InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness ❯ Return ( Chapter 5 )

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Return

“You're one hell of a strong sheila! You might give Urameshi a run for his money! Make sure that you live to fight me again!” Chu yelled cheerfully, making Kagome smile as she vacated the ring.

Suddenly, her eyes flew wide open and everyone watching was surprised as an aura of raw hatred flowed from the previously playful demon.

“Well well, as energetic as ever, I see,” said a deep male voice. Kagome's teammates were surprised when her entire body began to tense in a way that the strong demon she'd just beaten hadn't brought out.

“You're dead,” she said to the tall, dark-haired man that was in the entrance to the arena.

“Evidently not.”

“I destroyed you!” she screamed, her energy starting to reveal itself honestly. For a split second, everyone felt a fraction of the power she really had, and nobody was able to hold themselves from shivering.

“Ah, dear Kagome, you seem to be mistaken as I'm standing in front of you right now.”

Kagome's eyes bled red, and the man smirked.

“Naraku,” she hissed. Instantly, she was being held back by Hiei. Her lunge was stopped short and Kagome fell to her knees, snarling.

“It would be bad to do that, onna,” he whispered as Naraku looked at her with amusement clear in his eyes.

“New friend, Kagome?”

Kagome pushed him away and stood up, glaring death at Naraku.

“I don't know how you're alive, but I'm going to make sure I fix it.”

“Oh? You'll have to wait until our teams fight, I'm afraid,” he said darkly.

Every muscle in Kagome was tensed and obviously ready to attack whoever the man was, so her teammates quickly disappeared with her in tow. They only stopped when they were safely in their hotel room…

 

“Okay! Who the hell was that!?” Yusuke barked at the shaking demon. She looked like she wanted to throw up, so he didn't argue when she ran into the bathroom. She forgot, however, to close the door behind her, so everyone present was able to see her retch on her hands and knees while her body shook violently.

“That bastard!” she choked out to herself. Suddenly, she stood up and turned.

“Yusuke, I need to go to Genkai's temple. Now.”

“Fine, but not before you tell us what's going on,” he said while pulling out his communicator.

“Open the portal, fool,” Hiei said. “She won't hesitate to take that from you for whatever it is she needs.”

“What the hell are you talking-”

A sudden gust of wind filled the room and the mirror in Yusuke's hand was ripped from his hand. It flew right into her hand, and she flipped it open.

“Botan here!” said a cheery, blue-haired girl. “Oh, hi, Kagome!”

“Hey, Botan. I need a portal to Genkai's.”

“Sure thing!”

A swirling vortex opened and Kagome vanished.

 

As Kagome stepped onto Genkai's grounds, she sensed rapidly approaching youki.

“Momma!”

She caught Shippo with a smile, refusing to let him be worried.

“Hi, Shippo! Can you tell me where you hid Tetsusaiga for me?”

“Oh! Genkai has it! I thought she could safekeep it better than anyone!” he said cheerfully. “Those demons must really be something if you need Tetsusaiga!”

Kagome smirked as she walked into the temple and toward Genkai's energy.

“They are, Shippo. I'm getting to have some fun,” she said. It was true, up until very recent events. “Master Genkai, I need my swords,” she said when she reached the woman, who was doing vertical pushups(1).

“What for? I thought I taught you to hold back,” she said as she let her legs drop and stood up.

Kagome began to answer her for Shippo's benefit while telepathically answering her truthfully. While she told her that the demons were stronger than she anticipated, she showed her Naraku's return.

“I see… Well then, here you go,” she said before hitting a spot on the ground in front of her. A burst of power filled the air and suddenly, two swords formed before her.

Kagome quickly caught them just as a surge of power formed and she sighed.

“I'll just get going, then,” she started before she felt Yusuke's power coming toward them.

“Kagome, where the hell are ya'!?”

Kagome didn't miss the hidden smirk on Genkai's face, and she frowned.

“In here, Yusuke.”

In seconds, he was in the small room, along with Hiei and Kurama.

“Okay, what the hell's going on!? Who was that guy!?”

“It doesn't matter right now,” she said with a pointed glance at Shippo. “I'm on top of it.”

“On top of it!? He had you shaking when Chu didn't even bother you!”

“I said I'm on top of it,” she ground out.

She turned to Shippo with a bright smile again.

“Okay, honey. I need to get going, now. I'll see you later, sweetie,” she said as she pulled him into a hug before standing. And then, she bowed to Genkai and was gone from the temple.

“Oi! Wait the hell up!” Yusuke yelled as he caught up to her. Hiei was watching her reactions closely, and was very wary of the swords at her side.

“Just open a portal back to the room,” she said, angry beyond belief. “An explanation isn't important, because as soon as I get back, I'm going to kill him. Again.”

Suddenly, there was a creeping sensation that filled Kagome and her eyes narrowed.

“You must really want to die,” she ground out, looking behind a confused Yusuke. A dark chuckle had the detective spinning around to face the man they'd seen before.

“Ah, Kagome. So energetic and feisty, as always. You know, I was very surprised to find out that you're alive here. I mean, the miko who fought me so adamantly in the past is a schoolgirl from the future?”

Kagome growled, bringing a dark grin to his face.

“What's the matter, Kagome? Are you still mad because your family got the bad end of my return gift?”

Kagome snarled, then.

“You! You bastard!”

“Oh? But that's not the reaction I received killing those friends of yours. If I remember correctly, you broke down crying.”

Kagome instantly was in front of him with her massive sword held to his throat.

“I'll fucking kill you!”

“That's more like it! Show me the rage!”

Kagome snarled when she realized something, a little too late.

“Damn you and your puppets!”

She quickly decapitated him and took off, her teammates following closely behind, though only Hiei could keep up.

“I don't know what you're planning, onna, but know that he has a plan.”

“I know! He always has a plan! It's why I was glad that I'd killed him!”

“Evidently, you didn't do a good enough job.”

“I know! I must've let a piece of him survive somehow.”

“You know, it's rude to talk about others behind their backs,” a man in a baboon suit said next to her.

Kagome didn't even stop as she cut her hand and released sickles of blood that shredded the puppet's body apart.

“Momma!”

Kagome pushed so much youki into her legs that she actually teleported away, leaving a wide-eyed Hiei to push himself to do the same.

He appeared to see the man holding Shippo off of the ground by his tail.

“Shippo!”

Naraku sneered and Kagome lifted Tetsusaiga.

“Naraku, let him down. Now!”

“But why, Kagome? If I did that, I wouldn't have any incentives.”

“Incentives for what?” she spit out.

“I rather like the idea of fighting you again. So, I want you to stay in the Dark Tournament. You may have learned to feel nothing for anyone after my work, but this little kit should be enough to make you do as I wish.”

Claws sprouted from Kagome's hand, and her team arrived just as her eyes and aura became completely coal-black.

“You want me to fight you? I don't need an incentive for that. So put Shippo down and I'll agree to your sadistic little game.”

“Oh? What makes you think I trust you enough to just let my little shield go?”

“It's not about trust. There's another reason I can't quit the tournament, and killing you will be an excellent reward for me. And I can attack you right now, like that, without hurting anything but you. I've trained since last time, and I can still do damage to you even with Shippo in your hold. So put him down and leave,” she growled. The air crackled with the demonic power surrounding her, and Naraku smirked.

“Very well. Catch,” he said. Just as Kagome moved to catch Shippo, who Naraku had thrown high into the air toward the woods, he became engulfed in a barrier and vanished.

“Momma!” Shippo cried as she sheathed her blade and caught him at the same time.

Kagome held the shaking kit to her and gently patted his head in a very motherly manner.

“Momma! He's alive!”

“I know… I didn't want to worry you, Shippo. I'm so sorry… Genkai, can you raise a barrier powerful enough to keep him out?” she asked, knowing the psychic was listening.

Instantly, a dome of shimmering blue energy rose around the entire complex for as far as Kagome could see. The power inside would keep anything that Genkai didn't want near her inside.

She quickly walked back to the temple and put the now exhausted kit to bed.

“Good night, Shippo. I promise I won't let him hurt anyone else,” she whispered to her kit before kissing his forehead and running outside.

“Okay! We're not going anywhere until someone explains to me what the hell is going on!” Yusuke yelled.

“It's not your concern,” she said, glaring at him challengingly.

“Perhaps not, but it would most likely be a good idea to tell him what he's asking. Yusuke can be quite persistent,” Kurama sighed,

Kagome glared at Yusuke, and they had a staring match for several minutes before he flinched.

“It's not your business. When we get to the finals, I'll tell you everything, but until then, I have no need to explain things to you other than the fact that his name is Naraku and he's a demon in more than the literal sense.”

“That's not good enough!”

“Be quiet, dimwit,” said an elderly voice, making him jump. “It's not your business, and I can tell you that trying to get her story like this will wind up with you dead.”

“Like she could kill me!” he laughed. “I'm a mazoku! Some psychotic schoolgirl with youki won't be able to-”

He was abruptly silenced when she raised her hand and he was blasted into the ground by a gust of wind.

“I suggest you shut up, because whether you want me to explain myself to someone I don't know or not, it doesn't mean anything to me. You'd have to find a very persuasive reason to get me to explain it.”

“How about, I'll kick your ass when I get up if you don't!?”

“I'd actually like to see that,” she said, letting go of the wind holding him down. Instantly, he shot up, and she smirked.

“If you can hit me once in two minutes, I'll explain to you. If not, then I get to hit you once.”

“You rather like these bets, don't you, onna?” Hiei mused.

“Hey, racing and fighting are different. I don't respond to threats very well.”

Yusuke started running at her and she caught his fist without even moving her stance at all.

“You have to make sure that the hit counts, too. Counting hitting my arm when I block you won't be effective.”

“Not a problem!”

“Hey, Kurama, don't interfere,” she said when she saw the redhead lifting his rose. “He wants to know something that I have no intention of telling him, so he has to work for it.”

“Odd that you told me this without hesitation,” Hiei's voice said in her head. As Kagome dodged a kick to her head, she smirked.

Telepathic, huh? The reason, if you must know, is that I don't like him. I have no problem with you.

“So tell me, Kagome, why the hell you're so afraid of me finding out what the deal is with that guy!? Old boyfriend?” he mocked. He was very surprised when he suddenly found himself smashed face-first into the ground.

“Not even close.”

She pushed his arm in and he groaned as the bone creaked.

“By the way, it's been a minute.”

Yusuke snarled and swung his other arm backward, making her jump back.

“You should probably aim for me. You tend to hit things better that way,” she said as he blindly swung at her.

“Shut the hell up! You're so goddamn annoying!”

After a few more swings dodged, Kagome smirked.

“Ten seconds left. Better hurry.”

Suddenly, Yusuke snarled and pointed at her.

“Spirit Gun!”

The attack was practically point blank, and it would definitely sting to get hit by it. Sting, but not hurt, because he'd obviously held a lot back.

She quickly drew Tetsusaiga and smirked.

“Meidou Zangetsuha!”

The attack vanished into the black hole of her cut and she smirked.

“You lose,” she mocked. “Now open a portal already.”

“What the hell was that!? Did you just open a portal!?”

“No, I opened a dimensional rip. They're different.”

“How so?” Kurama asked, intrigued.

“Does it matter? Look, if someone doesn't open a portal for me, I can just get back to that island on my own. Portals would just be a lot more convenient.”

“Quite a bit you're keeping from us, it seems, Kagome,” Kurama observed.

“My problems aren't anyone else's concern,” she barked. “And regardless of how this tournament goes, I swear to every kami there is in existence that if someone gets in my way when I'm trying to kill that bastard, their safety isn't on my hands. You know what? I'll see you guys at the hotel,” she said before vanishing…

 

The three watched in awe as the little, timid-looking girl exploded before leaving them.

“Perhaps we should refrain from asking her anything,” Kurama said.

“The story is her business. We shouldn't concern ourselves with her affairs,” Hiei said as he followed her with his Jagan.

Suddenly something snapped in his mental connection to her and for a brief second, Hiei saw an image of pure horror. In the image were four women screaming as they were slaughtered. Above them was a tall demon with long, flowing black hair and a skeletal face. And then, the image was gone and he shook his head.

“We best open that portal, detective. She wasn't talking about getting to that island by herself in jest.”

“What the hell are you talking about!? It's in the middle of the ocean, and it has a massive barrier around it!”

“Trust me when I say the water isn't bothering her. And it seems she knows the demon controlling that barrier, so that will most likely open for her.”

“Damn! Botan, we need a portal to the island,” he yelled into the now-open communicator. A void opened and the three jumped in…

 

Kagome was flying across the ocean when she felt a sudden memory break into her mind. It was then. The events of one year ago played through her mind, and she snarled.

“Why the hell are you coming up now!?”

She had to quickly refocus, as the momentary distraction nearly dropped her into the river. Running on water was easy with her speed and abilities, but it took concentration, which was split everywhere now.

Finally, she reached the island's beach and felt a small resistance pushing her back before she simply drew the Tetsusaiga and it flashed red. The barrier somehow recognized its master's power, and let her pass through before she sheathed it again. By the team she reached the main part of the island, it was already night.

She reached the hotel at the same time she sensed her teammates appearing.

When she entered the room, she was met with a hostile glare and returned it tenfold.

“I told you I'd get here without your help.”

“You realize I have absolutely no reason to let you stay on this team, right? I don't trust you, bitch!”

“First, you have no choice but to let me stay because you'll be disqualified without me. Secondly, I don't care if you trust me. Trust is for the naïve. I don't know why you want to know my past so badly, but ask your boss about it if you're so damn interested.”

“It does make it rather difficult to fight alongside you,” Kurama sighed. “We know not what your powers, past, motive for being here, or allegiances are.”

“I guarantee you you'll see my powers when I'm fighting him. As for my motives, it was to save Keiko, but now it's so I can make sure he dies for eternity. My allegiances are to no one since I left the past, and I'm sure your boss knows all about my time-traveling adventures. Good enough, fox?”

Kurama's eyes widened at her name for him, and Yusuke snarled again.

“No! That's not good enough! I don't know what the hell your deal is, but there's no way I'm trusting you to do anything! I wouldn't trust you to not stab me in the back, so I definitely wouldn't trust you to be in my room while I'm sleeping!”

“There are plenty of caves around here that I can sleep in. It wouldn't be the first time for me, so shut the hell up about it. If you don't want me in here,” she said while picking up her bag, “then I'll leave. Come find me when the fights are starting tomorrow. I'll be in a small cave on the beach.”

Yusuke gaped at her as she vanished with speed that was definitely faster than Hiei's.

As Kagome reached the cave she'd seen, she set her bag down and sighed.

“This is not going to be a fun week.”

She felt five youki coming toward her, and smirked. Maybe this would relieve some stress. At least, from the bloodlust, hatred, and regular lust she sensed, she hoped it would.

“Hey, bitch!” yelled a low, gravelly voice. “Who let a human wonder off to the beach!?”

“Nobody tells me where to go,” she sighed. “Please tell me some of you wouldn't mind dying.”

“What!? First, we lose to some half-breed's team and now we're getting shit from some human bitch!? That's it!”

A tall boar demon charged into the cave and she stood up.

“Hang on one second. You fought a hanyo's team?”

“Yeah, some prick named Naraku!”

“You fought Naraku and he let you live? What the hell?”

“What!? You think we're so weak as to die by that little prick's hands!?”

Kagome inspected the youki and sensed something concealing it.

“Huh… Maybe you guys actually have something to you…”

“Alright, bitch! That's it! I'm not taking more shit from you!”

“I highly doubt it,” she said with a smirk. “But seriously, what happened? How are you alive after fighting him?”

“That guy just knocked us out of the ring and held us there, saying he had more important things to do than soil his hand with our filthy blood! The little arrogant half-breed called our blood filthy!”

“Oh! That would explain how he showed up so quick… I'd assumed he'd just killed everything and teleported…” she thought out loud.

“WHAT!? You little fucking bitch! I'm going to use your body so badly that you'll be begging for me to kill you before I'm done!” a large eagle demon yelled before drawing two slender blades.

The Tetsusaiga pulsed and Kagome sighed.

“Are they really dangerous?” she asked the sword, as though expecting an answer. “I thought you only responded to strong demons.”

The five demons outside of the cave snarled and she sighed.

“Alright.”

She drew the massive blade and the demons jumped back.

“Hey, can you guys try to make this last a while? I'm in a really bad mood and I want to let off some steam.”

 

Yusuke's senses were suddenly brought to action when he sensed massive amounts of power near the edge of the island, near the beach.

“Oh, damnit! That stupid bitch is going to get herself killed!”

He took off, his team following close behind. When they got closer, Kuwabara stopped in his tracks and began to shake.

“What the hell's your problem!?” Yusuke barked at the delay.

“Don't go up there,” he said quietly as the power he felt froze his body.

“What!? Why the hell not!?”

“Seriously, dude. You won't like what you find.”

“Whatever,” he yelled before taking off again. The demons left Kuwabara where he stood as they neared a cave.

Yusuke stopped dead in his tracks at what he saw.

On the beach were five demons that all looked the size of small mountains with powerful youki and brutal-looking weapons. In between the five was their teammate, holding the huge sword from before.

With his demonic hearing, he picked up every word spoken, and he did not like how it was going…

 

“Hey, I don't want to screw up this really nice cave with all your blood,” Kagome sighed. “Mind if we do this on the beach?”

The demons snarled as she walked past them, showing her back.

Seeing this, the demons released their concealment and the entire beach was shaken with the rush of power on it.

“Oh, thank god. I thought this wouldn't be any fun,” she said as the five made a ring around her. She briefly noticed her teammates watching, but she didn't care at the moment.

“You're going to die, you little bitch!”

“Yeah yeah,” she sighed. “Listen, what were the demons on Naraku's side like?”

“What?” a large snake demon barked.

“On his team. Was there a skeletal demon? Kind of huge. He has a huge sword that's as big as him?”

“Yeah, that guy was there. He was laughing at us while his half-bred scum of a leader beat us!”

“You know what? Stop calling him a half-breed! He's not even close to something that pure!”

“Did you just call the bastard offspring of a demon and a filthy human pure!? Someone must've hit your head pretty hard, bitch!”

“I knew a `half-breed' that could've killed every single one of you by now, so don't call that thing anything related to hanyos,” she said calmly.

“Oh? A half-breed that could kill us, huh!? That's rich! I'd love to see that! What's his name!?”

“Inuyasha,” she said quietly. All of the laughing from the demons immediately died.

“Inuyasha!? That bastard with the sword of the inu taiyoukai fang!?”

“Yeah. This is it,” she said, lifting Tetsusaiga. “And you damn well better show respect for him.”

“Oh? The little filth had a whole bunch of lucky breaks!”

“Yeah! He was that little filth that killed Ryukotsusei! And he had to let his noble side possess him to do it!”

“And he killed a whole bunch of bandits for the same reason, and got beaten by a weak moth demon!”

“And then, he let himself be possessed again by a sword!” supplied another demon.

“And then, to add the biggest insult of all, he fell in love to a human. A miko no less! And then he got pinned to a tree by her!”

“But the worst is that he died with the reincarnation of that same miko! What a joke! You're saying to respect him!?”

Tetsusaiga suddenly pulsed so violently the ground shook, and the demons were silenced when Kagome slowly sheathed the blade, her face hidden by the shadows of her bangs.

“You fucking demon filth,” she said in a low voice. “If you say one more word about him, I'll slaughter you all,” she hissed dangerously.

“Ha! The little filth was so pathetic he even died protecting a kitsune pup and a whole litter of filthy little human children!” the eagle demon said.

Suddenly, Tetsusaiga was on the ground and the entire beach was filled with a violent wind. An aura as black as coal wrapped around the girl and they watched as long, diamond-hard claws grew in place of her fingernails. As she lifted her head, black eyes stared at them as a vicious snarl left her. Her canines had tripled in size and were now fangs like a dog's. Large, jagged black stripes formed on her face and she hissed.

“I warned you. Now you die.”

In a flash, her body vanished, and screams of pure agony filled the air along with the massive sprays of their decapitated heads' blood. She reappeared with blood covering her entire body and a feral snarl adorned her lips, which were pulled back to show her fangs. Suddenly, she bent down and picked the sword back up.

The second her flesh met with it, the entire area returned to its previous state and Kagome's body was that of a human once again, though she still looked as vicious as before.

“Don't talk about things you don't know,” she snarled to no one. Around her lay five bloody, headless corpses along with five equally bloody heads on the sand.

Suddenly, the oceanic water lifted into the air and wrapped around her. When it left her, she was drenched, but completely blood-free, except for the red marks on her fingers.

“Sorry, Tetsusaiga,” she whispered to the sword. “I should've paid better attention to your warning,” she sighed before sliding it back into its place at her side. When she gently brushed the Tenseiga, she became aware of the poll-bearers of the dead by the corpses and got a sadistic idea.

In a flash, she swung the blade and the imps were ash. Suddenly, the heads of the demons groaned and spit out the sand in their mouths.

“What the hell!?”

“Guess what,” she said to the demon heads. “You pissed me off when I was already in a bad mood, and you insulted one of the greatest men I've ever met. For that, I decided that I'm going to let your heads and bodies slowly rot here, while you're alive to feel every minute of it.”

The eagle demon's head was the only one in a position to see her, and he gaped.

“What the hell are you!?”

“You know that miko you were joking about? The one you said he was pathetic because he protected her? That's me,” she hissed. “And I don't appreciate some random little demon scum like you mocking him,” she said with an odd calm.

“Please! We're sorry! Just kill us!” the demons begged in unison.

“Demons begging for death? I think I like this feeling. I think I understand why he enjoys it so much… But fortunately for you, I'm not Naraku, no matter what happened to me because of him.”

With that, she let loose a spray of purifying energy and the demons turned to ash.

“In case you're wondering, that was fifty percent of my power,” she said loudly to her teammates without turning around.

“Christ! What are you!? Even high S-Class demons aren't that strong!” Yusuke yelled.

“Well then, I guess you can classify me as X-Class, huh?”

There was a gust of wind and all of the bloody sand was suddenly thrown in a massive ball into the ocean.

“Come get me when the fight starts,” she said before vanishing into the cave. A massive, shimmering barrier rose around it, and Kagome quickly went to sleep. Using that much power wasn't tiring, but the exertion of not killing all of the demons in a more vicious way was…

 

Yusuke watched as she walked into the cave, completely ignoring them.

“What the hell!? Okay! That's it! I am not going to fight with that!” he yelled, flipping open his communicator.

“Botan here,” said a cheery voice.

“Botan, I need to talk to the toddler,” he said while walking back toward Kuwabara.

Koenma appeared on the screen and sighed.

“I really wish you'd stop calling me that, Yusuke.”

“Whatever. Look, I need someone strong for our team.”

“You have someone strong.”

“She's dangerous.”

“Yes, I'm well aware. That's why she's a good ally.”

“No, I mean she's bipolar, psychotic outbursts dangerous,” he said as he leaned against a tree.

“Really? Well, I suppose she would be that way,” Koenma sighed, not realizing he'd spoken out loud until it was too late.

“What the hell would cause her to be like this!? Wasn't she a miko!?”

“That's not my place to tell you, I'm afraid, Yusuke. She's so powerful that even my father shows her respect in her decisions. If she doesn't want to tell anyone, there's not a thing anyone can do about it.”

“What!? Are you kidding me!? She's stronger than Sensui, Toguro, Rando, and Genkai combined!”

“Yes, well… She's had a lot of tragedy to get to that point, I'm afraid. Her being `psychotic' is to be expected given what she went through…”

“Damnit, Koenma! I need someone else here to take her place! I don't trust her worth a damn!”

“Well, Genkai is the only one that fits that category and she's not allowed to enter…”

Suddenly, the communicator was grabbed from Yusuke's hand and Kurama sighed.

“Excuse me, Koenma. What can you tell us about hanyo named Naraku and Inuyasha?”

“Naraku!? Where'd you hear that name?” Koenma asked nervously.

“It seems he has quite an effect on Kagome, I'm afraid.”

“What're you talking about!? Naraku was killed over five hundred years ago!”

“Yeah yeah, we already established that that's what everyone thought. Apparently the psycho princess didn't do a good enough job,” Yusuke yelled over Kurama's shoulder.

Koenma's eyes widened and he began to sweat.

“Naraku… is back? Oh… Oh no… Listen, Yusuke, whatever you do, do not get into any form of altercation with him! Understand!?”

“What's the big deal? He doesn't seem so tough,” Yusuke said with a shrug.

“Yusuke, you know how you were just talking about how dangerous Kagome was? Imagine this scenario. Two years ago, Kagome's power was completely new, raw, and not under her control. Now think of that power, and imagine what it would take to not only survive that, but to live to this day and be able to walk around.”

Yusuke's eyes widened at the implication.

“Who exactly is this Naraku?” Kurama asked.

“Oh no! I'm not getting you involved with any of this! Listen closely, all of you! I don't care how strong you think you are, but if it comes to a fight with him, absolutely DO NOT get in Kagome's way. If they're fighting, I want you to call Botan and get a portal to somewhere very far away with every demon that you don't want to be killed. That is an order, understand!?”

“Fine, shorty,” Yusuke said, suddenly humbled. “Get back to me about that fighter,” he said before closing it.

“It would be wise to not delve into that woman's past, for what it's worth,” Hiei said from a tree limb above the detective.

“And what do you know?”

“Enough,” he said before jumping down. “I, as well, don't want to see what happens should her past be revealed. But from what I know, asking her to tell you will be very painful for her, and she might destroy this entire island in rage if you get her too annoyed.”

With that, Hiei walked off into the night, heading in the beach's general direction…

 

A/N:

(1)- this is where you use your hands to push your entire body up, whereas in a horizontal pushup, you lift your body using both arms and legs, and there is less gravity to make it difficult.

Also, I'm aware that without their bodies, the heads wouldn't be able to talk. However, since demon anatomy is often different, I'm going to assume these ones don't need lungs to talk. So there!

As always, be sure to leave your thoughts! See you next time, and thank you for reading my latest work!