/A.N./ aaahh! chapter six is FINALLY up! sorry for the long delay...but i'm afraid i have some bad news concerning updating. Friday (June 24) I'm leaving for South Carolina...whereI will have no internet/compie access...which means no updates...for about two weeks.I know,I know! I'm so sorry! Please dont leave me! I promise to work on the last few chapters of this fanfic and update right whenI get back! I'm soooo sorry this chapter has a sorta bad cliffhanger...please don't flame me and send me viruses! Anywho, please enjoy and thanx for reading! Don't forget to review!
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"OH MY GOD URAMESHI!" The door slammed open, causing Yusuke and Koenma to jump. Kuwabara stumbled in breathing heavily, a crumpled piece of paper clutched tightly in his hand. He ran over to Yusuke and grabbed him by his shirt collar and shook him, all the while screaming insanely about demons and monsters and the like.
"Gee, nice to see you too Kuwabara," Yusuke said sarcastically, yanking free from Kuwabara's grasp. "Ok, take a deep breath–" Kuwabara inhaled deeply. "–and tell my what in the hell you are doing here!"
"I think a more appropriate question," Koenma hastily put in, "would be how did you get here Kuwabara."
"Botan, probably...I mean I don't see her anywhere," Yusuke suggested.
"Maybe," Koenma said dryly, "that would be because she's right here." He pulled back the door Kuwabara had slammed open to reveal a squashed and unconscious Botan.
"Then...how..." Yusuke stuttered.
"George brought me," Kuwabara answered with his first full sentence since he had entered the room. "That ogre." He pointed to the blue ogre that no one noticed had entered the room after Kuwabara. "Oh...Urameshi! I found this letter on my door," he thrust the paper he had been holding at Yusuke.
Yusuke quickly scanned the note before giving Kuwabara a dark look. "Kuwabara...you moron! What the hell is this? All it says is 'watch the video'!"
Kuwabara laughed uneasily. "Uh...yea. I dunno about that." Before Yusuke could pummel Kuwabara into the ground, George stepped forward.
"Uh...Koenma sir...I have the video right here–" As he pulled the video out, it was abruptly yanked out of his hands by Botan, who was fully recovered.
"Well, what are we waiting for?"Botan demanded from the shocked boys. "Lets see what's on this tape!" Koenma was the first to recover, and he took the tape from her and put it on the big screen. Fuzz. For a full ten minutes, the picture was only fuzz. Right before Yusuke was about to rip the tape out and smash it to pieces, the picture flipped to a black screen. A deep, croaking voice filled the room.
"Yusuke Urameshi. Detective for the Spirit World. Fourteen years of age. Hair, black. Eyes, brown. Height, 173cm. Weight, 54 kg..." Koenma and the others stared in shock as the black screen continued to call out Yusuke's status before moving on to Kuwabara's. After Kuwabara's, came Keiko's status. The tape finally ended with, "...one of these three teens has been used for the highest honor a single human being can receive. Their soul will be used to fuel those more worthy of its purity. Do not expect their soul to return to the spirit realm any time soon." The large screen abruptly snapped back to fuzz, and silence ensued the room. Everyone knew who that 'honored person' was.
And it was already too late to save her.
"What do you mean you won't help her?" Botan screeched. Kuwabara and George stared at Yusuke in shock.
"You heard me. Keiko can take care of herself. Besides, she has a new boyfriend," Yusuke spat.
"I have some bad news," Koenma cut in. "I've searched our database and found Keiko's soul is detached from her body."
Yusuke shrugged if off. "So? Then it'll just end up here, right?"
"Wrong," Koenma said, staring at his computer screen. "It says here her soul is still in human world."
"Well that doesn't make much sense," Botan complained. "Souls detached from their host have to come to spirit world."
"That's just it Botan," Koenma said, folding his hands neatly in his lap. "Her soul has a host. Just not its rightful one."
"No," Botan said, shaking her head, "That can't be right! Souls can't be in any body that's not there own!"
"I don't know how to explain it either, but I have a feeling this has something to do with our Muotoko demon," Koenma said. "Yusuke, its your job to go save Keiko...and anyone else that demon and its master may have harmed."
Yusuke remained stubborn. "I told you. It's not my job to go chasing after Keiko every time she acts stupid! Go ask her damn boyfriend to help her!"
"Yusuke!" Koenma said firmly, slamming his fists on the top of the table. "The only one acting stupid here is you! I don't care what kind of fight you're in with Keiko right now! Your relationship with her never had anything to do with you duty as spirit detective! Now I'm telling you as your boss that its your job to go take care of this demon!" Everyone was shocked. Koenma could be harsh, but he had never been like this to Yusuke. Botan quickly recovered and she quickly dragged the two boys out of the young prince's office.
"Yusuke," Botan finally spoke up, her voice barely above a whisper. Yusuke didn't respond, but kept trudging through the forest where Keiko's soul was supposed to be. Botan continued, "What you said back there...about Keiko having a new boyfriend...well, before we left for spirit world, I saw...Keiko...with this guy..."
"Daichi Aromu," Yusuke said sourly.
"What!" Kuwabara exclaimed. "Keiko dumped you for that stalker?"
"What do you mean 'stalker'?" Yusuke asked, his interest perking up.
"You don't know? Everybody at school does...well you're always skipping so..."
"Get to the point dumbass."
"Well ever since Keiko turned him down a while back, he's been trying to get her back...I dunno. Some guys says he hangs around her house and follows her around and stuff."
"Sicko," Yusuke spat in disgust.
"Kuwabara...this Daichi guy," Botan started thoughtfully, "how far do you think he'd go to get Keiko?"
"Far enough to sell her soul," a voice called out. The three jumped and turned around to find Nazuna standing behind them, a smug look on her face.
"Nazuna. What an unpleasant surprise," Yusuke said dryly. "Shouldn't you be in school?"
"I could ask the same of you," Nazuna chuckled, slowly gliding toward him.
"Why would you ask a demon if she's in school?" Botan asked Yusuke.
"Demon? What! Nazuna's a..."
"You mean to tell me you didn't pick up on her demon aura!" Botan accused, her voice rising.
"Well she doesn't look like a demon!" Yusuke yelled back.
"Since when do looks matter!"
Yusuke angrily opened his mouth to respond, but was cut off by laughed. Botan and Yusuke turned and looked at Nazuna...and were shocked to see and unconscious Kuwabara lying near her.
"You call yourself a spirit detective!" Nazuna said once she'd stopped her laughing. "Don't make me laugh! You can't even pick up on my demon aura when I was close to you all those times. Very close..." She trailed off and winked suggestively at Yusuke.
"Now I can see why Keiko would dump you..." Botan muttered under her breath. Yusuke shot her a death glare before turning his attention back to Nazuna.
"What did you do to Kuwabara?"
"Oh, this little human? He didn't stand a chance. It was over in a matter of seconds."
Yusuke stared in disbelief. "You mean to tell me that you beat the shit out of Kuwabara while Botan and me argued!"
"If that's the way you choose to look at it..." Nazuna carelessly flipped her long black hair over her shoulder. Yusuke ground his teeth and fantasized about ripping her hair out, strand by strand.
"All you humans are pathetic." Yusuke snapped back to reality at Nazuna's voice. "You especially. You fell for the trap better than I thought."
"Trap?"
"Yes...the one made by my master and the human boy, Daichi." Yusuke stiffened at that name.
"So that's what you meant before..."
"Yes. Daichi made a deal with my master. He agreed to give her what she wanted and vise versa. Daichi wanted Keiko. That's where I came in. I was made to break the two of you apart...and it worked. Very easily I might add."
Yusuke's fists closed into tight balls at his sides. Shaking with fury, Yusuke threw himself at Nazuna. She gave him an amused look as she dodged the punches that rained down on her. The punches she avoided. The kick...she didn't see it coming until it hit her. Nazuna flew backward, landing with a sickening crack against the trunk of a nearby tree. Yusuke, breathing heavily, turned back to Botan and flashed her a smile and a thumbs up. Botan started to return the smile, but the color suddenly drained from her face and she pointed a shaky finger behind Yusuke. Confused, Yusuke turned around, only to be thrown back by a powerful punch. Lucky for him, Botan was there to break his fall.
Yusuke stood shakily to his feet and tenderly touched his cheek. To his shock he found a long, deep cut running down the length of his cheek. Whirling around, he was stunned to find Nazuna exactly where she had landed...but her arm was stretched out at least five feet from her body. Nazuna snickered as her arm quickly snapped back to its normal length.
"That's my power Yusuke," she said, slowly making her way toward him. "And there's no way to beat it." Abruptly, her arm stretched out at Yusuke, but this time he was ready. He avoided her right arm by jumping to the left– right into the path of her left fist. Again, Yusuke was sent flying backward. The large tree trunk broke his fall, and he could feel the hard bark cutting deeply into his skin. Easing his eyes open, an excruciating pain welled up from his stomach and Yusuke saw deep red blood dripping through his white t-shirt. Yusuke stood painfully to his feet, every movement sending small zaps of pain zipping through his body.
Damn her he thought weakly, leaning against the back of the tree for support. His vision double before him as he saw Nazuna stalking toward him to finish him off. His heart sank when he realized he was done for. Damn it...!
