Shade- I do not own this anime (Yu Yu Hakusho) I own the following... or at least what I can think of:
Karuka Mokushi
The shadow amulet
The elemental gems/jewels
All of her powers (I think... you never know!)
And some other stuff too
Chapter 23: the fire gem: hidden code
The gang had made it to the North of Makai really soon. Don't ask me how. They conversed on what the fire gems power was.
"So, we can safely say that the fire gem would burn down any city if used. What would it do if it was destroyed?" Yusuke asked walking slowly with his hands in his pocket thinking.
"Would it destroy all fire? That can't seem plausible." Karuka said aloud.
"Well the sun gem eliminates light, the wind pollutes the air, and the ground kills vegetation. Um... we still need to know snow, water and fire." Everyone started to think of the plausible answers when the communicator went off.
"Yeah Koenma?" Yusuke asked to the tiny screen.
"Are you there yet?" He asked.
"No."
"Get there faster!" Koenma yelled to him. Yusuke closed the communicator quickly and everyone was off running.
three hours later
"Wait, stop for a sec. I need a rest." Kuwabara was bent over choking on his own breath as everyone stopped for him for the seventh time since rushing off in a fit after Koenma's call.
"Come on, we need to get there fast! We can't keep stopping for the oaf!" Hiei yelled from his position in the front.
"We can't push him Hiei, he could pass out. It's okay Kuwabara, take as much time as you need." Kurama wrapped him arm around Kuwabara's shoulder to help him stay standing.
"You really seem to be the mother of the group aren't you Kurama?" Karuka said looking up at the trees for no apparent reason.
"Well he does take care of us with all his poisons and antidotes and stuff." Yusuke pointed out. He squatted with his forearms on his knees and took the time he had to breathe steadily.
"Are you okay now Kuwabara? Do you think you can run?" Kurama asked him looking down at his seated position on the grass.
"Yeah, I'm ready now." He stood up and brushed himself off.
"Finally." Hiei said so simply.
"Let's go." They all ran off again and were in Dainubo within the next hour.
Standing at the edge of the forest before the large city Kuwabara and Yusuke were hunched over breathing hard and near close to puking.
"Koenma said we should talk with the museum manager to obtain the gem." Kurama said as he was scanning the area that stood before him for any signs of distraught folk, checking if they were too late.
"The museums' name is Seiki Shukufuku. It's in downtown Dainubo. We should go fast." Everyone walked off down to the museum. (A/N I'm really sorry that I'm writing this all choppy and stuff but its writers block. I'll make the next chapter better)
When the five had walked all the way through the city, they stood at the front steps of Seiki Shukufuku Museum. It's tall mahogany doors stood over the gang seeming to cascade over them. Abruptly, there were sounds of opening locks on the other side and the doors were opened and a worried man showed his face.
"Were you sent by Koenma?" He whispered to them, though not looking them straight forward. He was glancing around to make sure there were no suspicious people near.
"Yes, we came here to obtain the fire gem for its safety." Kurama said a bit too loudly apparently.
"SH! No one knows is to hear about the fire gem. We don't even show it to the general public! Please, hurry inside." The man opened the door wider for the guys to enter and closed it quickly but took one more glance outside the doors and shut them fast, locking each and every lock.
The guys stood in the dimly lit main room looking around at the artifacts that filled the museums core. So many rare items, it was a surprise no one had tried to break in and steal anything before.
"Please, follow me." The scared demon lightly jogged along the hallway as the rest followed him.
They finally got to a hidden door and the demon flipped open a part of the paneling to reveal a coded lock with a key hole too. As the man punched in the numbers Yusuke asked him a question.
"Excuse me sir, but how do you know someone is after the fire gem?"
"We've been getting threatening letters from demons who want the gem. They've actually been addressed to my employees' homes! Threatening their families, telling them they'll die if they won't give up the location of the gem. It's quite scary." The man finished unlocking the hidden passage way and opened the door to let the guys in.
"It's in here, locked away and safe for you to take." He said making a hand motion showing them they could take it whenever they wanted, preferably fast.
The guys didn't move at all. The room had no lights besides what the gem should give off from its center but no energy was there.
"Excuse me sir, but is there a light perhaps?" Kurama asked the museum manger.
"Yes of course, I'm sorry." The demon flipped a switch on the wall and a light filled throughout the room. Looking around, they all could see that the gem was not there.
"Just like I thought, there was no energy that the gem should have been giving off in the room." Karuka said still looking around making sure she was not mistaken.
"We're too late. It has already been stolen." Hiei said, in a tone as if nothing bad had occurred.
The manager was in such complete shock that he couldn't even speak.
"Looks like you're gonna need some people to do finger prints and stuff." Kuwabara had said looking at the case that the gem should have been in. It was just at this moment that the manager took the problem into his mind.
"OH NO! We must call Koenma!" He ran out of the hidden room leaving the rest behind to "worry".
"How could anyone have taken the gem? There's no sign of forced entry!" Yusuke pointed out still puzzled at the problem, and hoping the city wouldn't burst into flames instantly.
Karuka walked over to the case as the others conversed at what could of happened, trying their best to keep cool. Looking at the case, there was a little card of information just like the Santifugi gem had.
'Well that makes no sense.' She thought to herself, since no one had ever had a chance to see the gem. Then, something caught her attention. There was a small crack in the glass case. She started to piece things together and came up with her own conclusion. Before she thought too far in depth, Kuwabara's voice interrupted her.
"Should we be totally freaked out?" He asked no one inparticular.
Everyone just looked at each other looking to see who would answer his mundane question.
Karuka looked at him and said, "Yes." With that, he threw his arms up into the air and ran around screaming like the little girl that he is. (A/N sorry, I had to put that in)
Ignoring Kuwabara's actions, Karuka went back to the case and looked at the crack. The way the crack was made showed that it was intentional. This meant that the person or group that stole the gem was...
"Did you find something Karuka?" Kurama asked her. She rolled her eyes and straightened up to face him.
"Nothing." She told him. She knew that he knew she was lying but she didn't feel like explaining. Kurama looked at her quizzically trying to break through her simple look but it didn't work. So instead he examined the case that she had just a few moments before. Slowly walking away as Kurama was bent down looking at the glass obstruction, she thought deeper into her theory.
'Not that many are left, so the group must be an elite compilation of demons, and perhaps maybe... Py Ry...' Karuka shook her head at the thought and a serious expression grazed her face as she shut the possibility out completely. Hiei was looking at Karuka as the thoughts went through her wondering what she meant.
"Hm, I found something." Kurama picked up a piece of paper that was behind the case as the manager walked into the room again.
"It's has an odd language written on it, what does it mean?" Kurama showed the piece of paper around.
"It looks like a code. Sir, have you seen this before?" They tried to show the paper to the man but he was running around the room freaking out along with Kuwabara.
"Kuwabara! Stopped worrying, you need to take control of these situations and not blow things out of proportion. We need to keep cool like the professionals we are." Yusuke said to him trying to calm him down.
"Where is the gem?! Was it really stolen? Oh my god we're all going to die! My father will kill me!" Koenma rushed into the room screaming too. Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei and Karuka lowered their heads at the sight of the stupidity.
"Hey Koenma," Yusuke said sort of sounding annoyed with everything.
"Hey Koenma, do you know what in the heck this means?" He asked him showing him the paper that Kurama had just handed to him.
Koenma stopped in mid tantrum with his arms flailed up in the air and one leg lifted off the ground staring at the odd language written on what seemed to be an old piece of paper.
"I'll send it to ogre to decode." He stood up straight and cleared his throat, now trying to keep his cool.
"All of you will be sent out immediately to recover the fire gem. We can't let that power stay in the wrong hands for long. It could prove fatal to many." He turned to a slightly less scared Kuwa, but a still scared as hell museum manager. (A/N pardon my language)
"Lord Koenma, what will we do? The gem is gone! They finally got to it. What if they use it? Oh god I should have never taken that damn gem when they offered it to me!"
"Calm down! You are perfectly safe. Now that the gem is out of your hands you'll be safe. I think you should go home and take a rest." Koenma told the guy leading him out of the museum. He walked back to the rest of the gang.
"Did you really have to lie to him like that? You couldn't have told him he was going to die in a burning flame?" Hiei asked standing near no one in the corner of the hidden room.
Koenma looked stern into the faces of everyone.
"You need to get out and find that gem." He said to them.
"Fine then, let's go."
Shade- total writers block. That wasn't that good
People- damn straight