(Really quick, I want to thank Sqeekers for reviewing, and reviewing, and reviewing some more throughout this 'three part' story... thing. So, thank you for your feedback, and giving me more than two words to read. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything who reviewed ((thank you all)) but... I'm just going to shut up now, and get on with the story... but not after wasting more of your time. Really quick for everyone that's like "isn't this a Yoko/Kagome trilogy...thing" I just want to say that I enjoy keeping you in a state of "What The Fuck?!" ((not really)) and I just thought it would be kinda stupid not to make Yoko have some sort of competition... and when I read some of the reviews ((I read them all but that's not the point)) I laughed. Because in the end, my amusement is all that matters. ((again, not really)) So if you want to see how it is that Yoko gets passed the whole 'cousin' thing ((if he dose)) then you'll just have to keep reading. But, if anyone is reading this and thinking "Hey, it would be kinda funny if Kagome ended up with blank after all this time" or "I like blank/Kagome fics better than Yoko/Kagome fics" let me know. ((insert any name you want in the above blanks)) After all, I could go in ((almost)) any direction as far as pairings go, and am not oppose to giving the readers what they request. And one final thing ((I promise this is the last thing)), if you want to IM me, and discuss ((or bitch about)) anything in this ((or any)) story ((that I wrote)) my AIM thing is 'SephyFanVII' ((that's vii capitalized)) and my Yahoo name is 'Narakuslilhelper' feel free to talk to me and stuff. )

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Ch3

Souta and Shiori got back to their apartment after they were done at the shrine. The two were watching TV when Kurama walked through the door. "Shuichi," Shiori smiled at him, "how was your trip with your friends?"

"It was fine, Mother," Kurama said, smiling back.

"Guess what," Shiori said.

"What is it?"

Souta smiled as widely as was possible, "You're my cousin, Shuichi!"

Kurama stared at them blankly for a few moments as what they said sank in. On the outside Kurama looked happy, as he smiled at Souta and said, "That's great... how did you come across that bit of information?"

On the inside, Yoko was going crazy, {WHAT THE HELL!?!}

[Calm down, I'm sure that they're not serious...]

"Well," Shiori said, "as you know, I was trying to find out who my parents were, and it turns out that my parents, were Souta's grandparents. So, that means that you two are related."

Between Yoko's yelling, and the stress from his last mission just now catching up with him, Kurama did the first thing that came to mind, and fainted.

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Yusuke dragged himself, tiredly, into his house. He made it to his room, and collapsed on his bed. Before he knew it, something was poking him in the side. He cracked an eye open to see his mom staring down at him.

"Yeah, what is it?" he asked, groggily.

She hugged him as tightly as possible, "I wanted to be sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me."

"Can't...breath..." Yusuke chocked out. Once his mother let him go, the spirit detective gasped for air, "Mom... what was that for?"

"It's just that you leave all the time... I wasn't sure if you were going to come back this time."

Yusuke sighed, "I'll always come back, you know that. Now come on, I need to sleep. I'm tired." Yusuke didn't even give his mother time to respond before he passed out again.

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Kazuma Kuwabara and Shizuru Kuwabara entered their apartment and practically passed out at the second they went through the door.

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Hiei sat in a tree in Makai, resting up from the Dark Tournament. His rest was disturbed by the shouts of some demons that felt the need to gather underneath the tree the fire-apparition was currently inhabiting. Glancing down, Hiei noticed that three reptilian demons were gathered around some sort of black ball-looking thing, and trying to crack it open. "Baka," Hiei said to himself.

One of the demons below heard him and looked up, "What did you just say?!"

"Dude, leave him alone," said another one of the demons, "Besides, we'll kick his ass after we brake this thing open!"

"Uhm..." the third demon looked at the second demon, "why are we opening this thing again?"

"Because," the second demon replied, "there's gotta be treasure in here, stupid!"

Hiei rolled his eyes as the three went back to mindlessly whacking the hell out of the black ball. Not too long later, Hiei felt a burst of energy from inside the ball before it vanished. The demons took turns yelling at each other before Hiei's nerves reached their final limits, "Baka."

The first demon that had spoken to Hiei before, looked up again, "Damnit, say that to my face!"

Hiei rolled his eyes again before jumping down, and facing the lizard demon, "Baka."

The three demons lunged at Hiei, who was able to draw his katana and sever their heads from their bodies within the span of half a second.

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Koenma was assaulted by ogres who had mounds of paperwork for the child ruler to fill out, since he wasn't able to get any of his work done while at the Dark Tournament. After a few minutes of whining, he finally got started on his paperwork. He found something very interesting while doing said paperwork, and decided it was necessary to call in Yusuke to investigate. Unfortunately, Yusuke was currently passed out, and dead to the world. After checking with Kuwabara, and Kurama, Koenma found that only one spirit detective was conscious.

'Me and my rotten luck,' the child ruler thought to himself as he called Hiei in. The koorime walked in, and rose an eyebrow. "Hiei," Koenma said, "I have a case for you."

"Hn," Hiei glared at Koenma, "why not call in the detective, or the baka?"

"I tried, but they're currently resting. Anyways," The large screen in front of Koenma's desk lit up, and showed a large black ball. Hiei soon recognized it as the thing that the lizard demons were trying to open earlier. Koenma continued, "This has been spotted in Makai, and no one seems to know what it is. You're going to go and check it out."

"No," Hiei said, in his usual monotone voice. "I'm not going to go and look at some stupid ball because the detective decided to be lazy."

"You're forgetting that you're still under probation," Koenma said, "you're lucky that I haven't decided to keep you confined in Ningenkai. But, if you decide not to do this, I might be forced to keep you confined to Yusuke's home city."

Hiei growled, "Fine. Where do I find this damned ball, anyways?!"

"Glad you see it my way," Koenma said before telling Hiei where he was going to go.

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Miroku and Sango were scrubbing the floors of the Western Keep vigorously when Kohaku came running up to them. "Sango, Miroku," he called out, "come quick!"

They looked up from their work, and Sango asked her brother, "What's wrong, Kohaku?"

"SesshouMaru told me to summon you guys, and it took me forever to find you guys, and we're all late enough as it is, and I don't wanna end up cleaning like you two so lets go!" Kohaku turned around and started running with a confused couple following him.

Entering the main hall, they saw SesshouMaru standing by the door, "I have found out that they might have found it."

"Who... found....what?" Miroku questioned, panting.

"The people in Reikai might have found the prison that Kagome and Naraku are in."

Sango looked at SesshouMaru, "Why didn't you tell us sooner?!"

"Because I just found out. Apparently, they sent the fire apparition to investigate it. The reason I summoned you is because I want you three to see if he can get it open."

"Why don't we just break it open ourselves?" Kohaku asked.

"Yeah," Miroku agreed, "with any luck we'll strike Naraku in the process."

SesshouMaru rose an eyebrow, "And risk hurting Kagome while you're at it? No. You know as well as I do that it can't be broken open from the outside. If it could be, we would have done it back when Makai was created."

"Good point," Miroku said.

"Why can't we go and talk to the apparition and see if we could work together with him to open it?" Sango suggested.

SesshouMaru shook his head, "No. Every time you've tried to 'help out' the Spirit Detectives you've always made things harder for them. Or have you forgotten what happened to the last detective?"

"If he hadn't gotten in my way he wouldn't have been hit with the Hirakotsu," Sango whispered.

SesshouMaru, who heard her, snorted, "If that was the case Koenma wouldn't have had to find a new one. The point is, I don't want to have to deal with you two killing another spirit detective."

"You make it sound as though it's some sort of hobby," Miroku sighed, "But it only happened that one time..."

"Once was enough. Now go and see if he dose open it. If not, well, you two still have some cleaning to do. But if he dose, I want you both to report back to me." Kohaku, Sango, and Miroku turned around to leave, but SesshouMaru stopped them, "Oh, and get Shippo. He'll probebly want to come along."

Kohaku looked back at SesshouMaru, "Uhm... where is Shippo?"

"He's still in the dungeon."

Without another word, the three left. SesshouMaru went back to whatever he had been doing before, and smirked when he heard the loud shriek of 'HENTAI' come from down the hall.

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Shippo, who had left the dungeon early on a 'self-motivated field trip', met up with Sango, Miroku, and Kohaku in the hall. The four of them left to find the apparition after Miroku groped Sango. It didn't take them long to find Hiei, who was staring at the prison with an indifferent face.

Suddenly the prison began to grow, and Hiei took a step away from it. Two figures flew out of the prison, and one of them landed on the unfortunate jaganshi. The second figure stood up, and the four of them gasped.

(Don't you just love collective gasps? Anywho... I'm just going to stop here ((sorry for the short chapter, the next one will be better I promise)) although I doubt it's much of a cliff-hanger. After all, most of you already have a pretty good guess as to who landed on Hiei, and who stood up. I'll get the next chapter out as fast as inspiration allows. Until then, Bah-bye)