Ahem. I bring good news of great joy. My computer is finally fixed!! ...dances to some random song...
Of course, ff . net is having a lot of problems right now, making me have to rewrite this and the last chapter about fifty gajillion times. Plus, it really pisses me off every time I have to do so. And I'm also getting really absorbed in this story line. ...laughs nervously... But I promise that I will get you new chappys of other stories ASAP. My work on them was deleted thanks to all the problems on ff . net. But I WILL prevail!
Disclaimer: ...plays with one of Inu's ears... Pweeeeease, Inu-baby? Pweeeeese can I own you?
"talking"
'thinking'
(telepathy)
Yusuke put his hands behind his head as he carelessly walked down the sidewalk, bored as all hell. The arcade was still a few blocks away, and he was just passing by a huge staircase when he sensed something at the top.
''Hiei?'' Without a second thought, he raced to the top of the stairs just in time to see the fire youkai and a girl walk into a mini shrine on the edge of the property.
Yusuke ran over and stuck his head in just in time to see a blue light fade into darkness. "What the-" Silently, he padded down the stairs and poked his head over the edge, seeing nothing but blackness.
"Are you one of Kagome's friends?"
The spirit detective started and whirled around to come face to face with a pre teen boy with black hair and brown eyes. He sighed in relief. "What was that kid?"
The boy frowned. "I said 'Are you one of Kagome's friends?'."
'Kagome? Isn't that the alias of the girl we're trying to find?' "You know her?"
His frown deepened. "Of course I know her. I'm her little brother, Sota. Didn't she tell you about me?"
Yusuke blinked. 'Little brother? That's right. Koenma didn't mention any relations. I guess I should play along. This might lead somewhere.'
"Oh! That's right!" He mocked stupidity. "She did say something about having a little brother. It's just been a while since I've seen her."
"I guess that's right!" The boy's frown turned instantly upside down. "It's been a while since she's been over there."
'Over there?' Yusuke glanced back at the well again.
Sota noticed. "I wish I could go over there . . ." He sighed, then brightened up again. "You're lucky! You have to tell me all about it!"
"Sure . . ." Yusuke couldn't help but feel that the kid deserved to be in a mental hospital.
Suddenly, his stomach growled loudly.
Sota burst out laughing. "Hey. Why don't you come eat dinner with us? We can invite Kagome over from her place out in the woods. And maybe we can even get Inuyasha to come!" His eyes shone with admiration for his hero.
'Inuyasha?' Yusuke eyed the boy curiously as he looked over at the well. Something was down there. The only question was what.
Kasakia snapped out of yet another trance as the spirit detectives continued to look for the miko. She had been falling half asleep for the past few hours, just staring out into space.
"Bored?" Kurama sat on the bench next to her.
"I'll give you one guess." She sighed heavily.
He smirked, then turned back to the fuming Botan.
"Oh this is just stupid!!!" She yelled, stamping her foot on the ground and clenching the small compass in her hand. "We can't find her anywhere in this stupid city!!!" She slammed the thing down on the ground, breaking it into little pieces.
"Calm down, Botan. We'll find her." Kuwabara tried to calm her down.
"I will not CALM DOWN!!!" She slammed her foot down on the shattered compass, making a small crack in the cement underneath it. She rounded on the half-asleep Kasakia. "You!"
The demoness woke up with a start. "W-What?"
"Koenma told me that you have lengthened vision!"
The shock faded from Kasakia's face and was replaced with a scowl. "I don't remember agreeing to be your personal search hound."
Botan threw her arms up in the air. "This is stupid! We can't find her anywhere in this stupid city! We'll never be able to find her as long as she doesn't want to be found! As far as I'm concerned, let her get attacked by a demon! I'm quitting this mission!"
Kuwabara started slinking off. "I . . . I'm gonna go find Yusuke . . . I'll . . . just go now . . ." With that, he took off.
Botan didn't even notice. "I'm so sick of being sent on these ridiculous missions without any help at all! I'm going to file a complaint to Koenma!" With that, she disappeared with a faint pop.
"Well I guess that leaves us to look for the girl." Kurama glanced over at Kasakia.
"I guess . . ." she mumbled, staring out at a passing runner.
"So what's the real reason you won't use your lengthened vision to find her?"
Kasakia immediately snapped out of her trance. 'He's getting suspicious.' "I just hate being used, that's all."
"I guess we all do." He got up, and started walking down the sidewalk. After a second of simply staring after him, Kasakia got up and followed.
"Where do ya wanna go?" She kicked a stone, looking at the ground.
"You look like you could use some caffeine."
"Koenma made sure I had a long night. I would've fallen asleep if it hadn't been for some ranting baby yelling at me to stay out of trouble!" She growled slightly.
Kurama chuckled.
"What?!" Kasakia looked over at him with wide, dangerous eyes.
"I was just remembering what Koenma said, is all." He chuckled again.
Kasakia rolled her eyes, kicking another stone. "So I like guys! Who doesn't?!"
The kitsune gave her a weird look.
"Okay . . . so you don't . . ."
Kurama started laughing, and Kasakia smiled, then started laughing too.
Hikari stared down at the small village, her curiosity peaking. It was odd enough that demons were making themselves cozy here, but people living in run down huts next to a river?
She tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, making sure that the point had indeed rounded. 'I guess I better go see what I can do.' With that thought, she made her way down the hill, watching as the people began to stare.
(Why don't you just make the girl give it to you so we can get this over with?)
(Shut up, Hiei. I need to concentrate.)
(Let me guess. You're going to do this the hard way.)
(Don't I always?)
(If you don't hurry up, I'm going to come down there myself and take it. That hanyou didn't have a chance against me.)
(But this time, the girl is armed. You'd die before too long.)
(Hn.)
Finally, Kaede spotted the apparently human demoness. "What business have ye here?"
Hikari blinked. "I am simply wandering. This place . . ." She looked over at a hut with mock longing in her eyes and ran her hand down the side. "It reminds me of home . . ."
Kaede reached back for an arrow from her quiver. "Ye do not look like ye would live in such an abode."
'Damn.' She looked down at her long, tight, black dress, a white, serpentine dragon twisting around it. "I come from a richer clan, but I often spent my days in the village. It looked awfully similar . . ."
The old miko took her hand from the arrow. "I see."
(Having a little trouble, Hikari?) Hiei mocked her.
(I'm doing just fine. The village elder seems to not think I'm suspicious anymore.)
(Village elder?)
(This woman knows where we are. That miko seems to've used to come here all the time. We're 500 years in the past, in the warring states era.) Hikari tried to act like she wasn't talking to anyone as she looked pleadingly at the old hag. "Could I possibly stay here? It's been ages since I've slept or ate."
"I guess I can give ye a home fer a few days." Kaede turned around, heading for her hut. Hikari hid a smirk, then followed.
(That explains how the Shikon skipped so many years. Just hurry up, this bitch is giving me a hard time.)
(Cut her tongue out if you hate it so much.) Hikari could practically hear the ninja girl spitting insults at the fire apparition. (Or just give her something to eat. I read her mind while I was there, and she couldn't stop thinking about food.)
(I'm not going to degrade myself to being a ningen's servant.)
(Fine then. Just take her back to our time and ditch her somewhere. You sound pretty hungry yourself.)
(Hn.)
The old hag pulled back the flap on her hut, revealing the miko girl that Hikari had been searching for. But she wasn't alone.
"Who the hell is this, Kaede?" Inuyasha spat, looking at Hikari suspiciously.
A monk that was sitting in a corner eyed her strangely, and the youkai couldn't help but take a small step back at his expression.
"This lass is wandering around these parts and wishes for a place to stay. I've decided to let the child stay here." Kaede sat by the fire, taking a wooden ladle and stirring the contents of the pot above it.
"Well I guess we should introduce ourselves then." The young miko offered a chipper smile. "My name is Kagome, and this" She tugged one of the inu hanyou's ears. "is Inuyasha. Don't worry about him. He only acts dangerous."
Hikari bowed slightly, then turned her attention back to the monk. She didn't like the thoughts that were running through his head.
"That's Miroku. I'd watch out for him if I were you." She also eyed the monk suspiciously.
He stood and took one of the demoness's hands. Hikari's eyes widened as an image of her naked form swam in the monk's mind, her dark hair cascading down her back as she seductively walked up to him. "Would you . . ." He lightly kissed her hand. " . . . consider bearing my child?"
She let out a small scream as even more impure thoughts ran through his head. Hikari jerked her hand away, staring at him as if he was a raving lunatic.
A giant boomerang suddenly smashed down on Miroku's head. "I shoulda known. What a lecher."
"Hey, Sango." Kagome stood up.
"Hey, Kagome." Sango eyed Hikari curiously. "Who's she?"
Hikari bowed. "My name is Hikari. I'll be staying here for a while."
"And I'm Sango." She removed her boomerang from the unconscious monk's head. "Sorry about him."
"It's . . . alright . . . I guess . . ." The image of herself in his head still coursed through hers. She had seen perverted images of herself in lecher's heads before, but none had managed to produce a full blown lemon!
"I don't know what I'm going to do with him . . ." She sighed, then sat down next to Miroku's unconscious form, allowing a small cat demon that had been following her to jump in her lap.
Hikari sat down next to Inuyasha, still pretty stunned from all of Miroku's thoughts. Inuyasha made a almost nonexistent growl, making sure that Kagome sat on his other side.
"Kaede! I brought more vegetables for the stew!" The red headed kitsune ran into the hut, carrying armfuls of all types of veggies.
The old miko smiled warmly. "That'll do for now, Shippo. Why don't ye introduce yerself to the young lass over there."
Shippo turned to face Hikari, smiled, then bolted over to her, jumping into her lap, practically scaring the demoness to death. "My name's Shippo! What's yours?!"
After her heart started beating normally again, Hikari eyed the little kitsune, then answered. "My name's Hikari."
It was then that she noticed the tail. It twitched every now and again. Big. Fluffy. Absolutely adorable. Before she knew what she was doing, Hikari started playing with the end. Shippo giggled, then sat down, letting her freely play with it.
"So, Kagome." Inuyasha still looked at Hikari suspiciously, even as she started giggling at the twitching tail. "When are we going back again?"
"After we get a good night's rest."
Hikari's eyes flashed. She had to go back with them. "Go where?"
Kagome immediately got nervous. "We're gonna go back to my country is all." She smiled, trying to hide her nervousness.
"Can I go with you? I want to see the whole world! It's my kind of adventure. Pleeeease." She put off her sad puppy eyes, along with a dose of her own mental powers.
"Well . . ." Kagome looked as if she was about to consent.
"No." The finality in Inuyasha's voice shocked everyone. Everyone except Hikari that is. She could tell that he was incredibly suspicious of her, and didn't want her anywhere near Kagome.
'Damn it' she thought, her mind racing for a way to end his suspicion.
(Why don't you seduce him?)
Hikari mentally jumped. (Don't scare me like that, Hiei.)
(It seems to me like you've always liked seducing men. Why not him?)
She scowled at him in her mind. (I'm not going to degrade myself to a hanyou. No way. So why don't you just take your ninja bitch and leave?)
Hikari hid a smile as she heard Hiei growl in her head.
(Hn.)
"Something wrong, Hikari?"Kagome asked, looking at her concernedly.
"Oh nothing. Nothing at all." She smiled nervously, cursing for losing herself in taunting Hiei.
So the plans are falling into place! Hikari's gonna get the jewel! Kasakia's gonna distract the Spirit Detectives! And Hiei's gonna keep Yugure from interfering!
But will Hikari really seduce Inu?
Will Inu find out the truth about Hikari?
What's Kasakia gonna do with Kurama?
What will happen to the engagement?
How will Yugure react to the modern era?
All these questions will be . . . eventually answered . . . and more! Next time on Friendship Forged in Blood!
Thanks to: OniyuriGaaru (a.k.a. Kashiaga ), Inuyashanuna (Yes. I'm planning to make it a crossover pairing.), kirana (...wink wink...), Killiara, Sukera, sweet-girl8270, PinkFlamingoQueen520, and Kira
TakeDown: Special thanks to Overobessey for putting my character in there! Arigatou!
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Disclaimer: I don't own Kasakia either. She is 100 percentTakeDown's. I have her special permission to use her in this story.