I'm back! Here's chapter three!
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I'm going to put a new summary up with the next chapter.
Um... Yeah. Enjoy chapter three of "YuYu Hakusho the Movie: Fangirl Report".
Soon the three were at Genkai's temple. They sat with Genkai around Botan, who was lying on the floor. She seemed to be asleep, though her breathing was ragged and frantic.
"Botan... I can't believe this..." Hinageshi whined. "What could have happened?"
Keiko walked into the room silently. Genkai nodded her head, motioning for Keiko to shut the door behind her. Then she wet a rag and placed it on Botan's forehead.
"Genkai..." Now it was Yusuke who spoke. "How is her condition?"
"I'm... not sure."
"Not sure, Grandma? But you're always supposed to have the answers to my questions!"
"Shut up, Dimwit! Can't you be serious for once? I'm not sure how she is... All I know is that something serious must have happened to the Spirit World, for her to be in this condition."
"Kurama."
Silent, everyone turned to look at Kuwahara, who had spoken the name of one of their comrades so randomly. Then they turned to look at the door Keiko had just walked in, and saw that it actually wasn't so random. Kurama had arrived. He walked in the door.
From the way he spoke, it was clear that he was upset. "Th-The Spirit World... It... It was just... gone."
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"Actually, that is not accurate," Kurama said, now that he was calmer. "I should say that it was... completely covered by... water."
The group had moved now, from the room Botan was in to another room in the temple. This room was big and had no furniture. A large statue of Buddha in the background was the only thing in the room.
"How?" Kuwahara wanted to know.
"Some immeasurably strong force must have gained control," the other redheaded male answered.
"No way." He didn't think that that was possible. There couldn't be a force stronger than Spirit World itself.
"But what could have the power to do that to the Spirit World?" Genkai wondered aloud.
"When I was there... some phantoms wearing crosses on their foreheads... were... frantically looking for something."
"No! You mean Jesus is behind this?"
Kuwahara was ignored.
"Oh! It must be the Empire!" Hinageshi added. She looked down now. "But I thought that was just a legend..."
"The Empire?" Yusuke asked. "Like, Star Wars?"
"Not exactly... but close." She turned to look at Kurama and the others. "Their symbol is that cross on their foreheads."
"Hey... hang on," Kuwahara interrupted. "What's with this Empire? I thought there were only three realms." He counted them on his fingers. "The Human World, Spirit World, and Demon World... Right?"
Hinageshi took her small black book out of her shirt. Yusuke and the others now saw that the title, The History of the Spirit World: The Legend of Yodakumo and the Empire, was written across the front in gold. "Well, let's see," she said to Kuwahara, sounding like a schoolteacher. She flipped through the pages in her book. "Well, to begin with, humans who die go to the Spirit World. The Spirit World and the Human World remain in constant balance with each other. And, originally, the Empire was like the Spirit World for Demon World."
"So... demons who die go to the Empire?" Yusuke asked.
"Yes, or, they used to," the small redheaded girl answered. "Because several millennia ago, the Empire started a war with the Spirit World, because they wanted control of everything. Especially the Human World."
"So... what happened?"
"No one knows for sure, because Emperor Enma magically defeated the Empire in some mysterious way. But after the Empire was defeated, their king, Yodakumo, his three Demon Gods, and the rest of his men were permanently banished from all existence."
"So, if that legend is true, then how is the Empire behind this?"
No one was able to answer his question. "This could become... very dangerous," Genkai said, "if the Empire is indeed behind this. Even with our powers, we might not be able to repel them." The old woman took a sip of tea from the cup that had materialized in front of her seconds ago.
Everyone was silent as they tried to think of a way to defeat the Empire.
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Hiei was outside, a few feet away, on top of a very high tree. Yet, he apparently heard everything that was said inside that room.
"The Empire..." he thought. "Well, in any case, it has nothing to do with me." He turned to leave, but suddenly stopped when something caught his attention.
And that something was Kuwahara's incredibly loud and annoying voice.
"Yukina?" he screamed. "Yukina is here?" The boy burst out of the doors and started dancing on the porch.
"Kazuma?" Keiko, who had been standing on the porch when he came out, was very confused by his behavior. "Must be some sort of mating ritual..." she thought.
"Yukina!"
"She's with Botan."
"Yukina, Yukina!" he sang, dancing toward the room where Botan was. "Yukina!"
He arrived at that room, opened the door, and tried to act both cool and tough (but failed). "Yukina, it is me, Kazuma! It is so very good to see you! Huh...?"
She didn't respond right away, but then turned to look at him, tears in her eyes.
"Hmn... Yukina..."
"Oh, Kazuma... I'm sorry..." Yukina whimpered through her tears. "I'm glad... to see you... but... Botan...Why is... she...?"
"An unhappy face like that doesn't suit you, Yukina," he said, trying to sound romantic and almost succeeding. But he ruined it by going overboard when he added, "I, the mighty Kazuma Kuwahara, will resolve everything for all of us. Soon, we will all be smiling happily again." He bent down on his knees and reached for her hands. "Oh, Yukina..."
"Ah! Kazuma! Are you all right?" the snow girl asked. "Your temperature... is going up and up..."
"That... is the power of love." He closed his eyes and looked away, smiling stupidly.
Yukina closed her eyes most of the way, and smiled, as well. "He's such an idiot," she thought sweetly.
The two started laughing as Keiko came to the door with more water and another rag. "Kuwahara... you're in the way."
Hiei came down from his tree and stood a distance away, near a lantern. "Yukina..."
"So, Hiei," said a voice. "Why don't you tell Yukina that you're the brother she's been looking for? Now is a perfect opportunity."
"Hmph. I don't need you telling me what to do, Fox," Hiei answered Kurama.
"Right," Kurama answered with a smile. He walked toward Hiei, coming out of the shadows. "So, Hiei... You've seen the Spirit World... the damage that's been caused... You know that this is nothing ordinary."
"Huh. I don't care. Let the Detective take care of it. It's his job, not mine." And so Hiei disappeared.
- Kuramastrass -
