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~Dark~ Hey everybody! Light and Akari are currently trying to kill each other on the roof at the moment so I rushed to edit this chapter and post it. A heads up to all the readers! The next chapter, I will try to focus on InuYasha and Shippo as well as ask Setsuna if he would please make an appearance soon. (Cats are so aggravating at times.) Tell me what you think!
WE DON'T OWN YU YU HAKUSHO OR INUYASHA! THEY ARE NOT OURS AND NEVER WILL BE BUT ALL OCS (save for Hohen) ARE OURS!
To AngelQueen1325 From Dark
I'm glad they do! I hope I'm not giving to much away or doing the opposite. I hope this brings a smile to your face and makes you laugh more. Enjoy!
To BraziaRios From Dark
Glad you like it so much!
"This kid is fast!" Miyoko thought as she jumped down another flight of stairs as she chased after Akari. "How is she not a demon? Or at least a hanyo?" Miyoko thought with disbelief as she caught sight of Akari far below her, jumping down the stairs as best as she could.
"Akari, come back!" Miyoko called down as she jumped up on the railing and used her hands to climb down to land on the stairs underneath her.
"Go away!" Akari yelled back at her followed by a slam as a door opened and Akari vanished from the fire escape. Miyoko growled and dashed after the girl, not wanting her to get hurt or lost.
"This kid is going to get more than a time out when I get her!" Miyoko thought as she followed Akari's scent onto the twentieth floor just in time to see her run onto an elevator. "Damn!" She growled and ran back towards the fire escape, hoping to get her brother's help before Akari managed to escape.
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I heaved a sigh of relief as the weird doors shut and cut Miyoko off from me. I let myself take a few steps back before sliding to the floor and panting heavily.
"Ak?" Masaru said and poked the underside of my chin, bringing my attention to him as he looked at me with concerned gold eyes.
"I'm...alright." I told him between breaths and looked up at the red numbers dinging as they grew smaller. "I'm going down...but where am I going?" I thought with a touch of fear that quickly tried to grow as my thoughts drifted to Kagome and InuYasha.
"I WILL find them! Even if I have to do it as a human and wait a hundred years!" I thought with determination, squishing the fear into a little ball and pushing it aside. Right now I needed to focus and get away. I had to use all my senses like InuYasha taught me. "Okay, first I need to figure out how to blend into my surroundings so my pre- I mean enemy doesn't know where I am." I thought as I let my arms rest and looked at Masaru as he chewed on his own fist with a look of worry as his little ears twitched a back and forth, the tip on the left folded backwards over his ear.
"Don't worry, we're going to find Mom." I told him and sighed, trying not to release my emotions, at the fact that even though I understood his whimpered cries for InuYasha and Kagome I couldn't comfort him. "Come on, this thing's slowing down." I whispered to him while getting up with Masaru wrapped tightly in my arms. I watched the doors as we stopped and they opened to show a hallway exactly like the one I had ran down to escape Miyoko. Confused, I poked my head out of the box and looked around, the only real difference that I noticed on this hallway was the colors, instead of reds and tans this one was blues and greens with tan walls.
Before I could look further the moving box made a clattering noise and the doors started to shut. I took a step back and watched the doors slide shut and looked up at the numbers descending above the door, watching them start to go below ten. After what felt like an eternity for me the numbers stopped again and the doors slid open to reveal the giant room full of humans walking back and forth from when I had first arrived. Swallowing down my growing fears I moved into the mass of humans, trying to cover my scent with their's as they hustled around, some talking to the squares in their hands or ears while others carried big bags towards a desk nearby or just moved around quietly.
"Ow," Masaru said and I looked down to see his hands covering his ears as he looked up at me with teary eyes. Giving him my best sympathetic look I freed a hand to rub his ears as I wove my way through the crowd, ignoring the odd looks I occasionally felt shoot my way.
"Akari!" I heard someone yell and immediately took off, pushing my feet as hard as I could towards the door as the sound of more yells reached my ears. The doors leading outside into the darker world seemed miles away as I ran, pulling Masaru close to me as I shoved past the humans in my way.
"Ah!" I yelled in shock and fear as an arm wrapped around me and Masaru was pulled out of my grip. "Let me go!" I snapped as I struggled against the black arm wrapped around me as it vanished and a hand wrapped around my neck, lifting me up and making me freeze instinctively even though half of me was screaming to get Masaru.
"Nice one Hiei," a familiar voice said as Yusuke appeared, walking out of the crowd with Kuwabara and Kurama on his sides.
"Yusuke!" I said with a touch of relief and anger as I hurriedly wiped my eyes as my tears resurfaced at the sight of him.
"Woah!" Yusuke yelled, jumping back as Kuwabara did the same, both boys looking uncertain while Kurama stepped forward and gently grabbed me as Hiei dropped me in his arms, my feet never touching the floor in the process.
"What's wrong?" Kurama asked as I cried and tried to stop my tears to no avail.
"Everything!" I said in a weak voice, feeling stupid for crying but unable to stop myself as the emotions I had pushed down tried to surface.
"Let's get back upstairs to my apartment." I dimly heard Sasuke say and pushed myself away from Kurama while pulling myself together as best as I could.
"Sorry," I muttered to Kurama and hoped he would think my red face was from my crying only.
"Think nothing of it." Kurama said, looking as if he wanted to add something else but was stopped from it when Masaru started to cry and was dropped into the boy's arms.
"C'mon! Let's go." Yusuke said as he motioned for us all to follow him as Sasuke led us back to the way I had come.
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"I'm not surprised," Ayame said a few hours later as she sat with two of her children along with Hiei and Kurama, Kuwabara having had to leave due to a call from Yukina and his sister at Genkai's old place. "Though I am surprised her emotions cracked at the sight of you boys." Ayame said, her eyes shooting to look at Kurama, who seemed distracted and was starring in the direction Yusuke had taken Akari and Masaru a half hour earlier.
"You're kidding, right? I mean seriously Mom she tried to run away! With a hanyo infant in her arms!" Miyoko said in disbelief before she bowed her head slightly at the glare the red haired woman shot her.
"Alright then, how would you feel if you were stuck in a human body with no pack and no way to find any of them? Surrounded by unknown demons, unsure if they were friend or foe while your life might literally be in their hands?" Ayame asked her daughter sharply and the whole group waited for her answer.
"Scared out of my wits," Miyoko said softly, earning a nod from her mother as she lifted up a mug of tea took a sip.
"This child is not just a human, she is a hanyo just like her younger brother and she is lost. Remember that the next time you get angry at the girl." Ayame told her daughter but everyone could tell she was saying it for all of them to hear as she came to the defense of Akari.
"Lady Ayame, if I'm not being rude I have a question for you." Kurama spoke up and waited for Ayame's consent to continue, his Yoko side helping him more now that he was around higher demons that had formed a pack. "Are you the same Lady Ayame of the Shiro Ookami and mated the Wolf Prince Kouga?" He asked and kept his cool when both Sasuke and Miyoko froze and tensed, their eyes trained on the fox while their mother calmly looked at him.
"Yes, I am actually." Ayame said after a minute and smiled at him. "And you are the same Yoko Kurama who stole several of my prized Iris blooms and had my eldest son chase after you, are you not?" Ayame asked and Kurama actually blushed slightly as he smiled.
"My apologies, I did not think you would remember that." Kurama said with a small laugh that helped ease the tension in the room. Taking the opportunity given to him, Kurama decided to ask another question. "I assume that since you know Lady Kagome you also know who those two pups really are." He said calmly and just like that the uncertain atmosphere vanished as it became business once more.
"Yes." Ayame said, ignoring her two children's sounds of disbelief. "The last time I saw Kagome she was pregnant with Masaru and Akari hadn't been adopted by her and her mate, InuYasha." Ayame told the fox as he frowned slightly in thought.
"You mentioned an adoption?" He asked and Sasuke nodded, looking to his mother for permission to speak.
"Yes, our older brother met Akari in his younger years during his training with Master Setsuna after the adoption. That was how we learned of Masaru and of what had happened with Akari." Sasuke told him, his eyes darting over to look at Hiei before returning to Kurama.
"What I don't understand is how if Hohen knew Akari when they were cubs, how has she not aged? I mean think about it, Hohen said they were around ten* when they first met but Hohen's old now and clearly the pup back there isn't." Miyoko said, jerking her thumb over her shoulder in the direction of the bedroom that was currently being used.
"That is a good point. How is that possible?" Ayame asked and Kurama gave her his best impression of a blank face as he thought of how to word his answer. Wolves were known for their sense of smell and speed, just like the Inu, and if he lied they would know it in a second.
"I'm not sure how it works but Lady Kagome is able to pass through time to the Feudal Era and Present Day." Kurama said, telling the truth without revealing everything. Ayame nodded her head while Sasuke and Miyoko both looked at the red haired fox in disbelief.
"Do you honestly expect us-" Miyoko sputtered angrily before Sasuke stopped her.
"Stop Miyoko, remember those stories? That would explain it." He said and didn't miss the look the two guests shot each other.
"I believe you us information now." Hiei said coldly as he somehow managed to stare down at the group around the table even though he wasn't a very tall person. Before any of them could speak again Miyoko's phone started to ring and she answered it.
"Yes? What do you mean he is? He can't! Not right now at least!" Miyoko said into the phone with disbelief in her voice as she listened to the person on the other end of the line. "Alright fine, but they're asleep so tell him that." Miyoko snapped and tapped her finger on the screen to hang up before looking at the group of males and her mother.
"Hitomi said He's coming and he wants the pups." Miyoko said with emphasis and Kurama and Hiei didn't miss the message.
"He'll have to wait then. I just got Akari to go to sleep!" Yusuke complained as he walked into the room, rubbing his left shoulder and looking tired himself. "I'm going to head over to the Shrine and grab a few of Kagome's old shirts for the pups. They both better be here when I get back." Yusuke said bluntly and sent a glare to the three wolves causing the two younger ones to growl at him while Ayame just shook her head.
"The only way those two are leaving is wrapped in that idiot's tail thing, and one thing I've learned over the five hundred years of knowing his is that his pride won't let that happen." Ayame told Yusuke just as the elevator dinged and opened to reveal Hitomi as she walked out of it looking miffed about something while a tall man strode into the room behind her and looked around with cold brown eyes as he adjusted his silk tie and Italian suit.
"By close you could have said the lobby or something!" Miyoko said, her voice loud in the suddenly silence the tall man with black hair had brought into the room.
*Okay, about the age thing and the actual time line of Canon. During the three years that Kagome was gone Kouga and Ayama had Hohen, he met Akari when he was actually four or five BUT because demon infant and toddler stages don't last long he aged two years for every one before his aging slowed down at puberty like every immortal, demon, or other. Just a fact Light said I should share with you so you wouldn't get to confused! Thanks again and leave a review for us!