If you really need to read the disclaimer again, then refer back to the first ten chapters.

Ch.15

"Get up!" Korran commanded of the already awake humans. It was time for another round of training and Korran was anxious to continue their progress. It was the same routine as usual. Wake the humans, make sure they had been healed the night before, and lead them to the hall containing their training rooms. However it was here where everything went awry.

"Fleeeeeeee!" Mike yelled, not ten seconds after the door had closed behind them, and the group split into its predetermined plan. Erika, Jamie, Sam, Mike, Yami, Seth, and Jordan going left and Stephanie, Jessica, Aryn, Elizabeth, Cristian, and Travis going right.

"Oh no you don't," Korran called after them as they scurried away as he groped in his pocket for the remote he assumed would be there. When he failed to locate it he became frantic and started to hurriedly search the rest of his outfit for the elusive device. With Korran distracted, all of the humans managed to make it to the other side of the door, and the last image they saw of the demon was of him striping off his white coat to thoroughly search its contents.

"We made it out!" Jamie exasperated to her friends. "Now what do we do?"

"I don't know," Yami answered from just behind her. "But whatever you do, don't stop running." So the group plowed blindly ahead. It seemed as if there was no end to the maze of halls, but the rooms seemed to be getting more and more impersonal, as in more storage closets than labs, as they went so they must be going in the right direction. Jordan had just managed to pull to the head of the group when she opened a door and charged through with out looking and ran full force into something hard, causing her to fall flat on her ass.

"So now what do we do?" Botan asked as the group stared at the large complex building in front of them. They had successfully managed to find their way to the main building and were now faced with the problem of a large amount of ground to search.

"We split up," the fox decided. "Botan, you Kuwabara and I will enter through there." He pointed to an entrance fifty feet to their left. "And Yusuke and Hiei can enter through there." He pointed to another entrance about fifty feet to their right. "If you manage to find any of the kids inform us using the communication mirrors." With their instructions given to them the group split up to go in their assigned directions.

It did not take Yusuke and Hiei long to find a group. Yusuke had been running just ahead of Hiei and right when he was about to open a door it swung away and an object came crashing into him. Looking down he saw that there was a girl now sitting at his feet and there were others standing just behind her. It did not take long for his brain to comprehend that these were the humans he had been looking for. There was an awkward silence where both parties just stared at each other, not daring to believe what their eyes were telling them, which was eventually broken by the sound of Mike laughing.

"I can't believe it was so easy," he choked out. "You guys are here to help us, right?"

"Yeah," Yusuke answered. They could not help it. They all started laughing, except Hiei who just smirked to himself. It had been almost too easy, but they were not about to jinx their luck by complaining. After getting a brief description of what had transpired so far they started their journey to the outside world. So we only have half of them. Well that's half more than we had before. Yusuke tried to contact Kurama, via his mirror, and report what had happened but the fox was too preoccupied to so much as pick up. Kurama's group was having no where near as much luck trying to locate the remaining humans.

Their group had been running for nearly fifteen minuets, winding their way through the building, when Aryn suddenly stopped, causing all of the others the halt with her.

"What is it?" Elizabeth asked her friend.

"I hear foot steps," the other girl answered. "I think someone is coming this way."

"What?" Travis questioned. "I don't hear anything."

"Well they are far away right now but they are coming towards us at a surprisingly fast rate." Aryn explained, and the group decided to escape through a nearby door. Just as the last of them filled through, their pursuers rounded the corner.

With his fox senses Kurama could tell that they were getting close to a bunch of humans, and sense he recognized their scents he could guess who they were. However he was not quite fast enough and entered the hallway just in time to see someone disappear through a door. Botan, Kuwabara, and Kurama followed them and came upon a white room with a multitude of other doors which the humans were escaping through, each going through a different one. Kurama managed to grab one girl before she slipped away, and held onto her fast, for her initial instinct was to fight and get away.

Stephanie stopped struggling once she saw who her captor was and just gapped at the pretty red head in front of her.

"Where are your friends?" he insisted of her. It took her a moment to answer sense she was still trying to recover from the abrupt meeting. However she did manage to stutter out an answer.

"We thought you-you were from the lab and coming to t-take us back." Now that she thought about it, this was going to make things muck more difficult.

"Take you back. You mean you escaped?" The girl in front of him vigorously nodded in answer.

"Kurama, what should we do?" Kuwabara spoke up. His friend sighed while thinking over a solution. This could take awhile.

"Split up and try to capture them. When you manage to locate someone bring them back here. Stephanie, remain here and don't go anywhere. We need to try and make this as simplistic as possible."

So the craziness began with everyone running around in every direction. Hiei, being the fastest, caught up to someone first. He grabbed Travis by the back of his shirt, nearly choking him, but effectively stopping him so he could explain to the human what was going on and lead him back to the meeting room. Kuwabara brought back both Aryn and Jessica at the same time but only because while he had been chasing down Aryn the girl had run smack into Jessica, knocking both girls to the ground and allowing Kuwabara to catch up. Kurama had an easier time than both of them. All it took was a few Guardian Spies to locate the remaining humans, and hold them in place until he managed to reach them. All in all it was a good half an hour before everyone was gathered in the same room.

Alright, is everyone accounted for," Kuwabara demanded of the now complete group.

"Yes," Aryn spoke up. "This is everyone in our group. The rest are in another group." It was not until then that Kurama was able t o open his communicator, which had been ringing nonstop for the last five minuets, to see what the others had to report.

"Hey Kurama, took you long enough," Yusuke's voice echoed from the mirror. We found a group of kids."

"Good, so did we," the fox answered. "Do we now have every one?" After each group rattled off a list of all the humans they currently had with them it was deduced that, yes, they could now account for all the kidnapped humans. The only thing left to do would be to reconvene outside the building. After discussing where the meeting place would be, each group set out to return to the other, with no one really saying much of anything.

"So you guys really came to save us!" Jordan exclaimed once everyone had been reunited and stories of events so far had been exchange, and the damn annoying metal collars had been shedded. It did not take long for the group of human friends and the Reiki Tantei to warm up to each other. Actually the two groups seemed to get along perfectly, and as they started their slow journey back to where their transportation was waiting, they easily feel into comfortable conversations with each other.

The only person who had not said anything sense everyone had meet up was Jamie. But how could she even think of getting her voice to work when he was standing right there. Many people had called her crazy over the years for her strange fixation with a certain anime character but now she all those people had to eat their words. Sometime after her eleventh birthday she had been introduced to Yu Yu Hakusho, fallen in love with a character and gotten hooked. It was now more than four years later and her obsession had stayed. Of course now that the object of her desire was right now scarcely three yards away from her she could not think of anything to say to him. All she could do was look at him out of the corner of her eye, and admire him.

He had almost forgotten his earlier dilemma, but after seeing her again Kurama's mind was bombarded with renewed questions. At one point he could have sworn he caught her looking at him but her attention was directed at someone else so fast he was not sure if he had really seen it. Either way he decided that, when an opportunity arose, he needed to talk to her.

After a few hours of walking the humans needed a break, and the Reiki Tantei would not mind the rest either. They were parked in another odd patch of land. It seemed to be entirely made of shale, with little waterfalls appearing here and there, trickling down the plated rock. There were also random islands of trees among the rocky land and one of these islands is where the group chose to stop. Some of them were lounging against a tree, and some where lying on the ground. Kurama, who was lying against a tree, was pondering if just maybe this was a good time to approach her. She about ten feet in front of him and to the right, and was currently swirling her fingers around in a nearby trickling stream. Just as he made his resolve to go over to her one of her friends, Yami, sat down newt to her. Well it looks like his window of opportunity had closed. He definitely did not want to talk to her with other people around.

"Hey," Yami acknowledged her friend as she sat dawn. "You definitely suppressed me," she continued once she was seated. Jamie looked up from the swirling water to look into the soft face of her friend.

"What do you mean," she asked.

"Well, I just figured you would be glomping Kurama, or something, the moment he was in your sights," the ebony haired girl explained. Jamie just smiled and shook her head.

"I don't have time to worry about that right now, given our current condition," she commented. "Besides, despite what people might think, I would never d that to him. It's disrespectful if you don't know them and it's got to be annoying."

Yami regarded her friend carefully and tried to determine what would be best to say next. She rarely acted like this and the right words could inspire her to do something great, but the wrong ones could sent her retreating back into herself. So she figured it would be best to say as little as possible and stick with the obvious. "You've been waiting for him for years. You can't simply let him slip away."

"Yeah, of course not. But I'll worry about this after we sort all of this chaos out, and that was the last thing Jamie said before following silent. She really confused Yami thought. But I don't blame her. She's been hoping for this for years and suddenly it's just thrown in her face. However Yami was not that worried about her friend. She was a strong person, when it came right down to it, and would not let her chance pass her by. However neither of them would have guessed that the topic of their conversation was thinking along the same lines. Slowly working out his thoughts and piecing things together until he was interrupted by Yusuke taking seat next to him.

"Well, in the end everything worked out smoothly," Yusuke laughed.

"Yes, too smoothly. It bothers me; someone should have tried to stop us. After working so hard to capture them they would not just relinquish their prize so easily," the red head commented. Sam, who was near by could not help but overhear the conversation and joined in.

"Yeah, it's strange. I expected that guy to come after us. I wonder why he did not."

"Oh didn't I," a voice spoke from behind the cluster of trees. The voice was unforgettable, so it was no surprise when Korran stepped out from behind the trees. Shockingly it was Kurama who spoke first.

"Karron!" At first the other demon looked shocked but when he saw who the speaker was his eyes narrowed to dangerous slits with daggers coming from them.

"You," he spat the word as if it were a curse. However he quickly composed himself, although the icy hatred did not leave his eyes. "I'm sorry to disappoint you but I am not Karron. I'm his twin Korran."

"Pft, I've got to say that that whole matching twin name thing is really lame," Yusuke spoke up out of the blue.

"It is not my original name but the one I adopted after you destroyed my brother." At the "you" he turned his attention back to the fox. "You and that girl."

"Did I miss something, what girl?" Kuwabara asked. As soon as he asked Korran disappeared and just as soon reappeared right in front of Jamie with her chin held tightly in his grip, forcing her to look at him.

"It was obvious from the moment I saw you. You are the girl responsible for what happened t o my brother. Well, her reincarnation anyway." From the gasp he heard he guessed that the fox knew what he was speaking of, although he was the only one.

"I must be stupid!" Yusuke shouted. "Because I have no idea what's going on!"

"Yusuke, do you remember that story I told you?" Kurama asked him. At Yusuke's nod he continued. "Well this demon here is the twin of the one I worked for, and Jamie is the reincarnation of the girl I abandoned." Once he explained this he stopped and thought for a brief moment before addressing Korran. "What do you mean 'destroyed your brother.' All I did was refuse to continue working with him." Korran turned to face the fox, without letting go of the girl.

"I'm not sure what you said to him but he changed. He became less motivated with his work, started questioning it, and once this girl died he stopped it altogether. Without the inspiration of his experiments he simply wasted away. But I won't quit and I won't give up. I will finish my brother's work, and I can't think of a better way than by using the two people who brought him down."

"Hn," Hiei stepped forward. "I can gauge your power from here, you are weak by yourself. The only thing that gives you power is those gadgets of yours. Do you really think you will be able to defeat all of us?"

"Your right little man," Korran scoffed. "It's true that I can not compete with your power, however I have one major advantage. I still control your friends." With this statement he vanished again and the group realized that he had taken Cristian and Seth with him. If you want your friends back then you have to return to me. They could hear his voice ringing in their heads. I'm staked out in my backup lab, so come find me if you wish, and then the voice faded into nothingness taking any clues of its whereabouts with it.

I took a second for what had just happened to register, but once it did, the reality hit home hard.

"Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeth!" Yami called after he boyfriend, but of course there was no answer. "You can't leave me! Not now!" Yami seemed about ready to break down, and when Jamie put her arms around her friend and urged her to sit down on a rock, she did not argue.

"What should we do now?" Botan asked Yusuke. He answered almost immediately.

"Duh, we're going after them. I did not come all this way to fail now. Come on get everyone together. We're going hunting."