dna- thankz everyone for reading my fanfic till now! it makes me happy to know that ppl enjoy my story! well newayz, im srry that these chapters are coming out so slow. im trying to get them out as fast as i can. really... aside from my crappy computer freezing up all the time, theres also my damn history teacher...(BITCH! I WANNA KILL HER!) srry, newayz, well, she assigns a project for every chapter so... yeah, and she just assigned some project thats worth 150 points... and the worst part... it was assigned a month ago, duenext week... AND I HAVENT STARTED! ok... hope you enjoy chapter 11!

Recap- Run Away Forever Chapter 10- A Day's Rest

Everyone's pretty much back to normal and are in the Ningenkai. Koenma and Botan are doing work while Hiei and Akiya get to spend time alone together. The two of them have a nice talk, arguing from time to time, but other than that, they got along pretty well. Akiya gives Hiei a necklace like Yukina's, a thin silver chain with a Koorime tear gem on it. Not long after that, it started raining heavily, so the sheltered in a cave. There, they talk some more, seeming to enjoy each other's company…

Run Away Forever Chapter 11- Ninja Invasion

Everyone was gathered in Koenma's office as he gave them the details of their next mission.

"Fushimi City has been overrun with ninjas," Koenma said. "It's seems a bit unusual. If someone was to take over a city, Fushimi City would be one of the ones at the very bottom of the list. It has nothing of value, at least not enough for it to be attacked for. It wouldn't be worth the effort, or at least to me anyway. I would like you to go to Fushimi City and drive the ninjas out. Even if that city isn't all that important or well populated, there are still innocent lives that are being taken away in that city. Try to resolve to as less killing as possible, however, kill as many of the attackers as you must. Now, go."

Koenma opened a portal for them to Fushimi City. They all went in and landed right outside of the city. From where they were standing, they could already see many dead bodies on the ground. They were all men however. None of the bodies that were lying on the ground belonged to any women or children, and none of them were the bodies of the elderly people. Everywhere they looked, there were destroyed homes and buildings. Light poles, electrical poles… most of them were on the ground in half, or in pieces. They could see the women, children, and the elderly cowering together in certain spots in fear.

"This is insane," Yusuke commented as he and everyone else began to walk in the village.

"At least they have spared the women and children, and the elderly," Kurama said as the people who were still alive were staring at them in fear.

"What kind of stupid ninjas are attacking this place?" Kuwabara asked, Akiya standing right beside him, as he just noticed. "Ah! I didn't mean anything by that Akiya really! I was talking about them! Not you!"

Akiya didn't respond as Kurama and Yusuke told him to be quiet. Hiei drew his sword as Kurama reached behind his hair, ready to pull out his rose if necessary. Akiya reached down to her thigh where one of her strapped equipment pockets were, ready to pull out a kunai. There was a poof and seven ninjas appeared before them. They were completely covered up, and they had a piece of black cloth to cover up their nose and mouth, making it impossible to see anything but their eyes. All of the ninjas seemed to look at Akiya as she looked back at them, wondering why they were staring at her. In the background, they could see many more ninjas around and killing all the men who opposed them or confronted them.

"Hey! Cut it out!" Kuwabara said shouted. "They're not doing anything to you! Leave them alone!"

"You don't really expect them to listen, do you?" Yusuke joked. "Cause I know we wouldn't stop beating them up if they told us to."

The ninjas all performed the same combination of hand seals and used an Earth Dome Technique to trap everyone inside, but Akiya quickly countered with an Exploding Shadow Clone Technique. Akiya's three clones that were created jumped towards her seven enemies as they tried to escape from the clones. They didn't take more than four steps when the clones exploded and knocked them out.

"Whoa! Nice one Akiya!" Yusuke complimented.

"Are these ninjas of Rejuko's?" Kurama asked as the nearby ninjas surrounded them and began to close in on them.

"Probably," Akiya answered.

The ninjas began to attack them though it seemed as if they were trying to avoid Akiya. Yusuke fired his Spirit Gun which knocked quite a few of them away. Kuwabara attacked them with his Spirit Sword, hitting half the time and missing the other half. Kurama summoned his Rose Whip and lashed it at every ninja that he could reach, killing some and leaving others seriously wounded. Hiei was killing left and right, disappearing and appearing everywhere as was Akiya. As Akiya was slashing her enemies, one of their masks fell off and she recognized the face. She suddenly stopped attacking and paled. Enemies were closing in on her but she stood where she was, frozen from shock. Yusuke blasted his Spirit Gun and knocked away some of the ninjas that were about to hit Akiya as Hiei killed the rest. All of the attacking ninjas were now either dead, or unconscious. There were no more ninjas… for the time being.

"Akiya?" Kurama asked in concern. "What's wrong?"

"You alright?" Yusuke asked her.

Akiya remained silent.

"Hey," Kuwabara tried.

"It's… nothing…" Akiya replied just before Hiei lost his patience.

"Bu-" Kuwabara began but was stopped when Kurama put his hand on Kuwabara's shoulder and shook his head.

"Let's go," Akiya said as she led the group into the city. "Try not to kill anymore ninjas…"

As they got deeper in the city, more and more ninjas ambushed them, every time getting harder and harder to beat. And every time, it was the same. The ninjas all tried to avoid fighting Akiya.

They assumed that since the security was tougher as they got further in, that what the ninjas were here for was close by. They were in front of a temple when Akiya suddenly signaled for everyone to stop. Kuwabara however, wasn't paying any attention and continued on.

"Kuwabara, no!" Akiya shouted, trying to keep her voice down.

Kuwabara was about to put his foot down right on top of a wired trap. Akiya swiftly took out three of her shuriken and chucked them at Kuwabara's leg. The shuriken pinned his pant sleeves along with his leg to the tree right beside them.

"What's the big idea!" Kuwabara panicked. "You could've hit my leg!"

"It's a trap," Akiya said, pointing to a barely visible string to the others as they looked at it.

It was a thin transparent wire that was most likely attached to some Explosive Talismans. There were many more of those traps. There were invisible wires everywhere. It was low enough so that they couldn't go under, and spaced closely enough so that they can't try to squeeze between them. There was no way for them to get any further with those traps. Akiya looked at how high up the traps were set and saw no wires at first, but when she looked closer, she could see that all of the wires that were placed up there. It was impossible to get over. The wires alone were no problem, but the barrier that was set right below them on the other side would've thrown them back right at the wires when they landed on them. They suddenly heard talking from behind them. Everyone concealed themselves in the bushes nearby. Akiya quickly unpinned Kuwabara and pulled him over to the bushes, joining the rest of the group. Two of the ninjas were coming. The detectives carefully observed how they were going to get past the traps.

Both of the ninjas performed a couple of hand seals before they jumped over all of the traps and were directly over the barrier. Akiya was very carefully observing as the two went through the barrier on the exact same spot and landed on the other side of the traps. Once they were out of sight, the detectives came out of hiding.

"Okay, what the hell just happened?" Yusuke asked, confused about how they got through the barrier.

"Yeah, how did they get over that barrier?" Kuwabara asked to no one in particular.

"I should've known," Akiya said, getting everyone's attention as she began to explain. "They purposely left a weak spot on the barrier so that they could leave when needed."

"Weak spot?" Kuwabara asked.

"Yes, in other words, where those two entered," Akiya said. "A single spot that is weak enough for people to pass through. How clever."

"Well then, I hope someone took notes," Yusuke joked in a serious tone. "I sure as hell don't remember the spot they entered."

"There," Akiya said as she threw a couple of talismans up to the barrier to mark the spot. "That's the spot."

"Are you sure?" Kurama asked.

"Trust me, I have a really good memory," Akiya said confidently. "Just don't miss, and don't accidentally hit one of those wires."

"We would be over there by now but unfortunately, this oaf has weak legs," Hiei said, mocking Kuwabara.

"Shut up!" Kuwabara shouted.

"Unless you want them to hear us, quiet down!" Kurama ordered in a hushed voiced.

"That's right," Akiya agreed as created a clone of herself to carry Kuwabara over. "Now let's go!"

Kuwabara and her clone went first followed by everyone else. There was a large building in front of them. It looked pretty old with all the dust and dirt all over it, but it was actually a new building. They were about to go in, but a ninja dropped down, stepping between them and the door. At least fifty more ninjas dropped behind the first ninja. He was apparently the leader of the group. Yusuke and the others got into a fighting stance as did the ninjas, but Akiya held out her arm to hold them back from attacking. The leader of the ninjas did the same.

"What's going on here… Noyaru-san?" Akiya asked.

The leader took off the cloth that covered his face. He had light green hair and sharp orange eyes.

"Akiya," he acknowledged.

"Ey, you know him Akiya?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah," she answered. "He's Taoma Nayoru, one of the ninja squad leaders. They do some of the missions that Hiro and the others are unable to attend to because they're on other missions."

"So they're kinda like a back up squad?" Kuwabara asked.

"Yeah," she said.

"You said that they attend to missions that your friends are unable attend to," Kurama said to her. "I assume that that means they're from your village. Am I right?"

"What!" Kuwabara asked shocked.

"So you've been letting us kill ninjas from your village?" Yusuke asked confused. "Why?"

"Akiya," Nayoru called, interrupting their little conversation. "Imaru-sama would like a word with you. He's waiting-"

"No!" Hiei interrupted. "If he has to say something, then tell him to come out and tell us all."

"You have no need to worry," Nayoru said. "We won't harm a ninja from our own village."

"I know you won't," Hiei said. "That's exactly why he should come out and tell us. You may not do anything to her, but you could do something to us while she's talking to the old man."

"Have some respect!" Nayoru said sternly. "Akiya, come!"

"Don't!" Yusuke said just as sternly.

"Akiya!"

"Very well," came a familiar voice as the ninjas cleared a path for him. It was Imaru. "You wish to know what we talk about, then you shall."

"Imaru-sama…" Akiya said.

"I have an important matter to discuss with you," Imaru began. "However, since they will not let you leave, I will have to discuss this openly. Beyond there, lies the Ultimate Talisman of the Three Worlds."

"What!" Akiya asked, seeming stunned.

"The Ultimate Talisman of the Three Worlds," Kurama repeated, obviously having heard of it somewhere.

"What is it?" Yusuke asked Akiya in a hushed voice.

Akiya didn't reply, but Imaru continued. "As you know, this is very dangerous Akiya. The spirit in the talisman has its own will and is extremely powerful. Even though it is very strong right now, it can be taken over easily because of its weak form. I'm sure that you've heard that the spirit contained in the talisman is pure, and good, however, that is not true. The spirit is evil. We cannot leave it as it is, otherwise, all three worlds will crumble. Akiya, you cannot let Koenma activate it like he was planning to do."

"What do you mean 'like he was planning' Imaru-sama?" Akiya asked.

"He's using you!" Imaru warned.

Akiya was taken back.

"Hey! Don't try to make her go running back to you!" Yusuke said.

"Yeah! Don't go blabbering about something so horrible!" Kuwabara defended. "It'll make her think that we're bad, and it'll make us seem like we're the bad guys too!"

"I'm not blaming anything on you four," Imaru said. "I'm blaming it on your boss. He only wanted Akiya to use her. He wants to sacrifice her."

"What are you talking about?" Kurama asked. "He merely sent us in here to help the city to be rid of the invading ninjas."

Imaru laughed to himself. "He sent you to here to get rid of 'invading ninjas' or to get rid of obstacles? Koenma knows that we will try to stop him eventually so he's trying to stop us now."

"If you're so innocent, then why were you killing off those harmless people?" Hiei questioned after keeping silent for a long time.

"Come with me," Imaru said as he began walking.

Imaru led everyone to a different way out of the barrier and back near the front of the city where the other ninjas had gathered all of the innocent people. Akiya and the detectives shuddered at what they felt from these people.

"Do you feel that?" Imaru asked, knowing that they did. "All of that is the negative energy that the spirit is feeding into these innocent people. If we let them live, they will eventually die a slow and painful death and infect others that don't have enough energy to resist it. If we kill them now, we can give them a quick and painless death as well as save thousands of others."

"No way…" Yusuke said. "Killing others to save others… that's not right."

"Then would you rather have them live and then eventually die, taking thousands of others along with them?" Imaru asked.

"Isn't there a cure or something?" Kuwabara asked him.

"If there was, we wouldn't be using this hideous method, now would we?"

"Hn, who knows," Hiei replied coldly. "The way you mistreated the onna, I can't really tell."

"Still have a mouth on you?" Imaru asked in a mocking way. "Shall I have Hayate shut it up again sometime?"

Hiei drew his sword halfway but stopped when he saw Akiya hold up her hand in front of the people that were trembling from fear. She sent a blast of energy at the people and instantly disintegrated the ones she hit.

"Akiya!" Kurama yelled with a shocked look on his face like everyone else's, even Imaru's and Hiei's.

Yusuke grabbed her roughly by her shirt. "What the hell do you think you're doing! These are innocent lives you're killing!"

"I'm sorry," Akiya said. "I meant it when I said that I could kill people without hesitation. It's just the way that we operate."

"What's that supposed to mean!" Kuwabara asked, furious as well. "You don't care if you have to kill innocent lives!"

"That may be the way you operate, but that's not how we operate!" Yusuke said sternly. "You're with us now, so you operate our way, got that!"

"That's the way everybody operates, not only us!" Akiya defended. "You do it too! You sacrifice innocent lives so that you can save others! Or are you saying that you don't do that?"

She makes a good point… Kurama thought.

Yusuke let Akiya go, knowing that she was right. He knew that it would've been better to kill of these people and put them out of their miseries and before they spread it everywhere. He watched along with the others as Akiya killed the rest of the people. Hiei saw that Akiya had an emotionless expression on her face, but her eyes told him that she hated every minute of doing what she was doing. Her eyes showed that doing what she was doing was tearing her soul apart. Imaru observed Hiei and walked over next to him. Yusuke and Kuwabara couldn't watch so they waited for her outside of the city with Kurama who tried to assure them that everything was going to be fine.

"It isn't that she has no hesitation killing people," Imaru told Hiei. "She just doesn't want the death of innocent lives on anyone's conscious other than her own. That's how much she cares about us…"

"If you know that, then you should value her more," Hiei simply said.

"It would be wrong if we did that," Imaru said. "If we acted like we were okay with her killing innocent lives, then it would only make her feel dirty… if we acted like it was okay, it would've been saying that we were heartless and was only using her to do our dirty work. That would be cruel…"

So it's not that he hates her… Hiei thought. He was trying to help her feel better. Acting the way he did back at the village made it look like he hated her for being heartless, so that made her feel like she was helping him by not making him carry the weight of murder on his shoulders as well as the rest of the village. If he had acted nice to her after she had killed a handful of people, it would've made it look like they were just plain and what she was doing for them was only dirty work… "But it's no good if she already knows…" Hiei said out loud, meaning for Imaru to hear it.

"Hm?" Imaru questioned.

Akiya joined Hiei and Imaru shortly afterwards. Imaru immediately walked away as Hiei and Akiya joined Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara outside and made their way to the portal that was going to take them back to Spirit World.

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Run Away Forever Chapter 12- The Ultimate Talisman of the Three Worlds

The gang learns about the legend of the ultimate talisman, but is that really all there is to it? Or does it contain secrets far beyond what the detectives could ever imagine?