Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad to see you guys are still with me! And that you like this! Sorry it took so long with this. There was a character I was planning to bring up in future parts of the story, but it was kind of hard considering he was, um, dead. I had to bring Kuronue back in Return of the Bat before I could bring him up in this one, so, when he does get here, you know where to look to see how he pulled it off. I kinda had to stick with that story first anyway, with all the reviews it was getting, it was kinda hard to walk away from...
Anyway, it's almost finished now, so I can go back to my normal 3 or 4 story juggling act. (actually, I just updated it a few hours ago. I'm getting back to that 2 or 3 update a night thing. See why my name is "Whirlwind"?)
I own nothing. Enjoy!
Kayko sat on her couch folding laundry. Her son was taking a nap in the next room. She was starting to wonder where his father was. He should have been home by now. She was just about to turn on the TV, when she heard footsteps on the stairs.
'Yusuke?'
Whoever it was, they were running. What was going on? Just then, the door burst open, revealing, not Yusuke, but Shizuru. She was a wreck. She panted for breath and and darted across the room, toward the coat closet.
"Shizuru, what's wr-"
"No time! Get the kid! We've gotta go!"
"Go where?" Kayko said, panic evident in her voice.
"To Genkai's. We have to hurry!"
"What's goin-"
"I'll explain on the way! We don't have time to talk about it right now!" She had pulled the diaper bag off the hook on the inside of the door, and grabbed an empty suitcase from the floor. She ran to the couch and started shoving things in. "Get what he needs. We may be there for a few days. Pack as much as you can carry, but be quick!"
Kayko nodded nervously. She had no idea what was going on, but it took a lot to get Shizuru worked up. Whatever was happening, it was an emergency. She ran to her own closet and yanked out a few duffel bags, then headed to the kitchen, filling one full of all the baby snacks her son would need. It was a long way to Genkai's. When that was done, she ran to the nursery, and filled a second bag full of baby clothes, diapers, blankets and other baby necessities. She looked through the open door and saw Shizuru going back to the stairs carrying the suitcase in one hand and the car-seat in the other.
She picked up her son, who fussed a little from being woke up, but otherwise gave her little trouble. She bent at the knees, squatting to get her hands on the straps of the bags. She pulled the straps over her shoulder and made her way down the stairs, not even bothering to lock the door.
When she got to the street, she saw Shizuru coming at her. The back door of her car was open, showing the car-seat that was already buckled in. Shizuru grabbed the bags from Kayko's shoulder and ran to the other side, tossing them in while Kayko strapped the boy in his seat.
Kayko finished up and got in the passenger side. Before she even had time to grip her belt, Shizuru peeled out, leaving a cloud of blue smoke and a couple skid marks behind them.
She was confused, and scared. Did this have something to do with why Yusuke hadn't come home? Had he got mixed up in another case? Or worse: had something already happened to him? She glanced in the rear-view and looked at her son. He was a carbon copy of his father. She felt near tears.
'Yusuke...'
At the diner...
Kaitou felt something bad was about to happen. It was getting worse by the second; like a ball of lead was in his stomach, and it was getting heavier. The TV mounted in the corner flickered. After a few more flickers, the news program they were watching was replaced with a scene right out of a horror movie. People were being dragged into some sort of execution. A group execution. Kaitou noticed that the men leading them were wearing soldiers' uniforms. Then the red band on the sleeve caught his eye; a Nazi emblem. And the blood, and the screams, the looks of terror; these were not actors. It was Chapter Black! It was too late!
The people in the diner murmured to each other about that sick movie, and what it was doing on in the middle of the news. One tried to change the channel, but it was on every one of them. One lady ran to the bathroom after seeing one exceedingly graphic scene.
Kaitou slammed his money down and bolted for the door; not that the waitress had noticed. They were entranced with what was on the screen.
'I've got to get out of here, before things get too crazy! But where? Genkai! I have to get to Genkai!'
He ran down the street. He had parked his car in a public lot. He had to get to it before people figured out what was going on. Before they went into hysterics and the freeway became an impassable barricade of burning cars and twisted metal.
He saw a group of people gathered outside an electronics store window, watching the TVs though the glass. Among them was an unmistakable patch of lavender hair.
"Yana,": Kaitou called.
Yanagisawa turned, and so did the blond beside him. Yana and Kido rushed over to Kaitou.
"Did you see what's-"
"Let's go! Now!" Kaitou demanded, cutting Yana off mid-sentence. The three ran to his car. On the way, they saw the first of what they expected to be a long string of accidents. One of the people who had been watching the TVs through the windows had jumped in his car and pulled out in a panic, right in the way of an oncoming car. He was T-boned in the driver's side. Kaitou and the others hoped he was alright, but they didn't have time to go and check. If they didn't get out of here soon, they wouldn't get out at all.
The skies of Demon World...
Botan squinted against the harsh wind in her face. This may have been the fastest she had ever flown her oar. She had to get to Yusuke and the team. Koenma had given her a special stone, that would open up a portal to Spirit World wherever it was broken. These things were extremely rare, and they only used them in the worst of situations.
This definitely qualified.
She was told to get the team out of that battle, and back to the office. Koenma had figured out what this was. A distraction, and possibly, a deathtrap. He needed his detectives on Earth, and he needed them there yesterday!
She hoped she would get to them in time...
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