((Yay for morning posts! Yeah, I won't be back until 2 or 3 my time either. Ah well. Such is life.))

Kurama hid his smile behind his hand at Yue and Yusuke. Very amusing, honestly. It wasn't often he found someone who could insult Yusuke so much without even realizing it.

"Now, now, children," he said, once he had his own humor under control. "We have bigger problems at hand." He wasn't at all concerned about Hiei's threats to kill Yusuke; he knew Hiei well enough to know that he wouldn't actually kill the spirit detective.

"Wonder what's in there," Kuwabara said, stopping in front of the gates and staring up at the tower. "It kinda reminds me of the Four Saint Beasts. Remember, Urameshi?"

Aleron let out an impatient noise. "We'll never find out by just standing around thinking," she said, her eyes narrowing. Sure, she could be very patient when she had to be, but this was kind of time-sensitive. And she didn't want Yue to have to live with the tainted energy for longer than she had to. She'd only known the other for a few days, but Aleron was already fond of her.

She pushed the gates open, her eyes narrowed. At first, nothing happened. She took three steps inside the gate, still looking around, when she spotted them.

Trap doors opened on either side of the one entrance to the tower, and demons started to emerge. Some of them flew above the crowd, some of them stood double her height, and some of them didn't even remotely resemble humans. But all of them were focused on one thing: the six of them.

"Well, here we go again." Aleron had rather hoped to be done with these idiots; but no, apparently not. She started releasing her balls of spirit energy napalm, watching a few of them go up in flames.

Kurama's eyes narrowed and he moved off to the side, where he wouldn't have to worry about hitting any of the others as he exterminated the demons. These ones weren't very high class, and the only reason it would take them very long to get through them all would be sheer numbers. Then why even have them here at all? Just for cannon fodder?