-Chapter 8-

Everyone ready for the next chapter? If not Oh well, if you are then hold on cause this chapter will blow you away. I can't even begin to describe everything that happens in this chapter there's so much.

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Kurama: Everyone, we must move as fast as possible. There is much we have to do. We will be going in blind right off the bat, I don't know what we may encounter when we first arrive, but whatever happens we musn't get seperated.

Yusuke: Ok, already let's go.

Kuwabara: Well if we just stand here flappin' our jaws we ain't gonna be much use.(Looks at where everyone was. Notices that everyone is already walking without him.) Ahh, hey guys wait up.

Shizuru: Ya know little bro', if you can't keep up you could always just stay here.

Kuwabara: No way. Yukina's been kidnapped and there ain't no way that I'm gonna sit here and just wait for you to come back, if you think that you got it all wrong.

Shizuru(Pretending to sleep): Oh, what? Were you talking little bro'?

Kuwabara: Haha, very funny.

Shizuru: Hey, should I tell you a secret lil' bro'? You sound way smarter when you're not talking!! Who'ld a thunk it??? Someone who is smarter when they're quiter. WOW!!

Kuwabara: You just keep talkin and I'll shove those comebacks down your throat.

Koenma: Uhhh. Do you two EVER stop fighting???

Kuwabara: Oh, I never thought it bothered anyone.

Yusuke: Congrats, you've learned something today Kuwabara. How many braincells did you have to burn to figure that one out???

Kuwabara: Just keep talkin' wise crack.

Yusuke: I'm not a crack, I'm a crevace.

Kuwabara: Fine wise crevace.

Yusuke: No, I'm a crack.

Kuwabara(Histarically): You just said you were a crevace!!

Yusuke: No you did, I said I was a crack.

Kuwabara: Fine, wise crack.

Yusuke: NO, get it straight Kuwabara, I'm a crevace!! We just went over this!!

Kuwabara(Out of control): YOU JUST SAID YOU WERE A CRACK!!!

Yusuke(Pretending to be annoyed): NO, YOU SAID I WAS A CRACK, I SAID CREVACE!!!

Kuwabara(Really annoyed): WOULD YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND??? ARE YOU A CRACK OR A CREVACE?!?! AND WE GOT WITTNESSES!!! WHICH ARE YOU?!?!

Yusuke(Innocently): Which what?

Kuwabara: Don't joke. Come on which.

Yusuke: Who?

Kuwabara: You.

Yusuke: Me?

Kuwabara: Yes.

Yusuke: I'm a yes.

Kuwabara: No.

Yusuke: I'm a no?

Kuwabara: No.

Yusuke: That's what I said. I'm a no.

Kuwabara: No!! Your not a yes or a no.

Yusuke: I'm not?

Kuwabara: Right.

Yusuke: I'm a right?

Kuwabara: NO your a crack.

Kurama: I hate to break up this wonderfully intellectual conversation, but we've arrived.

Kuwabara: Wow, that opening is a lot smaller than I remember.

Yusuke: You mean you remember something? No way.

Kurama: Yusuke, if you're going to remain in denial, then prehaps you shouldn't join us. We can't have you half concious to what is going on.

Yusuke: Me, in denial? No way, denial about what?

Kurama: You're in serious denial about Keiko. It's obvious what you are attempting to do. However, you cannot hide from the truth by using a humoristic scape-goat.

Yusuke: I am not in serious denial about anything!! I was just trying to... to... to...

Shizuru(Calling from inside the cave): Are you guys coming or do I have to save everyone myself?

Yusuke: I guess we better get going.

Kurama: Don't let it eat away at you Yusuke, it wasn't your fault. All we can do is try to prevent them from harming the girls any...

Yusuke: Harm them. They already harmed them, we just have to stop them from killing them.

Kurama: Let's continue.

Kuwabara: How are we 'spose to know which way to go.

Koenma: Why don't we ask Yusuke, he was the one who had the vision.

Yusuke: Um... We have to go to a dead end and then find the key.

Koenma: Yusuke, there are tons of dead ends, how are supposed to know which one it is.

Yusuke: Ok, touchy feely boy, figure out which way to go.

Kuwabara: Urameshi, I swear that if Yukina wasn't in trouble I wouldn't help you at all.

Yusuke suddenly jumps ontop of Kuwabara and pounds his already bruised face.

Yusuke: So, you're saying that you would let Keiko, Botan, & Genkai die. I should kill you for being such a jerk.

Kurama: Do not forget about Hiei either. As much as you two dispise each other, he would rescue you, even if he won't admit it, and then there's Aiyka.

Yusuke stops beating on Kuwabara who now looks like a bruised plum.

Yusuke: Get to work Kuwabara. We don't have time to waste.

Kuwabara: Ok already.

Kuwabara leads them down a tunnel that has strange markings on it. As everyone admires them they realize that it tells a story about humans. As they walk along reading it, they see it stops abrubtly in the middle of the wall. It's last words were,"And so unto those, two humans, a leader, a future leader, and a demon travel to protect their friends and all of the worlds from death. But will their alliance hold, they may need the help of the one who carries a cresent jewel, there may be a traitor among these five crusaders, and yet they will aid the other four greater than imagineable. Help can be found on the outside, but be careful of who you trust. Will the story end here, or will these five find a way to make the story go on."

Shizuru: That gives me the chills, do you think it has any connection to us?

Kurama: I think the story is our own, and Keiko is the one with the cresent jewel. Perhaps instead of a jewel shard, they are all jewels of their own. We must be the ones who will decide if the worlds remain at peace or are plunged into darkness.

Koenma: Well that's comforting.

Kuwabara: Let's keep going.

About five minutes later they arrive in a large cavern.

Kurama: I propose that we rest here for the night.

Koenma: I agree, it is 10 now. We'll need all of our strength.

Yusuke: You mean stop.

Kurama: This is no time to act rash. If we continue we may arrive sooner, but we will have little strength left. An hour and a half rest should do us well.

Yusuke: Fine, but then we keep going until we find the entrance.

Everyone drifts off into an uneasy sleep. Kurama falls asleep last & most uneasy of all. He dreams of Aiyka and Hiei moving further and further away from him and no matter what he did he couldn't seem to catch them. Suddenly he reaches them and as he turns them around he sees that they are not themselves. He doesn't understand what has and then he lets out a scream for an unapparent reason. Then he is sitting in his old hide-out when he was a child. As he looks to his side, he sees Aiyka.

Kurama: Aiyka? Is that really you?

Aiyka: Yes, I'm really here.

Kurama: Where is everyone else?

Aiyka: There is no one else. It is just you and I.

Kurama: But that cannot be. We were just on our way to rescue you and the others.

Aiyka: You did rescue me. You brought me back.

Kurama: So it will be just like before.

Aiyka: Yes, just like before.

Kurama: It's almost sunset. Shall we watch it?

Aiyka: Yes.

As they watch the sun go down, Aiyka gets up.

Kurama: What's wrong?

Aiyka: I have to go now.

Kurama: Why? I thought you said it was over.

Aiyka: No, I said you rescued me. Feel no regret should we never see each other again.

Kurama: I won't let you leave again.

Aiyka: I have to leave, you must save the others. Do not worry about things you cannot change, you have to except that things must change.

Kurama: But you were more dear to me in the Human World than anything else.

Aiyka: Maybe so, but you will find someone else who will be just as dear to you. Maybe you already have them, but don't know it yet. I brought you here so you would remember, please don't ever forget.

Kurama: I never will.

Everything becomes engulfed in a white cloud except for Kurama and Aiyka's images. They stand, staring at each other, then, with a smile Aiyka begins to become engulfed in the white clouds as well.

Aiyka(In a sort of chant voice.): Kurama, Kurama, Kurama....

Her image is gone but Kurama still hears his name being said. He opens his eyes and sees Yusuke standing over him saying his name.

Yusuke: Hey, Kurama, are you alright man?

Kurama looks around in an almost confused way.

Kurama: It was just a dream.?.

Yusuke: This cavern is the dead end, while I slept I saw it again. We need to start looking for the key.

Kurama: She was there.

Yusuke: Who?

Kurama: Never mind.

Yusuke: Kurama, if something's wrong you should tell us.

Kurama: Why? You don't.

Yusuke: That's just how I am. You wanna know what's wrong. I lost Keiko, there, I said it.

Kurama: Well, that's a start.

Yusuke: Your turn.

Kurama: I saw Aiyka in my dreams.

Yusuke: Is that all?

Kurama: Perhaps another time. We must find the key.

Yusuke: Right.

Two hours later they have found nothing and there spirits are down.

Kuwabara: Maybe we're in the wrong place.

Yusuke: No!! This is the right place I saw again when I was asleep.

Kuwabara: Well I'm ready to give up.

In his anger, he kicks Hiei's cape at the wall. There is a sudden burst of light and a great influx of pressure.

Shiauru: I think you found the key little bro'.

Kuwabara: Yeah, that's right I'm cool.

Shizuru: Yeah right. whatever.

Yusuke: Let's go.

Koenma: Not yet, here, everyone tie this around one of your hands.

He holds up a silver bond.

Koenma: We have to stick together, everyone hold on.

Koenma leads the way into the portal.

Yusuke: Here we go.

Suddenly they are sucked into a blinding blue inferno. Yet it doesn't burn or even sting. They hit the ground so hard that the bonds brake.

Yusuke: Wow, I guess that's what a blender must feel like.

Kurama stands up and sees that they are being surrounded.

Kurama: Everyone get in a circle. We're surrounded.

Obeidently, they form a circle as the strange creatures surround them.

Yusuke: How are we gonna kill so many?

Just then what appeared to be the leader, stepped forward and said something in a very strange language. After there was no reply from any of them, he drew his sword. At a great speed he charged toward Yusuke. He lifted his sword high in the air and then he died. In a few moments, all of the creatures had been sliced into obilvion.

Yusuke(Thinking to himself): Who did that? It couldn't have been Kuwabara, he's to slow. I would have sensed Kurama. Koenma? Unlikely. Shizuru isn't armed.

Just then a figure drops from the air grabbing Shizuru and putting a blade on her neck.

Figure: Who are you all?

Yusuke: Outsiders.

Figure: Outsiders cannot get in without a guide.

Kurama: Never the less, we are from the Human World.

Figure: Don't lie.

Koenma: We're not.

Figure: How do I know your not spies from the Dark Castle?

Kurama: How do we know that you're not.

Figure: Do not rank me so low as to that.

Kuwabara: Sorry.

Figure: Shut-up you.

Yusuke: We're here to help our friends.

Figure: There are no friends in this place.

Shizuru: Why don't you let me go and we can talk.

Figure: No. You'll stay here until I find out who you are.

Yusuke: All you need know is that we are here to find our friends who were brought here as prisoners. One of them is a jewel carrier.

The figure drops Shizuru and stares at them with a piercing glare that even though unseeable by them, was forboding. She finally removes her hood. She is young and fair.

Kurama: Forgive me for being so rude, may I ask your name?

Figure: Yes, my name is Yutsuki.

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Thanks to xkitsunex for reminding me to upload sooner rather than later.

So what did you think. A lot of freaky stuff going on huh? Told you it would start to be more about Kurama and his past. Well now that they have arrived they met someone new who seems to know something about Keiko and the others. Who is this stranger? How about that story on the wall? Eery isn't it? A whole story right up there on the wall.

Obviously this is before they discover that Yusuke is part demon so try to not get lost. I thought that for this chapter I would add a little humor in.

Let me know what you think of this chapter. I would also like to thank the Expert Fan Fic Reviewer for their wonderful comments about my fanfic and I'm glad that you find it enjoyable. Hope I get more great reviews. Until my next chapter.