Yusuke still wide eyed and shocked cannot believe that the mystery he has been trying to solve all this time is solving itself right before his eyes.
Yusuke watches as Reika is transferred to Gantz' apartment, Yusuke, however did not have any idea where Reika's body went after it fully disappeared from the school rooftop. He remembers that spell, or rather that technique.
It was used long ago by Spirit World special forces back in the Demon-Spirit War. He remembers Kurama explaining to him how the technique worked.
It worked by concentrating one's spiritual energy to find and plot a course through the ambient "Dimensionary Tunnels" that ran throughout all the dimensions. The spiritual energy will course through the tunnel and find the "other end", and afterwards the user of the technique can then open a dimensional hole and project himself or herself through it.
It was the same technique that Itsuki used to be able to seemingly teleport humans and demons. However Spirit World refined it as a tool of war.
"Hmmm." Yusuke is now sitting up and stroking his chin. "If I remember correctly Kurama said it had one flaw."
Indeed, it had a single flaw. The technique if used by a demon, could be controlled as to who it projected through the dimensionary tunnel, however the way Spirit World used it it was not able to distinguish between humans. This was because not many people from the Spirit World knew how to do this technique, therefore to be able to utilize the technique properly, Spirit World used what was called as "Teleportation Posts".
Basically, it was the job of the Teleportation Posts to find the appropriate dimensional tunnels and project the object they want to teleport through that tunnel. They were basically like the police officers directing traffic.
However due to the teleportation post being far away from the object they were teleporting they could not distinguish between the borders of two separate entities. Therefore whatever is touching the object will be projected through the tunnel as well. This single flaw saved a thousand of demon lives just because the demon army was able to exploit this weakness.
Yusuke now knows what he has to do. He has to stay near Reika until he feels the same feeling he felt right before the transfer begins, and while the transfer is going on he needs to exploit the flaw and grab onto Reika. That way he would be transferred with her.
"Heh so thats how you do it eh?" Yusuke's smile is uncontainable. "Just you wait..I will make you guys pay dearly" Yusuke's playful looking smile turned into a demonic grin.
Yusuke stands up. "I guess I should try and watch these Demon Slayers again." He closes his eyes and focuses and tries to find Reika's spiritual signature.
He stood there quietly for about a minute until he finally found it. Yusuke's eyes slowly opens. "Found you Reika-chan." Yusuke disappears from the rooftop. He runs on top of the rooftop, however one can only see him disappear and reappear from roof to roof due to his sheer speed.
Finally he found where they are. They were already at it, this time the human numbers were less than before. He watched them, they had amazing teamwork in taking down the demon.
Yusuke sat at a high rooftop, watching the humans like a hawk. He might not be the brightest strategist but he was one of the most adaptable demons there ever was. By watching his opponent he could avoid a dangerous confrontation, and these humans so far, although not showing any spiritual powers beyond that of a C- class Demon, have a good teamwork.
On the ground, however was another set of observers. They were the Vampires. They have always wanted to kill the Gantz team. They might not be able to stand against the full Gantz team right now, but it was ok. They observe the team further to determine who was the leader and from what they saw, it was clear. The leader is the one named Kurono Kei.
"Hmmph we kill that smug little boy tonight." One of the vampires punches a crack into the wall of the building.
"Calm down." Urged another one. "We will be able to kill him when he is alone."
"Hey look they are disappearing bit by bit!" The two vampires bickering fixes their gaze on the Gantz team.
"Where are they going?"
"I don't know, but what I do know is where their little leader lives." The vampires start to walk away as the show is over. "Soon very soon they'll die.' The vampires laugh as they walk into the shadows.
Yusuke now has a lock on all of the human's spiritual signature. He can find them and follow them within a 100km radius.
"hehehe got your scent." Yusuke smirks. "You won't be able to escape from me anymore."
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It was a quiet day today, it was also the first day of spring. It was a beautiful spirit world spring, perfect for a walk.
Emperor Koenma walks through the streets of what looks to be imperial Japan. Koenma, now in his permanent tall form and without his pacifier, walks with his escorts. He was afterall the Emperor of Spirit World, he had body guards to keep royal subjects away.
"Hey look! Its the Emperor!" Shouts one of the merchants in the street.
"Emperor Koenma! Play with us" Yells a group of kids playing.
"Hey aren't you guys supposed to be in school." Koenma playfully smiles at the group of kids.
"Hey Koenma." Koenma turns to his right to look at the person who just called his name. The human spirit was tall and had orange hair. He wears a long white coat that exposes his chest and a bandaged stomach.
"Yes, Kuwabara?"
"Well I was just wondering you know" Kuwabara hesitates to ask his question. "Are you sure your alright going to this gig? I mean it is your only day to relax as the emperor."
"It's okay Kuwabara." Koenma answers in a whispering voice. "I'm nothing but a figurehead emperor anyways" Koenma was careful not to let any of his subjects hear what he is saying.
The pair continues to walk. "If you say so, but hey it's good that were going to a school anyways." Kuwabara looks ahead trying to see if they are near their destination yet. "I mean its good that we are educating the young folks you know."
"Indeed, I want them to know the truth." Koenma's voice had a sense of guilt in it.
"Your still not thinking about Urameshi are you?" Kuwabara's frustration is communicated through his tone. "I mean that guy is a traitor."
"You just don't know..." Koenma trails off.
"What was that I couldn't hear you."
"No, It was nothing." Koenma walks a bit faster now. "Lets try and hurry up a bit can we Kuwabara?"
Kuwabara speeds up to Koenma's pace. As they walk they pass by the Spirit World Research Organization. It was a huge complex. It was like a university where aspiring spirits can do research and development, be it for peace or war.
It is a highly revered organization for their role in the war. They are, arguably, the sole reason Spirit World won the war. It was due to their advancement in technology that gave Spirit World the edge in the Demon-Spirit war. One of their first developments was the advanced teleportation technique.
"You know I'm really glad you guys established them." Kuwabara turns to look at the SWRO.
"You mean the SWRO?" Koenma fixes his gaze at the huge comples as well.
"Yea. Without them I dunno how we could've handled all those powerful demons.." Kuwabara remembers the war he fought against his very best friend.
Finally the pair reaches their destination. It was a small elementary school filled with kids. Koenma was supposed to drop by one of the classes and talk about the history of spirit world.
Koenma stands in front of the classroom door, he takes a deep breath and he opens it. What greeted him was a blue haired woman.
"Hey kids! Look who is here!" The woman points to koenma excitedly.
"Wow!" The class of kids shouted in unison.
"I can't believe she actually knew the emperor!" The woman's face is now painted with a face of someone who is boasting.
"Heh I told you little runts I knew him." Koenma gave the woman a smack over her head, which made the whole class laugh at their teacher.
"Botan, how old are you?" Botan could say nothing but stick her tongue out at Koenma and smile.
"Hey Botan." Greeted kuwabara. "Hey hey Kuwa-chan." Botan walks towards Kuwabara to examine him closer. "Long time no see, but you still haven't changed." Botan gives kuwabara a hug.
"Well Koenma shall we start?" Botan asked her previous boss. "I was just teaching the kids here a little history about the spirit world."
Botan points to the black board in front of the class. It was filled with drawings about the spirit world.
"I was just telling them how the five leaders unified the warring kingdoms of the spirit world into one empire and put you in charge." Botan pointed to a diagram on the board showing the Gate of Judgement and 5 different territories.
Koenma clears his throat. "Thats correct." Koenma looks at the class and saw that everyone has now settled in and is intently listening to him.
"Your teacher is right. Back then we only knew of the Gate of Judgement, and I ran that place." Botan nods and she remembers that Koenma was pretty strict back then.
Koenma continues on with his story.
"However it was about 1,600 years ago that the 5 leaders that make up the Executive Council-"
Botan clears her throat as if trying to point something out to Koenma.
Koenma realizes his mistake. These kids do not know what executive council meant. So he simplified it.
"Uhh I mean my advisors." Koenma looks over to Botan and she is now smiling happily.
"It was about 1,600 years ago that the 5 leaders of each respective kingdom were united under one empire. Each of the leader agreed with me that Demons are evil and must be banished from our land." Koenma winces at the thought.
"Due to the evil Demon King Yusuke threatening my father Enma, the barrier surrounding the Demon world was taken down. This was the last straw for us, After this news spread throughout the 5 kingdoms that make up the Spirit World, it caused the wars to stop. We are now united towards one common enemy. Thanks to the initiatives we took way long ago, Spirit World and Human world was saved from the demons and now we live a happy life!"
The statement brought forth cheers from the whole class.
"Thats really interesting!" The kids say in an exciting voice. However the three who knew Yusuke looked down onto the ground. It is really hard to paint their one-time friend as the bad guy, even Kuwabara who saw the "Great Purge" felt bad as he remembers the times he had with Yusuke.
Koenma continued on to tell the kids about the great war and all the kids were intently listening on the history of their world.
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Everybody is gathered in Kei's house. They were having their meetings to make their survivability in the hunts better.
"Alright everyone I think we are really getting the hang of this." Katou stands up to make his voice easier to hear in Kurono's cramp apartment. "We have barely lost anyone in the last 5 missions we went through."
Everybody cheered as they know with Katou, Kurono and Reika they are in good hands.
Kurono looks like he is frustrated with something. Finally it was too much to contain.
"I really think that we should find a better place to meet." Kurono's frustration reverbrated throughout his cramped apartment. "My apartment is so damn cramped!"
Reika stares intently at her crush. Kurono notices Reika. "Maybe Reika's house! I mean she is an idol she must have a huge house."
Reika thinking about that this meant Kurono would be in her room agrees completely. "Yea I think Kurono is right."
A murmuring noise develops within the crowd as they are delibirating something.
"Well if you guys say so. We'll hold the next meeting at Reika's house then." Reika writes down her address and directions on how to get to her house on a piece of paper that Kurono provided.
Suddenly the lights went out and the sound glass shattering pierces the confused group. Kurono's apartment's window has shattered into a thousand pieces and a bunch of vampires comes swarming in. There was probably 3 to 4 vampires alone that came in from Kurono's broken window.
And on the street in front of Kurono's house there was probably 15 to 20 more. They all wore the same thing, glasses, hats and face masks to disguise their real faces, except for five of them, they looked to be the strongest of the vampires. One of the masked vampires looked fidgety.
"Hey are you okay there new guy?" One of the vampires notices the fidgety vampire.
"Uh-huh, yea I'm okay."
"If you say so man, calm down alright? theres probably only 6 people in that room and theres 30 of us out here. we'll be fine." The vampire tries to reassure his comrade.
"Thanks man.."
Back in Kurono's room they have disposed of all the vampires thanks to Katou, Kurono and the two psychics. They look down and they see a whole army of vampires waiting for them. They all get ready to fight them, however they only had 3 guns with them, one for Katou, Reika and Kurono.
They all put on their black suit preparing to fight against the vampires.
"Goddamn Vampires." Kei curses at the enemy as everybody readies themselves for a fight. Finally everyone was good to go. Kei aims for one of the vampires with his gun and shoots from the broken window of his apartment.
Below the vampire is hit, however it wasn't until seconds later that he exploded. This threw the vampires below into chaos and thats when the Gantz team jumped out the window and started the fight with the vampires.
Reika and Katou were the first to land, followed by the two psychics and Kurono. The moment they land they are able to pick off a couple of vampires.
"Heh this is what you call a fight?" Kurono smiles as if he is enjoying the carnage. The vampires however were no pushovers. They started fighting back and they almost sliced Katou in half, luckily he was able to dodge the strike and counter attack killing the vampire.
"Don't underestimate them you guys!" Katou yells encouraging words to his team mates. Reika, as harmless as she seems is probably the one doing the most killing. She has probably killed 7 vampires by the time Kurono was on his fourth.
Reika turns into a femme fatale when its protecting her beloved kurono.
After about 15 minutes of fighting, the streets are littered with various body parts from the slain vampires. Only a few vampires remain, however these remaining vampires are different from the rest, the Gantz team could tell, these were no cannon fodders. There were only 3 demons left. Two male vampires and a female vampire. One of the male vampires was the nervous vampire in the beginning and he is now hiding behind an electrical post.
"Heh are you guys ready to die?" The vampires asked the Gantz team.
Kurono smiles as if to mock the vampires. "You sure about that? have you seen what happened to your friends?" Kurono points to the ground littered with the bloody parts of vampires.
The male vampire prepares to attack however the Gantz transfer starts to happen.
"Oh man why now!?" Kurono asks gantz furiously. The two vampires nearest the Gantz team knew what was going to happen and by instinct they grabbed onto two members of the Gantz team.
"What are you guys doing!?" Kurono turns to the vampires. "Let them go this instant!" The last thing Kurono saw before being transferred were the smirking vampires.
The masked vampire behind the electric post suddenly realizing this is his chance, tries to grab onto one of the Gantz members. He was rushing to grab onto someone he almost tripped however, he was still able to grab onto a team member in time.
Back in Gantz apartment, the whole team is now transferred with three extra guest.
The last to be transferred was one of the psychics. The psychic looks down on his leg.
"Hey man what are you doing let go of me!" The psychic shakes his leg to shake off the masked vampire. The psychic walks over to the other side of the room, away from the 3 "guests".
There was tension in the Gantz apartment. On one side were the two vampires with their swords drawn, on the other the Gantz team with their guns pointed at their foes.
Kurono notices that one of the vampires had his mask on. "Hey you, you filthy vampire take off your mask."
The vampire proceeds to take off his mask.
"huh!?" Reika yells in surprise. "Why are you one of them Yusuke!?"
"Wait, you know this guy?" Katou turns to Reika.
Authors Note: Hey guys, I try to get at least one chapter a week for this story, but I will be putting this story on hiatus for at least 2 weeks I need to come up with more ideas for it haha. Keep your eyes peeled for updates : )
