Tori the Hanyou: HELLO! And WELCOME to the sequel of Fighting Back! This is gonna SO rock, I can tell! Okies, now, this is gonna take place about 6 years in the future, just in case you don't pay attention to the chapter title. I'd also like to bring attention to my other three-way crossover of the same three anime, called Time's Destruction. It's got the same pairings, so you need not worry.

Now, let us commence the first chapter of Fighting Back 2: Makai Mayhem

DISCLAIMER: I'm only gonna do this once, 'cause it gets SO annoying: I do NOT own Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, or Yu Gi Oh!

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Fighting Back 2: Makai Mayhem

Chapter 1: Six Years Later

Silence lay like a blanket over the Makai forest. Peace and serenity were everywhere, and as some people might crack: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

Calm like this actually meant something was stirring up, but like everything else in this Demon Realm, it couldn't be foretold.

It was so silent; in fact, that you'd never noticed the white figure blitzing through the trees until it was upon you...

Down among the thicket, all life seemed to have vanished. This was actually true, for the only life forms in this particular area were spoken about with fear.

Many demons in the Makai whispered fearfully of the powerful being occupying that one place. No one could find his lair, though, they claimed it was invisible, and they were killed before they'd spent five minutes in that area marked by his demonic aura. It couldn't be sure, but they'd come to the conclusion he had a mate, since while he was killing one demon, another had been cut down at the same time. Male demons never shared the same territory unless they were brothers, and even then there were difficulties.

One demon claimed to have heard the telepathic message of his dying cousin, and seen images of a young woman's face, eyes glittering gold.

One thing was for sure; no one went in there anymore.

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The mighty being raced through the underbrush, scouting around the large area surrounded by the immensely powerful aura. It tossed its head pleasurably, apparently enjoying itself as it ran along, scouting the area while having fun. Everything seemed fine. It turned and headed back towards the heart of the territory, when something shot through its mind: pictures...of cloaked figures...in front of its lair!

As if struck by a mad rage, the golden eyes burned, and mighty fangs were revealed as the creature roared its challenge before making a beeline for where the intruders were.

A black figure stood, panting, as the four figures cornered him against the wide berth of a tree trunk. His sword trembled in his right hand as he struggled to break it free from the energy ropes. His eyes flashed dangerously: these trespassers had picked a bad day to tick him off. He closed his eyes, feeling the rush of the dark energy inside him, the roar of the dragon...or was it the dragon?

They all looked up to the cliff overseeing the clearing, and the roar sounded again as a white ligress placed its front feet, then back, on the very edge of the rock. As if shot from a cannon, the legs propelled the creature its last few strides towards the enemies, furious at their actions towards the black.

Time seemed to have frozen as the ligress flew towards them, suspended in mid air, claws drawn, fangs gleaming, eyes flashing, and ears back.

It all came rushing back the second it made its landing lightly on the forest floor, once more using its spring-loaded hindquarters to shoot towards the four figures.

Chaos ensued.

The black tore his arm from the ropes binding him, and went to help the white.

The cloaked figures went all around them, using all sorts of attacks to fight the pair off. They clashed menacingly, and it wasn't until the white finally grabbed one of the cloaks in its mouth, dragging it to ground and pressing one foot menacingly on its chest that one of the other figures held up its hands....and laughed.

The white and black froze, staring at the apparently gone-insane intruder. The black gripped its sword, clenching its teeth. He hated being laughed at. He flew forward with speed even greater than the white's, sword ready, but before he could unleash a flurry of life-ending attacks, something occurred that made both figures nearly drop dead from shock.

Just as the black's blade came within three feet of the laughing figure, it shot out a flurry of...

PLANTLIKE BINDINGS?????

The black's eyes widened as he looked curiously from the ropes that now held his surprised figure, to the hood of the chuckling cloak.

"Fine, fine, you win!" it said joyously.

"HUH???" said the black. He snarled, "What in the hell are you trespassers doing here?? ANSWER ME!"

"Still got a bad temper, eh, Hiei?" came the voice of one of the other cloaks.

Both figures turned towards it, and the hood was ripped off. "It's nice to see you too! Jeez, you were on us like a bat outta Hell! I thought we were gonna get ripped to shreds until SHE stopped ya!" He pointed to the second-to-last figure, which took its hood off, too.

The ligress perked its ears up, and before anyone knew it, a young girl with long, dirty blonde hair and bright brown eyes emerged where it had been standing to tackle the most recently revealed figure.

"KAGOME!!!!!!!" her voice screamed.

"Yes, I see you remember," came the voice of the one who still held Hiei.

"Hn, ya mind lettin' me go, FOX???" he snarled. Indeed, the ropes vanished, and the figure revealed itself to be...

"KURAMA!" squealed the girl as she ran to give him a hug. Hiei growled slightly.

"Nice to see ya, Tori!" said the first figure, coming up and giving her a noogie.

Tori giggled happily before tackling him.

"And you, Yusuke!"

Hiei turned, smirking, towards the last figure that stood, watching.

"Come on out, moron, you and I have a reunion to get over with," said Hiei.

"HEY! How'd ya know it was me??" came the last voice as Kuwabara pulled his hood off, "I was gonna surprise ya!"

"Kind of hard to surprise Hiei these days, isn't it, Kuwabara?" asked Kurama, chuckling. Kuwabara pouted.

"Well, I can see you two don't look any worse for the wear!" said Yusuke, "And here I half expected both of you to have killed each other already!"

"What I want to know is how you knew where we were," said Hiei.

"There's word all over the Makai about you two. It wasn't hard to get information," said Kurama.

"Yeah, the demon we picked to ask was all trembling and stuff. What HAVE you been doing down here???" asked Yusuke, amazed.

"Training," both answered simply. Tori snickered.

"By the way, nice five-o'clock shadow, Yusuke. Sadly, there's no facial hair in MY house."

Indeed, the fourteen-year-old boy, now twenty, had the makings of a beard growing on his face. He backed away from Tori slowly.

"Oh, no, I thought when I got here I'd be able to grow it into a beard!" he said, "Please don't tell me you're gonna be Kayko on this trip!!"

Tori smirked.

"Oh, no, I just HATE beards and moustaches! Now come on, or you're sleeping outside!" She grabbed him by the ear, when Hiei stopped her.

"What do you mean, sleeping?" he asked. Tori blinked at him a few times.

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean'? They're staying over, aren't they?" Hiei gave an uncomfortable glare towards the others, but sighed.

"I guess so."

Tori smiled and kissed him on the cheek.

"Thanks, Hiei!" She continued dragging poor Yusuke around the back of the tree.

"Kuwabara, get Yusuke's things, would you?" asked Kurama. Kuwabara stared at him like he was crazy.

"NUH UH! I am NOT carrying Urameshi's stuff ALL the way to their house!"

"It's right there, idiot," said Hiei, pointing to the abnormally large tree.

"What? It is? How come I don't see it?"

"Very cleverly camouflaged, Hiei," complimented Kurama, "It sure took us a while to find."

"Yeah, now let's go!"

Kurama carried a few of Kagome's bags, while she took the rest, and Hiei showed them where Tori had taken Yusuke.

"In some sense, I'm sure Hiei's happy that demons don't grow facial hair," said Kurama, chuckling as he saw Hiei's shudder, obviously picturing what Tori was performing on poor Yusuke.

They reached the back of the tree, and Hiei put his hand on the trunk. It seemed to melt away, revealing a dark opening. Kuwabara came up behind them, carrying his and Yusuke's bags, and they stepped inside.

Upon completion of that, the doorway filled back in and became solid again, leaving them in darkness.

"Come on, this way," said Hiei, leading them up a flight of stairs that wound around the inside of the trunk.

They went into the house, and Kagome's eyes widened at seeing the inside of a Makai home for the first time. It was enormous! It wasn't entirely fancy, but it had a nice, soft carpet, and large windows facing towards the east. There were others, too, lighting the house with the dimming light of the evening sun.

Hiei waved his hand in a bored manner, and all of the lamps lit, burning cheerily.

"Whoa, how'd you do that?" asked Kuwabara as he dumped the stuff near the door.

"Apparently you've forgotten I'm a fire demon," snickered Hiei, "I should've expected that from you...oh wait, I did."

Kuwabara growled.

Suddenly, a figure leapt onto Hiei's back, startling him as it wrapped its legs around his waist, and its arms around his neck.

"Now, Hiei, be nice," came Tori's voice. Hiei smirked, and disappeared, reappearing near the sofa, dumping Tori onto it. She laughed happily as Kagome joined her soon, carried by Kurama.

The twenty and twenty-one-year-old girls started chatting excitedly about what had been happening over the past six years. Tori had indeed turned twenty last December; Kagome was now 21, much to Yusuke's envy. He came into the room, a look of shock written on his clean-shaven face. He and Kuwabara were also twenty. Kurama was 21, and Hiei 22.

"Hiei never wants to talk anymore! I thought I was gonna lose my voice from not talking for so long!" said Tori, giggling.

"It might've been better if you did," said Hiei.

"Or..." said Tori deviously, "I could've slipped off to the Makai marketplace to talk to some of the demons there..."

Before anyone knew it, Hiei had grabbed her fiercely, pressing her against the back of the couch, glaring at her.

"You do, you get it," he snarled furiously, standing up to go into the other room. Once he was gone, Tori burst out laughing, much to the shock of everyone else.

"I swear, though, he's SO much fun to piss off! He REALLY doesn't like me leaving the area without him. Anytime I do, he gets SO mad!" Tori beamed, "but that's one of the greatest things about him!"

"What did he mean, 'you'd get it'?" asked Kagome suspiciously.

"Oh, he's always making that threat. Truly, I dunno what it means, but I've learned to ignore it. He wouldn't really do anything to me."

Kurama raised an eyebrow. It was true, Hiei wouldn't cause Tori harm, but he COULD do other things...

He shook his head sadly. If she kept that up, she really would get a rude awakening.

"So, Tori, you still a virgin?" asked Yusuke, straight out of the blue.

Two pounds quickly followed up that question on the head from both girls. "What?? I'm just curious!! Kurama hasn't had the guts to do it to Kagome ye...OWWW!!" Kagome slammed him on the head...EXTRA hard, followed by a few more for emphasis. He'd have a nice bump the next day...

"How many times have I told you to stay out of other people's sex lives???" asked Kagome angrily. Yusuke glared.

"Sorry, KAYKO!"

Kagome smirked.

"Damn straight."

Tori's eyes widened. She really had never heard Kagome cuss before.... and quite frankly, it was scary. Well, some things really DID change.

"I'd really like to show y'all around the Makai, but since Hiei would supposedly 'tear my head off' if I didn't tell him I was going, we can't. Plus, it's getting dark," said Tori, pointing to the windows. The sun had fully set by now, and the last pink rays fluttered over the horizon.

So instead, Tori showed them to their guest rooms. They set their stuff down, and then Tori and Kagome went out into the living room to finish catching up on their news. Tori got them some drinks, and they talked in the kitchen.

Yusuke and Kuwabara wandered around, exploring, while Kurama went into the kitchen with the girls and sat down to read.

Many hours passed, and dusk turned to pure night. It was about ten o' clock when Tori looked up and saw Hiei standing in the kitchen doorway.

"Not yet, Hiei, I'm still talking to Kagome," she said.

"There's no 'not yet', Tori. You come now," snarled the demon. Kurama looked up curiously from his book. This would be good. Through all the time he'd known the pair, whenever Tori felt the urge to be rebellious, things got very interesting.

"I said I'm not through!" said Tori, glaring.

"You know what happened last time you didn't come when I said, don't you?" said Hiei.

"Are you threatening me?" asked Tori. Hiei smirked.

"I might be."

"Then forget it. I'm not coming. You can sleep by yourself tonight!" said Tori.

Hiei's smirk seemed to take on an evil glow.

Before anyone could blink, Tori found herself out of her chair, gripped tightly in Hiei's arms as he strode out of the kitchen and down the long, winding hallways to their room.

He dropped her on the bed, her shock temporarily paralyzing her. She recovered quickly enough, shaking her head and snarling at him. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU????" she yelled. Hiei rolled his eyes, ignoring the twangs of pain from his ears after her scream, and pounced on her, silencing her in his favorite way.

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