A Glint in the Snow

By: Abby Ebon

Disclaimer: YYH and Gundam Wing do not in any way shape of form belong to me. However anything unrecognized and/or original characters do.

"That was wild! Can we do that again?" Yuusuke asked with a half joking grin. Kori snorted and rolled his eyes, while Kurama just shook his head with mild amusement. Duo scanned his friends for injures and was glad when he couldn't see any- ah well looked like they'd have to find something besides cooked demon cat to eat.

Which was fine by Duo he imagined demon cat wouldn't be very good for you- might even be poisonous he'd have to ask Yuusuke if he knew. Then again he really didn't want to know if the former spirit detective knew if cat demon meat was good.

It was kind of cannibalistic to eat your own kind and Duo really ought to pay more attention to whatever Heero was saying- he was getting odd looks form the rest of the pilots.

"Why aren't Kurama and I dead again?" Hiei asked glancing at Kurama, who seemed to be ignoring him. Kori blinked focusing on the two demons then chuckled scratching the back of his neck remembering he'd forgotten to tell them anything more then that they could get to Kaz-Kai though the lake.

"I let you though- most Nekokikai can do that if they were around when it went up." Kori apparently wasn't going to go into this little bit of history very thoroughly, which Duo was grateful for there was only so much otherworldly information the human mind can deal with at once.

"How close are we to the old safe house?" Quatre had the good sense to ask Yuusuke. Who would probably know better then them- sense Duo knew that none of the pilots had a GPS system.

"Little bit that way- I remember this lake." Wufei answered instead causing the others to stare at him- Wufei's face flushed, making Quatre giggle. Kori waved a hand to where Wufei had indicated silently telling him to lead the way.

Duo thought it was strangely ironic that they had come up near the surface of a lake after coming up from the bottom of another one. Still blushing Wufei trekked ahead of them; Duo noticed that Yuusuke and the other demons in their group were looking around with interest. It seemed that the demons were just as amazed by the human world as they had been of the demon world.

On the other hand maybe it was something else altogether that Duo couldn't understand because Kurama and Yuusuke seemed just as curious as Hiei and Kori. Then again last time he had been here Yuusuke hadn't had time to look around because he had been fighting for his and Kuwabara's life.

It seemed like no time at all they came across the clearing and the shed- er, safe house. Kurama had taken one look at the shed and had raised an eyebrow at a scowling Yuusuke. Hiei tilted his face and breathed in and he too graced at Yuusuke.

"Kuwabara was shot here." Hiei stated plainly, apparently not needing confirmation, but Yuusuke nodded none the less. Duo hoped he wasn't the only one who noticed Heero stiffen at the mention of the gunshot.

"Someone ought to send a message to our trainers- let 'em all know were going to be back soon and going to get J." Duo said just because he knew Heero well enough to know that the other pilot would insist on doing it if he knew it had to be done.

Just as he had predicted the Wing pilot headed inside probably to use someone elses laptop to send the messages- as his was still in Genkai's shine, at least Duo had thought it had been.

Because there Heero was, leaning against the frame of the building, after retrieving his laptop from the shed. Duo blinked and shook his head, deciding to believe it was a demon thing and not to entertain thoughts of where that laptop could have been hid.

In actuality he was sure the others were glad that Heero would do it none of them had been unaffected by what had happened in the past seventy-eight hours. Heero at least would be able to think about things objectively and write a thorough report.

Probably without babbling about demons and godlings halfway though it too. Which Duo knew they all would do, simply because of how much had happened- after all it wasn't every day you learned to control your spirit energy.

"Trowa and I will get our Gundam's to the lake- Kori you'll meet us there so we can get to your side? Do you know if the Gundam's will fit?" Quatre asked brainstorming, Kori frowned then nodded.

"I can push the portal to let us come out where you want." Kori told him, Quatre brightened and Duo knew him well enough to know what he was going to ask. Not that he was going to tell Kori to watch out.

"Can you get it to take us to Mai-Kai?" Quatre asked and Duo fought the urge to chuckle at the look on Kori's face. Duo noticed the Yuusuke looked like he wanted to add something but Duo made gestures to let Kori dig himself in deeper.

"I believe so anywhere in particular?" Kori asked quietly Quatre had never been to Mai-Kai so Yuusuke invited himself into the conversation. Quatre didn't seem to mind - though Kori might, much to Duo's own amusement of course.

"Do you know where Raizen's palace is?" Yuusuke asked, Kori blinked but nodded wondering what the half demon was getting at. Kurama hid a smile as he turned to keep watch as Trowa and Quatre set off to get their Gundam's.

"Then you can put the Gundam's there- I doubt their big enough to take up too much room." Yuusuke stated, Kori nodded and noticing that Quatre and Trowa had left headed to the lake to try to take them to Raizen's palace.

Duo wondered how Kori was going to get back to Kaz-Kai, or did he plan to take them all at once? Probably Duo yawned and when Heero looked up at him and they locked eyes he knew Heero had sent the message and that he, Wufei and Heero were going to get their Gundam's now.

Kurama watched as the three pilots set off into the forest. Hiei and Yuusuke were looking around inside the shed. It seemed to Kurama that the shed was cramped enough with just those two let alone five teenage boys.

"Hey where did they all go, Kurama?" Yuusuke asked coming out of the shed, Hiei right behind him. Kurama chuckled, at Yuusuke's puzzled expression. While Hiei just smirked a little, he had probably heard them go.

"To the lake, come on we'd better go make sure they don't leave without us." Kurama said as way to answer. Yuusuke shrugged and the three made their way to the lake. Yuusuke humming a little tune under his breath as he went along following Kurama, behind his back Hiei rolled his eyes.

"There you three are!" Duo greeted a wide grin stretching across his face. They didn't seem to be able to respond as they stared with open mouths and wide eyes up at the huge Gundams.

"Cool." Was all that managed to pass Yuusuke's lips. Hiei tilted his head up at the large machines the human pilots called Gundam's, Kurama had once told him that pilots meant someone who flew the noisy flying metal machines- similar to those 'cars' who had human drivers.

But even some of those weren't as big as these Gundams. He wondered if Kori could really get these Gundams to what used to be Raizen's but was now Yuusuke's palace. Kori looked pretty confident though, Hiei knew that there weren't any crystals nearby so how did he plan to get them to Mai-Kai.

Kori reached into his robe and pulled out a raw crystal, which Hiei knew was potentially more powerful then even those crystals growing from the lake. When Kori's hands touched the stone it and he started glowing, it lifted him a half hand length off the ground and he smiled at them. Unconsciously or purposely the eight gathered together in front of the Gundams watching Kori's little show with no little amount of wariness.

For one, demons are not supposed to glow or do floating tricks unless their going in to battle. Kori's now glowing silver eyes blinked and the Gundams and the group was in a circle of glowing silvery stuff.

Kori blinked again and they were gone, leaving some very puzzled satellites behind which a technician later discarded the occurrence as an error and deleted all evidence of it as was standard procedure.

The technician then proceeded to get very drunk, after all midgets with three eyes and glowing beings were not standard procedure- that and if he stared babbling about disappearing things, aliens, and alien abductees it wouldn't due to be somber.

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Mai-Kai; Raizen's Palace

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"Why don't you warn us next time, huh?" Duo grumbled to a non-glowing Kori who actually now looked a tad green. The others had settled down and sense Kori's attempt to bring them to Mai-Kai had worked- though a bit differently then Duo would have preferred.

Duo had decided that so long as the Nekokikai started telling them what he was doing- and what might happen he'd give the guy a brake and try to befriend him. Or just stop giving him a hard time- maybe he could test pranks out on Kori rather then Wufei.

After all, his pranks were starting to get a little too predictable.