Chapter 9 - A Rescue Mission

Yusuke's POV
"Get out of bed! You're going to be late, again!" My mom yelled at me.
"Push off." I said as I left the house.
"Wait! Your bag!" she said throwing my bag at me.
"No thanks." I called back as the bag came and hit me in the back of the head.
"I'm calling the school office to check." She called to me as I turned around and picked up my bag.
"Like I'd skip." I mumbled as I headed to school. I had heard that Ree had given me her life energy to keep me alive so she'd be out for a while. But she was going to be okay. She had finally woken up two days ago after being unconscious for a week and three days.
I got out of the apartment complex and started running to school. Ree hadn't been going. You hadn't heard from her or seen her lately. None of you all had.
"It's the perfect plan. Sleep in and get plenty of exercise running." I said to myself on the way to school. I could sense someone fallowing me. I was more then half way to school before I decided to stop. Hiei landed in front of me. "Well, if it isn't my favorite three–eyed demon. What's up Hiei?" I asked walking up to him." Your not stalking me again are you?" I asked. Suddenly Hiei pulled out a video tape. "What's this?" I asked looking at the video tape.
"From Koenma." Hiei stated.
"Koenma? Isn't this Boton's gig?" I asked finally taking the tape from Hiei.
"I don't know, I'm fallowing orders." Hiei explained.
"You're fallowing Koenma's orders?" I asked not believing what I was hearing. Hiei just stared at me and I stared back. It was kinda awkward so I said something about it. "Something wrong, Hiei?" Hiei didn't answer he just disappeared. "Strange guy." I said hearing the school bell ring. "Damn it!" I cursed running the rest of the way to school.
Koenma's POV
"Have you sent him?" Kurama asked.
"Yes, Yusuke should be getting the tape right now, so we can only hope things happen as planned." I explained.
"Do you think Hiei suspects anything?" Kurama asked
"Probably, but he's so far from the trueth, I think." I explained rather unsure of myself. "Maybe you should have accompanied him to be sure." I stated worrying.
"I believe we'll be alright." Kurama said. "He may sense something's wrong, but he'll leave Yusuke to fix it." Kurama continued.
"I hope your right." I stated.
Yusuke's POV
I was able to convince Kuwabara to let me use his tape player after school. So now I was at his house with Boton. I was pretty made because when Keiko asked me about the video tape earlier at school I told her the trueth and she thought I was talking about a company I worked for as a detective. She also thought that Sprit World was the name of the company.
""Okay Boton, what the hell kind of explanation did you give her? She thinks I'm a freakn' intern in an after school program!" I yelled angrily. Boton gave me some cat look. "For juvenile delinquents!" I finished angrily.
"I had to make up something believable without mentioning the supernatural! A basic tenant of sprit world is that it can't run properly if normal humans have proof of it!" Boton argued back.
"Well, you made me sound lame." I stated.
"Enough already! Can we please just watch the video instead of arguing?" Kuwabara cut in frustrated. "You're going to annoy my sister." Boton stuck her tongue out at me. "Besides, Boton's right, Keiko's not suppose to know so the trueth would only get her in trouble." He continued. "Maybe you should worry about her safety instead of some stupid cover story."
"I love being tag-teamed." I exclaimed.
"Oh, thank you, Kuwabara. You're very wise." Boton stated.
"What can I say, Boton? You and I just seen to be a perfect match in every way." Kuwabara flirted. Boton laughed nervously. "Now, one more thing before I press 'play', Urameshi. No matter what kind of mission it is there's no way I'm getting involved."
"Ok! Just start the tape." I stated irritated. Kuwabara picked up the remote and pressed the 'play' button. The video started and the first part was Koenma holding a light while standing on stairs with the name Koenma in the back. The second image was of the word 'Koenma' with a demon in the 'E'. We each had a sweat drop.
"They go all out huh?" Kuwabara asked.
"Either he's full of himself or he's really bored." I stated.
"Welcome. How do you like my video?" Koenma asked sitting in a chair. "The great Koenma ruler of the spirit world."
"This is seriously the guy you get your jobs from, Urameshi? This little bitty toddler." Kuwabara asked pointing to Koenma.
"I said the same thing when I first met him and Boton hit me in the head." I stated.
"That's why Koenma's doing a video. He can't stand the first reactions." Boton explained. Kuwabara laughed.
"This mission will be another dozy. Hopefully you will survive. But the way, don't worry about people entering the room. This video is specially encrypted and will sound like an annoying buzz to anyone who isn't spiritually aware. Now, your mission is search and rescue except without the searching. Watch my magic snap." Koenma said snapping his fingers and the screen changed to a forest.
"Come one. That's just a cheap camera trick." I stated. Boton laughed nervously.
"This looks hard, Urameshi." Kuwabara teased.
"Shut up." I said irritated.
"Sprit world intelligence report that the captives are being held in a mountain strong hold, around two hundred miles from your city. Not being of driving age yourself you will have to take the bus. The mountain is the base of criminal activity. Normally I don't mind that, but the human have made ties with some nasty demons. The captives names are Yukina who is an ice apparition; very rare. Equally rare are the beautiful jewels she can produce which is why the criminals have captured her. They hope to profit off of Yukina." He said holding up a pearl like jewel. "The second captive who you already know is Ree who we recently found out was an angel apparition; even more rare. There are only seven including her in existence. Equally rare are the also beautiful jewels she can produce. Like Yukina, the criminals hope to profit off of these jewels." He said holding up three different jewels. One was crimson red, one was midnight black, and one was crystal clear. "The difference between Ree's jewels and Yukina's jewels are not just the color but the meanings. All of Yukina's tears turn into these pearl like jewels. Like Yukina all of Ree's tears turn into jewels but each of her tears has a meaning, each color representing a different thing. Her normal tears are crystal clear, while red tears mean means that she likes someone or something or that she is afraid. When she cries these tears she is crying for someone or something dear to her. Lastly the rarest tear of all is the black tear which means love. This tear is normally shed what a loved one is hurt or dying. This tear has been shed only two times. There are only three black tears in existence. No one has cried more then two. Anyways, their captive is trying to force them to create these jewels at an unnatural pace. And when I say force I mean tourcher." Koenma stopped.
"That's horrible." Boton said sadly. "So Yukina and Ree's captive want them to create the Hiraseki stones, in the black market they can easily sell for thousands sometimes millions." She continued.
"Here is the human behind the operation. His name is Gonzu Turukina. A jeweler and a thug, he's made something of a name and a fortune for himself in the black market by selling rare jewels." Koenma explained showing us a picture of some ugly gat guy with a weird lump on his head.
"Eee, he's too ugly to be a human." Kuwabara said grossed out.
"He's too ugly to be anything." I corrected.
"Here's are the most resent pictures of Yukina and Ree." Koenma said showing us a picture of a girl with teal/light blue hair and red eyes. She could easily be mistaken for Ree's sister. "Memorize Yukina's face." Koenma said showing us some pictures of Ree. "This mission goes beyond jewelry thieves. It is imperative that you bring them back quickly." Koenma completed. Kuwabara had this weird blush across his face.
"Oh, I feel awful for them. We have to go today." Boton said. Kuwabara suddenly stood up.
"What's his deal?" I asked no one in particular as Kuwabara turned around looking down at us. He had some gay blush on his face and he looked like he high. I chuckled. "You look miserable." I stated.
"I think I'm in love." He stated suddenly.
"What?" I asked shocked.
"Well, come on, Urameshi! Let's send those bad guys to the moon!" Kuwabara said.
"I thought you said you weren't coming?" I asked.
"Shut up. Don't try to dress up the facts again. I'm a good friend & I can't let you go & save them alone! They're suffering!" Kuwabara exclaimed. Kuwabara suddenly gasped making Boton and I look behind us. "Shuzuru?"
"How long have you been here?" Boton asked.
"Calm down, princess. I just heard you guys watching that weirdo movie so I thought I'd bring you some kiddy snacks or something." She explained.
"We're just watching fuzz." I stated nervously.
"Fuzz. Yes, fuzz. We...Find it relaxing." Boton said nervously.
"Oh, then I must have imagined the little boy with the pacifier in his mouth giving you orders." Shuzuru explained. I gave a nervous laugh before talking.
"Kids and their wild imaginations." I said.
"Give it up, Yusuke. Sprit awareness must run in the Kuwabara family." Boton suggested.
"Ok Shuzuru, you win. So, can we have some money for the bus – like maybe a million or so? That's enough right?" Kuwabara cut in.
"Kiddo, for a million bucks you could take a bus to Hawaii. Here's 50." She said tossing him her red wallet. Kuwabara caught it with a chuckle.
"Yeah." He said running out the bedroom down and down the hall. "Ok, I'll see you guys in a couple of days!" he called as he ran down the hall.
"You think he knows the way to the mountains?" Boton asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Doubt it." I said.
"That's my baby brother for you. Better eat your snacks; it'll take him a few hours before he realizes he has no idea where he's going. Let's watch that video again." Shuzuru explained coming to sit down with us.
Yukina's POV
I was locked in a room with bars on the windows. The only comfort was the birds that came to see me.
"Sweet birds, if I had wings like you do I promise I wouldn't be staying in here. Oh, don't you see?" I asked lifting my hand up to touch the window. There was a shock and I brought my hand down. It was bleeding. "There are many places to go far away from me." I said hearing the door down the hall unlock and open. I heard foot steps coming closer. "Go free." I said making them all fly away. When they were all gone I turned towards the wall in front of me and my eyes glow a light blue. The room and bars on the windows began to freeze.
"Every time we come to visit she freezes the room. Frigid little whore, huh?" Gonzu Turukina said to a tall man and a man on his shoulder; neither of which have I ever seen before.
"Are you sure you wouldn't like one of our coats?" The butler to Gonzu asked.
"You needn't worry about us." The tall man said.
"There she is. A real knock out ain't she? But when it comes to feelings it's like her hearts been frozen shut. We'll open the door, boys." Gonzu stated as he stopped in front of the room I was locked in. The butler behind them came and opened the door. The door opened and the tall man came in with the short man still on his shoulder. Gonzu Turukina came in with them. "Well now, you decided to warm up to your uncle Turukina yet?" Gonzu Turukina asked. I didn't answer. The tall man carrying the short man on his shoulder came up to me. The tall man flicked me around the cheek. A moment latter a small cut appeared and began to bleed. I didn't move. "Don't bother. We've already tried filling that girl up with every kind of pain imaginable, no matter what she just stares at the damn wall." Gonzu Turukina explained.
"Hm." Was all the tall man said. Suddenly I heard the flapping wings of two birds. I gasped standing up and looking at them.
"Stay Away!" I called. They kept flying towards me. "It isn't safe!"
"Brother." The tall man said with a smirk to the man on his shoulder.
"Of course." The man on his shoulder answered stretching his fingers and grabbing the birds. I gasped and the short man laughed.
"Please, don't hurt them!" I yelled running up to the two men. The tall man back handed me across the cheek and I fell to the ground.
"These innocent little birds keep you company and give you a small reason to hope don't they?" the tall man asked. "To bad your feelings have betrayed them." He finished as the short man brought the birds to him. The short man covered the birds squeezing.
"Please spare them." I begged as the short man squeezed. "Please!" I continued to beg. The short man laughed and squeezed the birds tighter. I heard the birds' desperate tweets of pain. Suddenly there was nothing. The birds had been squeezed to death. Tears quickly filled my eyes. "NO!" I yelled 10 tears falling to the floor and turning into jewels. "I'll do anything you want, I don't care." I said crying as Gonzu Turukina walked over to me and picked up the jewels.
"Oh, you've done quite enough, missy, for now anyways. You're going to make me a fortune, you know that?" He asked with a laugh. "How a creature like her can have feelings is beyond me. To think she made all that noise over some stinking birds." Gonzu Turukina said to no one in particular as he stood up. "Now, get up off the floor and clean up your face. I like my people to look happy when I'm having a good day." He continued and began to walk away. "Call the market boys!" he called leaving. The tall man and his brother turned around.
"You can make this easier on yourself, give up hope, and start practicing how to cry." The tall man said leaving as well.
Yusuke's POV
The bus dropped us off at a forest.
"Wow. Now, this is a big waist of space." I said looking at all the trees.
"You know, Yusuke, some people like the wilderness." Boton said.
"Yeah, old hermits and people who don't know how to talk to girls." I stated as Kuwabara began to walk into the forest. "Hey, where are you going?" I asked.
Elder Toguro's POV
Gonzu Turukina was examining the jewels that he had just got from Yukina.
"You brothers came with a big price tag but you sure got the job done. I'm going to make a killing." He said closing the box where he had put the jewels. "Are the market boys' ready to buy yet, Shukashda?" Gonzu asked his butler. The butler came up and began whispering in Gonzu's ear.
"A small problem sir, we've spotted intruders." The butler said.
"All the way here in the mountains?" Gonzu asked. "There no doubt some gold diggers trying to cash in on my scheme. Kill them." Gonzu exclaimed.
"Turukina, grant a favor? Allow our demons to deal with these intruders." My younger brother said. I laughed.
"While you do that I'll handle the other girl." I said getting off of my brother's shoulder and fallowing the butler to where the other girl was.
Yusuke's POV
Boton, Kuwabara and I had been walking the woods for a little bit now.
"This place smells like @$$." I commented looking around. "You know there's no way we're going to find this house by night fall." I said stopping.
"The forest looked a lot smaller on the map." Kuwabara stated coming to stop next to me.
"Come on boys, the other trail goes all the way to the top." Boton exclaimed. "I think it's our best bet." She finished.
"Do we still have to walk?" I asked irritated.
"Let's go, Urameshi!" Kuwabara said running up to Boton while yelling "Wait for me Yukina! Your true love is coming!" he yelled running past Boton and in the direction she had pointed.
"I guess he's done being in love with you Boton." I stated.
"Darn." She said sarcastically.
"What are you guess waiting for? We've got two girls to rescue!" Kuwabara asked from a little ways down the trail.
"Shouldn't we tell him about the rest of the video?" Boton asked.
"Well, I'd hate to ruin his fun." I answered.
Flash back
"In closing I must say this case is quite delicate." Koenma began. "You see, this ice apparition is not just some Jane Dow. Yukina, is Hiei's sister." Koenma finished.
End Flashback
Hiei's POV
I was heading to where Yukina was. Running at full speed.
"Yukina, I'm coming." I said mentally.
Your POV
A day and a half ago you were kidnapped and brought here. You weren't exactly sure why though. Other then the fact that the guy named Gonzu Turukina was trying to make you cry. You had heard the ice apparition in the room about you yell 'No' earlier. You weren't really sure why though. The only think you knew about her was that her name was Yukina, she was an ice apparition, and Gonzu was trying to make her cry also. From what you had heard Gonzu had brought in two new people to try and make you cry. After what you heard with Yukina you guessed that the two new guys had made her cry. You were looking out the window of your room when you heard the door to your cell open. You looked to see who it was out of the corner of your eye. It was a short man with dark gray wavy hair and yellow eyes. He had really pale skin. He was wearing a navy blue tux-like outfit with black shoes. He was laughing.
"Stop laughing. It makes you sound stupid." You said coldly. The man continued to laugh. You looked away from the man and to a small red bird flying towards you. It landed on your shoulder. You put your hand in front of it and it jumped on. You put your and to the window and lifted it up quickly making the bird start to fly away. The man stretched his figures and grabbed hold of the bird. "Is this what you did to the ice apparition; Yukina?" you asked emotionlessly.
"Yes." He said in an evil voice. "She begged for the two little birds' lives but I killed them." He laughed again. It was so easy to make her cry.
"Figures." You said watching as he squeezed the life out of the birds. You didn't flinch. Unlike Yukina you would not give this man what he wanted. He walked up to you and backhanded you across the face. Your head moved to the side but then you looked at him again. Blood was running down your cheek. You had cold eyes. He hit you again over and over, your head only moved back and forth. He stopped finally. He was glaring at you. He stabbed you in the shoulder making blood run down your chest and left arm. You didn't flinch. "You want my tears. Am I right?" you asked emotionlessly.
"Yes." He answered evilly. You put your right hand in your back pocket and pulled out the stone jewels you had cried for Yusuke when he defeated the saint beasts. Hiei had picked them up and gave them to you when you woke up in the hospital a few hours before you were kidnapped. You grabbed all but one.
"You want my tears, here. That's all I've got. If you find out they are fake you can torcher me till death for all I care. But I know you won't find them to be fake." You explained handing the four tear gems to the man. He looked at you suspiciously. You didn't faultier. He left after that.
Yusuke's POV
Kuwabara and I defeated the first of the guards to the place where Ree and Yukina were being held captive.
"And here I thought they'd make it easy for us, huh Kuwabara?" I asked.
"Yeah." Kuwabara agreed as we began walking on the trail that led up the mountain again. After a while the trail suddenly ended.
"It's kinda stupid to have a mountain trail that ends half way up the mountain." I began. "I guess they don't encourage much camping around here." I finished looking around.
"Yes, the stronghold is very well hidden. But we should be able to find it eventually if we just fallow Yukina and Ree's energy." Boton stated looking at her compass.
"Why are you still using that compass? Just fallow my way. The red pinky string." Kuwabara said waving his right pinky around. Boton and I looked at him questionably.
"The what?" Boton asked confused. I wanted to ask the same thing but she had beaten me to it.
"The moment I saw her, my love stretched out and tied us together." Kuwabara explained as a red string appeared coming off of his right pinky and going into the forest. "You see?" he asked. "Let's fallow the tread of destiny tied to my love." He finished running the direction of the red string. Boton and I fallowed after him. We fallowed him for a while until he stopped and looked left and right. In the end he decided to go left.
"Wait Kuwabara, it's this way!" Boton called pointing to the right.
"Yeah, but I just got a really bad feeling. Let's go around." Kuwabara stated. Before I could tell Boton to listen to Kuwabara she was talking again.
"My compass says fallow the path. We don't have time for detours." She said walking to the right. She suddenly tripped on some string and was pulled into a giant web.
"Boton!" I called.
"Whoop sees." She said looking down at us from her place of the spider web. "A little help?" she asked us as a giant spider demon appeared on the web.
"What a nice catch." The spider demon said. Boton screamed.
"Oh, it's a spider this time." I stated looking up at it. "Hey, let her go." I called up to the spider.
"Go? Now why would I let her go if I'm planning to drink her blood?" the spider asked looking at Boton. She screamed again. "If you want to save her you'll have to come up and fight me in the evil spider's lair." He stated but was cut off by Kuwabara making his spirit sword and cutting Boton down and off of the spider web.
"Sorry to mess up your plan but nobody's getting in between Yukina and me!" Kuwabara said cutting Boton free. Boton began to fall to the ground and ran over a caught her bridal style. The spider jumped on the ground too.
"You can't possibly be human." The spider said.
"Yup." I stated.
"We just happen to be really really tough." Kuwabara added as the demon spider got ready to fight.
"Pardon me if I make this quick." I stated putting spirit energy into my hand. The spider jumped into the air and I got into a fighting stance ready to punch it. The demon came down on me fast but I punched it. My punch went right through the demon. The demon fell to the ground and started wiggling around before it stopped moving. It was dead then.
"Nice work." Boton stated.
"Thanks. Maybe if this detective thing doesn't work maybe I'll try exterminating." I joked. Boton, Kuwabara and I noticed it was getting dark and began walking for a few until we found a good place to stop and rest. We made a fire and sat down.
Hiei's POV
I had been fallowing Yusuke, Boton, and Kuwabara for a while now. The three of them finally decided to stop for the night and make a fire. They sat down around the fire talking about what their next plan was. I jumped into a tree to watch them. After a while I sat down leaning against the trunk of the tree. I fell asleep soon after. In my dream I began to remember when I got my Jagon eye put in. Then I remembered when Ree got hurt and I had to carry her. I remembered the feeling of her holding on to me as if I was her life line. Last I remembered Yukina when she and I were little. I was standing in a tree watching her as she played with some of the small animals. Suddenly I woke up.
"Yukina!" I called with a start reaching out my hand as if to touch her. I then remembered where I was and realized that it was just a dream. I stood up and looked at Yusuke, Boton, and Kuwabara.
"Did you hear something?" Boton asked looking around.
"No. Would you get up Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked annoyed. Kuwabara was still lying on the ground. Kuwabara got up with a yawn and looked at me. But before he could see me I jumped into a different place.
Kuwabara's POV
Yusuke was nagging me to get up. I finally did with a yawn. I suddenly felt as if someone was watching us so I looked up into a nearby tree. I thought I saw something but when I blinked again it was gone. I shrugged it off thinking I was just imagining it.
Your POV
You looked out the window in your cell. You watched as birds would come and go from the window above yours. You supposed that Yukina was telling them to leave since you would see some come then only moments later they would leave. You had been locked in this cell for two and a half days and were getting bored. You knew that you could easily escape if you weren't still wounded from your battle with Byakko. Your small wounds had healed already but the bigger ones like your legs were still in really bad condition. You still had a lot of problems walking.
You walked over to the opposite side of window to see if what you sensed was anything of any importance. You could sense spirit and demon energy. There was a fight going on. But it was hard to sense much else with the sutra papers on the window's bars. They seemed to make it so no one outside the castle could sense you and you couldn't sense anyone outside the castle. As you looked out the window you saw that you couldn't see anything. You sighed pulling out the only tear you still had. You began to remember when Hiei gave the five tears to you.
Flashback
You were lying in a hospital bed in spirit world. You were still pretty out of it. Your eyes were closed but you could hear someone walk into the room. They came in and stood on the left side of the bed. You opened your eyes to see who it was. You looked up and saw it was Hiei. You tried to sit up but Hiei pushed you back down.
"Here." Hiei said handing you a cloth that was wrapped around something. You took it and laid it on your lap. You began to unwrap the cloth to see what was in it. When it was open you saw that the five tear gems that you cried for Yusuke were in it. You looked up again and saw that Hiei was gone again.
"Thank you." You said knowing he was just outside the closed door. You wrapped the gems back up in the cloth and hid them under your pillow before falling to sleep.
End Flashback
You smiled at the memory.
'He took the time to pick all the tear gems up and bring them to me knowing I'd want them. He's not as cold as he wants people to think. I never would have guessed.' You thought as a tear rolled down your face. The tear fell onto the floor and you bent down and picked it up. It was a clear tear with small specks of red in it that were almost unseeable. But you noticed them. You couldn't help but notice the small dots of red in the crystal clear tear. They were obvious to you only because it was your tear.
Boton's POV
You were flying around on your oar looking around.
"What a waist of a gorgeous home." I thought out loud as I flew around the home of Gonzu Turukina. I looked at my compass for a minute then there was an explosion and a huge gust of wind almost knocking me off of my oar. I quickly gained my balance again and heard more explosions going off. I looked to where the sound was coming from to see that tons of land mimes where going off right where Yusuke and Kuwabara were headed if not there already. I quickly flew over. "Yusuke! Kuwabara!" I called as I flew around looking for them. I flew just above the front of the fire looking for any sign of them. "Oh, Pease." I begged hoping to see them ok. As I looked the fire came up and almost got me. I was so busy looking for them I wasn't paying attention to how close to the fire I was getting. I moved away from it. I looked into the fire again finally able to see two figures coming towards the edge of the fire. As the two figures reached the edge I saw that it was Yusuke and Kuwabara. Both of them were surrounded in spirit energy that was acting as a shield against the fire. "Bingo." I said flying over to them. Yusuke saw me coming over and gave me a smile and a thumbs up. The two of them came completely out of the fire and I flew down next to them getting off of my oar. Kuwabara and Yusuke nodded to each other before we all walked towards the castle. Upon reaching the castle Kuwabara and Yusuke opened up the doors and we walked in. The first thing we saw was a hall way. We began to walk down the hall way until we were stopped by a girl with indigo hair and blue eyes with a horn on her forehead.
"Hello there intruders, I am Miugi." The female demon said. "How do you like I fight?" she asked.

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