Everything was pitch dark.
"Tsk, you hit her too hard." said a male voice.
"It's not my fault that the humans too weak." said a females voice.
Angel slowly opened her eyes to see a women with silver hair and dog ears next to a strange man with bat wings. Her eyes slowly closed then opened again wide in shock.
"Hey I think she's coming through." said the male demon picking on the blonde girls bag.
Angel screamed in horror startling the bat demon while the kitsune rolled her eyes. Moving back to she bumped into the shelf, causing many books to fall over and tumble on to her.
"Nice going." said the bat demon towards the fox demon.
"Shut up." replied the kitsune in annoyance.
The door opened revealing an office room, there was a desk with a tape recorder on it, some old pictures and another door across the room. Domino growled and Hiei lifted up his hand keeping her calm. The group became strangely quiet. Yusuke swallowed hard, as he walked over towards the tape recorder. Pressing play he closed his eyes and listened to his next trial.
"Hello Yusuke, time for round two. You are much closer in knowing the truth about you and your memories." it said darkly.
"Round two?" Yusuke questioned a bit confusedly.
" I want to play a game. The game I want to play is very similar to the one that you've been playing as a a team leader. The game of offering hope to the desperate, for a price." it continued merciless.
Yusuke frowned, team leader?
"I think we can agree that your situation is desperate. So I offer you hope. The price that you pay may be a friend if you fail in leadership."
Yusuke glared angrily at the tape recorder "You bastard."
The team could only stand and listen helplessly in horror; if the tape was telling the truth, then there lives were in Yusuke's hands.
"By entering this room, a timer has been started."
Yusuke quickly glanced at the digital clock that was on the desk, it was counting backwards from four minutes.
"When the timer expires, the door in front of you will be locked forever preventing you from moving further. Only in finding the key before the timer runs out can you unlock and proceed to the next room."
"Damn it!" Yusuke said looking around the room. "Guys we need to find a key!" he said causing the others to search the room for the key.
"I will give you just one hint as to where that key is: it will be like finding a needle in a haystack."
Domino barked at the desk catching Hiei's attention, the fire demon quickly pushed the desk out of the way revealing a huge pit in the middle of the room, filled with thousands of filthy, used syringes.
"Detective!" he said catching Yusuke's attention.
"Let the game begin." it finished as everyone stared down into the pit.
A globe sprung around in a circle as the bat demon played on it.
"Okay let me get this straight, you want me to help you find your father?" asked Angel a bit confused as she watched the strange demon play with the globe.
"Precisely." said the kitsune as she ran her fingers through her beautiful hair.
"From what I herd, your teacher was an expert on Jigsaw projects." said the bat demon in amusement as he looked through Angels belongings.
"My teacher... you mean my boss?" she asked clarifying what the man had said.
"You catch on quickly." responded the fox as she shook head towards what her partner in crime was showing her.
Angel looked at her with a confused expression. "how do you know it's Jigsaw?" she asked a bit touchy about the subject.
The bat demon grinned widely as he pocketed a necklace. "Well my human friend, if it wasn't for this!" he dropped a pigs mask in front of Angel. "We wouldn't have came all the way here." he stated as he resumed to scan the room.
Angel gently picked up the mask. "Jigsaw..." she whispered feeling her chest tighten.
Looking down at the pit the group felt a sickening feeling in their stomachs.
"You got to be kidding me." Kuwabara said in shock.
"Yeah, this guy must love drugs." joked Yusuke.
"Yusuke!" cried Keiko scared to death.
Yusuke looked at her then back at the timer, there was three minutes left.
"Yeah." he said and was about to jump in when Hiei pulled him back by the collar bone. Falling on his butt he looked at Hiei in shock. "What was that for?"
Hiei shot him a dirty look. "Don't be a fool, I didn't survive because I did what I wanted. You have to follow the rules, you are the leader and we are the followers." he explained bluntly
"Screw that, I ain't putting anyone through that type of shit!" he argued angrily.
"Yusuke we're running out of time!" said Shizuru a hint of panic in her voice.
Yusuke looked back at her then at everyone else in the room.
"I-I don't know." he said feeling very nervous.
Hiei rolled his eyes and leaped in the pit with no warning.
"Hiei!" Yusuke cried out not realizing that he knew the demons name.
Needles stuck out of Hiei's bare arms, causing the group to turn away in horror. Yusuke gritted his teeth, it wasn't as if the demon was wearing anything to protect himself yet he dove in like nothing. Kneeling down in position to start digging needles painfully dug into the boys leg knee and thigh. Wincing in pain he noticed he had almost a minute left. He painfully dug his hand in the pit and began to move them around in search of the key. It sounded as if he was moving glass, Keiko turned and Yusuke watched helplessly as Hiei slowly began to sink in.
"I can't stand this anymore." Kurama said preparing himself to jump in with his friend.
"Don't move fox!" Hiei screamed out causing Kurama to stop.
The clock ticked making Hiei violently dig in faster throwing syringes everywhere. Needles stuck to his hand yet he payed no attention to them as he continued to dig and move them around as if he was in a toy box looking for a specific toy.
"You need help!" cried Kurama not understanding why he cared for this demon.
"Shut up!" he screamed moving faster now that time was running out.
Sinking down lower, he grunted in pain but never once stopped. With twenty seconds left Yusuke was going crazy, how was he suppose to guide him when he can't even help him find a stupid key. As he was about to give up on hope, his eyes caught sight of something glowing.
"Hiei to your left!" he cried out.
Hiei obediently dug into the left side throwing many syringes up into the air. The key attached to a glow stick, grabbing it he tossed to Yusuke whom quickly ran to the door. With five seconds to spare Yusuke unlocked the door.
Angel paced back and forth in the room as Kirin sat annoyed.
"I honestly can't believe that John Kramer has a successor." she said a bit shocked. "Although, girls with tails are also strange."
"Enough talk, we need to make action now if this jigsaw is as bad as you say he is." interrupted the kitsune.
"Right!" agreed Angel in enthusiasm as she took out a map. "First things first, we must find his location." she said brightly the stopped looking at the map "Now does your father live near Manhattan?" she asked.
The two demons looked at each other in confusedly then back at Angel.
"it depends, how far is this place?" asked Kirin handing Angel a piece of paper.
Reading the paper she typed the information into the computer and waited. Her eyes widened in shock "Japan!"
Hiei was slowly lifted out of the pit, needles were viciously stabbed in his body. He moaned as the group began to help him. Domino worriedly licked Hiei's cheek.
"I'm alright." he whispered to Domino.
"You are the craziest, stupidest obnoxious kid I've ever met." Yusuke chastised angrily. "yet, you saved us big time." he said much more calmly.
Hiei turned his face away from Yusuke's view as he let Domino help him up. "As I said we are the followers." he snorted as he stumbled past them.
Yusuke smiled as he suddenly realized that the boy wouldn't have jumped if he didn't trust him...