dna- srry ppl!i knoe i took a long time and i know this chapters really short 2 and i knoe it really sux cuz im horrible with fight scenes but im trying tho! hope its interesting!

Run Away Forever Chapter 21- The Mission Begins: A Whole Other World

"Alright, let me give you all your next assignment," Koenma announced, feeling refreshed by everyone's strong determination to beat Rejuko.

"I did a bit of research on a place called Gogyou," Koenma began, Akiya flinching and turning dead serious the moment she heard that name.

"Is that in the Makai?" Kurama asked.

"No, it's a completely separate world," he answered. "I'm sure Akiya is somewhat familiar with it, right?"

"Yeah," was all she said.

"I don't know much about that place, but it's a very dangerous place," Koenma said. "If you're not careful, you'll get killed before you know it."

"Sounds like fun," Yusuke joked in a serious tone.

"No, it doesn't," Koenma replied in a tone that was ten times more serious than Yusuke's was. "I'm serious this time. You may not make it out alive. You all know that… right?"

"Even if we didn't want to go before, we have no choice now," Kurama pointed out. "They have taken Yukina and the others captive."

"What!" Akiya asked.

It took Hiei everything he had to keep himself under control.

"As I've told you before, you may not make it out alive…" Koenma repeated.

"All the more reason for us to go," Yusuke said.

"Are you all sure?" he asked.

"We said we're sure! Now hurry up already!" Kuwabara said impatiently.

"The idiot's ready to die is what he meant," Hiei remarked.

"What! You little shrimp!" he hissed.

"Very well then," Koenma said as a portal was summoned.

"We'll see ya in a little while," Yusuke said as he and the other detectives headed toward the portal.

"I hope you all weren't planning to leave me behind," came a familiar voice.

Everyone turned towards the door to see Genkai.

-----At the Village-----

Imaru was gathering his weapons and was about to leave when his office door slammed opened.

"Imaru-sama!" It was Jiruma. "Please take me with you!"

-----Gogyou--At Rejuko's Palace-----

"Rejuko-sama, it seems that they have arrived at Gogyou," a girl with waist long dark purple hair and light blue eyes informed him.

"Is that so Shiburi?" he asked. "Why don't you go out to greet them?"

"Yes sir…"

He turned to look at the Spirit Cage that he had created which trapped Yukina and the others inside.

-----The Detectives-----

They all landed in Gogyou.

"The place seems normal enough…" Hiei said.

"Normal!" Kuwabara repeated. "What the hell's normal about this place! I mean, look!"

The sky was red. The ground was brownish-grey. More than that, the place gave them all a really bad feeling.

"Quite whining!" Yusuke said.

"This is Hiei we're talking about Kuwabara," Kurama reminded. "You shouldn't be surprised."

Genkai smacked Yusuke on the head, making him fall over.

"What the hell was that for!" he shouted at the old woman.

"Stop playing around and start walking!" Genkai ordered.

"All I said was quite whining you old hag!" Yusuke shouted. "How the hell is that playing aro—!"

Suddenly, they all felt a jolt in their body.

"Did you feel that?" Kurama asked Hiei.

Hiei nodded in response. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a quick blur.

"Move!" Genkai alarmed everyone.

Everyone whipped around and felt something headed for them. They quickly jumped out of way, Yusuke and Kuwabara escaping with a small cut on their shirts.

"Alright, who the hell did that!" Yusuke shouted as a girl move into view.

"Shiburi…" Akiya said to herself.

"It's been a while… Akiya-san," Shiburi said.

Yusuke dodged another one of her attacks and moved next to Akiya.

"Who the hell is she?" he asked her. "What the hell is she attacking us with?"

"She's Shiburi from the Hakira Clan," she replied. "People from the Hakira Clan have special particles in their bodies that can harden and be used as a weapon. And more than that, those particles can be used in so many different ways it's not even funny."

"Man! Some welcome this is!" Kuwabara complained.

Shiburi started to make hand seals. Akiya realized what technique she was going to use immediately and performed her own series of hand seals.

"Sandstorm Technique!" Shiburi yelled as she slammed her hang against the ground.

Sand rose up and started to crash down at the detectives and Genkai.

"Rock Wall Technique!" Akiya shouted as a huge wall of rocks rose from the ground and protected everyone from getting buried by the sand.

Suddenly, they heard a couple of familiar voices.

"Mist Binding Technique!"

"Rain of Needles Technique!"

"It's useless," they heard Shiburi say.

The sandstorm subsided and Akiya's wall crumbled.

"Imaru-sama! Jiruma-san!" Akiya called as the two of them joined the detectives.

"Shards of Dust Technique," Shiburi said as tiny particles, barely visible for the ninjas and the detectives to see flew at them.

"Move!" Imaru ordered.

He held out one of his hands and created a spiritual shield in front of everyone, protecting them from Shiburi's attack.

"Jiruma!" he shouted.

"Yes sir!" Jiruma shouted as she pulled out a metal ball.

"That technique…" Akiya said to herself.

"What?" Genkai asked as Yusuke looked at her curiously.

"Scattered Rain Technique!" Jiruma shouted.

"A technique where you pour your spirit energy into a Tsukirada, a special type of thin metal ball that can expand. Then you let it explode. The needlelike things will scatter everywhere… an unavoidable technique for the enemy. The more energy you put into it, the deadlier it is. If it's raining, no matter how you try to avoid it, you'll get wet no matter how little. That's how the Scattered Rain Technique works…" Akiya explained.

"W-whoa…" Kuwabara replied as he and the others watched the actual thing happen before their eyes. As Akiya had said, Shiburi couldn't avoid the technique. The needles pierced her from all directions, making her fall to her knees and cough out blood.

This all seems too easy… Kurama thought as he glanced over at Hiei, knowing that he thought the same thing he did.

While everyone had their guard down, no one had noticed that Shiburi had suddenly disappeared from her spot.

"Too slow," Hiei said calmly as everyone turned around to find that Shiburi was beside him. Hiei had his sword through her stomach. Suddenly, Shiburi started to turn to dust and blew away in the wind.

"Too slow…" they heard Shiburi's voice from behind Hiei.

A sword formed in her hand as she brought it down towards Hiei. He easily sidestepped it as he appeared behind her.

"Still too slow…" they heard Shiburi again. Everyone turned around to see her sword was sticking through Hiei's back and out his stomach on the other side. "It's over for you."

"Please, don't flatter yourself," Hiei said behind her. "I can still go faster than that."

"Alright!" Kuwabara cheered. "Go get em shorty!"

Akiya noticed bits of particles starting to appear.

"Get away from her!" she alarmed Hiei who jumped back right as the sharp particles exploded out of her body and surrounded her.

-----Koenma's Office-----

"Ogre, I need you to go into the vault and get something for me," Koenma said to him.

"Hm? Oh, yes sir," George said as he looked up from the paper work that he was helping the prince out with. "What is it?"

"I need you to get the Energy Gem for me," he instructed. "You know where that is, right?"

George looked at Koenma a bit confused. "Yes sir," he replied without question even though his curiosity nearly killed him. He made his way out of the office and headed toward the vault. I wonder what Koenma-sama needs the Energy Gem for… it's used for sucking out spirit energy and other things like that, but why would he need something like that? And why has Botan been gone for so long? Koenma-sama keeps saying that she's away but even I can see through that excuse… I wonder if Yusuke and the others know something I don't…

-----Gogyou—Rejuko's Palace-----

"Why… why are you doing this?" Yukina asked. "What's there to gain from us? What do we have that you want?"

"I need nothing from you girls, but I do have need for the guys that came to rescue you, one in particular," Rejuko replied, calm as always.

"W-what's going on…?" Shiori asked. She was terrified. Since she had no idea about demons or about Kurama or anything else, she had no clue what was going on. She was, after all, just a human who lived a normal human life, thinking that Kurama was Shuichi, her human child. She didn't even know who she was trapped with.

"What do you want with Yusuke and Kuwabara and the others!" Keiko asked.

"That'll depend," he answered. "I might take his life, or perhaps his spirit energy, or I may need nothing at all."

"He's my son! You can't take him from me!" Atsuko yelled. She had no idea what was going on either, but her tough exterior and her worry for Yusuke drove out any fear that she had at the moment. "You can't talk about his life like it were nothing!"

"You're son's life is nothing compared to my daughter's," he replied coldly. "No one here is anything compared to my daughter…"

-----Ninjas and Detectives-----

Shiburi's particles surrounded her. Hiei drew his katana and got ready to jump at her.

"No!" Akiya alerted, grabbing Hiei's arm. "Those particles will kill anyone who gets close! Close range combat is out of the question now!"

"Fine then!" Yusuke replied confidently as his index finger started to glow a bright blue. "Spirit Gun!"

The blast neared Shiburi who did nothing to avoid the blast. Right before his Spirit Gun hit her, the particles gathered and formed a translucent wall. The Spirit Gun hit the wall instead and bounced back at the detectives and the others.

"Watch out!" Genkai shouted as everyone evaded the attack.

Kurama pulled out a rose.

"Rose Whip!" he yelled as he lashed out his whip at Shiburi.

She jumped out of the way, easily dodging it. But she didn't expect his whip to attack her from behind as well. Trying to avoid it at the last minute, she jumped to the side, but the Rose Whip still hit her. It made a deep cut beside her stomach as she fell to her knees, finding that it was hard to move.

"You've been poisoned with my Rose Whip," Kurama said. "If you keep fighting, the poison is going to kill you faster."

"Are you saying I should give up?" Shiburi asked in an amused tone. "If I'm going to die either way, I might as well go down fighting."

"W-what!" Kuwabara asked.

"Man these guys are insane," Yusuke said.

"They have no fear of death. That's good," Hiei replied as he got ready to attack with his katana again.

"That won't work!" Akiya warned him again.

"You were saying?" Hiei asked.

The others turned to where Shiburi was standing. Hiei was standing quite a distance away from her. Suddenly, blood sprayed out near where Kurama's Rose Whip had hit. Imaru and Jiruma stared in amazement and shock. They hadn't even seen him move until he spoke. Neither did anyone else.

But that kind of speed… Akiya thought. That speed can only be by obtaining that attack… by mastering its powers… only Hayate and I can do that though… when did Hiei…

Hiei was about to attack again but found that he was unable to move. The others stared in surprise.

"Did you really think that I couldn't dodge that?" Shiburi asked. "Akiya-san, even you don't know about this. There're particles in my blood as you told everyone, so anyone who comes into contact with my blood will be paralyzed when the particles enter through your skin and block the signals from your brain to your body. You're useless now."

That hot headed fool… Genkai thought.

"Shiburi… why would you work for someone like Rejuko?" Akiya asked.

"You wouldn't understand," she replied as she performed a series of hand seals. "Transparent Vortex Technique."

They all waited, wondering anxiously and nervously about what was going to happen. All of a sudden, they felt themselves being lifted off the ground and they started to rotate in circles, going higher and higher each time. Then what felt like thousands of needles pierced through their body completely, going in one side of their body and out the other. After a few seconds, the attack stopped as everyone fell to the ground, struggling to get back to their feet again.

"Are you too scared to attack me?" Hiei mocked as Shiburi turned to face him.

"You're in no condition to be provoking—" she stopped mid-sentence when Hiei's jagan burned off his headband.

"Don't be a fool," Hiei said, his third eye glowing. "I'm stronger than you think."

Hiei's jagan took care of all the particles in his body that were supposedly suppose to stop him from being able to move or do anything else.

"And you should watch your back," he warned her as Genkai hit Shiburi with her Sprit Gun.

"Wow, so the old hag's still half alive," Yusuke said as he stood next to Genkai.

"You're going to be next," Genkai threatened.

"Half alive with no sense of humor… old people," he muttered as Hiei joined everyone else.

"Actually…" Shiburi said. "I think it should be you guys should be the ones watching your back."

And right on cue, a large blast of black fire rushed at them. They all barely dodged it. When they turned to see who had attacked them, they stared in shock and disbelief.

"N…no way…" Kuwabara managed to say.

Imaru and Jiruma stared just as confused, if not more than anyone else was.

"… …Aki...ya… …?" Kurama said, still overwhelmed with disbelief.

-----Next Chapter's Preview-----

Run Away Forever Chapter 22- Judas

All that time, had Akiya really meant to betray them all from the start? Earning their trust and then throwing it aside like trash… is this really who she is? How can the detectives and the ninjas fight someone who has earned their deepest sincerity? Hiei will have to chose between his sister and Akiya's life… and also, Rejuko thinks back to the time when his daughter hadn't gone missing all those years ago…