Chapter 3 – Attempted Escape
As day slowly turned into night as discussion on what to do about the guest and the guys that came to the temple earlier rages on. "Well, it would appear we are majorly outclassed here. I mean Kurama's Rose Whip and my Spirit Gun meant nothing to them, if they can block our most powerful moves and attacks what exactly can we do?" Yusuke said while eyeing Genkai.
"Sorry, I don't have all the answers. I only know that the kid laying in the other room will be really important in the upcoming days. I wonder how he got here in the first place," Genkai said while she focused on the problem at hand. "Before I came here, I heard about a break-in at Spirit World. The person broke into the same vault that the shadow items where in." Botan said softly while leaning against the wall.
"But it doesn't look like he came with any shadow items. Is there anything else in that vault worth stealing?" Yusuke asked while looking at Botan. While they sat in another room discussing this, the young man slowly sat up and looked around, feeling the bandages on him. "Where am I? How did I get here?" He thought while looking around. He quickly and quietly stood up and walked outside a door and made his way down a small walkway while leaning on the wall for support.
As he got ready to round the corner, the young Yukina was also coming around the corner carrying a bowl of water. They ran smack into each other as she suddenly screamed in surprise and he took off quickly down another hall to get away. The others quickly came to her, trying to find the source of the scream and why. The young man kept running down the hallways, as he got more lost and felt sick. "This isn't good, my powers aren't back yet and they have been here. Hopefully the people in this temple will keep them busy long enough to get away. I can't even transform…" He thought as he kept walking down the paths.
Soon he found himself in the garden of the temple as he walked around, his eyes starting to close heavily from needing rest. "I must get to a safe place away from them all, and then find the jewel. But it could have fell anywhere," he thinks as he walks a few more feet, before falling flat on his face out cold in the garden. But as he fell out cold, a demon stepped out of the shadows and walked toward him, he was on a mission to kill the young man and now he had his chance.
The demon quickly brought his weapon down to strike him, but then his weapon fell to the ground as the demon's head rolled on the ground next to his weapon. As the others ran into the garden, they saw the outline of the demon being beheaded by non-other then Hiei. "Worthless piece of low level trash, trying to make a kill when the guy is in no shape, but I would like to know why those other people are after him and if it has anything to do with both Demon and Spirit World being unreachable." Hiei said eyeing the others, expecting an answer.
"Well we all want answers Hiei, but I image that stunt our friend here just pulled, took all the energy he got from resting out of him. But he made it this far on just fumes it seems. I think he's most likely more powerful then a few S-Class demons. The others seemed able to match S-Class demons without breaking a sweat. So they may be way stronger then we ever thought was possible. I do know this, he's Half-Maziko and whatever else he is, may look human but is much stronger." Genkai says, while looking at all the others before motioning to Yusuke, to carry their guest back to his resting place.
After walking for a few minutes, Yusuke places the young man back to where he was before his escape as everyone sits down to talk. "If the others who were after him are just as strong as us and not breaking a sweat, I think that proves we need to become stronger ourselves," Kurama said while looking at the others. But while they where talking, the young man opened his eyes just abit and looked around, trying to figure out a new plan of escape and the only person who saw this was Botan.
"Well Grandma, you up for training a half-demon, a full demon, and a fox? Also not to mention the idiot when he shows up here," Yusuke said with a grin on his face. "Well why not dimwit? You all need to be stronger to guard against them, but you know none of you are part of the Spirit Detective stuff anymore." Genkai said eyeing them all, then spoke again, "So why are you all going to fight? Is it to protect or to test your strength?" Hiei just grunted before speaking, "Well testing strength is always wise, plus there are things here we need to protect I believe." The others nodded, as Genkai stood up and walked out with Hiei, Yusuke, and Kurama following her, leaving Botan and Yukina all alone with their guest.