CHAPTER TWO TRANSPORTATION FROM HELL

"I can't believe that pacifier sucking brat made us get up this damn early!" Yusuke yelled as he left his apartment and slung his back pack over his right shoulder. When he got outside he looked around. 'Guess it decided to rain a day late. Stupid weather. Man I really don't feel like walking to idiot's house.' It was cloudy out. Right then a silver Ferri pulled up next to him. The window rolled down and there sat Botan. She had on blue jeans and a camo tank top with spaghetti straps.

"Hey Yusuke, hop in. hey you wouldn't happen to know where Kurama lives do you?"

"Uh yeah. I didn't think you knew how to drive."

"Well not really, the portal just opened down the street and it took me ten minutes to get here."

Yusuke got an evil glint in his eyes, "Scoot over, I'm driving."

"Ok."

Yusuke got in and floored the gas. "What the hell are you doing!" Yusuke started laughing. "What the hell's so funny?"

"I've never heard you cuss before."

"Just shut up and drive."

"Gladly."

Not even five minutes later they had both Kurama and Kuwabara in the car with them. "Yusuke why are you driving? You're only old enough to have a permit," Kurama said.

"Who cares," he floored the gas and turned up the radio. The windows down and the radio blaring, they were going well over the speed limit. "You know we just might make to the airport in time."

"Yusuke the plane leaves at five, it's only three ten."

"Yeah, and do you know how long it's gonna take us to get through security?"

"Yusuke just what the heck did you bring?" Botan asked with a, I don't think I wanna know look.

"Just a couple of daggers."

"When the heck did you get daggers you punk!"

"Shut up Kuwabara. I've had them for a while. I just figured they might come in handy."

"Uh has any one ever taken a plane before?" Botan asked.

"Yep."

"Yes."

"Nope."

"Hah ha, Urameshi never….OW! You bastard what the hell was that for!"

"Oops, the CD holder slipped." Yusuke had let go of the CD holder and it had hit Kuwabara in the forehead. Kuwabara new damn well he did that on purpose. "So I take it we're sitting on a plane with regular people?"

"Actually no, there's only three other people on it. Two fliers and some one else, another passenger," Botan said as she dug through her light blue back pack and pulled out a book.

"What's that?" Kurama asked.

"It's on the local legends."

"What the hell do you need to know about that for?" Yusuke asked. Botan just shrugged her shoulders and kept reading. They managed to get on the plane on time. Three compartments, cockpit, first class, and coach. And that's when it started to rain.

"I don't see another passenger," Kuwabara said. He looked around, "Maybe they canceled."

"How long is this flight?" Kurama asked, not really wanting to put up with Yusuke's and Kuwabara's bickering. Botan held up five fingers. "Great," Kurama muttered sarcastically.

After two hours on the flight a girl walked in and sat a few rows in front of them on the opposite side. She was about Kurama's age, maybe a year or two older. She had long black hair pulled back in a pony tail. Her bangs hung in sections in front of her eyes, which they couldn't tell what color they were. She had on black boots and dark blue jeans, her shirt was kimono style with the sleeves becoming baggy at the ends it was red and looked like there was a white one underneath it, black threading was weaved in and out of the sleeve in ends (A/N: it looks like Inuyasha's shirt). Yusuke noticed a white bandanna on her head. "Oh man she's hot," Kuwabara said as he stared at her, "Nice figure."

"You pervert; I thought you liked Yukina?" Botan said.

"Botan you gotta ruin everything don't you. Besides can't I say when a girl's hot even if I do like some one else?"

"Well yeah but not in a perverted way like that."

"Will you two just shut up."

"Yusuke's right. We have no idea what we're up against; we might have a better chance if we had some sort of plan," Kurama said.

"Ok, what do you suggest?" Yusuke asked as he put his hands behind his head and leaned back in the seat.

"When we get to the docks where the boat is before we board the ship we need to find out anything we can about these disappearances."

"If that's the best you got so far, I'm starting to get worried."

Unknown to them the girl was listening in on them. She got up and walked over to them, "Excuse me." They looked at her, she sounded like a vampire, but still nice. "I couldn't help but over hear." 'Bull shit, we were talking to low for you to hear us. She had to've been listening on purpose either that or….' Yusuke thought. "You wouldn't happen to be going on the Blood Orchid would you?"

"Actually yes," Botan said.

"Me too, the name's Keeda."

"Keeda; I've heard that name before."

She smirked and said, "So who are you?" They introduced themselves. "Well it's nice to meet you, but I must ask, why go to the Amazon like a time like this?"

"Filming for a show," Kuwabara said.

"Then you don't know about the disappearances?"

"Yeah we know", Yusuke said.

"Do you know about them?" Kurama asked. She nodded. "Care to tell what you know?" The girl smirked again and sat down across from them. 'There not as dumb as they look. Might as well tell what I know, after all we're going after the same thing.' Keeda thought.

"I don't know much. Just that once people go past a certain spot in the jungle they never come back; unless their dead body floats down the river some time later. The locals say it's some type of ancient god that's angry at humans for one reason or another. That would explain the bodies that looked like they took a bath in acid. But I think it's more like some jungle tribe that got pissed of by the locals intruding on their land."

"But that doesn't explain the acid," Botan said.

"If they took a boat that had barrels of it on board it would," Kurama said, now he was getting worried. Jungle tribes were rumored to be even more stealthy and merciless than some demons.

"But then why send the bodies back?" Botan asked.

"I've been thinking the same thing. I mean why would a bunch of vine swinging cave men care about threats?" Keeda stated. She had a point. Yusuke noticed her eyes a bright, dark, flaming purple. Then Yusuke noticed a book she had in her right hand. It was a blood red color and was tattered and old.

She saw him looked at it and gave another smirk; Yusuke could've swore she showed a fang. "What's in the book?"

"Oh nothing really, just some local paper clippings and stuff like that."

"So what are you going there for?" 'Nosy bastard aren't you? Better think of something quick.' "Investigating the disappearances."

"Personal interest or professional?" Kurama asked.

"Both."

"So you're a cop?" Kuwabara asked stupidly.

"Yeah."

"Why is Japan sending one of theirs out there?" Yusuke asked. 'Did he get smart or something over the last month?' Kurama thought.

"Well, this part of South America doesn't have the best of police forces."

"So why isn't another part of South America taking care of it?"

"They're busy."

"You know Kurama I'm starting to wonder if things are really that drastic."

"Urameshi shut up you can't talk like that to a cop."

Some hours later the pilot came over the intercom, "Attention, we are now ten minutes from the village. Please fasten seat belts and prepare to die."

"Uh did he just say what I think he did?" Kuwabara asked. At that moment two demons came out of the cockpit. Their lower body faded into that of snakes while their upper torso was human. One was light blue and the other was dark green. "What hell!"

"Thissss plane will sssself destruct in five minutsss," the blue one hissed.

"Oh great they hiss," Yusuke said as he flung his back pack over his shoulder. Right then they heard a gun go off twice. The two snake demons fell dead with a hole through both their heads. "What the…" Kuwabara said. Keeda got up and put a silver semi-automatic hand gun in the back of her pants. She walked over to the cockpit and opened the door. When she came back out she had parachutes in her hands she threw one to each of them. She grabbed a black pack from underneath a seat and slipped her book into it.

"Idiots first."

"I think she's talking about you Kuwabara," Yusuke said. They jumped out of the plane. They landed in the jungle. "Hey where's Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked as he untangled himself from the parachute.

"Up here. Some body get me down!" They looked up; twenty feet up Kuwabara was hanging by his parachute from a tree. Keeda looked at him; she could see the two main straps. She took out her gun and shot them. They broke and Kuwabara landed on his ass.

"Yusuke why can't you aim like that?" Botan said teasingly.

"More like how the hell'd she do that?"

"Come on you idiots, if we hurry we could get to the boat within thirty minutes."

"Just how fast can you run!" Kuwabara yelled. She ignored him and started off. If they got lost that was their problem not hers.