Chapter Two
The sun gave way to the moon mere hours after the girls had formed their plan. Once the group of boys managed to get their feet out of the ice the girls followed them until they decided to set up their camp for the night. The location they chose couldn't have been more suiting to the girls needs. It was a clearing completely surrounded by trees with a vast view of the stars and, more importantly, the moon above. They had set up a fire in the center of the ring of trees as well as numerous traps around in the shadows and trees. Once they had finally fallen asleep, the girls were given the opening they needed to begin their theft.
"You ready Yoru?" Tsuki asked as she looked down to check that all their victims were still asleep.
"I was born ready Tsuki." Yoru replied as she finished chanting the words to the spell they had just cast upon themselves.
Cautiously they climbed down from the tree and walk along the shadows, like a couple of wild cats stalking their prey. They both looked at each other as they crawled out from the shadows and silently crept up on their first victim. Tsuki heard Yoru give a groan and looked over to see that she had landed next to the ugly orange haired one with the big mouth.
She stared at him and gave another groan of disgust as he gave a loud snore and began grumbling about how strong he was. Without even a second glance she turned around and, kicking a small amount of dirt at his face, moved to the boy lying next to him. It was clear that if anyone was going to keep his or her energy tonight it would be that idiot.
Tsuki gave a small smile as she watched Yoru examine the boy with the greasy black hair she had end up by this time before looking down at the one she had ended up by herself. As fate would have it she ended up next to the slender red head one. She looked closely at him, taking in the smooth gentleness his energy gave off. It was almost like being back with him, back when all the dangers in all the worlds couldn't have intimidated her. Her eyes went soft for a moment as she remembered how happy those days had been. She reached down, gently closed her hand around his and quietly thought to her, I do this for you, my love, because you asked me to live. Without another thought she allowed her weight to carry her forward until her lips were just above his. But before they touched she felt a small tap on the back of her head.
"You're awake aren't you?" She said grinning down at the boy below her.
"You didn't think it would be that easy did you?" He replied brushing his lips against hers as he spoke.
The next thing she felt was the intense squeeze of something being wrapped around her abdomen. She heard Yoru give a loud yelp not three feet away and turned to see her hanging upside down suspended by a strong green vine. She looked back to see that the group around the fire that had been "asleep" begin to stir. Apparently they had triggered one of the traps that had been laid by the boys when they descended from the tree and were now at their mercy. She looked back down at the red head and was surprised to see that his face carried a look of sadness rather then happy victory. He gave her a momentary smile as she was lifted from the ground and brought over to hang next to Yoru.
"Well, looks like the traps worked after all." Groaned the boy with blue-black spiky hair as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"Of course they did Hinote would you doubt fox boys abilities? Wake up Kuwabara!" said Urameshi as he bent down to yelling his friends ear.
Yoru shot Tsuki a fleeting glance and lipped the words Think of something or we're screwed! Tsuki thought quickly of the options they had. There were too many of them to fight, and they were probably twice as powerful as either of them. The only other option would be to cut the vines, run like hell and hope that their pursuers were slow. She looked towards Yoru and mouthed, I have a plan. Do you have your dagger still? Yoru stuck out her right leg slightly and wiggled it.
Before the girls had been exiled they were given two daggers with elemental qualities. Tsuki's possessed the quality of lightning and Yoru's, fire. These daggers were beyond value to them in their power but the side effect was that if you use the power you used some of your life energy. This made it so that neither one of the girls had ever used the weapons for anything other then cutting. Tsuki nodded but was forced to turn away before she could explain her plan because the short demon with the white star in his hair had walked over and was now eyeing them curiously. His eyes narrowed as he spotted the katana at Yoru's side. He reached for it causing Yoru to wiggle madly so as to keep it out of reach but after a moment he grabbed it from her and held it out in front of him.
"Hey! Get your Fucking hands off my sword you midget of a demon!" Yoru screamed before she could stop herself.
Everyone stopped and stared at the little demons reaction. There was total silence as if everyone was waiting for a volcano to erupt. In one swift motion the little demon shot him-self forward and threw several extremely strong punches at Yoru who was unable to protect herself. When the little demons fists stopped flying everyone was surprised to see Yoru completely unharmed.
"What the hell are you girl!" shrieked Kuwabara when he didn't see a scratch on her.
"Calm down Kuwabara. She's not invulnerable, merely well protected." Chimed in the red head as he saw blood fall to the ground under Tsuki's foot. "Apparently her friend here extended her leg so as to protect her from Hiei's blows."
"You don't miss a thing do you fox boy?" Hinote said as he pulled out his gun and pointed it at the girls.
Both girls twitched slightly when they saw the gun. Tsuki instinctively raised her legs to her chest so it was easier to reach her dagger when she sensed him ready to fire. Yoru, on the other hand, was only able to turn her head slightly thanks to her awkward position. They both realized that they would have only one shot at escape.
"Now now Hin, we don't need to use that unless they refuse to cooperate." Said
Urameshi as he pulled out a small round object that looked like a compact for makeup.
"You're not calling Botan now are you?" Kuwabara whined
"Afraid so, we should try to get out of here before some rouge demon comes along looking for a challenge."
The whole group watched Urameshi as he opened the compact and a girl with sky blue hair and purple eyes appeared through the static. Next to her stood three other girls all looking slightly confused as they stared at Urameshi. One was a short looking girl with sea green hair and deep red eyes the same color as the demons Hiei and Hinote's were. The one just above her had shoulder length brown hair and big brown eyes; she also appeared to have a blue furry animal on top of her head. The last one was older then the rest by about ten years, had long free flowing brown hair and a cigarette between her lips.
"Hey girl! What ya up to?" Urameshi said with a goofy grin
"Yusuke! Thank heaven; we've been so worried about you." Shrieked the girl with short brown hair.
"Awww come on Kieko show some faith in me."
"Yusuke is Kazuma with you?" said the girl with the cigarette "Because if he is, tell him that he's in big trouble when he gets home."
"Did ya hear that Kuwabara? Your sister says you're in big trouble." Yusuke said grinning as Kuwabara sunk to the ground.
"What about Hinote and Hiei? Are they okay?" piped in the girl with sea green hair.
"Yeah your brothers are fine Yukina, don't worry. Anyways Botan we caught the demons."
"That's great Yusuke, excellent job." Replied the girl with the sky blue hair in a slightly British accent "I'll see how soon we can open a portal back home for you. Until then bye bye." And with that all four girls disappeared from the compact.
Tsuki shot Yoru a glance that told her to keep quiet and follow her lead.
"So who were those? Your girlfriends?" she said in a soft sweet voice
"Yeah a few of them are the others are sisters." Said Yusuke with a raised eyebrow as he turned back to the girls.
"Who was what?" Yoru asked catching on to the game.
"Why does it matter?"
"Because the one that had the cancer stick looked like a real whore," Tsuki replied with a small laugh "I'll beat she couldn't even hold her own in a fight against a toddler."
Tsuki barley knew what hit her as Kuwabara came flying at her with his hands balled into fists. He managed to get in a few blows before the rest of the group managed to pull him off.
"Calm down Kuwabara!" The red head said as he pushed Kuwabara by the shoulder. "She's only trying to get under your skin."
"Well it worked and now she's ganna pay!" Kuwabara retorted as he tried to shack Hinote from his arm.
The girls realized that this was the opening they needed to make their escape. Tsuki quickly dug her dagger out of her pant leg and, summoning a fair amount of spirit energy, sent a burst of lightening at the vine that held Yoru who managed to flip over in the air, land on her feet and grab her sword from where the demon Hiei had dropped it. She made a run for Tsuki's vine, sliced through it and continued running for the darkness of the forest. Tsuki hit the ground running and followed her, though her whole body screamed for her to stop after using the dagger.
The boys didn't even know what happened until they saw Tsuki's tail disappear into the brush. Once the reality hit them that their bounty was escaping they kicked into high gear and pursued them. Hiei pulled out his sword and began leaping through the trees while everyone else ran bellow him with their numerous weapons. Kuwabara had his spirit sword out and was waving it around wildly trying to slice through the plant creatures Tsuki had left in her wake. The red head had out a whip made of thorns that he was brandishing at the girls from about a hundred feet away. Hinote had his gun out and was shooting bullets in just about every direction, one of which managed to hit Tsuki in the back of the leg and exit through the front. Lastly was Yusuke and he seemed to have to deadliest weapon out of the group, his finger, which emitted a small bluish sphere that carried with it an immense energy. He fired off about three of these spheres before he was forced to reduce to fists.
The girls ran deeper and deeper into the forest with the boys still in hot pursuit, fortunately for the girls none of them had managed to get a clean shot at them save for the demon Hinote. But that quickly changed as the girls entered an opening in the trees were the boys had more room to spread out and attack. They surrounded the girls on both sides and opened fire with their weapons. Yoru managed to catch the red heads whip in her shoulder and narrowly avoided Hiei's sword as it came for her head as well as Yusuke's foot. Tsuki also avoided Kuwabara's sword to her chest but wasn't so lucky when it came to Hinote's bullet which dug its way deep into the same spot Kuwabara had been aiming for. They both continued running till they came to another narrow path through the forest.
The chase continued for hours in the same fashion, the spirit detectives would pursue the girls until they came to an opening in the trees where they would mount an attack and the girls would run as fast as they could trying to avoid getting hit. They soon found that if they kept up this rate that they would very soon be at the mercy of the spirit detectives. They had to find a place to hide. As luck would have it the chase led them to an area that they were very familiar with. They both hopped to the right straight into a bamboo grove and soon heard their pursuers footsteps slowly fade away as they expertly navigated their way to a place were they knew they'd be safe. They quickly found a large boulder at the center of the grove that stood ten times taller then either of them and was near impossible to climb, but at its base, nearly invisible, was a small hole that led to an underground caver. Without a second glance behind them both girls dove into the hole and lay huddled at the entrance. They were quiet for a moment, scarcely daring to breath, before they heard the sound of four sets of feet fly past them. Another few moments ticked by in which the girls listened for any sign of the detectives. When they heard nothing they thought it safe to poke their heads out of the hole and, very cautiously crawl out.
"Boy that was close." Yoru said as she whipped the blood and sweat from her face and shoulder.
"That was way to close. If I ever come up with something like that again, slap me." Tsuki replied as she tore a piece of cloth from her shirt to tie around her leg.
"Will do! You don't think I'm ganna let you get me into the same mess twice do you?"
Tsuki gave a small giggle in response to her friend's remark. Though they both managed to smile slightly they still had all their senses on edge in case they caught any sign of their pursuers return. They heard nothing for several minutes and as the adrenalin died away their senses began to dull.
"So what's the plan now?" Yoru asked as she moved to place her hands behind her head but twitched when she remember the injury she'd received.
Tsuki didn't answer immediately. She thought that she had heard something move in the shadows a few feet away and was straining her ears to catch it again.
"Come on Su, those spirit monkeys are probable-"
"Yoru look out!"
Tsuki ran forward and inadvertently shoved Yoru to the side as a giant blue sphere of light came flying at them through the grove. She let out a blood-chilling scream as the sphere hit her in the side, and only stopped after the light had dissipated and she fell to the ground unconscious. Yoru could only watch in horror as her friend's, almost lifeless, body fell to the ground in front of her with a sickening thunk.
"Oh my god, Tsuki!" she screamed and ran forward to see if there was any thing she could do. But before she had taken three steps forward she felt the chilling steel of a sword against her chest. She looked up to see the demon Hiei above her with the blade of his sword pointed at her throat and a menacing look in his eyes.
"If you value your life you won't move." He said with a small twitch of his hand so as to indicate the sword at her neck.
She gave him a cold stare but didn't move. When she glanced back at Tsuki she saw her surrounded by the rest of the boys. The one called Hinote had his gun pointed to her head as if waiting for her to jump up and attack him. The red head one was down on his knees gently turning her over to check for a pulse. Kuwabara and Yusuke both hovered close by waiting to hear weather or not they had accidentally killed their bounty.
"She's alive, but only just." The red head remarked as he found a weak pulse.
"Well, that's good. Hiei make sure you have a tight hold on her we don't need to go on another nature run." Yusuke said letting out a sigh of what might be called relief.