Dragon Tears and Foxblood

Chapter One: Secrets and Betrayal.

NOTE: Readers, this may seem utterly confusing, but as long as you keep reading chapters and noticing hints and subtexts, my rich plot will shine through.

DRAGON TEARS AND FOXBLOOD

Only a demon can kill it's own

Only the traitor can reap seeds sown

The gates of the night will be opened and will flood

In the name of Dragon tears and Foxblood

The dark huntress shall come in the day

And end all Yaku-sha life

We knew it would come, we knew there's a way

All for Dragon Tears and Foxblood.

The prince of the Youko's shall fall in the fight

At the cost of the queen of the night

All these things will come to pass

All for Dragon Tears and Foxblood.

"Ryunosuke…."

The black clad demon huntress kneeled before the alter of King Yama.

" Yes, my Lord?" The Changeling demon replied.

" You know what to do, Ryunosuke. The Yaku-sha. The traitor. Kill him."

Rynuo dared to look up from her kneeling position, and peer into the Eye of the Altar: " The Fox Demon, then? In order to fulfill the prophecy of Dragon Tears and Foxblood?"

" Yes. Only a Demon traitor can kill it's own."

Ryuno kept the surge of anger she felt in her under control. It was not wise to anger the King of the Underworld. Or to quote the old prophecy, but the King did what he pleased when he pleased.

" You are the greatest Demon Hunter in the history of Demon Hunters!" Yama said, " Forget the fact that he was your fathers brother. You are your own, Ryunosuke. A demon. Prove it."

Ryuno rose, and felt her cold heart fill with a sense of content.

" Yeah." She grinned, drawing a pair of slim qua-blades, " This'll be fun."

Kitsune looked up at Koenma. The seven hundred-year-old prince now looked that of a teenager again.

"Kitsune, please you have to find him, I'm afraid the prince of the Youko's has returned" Kitsune's human slender human body was tall and quite an attitude added to it.

"Koenma!" She said her fists balling, " You really can't expect me to-"

"Kitsune, please you must kill him. You want to blow our real intentions to the Foxblood Alliance? After all the preparations and spy networks we've set up to bring the Alliance around Yama's pointy ears, you want to let this come in front of- "

"What else!" She yelled.

"Ryunosuke will need a partner,

"Ryunosuke…." Kitsune frowned, " A partner…"

She was a double agent, and knew it was risky to be playing the game that she was. Kitsune tossed her pretty head, and asked, " Who do you have in mind?"

" Ryunosuke." Koenma said, " You know. The daughter of the Changeling Demon and the human woman. Ryuno has been working on our side, feeding us information about the acts of my father for thousands of years. She has been working Yama for years, and now she has his trust, he thinks she is the Dragon mentioned in the Prophecy, meaning bad for the Alliance, good for us."

" How do we know we can trust her?" Kitsune wondered aloud, " Ryuno is like seriously obsessed with your dad. How do we know that She will screw the plan, and kill Kurama anyway? How d owe know she really isn't the Dragon? What if she is? Then all our work will have been to help Yama and the Alliance!

Koenma grinned, " Trust me. She won't. They're both Yaku-Sha. They're related. Come on, Kit. Ryuno's supposed to look like she's against us."

Kitsune frowned, " This entire string of Demon spies is getting very suspicious!" She said, " I think we should terminate the Alliance."

" Terminate the Foxblood Alliance?" Koenma exclaimed, " Kit-That alliance is the only reason that all the Demon hunters in the World aren't out for your blood for being a Yaku-Sha."

" I know." Kitsune sighed, " But I've been able to disguise my self really well. Does it have to be this way?"

" It does." Koenma said softly.

" Kurama don't know about the plan of the project, does he. When Me'n Ryuno show up, he's really gonna think we're out to kill him?"

" Right." Koenma looked away, " That's only because if the Prince of Youko's knew that you weren't fighting out pure cold blood, then he might not convince Yama that-"

" Hush!" Kitsune put a hand over Koenma's mouth, " You want to blab the plan to the entire world at large? Look-Ryuno should be waiting in the town square like we agreed last month. Good luck in your half of the plan, Koenma."

In a blast of cold, she was gone.

Koenma sighed.

" This is going to be hard to pull off, Kit. Kurama is sharper than you think."

Kitsune looked at Ryuno.

Kitsune's silver-aqua hair was hiding the look in her scarlet eyes. What was going through her mind? What if Kurama died? She didn't know anymore. She was willing to bet that Ryunosuke didn't much care.

"Hello, Kitsune" Ryuno said calmly to her partner.

"Hello, Ryunosuke" Kitsune only as coolly as an Ice Demon can, all the while thinking You're a Yaku-sha's Yaku-sha, you know that, Dragon? Everyone in the Alliance has fallen for you, thinking your all straight. I'm not a sucker. You're a traitor, Ryuno. No one can trust you. You'd better go perform a sixth level banishment spell on yourself and save my Kurama the trouble of-

Kitsune's face masked her emotions completely. The Fox-demon/ice demon was just short of glaring at the Dragon demon, and tried to match Ryuno's cold level gaze.

" We have a job to do." Ryuno said coolly, " We'd better get to it…unless…you want to chicken out…Kit.."

Kitsune scowled at the casual request, and Kurama was Ryuno's uncle, after all, so why would she-

" Are you coming or not?"

Kitsune snapped back to reality. She almost snapped at her, but thought better of it. Ryuno yawned, and uttered a simple tenth level locater spell. Kit felt her hair stand on end as the spell was wrought.

" I know where the Fox is!" She said, " Come on, Kit."

" You watch your back, Dragon." Kit thought, " You watch."

The village was a great place to get away from it all.

Kurama looked up at the tree as he saw the fire/ice demon sitting in the tree.

"Come down here, Hiei" Kurama said calmly looking across the beautiful gardens in the village of the Youko.

"Hn." Hiei said with his usual remark to the fox.

"Hey, Kurama"

Kurama turned, and grinned at his friend Yusuke. The Mazaku had black still slicked back hair and hadn't changed a bit.

Hiei's gaze was even more downcast than normal. This was hard to do. Hiei was in on the plan as well, utterly betraying the trust of Kurama, his friend. Not even Kitsune, Kurama's fiancé, completely trustworthy. At least the fox would still have Yusuke. Poor, poor, blundering clueless Yusuke.

"Hiei, are you alright?" Kurama asked the demon.

Hiei gave his head a little shake. It seemed almost wrong to be plotting against Kurama like this, almost indecent. Then and there Hiei was tempted to tell Kurama everything, but his own cold as steel will hold him back.

" Ryuno and Kitsune might be coming by." Was all that he said.

Kurama gave a smile, " Good. I haven't heard from Kit since a few moons ago, and it'll be nice to see Ryuno again, it's been ages."

"If you only knew." Hiei thought grimly. To mask any emotion that he might have emitted, Hiei swiftly turned his back on Kurama. However, Kurama was as perceptive as ever.

" Something is wrong with you, my friend. What is it?"

" Yeah!" Yusuke said, " I thought you'd be thrilled to see Ryuno again, if not Kitsune."

" I have my reasons." Hiei said solemnly.

" You always do." Yusuke said, clapping him on the shoulder. Hiei jumped up even higher into the tree trying to get away from them.

Kurama was holding Hiei back from becoming a thief again. Now that the Spirit Detectives were all fired he should have left he knew.

"Hey, Hiei" Hiei looked down from the tree there she stood Kurama's old fiancée, Kitsune.

Hiei flinched. Kitsune looked as though she had been crying recently.

" Kit!" Kurama said brightly, leaping foreword to embrace her.

Kitsune backed away, " I'm sorry, Kurama."

" For what?" Kurama looked bewildered.

Hiei shot Kitsune a Severe look, " I'm sure it's nothing worth..Mentioning."

Kit seemed to regain herself. " How have you been, Kurama?"

" Fine." Kurama said, " Where's Ryuno?"

" Right here, uncle."

Kurama smiled as the Raven-haired scarlet clad half demon warrior stepped from out of nowhere. Rynuo was hardly expected to embrace her uncle, but she allowed herself to be taken captive into a gruff one-armed hug.

" Fire still burnin', Ryuno?" Yusuke said warmly.

The situation seemed overly tense. Hiei seemed intensely interested in the fingernails on his right hand.

Ryuno casually drew her qua-blades, " I just recently got these sharpened, uncle. Do you like them?"

Kurama took one of the blades, and took a look, " Nice. I've seen these plenty of times, Ryu."

Ryuno cleared her throat, eyes flashing, tense, " That's because of Dragon tears and Foxblood."

Silence.

Ryuno practically glared daggers at Kitsune, " BECAUSE OF DRAGON TEARS AND FOXBLOOD!"

Kitsune was crying openly now, " Kurama..I'm so sorry…"

" What on Earth and below it is going on?" Yusuke asked.

Ryuno twirled her qua-blade, Kitsune drew her rose,. Even Hiei drew a sword.

" For the sake of Dragon Tears and Foxblood." Ryuno said softly, " The Prophecy must be fulfilled for the Alliance. I'm going to hurt you so bad I'll have you screaming, 'Uncle', Uncle."