InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Death comes in many packages ❯ Chapter 1

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Chapter One

The darkness slipped over the city of Tokyo completely drowning it in its ominous gloom. All, but few were oblivious to the terrifying feeling. Among the few who felt this sinister presence was a young man, no older then 19. His eyes filled with knowledge and colored with scenes of death only meant for veterans of a devastating war.

 

He stood stiff; the aura that wrapped the city like a suffocating blanket choked the breath from his lungs. The wind toyed with his obsidian hair, as a cold look glided over his features. He knew something was to come, not necessarily an evil thing, but what followed would cause terror.

He shivered as he began his walk into the shadows that hid within the grove beyond the park he had been in.

It would soon come, and with it a frightening consequence.

 

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A bright young ice maiden swept the steps of a shrine in which she took residence. Her hair was bound back with a red ribbon, the blue tresses although held captive danced across her back. Her gentle smile lit the compound with a welcomed feeling.

She cast a wistful glance upon the stone that hung from her neck.

 

“Yukina-chan!” the cry of her name called her from her thoughts of the brother she had yet to discover.

 

“Yes Kazuma-kun?” she asked in a sweet voice causing a boy with forest green hair to blush.

 

His tall body dwarfed her own. His sharp, high cheekbones, small nose, narrow eyes, and sharp long chin; gave him a rough look. He was not male model material, but he was handsome in his own way. His body was well built, but because of his facial features he was assumed to lack brains, brawn being his only strong point. He was actually smarter than he first appeared. If you knew him, you would also know he maintained a strict honor code that he lived by, only in dire cases would he break that code.

A light blush crossed the bridge of his nose as the girl whom he found himself in love with used his first name.

 

“Hello Yukina, h-have you seen Urameshi?”

She gave him a contemplative look before shaking her head.

His face drooped a bit before he turned back to Yukina.

 

“Thank you Yukina-chan.,” he said.

She gave a smile in return, which caused him to blush with a vengeance.

As he began descend the stairs, he heard his name called.

 

“Yo Kuwabara!”

He looked towards the bottom of the stairs, a grin spread across his pale lips.

 

“Heh Urameshi! I've been lookin' for ya!” he exclaimed as he continued down the many stairs.

 

The young teen with slicked back hair raised an eyebrow, his gold eyes filling with curiosity and amusement.

“Why is that?”

Kuwabara simply grinned,“Guess who got promoted?”

 

Yusuke's eyes widened in surprise,

“You got moved to homicide detective?!”

 

The green haired boy simply nodded.

“Guess our missions as Reikai Tentei paid off...”

 

The newly promoted homicide detective grinned before the black radio held within his left hand began to produce a white noise. A voice cut through the static.

 

“*Kuwabara! Kuwabara!*” a distressed masculine timber called.

 

The young 20 year old pulled the radio level with his mouth, pushing down the communication button,

“Kazuzka! What the hell happened! I'm off patrol!”

 

“*I Know! But we need you! All the others are out on a different case! And man have we hit a number! Twelve Stiffs!*”

 

Kuwabara's eyes widened, “What the hell happened!?”

 

“*That's what WE are trying to figure out! They look like they were hit with acid or some thing! We got two veterans bent over and emptying their lunch!*”

 

“That bad?” the former spirit detective asked.

 

“*Bad enough that we can't even IDENTIFY the GENDER!*”

 

“Where are you stationed? Are the bodies all in one place?”

 

“*No, they're all over, they're somewhere near the place Cafe Half Dead.*”

 

“Be there!” he then turned to Yusuke, “Sorry Man I gotta case.”

 

Yusuke waved him off.

 

“Go, they need ya down there,” a sly grin slipped across his face.

 

“Just don't embarrass yourself and piss your pants.”

 

The Mazuko demon slapped his back in good nature. A grim look flashed across the man's face.

“Yea...” he spoke as he walked off.

 

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He took a long drag of his cigarette, before pushing the smoke back out through his thin, pale lips.

 

“I thought you quit?” his partner spoke.

 

“I did, but sometimes you just need it.”

 

Kuwabara nodded to his partner.

“So it's that bad... a man who damned cigarettes to the deepest pits of the underworld is now dragging out one of the `accursed sticks' like his only attatchment to this world?”

 

He turned a glare at his younger, yes Kuwabara may have been younger then him, but he was a lot more experienced.

“Don't quote me! I was wrong! These thing are the ONLY thing keeping me sane!”

 

“This is most likely gang warfare. Why are you getting all worked up? You were the leader of a gang yourself!”

 

Kazuzka gave him a dark glare. “Yea, right! What gang kills their own?”

 

Kuwabara's eyes widened. Kazuzka flicked the cigarette to the pavement and ground the bud into the cement. He began walking, Kuwabara followed him. They walked towards a body bag lying on a stretcher. Kazuzka carefully unzipped the casing.

 

The young former spirit detective gazed at the body in horror. The tortured face of a child looked up at him. The kid looked no older then ten. His head was severed, ripped from his body. The limbs were also separated. The child's closed eyes suddenly snapped open.

 

“Holy Shit!” He heard his partner scream.

 

“Darkness will follow the light, beware, death will come,” came a low eerie voice from the child's mouth.

 

“How the fuck is it still alive!?” Kazuzka screamed.

 

Kuwabara stared blankly at the deceased child. He closed the child's eyes. Kuwabara turned to his partner an undisturbed look on his face. A shiver ran down Kazuzka's spine chilling him. The look in Kuwabara's eyes weren't that of a young man, but a veteran who spent his whole life in war; someone who was forced to grow up before he was ever a child.

 

“You wont tell anyone what you saw...” Just as Kazuzka was about to protest Kuwabara spoke.

“You WILL NOT speak of it!” Kazuzka nodded.

“Show me the other bodies...”

 

Kazuzka's eyes widened. “You're kidding!” he shouted.

 

“No.”

 

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Kuwabara sighed, he saw every body, and each was torn and mauled. He knew a human wouldn't have been capable of doing that.

Even if they wished to (kill), each of the corpses had a small bit of yoki in the wounds, except for the first.

And that big clue that most looked to have been hit with acid. `more like drown or drank' Kuwabara thought.

 

That puzzled him, there was no feeling on that body, usually if a human murdered someone or committed suicide, the deceased would have a residual aura of malice or depression. Something that gave him a clue! But that body had nothing, like it was wiped clean. Kazuzka joined the other two veterans in throwing up, though some dry heaved.

 

He was currently headed to the one person he knew, who would and could figure this out. He knocked on the door of apartment 207, Minamino Shuuichi's apartment. The door opened surprising him, he hadn't heard the tell tale footfalls.

 

A young man with obsidian hair and masculine beauty stood in the door. His amethyst eyes revealed his amusement.

 

"Kuwabara-san, what do I owe this pleasure." He spoke in a low baritone that would cause any to go weak in the knees.

 

But Kuwabara had grown immunity for that voice, to which he was thankful. “I have a puzzle.”

 

Yes, those were the magic words. The young man's eyes flashed in excitement as he opened the door wider. Kuwabara removed his shoes before stepping into the apartment.

 

He turned to the fox avatar.

 

“Kurama, before I speak of this mystery I have to tell you, I was promoted to homicide detective. It was because of this that I came across it. It's actually disturbing.”

 

Kurama nodded leading him towards the kitchen.

“Would you like some tea?” the spirit fox offered.

 

“Sure, if you have some with caffeine that would be appreciated.” Kurama nodded reaching into the cupboard. Kuwabara sighed running his hand through his hair.

“Today I was supposed to be off duty, only in an extreme case was I to be called. Twelve bodies were found by Cafe Half Dead,”

he accepted the mug of hot tea presented to him. He narrowed his eyes at the cup's rose design, but he wasn't paying attention to it.

 

“Are you sure it wasn't gang warfare,” Kurama said taking a sip of his tea.

 

“That's what I thought at first,” Kuwabara looked up at the kitsune as he said this. Kurama gave him a speculative look.

“But almost all of the bodies were so...so mauled and each of their them had residual yoki in their wounds, some looked to have been dumped in acid.”

 

“What do you mean almost all? It could have been a few lower class youkai looking for a meal, having escaped the the patrol.”

 

Kuwabara shook his head.

“No. There weren't any bite marks, it was just...slaughter with an unknown purpose.”

 

“And what about the energy?”

 

Kuwabara took a swig of his tea before answering.

 

“One body, the first one that I was shown, had nothing no aura, no residual fear, malice, self-hatred, nothing. It was a kid no older than Shuuichi, a few years younger actually. His limbs were cut from his torso, if the expression on his face told anything; he was alive when they removed his arms and legs. His head was torn from his torso...”

 

Kurama had a thoughtful look. He remained quiet and listened to Kuwabara's words.

 

“There's more, the kid's eyes were closed, then suddenly popped open and he spoke. He said `Darkness will follow the light, beware, death will come.'”

 

“I don't think he was alive when he spoke.”

 

Kuwabara nodded.

“Yeah, I've seen a lot of weird things and that goes in the pile. But what do you think was possessing a corpse, or could have that kind of power?”

 

“I do not know, but I will find out.”

 

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Yip! Okay so how was my first story? Yes I am sane...partially. Anyways thanks for reading! Woot!

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