Catse: Okay everyone! Here's my update. I will warn though, this is depressing. Oh well, the next will be a little better. A little more cheerful. Well, gotta go. Hope you like the story! Ja Ne for the moment.

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School the next day was dull. The Detective Team caught up on everything they missed the day before in that morning, and for the rest of the day there wasn't much left. In Calculus Kenya had nothing to do (he had finished up everything that was to be done) so he spent his time on his watch, trying to locate anything that would show for the title of the Dark Lord. Unfortunately, he had been searching for forty minutes so far, and had yet to locate anything helpful.

At Lunch Haku came with food, and they sat below a tree they had made their hangout for the last three or so years. There, they talked.

"Any word from Spirit World Kenya?" Seika asked. If there was a mission, Kenya was usually the first notified, and he notified everyone else.

"None. Koenma has yet to find anything interesting on our new case." Kenya said.

"Darn. I was looking forward to a fight." Katai said, taking a bite from the teriyaki chicken in her dish.

"We still haven't developed the bugs for that." Haku acknowledged, biting into some of his own food. They had informed Spirit World that morning that they needed the bugs, and Spirit World said they would do the best they could to develop the bugs quickly. Haku gave them a list of what they needed, and a few of his own ideas to the creation of it, which was why he knew the bugs weren't finished yet.

They ate in silence for a while, enjoying the breeze and the sounds of the birds in the trees and the smells of spring.

Then, as they were cleaning up what was left of their meal, Kenya's watch began to beep loudly. Everyone gathered around him as he read the message that came up on the screen.

"Is it a mission?" Seika asked.

Kenya nodded.

"Do they have the bugs?" Came Haku.

Again Kenya nodded.

"When do we head off?" Inquired Katai. Kenya stopped the beeping of his watch.

"Now." He remarked, racing towards the Main Office of the school. A quick talk with the secretary excused them from class, and they ran from the school to an abandoned alley. There, Katai opened a portal and they entered it, appearing in Spirit World.

In an instant after they arrived, Botan came out to explain what was happening.

"We've been monitoring Demon World and it seems the Dark Lord has dispatched another messenger." She explained as they walked towards Koenma's office.

"Where is he located?" Kenya inquired.

"Mukaki forest."

"Any others located."

"No."

"Are the bugs prepared?"

"Yes. One of the ogres here finished it about an hour ago."

"What is the level of difficulty of this mission?"

"Two."

"Two? That's not very difficult. If it were a four or a five it would be more of a challenge, don't you think?" Katai acknowledged.

"Um yeah, but it's just a messenger. It's not a terrorist or something like that!" Seika remarked.

After a moment of Katai and Seika bickering, and Haku looking on in amusement, they made it to Koenma's office. At first, they couldn't see him for all the paper that stood in stacks on his desk.

But a moment after he jumped around the desk to stand before them in baby-mode.

"This is dire everyone! If we don't catch that messenger then there may be a chance that a plan for human annihilation may occur under our noses! You have to go and stop that messenger!" He remarked, stating the obvious.

"Don't you think we know that already?" Katai snarled, her fists gripped in preparation for a fight.

"We ain't stupid." Followed Seika.

"If the world "ain't" is a part of your vocabulary, then you very well should be." Haku acknowledged, receiving a giggle from Katai and Botan.

Koenma moved the remarks aside and handed Haku a small box.

"There are the bugs requested. Get going or you won't catch him!"

Kenya and his team nodded and bowed, leaving in an instant teleportation Katai provided.

When they reached Demon World, Seika growled.

"What?" Katai inquired as Kenya took a look at the situation around them. They had landed in the middle of a dark forest near a lake.

"I left Niko at home." Seika grumbled.

Haku opened the box to look over the bugs. They were small, black, and with so much shine to them they were almost white.

"Oh yeah. Want me to pick him up?" Katai inquired.

"No. We don't have time." Kenya remarked. "In hunting a messenger, every second counts. Haku, have you a plan yet?"

Haku nodded and the four gathered together.

"This forest is dense and dark. Perfect conditions to plant a bug. I'm just not sure how we're going to set them. One must be planted visibly, but only after the other has been planted in secret. The note in the box says our watches are programmed to follow the radio waves these bugs emit. Seika and Katai will set the messenger first in a trap. The way I see it, we'll have a vine set upon the forest floor, and when stepped on, a sort of set up about a foot passed will toss the bug and lodge it on the body. Now, Seika, Katai, he needs to go at a certain speed so that the bug will hit. Too slow or too fast and the bug will fall passed him to the floor. The second Kenya will place. You'll run up to him on the side while Seika and Katai chase him, and punch at him, throwing the bug while doing so."

"What happens if the first bug doesn't land?" Katai inquired.

"Well, we'll at least have one bug on him, and if he's inexperienced it's all the better. Kenya?"

Kenya turned to Haku and smiled.

"I'm going to investigate the terrain. Send me a signal when you begin."

They nodded and Kenya left into the forest, jumping from mossy logs to demon infested grass, and across the high branches of trees when the ground looked suspicious and unstable. While running however, he made a strange discovery. He was being followed! It looked as if the messenger was attempting to chase him off and take the interference of his travels head on. Kenya clicked on a few areas of his watch, and a mike appeared on the wrist band.

"Kenya calling in! Kenya calling in! Over!" He whispered into the mike.

"Kenya! This is Seika calling in! What's the problem? Over!"

"The messenger is in pursuit! I repeat. The messenger is pursuit! Mission will commence immediately! Over!"

"What the hell!" Katai shouted, and Kenya had to hold his ears while running. "What do you mean he's in pursuit? We're not even finished setting up the bug and you've already encountered the messenger!"

"You forgot to say over." Seika corrected after a short pause.

"Oh shut up." Came katai.

"The messenger is following me. Commence mission immediately. Over."

"Will do Kenya! Over and out!" Seika replied, and the mike disappeared on the wrist band.

Kenya kept running just as his team dispatched to the dense forest. In an instant, with a quick scan of Haku's plants in the area, in which they gave him messages when he needed them about the terrain, they found the messenger. In the past, they used Niko because talking to plants required energy Haku might need later, and considering Niko didn't fight, he was the proper choice. The group followed the messenger, but little did they realize that he was a decoy. They would find out soon enough.

Kenya kept running. The vibrations that echoed around him told him his opponent was gaining on him, and no matter how fast he could run, it seemed his pursuer was faster. Finally, when the pursuer was a good ten yards away, Kenya had to stop. He couldn't keep running and the enemy didn't seem ready to let him go. Not only that, but Kenya's team didn't seem to be coming either. They should have already been there to help him chase the man into the trap.

"Come out! Fight me!" Kenya hollered. In an instant, a man appeared.

"Strange. You're the leader and yet you ran from me. Cowardly. Stupid. I will kill you."

"Can any of you tell who that is up front?" Seika inquired as he, Katai, and Haku chased the messenger. Because Haku's trap was already set, he decided he would come with them to ensure that if they failed he could still direct the messenger where he needed to go. "Nope! Not at all! Goddamned messenger!" Katai hollered.

"I know who it is." Haku mumbled, riding a giant flying leaf.

"Then who is it?" Katai snarled back.

"Someone we thought was gone a long time ago."

Kenya glared down his opponent. The man was tall, with an axe the size of his body hanging on a chain from his back. His long leather cloak covered a chain belt, felt black jeans, and a black shirt with a bleeding skull on the front.

"Kenya, you're such a coward."
Kenya's eyes narrowed. "Funny. You know my name, yet I don't know yours."

"Well, everyone knows the infamous leader of the Sprit Detective Team." The man said with a smile. "But since you are going to die soon, I guess I'll tell you my name. They call me the Dark Invader."

"Really." Kenya frowned. "I gather the Dark Lord sent you?"

"Smart boy."
"What is your purpose? You are no messenger."

The Dark Invader smiled. "Haven't I already mentioned that? I'm here to throw the Spirit Detective team into chaos. Oh, and don't expect help from your friends. The messenger is with them."

Kenya growled. It seemed he alone was going to have to kill the Dark Invader.

"Then let's get started, shall we?"

"Certainly."

The Dark Invader reached behind his head and tightly clenched the handle of the axe, and pulled it off. Kenya set his hands on the handle's on his swords at his sides. In a quick instant, the Dark Invader had taken a swing the area of a car, and created a gash in the forest the size of a fallen Karris Wheel.

Kenya leapt from tree to tree as they fell, keeping high from the ground and keeping an eye on the Dark Invader so he could find a weak spot. The Dark Invader didn't look around nor did he seem shocked. If anything, it looked more like he was waiting for something. Kenya came behind him and snapped off the tree, unsheathing his swords as he came in for an attack. Just as the first swords touched near the Dark Invader's body, he spun and stopped the attack with the axe. Kenya back flipped and sliced the handle of the axe in half, rendering the powerful weapon useless. He may not have been able to attack the man himself, but at least he got rid of his weapon.

The Dark Invader snarled, and pounced over his axe to attack Kenya.

Kenya rolled out of the way and just managed to block with his swords a blade shooting out of the Dark Invader's Jacket sleeve.

"I'm always prepared." The Dark Invader acknowledged with a smirk.

"I can see that. So am I."

Kenya kicked upwards, reaching for the Dark Invader's head. Just then, another blade came from the other sleeve, and he shot for Kenya's stomach. Kenya jumped up and flipped over the Dark Invader. Just as he flipped, he happened to notice a dark mass pass by, and three people follow. The people he recognized as his team, by the sound of their footsteps.

"Not as prepared as I." the Dark Invader snarled, and just as Kenya landed, the man turned and jammed a dagger in the middle of his chest, between the meeting of the ribs. Kenya stopped, glancing at his chest.

How? How had he got him? He was doing so well!

"I've got fast reflexes. Besides. You're still an amateur."

"How DARE you!" A familiar voice echoed from behind.

Kenya's eyes widened in shock. No! It couldn't be! She…She was dead!

Suddenly, the dark mass his team was following leapt on the scene and pinned the Dark Invader to a tree. The man struggled, but a pair of daggers pinned his shoulders. The handles were decorated as snake's heads.

"Kenya!" Katai shouted, jumping through the brush. In an instant she was at his side. "What happened?"

"Kenya!" Seika caught him as he collapsed backwards. Katai pulled the dagger out and tossed it to the side. "Kenya! You with me man? Kenya!"

Kenya glanced off in the distance. Suddenly, he couldn't concentrate on one known thing. It seemed the world was spinning, and his eyes were caught looking at a black crow, and nothing else. The crow cocked its head at him and then flew off.

"You Bastard!" The Dark figure screamed, and she punched the Dark Invader in the chest hard enough to crack it. A blood curdling snap rang around the forest catching everyone's attention. They watched as the woman took a sword from her hip with the same snake design, and lodged it in the man's chest.

"I was supposed to kill him! Not you! This wasn't our agreement!" She snarled.

Before dying, the Dark Invader snickered.

"The order was that I was to kill him. You were just the messenger." He coughed up blood and she kicked him in the chest. Blood sprayed from his mouth and he died.

"Bastard." She whispered.

"Who are you?" Katai inquired, glaring, tears in her eyes.

There was silence for a moment as the woman refused to talk.

"Answer me!"

"So. You don't remember me eh?" she asked.

Katai shook her head and Seika patted Kenya's cheeks.

"Guys! We've got trouble! He ain't concentrating on anything!"

"What do you mean?" Katai shouted, latching onto Kenya's shoulders.

"He means Kenya is dying." Haku answered, walking into the area. His usually calm features were racked with worry, and yet regret.

"What do you mean! He can't die! This is Kenya we're talking about! He's taken worse and still lived!" Katai shouted, but the woman's next remark interrupted her.

"The dagger was poisoned. The Dark Lord didn't want to play around when it came to destroying his only threat."

"What the hell do you mean! Surely you can't mean the Dark Lord was referring to Kenya as his only threat! There's still us you know?"

"What is a team without a leader Katai?" Haku inquired, sitting down. His red hair hung in fine lines over his eyes, so that the blue was hard to detect from underneath. "Kenya was our source of teamwork. Without him, we are in chaos. You Katai, always have a habit of wanting to beat anything interesting on a mission. Seika has a habit of slowing down in a mission, and my strategies are useless when you two go off on your own. Kenya kept us all together."

"So, I gather you're the messenger we've been trying to catch?" Seika inquired.

The woman nodded.

"Then, you should know if there is a way to save Kenya! Do you?"

The woman shook her head from underneath the cloak that hid it. "That is the Dark Lord's most vile poison. It will kill a grown man in less than 2 minutes. I'm surprised Kenya is still alive."

"How do you know Kenya anyways? Huh!" Katai snarled, jumping up to attack the woman. She managed to pin her to another tree, and the cloak covering the woman's head fell. "What the…? Holy hell! No! NO! You were dead! You're supposed to be dead!"

Seika and Haku glanced over, and Seika's eyes bulged. Haku merely shook his head and began to look over Kenya's wounds, hoping he could find something. Anything that would save Kenya.

"Y-Y-Y—"

"Just say it. I'm tired of your damn stuttering."

"Yoru!" Seika and Katai shouted at the same time.

"Yes. Now get your hands off of me or I'll kill you here and now. My battle isn't with you, it's with my stupid brother. But if you stand in my way, I will kill you."

"But! But you're dead! Haku killed you himself!" Seika shouted.

Yoru smiled. "Perhaps it would seem that way. But I survived that little encounter thanks to my Jagan."

"Your Jagan?" Seika continued, and they noticed then the black headband on her forehead. Yoru's black hair was snipped short, not even long enough to pin in a pony tail. She had a snake tattoo running across her collar bone, and her once complete red eyes now had flecks of yellow in them.

"The Jagan?" Katai whispered, stepping back. "But, that can't save you. Jagan's don't have healing properties!"

Yoru snickered again. "This isn't the normal Jagan. This is a Rioko Jagan. It was his very own creation. He took the usual Jagan and tested on it, and to gain the power I took the liberty of being the first he implanted it on. No one else in this world has my Jagan." She snickered.

Katai clenched her fists. This couldn't be happening. It seemed the past was repeating itself. Yoru was back, there was another enemy attacking. The only difference, is that this time, they were allowed to do as they wanted. They were the detectives.

"And I see you all have been busy while I was gone. Look at that. Detective badges and everything. How pre-school." She snickered, taking a step towards Katai. She wrapped a hand around the badge Katai kept pinned on her shoulder, and ripped it off.

"Stop it Yoru!" Seika shouted, and he almost stood. Haku stopped him.

"Yoru. This is uncalled for. As you stated yourself, we are none of your concern. Kenya is. Leave Katai alone."

"You are also my concern pretty boy." She snarled, stepping over towards Haku against Sieka's and Katai's growls. They had become rather protective of their team members over time. "You're the one that dealt the blows that ruined my life after all. But I guess I should thank you. If you hadn't of done that, I wouldn't have gained the true power of the Jagan."

"The true power?" Haku inquired, as Yoru placed a cold hand on his cheek.

"The power to kill with just my sight."

"Yoru….Touch him, and I will hurt you far worse than he ever did." They heard Kenya choke.

"Kenya!" Katai shouted, running to him. She placed a hand on his forehead to check for fever, and then his neck for pulse.

"I don't have long to live." Blood spat up from his mouth and drained down one lip. "This poison is powerful. Yoru, I don't think you want to die just yet. So take your hand away from Haku."

"And what are you going to do about it little brother? You can't even raise a finger you're so weak, and you're telling me you'll kill me? Hah!"

"Yoru. I'm not the little boy you pushed around four years ago. I've grown, and I've trained hard to learn what I could. And I learned something I knew I could use, just in case you came back. When I heard they didn't find your body, I knew you were still living. I went to Demon World for a while before the next mission we were to have, and found a demon that had seals powerful enough to seal away an S-class if it had to be done. From what I've seen," he coughed up more blood, and after wheezing a little, continued. "You're now an S-class. So he taught me this seal."

Kenya lifted a hand and touched his lip, where the blood was leaking. Then he reached up and pressed the finger to between Yoru's eyes.

"Ala kai ne po maru ekenue, shimaru akane itu!" A radiant blue light shot from his fingers and enveloped her head. Then, it all seemed to get sucked into her Jagan, and she snickered.
"Was that it? Hah! There's another ability to my Jagan you didn't know. It will take your spirit and demon energy and re-power me when I need it. Thanks for the energy bro!"

"No." Kenya whispered. More blood came from his mouth as he closed his eyes. "I've got you."

It was then his breathing stopped. A single tear sprang from his eye and ran to his ear, and Seika wiped it away.

"He's dead." Haku mumbled, standing up. He sighed raggedly, and stepped away, trying not to cry in the presence of his friends. Katai burst into tears and snatched Kenya's shoulder away from Seika, shaking him violently as if it would wake him up.

"Kenya! You can't leave! Stop playing around! Kenya wake up!" She shouted, but it was no use. The spirit had left Kenya's body, for the after life.

Catse: See. Yoru's back! But if you've noticed, she's a little different. And guess what? She gets to hang out with the team. You'll see through everything that the last four years have changed how she sees things, and she's somewhat nicer. Still mean, but nice in a way. I can't really explain it. Okay, now I've spoiled some areas, but oh well. Things are going to get crazy. Next chapter starts the stories mission! The mission to bring Kenya back to life! Ja Ne for now!