Chapter 11. Y'all. Finally here. God, I'm sorry for the wait. Here ya go.

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The karaoke bar was crowded and loud. A man with dark brown hair and blue eyes sat in a corner, brooding. The job assignment had gone completely wrong, and now he didn't get paid and he was at a huge risk of loosing his job entirely. Keith glanced up as a young woman approached him.

She couldn't have been older than twenty, and she had the looks. "You don't look like you're having any fun at all." She practically purred. "You wanna have a drink with me?" Keith nodded, a slow grin spreading over his features. This may be all the distraction he needed. The girl hurried off.

Keith looked around the bar again his spirits lifting slightly already. Then he spotted the girl on stage, singing. She was obviously a siren, from the power coming off her as she sang, but demon blood ran in her veins also. She looked exactly like that girl he'd kidnapped before, but she had this girl had power that the other didn't. So she was the one that the boss had wanted. She and some kitsune, who Keith had yet to get a location on.

Keith grinned as the girl came back a flirtatious smile on her face and two drinks in hand. That girl the boss wanted would be gone within the next four days. For now, he had his needed distraction.

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Koenma sat in his usual chair, in his office, trying to figure out what he was going to tell everyone when they came in. Everyone being Yuskue, Kuwabara, Hiei, Maggie, Amanda, Marissa, Laci, Pheonix, and Nikolas.

It had been two weeks since Kurama and Alena had left on their mission, and… they had both gone missing… and Koenma had no way of finding them.

The small ruler sighed slightly. The only good thing that had happened was Kiata had turned up again. But she didn't remember anything about her kidnappers. Koenma sighed again feeling a good sized head ache coming on.

Plus, everyone was scheduled to go back to or start school tomorrow. Not good.

Laci marched through the door first a mildly irritated look on her face. Hiei followed behind her, the same look of mild irritation. The two took post at opposite ends of the room leaning against the wall.

Koenma gulped slightly. If those two were already in bad moods….Maggie and Yuskue came in next, followed by Amanda, Touya, Marissa and Jin. The former two flopped unceremoniously into chairs. The latter four sat down with a little more dignity. Kuwabara, Nikolas, and Pheonix brought up the rear.

Koenma looked over all of them. They ALL seemed to have a slightly irritated look about them. That could be from the fact it was also six o'clock in the morning, but…

"Why are we here, Koenma sir?" Laci yawned slightly, her only real show of why she was irritated. If she was tired enough to include 'sir' at the end when she referred to him, she must be tired.

Koenma hesitated for half a moment, and Laci's eyes narrowed slightly. "Well um….you see. Kurama and Alena have gone missing, and I can't allow you to look for them."

Laci, Maggie, and Pheonix blinked slightly, before a unanimous reply came. "WHAT?"

Even Amanda and Marissa were up out of their seats.

"You've got to be kidding!"

"WHY!"

The boy's reaction wasn't much different. Yuskue and Kuwabara were yelling, and Hiei had a death glare. Nikolas was the only one who was remaining calm.

With Koenma cowering behind his desk, waiting for the yelling to die down, Nikolas was thinking over possible explanations.

Finally fed up with the yelling, the vampire interrupted. "It's a bit obvious if you think about it." He said flatly. Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and turned to him, waiting for him to continue. "One, we all have to start school tomorrow. If all of us miss that, together, it might be suspicious. Two, neither of them would want us coming after them. Three, it'd be wasted resource. I'm sure Koenma is already looking into it. Correct?" Nikolas finished and looked pointedly at Koenma who nodded feverishly.

Laci closed her eyes taking a deep breath. Koenma almost replied before she spoke, but the blond haired girl finally voiced her opinion. "What the fuck makes you think I give a damn about school, or the fact that Alena would kill me or that Koenma already has people on it? Huh? I don't." She said flatly, glaring at every person in the room in turn. Then she shook her head. "Fine. You know what, I'll go with this." She turned to Koenma. "You have two weeks to find them, or I go looking myself." With that she left the room still leaving an air or tension. Hiei had disappeared moments later without a word.

The remaining people in the room excluding Nikolas who had disappeared soon after Hiei, met Koenma with glares, and excluding Touya and Jin, who merely gave him looks of distaste. "Two weeks, Koenma." Yuskue said. The black haired boy stood and left, everyone else following at their own pace.

Nikolas had caught up with Hiei as he left. "What do you want?" He asked flatly.

Nikolas wasn't fazed. "My sister is pissed off right now and she's bound to do something stupid. All I ask is that you don't let her get hurt.

"Hn." Was Hiei's only reply as he disappeared out of sight. Nikolas sighed slightly. Hiei and Laci were a lot a like in some ways, like their lack of the ability to answer questions. But Nikolas trusted Hiei not to let Laci get hurt.

Hiei did actually follow Laci. He had an excuse now that Nikolas had asked him to. Sort of. He would have gone after the girl anyways. He'd seen how emotional she could get. And how rashly she reacted to a lot of things. She would have to quail her temper if she wanted to be a good fighter. Hiei scoffed slightly. She had all the skills and ability, she just had slim, if not, no self control.

Hiei found Laci in a training clearing in the middle of the woods behind Genkai's temple. The girl had a bottle of what smelled like whiskey in her hand and two more bottles of an unidentified as of yet substance sitting off to the side, plus a variety of pixie sticks lay in a bag at her side.

Laci barely jumped as Hiei appeared beside her. "Someone actually mistook you for twenty-one and sold you liquor?" He asked her flatly.

"Nope." Laci said shaking her head. "Stole it." She said with a grin, glancing up at her mentor.

"Did you steal the pixie sticks too?"

"No. The guy gave 'em to me for free. I wonder why…" Laci trailed off slightly, thinking.

"Were you doing anything that would have caused him to give you free pixi sticks?"

Laci thought again for a moment. "No, I don't think…." She stopped and trailed off again. "Wait. I was leaning on the counter. He could probably've seen clear down my shirt." She snorted. "Pervert. He probably thought I would give him a blow job or something." She murmured, taking another sip from her bottle of whiskey.

Hiei sat down beside her, taking the bottle from her hands. "You have school tomorrow. You shouldn't get stoned." He told her flatly.

Laci snorted grabbing a bottle from behind her and a cork screw from nowhere and opened it to reveal, more whiskey. "One bottle of whiskey will not leave me stoned." She said.

"I'm betting you don't care about school either."

"Damn strait." Laci replied, a lazy grin spreading over her features.

"Why?" Hiei asked finally, breaking the silence that had eloped the two.

Laci looked at him, trying to comprehend the question. "Why what? Why am I acting like this, drinking and eating sugar? Cuz I want to. I want something that will take my mind off the fact that I've been forbidden to look for a girl who's like a sister to me." Laci's eyes were down cast, her voice barely reaching the level of a growl. "I can't stand the pain damn it! I'm scared for Alena's life; I'm scared for Kurama's life. I scared I'll wait the fucking two weeks and they'll already be dead." Laci's voice cracked as tears flowed freely down her cheeks.

Hiei cradled the girl's shaking form as she cried on his shoulder. Eventually, Laci feel asleep.

Hiei stood, and started back towards the temple, carrying Laci. "If they're dead, Koenma will pay." He whispered the promise to Laci as her lay her in her bed. As Hiei moved to leave, the blond girl took a death grip on his cloak.

"Don't leave me alone, please." She murmured, still mostly asleep, but the grip on the cloak never faltered. Hiei sighed slightly. If he'd learned one thing about his trainee in the last couple of weeks it was that if she set her mind to something, she wouldn't stop until she accomplished her goal. Hiei lay down beside her, and wrapped his arms around her. Soon both had fallen asleep.

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Alena awoke with a start. She was curled on a cold stone floor next to something. She realized with another start that whatever she was lying next to was breathing. So not something. Someone. She groaned as she tried to remember where exactly the hell she was.

She and Kurama had been at the palace place for barely two days. Sometime on the second day, Alena and Kurama had taken a walk through the woods, and then…. That was where Alena's memory stopped. The girl groaned again. If the last person she was with was Kurama, then…Alena turned slightly to see the red haired fox lying behind her, seemingly asleep. Or, because they were in some unknown place and Alena had a major head ache, more likely knocked out.

Alena sat up slightly, taking in her surroundings. The two were in a cage/cell. It had bars, a stone floor and a bad smell.

Alena stood and staggered slightly to look out through the bars. A tall demon who'd been leaning against the wall opposite, stepped forward.

"So, you're finally awake." He said smoothly, his indigo eyes boring into Alena's blue ones. The man had as said indigo eyes. He was about six feet tall maybe more, with dark brown hair and fair skin. A panther demon by sent.

Alena bared her fangs slightly, thankful for her demon blood more than ever now. Her bi-colored ears flicked back and forth taking in all the sounds. "Where are we and what the hell do you want with us?" She snarled at the man. This demon, whoever he was, could mean nothing but trouble if he was standing on the other side of the bars of their imprisonment.

The man just grinned. "You'll find out soon enough, ookami." He started to walk away.

Alena growled. Then she took a deep breath and steadied herself enough to speak. "You seem to know me. Who are you?"

The demon grinned back at her. "Sukai." He said simply then continued to walk away. Alena cocked her head to the side. This could be an interesting stay.

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Maggie P.O.V.

I was sitting on the roof of the temple staring out into space and mostly avoiding people. Alena was more than my cousin; she was my best friend, and one of the few people I could go to with my problems. That put me at a dilemma. Who could I talk to right now who wasn't already upset with Alena gone?

Laci was down right pissed, Amanda and Marissa were sulking, and there was now way I was talking to Nikolas or Pheonix. I mean, I'm supposed to be going out with Nikolas and all, but, we'd kinda started to go our own ways. Anyhow, Nikolas had been hitting on Kieko and it was totally obvious. And, I love my cousin, but Pheonix, just isn't a person to talk to.

I jumped as Yuskue sat down beside me. "Hey."

"Hey. What have I told you about sneaking up on me?" I asked him.

"uh…Not to?"

I sighed slightly. "Precisely, Yuskue. And now I'm gonna be more jumpy than usual. You could get hurt."

Yuskue shrugged slightly. He seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment he said, "We're all worried about them, you know that, right?"

I nodded slightly. I knew everyone was worried. "I know. I can't believe Koenma won't let us look for them."

Yuskue snorted slightly. "Yeah, I know. But with any good luck, Koenma will have found them by the time his two weeks are up."

"Maybe. But it would be fun to see Laci blow up at Koenma."

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Alena leaned against the bars of the cell staring off into space. Kurama was sitting against one of the walls, also thinking. Both were trying to come up with a way to escape. As of now, they didn't have one. They'd tried attacking the bars of the cell, and they wouldn't break. They'd tried breaking through one of the walls, and that didn't work either. Somehow all forms of telepathy were blocked so calling for help was out of the question. Now the two were out of ideas.

Suddenly a voice came from a cell across the hall. "Hey, Slim, Red."

Alena glanced up. A tiger demon sat crouched in the back corner of his cell. "You talking to us?" She asked. She didn't really know, considering, no one referred to her as Slim, or Red. Kurama might be referred to as Red, but she'd never heard it. The tiger demon nodded. "We've got names you know."

The tiger laughed slightly. "Everyone in here did, at one time. But once Sukai gets his hands on you, you loose you who once were. It's better to give up the name you once had. The past will only make it harder. Oh and I'm being rude. Everyone here calls me fangs."

"We don't plan on giving in." Kurama said quietly from where he sat.

Fangs sighed slightly. "Keep dreaming, Red. Nobody escapes from here alive. Slim, you might wanna talk some sense into him if you want him to stay alive."

"No, Fangs, he's right. We can't give up that easily. Anyhow, how hard can it be, neh?" Alena sat, a small grin lighting her features.

'If those two are that determined, they might just be able to pull off the impossible.' Fangs thought, watching the two.

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Okay. I finally updated. Go me! I'm going on vacation, so I don't know if I'll be able to update for like the entire month of July. Don't kill me. I hope y'all enjoyed the chapter. R&R. LATERZ!