Yami No Matsuei Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Uprising ❯ Intertwined ( Chapter 6 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

(Disclaimer:  I do not own Yami no Matsuei or Yu Yu Hakusho.  To be fair, I don’t want to own them.  Though I do own Andrea, Miyuki, and Mia.  That I DO own.)

(AN:  Okay, this is the start of it getting really interesting.  Sorry it's taken this long to get to this point.  But there's a good reason for that, I assure you.  Okay, happy reading!)

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“Come on, we better head out of here,” Andrea said, holding her purse strap in her hand.

With that, the trio left the room and Tatsumi watched as Andrea walked into the main building to pay for the ticket.  She was not only underage and a handful, but she could also take care of things financially; that much was for certain.  “She can handle her own affairs,” he said.

“Yeah, that’s Andrea,” Tsuzuki answered, leaning his back against the red bridge railing.  “She’s tougher than she looks.  I mean, she literally threatened to castrate me if I tried anything with her.”

“I’d take that advice.”

Tsuzuki looked at Tatsumi, amethyst eyes wide open.

“I would if I were you, Tsuzuki.”  Tatsumi gave him a look.  “Just how close have you and Andrea gotten?”

Tsuzuki swallowed.  He knew that look in Tatsumi’s eyes.  Lie to him, and he would meet Hell... personally.  “We’re just roommates,” he answered.  “She sleeps in her own bed and I have the couch.”

“In fact, he volunteered to take the couch,” Andrea said, having walked out of the main room and to the pair.  “That’s as far as it’s gotten.  If you think something could happen in a few weeks, you need to lay off the romance novels.”

Inwardly, Tsuzuki was glad Andrea took up for him.  Even more so with her telling the truth.

Tatsumi was glad for that as well.  The main priority was the case in question.  Now he had to tell Tsuzuki that.  But that could wait.  “Are you sure it’s all right for us to walk you home?” he asked her.

“He won’t shut up unless he does,” Andrea answered, nodding his head at Tsuzuki, who only blinked at them.  “Believe me, I’ve tried telling him to drop it, but he won’t.

Tatsumi nodded.  Another topic to talk with him about, on top of the blatantly obvious.  “All right, lead the way,” he told her.

Andrea nodded and headed out of the gates of the restaurant, the Guardians behind her.

After half an hour of changing routes, they arrived at Andrea’s apartment.  Tatsumi looked around, his eyes looking at the picture of her as a child with her parents.  Considering the apartment was clean, except for the couch, he felt relieved.  Typical.

Andrea would have asked him something if her cell phone didn’t ring.  “Great...” she said, finding her cell phone.  She flipped it open and answered it.  “Hello?”  She held up her index finger before she went into her bedroom.  “Kurama, this isn’t the time...” was the last thing they heard before her bedroom door closed.

“Kurama?  Is he her boyfriend?” Tatsumi asked.

“I don't know,” Tsuzuki answered.  “I’ve been trying to figure it out for weeks now.  She doesn’t talk about him much, and when I bring it up, she tells me to change the subject.”

“That brings me to my point,” Tatsumi replied.  “I know you care about her, but you can’t get too close to her.  The investigation has to come first.”

“I know that,” Tsuzuki answered, pouting.  “But don’t you think she’s being a little too harsh already?”

“Maybe there is a reason,” Tatsumi answered.  “But it’s not our concern to interfere with her affairs.”  He thought of a second.  “Where’s Kurosaki?”

“Oh, he’s already at Spirit World,” Tsuzuki said.  “He went because Andrea was working at the time... and I couldn’t very well leave her there alone.”

Tatsumi pinched the bridge of his nose under his glasses.  Damn it, Tsuzuki was just as stubborn as ever.  “She’s a Spirit Detective.  She can take care of herself.”

Andrea had walked out of the bedroom, looking at the pair with her closed cell phone in her hand.  “We’re needed in Spirit World,” she said.

Tatsumi nodded his head.  “Well, I’ll let you get to work,” he answered.  “Andrea, it was nice meeting you.”

“You too,” Andrea answered, nodding her head.

“Tsuzuki, you and Kurosaki both tell me anything that might have to do with the missing souls from the register,” the secretary told the only other male in the room.

“We will,” Tsuzuki answered.

“And don't forget to bring the boss back a present," the secretary said, making Tsuzuki hit the floor facefirst.  Andrea looked at Tatsumi, eyebrow raised.  "He knows what I mean," Tatsumi told her before he teleported out of her living room.

Andrea watched the secretary disappear and took a deep breath.  "Wow... That's your boss?" she asked him.

"Just one of them," Tsuzuki said, finally getting up from the floor.  "There's a few more."

"Oh, okay," Andrea said, blinking.  "Well, that was Kurama on the phone.  We're needed in Spirit World.  It's about that demon I saw earlier."

"All right."  With that, they both found themselves in Spirit World and walked into the room where the rest of the team had been waiting.  Evidently, they were the last ones to arrive.  Asking what Tatsumi meant would have to wait.

Andrea looked at the group, thinking to shove the impromptu visit out of her mind for the time being.  "So, what's going on?" she asked.

"Geez, where were you two, smooching in an alley?" Yusuke asked her while Kuwabara punched him in the head.

"None of your business," Andrea answered before looking at Koenma.  "Okay, so why did Kurama have to call us here?"

"It's about the demons that have been attacking here," Hisoka said from the wall next to Hiei, who stayed perfectly silent.  And before Andrea could ask... "There were more than the one you encountered."

"Are you guys okay?" Andrea finally asked.

"Yeah, we're fine," Viola answered.  "But what's so odd is that each of them had tattoos on their necks of a different word."

"Which is why I had Kurama call you," Koenma added.

Hisoka noticed that Andrea bristled on the inside around the subject of Kurama.  Something was definitely not right, but he knew not to get involved with someone's personal life.  Tsuzuki, on the other hand, well... Hisoka knew it was more likely for Tsuzuki to burn down a kitchen due to his terrible cooking than to not interfere with something that personal.

Koenma pushed a button on his desk, making the large monitor turn on, the pictures of the demons that Chloe had taken apprearing on the screen.  "As Viola has mentioned, these are the demons that had attacked the city earlier today," he said.  As he pressed another button, the pictures of the tattoos appeared.

"There's Sloth, Envy and Pride," Kurama stated.  "And Hisoka mentioned that Andrea encountered one with Wrath tattooed on his neck."  He looked over at Andrea, a look of relief in his eyes.  "I'm glad you weren't hurt, Andrea."

"I'm fine," Andrea answered without looking at him.

"In any case, we didn't know what they meant until now," Koenma said, pressing another button on his desk.  The screen showed the four kanji symbols they were talking about, with three others.

"So that's.. Lust, Gluttony and..." Viola started.

"Greed," Chloe finished, turning her brown eyes to the screen.  "They should be familiar."

"They are," Koenma answered.  "They are the Seven Deadly Sins."

"Seven Deadly Sins?" Yusuke asked.  "What, are we supposed to get religious?"

"Not exactly," Kurama answered.

Andrea took a deep breath before letting it out slowly.  "They're vices that depict humanity's tendency to sin," she answered.  "It started way back in Early Christianity and even Catholicism and educates on how these vices lead to sinning.  Seven things that mankind is guilty of at one time or another."

Tsuzuki simply looked to the auburn-haired girl in shock.  How could she know something like that?  There was definitely something about Andrea that interested him.

"So there's seven?" Chloe asked.  "Geez, that's a lot of work."

"But that's not all," Koenma answered.

The group then looked at Koenma.

"These seven sins are personified with being Reaper Demons," Koenma added.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa... Reaper Demons?" Chloe asked.

Kurama then faced the group.  "Hiei and I have encountered these beings before," he answered.  "The ones we've handled are merely the subordinates of these Reaper Demons.  Reaper demons are beings that use souls of the dead as energy.  They're difficult to beat the longer they possess their hosts."

"Do you think that has anything to do with the souls the Guardians are supposed to handle?" Viola asked.

"It's likely," Hisoka answered, looking at his partner.  "We're going back to do some searching on our end."

"Wait, what?" Tsuzuki asked.

"We're going back to the Judgment Bureau, you moron," Hisoka answered.  "We have a job to do, too, you know."

Tsuzuki sighed.  So much for finding out how Andrea knew that much of the Seven Deadly Sins... or much about her at all...

"All right," Tsuzuki conceded.  "We'll be back when we found out something."  With that, both Guardians teleported out of the room.

"Koenma sir!" George, the blue ogre, cried, running into the room and standing at the desk next to his boss.  "It's about those demons that were stopped!"

"What about them?" Koenma asked him.

"They're back!"

Koenma pushed a couple of buttons, each of the screens showing the demons that had been defeated... brought back to life.  "Oh, I was afraid of this..."

"How is that possible?" Viola protested, her silver eyes wide in shock.

Chloe looked at the screen and shook her head.  "There's just no way... I-I mean, we saw Kurama kill those bastards."

"And I know I did the same with mine," Andrea said.  "How are they coming back to life?"

"I mean, Kurama chopped them like wood and Andrea kicked it in the ass," Yusuke said.  "But how in the hell is that possible?"

"That's what I want you to find out," Koenma answered.  He looked over at Andrea.  "Andrea, you and the girls go find out if there's something about the Sins that needs to be dealt with."

"Yeah, sure," Andrea answered.

Viola looked at the auburn-haired girl.  "You're ready?" she asked as Chloe joined her.

"Yeah," Andrea answered.  "Come on."

With that, the threesome went back to Andrea's apartment, where Andrea went to her bedroom.  Chloe and Viola looked around the girl's apartment for a minute before they headed into her bedroom, which looked Western with a bed; the closet had its doors open, a dresser and a nightstand with a light green lamp.  The orchid bedding almost made it seem as if it wasn’t a Western room at all.

Andrea sat down on the bed, crossing her legs Indian style.  She grabbed her laptop and turned it on.  There was something about the Seven Deadly Sins that didn't sound right.

Viola looked over at a figurine of a geisha in a lavender kimono with fans in her hands, her body in mid-dance.  "This is beautiful," she said, daring to not pick it up.

"Mom bought that for me when I was a kid," Andrea answered, tapping keys on her laptop.  "It's called 'Madame Butterfly.'  She told me that she was dancing."

Chloe looked at the statue as well.  "It is pretty," she said.

"Thanks," Andrea answered, her eyes still on the screen.  She typed in "Seven Deadly Sins" and clicked on a link.  And she didn't like what she read...  "Guys?"

The girls joined her on the bed and looked from either side to the screen where Andrea had pointed.  They read silently to themselves what the page said:  According to Dante's, The Divine Comedy ,there is an order of greatness, the order being from lowest to highest.

"It has to be in order?" the three girls asked in unison.

Andrea muttered a curse word under her breath.  "We better tell the guys," she said, continuing to look at the screen at the list as Viola made the call to Spirit World.

Meanwhile, at the Judgment Bureau, Hisoka and Tsuzuki, the latter having to be told by the Gushoshin twins to behave, were in the library, looking through printouts that the twins had printed out about the Seven Deadly Sins.  They were to only look up about the souls that had been taken by the Reaper demons, and after threatening to not buy him an eclair did Tsuzuki sigh and look at the papers as well.

Hisoka blinked at several names on the reports of people that had died but their souls hadn't returned.  Michiko Fujiwara had been a prostitute, murdered three weeks ago when she was twenty by a john who wanted more than just a good time.  Rino Lin was a female alcoholic who died after one too many shots of sake at the bar two months ago.  Jiro Tanaka was a stingy heir to a business when he suddenly died of a heart attack a year ago, and he was kind of a loser.  What did these three have to do...?  Hisoka's concentration was broken after hearing his cell phone vibrating in his pocket.

As Hisoka answered the phone, Tsuzuki's eyes rested on some of the other files.  One man's picture stuck out for him, a man from America with very familiar blue eyes and dark brown hair.

"Tsuzuki?"

He looked up at his partner, his concentration completely gone.  "Huh?  What is it?"

"That was Spirit World," Hisoka answered, putting the phone back in his jeans pocket.  "The girls found something."

"Okay, we'd better go huh?"

Hisoka looked down at the file while Tsuzuki's back was turned.  The man was from America, looked to be in his late twenties with dark brown hair and blue eyes.  He looked like the man could be familiar... somehow.  Now that he thought about it, Andrea did have the same color of eyes as the man in the file.  No, he wasn't going to pry into the file unless he had a good reason.  And as it stood at the moment, Hisoka didn't have one.

"Oh, and maybe we could get that eclair, too..."

Hisoka literally dragged Tsuzuki out of the library by his ear.  "This isn't the time!" he said, pulling Tsuzuki out of the library.

The Guardians then teleported to Spirit World, where the boys and Koenma were waiting on news from the girls.  While Tsuzuki was wondering where Andrea and the girls were, Hisoka looked at the toddler.  "You said you had to show us something?" he asked.

"Yes," Koenma answered, pressing a button and on the screen were the girls, Andrea in the middle, Viola on her left and Chloe on her right.  "You can tell them what you told everyone here."

The Guardians looked at the screen, Tsuzuki with a look of relief on his face.  At least the girls weren't hurt.

Andrea blinked, her face somewhat illuminated by the laptop screen in front of her.  "Yeah, well," she began.  "We were looking up the Seven Deadly Sins, and we found something interesting."

"It looks like the Seven Deadly Sins have to be in order," Viola added, her silver eyes looking at the screen before looking at the webcam on Andrea's laptop.  "So here's the order:  Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride."

"Yeah, from what we looked up," Chloe interjected.  "According to some guy named Dante, he said there was an order of greatness, the least being Lust and the highest being Pride."

"So... Lust should be first, right?" Yusuke asked.

"That would be the case," Kurama answered.  "Right?"

"Yes," Andrea answered, tapping the keys on her laptop and a web page coming to view in a half screen with the webcam of the girls on the other side.  "Lust is defined as anything sexual.  Like thoughts, actions..."

"Professions?" Hisoka asked, looking at the screen at Andrea's face.

"Maybe," Andrea answered, shrugging her shoulders.  "I don't know, exactly.  But we'll have to look up more before I can answer that one."

Okay, so maybe Michiko Fujiwara might be taken in by Lust after all, Hisoka thought to himself.  But still, I don't know that for sure yet.  Shouldn't just jump to conclusions so easily.

"Do you need us to return to Spirit World?" Viola asked.

"Um... just you and Chloe for the time being," Koenma answered.  "Andrea, if you find anything more, you let us know."

"Sure thing," Andrea answered, before turning her webcam off.

Tsuzuki watched the screen go black before he looked at Koenma.  "Are you sure leaving Andrea by herself is a good idea?" he asked.

"She'll be fine, Tsuzuki," Koenma answered.  "She'll be just fine."

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(Okay, so that's Chapter 6, everyone.  Yep.  Now, I have an announcement.  I have five classes this Fall.  So, yeah, some of the chapters are going to be either short or late in posting.  I'm not done with this story.  No way.  I'm going to see this one through.  With that said, I hope you all like the chapter, and please review and let me know what you think.)