---Deceased Romance With New Revelations---

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho

Hello! Thank you for waitingfor more thana week for this update!

I've been doing so much homework in the past week…that it's time to write more to this story!

I'm sorry! I'm going to cut this section of the story a bit short due to the fast coming of Christmas! I hope you understand and I also hope that I am not taking this too fast…

And I'm sorry I updated so late! I can't write stories unless my homework is done and, as you can see, it won't be finished anytime soon…

By now, you're probably wondering to yourself, 'Is Tenshi-Battosai, DEAD?' Crap, because I sure feel like it.

Chapter 15: Tendrils of Smashed Drywall

Hiei, Sango…

Hiei took one look at Sango and glared at her. She didn't see since she was facing the other way.

With an irritated sigh, Hiei pulled off the top layer of his cloak and tossed it to her.

Sango gave him a questioning gaze, staring at the black outer cloak.

"Put it on, we're finding a way out of here, unless you want to stay" Hiei stated blunted.

She rolled her eyes and took it, slipping it on. It only reached up to her above her knees.

Sliding out of the comfortable bed, Sango stood up and sighed.

Hiei pulled out his sword and started to slash at the walls. It seemed that in certain places, the walls sounded a bit hollow, as if passageways were hidden underneath the old drywall.

Dust filtered into the air and Sango sneezed, twitching when bits of dust floated into her eyes, making her vision blurry while her eyes watered.

Nonetheless, Sango reluctantly took a step into the hole, and lifted herself in, starting to crawl against the small pathway that lead to wherever, Hiei leading in front of her. The vent tunnel was slanting downwards, quite sharply.

Soon after, Hiei slashed another side of and end and they both toppled onto damp, carpet floor.

Hiei grunted and Sango scowled as he dropped her, getting up himself.

"Ahh!" A voice shrieked, jumping up from the person's huddled, crouching position. Hiei drew his sword at the sound, but froze when Sango exclaimed, "Yukina!"

'Yukina…?' Quickly, Hiei sheathed his sword as if nothing had happened and kept with a, "Hn"

"Kuwabara…Inuyasha, you're here too?"


Keiko, Yusuke…

'I guess I'll give it a try…' Yusuke carefully pushed a sleeping Keiko off his shoulder and he stood up, stretching.

Yusuke walked up to the wall where he heard the voices coming from before, pressing his ear against the cool drywall.

'How long do you think we'll be here?' A feminine voice asked.

'I don't know…' A more masculine voice replied.

'It sounds like Kagome and Kurama!'

Being the foolish guy he was, Yusuke acted without really thinking… "Spirit gun!"

A bolt of blue energy tore through the wall, sending bits of wall around the room.

"AHH!" Keiko screamed, jumping up from the couch and falling onto the floor in shock, "WHAT WAS THAT?" She rapidly examined the room, scanning for any signs of damage or things like that, "YUSUKE! What the hell did you do that for?"

"Yusuke, Keiko?" Kagome stood in front of the hole in the wall, wide-eyed, clutching Kurama's arm in surprise.

"Yusuke! Do you know what happened to the others?" Kurama questioned.

He snorted, "How should I know?"

"Yusuke!" Keiko growled, smacking him upside the head.

"Hey!" Yusuke whined.

Yusuke waltzed into the kitchen, jerking open the fridge door and grabbing the nearest piece of food, "A hamburger!" Holding it tenderly, Yusuke started to gobble it down.

Keiko sighed and walked up to the fridge.

"Go ahead" Kagome gestured, "I already had an apple…Kurama, you should get something too"

"No thank you" Kurama replied, "I think I'm fine. Thanks for the offer though"

Keiko took an orange.

After several minutes of silence, and the sound of chewing, Yusuke commented, "I really think we should try and find the others. We might have to smash down some walls" He paused a grinned, "Smash down some walls…"

Several Minutes Later…

"Eh…cousin, I believe that's enough walls that you smashed…" Kagome sheepishly scratched the back of her head.

"Wait a minute…one more" Yusuke did a roundhouse spin and kick to the last corner of the remaining wall, exploding it to bits, "After this one…"

"Yeah…one more…" Keiko mocked, "There are no more walls or even pieces of walls to kick down anymore!"

Kurama sweat drop, "Um…guys, we shouldn't fight…rather, we should be searching for the others…"

"Yeah…" Kagome agreed, shaking her head at her cousin, 'I can't believe I'm actually related to him!' she sighed, yep. This was Yusuke, her cousin.

"These are our options!" Yusuke announced proudly, pointing randomly at the 5 open vents in what used to be walls, "This one goes up, so we probably shouldn't pick that one…those two go straight, that one's caved in and this one goes really far down"

"That's certainly out of the option then" Keiko referred to the sloped up and dead end one.

"Perhaps…we should try the one going down…" Kagome wanted to test where it went; hence she took out the now brown apple core out of the garbage can, picking away at some dust from the walls. She then haphazardly dropped it down the chute.

"OW! AHH! THE SKY IS FALLING!" A very dumb sounding guy shouted out, echoing off the metal walls of the vent.

"Who the HELL was that?" Yusuke looked incredously at the hole, peering down, "Who's there!"

"You idiot! We're inside! The sky doesn't fall here, and it doesn't fall anywhere either!" An irritated voice exclaimed.

"Feh, baka" Another guy snorted.

"Guys…" A timid voice cut in softly.

"It's an eaten apple core covered in…stuff" Another woman stated bluntly, "Gross!"

"Hn" The expression in the guy's voice made it obvious that he was probably rolling his eyes, "Annoying onna"

"Who's there?" Yusuke repeated, shouting downwards.

"Yusuke?" The shy voice asked hesitantly.

"Yeah! Are you Yukina…?" He guessed.

"Hai! Hai!"

"Yusuke?" Sango stared up, "You can have your apple core back!" She precisely aimed it at his silhouette in the light.

"OW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?"

Kagome snorted, then burst into laughter.

"SHUT UP!" Yusuke now had a sticky smear across is face, bits of dust clung on like feathers and glue.

"We could try and get you up here!" Keiko shouted down.

"Hn" Hiei stated and grabbed the nearest person: which just happened to be Sango.

"Hey!" He shot up the chute and landed on the kitchen floor.

"Hiei" Kurama nodded, "Hang on everyone" The fox created a vine rope of sorts and tossed it down. Kagome took a hold of it and Kurama stepped back after she insisted that she could do it on her own.

Yukina grabbed it and started climbing first, Kagome securing the weight as she went up.

Out of stupidity, Kuwabara didn't realize that Yukina hadn't finished yet and pulled on the rope.

Kagome shrieked and started tilting with the rope in her hands. She couldn't let go or Yukina would fall, but if Kagome stayed on, she might fall herself.

"Kagome!" Kurama grabbed onto her ankles just before she fell down and Sango helped pull the three back up.

Inuyasha just leaped up afterwards, but not before bashing his head from a poorly aimed jump.


Hey guys! Sorry this took so long! (Yawn) I was able to finish updating this chapter today because FINALLY, there was NO HOMEWORK! Yes! Anyways, tell me what you think and if you have any idea! Thanks!

Read and review onegai!

Sayonara,

Tenshi-Battosai