Shino, now known as Kurama, leaned against the wall outside to KoEnma's office with Botan as they waited to speak with him. For the past few minutes they had been still and waiting calmly in anticipation.
"So, I suppose I could fill you in a little more for the time being," Botan said. "Although we do not normally do this, the amount of backup support we need to help KoEnma out is massive, and we cannot train new people quickly enough to be a success. We have found candidates and are still trying this method with two boys from Germany and may recruit some more people incase this plan does not follow through, but KoEnma feels that if you can lock into your memories you will regain your old skills much more quickly than someone who had never tried to focus them before and had to grasp the concepts."
Shino nodded. "I understand. How are they doing so far?"
Botan shook her head. "I'm sorry, I do not know. We will most likely hear from them and their progress soon."
Just as Botan glanced off to the side a door in the hallway flew off of the wall and dully hit the other edge of the hall as it fell down, and smoke clouded throughout the room accompanied by a scream as Alvin found himself flying out of the room and scrambling to get back inside. Botan and Shino rushed over to look unable to deny the interest the room presented.
"What is going on in here?" Botan asked as she peered around.
Their trainer Ami stood in the middle of the room and she grinned back to Botan. "Oh, it is really nothing by sharpening their skills to see what their strengths are."
Botan raised an eyebrow as she entered the room, followed by Shino who was casually looking around with interest as to what had been going on. Wesley stood up shaking some dusty gray rubble out of his blonde hair, although clearly it was not all going to come out at he left it.
Ami nodded to him, then looked back at Botan. "Yes.. Wesley has been working with force fields while Alvin seems to be more in tune with power up techniques."
"What do you mean by that exactly?" Shino asked.
"It means that if he can focus his spirit energy in a certain point it increases the strength of the action, such as a jump or punch or kick. He seems to prefer bouncing off of force fields and knocking everything else out, however," Ami replied scoffing. "Well, they are promising at the very least."
Alvin laughed nervously as he crept back up, dusting himself off as well and grinned. "Well try to get better sooner, don't you worry."
Botan shook her head and laughed. "Well, okay then. Good luck you guys. By the way, this is Shino Moritoku, the reincarnation of Kurama, one of the old reiki tantei. I'm sorry but I don't think you two have much else to do, so we will drop by later tomorrow and you may continue you introductions then."
Ami smiled and waved to them then turned back to Alvin and Wesley, who each waved in turn as well. Botan had already waved and left, and with a quick wave as well Shino had followed. Me mused on the thought of working with new people in future missions while the old people he had been used to interacting with as team mates were now different, too. Before he knew it, he was already in KoEnma's office standing next to Botan and in front of KoEnma's desk.
"Ah, good to see you again Kurama. I trust you have some form of your memories returned?" KoEnma asked.
Shino nodded and smiled politely. "Yes, I believe so. I do not know if I will recall everything, however. You seem to be taking on a new form as well, KoEnma."
KoEnma nodded. "Yes, over the years we have all changed a bit. But this is a serious case. Several demons have escaped to the demon world undetected for many years since the reiki tantei job has been absent of an employer and seen as unneeded for many years as we seemed to have reached a peaceful time. However, many of them have grown stronger and now pose as serious threats to the human race. Your jobs will be to annihilate these demons, as well as their leader. We are working to accumulate more information on him, but in the meantime we have hints to the location of Kuwabara's reincarnation. He has been hard to locate, but his qualities seem to be less universal than Yusuke's and as he was a best friend to Yusuke we believe he will assist us in finding Yusuke more easily.
Botan and Shino nodded in understanding, but then Botan spoke up. "So what shall he do in the meantime?"
KoEnma paused. "Keep your eyes open, as all of these people live in Japan this time so it is possible that you may run into him. However, we will be looking up more information on the candidates and present it to you tomorrow at 8 o'clock your time."
Botan turned to Shino. "Oh! Also look out for the feeling that something familiar is around. It may be strong or weak, depending on how close you are but we believe you can sense out these people. That happened when I found you, so you should be familiar with it."
Shino nodded and grinned. "Of course, I will keep an eye out until then."
