Shade- I'm back! MUWAHAHAHAHA! I'm a little to into that... anyways! I
thank you all for the reviews! In fact, if I could see you right now I'd
kiss you! Okay... maybe not kiss you, but say thanks, I'm mean that would be
the least I could do. Well, the dream is now over and I know it was
horrible for Karuka but it will sort of tie in soon, plus it shows why
Karuka is such a cold person. Okay, enough of my babbling... ON WITH THE
STORY!
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Chapter 10: Real answers
Hiei let all of that info sink in before he looked down at Karuka. She was sweating and breathing hard. Then Hiei heard distant voices.
"Come on Kuwabara! It's not like she's dead!"
"I know Urameshi but it's just the fact that you fought a girl."
"So what, I've fought them before."
'Oh no. I better get out of here, the fox is sure to sense my energy if he gets to close.' Hiei stood up with Karuka in his arms and jumped from tree to tree trying to get away from the rest of them, as to avoid questions of why he stopped. He didn't want to explain the dream just yet, he wanted to take time.
"Hm?" Kurama looked to the left to a tree to watch the branch near the middle move slightly.
"What is it Kurama?" Kuwabara asked.
"Oh," Kurama turned his head to face the totally clueless two, "Nothing."
*~ Koenma's office ~*
Hiei had gotten to the office a half an hour before the rest, which he felt was good timing as to not raise suspicion. He laid Karuka down on the couch right as Yusuke and the rest walked in. He quickly moved to the window sill.
"Now you see Hiei? That wasn't all that bad now was it?" Yusuke asked him. Hiei didn't reply.
"I hope that you got the amulet Yusuke." Koenma popped out of no where and scared the crap out of Yusuke.
"GEEZ KOENMA! YOU SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!" He said.
"Well, if you have to take care of business I would appreciate it if you took care of that in the restroom." Koenma said.
"Uh, Koenma, we have the shadow amulet right here." Kurama said, holding up the necklace.
"Good, that can go in my father's vault along with the other three artifacts. Ogre, take Miss Mokushi and bring her to her cell before she wakes up."
"No." Hiei said quietly.
"Excuse me Hiei?" Koenma asked.
"I said no."
"No what shorty?" Kuwabara asked.
"Don't take her to jail, she is innocent." He said.
"What? Just because she said she never killed her mother?" Yusuke asked this time.
"Hiei, we have proof of her killing- wait a minute? Her mother? Who's her mother?" Koenma asked.
"Ruka, the princess of all tigers." Yusuke said.
"WHAT?!"
"Yeah, it turns out that she's half tiger demon along with her shadow."
"Well, that is some information that I didn't want to know." Koenma said sadly.
"Why?" Yusuke asked.
"Because, it is customary that in the tiger kingdom, whoever kills a royalty is executed. And since Karuka is the sole possessor of the shadow amulet and has no offspring, we are forced to kill the shadow race." Koenma said in a low, mourning voice.
"Is that legal?" Kuwabara asked.
"Of course it's legal you idiot!" Koenma yelled now going from mournful to frustrated.
"Never in the history of Makai has this ever happened before! I mean, we have had to wipe out a great amount of parts of demon races but never the WHOLE race! Plus, the shadow demons are quite important to living, they hold the majority balance of darkness in our world of light and dark. If they are gone light may take over the three worlds, and there are still demons out there that need the dark to live, and this way they only get some of it which means that they die too!"
"Why can't you just let her live then?" Kuwabara asked.
"Because now that it has been confirmed that she killed Ruka the tiger kingdom will want her dead and if we don't kill her they'll take our hides!"
"Don't worry Koenma, you don't have to kill her." Hiei said after being silent for too long.
"What in hell are you talking about Hiei! Why do you keep saying that Karuka is innocent?"
"Because she is. She didn't kill her mother... her brother did."
"And what proof do you have?"
"I should ask you the same question. All you're basing this girl's life on is the fact that it was her dagger with the princess' blood on it. And now that we know that Karuka is her daughter we see that anyone else could have killed her because Karuka was living in the dojo you found it in with her mother."
"Impossible, Ruka lived in the palace." Koenma said.
"Maybe you should check the tiger kingdom's history before killing the shadow race."
"Fine I will! As long as it can save the shadows! Ogre? Get me all the information on the tiger kingdom from fifteen years before Princess Ruka's death and fifteen years after!" Koenma yelled.
"Yes, Lord Koenma." The blue ogre ran out of the room, arms flailing about.
*~ 5 minutes later ~*
"Here's the information sir." The ogre came into the room with five large stacks of paper.
"Hm," Koenma said looking at the paper the ogre put on his desk. "Maybe I should have had it be ten years instead of fifteen."
"Lord Koenma, I do think that you should start looking for some useful information so you can prove that Karuka is innocent.
"Yes, yes I will." Koenma practically dive into the paper stacks and popped back up with a few papers in hand.
"Well aren't you going to help me!?" Koenma shouted to the rest of the group.
The rest helped out except for Hiei.
"Here's something!" Botan said aloud.
"What is it Botan? Is it something that can prove Karuka's innocence so I don't have to kill the shadows?" Koenma yelled from the middle of the pile till his face popped out of the top and peered down at Botan.
"Well maybe sir. It says here that Princess Ruka had a 9 month leave of absence with no reason tied to it." She said.
"Well how does that help me?!" Koenma yelled, diving back into the pile.
"But wait sir. It also says that two years later she had another 9 month leave of absence where no one knew of her where a bouts, and four years later the same."
"Yeah, and I got something like that too." Yusuke said with a few papers on his head. "This says that one year after her second 9 month thing she had one more 9 months leave and five years after that another 9 months leave. What's up with this 9 months thing geez."
"Well I don't see how that can prove Karuka's innocence."
"What if you get information on Karuka's father and see if anything matches up." Kurama suggested.
"Great idea Kurama! Ogre, get info on Truyo Mokushi!" Koenma ordered.
"But I just put that away sir!"
"Well get it back out here or do you want the world run by happy go lucky light pansies forever and ever?!"
"No sir. I'll go get it now!" Ogre ran out of the office again and brought back more paper.
*~ 20 minutes later (Karuka is still out and the rest excluding Hiei who knows the truth are still looking) ~*
"Hey, I think I got something." Kuwabara said.
*sigh* "Yes Kuwabara?" Botan had gotten tired of looking through the same papers over and over again.
"Right around this Truyo guys death, Ruka had another absence."
"So?"
"Don't you think that's weird?"
"Maybe, Kuwabara, if it corresponds at all to this. This says that Ruka had stretch marks after her first 9 month 'vacation' similar to pregnancy stretch marks and they got worse each time after an absence. And-" Kurama finished what Botan would have said.
"Pregnancy lasts nine months which means that each time Ruka left it was because she was pregnant with a child that must have been outside a full tiger demon heritage or she would have never left at all. Karuka was telling the truth about her Ruka being her mother."
"And a reason of Ruka leaving after Truyo's death would be to take care of her supposed children because they would have been so young!" Botan exclaimed.
"But that still doesn't prove Karuka's innocence, and those are just accusations. Just because it's nine months doesn't mean that she had a baby. Even with the stretch marks." Koenma added before Botan could say something.
"Why don't you scan for finger prints?" Hiei, who was standing in the corner the whole time everyone else was researching, suggested.
O_O (Koenma)
"OGRE!"
"Yes Koenma sir?"
"Why didn't YOU suggest that?!"
"Uh?"
"Go get finger prints on this dagger!" Koenma yelled while throwing the dagger at George.
"AAHH!" George caught it and left the room.
"Hiei? Why didn't you suggest that before?" Kurama asked his quiet friend.
"I was having fun watching you pathetic beings rummage through all of that waste."
"Then all that stuff we did was worthless?!" Yusuke yelled.
"And we don't even know if that stuff is true!" Kuwa put in.
'Don't worry, that's all true.' Hiei thought. He still didn't want to explain the horrid dream just yet, he would wait for the right time.
"I've got it sir! The finger prints don't match Karuka's! She's innocent!" George ran in yelling.
"Yes! We don't have to kill the shadow species! We don't have to kill the shadow species!" Koenma was jumping around and singing.
"So Karuka's free?" Yusuke asked.
"Oh heck no! She still is wanted for thievery and murder, but since she didn't kill Ruka she doesn't have to be executed. Ogre? Go put Karuka in a more comfortable place so when she wakes up she won't be groggy." Koenma said.
"Yes sir. HEY! WHERE DID KARUKA GO?!"
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Shade- Another day, another chappie with a cliffy. Isn't it grand?
People- No it isn't.
Shade- SCREW YOU! YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!
People- Everyone else sucks.
Shade- But you're just people, you have no names.
One person- Um, I'm Carl *raises hand*
Another person- Yeah, and my names Dave
Shade- Do you really think that I'm going to waste my time learning your names?
People- No.
Shade- Correct! Here are some cookies that aren't moldy! *wink, wink*
People- yeah! *eats them real fast*
Shade- Please review!
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Chapter 10: Real answers
Hiei let all of that info sink in before he looked down at Karuka. She was sweating and breathing hard. Then Hiei heard distant voices.
"Come on Kuwabara! It's not like she's dead!"
"I know Urameshi but it's just the fact that you fought a girl."
"So what, I've fought them before."
'Oh no. I better get out of here, the fox is sure to sense my energy if he gets to close.' Hiei stood up with Karuka in his arms and jumped from tree to tree trying to get away from the rest of them, as to avoid questions of why he stopped. He didn't want to explain the dream just yet, he wanted to take time.
"Hm?" Kurama looked to the left to a tree to watch the branch near the middle move slightly.
"What is it Kurama?" Kuwabara asked.
"Oh," Kurama turned his head to face the totally clueless two, "Nothing."
*~ Koenma's office ~*
Hiei had gotten to the office a half an hour before the rest, which he felt was good timing as to not raise suspicion. He laid Karuka down on the couch right as Yusuke and the rest walked in. He quickly moved to the window sill.
"Now you see Hiei? That wasn't all that bad now was it?" Yusuke asked him. Hiei didn't reply.
"I hope that you got the amulet Yusuke." Koenma popped out of no where and scared the crap out of Yusuke.
"GEEZ KOENMA! YOU SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!" He said.
"Well, if you have to take care of business I would appreciate it if you took care of that in the restroom." Koenma said.
"Uh, Koenma, we have the shadow amulet right here." Kurama said, holding up the necklace.
"Good, that can go in my father's vault along with the other three artifacts. Ogre, take Miss Mokushi and bring her to her cell before she wakes up."
"No." Hiei said quietly.
"Excuse me Hiei?" Koenma asked.
"I said no."
"No what shorty?" Kuwabara asked.
"Don't take her to jail, she is innocent." He said.
"What? Just because she said she never killed her mother?" Yusuke asked this time.
"Hiei, we have proof of her killing- wait a minute? Her mother? Who's her mother?" Koenma asked.
"Ruka, the princess of all tigers." Yusuke said.
"WHAT?!"
"Yeah, it turns out that she's half tiger demon along with her shadow."
"Well, that is some information that I didn't want to know." Koenma said sadly.
"Why?" Yusuke asked.
"Because, it is customary that in the tiger kingdom, whoever kills a royalty is executed. And since Karuka is the sole possessor of the shadow amulet and has no offspring, we are forced to kill the shadow race." Koenma said in a low, mourning voice.
"Is that legal?" Kuwabara asked.
"Of course it's legal you idiot!" Koenma yelled now going from mournful to frustrated.
"Never in the history of Makai has this ever happened before! I mean, we have had to wipe out a great amount of parts of demon races but never the WHOLE race! Plus, the shadow demons are quite important to living, they hold the majority balance of darkness in our world of light and dark. If they are gone light may take over the three worlds, and there are still demons out there that need the dark to live, and this way they only get some of it which means that they die too!"
"Why can't you just let her live then?" Kuwabara asked.
"Because now that it has been confirmed that she killed Ruka the tiger kingdom will want her dead and if we don't kill her they'll take our hides!"
"Don't worry Koenma, you don't have to kill her." Hiei said after being silent for too long.
"What in hell are you talking about Hiei! Why do you keep saying that Karuka is innocent?"
"Because she is. She didn't kill her mother... her brother did."
"And what proof do you have?"
"I should ask you the same question. All you're basing this girl's life on is the fact that it was her dagger with the princess' blood on it. And now that we know that Karuka is her daughter we see that anyone else could have killed her because Karuka was living in the dojo you found it in with her mother."
"Impossible, Ruka lived in the palace." Koenma said.
"Maybe you should check the tiger kingdom's history before killing the shadow race."
"Fine I will! As long as it can save the shadows! Ogre? Get me all the information on the tiger kingdom from fifteen years before Princess Ruka's death and fifteen years after!" Koenma yelled.
"Yes, Lord Koenma." The blue ogre ran out of the room, arms flailing about.
*~ 5 minutes later ~*
"Here's the information sir." The ogre came into the room with five large stacks of paper.
"Hm," Koenma said looking at the paper the ogre put on his desk. "Maybe I should have had it be ten years instead of fifteen."
"Lord Koenma, I do think that you should start looking for some useful information so you can prove that Karuka is innocent.
"Yes, yes I will." Koenma practically dive into the paper stacks and popped back up with a few papers in hand.
"Well aren't you going to help me!?" Koenma shouted to the rest of the group.
The rest helped out except for Hiei.
"Here's something!" Botan said aloud.
"What is it Botan? Is it something that can prove Karuka's innocence so I don't have to kill the shadows?" Koenma yelled from the middle of the pile till his face popped out of the top and peered down at Botan.
"Well maybe sir. It says here that Princess Ruka had a 9 month leave of absence with no reason tied to it." She said.
"Well how does that help me?!" Koenma yelled, diving back into the pile.
"But wait sir. It also says that two years later she had another 9 month leave of absence where no one knew of her where a bouts, and four years later the same."
"Yeah, and I got something like that too." Yusuke said with a few papers on his head. "This says that one year after her second 9 month thing she had one more 9 months leave and five years after that another 9 months leave. What's up with this 9 months thing geez."
"Well I don't see how that can prove Karuka's innocence."
"What if you get information on Karuka's father and see if anything matches up." Kurama suggested.
"Great idea Kurama! Ogre, get info on Truyo Mokushi!" Koenma ordered.
"But I just put that away sir!"
"Well get it back out here or do you want the world run by happy go lucky light pansies forever and ever?!"
"No sir. I'll go get it now!" Ogre ran out of the office again and brought back more paper.
*~ 20 minutes later (Karuka is still out and the rest excluding Hiei who knows the truth are still looking) ~*
"Hey, I think I got something." Kuwabara said.
*sigh* "Yes Kuwabara?" Botan had gotten tired of looking through the same papers over and over again.
"Right around this Truyo guys death, Ruka had another absence."
"So?"
"Don't you think that's weird?"
"Maybe, Kuwabara, if it corresponds at all to this. This says that Ruka had stretch marks after her first 9 month 'vacation' similar to pregnancy stretch marks and they got worse each time after an absence. And-" Kurama finished what Botan would have said.
"Pregnancy lasts nine months which means that each time Ruka left it was because she was pregnant with a child that must have been outside a full tiger demon heritage or she would have never left at all. Karuka was telling the truth about her Ruka being her mother."
"And a reason of Ruka leaving after Truyo's death would be to take care of her supposed children because they would have been so young!" Botan exclaimed.
"But that still doesn't prove Karuka's innocence, and those are just accusations. Just because it's nine months doesn't mean that she had a baby. Even with the stretch marks." Koenma added before Botan could say something.
"Why don't you scan for finger prints?" Hiei, who was standing in the corner the whole time everyone else was researching, suggested.
O_O (Koenma)
"OGRE!"
"Yes Koenma sir?"
"Why didn't YOU suggest that?!"
"Uh?"
"Go get finger prints on this dagger!" Koenma yelled while throwing the dagger at George.
"AAHH!" George caught it and left the room.
"Hiei? Why didn't you suggest that before?" Kurama asked his quiet friend.
"I was having fun watching you pathetic beings rummage through all of that waste."
"Then all that stuff we did was worthless?!" Yusuke yelled.
"And we don't even know if that stuff is true!" Kuwa put in.
'Don't worry, that's all true.' Hiei thought. He still didn't want to explain the horrid dream just yet, he would wait for the right time.
"I've got it sir! The finger prints don't match Karuka's! She's innocent!" George ran in yelling.
"Yes! We don't have to kill the shadow species! We don't have to kill the shadow species!" Koenma was jumping around and singing.
"So Karuka's free?" Yusuke asked.
"Oh heck no! She still is wanted for thievery and murder, but since she didn't kill Ruka she doesn't have to be executed. Ogre? Go put Karuka in a more comfortable place so when she wakes up she won't be groggy." Koenma said.
"Yes sir. HEY! WHERE DID KARUKA GO?!"
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Shade- Another day, another chappie with a cliffy. Isn't it grand?
People- No it isn't.
Shade- SCREW YOU! YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!
People- Everyone else sucks.
Shade- But you're just people, you have no names.
One person- Um, I'm Carl *raises hand*
Another person- Yeah, and my names Dave
Shade- Do you really think that I'm going to waste my time learning your names?
People- No.
Shade- Correct! Here are some cookies that aren't moldy! *wink, wink*
People- yeah! *eats them real fast*
Shade- Please review!