Chapter 4

A/n: As promised the next chapter of CAPTIVES!!! You know what I have no idea why this story is called that, I guess it just sounds cool which it does. Anyway on with it, see previous chapters for disclaimer. OH YEAH E-MAIL CHANGE CHECK IT OUT!!

"Come on don't these guys ever get tired?" Kurama screamed in agony. His legs hurt so bad and he knew that everybody else was about to collapse as well. They had been through hell the past few hours; they had almost caught them once when they trapped them in a corner. But in a split second they levitated over the ground and flew over their barracked.

The bad guys were just as eager to get rid of their followers too, they had tried everything including throwing market carts out into their path and people. There had even been a group of police men trying to stop them but they were mowed down by the train. Which now went male thief, female thief, Yahiko, Kenshin, Hiei and Kurama side by side and miscellaneous others. Though Karou, Yusuke, and Sanosuke were no where to be seen.

But if they had looked on the other side of town they would have found them drunk and playing dice. Since they weren't that worried they didn't think much of it, though they would be a great help. Well if they weren't drunk, but I guess that could help slightly if they were near by.

"Come on give me 20," Yusuke shouted stumbling out of the bathroom. He had had so much sake thinking he could take it seeing as how his mom did it every night.

"We aren't playing that anymore," Karou slurred tripping Yusuke as he walked past. For the past hours they had been drinking their hearts out and every once in a while see the train of people pass by the door when they were near. They had also tried a hand at drunken dice, and Sano being the terrible dice player he was lost, at the game he himself had invented.

"Ow," Yusuke yelled 10 minutes after impact with the ground. He didn't think that he was drunk though if you watched him long enough you would know he was.

"Your drunk," Sano laughed falling over; he was also drunk and didn't realize it.

"So not I am do drunk," Yusuke laughed sitting up.

"I want Kenshin," Karou screamed her eyes getting all red and puffy. "It's all my fault all of it," she cried remembering how everything was some how her fault. She looked for comfort from the nearest floor pillow. She sobbed burring her face in it.

"Come on woman," Yusuke said feeling bad for her, he crawled over to her. "It's not all your fault its not like you knew it was going to happen." He was slowing becoming sober again as he sat up and hugged her.

Sano not knowing what was going on just stared at him in amusement. It also confused him why his new friend would care so much for her. He had decieded long ago if you were his friend then you couldn't have women as your soft spot. Yusuke was looking more and more evil to him by the moment, it might of just been from the alcohol but he wasn't to sure right now. He watched as Karou kept crying digging her face in the crook of Yusuke's shoulder. It looked weird to him Yusuke didn't really seem like the passionate kind of guy he was right now.

Yusuke looked down at the crying girl in his arms and wondered why he felt this way. Of course he knew it wasn't like love it was more of feeling bad for the girl. He had never felt so much remorse for anyone not even his own girlfriend. GIRLFRIEND Yusuke remembered that he promised Keiko that he would take her out for the weekend and he had totally forgotten until now. 'My romantic weekend with Keiko ruined,' he mentally scolded himself. Just then he heard snoring and realized Karou had fallen asleep, he quietly set her down.

"You are nothing to me," Sano pouted when he had gotten Yusuke's attention.

"Awe I'm sorry do you want a hug too?" Yusuke teased helping Sano off the ground and out of the hutch. They both instantly flinched with the brightness of the sun.

"Where do you suppose those guys are?" Sano asked as his eyes adjusted to the surroundings.

"Did we come out here to look for them?" Yusuke's drunkenness started to come back.

"I don't know you dragged me out here," Sano laughed rubbing his stomach. He shivered looking down realizing he didn't have a shirt on or pants, lucky for him every thing was wrapped in bandages.

"Nice," Yusuke laughed pointing to Sano.

"Shut your ignorant trap," Sano snapped as he saw something in the distance glow purple. "That's what?" He grabbed Yusuke's hand and dragged him to the thing.

Yusuke surveyed the swirling purple hole, "I don't know."

"MOVE," a voice screamed in the opposite direction.

Sano and Yusuke quickly looked that way and saw Karou stumble out of the hut and scream looking head on to the train of people. Karou still in her drunken stupor didn't move due to loss of movement in her body. As the male bandit approached her he quickly swerved to right just missing her. As did everybody else behind him do the same.

As the Kenshin saw what was in front of him he swiftly heaved her on his shoulder with out losing momentum. "Kenshin," Karou screamed starting the water works again.

Yusuke and Sano still stood dumbfounded watching as the thief's reached them and jumped into the purple vortex. "Oh…," they said in unison watching as Yahiko, Kenshin with Karou, and Kurama ran through the portal also. Hiei stopped just in time to look at the two "In," he shouted shoving them through the hole before jumping in himself.

"Where is Yusuke?" A woman's worried voice talked into her communicator. She looked at the person she was talking to, "Where can they be? Are they with you?"

"Botan I'm on vacation, why would they be with me?" Another woman spoke on the other end of the communicator. The girl had brown hair, hazel eyes, and was very tired looking and was about 16.

"Really? Where are you at?" Botan asked changing the subject totally forgetting about Yusuke's strange disappearance.

The girl laughed, "I told you yesterday! I'm at my cousin Cate's."

Botan's face lit up in remembrance, "Oh yea, is that why you look so tired?"

"No Botan I look tired because I'm shooting!" The girl said sarcastically.

"Shooting…deer?" Botan had that look confusion written on her face.

"Grr…no stupid drugs," the girl laughed at Botan's misfortune of stupidity.

"Oh my goodness! Are you really? I thought you said you would never do stuff like that," Botan went off speaking 80 miles a minute. Her face got all red from anger.

"BOTAN!" she stopped Botan's continual rambling that she had started to do.

"No Okane! Don't Botan me, we need to talk!?! Drugs aren't always the answer, why do you feel like you need them anyway? You have a wonder-" she was cut off by Okane's evil glare, which looked eviler when here eyes had bags under them.

"Do you ever stop talking?" Okane looked at Botan frustrated with her and wondering how such a flaky person could be an ex-grim reaper. "I was being sarcastic when I said I was doing drugs," no ounce of laughter in her voice was present she was mad at herself for even saying it in the first place.

"Oh," Botan went flush with embarrassment.

"Anyway…what about Yusuke? Is Kurama and Hiei gone too?" Okane said deciding to change the subject.

"Oh yea," Botan was normal again, "Yes Hiei and Kurama are missing also."

"Hey Cate they followed them," Okane yelled to someone far away. Botan looked at her suspiciously.

"You know where they are?" Botan yelled at her hopping to get some thing out of her.

"No I don't really, I was talking about something on the television I am watching, Cate can't see it so I'm updating her," she quickly covered.

"Hm…," Botan eyed her. "Whatever you say."

"So have you contacted Koenma?" She asked trying not to sound obvious that she knew something.

"No," Botan whined not realizing Okane's trick, "I don't want to."

"Why not Botan, he is the boss," Okane fiddled with something on her side.

"Yes, but if I tell him that they are gone then, he will yell at me and plus Koenma doesn't have time to deal with something major like this," She said biting her lip thinking of how telling him would go.

BOTANS THOUGHTS

Koenma is sitting at his desk with a ton of paper work, he looks totally stressed out. There are a bunch of people around him talking to him telling him there problems.

Then Botan walks up to him looking distraught. "Um…sir?"

Koenma looks at her with blood shoot eyes, and a mean look, "What is it Botan?"

"Well sir I um… have something to tell you," she says looking uneasy afraid of what might happen.

"Spit it out Botan I don't have time to do anything so if it's not important then go away!!" Koenma yells punching an ogre in the face.

"No it is very important sir," she says getting more scared by as time passed.

"Then tell me? Where's Yusuke and the others, I have a mission for them," Koenma shouts looking for the boys. "Where are they Botan? I thought I told you to get them," he yells getting angry and frustrated more.

"Well Koenma that's what I need to talk to you about," she says as her lip quivers.

"BOTAN!!! WHERE ARE THEY!?!"

"I don't know," she chokes out closing her eyes waiting to get her punishment.

"YOU DON'T KNOW!!! BOTAN THEY ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY HOW CAN YOU LOSE THEM?" Koenma screams at the top of his lungs his face redder then a cherry and is on the verge of killing.

"I don't know they just disappeared," she shudders afraid for her life.

"WELL IF YOU CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF 4-"

"3," she corrects him.

"RIGHT 3 BOYS THEN YOU ARENT SUITED FOR THIS JOB OR ANY OTHER JOB IN THIS REALM OR ANYOTHER REALM FOR THAT MATTER."

"Koenma, sir, don't do anything that you will regret latter, plus I sorry," she complains not wanting what was coming next.

"DON'T WORRY I SHOULD OF DONE THIS LONG AGO!!! BOTAN I BANISHED YOU FROM THIS PLACE, YOU ARE REASSIGNED TO THE UNDERWORLD WHERE YOU WON'T WORK BUT LIVE FOREVER!!" Koenma yells stamping a paper with her name on it as she slowly evaporates.

"Koenma please," she pleads but it's too late she is in the underworld, and she feels the worst pain imaginable as she falls to her knees in tears.

END

"Ahhh," Okane and Botan scream at the thought.

"Please help me," Botan said trying to hold back the tears that threatened to fall. She didn't want to die and be banished forever to that awful place.

"Nope, sorry kid, good luck," Okane laughed trying to make the situation better, though it didn't as Botan collapsed from fear and a worry. "Uh… Botan?" Okane questioned looking at the palm of Botan's hand; because the communicator had fallen when she passed out. "Whoops," she said feeling bad for scaring her more, "Botan if you can hear me, don't go to Koenma I will for you, and don't worry they probably will be back soon." Okane ended there conversation sighing thinking about what to do.

"I think you did a bad thing," Cate giggled walking into the room with a plate of mashed potatoes. She sat down next to Okane and looked at the orange globe in front of them. "What is that thing anyway?"

"It's what I've been trying to fix the past 3 days Cate," Okane sighed looking at her stupid cousin. "At least it's only you I have to put up with since Vegeta and Dev are gone," she took a hammer and held it up in the air.

Cate looked wide eyed at it, "What's that for?"

"All the better to kill you with hypocrite," she smiled slamming it down on the orange sphere. "Die you ugly piece of junk, I come all the way up here to use you for an important thing and you break when I turn you on, and then you don't let me fix you. You are worthless, did you hear me worthless w-o-r-t-h-l- uh… awe who cares how you spell it you are still terrible," she shouted hitting the thing over and over again with all her might.

Okane had come up to her grandma's house to use a gadget she found in the barn a few years ago. She had researched it and found out that it was a rare artifact. The globe was able to show you anyone, anywhere, and in any dimension you choose. So when she had employed her best friend and her sister to retrieve something for her, she wanted to use it. But when she finally managed to get there and pull it out of a hidden spot in an old rickety barn and bring it to the house to use, it broke when she turned it on. So for the past days she had been trying hard to fix it, and getting more and more frustrated as it went. And now that Yusuke and the others had gone out of existence she needed to find them.

"So what are you going to do about Vegeta and Dev?" Cate asked ripping the hammer out of her cousin's hands.

"I don't know, they are screwed though if those guys followed them through the dimension portal," Okane sighed holding her head regretting this whole incident.

"You think they can kill Vegeta?" Cate looked worried accidentally dropping the hammer on her plate of mashed potatoes. The mashed potatoes splattered every where and cracked the plate in pieces. Cate quickly stood up out of reflex and the hammer fell off her lap and on her foot. "OW," she shouted in pain jumping up and down holding her foot.

Okane laughed at her poor cousin's dismay that had cheered her up. She whipped the mashed potatoes off her face laughing harder. She was laughing so hard she didn't realize she had picked up the hammer, and she whacked her knee laughing. She hit her leg hard with the hammer as there was a crack noise. Okane stopped laughing and quickly looked at her leg, "CRAP." Now her eyes were watering as she dropped the hammer on hopping, laughing Cate's other foot. She fell backwards and cradled her leg in her arms.

"AHH," Cate screamed switching feet when the hammer hit. All of a sudden she lost control and fell on top of the cursing Okane.

"Is everything okay?" Their grandma asked knocking on the door. She waited for a second and when none of them answered she opened the door and saw them on the floor holding a body part with tears in their eyes. "Girls," she looked at them worried, she spotted the hammer and the orange ball and thought that they had had a fight with those 'dangerous weapons'. "What is going on here?" she shouted placing her hands on her hips.

Okane and Cate stopped their whining at once and jerked their heads to look at her. "Nothing grandma," they said smiling innocently.

"What are you doing with a hammer?" Their grandma walked over to pick it up not spotting the broken glass and stepping on it. When sharp daggers went threw her foot she stopped and looked down, blood was flowing out of her foot. She jumped back and accidentally tripped over something and fell on top of her granddaughters.

"Ahh," they screeched as the wind was knocked out of them from the weight. "GRANDMA!" they yelled at the top of there lungs.

"Daddy, I wanna do it," a little boy about the age of 5 complained looking at his dad pouting.

"Son, you're not ready yet," his dad said kneeing looking at the boy eye leveled. His wife had forced him to take his son on a fishing trip with him and his pal's for the weekend. She had thought it would be good father, son bonding time.

"Daddy I wanna catch a fishy," the boy cried looking at his dad with a pleading puppy dog face.

"Fine," his dad gave in, picking him up and setting him on a chair. "Okay, how about I cast this for you and you just let it sit there and when you see the red and white ball go under water you yell for me and we will reel the fish in." He picked up his fishing pole and held it up to his son.

"No wait," the little boy yelled hoping off the chair and running into the cabin on the boat.

"He begs you and when you say yes he gets scared and runs off," his dad said shaking his head but smiling all the same. He turned around and faced the water; he pulled his pole back and cast the line into the water. A second later he felt a tug on the back of his life jacket; he turned to face his son.

The boy now had a yellow and blue Mickey Mouse life-jacket on, with a little Mickey Mouse fishing pole to match, he had a little matching fishing kit in his other hand, and an old fishing cap on his head. He looked up at his dad and smiled, "I wanna use my own stuff," he said trying not to smile, he walked over to an unoccupied seat and put his tackle box down and then walked back to his own seat.

His dad smirked at him; he had to get a picture of this to show his wife she would totally flip. He watched as the boy struggled to get on the high chair and then helped him up. "Alright big guy you ready to catch some fish?" He laughed looking proudly at his son.

"Yes sir," he said confident, he whipped his pole back and cast it into the water like a pro; his dad looked at him amazed.

"Awe isn't that cute," one of the dad's buddy's came around to them.

"He's a pro," the dad said nodding to his son. "He casted all by himself."

"Wow, he sure hasn't taken that gene from you," the man joked around punching the dad lightly in the shoulder.

"Yeah and I suppose he got it from you?" They both laughed.

"Well he might of, but hey I came back here to see if you wanted a beer?" the man asked.

"Yeah," the dad said taking it from his friend's hand.

"Ed caught a huge fish for supper tonight come up and check it out later, I gotta be getting back," the man started walking away then stopped half way and looked at the boy. "I challenge you kid, if you catch a bigger one then me then you're my son, and I'll give you a fifty."

The boy looked at the man, "Deal!" he shouted excited for money.

The man smiled at him and walked back to the front of the boat.

"Daddy did you hear that? Fifty dollars," the little boy said looking at his dad. Out of excitement the boy stood up on his chair and threw his hands up in triumph. "Hurray," he shouted letting his pole go as it dropped into the water. "Eekk," he squealed jumping in after it.

"No son," his dad dropped his beer and attempted to catch him but missed. "Crude," he shouted struggling to take his shirt off as the boat turned on. "No don't go anywhere," he yelled at his friend, but his friend didn't hear him and but the boat in forward and the boat sped off. The little boy's dad ripped his shirt off not caring only wanting to save his son. He stood up to jump in the water to save his son but fell over at the boats movement.

"Dammit" the man yelled sitting up holding his head, he looked out at the water and they were already about 3 miles away from the boy, which still hadn't popped up out of the water yet. He quickly ran to his friend at the wheel, "Turn around," he yelled.

"Why?" his pal looked at him confused.

"Conner fell in the water," he shouted at the top of his lungs.

His friend looked at him not hearing what he said because the noise of the engine was too loud.

"STOP THE DAMN BOAT!" he yelled punching his friend in the face.

His friend not liking it stood up and jacked the dad in the gut. "Don't you dare try and over power me," the man yelled hitting the crouched over dad to the ground. He spit on him and kicked in the face. "How dare you! I thought we were friends." The man took the nearest blunt object and chucked it at the dads head.

The dad laid on the ground as cold blood gushed out of his head, his eyes started watering. He realized there was no hope for him or his son as he blacked out.

His friend continued to cuss and kick him in the side even after he saw he'd passed out.

"What are you doing?" The guy from before and a new guy Ed came over and held the crazed man back. They had a quick struggle but after they finally gotten their friend calmed down and in control, the boat hit shore and the man went flying and slammed into a tree and instantly died.

With the movement the dad slowly lifted back into consciousness, "Where's Conner?" He struggled to say, as his friend bent down to help him.

"Don't worry he's in the back remember?" Ed said turning him on his side.

"No he fell off that's why I was trying to get him to stop the boat and turn around," the man said coughing up blood and passing out again.

Ed and the other friend looked at each other; it was hopeless now that was over a half a hour ago.

WITH THE BOY

The little boy felt himself hit the icy water; he opened his eyes and saw his fishing pole. He reached for it unable to get it due to the life-jacket so he undid it and swam down. He finally got the pole, and attempted to swim up but he couldn't and his lungs pounded for air. He let out the oxygen he had and floated back down falling into a state of unconsciousness.

Just above the water a purple swirly vortex appeared and Vegeta including Dev fell from it into the water below. Quickly Vegeta grabbed Dev and they flew off still running from everyone who was to follow. Just as Vegeta had predicted a flood of people flew out of it too and became a large mass as they piled up in the water. Poor Yahiko being the first one out became the bottom of the pile and was pushed down deep. Seeing no wait out going straight up he swam farther down but saw something shinny, he went up to get a breath and then went back down to go grab it. As he got closer he saw it was a little boy, freaking out he quickly grabbed him and swam up as fast as he could. When he had made it back up he heard the voices of the others yelling at him from a nearby land.

Yahiko looked around and found them and struggled to pull the kid with him. When he finally made it to shore he was wiped out.

Kurama realizing a long time ago that Yahiko had had something ran over to him and helped him take the not breathing boy to higher grounds. Kenshin, Hiei, Karou, Yusuke, and Sano looked at the kid wide eyed. Kurama put his ear up to the boy, "He can still make it." Kurama continued to do CPR on the boy as the rest watched on edge. After a while the boy coughed and spit up a bunch of water and turned on his side.

"Okay guys back up," Karou said shaking pushing everyone away from the boy and Kurama.

A/n: Sorry I know that it took me forever to update sorry, I got writers block, but somehow someway my boyfriend got me out of it, THANKS HUN!! I love you. K well now that its updated review away, I made it long so yea, I was thinking about Africa and I started typing the fishing part sooo…yea my mind sucks! But ppl and me love it n.n

R/r. Fuzz nutts out.