If you really need to read the disclaimer again, then refer back to the first ten chapters.
Ch.20
It took a moment for the group to comprehend what had just happened. Korran had finally been defeated, the revelation made Yusuke want to laugh.
"Dose somebody want to explain what just happened," Yusuke gasped as he tried to refrain from laughing sense it did not really seem like an appropriate thing at the time.
"Simple my ingenious detective," Hiei answered with his usual dark humor. "We just won."
"I mean before that," Yusuke snapped. "With that light and what not." Now that they were no longer being assaulted the four members of the Reiki Tantei were able to find the strength to stand. Their overall injuries were not that bad, they had had worse. Kuwabara was limping slightly and Yusuke had a slight concussion, Kurama had a pain in his chest from a few bruised ribs, and Hiei had a few burnt patches of skin, but over all they were not to bad off.
"Sorry," a small voice spoke from behind them. "I probably should have warned you first." They turned around to find Jamie to be the speaker. "I guess I just didn't think," she added sheepishly while she knocked herself on the head to emphasize the point. Kurama was almost immediately at her side his eyes filled with slight worry but mostly curiosity.
"That was you?" he asked her.
"Yes, I saw the whole thing," Botan joyously cut in. "Yami shot her but instead of being hit she grabbed on to the energy and used it to make that shield and the restraints. It was really impressive."
After listening to Botan's recreation of the events that had taken place Kurama was finding it hard not to gape as he was sure the rest of his teammates were doing. His little lover had done all that.
Well, maybe not little, Kurama though as he stared down at her. The girl had a strong build to her, and at the moment seemed incapable of looking at anything other than the ground. Using a gentle finger he tipped her head up to look at him.
"What exactly are your abilities?" he asked her.
"Um…" she started. It took her a moment to find the right words. She hated talking about herself. "I can control and manipulate the energy around me, although I had to have Yami provide me with the energy sense there isn't any in this room. To put it simply I took Yami's energy, mixed it with some of my own and created the barrier. A little rearranging and it was formed into those restraints. Which reminds me," she trailed off as she focused on the energy that still held Korran's broken lifeless body. It came back to her as a large glowing sphere before quickly separating into four equal portions. "Stand still," she requested. The four spheres of energy absorbed into the four abused fighters and their injuries instantly healed.
"Wow, I feel so much better," Yusuke commented as he enjoyed the feeling of a newly repaired head.
"Same here," Kuwabara agreed as he gingerly tried out his now healed leg.
Kurama did not care how he was physically. There was something much more important he was rejoicing over. He was happy, unbelievably happy. In fact he could not remember the last time he had felt this way. He had found the love he had always been looking for and the prospect of a bright future loomed over them.
The group did not hang around too long, too eager to get out of the place. Retracing their steps they uneventfully made their way back to where their ride was graciously waiting for them. About half way to their destination they were forced to make camp due to darkness and exhaustion. They had actually managed to find their way back to the first campground the Reiki Tantei had made in the field of bramble.
"Man it will be good to get some real food when we get home," Mike sighed as he sucked on an orange. "Like a big greasy pizza."
"I'm just looking forward to home in general," Aryn commented.
"Me too," Jamie agreed. "I wonder if-oh…" she stopped in the middle of her sentence and downcast her face.
"What?" Kurama asked as he placed a hand on her shoulder. "Don't you want to go home?" She looked up at him with worry filled eyes.
"Of course I do," she answered him. "But I don't want to leave you."
"Why would you…" he trailed off as realization hit him. He had forgotten that they lived on different sides of the globe. He smiled reassuringly at her. "How about we worry about that once we get there." After all this, something as simple as distance could not…well…distance them.
"Ok," she smiled before snuggling up against his side, her child like ignorance showing through once again.
"Hey Kurama," Yusuke called over to them. "I take it you two are an item now." Kurama nodded as he wrapped an arm around his lover.
"As crudely as that was put, yes," he answered truthfully.
"You dog," Yusuke smirked at him.
"Yusuke," Kurama gasped in a fake affronted gesture. "I am a fox, not a dog." Yusuke just started laughing.
"Somehow I don't see that as being any better," he gasped out. Kurama could only laugh along with his friend with his lovers reassuring warmth pressed against his side.
They all fell asleep in reasonably the same fashion as before, each person wrapped in a large leaf for warmth, but there were a few distinct differences. There were eighteen in their group this time, the presence of fear and apprehension were missing, and two of their members were not sleeping alone but instead wrapped snuggly around each other under the leaf they shared. Jamie had never felt so comfortable or so happy in her life as when she was drifting to sleep with the fox's strong arms around her and her face cuddled into his chest. She felt safe and that was something she would always cherish. Of course the dangers of Kurama's job as a member of the Reiki Tantei were not overlooked, and she knew she would worry every time he went out on a mission. However for right now they were all safe and she wasn't going to let tomorrow's clouds shadow today.
The rest of their journey back to their transport went without a hitch and soon enough the group was reunited with the Speed Demons that had been waiting for them.
"Hey Kurama, I see everything went as planed," Cougar called as the group rounded the rise.
"Cougar," Kurama called back. "I can truly say I have never been so happy to see you." The group reached the waiting Speed Demons and Cougars eyes noticeably widened at the sight of how large the group was.
"Well Kurama I've got to hand it to you, when you need job dome you really do provide a job, not that I mind the challenge, there should be enough room to accommodate though I dare say your going to be as smitten as sardines." The first thing Kurama's mind registered was the surprising fact that none of the humans seemed to be thrown off by Cougars way of talking. He would just chock it up as an American teenager thing. The second thing was relief that Cougar would be able to handle the large group.
"I take it that means you can transport all of us," he asked, just to be sure. With a nod in answer Cougar began to coordinate their transportation. It was really a simple matter off all five Speed Demons putting there energy together and forming what looked like a giant moving platform that was just big enough to hold all of them; with only mere inches to spare, although no one complained about the cramped conditions. After the hell they had just escaped, anything willing to take them away from this place was a golden chariot.
"Cougar, I thank you immensely for your help," Kurama told the Speed Demon as everyone filled off, having finally reached their destination.
"You can thank me all you want," Cougar responded. "Just as long as the proper payment is included in that thanks then everything is chipper."
"Of course," Kurama responded with gusto. "It's already on its way." Once affirmed of their due payment, and after some brief farewells, the gang of Speed Demons took off again towards the next destination of their never ceasing lives.
They had been dropped off at the exact spot where the Reiki Tantei had originally been deposited in this world. However this time, instead of a portal there was a small glowing sphere hanging in mid air.
"This should be the remnants of the portal that Koenma left for us," Kurama thought out loud. The rest of the group hung back in silence. After several moments of nothing Yusuke decided to take the initiative. Stepping forward he tentatively reached forward and grasped the sphere in his palm. It immediately began to pulsate and grow eventually forming a large flat oval with different shades of blue and purple swimming through it. "Yep, that's the portal," Yusuke said with a grin after seeing the results of his action. Without a moments more hesitation the whole group filtered through the hole in space to thankfully return to their own world and leave this current one behind, they had had more than enough of it.
The portal landed them, rather roughly, in a pile on a hard wood floor.
"It's seems you brats just keep piling up in my home," a slightly withered voice spoke from somewhere off to the side. Yusuke was the first to locate the speaker so, likewise, was the first to recognize the speaker.
"Grandma!" he shouted, making it painfully obvious where they were; Genkai's temple. After a moment of shuffling and untangling, the group righted its self and managed to stand up strait. "Why are we here," Yusuke asked once he had de-pretzeled himself.
"Koenma thought it would be easier if you returned here rather than Spirit world," she answered bluntly. Walking over to the group she looked them all over before continuing. "It's lucky for you I was expecting a large group and have enough rooms for you all, I'm assuming you are all tired." Without a word of argument they were all led to the rooms they had been given and each immediately located the bed in the room they had been given and instantly feel asleep.
Everything after that seemed to happen it a blur. Things were set up to take them back to America, parents in the aforementioned country were informed of their children's condition, and Seth had something very important to say to Yami.
"Hey, um…Yami," he called her aside, which she eagerly obliged. Once alone Seth seemed to hesitate, unsure of what to say. "Um…you…you went to a lot of trouble to save me, so I'll start out with thanking you," he hesitated again and Yami patiently waited for him to continue, oblivious to the blow that was to come. "And you went through a lot of pain to help me," he continued. "But, well I guess I'll just say this bluntly. I can't take this."
Yami dead panned. What did he mean he couldn't take it? He could not mean…no, she must have heard it wrong, or was misinterpreted. Seth must have sensed that she was confused for he went on to explain further.
"All of these changes, the powers, the sheer abnormality of everything. I can't deal with it, it's too much. I…I'm going to have to leave. Not just you but I need to distance myself from everyone and everything involved in this…this insanity. You know pretend it was all a dream and it never really happened, forget it all." At this point he ran out of words and stopped although Yami had already grasped what he was saying. He was going to leave her and the conviction in his dead eyes told her that there would be no stopping him from walking out of her life.
"O-ok," was all she managed to choke out before turning on her heal and retreating as quickly as possible. This was something she could not deal with, not now. Once she made it to the room she was currently occupying she locked the door, shut the windows and settled herself into the dark niche to allow her heart to grieve in silence, she cried.
Jamie was also by herself, and oddly enough contemplating a problem along the same line as Yami's. The sound of a throat being cleared came from behind her, and she instantly knew it was Kurama.
"Yes?" she asked him as she turned to face him.
"You're worried," he stated rather than asked, it was not a question. In response she nodded her head.
"I can't help it," she responded. "I'm going to have to go back to my home in America, but that will also mean leaving you behind." She sighed, unable to figure out what to do or say.
"You don't think I realized that," he asked suddenly, a playful sound to his voice. "Call me selfish, but I can let you run off and leave me." She waited impatiently for him to continue; not daring to get her hopes up, but finding herself unable to do anything else. "I've already talked to people," he finally continued. "And if you would like you and any of your friends who would like to could stay here. Your new talents give you quite a bit of power. We could train you and you could become part of our group."
Jamie could have cried she was so relieved. As soon as he finished talking to walked, or practically ran, right up to him. Half laughing she answered "Of course I want to stay," before indulging herself in a kiss.
It had been two hours sense Yami had locked herself in her room when a knock came from the door.
"Yami, can I come in?" Jamie's recognizable voice spoke. In response Yami stood up and unlocked the door allowing her friend passage. When Jamie entered it only took her a moment's glance to notice her friend was upset. "What's wrong?" she asked once she was seated in a chair near the concealed window. Yami quickly told her the event that had just transpired with her boyfriend, needing to bear her heart to someone. Surprisingly enough, when Yami finished speaking Jamie smiled.
"Well then he's a much bigger jerk than I thought he was," she mused before representing her own tale of the offer they had been made to stay. It only took Yami a moments hesitation before deciding that she too would like to remain in Japan, there really was not much for her in America.
In the end, along with Yami and Jamie, Erika, Stephanie, and Jessica decided to stay while the rest decided to return to America for one reason or another. Everyone returned to their homes to check in with worried families and if they were making the move to Japan then to pack and say goodbye.
It took a little convincing for the parents to let their children move to Japan, but with crafty persuasion the issue was settled and Jessica, Jamie, Erika, Stephanie, and Yami soon found themselves returning to Japan and moving into Genkai's temple where they would be trained and taught how to properly control their powers so that they could fight and eventually join the Reiki Tantei.
It had been three days sense the girls had moved in and Kurama was enjoying some private time with his new koi under a sakura tree in the garden. After only a couple of training sessions it became apparent that all of the girls had been taught for power but no actual technique or skill. All of them were being completely reeducated when to handling their powers.
"Kurama," Jamie's voice broke through the quiet.
"Hm," Kurama turned his attention to the girl leaning next to him.
"Will I get stronger?" she asked innocently. She knew her skill was no where near that of any of the members of the Reiki Tantei. The fox leaned down so that the tip of his nose just barely brushed hers before answering.
"Of course, in time, but until then I'll take care of you," he smiled at her and she smile back, content with the answer. Everything was finally starting to fall into place. Yami was slowly recovering from her broken heart that her bastard of a boyfriend had dealt her. Even after everything she had done to help him he just walked away like it meant nothing. Well it just proved that he was nowhere near good enough for her. Along with that the rest of them had finally found their place where they could enjoy happiness. They heard from their friends in America occasionally but all in all they were happy with where they were. Of course there would be more hard ships in the future, those were unavoidable, but until then they were going to enjoy what they had and all the blood and tears that had been shed to reach it.
The end
THIS IS NOT THE END!
There will be a sequel titled "Shadow's of Magic." I know the concept is played out but I love Yu Yu Hakusho x Harry Potter crossovers so the characters of this story are going to Hogwarts. Read it if you want, reviews are appreciated, and no flames, I have creative license and I say they are going to Hogwarts. Woo Hoo!
See You Soon.
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