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When the Darkness Takes Over

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Chapter 6

Keiko walked through the park thinking angrily. `He wasn't in school again. How could he do

that? If he missed too much more school he'd having nothing in his future.' she sighed the sad

thing was he didn't seem to care at all. He was happy with his new job and there wasn't anything

she said that could change his mind. She was brought of her thoughts by a silky voice behind

her.

"What do we have here? A lovely girl without anyone to help her and to make it better it's

Yusuke's woman." she brought her eyes up to see she was surrounded on all sides by

somewhere around thirty people.

"Let me through please." she said quietly just wanting to get away. The men around her began to

laugh harshly.

"Please she says." someone said.

She looked to the ground frightened. `Yusuke come on I need your help'

"Let's get this over with." one of the men said as he leapt at her.

She looked up in fright and closed her eyes yelling out. "YUSUKE!!" suddenly a crack like a

whip rang out and she cracked her eyes open a bit expecting to be hit by him as soon as

possible only to see him on the ground a long bloody gash down his back.

"Tsk tsk." a soft voice said. "I feel sad you boys left me out of your games this time. Don't you

like me anymore that you have to pick a fight with someone else other then me."

Keiko looked in the direction of the voice to see a girl probably no older then her standing with,

was that a whip in her hand. Her long raven black hair flowed down her back, and she was

outfitted in a spaghetti strapped shirt that had a dragon winding around it, and long black baggy

pants that covered her black army boots.

"Not today bitch. The Boss told us to come after this one."

"Why go after the spirit detectives girl?" she asked bored. "The only thing you'll manage to do is

make enemies of many people who respect him already especially after that tournament. Do you

know so little you risk your lives without knowing everything?"

"Why you.." one of them lunged at her only to be hit by the whip hard nearly having his arm

ripped off.

"Would you dare attack a poor weak human girl like me?" she asked mockingly. Her face

turned into a serious expression. "I tire of these games. Let the girl go."

"We don't listen to you. You're not our boss."

"Thank god for that. I could never deal with a bunch of imcompetence like you." she waited

paitiently for them to release her. When they didn't her face turned into a frown. "Fine if you

want to be that way. You." she said to Keiko. "Girl move now." without waiting for her to reply

the girl lunged in to attack.

Keiko began to move backwards away from the fight when a hand roughly grabbed her

shoulders. "Where do you think you're going pretty little lady?" a man asked her quietly.

Keiko froze in shock. "Y-Y-YUSUKE HELP!!!" she yelled out in fright as she tried to jerk

back from the man. He only laughed at her attempts then suddenly he fell to the ground his

mouth open in a silent cry of pain.

She looked behind him to see the girl standing there. Keiko looked surprised and looked behind

her to see that she had already fought everybody else and they were all on the ground looking to

be very much in pain.

"Hmm you okay Keiko?" the girl asked only to receive a surprised look. "You don't look to be

hurt so you must be fine."

"How do you know my name?" Keiko asked

She only ignored that though. "Yusuke and his friends are coming. Tell him he brought this onto

himself. Also that even though he has an important job it won't make him feared only hated and

make people want to kill him because of it to prove that he is nothing compared to them. It puts

him in a dangerous situation." she began to walk away.

"Who are you?" Keiko asked.

"No one." the girl said sadly. "Absolutely no one."

"Kirara come out. I guess he is safe then huh?" the girl said.

Keiko looked at her weirdly trying to figure out who she was talking to when she saw a huge

cat come out from behind a bunch of bushes. The girl jumped on its back without second

thought.

"Come let's go home I wan't to make sure my son took good care of home." Keiko heard her

say as she rode away.

Keiko sat there looking in the direction she left even after she was gone that she didn't notice

Yusuke and Co. come up behind her. She jumped when she felt a hand land on her shoulder.

She whirled around to come face to face with Yusuke.

"Yusuke?" she asked quietly. He looked at her puzzled. "WHY DIDN'T YOU COME

SOONER???" she yelled out.

He still looked at her puzzled then he noticed the bodies on the ground. "Keiko what happened

here?" he asked her gruffly. "I heard you call out for me and tried to come as soon as possible I

swear." he said to her.

"They were gonna attack me." she said pointing at the men on the ground. "but this girl came

and saved me. It was like she was familiar with them, because they were arguing about their

boss and she said something about them not picking fights with her anymore. The one said their

boss didn't want her this time but me and she got angry and fought them."

Kurama and Hiei looked at the bodies on the ground and had a whispered conversation.

"What are you two doing?" Yusuke asked

Kurama looked up with a slight frown marring his features. "This girl is familiar with this group.

It's that same one we saw the other day that was fighting that gang. It's the same gang but

different members. It must be a huge group." he said.

Yusuke frowned. "Anything else?" he asked Keiko.

She looked down in thought frowning slightly. She then suddenly jerked her head up as she

remembered something. "She said that `Tell him he brought this onto himself. Also that even

though he has an important job it won't make him feared only hated and make people want to

kill him because of it to prove that he is nothing compared to them. It puts him in a dangerous

situation.'" she said repeating her every word.

"This is very weird." Kurama said.

"Yusuke how could a normal human know about the demon tournament that you were at and

about all the people you met? Like the friends you made who would help you out if need be?"

she asked quietly.

They all turned to her surprised. "They wouldn't. A normal human wouldn't know of such

things." Yusuke said.

"She does. She warned the guys that if they hurt me they would be making a lot of people angry

especially some of the people you met at the tournament."

"What do you suggest we do?" Yusuke asked turning to Botan

"I don't know." she replied confused "This is really confusing."

"Anything else Keiko?" Kurama asked looking at her.

"This will sound really weird but when she left she began talking. I thought it was to herself but

this huge cat stepped out of the bushes over there. It has flames all over it." she paused.

"A fire cat" Kurama murmured. "Those were supposed to have died out."

"Anyway she talked to it saying she wanted to make sure her son had taken care of home and

something about the cat taking good care of him. Maybe it was someone she was having it

watch. I asked her who she was but all she said was no one absolutely no one." Keiko frowned

slightly. "She sounded really sad."

She smiled a bit. "I thought it was you guys who were here first when I was attacked because I

heard a crack of a whip and thought it was you Kurama but it was her."

"She's an interesting character." Botan said.

"Yea well that's the fighter we told you about at the meeting." Yusuke said. "You ok?" he asked

Keiko.

"Yea I'm fine."

"Now what do we do?" Yusuke asked out loud.

"Well me and you could have a nice chat Yusuke Urameshi." a voice said from behind them

causing them all to turn around to face a young boy with blue hair and ocean blue eyes.

Keiko smiled at the small boy he was cute for his age. Wait did she just see a tail behind him?

"Who are you?" Yusuke demanded of him. "How did you know my name?"

"Geez you're a loud one. I'm here with an offer." he said looking expectantly at him.

"What kind of offer might I ask is it?" Kurama said stepping forward.

The boy smiled. "Much better. She told me to deal with a Kurama or Hiei as they are the more

reasonable ones."

Keiko laughed as Yusuke began to sputter causing the boy to grin showing two sharp canines.

"With all do respect what kind of demon are you?" Keiko asked politely of the young boy.

"Ah and you must be Keiko. I'm a kitsune just like Kurama over there." he said pointing over at

the said name.

"You seem to know all our names. How is that?" Botan asked.

The boy frowned. "Well Botan I do a lot of dealings. It's part of my job to know things. Let's

hurry this up."

"Well what is this about then?"

"Your source has decided to give you another chance Yusuke. My mom will meet with you

again tomorrow after school hours. She will have no dealings with you. Only Kurama or Botan

as she doesn't want to be attacked again by you."

"Why is she doing this?" Kurama asked

"She knows you guys have been looking for her and is sick of it so she is doing this to get it over

with. I got to get going. I have to take some information to the boss lady." he said smiling leaving

the same way he showed up, fast and without being noticed.

"Did he say his mom?" Keiko and Botan asked.

The rest looked at them thoughtfully.

"Well what do you think we do?" Kuwabara asked.

"We meet her." Yusuke said

Kurama nodded his head in agreement.

Kagome sat in her room when her window opened showing a little boy with blue hair and ocean

blue eyes. "Did you give them the message Daisuka?" she asked the boy.

"Yes mom I did and they will meet you."

"Good you are dismissed for now. Take a break I don't want to see you at work for awhile

unless important. My mom made cookies go sucker her into giving you one she loves to spoil

you." she said with a laugh.

"Thank you Kagome" he said grinning at her as he left to sucker her mother into giving him a

cookie as Kagome has suggested.

She lay back on her bed thinking. "We'll go tomorrow together Shippo."

"So I take it he set up the meeting." Shippo said as he came to sit next to her.

"Of course. Your brother can be very persuasive."

"I'll bet." he snorted.

She only chuckled.

"Was that last fight worth getting into Kagome?" he asked her.

"Don't talk to me about fights kiddo. I can't really avoid them. The last one yes I could have but

I couldn't allow Keiko to get hurt like that." she replied

"Do you think it wise to meet with him again though?" Shippo asked.

"By the way did you see your brother?"

"Are you trying to avoid the conversation?" he asked her.

"Of course not Shippo." she said innocently.

He only sighed. "Yes I did see him. He's doing good. Your mom loves to spoil him as much as

me."

"Of course she does. She loves to spoil my kids." she said with a laugh.

She had found Daisuka not long after she had returned home for the last time from the feudal

ages. She had gone with Shippo to the park where they found him being beaten to death by a

bunch of men and she had saved him. She had found his parents had died leaving him off on his

own and she had immediately fallen in love with the little boy she adopted him along with Shippo

and Kirara. Her mom was ecstatic about it happy to have another kid in the house. He was

gone a lot on business she gave him because he was good at getting information. Besides he

was very well able to take care of himself now as she had taught him how to fight herself.

Yes he was worth being proud about she thought smiling as was Shippo.

"We're almost ready Shippo. The alliance will be set up soon. Let's just hope no one does

anything to mess it up. I really need this." she said as she rolled onto her side closing her eyes.

"You worry to much." Shippo said only to hear a soft sigh. He looked over to find her already

asleep. Chuckling a bit he pulled her blanket over her and walked over to the door to find his

brother standing right by there. "Daisuka what do you know about those members in that

group?"

"I was wondering when you would get to asking me." he replied smiling.

"Just tell me and I won't tell mom about this other mission you're working on without her

knowing about."

"Fine, fine. Do you really have to pull her into that? She's got enough to worry about right now."

Shippo tapped his foot impatiently on the floor.

"OK from what I was able to find out the four of them that are in the group have one job and

that is to keep this realm safe from demons that pass through or dangerous weapons or magics.

Two of them are demons the other two are humans with unusually high spirit energy. One of the

demons is a kitsune and the other is a fire apparation. I really couldn't find much else out.

Koenma keeps all information really well hid."

"Surprised you haven't gone after it yet." Shippo snorted.

"Umm..."

"You haven't?"

Daisuka only nodded his head a bit shame faced.

"And you didn't get it?" he began to laugh at the expense of the other kitsune. "I'm so sorry but

that's the first time you weren't able to get information well besides from mom's head."

"Cut it out ok?" Daisuka yelled out.

Shippo stopped laughing but kept a smirk on his face. "Did you find anything else out that I

asked you to watch out for?"

Daisuka nodded. "He's still alive, but he's changed a lot."

"Really?" Shippo looked thoughtful. "Ya don't say? This will be interesting. He and mom always

got a long so good."

"Yea when he wasn't trying to kill her."

"No kidding." Shippo said laughing so hard. "We'll have to keep an eye out for him. It would be

wonderful for them to be reunited. At least so I could see them argue again like they did back

then."

"Are you going to the meeting tomorrow?"

"She asked me too how about you?"

"She said she doesn't want me working unless it's for something important."

"Hahaha. Don't worry. She'll want you there for this. You're the best at deals."

"We'll see. I have some folders to go through in my room. I need to find something out."

"Just don't overwork yourself." Shippo replied chuckling as Daisuka walked out the room.

Shippo stopped laughing and turned to look at the sleeping Kagome. "This meeting had better

go good. If they try anything like they did last time Koenma will be needing to look for new

members for the spirit detective group. Kirara let's go see if grandma needs help." Shippo said

turning away from room walking downstairs with the cat trailing behind him.

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OC/Kagome

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