Lucky Penny II
Summary – So much was their final moments, she never wanted to see nor speak with him again. But when a battle brakes out in Makai and a new adventure begins to arise; she finds it difficult to avoid the reunion. Friends made, lives lost and a battle won; Kagome must work alongside Koenma's Spirit Detectives and search for the destined ruler of the western lands.
Rated – M (Excessive Violence) (Excessive Sexual Themes) (Excessive Language) (Excessive Blood and Gore)
Disclaimer: Do you really have to ask? No I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or InuYasha. The prophecy below however, I made that up, pretty well if I do say so myself. Also, the quote beneath Ch.1 belongs to me.
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Starting from the beginning to where we are...now.
Kagome: (3) (5) (7) (8) (10) (12) (13) (15) (16) (17) and (21)
Kurama: (4) (6) (8) (9) (11) (13) (14) (16) (18) and (22)
Souta: (2) (4) (5) (7) (9) (10) (12) (13) and (17)
Junko: (5) (6) (8) (10) (11) (13) (14) and (18)
Kimi: (8) (10) (12) (13) (15) (16) and (20)
Minami: (10) (12) (13) and (17)
Shippou: (6) and (11)
Yuzuki: (4)
Haru: (4)
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A Broken Past
Warrants
A Predetermined Future
But Can Such A Future Be Changed
Or Will The Destined One
Forever Be Forced To Traverse A Path
Strung Together By Another's Soiled Hands
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Chapter Four – A Fight With the Spirit!
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It was the morning of the first fight...and to be quite frank...the only one up and alert, looking forward to the fight...was Souten.
"Come on!" Souten cried out as she jumped on Kagome and Yuzuki's bed.
"Mm," Yuzuki sat up and looked around, rubbing fuzzy eyes with her fist before yawning and stretching. "Mama..." She said softly; turning a little, she shook her mother awake and watched her play out the same motions she herself had just gone through.
"What time is it?" She asked as she pulled her legs out from beneath the sheets and blankets.
"SEVEN O'CLOCK!"
"..." She put her legs back beneath the sheets and rolled over to face away from the two girls.
"Kagome,"
Kagome groaned, 'Ayame too? Shit...' She sighed in defeat before getting out of bed.
"Mama, let's take a shower!" Yuzuki said with a smile.
"Alright then," Kagome let her daughter pull her to the shower where Ayame followed with two Hakama's, one blue with silver seeming and the other crimson; two white haori's went with the Hakama's along with two sets of undergarments in white. These were the outfits Ayame thought would best fit them. Kagura wore a pair of pearl white Hakama's with a white Haori...but refused to remove her cloak during the battle if she had to fight. Ayame's were emerald green with a white Haori and Souten's were shocking yellow with a white Haori. They were fine with theirs, but Kagura...HATED...wearing white.
"We're ready!" Yuzuki said, twenty minutes after the shower; she and Kagome had come out fully dressed. Kagome had stayed a while longer to play with Yuzuki's hair though, so it was now neatly brushed and parted, in high pigtails with cute tasseled curls that stopped at her chin.
"You look so cute Yuzuki!" Souten squealed before pulling her out the door.
"Ah! YUZUKI, SOUTEN; SHOES!" Ayame yelled. Slowly, the two returned and pulled on a pair of wooden Geta shoes before they took off running again.
"...that's better..." Ayame said, pulling her own Geta on with the others as they followed at a slower pace. Well...they were following. They saw Souten and Yuzuki down in the crowd standing directly behind the Rokuyokai team that had just won their first round.
"Those two...they know I don't want the Urameshi team aware of our presence!"
"Then we will watch from a far, let them be." Kagura said.
"Right," She closed her eyes and opened a link to Yuzuki and Souten who were talking to the youngest of the Rokuyokai team.
'Hey, keep the fact that you are competing to yourselves...and...Don't use your real names.'
'Mama, why not?'
'Yeah, why different names?'
'I don't want Urameshi's team to know about us, and they know mine and Yuzuki's name.'
'Then I can use my name...what do we call Yuzuki...and you?'
'...Higura, call me Higura. Call Yuzuki...Yuki.'
'Simple enough, alright; Higura is Yuki's mom!'
'Yuki...you just took 'zu' out of my name, hehe. I went from Tender Moon...to Blessed Snow...we will be careful mama.'
'Thank you; now...you're being talked to.'
She watched as the two jumped and looked to the irritated boy who was talking loudly just to get their attention.
"I guess children are normal here?"
"That's because," Kagura stepped forward so that she could see the boy too. "Most children here...are in their hundreds...and are demons that can kill."
Kagome frowned, "That's comforting."
"Ooh...Hiei looks mad...he's on fire..."
Kagome turned to see what Ayame was talking about and felt her heart soar. No...Hiei wasn't mad...he was amused...in a very scary way.
They had watched the fight all the way through till the last match, none surprised by the end results after what Souten had told them the night before.
They watched as Koto, the bubbly and Sadistic fox announcer got on stage. "Winner: Team Urameshi!"
The fight wasn't nearly as amusing as the chants to follow in the end.
"We are next." Kagome said as they moved to the inside and passed Chuu, and Rinku...along with the dead bodies of the two...other members...nothing was left of the other two members.
"..." Chuu stopped to watch the three leave through the way they entered.
"Those three got a mite bit of power 'round them."
"A mite?"
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Yuzuki and Souten jumped the wall and landed next to the group that walked out. Yusuke and his team were leaving and out came five other fighters. The middle…that went by the name Topaz...was huge!
"I want to go first!"
"Oh?" Kagome looked to Souten when Topaz walked into the ring first.
"One on One, first with three wins...is that agreeable."
"..." They remained silent and Kagome nudged Yuzuki forward. She nervously moved to Topaz and held her small delicate hand out to him. "Th-that's agreeable."
"..." He took her hand in a show of sportsman ship before the two released each other's hand and left back to their groups.
"You okay?" Kagome asked.
"For reasons unknown, we have been asked to use different names for these fighters." Koto said. "So, team captains have decided and unanimously agreed, One on One battle, winner is the first with three wins! Let's get the first fighters up here!"
"Souten?"
"I'm already halfway there!" She said in mid jump run as she jumped onto the stadium and tossed her cloak behind her. "Bring it on boys!"
Kagome sighed.
"A kid? She looks smaller than Rinku!"
"Put a real fighter up there!"
"Tear her up!"
"BLEED HER DRY!"
Kagome smiled, "She doesn't seem to have much of a fan club...does she."
Ayame and Kagura smiled, "She will,"
"I'll take this joke down! Penalty one! NO UNDERMINORS!" A man yelled as he got on the arena.
"Fighters ready, FIGHT!"
Kagura frowned. "He reminds me of a football player.
"I believe Rugby is his essential ability and inspiration. Rugby is a rougher, crueler and much more brutal version of football." Ayame told her with a finger to her chin, as if thinking out loud.
"Sounds...brutal..."
Ayame smiled at Kagome's response.
"Alright ref! You heard him, Penalty one, NO UNDERMINORS! So STOP UNDERMINING!" Souten jumped up high in the air and went for a nose dive as a ball appeared in his hands and when he threw it at her, she spun around quickly and kicked it into the stadium before bringing her foot down on his head, a surge of electricity shot out from the sky and hit him in the same spot her foot had. "I believe...you are nothing more than a bench warmer now." She kicked her foot out once more and landed it into his gut, the force threw him out of the ring and into the ground.
"Amazing, this little girl packs one hell of a kick! I'll start the counting!" Koto ran to the edge of the ring and began. "One...Two...Three...Four...Five...Six...Seven...Eig—Ah..." Souten turned to see him standing back up and she smirked. Holding her hand out she yelled and the stadium lit up once more with lightning.
"AHHHHH!"
"Eight...Nine...and TEN! I think we can all agree, no one can fight after that shocking end! With his body burned to a literal crisp, it would be amazing if Rugby could even walk again! The winner of the match, SOUTEN!"
Souten walked over to Kagome who handed back her cloak. "How was that?"
"Good, you didn't kill him." Kagome said.
"Didn't have to."
"...I'll go next!"
Kagome looked up and watched one of the weaker ones step forward angrily.
"I'll take this one." Kagura said, stepping onto the arena.
"Are you another girl?"
"...does it matter?"
"YOU ARE!" he smiled with a sick perverted grin.
"FIGHTER'S READY! FIGHT!"
She didn't even give him time to think. Pulling out her fan, she flicked her wrist and blades of wind cut his body to shreds.
"AH! BEAUTIFUL! Let's see that again! This fight was over so fast; I don't think anyone saw what was coming!"
Kagura turned to see the instant replay in slow motion. She raised her brow at the sight of blood slowly falling to the ground.
"Look at the sight of the blood falling, and with that grin on Goyt's face, I'm sure we can all assume, he didn't even realize what had happened!" Koto said in excitement.
"The fight, call it!" Kagura said.
"Oh, right!" She moved to the center of the arena, checked for a pulse then stood straight. "THE WINNER OF THE MATCH: KAGURA!"
"Well...at least you are okay." Kagome sighed.
"He was scum...fighting was the last thing on his mind."
"...I will fight next! Bring out your strongest fighter!"
Kagome sighed, "You're up...Yuki."
"But...he said strongest..."
"I thought we were going to play with their minds? Besides...you are the team leader, as such...you should fight the team leader."
"That...makes sense..." She shuffled her feet for a moment before pulling her cloak off and handing it to her mother.
"I said strongest...not youngest!"
"You shouldn't underestimate, or you'll wind up...like your friend." Ayame pointed to Rugby who was still dead to the world.
"..."
Yuzuki walked up to the arena and looked up at the man that was a house taller than her. She stepped up and bowed respectfully before getting in the stance her mother had taught her.
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An elderly cloaked woman who watched from the stands had to shake her mind clear of the memories of a little Kagome who had once trained under her. "...She came..."
"Yeah."
Genkai turned to see Koenma sitting next to her.
"Is she here to fight Yusuke's team?"
"Don't give them that much credit. She's here for her reasons. A team hopefully came here...and she has to find that team...and the person in it she's looking for. Actually, she's hoping to meet him in the finals...so I'm sure Yusuke will get his chance against her team soon enough."
"That's a fight...that's best left alone."
"It's unavoidable. She has to fight...everyone...if she loses...her daughter..."
"What will happen to the girl?"
"It's not my place. I shouldn't have said what I did in the first place. If you want to know, bring it to her attention."
Genkai went back to watching the girl as she easily dodged the large wielded weapon that Topaz carried.
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Yuzuki frowned...'Is he trying? Mama fights a lot better than this...' She pushed her thoughts out of her mind and charged forward, knocking him in his chest with her shoulder and pushing him into the air about four feet before appearing behind him and hammering him into the arena.
"No longer a surprise, these little kids are keeping these big demons on their toes...or off them..."
She watched him get up without a scratch and smiled. "Please get serious." She closed her eyes for a moment before she snapped her eyes open and jumped out of the way of a sharp ax. She landed on the tip before running down and turning and slamming her heel into his jaw. A sickening crack sounded and she jumped back. She watched him 'crack' his jaw back in place before slamming his ax into the arena where she had stood. His aura sparked and surrounded the entire stadium. It was blinding and she could only take a step back in alarm.
'MAMA!'
'Yuzuki, call out your Miko abilities!'
"...r-right..." She held her hands together and laced her fingers; closing her eyes, she felt him running towards her and heard the shocked silence of the crowd when his ax stopped against a bright pink barrier.
"...you...are a miko?"
"No...I'm a third demon, a third Miko and a third goddess...get it right." She enveloped his body in the bright pink and listened to his cries of pain ensue. Her eyes were glazed in a fuzzy shade of red that almost covered her normally deep blue and silver tinted eyes.
"YUKI!"
She broke out of the blood rush and dropped her hands to her side. The man lay motionlessly on the ground before her. She walked over to his side and placed her hand on his arm, pushing him in a way to wake him up. A pained groan could be heard and she smiled with teary eyes.
"Come over here sweetie." Koto said, taking her hand and moving her to the center of the ring. "THE WINNER OF THE MATCH AND ROUND: YUKI!"
The crowd was silent as she got off the arena and ran over to her mother. "Mama, mama...heal him, please!" Kagome looked down to Yuzuki and sighed.
"Alright then, Ayame, take her and the others to the top, I'll meet you guys there."
Ayame nodded and left with Yuzuki holding her hand and the others two girls following quietly behind her. Kagome jumped gracefully onto the stadium arena and walked over to Topaz who couldn't move without some sort of pain ensnaring him.
"Your fight is over miss, please exit the arena." Koto said politely.
"I will be just a moment." Kagome said as she kneeled down next to Topaz and held a hand on his shoulder. A bright pink glow formed around her hand and Koto watched as the wounds on Topaz healed for the most part. "That's for my daughter. I don't need the guilt of a death holding her back in her battles."
"Your...daughter?"
"Yes, that's right."
"So you were the strongest of your group."
"That's yet to be proven."
"...uh...I don't mean to break this up but, we have a fight to get started..." Koto said.
"Tell your daughter, she's an amazing fighter...go all the way."
"I'll do that." Kagome left and jumped the wall as she headed up to the others.
'I know it isn't really the time to be thinking this but...I hope...Hiei...is alright...' She sighed as she handed Yuzuki her cloak and watched the next team get ready for their fight. "Damn, I have somewhere I need to go." She said finally, 'I can't wait any longer. I need to see him...he's hurt.'
"Alright; I'm taking Yuzuki and Souten to get something to eat, Kagura?"
"I'll join you." She answered Ayame. The five left and Kagome split with them as she left and followed the split aura of fire and ice to the shores of the beach.
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