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~Dark~ I wonder how many of you guys will be surprised with this chapter? Anyway, we don't own InuYasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. *Grins as if I've won the lottery*
~Light~ That's right Yu Yu Hakusho, after watching the entire series in two days and getting no sleep Dark decided to do this as a crossover! *Raises up a glass of Mt. Dew*
~Dark~ This one is our first one ever so help us out and tell us what you think! Are we portraying the characters right? Does it all blend together nice enough? Tell us! *Gives the readers big watery chibi eyes*
~Akari~ Anyway, leave a review for these guys. And before any of you say it, yes I know I'm pretty pathetic in this chapter. Thanks for pointing out the obvious! *Glares at the smiling readers*
~Dark~ P.S. we named Kagome's Mom Tsubaki for this story! Enjoy!
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To AngelQueen1325 From Dark
Setsuna will definitely reappear more often in this book. I have plans for this feline! Anyway, thanks so much for your review! We hope to hear from you in the next chapter as well!
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I was completely bored, and we had only been in Souta's time for three days. During that time I had beaten Souta at most of his games without even trying. Right now I was waiting for him to come back to the Shrine from something called schools.
"Why can't he just have his lessons here like I do?" I wondered as I leaned back against the trunk of the Goshinboku. I stretched the clothes I had on, pulling at the scratchy shirt I was wearing while looking at my dirty yet stiff blue pants that Kagome called jeans. I had been outside helping Kagome's Mom, Tsubaki, most of the day and now we were ready for the kids that were going to be coming to the shrine soon, and although she had tried, I refused to wear any shoes around the Shrine.
"I still don't get why I can't wear my clothes, these are to stiff and scratchy." I muttered and pulled on the shirt again, stretching the light green shirt a little while idly tapping a tree root with my foot.
"Akari!" I heard Kagome call followed by the smell of what she called exhaust with the sound of loud voices yelling for their friends a minute later. Without missing a beat I got up from the roots of the tree and ran to the house just as Kagome and her mom were walking out.
"There you are! I left a sandwich and chips on the counter for you if you're hungry." Tsubaki told me and I nodded at her before looking at Kagome, who was wearing a pale yellow sundress with a light blue short sleeve jacket over it and carrying Masaru in her arms. He was wearing similar clothes to mine except he also had on a small hat to cover his ears and shoes.
"This isn't fair! Can't I wear my own clothes?" I asked her and she gave me a sad smile.
"Not today. With all these kids coming in for field trips we don't need to stick out much. Besides they're in the washing machine." She told me and I frowned as I remembered the weird box that spun and made loud noise. "Hey look at it like a secret mission, like the ones you and Souta play on his games." Kagome told me as I crossed my arms and looked up at her while her mom walked around the house to greet what sounded like a bunch of kids.
"But do I still have to wear a hat? It hurts my ears." I told her and mentally smiled at she rolled her eyes at me.
"Yes, unless you stay inside, which I know you won't so don't even try and say you will." She told me and I scowled at her. "Enough pouting, most of the kids here are your age so maybe you'll make a friend while they're here." She added as I turned my head to look at Tsubaki leading a group of kids around the house.
"No way," I told her with a quick shake of my head and jumped up on the tall crates beside the house and used them to jump up onto the roof. As soon as I was on the roof I laid down on my stomach and watched the strange kids from above.
"They look like a bunch of ants." I thought as I looked down at the group of maybe twenty kids while Kagome and Tsubaki as they told the history of the Shrine along with stuff about our home.
"I could do that," I muttered as I crossed my arms and watched as the kids all talked and barely paid any attention to Tsubaki and Kagome.
"If that was the case, wouldn't you be down there talking as well?" A new voice spoke calmly making me jump and fly back a few feet along the roof. "Hello," a boy with vivid red hair and bright green eyes said with a wave of his hand while smiling at me.
"How did I not notice him?!" I yelled at myself as raised my fists and stretched my senses out, trying to ignore the smells of this era to see if anyone else was nearby.
"Who are you?" I growled at him and flexed my claws while the boy, that I now noticed wore a pink uniform with a yellow along the edges of it, stood up and brushed himself off.
"Simply another tourist to the Higurashi Shrine." The boy said looking over at Kagome with a strange look that made me growl again. "I mean no harm," the strange boy said quickly and I narrowed my eyes at him while forcing my yokia into my claws in preparations for an attack.
"My name is Shuichi," The boy said and looked at me in a way that made my demon growl warnings at me. "And you are?" He asked in that friendly tone that made me even more wary of him.
"Akari," I bit out and turned my head to the side when I saw a black blur out of the corner of my eye. "Why are you here?" I snapped, jerking my eyes back to Shuichi and noted he was looking in the direction of the Goshinboku, where the black blur had been. "And who else is here?" I snarled at him and froze when I felt the breeze suddenly change behind me.
"A child like yourself has no right to question us." I heard a cold voice tell me with a monotone that held a smirk in it. As I tried to turn I heard the boy Shuichi say something followed by a sharp pain that hit between my shoulder and neck, followed by the world going sideways as I fell off the roof.
"You idiot! You've gotten us killed!" My demon yelled as I looked at the world while my vision steadily darkened.
"So much for boring." I thought as my vision went black and my world seemed to stop.
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"Hiei, why did you do that?" Shuichi asked the black clad boy wearing a white headband on his forehead as he calmly caught Akari before her fall was noticed by the humans below.
"Simple. She annoyed me." The boy, Hiei, said calmly and watched in a bored way as the red head adjusted his hold on Akari and dropped a small seed off the side of the house. "Kurama, why did you tell her your human name?" Hiei asked calmly and looked down as two young teens, one in blue with carrot orange hair and the other a boy with sleeked back black hair wearing a green version of the other boy's uniform, walked towards the group of ten and eleven year old kids from behind. Both boys held a misfit hoodlum look about them, a look that seemed to be missed by the older woman talking to the kids but not the younger woman holding her toddler son in her arms.
"No reason really. I simply saw no reason to say otherwise." Kurama, formally Shuichi, told the smaller boy as they both looked down to watch the two new boys below. They watched as the boy in green said something to his friend before walking away towards one of the smaller prayer temples. "It would seem Koenma was correct." Kurama said as Kagome approached the green clad boy and said something to him, to which he replied and the boy made a waving motion with his arm.
"That is our que." The red head said and tightening his hold slightly on Akari before suddenly appearing behind Kagome.
"I suggest handling her with care. I can't promise you'll keep your lives otherwise." Kagome said in a cold voice that was eerily similar to Kikyo's.
"Watch you're tongue human." Hiei snapped and made a move to go forward only to be stopped by the carrot haired boy as he raised an arm in front of the smaller boy.
"Stop it Hiei, she's a lot stronger than she looks." The boy in green said with a smirk as he looked at Kagome. "I'm guessing that's my little cousin in your arms? What's with the weird hair though?" The boy asked and gently poked Masaru in the stomach, earning a puppy growl from the toddler as he latched more tightly onto Kagome. Suddenly, before any of the boys could react Yusuke was lying on the ground looking as if Keiko had gotten to him while Kagome glared down at him with one hand a fist while the other held onto a laughing Masaru.
"I'm gone for two years and the first thing you do when I come back is this? I swear, Yusuke, you are a hopeless idiot. I don't know how Keiko deals with you." Kagome told the boy and pointedly used him as a step on her way to the house. "And you, follow me if you don't want to be purified." She told Kurama with a glare, to which Kurama quickly complied to.
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"I suggest telling me what's happened since I left." Kagome commanded Yusuke as Kwabara snarfed down a few rice balls and Hiei stood against the far wall, neither boy reacting when Kurama walked into the dining room. Kurama having left to go lay Akari down in Kagome's old room while she fixed the boys lunch and talked while Masaru played peek and glare with Yusuke as the older boy ate a few rice balls of his own, mostly ignoring the toddler as he ate.
"Well, it started when I got hit by a car saving some brat..." Yusuke started and looked up at the ceiling as he told his story of the past two years of Kagome's absence. During the time Kagome's face had gone through several emotions and Masaru had slowly crept over to Kurama, who during the story, had pulled out a rose and was morphing it into small harmless items to keep the toddler quiet and occupied. Hiei, meanwhile, had appeared to fall asleep but Kagome knew he was very much awake and listening to Yusuke talk, with Kwabara interrupting every now and then to add in a detail or two.
"Spirit Detective, that's an impressive title." Kagome said after a long moment of silence. "This Koenma though, you said he's a toddler?" Kagome asked calmly and Yusuke gave her a confused look before nodding his head.
"And you hit him." Kagome deadpanned and Yusuke nodded his head with a look of pride before he froze and looked at Kagome with a touch of fear.
"He had it coming! Plus he's way older than he looks!" Yusuke yelled, trying to defend himself as Kagome glared at him, her eyebrow twitching slightly as she gave an angry smile.
"Yusuke, I suggest running and running very fast to this Koenma and apologizing before I decide to arrow you're scrawny butt." Kagome told him with that same creepy smile that made Kwabara freeze mid-bite on his third helping of rice balls.
"But Ka-" Yusuke started only to yell out in pain when an arrow of spiritual energy grazed his shoulder. "Never mind!" The usually fearless detective cried out as he scrambled to go do as he was told for once, reaching into a bag that Kwabara had, had on and pulling out what looked like an Ipad of some kind.
"I'm surprised." Kurama said as all three boys watched their friend race to do as he was told. "He does not even respect Genkai enough to do something similar." He added before looking down at Masaru as he fussed and tried to grab onto the rose Kurama held.
"Mine!" Masaru said angrily, making Kwabara grin broadly while Kurama gave the frustrated toddler a small smile, turning the rose into harmless petals that fell over him and tickled him lightly.
"You're son's cute." Kuwabara told Kagome, who nodded her head in thanks at the carrot top.
"Yo! Earth to Toddler!" Yusuke yelled at the screen as it came on to reveal a small toddler wearing a suit of blue and red while sucking on a simple blue pacifier.
"Yusuke, have you completed your assignment?" The toddler asked calmly, ignoring the greeting he received and sounding like an adult as he looked at Yusuke.
"Well, not exactly," Yusuke said slowly, rubbing the back of his head nervously as Kagome glared at him before sighing and standing up to walk behind him.
"You must be Koenma, excuse me but I believe this idiot has something he wants to tell you." Kagome said politely and looked down at her smaller cousin. "Don't you, Yusuke?" Kagome said losing her polite tone as she shoved her cousin's head down a little so he was eye level with the toddler on the screen.
"Come on, Kagome!" Yusuke whined and winced when Kagome pushed at his head. "Alright, alright! Damn, you don't have to be such a witch about it." The teenager muttered, saving himself from another beating without realizing it.
"Koenma, sorry for hitting you." Yusuke spit out after a minute, shocking the Prince of the Underworld. "There, happy?" Yusuke snapped at his smiling cousin.
"Very, now onto business. What was that assignment he mentioned. You said earlier your assignment involved us." Kagome said and caught sight of a familiar black ear followed by silver blue eyes watching from the doorway. "You can come in Akari, I promise none of these boys will hurt you." Kagome told her daughter, who huffed and pulled away out of sight.
"Who said they could hurt me?" Akari asked in her usual stubborn and cocky tone that reminded Kagome strongly of InuYasha.
"Well, Hiei did manage to capture you and I was also able to get close to you without you noticing my presence. So it is only common sense for you to have a reasonable amount of fear for us." Kurama spoke, earning a glare from Akari as she flexed her claws at him.
"Want to repeat that?" She growled before spinning her head to look at Hiei as he opened his red eyes to look at Akari with a confident smirk.
"Someone like you stands no chance against any of us. So I suggest you shut your mouth and listen like a good girl." Hiei said and if it weren't for Kagome and Koenma speaking at the same time a fight would have started and it would not have ended well.
"Enough, no fighting." Koenma and Kagome said at the same time and with a collective agreement all eyes were drawn to the toddler prince.
"First, I would like to know who you all are. As you know I am Koenma, and I am in charge of the Spirit World and you are?" The toddler asked, directing his attention to Kagome as Akari moved to sit beside her, looking at the screen in confusion.
"I'm Kagome formally a Higurashi and Yusuke's cousin. This is my daughter Akari, and Kurama is holding my youngest son Masaru. It's a pleasure to meet you." Kagome introduced and smiled at the toddler, who nodded his head sagely.
"Yes, it would appear Yusuke did not inherit your manners and respectable air." Koenma said earning a loud yell from said boy while Kuwabara covered his mouth to stop the flow of insults. "As for the assignment I assigned Yusuke, it involves a few strong upper A class demons that have managed to avoid going to the Demon World due to...circumstances. Have any of you heard of the of demons that go by the names of Sesshoumaru and InuYasha?" Koenma asked and Yusuke and Kwabara blinked in confusion while Hiei, Kurama, Kagome, and Akari all froze and starred at Koenma in shock. "You'll be needing their help for this assignment."