A/n: OK ppl I am so sorry! I know it's but like months but I was struggling with a MAJOR writer's block, but I think I have an idea now. Don't expect too much though. Oh and I know that the last chapter sucked. It was like super late when I wrote it and I was half-asleep…once again my apologies. Oh one more thing: some of u may be under the impression that the 'mini story' u see below is an actual story. Its not. It's just something I do to amuse myself -and hopefully you- and to distract you from the suckyness of the chapters I write. So let me make this perfectly clear…IT IS NOT A STORY. IT'S JUST SOMETHING I DO FOR THE REASONS NAMED EARLIER. There I said it. Oh and I realize that the last bit of it was a little to long so I'm gonna try to make them shorter k? (wow I said a lot)
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Long reviews list cuz its for two chapies I think I got everybody. If I didn't im so sorry! And Special thanks to AsleepForever101 for helping me with ideas! (u incredibly SNEAKY person you!)
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Chapter Four: More Pursuers
A Few Blocks From Sarayashiki Jr. High
Kage, taking extra care not to be spotted, continued to follow the two. However, it was becoming a bit difficult, as Kuwabara kept stopping to look behind them.
"Not that I'm in a hurry or anything Kuwabara, but if you don't stop being so frikkin' paranoid, we'll never get to Reikai."
Reikai… the Spirit Detective… Something tells me I'll be seeing him more than I want to… Kage though as she quickly leapt up onto a nearby tree branch to avoid Kuwabara's line of view.
"I can't help it Urameshi! I got this creepy feeling that someone's followin' us." He started looking in all directions in attempt to spot the so-called follower, looking really scared. (hee hee this is fun)
Damnitt! Kage cursed to herself and hurriedly slid around to the opposite side of the tree when Kuwabara's gaze fell on the very branch she had been sitting on moments before.
"Whatever, I don't see anybody! Just hurry up or I'll leave you behind!" Yusuke called from the next block up.
"Wait up Urameshi!" Kuwabara said waving his hand and running after the already walking Yusuke.
That was too close. And with that Kage slid down the tree trunk and took after them again.
After following them for about fifteen more minutes and repeatedly dodging Kuwabara, Kage somehow ended up in the woods with them.
"Damnitt! Why did pacifier breath have to make the portal so far away? And in the middle of the forest!" Yusuke shouted as a swirling portal came into view between two large oak trees just ahead of them.
"So no one would see us, duh Urameshi." Kuwabara said, still scanning the area.
"Shut up Kuwabara."
Kage followed them to the portal, leaping silently from limb to limb hiding in the shadows, as the two detectives approached the swirling circle just big enough for a person to fit through.
"let's just get this over with." said Yusuke irritably, and he stepped into the portal. Kuwabara with one last glance around, followed him.
Kage quicky leapt through with inhuman speed just as the poral was starting to shrink. To normal eyes, she would only appear as a black blur.
Once on the other side, Kage, without taking nearly any time to step on the floor, flitted out the open door of Koenma's office. The portal was conveniently right next to the door.
The only one who seemed to notice the uninvited guest was a short boy, (yes Hiei is short! He's four ten!)clad in black, with a white scarf around his neck and a bandana round his forehead to match. His black hair defied gravity itself and had a white star shaped burst of white in the middle. His katana at his side. He had cold, flaming crimson eyes that sent chills down your spine. (yup that's Hiei!)
His crimson orbs darted to the door for the briefest moment, before returning to their original place, starring out the far window upon which he was perched.
It seems we have a visitor… He sent the message through telepathy to another boy in the room who was also previously awaiting the arrival of Yusuke and Kuwabara.
The boy had long red hair and friendly emerald eyes that had an air of mystery and held tales of someone centuries old. He had very masculine features and wore a pale red school uniform. As the crimson eyed boy's voice rang through his head, he did not divert his attention from the child-sized ruler sitting behind the large wooden desk piled with papers.
Don't move yet, I don't want to go through the trouble of chassing the eavsdropper down.
Of course. Replied the red haired boy sitting in a chair in front of the desk next to Kuwabara and Yusuke.
As the two were having their silent conversation, Kage was listening intently from behind the door outside Koenma's office as the tiny ruler began to speak. She blended nicely with the shadows and wasn't seen by the passing ogres.
"I have a most urgent case for you all." Koenma stated, digging through stacks of papers and files trying to find the correct one that held the information on the case.
"So what else is new?"
"This is no ordinary case Yusuke. The demon you will be searching for is extremely rare, and only appears once every couple thousand years."
"Well," Koenma continued "you will be searching for for a phoenix demon. She has been eluding us for some time now. We just can't seem to find her."
Jeez how many people are after me? This is getting really old.
"It is crucial that you find her. She is the only Dark Phoenix demon that has shown up in over two thousand years. We don't know for sure --no one does-- but she may hold sleeping powers within her that could bring on the destruction of an entire world. Reikai, Ningenkai or Makai, whichever she chooses."
… A… a Dark Phoenix? She thought about everything she had heard so far, her mind raced. How could this be ?Could she really be that dangerous? Why her? And why had she never herd any of this before? Should she stay? If she did… could they help her? …No. They were only after her because of her powers just like everyone else. She was leaving.
"Greeeaaat. Another 'find the demon and kill it before they wipe out the world' mission."
"NO YOU IDIOT! You aren't supposed to kill her! Haven't you been listening? You aren't going to kill her if there's a chance we don't have to! She probably doesn't even know about her powers!" Koenma was now standing on his desk shouting at Yusuke.
"Okay OKAY JEEZ!" He shot back angrily.
"Alright then" Koenma said, glaring at Yusuke. "We only found out about her existence a few months ago but like I said, she is proving difficult to capture."
Shit! I need to get out of here! But I need a guide or a portal. No chance of a guide... DAMN I'll have to wait until he opens the portal to send his goons back. I knew it was a gamble coming here, but I didn't think my capture would be that important…
"You all must find her quickly before she loses control of her powers. As time goes by that chance increases." He was now speaking to everyone in the room. "I cannot stress the importance of this. We can't afford an Apocalyps."
Am I really that dangerous? Kage asked herself again, almost half expecting some kind of answer but all she got in reply was the silence within her own mind. She had no desire to rule or destroy the world, and she didn't like the idea of being a seemingly ticking time bomb very much either.
"Her powers could be triggered by an extreme emotion, fear, rage, sadness or even stress, any of those and maybe more. Who knows? She might even be able to awaken them with her own sheer will power. Naturally, not much is known about this particular breed."
Well that was a little better, at least she didn't really have a time limmit, and she was pretty confident about keeping her own emotions in line.
"Hiei, I trust you could lend a hand in finding her?" He directed the question toward the boy on the windowsill.
"Hn." Was all he got in reply.
"I have heard stories about the Dark Phoenix and their great powers." The red haired boy stated, now speaking for the fist time.
"So you know anything about the demon Kurama?" Yusuke asked the boy next to him.
"Only stories. Nothing we don't already know, or isn't true."
Kage made a short mental note to remember their names, still not moving from her hiding place in the shadows just outside Koenma's office
"Hm…I have a photo of her some where around here…" The toddler ruler started rummaging through the stacks and piles again. "Ah here it is." He went to grab a folder buried beneath several stacks but failed miserly at trying to keep everything in order. Half the papers fell off his desk taking him with them.
Everyone sweatdropped.
He quickly picked himself up, held up a beige folder, and opened it after a brief pause. Then he pulled out a small wallet size picture, and handed it to Yusuke.
The picture was the shoulder up image, of a raven haired girl with cold eyes that looked like melted silver, she wore a slight frown on her face, and her expression said 'Don't mess with me or I'll kill you.' What was visible of her shirt was completely black.
"Wow she's hot!" Yusuke exclaimed with a cheesy grin. Everyone sweat dropped again.
Twitch.
"Urameshi you got Keiko!" Kuwabara shouted, snatching the picture from Yusuke's hands. "Hey it's that creepy girl you were fighting earlier!"
Damn. Kage's heart sank. The little hope that she had been harboring that it was someone else was gone now.
Yusuke grabbed the picture back and did a double take. "HOLY CRAP YOU'RE RIGHT IT'S KAGE!"
Koenma looked shocked, Kurama looked the slightest bit startled, and Hiei looked…like Hiei. He didn't seem that effected at all. (anybody see that coming?)
"Explain how one of the rarest demons in all Makai ended up in your school?" Koemna said looking confused and relieved at the same time. Now he wouldn't have to worry about her bringing on doomsday.
"I dunno she just showed up today. Met her on the roof, she said she wanted to fight me."
"Did you fight with her?" Kurama asked.
"Yeah until somebody," Yusuke glared at Koenma. "had to but in."
"Was she powerful?"
"Well yeah I thought she was pretty strong for a girl. I didn't know she was a demon though."
"Well, if she is attending your school it will be simple to find her."
"Yes, and then we can keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't become any more of a danger." Koenma put in.
"Great now I have to baby sit her?"
Kage twitched again. No one's baby-sitting me. I'm getting out of here…as soon as they shut up and open a portal. Kage was getting tired of waiting for her only escape rout to open up gain. Even more now that she knew for sure that they had the Spirit Detective and his friends were after her too.
"Precisely. Now get going. The sooner you find her, the sooner the worlds will be out of jeopardy." Koenma ordered.
"Yeah whatever."
Koenma then summoned a portal to send them back home.
Finally! Kage couldn't see inside the office, but she heard the slight crackling sound of a portal being opened. (You know imagine that sound)
Everyone started to head toward the portal, well except Hiei who said,
"Wait." in an emotionless tone. He had not made an effort to stop the conversation they were all having earlier because he had planned on killing the intruder anyway. Hey, it was a demon so Koenma couldn't throw him in prison right?
Kage tensed slightly.
"Wow Hiei you actually said something! So why are we waiting?" Yusuke asked him, annoyed that they were staying in Reikai longer than they had to, when he could be at the arcade or something.
"Hn. Because," Hiei paused for a moment as if expecting to hear some reaction of shock from the one outside the door.
"We have a visitor."
Perfect. She froze. She was in trouble now. If they caught her, she might be locked up in Reikai for o knows how long, until they figured out how to make sure she wouldn't blow up the world.
"What?" said Yusuke Kuwabara and Koenma simultaneously. Kurama said nothing, as he already knew someone was there.
In a flash Hiei had disappeared from the room.
Just as Kage was about to make a run for it, she felt the cool metal blade of a katana pressed against her neck. Her mind blanked for a moment. Oh no. They had caught her, and this guy didn't seem like one to hesitate to kill the enemy when they were in his grasp.
"Who are you?" Hiei questioned icily.
When Kage didn't reply, Hiei pressed harder against her neck, and a few drops of blood slid down the blade of his katana.
Kage quickly regained herself. "Kindly remove your katana from my throat first."
He growled. "Answer me or I'll kill you now." He snapped.
Then the others came round the corner, and saw who it was that had apparently been listening in on them. Yusuke and Kuwabara gasped, and Kurama recognizing her picture said,
"Hiei stop, don't kill her!"
Yusuke who had come out of his stupor first, shouted, "THAT'S KAGE HIEI DON'T KILL HER!"
Hiei, after briefly glancing at everyone, reluctantly removed the blade, and sheathed his katana, sending Kage a basilisk's glare. Kage however didn't seem to be effected much. (hee hee. It would make her look bad if she was scared ya know.)
Kage got up from her kneeling position, and rubbed the place where Hiei's blade had very nearly killed her, and sent a glare right back at him.
Hiei just "Hn." -ed in reply.
When everyone had stopped staring at the scene, Yusuke asked Kage, "Okay, how did you get here?"
"I followed you duh." She retorted, matter-of-factly.
"See Urameshi, I told you someone was followin' us!"
Twitch.
"Well, now that that has been cleared up," Kurama said after a slightly awkward pause. " Kage, will you please come inside Koenma's office so we can discus this?" He gestured toward the door.
"…" Kage growled and suddenly flared up. "No one is controlling or 'baby-sitting' me!" She glared at Yusuke who looked taken aback. "I live my own life, and you all can stay out of it! I am perfectly capable of controlling my own powers!"
She was sending death glares to everyone in the room now, her face contorted in anger. How dare they try and but into her life, watch her everyday like she was some bomb that could explode at any minute, and not a living being!
Everyone in the room -minus Hiei- looked surprised that she had suddenly burst out in anger.
Kage suddenly remembered…no one had closed the portal… she still had a way out.
"Now all of you leave me alone!" She shouted and suddenly disappeared from view.
"Where'd she go?" Kuwabara asked stupidly.
"The portal baka!"
They all ran past Koenma - who no one had noticed, slip into the hallway- and jumped through the portal after Kage.
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Kura: There ya go! I had to cut this chapie in half cuz it got to long so I already have the next chapie written!
Hiei: (now underneath Nikki's foot) Beautiful.
Kura: O.O wow u beet Hiei!
Nikki: I WIN HA HA!
Kurama: (walks in) O.O
Nikki: HA! BE SHOCKED BY MY AMAZING STRENGTH!
Kura and Kurama: (sweatdrop)
Hiei: Shut up woman. And get your foot the hell off me.
Nikki: What if I don't want to?
Hiei: (rolls eyes and sets Nikki's foot on fire)
Nikki: SHIT! (hops around on one foot trying to put out fire)
Kura and Kurama: (sweatdrop again)
Kura: I'll get the water.
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(AN well that was still a pretty long mini story thing. Was my sucky chapie long to or is it just my reviews list that made it seem bigger? THANK U I LOVE ALL U PPL!) (hint hint wink wink)