This is a Yu-Yu-Hakusho story. Warnings are Yaoi, possible Yuri, OCs, OOC, AU (not as seen on TV), Supernatural Activities (of course), more warnings may come. This is based on the old version of 'Kuwabara's True Form'; hopefully it will be more enjoyable than the last version.
Summary: Kuwabara begins to realize that he's growing old faster than his friends when a mission goes wrong. Another demon makes Kuwabara realize that because he's human, that he's going to die way sooner than his friends; also, he finds out that someone is after him, but who and for what? With his job, and sister in one hand and the missions of Spirit Detecting on the other; he decides to quit Spirit Detecting. But what happens when a strange woman comes along and fools around with Kuwabara's dreams; dreams of nightmares and worst fears? What do they mean; and what happens when that lady appears in one of his dreams? What's up with this new evil and what do they know about Kuwabara that he doesn't know about himself? What will the others do to protect their friend, especially Yusuke? How far will they go in order to protect him? And what power does Kuwabara really have?
Pairings: Eventual Yusuke/Kuwabara; Hiei/Kurama; Yue/Koenma; more pairings may come.
Chapter 1
The phone rang as Kuwabara woke up; awaking from his slumber, Kuwabara reached over to the phone on his nightstand and picked it up. Before he placed the phone on his ear, he glanced at his clock; 9:37 a.m.
'It has to be Grace…' Kuwabara thought before speaking.
"Hello?" He asked in a groggy voice.
"Kuwabara, do you have it ready yet?" A woman's voice asked on the other end.
'Yup, I was right…' Kuwabara thought.
"Grace, do you have any idea what time it is?" Kuwabara asked as he sat up in bed.
"No, but do you have it ready?" Grace asked.
"Grace, I'm pretty sure that I'll have another clear year of satisfied fans with the book that I place out a little over two months ago." Kuwabara said.
"Kuwabara, I'm just nervous." Grace said.
"Well don't be, even though I haven't come up with a plot on the third book yet, I'm pretty sure that I have time to come up with a plot and write it before people start rioting again." Kuwabara said.
"Kuwabara, I hope you realize how many fans you have worldwide." Grace said. "I just don't want what happened the last time to happen."
"Grace, this book is over a thousand pages long; if anyone comes to me begging me to write another after a couple of months, I'll kill them." Kuwabara said.
Grace chuckled.
"Alright, just please call me when you come up with a plot, okay?" Grace asked.
"Alright, good bye, and say hi to Brat for me." Kuwabara said.
"Will do, see you later." Grace said.
"Bye…" Kuwabara said.
A small click was heard and Kuwabara hung up his phone.
"Why me?" Kuwabara groaned as he got up off of bed since he didn't feel like going back to sleep and went over to his bathroom to clean up for the day.
It had been only two years since Kuwabara graduated from college, and he was already world famous. Reason why, because of the series of books he wrote, 'Expect the Unexpected'. From book one to book two, both had been famous; reaching the top of book lists all over the world the moment they hit the shelves. With his first book, Kuwabara was shocked that he even made it on the best selling list on anything, let alone #1 worldwide. His first book made a lot of money for him; he bought a small house where he lived with his pet cat, Luna. (Don't flame me for the cat, she's a very important aspect to this story!)
The books were based on the adventures he had as a Spirit Detective, all of them were true, but he didn't write that in the book, thus people everywhere thought that it was a great work of fiction. The only thing Kuwabara had to do was change the names of the people that he wrote in the book about so no suspicions would ever be raised. Grace, the woman he spoke to that morning was his publicist and editor; Kuwabara had known Grace ever since college and teamed up with her when she said his stories where great. At first, Kuwabara kept his writings in a composition notebook, then Grace got a hold of it and automatically thought that they were just made up stuff; little did she know, she was actually reading Kuwabara's journal.
From the day Grace read his journal, that's when the story idea came to be. Grace, who already had a three year old son and needed money, wanted to be Kuwabara's editor, so Kuwabara let her be. She introduced the idea to some big time publicist, and the stories were rejected. But, Grace wouldn't stop there, which Kuwabara was thankful for to that day.
When the two graduated from college, Grace somehow made a publicist company and made copies of Kuwabara's books on a small scale and also sold them on a small scale. They made money from there, but enough for them to get by; then, a big time author got hold of a copy, she loved it. That author was J.K. Rowling, and she suggested the book to many people; before anyone knew it, the book was rivaling against Harry Potter. (I put J.K. in here because she's one of my most favorite authors!)
Because of those two books, Kuwabara is nearly worth a billion dollars! People couldn't get enough of those books, so they also bought the toys, bookmarks, clothing, ext. based on the books. Kuwabara, including all of the others were amazed.
About the others, as Kuwabara was taking a shower, he remembered that he had a mission to go on with them that day.
"Oh crap!" Kuwabara hissed.
He turned off the water and jumped out grabbing a towel. As he dried himself, he walked over to his closet and pulled out a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, boxers, and a pair of sneakers. That mission he had to go on was estimated to be about three days long, which Kuwabara was surprised that he forgot about.
As he put on his clothing, he quickly rushed back to his bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet and took out a finger tooth brush, placing it in his pocket.
He rushed back to his room and put on his shirt, then quickly headed back to his phone. He picked it up and speed dialed Grace's number.
'Please let it be the answering machine…' Kuwabara thought.
There was a click on the phone and a small voice came over it.
"Hello?" The voice asked.
Kuwabara smiled at whose voice he heard.
"Hey Brat, how are you doing?" Kuwabara asked.
"Uncle Kuwabara!" The little boy on the other end exclaimed. "Fine, and you?"
"I'm doing fine…" Kuwabara said. "Now Brett, I need you to tell your mommy something very important." Kuwabara said in a strict tone.
There was a moment of silence on the other end, Kuwabara knew that Brett, or what he called him Brat, was taking in his serious tone.
"Okay…" Brett said.
"I need you to tell your mommy that I'll be leaving for a few days." Kuwabara said.
"Again?" Brett asked.
"Yes, again…" Kuwabara sighed.
Kuwabara was known to his fans not only for his books, but to disappear without a trace for long or short periods of time, then suddenly show up out of the blue; no one but a few knew where he was, Grace and Brett weren't them.
"Alright…" Brett said. "Be careful wherever you're going."
"I'll be…" Kuwabara said. "Now you be good, you hear?"
"Yup, see you…" Brett said.
"See you later…" Kuwabara said.
With that, they hung up at the same time.
'Now to get out of here before Grace gets here.' Kuwabara thought as he got up.
When he walked out of his bedroom, he was greeted by a small meow.
Kuwabara looked down at his feet and saw his cat, Luna; a small kitten that he received as a gift not more than three weeks ago. The reason why she was called Luna was because of the white crescent moon on her chest; Luna is a black and white tabby cat, with tuxedo style fur with the moon on her small chest, and a smaller moon on her forehead.
"Hey Luna, I've got to go." Kuwabara said as he bent down to scratch her ears. "Don't worry; Grace will be here to feed you soon."
Luna meowed again and Kuwabara was off; he ran down the stairs and was out the door in a second locking it behind him.
'Boy am I going to be late.' Kuwabara thought. 'I hope Koenma won't be mad again.'
Kuwabara ran to the park three blocks away from his house and into the 'haunted cave'. People thought it was haunted because there was a sixty year old rumor that someone died in there and their ghost still lived there. Kuwabara, of course, didn't believe it; namely because he couldn't feel any dead life force in there. The main reason Kuwabara went in there was because it had the closest portal to Spirit World; the only thing he had to do was raise is signature ki a little bit and he'd open it no problem.
As Kuwabara entered, he felt like he as being watched; he looked around and saw, then suddenly felt no one. He shrugged off the feeling and walked in, he raised his ki and the light blue portal appeared; he jumped in and the portal closed behind him.
Little did Kuwabara know was that the moment the portal closed, was the moment a figure jumped into the cave. The figure's body couldn't be seen because of a long black cloak. The figure raised its arm and the portal appeared, it jumped in and the portal closed right after it.
"You're late." Koenma said as soon as Kuwabara entered his office.
Kuwabara sighed and sat down next to Yusuke on a chair in front of Koenma's desk.
"I'm sorry, I forgot that we had a mission this morning, but I remembered." Kuwabara said.
Koenma sighed and looked at the others.
"Are all of you ready?" Koenma asked.
The others nodded and readied to listen.
"Okay, there has been a disturbance at a village in the middle of Demon World; and that disturbance is still there." Koenma said. "A gang of demons has taken over that little village and the residence is being held as slaves. Your mission is to capture the gang and bring them here; I can care less if they are dead or alive, or even in one piece."
Hiei smirked at this; the others nodded and stood up.
"Be careful…" Koenma said. "Don't underestimate these guys, they are known for surprise attacks."
The gang nodded again and headed out.
The mission to the village wasn't a hard one, Kuwabara was a little worried because he thought finding it was too easy; the others ignored what Kuwabara said and continued on their journey.
As they traveled through, they saw only destruction. Huts were burned down to the ground, plants were dead, bodies of various animals littered the ground in pieces, weird smells drifted pretty much everywhere.
"What in the world do these demons want here?" Kuwabara asked as he looked around.
"You!" A loud voice yelled from behind him.
The others were about to whirl around at the different voice, but before they could do that, an explosion came from under them, blasting them all in different directions.
Kuwabara tried to sit up, but a foot on his chest prevented him from doing that.
"Where do you think you're going? Master Hinoro wants you." The owner of the foot said.
Kuwabara looked up into the black beady eyes of a rat demon; just imagine an over grown rat at human size able to stand on its two hind legs.
"Rat, do you have him?" A voice asked.
Kuwabara looked to his right and saw a demon; the demon was a sort of wild cat demon. From what Kuwabara could tell, the demon was male; he was tall, taller than Youko would be; he had long black hair that reached all the way down to his ankles, just barely touching the ground, at the top of the demon's head were big black furred cat ears. His eyes were hollow black slits; the slits were so small they were almost invisible from a far distance. Behind him was a long black tail, but the tip of the tail was missing and was replaced with a scythe. The clothing on the demon was a black opened shirt, and a pair of tight black jeans. But what Kuwabara was focusing on was the symbol on the demon's forehead, he couldn't help but think that he saw it somewhere before; a single black crescent moon was the symbol, which was upside down. (Think of the Nega Verse symbol from Sailor Moon.)
"Yes, I have him Honda…" The rat demon said. "What are we going to do with him?"
"Tie him up of course…" Honda said.
Kuwabara looked up at the rat demon with a mad look.
"Spirit Sword!" Kuwabara yelled as he outstretched his hand and waited for his sword, but nothing happened. Kuwabara's eyes widened and he tried again. "Spirit Sword!" He yelled again, but again, nothing happened. 'What's going on?'
The rat demon laughed at Kuwabara.
"What in the world does Master Hinoro want with this filthy human?" The rat demon laughed. "His power has worn out, does he know that?"
"Worn out?" Kuwabara whispered to himself.
The rat demon's ear picked up what he said; he looked at him with an evil smirk.
"Yes, worn out..." The rat spat in Kuwabara's face. "As in, your power will never ever work again, you have lost them."
Kuwabara's eyes widened again.
"No…" Kuwabara whispered. 'They couldn't have…' He thought
"Yes they have…" The rat said. "Because you are a weak human; your power is wearing out because you are dying."
"Shot Gun!" Yusuke's voice yelled.
A blue laser-like light went through the rat's head, and just as suddenly as the light appeared, the rat's head exploded; pieces of it flew everywhere, amazingly, none of them hit Kuwabara. The rat's body fell to the side and hit the ground with a loud thud. Loud shouts of what sounded like orders were heard and flashing lights were seen before Kuwabara's eyes, but he didn't know what they were because he was looking straight up into the sky.
Suddenly, Yusuke appeared in front of Kuwabara's vision.
"Kuwabara, are you alright!" Yusuke asked.
Kuwabara blinked and shook his head.
'I can't do this anymore…' Kuwabara thought.
To be continued…
So, what's going to happen?
Is what the rat demon said true?
And who is Hinoro?
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