Yu Yu Hakusho/Teen Titans:

"Darkness Returns"

Chapter 2: "Nice to See You"

Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho and Teen Titans aren't mine. They belong to people luckier than me, like Yoshihiro Togashi and DC Comics/Warner Brothers.

Author's note: Now things are going to get very interesting. The Titans and Reikai Tantei are in for serious trouble if Rando and Slade join forces, and check out the surprise guest. Also, I understand that by the end of the YYH manga/animé, Yusuke wasn't overseeing his demon father's lands anymore, but I chose to keep that in, anyway. Sorry if it throws off those of you who've seen the rest of YYH. In addition, Genkai still retains her youthful appearance.

Additional note: Some reviewers were asking why I named Robin "Raptor" when he already becomes Nightwing. Excuse me, but Dick Grayson is Nightwing. I do not believe that the Robin of Teen Titans is Dick Grayson, but rather Tim Drake. So therefore, I call Robin Raptor. If you don't like it, fine, but it's my opinion and we have a right to our opinions in this country. As for what he looks like, imagine Nightwing but with a red bird instead of a blue one and shorter hair.

Timeline: YYH, a few years after the end of the series. TT, a few years into the future.

Slade's lair

"Why would you want to help me crush the Titans?" Slade asked.

"Because they are my enemy as much as they are yours," Rando replied. "And we both have a member we're particularly interested in."

"Do you mean Raptor?" Slade asked. "If so, I should tell you this: He is mine and mine alone."

"No, not the bird-boy," Rando scoffed. "He's strong, but he's not the one I'm interested in. It's Raven."

"Ah, the psychic," Slade said.

"Yes," Rando replied. "I want her power. You see, Slade Wilson, I am a human-hunter. I kill your kind for the sheer hell of it, and if I find a strong psychic, I take the power, too. I killed ninety-nine psychics over the centuries. It would have been one hundred if not for the interference of the Spirit Detective Yusuke Urameshi."

"A Spirit Detective," Slade said. "Interesting."

"Will you help me?" Rando asked.

"And why should I?" Slade asked. "You're a human-hunter; what compels me to believe that you won't kill me once my back is turned?"

"You're very right about that, Slade," Rando replied. "Still, our goals run on parallel courses and if we help each other, then we can both get what we want." He extended a hand. "Is it a deal?"

"Just one thing," Slade said. "Why do you, a powerful demon, wish for my help?"

"If I could do this by myself, I would have," Rando replied. "However, the Titans overwhelmed me and I was forced to flee. I do not wish to return to Spirit World prison, as I just escaped from there. Besides, I needed the help of one who was experienced in dealing with the Titans."

"And I have that experience," Slade concluded. "Very well, Rando. It's a deal."

Slade clasped Rando's hand in a firm shake.

"But I don't trust you any further than I can throw you."

"That's just fine by me," Rando said. "In fact, you'd be a fool to trust me completely. Never mind that. The two of us are rather powerful, but we will need allies if we are to succeed in our venture."

Genkai's temple

"It's good to see you again," Kurama said to the Titans.

"Nice seeing you, too, Kurama," Raptor said.

"Yes, we are overjoyed that we are all together again," Starfire agreed. She looked at Toya, Jin, and Shishi. "And I am eager to get to know our new friends."

"And I am just as eager to know you, shining Star," Shishi said, once again taking her hand and kissing it. Again, Raptor gave him the evil eye.

"Ahem. Can we get serious?" Raptor asked. "This Rando freak attacked Raven in our own base. I'd like to find out more about who he is."

"He's a human-hunter who likes to kill psychics and steal their powers," Genkai replied. "I was nearly his hundredth victim, but due to a fluke, Yusuke defeated him."

"A fluke?" Raptor wondered.

"It's not really something worth telling," Genkai replied. "Suffice it to say, Rando was defeated by his own technique. However, Hiei and Botan have already explained to you about Rando. There's not much more I could tell you."

"He said he'd come back with reinforcements," Changeling supplied.

"Then we will just have to wait for him to appear with his allies," Genkai replied.

"In the meantime, we could spend the time getting reacquainted," Yusuke said.

"Raptor," Toya said.

"Yeah, Toya?" Raptor asked.

He got no warning as Toya suddenly threw a trio of throwing knives made of ice at him. Raptor dodged the icy throwing knives and retaliated with a force blast. Toya knocked it aside and fired a blast of ice at him. Raptor dodged, leaving the tree he had been standing in front of to get its trunk frozen.

"What the hell's going on?" Cyborg asked. "He's attacking Raptor!" He shifted his arm into its cannon mode and positioned it, ready to fire.

"Don't even think about it," Hiei said, holding his cannon arm.

"What do you mean, 'don't even think about it'?" Cyborg asked defiantly. "He's trying to turn my buddy into frozen chicken!"

"It's a test," Hiei replied.

"A test?" Cyborg echoed.

"Yes, Cyborg, a test," Raven confirmed. "Toya wants to see Raptor's power for himself, under actual battle conditions. Attacking him without the pretext of training is the best way for him to do it."

"I do not like this," Starfire said.

"You may not like it, Star, but don't worry," Raven said. "Toya's not actually aiming to kill."

"Go, Raptor!" Changeling shouted.

Toya created a staff from ice and charged at Raptor, who countered with his own staff. The two warriors clashed fiercely, until Toya suddenly vanished.

"Where'd he go?" Raptor asked.

"I'm right here, Raptor," Toya replied as he made a hard chop to his opponent's neck. However, Raptor whirled around and caught Toya's wrist.

"Nice trick," he said. "But I've got a few of my own." He knocked Toya's legs out from under him with a quick strike of his staff. Toya rolled up to his feet.

"Very impressive, Raptor," Toya said. "See how you like this." Ice energy swirled around his forearm and then hardened into a long deadly sword blade.

"Nice sword," Raptor commented. "But I've got one of my own." Energy rippled from his arm and then formed into a sword blade.

The two fighters went at each other, clashing with their swords. They pushed against each other fiercely and then Raptor broke away and tried to sweep Toya's feet out from under him. Toya jumped out of the way, vanishing once again.

"How does he do that?" Changeling asked.

"He's a ninja," Genkai replied. "Ninja are very swift and very skilled at concealing their movements. Raptor can still beat him, though; he just has to sense his movements."

"Come on, Toya," Raptor said. "I know you're around here somewhere, so quit hiding and come out!"

"As you wish," Toya replied, emerging from the shadows to pierce Raptor with his ice-sword. It was only through a last-minute dodge to the side that saved him from Toya's blade. "Nice moves, Raptor."

"Yours, too," Raptor replied. Now I have to focus. If I can feel his rei-ki, then he can't hide himself from me anymore.

"You said he wasn't trying to kill Raptor," Cyborg said to Hiei and Raven.

"Could have fooled me," Changeling said. "That ice blade would have run him through if he hadn't gotten out of the way in time!"

"Toya is a ninja," Hiei replied. "Obviously, he knows how to mask his energy so that Raptor can't sense him until he's about to attack."

Raptor and Toya continued to fight with their respective blades, neither one managing to gain a clear advantage over the other. Toya swung his leg out to knock Raptor's feet out from under him, but Raptor jumped up and kicked Toya in the face.

"You actually managed to draw blood," the blue-and-aquamarine-haired ice ninja said, wiping blood off his lip.

"Sorry," Raptor said. "Didn't mean to kick you that hard."

Toya just smirked and held up a glowing sphere of ice energy. "Try this." Then he shattered the sphere with his ice blade and the shards went flying at Raptor, who dodged and blocked as many as he could. Toya lunged through the flurry of ice shards and punched Raptor, knocking him down.

"Raptor!" Starfire exclaimed.

"Impressive strategy," Kurama said. "He used one attack to conceal another."

"I'd be tempted to agree with you," Changeling said, "if he wasn't trying to beat Raptor to death!"

"He's not beating Raptor to death," Yusuke contradicted. "He's testing him, remember?"

With a twist of his hips, Raptor spun off the ground and into a kick that knocked Toya down. He wiped blood off his lip.

"Now we're even," he said. He extended a hand to Toya, who respectfully took it and rose to his feet. "That was a nice run you gave me. I haven't been pushed so hard in a while."

"I could tell," Toya replied.

"Wait a minute," Kuwabara said. "You two were fighting to the death and now you're acting like best buddies!?"

"It was only a training exercise," Toya replied. "I had to see just how good a fighter he is."

"Are your questions concerning Raptor's fighting skills satisfied?" Starfire asked.

"Yes, they are," Toya replied. He smirked. "But I'll be taking the rest of you on soon enough."

"Bring it on, ice man," Cyborg said. "I'm ready for you, anytime, anywhere."

"Ditto," Changeling said.

Toya chuckled. "I'll be looking forward to it."

"Save the macho posturing for later," Botan said, flying in on her oar. "There's a disturbance going on in the city, and Koenma wants you to check it out."

"All right," Raptor said. "We'll get there faster if we go in the T-Bird, unless one of you recently developed teleportation powers."

"Cool!" Jin exclaimed. "I always wanted to fly in a plane!"

The stairway hatch to the T-Bird opened and the Titans, Spirit Detectives, Genkai, Toya, Jin, Botan, and Shishi walked up on it.

"There's a cabin in the back that'll fit ten extra passengers," Cyborg said.

"And there are six seats in this cockpit," Yusuke said. "Who's the sixth for?"

"Hiei," Cyborg replied. "He comes along on missions sometimes, but mostly just to watch Raven's back."

"And everything else," Yusuke muttered. He got a nice whack on the head from Botan's oar. "Ow! Botan!"

"Well, you deserved that for being a pervert," Botan said.

In the end, all the Spirit Detectives sans Hiei, Genkai, the two demon ninja, Botan, and Shishi sat in the cabin. Hiei took his seat in the cockpit next to Changeling, behind Raven and Starfire. Cyborg and Raptor took the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, respectively.

"You guys buckled up nice and tight back there?" Cyborg asked over the intercom.

"Yeah," Yusuke replied irritably.

"Let's go," Raptor said. He and Cyborg started up the T-Bird, and then Cyborg lifted it into the air, after which he flew into the night skies.

When they flew over the city, Cyborg found a nice abandoned lot to land the T-Bird in. So he landed it there.

"We'd better be careful," Raptor said. "We have no idea what we're up against here."

"Aye-aye, Captain," Yusuke quipped. Everybody got out of the T-Bird.

"I'm feeling some very nasty vibes," Kuwabara said.

"Can you tell anything for sure?" Shishi asked.

"The only way I can describe it is like whole bunch of voices," Kuwabara replied. "You can't tell where they're coming from because there's so many of them and they're so strong."

"In other words, we're looking at a group, not just one person," Raptor deduced. "Oh, well. Rando did say he wouldn't be alone next time he fought us."

"And I'm not," a familiar and hated voice said. Everyone turned to the sound of the voice and saw Rando.

"Rando!" Yusuke exclaimed. "Prepare to get your ass kicked again!"

Rando scoffed. "Please. You know as well as I do that if that algae hadn't gotten stuck in your ears during your dip in the swamp, you'd be dead and broken."

"I've improved since then," Yusuke said.

"That may be true, and you may have surrounded yourself with powerful allies . . ." Rando trailed off when he saw Genkai. "Why, Genkai, you're certainly looking youthful today. New skin cream?"

"I'll never tell," Genkai said in a sarcastic singsong voice.

"Very well," Rando said. He smiled when he saw Raven. "So we meet again." He chuckled. "Perhaps I'll hit a double and make 101. How does that sound to you?"

"Like something you'll never achieve," Raven replied.

"I've seen your friends and now it's time you met mine," Rando said.

Five males stepped out of the shadows. One was in an armored black suit with a one-eyed mask that was black on one side and dull orange on the other. Another was tall and thin, dressed in a green trench coat and dull blue pants and accompanied by a smaller male in blue. The taller had short-cropped black hair and wore sunglasses and the smaller had dull gray hair and pale skin. The fourth was pale and androgynous, dressed in black leather with long black hair and a mask covering his nose and mouth. The fifth was blond with two long red bangs and violet eyes and dressed exotically.

The Titans stared in shock upon seeing the first male. All except Raptor, who glared in loathing.

"Slade," he spat.

"Raptor," Slade said, his voice darkly confident as always. "It's been a while."

"Just a human," Hiei sneered. "An enhanced human, but a human nonetheless."

Yusuke and Kuwabara paled upon seeing the second two, for they were the infamous Toguro Brothers.

"Hello, Yusuke," the younger Toguro said, removing his trench coat, which revealed his bare chest.

"Remember us?" the older Toguro asked.

"We remember you," Yusuke replied. "In fact, we killed you for real. You shouldn't still be here." He looked at the other two. "None of you should be here! You're all freaking dead, you bastards!"

"But we are here, stupid boy," the blond spat. "Deal with it." He smirked. "Yusuke. Your energy has changed. It's more like a demon's energy than a human's."

"I'm still gonna kick your ass, Suzaku," Yusuke sneered.

"Unless you've vastly improved since our last fight, I doubt it," Suzaku retorted.

"Kurama . . . how nice to see you again," the leather-clad masked man said.

"It is not very pleasant for me to see you," Kurama replied. "Karasu."

"Oh, so I did leave an impression," Karasu purred.

"Genkai," the younger Toguro said. "I see that you're alive again, and restored to your youthful beauty. Don't worry. I'll send you back to your grave."

"You won't," Genkai contradicted. "I'm more powerful now than I was then."

"Ah, yes," the younger Toguro said. "Someone must have recharged your spirit energy."

"Enough with this talking," Rando said. "Let's get down to business."

"Why would you ally yourself with a bunch of demons, Slade?" Raptor asked. He turned to Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, Jin, Shishi, and Toya. "No offense to you guys."

"None taken, mate," Jin replied.

"Our goals are similar," Slade answered. "Why else is any alliance made? Anyway, enough talk. My partner is getting impatient, so I'm afraid we must battle."

"Let's do this," Raptor said.

Slade and Raptor charged at each other, meeting with their fists and feet as they delivered fast punches and kicks.

"Crimson Nova!" Rando shouted, firing a barrage of red starbolts at the other Titans.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven chanted, firing a wave of dark energy at Rando.

"Rai, kaminari --- Rava Shock!" Cyborg shouted, firing the techno-spirit lightning bolt that was now his signature attack.

Rando dodged both attacks, only to be felled by a green starbolt. Then a pair of green energy whips lashed him.

"Whoa, where'd you learn that move?" Yusuke wondered.

"I have spent the past few years since our first meeting learning how to manipulate my energy in other ways," Starfire replied.

"You should be worried more about yourself," Suzaku said. "Storm of Torment!" He fired a blast of spirit lightning at Yusuke, who dodged the attack. "So you've improved somewhat since our last encounter. Oh, well. You will still die, Yusuke Urameshi."

"Says you, punk-ass," Yusuke retorted. "Spirit Gun!" He fired the spiritual bullet at Suzaku, but the golden-haired demon dodged.

"In case you were wondering, you didn't damage my tentacle this time," Suzaku said. "So when my attack does hit you, you'll die."

"Says you," Yusuke retorted.

"And me," the younger Toguro added just before he punched Yusuke hard in the stomach, sending him flying.

"Is it just me, or did his muscles get insanely huge?" Cyborg asked.

"I've tapped into forty percent of my strength," the younger Toguro explained. "That's usually more than enough to take care of most opponents."

"I kicked your ass last time we fought," Yusuke replied, running at the younger Toguro. "And I've gotten stronger since then, so don't think you'll have it easy now!" He leaped into the air and brought his fist down for what would have been a devastating blow --- had the younger Toguro not caught his fist.

"Nice try, boy," he sneered. Then he proceeded to give him a vicious knee jab that knocked the breath out of him.

"Shit," Yusuke muttered. "Looks like he's gotten stronger, too."

As for the older Toguro, he extended his fingers into tendrils that grasped Kuwabara.

"Let me go, you pasty-faced freak!" Kuwabara yelled.

The older Toguro just snickered.

"Do as he says!" Starfire yelled, hitting him with a starbolt that forced him to release his grip on Kuwabara. However, he shot his tendrils at her. She flew into the air in an attempt to evade those tendrils, but the tendrils of one hand grabbed her leg and pulled her down. As she descended, the tendrils of the other hand wrapped around her torso, binding her arms.

"That's no way to handle a lady!" Shishi shouted. He withdrew the Banshee Scream sword and sliced off the older Toguro's tendril-fingers, which let Starfire drop.

"Thank you," Starfire said.

"Just being a gentleman," Shishi replied. "You're welcome, by the way."

"That hurt," the older Toguro said. He smirked. "But not that much."

"His fingers!" Starfire exclaimed. "They are regenerating!"

Indeed they were. Within mere seconds, they had grown back completely.

As for Kurama, he and Toya were tag-teaming Karasu, who was using his power to its deadliest potential. Currently, Kurama and Toya were both in extreme pain from the tiny explosions in their bodies.

"Does it hurt?" Karasu asked.

"This will," Toya replied, shattering a ball of icy energy into a flurry of ice crystals. Karasu dodged as many of the ice crystals as possible, but the flurry concealed the lunging Toya, until it was too late for Karasu to do a thing.

Except grab Toya by the wrist and transmit a portion of his energy into him, triggering a small explosion inside his body. Toya gave out a small scream of pain.

"Hurts, doesn't it?" Karasu commented, throwing Toya aside. "Now for you, beautiful fox."

Kurama drew his rose whip and lashed at Karasu with it. However, Karasu grabbed the thorny whip and blood seeped out from the thorns piercing his hand. However, it didn't stop him from pulling Kurama to him.

Karasu stroked Kurama's hair. "Such pretty hair," he said. However, a pinkish-purple starbolt slamming into him stopped his fun.

"Hands off my fox, you freak!" a familiar female voice shouted from the air.

Karasu and Kurama looked up and saw a black-haired, golden-skinned young woman, dressed in a black leather version of Starfire's clothes with a sheer mesh body stocking underneath.

"Blackfire!" Kurama whispered.

"Miss me, Kurama?" Blackfire asked. She chuckled. "I know you did." Then her expression turned serious as she looked at Karasu. "I don't know who you are, but you keep your hands off him!"

"And who's going to stop me, little girl, you?" Karasu asked.

" 'Little girl'?" Blackfire repeated. She landed on the ground, her eyes glowing. "You're going to pay for that. Eye of the Black Star!" A blast of pinkish-purple energy from her eyes slammed into Karasu, knocking him down.

"Sister!" Starfire exclaimed.

"Not now, Starfire," Blackfire replied. "Now, I have to kick his ass for daring to lay his filthy hands on my fox!"

"As flattered as I am, I suggest that you be careful, Blackfire," Kurama advised.

"Don't worry about a thing, Kurama," Blackfire said. Then she flew at Karasu and proceeded to take the fight to a more hands-on level. Specifically, they were fighting with their fists and feet instead of their powers.

"She's gotten better," Cyborg said as he fought Suzaku with Yusuke.

"Yeah," Raptor agreed as he and Jin struggled against Slade.

Very impressive, Genkai thought even as she flipped out of the way of the younger Toguro's attack.

Blackfire delivered a hard kick to Karasu's chest and followed up with a kick from the other foot. Then she aimed a roundhouse punch for his masked face. However, Karasu grabbed her fist.

"Oh, no," Kurama said in hushed tones. "He's going to ---"

His sentence was cut off by Blackfire's scream of pain as Karasu applied his power to her.

"Sister!" Starfire exclaimed. She flew at Karasu, enraged. "Remove your filthy hands from my sister and cease hurting her!" Her eyes glowed green as she emitted her power through them, hitting Karasu in his shoulder.

Karasu let Blackfire go and Kurama and Starfire rushed to her side. "Are you all right, Blackfire?" Starfire asked.

"I'll live, Star," Blackfire replied, a bit shaky on her feet. "What did that bastard do to me? Felt like little firecrackers going off inside me."

"It's his power," Kurama explained. "Karasu can transfer a portion of his energy into his opponent, triggering an internal explosion. It can be like 'little firecrackers' going off inside you, which will merely cause a great degree of pain, or be big enough to destroy the body completely."

"He's still going down," Blackfire said. "After all, I've been known to cause a few explosions myself."

The six villains regrouped. "This is just a taste of what's in store for you, Titans and Reikai Tantei," Rando said. "In a month's time, we will meet once again."

"A month?" Genkai asked.

"Yes, Genkai, a month," Rando confirmed.

"So you will have time to prepare for our Shadow Combat," Slade added. "To make it short, the six of us will do battle with six of you."

"See you then, Kurama," Karasu said.

Then the six vanished into the shadows.

"Well, we're in trouble," Kuwabara said.

"Of course we're in trouble, you simpleton," Hiei snapped.

End Notes: All right, out of the Titans, Spirit Detectives, and everyone else associated with them, tell me which six should fight be the ones to fight Rando and Slade's team. By the way, consider everyone from all three groups: the Titans, the Spirit Detectives, and the extra characters associated with them.