Chapter 2
Disclaimer- I don't own Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, the mystery man, the mystery girl, Kenshin, Kaoru, Sanosuke, or Yahiko. OR any other brand name objects in this story only the story and the plot.
"I do not look like a whatever you said I was," Kaoru screamed throwing vegetables at Yahiko. Never in her life had she met a more ungrateful brat.
"Give up missy you know he wins you do look like a raccoon," Sano laughed at the arguing two.
"Yeah, Kaoru why don't you just give up you know you can't beat me," Yahiko bantered on.
"Why you," Kaoru charged at the boy throwing him to the ground and with repeated punched and squeeze the living pulp out of him.
Yahiko laid sprawled out on the dirt, it hurt too much for him to move. As Kenshin came around the corner no look of surprise swept across his face, he was used to this. "So what's for breakfast?" He asked cheerfully looking at Kaoru.
Kaoru stumbled for the right words, "well, uh, you see, we don't have any food left."
"What?" Sano yelled outraged, "We just went shopping yesterday."
"I know, but I went into the kitchen this morning and everything was eaten," she said about ready to cry.
Kenshin being the warm hearted guy he was walked up to her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "It's alright Miss Kaoru, we can go out this morning that we can." At those words Kaoru pulled free of Kenshin's grasp and ran into the house not wanting them to see her cry. Kenshin looked at Yahiko and Sano confused for a second. "What's wrong now?"
"I dunno," they both shrugged in unison.
Kenshin looked at the two hopelessly and walked to the door where Kaoru had entered and tapped on it. "Miss Kaoru what is the matter now?"
"All the money was taken too," she sobbed. She felt bad that they all had worked so hard the past week for that money and she had let someone steal it out from under her nose.
"So are you saying we were robbed last night?" Sano asked as he and Yahiko walked up next to Kenshin. Everything went silent for a moment as Kaoru stopped feeling sorry and walked out of the house wiping the tears out of her eyes.
"Yes and they totally destroyed the gym." All three of the guys looked at each other and then ran to the gym to see if it was true.
Yahiko made it there first sliding the door wide open. He stared at it; things were everywhere it was literally ransacked. As Sano and Kenshin arrived they couldn't believe what they were seeing. 'Why would someone do this?' they thought. Kaoru arrived last almost in tears again.
"What were they trying to accomplish?" Yahiko asked bending down to pick up a broken piece of wood which read some of the names of the older students.
"Nothing, it was just really fun," a girl with a high pitched voice said from the rafters.
Sanosuke tensed up when he heard her, "Girl who are you?"
"We are your worst nightmare," a man hissed walking out of a dark corner. He was about 4'11'' with black spiky hair; his clothed consisted of khaki pants with a tight dark blue muscle shirt. "Oh and thanks for the food it was delicious and the money will do nicely too."
Kenshin reached for his sword but found that it wasn't in the sheath. "Uh," he looked down the reverse blade truly wasn't there.
"Looking for this," the man pulled the reverse blade from behind his back. "This is a very fun sword to play with are you aware of that?"
"How did you get that?" Sano shouted at him balling his fists.
"I took it while he was with the girl last night," the man smiled pointing to Kaoru then Kenshin, both of them went bright red thinking about last night.
"Ewu, Kenshin," Yahiko complained staring at them. Who knew that they actually did stuff like that? Last he knew they hadn't even held hands yet!
"Yeah, and should I tell them about the whole night; I wonder," the girl jumped down from the rafters. She was a little taller, chubby, she had brown frizzy hair pulled back into pig tails, and she wore a dirty white t-shirt with blue jeans. She all of a sudden took out two swords that were strapped to her back. "I stole these beauty's from my sister, there called inverse moon kodachi's," she modeled them by swiftly moving around and swinging them synchronized with her movements.
"Why did she let you take those?" The man yelled with jealousy as he took out Hiei's Katana.
"Well you see she didn't I tied her up and stole them like I did with these," she produced two more swords.
"Let me guess you stole those from someone also," Sano grit his teeth squeezing his fists tighter. These people were starting to get on his nerves, why the hell did they want so many swords? Maybe they were working with the British who wanted a complete ban on carrying a sword all together, even bamboo ones.
"Yep, and you probably know him too, his name is Aoshi Shinamori," she squealed dropping all of the swords. "Crude," she shouted bending over to pick them up.
The man smacked his forehead with disbelief, "Why did God punish me so?"
Just then Kenshin and Sano nodded to each other and seeing the right opportunity ran at the man. The man watching them move out of the corner of his eyes quickly jumped out of the way. "Come on hypocrite," he yelled at the girl as they ran for the door. Kaoru and Yahiko got in the fighting position ready to take the duo on. The two bandits rapidly grabbed their swords tempting the two.
Yahiko looked hesitantly at Kaoru who stood her ground. As the thief's got near Kaoru still wasn't moving and Yahiko saw that they weren't bluffing. He quickly grabbed her arm and yanked her out of the way as the two went whizzing past.
"Come on," Kenshin yelled as all four followed after them.
WITH YUSUKE
Hiei had long since recovered from his brain fart; he made it out pretty well despise his huge black eye. Now they were strolling leisurely in the busy Tokyo streets. They had not given up their hope of finding the people who had taken Hiei's sword. While they had been stitching up Hiei they found that a bunch of their own things had been stolen. Kurama's rose whip had disappeared and Yusuke's wallet and candy were gone.
"This is a waste of time. We won't find these people," Yusuke sighed giving up hope. "We don't even know if they were transported to this same time."
"Yusuke, stop whining they have to be in this time because one portal only works for one time," Kurama said getting sick of looking also. But they had to be somewhere around there, that was the way these portals work. Okane was famous for making them and she had the ability to let others use them at will.
"But Kurama you'd think we would have seen them by now."
"This is a big place baka, they are probably hiding," Hiei retorted holding his eye.
"Shut it shiner," Yusuke screamed. He was getting exhausted, they had been looking all night and all morning. Their currency didn't work at any of the hotels or diner's so they were stuck.
"You two stop fighting," Kurama said calmly not wanting to yell and make everything worse. He had a constant headache at the back of his head nagging at him. He kept his mind occupied the whole time trying to remember where he had heard the man's voice before. Also he had only seen the girl for a split second and she had looked a lot like his girlfriends sister Dev or Tsuki as she liked to be called, but it couldn't of been her because the other day he had talked to her on the phone at her house in America.
"Kami, I'm so hungry I am about to eat my shoe's," Yusuke said as his and Hiei's stomachs growled in unison. Yusuke looked at Hiei surprisingly; he didn't think it was possible that Hiei's stomach would rumble. But it made sense Hiei was human too, wasn't he?
"I am too," Kurama whined looking at his starving stomach. "But we don't have any money."
"We can steal some money," Hiei suggested holding his rumbling tummy.
"Wait, I don't have to eat my shoes if I barter them off," Yusuke's eyes lit up hopping the other two caught his jist. But they didn't. "You know we could trade clothing items and other things for food. There is about a thousand food stands in this market."
"For once Yusuke you have a brilliant idea," Hiei complimented, when does he ever do that?? Kurama stilled looked at the two as if they were crazy.
"And we thought you were smart," Yusuke joked patting him on the back.
"Well I get what you're saying but none of these stands are food stands, they are all jewelry and accessory shops," he said looking at a necklace.
"Oh and for a second I thought Yusuke had a brain," Hiei sneered.
"Do you like what you see?" The shop owner asked Kurama.
"Yes you have some fine work here," he answered looking at the gold bracelet that matched with the necklace.
"Well then buy," the owner encouraged.
"I'm sorry I can't I don't have any money," Kurama looked at the man disappointed.
"That's so sad, though I guess I could trade you for some of your belongings," the owner offered Kurama a cheerful smile.
Kurama looked up at the man giving him a questioning look, "What do you want for it?"
"What are you talking about we don't have time for you to buy pretty things for your girlfriend," Yusuke said bitterly.
"It's not for my girlfriend, I have an idea," he hissed back getting mad at Yusuke's inpatients.
"Well my wife does need some beautiful fabric for a kimono's she's making for the new baby," the owner cut in ignoring Yusuke's rudeness.
"You want my shirt it's the right fabric," Kurama offered.
"That will do fine," the man said reaching out wait for Kurama to give him the shirt. Kurama looked at the owner for a second before unbuttoning his shirt and handing it to the man. He then took the necklace and the reached for the matching bracelet when the owner slapped his hand. "Give me his shirt also, and I will give you the bracelet plus 15 yen," the owner said slyly pointing to Hiei's cloak.
Kurama looked at Hiei who gave him an evil glare. "Come on Hiei just give it to him and I promise I'll buy you a new one when we get home," Kurama begged but Hiei crossed his arms and intensified his look.
"That doesn't look that mean with that huge black eye," Yusuke commented laughing at Hiei's face.
"Fine I'll give up my shirt for the bracelet and 30 yen," Hiei challenged the shop owner.
"Deal," the owner agreed giving Kurama the money and the bracelet. Hiei gave Kurama a last sign of hatred as he took off his cloak and handed it to the man.
"Let's go and eat," Yusuke smiled rubbing his hands together.
WITH KENSHIN
They had been chasing the thief's for over an hour now and they were just entering the city. Kaoru and Yahiko were about winded out but kept running on. Kenshin and Sano were at the lead of the group keeping up close to the bandits.
The man looked back at the four and was surprised that they had kept it up this long. He himself was about to die of dehydration, he hoped they could lose them in the city. He looked over at his partner and she knew the plan without even having him to say it. As they approached the city they looked back at their pursuers one more time before they split up.
Kenshin and Sano saw no surprise in spilt and singled to each other which person was going to chase who. Sano glanced over his shoulder at the slow two and realized they were still hanging in there, he fell back to tell them the plan. "Kaoru, Yahiko, Kenshin and I are going to split up and go after them you two keep going straight and catch them. Their plan is to zigzag across the city so if you two stay in the middle then you're bound to run into them, got it?"
"Sounds like a plan," Yahiko told him and as if on cue Sano turned right, Kenshin turned left, and him and Kaoru went straight as told. As soon as Kaoru and Yahiko were sure Sano and Kenshin were gone they slowed down to a very slow jog, or as I call it walking. They were so tired from all that running and they felt weak next to the men so they had pushed their body to exertion point to keep up with them. But now that they weren't here they could let their body cool down before they passed out.
"Oh I just feel so terrible like everything is my fault," Kaoru started beating her self up over the situation. By now they had stopped moving all together and were just standing.
"Well good, because if you hadn't distracted Kenshin last night with your uh, girly ways, he would of taken them down no problem and gotten our hard earned money back," Yahiko put her down. At that comment Kaoru broke down and cried again, she couldn't help it cause any way she thought about it all of it lead back to her, all her fault. "Oh come on Kaoru don't cry. Kenshin and Sano will catch them," Yahiko comforted her feeling bad for his last comment.
"Maybe they will, but what then? Both of the bandits have swords and all Kenshin and Sano have are their fists," Kaoru kept sobbing.
"Excuse me Miss I don't mean to be a bother or anything but do any of you know where there is a good place to eat around here," asked a man with red hair that reminded Kaoru of Kenshin, though he had no shirt on. She looked behind him and noticed two others, one with slicked back jet black hair, and another one not wearing a shirt and he reminded her of the male thief.
"Come on Kurama what are you doing? We just ate, if this is some thing you do to pick up ladies then you got something coming to you," the black haired boy complained.
"I know we just ate Yusuke, and no this isn't my way of picking up chicks and what do you mean I have something coming to me?" The guy now identified as Kurama questioned the boy.
"Well you have a girlfriend and she's crying don't mess with her," Yusuke pointed out.
"And she looks like a raccoon," the other one said.
At this Kaoru stopped crying and stared sharply at the man, "How dare you I do not look anything like a raccoon," she screamed jumping at him scratching his face. Yahiko just laughed happy that other people realized it too, and for once it wasn't him getting beat.
"Now see look what you did, you got yourself another black eye Hiei," Yusuke laughed at his misfortune.
"So well for that," Kurama growled apparently not pleased. Just then he saw a flash of blue followed by purple out of the corner of his eye. "Guys I found them," he yelled and ran in the direction he'd seen them go.
"Come Hiei stop fooling around and come on Kurama found the guy who stole your Katana," Yusuke shouted seeing two white blurs go by and chased them. Hiei wasting no time threw the girl off him and started running but stopped when he realized he's lost them both. He just stood there trying to figure out what just happened.
"Hey Kaoru they are looking for the same people," Yahiko whispered in her ear as he helped her up.
"So I figured," she sneered pulling away from Yahiko and walking up to Hiei. "Hi I'm Kaoru, and I noticed that we are after the same people. How about we put our silly differences behind us and work together."
"Hn." He said giving up looking for the two and turned to face little kid and the raccoon looking girl.
"Are you anti-social or what," Yahiko joked trying to lighten the mood.
"Can it little kid, I'm only doing this to get my sword back, and stay out of my way," Hiei grumbled not liking the situation he was in.
"Hey I'm not a little kid," Yahiko shot back.
"Little Yahiko," Kaoru taunted with a big smile on her face knowing he hated that nickname.
'This is going to be a long day,' Hiei thought to himself as he walked away from the bickering two.
A/n- Chapter 2 complete, that one didn't need as much fixing as I was expecting except I originally spelt Kaoru wrong!