XD I'm so happy I'm passing my classes and now I finally have time to update! I have staved back the mountain of homework with a single pencil and now we come to an important chapter in the story. I shall try to update faster this week since we have Terra Nova testing and the days are supposed to be a little shorter, I think. But for now, on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho is not mine. Just making it clear.


Chapter Fifteen

"Ow…"

The Destinies awaken very sore and very touchy. Soon Carinne—who spent the night in Vanessa's room as her own has not yet been established—is in a fight with the blond. The noise is thunderous.

"Don't shove me, dumbass!"

"Make me!"

"You're my slave and you'll do as I say!"

"Shut up! Next time go sleep with your bitch!" (1)

Olivia, since her room is next to Vanessa', pounds on the wall for silence only to have the two come and jump her mercilessly. It is terrible, but the other Destinies avoid that part of the mansion and come down for breakfast. Kurama had to Botan to have Koenma lift the 'vacation barrier'—today the girls are going to school. Needless to say, Kurama is not their favorite person.

They are tired, sore, and drained. Top it off—it is raining. It is supposed to be snowing—meaning that they should be sitting and watching anime with cups of hot chocolate and scheming against each other, not dragging their butts off to school.

"Think anyone at school missed us?" they ask each other as they trudge through the thick and disgusting muck. Silence ensues, answer enough for them.

The ice chills them, sloshing into their shoes and penetrating the thin material of their socks, going right to their feet. Off to their right a black blur shoots past them and disappears from sight, only to reappear again when they are further down the road. Hiei—watching to make sure they actually go to school.

"They trust us so much," Meagan mumbles sarcastically.

A low rumble echoes around them, lighting shines in the distance, and the rain comes down just a bit harder. Carinne lifts her head up with a sweet smile, mentally promising revenge. Their high school—from a distance looking like a normal building—looms over them as they walk closer. And so, sore and soaked through, they start their day.

-0-

Nissi sighs as she walks home alone—everyone else having received detention for sleeping in class—and squirms under the amount of weight she is carrying. (2) The books are not heavy and her shoulder pain had long since faded into a dull ache, but the mansion is still quite a distance away and she is abnormally tired. Luckily their teachers hadn't piled too much homework on them.

Minutes plod on, as do Nissi's feet, and soon she is past the front door and laying on one of the couches in peace.

"Silence," she says.

"Hn. Precious, isn't it?"

Nissi cracks an eye to stare at Hiei who has appeared before her. He has a ragged look about him and she guesses that he's just finished training.

"Kurama sent everyone home," he bobs her on the head. "Where are the other onnas?"

"Detention."

Hiei gives no reply but a roll of his eyes.

"So it's just you and me then," Nissi muses. "Play with my hair!"

Hiei simply walks away shaking his head, ignoring her protests. With just Hiei the house is quiet and it unnerves Nissi a bit, who is used to the noises of her friends blaring in her ears. And so, she plots.

"I'm too tired to do anything elaborate," she sighs as she hides behind the couch.

In her hand she holds a thin piece of string which trails across the room, up the doorpost, and connect to the handle of a metal bucket that is hanging overt the doorpost. While she was hunting for her supplies earlier she had heard the door slam and minutes later a loud ruckus in the forest, and assumed that Hiei had gone back outside for more vigorous training. If that was the case, then he would be back soon. And so she sits, waiting.

Her patience pays off as she hears the door click open. Laughing maniacally she tugs the string and the pail turns downward, pouring a whole lot of vegetable oil onto one Destinies head: Vanessa.

"Wow, it wasn't me," Olivia peers over Carinne, who is doubled over with laughter.

Chaos ensues. After a few blinks to clear her eyes Vanessa furiously begins chasing after Nissi, who doesn't even bother to explain that the trap wasn't for her. Carinne is turning purple under the pressure of laughing. As Nissi and Vanessa circle around again Olivia is at a loss for what to do. In the end she kneels down and concentrates on getting Carinne to breath again.

"Aaah!" Nissi runs outside, Vanessa on her heels, and heads for the forest.

In her panic she fails to see the numerous sings of a struggle, until she trips over a dead body.

"Woah," Vanessa stops dead, staring as Nissi scrambles up.

The body is that of a demon, though not a completely hideous one. Three horns stick up from his hair; his eyes are dark, his skin pale, and the hilt of Hiei's swords sticks out of his gut. Vanessa and Nissi stare around at the scene, taking in the sight. Then they go running back to the mansion.

"They stole Hiei!"

"What?"

"Call everyone," Vanessa commands as she flips out her cell phone.

Soon everyone is assembled and looking worried, ready for the details of Hiei's capture. Kurama presently heads off to the forest in search of clues that could lead them to Hiei's whereabouts. While he is gone Botan comes flying into view—Yusuke had paged her through his make-up mirror—with a worried look on her face.

"Have you found anything?"

Kuwabara shakes his head no, "Kurama's out searching, though."

"If Malia were here we could search for a vision," Olivia muses. "But she's too far away and we haven't trained Carinne enough."

Meagan gives a shrug and looks around at her friends, "So we're basically winging it. Nothing new there."

Yusuke watches the conversation in silence, munching thoughtfully on an apple.

"You do remember that the guy we're eventually going to end up fighting is untouchable, right?" he asks.

The Destinies blink, "Oh yeah."

Botan sweatdrops, 'They're doomed.' "Perhaps you should equip them with weapons or something."

"I was getting there," Yusuke chides. "You'll all need to pick a weapon or two. They're in my room—go choose."

He closes his eyes and takes another chomp out of his apple, chewing until he hears a small cough. The Destinies are still standing before him, looking a bit nervous.

"What's wrong?"

"Well your room is just a tad bit…" Nissi pauses. "Messy."

"As in it's an absolute pigsty. Go in for us," Vanessa commands.

Five minutes and three trips up and down the stairs later Yusuke has successfully assembled all available weapons before the five awaiting girls. Various swords, daggers, shields and other random weapons lay before them and the mad scramble to get the ones they want begins. Several more minutes pass and eventually each Destiny is content.

Olivia is equipped with a sword, dagger, and a bow and arrow. Vanessa—after a bit of struggle with Olivia—succeeded in winning a rather large boomerang (3) and a sword. Meagan chose for herself two very large swords, both having a rather large demonic aura. Nissi, after a while, chose a large pack of kunai knives and shuriken, to accentuate her wonderful accuracy. And Carinne ended up with a rather large gun and a dagger to help her. Needless to say the Destinies give her a bit of space.

"It's no good," Kurama comes in. "I can't deduct anything from the corpse."

"We could set Dawe on his trail," Kuwabara suggests. "But that would be a bit risky."

Olivia whistles for her dog, "Only thing we've got though."

Dawe comes running, apparently psyched and eager for a hunt. Olivia gives him Hiei's sword to sniff. After only a moment he gives a loud bark and shoots off, the others right on his tail.

"We're all exhausted," Nissi points out as they run, "and we've only had one day of training. How well do you think we're going to fare?"

Her only response is all the creepy grins her friends turn to give her. Before long Dawe has led them to the portal to Makai. The Destinies stop to catch their breath as everyone else jumps through and disappears. The Destinies groan and look up to the sky.

"Someone up there hates us," Meagan growls as she drags her friends through the portal.

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The portal takes them to one of the more populated areas of Makai, which of course is their first problem. The appearance of the Spirit Detective rouses the demons and soon a whole hoard of them are after the group. To avoid fighting, they run.

"Damn it Urameshi! Why do you always have to cause a scene?" Kuwabara glares at his best friend.

"Hate to say it but he's right," Vanessa pants.

"Shut up! It's not my fault!"

Soon they have outrun all but the swiftest of the demons, at which point they turn to fight. Or rather, Vanessa turns to fight. She pulls out her boomerang and makes quick work on sending it off into the small mass of demons, grinning insanely as most of them are sliced in half. The rest flee in fear. As the boomerang circles back Vanessa plants her feet in the ground and catches it, staggering only a little bit.

Dawe paws the ground, eager to go on. Groaning as he runs off, they follow.

On and on they run, until the landscape has changed to that of a low, rocky plain. Across that plain Dawe leads them, until they are at the entrance of a cave. An evil aura pulses around them and the group has no doubt that they are in the right place. Kurama and Yusuke venture in, only to find that the pass curves to the left and trail downward to several large doors: a labyrinth.

"Wonderful," Botan sighs as Kurama calls for them to come down. "Perhaps we should split up. That way they can't possibly catch us all."

The others agree. In the end the teams are as follows: Meagan and Olivia, Nissi and Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara, and last—Botan, Vanessa, and Carinne. The teams each pick a door and prepare to enter, but Botan pulls them back. She pulls out the little stickers that tell your current state and hand them around.

"I haven't got enough for everyone, so just write all your names on one."

Soon each person in each group—save the threesome—has to stickers on their shirts.

"See you in the end!"

The groups wave good-bye, yank open their doors and enter, disappearing into the darkness.


Uwaha, I am finished. Sadly this shall be harder to write now since I'm adding weapons but I think I'll be okay. " Nyah, I'm going to watch a movie now. Ja ne, everyone! See you next chapter!

-Calismo

1. The bitch is me, by the way.

2. Nissi does carry around a lot of books.

3. Sango-style!