. : Muichimotsu : .
: . By Akikazu . :
. : Previously : .
"Yukina? Good… You're okay," he murmured.
And then he fell asleep.
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Keiko leaned back against her corner and, though she felt as if she had none left, tears fell down her cheeks.
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Kurama took a deep breath to calm his mind. His mind was close to panic and he needed to keep himself under control lest he do something dramatic.
"Shit," the man muttered. "Stupid Inu Yasha, always showing up at inconvenient times. Worse sense of timing I have ever seen, and manners, and attitude too."
"I see," Kurama murmured.
Kagome needed them.
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FYI: Kurama is able to change into his Yoko form. He gained this ability after visiting the Makai after the Sensui arc. As such Kurama is the product of Yoko and Shuichi's souls.
: . Chapter Twenty One . :
He trudged ever slowly towards a hidden portal he had used so many times before. Over this final hill lay an unauthorized portal to the Reikai. Itsuki tightened his arms around his injured ribs as he hovered above it for a brief moment. This moment would change the rest of his life. There was no way he could go into the Reikai at this moment and not be noticed. There was every chance that he would be caught and punished.
But he would do it because Keiko needed him to.
Itsuki let himself fall, and he toppled head first into the dark portal. The darkness engulfed him like the state of unconsciousness that he had resisted till this instance. It rolled over him and was then gone.
Seconds later the blessed silence of darkness was replace by the blaring alarms of the Reikai office. Hundreds of secretarial oni swarmed around in milling circles. Some moved away from him, recoiling in fear and others moved to capture him. He didn't move to take action against them and they grew braver, grabbing for him by the dozens.
Each oni stared at him suspiciously, their questions hung around them in a way that they became nearly visible. Finally one thought to voice his query.
"Why have you come here?"
It was the only opportune time to voice what he needed.
"I need to see Koenma."
The oni became a swirling mass of chaos once more, shouts and questions occasionally rising above the din. He designed not to answer any more questions, seeing the commotion one had caused.
Suddenly the door leading to the palace's inner chamber slammed open and a large blue oni rushed inside, skidding to a stop but a few steps inside.
"Announcing his highness Koenma, Prince of Reikai!" The blue oni called out formally.
The commotion died down as the small toddler-like form that could only be Koenma swaggered in. His large eyes glared from behind his pacifier as he looked over the crowd only sparing a minute's glance for Itsuki.
"Why are you all lollygagging about? Get back to work!" Koenma shouted. Then he added, "Itsuki please follow me."
The oni rushed to follow his command and Itsuki did the same, minus the rushing part. Koenma led him back to the office that the Prince met with his detectives in. By the time Itsuki enter, Koenma had ensconced himself in an overstuffed red chair behind a large desk piled with papers. This left a rather plain looking, cushion-less wooden chair open for Itsuki.
He chose to stand.
"Well Itsuki, what have you come here for?" Koenma asked after a moment of uncomfortable silence.
"I need… assistance."
A small, barely-there eyebrow rose, mockingly.
"It's about Keiko," he put in bluntly.
That got the toddler's attention, his small jaw dropped and his large eyes widened further. Still it only took him seconds to regain control of his stunned reaction.
"Tell me everything," he ordered.
Used to taking orders, Itsuki obeyed after only a minute's hesitation.
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Kurama instantly recognized Hijikata Sensei's voice as it rang through the hall. Even if he hadn't Yusuke confirmed the fact of the new arrival's identity with amazing zeal.
"What the fuck! Don't I see you enough during the school week?" Yusuke bellowed.
"You would if you ever came to class," Hijikata retorted.
"Hijikata-san we're here for Kagome, remember?" Another voice chimed.
"Hmph."
They obviously knew there way around the house for the entered the room where Kosui, Kurama, and Kagome waited seconds later. Or perhaps they had encountered Shippo on the way, though that seemed unlikely if only for the reason that Kurama hadn't heard the kit since he had left.
Hijikata entered first, his large, commanding strides eating up the space between the door and bed. He barely spared a glance for Kurama, who was sitting near Kagome's head. Then a second man entered this one was only vaguely familiar to Kurama, as if he had spotted that violet haired man only in passing. This man glided over to stand in front of distraught fox.
"Kon'nichiwa Kurama-san. I regret that we've been force to meet under such circumstances but as we are, I am Okita, Souji."
Kurama was only mildly impressed at the man's eloquent introduction under such a stressful condition. As such he really couldn't say anything in reply. Souji however must not have expected a reply because he moved over to Hijikata's side and both men hovered over Kagome.
"Kon'nichiwa Kagome-kun!" Souji chirped.
No response, the friendly man frowned slightly.
"Don't act like I haven't told you, Okita" Hijikata barked.
"Yes, yes, indeed." He leaned in and peered into Kagome's face. "Kagome-kun?"
No even a flicker of recognition.
"Hm, drastic measures I think," Souji said back to Hijikata.
Hijikata knelt at the bedside and looked down at Kagome forebodingly, "you're math teacher told me you fail your last test."
Still nothing.
"Oh my, this is far more serious than I thought," Kosui clucked from behind them.
Kurama looked as all three men tried to reach Kagome and pull her back from her self-imposed prison. His mind cranked furiously as he searched for something, anything he could do to help.
"Come on Kagome-kun you need to come back now. We, all of your friends that is, are worried about you."
The small, fuzzy creature that constantly followed Kagome around jumped up onto the bed and sat on the pillow. Its head bent and rested against Kagome's.
There was a small flicker in her eyes.
Lon hissed and jumped away from the unmoving girl. Lon hissed again and Kagome's lips began to move. At first no noise came from her lips, but steadily she became louder, till Kurama could here the faint whisper of her words.
"…in my mind. Inu Yasha is talking in my head. GET HIM OUT!" She ended with her last three words in a scream.
Kurama nearly fell back when her words clicked into place. Inu Yasha hadn't been defeated after all. Yusuke had forced him from his body and Inu Yasha had taken the opportunity to enter Kagome's mind.
"Shit," Kosui murmured, expressing all of their thoughts.
All their minds turned to ways they could remove the twisted hanyou from their precious Kagome's mind.
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Upon awakening, Yusuke immediately came face to face with one of the more persistent teachers he had ever had the displeasure to tangle with. Said teacher was leaning over him watching in amusement as toughest punk of the century, Yusuke Urameshi held an attractive ice maiden as they slept.
One look into those hard but laughing eyes and Yusuke nearly forgot about the ice maiden sleeping on top of him.
"What the fuck! Don't I see you enough during the school week?" Yusuke bellowed.
"You would if you ever came to class," Hijikata retorted.
Yukina chose that moment to stir and Yusuke felt embarrassed for having caused her to awaken in such a fashion.
"Nh, Yusuke?" She muttered sleepily.
"Yeah, I'm right here Yukina," he said a blush rising under the watchful eye of his teacher.
Another, and thankfully kinder, man pulled Hijikata away toward, and then up the stairs. That left them alone again. Yusuke wondered how that had come to happen since it would be a peaceful day in the Makai before Hiei would stop intimidating any male that had even a mild interest in his younger sister.
It was defiantly strange and unusual, but the thought of another male having those type of thoughts about Yukina made him want to trap the male in some dark and dank corner and torment him.
And that reminded him, in a round-about kind of way. He had been possessed, and by an ancestor no less. He had attacked both that Kagome chick and Yukina, not to mention that kid. Yusuke winced, he hated since kids get abused in any manner. Yusuke could only thank the kami above that he had had the power to regain control before his ancestor had killed or otherwise seriously harmed Yukina.
"Thank you Yukina."
Yukina tilted her head to the side, uncomprehendingly and Yusuke's face reddened slightly in a blush. He rubbed the back of her head in an uncharacteristic expression of embarrassment.
"Uh, yeah, thanks for stopping me from hurting anyone else Yukina," he mumbled.
A bright smile crossed her face, "you're welcome Yusuke."
He would never be able to tell who ha made the first move but the next thing Yusuke knew his lips were pressed against her surprisingly warm ones, after all she was an ice maiden.
The kiss continued for an eternal minute and then Yukina jerked away. Her expression was a mix of shock and shame. It was the shame that made him feel like a real bastard.
"What have I done?" She whispered to herself.
Yusuke barely heard her words put hear him he did and they tore into his gut a double edged knife of pain and anger. Of course she would regret it a second afterwards. She might have seen something on his face because her eyes glazed over with tears, driving his guilt off the scales.
Awkwardly he patted her back, giving his best attempt at comforting her. A small ping noise on the ground signaled the fall of her first tear. He felt even more like a cad.
"Yukina? Are you okay?" He asked for a lack of anything better, and beat himself for his stupidity only a second afterwards.
"I'm an ice maiden I'm not supposed to do this kind of thing," she muttered, distressed. "They could have me killed for doing this type of thing."
Before he could say anything she jumped away from him and ran for the door, though how anyone could run in a kimono was lost to him. She brushed by a dumbfounded Kuwabara in the doorway and quickly ran off before Yusuke could even lift himself to his feet.
"Yukina wait up!" Yusuke called, his words were ignored.
It didn't matter that he hadn't been able to get to his feet to run after her anyway for as soon as he regained his balance, Yusuke was knocked back down. From his position on the warm tiled ground the high school student looked up at the furious visage that was currently Kuwabara's face.
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When Keiko regained consciousness she found herself in a box. Alright maybe 'box' might not have been the best word for the cell type thing but that was certainly what it felt like. The cell was clear, and door and windowless. In fact the only way out as far as she could see was the open top being twenty or so feet above her head.
That when she noticed the youkai and oni that stared at her from all angles, something that you would think she would have noticed earlier. Most appeared to be the common, lesser oni but there were a few youkai that were able to maintain human form. Keiko also noticed that, to her relief (at least somewhat), there were many female demons out there, meaning that there was a high chance that Sensui had not meant a sex slave or harem girl when he mentioned selling her as a slave.
However there was always that slight chance and niggling feeling of doubt.
A humanoid youkai stepped up, his back to her, with a curvaceous female at his side and looked over the crowd. The youkai was comparable to those Arab black market guys you saw when you watched TV.
"Our next item is defiantly one of a kind. This ningen female is a certified virgin and formerly the Yusuke's woman, no less. This wench was brought here by none other than the great and terrible Dark Angel himself."
The audience was hooked right after Yusuke was mentioned. Keiko could feel the eyes staring at her, appraising her and it was all she could do not to cower away.
Then the bidding began.
An hour and several death threats later the bidding ended and Keiko was announced sold to some youkai who had probably paid an extraordinary amount to get her. It was a male, he held his human form arrogantly and it was easy to determine that he was quiet possible one of the strongest youkai in the vicinity. He had black hair, blue eyes, and pointy fangs. He said nothing to her as she was lifted out of the box and leashed.
Then the youkai yanked her away without ceremony. Visibly terrified she had no option but to follow.
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Koenma was visibly dumbfounded after Itsuki finished his account of what had happened. However in light of current was only mildly amused by the reaction, that and very annoyed at how much the time the prince was wasting.
"Sensui is trying to change the course of destiny? Why?" He finally asked.
Itsuki barely contained a growl, after all it hardly mattered what Shinobu was plotting when Keiko was being auctioned off as a slave.
"Koenma I have no and have never had any, idea as to what is going on in Shinobu's mind. What you need to do is to get off your butt and find Keiko," he ground out.
"Ah yes, we have to find Keiko. I can't imagine what chaos it will cause to have a tantei's ex-girlfriend slaving away in the Makai." Koenma tossed Itsuki a considering look and added, "and while I search for her, you'll be waiting under the watch of my detectives."
"If I must," he replied resigned.
"Good, now wait here while I have Boton… Oh, indeed. I'll page someone to get you out of here."
The Gatekeeper settled down in preparation to wait. From what he knew of the way Reikai worked, it could take a while before he could go anywhere.
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"Urameshi… You… Yukina? What the fuck did you do to her, Urameshi you ass!" Kuwabara bellowed.
"Look Kuwabara, it's not any of you're business what I do so stay the fuck out of my way!" Yusuke shouted back.
Kuwabara looked as if he would like to kill Yusuke and Yusuke wanted him to try. He needed to take out his anger, or whatever emotion this was that was swirling within him, out on something and Kuwabara was better a target than anything else in sight.
He allowed Kuwabara to throw the first punch but didn't let it land. Instead he blocked it and sent his fist straight into the taller boy's gut. Kuwabara gagged and Yusuke stepped back and out of the way.
"Stupid Urameshi," Kuwabara mumbled before coming at him again.
"My, battling amongst old friends now, are we?"
Yusuke ducked Kuwabara's blow and glared at the new voice. And there, right in front of them stood Itsuki, his stance as arrogant as you please. He had obviously entered through the portal that was now closing behind him.
"What are you doing here?" Yusuke demanded, resisting the urge to wipe the smug looked plastered on the demon's face.
"Actually I would prefer to be elsewhere but you boss saw it fit to send me here," Itsuki replied nonchalantly.
The floating image of Koenma popped out of thin air in between them blinking as he came into vision.
"Yusuke something has come up and Sensui has decided that Itsuki is no longer needed for his plans. There forth Itsuki is now placed under your watch until further notice. This is a mission and not a request. Itsuki, I expect you to behave while you're under Yusuke's jurisdiction."
Then without further notice the Koenma image faded leaving behind an angered Yusuke and a further amused, but still injured Itsuki.
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"We need to fight Inu Yasha," Souji announced bluntly.
"How are we to do that, he's a spirit. Is it even possible to kill a spirit?" Kosui asked.
"We don't need to kill him exactly, I don't know if that doable in our current means but defeating and imprisoning a spirit is very possible," Hijikata answered. "But how are we going to do this, we don't have enough time to get the information to learn how to do this and I certainly don't know off the top of my head."
"I'll do it."
Kurama brushed a hand through Kagome's hair as the other three men looked at him, he was perfectly aware that he had been forgotten by the other three men.
"Oh yes, I quiet forgot about you. You're a spirit fox, are you not? You're rumored to be quiet a powerful one at that," Souji commented.
"I don't know will he be able to reach Kagome afterwards? She hardly knows him while we've met her over several hundred years ago." Kosui voice the only doubt.
Surprisingly it was Hijikata that reassured him. "It'll work. For the time they've known each other, they've become very… close."
"Alrighty then, will you need anything Kurama-san?" Souji asked politely, already moving away from the bedside.
Kurama ran through his procedures of what he was about to do, absently looking around and speaking.
"Time, it may be a second or even a couple of days, time doesn't move at the same pace as it does in the mind." He ran through his course of action again and added, "if my body remains on this plain, please don't move. It causes more problems that it solves."
"Very well, time and space. You'll have them both Minamino," Hijikata said, pulling Kosui back.
Kurama nodded and moved to kneel at Kagome's bedside. He leaned forward slightly so, on the off chance that his body did remain, it would fall forward onto the bed and not back onto the floor. Then he took a deep breath and began to change.
A silver fog rolled in from nowhere to cover the room, allowing for zero visibility near the bed. Then with a crack and shockingly bright light a blue-silver fox with red eyes flew up above the bed. The yoko took one look around and dove back down towards Kagome.
The fog disappeared and the three observers were shocked to see that the space where Kurama had knelt was empty.
"You mean that was…" Kosui left the sentence hanging.
His answer was a nod from both Souji and Hijikata.
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Once inside her mind his form changed again, this time he took on the form of his previous life, Yoko Kurama. As was quiet natural a nonexistent breeze blew his silver locks before allowing them to settle. His golden eyes surveyed the area around him even as his kitsune ears twitched trying to pick up the sound of a disturbance.
Abruptly and without the slightest hint of his intentions, he took off in a straight line forward. Though no one could be sure if it was straight, because in a mind everything could be turned to the comfort and desire of the person to whom the mind belonged.
His strides were long but even so, it took some time before he ultimately came across a disturbing scene. Now in his time Yoko had witnessed and, at times, participated in acts of torture and the like but he found this completely distressing to his own mind, though the act wasn't all that bad in comparison to what could have happened. Even so he knew that he would remember this moment forever and if Kagome was ever injured again heaven knew his mind would replay this scene.
Kagome was upright and tied to a cross like pieces of metal. Her hands were tied together and her feet her bound likewise. She was also gagged. A rope around her waist kept her wrist from supporting all of her waist. It might not have been as bad if that was all but that fact that she was several yards off the ground and was surrounded by several of her 'demons' that were taunting her and periodically biting and clawing at her, made it several times worse.
A red clad figure sat on one of the arms of the cross near her head. Yoko knew that this must be the not so elusive Inu Yasha. Even from this distance he could identify the hanyou's shaggy white hair and twitching puppy ears. One of his sharply clawed hands ran through the tormented girl's hair, in a gesture so like but completely different from Kurama's earlier caress. Said girl was in much of the state her physical body was in, remaining unresponsive to anything.
It was at this time that Inu Yasha's voice reached his ears.
"You didn't really believe that you could escape me, did you dear? No matter, now it's just you, me, and your delightfully armed 'friends'. Yes, Kagome it'll be a long, long time before you'll be allowed to leave me. Or perhaps I won't let you leave at all."
Fury burning through his stomach, Yoko moved forward once more. Brushing a hand through his hair he armed himself with two roses, one for each hand. Then with a single stroke, the battlefield was narrowed down to Yoko and Inu Yasha.
"Seeing as you are tormenting a defenseless young lady, I would venture a guess that you are Inu Yasha," Yoko said in a way of greetings.
"Who the fuck are you?" A twisted chuckle escaped the hanyou's lips. "Oh, I see. Kagome was so desperate that she went running to the nearest pale haired, fuzzy ears man. That'd make you Kagome's lover then?"
"No, more the pity. Kagome has never seen me before. To that point I believe I must introduce myself," Yoko paused to give a courtly bow in Kagome's direction, though it was to affect an unworried air to Inu Yasha. "I, my most lovely lady, am the notorious bandit Yoko Kurama."
"Of all life forms it has to be a thief, no less," Inu Yasha spat in disgust.
Yoko continued, purposely ignoring Inu Yasha. "Many people would see me as but a mere thief. I, however, see myself as a collector as beautiful and rare treasures. And my dear miko, you are the treasure I intend to collect momentarily."
"You intend to bore me to defeat then. I got news for you pal you can't kill me, I'm already dead," Inu Yasha growled.
"We're at a stalemate then, for the moment, I've already been dead."
A snap of Yoko's right wrist and a thorny vine encircled Inu Yasha's neck. A flicker of the left wrist and Inu Yasha's arms were pinned to his body with the second rose whip. Inu Yasha was held incapacitated while Yoko fused the hilt of the whips together gripped them in his left hand.
"I have yet to discern a proper punishment for you and so I will simply put you into storage till I can either dispose of you or hand you over to Koenma, which is unlike as Koenma has a habit of making mistakes."
His right hand slipped into the folds of his clothing and quickly located what he wanted. Yoko held up a small ball of leafy weeds.
"All I have to do is put this on you and the weeds will suck up your soul. Escape is impossible for no matter how persistent you are the weeds will hang onto you. Say bye, bye inukoro-chan (translation: little puppy dog)," Yoko mocked.
He threw the weed ball and it hit the ground and rolled till it touched Inu Yasha's ankle. Inu Yasha groaned and faded from sight in small degrees before disappearing completely. The thorny whips that had been wrapped around him fell limply to the ground and Yoko changed them back into a single rose before tucking it away. He then pulled out several blades of grass. As he tucked each blade between the fingers of his right hand, they grew and hardened to the point that they were like sharp blades.
It was easy work then, he jumped up and landed on one of the arms of the cross and cut the rope holding Kagome. Yoko was careful to support Kagome's weight fully before cutting the final ropes and gag. From there he cautiously jumped down and carried Kagome away from the dismissal place, making sure to leave many seeds behind so that if she did ever return to this place in her mind she wouldn't recognize it for all the plant life that would soon sprout and take over.
Yoko crossed and rejected many areas of scenery before deciding on a well kept shrine. He noticed the huge tree just as he passed under the shrine tori. The kitsune walked over to the tree and felt the comforting energy that radiated from the ancient tree. Satisfied that she would be fine here, Yoko set Kagome down among the tree's network of roots.
"Rest well Kagome."
With one last burst of power he changed back to a fox and jettisoned out of the teenaged girl's mind.
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Souji was the first to notice that Kagome's body was relaxing. It had been approximately seven hours since Kurama had entered Kagome's mind and this was the first sign that he was succeeding.
The next and final sign that Kurama had succeed was the silver fog that was once more filling the room. Once the room was masked with the fog the red eyed fox appeared before disappearing and taking the fog with it. When they could again see clearly, they spotted Kurama kneeling at Kagome's bedside. His body was slumped forward and his right hand lay over Kagome's. Red hair was partially fanned out over the bed while the rest tumbled down his back.
"Should we take him or leave him be?" Kosui questioned.
Hijikata was already leaving the room and Souji was halfway to the door.
"Just leave them as they are."
With a shrug Kosui followed them out.
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"That's the only good thing I can think of about this situation, love."
He patted the cheek of the perfect corpse, affectionately. She looked as I she was sleeping but though he did love to talk with her he knew she had been dead for a long, long time.
"When I bring you back you'll have so many dolls to play with. I know you've never had a doll before and soon you'll have dozens of them."
And from deep within the room of dolls, the newest addition stirred groggily, his eyes blinked sleepily. Then he caught sight of the large room and rows of perfect, human dolls around him.
"Where am I?"
. : End Chapter : .
: . Author's Note . :
Yes I have updated in a timely fashion this time! I had intended to have this chapter up yesterday ad because I didn't I added another thousand words to this chapter. This gives the chapter a total of over four thousands words from the opening line of the actual chapter to the "where am I?" at the end. Good readers, I am truly fabulous.
Now to clear up some points, I have divided them on who they were about and placed them alphabetically. Sorry about any confusion.
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Boton is dead, killed by Epsilon because they were both 'death' and there could only be one.
Epsilon is 'death'. Killed Boton. Was trapped in a mirror by Sesshomaru, and stored in what later became the mansion where Sensui and Itsuki waited. Kagome found the mirror and eventually promised to restore him to a body she would make if he would help her. He does so and promptly tries to kill Kagome for her impetuousness. Kagome binds him. He becomes Lon, and only Sesshomaru and now Kagome (and probably Hijikata and Souji) know this.
Evil dude at the end of the chapters, at the moment he doesn't have an identity. He may or may not be Miroku. However he is a necromancer, meaning that the 'dolls' he's talking about are dead people he's brought back, however all of they save the one that just woke up are only empty shells. He's doing this because he's trying to bring back his 'beloved' whom is the corpse that he's constantly talking to.
Hiei is in the Makai looking for info about Sensui and his plotting on Kurama's request (sort of). Actually he's going to the black market, which is where Keiko was sold. He semi-approves of and respects Yusuke which is why he let him be alone with Yukina. He put Kurama in charge of Yukina's welfare.
Hijikata is the teacher that Kurama was talking to earlier. He's human but was alive five hundred years ago and has met Kagome back then. He works for Sesshomaru. Also he's from the manga Peacemaker Kurogane.
Inu Yasha is not the major villain of the story. Yes he is evil and yes he is driving an important part because he is Yusuke's ancestor. However he is not this story's King of All Evil. Currently his part is all but over. Inu Yasha is dead! He's is not alive in any shape or form save his spirit. Chances are it will remain that way. When Yusuke kicked him out of his body, Inu Yasha took the opportunity to get inside Kagome's head. He is Yusuke's ancestor because he raped a demoness back when he was alive.
Itsuki isn't truly a good guy, but neither is he a bad guy. He's hovering on the border of between-ness. At the moment Sir Gatekeeper is injured because Sensui beat him up.
Kagome is not dead and is currently in no danger of dieing; she was trapped in her mind by Inu Yasha.
Keiko dumped Yusuke, was captured by Sensui, became friends with Itsuki, and was sold in the Makai at the black market.
Koenma isn't really important
Kosui is Sesshomaru's servant. Is a youkai and a shape changer but he's not a kitsune. He's takes the shape of an old guy and acts as butler and chafer to Kagome.
Kurama, Shuichi and Yoko are the same person and are not two souls in one body. I'm just differentiating his forms, which of which he is able to change from, when I'm using Shuichi, Kurama, Yoko, or the yoko. He's suppose to be watching out for Yukina and Kagome by Hiei and Sesshomaru's orders.
Kuwabara isn't really all that important in this story, you can pretty much ignore him.
Li Shen was the scientist in the underground chamber, the really weird punk scientist dude who was responsible for saving Shippo from the other scientist.
Sesshomaru is back in the Makai, theoretically he's looking for a way to get rid of his dead half brother once in for all. Was the one to trap Epsilon in the mirror.
Shippo wasn't in this chapter but previously he was changed into a more powerful demon by Li Shen, who reappeared in the last chapter, and is very hyper.
Souji is also from Peacemaker Kurogane. Was also alive five hundred years ago and had met Kagome back then. He's human and is occupied as Sesshomaru's master spy.
Yukina is an ice maiden, as such it is forbidden for her to get in a relationship. This is why Kuwabara never makes a real move on her. If she does get into a relationship she can be prosecuted.
Yusuke is Inu Yasha's descendent. Yusuke did love Keiko, but was dumped and is now on rebound, sort of. He is attracted to Yukina through mutual loneness and through his demon side, which will be explored at a future date.
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There I think that that's everyone. If anyone else has any questions ask in a review or email me through me author's page.
Anyways, it's finally winter break and I'm in California, near Oakland! And since I have so much free time I hope to update once more before Christmas and once more afterwards before school starts again. I want to update Inazuma thrice more before school too. And then if you're luck I might be able to come up with a Christmas special (that really might not have anything to do with Christmas) one-shot if I can find the time.
Next semester I have a working schedule: Health/human-something-or-another, Geometry honors, Algebra honors, lunch, and Spanish 2. My parents are also been pressuring me to join a club.
So now I'm going to go crawl into some hole or another and rest before starting on the next Inazuma chapter.
And now the chapter's finally over!
. : Next Time : .
My master
The situation
Return to the world
Facing big brother
Hiei's rage
Confessions
Escape