Author's Note: Man it's been a while! Just to be clear, I enjoy writing fanfics of my own personal sequel or prequel with an OC placed into the world of that manga/anime. My grammar is also horrid, as always but haha I don't mind ^^ it's readable

Anyway it's a short lead up chapter where Rikuo and Hotel Yura becomes a main focus for the new few chapters.

Enjoy!

The Top Five members excluding Dullahan were heading back to their temporary base of operations after unsuccessfully infiltrating the Nura household at night, the moonlight shone on all their faces, especially Valkyrie.

"I can't believe you ran away empty handed! Like man, we just let you invade solo because we thought you could handle the Nura clan." Doppleganger simply smiled and shook his head side to side as he rode on Chimera.

"Quiet Doppleganger, can't you tell Leader is not in the mood for being teased?" Valkyrie attempted to hush Doppleganger from speaking any further.

"In fact, there will never be the right time to be teased by you, so please just shut up." Chimera growled at him.

"Yeah but Valk, you were right, we should have infiltrated as a team. If Vampire was a team player we'd be done with this war and the Exorcists from back home would never have to cleanse Japan themselves." Doppleganger explained to the remaining Top Five members.

Vampire reached for Doppleganger's face and squeezed it tightly. Doppleganger began gasping for air and tapping on Vampire's hand that was choking him.

"Doppleganger, my failure is enough but don't you dare bring up those damn Exorcists." Vampire dropped his grip off Doppleganger's face. "We'll proceed with Plan Beta now."

"Why'd you call it Beta? Is this one of those video game things?" Chimera wondered as he looked on the dull expressions of the other Top Five member's faces. "It's tough having paws in this technology world…"

"Are you kids okay?" The original Nurarihyon asked Ame-onna and Rio who were still recovering from their encounter.

"I couldn't protect you." Ame-Onna pouted, she couldn't bring herself to look at Rio.

"It's okay." Rio winced, still hurt from the battle. "And hey," Rio stared at the original Nurarihyon. "You called me your grandson. Is your age finally showing, old man? I'm your great grandson, the 4th commander of the Hyakki Yako." Rio's gave up a motivated grin.

"I like that look on your face, Rio." Nurarihyon smiled at him.

Rio shot an ice breath towards the sky, unable to keep his excitement at ease, "Those Top Five guys are gonna pay! Train me! They're gonna pay for stepping on Nura clan territory!"

Ame-onna reverted back into Ren Shimizu, she innocently raised her left hand in the air, "Tr-train me t-t-too! I…I want...to make them p-pay for attacking o-o-o-our school. F-f-for endangering our fr-friends!"

"You lost so easily?" Kiyoshi walked outside and stood before them. "Training? How much time do you think we have? They could attack the next day, or the day after that. Time is not a luxury we have right now, let alone training." Kiyoshi felt a flicked on his forehead and was sent flying across the Nura yard.

"I was, 'hic' put in charge of your actions." Ryuuji stood beside Nurarihyon, still drunk from the party. "If we don't 'hic' have time, we'll make time. Kiyoshi, it's best if you train with Kubanashi and Kurotabo, a trickster like Kubanashi, similar to you. As well as Kurotabo, a guy that will keep you on the defense, making your cards a useless weapon. Great training partners."

"H-he started making decisions…" Rio scratched his head nervously, a sweat drop from his forehead.

"Rio, you're with me." Nurarihyon poked Rio's head with the bunt of his sword.

"W-w-w-who will I be with? I-I-it's fine if no one h-helps." Ren shyly backed away from the crowd feeling ignored.

Ryuuji smirked, "Heh, who else is better with water, then me?"

Kappa appeared out from his pond excitedly raising his hand.

"Gengen."

Kappa's eyes were wide open and went back to hiding in his pond before Gengen could devour him.

"I'll train you, Ren." Ryuuji stood proudly before her. "I'll train all 3 of you kids."

"But you just sent Kiyoshi to train with someone else…make up your mind." Rio sighed, exhaust at Ryuuji's out of the ordinary personality.

"Not Ren, Kiyoshi, Rio." Ryuuji hiccupped 3 times. "I'll train Ren, Toru and Misaki."

"Why are you bringing Toru and Misaki into this?!" Rio instantly objected at the mere thought.

"Because they insisted on being of use. You know, just because they're human, doesn't mean they aren't capable of fighting." Ryuuji shrugged his shoulders, "I thought it was dangerous, but when that Misaki kid is Kana's daughter…I can't say no. Kana always begged to be useful; I'm guessing her kid is exactly the same way."

"Kana? That girl that had a crush on my dad as kids? Well she lost that battle." Rio grinned, playing around with his ice powers.

Kiyoshi glared at him, "You know Misaki has a crush on you right?"

"Is there a reason for Toru? He's annoying, loud, perverted, he just won't shut up sometimes." Rio wondered about his other friend that had no connection to this affair.

"It's because he's all those things that I had to bring him along, he was there when I told the news to Misaki, so he begged me to train him too." Ryuuji tried to laugh it off.

"Of course that would be why they're involved…this is gonna be a pain in the ass, there is no way those 2 can even be strong in such a short amount of time…" Rio clenched his fists.

"Th-thank you for offering to tr-train me." Ren bowed her head to Ryuuji.

Nurarihyon crossed his arms together, "Alright kids! We leave off for training in the morning, good luck to you all!"

"Plan Beta?" Valkyrie seemed appalled at the idea.

"Didn't we come here without back up to take down the Nura household?" Doppleganger asked him. "If we back out now, the other Demons will think we're weak."

Vampire flew ahead of them, stopped and stared at the members of the Top Five, "I can see it already, and we can't win, not with us alone. We're going to Kyoto, grouping up Dullahan and the reminiscence of Dracula's Corps to take down the head of the Nura clan and the Keikain house. When the Nura clan gets wind we're at Kyoto, it'll take a week just for the reinforcements to arrive."

Next Chapter Title: On the Kyoto Front!

*Had no logical reasoning for getting Toru and Misaki involved without creating a chapter dedicated to the reason *rubs head*