A/N: So sorry it took so long to get this up but with playing softball I didn't have the chance to actually sit down and type this chapter. Also it's been so long since chapter 30 was put up that I had to go back and reread that chapter to know just what was going on. Well for a recap the group is now inside the barrier and both Daisuke and Hiroshi are humans and their getting closer to Zen's body. But they still don't know how far away it is or what is going to be guarding it when they get there. So on with the chapter.
Chapter 31: What lays in the Dark
Hiroshi took the first watch for the night. He sat up on a decently sized rock and playing with his yin side of the necklace. It was meant to seal away the demon side of him so that he couldn't harm anyone. It was given to him when he was three. That's also the night when his father brought him here. He might of looked seventeen but being in the feudal era time has passed a bit faster then in present day to him it did anyways. It must have been because when he went back everything was so strange that he felt out of place. He didn't know what anything was or what a school was. With his friend Rokuro there it kind of helped him a bit considering that Rokuro had been there before it helped him get through it a bit easier.
"It's been so strange since I've meet Hikari…the present is so different from here…" He shook his head trying to get rid of the thought. "There's nothing I can do about it. Though it does make me wonder just what it would have been like to live in the present and know what my sister was like when she was growing up…" He laughed lightly trying not to wake up anyone.
He brushed some of his black hair out of his eyes. "I wonder how long it's going to last this time." He muttered to himself looking back at the group. Hikari was sleeping next to Rokuro and Daisuke was sleeping a bit away from them.
-Flashback-
"Daisuke you're so slow." Hiroshi laughed as he ran towards the woods.
Both Hiroshi and Daisuke were around 10 years of age. This was a few years before Daisuke went to Naraku. Actually Naraku was still dead at this point in time. So they were just two care free kids messing around and avoiding training.
"That's not fair Hiroshi." Diasuke complained chasing after him.
"You're a demon aren't you?" Hiro asked as he weaved through the trees.
"I'm only half demon remember." He said following his friend.
"So I'm mostly human so you should be able to beat me in a foot race." He laughed then slowed down to a stop.
"Why did you stop?" Dai asked stopping next to his friend.
"I know this tree…" He said walking up to the sacred tree and placing a hand on its trunk.
"What are you talking about?" Dai questioned confused.
"Well my dad was pinned to this tree for 50 years by a presets named Kikyo and my mom who was the reincarnation of the presets released him from the tree. It's also in the yard back home." The little Hiroshi answered.
"Back home…oh that's right you came from the bone eaters well." Dai stated.
"Yes…" Hiro nodded and looked over at his friend. "The bone eater well is connected to the future. That's where my mom is, that's actually where she came from." He looked down at the ground and sat down at the base of the tree.
"Don't you miss your mom?" Daisuke asked squatting down next to him.
"I can't even remember what she looks like. My father brought me here when I was three…" He pulled his yin necklace out from under his shirt. "This is the only thing that I have of her. She made this necklace in order to seal most of my demon powers away I guess." He explained.
"Come on don't be such a downer." Daisuke laughed pushing Hiro a bit trying to get him to smile. "If you ever wanted to take a break from all this you know that my parents would be just fine with you coming along with us for a bit." He offered.
"Thanks…I know that Dai." Hiro smiled a little. "What do you say we head back?"
"Sure why not." Daisuke said standing up and holding out a hand to help up Hiroshi.
Hiro took the offer and they walked back together. Years passed by and the two stayed friends Hiro and his father came back every now and again to see how Rokuro was doing as well considering that Rokuro was a year younger then Hiroshi. Daisuke being half demon was actually ten years older then the two but considering that demons lived for a long time he looked like he aged like Hiroshi and Rokuro did. When Daisuke was with Hiroshi and Rokuro his parents were killed trying to protect the village that they lived by from a horrible demon attack. After that day Daisuke kind of separated from his friends and only visited them every now and again. Then one day Naraku got to him…
-End of Flashback-
"Hiroshi…" The now black haired and dark eyed Hiroshi jumped as he was snapped out of his thoughts. He turned around to see that Daisuke had woken up. "What's wrong?" He asked sitting down next to him.
"It's nothing…just remembering somethings is all." Hiroshi answered.
"What were you remembering?" Dai questioned.
"Just about when we were younger is all." Hiro replied.
"Oh…I was just wondering…you could take a break, Hiro I'll finish up the night for the watch." Hiroshi nodded and put his necklace back in his shirt then stood up.
"You're never going to really forgive me are you?" Daisuke asked not looking back at his friend.
"I'm not sure any more, we use to be such good friends when we were kids…but…" Hiro trailed off.
"I understand…Just get some rest, I'll wake everyone when dawn breaks." Daisuke mentioned and stared out in the darkness.
A couple of hours passed but Daisuke knew that Hiroshi wasn't falling asleep any time soon. He could feel him staring at him. "You can come over and talk to me you know. I'm quiet sure I'm harmless as a human." Daisuke replied.
He heard Hiroshi come over and sit down next to him on the rock again. "Did you ever turn into a full demon?" Hiroshi questioned.
"No, I'm still half demon, so just like you I turn into a human at some point during the mood cycle. This is actually my human form, I was never around you when that night came along." He answered.
"So when do you change into a human?" Hiroshi questioned.
"When the last sliver of the moon is left before the new moon." Daisuke muttered pulling his legs up to his chest. "Hiroshi…if I tell you something…do you promise to not tell Hikari or Rokuro about it?" Daisuke asked.
Hiroshi turned and looked over at Daisuke. "What did you want to tell me?" He asked.
"That…" Daisuke was cut off as a strong wind came rushing in.
"What's going on?" Hiroshi shouted over the wind.
"I don't know." Daisuke answered but the wind kept getting stronger and stronger.
"You have gotten to close to your goal." The two boys heard in the wind that was whistling by them.
They both looked around Rokuro and Hikari were disappearing.
"Hikari, Rokuro!" Hiroshi shouted as loud has he could but it didn't do any good the wind just took it away.
"I'm sending you on a little detour." The wind laughed and then they couldn't hold onto the rock any longer the wind was to strong and they were tossed around before they hit a couple of trees they disappeared them selves.
"Hiroshi get up." He heard Hikari yell a bit away like she was behind a wall. He woke up with his black bangs in his eyes and he notice that he was lying on something soft. "Hiroshi, Daisuke get up now." She yelled louder.
Hiroshi sat up and ran his fingers through his black hair and looked around. He had no idea where he was. He looked around and Daisuke was passed out on a few blankets on the floor.
"HIRO!" Hikari yelled.
"I'm up already Hikari." He yelled back at his sister.
"Well hurry up and get Daisuke up other wise you're going to be late for school and I'm not going to bail you out again." She warned.
"School…What is she talking about?" He muttered. He grabbed the pillow that was behind him and threw it at Daisuke. "Get up Dai we have a problem here." Hiroshi stated.
Daisuke shot up from where he was sleeping then groaned. "Why does it feel like I was hit with a tree branch?" He grabbed his head in pain.
"How am I supposed to know; the last thing I remember is that we were sitting on a rock talking then the wind started picking up…" Hiro stated.
"That's it, we were the only one's that were awake when the wind picked up. Hiro this is one of the barriers that we have to get past in order to get closer to Zen's body. My guess is that Naraku set this up knowing that we were going to get through the main barrier that was around the place where he's keeping the body. So only we know what's going on." Daisuke stated.
"Okay but where the hell are we?" Hiroshi asked looking around at the room that they were in.
"I think that we're in an AlterNet dimension." Daisuke mentioned.
"Then that would mean…" Hiro looked around "That we're in present day."
"We're going to have to go along with everything until we can find both Hikari and Rokuro then figure out how to break this." Daisuke answered going through the bag that was sitting close to him.
"What are you doing?" Hiro asked confused.
"Well if we're in the present then we're classified as high school students." Daisuke answered and took out a school uniform. "So we have to get ready to go to school." Dai said standing up and starting to get changed.
"Hiro, I thought I told you to get up." Hikari said barging into the room with out knocking.
Daisuke looked over at Hikari and her face turned red. He had taken off his shirt and was about to finish getting changed.
"I'm sorry I'll leave." She said and quickly ran out of the room shutting the door behind her.
"Well we found Hikari." Daisuke commented and saw a bit of a smirk on Hiroshi's face.
"Yea, now all we have to find is Rokuro." Hiro said and they got changed into the school uniform.
Hikari was waiting down at the front door for them and you could still see a bit of a blush on her face. Hiroshi glanced over at his friend and noticed a bit of a smirk that had spread across his lips. "Don't even think about it." Hiro muttered.
"I wasn't planning on it." Daisuke answered as they finished walking down the stairs. "Good morning Hikari." He smiled at her and she looked away.
"Let's go you two or we're going to be late." Hikari said opening and closing the door behind her.
They got on their shoes and followed Hikari out the door. "So Hikari is Zen going to meet up with us?" Daisuke asked.
"Who's Zen?" She looked confused and Daisuke looked at her with a bit of shock on his face for a few seconds then it went back to normal. "I meant Rokuro sorry I was reading last night and there was a kid name Zen in it." He lied.
"Yea he's going to meet us at the school." She said like it was the simplest of things.
"Right I forgot." Dai laughed a little rubbing the back of his head.
Daisuke and Hiro went to what they thought was their first period class and sat down in the seats in the back of the class.
"How can she not remember Zen?" Hiroshi asked looking around.
"I don't know but these uniforms are really uncomfortable." Daisuke complained unbuttoning the top button so he could breath.
"I know what you're saying but we have to figure out how to get Hikari and Rokuro to remember then we have to figure out a way to get out of here." Hiroshi said.
"I know, I know." Daisuke sighed leaning back in the chair.
Soon enough lunch came by and Hiro and Daisuke went up to the roof top to find Hikari and Rokuro sitting by the edge of the building.
"Hey." Daisuke said squatting down by the Hikari.
She jumped then smiled a little. "Hey."
"So how have you two been?" Dai asked.
"Just fine actually." Rokuro answered looking a bit confused.
"Ok yea I'm just going to say it flat out we're not in the present. This is one of the barriers that are keeping us from getting to Zen's body." Daisuke said and both Rokuro and Hikari looked at him like he was insane. "I'm telling the truth you two you have to believe me." Daisuke said then looked at Hiroshi.
"He is please listen to him." Hiroshi stated.
"You two are both nuts." Rokuro laughed.
Daisuke grabbed Hikari's shoulders and turned her towards him. "Hikari please listen to me. I'm telling the truth."
"You've read too many comic books Daisuke." She laughed.
Daisuke kissed her and her eyes widened then it looked like something clicked in her head. Daisuke released her from the kiss and she blinked a few times. "D-Daisuke…Hiro…Why are you wearing school uniforms? I thought that we were in the feudal era." She said and Rokuro looked at her weird.
"What are you talking a bout Hikari." He asked confused.
"We're in some sort of alternate dimension and we have to figure a way out of it." Daisuke said.
"You're all nuts." Rokuro laughed.
"Rokuro…" Hikari said getting his attention again and she quickly kissed him.
Even with the quick kiss it clicked in his head. "Hello, I didn't think that that was going to happen in a million years." Rokuro stated and the rest of the group laughed.
"Lets get out of here." Daisuke said helping Hikari up.
"But how are we going to get out of here if we don't know how we got in here in the first place." Rokuro Commented.
"Why do you think we got here? One of us was thinking about here so now all we have to do is think of the feudal era then we may possible be able to get out of here." Daisuke explained.
"But what if we went and entered the well?" Hiroshi offered.
"That could work too." Dai said and they ran out of the school and back to the house.
They went to the shrine and Hiroshi stopped short of the door and turned to look at the tree. The others looked in the shrine and the well was glowing.
"Hiroshi come on." Daisuke turned around to see Hiroshi Standing next to the tree. "Hiroshi…" He said walking up to his friend. "You'll see the tree again." Dai said taking his friends wrist and pulling him back to what they were doing.
"Right." Hiroshi said turning around and they followed Hikari and Rokuro into the well and jumped in them selves.
They landed back in the feudal era and where they last night. It looked like it was mid day now. "Ugh that hurt." Daisuke groaned rubbing the back of his head.
A/N: Well I think that 7 pages is enough for one chapter. I figured that they really didn't get anywhere for getting closer to Zen's body for this chapter. Well Like it hate it tell me. I like comments and reviews on my story. Till next time everyone.
-DTW-