Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Keeper ❯ The Meeting ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3: The Meeting

Thank you youkai koinu for your review. I am glad that someone is enjoying my story on this site. I eagerly await anymore reviews.

Now, before I continue I feel that I should say that all of the demons in this fic, and in the universe I am creating are bi-sexual (to use a human term). The reason I am making them like this is because I believe that demons see beauty not only in the opposite sex of their respective sex, but in any sex. That doesn't mean that I will make Hiei or Kurama, for example, blatantly bi. But, when dealing with Kurama's past, I have to believe that he has been intimate with a least a couple of men (I mean the guy is over 1000 years old). Hiei is a bit tricky to place, mainly because I am not sure whether or not to make him a virgin. I am still trying to figure out his character. Feel free to leave your two cents on the subject.

Now onto the story…

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Saryashiki Jr. High


Yusuke Urameshi sat on the rooftop of Saryashiki Jr. High. His features were set in a menacing expression. “Damn it,” he cursed softly, “Who the hell did that to you?” His mind drifted to the events that occurred earlier in the day . . . 'Jun,'


-:-:- Flashback -:-:-

It was one of those rare days that Keiko forced him to get to school extra early. he would fuss, curse and threaten her, but somehow, she always managed to have her way with him. 'Hell, maybe I am in love,' he thought to himself.

They arrived at the school walking through the hallway, on their way to class, when they heard some screams and a lot of commotion coming from one of the classes. “What's going on?” Keiko asked to herself. The two walked quickly to where the commotion was coming from. There were a lot of police officers, paramedics and students milling about. The classroom was blocked off by yellow police tape.

“Well hell, if school's this damn exciting early in the morning, then I might as well come early everyday.” Said Yusuke.

“Yusuke!” Keiko could never understand where Yusuke got his sense of humor from. Just then, one of Keiko's friends, Mai, came running up to her with tears in her eyes.

“Keiko, I can't believe it! It's horrible,” she said between sobs.

“Mai, tell me what's going on!”

“Ms. Jun …she's…she's” the girl passed out before she could fully answer.

“Ms. Jun?” Keiko said as she turned to find Yusuke, but, he had already left her side and was fighting to get through the crowd. His face was horror stricken when he looked in the classroom. He looked on the floor and saw a body bag with Jun Pei's body in it. Blood, and lots of it, covered the floor along with a pile of broken, bloody chairs and desks.

“No this … can't be,” he whispered brokenly.


End of flashback

“Jun,” Yusuke whispered before he squeezed his eyes shut forcing him not to cry.

“Urameshi,” Kuwabara, who had been standing opposite of his friend for a while, tried to snap Yusuke out of his sorrow. “Hey, I know how you're feeling, I mean, she was a great teacher! But you gotta forget about it and focus on the case. Kurama and Hiei are gonna be here soon so ya need to snap outta it."

In less than a heart beat Yusuke was in front of Kuwabara with his hands gripped onto his collar. “Cram it dumbass! You can't even begin to understand what I'm feeling. You don't even know what she-"

Kuwabara reached up and grabbed Yusuke's wrist from the hand that was on his collar and stared calmly into Yusuke's fiery eyes, "I don't know? Know what...that you two were fooling aroung behind Keiko's back?!"

Yusuke's took a step back, shocked that Kuwabara knew. He released Kuwabara from his grip; his eyes losing a great deal of the fire that was in their depths a moment ago.

“I know you're angry man, but, you gotta cool it. Hell I'm pissed off myself, but, the only way we're gonna get to the bottom of this is if we have a cool head.” Yusuke began to calm down slightly, “I promise you we'll get these punks for what they've done, but we've got to do it with a clear head.”

Yusuke sniffed and wiped his nose slightly on the back of his sleeve, “I know what you're saying Kuwabara, it's just shocking to hear you speak logically for once” Yusuke joked.

“Hey you jerk!” Kuwabara shouted.

Yusuke smirked at him and said, “You give a pretty damn good speech when your life is on the line.”

“Man you're impossible,” Kuwabara said

“But, accurate,” someone quipped behind them.

“Hey! Watch it shrimp!!!” Shouted Kuwabara.

“What's up Hiei,” said Yusuke.

The short fire demon, who was clad in his customary black ensemble, was standing behind them on the rail of the roof. Hiei jumped off the railing to stand next to the two humans, “since we've seen you in that situation so many times, you know, the one when you get your ass kicked severely and nearly die; we get to experience your `heartfelt' speeches first hand.”

“Listen you little gremlin, you better shut your mouth before I shut it for you?!” Shouted Kuwabara.

“Hn, make me” Hiei retorted.

“Children!” Yusuke said angrily, “will you both shut the hell up?”

Both of the fighters complied, Kuwabara mumbling something about a stupid dwarf while Hiei merely smirked evilly at him.

“Now where's Kurama?” Asked Yusuke

“I'm right here Yusuke,” said Kurama who was standing right next to Kuwabara.
“Agh!!! Don't do that!” Screamed Kuwabara. Kurama merely smiled at him slightly.

“So now that everyone's here—oh wait, pacifier breath and Botan ain't here yet- always the last ones to arrive. Typical since they're the ones who called the stupid meeting.”

“Koenma is never late.” Everyone, except for Kurama and Hiei, jumped at Koenma's sudden appearance in his teenage form.

“What the hell is this, pop up day or something!?” Shouted Yusuke

“Bingo!” said the over cheery grim reaper Botan, “hello everyone!”

“Now this is getting stupid,” said an irritated Yusuke while scratching his head.

“Yes, can we please get on with it,” said Hiei harshly, with his hands shoved in his pockets and his customary deadly glare fixed on Botan.

“Uh,” she shied away from Hiei's glare, “heh heh heh, I'll be standing over here,” she moved about ten feet in the distance, away from Hiei.

“Yes well, I've come to update you on what we found out about the killer and I'm sorry to say that this one's going to be a doozey. Our sources tell us that we're dealing with a type of shadow demon. These demons attack only in the dark. When it's day or when they're surrounded by light they are powerless. However, when in the dark, they are said to be undefeatable. They hold the power of illusion, and other deadly skills,”

“Other deadly skills huh? Great, so what do they want?”

Koenma walked up to Yusuke looking down at the boy. He so loved being taller than the cocky spirit detective, “The usual, world domination,”

“Same ole same ole,” sighed Yusuke

“Just about,”

“So, we find this demon; kick their ass back to Makai; case closed right?”

“Well yes… and no,” said the toddler. He sighed and turned his back to the group. “You see this is not just one demon you're dealing with, nor, are all the demons you will be dealing with shadow demons. This is a whole race of demons that have many different types of powers, some of which are unheard of. They are a very old, very wise, very powerful race. We just have data on the one demon that attacked,”

“So would you mind telling us what race these demons belong to?” asked Hiei sarcastically.

“Once a long time ago, before humans inhabited this world, these creatures ruled over this land, they called themselves dragon keepers.”

“Wait a minute,” Yusuke folded his arms and cocked his head to the side, “now where did I hear that name from?” He asked

“How about from your late teacher, Jun Pei's lessons.” Said Botan who had found her way back to the group.

“Hey, that's right,” Yusuke whispered

“We don't really know why they killed the woman, but, we can surmise that it probably had something to do with her revealing the clan's secrets in her lectures.”
“So, what exactly do you want us to do?” Asked Hiei, he truly hated staying around for these meetings. He couldn't understand why the toddler and the onna liked to prolong things.

“Well I guess the right thing to say would be to watch your backs,” Koenma said looking back at Hiei.

“What?!?” Yelled Yusuke

“I thought you said that they only wanted to take over the world,” said Kuwabara

“Well they do, but, in order to do that, they have to take you guys out,” said Koenma.

“So now the hunters have become the hunted,” Kurama said quietly.

“I'm afraid so Kurama,” Koenma turned around to face each of the tentei with a squeamish smile on his face, “well that's all I have for now, try to stay alive,” with that the toddler turned teenager prince of hell disappeared.

The group stood on the roof top not saying anything until Hiei broke the silence, “is it me, or did that fool Koenma seem a bit skittish when he was talking about these demons,” asked Hiei.

“Quite. His report also seemed to be lacking important detail. It's as if he was hiding something.” Said Kurama. He began to walk towards Botan, “is there anything else we should know Botan?”

“Not that I know of, Koenma hasn't told me anymore than what you already know. But, I'll try to find out more if I can.” With that the girl materialized her magical oar and flew away.

“Hey, Kurama, do you know anything about these dragon keepers?” Asked Yusuke.

“I dealt with one in the past as Youko Kurama, but that situation has nothing to do with this,” he said.

“What kind of situation?” Asked Hiei

“That is of a private matter,”

“Hn,”

“Anyway, I might know of someone who could be linked to these creatures, but more investigation is needed.” Kurama said thinking of Yumi Nakamura

“Well alright then, there's a starting point, now all we gotta do is make sure none of us don't get killed before the end of this case.” Said Yusuke.

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Yumi Nakamura walked down the streets, the darkness of the night surrounding her like a cloak. The girl continued to walk, unperturbed by the darkness or the silence. Her mind drifted back to the events of the day. She thought about the boy called Suuichi and his strange mannerism towards her when they met. When he was staring at her, it was as if he knew that she wasn't who she pretended to be. “Interesting,” she mused, “not only is he cute, but, astute as well.”


Just then a strong chill jolted through her body and she became slightly light headed. She glanced to the side and used her peripheral vision to try to see if anyone was following her. But no one was there. The girl closed her eyes and smirked and continued to walk until she reached a tall building next to an ally way. She walked towards the building and leaned against it with her arms folded and her right leg hiked up against it the wall.


“You're getting clumsy, I sensed you almost a mile away,” she said mockingly. She closed her eyes and heard soft footsteps coming from down the ally, drawing closer. When the footsteps stopped, Yumi looked to her right and saw a short, beautiful girl with deep red eyes with golden flecks running through them. Her skin was a pale yellowish peach color, and her hair, which was spiked, curved downward to the base of her neck (like Nagi and Ryoko's hair combined) and looked as though it were on fire.


“I'm not clumsy,” said the girl softly, “it's just that I had to compensate for your poor senses by stepping loudly and raising my ki so that even the lowest spiritually aware person can feel it you fool.” The girl smiled menacingly at Yumi.


“Awww Ran, I missed you too!” Yumi said as if she was talking to a baby, “and look, my little friend has even adorned her hair with tear gems for our little visit. You're starting to look like a young lady now. I'm sooo proud of you! You really must've missed me to go through all the trouble Ran.” She knew how much Ran hated for people to make fun of her short stature. She was always very sensitive about that subject and would readily beat the shit out of anyone who brought it up, let alone who made fun of her. Luckily, Yumi knew that Ran could never lay a hand on her.


“Don't be ridiculous, you over cheery bitch. I neither missed you nor do I enjoy your company. I'm only here because I was ordered to look after you in this world. His highness doesn't want anything to happen to his precious sex toy. You understand.” She ended bitterly.


Yumi rolled her eyes in disgust, “so he sent YOU?” Ran closed her eyes and lifted her head. An expression suspiciously close to pride crossed her features.

“Well of course. I am a truly exceptional warrior, spy and sorceress,” a loud dramatic yawn disrupted Ran's self praising. Her eyes opened to find Yumi's eyes closed nearly half asleep. Yumi's eyes fluttered open and she saw Ran giving her a steely look.

“oh, I'm sorry,” Yumi put up both of her hands as if trying to keep ran from attacking, “it's just that hearing you blow sunshine up your ass really makes me sleepy,” she said with an innocent smile planted on her face.

“In any case, since I'm the closest thing you have to an actual friend, he thought that my being here would be the best thing for you.”

“Ch! Do as you like, just stay the hell out of my way and try not to be seen.”

“Speaking of being seen,” Ran's eyes glanced up towards the top of a parallel skyscraper, “do you sense him?”

“Oh, don't worry, that's just Suuichi,” Yumi said nonchalantly.

“Just Suuichi? And who the hell is that?”

“Someone from school who sensed that I was different,”

“This could be dangerous, let me take care of him,” Ran readied herself to phase up to the top of the parallel building, but, Yumi's iron grip forestalled her.

“No, I don't want him dead, not yet anyway. He interests me. Let me play with him for a while. You can have him when I'm done.” She smiled suggestively at Ran.

Ran shuddered, “ugh! I don't even want to know what you're planning. Do as you will, but, in the meantime I'll gather all the information I can on the Reikai Tentei.” With that the girl phased into the darkness and Yumi began to walk home.


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(Kurama's point of view)



The meeting had ended late. Kurama had told the group about someone he'd suspected to be involved but that further investigation was needed. After a few other odds and ends were taken care of the group had disbanded.

Kurama, who had been walking home, caught the scent of the demon world, of Makai and…Yumi? Just then he started to hear footsteps coming from behind him. “Hmmm, speak of the devil,” Kurama thought to himself. He built up his energy and leapt on top of a building. He jumped higher and higher on to different buildings until he reached the top of a skyscraper. He looked down from the ledge of the building and noticed a slight figure walking down the street in his direction. The figure walked out of the shadows and he saw that it was, indeed, Yumi.

Kurama sniffed the air again and caught the scent of Makai again, only this time the scent was stronger. However, the scent wasn't coming from Yumi; it was coming from someone else. He looked back down and saw that Yumi had stopped by an ally way. Se stood there for some time until another person with fiery hair had emerged from the shadows. The two seemed to be conversing, though about what he couldn't hear. `Strange,' he thought, `but the scent of Makai wasn't coming from either of them.'

“So is that the suspect that you spoke of?” Kurama turned slightly at the sound of a male voice. It was Hiei. The little fire demon had been following Kurama for some time.

“Yes, the one with the dark hair,” the two girls had walked away from each other.

“Who's the other one?”

“I don't know, but, the scent of Makai is filling the air,”

“Well it's not from those two; we are not alone. Someone's been following you ever since you left the meeting.”


*Clap* Clap* Clap*


The two demons whipped around and found a woman with long black hair and cold grey eyes sitting across from them on an AC filtration unit. “Well done Hiei, you know, you're the only one who has ever caught me when I was spying.”

“I'm touched, now who the hell are you, and more importantly, how the hell do you know my name?” Asked Hiei

The woman phased off of the unit and reappeared three feet in front of them. “I'm the one you all have been looking for, I am called Kai. As for how I know who you are,” the woman tossed her long black hair behind her shoulders revealing very provocative clothing. She wore a black leather cat suit which was very low cut and showed off much of her cleavage. She smiled seductively at Hiei as she looked him up and down, “Mmmm, well all I can say is that you intrigue me. Ever since you summoned the power of my black dragon from the pits of spirit world, I made sure to find out who you were. I know everything about you Hiei.” The girl finished breathlessly.

Hiei was stunned, not by the woman's blatant seduction, but by what she had said, “Your black dragon?”

The girl chuckled, “why of course. That maneuver only works by summoning the dark dragon. That particular dragon is a black dragon, my respective dragon. You're the only man that I have ever known who has summoned the dark dragon and lived, that's why I had to see you.”

“So what, may I ask, are your plans?” asked Kurama. The woman's gaze flew to Kurama.

“You mean am I going to kill you now?”

“Hn,”

“You needn't worry,” her seductive gaze fell once again on Hiei, “I am not going to fight you now. But, be warned, the next time we meet; it won't be for idle chit chat. The next time we meet, I want to feel your true power Hiei. I don't want you to hold back.”

“Don't worry 'Nijuer'” Hiei said with a sneer on his face. 'Nijuer' was a nasty word in the demon language for a woman who was a whore, “the next time we meet…I won't hold anything back.”

“Hmmm,” she placed her fingers gently on her soft, pink, glossed lips and blew a kiss of black flames towards Hiei which singed his cheek. He didn't even flinch as the flames scorched him. “Until our next meeting then,” with that black flames consumed her and she disappeared.

“Well Hiei it looks as if you have an admirer,” Kurama teased

“Shut up fox,”

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