C-ya
