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'Blah' thoughts
'Blah' is Kurama telepathic
'Blah' is Youko telepathic
'Blah' is Hiei telepathic
Chapter 7: Explaining
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/-With Sango-/
'It has to be around here some were.' Sango thought as she walked through the, now darkened, park forest looking for the forgotten blanket. She walked through tree and bushes but it all looked the same. 'I wonder if I passed it..' she thought ducking under a low hanging branch. '...oh wait there it is.' She thought as she walked toward it.
When she grabbed and pulled, it didn't move. She looked toward the side of the blanket that was stuck and saw a black boot standing on it. Her eyes follow the boot up to a leg in black pants. Next came a black shirt with two lightly tanned muscular arms crossed over an equally muscular chest. Her eyes continued to travel up until they came to stop on a handsome face with a pair of cold crimson eyes.
'Oh it's just that demon.' Sango thought in slight relief. 'Did I just think him handsome? Ack I did! I'm going crazy!' Sango screamed to herself.
She felt her cheeks getting hot so she took her eyes away from his and hid her blush by glaring at his foot that was on the blanket.
"Do you mind moving your foot." Sango said with forced politeness. She tugged lightly on it as if to prove her point. Hiei just kept glaring at her and didn't say anything.
Sango got tired of him just staring at her so she pulled violently on the blanket successfully pulling it free from Hiei's foot, and in the process making him loose him balance slightly. He regained his balance and glared at Sango more. Sango just smirked and turned to walk away, wrapping the blanket up in the mean time.
"Who are you?" Hiei asked appearing in front of her. Sango stopped walking and looked in his eyes with slight annoyance.
"Don't tell me you've already forgotten." She said mocking hurt. Hiei glared at her even more and took a threatening step toward her. Sango in return just rolled her eyes and walked past him.
"If you didn't care to listen when I first said it then I shouldn't have to repeat my self," she shouted back "stupid demon." She added in a lower voice so that he couldn't hear then she ran toward the entrance of the park.
But Hiei, being the demon he was, had heard. He stood there in shock, but of course, his face didn't show it. 'How does she know I'm demon?' he asked himself silently.
He had planned to question her about the day's earlier events when he saw her walk away from the rest, so he had followed after. But it hadn't gone a smoothly as he had planned. 'There is definitely something up with that woman, and I'm gunna found out what.' Hiei thought as he disappeared to some unknown place.
/-With the Guys at the house-/
Kuwabara had just left saying something along the line of his sister killing him if he didn't get home soon. The guys were now sitting in the living waiting for the food to arrive and getting bored out of their minds.
"Ok so since the food is taking forever to get here you mind briefing us on the strategy or wutever we're gunna use to get this girl," Yusuke asked from his place sprawled out on the couch.
"I don't really have one," Ryuun said from his place by the door. "How bout you red?' He asked toward Kurama. Kurama's head snapped up and he looked around confused.
"I'm sorry I wasn't listening. What did you say?" He said while scratching the back of his head. Yusuke and Ryuun sweatdropped.
"We were trying to decide a strategy for catching the girl." Ryuun said tiredly.
"Oh well I'm fresh out of ideas." Kurama said causing them to anime fall.
"Your suppose to be the smart one." Yusuke wailed hopelessly as he picked himself up.
"Sorry I just don't know enough to about her to figure one out." He said coolly. "How much more do you know about her?" Kurama asked Ryuun.
"Not much more than what I told you." Ryuun said. "I've only been chasing her for about a little more than two years, and it's not like we have time to sit and chat over tea and crumpets." He added with a false Brittish accent.
"Speaking of which, how did you get pulled into chasing her anyway?" Yusuke asked.
"Oh you know the basic 'you're here so you get the job' type thing." He said getting a soda from the fridge. "Koenma called me in, briefed me, and sent me out. That was that." He added sitting down again. "I was just the only on that stuck with it."
"What did everyone else call in sick or something?" Yusuke asked lifting his head up to look at Ryuun questioningly.
"Some requested another assignment," Ryuun said putting his soda down. "others got sent to the imfermery too many times so they quit." He said relaxing in the chair.
Kurama and Yusuke looked at him in disbelief.
/-With Kagome -/
"Kagome can I take this out now." Shippo asked pointing to his ribbon rapped tale.
Since they couldn't have Kagome's cousin seeing Shippo's tale, which he might find kinda weird, they had flattened the fur and wrapped a long green ribbon around it. Then they had tied it to his leg.
"Yea I think it's late enough to do it." They had also decided that they could take it out only at night, since no one should come into their room at night. Partially because Yusuke is very protective and wouldn't allow it. Also Kagome and Sango would kill them personally if they did.
"Speaking of it being late, Sango's not here yet," She said looking out the window that showed the street leading from that park. "She should have been back by now." The sun had already set and as it got darker Kagome got more worried.
"Sango can take care of herself Kagome," Shippo said trying to get the knot that held the ribbon on to his tale out, falling over in the process. "You worry too much."
"Yea I guess your right," she said as she began to unwind the ribbon. "But if she's not back soon then we're calling a search party." She said playingly as she got the rest of the ribbon off, letting Shippo's tale return to its normal fuffyness.
Just then, there was a knock at the door and Kurama stuck his head through the door. Kagome grabbed Shippo and put him under the blanket with amazing speed. 'I hope he didn't see anything he shouldn't have.' She thought urgently.
"Hey Kurama. Did you need something?" She asked, trying to sound calm, but it came out more panicky. Kurama smiled kindly.
"Yusuke ordered some food and I thought you guys might want some." He said walking fully through the door with four plates, somehow perfectly balanced on his arms, of pizza.
"PIZZA!" Shippo yelled as he attempted to jump for it.
Ever since Kagome had given them pizza and Shippo was absolutely addicted to it. Kagome, realizing what he was gunna do, grabbed on to him and wrapped the blanket around his lower body.
"Shippo you need to stay covered." She whispered in his ear. "Your tale." Then she got up and walked over to Kurama.
"Thank you," she said as she grabbed two of the plates. "With all the excitement I completely forgot about dinner." She said as she gave Shippo his plate and turned back to Kurama. She saw him looking around as if looking for something.
"Were is Miss Sango?" he asked as his eyes came back to rest on her.
"She hasn't come back yet from getting the blanket." She said looking out the window again. "She'll probably be back any minute," She said more to reassure herself more than telling Kurama. "You can just put her food on the table she'll probably be hungry when she gets back."
Kagome said as her eyes followed Kurama, or more precisely his body, to the table. She looked at his well toned arms that were bared through his dark green sleeveless shirt. She looked at the side of his face that she could see and one thing went through her mind 'He is sooo cute.'
Her eyes went over his unusual red colored hair and then back to his face and found that instead of seeing the side of his face like before now she was met, head on, with a pair of entrapping emerald eyes. The thing that confused her was that now his eyes had specs of gold in them. 'Were they like that before?' she silently asked herself.
Then, she came out of her thoughts and realized that she was once again checking him out and, to her dismay, he was looking right back at her. She looked away quickly, blushing, and found the wall on the opposite side of the room very interesting.
An uneasy silence filled the room and Kagome turned around to see that Shippo had fallen asleep with a piece of pizza half way out of his mouth.
"He's so cute when he sleeps," She said, thankfully breaking the silence. She took the pizza out of his mouth and set it aside. She placed him on the pillows and carefully placed a blanket over him.
"He really wore himself out today, didn't he?" Came Kurama's voice from some were very close behind her.
Kagome turned around swiftly and found herself almost touching noses with Kurama. She looked into his eyes and found that they were even more gold specked than before. He looked back at her with such intensity in his eyes that it seemed like he was seeing her very soul.
She seemed frozen as his face came closer and closer to hers. 'He's gunna kiss me!' she screamed in her head. They're were little voices in her head that were saying that she shouldn't let this happen. That she should pull away, but she didn't listen to them and, to her own surprise, started leaning toward Kurama also. His lips were just about to touch hers…
"Hey Kurama what's taking so…." Yusuke asked as he came in and when he got a look at how close they were his face went from one of surprise to anger.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN HERE!"
Outside animals scattered, lights came on showing the awakening of many neighbors, infants cried, and children awoke.
/-With Sango-/ (again)
"Oh man I am like completely lost." Sango said aloud to herself. She had left the park so fast, trying to get away from Hiei, that she had forgotten to look were she was going.
She ended up in a place she didn't recognize and there were barely any working street lights so everything was very dark. She tried to back-track when she first realized that she was lost but that just ended up getting her even more lost. She looked up and down the road she was heading on and found she had forgotten which way she was heading.
"This is just perfect," She said. She began walking in some random direction hoping it would get her some were but everything looked the same in the dark so she couldn't tell the difference.
"Someone up there must really hate me." She said while tilting her head up toward the sky. Then as if answering Sango's question rain started falling from the dark sky above. She glared at the sky for a minute then started walking again.
"What did I do to deserve this?" She asked the air but this time she didn't get an answer. She went on walking and mumbling to herself about gods and their sick sense of humor.
"You really shouldn't talk to yourself, people might take you as crazy." An unknown, feminine, voice said from behind Sango. Sango, not expecting to hear any one else, jumped, spun around, and managed to drop the blanket all in one semi-graceful motion.
She saw a figure, which she guessed was a woman, in a black cloak emerging from the ally she had just passed. The figure bent down and grabbed the dropped blanket. They then stood up and Sango saw cold silver eyes looking at her from underneath the hood.
"Well you really shouldn't sneak up on people; they might think your some psycho." Sango replied angrily. She didn't like getting snuck up on or getting scared for that matter and add that on top of her getting herself lost and being cold and wet from the rain and you get one pissed off Sango.
'Why didn't I sense her?' Sango thought suddenly. 'I can't even sense her now, where's her aura' another thing Sango didn't like was being confused and she was very confused right now. 'It's like she's not even here.' This made her three times as mad.
"Hm." Came the reply from the person and then they dashed down the street, the opposite way that Sango was going, and stopped at the far corner, blanket in hand.
"Hey give that back." Sango yelled as she ran after the figure. It was hard to run at first with the sidewalk being wet and Sango not being used to running on such ground, but she managed. When she was almost to the person they ran to the end of another street.
'What the hell?' Sango silently asked herself as she followed the figure down that street and then yet another street. 'It's like they're leading me some were.' Sango thought as she continued following them. Little warning sigles and such were sounding in her head but she was so mad to paid any heed. Whenever she would get close, the figure would dash around a corner or down to the end of another street, stop, and wait for her to get close again.
About the fifth time of the figure dashing away Sango was getting sorta tired. She was cold from the rain and confused beyond all belief of the figures behavior. She was also furious that the person was doing. 'It's like she toying with me.' This thought made Sango even madder. She hated being toyed with. This, and may other things, was the reason she hated Naraku so much. Sango forgot about the slight pain in her legs and lunges and focused on the figure.
When she was almost to the place were the figure usually ran away, Sango added some extra power to her legs and went shooting toward the person. The silver eyes under the hood widened in surprise for a second but then she dodged Sango's attack at the last second.
Since the figure had to dodge so sharply the hood of her cloak fell away from the lower half of her face. On her face, Sango saw a small smile.
This smile wasn't one of mocking or merriment. It was one that a father would wear when their son completed their first real hunt alone, or one a parent would wear when their child got good grades or did something great. It was a proud smile. 'Why would she be proud?' Sango asked herself confused. 'Was she proud for dodging me? Why would she give me that look?' Sango went over all the possibilities but none of them seemed to fit. The figure dashed off again to the end of the street.
'This is getting on my nerves' Sango thought as she chased after the figure yet again. The figure yet again dashed around a corner when Sango got close but when Sango turn the corner she didn't see the figure any were.
She looked around but couldn't find them, but she did see the blanket in the ground up ahead getting soaked by the rain. She walked up, grabbed it, and out fell a piece of folded paper. Sango picked it up and opened it. On it was written:
Sango,
Try not to get lost next time.
A friend.
Sango looked confused at the paper then took a better look at her surroundings. She was right in front of Yusuke's house!
'So she led me back to Yusuke's, but why?' She pondered, then her thoughts were brought back to the proud smile on the figures face from earlier.
'It felt like I knew her, but from were?' Sango thought and got even more confused in the process. Sango shook her head to clear her thoughts and started to walk up to the house. When she was about halfway up the walk, she turned around.
"Thank you." She called out in to the night and then she was startled out of her thoughts when a shout of 'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IT HERE!' came from the house. She turned around and ran into the house. What Sango didn't notice is that a necklace around her neck light up briefly.
Across the street, in the shadows of a tall tree, a necklace around a figures neck also lit up and they whispered 'Your welcome' before disappearing just as the neighborhood awoke from all the ruckus.
/-With Kirara-/
Kirara had just landed in an area with trees and pond. The scent had led her to a house and then to this area. It wasn't that old which means that her mistress was here no more than an hour ago. Kirara took off into the air again and went the way the scent went.
As she went it started to rain so she sped up, not wanting to loose the scent. She went for a while then came to the house, were she had been led earlier, and were the smell disappeared in a door. She scratched at the door hoping to get the attention of someone, so she can get in, but nobody came. She meowed loudly but still nobody came.
She looked around and saw a window with a tree branch leading conveniently to the window. She jumped up from branch to branch until she came to the one that lead to the window. She walked across it, with grace only a cat can have, to the window and looked inside.
In there she saw the priestess and a red headed demon standing very close together, a human man yelling, Shippo crying on the bed, and then her mistress running in to the room.
/-With Sango/POV-/ (yet again)
I burst through the door slamming it shut behind me, not caring that I was getting water all over the floor or that my cloths were wet and clinging to me.
I ran past the Yusuke's new friend, Ryuun, was his name. He was standing in the doorway to the kitchen looking toward the stairs in concern.
I ignored him and ran up the stairs and through the open door to the room we're staying in.
When I got in there what I saw made me both furious and shocked at the same time. Shippo was on the bed crying, and his tail was showing a little under the blankets. Kagome was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking very flushed, with the red head demon, Kurama I think his name was, leaning way to close over her. And Yusuke looked pissed and was yelling his head off about perverted friends taking advantage of his 'innocent' little cousin.
I got over my stupor, ran over to the red head, and pushed him away from Kagome, getting into a fighting stance at the same time.
"Back off buddy." I said in a cold voice, using a phrase I had heard Kagome say before, and glared at him.
The next things that happened went so fast it was hard to keep up. First, I felt cold steel against my neck and I was just able to see the cold red eyes of the other demon glaring at me before the window exploded and there stood a soaked Kirara in her large form knocking the demon, and his sword, away from me.
"Kirara!" I yelled in surprise. I was walking toward her when the red head took something from his hair. 'Was that a rose?' I thought surprised.
Then he flicked his wrist and the rose turned into a whip looking thing. The thorns on it looked sharp and if it hit something directly, it could probably cause a lot of damage.
I came out of my stupor in time to see him fling it toward Kirara. I ran faster and slammed into Kirara, knocking her out of the way but ended up being nicked in the arm by the whip. When I got back up, I checked my arm with my hand, not taking my eyes off the others in the room. The cut wasn't that bad but I needed to get it wrapped soon. I flicked my wrist and releasing the hidden blades that were hidden there and pulled out the ones hidden in my boots. I raised them up and got into a fighting stance again.
Yusuke had his hand up and had his index finger pointed toward Kirara. 'What is he doing?' I thought. I moved in front of Kirara and Yusuke looked surprised at my blades. I was about to throw one at the red head when Kagome stepped in the way.
"Kagome move!" I yelled. She just stood there.
"Put them away Sango, this is just a misunderstanding," She replied urgently. "Let's talk this out."
"They attacked me first," I said glaring at Hiei, who was standing by the red head; he was glaring at Kirara who was growling at them all. 'Since when do I call him by his name? I must really be going insane' I thought and mentally shook my head.
"Lets just talk it out" Kagome said pleadingly and gave me the puppy eyes. 'No not the eyes. That wasn't far. No one can resist Kagome's puppy eyes.' I thought defeated as I lowered my blades.
/-Regular POV-/
"I will if he puts that thing away." Sango said pointing to the Kurama. Kagome smiled at Sango in thanks and turned to Kurama, Hiei, Ryuun who had just came into the room, and Yusuke, who had his finger in a gun position. 'He must really be insane.' She thought sadly.
"Please guys stand down." She said looking at Kurama's whip thingy. The thing changed back to a rose and Kurama smiled at Kagome. Kagome looked at Hiei, who was still glaring at Sango and Kirara with his sword out, and smiled lightly.
"Please" She repeated again. Kurama nudged Hiei in the ribs and he put his sword away but didn't stop glaring. Kagome looked to Yusuke, who still had his hand in a gun shape, and gave him a look. He put his hand down and relaxed a little.
Kagome turned back to Sango and saw she had put her blades away and was petting Kirara, trying to get her to calm down.
Shippo, sensing that the danger was over, jumped to Kagome forgetting about his tail. The blanket fell away and left his tail to everyone in the room to see. Kagome turned around to the boys and smiled acwardly.
"I guess we all have a little explaining to do." She said sheepishly and everyone in the room, except Hiei, nodded their heads.
(A/N: This would a great place to stop, but since I promised long I'll go on.)
Everyone went into the living room and made them selves comfortable. Yusuke and Kurama were sitting on the couch. Ryuun was sitting on a chair by the couch. Hiei was, like usual, leaning up against the wall. Kagome was sitting in the chair across from the couch, with Shippo in her arms, and Sango, in dry cloths, was sitting on the arm of the chair Kirara sitting on her shoulder. Everyone just sat and stared at each other for a minute. The only sound in the room was the light patter of the rain outside.
"You go first." Kagome and Yusuke said at the same time. They looked at each other for a second.
"What do you want to know?" they both said at the same time again.
"Ok we're not getting any were," Sango said rubbing her head. "How about you tell us how you know these demons and such and then we'll tell you whatever it is you want to know about." She said tiredly. She didn't know why but she kept looking at Hiei out the side of her eye and it was bugging her. She would look at him and when he would look back she could feel her face get hot and she would look away. She just wanted to get this done and over with so she could get away from him.
"That sounds fair." Kagome added cheerily from the chair. She glanced toward Kurama briefly before looking back at Yusuke.
"Ok well it all started when I died…" Yusuke said then he went on to tell how everything happened. He told how he met Kurama and Hiei. Every now an then Kurama would add a few details. He had to explain about the separate realms and even about him working for Koenma, because the girls looked confused when he mentioned them. He finished off with some of the little adventures in between. When he was done Kagome and Sango looked stunned. Shippo had fallen asleep sometime in the middle and Kirara was glaring at Hiei still.
"Wow. To think my little cousin fights demons." Kagome breathed out.
"So there are demons in this time." Sango added aloud. Kagome nodded her head and the boys looked at them with a weird look.
"What do you mean this time?" Ryuun asked the question on all the people minds.
"You'll find out if you let us tell our story now." Kagome said tiredly and when Ryuun put his hands up in an 'I surrender' type gesture then Kagome began.
"It all began when I feel down the well on my birthday…." Kagome continued to tell her story. Sango added details and comments to it from were she came in. Kagome told them everything she could remember except for the whole Inuyasha-Kikyo thing. When they were done, Yusuke was red in the face. Kagome could tell he was mad about her adventures, so she didn't comment on it.
"So you're a demon slayer?" Ryuun asked Sango. She nodded her head.
"The last one actually." She said in a voice that was a mix of sadness and anger.
"So that's why you had those blades," Yusuke exclaimed as if he solved some big case. "I thought you were some psycho killer or something." He added lower so she couldn't hear, but he was proved wrong when a shoe hit him in the side of the head. He looked up to see Sango and Kagome walking menacingly toward him. He laughed nervously and backed up slowly.
"Now don't do anything drastic," He said as he ran away. Kagome and Sango chased after him. After a couple of minutes of chasing him they had him backed into a corner and were about to pummel him when the door slammed open and a rain soaked Boton ran in franticly.
"Keiko's needs help!" She yelled.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Boton for a second when Yusuke and Kagome ran over to Boton.
"What do you mean?" Yusuke yelled as he grabbed her arms. "What's wrong with her?"He yelled louder shaking her slightly.
"Yusuke back off." Kagome said pushing Yusuke off of her. "Umm I don't know who you are but can you tell us what's wrong with Keiko."
Boton took a couple breathes, trying to calm herself down, and grabbed Yusuke's arm and started to run out the door.
"There's no time, we have to go now." She said pulling him through a portal that she opened outside. The others were standing at the door and when Kagome saw Yusuke walk through she grabbed her bow and arrows, which were conveniently located by the door, and ran in after him. She was followed by Sango, who grabbed Hiriakotsu, Shippo and Kirara. Following close behind were Kurama, Ryuun, and then lastly Hiei.
When the group emerged from the portal what they saw shocked them all, but most didn't show it. There infront of them was a huge dark blue barrier.
"Where Keiko, Boton?" Yusuke asked as he walked up to the barrier. He put his hand on it and pushed but nothing happened.
"I was coming to get you, cause Koenma wanted you, when I saw Keiko walking. So I went down to talk to her and she said she come with me to get you," Boton said while she looked at the barrier. "We were walking and then a whole bunch of demons surrounded us. They started coming closer and I tried to fend them off but they knocked my oar away and then they closed in and the next thing I knew the demons were all gone and there was this barrier. I couldn't find Keiko any were." Boton finished with tears coming to her eyes.
"It's okay…Boton." Kagome said while patting her on the back. "We'll find Keiko."
"I think we already did." Said Sango from beside the barrier. Everyone turned to look at her then looked around.
"Were it she," Yusuke said, while looking around franticly. "I don't see her any were."
"She's right there." Sango said pointing to the barrier. "Look closely."
Everyone went to the barrier and looked at it through squinted eyes, trying to see through it. Inside the saw some one suspended vertically in the air. When they looked closer they could make out the dark blue jeans and white t-shirt that Keiko had been weiring earlier.
"She's in there!" Yusuke exclaimed and started backing up. "Out of the way." He yelled and pointed his finger at the barrier. "SPIRIT GUN!" he yelled and shot his energy at the barrier.
The big ball of energy went shooting forward and hit head on with the barrier, but instead of it going through the barrier, as expected, it bounced off and went bounding into the sky. Yusuke stared at it in disbelief as did everyone else.
"Did that really just happen?" Kagome asked as she once again walked up to the barrier.
"I think it did." Kurama said coming to stand next to Kagome.
"If Yusuke's attack didn't affect it then nothing will." Boton wailed as Sango uncertainly patted her on the back.
"Lets not give up hope just yet." Sango said. "Kagome why don't you give it a try." She said looking toward Kagome. Kagome gave her a questioning look then she snapped her fingers. She took her bow and arrows off her back and strung it. She pulled back and released. Like Yusuke's attack it hit the barrier head on. When it touched the barrier it looked as though it would got through but then it froze and fell to the ground.
"It didn't work." Kagome said sorta in a daze. "Now what do we do."
"Nothing." Said a cold voice from behind them. They all turned around and saw the famous figure in the black cloak.
"You." Various people said but in different tones and for different reasons.
"What do you want?" Yusuke yelled/asked while he positioned himself between the figure and the barrier. The figure didn't answer and just disappeared then reappeared infront of the barrier behind Yusuke. She had her hand on the barrier and it was glowing black.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" Yusuke yelled and lunged toward the figure. Every one else started walking toward the figure being more causious.
Before any of them reached her the barrier around her hand started to recede. When there was a hole big enough for a person to go through she ran through.
The barrier kept receding and after a couple of second they could see Keiko suspened in the center with her head flung back and her arms falling down behind her. Her eyes were glowing the same dark blue color of the barrier. Around her neck there was a glowing necklace that was floating in the air. It looked as though it was the necklace its self that was holding her up.
When the receding came to the top of the barrier Keiko's eyes and necklace stopped glowing and she was sent falling to the ground. The figure appeared under her and caught her before she hit the ground. No one seemed to hear the slight snapping sound that was heard when the figure caught Keiko.
The figure walked over to Yusuke and placed an uncounsious Keiko in his arms. The figure backed up slowly and Yusuke could of sworn he heard a hiss of pain come from her when she stumbled slightly and she stopped moving.
"Is she ok?" Asked Kagome, Sango, and Boton as they came running over to Yusuke.
"She's fine." Yusuke said glancing down at Keiko briefly before fixing his gaze on the figure again.
"Why are you here?" Kurama asked coming to stand next to Yusuke.
"Cause I can be." She answered shortly and started backing up again. Hiei came to stand next to Kurama and had his hand on his sword.
'They look like their ready for a fight.' Sango thought as she unstrapped her blades but kept them in their holders. 'Why do they want to fight with her?' she silently asked. She looked back to the figure just in time to see Ryuun come up behind her.
"Look out!" Sango yelled but it was too late. Ryuun grabbed the figure and wrapped his arms around her, locking her arms to her sides.
"Finely I've caught you." Ryuun said proudly from behind her. "It's about time."
"Let me got." She said as she started to struggle. Ryuun tightened his arms and everyone heard a hiss of pain come from her.
"Let her go Ryuun." Sango said coming forward.
"What the hell are you saying?" Yusuke yelled from were he was putting Keiko down. "She's wanted, so we can't just let her go."
"What's her crime?" Kagome asked, coming to stand by Sango.
"Well she doesn't really have one.." Yusuke said rubbing the back of his head. "But she's still wanted."
"If she doesn't have a crime that means she's innocent and that means you shouldn't be bugging her." Sango yelled hotly at Yusuke. "That means you should let her go." She added looking at Ryuun.
"Why do you care about her?" Hiei asked from beside Kurama. Sango glared at him for a second then looked back at Ryunn.
"This just isn't right." She said looking at the figure.
"I agree you guys." Kagome added looking at Yusuke. "You can tell she's hurt so that adds to the list of reasons why it's not right."
"Hmm…what's going on?" Keiko asked as she woke and saw Ryuun holding someone in a cloak and the girls standing of to one side with the guys across from them and they were all tense and glaring at each other.
"Your dear friend Yusuke and the rest of them are harassing the girl over there, who was the one that rescued you by the way, for no reason at all." Sango said sweetly while smiling at Yusuke. Keiko's face went from confusion to anger as she turned to Yusuke.
"Is this true Yusuke?" She asked getting up.
"N..no! She's wanted. We're just bringing her in." He said defensively.
"Why don't you tell Keiko what her crime is then Yusuke." Kagome said with a smile to match Sango's.
"Um…well….you see…" Yusuke stuttered under Keiko's questioning gaze. "she doesn't really have one." Yusuke whispered and then cringed when he heard Keiko inhale sharply in surprise.
"So you are harassing her." Keiko accused going to stand next to Kagome. "Let her go then."
"Well you see ladies, we were told to get her and we have to do our job." Kurama said finally getting into the conversation and saving Yusuke.
"It's doesn't matter. She innocent so let her go." Sango yelled. She started walking toward Ryuun but her getting slammed against a near by tree and getting a sword pushed against her neck stopped her from going any further.
"Take one more step onna and your dead." Hiei said icily. Sango glared at him but didn't move. Kirara growled and changed into her larger form and was going to jump on Hiei.
"Don't Kirara." Sango said still glaring at Hiei. "Their the low ones here not us." She said and smirked when Hiei's face got darker. Her smirk disappeared when Hiei pressed his sword harder against her neck drawing a little blood.
"Call off your friend Yusuke!" Kagome yelled when she saw the blood. "Call him off!"
"Come on Hiei. That's enough." Kurama said coming up behind him.
"Hiei back off man. This isn't a game." Yusuke yelled as he walked forward causiously. Neither of them had seen Hiei loose his cool like this before and they were both very worried about the out come. Hiei just glanced at them then put his glare back on Sango.
Sango glared right back at him but a movement behind him made her look away. When she looked her eyes met with a pair of angry silver eyes. She felt an unnatural wind blow by. For the first time she felt the power of the figure. It was rising and there was an aura of anger around her. Sango looked toward Kagome and Keiko and saw that they were both looking at the figure too. Boton was watching her and Hiei and so were all the boys including Ryuun. 'Can't they feel it?' She asked as she looked back toward the figure. When she looked into the figures eyes she saw the figure wink and then disappear.
The next thing Sango knew she was on the ground with the figure standing above her and Hiei on the ground a little ways away. Ryuun was standing off to the side holding his gut.
"Don't ever touch her again." The figure said before turning around and offering Sango a hand. Sango took her hand and got up. Keiko and Kagome came running over and started cooing over Sango to make sure she was ok.
"Thank you." The girls all said at the same time to the figure. The figure just nodded her head and began to fade.
"Wait! What's your name?" Keiko yelled but it was too late the figure was gone. A breeze picked up and the girls could of sworn they heard light laughing but they shook it off as nothing and went over to get the boys.
As the groups walked back to Yusuke's house, or more specificly the guys stormed and the four girls followed, they failed to hear the figure whisper the name Meranii.
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There ya go every one. And I once again appoigize about the late update. This it 20 pages long so I hope it's enough to last you guys a while. Just so you all know Meranii is pronounced how it's spelt. I hope none of you are confused or anything. If you are just tell me I'll try to clear things up. Well that's all the time I have. Thanks for reading and reviewing.