--flashy entrance with a power outage, blue lightning, and smoke--
AS87: Welcome, oh fan fic readers... To chapter two! I got at least one review, so I'm happy enough to write chapter two!!!
Hiei: ...It doesn't take much to make you happy, does it?
AS87: Nope. I'm naturally a very cheerful person!
Hiei: Much to my distaste.
AS87: Shut up pygmy.
Hiei: ...What's a pygmy?
Kurama: A pygmy, also spelled pigmy, is either a mummy from The Mummy Returns, or, in the real world, a person under 4' 11".
Hiei: Damn. I'm only 4'10... Damn you authoress!!!
AS87: I didn't make you that way! Take it up with the artist who created you!
Hiei: --gets "evil thought" look and runs off--
AS87: ...Where's he going?
Kurama: O.O Oh no!!! He's going to kill our creator! --runs after to stop Hiei--
AS87: ...Well, there goes my other muse. Oh well! --writes on magic notepad, Yoko Kurama appears--
Yoko Kurama: I'm...back here again?
AS87: Yup. Now say the disclaimer, Fox-boy.
Yoko Kurama: AbhorsenSabriel87 does not own any Yu Yu Hakusho characters, nor does she own the Die Hard Trilogy or the Playstation game console or The Mummy Returns...although I do believe she wants to own the pygmies...
AS87: Damn straight! Those guys are awesome!
Yoko: --sweatdrop-- On with the story.
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--- "I'm serious guys!" A female voice rang out from a finely crafted office just off the entrance hall of an amazing 12-story palace. Kurama sat in a chair made of darkly polished oak and red silk cushions while Hiei stood, leaning up against the left wall, both of them looking at a girl their apparent age who looked extremely frazzled. Her light pink eyes were full of panic and her voice was shaking. A bright pink kimono covered her from shoulders to ankles, and her sky blue hair was tied up with a matching ribbon. "This demon is no laughing matter!" she continued.
--- "Hey!" a voice called out. "Who started this meeting without us?" Hiei and Kurama turned around to see two teenage boys walking through the darkly dyed oak double doors. The one who had spoken had black hair and dark brown eyes and wore a pale yellow and very torn sleeveless shirt and dark blue jeans. He had a smirk on his face, as did his copper-headed companion; whose eyes were small and dark brown and he wore a white baseball jersey and blue jeans. They both walked up and each sat down in one of the chairs, the dark haired boy crossing his left foot over his right knee. "Heard you guys needed us Botan," he said, smiling. "What is it this time? A heist? Gang-bangers? Or do you have an actual mystery for us?"
--- "We'd be in serious trouble if she did," Hiei replied coldly. "You two ningens couldn't solve your way out of a child's maze, let alone solve a mystery."
--- "Who asked you shorty?!" the tallest boy said angrily. Hiei glanced at him and smirked as a young boy walked in.
--- The kid was a toddler, hardly over the apparent age of four, and he wore an entire outfit that was baby blue, with pale pink linings and pink sash around his waist. In his mouth was a little blue ball that looked like a binkie, but probably wasn't. He looked at the group and said in quite a mature voice, "Actually, the situation is one of our most dangerous and risky yet."
--- "Glad you finally decided to show up Koenma!" the blue haired girl named Botan scolded. "For once Yusuke and Kuwabara were here before you!" Both the human boys smiled at this as the toddler walked up behind the desk and sat in the chair. "I had some research I had to do before sending them on the mission," he said off-handed. His dark brown eyes narrowed at the four boys in front of him and a grave look came over his young face. "But Botan is correct," he continued. "This will be your most difficult mission yet."
--- "How so?" Kurama asked. "As I recall, we nearly lost our lives on the last mission: the Dark Tournament, remember?"
--- "This is slightly worse," Koenma said solemnly. "During the tournament, you all knew the risks and you all participated willingly. The audience knew the risks as well, so that was different."
--- "Are you saying that we're going on a rescue mission?" Hiei asked lightly. Koenma nodded. "This is a very important mission and we don't have much time to talk about it."
--- "Why not?" The boy with the baseball jersey spoke now and he looked at Koenma with a rather bored look on his face. The toddler gave him a stern glare that Hiei saw instantly. 'This is no ordinary mission,' he thought. 'What could make it so important that even Koenma would act this way? Nothing too serious has happened in Makai; my sources have told me so. And nothing too bad has happened anywhere in the Ningenkai's Japan; all of us have been there for the past two days and have heard of nothing.'
--- "This is no laughing matter Kuwabara," Koenma said angrily at the copper-headed boy. "This is more serious than you could ever imagine."
--- "So where is it happening?" Kurama asked. "It can't be anywhere in Makai; Hiei and I still have many friends and contacts who would have notified us instantly if anything were happening here."
--- "Yeah," the darker-haired teen added. "It can't be in Japan either because it would've been all over the local news. Kuwabara and I would've heard about it too."
--- Koenma sighed and leaned back in his chair, eyes cast downward. "So, are you going to tell us where our mission takes place," Hiei asked, "or are you going to make us guess?" When Koenma didn't answer, Botan burst into tears, her hands flying up to her face. Kuwabara was up in less than a second with his hands on her shoulders, trying to calm her down. "I've already had to escort sixteen souls," she sobbed. "All of them children..." Koenma looked up at the group, sadness at the edges of his eyes.
--- "These demons have been absolutely merciless. Most of their demands cannot be met in the time they have allotted us and they kill off eight hostages every half hour we don't answer with one of their demands. Fortunately, one of their demands is to send one of my best Reiki fighter and Spirit World detective teams to his location." Koenma shut his eyes tight and turned his head away slightly. "That bastard referred to this as a game that one of his human staff had played when he was younger." Suddenly, Hiei thought of something.
--- "Did he tell you what game?" he asked. Koenma gave him a look that suggested that he thought the demon was crazy, as did nearly everyone else. "If we know what game," Hiei continued, "then we can devise a strategy to beat him."
--- "Of course!" Kurama said. "Maybe if he referred to the game, he gave us a clue on he planned and executed his attack!"
--- "But how can that help?" Botan asked, still sobbing lightly. "You two don't know the first thing about video games!"
--- "No," Hiei replied, "but Kuwabara does." Kuwabara nodded. "I've been playing RPG's and strategy games since I was a little kid," he said. "I've probably played whatever game this dude is thinking of." Koenma shook his head. "He never said the name of the game," he stated. "All he said was 'Live easy, die hard.' As if I would know what that means..."
--- Kuwabara thought for a moment, the rare look of concentration written all over his face, then snapped his fingers and smiled. "That's it." He looked up at Koenma, smirking lightly. "I know what game he's talking about: There's a Playstation game that came out in the nineties called the Die Hard Trilogy. I think he's referring to the first of the trilogy where the bad guy captures a building full of hostages and plants a bomb on every floor. The lead character has to work his way through the levels without getting killed and defusing all of the bombs. Any chance that that's what he's thinking?"
--- "It's possible," Koenma muttered. He looked up at the group with some newly found hope in his eyes. "You guys think you can handle this?"
--- "Are you kidding?" Yusuke said, giving his "employer" a somewhat smug look. "We'll take this bastard down without so much as a peep out of him!" Koenma nodded. "You should get going then. Botan, set up the portal necessary for them to get to Chicago on time." Botan nodded and the group started to leave the office, but Koenma called Hiei back.
--- "What?" Hiei said, glaring slightly at the younger demon. "You said we were on a tight schedule."
--- "We are," Koenma stated. "I just needed to know if your training is finished yet."
--- "My training is never finished, but yes, I have mastered the technique you instructed me to."
--- "Good. That'll be a valuable asset on this mission then. Go on and join your teammates, Hiei. I'll monitor your progress throughout the mission." Hiei turned around and swiftly exited the room, leaving Koenma to brood and wonder if his team would get out of there alive.
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AS87: How was that for a second chappie!
Hiei: Does it matter?
AS87: Hey you're back!
Hiei: Yeah. Turns out our creator's been six feet under for a while now. Can't exactly kill him if he's already dead, now can I?
Kurama: --winded and trying to catch his breath--
AS87: Don't you ever learn, Fox-boy? --knocks him out with rubber mallet--
Hiei: Read and review ningens, before she does that to you.
AS87: Bye bye!