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a/n: sorry it has taken me so long to update but i couldn't think of anything else to write. normally i would havequit writing a story by now because i get bored with writing it but for the people that like this story i will tryand finish it because i hate for people to leave a story hanging.hopefully this is at least an okay chapter but i'm to tried to add more to it right now hopefully my next update won't take so long. alsothere is more than likely occ in here, but i am trying to keep them in character
Koenma hadfigured out away for them to create a portal to transport a least four people between worlds, so that he would not have to do it for them every time they needed to get to the demon world. While they waited for the portal to get big enough to to transport all of them they examined the area around them for clues about the demon. But they could find nothing that would give them any clues about the demon or where the demon might be headed next. They figured though that they could look around the human world and find out how many humans the demon had killed and where he was getting them. They hoped that the demon was sticking close to his portal point therefore making it easier for them to capture him before anymore people died.
When they stepped through to the human world they could immediately sense that something was wrong. They dropped into a defensive stance and looked around them.
"There seems to be nothing here," Yuusuke said as he straightened up.
"There may seem to be nothing here but something was here not to long ago," Kurama told him.
"Do you think is was the demon that we are looking for?" Kuwabara asked.
"No, it feels like him, but then again it doesn't," Kurama told Kuwabara.
"What do you mean it feels like him but it doesn't?" Kuwabara asked him.
"He means that it was probably a servant of his," Hiei said as if Kuwabara was the biggest idiot in the world.
"I'm sorry, but I'm not from the demon world so you need to explain to me how a servant of a demon can have almost the same energy pattern as his master," Kuwabara demanded.
"Well, in some cases a demon marks a servant as his so he will be able to find them wherever they go. He will also be able to kill them if they are about to betray him. Not all demons have this power though, so whoever we are looking for will be easy to spot now that we know what we are up against," Kurama explained.
"You mean to tell me that this demon can see through his servants eyes or whatever you said?" Kuwabara asked as he looked around the clearing in suspicion.
"Yes that is basically what begin able to find them means," Kurama replied.
"Ok, I think I understand now," Kuwabara told him.
"Now lets all spread out so we can examine this place and get going," Yuusuke said as he motioned for everybody to split up in different directions. Before they could get started though they heard somebody calling out to them.
"Hey, somebody called for a pick up," Boton called out to them as she flew down from the sky.
"Yeah, we did but first we think we might have found out where the demon has been getting into human world at," Yuusuke told her.
"Oh, and where might that be?" she asked.
"Right here," Yuusuke replied as he waved his hand to indicate the clearing that they where standing in.
"But how can you be sure that this is where the demon came in from?" Boton asked.
"Because when we came through the portal into the human world this is where we ended up. Also when we were in the demon world we found the half eaten body of a young human," Yuusuke told her.
Boton let out a gasp when Yuusuke told her this, "Are you serious?" she asked.
Yuusuke nodded. "This is worse than we thought," Boton said.
"What do you mean worse than you thought?" Kurama asked.
Boton looked at Kurama, "Well it indicates that the demon has somehow had his eating habits altered," she told him.
"Wait are you saying that this demon did not originally eat humans?" Yuusuke asked her
"That's exactly what I'm saying," Boton said.
"But what has the ability to do that?" Kuwabara asked.
"It all depends on the type of demon first, and then on what they eat," Boton replied.
"I think I know what you are talking about," Kurama told her.
"Do you have an idea of what might have caused this?" she asked him.
"Yes, I do. If I remember correctly there is a certain type of Makia plant that when eaten will do quite a bit of damage to the inside of a demon," Kurama said with a thoughtful look on his face.
"But it couldn't have been that plant because the demon is still alive," Yuusuke pointed out.
"Sorry what I meant was it depends on the type of demon. Some demons would slowly die, while others will become an almost different demon. I don't know what type of demon this was so I can't be absolutely certain, but it seems that this is the case," Kurama explained.
"Well now that we have that cleared up lets finish looking around before we head to the spirit world," Yuusuke suggested. So they all split off like they had planned to before Boton showed up. After a few minutes of searching Kuwabara called for everybody's attention.
"Hey, guys, look over here," Kuwabara called out from where he had walking around near the edge of the clearing that they had landed in.
"What is it?" Yuusuke asked as he hurried over to where Kuwabara was.
"It seems to be some kind of newspaper," he answered as he bent to pick it up.
"So, what does that have to do with anything, it could have come from anywhere," Yuusuke said.
"Well, you never know maybe it could give us clues as to where the demon might be going," Kuwabara told him just as his hand touched the paper. It seemed that when Kuwabara touched the paper it sent on a link to something, because there was a bright flash of light and when everybody could see again Kuwabara was gone.
"What the hell happened?" Yuusuke cried.
"It seems that the paper was a trap, so it was the danger that we sensed when we came through," Kurama said as he hurried over to examine the site where Kuwabara had been standing.
"A trap?" Hiei asked as he too walked over.
"Yes it seems that the demon targets people that are curious enough to pick up something just to see what it is."
Hiei didn't say anything as he walked around sensing for demon energy.
"Do either one of you remember how old that human was that we saw in the demon world?" Kurama asked as he looked around some more.
"I think it was about sixteen or seventeen years old from what was left of the face," Yuusuke answered.
Kurama nodded," Just as I thought, he is targeting the younger of the humans. My guess is because the meat probably taste better."
At this Yuusuke turned green and grabbed his mouth, "Kurama must you say that. That is disgusting."
"Sorry, but you have been around enough demons that eat humans to know what they are like. Now lets try and find Kuwabara before he becomes the next meal for the demon," Kurama told Yuusuke as he turned to leave the clearing.
"But I thought you all were heading to the demon world?" Boton asked Kurama.
Kurama stopped and looked at her with a surprised look on his face. "We were, but as you just saw Kuwabara has been taken. I think it is more important to find him than to go see Koenma," Kurama told her before he continued walking out of the clearing.
"I'll go with you then that way when you are ready to go I can take you," Boton told them.
"I would say just let the demon have him but I know how much Yukina likes the idiot," Hiei said finally speaking up about Kuwabara's predicament, but it wasn't what anyone wanted to here.
"Yes that is very considerate of you, Hiei," Yuusuke said to him, but if he heard the sarcasm in his voice Hiei gave no sign. As he turned to follow Kurama, Hiei felt like something was coming up behind him, but when he turned to see what it was, there was nothing there. Hiei frowned as he opened up his jagan to see if anything was hiding in the bushes.
"Hiei, what's taking you, lets go we need to find that demon before he does something to Kuwabara," Yuusuke hollered at him when he realized that Hiei was not behind him.
Hiei rewrapped his jagan eye and left to catch up with them. But he only left though because he couldn't sense any type of danger or demon energy.
After Hiei left there was a rustling in the bushes he had just been looking at.
"You idiot, the boss did not give us these special warding powers just so you can give our location away," a small dark creature snapped as he knocked his companion on the back of the head.
"I'm sorry, but you know my vision is not the best at night," he whined as he grabbed the back of his head.
"Yes, which is why I tried to make you stay at our camp."
"But you know that I don't like begin out in the woods by myself."
"Whatever, lets just go and retrieve the human. Our master has been getting more and more hungry since he ate that weird plant, but unfortunately for us it is not normal food he is hungry for."
"Well if you ask me he should have just stayed locked up in the spirit world. We were a lot better off when he was."
"Don't say that unless you want him to kill you."
"Sorry," the whiny one muttered as he dropped his head.
The darker demon grabbed his companion's arm and took off back to where the human had been dropped by the trap.