Kei looks fiercely at the vampires, both the two vampires and the rest of the Gantz team have their weapons drawn. Kei's gaze wanders over to the third vampire who is just standing there with his disguise still on.
"Hey you, take that ridiculous disguise off!" The vampire looks around and points to himself.
Anyone can tell now that Kei is annoyed. "Yea you, nobody else here has a silly mask on!" Kei Points his gun to the vampire.
The vampire slowly takes off his hat, which reveals a hair style that was slicked back. The vampire then proceeded to take off his mask which reveals a playful smirk, then finally he takes off his shades which revealed the rest of his face.
"What!?" A confused female voice yells out. "Yusuke you were a vampire!?" Yusuke smiles playfully at Reika.
"Yo Reika, whats up." Everybody is now looking at both Reika and Yusuke.
Kei takes his gaze away from the vampires for a second and turns to Reika.
"You know this guy Reika?"
"Yeah." Reika takes her gun from firing position back down to her sides. "He came to my class about three weeks ago."
"So the vampires have sent spies to your class huh Reika?" Sakata, one of the psychics, aims his gun right at Yusuke's heart.
"Well if you guys will allow me to explain, I'm not really a vampire." Yusuke grabs one side of his mouth and pulls on it to expose his teeth and points to his fangs. "See, not very long" Yusuke lets go of his mouth.
Kei stares at Yusuke again. "Then why were you with them?"
"Well if you can believe this I actually just followed Reika to your house and I was wearing this disguise so she wouldn't recognize me." Yusuke scratches his head and smiles as if he is about to say something embarrassing. "You see, I have had a crush on Reika ever since I saw her and I'm pretty embarrassed about it but I...I was kinda stalking her" Reika blushes as she tries to keep her gaze from meeting with Yusuke.
"Nice cover Yusuke" Yusuke thinks to himself. In reality he was following Reika to grab her the minute the transfer started.
"Then I was just hanging out in front of you house." Yusuke continues to explain. "Then suddenly all these gangster looking people." Yusuke points to the two vampires with their weapons drawn. "They just suddenly started gathering in front of your house! Incidentally as well they were wearing the same disguise I was." Yusuke lifts up his mask and hat. "Then one of em called out to me and asked me why I was hiding behind the pole, and that I should come and join the group."
Yusuke continues on. "When the guy called out to me I didn't really want any troubles, so I just went along with it and the next thing I knew everyone was dieing, I got scared and I grabbed him." Yusuke points to one of the psychics.
"I'm not 'him' man, my name is Sakurai, Sakurai Hiroto."
"Oh, well then I grabbed Sakurai, and next thing I know I'm at this apartment." Yusuke sits down as he finishes his explanation.
"Thats about it man, thats why I'm standing here in front of you guys." Yusuke's explanation outside of his motive was accurate. He got mixed up with the vampires due to them using the same exact disguise as him, He tried to walk out of the group but the fighting started before he can. A potentially dangerous situation provided an opportunity for Yusuke however, and for that he is thankful.
Kei closes his eyes and strokes his chin to think about what he has just heard. After about 30 seconds of thinking Kei finally decided.
"I call bullshit on that man, You expect ME to believe you were just there?" Kei starts to mockingly laugh at Yusuke's explanation. "C'mon man, what do you think of me?"
Katou crosses the imaginary boundary that has divided the apartment in half. Katou approaches Yusuke and the two vampires and throws them 3 suitcases each with their name.
"Well I don't care how you guys got here, but I want you guys to survive this hunt." He points to the suitcases he threw at them. "Open those and wear what is inside and your chances of surviving will be increased."
"Katou! What are you doing?" Kei runs to Katou and grabs his shoulders. "Why are you giving them the suits!?"
"I'm not sure how they got here, but the fact that they have their names on the suitcase means they are part of our team now right?" Katou points to the suitcases.
"And the more of us to participate the more our chances of survival are." Everybody reluctantly agrees with Katou. Kei knowing he is outnumbered backs down.
Suddenly music comes out of Gantz. He is finally about to reveal who the target is.
Everybody gathers around the black ball. Yusuke notices the ball, he hasn't noticed it until now.
He feels the territory emanating from the ball. "Hmm I see so that's the source." Yusuke walks towards the ball and he almost trips on the suitcase Katou threw on the ground earlier. Yusuke kicks the suitcase in frustration, the suitcase rolls over and it has no name. He looks at the other two suitcase and there are names on it. He assumes that the one with no name is his and he opens it.
When Yusuke opens the suitcase there was nothing in it. "Yo big dude, what was supposed to be in the suitcase again?"
Katou didn't realize that Yusuke was calling out to him until Yusuke's third try in getting his attention. "What was that? what was your question again?"
Yusuke holds up the empty suitcase. "Why did you give this to me again?" Katou is confused, why was the suitcase empty?
"Hmm let me see that for a bit Yusuke-kun." Yusuke hands over the suitcase to Katou. He examines the suitcase with a confused look in his face. "There's supposed to be one of this black suits in here."
"Hah we all know who is the first to die then hahaha." Kei mocks the new comer.
Katou is done examining the suitcase, it was empty for sure. "It is ok Yusuke-kun, just stay behind in the mission and we will protect you." Katou comforts Yusuke, but Yusuke wasn't really worried. He knew what the suits were for, from the moment he saw it the suit amplifies the latent spiritual energy inside humans. This technique "transfers" spiritual energy from a high spiritual energy individual to a lower spirit energy individual.
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He has seen this technique before, the demons pioneered this technique after spirit world introduced the Energy Sapper. The energy sapper was a viscious piece of weapon, back in the war about 10 to 20 spirit world soldier per squadron will carry it.
It looked like your normal rifle, however it fired energy bullets from the user. It was a normal weapon until it was fused with a Mafukan generator. The bullets that was fired, once its hits, dissipates onto a demons body, and since it had the properties of a mafukan they neutralized an equal amount of demonic energy.
This was a huge advantage for the organized Spiritual World army because they had a lot of soldiers who had a decent amount of energy, while the Demons had a small amount of individuals with a large amount of energy and the rest were canon fodder to the Spirit World army.
Before the Energy Sapper was introduced 2-3 S class demons can take on whole platoons of Spirit World soldiers, however after it was introduced it all changed. It took about 20 to 30 minutes for Spirit world soldiers to get enough Energy Sapper bullets inside an S class Demon and deplete the demon's energy reserve completely.
This led demons to develop energy transferring. This allowed an S class demon to share his energy bringing his energy level deliberately down to that of an A class demon, to power up around 500 D class demons to A class demons. This was a huge boon to the demon army as they regained their equal footing with Spirit World again.
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Yusuke now looks for the source of the energy amplification. Yusuke looks around the room, and nothing really stands out except for the black ball. Yusuke concludes that the black ball is the source of it all and it must somehow holds the key to what the demon slayers are. Yusuke needs to continue being part of the Gantz team to find out more about the black ball.
Yusuke walks up to the black ball. "So what does this do anyways?" Yusuke lightly taps the ball with his foot.
"Hey, stop kicking Gantz!" Kei seems to be frustrated with the newcomer.
"Just keep watching, it's about to do something." Reika urges Yusuke to be a bit more patient.
Finally just as Yusuke's foot is about to make contact with the surface of the ball again, it lit up. Yusuke gets startled and falls backwards. "Woah!"
"Finally we got our target." Kei smiles. "Just 10 more points 'til I revive kishimoto again!" Kei can't contain his excitement.
Gantz shows two pictures. One of that pictures was a picture of what looks to be a green skinned alien with purple dots around it's bald head. It had two big black eyes. It had no distiguishable nose except for three holes where its nose was supposed to be. It's mouth was also absent.
The other one looked exactly the same except it had pink skin and red dots. Beneath the pictures were the nicknames gantz gave the aliens.
Beneath the pink one it read, Esper-chan while the Green one read Tele-kun.
"So what do we do now?" Yusuke turns to the group.
"We gotta kill those things!" Kei smiles as he prepares for the hunt. Kei has become more and more violent as the hunts go on.
Yusuke is hesitant to kill his own kind, but for the sake of his mission he has to do it. Yusuke stands up with a serious face. Yusuke thinks for a bit, and finally he mutters to himself "It's show time."
Yusuke asks the group one more thing. "Where do I get a gun like that?"
Katou points to the black ball. "Over there, watch." Yusuke fixes his gaze on the ball and suddenly a gun cabinet pops out on either side of the ball.
"Wow thats pretty badass!" Yusuke walks over to the rack and grabs a gun.
Katou turns to the other two vampires which seems like they have successfully stayed out of the conversation until now. "You guys better put on those suit and get a gun."
"hmmph don't be ridiculous, we will survive with our swords.'
"Suit yourself." Katou prepares to be transferred. One by one everybody is transferred onto the field of battle. The hunt finally begins, Yusuke gets transferred to the hunting ground and he is curious to see how these demon slayers work up close.
"Hmm so where are these two aliens?" Yusuke looks around looking for his targets. It was a city setting. It looked as if they were in a shady neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo. They group is transferred right in the middle of a two lane road. The road was sandwich between small office buildings and small family houses.
Yusuke looks at the group, he sees them looking down the road. Yusuke looks down the road as well and he sees that there is a pair of eyes glowing in the dark walking towards them. As it walks towards them, the light posts short out and turn off keeping the creature in the dark.
Yusuke was curious at first, but he could feel that the creature was nothing but a lower C class demon. He could easily dispose of it with one rei gun, but he holds back. He needs to keep the illusion that he is just but a high school student.
"So how do we kill it?" Yusuke turns to Katou, who seems more friendlier than Kei.
"That's easy, we just shoot it with this." Katou holds up his gun. "Usually theres a delay of about three to four seconds though before it takes effect.
"Hmm I see." Yusuke looks at the gun he got from the black ball. He aims for the creature in the darkness and pulls the trigger. The gun lights up and flashes like a camera. Yusuke braces for the effect, but nothing, the pair of eyes continue on unabated. The only effect that it had was the pair of eyes seems to have multiplied now. There are now three pairs of eyes coming towards them.
"Well I see its a bit more tricker to aim this gun." Yusuke laughs awkwardly as he tries to masks his embarrassing miss.
"Hmmph stand aside." Kei walks forward, he brings up his gun to his cheeks as if aiming for the middle pair of eyes. It takes him a while to take his shot. Finally he shot. 1 second passes the eyes continues their march, 2 second passes the status quo is maintained, at the 3rd however the middle pair of eyes shows pain and disappears. the remaining pair of eyes seems to look down.
"Heh thats how you take a shot!" Kei is proud of his kill.
Suddenly the two pair of eyes take a look at the group, then the pair of eyes multiply at an alarming rate there must've been 50 pair of eyes now looking right at them with the intent to kill. Suddenly, aliens that looked like their targets except with white skin burst forth from the darkness. Some running, some jumping at the group.
"Oh my god there's tons of them!" Sakurai panics as he tries to hit some of the aliens. There were only 8 hunters including Yusuke, yet it looks like their up against 50+ aliens.
The group falls back, as they fall back Katou and Kei cover their retreat.
Katou eliminates about two or three white skinned aliens while Kei eliminates 5 or 7. The humans and demon runs back finally they spot a narrow alleyway, they turn into the alleyway using it as a choke point.
All 8 hunters point their gun towards the entrance of the alleyway, waiting for the aliens.
"Watch out guys their about to come.." Reika warns her team. Finally the aliens reaches the choke point, and it seems like there's more of them now than ever. They storm the alleyway, while the hunters kill them one by one. It was a massacre, as the aliens flood through the alleyway the pavement is painted in purple blood.
After about 2 to 3 minutes the aliens finally stopped coming. Yusuke standing way at the back of the group due to him having no suit, finally puts his gun down. "Wow that was insane.. I thought they would never stop coming."
"Is everybody alright?" Katou looks around for anyone who is injured. As the group prepares to leave the alleyway in search for their real targets, Esper-chan, and Tele-kun as Gantz dubbed them, the peace is broken by a horrible shriek. The group is stunned at where they stand.
"What was that?" Reika now has a concerned look on her face. Kei looks around for the source of the shriek, finally he looks up. "Guys watch out their coming from above!!!." Everyone in the group turns their head to look up and sure enough about two or three of those white skinned aliens are coming down on them. Kei with his fast reflexes was able to catch one of them with his gun, and Reika with her sniper like aim was good enough to catch the second. Two out of the three of their assailants exploded upon contact with the ground, however the third one survived.
The third one appear to have fallen right on top of Yusuke. Everyone thought Yusuke would be a goner without the suit. "Yusuke!!" Reika yells at her classmate.
The white skinned alien lands on all four of its limbs. It slowly rises and it slowly turns around to face the group. As the group enters the aliens field of vision, the alien arches its back and gives the group the horrifying shriek they heard before. After the shriek the alien charges at the group. It was fast, but as it charges Kei and Katou was able to hit its right arm and left arm respectively.
The alien was fast, but before it could even reach the group it was dead. The group finally free from danger, walks up to where Yusuke was supposed to be.
Reika runs towards where Yusuke was supposed to be and she sees a body lying on the ground. "Oh god Yusuke! hang on!" Reika reaches Yusuke's body and to her surprise there was no injury on him at all. Just a dirtied face and some rips on his clothes, but there wasn't any scratch on him. "Wow its a miracle." Reika breathes a sigh of relief. "Can you stand?" Reika tries to lift Yusuke up.
"Yep I'm doing just fine." Yusuke laughs. Yusuke stands up with the help of Reika and the group leaves the alley. Finally the white skinned aliens seemed to be defeated and what stands before them waiting was the green skinned aliens and the pink skinned alien.
"Hehehe these must be the boss of this hunt." Kei smirks as he prepares to get his kill. Yusuke gets a feel for the power level of the two demons standing before him, they were no different than the canon fodder they just eliminated.
Kei aims for the the pink skinned alien and shoots. The alien stands motionlessly, Kei has this shot in the bag. His gun flashes and he waits for the aliens to explode. 10 seconds passes and nothing.
"Huh what happened I could've sworn I hit that alien!?" Kei is now confused. He fires relentlessly, all his shots appear to have hit his target but nothing. The aliens stand there unscathed.
The humans are now confused. They shoot at the aliens, but none of their attacks was doing anything. "What's going on!" The frustration in Kei's voice is now apparent.
Finally a response from the aliens, Tele-kun, the green skinned alien, walks forwards. It's eyes starts to glow, and immediately the weapons exploded in a small explosion.
Yusuke, because he could read energy flows, could see. This two demon's powers can nullify energy. It can nullify all energy levels lower than its own, and obviously the human's borrowed powers cannot break through that barrier.
"Shit, we got no more weapons." Kei retreats back into the group. The group stands there motionlessly like deers caught in the headlight. With no weapon they could do nothing but prepare for their demise.
Yusuke looking at how grim the situation is now, decides to save his new found "team". He risked getting exposed because whats the point of being undercover if the people you're spying on is dead?
Yusuke runs towards the aliens, he takes one of the broken guns off of the pavement.
"Yusuke stay back!" Katou yells at the suicidal newbie hunter.
Yusuke reaches Tele-kun. The demon turns around and tries to hit him with a right hook, but Yusuke was too fast for the demon. He ducks below the punch. The green skinned demon then throws a left uppercut, but Yusuke easily side steps it. The demon attacks relentlessly, but Yusuke dodges all the demon's attacks like it was nothing.
To the eyes of the humans however, one hit from the alien and Yusuke is dead. "Becareful Yusuke! just keep them busy until I can think of something." Katou looks around for anything he can use as a weapon.
Yusuke is trying to look for the perfect opening to unleash his rei gun and kill the alien. Finally he gets what he was hoping for. A missed right uppercut put Yusuke in a good enough position. As Yusuke ducks under the attack, he puts the broken gun right on the bottom of the demon's head. He uses the gun to cover his right index finger. Tele-kun could feel it, he was in trouble. This energy level was above his and there was nothing he could do.
Tele-kun looks at the pink skinned demon. The pink skinned demon can see the terrified look in Tele-kun's eyes. Yusuke turns to the pink skinned demon and on his face was a demonic smile which puts fear in the pink demon's heart. Yusuke releases his rei gun at point blank range and Tele-kun's head explodes spewing purple blood that gets on the left side of Yusuke's face.
"Woah....." The group of humans could do nothing but be amazed at Yusuke's incredible combat potential. "Tcch!" Kei mutters silently to himself as he knows he now has a rival.
The pink skinned demon or Esper-chan as Gantz dubbed it, tries to run. Yusuke puts up right hand once more and releases his rei gun hitting the running demon right in the middle of the body creating a basketball sized hole right in the middle of the demon's chest.
Yusuke turns towards the humans and gives them a thumbs up.
"Wow that was amazing Yusuke!" Reika is amazed by Yusuke's performance. She hasn't felt this way since she saw Kei that fateful night. However her heart only belongs to Kei now.
"That was truly amazing!" Katou pats Yusuke on the back as Yusuke rejoins the group. "That was the first time I've seen anyone take down a boss that fast without a suit no less!" Yusuke's smile reaches from ear to ear.
It was nothing but praises from the group for Yusuke. Finally the transfer starts and the group is transferred back to the apartment.
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Kuwabara almost falls asleep in the military meeting. "Hey Kuwabara! What are you doing over there?!"
Kuwabara is awakened suddenly by the stern voice of one of the Spirit World's 13 commanders. Kuwabara being one of the strongest souls in Spirit World is appointed to be one of 13 Dragons of Spirit world.
Each "Dragon of the Spirit World" leads his/her own army into battle. They are the 13 strongest generals in Spirit World.
"Uhh I..." Kuwabara struggles to come up with an excuse. It was a dark room so anyone could fall asleep. Finally he's got it! "I was just thinking of more strategies to win the war!" Kuwabara's awkward laugh just makes everyone in the meeting room laugh at him.
In the meeting room were the 13 Dragons of the Spirit World. They are meeting regarding the event that happened almost a month and a half ago, the same night of Yusuke's revival.
"Right here, please focus your attention to this picture." The presentor, points to the picture projected in front. "This was the resting place of the 3rd Demon King, Yusuke Urameshi." The picture featured Yusuke's coffin in its opened state. Kuwabara's eyes shows the mix of emotions brewing in him. On one hand he is happy that his friend is revived, on the other he is furious since the traitor was saved from his punishment.
Kuwabara now immersed in the meeting yells. "Do we know who did this!?"
"Hmm we do not know as of yet, and the only clue we have is this mark." The presentor clicks a button and the picture switches from the picture of Yusuke's coffin, to the headless body of Yusuke's liberator.
"We found this demon's body at the site." The presentor zooms in to the picture. He zooms in to whats left of the neck of the decapitated demon. "As you can see this demon bears the mark of the Silver Fox."
On the neck of the demon, was what looked like a tattoo of a fox head.
Authors Note: Well it was a nice break but I'm back. Hope you guys like the new chapter.