My excuse for not updating I was sick. I'd like to thank those that reviewed. And if you are wondering why I never say the names of those that do…Well I guess it's out of respect or something. So unless they say I can put they're name up I probably won't. Ok, I gotta couple ideas for some more fics; but I'm not gonna start them until I finish these other two I'm writing; but they won't go up. I got the new DVD of Yu Yu. It sucks the series is close to ending. The DVD was pretty good though. Ok I'll shut up now. Here's the next chapter. Enjoy.

CHAPTER SEVEN CONFRONTATIONS

The gang had been walking for hours. Not to mention it had been in utter silence and it was driving Yusuke insane. He decided to break the silence, "So Keeda, just exactly how are you and shrimpy related?"

"Cousins."

"Oh; I take it him and Kurnue don't get along."

"It actually has a brain."

"What are you pms'ing or something," Yusuke muttered. Keeda whacked him upside the head with her back pack. "OUCH! That hurt ya know!" Yusuke said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Do I look like I care?"

"No."

"Ok then."

"Yeah you can tell she's related to him; short temper and bad attitude," Kuwabara said.

"You just better be glad you're carrying him."

"Oh please like you could do anything."

She stopped and turned around to face him, "Wanna bet? Oh wait I forgot you don't fight girls."

"How the hell'd you know that?"

"Keeda," Kurama said warningly. Keeda looked at him and then started walking again. "You still don't trust any one do you?" She ignored him. "Keeda." She kept walking. "Keeda!"

"What!" she said as she stopped.

"There's a spider on your back." She looked over her back and saw a big black spider. That's when the others saw it as well. She rolled her eyes and started walking again. The spider burst into flames. 'Damn; hot and isn't afraid of bugs. I wonder if she's a good fighter.' Yusuke thought. Keeda turned her gaze on him and some how Yusuke knew he was in trouble.

"Two things; one don't ever think like that again; two be glad Keiko and Hiei don't know what you just thought."

"How the hell did you know…Wait a second…a bandanna? Now I get it." He started walking ahead of them.

"I'm confused," Kuwabara said.

"When are you not?" Kurama muttered.

They walked for a few more minutes then Kuwabara nearly jumped out of his skin. "Don't do that!" Hiei hissed in his ear.

"Well don't start talking out of no where!"

"You might want to put me down."

"Why?"

"Well unless you want blood on your back."

Kuwabara cringed, "Ok you don't have to tell me twice."

Kuwabara sat him down. Hiei stumbled over to a tree and leaned behind it. Then they heard it; he puked. Kurama could smell blood. "Oh man, I feel sorry for him," Kurnue said. Keeda whacked him in the head. He was being a smart ass and they all knew it. About five minutes and ten of what sounded like a water fall later Hiei came back into view.

"We'll stop here for an hour or two," Yusuke said. About that time Hiei lost his footing on the roots he'd been standing on and fell. He moved so that he was sitting against the trunk of the tree and said, "Any idea how many snakes there are?"

"No, But as far as I'm concern it doesn't matter as long as we take out the main one," Yusuke said.

"And this is coming from the Spirit Detective. Koenma's right hand man," Kurnue said.

"Kurnue just shut up. We all know you don't wanna be here. Well you know what neither do we!" Keeda said.

"Will you two shut up! Keeda can you fly up and see if there's any snakes near by?" Yusuke asked. She nodded and left. Gone within the blink of an eye.

They heard a hissing noise right when Keeda came back down, "There's about twenty headed this way."

"We're so screwed," Kuwabara whined.

"No we're not. We just gotta think of a way to kill them," Yusuke said as he started pacing back and forth.

"Wait a minute; Naga doesn't know we're here yet. At least I wouldn't think he does. So they've been tailing us for food," Keeda said. She grinned evilly and looked at Hiei and said, "Feel like being bait?"

"That's usually stupid's job."

"Shut up half pint!"

"Hiei, just stay there. We'll hide up in the trees and attack without them seeing us."

"And just how do you plan on killing that many?" Hiei asked.

"Hiei that's a dumb question."

"You're not…"

"I am."

"Well you better have more control over it."

"Better than you do." With that she jumped into a tree out of sight. The others followed. Yusuke hid in the one that Hiei was sitting under. Kurama was hiding in the one on his right; Kurnue behind, Kuwabara on the left and Keeda directly in front of him. Five snakes came out of the forest. Hiei placed his hand on the hilt of his sword. They got directly in front of him when Yusuke fired a Shot Gun. He killed all but one. Keeda fired her guns at it. It shrieked and then fell dead with plenty of holes in its head. "Shit; just one and I already need to reload. These things ain't gonna be easy to kill," Keeda muttered as she put another clip in each gun.

Ten more came out and only second later another five. 'Alright Keeda anytime they're right in front of me.' Hiei thought. He pushed the blade up out of the sheath about an inch. He may be related to her but that didn't mean he trusted her with his life. He made a quick glance up at the tree she was in. She was pulling up her right sleeve. Then came the black and purple flames. Yusuke saw it too, 'Ah hell no!' Kuwabara saw a flicker of flames and looked, 'AAAAHHH! Not another dragon!'

Keeda unleashed the attack. The Dragon of the Darkness Flame. It swept through and hit every single one of the snakes. Keeda landed on the ground as she pulled her sleeve back down. The other's jumped out of the trees as the flames disappeared. "Kurama, can you and the others go around and chop off the heads of any that weren't incinerated; I want to make sure that all those bastards are dead." Kurama nodded and a Rose Whip formed in his hand. Him, Kurnue, and Kuwabara walked around making sure they were all dead.

Yusuke's Communication Mirror went off. He pick it up, "What the hell do you want now you pacifier sucking brat?" Koenma looked highly annoyed at the remark; but he remained quiet and stuck to what he had to tell him.

"Yusuke I'm afraid I have some terrible news. We have learnt of the demon's identity…"

Yusuke interrupted him, "Well then I guess you're on the same page as us."

"Naga has taken Keiko, Shizuro, and Yukina."

"What! You're kidding me! How the hell did that happened? They were at Genkai's."

Koenma nodded his head, "Indeed; the snakes he controls attacked the temple. Genkai is unharmed but we fear that girls may already be dead." Yusuke's eyes filled with shock and disbelief; they couldn't be.

Right then something hit the mirror causing it to break in half. "What the hell?" Keeda said as she looked around. Right then a snake slithered out in front of them. "Holy shit." There in front of them was a hundred foot long jet black snake with glowing red eyes. His tail whip like, and it had seven heads. In the center one big one and then all around it six smaller ones. It had black spikes jutting from its spine about two feet long each. The bigger one started to speak.

"I take it you must be the Spirit Detectives. I believe I have something of interest to you." He looked around and noticed Hiei, "So you're still alive. I'm surprised; my venom is the strongest out of all the snakes in my clan."

"Well then the others must be really weak because your venom is nothing."

"How dare you insult me." Naga charged at Hiei

"Damn he's fast!" Yusuke yelled. Hiei tried to get up to dodge the attack but his legs gave out. The next thing he knew he was being tackled to the ground as Naga's fangs dug into the tree he had been leaning against. As he hit the ground he looked to see who had tackled him; it was Botan.

The others ran over to them. Kurnue pulled Botan to her feet as Keeda pulled Hiei to his. She then picked him up on her back. They all darted off. Yusuke was surprised at how fast Keeda was going considering she was carrying Hiei and her boots had a heel to them. They kept running some slower than normal to make sure they were all still together. Ten minutes later they came to a cliff with a river running off it into a lake below. "Oh shit!" Keeda said as she skidded to a halt.

"Great now what the hell can we do only two of us can fly. Botan ain't your ore fixed yet?" Yusuke said.

"No," she looked around frantically, "Hey how long can you guys hold your breath?" they all looked at her like she was nuts. "I'm serious; snakes hunt by heat. I think since this water is so cold if we hide underneath it he'll go right over us."

"And if you're wrong we're all dead," Hiei said.

Botan glared at him, "Well considering I just saved your ass back that I think you owe me one."

"Hn. Fine; but if we die I swear I'll kill you." They all jumped in hoping Botan was right.

Hiei breathed in some of the water as it hit his wounds, 'Shit. Now I know why I hate swimming.' They watched as the snake went over them. It decided to stop and test the air right over them. Twenty seconds later it was still there. Hiei really needed air. It left finally and almost half a minute later they decided to go up. Hiei was still clinging to Keeda's back as they broke the surface. She laid him on his back as they reached the shore.

"Now what the hell are we going to?" Kuwabara asked.

"We follow that giant fishing worm and kick its ass," Yusuke said. He watched as Hiei rolled over and started throwing up blood again. As much as he puked earlier he was surprised that he had any left. "Kurama, take Hiei and find a safe place to wait for us. This won't take long."

"Yusuke…you can forget I'm not staying…behind," Hiei said; he was on all fours trying to catch his breath.

"Hiei look I know why you wanna come but it's no good if you die on the way there."

Hiei stood up; there was an anger in his eyes that Yusuke had never seen before. He looked at Keeda it was in her eyes as well.

"Yusuke there's only three people left in our blood line. A team is like a second family and you don't turn your back on family," Keeda said, "I got four dragons left and I'm not about to let them go to waste." Yusuke nodded. He understood. He just hoped that they wouldn't start fighting amongst each other in the middle of a battle.

"Alright everyone it's time to kick some demon ass."

"We'll show those demons why they shouldn't mess with us," Kuwabara said.

Yusuke turned to Keeda, "Does that book you picked up say where the snakes are located?"

Keeda reached over her shoulder and opened her back pack, she pulled the book out, "Good thing my back pack's water proof." She flipped through it. "Damn it! There's nothing in here other than some sort of cave." Kurama sniffed the air, "This way."

"How can you tell?" Yusuke asked.

"Because it smells like snake skin hand bags."

So how was that? Good bad? Ok um yeah I made this a little longer than the other chapters I think. Don't forget to review so sayanora.