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I know you don't wanna hear me go on and on like this so… without further ado.. Here is the next chapter

Attack

Yusuke continued to walk away from Kuronue's house. The Spirit Detective stared at the Spirit Sphere in his hand. ' At least the Spirit Sphere has been taken back and should be safe with me. The one thing that gets me is what is with Kurama lately. It's like we have been disagreeing on everything. Is it just that he's defending Kuronue blindly… or is it that he knows something I don't.' Yusuke shook his head. ' No. If he did know something about this he would have told me… unless of course I blocked him out…' Yusuke stopped in his tracks for a moment and sighed. ' Maybe I just have been a bit thick headed and I should try to listen to what he has to say…'

Yusuke looked back at the sphere and placed it in his pocket. In the woods a rustling noise could be heard. Yusuke spun around looking for the source of the noise. " Who's there! Show yourself."

A small black figure appeared in front of Yusuke. The spirit detective let out a small sigh. " Gosh Hiei… don't scare me like that. I thought some other demon was looking for the Spirit Sphere."

" So you found it after all. Where was it?"

" Kuronue's house. He lied to us Hiei. To add more confusion to this whole thing, Kurama is protecting him saying that this was some kind of scam against Kuronue."

" You never know. Demons from demon world always try to make us traitors pay for what we have done. Kurama may actually be right about this."

Yusuke looked down. " You're the third person to tell me that Hiei. I guess now I seem like a total idiot. I highly doubt that Kurama will just accept my apology after all the rotten shit I said."

" You were foolish to make Kurama your enemy."

" I know that Hiei…" Yusuke sighed as he began walking off. " Do you have any ideas of what is going on?"

" Not to much is clear. Somehow all of us are getting dragged into dangers we don't need…"

" Just great…" Yusuke muttered.

Koruri's mansion-

Koruri took away the towels clogging up the door and walked in. Kuronue was still lying on the bed. Koruri walked over and let him free. " Kuronue, my faithful servant… I need your services."

Kuronue opened his eyes slowly and looked up at Koruri. " What do you want of me?"

" I want you to kill the one protecting the Spirit Sphere and bring it to me. If anyone dares to get in your way you are authorized to destroy them."

" I understand." Kuronue stood up and walked out the door. When he reached the outdoors he breathed in the fresh air. ' You're coming to me are you Kurama… well good. Now I can destroy you with my own hands.'

Koruri walked out. " The sphere is with the detective and the fire apparition."

" Such weak opponents don't have a chance of defeating me."

" Good. Now go… destroy them. My other demons will keep Kurama and Kuwabara busy."

" As you wish." Kuronue jumped over the railing in front of the mansion and ran off in the direction of Yusuke and Hiei.

As Hiei and Yusuke were running toward Kuronue, Hiei's Jagan began to glow. ' A demon is approaching.'

Yusuke noticed and turned to Hiei. " What's going on?"

" A demon is approaching straight ahead of us…"

" Can you tell who it is?"

" I can't be sure but it feels like the energy I sensed from Kuronue before."

" Well at least we know he alright…" Yusuke uttered.

Kuronue jumped out at them. The three men stared down each other. Kuronue appeared to be normal as he gave the others a friendly smile. " I'm so happy I ran into you two." He looked around. " Hey where is Kurama?"

Yusuke looked away for a moment and then turned to Kuronue. " He went on ahead."

" Oh did he now… So he left the two of you in charge of the Sphere?"

Hiei narrowed his eyes. " How did you know we had the sphere?"

" I over heard Koruri and Karuru talking about it."

" Uh huh…" Yusuke said with doubt in his voice. " And why should we believe you?"

" I haven't lied to you Yusuke… I'm on your side."

" I highly doubt that. Now tell us what's really going on!"

Kuronue looked at Yusuke with a confused look. " I don't understand… What do you mean, what's really going on?"

" I can tell you are lying through your teeth… I found this in your house." He pulled out the sphere.

Kuronue narrowed his eyes lightly as he looked at it. " I didn't have it there… someone must have broken in and put it there."

" You're not too good at lying." Hiei said as he drew his sword. " I can tell you're not being truthful. You came here to kill us and get the sphere."

Kuronue laughed. " I knew that was the one thing my master liked about you Hiei. That ability for you to read minds… priceless. Well you caught me red handed… but I'm afraid you won't live long enough to tell about it." Kuronue pulled off his pendent and transformed it into his weapon. The once human boy turned back into his demon form. " It's time for the two of you to die." He muttered as he swung his weapon.

Hiei easily dodged it. Yusuke on the other hand wasn't so lucky. Kuronue's weapon sliced his arm making him drop the sphere. Hiei's eyes widened as he rushed over to retrieve it. However the skillful thief noticed Hiei's actions in time and swung his weapon again. Hiei once again maneuvered away from the attack but sadly he was too late. The sphere ended up in Kuronue's hands.

Kuronue laughed as he stared into the sphere. " Thank you for delivering this to me. Now that I have it… I no longer have to wait to kill the both of you." A white fog appeared around them. Clearly it was a trick from Kuronue's sleeve.

Yusuke and Hiei narrowed their eyes as they tried to make out the form of Kuronue. The fog was so thick they could barely see too far in front of themselves. Hiei powered up his Jagan trying to find the location of Kuronue. The demon thief smiled in the fog as he swung his weapon again from a good distance.

The weapon flew there the air and found its way to Yusuke's gut. Yusuke felt a sharp pain as he placed his left hand on his wound. He started cursing up a storm and started looking again. " Damn it where the hell did he go!" Yusuke shouted. As Yusuke continued to look around for Kuronue he could hear someone running around them. ' There he is.' Yusuke thought as he powered up his spirit gun. The blast grew and grew until Yusuke finally shot it. " SPIRIT GUN!" He shouted.

The blue light flew in the direction that Yusuke heard the running coming from. Kuronue paused in his tracks as he noticed the attack coming his way.

But lucky he noticed it and he disappeared without a trace.

When the fog lifted Yusuke looked around trying to find Kuronue. However the only thing he did find was Hiei lying on the ground. " Hiei!" Yusuke shouted.

Hiei moaned as he slowly got to his feet. " I'm fine Detective… get the demon…"

Yusuke nodded as he ran off as fast as he could with his injury. ' Damn it… why couldn't I see his attack coming… I must have really gotten careless… I just hope I can find Kurama before I find Kuronue.'

Kuronue continued running threw the forest. He smiled as he ran. " I got the sphere from those fools… now I have to defeat Kurama… and since he is the only one who believes me… I can use the distrust between them to my advantage….'

To be continued…

Hey everyone. How was that? A bit longer then the last chapter right? The attacks have just begun. Getting interesting is it? I hope you all enjoyed it. Please review. Till next time.

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