I think I will make a few one-shots after this one (under this same story, for less confusion) of things that are alluded to in this story (i.e. Koenma and Kaede meeting, Kira and Shiori growing up, etcetera)
Oh, and I have only seen a few of the after-Sensui episodes, so if I am off in something, send me a review about it. SPOILERS for YYH! Oh, and the full explanations are for people who do not understand one of the shows. Yeah…
Their Stories:
The picnic went well for most people, especially Little Suichi, for he got to meet his step grandparents.
"So, what's it like not aging normally?" Suichi asked Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kira when all those who were unaware of the family secret left.
"It is a little awkward, because we can't make as many close friends as we wish we could, because then they would tell someone eventually that we haven't aged in all the time they knew us. But, it does have its advantages. Like, because of the long lifespan, we don't have to have a bunch of rug-rats tearing down the shrine. We can wait several years between children," Kagome explained.
"I've wondered for a while," Shiori added, "Why didn't you have any more kids since Kira and I were born? Surely you have waited plenty of time."
"We haven't really thought about it……" Kagome said before her voice died out. She concentrated on a strange energy growing nearby.
Her glance wasn't left unnoticed. The three hanyous (because for all intensive purposes, Kurama is a hanyou) all focused on that same spot.
"What is it?" Suichi asked, confused by the strange behavior.
"Something's coming," Kagome stated as she continued to focus on it, "And whatever it is, it is about to use a lot of power."
"You call that a lot of power?" someone from the shadows asked. To those who didn't recognize the aura or voice…namely everyone but Kurama…it was creepy, making several people jump.
"Hiei, don't scare them," Kurama hissed to his friend. Hiei walked out of the shadows. To the Hiragushi's, nothing was wrong with Hiei just appearing. They had seen worse. The Hatanaka's recognized Hiei from a few encounters with him, so they, too, did not worry at the demon's arrival.
Before anyone could ask the short demon any questions, he continued on, "The full power-level of that demon is only a mid B-class. To high A-classes like Kurama and I, that power is nothing, although a little disturbing to have waltz around the Human World. Because of that, he needs to be stopped."
"No, I won't allow my…..cousin…..to go into a fight," Kagome said, catching herself as an innocent human walked by, oblivious to what was happening, but fully capable of listening in if he so pleased.
"You'll have to, unless you want to send your high B-class husband or low B-class daughter after it. And, to you, miko, I highly doubt that you and your unreliable high B-class powers would be able to do anything. No, you need fighters to attack it who have some experience, especially with stealth and quick kills. I may be able to take care of it myself, but if there are others waiting, then we have problems."
Hiei disappeared with his quick speed through the trees. Kurama looked at his family, telling them quickly that he'd be right back, and if he wasn't, then they should contact Yusuke. Shiori had his number on her cell after learning that Yusuke was one of the Tantei.
Seconds later, Kurama arrived at the place where the fight was to start.
"Who are you?" Kurama asked to the figure on top of the school. The figure jumped down quickly, landing on his feet as though it was nothing. He was ugly—that was the only way to describe him. If George, Koenma's helper, had gone evil, that's what he would look like, only more powerful.
"My name is Gouki, not that it matters, considering you are going to be dead soon." Immediately, he launched himself from his spot and punched Kurama with his left hand. Keeping the momentum, he swung around and tried a back kick with his right leg.
Kurama blocked the kick, and countered, twisting Gouki's leg.
Gouki fell to the ground. Kurama took the extra second to pull out a rose seed from his hair, and then grew it immediately to its whip form.
Gouki raised himself from the ground, only to pale as he saw the thorns on the whip. Before he could attack again, Hiei stood next to him, katana to his throat.
Kurama took the opportunity to talk. "Why are you attacking the school?"
Gouki growled. "Humans refuse to allow me to go to school. So as part of my conquest of the Human Realm, I see it fitting to attack the schools first. Besides, if the schools are ruled by me, then I can easily make the children help me in my cause."
"That has got to be the stupidest reason I have ever heard for attacking someone," Hiei snorted out, before killing the ogre with two simple slashes of his sword.
The ogre fell with a loud thump. Kurama looked over the dead body, thinking of a way to remove it from sight of humans.
Hiei, hearing Kurama's thoughts, took the simplest route to remove the body. Picking up the bleeding carcass, he carried it to a nearby dumpster.
"Hiei, what if a human sees it?" Kurama asked.
"Hn. Fine, how about you allow your plants to eat it?" Kurama, following the advice (and wondering why he didn't think of it before), threw a seed into the dumpster, and then fed it with his energy until it was large enough to eat the body. After the body was reduced to a pile of remains from the plant, he walked back to the picnic.
"So, what happened?" Kagome asked her grandson when he appeared out of the woods he had disappeared into only moments earlier.
"Turns out he was even weaker than Hiei gave him credit for. It took only two swings of Hiei's sword to kill him, and one of my acidic plants to eat the body."
"And you thought it was dangerous!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"It was. The only reason it stayed still long enough for Hiei to attack it was because I scared it with my rose whip. He was quite fast, and very strong. He had jumped off of the top of the eight story school before we fought with him."
"But, he was killed by a regular sword," Inuyasha grumbled.
"Not actually. Hiei puts his energy into the sword, and it is already strong because it was made in the Makai."
"Whatever. I don't see why I couldn't have been the one to kill the nasty little bugger."
The conversation then fell back into a regular picnic discussion, thanks to Shiori.
When they finally finished eating, they headed back to the Hatanaka's pleasant home for an improvised family reunion, though they had already begun such a gathering at the school over food.
"What is your job like working with the Tantei? They must have plenty of strange jobs for you," Kagome said to her grandson.
"Well, most of the time, the demons are weak, and they only send one of us—usually Hiei or I, because we have to pay off a debt, though I would rather not get into that. The only problems we have are with organized groups. A stray demon like the one we dealt with today is no threat, but when a few strong demons gang together, we have issues.
The first mission like that was when we fought the Four Saint Beasts. There were four in the group, so each of us took on one. I was stuck fighting the first one, a regenerative rock mass who could only be defeated by destroying his heart—which looked like rock, though it glowed when apart from his body. My rose whip dealt with that issue.
"The next major mission we had, because remember that Hiei and I were on constant alert for the weaklings, was to save an ice maiden from a member of the Black Black Club—part of the Black Market. There, we met the Toguro brothers—the major part of the next mission.
"The Younger Toguro promised to do harm to our families if we refused to fight in what they call the Dark Tournament. It is held to keep demons at bay, giving them free reign to kill as many of their opponents if they please. The fighting gets so rigid that many in the audience die…while the rest enjoys watching the death of the others.
"Our team was at a disadvantage, as we had humans on our team. We had to put up with the calls of 'traitors' as we fought. Well, as to not go into detail, we won, even though I lost a battle because I was down for ten counts before my attack with my plant killed my opponent. Yes, I said killed. The fights were all about death.
"The next major mission was against Sensui, a crazed ex-Spirit Detective with personality issues. He wanted to open up a portal to the Makai, so that he could see the land of those whom he had killed so many without much thought about it. In the process, Yusuke, the strongest amongst us, died. But, he proved to be stronger than death, and was resurrected with the small amount of demon blood flowing from him from his ancestor. Yusuke almost killed him, but one of his lackeys pulled him into a no-man's-land space in the universe, so they could wait out the rest of their lives together. Turned out that Sensui had a fatal illness, and would die anyway in a matter of months.
"After that, I joined with Yomi, my old friend, who was one of the lords of the Makai. They decided to hold a tournament in order to find out who would rule all of the Makai, instead of the three separate rulers. All of the Tantei lost. Need I say more?
"So, now we are just living our lives, without much of a major mission bugging us."
"I guess you want to hear my story?" Kagome asked. Kurama nodded before she began to speak, "Well, on my fifteenth birthday, I fell into a well on the shrine grounds than I grew up at. Rather, I was pulled down by a centepide demon. She wanted what she called the Shikon jewel, saying I had it. I thought she was nuts.
"When I crawled out of the well, I realized I was no longer at the shrine, but rather out in the middle of the woods. I headed to where the Sacred Tree was, and sure enough, it still was there, with this guy pinned to it," she continued, pointing to her mate and husband, Inuyasha.
"Anyway, I played with his ears, and as I left to think about what had happened, a group of villagers ambushed me, thinking that I was some sort of demon because of the way I dressed—I was wearing my uniform—and from the fact I was in 'Inuyasha's forest'. Turned out that I was the reincarnation of the older sister of the village miko, who had been entrusted with the Shikon jewel, but had it burned with her body after she died of wounds, supposedly given to her, Kikyou, by Inuyasha. Her last act was to pin Inuyasha to the tree.
"That night, the centipede came back, and I ran back to the well, so it could be put back from where it came. But, as I passed by Inuyasha, he woke up—he had been asleep for fifty years—and he thought that I was Kikyou, because of our similarities. I told him who I was, and the centipede came back into view. Inuyasha made me an offer—take him off the tree and have a chance to survive, or let the centipede go off with the jewel.
"Oh, I forgot to say that the centipede had cut my side, and out came the jewel. Well, anyway, I went with the first choice, and Inuyasha killed the thing in one swipe of his claws. Then, he turned on me to demand the jewel. Kaede, the village miko, put a spell on him, so that whenever I said the word "sit", he would fall to the ground. I took that spell off years ago.
"Well, to make a long story shorter, the jewel was stolen by a crow demon. I tried to shoot it with my arrow, but when it hit, it shattered the jewel, sending the fragments all across Japan. Thus started my journey…" Kagome went on about some of her travels, but the list is far too long to go through in writing.
"Kurama," his mother asked, "How did you become a member of the Tantei, anyway?"
"Mother," Kurama stated, "I would rather not. It is a little complicated."
"Nonsense. If we could understand all that you have already told us, I am sure that we can comprehend your choice to join."
"That's the thing. It wasn't much of a choice. I joined so that I could pay off my patrol…"
"But, I thought that because of your death, no one requires you to pay any penance…"
"That was for Youko Kurama. When I, in this body, stole something from the high-protection vaults of King Enma, however, they had to do something about it. The artifact that I stole was called the Forlorn Hope, a mirror that grants the users deepest wish as they look into it on the full moon. However, it has a price: the user's life. Mom, when you lay there about to die, I had to do something. Yusuke came to retrieve the mirror, and when I told him what I was going to do, he offered the mirror his own life, saying something about not wanting to see you mope around. The mirror took neither of our lives.
"Even though it was for a good cause, Koenma, my boss, still made me pay a lot of time of penance, along with Hiei, the other survivor of the incident."
"Oh." Shiori looked a little confused about it all. Sure, her son had told her a few things about his past life, but he never mentioned that he was the reason that she had survived that terrible illness.
"Are all of the Tantei recruited in such a fashion?" Kagome asked.
"Not always. Yusuke, the true Spirit Detective, is of that position for payment for bringing back to life by Koenma. He was killed in a car accident that no one expected, and having no place set for him in the afterlife, he had the choice of coming back.
"Kuwabara, whom we consider the last Spirit Detective, is a volunteer, and hence, we never call on him. Sensui, the last Spirit Detective, came to that position because of his massive amounts of Spirit Energy," Kurama explained.
Kagome was about to ask another question, when a loud 'POP' was heard throughout the room. A cloud of dust stood at the spot where the noise had been heard, and out of that walked Lord Koenma, in his teenage form, of course.
"Koenma, nice of you to join us," Kurama stated.
"That's your boss?" Inuyasha asked, "I was expecting someone, I don't know, a little older."
"You know, Grandpa Inuyasha, that's the first time I have ever heard someone say that about Koenma in his teenage form. Usually, they say that in his other form…"
"Well, I am definitely old enough to remember you, Inuyasha, from the days where you wandered across Japan with your group. I also remember that you were my first Spirit Detectives."
"My parents were WHAT?" Kira asked, "I thought you didn't start with Spirit Detectives until all of the unfriendly demons were removed from their place in the Ningenkai and into the Makai."
"No, those were the first Spirit Detectives that I dealt with face-to-face. With the group that defeated Naraku, I only supplied them with extra powers and strength, as well as have some of my other employees put them in the right place at the right time. Kaede, for example, often met with me, so we could discuss the things you were doing, and how to fix your problems. That's how she always had the right spell at the right time, and always was prepared to heal your wounds."
Inuyasha looked at the teenager with the pacifier, and asked, as calmly as he could, "Why were we never told, you brat?" Did I mention Inuyasha was holding back the anger of it all, and even though he had plenty of time with Kagome to calm him down, he still was easily angered by the smallest things.
"Look, I had no idea what the consequences would be in dealing first-hand with human affairs. Besides, you would have gone after them anyway, so why burden you with extra information? I had to start telling people when the unfriendly demons were sent to the Makai, because otherwise, the humans I would enlist would have no reason other than work to go after the demons."
"Mom, Dad?" Kira asked calmly.
"What is it?" Kagome answered.
"Can I have your autographs?"
The entire group sweatdropped.
"What? They were the first Spirit Detectives, and the Jewel Hunters, and hence, they are famous!"
THE END
Whew….that was hard to end.
If you didn't read the top, I will make a few one shots that fit into this story for the next few chapters.
Review, and I might just put off my homework for a few more days (looks at growing stack of homework) Hmmm…I only need to read four books and do four projects…no big….(homework monster jumps out of stack and eats her. Monster looks at the keyboard, and adds, in his own hissy voice (though it is typed))
Noooooooo….don't review, you pathetic mortalsssssssss. Thisssssssss author musssssssst finissssshhhhh her work with ME, for I am the GREAT MONSTER OF HOMEWORK. (laughs incessantly, until Lizzie breaks through his stomach and beats him upside the head with a hammer)
Don't listen to him. He is confused. The Homework Monster is SUPPOSED to be like the Cookie Monster and EAT homework, not force me to do it!
(Monster looks at her weird) Oh.
Anyway, ignore my Homework Monster, and do as you normally would.