"Got you!" Keiko grinned and punched the guardian to whatever part of his being.
His whole being become visible to their eyes, his eyes glaring towards Keiko who smirk victoriously. She found his whereabouts within 1 minute and 45 seconds. She still have 25 seconds before the game could end. The guardian is definitely furious, but he needs to be fair.
"Since you won at my game, you and your friends shall be free from grasp and all of you can pass my floor now. But, heed my warning, the fourth guardian won't be too easy" with that said, he disappeared leaving a clear path to them.
"I expect him to act all furious at us since Keiko won, but I didn't expect him to be the type to play fair. Oh well at least he knows what he's doing" Botan shrugged.
"Let's go now, we don't have much time. The guys and the princess need to be free immediately" Shizuru said.
They started running with Botan, of course, on the lead.
Back towards the cellar, the guys were busy doing their thing to even notice that Keiko have won her way out of the game. Kuwabara and Yusuke keep on distracting the enemies while as Kurama started doing her part which is shaking his head, letting a few seeds from his hair fall off and started growing.
The plants were a metal-eaters and it's a good thing that the thing that tied them was a metal. The plants started eating the chains from the detectives' wrists.
"This is outrageous!" Hamada suddenly exclaimed angrily, causing for the spirit detectives to look at him.
Kirochi look nowhere near please, "It seems as though that blue-haired woman knows where we hide the princess" he scowled.
"Go there, Kirochi! Stop them at once! They can't save the princess!" Hamada ordered.
"As you wish, Hamada-sama" the wolf youkai bowed before leaving the room.
"A little bit more" Hiei thought, seeing his chains loosing quickly.
The plants quickly eat the metals, seeing that it was starting to loose from the prisoner's wrist. Kurama smiled as he rubbed his sore wrists followed by Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara. The plants have free them and now it's time for their revenge.
"I'll handle the man from here" Kuwabara said
"Are you sure, Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked.
"Yeah, just go and save the girls" he said and produced his spirit sword, slicing the metal bars that the plants quickly ate.
Hamada turn around from his stand and look horrified seeing them free and capable beating him up, but obviously they can't do it unless they wanted to go to the prison cell of Rekai. Koenma would be reluctant doing that.
"Now, let me teach you a lesson" the carrot-head cracked his knuckles.
The guys quickly went off from the room, running towards the direction they knew were the girls were at. They ran for a good of 10 minuted, but only to get stopped by the fourth guardian in which the girls didn't encountered. The fourth guardian is different from the other guardians.
Half of its body is a guy and its other half is a woman. So, you couldn't tell wether it's a guy or a woman.
Hiei scoffed. "Just blast it with your spirit gun, detective. Obviously this guardian is weak and not worth the fight".
"If you say so, Hiei" Yusuke shrugged before blasting off the guardian easily.
The started running again, following the loud screams that the girls were emitting. Fear and Anxiety started creeping towards them at the thought of the wolf youkai trying to torture the girls. Yusuke slammed the door opened, his eyes wide seeing Yukina being held up in the air to her neck.
Hiew growls and unsheath his sword, preparing to attack the demon.
"If you even try to go near me, this woman will be the one paying the prize" Kirochi smirked, putting Yukina infront of him for them to see.
"Damn you, bastard!" Yusuke cursed.
Hiei gritted his teeth where as Kurama have his eyes widen. His eyes then darted towards thew three girls who were clutching their stomach as they tried to stood up. He badly wanted to help them, but if he do that Yukina will be the one going to suffer.
Shizuru was the first one to noticed Yukina, so she immediately tried to balanced herself before charging herself towards the demon, tackling him down and letting Yukina go.
The guys immediately went towards them with Yusuke preparing to use his spirit gun as he pointed it towards Kirochi who let Shizuru go as she run towards the group.
"There's nowhere for you to go, so just come with us you bastard!" Yusuke said.
Kirochi smirked, "You think?" he immediately throw his hidden dagger towards Yukina who was opened from his attack.
Botan saw the dagger and quickly pulled Yukina away, but ended up her getting hit by her side in the process. Shew hiss in pain as everyone gasps at what happen.
"Spirit Gun!" Yusuke fired off his spirit gun directly hitting the wolf demon.
"Oh my gosh, Botan! "the ice maiden cried out, putting her hand immediately towards Botan's side in attempt to heal it, but the deityt pried her hands away.
"No... don't! That...dagger...have...poison in it!" she grunted in pain.
"Poison?!" Keiko asked, horrified.
"I'm going to take it out, Botan. Don't worry" Kurama quickly took some of his herbal seeds and plant them. They quickly grow and Kurama started smashing them in his palm and putting it on Botan's side who yelp in pain.
"This is going to be painful, Botan" the kitsune squeeze her side which indicate her to yelp in pain and try to take it all in. She bit her lip.
Violet substances started pouring out of her body and Kurama squeezes them all out until there's nothing left. Yukina quickly started healing her, closing up her wounds.
"Now that feels so much better" Botan sigh in relief.
Yukina smiles gently. "I'm glad that you're okay now and thank you for saving me".
...
[ 2 Weeks Later ]
It's been two weeks since the first mission of the girls, the princess have been sent to Makai by the rekai tantei to make sure she's not kidnapped once again. The guys have practically scolded them from trying to go on Makai alone and fighting off the guardians, that was a really long lecture from the guys.
So the girls were once again in the temple, but this time the guys were with them. After seeing what happened two weeks ago, they can't let that happened once again. Not on their watch.
"You guys sure are getting protective" Shizuru sigh while putting a cigarette on her lips.
"After what happened two weeks ago, we decided to not let you girls out of our sight. That was a reckless thing you all did. What if you all gotten hurt? What if you died, huh?! Arrrghh... I don't know what'll do when that happened" Yusuke ranted.
He was oblivious at the soft gazes that the girls were giving him. Obviously, Yusuke cared deeply for them and he would surely go berserk when his words really did happened. Keiko is definitely glad that her childhood friend cares for her well-being.
"Aww... Yusuke cares deeply for us, but I'm sure you cares more deeply towards Keiko. I know you're going to be in hysterical when you saw Keiko also" Botan teased, seeing thew flush face of the spirit detective and Keiko.
"Wha..? What the hell are you saying, Botan?!" the teen asked, snarling at her.
"Oh, don't pretend you don't know, Yusuke" Shizuru smirked.
"Yeah Urameshi. We all saw the look in your face when Keiko-chan take up the challenge on the third guardian" Kuwabara snickered.
"Wha-Wha...? I don't know the hell you're talking about, you dumbass" Yusuke scowled.
Hiei snorted from the window. "Just admit it, detective".
"You too, Hiei?"
"I agree with them, Yusuke" Kurama sheepishly rub his neck.
Yusuke slump to the ground in defeat, his face still covered with red due to blushing.
Yukina laughed, seeing her friends teasing Yusuke.
Everything is back to normal, for now.
...
"I receive the report from the spy, master" a demon, wearing a butler outfit said while handing his master the red envelope in his hands.
"You may go now" his master ordered while opening the envelop.
His eyes stared straight at the four pictures of four certain people. A smirk made his way towards his lips, amusement and excitement were evident.