A/N: Hey guys, here I am with yet another story started. But don't worry, this is just for songfics and one shots, so it's not going to take any time away from my other stuff. This is just something to relieve stress and writers block. Hope you enjoy! The name after the title is whose POV the story is in. This song is by 3 Doors Down, on their cd Away From The Sun. There may more than one songfic in here for some characters.
Okay, I don't really like this one, but please review! And I promise they get better. This one I wrote last night, and the others I wrote this morning when I found out school was cancelled! Yay! Go me!
Disclaimer: This is the only time I will say it, I do not own anything but the idea of the writing in between the lyrics. (Although the song did give me the idea…)
Dangerous Game
Koenma
You stand before me
Now we stare eye to eye
Before another second clicks away
One of us will die
I looked across the battle field in my teenage form to the smug demon. He was the most powerful one we had ever encountered, and Yusuke could not defeat him. He had four underlings, each trained to handle one of my detectives specifically. This fight was the only way to get him to leave and go back to the Makai.
You reach for your metal
As I reach for mine
I watch him nod to his four underlings and I nod to Yusuke. The fight begins. I hear Botan mutter, "They better win. For your sake, and the sake of the Ningenkai." She thought I was mad when I accepted the challenge. 'Yusuke…I have faith in you.' If my spirit detectives beat his demons, our new enemy goes to the Makai. If my team loses…I forfeit my life.
The sound of bullets flyin' through the air
Is followed by a cry
The battle rages on before us. I wish I didn't have to put Yusuke and the others through this. Life is sometimes a dangerous game, and sometimes my spirit detectives are the pawns. I wish I was strong enough to fight my own battles.
And they're cryin'
What will we do?
What will we say?
When it's the end of this game that we play?
My team seems to be fairing well, and have suffered only minor injuries. It is hard to follow their movements though. Botan and Ogre are cheering them on on either side of me. My own lips form cheers but they die on my tongue. We have suffered a casualty.
Will we crumble into the dust my friend?
Or will we start this game over again?
It's coming back to me.
The battle is over. At first no one but us three noticed. Botan, Ogre and I. Out of the fighters Yusuke noticed it first when he went to give someone a high five.
"Where is Kuwabara?" I can hear the dread in Yusuke's voice from here. I know what happened, but he hasn't seen it yet.
This young man lays alone
But fastened to the ground
The sound of fleeing feet and a crying eye
Will be his last sound
Yeah
"Kuwabara!" I hear Yusuke's anguished cry and let my head drop. Botan is silent, but I can see a damp spot on the ground slightly in front of her feet. Ogre is doing nothing to suppress his sobbing.
Yusuke is on the ground now, and as I look up I notice his face isn't dry either. Only Hiei and my face are dry. Although I do not know if he is also hiding his emotions, or if he just doesn't care.
Hiei uses telepathy to ask if I want the demon apprehended. I nod again, and send Botan to open a portal to the Makai with orders to send the demon, but not Hiei, through. My numbed thoughts are repeating themselves. 'Life is a dangerous game we play.'
What did we gain from all of this?
Now was it worth a life?
No
Yusuke has picked up Kuwabara's body, carefully stepping over the demon Kuwabara killed in the process of his death. Yusuke walks by me on the side Botan has left. He stops long enough to mutter so only I can hear. "Kuwabara was always a loyal pawn."
His eyes, despite being wet, are hard. I let him go, and dismiss Kurama and Hiei. Kurama tells me not to worry about whatever Yusuke said; he is just not himself right now. "Don't you feel any remorse, sir?" Ogre asks hesitantly as we turn to go. "Not now Ogre." Is my answer.
We've thrown all our hopes away
And set our dreams aside
Now we're cryin'
What will we do?
What will we say?
When it's the end of this game that we play?
Later that night I couldn't fall asleep, and as I lay in bed I thought back over the battle. What went wrong? Why didn't we notice he was struggling? Could we have helped?
Will we crumble into the dust my friend?
Kuwabara's death is plaguing me, and I suddenly think of how Yusuke is feeling.
Or will we start this game over again?
Now I think no matter how sorry I am for getting them involved, it will never make up for the losses in the long run. How could I have done this to two kids? Because I am not strong enough to protect the Ningenkai myself. Because I am weak. And it's my fault Kuwabara is…
It's coming back to me
It's coming back to me
It's coming back to me
It's coming back to me
It's coming back to me
Yeah
In the confines of my weaknesses and the walls of my room all the numbness leaves me. My tears soak the blanket clutched between my fists. I should have been strong enough not to need them! Kuwabara should have had training! He should have lived!
What will we do?
What will we say?
When it's the end of this game that we play?
I wonder if our strength sets us apart from others, and how we are strong. And if we will strengthen ourselves because of this or
Will we crumble into the dust my friend?
Or will we start this game over again?