A/N: I do not own this chapter. oOforeverobsessedOo owns this chapter. However, I will own the next chapter, and regardless of whoever owns it, do not take any of these chapters. Also, neither of us owns YYH or Inuyasha.
Chapter Two: A New Detective Device and Reborn Enemies
"My father's name was Youko Kurama. But he died a little while ago."
Kurama's eyes widened as he looked at the little kitsune, shocked.
"Yo-Youko Kurama?" He asked. Shippo nodded, frowning at how pale Kurama was.
"Are you alright?" He asked. Kurama nodded absently.
"And you're name is Shippo?" He inquired. Shippo nodded again, completely confused. Before anyone could react, Kurama had scooped Shippo up in a tight hug. "Thank Koenma, I never thought I'd find you again!"
"What are you talking about!" Shippo exclaimed, pulling away slightly and looking seriously confused. Kurama smiled broadly.
"Shippo, Youko Kurama isn't dead. He's just in a different body." Kurama answered. Everyone in InuYasha's group gasped.
"You mean /you're/ him?" Shippo asked. Kurama nodded, laughing in disbelief. Shippo squealed and hugged him tightly.
"Wait. How would you know?" Sango asked suspiciously. "How do we know you aren't lying about that?"
Kurama sighed. He should have known it wouldn't be this easy. No one in Makai trusted anyone else.
"Oi, Kurama!" Yusuke yelled from behind them. He plopped a huge and heavy bag of food next to the red head. "What's goin' on here?"
"Is he really Youko Kurama?" Sango asked, pointing at Kurama. Yusuke looked at her strangely.
"Yeah…. So? You got a problem with it?" He asked catiously.
"Just because Kurama is in a different body does not mean that it's not him." Hiei said, appearing next to them. Then he smirked at Kurama. "I /told/ you not to give up hope on him, Kurama."
"What are you guys talking about? I'm so confused! And where's the moron?" Yusuke asked, looking around. Shippo bounded up to Hiei.
"I remember you! You're my dad's best friend!" He exclaimed. Yusuke blanched and Hiei smirked.
"I'm surprised you remember me." He said.
"Wait- WHAT! But Hiei, you're only friend from Makai is Kurama, which means- HOLY SHIT, KURAMA HAS A KID!" Yusuke yelled. Kurama chuckled.
"Yes, Yusuke, I do." He said. "His name is Shippo, and he's standing right in front of Hiei. And please watch your language in front of him."
"But- but you said you had no family in Makai!" Yusuke argued.
"I didn't think I did. Hiei has had his underlings looking for him for years, and they hadn't found him." Kurama paused as something clicked. He turned accusingly to Hiei. "You knew, didn't you! You /knew/ he was alive and didn't tell me, you ass!"
Hiei chuckled softly.
"Actually, I didn't know until we got here. I scanned around with my Jagan and found him just as you told Yusuke no." He said.
"/That's/ why you didn't put up as much of a fight against going into a human town as you normally would have! You knew he'd be here!" Kurama said, laughing disbelievingly.
"So- so you're Shippo's father?" Kagome asked, shocked. Kurama turned to her and nodded.
"But I thought you had died. Shippo said he saw the Thunder Brothers kill you." Sango argued. Kurama chuckled.
"Kitsune are amazing creatures, aren't they? One of their many skills is giving up one of their tails to transfer their soul to another available body to cheat death. That's what I did. I knew I was dying, and cheated death. I ended up in the body of an unborn human embryo, and I've lived in that body for fifteen years now, thus my red headed, human appearance instead of my true form." Kurama explained.
"I see." Sango said.
"Well, I'm glad the two of you have been reunited." Miroku said, sitting on the grass.
"Wait, I'm confused. Shippo, you have to be like, what, six? Eight? Alright, eight, but you say you remember Kurama being shot fifteen years ago. How is that possible! I'm so confused!" Yusuke exclaimed, falling face first onto the ground.
"Yusuke, demon years are longer than human years. Plus, Ningenkai is a few years ahead of Makai. So in human years, Shippo is about eighteen." Kurama answered. Yusuke stared at him.
"Right…. Where the /hell/ is Kuwabara!" He exclaimed, changing the subject before it got too confusing for him.
"I'm right here, Urameshi." Kuwabara panted. He had a load three times as big as the one Yusuke had been carrying. "You left me with nearly /all/ the food, you jerk!"
"Yeah, well, you were the one who was hungry." Yusuke said, shrugging.
Kuwabara set the food down and plopped onto the grass.
"So what'd I miss?" He asked. "Who are they?"
"Kuwabara, this is my son, Shippo, and these are his friends." Kurama said, holding up the small kitsune.
"Aw, he's so cute!" Kuwabara exclaimed. "Why didn't you tell any of us you had a son?"
"Because first of all, Hiei didn't tell me he was still alive, and second of all, what do you think my mother would say if one of you accidentally let it slip that /her/ fifteen year old son has an eight year old son?" The kitsune asked, a small smile on his lips. Kuwabara blinked.
"Good point. Urameshi /does/ have a pretty big mouth, huh?" He said.
"WHAT WAS THAT!" Yusuke yelled. "/You're/ the one with the big mouth, idiot!"
"You /both/ have big mouths." Hiei compromised.
"WHAT WAS THAT, HIEI/SHRIMP!" Yusuke and Kuwabara yelled at the same time, each using their respective names for him.
"I said you both have big mouths, and /don't/ call me Shrimp if you want to keep your head attached to your shoulders. Not that you need it, anyway, you never use it…." Hiei said, directing the last few comments at Kuwabara.
"ANYWAY," Kurama said loudly, "what are your names?"
"I'm Kagome. This is InuYasha, Miroku, Sango and Kilala." Kagome said, pointing to each person respectively. Kuwabara's face lighted up when he saw Kilala.
"KITTY!" He yelled. Yusuke hit him over the head, forcing him to do a face plant.
"Leave the poor cat alone, Kitten Boy." He said. "You torture Ekichi enough at home. You don't need to torture the demon cats here as well."
"I do /not/ torture Ekichi!" Kuwabara exclaimed indignantly.
"Ignore them. Kuwabara's obsessed with cats, and Yusuke's obsessed with teasing him about it." Kurama said. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
"I have a question. Wasn't Youko Kurama a really famous thief before he died? Does that mean you are, too?" Miroku asked. Kurama smiled.
"Yes, Youko was a master thief. He was number one on the list of Rekai's top ten most wanted. Hiei was second. However, times change, people change, and being raised as a human by Shiori for the past fifteen years has certainly changed me. I am no longer fully Youko, as I have taken over a human's body. I have served my time in parole, and am no longer wanted by the Rekai police. Hiei, on the other hand…." Kurama trailed off and smirked at Hiei. Hiei 'hn'd' and turned his head away, arms crossed.
"Hiei's on parole, and it doesn't look like he's gonna be getting off it anytime soon." Yusuke said, laughing slightly and poking Hiei. He stopped the second he found Hiei's sword at his throat.
"If you don't shut up, I will not hesitate to kill you." Hiei growled.
"I won't say it again, I promise, please don't hurt me!" Yusuke squeaked. Hiei resheathed his sword.
"Hiei! You bad boy. Threatening Rekai's Spirit Detective adds another five years to your parole." A hyper sounding voice said from behind them. Hiei's eyes widened as he did a partial anime-fall and spun around to face Botan.
"What- was- that?" Hiei growled, his hand reaching for his sword. Botan noticed.
"Don't try for your sword, Hiei, or else I'll have to add even /more/ years to your parole. At this rate, you'll /never/ get off parole!" She exclaimed, wagging a finger at him. An anger tick pulsed in his temple.
"Why don't you just throw him in jail?" Kagome asked. Botan giggled slightly.
"We've tried. He just won't stay in! Every time we put him in jail, in the most guarded cell, he's always gone by the next day, and it takes us forever to find him again! So instead we just have him on parole and he's not allowed to do anything stupid. To keep track of him, we keep him with Yusuke!"
"I'm supposed to keep track of him?" Yusuke asked, perplexed.
"No, silly! We keep track of /you, and since Hiei likes action, and normally the action is wherever you are, he's bound to stay with you!" She said, giggling. Yusuke blinked.
"Oh…." He said. "Well, what d'you want, Botan?"
She held out a round, flat /thing/ with a screen.
"This is a N.F.D." She said.
"A who?" Yusuke asked.
"A N.F.D. A Naraku Finding Device. Rekai took the Demon Finding Device I first gave you and fixed it to find Naraku's energy instead." She explained. Yusuke took it and tossed it up in the air.
"Sweet. This'll make things a lot easier." Yusuke said.
"Wait. You guys are going after Naraku, too?" Kagome asked.
"Hey. Naraku's /my/ fight." InuYasha said. "He'd pound all of you into the ground. You'd better just let me handle him."
"If that weak half-breed can pound the Detective into the ground, then you don't stand a chance." Hiei said. InuYasha crossed his arms smugly.
"I've fought him multiple times and nearly beat him. The thing is that every time I start to win, he runs. Otherwise, he'd already be dead." The hanyou bragged.
"If /you/ can nearly beat him, then he won't be a challenge at all for Kurama, Yusuke or me." Hiei said. InuYasha stood angrily.
"What's /that/ supposed to mean? Are you calling me /weak!" He yelled.
"Don't mind Hiei, he's like that towards everyone." Kurama said. "All he's saying is that Yusuke is one of the strongest in all three worlds, and Hiei and I are right behind him."
The Inu group stared at him, shocked.
"Wha-what?" Kagome asked.
"Yusuke is the strongest of all of us, but Hiei and I are tied as the next strongest." Kurama said.
"So, how strong are you guys, really?" Sango asked, not noticing that Miroku had disappeared from his spot next to her.
"Well, that's kind of hard to decide. Have you heard of the demon classes?" They all shook their heads. "Alright, the strongest is an S- class demon. Next down is an A- class, then B- class, down to E- class, where it starts going into numbers for how weak the demons are. Hiei and I are high A- class demons, nearing S- class, and Yusuke, although he's a half-demon, is a high S- class."
"You're a half-demon, too?" Kagome asked, surprised, turning to Yusuke. He shrugged.
"I didn't use to be. But then I got too strong and woke some dormant gene in me, or something, and now I'm a half-demon." He said, shrugging.
"I've never heard of that happening." Sango said. They heard a half shriek and a slap.
"PERVERT!" Botan screamed. They all sweat dropped. Sango, an anger tick going in her temple, picked up her Hirakotsu and hit Miroku hard over the head with it.
"Stupid monk." Sango muttered angrily, dragging the unconscious monk back to where he was sitting before.
"Y'know, I was /going/ to suggest that Yukina, Keiko, possibly Shizuru and I could accompany you to keep you boys in line, but now I'm not so sure I want to…." She said.
"Eh, don't worry about him. He does it once to every girl, then stops." InuYasha said.
"Except /me/." Sango said. "And the only reason he hasn't dared touch Kagome is because he's too scared of InuYasha."
"He'd /better/ not touch Keiko." Yusuke growled at the half-conscious monk, who paled considerably.
"Ooo, is Yusuke /finally/ admitting to liking Keiko!" Kuwabara teased. Yusuke glared at him.
"Zip it, Lover Boy." Yusuke snarled. "At least /I/ don't claim my love to Hiei's sister every time I see her!" There was a silent pause. "Oh crap. I'm sorry Hiei, don't hurt me!"
Hiei growled and drew his sword. Yusuke ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction, Hiei chasing after him.
"Poor Yusuke." Botan said, giggling.
"What's going on?" Shippo asked.
"Only a few people know that Hiei has a sister, and even fewer know who she is. Kuwabara didn't know, and Hiei didn't want anyone else to find out, especially not his sister. He said that, parole or no parole, he'll kill whoever tells. And Yusuke told…." Botan said.
"So…. Is Hiei really gonna kill him?" Shippo asked. Kurama chuckled.
"No. Yusuke wouldn't let him, and they're too close, anyway. Hiei won't kill any of us. He might hurt us to the point of near death, but he wont' kill us." Kurama said. "They'll calm down in a few minutes."
"I- I- I- I- I'M GOING OUT WITH THE SHRIMP'S SISTER!" Kuwabara shrieked. Kurama chuckled again.
"Yes, unfortunately for you. I wish you luck when you try to get married." Kurama said.