I DON'T OWN INUYASHA OR YU YU HAKUSHO! PLEASE DO NOT SUE ME BECAUSE THE ONLY THING I OWN ARE MY OCS! I HAVE NO MONEY! Thank you for reading though! Oh and leave a pretty little review for me please?!
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To: alstasulis
You have an excellent eye! And I hope you like he's outfit (hehe!) And yes, he does hence why he's not so loud and gung-ho about anything other than finding Kagome and keeping the pups safe. And yes they aren't telling him something but that's to be revealed. MWAHAHAHA! =D Oh and yes the kids are trouble magnets it seems!
InuYasha adjusted his clothes for what seemed like the hundredth time as he rode the train to Kyoto, perched on the roof of the train much like he had been when he followed Kagome to her Entrance Exam. Earlier when he had started to leave, making sure to leave his haori with his pups and let Masaru lay on the blanket and pillow InuYasha had been laying on, he had run into Kagura.
Five minutes after his meeting with her, he was dressed in a pair of simple dark khaki pants with a dark brown leather belt and a short sleeve red polo shirt tucked into it complete with a black leather jacket that was loose around his arms but squeezed around his wrists. The final touch had been a pair of brown loafers that had looked similar to Kagome's old school shoes but seemed more refined. At first he had fought against the entire outfit, not wanting to wear something so constricting and after a few minutes Kagura had relented and allowed him to switch out the slightly formal shirt and slacks for a pair of loose designer jeans and a baggy red shirt. The only thing she had been dead against was him going barefoot like he usually did, so after hissing insults at each other Sesshoumaru had appeared and thrown a pair of loose fitting white and red Nike's at his brother, knocking the man over when the shoes connected with his head.
"Enough or you'll wake them." Sesshoumaru growled as InuYasha muttered insults at his brother but finished getting his clothes and shoes on. By the end of twenty minutes he looked like a normal person, if you ignored his long white hair, ears, eyes, and claws.
"Take this train, one of Kouga's men will meet you at the station. Oh and make sure to wear your charm!" Kagura said as she adjusted the black jacket InuYasha had kept and stuffed a small wad of bills into one of the pockets. Nodding his head and rolling his eyes InuYasha started for the door, his elder brother following behind him as he did.
Now, thirty minutes after slipping out of the penthouse and going through a crash course of currency and other things with his brother he was on his way to where he prayed Kagome was.
"I'm coming Kagome. Just hold on a little while longer." He whispered to the wind as he looked ahead into the darkness, his eyes full of determination and fire as the train zoomed along.
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"Any luck?" Kurama asked Kuwabara as the Spirit Detectives circled around a large city block, only to stop once more in front of a red light house. Kuwabara shook his head again and sighed while he rubbed the back of his head and looked up at the dark whore house.
"I swear it was around here." Kuwabara said with certainty and Yusuke sighed while Kurama nodded his head and pulled out a small phone to call one of Kouga's men.
"Looks like we have to do this the old fashion way." Yusuke said and started towards the building, ignoring his friends tries to get him back.
"Urumashi!" Kuwabara yelled, trying to stop the other boy without success.
"Yusuke!" Kurama tired as well, but sighed when the boy ignored him and banged on the door. A few seconds later, the door opened and Yusuke was met with a tall burly man with a child like look.
"What do you want?" The man growled, trying to appear threatening as he looked down at Yusuke.
"Sorry, but I'm looking for my old man! You haven't seen him have you?" Yusuke asked, acting as if he were just an innocent and stupid kid, making the burly man blink in surprise while his friends facepalmed themselves and shook their heads in disbelief.
"No," the man said slowly and looked back over his shoulder at something. "Now go away." He said and tried to close the door. When the door didn't shut like he wanted it to he looked down at the hand holding it open, his eyes trailing up the arm until they met the hard glare Yusuke now sported.
"How about you let me and my friends in anyway? Maybe I can look for him." Yusuke said with a cold smile as Kuwabara and Kurama took the chance to get closer. As they stepped up behind Yusuke the man's eyes hardened and Kurama's nose twitched with the strange mix of smells coming from the strange house, one of them sticking out for him.
"We're closed. Go away little boy." The man said with a glare of his own.
"Ichiro! You left another mess in here!" A female yelled from the back, making the muscle man pale as his eyes widened. "Clean it up while I go run an errrand!" The voice said followed by the tap tap tap of high heels on wood. Before the boys could react the man, Ichiro, literally kicked them out into the street and slammed the door shut.
"Get the hell off me, Uramashi!" Kuwabara groaned from his spot underneath Yusuke as a crowd of people lookd down at the pile of three boys.
"Shut up Kuwabara!" Yusuke snapped as Kurama stood up and dusted himself off, his eyes looking up at the building with a hard glint.
"Let's go somewhere else for the moment." Kurama said slowly and looked down at his friends who nodded at him and stood up to follow him away from the building. Perhaps they had found a lead after all.
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"Calm down, at least we know where they are." Kagura tried to sooth the irritated diayokia flying next to her as he growled and narrowed his eyes at the surrounding area. Earlier that night they had both detected a foreign demon in their penthouse and had rushed to fight against the intruder, only to find the three pups gone and a detailed map sitting on the floor with the window wide open.
"Hmm." Sesshoumaru growled and Kagura sighed, she understood her mate's desire to protect the pups but sometimes he was to hard on himself. Yes, the pups had been taken. But they hadn't even known anyone was there until both felt a flash of power and even then the intruder hadn't left anything other than the map. The map itself showed an old shrine and it's ground a full day's travel from their penthouse, and to cut time both had decided to fly to the destination, thankful for the dark cover of night.
"There." Sesshoumaru said calmly as they flew over a large forest, both feeling the small poke of spiritual pressure as they entered the area. A minute later both were landing on the grounds surrounding a large shrine building, it was still dark but by the dim light of the stars and the waning crescent moon they were both able to see the woman leaning against the porch with a cigarette in her hand.
"Had a feeling we'd have more guests." Shizuru said as she put her unlit cigarette in a shirt pocket and looked at the two demons not wearing their concealment charms.
"Where are the pups?" Kagura asked in a tone that warned of immediate danger if she didn't like the answer. Shizuru didn't answer, choosing to simply stare at the duo in silence.
"Do not leave this Sesshoumaru and his mate waiting." Sesshoumaru growled at Shizuru, his eyes flashing in anger.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Shizuru asked in a bored tone and waved a hand dismissively.
"Liar!" Kagura yelled in anger as Sesshoumaru snarled and his eyes flashed red as his yokia flared. "I know they're here!" Kagura snapped and unfurled her fan.
"Give them back or you'll regret it!" Kagura yelled as Sesshoumaru unsheathed his sword Baksiaga and pointed it at Shizuru.
"Sesshoumaru! Wait!" A familiar voice yelled as a young teenage boy jumped off of the tall shrine roof and landed in the yard in front of the diayokia and his mate.
"Shippo?" Kagura said in surprise as Shippo stood up and looked at them with guilty eyes.
"They aren't our enemies!" The boy said quickly and looked back at Shizuru as the main shrine doors opened to reveal a young girl maybe two years younger than Shizuru with light mint green hair wearing a pair of loose pants and a simple button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbow and a young woman the same age as Shizuru with light blue hair and purple eyes wearing a similar outfit to her companion except with the shirt being a dull green and the jeans being a darker shade of blue.
"Shippo." Sesshoumaru growled, silently telling the boy just how much trouble he was in before he turned his attention to the three women while sheathing his sword.
"Well this is interesting!" The blue haired woman, Botan, said with a clap of her hands, distracting everyone and causing them to turn their attention to her. "Why don't we all go inside and talk. I'm sure Hiei didn't explain anything so let us do that." Botan said with a smile and watched as Kagura narrowed her eyes and closed her fan.
"Botan, for all we know Hiei brought those kids here to keep them away from these two." Shizuru said calmly, somehow holding another cigarette in her hand though no one had seen her grab it.
"But, Shizuru if he did wouldn't the wards have pushed them out?" The smaller girl, Yukina, asked nervously and turned her red eyes to look at the older woman.
"Who knows," Shizuru said calmly, her eyes looking straight at Sesshoumaru and Kagura as Shippo opened his mouth to say something.
"It's okay! Honest! They're part of my pack!" Shippo said and would have continued if not for the fact that Kagura had placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Enough Shippo," Kagura said and lightly tossed her fan to the ground. "You said you'd explain. Now start before my mate decides to destroy this place." Kagura said with a smirk and motioned to her husband.
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"Master," Suzume said softly as she bowed and looked at the black floor, ignoring the screams and cries from the pits below her.
"Suzume..." Her master spoke, the cloaked figure standing a few feet away near the edge and facing away from her. "You've...returned..." The figure hissed and turned slightly to face her as she rose to her feet and dusted herself off.
"And you've gotten stronger, my Liege." Suzume said with a calm voice and a strange light in her eye.
"Yes..." the creature said, not elaborating further as they turned away and seemed to pluck something from the air in front of them. "What news...?" It asked and Suzume frowned slightly as she felt the thing's small flare of power.
"I've managed to capture someone close to the Heir. Soon they will be in your grasp!" Suzume told the figure and watched in satisfaction as they seemed to stiffen before turning to look at her.
"Good..." The figure said softly and raised an arm, one that matched the mutated and rotten flash of it's hand, causing the cocanaphy of noise to rise to a crescendo as a small orb of murky black and green formed inches above the hand. "Soon...very...soon..." The figure said in what could almost be considered a gleeful tone as Suzume took the chance to leave the underground pits of hell.
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"So even if Kagome isn't in there, there are demons inside." Yusuke said calmly as he, Kurama, and Kuwabara all sat in the back corner of a small diner each with a plate in front of them.
"Yes, even in this age it is rather hard to hide certain demonic scents and blood." Kurama said as Kuwabara snarfed down his double burger and fries.
"Then why not...send a message...to Koenma?" Kuwabara asked between mouthfuls, looking up at his friends to show he was listening.
"It would be a good idea." Kurama said, looking at Yusuke as well, waiting to see what he would say.
"I've been itching for a fight for a while now." Yusuke said offhandedly and pulled a small mirror like Iphone out of his pocket. "Call the girls and see if they've seen Hiei, afterwards we'll meet up with those wolves and make our move." Yusuke said and tossed the phone to Kurama, smirking at Kuwabara as he whined about wanting to talk to Yukina.
"Hold on," Yusuke said slowly as a group of men walked in, obviously drunk and looking for trouble. Without a word all three boys watched the men stumble up to the cashier and slur out an unintelligible sentence before one of them pulled out a knife and another pulled out a gun. "They aren't demons, but what the hell?" Yusuke said with an almost feral grin and stood up with Kurama and Kuwabara. It was a shame that the twenty guys that went in looking for easy drinking money ran into three members of a team that had won the Dark Tournament.