Authoress: whooo hoo!!!...now, hm...I'm up to chapter...five...yeah...I've been trying to update at
least once a week...so I'm gonna have to type a teeny bit more...
Hiei: you're on the computer four or five hours a day...-_-;;
Kurama: he's right...that's not good for you...
Authoress: Neither is Yaoi, but I'm still writin' it...so shaddup!
Yusuke: *opens one eye* I'm TRYING to sleep here!
Hiei: *torches Yusuke without a second thought*
Authoress: finally...some peace and quiet...but Yusuke won't die so easily in the story, Hiei...so
don't try to murder him...I'd have to then torture you or somethin'
Kurama: *holds Hiei possessively* don't you dare!
Authoress: I've tortured both of you already, so there! *sticks out tongue* And, don't worry,
Kurama...I've got a load of evil ideas for you...*sigh* temptation of the weak...eh?
Kurama: *eyes wide, race out of the room*
Hiei: temptation...of the...weak? *clueless expression*
Authoress: *sigh* my naive little Hiei...*smiles* he's so cute sometimes!
Hiei: Who ya callin' cute!?
Authoress: *grabs Hiei's small nose between middle and index finger* I've got your nose!!
Hiei: *screams, searching for a mirror*
Disclaimer: -_-;;...so depressing...I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, kay? I don't own Hiei's nose
either...*sigh* too bad...
Chapter Five
"Do you seriously think my father would pay that ransom?" Shura asked, glaring up at the
youki sitting in front of him. 'Papa wouldn't pay...I'll get out of here...and torture that
bastard...how dare he kidnap me...' the pink-eyed youkai thought to himself, studying his captor's
features. The demon was average looking, almost human, except for the long nails on his
unusually lengthy fingers, his cat-like grey eyes, and the pointed ears that twitched slightly with
Shura's outburst.
"Don't worry, if Yomi doesn't, then you'll die, he knows that...he'll pay..." the youkai
replied quietly, his deep, monotonous voice sending shivers down Shura's spine. "So will
Murkro...and soon if she wants that Jaganashi back alive..."
'He...he captured Hiei...then I won't be the only one that will torture him...but, if he was
powerful enough to kidnap both of us...and hold Hiei -and- me here at the same time...he must be
very powerful...and confident...' Shura thought to himself, surprised that the small fire demon had
been captured as well.
"I forgot...you didn't know about Hiei's capture...after I tied you up, I went and got
him...funny, I didn't even get a scratch from him...at least you put up a fight..." Shura's captor
stated cooly, touching his pale cheek where there was a large gash. Shura smirked, noticing that
the bleeding hadn't stopped yet, even though he had been sitting in his dark, damp cell for some
time. He wasn't sure how long he had been here, since he was never fed, never allowed to see
daylight. "If you want...I'll put him in this room...I'm sure you're quite lonely..."
"When I escape, I'll make your death long and painful..." Shura threatened, tightening the
muscles in his arms, but he couldn't break the wards that were tied tightly around his arms. The
wards, now beginning to scrape away at his skin from the numerous times he had tried to break
free, had slowly been sucking away whatever youki he had. 'Hiei didn't put up a fight...why?'
Shura asked himself, glaring at his tormentor, wishing the tall youkai would leave him alone so he
could attempt to rip the wards off again, knowing his struggle was futile.
"I would want my death no other way...but, I assure you that you won't be the one to kill
me..." the youkai said, glancing around the room with a bored expression on his face. "And, you
shall address me as Master Kiba from now on."
"Like hell I will..." Shura muttered. Kiba turned to leave the room, then looked back at
Shura, a smile that showed his pointed fangs on his face.
"Don't worry, you'll know what hell is soon enough..."
"So, this is the place we're supposed to meet Jin and Touya?" Yusuke asked outloud,
staring into the Makai forest. "No one's around..."
"Maybe they got caught by that dream-weaver already..." Kuwabara suggested, shivering
furiously. 'This place is givin' me the creeps...there are so many dead souls hanging around
here...all of them are pretty pissed off too...' Kuwabara thought to himself, wanting to get away
from the forest as soon as possible.
"T' hell with that dream-weaver!" A voice from behind the three Reikai Tantai stated,
chuckling as two humans and youko turned around. "If it isn't Yusuke Urameshi..."
"Jin..." Yusuke said, smiling at the youkai, whose ears were wiggling already. He then
saw Touya standing next to the red headed wind master, and could see a slight smile on the ice
master's face.
"Can we please get out of here now?" Kuwabara asked, shivering again.
"We'll have to go through this forest if you want to get to the dream-weaver...this forest
is where they pile all of the bodies..." Touya commented, looking past Kuwabara, Yusuke, and
Kurama to the forest.
"What have you found out about the dream-weaver?" Kurama asked the two demons,
moving away from the forest slowly, the restless souls beginning to affect him as well.
"Seems like no one knows about this dream-weaver, except for the fact he's very
powerful..." Touya replied, glancing over at Kurama.
"This one can suck the life right outta ya," Jin added, looking at Kurama. "Not just the
life, either..."
"What do you mean?" Kuwabara asked, his eye twitching as he felt another chill run up his
spine. 'Damn goose bumps...' Kuwabara thought to himself, rubbing his arms.
"Whoever goes in there doesn't come back out the same..." Touya answered, his vague
reply confusing Yusuke and Kuwabara. "All of the Reikai Tantai who have gone in there were
from between fourteen and thirty human years old...they come back out dead, their bodies aged at
least a century..."
"Woah, this guy can suck out your youth...that's just plain creepy..." Kuwabara thought
outloud, receiving nods from Yusuke and Jin.
"So, how can we beat him?" Yusuke asked the two demons. 'We better get that guy
quickly...or else Hiei might be in serious danger...'
"We can't kill him..." Jin pointed out, getting a 'I know that' look from Yusuke. "We
have 't' put wards on him...then he can't use his youki..."
"But we also have to make sure not to get pulled into his spell...if we do, we might not be
able to get back out..." Touya continued, glancing over at his partner for a moment. Yusuke and
Kurama noticed the quick look of affection he gave the wind master. 'Thought so...' the Reikai
Tantai thought to himself, guessing Kurama had figured it out as well.
"Okay...what exactly is this guy's spell? Koenma didn't exactly tell us a lot..." Yusuke stated,
glancing from Touya to Jin.
"He has the ability to make anyone under his spell to live in a 'dream' world where anything is
possible...and, those under his spell, believe that this imaginary dimension is the real world..."
Kurama said quietly, knowing such information because the last dream-weaver was his rival, so he
had found out as much information about the creature as possible. "Soon, they become
dependant on his imaginary world, and cannot be awoken from the spell..."
"And this dream-weaver's powers are distorted from what we've learned of others like him...in
most dream worlds, no harm can come to those under the spell, but this dream-weaver seems to
be able to wound someone, wounds that are inflicted on the real body..." Touya added, glancing
over at the youko. 'Kurama has obviously heard of dream-weavers...so he knows what he's
getting into...but Yusuke and Kuwabara don't...' the ice master thought to himself.
"Okay, so we don't get sucked into his little imaginary world, no big deal..." Yusuke stated. 'If
we don't get caught in his spell, then we won't be harmed, or have our lives sucked from us...'
Yusuke thought to himself.
"That's where the problem is, Urameshi...there is no way to fight off this spell..." Jin replied,
sighing. 'If we go in there, we're good as dead, unless the dream-weaver wants us to get in...' Jin
said inwardly.
"Then, how are we going to capture the dream-weaver?" Yusuke asked, glancing at the three men
who knew the most about the dream-weavers.
"You can't..." Kuwabara mumbled, shivering again as he felt a new energy behind him...and he
could tell this one was still alive.
"Very good, the Master told us all of you were intelligent..." a high-pitched voice said from the
depths of the forest, making all of the Reikai Tantai turn to look at the ominous trees.
"Nani?" Yusuke was the first to catch a glimpse of the small creature as it darted between the
trees. 'What is that?' Yusuke asked himself as he saw the nimble youkai come out from the trees,
revealing its petite form and long, sharpened claws.
"A goblin..." Touya stated, glaring at the tiny creature. The tiny demon growled, bearing its
sharp, yellowing fangs. Its green skin and large, bloodshot eyes made it look extremely ugly, but
what made the goblin even more disgusting was its 'jewelry,' bones with flesh still attached,
eyeballs, and pieces of flesh strung around its neck and forehead with, what looked like, the sinew
of humans. (A/N...nice...very grotesque...^____^)
'Goblin...that thing is plain Ugly to me...' Yusuke thought to himself as he aimed his spirit gun at
the green youkai, but discovered that the monster was gone. 'He moves just as quickly as
Hiei...and he's even smaller...this will be fun...'
"Don't attempt to kill us, spirit detective...the Master wanted to see all of you...maybe you will
want to barter for your friend's life...hm?" the goblin said, smirking sadistically as he threw an
object, wrapped in black, at Kurama. The youko caught the thin, heavy thing and unwrapped it,
discovering that it was Hiei's katana. 'They really do have Hiei...' Kurama thought to himself,
knowing that he had never seen Hiei without his beloved sword.
"Hey, that's Hiei's sword..." Kuwabara said, looking at the blade in Kurama's hands. 'I'm the
only one allowed to beat that shrimp!' Kuwabara thought to himself. In his mind, he always
believed he would one day defeat Hiei.
"What do you want?" Yusuke asked, rolling his eyes at Kuwabara, wanting to call the orange-
haired ningen an 'oaf,' but he didn't think now was the time.
"Meet the Master...he will decide what he wants you to do..." the goblin replied, walking towards
Yusuke. "We show you the way...but know that you won't return..." The green skinned creature
laughed at this, its high-pitched voice getting on everyone's nerves.
Yusuke looked around at the rest of the Reikai Tantai and saw that they were ready to beat the
living crap out of the goblin as well. "Fine, we'll come..." Yusuke replied, forcing himself not to
kill their guide.
'When I get out of here...I'll make sure to have wards banned...' Shura said to himself as he felt
his skin begin to become raw from all of the times he attempted to shred the wards on nearby
rocks that had broken off of the wall, mostly to his kicking of the solid stone, but after a while, he
had decided that, without his youki, he would be unable to break the wall down.
"Good...still full of energy..." his tormentor stated from the other side of the cell's door as he
unlocked the iron door. Shura glared at him as he walked into the room, then saw something was
slung over the youkai's right shoulder. "You might want to stop using all of your energy...you'll
need it when you meet your fate..."
Shura gnawed on his lower lip, knowing that if he said anything offensive to the youkai, Kiba
would kick him again, like he had already done on numerous occasions, but Shura now could feel
his fractured ribs protesting every movement he made in attempt to escape.
"I brought you some company...just make sure he doesn't die on me...I can't have him dead..."
Kiba said, throwing the limp form from his shoulder. Shura stared at the body for a moment, then
recognized the tattoo that was partially hidden by wards that were tied so tightly around the
youki's arms, the circulation had been almost entirely cut off.
'Hiei...what happened to him?' Shura asked himself, attempting to drag himself over to the
youkai, growling when he remembered his legs had been tied so he couldn't move around the
room. When he finally reached the fire demon, he could see that Hiei's entire body had changed,
and he could only think of one way to describe the obvious changes in the other heir.
'He's...older...'
Authoress: *snorts* poor Hiei...hahahahahahhaha...
Kurama: *drools* he's older?
Authoress: SHUT UP!!!! that ain't right...calm the hormones fox boy!!!
Hiei: *no longer here*
Koenma: *sleeping on top of computer tower*
Authoress: I bet all of ya can guess what will happen next...but I won't destroy the plot for those
of you who haven't figured it out yet...and, one question...do you like this format or the other one
more?...this one takes up more room...but it's easier to read...oO...don't care really...just wanted
to know from my lovely reviewers...
Kuwabara: *shivers* that goblin thing was creepy...
Authoress: yes, I love my gore...NOTHING IS GOOD WITHOUT A LIL' BLOOD AND
GUTS!!!...^_______________^ *does dance* don't worry, it'll get worse...
Touya: *eye twitches*
Authoress: that reminds me...does anyone want some Yaoi goodness between Jin and Touya to be
in this story or should I write a whole 'nother story for how they get together? *thinks* *eye
twitches* woah...imagine what I was thinking...Jin's horn...yowza...*bows* GOMEN...that was
very bad and perverted of me...
Jin: O_____O;;;;;;;;;;;;
Touya: ....
Authoress: okay...won't imagine that anymore...until I know what you people think!!! um...five
(my favorite number!) more reviews before a new chapter!!! See ya then!
least once a week...so I'm gonna have to type a teeny bit more...
Hiei: you're on the computer four or five hours a day...-_-;;
Kurama: he's right...that's not good for you...
Authoress: Neither is Yaoi, but I'm still writin' it...so shaddup!
Yusuke: *opens one eye* I'm TRYING to sleep here!
Hiei: *torches Yusuke without a second thought*
Authoress: finally...some peace and quiet...but Yusuke won't die so easily in the story, Hiei...so
don't try to murder him...I'd have to then torture you or somethin'
Kurama: *holds Hiei possessively* don't you dare!
Authoress: I've tortured both of you already, so there! *sticks out tongue* And, don't worry,
Kurama...I've got a load of evil ideas for you...*sigh* temptation of the weak...eh?
Kurama: *eyes wide, race out of the room*
Hiei: temptation...of the...weak? *clueless expression*
Authoress: *sigh* my naive little Hiei...*smiles* he's so cute sometimes!
Hiei: Who ya callin' cute!?
Authoress: *grabs Hiei's small nose between middle and index finger* I've got your nose!!
Hiei: *screams, searching for a mirror*
Disclaimer: -_-;;...so depressing...I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, kay? I don't own Hiei's nose
either...*sigh* too bad...
Chapter Five
"Do you seriously think my father would pay that ransom?" Shura asked, glaring up at the
youki sitting in front of him. 'Papa wouldn't pay...I'll get out of here...and torture that
bastard...how dare he kidnap me...' the pink-eyed youkai thought to himself, studying his captor's
features. The demon was average looking, almost human, except for the long nails on his
unusually lengthy fingers, his cat-like grey eyes, and the pointed ears that twitched slightly with
Shura's outburst.
"Don't worry, if Yomi doesn't, then you'll die, he knows that...he'll pay..." the youkai
replied quietly, his deep, monotonous voice sending shivers down Shura's spine. "So will
Murkro...and soon if she wants that Jaganashi back alive..."
'He...he captured Hiei...then I won't be the only one that will torture him...but, if he was
powerful enough to kidnap both of us...and hold Hiei -and- me here at the same time...he must be
very powerful...and confident...' Shura thought to himself, surprised that the small fire demon had
been captured as well.
"I forgot...you didn't know about Hiei's capture...after I tied you up, I went and got
him...funny, I didn't even get a scratch from him...at least you put up a fight..." Shura's captor
stated cooly, touching his pale cheek where there was a large gash. Shura smirked, noticing that
the bleeding hadn't stopped yet, even though he had been sitting in his dark, damp cell for some
time. He wasn't sure how long he had been here, since he was never fed, never allowed to see
daylight. "If you want...I'll put him in this room...I'm sure you're quite lonely..."
"When I escape, I'll make your death long and painful..." Shura threatened, tightening the
muscles in his arms, but he couldn't break the wards that were tied tightly around his arms. The
wards, now beginning to scrape away at his skin from the numerous times he had tried to break
free, had slowly been sucking away whatever youki he had. 'Hiei didn't put up a fight...why?'
Shura asked himself, glaring at his tormentor, wishing the tall youkai would leave him alone so he
could attempt to rip the wards off again, knowing his struggle was futile.
"I would want my death no other way...but, I assure you that you won't be the one to kill
me..." the youkai said, glancing around the room with a bored expression on his face. "And, you
shall address me as Master Kiba from now on."
"Like hell I will..." Shura muttered. Kiba turned to leave the room, then looked back at
Shura, a smile that showed his pointed fangs on his face.
"Don't worry, you'll know what hell is soon enough..."
"So, this is the place we're supposed to meet Jin and Touya?" Yusuke asked outloud,
staring into the Makai forest. "No one's around..."
"Maybe they got caught by that dream-weaver already..." Kuwabara suggested, shivering
furiously. 'This place is givin' me the creeps...there are so many dead souls hanging around
here...all of them are pretty pissed off too...' Kuwabara thought to himself, wanting to get away
from the forest as soon as possible.
"T' hell with that dream-weaver!" A voice from behind the three Reikai Tantai stated,
chuckling as two humans and youko turned around. "If it isn't Yusuke Urameshi..."
"Jin..." Yusuke said, smiling at the youkai, whose ears were wiggling already. He then
saw Touya standing next to the red headed wind master, and could see a slight smile on the ice
master's face.
"Can we please get out of here now?" Kuwabara asked, shivering again.
"We'll have to go through this forest if you want to get to the dream-weaver...this forest
is where they pile all of the bodies..." Touya commented, looking past Kuwabara, Yusuke, and
Kurama to the forest.
"What have you found out about the dream-weaver?" Kurama asked the two demons,
moving away from the forest slowly, the restless souls beginning to affect him as well.
"Seems like no one knows about this dream-weaver, except for the fact he's very
powerful..." Touya replied, glancing over at Kurama.
"This one can suck the life right outta ya," Jin added, looking at Kurama. "Not just the
life, either..."
"What do you mean?" Kuwabara asked, his eye twitching as he felt another chill run up his
spine. 'Damn goose bumps...' Kuwabara thought to himself, rubbing his arms.
"Whoever goes in there doesn't come back out the same..." Touya answered, his vague
reply confusing Yusuke and Kuwabara. "All of the Reikai Tantai who have gone in there were
from between fourteen and thirty human years old...they come back out dead, their bodies aged at
least a century..."
"Woah, this guy can suck out your youth...that's just plain creepy..." Kuwabara thought
outloud, receiving nods from Yusuke and Jin.
"So, how can we beat him?" Yusuke asked the two demons. 'We better get that guy
quickly...or else Hiei might be in serious danger...'
"We can't kill him..." Jin pointed out, getting a 'I know that' look from Yusuke. "We
have 't' put wards on him...then he can't use his youki..."
"But we also have to make sure not to get pulled into his spell...if we do, we might not be
able to get back out..." Touya continued, glancing over at his partner for a moment. Yusuke and
Kurama noticed the quick look of affection he gave the wind master. 'Thought so...' the Reikai
Tantai thought to himself, guessing Kurama had figured it out as well.
"Okay...what exactly is this guy's spell? Koenma didn't exactly tell us a lot..." Yusuke stated,
glancing from Touya to Jin.
"He has the ability to make anyone under his spell to live in a 'dream' world where anything is
possible...and, those under his spell, believe that this imaginary dimension is the real world..."
Kurama said quietly, knowing such information because the last dream-weaver was his rival, so he
had found out as much information about the creature as possible. "Soon, they become
dependant on his imaginary world, and cannot be awoken from the spell..."
"And this dream-weaver's powers are distorted from what we've learned of others like him...in
most dream worlds, no harm can come to those under the spell, but this dream-weaver seems to
be able to wound someone, wounds that are inflicted on the real body..." Touya added, glancing
over at the youko. 'Kurama has obviously heard of dream-weavers...so he knows what he's
getting into...but Yusuke and Kuwabara don't...' the ice master thought to himself.
"Okay, so we don't get sucked into his little imaginary world, no big deal..." Yusuke stated. 'If
we don't get caught in his spell, then we won't be harmed, or have our lives sucked from us...'
Yusuke thought to himself.
"That's where the problem is, Urameshi...there is no way to fight off this spell..." Jin replied,
sighing. 'If we go in there, we're good as dead, unless the dream-weaver wants us to get in...' Jin
said inwardly.
"Then, how are we going to capture the dream-weaver?" Yusuke asked, glancing at the three men
who knew the most about the dream-weavers.
"You can't..." Kuwabara mumbled, shivering again as he felt a new energy behind him...and he
could tell this one was still alive.
"Very good, the Master told us all of you were intelligent..." a high-pitched voice said from the
depths of the forest, making all of the Reikai Tantai turn to look at the ominous trees.
"Nani?" Yusuke was the first to catch a glimpse of the small creature as it darted between the
trees. 'What is that?' Yusuke asked himself as he saw the nimble youkai come out from the trees,
revealing its petite form and long, sharpened claws.
"A goblin..." Touya stated, glaring at the tiny creature. The tiny demon growled, bearing its
sharp, yellowing fangs. Its green skin and large, bloodshot eyes made it look extremely ugly, but
what made the goblin even more disgusting was its 'jewelry,' bones with flesh still attached,
eyeballs, and pieces of flesh strung around its neck and forehead with, what looked like, the sinew
of humans. (A/N...nice...very grotesque...^____^)
'Goblin...that thing is plain Ugly to me...' Yusuke thought to himself as he aimed his spirit gun at
the green youkai, but discovered that the monster was gone. 'He moves just as quickly as
Hiei...and he's even smaller...this will be fun...'
"Don't attempt to kill us, spirit detective...the Master wanted to see all of you...maybe you will
want to barter for your friend's life...hm?" the goblin said, smirking sadistically as he threw an
object, wrapped in black, at Kurama. The youko caught the thin, heavy thing and unwrapped it,
discovering that it was Hiei's katana. 'They really do have Hiei...' Kurama thought to himself,
knowing that he had never seen Hiei without his beloved sword.
"Hey, that's Hiei's sword..." Kuwabara said, looking at the blade in Kurama's hands. 'I'm the
only one allowed to beat that shrimp!' Kuwabara thought to himself. In his mind, he always
believed he would one day defeat Hiei.
"What do you want?" Yusuke asked, rolling his eyes at Kuwabara, wanting to call the orange-
haired ningen an 'oaf,' but he didn't think now was the time.
"Meet the Master...he will decide what he wants you to do..." the goblin replied, walking towards
Yusuke. "We show you the way...but know that you won't return..." The green skinned creature
laughed at this, its high-pitched voice getting on everyone's nerves.
Yusuke looked around at the rest of the Reikai Tantai and saw that they were ready to beat the
living crap out of the goblin as well. "Fine, we'll come..." Yusuke replied, forcing himself not to
kill their guide.
'When I get out of here...I'll make sure to have wards banned...' Shura said to himself as he felt
his skin begin to become raw from all of the times he attempted to shred the wards on nearby
rocks that had broken off of the wall, mostly to his kicking of the solid stone, but after a while, he
had decided that, without his youki, he would be unable to break the wall down.
"Good...still full of energy..." his tormentor stated from the other side of the cell's door as he
unlocked the iron door. Shura glared at him as he walked into the room, then saw something was
slung over the youkai's right shoulder. "You might want to stop using all of your energy...you'll
need it when you meet your fate..."
Shura gnawed on his lower lip, knowing that if he said anything offensive to the youkai, Kiba
would kick him again, like he had already done on numerous occasions, but Shura now could feel
his fractured ribs protesting every movement he made in attempt to escape.
"I brought you some company...just make sure he doesn't die on me...I can't have him dead..."
Kiba said, throwing the limp form from his shoulder. Shura stared at the body for a moment, then
recognized the tattoo that was partially hidden by wards that were tied so tightly around the
youki's arms, the circulation had been almost entirely cut off.
'Hiei...what happened to him?' Shura asked himself, attempting to drag himself over to the
youkai, growling when he remembered his legs had been tied so he couldn't move around the
room. When he finally reached the fire demon, he could see that Hiei's entire body had changed,
and he could only think of one way to describe the obvious changes in the other heir.
'He's...older...'
Authoress: *snorts* poor Hiei...hahahahahahhaha...
Kurama: *drools* he's older?
Authoress: SHUT UP!!!! that ain't right...calm the hormones fox boy!!!
Hiei: *no longer here*
Koenma: *sleeping on top of computer tower*
Authoress: I bet all of ya can guess what will happen next...but I won't destroy the plot for those
of you who haven't figured it out yet...and, one question...do you like this format or the other one
more?...this one takes up more room...but it's easier to read...oO...don't care really...just wanted
to know from my lovely reviewers...
Kuwabara: *shivers* that goblin thing was creepy...
Authoress: yes, I love my gore...NOTHING IS GOOD WITHOUT A LIL' BLOOD AND
GUTS!!!...^_______________^ *does dance* don't worry, it'll get worse...
Touya: *eye twitches*
Authoress: that reminds me...does anyone want some Yaoi goodness between Jin and Touya to be
in this story or should I write a whole 'nother story for how they get together? *thinks* *eye
twitches* woah...imagine what I was thinking...Jin's horn...yowza...*bows* GOMEN...that was
very bad and perverted of me...
Jin: O_____O;;;;;;;;;;;;
Touya: ....
Authoress: okay...won't imagine that anymore...until I know what you people think!!! um...five
(my favorite number!) more reviews before a new chapter!!! See ya then!