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Each step Mako took, the more the scent of blood ran through her nostrils, seeping through to her brain. Mako shook her head trying to rid her senses of the odor, but the sad fact of being an austerely red meat demon, is that every time your senses catch even the slightest hint of blood, you crave it. Mako had no problem with her senses because her aunt taught her how to manage them as a child, but for some odd reason they were acting up. The tanned girl could feel her breathing morph into gasping, hitching in her throat with each intake. Her manicured finger slipped shapes and were now elongating as she felt her muscles twitch with each struggle her lungs made to fill. Pink hair swayed slightly as orange eyes took note of her best friend beginning to lag behind, the group treading up the flight of stairs at a decent pace. The smaller, female demon slowed down to figure out what was wrong with her partner.
"Mako, are you ok?" A tan arm fell to the taller girl's side and dropped her weapon onto the marbled ground, "You…you dropped your-" Kari eyes averted from the polished hiraikotsu that was lying on the floor to Mako's fingers who onced gripped the weapon. Arching her eyebrows, "Mako you are not ok. What's wrong?" Her friend's posture was slumped over, her back retching delicately and her energy became erratic. Distress exhumed the fan wielding demon's eyes, watching her best friend fight something invisible within her mind, her nails lengthening on the spot. Feeling something missing,
Kurama twisted his head in a glance backwards. His eyes caught on the beachy haired girl kneeling with her weapon on the ground.
Mako's mind raced as questions were exploding like firecrackers in her mind. She tried to think on any one question or thought, but to her dismay, her mind was clouded by a thick red mist. She felt her teeth become sharp and fang like with each moment that passed.
Kari laid a hand her friend's shoulder and the tan shoulder flinched at her touch.
Mako felt the hand but could not control her muscles as they leapt from flex to rest. She couldn't focus, mind nor body would center. The only thing she saw was crimson fog, it shrouded everything. Kurama stooped by her side, worried with her stance, and gazed at her face. Her eyes were screwed shut and her palms were clinched into fists.
Hahahahahahahaha
That was all Mako heard ring through her skull before she shot up and sent her hiraikotsu soaring up the stairs. She planted both feet shoulder width apart and stared into the dark obis.
"WATCH OUT!" Yusuke screamed as he tackled Botan and Kuwabara. Hiei watched the silver blade advance towards Yusuke; however it was above their heads so really there was no need for him to dodge, let alone the rest of them. He just threw a glance at the toppled three and shook his head as he walked past.
"Fools."
Not removing her feet from the ground, Mako waited for her weapon to return but instead of her weapon she got a satisfying snarl from the creature up ahead on the next floor.
"What was that?!" Kari jumped stricken by her best friend bounding up and releasing her weapon and then was caught off guard on the growl. Emerald green orbs were scanning Mako's uneased anatomy when Kurama noticed the deep grumble. He tore his eyes away from Mako's now stable body and rose to his feet looking up at the opening of the staircase.
"The next demon." Her eyes still affixed to the opening up ahead, Mako after she stated this, began to hurdle up the steps to retrieve her weapon. Racing past Yusuke and the others, she disappeared into the darkness with one leap. Kari, on Mako's heels followed her footsteps. Kurama and Hiei bounded behind the two females with light steps. Yusuke, Kuwabara and Botan scrambled to their feet to catch up to the four.
"Holy cow, I can't see my own hand in front of my face!" Kuwabara blurted.
"Yea, me either." Yusuke decides to wave his hand infront of his face before hitting it against something hard, with a thud.
"God dammit! That hurt." A small feminine voice said.
"Oh, sorry Kari." Yusuke apologized for hitting the girl on the head. "Hey! That rhymed!" Yuksuke screamed in excitement.
"Hehehe." A deep voice cackled from the dark walls, still invisible to the surrounding the crew.
"Show yourself! We are the spirit detectives and we will not be afraid to use force!" Botan's voice resonated through the shadowed room.
"Oh. I know very well who you are." The voice said in a seductive like manner. "But one thing I don't know is what you are doing in my sector of the castle."
"Oh well we were just wondering if we could borrow a cup of sugar for the cake we are baking." Kari's sarcastic voice reverberated through out the room. The reverberation ended as a harsh chortle began to sound.
"Well, I'm not sure I've ever heard of you. You are a tiny demon." The great shadowed tone stepped forth with a ground shaking thud.
"Hmph…it's not the first time I've heard that…"
"Hn." Hiei simply snorted at the exchanges between the demon and the girl in the blackness. Kari caught this but realized something at the same time.
"Hey you can see us?"
"Yes my dear. Of course I can." He followed this up with another evil cackle. And then the group heard the flapping of bat wings, thousands of them.
Kurama couldn't see a thing but he could anticipate what was hurdling at them.
"Get down!" Kurama shouted in hopes that none of his teammates would suffer the attack. The voice laughed as the bat wings faded away behind them and a bright yellow circle began to materialize in front of their eyes. It light up the faces of the people on the ground. Kurama's eyes danced around checking the faces, but one face could not be found.
Mako…Where are you…
As the intensity of the circle grew a piercing cry was heard from the demon of the sector.
"Which one of you hit me with this chew toy?" The still darkened demon said as the circled died down into the shady space. Kurama saw a glinting in the air, it was a good 13 feet up there. Mako saw the large demon waving her hiraikotsu in the air from a corner of the dark space. Her eyes reflected off the glinting of the boomerang as she spoke up.
"So you can see us, eh?"
"Like I've said before, yes. And you are another new one, yet, I can't find you." He let out another roar in laughter as he whipped around, his feet sounding like mini earthquakes.
"Really? Cuz I'm right here."
A series of large bounding footsteps could be heard around the group, but none of them could see to dodge anything.
"Nope wrong way."
"Guys. I'm getting a bad feeling about this one." Kuwabara said.
"Can you see anything?" Yusuke asked the man with foresight.
"Yes, but this demon is very big and is a good distance away from us."
The monster's voice cackled in the dark at this game of hide and seek he played with the slender girl.
"Can you see Mako?" Kurama asked plainly.
"Over here." Mako taunted. Kurama heard her voice but he couldn't pinpoint where she was because, her voice…it kept changing positions.
"No. I can't." Kuwbara stated.
Just as carrot top spoke, a white beam shot out of the darkness up into the ceiling, illuminating the whole space; a giant torture chamber. Yet there was no flesh, no blood, no guts, not even a spec of bones was anywhere to be seen. The monster came into sight for the rest of the crew. It was a large, grey, triceratops humanoid with three golden horns protruding from the Triassic animals face. Kurama's eyes searched for Mako and the source of the light around the chamber, but found nothing.
The demon cackled with hysterics as a white tennis shoe stepped out fro the shadows, a long tan leg following right after. A body began to unearth as she dusted amorphous soft grey clouds from her khaki shorts and raked a manicured hand through her blonde bob.
"Stupid shadow fumes, they are all clingy." She shook her blonde hair making more grey clouds sway to the ground like a leaves in the fall.
"Ah, I see you've encountered my attack." The grey triceratops alluded to the ceiling.
"Oh. That was yours? Whoops my bad." Mako blinked her big brown eyes innocuously as she fought a solitary clingy cloud that was stuck to her butt.
"Yes. It was." The green eyes of the dinosaur grew big and his eyebrows furrowed as he cackled some more. "Now prepare for the light of your life." Mako was still yanking at the cloud as she heard this. She didn't really care what was going to happen because she knew exactly where she could run to for safety. She always ran to this place, it was her sanctuary so to say. So she glanced up just in time to dodge the green fire ball that was thrown at her.
"Is she a light demon?" Yusuke asked to the group.
"Not exactly. No." Kurama explained, while he too tried to figure out what kind of power they're new teammate withheld.
Mako nimbly bounced backwards, forgetting the cloud fixed to her butt and leaping into the shadows she appeared from. Only she disappeared. The large Jurassic demon pounded his large, monstrous feet in rage at the disappearance of the small girl's frame.
Her delicate voice sounded from another shadow across the chamber, beneath some shackles hanging from the wall
"Damn it. Look at this! I got all of these things off of me and then you chase me back in there to have these things cling to me again." She sighed as a surge of energy was sent up through her body; all the grey lint like objects dropping to the floor like flies. "Ah. Much better. Now where were we?"
The larger demon was infuriated with this girls scarcity of respect for his power as he once again pounded his feet on the ground like an unkempt child. Bringing his arms down upon the surface of the chamber, he charged at the smaller tan demon, snorting dust like an angry bull. Mako quickly spread her legs apart to shoulder width and braced herself for an attack, while the scent of roses quickly filled the air around her. Her spine straightened as her arms fell watching a whip with thorns on it, drop down from the ceiling.
Your weapon…
Woah… this isn't my conscience is it?
No, it's Kurama… I'll take care of him…but you need your weapon…
Oh…kay…
She looked to her left, following the brunt part of the whip and her eyes came into contact with a beautiful red head. Sweetly smiling with a nod, she charges directly at the grey monstrosity, her eyes narrowing on it's front facial horn. Kurama's emerald eyes grow wide and he thinks, Not what I was planning.
He sweat dropped as Mako slipped straight through the legs of the demon, still running the same pace. The demon's eyes settled on the ginger nicely placed in front of him, his eyes narrowing.
"Haha, not the dinner I was planning, but you will be a nice entrée." The monster never broke stride as he hurdled at Kurama. Kurama raised his arm and brought it down on the grey triceratops and the whip followed.
Mako heard the rose whip and slowed her canter down to a stop and twisted her head to watch the on slaughter. Kurama sliced the demon in two. Mako could feel her tail fluff up with excitement as an overtaking smile conquered her face. Then she realized that they haven't seen her true demon form yet so she decided that it wasn't the right time to bring out her full demon form yet so she kept her extra extremities invisible for the time being. She then remembered what she was told to do as she bounced over and swooped up her hiraikotsu from the chandelier on the ceiling in two bounds. The scent of blood filled the air, once again as she sniffed it with displeasure.
"I knew I smelled blood." Mako said floating down to the crew. "This demon reeked of it and must've had some type of absorbing power where he could absorb any and every kind of blood. That might be why this torture chamber is so clean." Mako stuck her hiraikotsu in the ground and yawned. "That might possibly be a guess though."
Kurama's rose whip disappeared into thin air as Yusuke scratched his head and laughed, "Well, two down."
"I take it that Yoko didn't help you out on that one?" Kuwabara stretched his arms above his head and asked.
Kurama's eyes grew wide at the expression of his inner demon, and simply stated, "No. He did not."
"Yoko?" Mako questioned. Kurama's eyes fell to the ground in a sigh as he looked up in a disarray of anguish.
"Yes. When I was a child a demon that was desperate needed a body to reside in so he chose mine." Kurama was panicky at what Yoko might do to the blonde girl, because this whole time he was in the back of Kurama's head stating insinuations at the young girl.
"So… you have a double personality?" Kurama had to let a laugh escape at this one, she was too naïve, which was what scared him the most.
"Not exactly." He thought long and hard on how to explain this to the girl without having to let him out. You would think for a straight A student who had a perfect SAT ACT score would be able to find the correct words.
"Maybe you should show them, instead of trying to explain it." Hiei alluded to the girl's heads that were cocked to one side staring up at him. Kurama looked uneasy but then gave in as a white light shrouded him. Mako jumped back, being able to sense the power from this Yoko guy. Kari just gawked, awe eyed at the white light.
"It's so pretty." Kari said as she reached out to touch it. Just as she did this, a manicured hand swatted hers away and she recoiled it back to her body as she rubbed it in fervor. She looked up at Mako, who swatted her, with a glare. The white light died down as a silver headed figure stepped out and fox scent filled Mako's nostrils. She smirked and bit her tongue afraid of what she might say, looking his form over. He looked older, not much older but like he's seen much more in his days that the red head did. Mako's eyes danced along every muscle shown to the eye as chocolate eyes made their way up to his face. She flipped her short hair to one side; her eyes catching on to his white ears and tail.
She felt her invisible tail fluff up with exhilaration once again, only this time she was going to control it and not let her emotions and hormones get the best of her. Her grin grew as she watched him throw some advancing glances her way. She shook her head in amusement as he glided past her looking at the onslaught of what his body sharing counterpart had just completed.
"Hey Yoko!" Yusuke said breaking Yoko from his stare at the larger diced demon.
"Yusuke." He said acknowledging the young raven headed teen. "And who might these two lovely ladies be?" Yoko inquired still making intense eye contact with Mako. Kari rolled her eyes at this one, not one to fall for a man's trickery.
"Hiya!" Kari yelled to get Yoko's attention away from her best friend. It's not that she doesn't want her friend to find love it's just she doesn't want her to get hurt by a buffoon like that, and her friend also has a knack for ruining things by making everything a one night stand. Kari waved a hand in front of the tall man's face, tearing his eyes off the sandy headed girl he glanced down at the smaller girl and gave a winning smile.
"It's my pleasure." Hi eyes then danced back to Mako's as she showed her pure white fangs and the fox demon though the only thing going through his mind was how he wanted to pin her down.
"Hello." Mako began as he picked up her hand.
"Hello yourself." After he lightly brushed his lips across the backside of the girl's tan hand he raised his golden eyes to meet her gaze. Her eyes had defiance in them, he had seen this type before. And she had seen the flare of dominance in his as well and immediately labeled him, for security purposes. Most of the time, his kind, got on her nerves and this one was no exception. His eyes then danced to her smile which confused him most, because her eyes said no while her mouth said yes. He never had to work on getting girls ever, but this one might be a chase. His slighted grin grew as he released her hand and the white light enveloped him again.
Mako sighed while smiled eased as red hair shook itself free from the light. His eyes were expectant as they scanned the room but her calm eyes soothed his own emerald orbs.
Mako brightly flashed a smile his way as she looked behind her at the rest of the crew and saw Kari's very agitated face in the light.
"Well are you done flirting with assbreath dog man?" Anger seeped through Kari's mouth. Mako threw her head back in a cackling fit.
"He's a fox," she pointed to a blushing Kurama. "And to answer your question, yes I am done. Shall we continue?" Kari's eyes narrowed at her best friend, but then they eased up and they smiled with her mouth.
"Uh oh look like you've gotten some competition there Yusuke." Kuwabara said elbowing Yusuke in the gut. Yusuke fiercely pouted.
"Shut up Kookabura! I have a girlfriend anyways!" Yusuke punched Kuwabara on the head and dusted his hands off.
"Right-o you do!" Botan cheerily perked up at Yusuke's answer. The blonde girl, tossed her arm up into the air releasing the boomerang at her peak, and the weapon dissipated into grey clouds.
"Do any of you think it's odd to have a torture chamber on the second floor?" Kari asked eyeing the Judas Cradle while she began walking towards the entrance to another presumable room. She just winced at the thought of the immense amount of pain that demons had to endure if they walked into this room and didn't come out alive.
"Is that what this is?" Mako inquired, touching what looked like a holy water sprinkler. She cocked her head to one side with confusion filling her deep brown eyes with every passing moment. "This looks like one of those Holy Water containers the church's use."
Kurama laughed at Mako's naivety as she bounced over to a small cage lying on the dusty ground. Mako warily picked it up looking at it through the bottom."What's this?" She asked beginning to slip the medieval torture device on her head. Kurama's eyes grew in terror at this as he took a rushing step forward. But before Kurama could save her, her ears picked up a small tinkling sound. Not the chatters of chains but of a bell. Stopping her action she stared at the device and turned it over in her hands only to Kurama's relief. "A bell?" Mako pawed the little bell with a single finger and heard it's beautiful sound resonate through out the large, hollow space.
"Yes, that device was used on women." Kurama curtly swiped the device out of Mako's hands to keep her from a deserving punishment for a whore of certain times. "It was fastened around their heads and spikes and other lethal objects were fastened directing their point inward."
"Woah." Mako's eyes grew in awe as she listened to the redhead explain.
"Mmm…this looks like turkey baster. Only metal." Kari said fingering The Pear device. To her surprised it split in half and opened like tongs. "And it opens like forceps." Hiei rolled his eyes at this girl's stupidity.
"Wait…" Kari put a single finger to her chin while letting the torture device rest in the other palm. "What are you?" She asked the turkey baster forceps as the finger kept tapping her chin.
"Oh, I see. So this was used for-" Mako began but was interrupted by a high pitched scream and the sound of iron bashing against stone. The fortress shook with a fury as the high pitch echoed throughout the room.
"OH MY EWWWWWWWWW!" Kari said thrashing her hand about in front of her as if trying to get a large bug off. Hiei let out a small chuckle at the girl's insubordinate face.
"What the…" Yusuke asked whipping around to see a pink headed girl almost in a fit of tears. "What did you do Hiei?" Yusuke asked tapping his foot at the same time wiggling his eyebrows at him. This ended Hiei's tirade of whatever bliss he found and he returned the question with a scowl.
"Idiot woman."
"Oh my fucking god. I think I'm going to have to sanitize myself in a nice Clorox bathe." Kari said trembling in comatose state.
"What happened?" Mako asked popping her head up from the conversation Kurama and she was having.
"I cannot speak about it at the moment," Kari said clasping a hand over her mouth, "I'm going to barf at the thought." Mako cocked her head again like a lost puppy while Kari bent over, her back heaving.
"It's clean Kaminari." Kurama smiled at the shorter girl, he face eased up from it's state of shock. This made Mako's head cocked the other way in even more confusion. Kurama just laughed at the girl's face and looked back to Hiei's still stoic position.
"But I caught the aroma of blood earlier." Mako shrugged as she pointed to the dead triceratops lying in the corner.
"Some demons can mask and unmask certain smells they have around their lair, if you will." Kurama began, still blinking at the pink headed demon rolling on the ground in front of them, her face in pure agony.
"Yes well I have to be home for school in the morning." Kuwabara yawned like Yusuke who followed this action.
"Me too." Yusuke managed to get out through the yawn. Botan looked to the two boys in admiration at how they could be tired after that fight they just witnessed.
"Sorry, you both agreed to do this and so you will stick with it. And do not give me any more of this 'I have to go to school' excuse, because I know you two and you two will not go to school tomorrow if I let you go." Botan said chastising the two boys. The two boys groaned when she gave them her short lived speech. "And I WILL tell Keiko on you Yusuke if don't finish this misson."
"OF COURSE YOU WOULD." Yusuke yelled at the ceiling, exasperated of any energy.
Kurama started walking towards one of the three exits out of the room. He stopped at the aperture and said, "There looks to be several openings." He paused for a moment before Hiei began to speak.
"It would be best if we split up." Kurama nodded in agreement as Mako walked right past them and into the middle opening.
"Where are you going!?" Kari asked her best friend.
"Uhm, to find that shitty transvestite, duh."
"Not with out me you aren't!"
"Woah girls! Hold on just one moment." Botan stopped them and said, "It's not that we don't trust your ability to fight, or that we aren't worried about your safety," she lowered her voice to a low whisper as her eyes became slits, "…or the fact that your aunt would kill us if something bad happened to you… but I think it would be best if you were accompanied by Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, or Hiei."
"Uhhh." Mako turned around to face Botan with a blank grin upon her face.
"Riiiight." Kari said as she kept walking past Botan into the hallway. Mako smacked Kaminari dead square in the forehead which made Kari bounce backwards and rub her head. "Fucking eh, what was that for!?"
"Just go along with the grim reaper and do what she says, or we might get an earful again." Mako said her brown eyes falling to the ground in a sigh, rubbing her temples.
"Oh. Kay." Kari stated through gritted teeth. Her head turned as if on a lazy-susan and she called out, "Kay, I get the ginger then!" This made a smile erupt from Mako's lips.
Botan fell on her head when Kari said this as did Hiei. Botan had to set things straight here.
"Ok since I don't exactly trust Yusuke or Kuwabara with either of you…" she threw a glare at the two boys who were rubbing their hands together like fish ready to bite the bait, "Uhm Kurama take Mako and Hiei you take Karminari."
"Really, call me Kari." Said the pink headed girl with an agitated frown.
"Okay well, I'll see you on the flip side!" Botan said as she entered one of the three door frames practically dragging Kuwabara and Yusuke after her.
"Hey ginger!" Kuwabara turned his head at his nickname before Kari licked her lips in his direction. Mako saw this and lightly shoved the girl down before she began to mouth, 'I-Will-Eat-You-Alive' at the tall carrot top in blue.
"Mhm, sure, flip side." Mako cracked letting sarcasm slip watching her best friend gather herself.
"Welp…" Kari began turning her attention back to the shorter demon; Hiei ignored her and leapt one time, engulfed by the entrance. Kari just let her mouth gape open and managed, "he doesn't give anyone warning? Does he?"
"Have fun!" Mako replied with a smile as Kurama and her stepped through the threshold, leaving Kari standing there still in awe at how she could be alone in such a place.
"Well then… FUCK YOU TOO, ASSHOLES!" as Kari trudged on into the hole where a demon had previously entered.
"Uhm, ok. Do you happen to feel a little bit…oh I dunno..woozy?" Mako questioned Kurama with her head reeling like a yo-yo. The place was dark and dank and the only thing they could sense were stairs that weren't even lit up, they had to feel for them along the way.
"Yes, it's probably the elevation. Keep walking though, we're almost at the top." Kurama said his eyes still focus on the glowing doorway up ahead their only light source in the deep place.
"Until that happens." Mako's voice seems so far away that Kurama turns around and sees Mako facing something. But that something was glowing a very pretty chartreuse color. It was as if it were a ball; a shimmering, chartreuse super ball. Mako reaches out to touch it as Kurama thinks
On no… not again…
"Mako I really wouldn't tou-" Just as he said this the green orb floated upward and then hovered back down to it's original position. This got Mako horribly excited and so she poked it once again only to have it glide to the side a tiny bit as it drifted to her feet. Kurama wasn't sure what this was, nor did his instincts like it.
"Mako, leave it alone. I don't know what it is." Kurama said watching the shadow seeping demon poke it again and again. He could only see her face light up by the glow of this unknown creature. Yet he had a knack for this mischievous demon.
"Aw." Her face seemed to faint as the light of the globe dimmed. She looked up at the fox demon and skipped up the steps to catch up with his shadow outlined by the light from the door. However something that Kurama didn't expect was that the green orb followed Mako as she bounded up the steps causing the rose demon to falter as he cocked an eyebrow. Mako spun on her heel to see it following her, and then looked back at Kurama with a rather befuddled face.
"Let's just keep walking, and see what happens." Mako says shrugging off the confusion as she wraps her fingers around Kurama's arm and tugs on it.
"Where the hell are we at?" Kari asks stepping up beside Hiei as she looks around at the pink grass and bubblegum blue trees.
"In hell." Hiei says as he stares at a pale green sky.
"Remind me to say out of hell, please." Kari says as she begins to ascend the steps to hopefully the end of this.
"What are you talking about? Your hair is the same color of the grass." Hiei inquires as he looks the girl up and down.
Kari doesn't even look back as she says this, "Not by choice mind you. I've tried coloring it, but it just grows back the same in a week or so." She shrugs, still walking up the yellow steps.
"Hn."
"Shut up and follow the yellow brick road, dammit." Kari says referring to Hiei's lack of enthusiasm.
"Okay, listen here you shining lime cotton candy wad. You have got to stop following us." Mako tuned around at the end of the dark stairwell and began talking to the ball. The ball dived with glee as she spoke. Kurama watched this odd living like bundle bounce from one side to the next. His feelings were slowly changing as he began to figure out what it might be.
"Hey." Kurama said receiving Mako's undivided attention. "It might just be," he choose his words carefully, "…lonely." Mako tilted her head to one side as she opened her mouth to speak only to shut them again as Kurama stole her limelight. "Just wait and see." He said as he stepped into the white light that was the next room.
"Ouch, blinded by the light." Mako said as she put one foot into the radiance and poked her blonde head through. Kurama watched her rub her eyes and the glowing green orb morph into an itty bitty puppy like animal.
"Look's like you've made a friend." Kurama grinned, kneeling on one knee to pat the animal. Chocolate eyes glance down at Kurama trying to focus her eyes in the new light when she sees a pale green fox like creature.
"Aw. It's so adorable." Mako said picking up the itsy bitsy creature. "So you were that pesky light?" she said poking the little pup's nose.
"Zar!" It stuck it's tongue out to lick her finger.
"Aw! Wook at de wittle puppy!" Mako said as she tickled the kit's tummy. "What is it?" She turned her head towards Kurama while still keeping the little dogglefox preoccupied.
"I'm not sure to be honest. It doesn't really have much demon aura so it might just be the result of a fox and dog mating." Kurama shrugged, "I do not believe it's very dangerous."
Mako nodded in compliance as the puppy chased it tail on the floor. She stepped back and got a good look at the animal. It was a pale green color with bright blue eyes and it's fox like tail had a cerulean blue tip to it as did it's left ear. It had the tail of a fox while it's body was morphed between a puppy and a fox. It's paws were tiny though meaning it wasn't going to grow much more. She look at it's face as it rolled over on it's back and wiggled around trying to catch Kurama's finger. It had the ears of a fox but the muzzle of a dog.
"Well it looks like I've made lot's of friends today." Mako said with a small cackle. This made the puppy leap from where it was rolling about on the ground ending up in bat like wings protruding from it's back. It hovered in mid air, cobalt wings flapping sleepily while the foxes whiskers twitched. "I've never seen a kit do that before." Mako whispered as she threw a glance towards Kurama.
"Maybe, it's part dragon too?" Kurama said eyeing the kit's azure dragon wings. This made the pup fly over to Kurama and lick him on the nose. Mako cracked up at Kurama's flabbergasted, flushed face when the puppy did this.
"Well we better not keep the others waiting." Mako plucked the puppy from the sky and scooped it up in her arms as they searched for the other thresholds.
"So where'd you come from?" Kari asked trying to make conversation as they faded in and out Kari trying desperately to keep up with him, her heart beating hard within her chest. Hiei just turned her face and slowed down to a small walk and then gave her a stare that could've said 'was-that-the-best-question-you-could-come-up-with '. Kari just slowed her pace down to match Hiei's and just gave a smile that said 'yes-yes-I-did-just-ask-that-now-answer-it'.
"Hn." Hiei said as he picked up his speed once again.
"What!? That's all I get!? Just a 'Hn'!?" Kari screamed into thin air as she watched the demon begin to again bound up the steps ahead of her. "WELL FINE THEN!" Kari sped up running right behind him. She watched the monotonous pink blurs pass her and the occasional blue lines that smudged the pink as she chased after Hiei. Until they reached the end of the Willy Wonka like fairyland.
"Thank god. This nightmare has ended." Kari dropped to her knees and bowed down to the next room as Hiei rolled his eyes and snorted.
"Woman, get up."
"Uhm this onna does have a name you know." Kari retorted, rising to her feet as she dusted her knees off. "Ew sparkles." She watched the sparkles flitter down from her knees and then she turned her palms up to see they were covered in sparkles. "Oh god, I feel fairy like now."
"Hn." Hiei walks through the threshold and into a room that was much dimmer than the previous tunnel they had been in.
"Oh my." Kari clapped her hands, sparkles soon fell. She clapped again, sparkles fell once more.
Is that really necessary?
Uhm, unless you want me to sprinkle you with sparkles, yes…
"Hey!" Yusuke practically ran up to Kari and squeezed the life out of her.
"Ok…Yusuke… can't…gasp" Kari said between gasps for air. Hiei was very confused at why she attacked him earlier for touching her but not Yusuke.
"She can't breathe Yusuke." Hiei nonchalantly spoke up.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Yusuke put the much smaller girl down on her feet only to let her fall to her knees wheezing for air a moment later. Hiei just shrugged the whole 'biting his head off for touching her' off. After Kari caught her breath she twisted so she was sitting on her butt now and looked up at everyone.
"Sorry about Yusuke, he has a large hug that he can't seem to control." Kuwabara apologized for his friend and ally.
"No kidding." Kari straightened her back and cracked it once and then slouched over, "Mako!" She spotted her best friend and the red head walking towards the crew.
"Kari! My heterosexual life partner!" Mako squealed with a green blob flying behind her. They embraced before Kari pushed her friend off of her and pointed to the green kit demon.
"Whats that?" Kari asked as Mako walked up the to dragon pup flying over to Hiei and hovering in his face.
"We don't exactly know. It seems rather harmless." It licked Hiei's face as it let out another awkward sound.
"Zark!" The kit dragon seemed to be happy as it finished slobbering all over Hiei's face. Hiei did his best not the slaughter the thing by pushing it away only to have it glomp his face again with it's tongue.
"Is it a he? Or a she?" Kari asked smirking at Hiei's incessant grumbling at the dragon kit.
"It's a he." Both Kurama and Mako said simultaneously. Kari narrowed her eyes at both of them. Kurama only smiled, "Smell." Mako laughed at her friends face when he said this.
"Yea what he said." Mako replied to Kari's questioning face.
"Aw look at the cute flying puppy…thing?!" Yusuke said as he gladly saved the kit from Hiei's death glare.
"Hn."
"Aw come on shorty! You can't resist cute things like this." Kuwabara stated as the puppy darted to and fro only to land in Kari's lap and raise it's nose upwards. It sniffed the air once or twice only to paw it's self around in circles and then plop it's body down upon the seated girl's lap.
"Awe, it's so sweet!" Kari declared as it's wings fluttered once and then folded themselves into resting position as it laid one paw over it's muzzle. It's blue eyes shut themselves while it's breathing slowed down to that of a sleeping animal.
"It's so poofy and squishy." Kari stated patting the puppy on it's head.
"It says here that it's a Dragon but, it's not your ordinary dragon." Botan began but was interrupted by Yusuke.
"No shit. This one looks like fox." Yusuke said crossing his arms as Botan was looking through a leather bound book.
"Where did you-" Mako began to ask.
"Oh, I keep it in my briefcase." Botan said still; scanning the pages for information.
"And where is your-" Mako started.
"Right here, right here." Botan pointed a single finger downwards at the briefcase, not removing her eyes from the book. Mako started to inquire more questions about where the briefcase came from and whatnot but, decided against it since they were afterall in the demon world. "It's very simple really, it's just a lower classed demon that was created by a dragon demon and a dog demon." Botan said slamming the book causing a huge cloud of dust to surround the members of the team.
"So it doesn't get much bigger than this right?" Kari asked.
"Depends on what the parent's powers were and what their strength contained." As Botan put the oversized bok into the rather small briefcase.
"Oh, but you said that this was a lower class demon, right?" Kari asked still watching the unchanging breathing of the pup.
"Right."
"How low are we talking?" Kari asked
"Does it really matter!?" Yusuke yawned. "And why aren't we trying to find this son of a bitch an get out of here?"
"Right-o! I do believe I see an opening up ahead." Botan perks up and tries to cover Yusuke's rudeness.
"So…how'd you guys get wrapped up in this 'spirit detective' business?" Kaminari questioned trotting to keep up with the crew. Damn these short legs, she thought to her herself as she caught up.
Yusuke stretched his arms above his head and folded them behind to stare at the ceiling. "I died, killed these two and Kuwabara here volunteered his ass."
"Way to be cocky, and half of that isn't true." Botan stated rolling her eyes.
"You didn't kill either of us, fool" Hiei stated blankly at Yusuke.
"Might as well have." Hiei shot him a cross side glance before moving forward.
"What about you guys?" Kuwabara asked. Mako stopped her twirling and started walking. She threw a look at Kari who shrugged and lifted the tiny animal up to get a better hold of it.
"Well-" Mako started.
"This gang cornered us on our way home from a party one night and thought it would be a good idea to try and manhandle us." Kari sighed and readjusted the puppy once more and finished, "However their first mistake was beginning to use their brains." Her eyebrows furrowed.
"Yes well one thing lead to another and we killed three humans, and injured a good four of them." Mako nodded and finished for her friend. Kuwabara gaped at this while Kurama and Hiei's eyes widened.
"It's illegal for demons to kill a human though!" Kuwabara screamed practically waking the puppy up.
"Yes, we know that now." Kari gritted her teeth and tried not to char him to a fine crisp.
"Your punishment?" Yusuke asked not really caring about the fact that they had killed humans.
"Why do you think we're here, in demon world, with you guys?" Kari cocked an eyebrow and frowned.
"These two have killed humans too!" Kuwabara screamed once again.
"Good god Kookaburra, if you don't shut your face, I'll personally blow your mouth to the backside of your head." Kari retorted.
"That's what she said." Yusuke cocked his head and looked back at the pink headed girl, smirking. Kaminari, however, was not amused.
"Hn." Hiei pushed his hands into his pockets, not taking his eyes from the front.
"Yeah, what he said." Kari spoke and poked her tongue out at Yusuke.
"Your files never said what kind of demons you guys were, let alone much information at all." Kuwabara mumbled.
"And?" Kari retorted setting the puppy on the ground watching it run to Kurama's leg and circle it.
"Well? What kind are you?" Kuwabara asked getting agitated at the pink headed demon's mouth.
"Well I'm technically a water frequency demon." Kari said tugging at her crimson bow.
"Water-frequency?" Yusuke asked. Kari nodded and ran to keep up with the crew once again as her short legs were making her fall behind.
"Yes, a demon that can make sound deadly and can control water in the air and such and whatnot." She stated simply waving her hand in the air.
"So your parents, one was a frequency demon while the other was water?" Kurama asked.
"Mhm, well my mom was a psychic who mainly controlled water while my father was the frequency apparition." Kari looked down at the thought of them, "They both weren't demons."
"So you're not full demon." Hiei stated.
"No, but she is." Kurama who was now holding the puppy followed the trail of Kari's finger which led to Mako.
"Yes." Mako said nothing more than that creating an agitated Kuwabara.
"Well, you are?" Mako thought about everything she cold let out while not letting out too much. She hated giving out too much information to anyone, she liked keeping a low profile around people, however at this rate it was hopeless.
"I'm…" she thought about her words carefully, "I'm a half shadow demon." Kurama narrowed his eyes at her while keeping his fingers a good foot away from the puppy who was trying to nip at them. He could've sworn he smelled something else on that girl when he pulled his rose whip on the demon.
"Like Hiei?" Kuwabara asked.
"Imbecile. I'm a fire demon." Hiei glared at the carrot top.
"Oh. Well, I just thought-" Kuwabara began.
"So a shadow demon does what?" Yusuke asked.
"I'm not very good at explaining my own powers," the blonde began, "how about I show you against the next demon?" Her contemplating face turned into a genuine smile at that moment and made Kurama almost forget what he was previously thinking about. Almost. But then Kuwabara stated something rather intelligent.
"I feel another one coming. He's right up ahead."
"How do you know it's a he?" Botan inquired to the boy in blue.
Kuwabara began to laugh nervously when he said, "I don't." he then let a few giggles escape his mouth. Kurama gave the puppy to Botan when he saw the upcoming portal to the next room.
"Botan, I think you should leave." Kuwabara stated evoking a cocked eyebrow from the three girls in the room.
"And why is that Kuwabara?" Botan said flipping her blue ponytail over her right shoulder.
"Because this next demon is giving off a lot of energy, and I would hate for you to get hurt." Kuwabara stepped closer to the blue. Kari sighed at this because although she did not know these people very well, she had good foresight.
"Well thanks Kuwabara but-"
"No. You should leave." Kurama blurted, not to interrupt but because he wasn't getting a good feeling from the looks of what was up ahead. "This does not look good."
"If you say so." She looked hesitant towards Kurama and then her eyes flicked to Yusuke and Kuwabara and then to the two girls.
"Don't worry." Hiei threw his crimson eyes up at the female grim reaper, "If they try anything, they won't have anything to try something with the next time."
"Okay then, I'll see you guys on the flip side." Botan smiled and sat the puppy down. Her paddle appeared with a poof and she was gone.
"Mako, I think you should leave this next one to the big boys." Yusuke said as they entered through the glowing blue portal. Mako started to reject saying that she could handle it but they were already through the door by the time she opened her mouth.
What's the deal with not telling them about your other mix? Kari inquired through telepathy to her best friend.
They'll find out eventually. Mako retorted with a slight shrug.
But why not tell them now. Kari eyed the taller girl warily.
You know I love surprises, Kari. The blonde girl smirked at the pink head.
But you're not getting the surprise?...Are you?
I believe I will and besides their facial expressions alone will be amazing, let alone what comes out of their mouth. Mako whipped her head around to look in front and to focus on where they were going, ending the telepathic conversation. Meanwhile Kari shook her head in slight amusement at her best friend's beliefs.
"This one is mine." Yusuke stated staring the third demon right in the eye. Literally. The poor thing had one eye, like a Cyclops. Actually, it kind of looked like a Cyclops. It was big, hairy, barbaric looking with one eye.
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