InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Stronger Than Yesterday ❯ Chp. 6 Move Your Body Like a Snale ( Chapter 6 )

Chp 6. Move Your Body Like a Snake

 

Just as she felt herself falling deeper into his charm, he broke eye contact with a yelp of surprise and fury.

 

 

“Argh!” Youko yelled jumping away from the stunned girl to put out the fire that had erupted onto his clothing. Growling he glanced up to find a satisfied looking four year old with spiky hair. “Why you little bastard.” Youko growled as he began to make his way toward the passive child.

 

 

Kagome took this moment to fully shake all the fox magic off. Taking in the immediate happenings, she went into action. Intercepting the furious fox demon, she scooped Hiei up into her arms as stared angrily down at the Youko.

 

 

“You're awake?” he asked surprised.

 

 

“Yeah. and you shouldn't pick on little kids, or Miko's who come easily under hypnosis.” Hoisting Hiei onto her back, she got into a fighting stance before charging the fox demon.

 

 

Aiming to knock him unconscious, she swung a chop at his neck, which he dodged with ease.

 

 

“You missed.” He said teasingly ducking under her arm.

 

 

“No, I just needed you to move.” She said smiling evilly as she aimed a kick at his crotch.

 

 

“You're going to have to do better than that.” He said catching her foot.

 

 

“Like this?” she asked, using his hold on her foot as leverage to jump up into the air. With her free leg, she swung it up unto his shoulder. Shaking her other leg free she swung it up onto his other.

 

 

“We should fight more often if you're going to use these types of tactics.” Youko smile with a devilish smile as he grasped her legs in his hands, his head trapped between her thighs.

 

 

Giving him a false smile, she squeezed her legs together tightly and threw her self into a spin, taking Youko along with her. Somehow ending up on his back, she then effectively knocked him out with the chop he had dodged earlier.

 

 

“See, that was easy.” She huffed proudly, before retrieving, the dizzy, Hiei from her back to cradle in her arms. “Are you okay?”

 

 

He merely nodded his head before looking her in the face with a suspicious look. “Why?”

 

 

“Why what?” she asked clearly confused.

 

 

“Why'd you stop him?”

 

 

“You mean why'd I stopped him from hitting you?” she asked in a scandalized voice, which he merely nodded yes to. “I can't stand to see children get abused. Especially people with white hair.” The last part she muttered to herself. “So, why did you stop him from harassing me?”

 

 

He just shrugged and turned his head. “Didn't look like you liked it.”

 

 

Smiling softly to herself, she hugged then kissed the stunned demon before setting him down. “Now what to do with you?” she said aloud to herself staring down at the unconscious fox demon she was currently sitting on.

 

 

~___~

 

 

“I'm the greatest thief in history, what makes you think a measly door can stop me?” Youko growled from within the confines of his closet.

 

 

“I don't.” Kagome said casually, as she gathered things for the children.

 

 

“Then why do you sound so casual?”

 

 

“Try the door and you'll see.” Kagome told him as she stopped in front of the closet expectedly. There was a brief moment's hesitation, and then his growl of pain as the door flashed pink with miko energy.

 

 

“Curse you miko.”

 

 

“Yeah, well, the same to you...you perverted kitsune.” Walking away, Kagome grabbed the bag she had packed for the children and headed for her room, but not before hearing the last comment the fox in the closet had to say.

 

 

“OH, don't act like you didn't want it.”

 

 

“I didn't hear that.”

 

 

~___~

 

 

Kagome found solving the answer to the babyfied (yes I said babyfied) detectives quite a challenge, when having said detectives running around her room like animals.

 

Kuwabara, who was closest to her, was constantly trying to get his hands on her equipment, Hiei, who didn't seem the type at all, was jumping from her bed to the dresser to the bed then to the ceiling, and Yusuke, who seemed the type in all ways, was pulling her clothes out of her drawers.

 

 

“CANDY!” Chibi Yusuke suddenly yelled triumphantly.

 

 

“NO!” Kagome yelled surprisingly as she jumped up, making the young Kuabawra, who been climbing up her, to fall over. “Not my secret stash!” she yelled, going over to where Yusuke and now Hiei stood.

 

 

“Give that here.” Kagome demanded reaching her hand out for the bag of candy.

 

 

“Nom get your own ugly!” Yusuke yelled back holding the candy out of her reach and kicking her in the shin.

 

 

“Gah!” Kagome yelled in pain as she rubbed her sore knee.

 

 

“What's candy?” Hiei asked in a child like monotone voice, trying to keep his face straight and all curiosity from his voice.

 

 

“What's with you? You've never had candy before?”

 

 

“I've never heard of it?”

 

 

A look seemed to cross Yusuke's face as of a child getting a brand new toy. “Here!” he yelled unfolding a chocolate and shoving it in Hiei's mouth.

 

At first reluctantly, Hiei began to chew the candy, then ever so slowly, his face seemed to light up as a smile erupted onto his face. “more.” He said enthusiastically.

 

 

“Here!” Yusuke said eagerly as he plopped some candy into his mouth before giving Hiei a handful.

 

 

“Give it here!” Kagome yelled, not liking where this was going.

 

 

“Never!” both Hiei and Yusuke said in unison as they disappeared out the door.

 

 

“Come back!” Kagome yelled as she started after them, but before she could more than two feet, she tripped over her feet, and landed in front of a quiescent Kuwabara, who merely looked at her, grunting every so often.

 

 

“What's on your mind?” she asked exasperatedly.

 

 

Grunting again, Kuabawra spit out the pacifier and smiled an infant smile. “Poop.”

 

 

~___~

 

 

“How can you fit all that inside a diaper?” Kagome asked disgusted as she a Kuabawra left the confines of the bathroom. Stepping out into the hall she yelped as her bare feet touched something cold, wet, and slippery on the floor.

 

 

“What is...?” startle out of her sentence, Kagome had just enough time to firmly press herself against the wall as Yusuke and Hiei, both on sugar highs and screaming at the top of their lungs, rushed by on skillets from the kitchen.

 

 

“Not gone thirty minutes and they're already bobsledding.” Not a full minute passed before Kagome realized she was talking to herself.

 

 

“Kuabawra? Kuabawra? Kuabawra!” suddenly in a panic, Kagome made to take off after the two bobsledders, knowing full well that they had taken Kuabawra, but it was also in her panic that she forgot the cold, wet, slippery substance on the floor and fell hard onto her back.

 

“Ow!” she whispered feebly. As she lay there in a dazed pain, a deafening sound suddenly reached her ears. Silence. “Well that can't be good.” She said to herself as she clumsily got to her feet and made her way downstairs. The downstairs area was a mess, pillows were thrown everywhere, paper littered every possible surface, a fort of some sort had been constructed from chairs and blankets, and the closet door was open clothing thrown out of it as if it had thrown up. “That's nice.” She said disdainfully as she steeped onto wet spots in the carpet.

 

Although a mess, the downstairs was eerily quiet. The only sound that could be heard was coming from the laundry room. Dreading what she would find, Kagome made her way towards the noise. On entering the room, she was surprised to find Hiei and Kuabawra sitting side by side quietly and watching the clothes tumble around in the dryer in wonderment.

 

 

“What are you two doing?” she asked as she came and squatted next to the two children, who paid no acknowledgement of her presence. Frowning confusedly, she also turned towards the dryer and tried to figure out what had them so mesmerized. And that's when she saw it. A hand. “OH MY GOD!” she screamed as she wrenched open the door and frantically searched for Yusuke.

 

 

“Yusuke? Yusuke! Speak to me!” she yelled as she cradled the dazed child.

 

 

“AGAIN!” Yusuke yelled as he fell back into reality.

 

 

“No! No more.” Reaching behind her, she snatched up the other two who were trying to escape and hugged them to her body, exhausted by the morning's events.

 

 

~___~

 

 

`What did I do to deserve this?' Kagome asked herself as she watched the three children run around the living room like crazy.

 

 

Hiei held the curtains in the air as he ran around the living room at a fast pace, Yusuke was jumping on the couch and slinging anything he could get his hands on, and Kuabawra was currently pulling everything off of the shelves and tested them for edibleness.

 

But this time she was better off to study what had gone wrong with the spell, she had eradicated force fields at all the exits and around her so she could study undisturbed. Although she still had not noticed the open closet without a fox.

 

 

“I think I've figured it out.” Kagome said aloud to herself, obvious to the three children making faces at her through her barrier. “I don't have an answer by I have the equation. Four candles, four people in the house. Four candles to represent my four friends, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, and Sango. Two were demons, two were humans. Two humans in the house and two demons. Spell to be used was time reversal, and somehow I ended up with three babies and a fox. The fox part is confusing but I'll fix that right now. So to fix this, all I have to do is burn the candles and they'll get back to normal. Sure why not, not like I'm risking my life.” Laughing for no apparent reason, she immediately hushed as she saw that her `accidents' had all fallen asleep.

 

 

“Aww, look at the little kidnappers and homicidal maniacs. Precious. I need a picture.” Pulling out her camera from last night, she snapped the pictures and smiled eagerly. She couldn't wait to get these developed.

 

 

Getting up and letting down her barriers, she deposited each child onto the sofa and began to straighten up, just a little though, this wasn't her house.

 

 

“They'll be just fine in a few hours.” She said as she propped the four candles onto the end table. Four candles for four friends.

 

 

“Yusuke.” She said as she lit a candle with a green flame.

 

 

“Hiei.” Black flame.

 

 

“Kurama.” Amber flame.

 

 

“Kuabawra.” Blue flame.

 

 

Stepping back, she placed a barrier around the candles so that they couldn't get blown out and smiled with satisfaction as a yawn escaped her lips. “I'm getting to old for this.”

 

 

~___~

 

 

“I'm really getting to old for this.” Kagome said exasperated as she opened the door to her room only to find beautiful and exotic plants growing all through out the room.

 

 

“Come out come out wherever you are!” she called out as she entered the room, only to have the door slam behind her to reveal the grinning fox she called for.

 

 

“How did you get out?” she said with an annoy huff as she crossed her arms over her chest.

 

 

“You had the barrier set so that demons couldn't touch it...well just offer candy to a three year old human with distaste for authority and the fox gets out. Now where were we?” stalking towards her, he reached out about to grab her, but she simply sidestepped and slapped his hands away.

 

 

“Answer me this, why are you here and not a chibi Kurama?”

 

 

“Because I am a younger version of Kurama.”

 

 

“You look older than him to me.” She said as she sidestepped him yet again as he began to get closer and closer.

 

 

“Let's if I can explain this love. Kurama was I, and now I'm he. I'm Youko Kurama the greatest thief there ever was. Kurama and I share a body. We were two different souls now merged into one. Are you following me?”

 

 

“I think I have it.” She said with a smirk as she continued to dart him.

 

 

“You know, in my day I was also known to drive a woman insane within just a few minutes of...”

 

 

“Ahh...don't want to hear that pervert.” She growled as she made a dash for the door, only to find plants had made a barricade around it.

 

 

“I bet you didn't know this about kitsunes...but we can see perfectly well in the dark.” Flashing his seductive smile once more, as he trapped her between his arms, one of his hands on the light switch.

 

 

“Don't you dare, if you do I'll scream.” She threatened referring to his youkai hearing.

 

 

“I'm counting on it.” He purred as he flipped the switch and pressed his mouth against hers.

~___~

 

The candles burned into the late night. Down to the last piece of wax and the flames finally went out. The sleeping children, now began to glow their respected auras, the next thing that happened, was a blinding light, and then the children were replaced with three full-grown sleeping boys.

 

All sleeping soundly, all memory of that day's activity gone from their mind. All except one who had not changed into a child, but a form of their former self, and had on looked everything that Youko did, and was doing to the very second they switched back.

 

 

~___~

 

 

“Anyone remember what we did yesterday?” Kuabawra asked his companions at the breakfast table.

 

 

“You know, I was just thinking the same thing.” Yusuke said loudly slamming his hand on the table. “I mean something weird must have happened yesterday, because I woke up on the couch with Hiei and Kuabawra, who smelled like stale pee, Kurama overslept, and Kagome hasn't come down yet. Kurama, do you know what's going on?”

 

 

“Umm, no, I'm just as baffled as you Yusuke.” Kurama said as he avoided eye contact with everyone, especially Hiei who was staring intently at him.

 

 

“You sicken me fox.” Hiei said after a while as he continued to glare at the guilty Kurama.

 

 

By now, Yusuke was staring at the two with suspicion, that is, was, until footsteps on the steps indicated Kagome's entrance.

 

 

“What took you so long, come on we've got...relics...to...find.” stopping his rant, Yusuke stopped to look at Kagome. She wore a red tank top with tight, blue, low-rise jeans and some thick-soled flip-flops. On her head, she wore a baseball cap, and she had put her hair into a braid. (This outfit was brought to you by kitsune Miroku) But it wasn't that she looked hot that made him stop to look at her, but that she had stopped mid step and was staring wide eyed at Kurama.

 

 

“You both sicken me.” He heard Hiei say from behind him and turned to find him glaring from the red face Kurama, who stared at Kagome, to said girl and back.

 

 

“Whoa Kurama your face is as red as your hair. What are you thinking about?” Kuabawra said loudly in a teasing way, not realizing the distress he was putting the two in.

 

Hot.

 

It was so hot, but a good hot.

 

Silver hair.

 

There were flashes of silver amidst the heat. The source.

 

Sweat.

 

The heat was intense, so intense that sweat was drenching everything like rain. But it was ignored.

 

Black hair.

 

There were flashes of black hair. Black hair amidst the heat and sweat and silver hair. The reason.

 

Panting.

 

The heat and sweat mingled and caused panting to start, panting from heat, exhaustion, and more. But none was going to stop.

 

Red hair.

 

Flashes of red now began to override the silver until there was no more. None was left but flashes of red and black. The only ones.

 

Kurama's face now turned redder and he had to look away and think of something else. While Kagome's knees felt weak under her weight. “I'm going to take another shower,” she said in a deadpan voice as she turned to leave.

 

“Oh no you don't. We're going relic hunting today whether you like it or not, no matter what strange, creepy, weird thing happened yesterday.” Yusuke said authoratively as he snaked an arm around her waist and hoisted her down off the stairs.

 

 

“Fine. But if something happens to one of you, it was owed to me. Even if someone dies.” She said darkly under her breathe as she glared. Unconscious of the arm still wrapped around her waist, nor the looks received by the others in the room by this hold.

 

 

“What?” Yusuke asked, not sure if he heard right.

 

 

“Nothing.”

 

 

“Well come on guys let's go.” Yusuke said as he hoisted Kagome up under his arm and began to walk off.

 

 

~___~

 

 

“I want to try something out.” Kagome said after they had been walking for a while. They had been going in the general direction of where she felt the next relic. Yusuke had been carrying her the hold time, which she didn't mind one bit, when the idea finally came to her.

 

 

Setting her down, he crossed his arms and looked at her expectantly. Ignoring him, she retrieved the relic holder from behind her back and began to concentrate.

 

 

“Okay now where is this stuff coming from?” Yusuke asked suddenly looking enquiring at her backside.

 

 

“What do you mean?” she asked innocently smiling sweetly at him, missing how Kurama squirmed as she did so. Although Hiei did and frowned, well more than he usually does.

 

 

“That stuff! All that stuff you pull from behind your back!” he said enthusiastically.

 

 

“Sub pockets.” She said simply in a girlish voice as she turned back towards her task.

 

 

“Sub what?” Kuabawra asked confusedly.

 

 

Sighing she turned back towards him with a good-natured smile. “Sub pockets. Look, have you ever made a girl so mad that she mysteriously pulled a mallet, skillet, or some other weapon from out of nowhere and hit you with it?”

 

 

“Matter o facts, a few times, different girls, various reasons, continue.”

 

 

Retaining a smile she winked at him knowingly, again squirming and frowning in the background accompanied by narrowed eyes. “Anyway, during one of these `fits' I realized that I have a mallet that magically appears out of nowhere. Where does it come from? So spending `managed' time on my little project. I came to the conclusion that I had a bottomless sub pocket, behind my back and I could access it anytime. So realizing this I filled it with weapons, clothing, books, and random accessories. Any questions?”

 

 

“No. you go head with your bad self.”

 

 

“Thank you Yusuky.” She said with a smile before turning back to her task. Missing the squirming, and frowning, and eye narrowing.

 

 

Licking her finger, she touched it across the relic holder until one sparked her finger. “good.” Drawing on her miko power, she touched the active hold place and watched satisfied as it glowed brightly clenching her fist she grabbed the glow and flung it out from her where it expanded into a vortex.

 

 

“Peace of cake.” She said happily replacing the relic holder and coming to stand by her portal.

 

 

“Wow! Where does it lead?” Kuabawra asked as they all came to stand by her.

 

 

“To the next relic Mr. Peediaper.”

 

 

“What you call me?”

 

 

“So you guys go ahead and I'll follow so I can close the portal behind us.”

 

 

“Is it safe?” Kurama asked coming to expect it.

 

 

“Only one way to find out.” Yelling loudly she kicked out her foot, hitting Kurama in the back and sending him disappearing through the portal. “Is he dead?” she said loudly in an eager voice, but which she fixed when the other's looked at her sharply. “This would be a bad thing.”

 

 

“What do you mean `is he dead'? Didn't you expect him to live or not?” Yusuke asked angrily indicating with his hands.

 

 

“I was just joking, I knew he would survive. Sort of. But he did anyway so go ahead so I can close the portal already.

Gosh.”

 

Turning her back on them, she listened as each one entered the portal and smiled victorious. Dusting off imaginary dust from her clothes, she started on her way towards the house.

 

 

“Where do you think you're going?” a sinister voice asked from behind her.

 

 

“Home. You have a problem with that, firecracker?” turning around she found Hiei not standing a foot away from her.

 

 

“Yes, I do. Now are you going to go quietly or is force necessary?” He asked with a malicious smirk.

 

 

“You wouldn't dare.” She said with narrowed eyes, but as she saw him take his hands out of his pocket and his smirk widened, she knew he dared. “Are you crazy? I'm not going inside that?”

 

 

“Like hell you won't.” he growled jumping forward with his lightening speed and hoisted her over his shoulder, with one arm wrapped firmly around her waste and the other clamped onto her thighs.

 

 

“Don't get fresh and watch those hands Mr.” her only reply was a growl and a pain in her stomach as he bounced her on his shoulder.

 

 

“You know...you're sexy when you're forceful. You little malicious maniac.” She said trying for flattery, but he simply grunted and hopped into the portal with her kicking and screaming.

 

 

~___~

 

 

“What took you so long?” Kuabawra asked accusingly as Hiei hoped through the portal and half-heartedly threw Kagome to the ground.

 

 

“Hiei was being fresh and trying to cop a field.” Kagome said angrily dusting herself off. “Stupid, perverted firecracker.” She mumbled angrily to herself.

 

 

“Quiet woman.” Hiei growled and pulling his Katana out before anyone could stop him, stabbed Kagome in the back. The malicious grin that had spread across his face vanished as the sword stopped mere centimeters from penetrating her back. All around him, time seemed to have stopped as he could see his companions stopped in place. And so was he.

 

 

Without seeing it, someone had come up behind, slithered one arm around his chest so that the hand lay directly over his heart, and the other cradled his face, with the thumb and forefinger grasping his chin. He knew the person to be female for he felt the femalely curves pressed firmly against him.

 

 

“Now why did you go and try to do something like that? I'm a bit testy with people trying to kill me today. Don't make the same mistake he did. For I barely have enough love for you already. That's a good boy.” He knew it was the voice of Kagome, even though he saw her clearly frozen in front of him, that whispered so softly in his ear and he could do nothing but bare the feelings that rose through him, endure the pain she inflicted to his heart and face from her miko that she let loose. It was only a slight slip, but it seared his skin, and he grimaced as she also let some slip through her lips, for she whispered directly onto his ear.

 

 

Time started back up and Hiei found himself still in place, his sword a mere breathe away from killing off the miko, but he dared not. Sneering he sheathed his sword, much to the confusion of his companions of his sudden retreat. Kagome, on hearing the sword being sheathed, turned around with a look of curiosity.

 

 

“What was that?” she asked looking pointedly at Hiei with a hidden smile.

 

 

“Nothing.” He growled diverting his eyes from her.

 

 

“Well that's good; now let's go find the relic.” Smiling broadly, she waited to catch Hiei's eye to give him knowing wink.

 

 

“Which way to go?” Yusuke asked as she came to walk next to him.

 

 

“Umm...this way.” She said brightly as she felt the relic's pull.

 

 

“What you mean through the thick wilderness with unknown demons and dangers?” Kuabawra asked in a monotone voice.

 

 

“The very one. Why? Is there a problem sweety?”

 

 

“No. Just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page.”

 

 

“Good. Now let's hurry and get this over with.” Yusuke finished, as he began to urge everyone on.

 

 

So onward, they moved into the thick brush of the forest, and they hadn't moved 10 feet when they fell into a steep pit.

 

 

“What type of shit is this?” Yusuke yelled as they landed in a tangle of limbs.

 

 

“Shut up and stop spooning me!” Kagome yelled.

 

 

“That's not me!”

 

 

“Then who is it?”

 

 

“I'm sorry Kagome.” Kurama apologized as he moved a little.

 

 

“Don't move that way.” Kagome yelled as she tried to slap him.

 

 

“WOMAN! Refrain from touching my person!” Hiei yelled as Kagome slapped him instead of Kurama and in a very personal place.

 

 

“Your person...OH EWW! I need soap and water!”

 

 

“Get your butt out of my face Urameshi!” Kuabawra yelled, shoving him.

 

 

“No! Don't touch me there!” Kagome yelled hysterically.

 

 

“Sorry Kagome!” Kuabawra apologized sincerely.

 

 

“Oh who can stay mad at you?”

 

 

“By the way, that was me that time.” Yusuke laughed before getting socked in the jaw.

 

 

“Pardon me Yusuke!” Kurama said retracting his hand.

 

 

“You did that on purpose.”

 

 

“What are you looking at?” Kagome asked in an annoyed voice.

 

 

“Who are you talking to?”

 

 

“Those demons.”

 

 

“What demons.”

 

 

“The demons pointing spears at us from the pit opening.”

 

 

“Oh. Those demons. I thought you were talking about some other demons.”

 

 

~___~

 

 

The spirit detectives awoke to find themselves in a wooden cage seemingly inside a temple. Around them were tons of snake demons that went on by their day as if they weren't there, none would even look there way. The snake people had no legs, for there bottom halves were snake like, while there upper bodies were that of humans. All had emerald green hair and scales, with forked tongues and yellow reptilian eyes.

 

Now they would have found the wooden cage easy to get out of, but around there cage was a moat of hissing green liquids whose fumes weakened them for no activity more than sitting and watching.

 

 

“Hey! What do you want with us?” Yusuke managed to yell loudly towards there two guards.

 

 

“Silent human. You speak when the king addresses you and no more.” A burly armed demon yelled without turning to look at him.

 

 

“Yeah, well you just wait till I get out of here. I'm coming after you first.” Yusuke threatened although he got no reply.

 

 

“Where's Kagome?” Kuabawra suddenly asked alerting the others to her absence.

 

 

“Hey! Ugly! Where's the girl?” Yusuke yelled towards there guard, still receiving no answer. Getting angry, Yusuke started to yell his head off, but before he could utter a sound, there was a commotion at the entrance of the room they occupied.

 

 

Entered the room, followed by maiden escorts, slithered in an old withered snake demon with a large headpiece and gold accessories.

 

“Your highness. We have captured trespassers. What would you like done to them?” The guard yelled respectively as he bowed to the ancient king.

 

The king looked from the guard to the detectives, back to the guard, and said nothing for the longest. He didn't even seem to be breathing, but with a sharp rap on the back from one of the maidens and he snapped back into it.

 

 

“Trespassers? Trespassers! I'm too old to deal with trespassers! This would be an excellent job for the Mistress! Go get her!”

 

 

They're was a rush and a clamor as the serpents jumped to action and soon the room was practically empty except for the detectives and the king, whom had gone motionless again and stared at the detectives without blinking.

 

 

“What are you looking at old man?” Yusuke yelled after a while.

 

 

“Your bald headed mama.” The king replied in his wheezing voice. Yusuke, being as shocked as he was, could not say anything and just stared with his mouth wide open.

 

 

“Now entering our Mistress Schlange.” A loud voice announced as the room quickly filled with the snake demons again.

 

 

Now all the demons bowed low to the ground as a hoist of strong armed, males demons entered, carrying a sedan chair on theirs shoulders. And on the chair, dressed in a fine silk gown, drinking out of a gold goblet, being fed grapes, and having her bare feet tended too, laid Kagome.

 

 

“Mistress Schlange, Mistress Schlange.” The demons chanted as she was set down in the middle of the room.

 

 

“Kagome!” the detectives yelled in surprise only to have hundreds of angry snake people hissing at them.

 

 

“You do not directly address Mistress Schlange?” the guard yelled angrily.

 

 

“MISTRESS SCHLANGE!” the king yelled loudly. The ones closest to him nudged him in the back to quiet him down. “We have discovered trespassers on our sacred grounds. WHAT DO you wish of them?”

 

 

“Hey! We came with her.” Yusuke yelled only to be ignored as all attention was on Kagome.

 

 

“Shall we kill them for you my lady?” The first guard asked humbly.

 

 

“No, no, nothing of that sort. Now let me see. Hmm...For trespassing on our sacred grounds...SLAVERY! They are to be turned into slaves. My personal slaves.” Smiling ruthlessly at the spirit detectives, Kagome clapped her hands and the next thing the detectives knew were shackles being placed around their necks, ankles, and wrists.

 

 

“What do you mean slave! I'm nobody's slave.” Yusuke growled angrily at her as they were escorted out, following Kagome as she was carried down the hall.

 

 

The fumes of the toxic moat seemed intensified the closer they were to the snake demons and the more they fought it the weaker they felt, so they had no choice but to do what the snake people forced them to do, and if it meant being Kagome's slave, then so be it.

 

 

“I really hate her sometimes.”

 

 

“Quiet Urameshi.”