InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunion ❯ Trouble ( Chapter 6 )

*Yawn* I do not own Rumiko Takahashi's works or the works of Yoshihiro Togashi. However, I do own Maemi, Taeko, Amaya, Jomei, the villain, his henchmen, and any other random peoples I include to make this story work. Gee, that almost sounds like slavery…*shrug*

 

Warning: Violence

 

 

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Shizuru looked out the window, something was wrong she could feel it in her bones. “Shit…Something bad must have happened. The boys can take care of themselves but Kagome and Keiko…” She didn't even want to finish that thought as she grabbed her jacket and headed out to see if she could find the girls.

 

She headed to the shopping district and not two streets away she noticed someone had fainted on the side walk. She walked closer and noticed it was Keiko. “Damn.” She went over to the downed girl and tried to wake her up. It wasn't happening, Shizuru sighed. Looking around she saw a teenage boy walking towards her. “Hey kid, you think you could help me get my friend's bags to her apartment. She's anemic and just fainted,” she said playing somewhat the role of damsel and distress. She was relieved when the boy nodded “Thanks, I don't know how I would have managed.”

 

The boy knelt down to help her looking somewhat sheepish. `Aw cute,' was a vague thought that drifted through her mind as she concentrated on getting Keiko back to the Kuwabara apartment. `I'll put her in Kazuma's room; he won't be using it for awhile.' She lifted Keiko up bridal style and the three of them made their way back to Kuwabara's apartment.

 

“So kid what's your name?”

 

“Jomei.” He looked somewhat uncomfortable.

 

“I know it's not much but here…” She tried to hand him five hundred yen.

 

He looked at the bills confused. “What's this?”

 

“It's some money for helping me get the bags and all here.” She tried to get him to take the money but he just shook his head.

 

“No it's alright, but you could give me something else in exchange.” She raised her eyebrow. If he asked her for something inappropriate he'd wake up in a gutter somewhere. She just looked at him, which he took as an invitation to continue.

 

“I'm looking for someone. Her name is Kagome Higurashi.” He doubted this woman would know anything. After all Tokyo was quite a large city and they hadn't seen hide nor hair of Kagome since he, Amaya and their younger brother Taeko had started their search. Maemi the second eldest had stayed behind with father and mother to help him manage the lands.

 

“If I may ask why are you looking for this girl?” Shizuru asked curiously with pretended indifference.

 

`What could it hurt to tell the truth, if she knew nothing it wouldn't matter and it would soon be forgotten.' “She's an old friend of my mother.”

 

Shizuru sensed no lie and she also felt she could trust this boy. “You see this girl here, something happened. Kagome, the one I believe you are looking for, would never have left her like this.”

 

Jomei looked at Shizuru sharply, a deadly serious look crossing his face. “I must report this to my sisters. She is important to you.” Shizuru gave him a look that basically said `what do you think.' “Alright then, I will keep in contact and tell you when we find her.”

 

Shizuru nodded, and Jomei left. Shizuru looked down at Keiko in her arm. “Alright princess, let's get you to bed.” Meanwhile, Jomei was busy contacting Amaya and giving her the first lead they'd had on Kagome in over a year of looking. I was good and bad news. He sighed, `I wonder why she trusted me?'

 

 

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Kuwabara sat up abruptly from where he'd been resting. They'd been hiking through the Hida Mountains for some time when he felt a chill go down his back. It was the same type of chill he'd felt during the Suzaku incident a few years ago, when Suzaku had sent all those possessed people after Keiko. But this time it felt a little closer to home as if it was someone he…“Kagome.”

 

Hiei growled, irritated. He felt that something was off but he didn't know what it was and it made him more irritable when dealing with the Baka. “What are you blathering about now?”

 

Kuwabara glared at Hiei, “Something bad has happened to Kagome. I can feel it.”

 

Hiei was suddenly standing in front of him. “You're sure.”

 

“Have I ever been wrong about one of my feelings?” Kuwabara said rhetorically, crossing his arms.

 

“Hn.” Was all Hiei said in response, Hiei knew that the Baka had never been wrong about these things, but he'd be damned if he were to admit it.

 

Kurama and Yuusuke walked up to them, “We couldn't find anything, have you guys?” The other two didn't even get a chance to respond when suddenly Yuusuke's communicator went off.

 

Yuusuke flicked it open quickly, “Yeah, what do you want now diaper breath.”

 

Koenma looked at the team leader disapprovingly. “Now Yuusuke this is no time for insults. We have another serious problem on our hands. It seems that a very important Shrine Maiden has been kidnapped.”

 

Fear seeped into Kurama as he was starting to suspect who the Shrine Maiden might be. He looked quickly at Kuwabara and Hiei, their expression showed equal worry and anger, but absolutely no surprise. Hiei caught Kurama's eyes and nodded his head, fear turned to cold Yoko anger and in response Kurama's eyes shifted to gold.

 

Not knowing about this exchange, Koenma continued, “It seems that a young woman by the name of Higurashi Kagome has been kidnapped from the residential area of Eastern Tokyo.”

 

“What!” Yuusuke yelled at the little compact. “What do you mean Kagome has been kidnapped?!”

 

Koenma looked calm and collected in the face of the screaming. “Just what I said… Wait? You know Kagome!”

 

“Well duh! It's Kuwabara's cousin!” He said gesturing to that angry form of Kuwabara over his shoulder.

 

Koenma was now ignoring Yuusuke entirely. “Oh no! Of all the things to over look and she's been right under my nose the whole time. Amaya is going to kill me.” Koenma began whimpering, as he shuffled through his papers looking for confirmation that what Yuusuke had just told him was true and, sure enough, there as plain as day was the document listing Kagome Higurashi as a close cousin to Kuwabara.

 

Koenma looked torn; he wasn't sure what to do. Kagome was important but the energy radiating from the area that he'd sent his team to, seemed equally important. “How about you split up and…” Everyone in the group as one shook their heads angrily.

 

Before anyone could say anything Kuwabara grabbed the compact from Hiei, “No! We are not splitting up, Kagome is more important than some stupid mountain.”

 

“Yes but…”

 

That's when Kurama took the compact from Kuwabara, “I'm sorry Koenma, but Kagome is more important to all of us. I, like Kuwabara, am unwilling to leave her in danger and Hiei can possibly use his Jagan to find her more quickly. The only one that leaves is Yuusuke who in all probability will be most unwilling to continue searching for your mysterious energy source while we retrieve her.”

 

Yanking the compact back from Kurama, “You're darn tootin', I will kick all your asses if you even think about ditching me here on this rock! So there, you have your answer.” He flicked the compact closed before Koenma even had a chance to reply.

 

“So let's find Kagome and kick some asses.”

 

 

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Kagome woke up to find her self bound spread eagle to a stone slab. She felt slightly woozy from the powder that had caused her to fall unconscious. She struggled move lift her arms and move her legs, it all proved to be futile, the only thing she could do was move her head from side to side.

 

“I see `Sleeping Beauty' has finally awoken.” Said a sarcastic male voice from somewhere to her left, she turned her face and caught a glimps of black hair and malevolent green eyes. Using her senses she could tell he was a demon…or mostly demon.

 

“W-who are you? What do you want with me?” She asked her voice quavering. She'd never felt so vulnerable in her life, this time there was no Inu-Yasha to bail her out. No last minute savior to come to her rescue. Kuwabara and his demon friends had gone off on a mission and they wouldn't be back for over a week. A tear slid from her eye, they wouldn't even know she was missing.

 

Maybe if she could just get her hands free then she could use a blast of miko powers to harm this demon that had captured her and possibly escape. “Now, now, now, I can see that you are trying to call up your powers.” He sidled up to the stone slab and moved over her straddling her stomach.

 

She stared at him in horror. `What is he going to do to me?!' Her mind screamed in fright. He looked down at her through jade eyes which were cat-like and shadowed in violet hues. His handsome face smirked at her even through her body quaked in fear the irrational thought of `Why is it most demons are almost supernaturally handsome?' drifted through her mind.

 

He moved a clawed hand up to drift across her face his palm ghosting along her cheek. She felt the smooth, dry feeling of what seemed to be scales against her skin. “Like a snake,” She muttered aloud.

 

He tapped her on the nose, his grin widening. “Very good, just for that I will tell you what is happening.” He reached into his pocket and retrieved a necklace with an obsidian stone than hung at the end. “You see this?” He said waving the stone necklace in front of her face. Kagome nodded fearfully, his grin was scaring her.

 

“Well, this goes with you lovely manacles, Remember when I said I could see you trying to use your energy.” Another nod, “Now do you still feel that energy.” Her eyes widened. Fear held her tongue as she shook her head, eyes wide, “The pretty black stones in those manacles of yours are slowly fading to white thanks to the energy that it is taking from you and storing. You don't feel any pain because it is only taking the power you are emitting and for the moment, you haven't tried much.” His grin turned happily insane. “As soon as I add this pretty necklace filled with pure demon essence however your body will attempt to purify it. Creating, so I'm told, an excruciating cycle until your body either gives out from it all, which will take awhile given the amount of power your tiny body contains…” He finished talking to her like a baby patting her cheek lovingly.

 

“Or…” he leapt off of her. “I take this pretty little dagger here and end your life.” Insane laughter followed shortly after. “Don't worry, by the time I'm through with you, you'll be begging for it. But for now I have all the time in the world.”

 

He moved to the wall, placing the dagger on a stand and grabbing a long piece of leather. “Why?” she asked faintly.

 

He smiled caressing the leather with his fingers, “Why I'm stealing your energy or why am I doing this.” At her silence he decided to answer both, and climbed back onto the slab to straddle her once more. “Well I'm taking your energy and converting it using a ritual my father was working on, you know before you killed him.” Her eyes widened who could she have killed, “Aw you can't have forgotten him already, he leaned down to whisper in her ear, “My father's name was Naraku.”

 

He kept his head down and breathed deeply. “You know, I just love the scent of your fear.” He moved the leather strap over her mouth and tied it tightly gagging her, she tried to struggle, but as before she couldn't move. Finally he locked the necklace in place then kissed her on the forehead. “It won't get really bad for awhile yet.” He got off her once more. “This is for revenge, for killing the only person who cared for me. He kept my mother from killing me before I was born and helped to raise me when, my mother wanted nothing to do with me.” He scowled for the first time at her, “Finally, after you'd killed him, the only person I'd had left, was living her life happily without even knowing who I was or even that I existed. This is my gratitude for that.” With that he turned and left the room, locking the door behind him.

 

Kagome's body began to hurt not much at first. At first if felt like ants were crawling over her tickling her skin, then gradually it felt like flames. Until all she could feel was what seemed to be the flames of hell, burning her alive. That was when she started screaming.

 

 

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Yes, yes I know another cliffie. But I've found it difficult to end in places that aren't cliffhangers.

 

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Also thanks go to Kagome Lady of the Rain, Youko's Dish, Takshaka

 

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