KuramasNumberOneGirl: Hello, again. I would like to thank Time and Fate, Dreaming of Everything, shadowyoukokitsune, Kurama'sGirlRyoko, Dominika, SoraKagome, Dona, Easy-Company-506/101 for reviewing.
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha, but sadly, I don't. I wonder how much I have to pay to own at least one. That's food for thought.
Note: For the yyh gang, this takes place after the Dark Tournament. In the anime, Kuwabara lost his spirit powers at this point, but in my story he still has it. For the Inuyasha gang, this takes place after Naraku disappeared without a trace after his failure attempt of kidnapping Rin. NO Yayoi , however you spell it, and pairings are undecided.
(I am thinking of having no crossover pairings because I want to keep the couples exactly how they are in the anime, but I'm still not sure. That excludes the strange relationship between Genkai and Kagome's grandpa.)
/thinking/- telepathy
italics- thoughts
Spacing may be a little off.
The Feudal Era Across the Street
Chapter 5: Learning to Trust
(If anyone is wondering why Hiei didn't read the mind of the man in the last chapter, it was because he really didn't care and he has his Jagan Eye, if something does come up. Also, Kagura has done nothing, if she really does appear, that is.)
They had been walking for about two days now and nothing bad happened yet. Kuwabara was a bit jumpy after the man had tried to warn them. It was sunset and the shadows became scarier, for Kuwabara. Hiei decided to use this to his advantage. He quickly, but quietly, sneaked behind Kuwabara and scared him. He let out a huge scream and birds flew off into the sunset. Hiei, as quickly as he scared him, went back to jumping through the trees.
"Kuwabara, you are an idiot," Yusuke said after he finished screaming.
"Urameshi, I bet it was you," Kuwabara retorted back.
"How can it be me, when I'm walking right in front of you!" Yusuke said.
"I'll get back to you on that," Kuwabara said.
It was evening. The stars came out. Slowly through their walk through this forest, Inuyasha and his friends were walking in a little group in front of the Spirit Detectives. Kagome was the only one that in the middle of the two groups.
It's like they don't trust each other. If Yusuke and the others are really supposed to help us with Naraku, then Inuyasha and has to trust them and stop telling Miroku and Sango his theories on how evil they are. Boy, he can make so mad, I just want to say 'sit' for no reason right now, Kagome thought.
Shippo noticed Kagome was not with them and turned around. She was walking in between the two groups. He made his way to her and jumped on her shoulder. "Hey, Kagome, is something wrong," Shippo asked her.
"No. Well, actually there is. I can't make Inuyasha trust them and he's probably annoying Miroku and Sango about how evil they are," Kagome replied.
"You're right about that. Get this, he says that Yusuke is really a spy that works for Naraku, along with his friends," Shippo said.
"How can he be a spy if he lives in the future?" Kagome asked.
"I asked him the same thing, but he threatened me," Shippo replied.
Yusuke and the others weren't trusting Inuyasha one little bit either. Hiei had heard Shippo tell Kagome one of Inuyasha's 'theories' and gave out a quiet chuckle. He joined the others. Everyone was whispering about how they couldn't trust anyone else.
"That dog dude is way too angry all the time," Yusuke said, "I don't think they trust us at all."
"If they didn't, then why did they tell us about what Naraku did to them?" Kuwabara asked.
"To make us feel sorry for them. And besides, I think Inuyasha is Naraku's spy," Yusuke said.
"How can he be Naraku's spy when he was a victim himself, Detective?" Hiei said.
"How should I know?" Yusuke said. Kurama sighed at his stupidity.
"Maybe if we tell them more about us, then they will hopefully trust enough so we can do this mission in peace," Kurama suggested. Yusuke and Hiei didn't seem to keen to his idea. Kuwabara was okay with it. Somehow, Kurama managed to convince Hiei and Yusuke to tell Inuyasha and the others more about them. They decided to wait until the perfect oppurtunity.
"Inuyasha, maybe you should stop accusing of them plotting to kill us," Sango said.
"And let them run amok! They might be out to kill us and take our shards. Then, they'll give it to Naraku and he'll only need a couple more shards. Naraku will rule everything and everything we went through will be for nothing!" Inuyasha said and he went on and on with his 'theories'.
Miroku and Sango tuned him out. They joined Kagome and Shippo. Inuyasha didn't even notice they were gone. It was getting late and Kagome suggested that they should set up camp. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango sat down on one side of the campfire and Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama sat on the other side. Hiei sat in a tree. Kagome and Shippo sat near to Yusuke and the others to establish some sort of friendship between everyone. Kurama nudged Yusuke to signal that it was the perfect time to tell the others about themselves. Yusuke payed no attention. This is hopeless, Kurama thought.
"Um, so, I was wondering, uh, who sent you here?" Kagome asked, trying to start a conversation.
"We were sent here by Koenma, he's the ruler of Spirit World," Kurama said.
"What is Spirit World?" Sango asked. "It's like they place where they decide when people are supposed to die and where they go for the afterlife," Yusuke said. He did have firsthand experience about Spirit World after all.
"That's interesting," Miroku commented, "How did the four of you begin working for Spirit World?"
"Well, for me, it all started when I died," Yusuke said the last part quietly. Yusuke was beginning to feel more comfortable with these new people. If Kurama was willing to share this type of information, then it must be okay.
"Did you say you died?" Kagome gasped. Yusuke nodded. "How?" she asked.
"I tried to save a boy from being hit by a car and died," Yusuke explained. Kagome quickly explained what a car was to the others.
"But how did you come back to life?" Shippo asked.
"I met the grim reaper. She took me to Spirit World and I met Koenma. He told me I could have a second chance at life. He gave me an egg to take care of. If I did enough good deeds, it would hatch and a Spirit Beast would guide me back to life. I contacted my friend, Keiko, in a dream and told her to take care of my body untill I came back. But, Keiko was caught in a burning house while trying to save my body. I used the egg to save her, so I was kinda stuck. Then Koenma came and said there's another way. Someone I knew had to kiss me to bring me back to life," Yusuke summed it up.
Kuwabara shuddered at that 'kissing' part. He remembered the one dream he supressed. It was the one where it was a message to bring Yusuke back. He shuddered again. "Are you okay?" Shippo asked Kuwabara.
"I'm fine. Just a bit chilly, that's all," Kuwabara said nervously.
"What about you, Kuwabara?" Sango asked. "It all started when I saved Yukina. I decided at that point I would protect her and others against evil demons," Kuwabara said heroically.
"Don't listen to him, he just tagged along too many times," Yusuke said.
"Hey!" Kuwabara retorted.
"Well, I for one, am very interested to find out how the two demons of the group joined them," Miroku said.
"Hiei, Gouki, and myself stole the Artifacts of Darakness. The Mirror of Forlorn Hope, the Shadow Sword, and the Orb of Baast. Gouki was defeated by Yusuke and thrown in jail. Gouki was using the power of the
Orb of Baast to steal the souls of human children to eat them," Kurama said.
"That is dispicable," Kagome explained.
"Yup, but I got them all back," Yusuke said proudly.
"I had the Mirror of Forlorn Hope. The mirror has the power to grant a person's deepest desire, but at a price. The person must give up their life to gran his or her wish. I wanted to use the power of the mirror to save my human mother's life. I couldn't bear to let her die from her sickness. I made the wish and the mirror was going to take my life until Yusuke showed up. He offered his life instead and the mirror decided not to take anyone's life," Kurama said.
"Wow, you just came back to life and he you almost died, again," Kuwabara said.
"That's because he's an idiot. His so-called unselfish act was out of stupidity," Hiei said as he walked towards them. (If anyone is wondering how Hiei knows about this incident, let's just say Kurama told him and if he really did know, then he just knows.)
"Hey!" Yusuke ahouted.
"That is true. You did say something about not wanting to see a mother mourn for her son, but that would mean your mother would mourn, again. You didn't think it through all the way," Kurama said.
"That's what Botan told me," Yusuke said.
"Who is Botan?" Miroku asked. He seemed interested. After all, it was a woman's name.
"The grim reaper," Kuwabara said.
"How can she be the grim reaper? She is so perky. The grim reaper is supposed to be dark and grim. And blue is not her natural haircolor. It's all lies," Yusuke complained.
"Well, blue can be a natural haircolor for demons, but I have no idea what Botan is exactly," Kuwabara said.
"I think she's a spirit 'cuz she told me she had to get a body from Koenma or somethin' like that," Yusuke said. (Botan actually took human form. But sometimes Yusuke doesn't pay attention very much. Botan taking human form was mentioned in one of the earlier episodes.)
"Will she be joining us?" Miroku asked. He didn't care about anything that Yusuke or Kuwabara just said. All he cared about was Botan is a woman, alive or dead while borrowing a body, or human or demon. That last part confused him. Is the body she's borrowing a human's or a demon's body? And if she really was dead, then, was she a human or a demon before she died and what would the body be accounted for? I am so confused, Miroku thought. (I got confused myself. Sad really.)
"How did you guys get Hiei to join?" Shippo asked with a lot of curiousty. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara looked at Hiei. They were waiting to see if he would explain. No luck. He was as silent as always.
"I'll tell you what happened. I did beat him in the fight," Yusuke bragged. Hiei cringed at that memory. He did not like losing.
Yusuke continued, "Hiei stole the Shadow Sword. With that sword you can turn anything, and I mean anything, you cut into a demon. Hiei wanted to raise a demon army. And he's also got that freaky looking third eye and he used that to make humans into mind slaves. Then I beat him in a fight before anything bad happened." Yusuke left out the whole Keiko incident. He didn't want Inuyasha and the others to be more trusting to them and less to Hiei.
"By luck. You assumed that your Spirit Gun was able to bounce off mirrors. And if it didn't, you would be dead and I would have my army," Hiei said.
"Yusuke broke the mirror in that fight. He should have taken into accoount that a mirror with that sort of power might not have the same reflection properties before he pulled that stunt," Kurama explained. Yusuke has to stop winning most of his fights with luck, Kurama thought.
"At least I won," Yusuke said.
"Wait a sec, a demon army and human mind slaves?" Kagome asked.
"Don't worry, Hiei can't hurt humans or else he'll end up rotting in some jail cell in Spirit World," Yusuke said. Kagome was relieved.
Kurama's plan worked. Inuyasha gave up his 'theories' and they began swapping stories of past fights and missions. Everyone was enjoying themselves.
KuramasNumberOneGirl: I finaly got this chapter out. I hope all of you aren't bored out of your minds. I had to have them tell these stories because, in my opinion, Inuyasha isn't the most trusting person you'll meet. There will hopefully be more action in the next one. I also tried to get the stories as exact as possible without going into too much detail. If I missed something important, feel free to tell me. Please review and no flames please.
