The Tournament of Souls

Chapter I

"You've been requested…" Started Koenma as he looked at the entire team, crowded into his office, girls and all. "To go to the Tournament of Souls…" Koenma finished.

"WHAT!" Was heard all the way though the Reikai. Everyone had yelled, even Yukina. The only one who hadn't said anything was Hiei. He didn't care. But he had heard about the Tournament of Souls. It was supposed to be worse than the Dark Tournament. He wondered who had requested it.

"I told you… you were REQUESTED… I have no say over that… Besides… my Father authorized it. You have to go. Now… you need a team of five, so it shouldn't be too hard…" Koenma told them.

"Great, we have five people. But why the hell do we have to go to another Tournament?" Asked Genkai.

"You'll do it?" Asked Yusuke.

"Of course I'll do it… you'll need my help…" Genkai told them.

"Great, we need a good Human on the team. Yusuke and Kurama don't count." Hiei said with a deadly smirk. He was happy that Genkai was coming to the Tournament, he had always liked her.

"Hey, what about me!" Kewabara yelled.

"What? Is someone talking to me?" Hiei asked Yusuke who was standing to his left.

"You stupid TWERP!" Kewabara yelled as he launched at Hiei. Hiei dodged every attack aimed at him. After Kewabara's twenty eighth attempt to hit Hiei the annoyed Hi-Koorime grabbed Kewabara's wrist and jerked it violently behind Kewabara's back, bringing Kewabara to his knees.

"Look, now I'm taller than him. I guess that make's you the Twerp now." He added to Kewabara. He absolutely despised when Kewabara called him Twerp and he was finally going to get his say in it. Thankfully.

"I'm glad to know that you're all getting along." Koenma said with a glare at Hiei. "Let Kewabara up."

"That's not really fair." Yusuke said. "Kewabara teases him all the time and he has yet to retaliate to Kewabara's attacks. Let him have his fun, it's not like he'll do any permanent damage to Kewabara, save his ego for being taken down by Hiei who's almost a full foot and a half smaller than him." Yusuke said with a dismissive wave of his hand.

"Oh, but you're hurting him." Botan said to Hiei.

"Am I now?" He asked. "Although my Human Anatomy is rusty I still know that this doesn't hurt too badly. He'll be fine within the next few hours. Now, if I brought the arm in any direction from here it would be very painful, and I could possibly dislocate his shoulder. But I won't do that because if I don't dislocate it I always have the hope that he'll cut off his own head with that stupid sword of his. So what's the point of hurting him too much when he'll eventually cut himself to ribbons?" Hiei said with a deadly smirk.

"You really do have some of the most twisted logic in the entire world." Kewabara said, gritting his teeth against the pain in his shoulder.

"What was that?" Hiei said as he cocked his head towards Kewabara and moved Kewabara's hand a little higher up his back.

"Nothing." Kewabara grit out.

"Really? And here I was so sure that you were trying to tell me something." Hiei said with a shrug. "Not that I really care, mind you." He added.

"Hiei… You have to let go of him now." Yusuke said with a sigh. "We need that arm." He added to Hiei. Hiei nodded to him and released Kewabara and teleported over to stand next to Yusuke.

"Very nice. No permanent damage. The arm doesn't even look swollen. How'd you manage to learn how to do that?" Genkai said with a nod as she looked over Kewabara's arm.

"I was raised amongst cutthroats. You pick up a few things." Hiei said with a shrug and a smirk.

"Perfectly executed attack as well. No fumbling like most do. And you put just enough strength into it that it wouldn't be evident by just looking at it." Genkai noted.

"I became very good at my craft." Hiei said as he leaned up against the wall, one leg on the floor, one on the wall, his arms crossed against his chest.

"Very good? Are you kidding me? That hurt like a bitch!" Kewabara said.

"Baka." Hiei hissed under his breath.

"Do you want to hear specifics about this Tournament, or are you just going to stand around and banter back and fourth the entire time." Koenma asked as he glared at Hiei. "And no torturing and or hurting people in my office!" He added.

"And what make's you think that I'll listen to you?" Hiei asked as he cocked an eyebrow at Koenma. Koenma's face got red as he glared at Hiei's impassive face.

"Fine Koenma… give us specifics. But make it quick. I'm bored with this meeting already. You never have anything fun to do…" Said Yusuke as he leaned against a wall a few feet away from Hiei.

"The Tournament starts in five months. I suggest that you start training soon." Koenma told them. "It's one of the more… bloody of the Tournaments. Open to all different types of beings. That good enough for you?"

"Perfect… How are we going to train for this bitch guys?" Yusuke asked as he looked between Kurama, who had an amused look in his eyes, Kewabara, who was rubbing his shoulder, Genkai, who was still examining Kewabara's shoulder with interest, and Hiei who was smirking.

"I don't particularly care… how do you want to do it?" Asked Kurama as he cocked his head to the side and fixed Yusuke with a quizzical look.

"I don't know. Hey, Hiei, you gonna be around?" Asked Yusuke.

"Yes." Hiei said.

"Really?" Yusuke asked. "That's new." He added.

"Yes, really."

"Why?" Asked Kewabara. "Shouldn't you be with that woman that you're always with?" He added as he glared at Hiei.

"She gave me leave for half a year so I didn't train the people in Alric to death." Hiei said with a deadly smirk. "She was fine with it when I only trained with her, but then I started training all of the guard and then all of the people in the castle." Hiei added at Yusuke's quizzical look.

"Oh…" Kewabara said. "I'm not training with him again." He added.

"Fine… You don't have to train with Hiei. We wouldn't want to bruise your ego any more than it is already anyway." Yusuke said.

"HEY!" Kewabara said as he jumped up and started towards Yusuke. Yusuke smirked at him but Kewabara didn't stop his advance on the leader of the Reikai Tentei. Kewabara stepped forward and tripped over Hiei's outstretched leg, finally skidding to a halt in front of Yusuke.

"That's not fair. You two teamed up on me!" Kewabara said as he got up.

"No, Yusuke's learned how to use his surrounding's to his advantage. You are just a moron, with absolutely no strategic analysis ability to speak of." Hiei said with a smirk.

"How about this…" Genkai started. "We'll all train together. The five of us, near the Temple so you can get food and healing when you need it." Said Genkai. "Courtesy of Yukina over there." She added as she nodded to Yukina. "We'll do advanced training; modify it a little for all of you Demons. That way everyone's together and we can all do specific training for what we need but still do group training on things that we all need." Genkai added.

"I agree with Genkai's idea." Kurama offered. "It's as good as any." He added.

"So there it is. We're all training together at the temple? Hiei, Kewabara, you two are okay with that?" Asked Yusuke.

"It's fine with me, Urameshi." Kewabara said with a nod.

"How about you?" Yusuke asked as he turned to Hiei.

Hiei looked up at Yusuke and shrugged. "Might as well. I've nothing better to do. Besides, training with Genkai's always fun." He added with a smirk as he stood up straight.

"Okay. So, there we go. Training at Genkai's Temple it is." Yusuke announced. "Everyone's okay with it, which is totally weird because usually only half of us agree at any given time. Five months, right?" Yusuke asked Koenma.

"Yes, Yusuke. Five months." Koenma said.

"Great." Yusuke announced with a grin. "Let's get started." He added as he walked out of Koenma's office.

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Okay, so there's the story. I won't update until I get at least a review or two...