I am soooooo sorry for not updating in forever. There is no excuse, and I doubt anyone remembers what's happened. Heres a summery:
We meet Narly, Hiei's old ally, as she warns him that the ghost demons are after him. It turns out they thought he kidnaped the princess, so Koenma sends the team, as well as Narly and the prince Desipio after her. She's being held by an ice maiden and orgs, and even though they save her, Narly is captured. We then find out that Narly is a forbidden child and Desipio's half sister, and that this was al a plot to kill her. Desipio is now running to the tantai to help him save her from an execution.
Thanks ChishioShakun for reviewing (sorry I took so long.) Hiei's Shadow Tenshi Thanks! (Sorry I took so long) Thunder Ring thanks. (ditto) minimuffin-on-acid thanks and sorry.
This is the final chapter, and I hope it's worth the wait.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Desipio's POV ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I stepped through a portal into the Renkai, looking around anxiously for Botan. It was possible for me to get into the Renkai because I was technically a spirit, but I was too powerful to get through the barrier, so had to find someone to make me a portal. Never thought I'd regret being powerful, I thought without humor, as I followed an org to Koenma's office.
I wasn't really sure how he'd react to seeing me, so I'd gone invisible, to avoid being seen. If luck was on my side, after I got in he'd either get me a portal, or I'd have found Botan. If neither of those things happened, I'd have to make a plan B.
As I followed the org through a door, into a busy room with a lot of paper, I went forward to find Koenma. Just as I was about to reach him, though, something happened. One of the orgs dropped a paper in front of my feet, and it slid as I walked over it, and I fell on the org. Normally, since I was in ghost form, it wouldn't have hurt at all, but I really didn't want to fall through the floor and have to find the room again, so I went solid.
As your can imagine, this caused a rather large commotion. I would have been rather surprised myself if someone suddenly appeared out of thin air. Well, I wouldn't be, since I was used to it and all, but if I wasn't a ghost demon, then I'd be surprised. Oh great Enma, I'm starting to sound like Narly! That can't be good.
Narly. I hope we can rescue her. It would be horrible if my father succeeded in killing her, just because of a stupid prejudice.
I probably would have continued along this particularly depressing line of though, if at just that moment the orgs hadn't gotten over their shock at someone falling out of the sky like that. It had taken them a while, as I had had time to get up and brush myself off.
"Seize him!" yelled one of the orgs. I frowned in confusion. Why were they attacking me? They didn't think I was... They did! They thought I was evil!
"Hey, hey!" I said, as one of them grabbed me. "I'm not evil! Let me go! I just need to talk to Koenma!" Cautiously, the orgs let me go. A blue one walked forward, and introduced himself as George, apologizing for attacking me.
He then directed me to Koenma's chair, and left to get back to his paperwork.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- With the Tantai --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Where is she?" screamed Yusuke in annoyance, as the latest spell to find her failed. "It's like she just disappeared!"
"Don't worry Yusuke," Botan (the one who was casting the spells) told him calmly, "We'll find Narly eventually."
"What if we don't!" exclaimed Kuwabara, "She could die of old age in a dungeon and we might not be able to find her!"
"It's unlikely that she'll die of old age if she's in a dungeon, Kuwabara," commented Kurama from his seat on a bench. (they were in a park at the moment) "They'll most likely kill her rather then leave her there that long," Unfortunately, the comment didn't appear to ease the worry from Kuwabara. A punch in the face and a growl to shut up, however did.
"Did you really have to do that Hiei?" asked Yusuke, looking with amusement at the fire demon, who had returned to a top tree branch. Hiei chose not to comment, instead looking at Botan.
"Continue the spells, baka ferry onna," Botan looked slightly insulted at his choice of words, but proceeded to try another spell anyway.
Just then a portal opened in front of them. Out stepped Desipio, looking important. "I guess I really am turning into an okay hero, after all," he muttered, before speaking. "I found Narly."
"What! Where?" It was hard to identify exactly who asked the question, because they all spoke at once, with the possible exclusion of Hiei, because he didn't speak at all.
"I thought you were going back to the ghost kingdom?" questioned Botan, after everyone had calmed down. At this Desipio looked slightly sad.
"I did. That's were I found her." At these words, Yusuke, Botan and Kuwabara looked confused, Kurama looked mildly curious, and Hiei looked as though he wanted to blow something up.
"I knew that (beep) had something to do with it. He was a bastard the last time I saw him, and I don't see any reason that it would change." Though it was said softly, the words had enough venom to make Desipio flinch. He pulled himself together though, and started to tell them how she had gotten there. When he got to the part about Narly being his half sister he hesitated, though. Then spoke to Hiei with almost as much venom as the fire demon had used against his father.
"You. You knew she was my sister, didn't you? Why the hell didn't you tell me? I think I have a right to know who I'm related to!"
Hiei rolled his eyes. "In case you forgot, Narly is a forbidden child. That means she shouldn't exist, and the average ghost prince would want to kill her, not to save her." He said this calmly, but you could tell that he was calling Desipio a baka in his head.
"Why? It's not her fault she was born. Honestly, you people make it seam like she's a serial killer or something!" yelled Desipio. Then he wondered if Narly was, indeed, a serial killer. Now that he thought about it, most people in the Makai were. Probably my evil father as well, he thought bitterly.
"Wait. Stop yelling and finish explaining!" ordered Yusuke, getting tired of Desipio and Hiei yelling about things he didn't understand. Desipio nodded, and finished the story.
He expected that after he finished they would ask a lot of questions, but strangely enough, it was silent. Everyone appeared in shock that they had been tricked so completely by the General. (Well, we could exclude Hiei, but he's quiet anyway.)
"Wait, she's going to her execution now?" asked Kurama, breaking the silence. As Desipio nodded, Hiei jumped down from his perch in the tree, and landed in front of the ghost.
"Take us to the ghost kingdom, you baka! If she's going to be executed we'd better get there soon!" he yelled. Desipio felt his eyes widen, as he realized the truth in Hiei's words.
"If you open a portal to the Renkai, I can open a portal to the ghost kingdom," he said, looking at Botan. She nodded.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Ghost Kingdom -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
They appeared in a gravel courtyard, surrounded by rock walls. Desipio recognized this as the General's house, and looked fondly at his old playground. The others, though, were not so impressed.
"Where's the door!" demanded Yusuke. Desipio turned to face him.
"There isn't one. We're ghost demons, remember? We just go through the walls."
"Then how do we get to Narly?" yelled Kuwabara (who was currently on the ground, having tripped when they went through the portal.) Desipio shrugged, slightly embarrassed.
"I don't know. I never thought about it, since I don't have a problem getting through."
"We could just destroy the wall, make our own door," suggested Yusuke.
"If we did that all the ghosts would hear us and try to stop us. We might not find Narly until it's to late," spoke Kurama, who had remained silent until now.
"Or you bakas could destroy the wall, and take care of the demons that come, while the fool and I find the baka onna," Hiei told them coldly, eyeing the courtyard as though it was a jail cell.
Desipio glared at him. "What do you mean, the fool?" he asked angrily. Hiei turned to face him, no doubt with a retort that would have started a fight if Kurama, ever the peacekeeper, hadn't intervened.
"Good idea, Hiei."
"Wait, how come Hiei gets to rescue Narly?" complained Kuwabara. Yusuke rolled his eyes.
"Because she's his girlfriend, stupid!" At that moment not even Kurama could stop Hiei from attacking Yusuke. They had started fighting rather madly when Desipio cleared his throat.
"Um, I know you like fighting, but my sister could be getting executed any moment now," That got their attention, and while Hiei went to wait in a tree, Yusuke got Kuwabara to help him take down a wall, not appearing to notice Desipio's sweat-drop.
Finally, he cautiously tapped Yusuke on the shoulder. "We need to go through that wall, not this one," he said, pointing to the wall that would lead to the pathway from the dungeon to the stadium, which was were the execution was taking place.
"Why didn't you tell us that earlier?" yelled Yusuke, as the two started on the wall, the rest of the team watching them with amusement.
This time, with all the team helping, they broke a hole in the wall rather quickly. What was startling, however, was that none of the ghosts appeared to notice.
"They must all be at the execution," commented Kurama worriedly. Desipio nodded, then looked around for Hiei.
"The shrimp left without us!" yelled Kuwabara angrily, after noticing what Desipio was looking for. Together the team went to catch up, Yusuke rolling his eyes.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiei POV ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
She better by okay. The baka onna got caught once by these people, and lived, surly she can do it twice. With all that insufferable cockiness she better. If not I can scare Koenma into making her alive again. I grinned slightly at the thought.
At the moment I was running incredible fast toward the stadium. I don't know why the baka ghosts decided to make the road so long, but it's one more reason to kill them. If I didn't get there in time...
Finally I got to the stadium, thought my baka teammates were still far behind. I can just barely see her through the crowd, and what I see reassures me. She's not dead. Not yet, anyway.
One of the ghosts is dragging her shackled body through the crowd to the general, standing on a platform with his katana out and flashing in the air. I'd better hurry if I want to save her.
The problem remained that I couldn't fight all the ghost demons and still save Narly in time, especially considering they can just fade through my katana. I frowned in annoyance as I silently snuck up to the platform were Narly was headed. At least the baka had enough sense to struggle.
The platform reminded me of one of those nigen hang-man killers that I saw on a western movie the detective had made me watch. Horribly crude, but it would do the job. The best way to save her would be to break the rope when they go to hang her. That moment would have to wait, though, because the idiotic general had decided to make a speech.
He walked down from some elite box to stand in front of the crowd with the man holding Narly slightly behind him. My eyes widened and I clenched my katana as I saw that she had passed out, with a bruise to the head as a likely cause. I was going to enjoy killing these people.
"...and Today is the day that we can finally say goodbye to this monists for ever!" he exclaimed, holding up one of Narly's arms. Bastard. That's his own daughter he's talking about!
Faking generosity, the general helped the other ghost demon drag Narly up the stairs to the platform. The other man, who happened to have purple hair, yanked her head up and pulled the rope over her head. I clenched my teeth, only the thought of their painful deaths keeping me from attacking.
Finally! He let go of the rope and...
------------------------------------------------------------------- Narly's POV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well this is great. I always figured that when I died, it would either be in a really exiting chase seen that saved Hiei's life, or in some weird and twisted way. Getting hung like some nigen outlaw was neither weird nor exiting. It wasn't even saving Hiei's life, for enma's sake!
Being dragged is never fun, doubly so when you get knocked out halfway through, and only get your consciousness back by someone yanking your hair. FWI, I keep my hair short for a reason. Please leave it alone.
Uh-oh. I can feel the rope start to tighten. Looks like it's time for my last words.
"I want to thank the kind general, for helping to create me, and-" Then before I could properly thank the rest of the world, the rope yanked me upward, really, really fast. Then, just as suddenly, I was yanked downward again. Weird. I was expecting the upward, since these people hate me and all, but the downward was unexpected. Though from the roars of the crowd I'll bet it's unexpected for them, too.
By the time I should have hit the ground, I had pretty much figured that the general had decided to torture me a bit before my death, so I didn't look so beautiful and rescue worthy. It turns out I was wrong, though, because instead of hitting the ground I was caught by a dark figure waving a katana. Hmm, maybe I will die in a chase seen that saves Hiei after all.
When his katana passed right through the body of one of the attacking demons I realized the problem.
"Shackles," I whispered, so those things wouldn't know what I was planning. If he takes the little devils off, I can go spirit and infuse my soul with the blade. You can't block ghosts by going ghost.
He looked down at me a little surprised, like he had forgotten I was there. Thanks. I didn't realize that I was so forgettable. I thought sarcastically.
Baka. I thought you had gone unconsciousness again! He thought to me as he used his katana to remove the shackles. Thank you thank you thank you- FREEDOM! Finally, I was released from those dreaded shackles.
"Get into the katana so I can attack!" Muttered Hiei in an annoyed voice.
Fine. I rolled my eyes, but did as requested. Suddenly, the ghosts were dying, at a speed I didn't even think possible. Wow, Hiei must really be pissed. I don't thing I've ever seen him this angry!
Either he wasn't reading my mind or was to into the fight to reply, because he didn't answer. Not that I minded, or anything.
It was about then that I started wondering were the rest of my friends' teammates were, mostly because, even with Hiei's mad skills, we were being overcome by sheer force of number. Of course, being the clinched story that this is, they appeared the moment I thought of it. Not only that, but they started screaming at Hiei for leaving them.
After about thirty seconds of them standing there and shouting (Well, Kurama was fighting, but the other three...) I was starting to get annoyed. Apparently Hiei was too, because he proceeded to yell at them to stop standing there and help him fight. Soon after that, much to my astonishment, we were actually winning. Wow, those teammates can really kick ass.
Suddenly they were all gone, and I fell out of the sword tiredly. The others seamed surprised, (I guess they had assumed I was missing) and started forward, but Hiei hissed at them and picked me up again. I guess he could see how tired I was. Though if you ever tell anyone that I had a weak moment I'll firmly deny it and kill you in your sleep.
Yusuke had grinned and gone to call Botan, and I can't really say for sure what the other people were doing because just then something amazing happened.
Up until that point Hiei had been holding me tightly, in a way that made me feel like it was okay to go to sleep, like he would protect me. Normally I hated that, but from him... It was nice.
At the point of greatness he had dropped me slightly, so my feet were on the ground. I was still in ghost form, so my head was just about level with his chin, same as before I had been forced to use my feet.
Then he took one hand off my waist and raised my head so I was looking him in the eye. I could see his anger at my bruises, anger at me for getting them, and something else. Something I've never seen in his eyes before. I didn't have time to define it, though, before he lowered his head. By lowered his head, I mean lowered it so our heads were so close that our noses were touching. I was really starting to freak out when it happened. He kissed me.
By kiss I mean angrily push his lips on mine in a way that is just so wonderfully great and glorious. Well, suffice it to say you've never been kissed until you've been kissed by Hiei. So you won't ever be kissed. Ever. He's mine, you can't have him.
When he let go I was smiling. Everyone had told me there were no happy endings for forbidden children, but if this wasn't the start of one, then I don't know what is.
It's the start of something, anyway.
Damn Hiei, quit reading my mind!