Disclamie: Still not owning YYH!

Chappie 4-

with Yusuke and Botan...

Wretched-souled phantoms continued their rampage towards the two of them. A blue sparkle came to the end of Yusuke's finger and expanded as he powered it up.

"Yusuke!" Botan clutched Yusuke and he turned to see that the ghostly hands were appearing out of the wall in which they were backed up against.

'Damn it! How can I fire it in two directions?' Yusuke called off the Spirit Shotgun, wrapped his arm around Botan's waist and closed his eyes, bracing himself for what was coming next.

"Stop." He opened his eyes to see a young boy in a large, ripped T-shirt and shorts holding his hand out, obviously comanding them to leave the two alone. The kid's other arm wasn't there, though. Red liquid dripped from the place of his missing limb creating a puddle of blood on the ground. His eyes had a look of sadness and suffering in them.

Surprisingly, the spirits obeyed him. They all vanished and the boy put his hand down. He then turned to them. "Please, put us all to rest. We don't want to be here anymore. Kill Nakayami and destroy the link we have to this world... Send us to our final stage of death..." He too, dissappeared.

"It is my duty to lead you to your destinations. I'll save you, I promise," vowed Botan. Yusuke pulled her closer in a comforting way and gave a confident smile.

"We're all right there behind you!" he said.

"Thanks Yusuke." She slightly blushed. "We should probably find another place to go."

Yusuke turned his attention to the door that had been locked and slowly walked towards it. 'Maybe...' He gave the knob one good turn and pushed. To his surprise, it opened. He turned to Botan. "After you."

With Genkai and Kuwabara...

"Look." Genkai pointed her finger at a scroll on the wall. They were still in the Kimono Room. It was very large, therefore it had plenty to investigate. Kuwabara stared at the scroll just as he was told.

"So what, Genkai? It's just a scroll," he said, not realizing that it had no dust on it, suspiciously.

"That is the Demon Tag Ritual," stated the old lady. "They would sacrifice a beautiful maiden in order to keep the barrier between the Living World and the Demon World up. They would chop off her limbs and burn them to please the demons. They would also stab out the eyes and let the blood drip off them and into the flames as a gift to the monsters. Masks also played an important role in the ritual. They would blind the maiden with the Blinding Mask, which stabbed her eyes out using daggers. The one performing the ritual would wear the Mask of Reflection, who's facial expressions change to that of an angel or a demon depending on the soul of the one wearing it. Usually, the maiden was the daughter of the family who had to perform it and the one actually doing it would be the master of the family. It was a useful, but tragic, ritual..."

"Still doesn't explain the reason it's called the Demon Tag Ritual." Kuwabara continued to stare at the scroll. It was red and had a picture of a man in a mask with the face of a monster and a young woman with the Blinding Mask on her face. It looked like she was screaming in pain. Kuwabara couldn't blame her, and felt sorry for her.

"They probably had a reaosn for the name at the time," answered Genkai. She had noticed the fact that not a spot of dirt was on the fabric, as if it had been hung there recently. She took it off the nail and heard a gentle unlocking sound from the wall. "Just as I thought. This scroll serves as a locking device. If you put it on the nail, it locks."

She pushed on the wall and it stubbornly opened. On the other side of the passage there was a room with tables lined up against the walls. They had red table cloths draped over them and on top of those were porclein Chinese dolls, which were most likely very expensive. One corner of the room caught Genkai's eye. A doll with long black hair hanging over most of her face. She wore a gray kimono and bandages coming off her upper back. It was roped off; worshipped probably.

"Genkai, this place has loads of Spirit Energy! It's coming from the floor!"

The chanting and laughter of many childrens' voices filled the air. They were crawling on the floor, trying to reach them.

"Come and play with us," said one of the ghost kids, pulling out a dagger.

With Hiei and Kurama...

They wandered a new hallway with unlit and old paper shaded lamps hanging from the ceiling. The hall was clean, but musty. 'Hiei, I still don't understand why that ghost wanted to kill you and not me. Is there something you're hiding from the rest of us? Even me?' Those thoughts kept racing through Kurama's mind uncontrolably. Their confrontation with the previous spirit had left Kurama with new thoughts and Hiei silent.

'I knew that one day I would come back to this place. I just never knew that those lost souls had lingered in this world for so long, just waiting for me to return. I didn't want anyone else to have to interfere with my past, but now it seems like somethimg I can't avoid. I know that Kurama is already suspicious and if we meet up with another spirit that suspicion will only continue to grow...' Hiei's thoughts were fixed on the ghosts and his worry about the truth of the phantoms and his past finally being reveled. 'This is going to be a long mission.'

End of Chappie-

Roo: And that's a wrap! Yes, and there were hints at the Y/B pairing in there. I just adore that pairing! Bwahahaha! ...fear me?

Kari: oh boy.

Roo: zip it, you! Ahem, thankies to all my little reviewers! You are all very nice! And for anyone who has played Fatal Frame, I'm not quite sure if that is the actual Demon Tag Ritual. For all I know, it could be a completely different version of it! I had to take the video game back, so...yeah.

Kari: Welcome to the warped mind of Ripper Roo!

Roo: ...mer. So, if ya plan on leavin a review, it should NOT be a flamie, kay? Every other type of review is excepted though!

Sayonara!-

Roo and Kari-

(poof!)