I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or X-Men: Evolution. I also do not own the story "Mission X" by Kurome Shiretsu.
The purpose of this FanFic is to finish the story that started me into writing for . I am honored to be able to complete this abandoned FanFic and hope that this revival of the story will live up to the story which it was based. Thank you for reading and lending me your support!
Terms to note:
Youki = Demon Energy
Reiki = Spirit Energy
Makai = Demon World
Ningenkai = Human/Living World
Reikai = Spiritual World
Reikai Tentei = Spiritual Detectives
Toushin = Demon Lord
Kitsune = Fox of Japanese Folklore
Jaganshi = One who possesses the Jagan Eye
Kurorashi = Demon heading the mutant uprising/means "Black Tempest"
Other notes (since there are three languages here):
"English"
"Thought "
"Makai"
****Chapter 7: First Blows****
Xavier's scream was audible clear throughout the Institute for only a short moment. Blood flowed from Charles ears and mouth, dropping to the floor before his screams suddenly cut off, leaving an echo ringing through the otherwise unnaturally silent Institute.
The black haired girl blinked once and turned quickly as Hiei rushed in, moving fast. She stepped to the side just in time as Hiei swung upward with his katana, shaving the better part of an inch off the end of her hair. Lance and Toad, standing behind the girl, each took a good step backwards as Hiei spun quickly and sliced horizontally just out of range of the girl's face.
There was a scream as Kitty came running around the corner wearing a rather ridiculous headdress that she no doubt believed would help her grades, dropped the book she was carrying as Lance raised his hands and the Institute shook on its foundations.
Hiei glanced over at Lance, mildly surprised by the sudden shaking but not surprised enough to lose focus on his goal. He jumped high to avoid the roiling ground even as Kitty fell and Logan skidded around a corner, claws extended and growling fiercely.
With a flick of motion, Hiei dashed forward, using the high ceiling to push off of. The girl held very still her eyes locking onto Hiei's angry ones. Without warning, Hiei spasmed and fell to the ground just short of the girl. He snarled and swore in apparent agony but did not bleed or scream, simply bent over on the ground.
Logan raced forward, ready to kill, but never reached her. With a muted clang, the end of an ore slammed across the black haired girls head. She crumpled to the floor without a sound. "Bingo!" Boton shouted as Logan skidded to a halt and Hiei rose back to his full short height. "Really, Hiei, I told you to slow down and wait for me. Nobody ever thinks I'm good for anything but I am really."
"Shut up," Hiei snarled, holding his head gingerly. That was twice now that he had allowed a mere mutant to harm him like this. This time it had been his mental shielding that had saved him from the same fate as Xavier. Hiei glanced down at the still, yet breathing form sprawled next to his over turned wheel chair.
"...and after I saved your life, Hiei. I would have expected more gratitude, even from you."
SHUT UP!" Hiei's eyes flashed around at the suddenly populated entrance hall. "Where are the mutants?"
"Well, Hiei," Boton said, looking around idly. "We seem to be surrounded-"
"No, the ones we followed?"
"Oh dear," Boton said softly. "I almost forgot about them."
Logan took a long couple steps forward and grabbed Hiei around the neck and shirt front. "You're going to tell me what is going on here. NOW!"
Hiei snarled at the mutants. "Let me go, you pathetic mutant." Lifting his hand that still held his sword, Hiei stabbed it upwards right through Logan's arm.
Logan dropped the Jaganshi with a roar of pain as Hiei slide his katana out of Logan and darted up the stairs with a "Hiei, don't leave me here!" from Boton trailing behind. He reached the landing and raced of to where he knew Rogue's room to be.
Not even bothering to knock or open the door, Hiei burst through it, sending shattered bits of wood splintering all over. "What the HELL, Hiei?" Rogue swore as she did the best to cover herself up with the towel she had been in the process of removing, probably to change and dry off her wet hair.
"You are in danger," Hiei snarled, not bothering to apologize or feel ashamed. "Hurry and get dressed."
"Little hard ta do that now, doncha think?" Rogue said angrily. "Ya busted the door wide open."
"Do you wish to live through this or worry about meaningless privacy?"
"Privacy," Rogue said flatly.
Hiei looked at her. "You are joking?"
"No," Rogue said, crossing her arms. "Go outside an guard the door if ya worry so much."
Hiei hesitated slightly then, stomping slightly, went out through Rogue's door. Tapping his foot slightly, he waited. Humans. What a ridiculous species.
"Hiei-!"
Hiei whirled around and back into the room just in time to see Rogue, now wearing black panties and her traditional black tank top being pulled bodily through her balcony doors and over the edge where Lance stood on the railing. Before Hiei could move, Lance reached out with his powers and caved the room in on itself, collapsing nearly the entire west wing of the Institute.
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Yusuke fell down and down, feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole. Unlike Alice, who landed into a magical land of talking creatures and army of cards, it seemed like Yusuke was falling to the center of the Earth where nothing but rancid smells and fire existed. Even though the drop was not that far, Yusuke had a strange sense of deja vu, flying in on a Phoenix named Puu to fight a battle of life and death in a save-the-world situation... again.
He landed with a slight thud and looked around the sewer system. Cracked and forgotten by the men who had built it, the sewer was not a nice place to be. Rats scampered by, too preoccupied with their own ends to bother noticing another human as they aimed for some seen food.
Around a bend in the pipe, the sewers opened up into a wide expanse that bubbled upward to the ground. In the center of this wide expanse of yuck stood a figure, shadowed in mystery in the light of the still burning lanterns that had been set up.
"Welcome, Urameshi," the deep and familiar voice of the demon the Reikai Tentei had met just the previous night.
"Well thanks," Yusuke said, nearing the center of the arena and beginning to circle. "Lovely place you got here. This where you're smell comes from or the other way around?
"I have always admired that witty nature of yours-" the demon started to say.
"Let's say we cut the bull shit. Where is Kurorashi?"
The demon smiled, teeth glinting yellow in the darkness. "You're detective skills have been underestimated by my men. The Black Tempest is finalizing plans at the moment. He cannot be disturbed."
"Ah, come on," Yusuke said sarcastically. "I promise I'll be good and beat the crap out of him quickly."
The demon smiled. "Why don't you show me how you intend to accomplish that."
Yusuke smirked. "Alright. I'll-" Yusuke struck, closing the distance between the two and driving an elbow into the demon's stomach. "Play with you," Yusuke finished as the demon gasped for air. With a spin, Yusuke drove his shoed foot into the demons head. The demon crashed down to the ground, holding his stomach.
Yusuke stood over him, his hand and index finger extended. "Now, demon," Yusuke said. "Where is he?"
There was a rustle behind him and a hand rested lightly on his extended had. "There is no need for that, Tentei." Yusuke glanced back just in time to see a fist incoming, in the dim light of the Black tempests lair.
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Yusuke vanished down the hole that had been created by Lance just as Hiei and Boton sped off in search of Lance and Toad. Mutants rose from the ground like living dead. Hundreds of them. Kurama took a step back and reached into his red hair, trying to temporarily keep his distance until he could devise a strategy that would neutralize the mutants yet keep them alive. Whatever Kurorashi's plan was, the mutants where innocent, being controlled by the Makai plant.
Innocent or not, they are enemies at this time. Kurama shook his head, trying his best to ignore his Yoko alter ego's words. Enemies or not, they were innocent. With a flash of green, Kurama's Rose Whip flashed out, cutting down trees and blocking the mutants path to Bayville.
It wasn't enough. One mutant lept into the air and simply cut through the tree and another blew the tree into a simple pile of ash. Attention slowly turned to Kurama, clearly standing in opposition of the great Kurorashi's plan.
Kurama took another silent step back. This was not good.
Out of the crowd of mutants, there was a flash of blue light aimed at Kurama. The kitsune jumped upward, easily avoiding the attack and reflexively reached back to his hair again but forced his hand to stop. Landing lightly back on the ground Kurama reached to his hair, this time having a plan that would not only neutralize the mutants, but keep them alive.
Before Kurama could put his plan into motion, a pair of hands reached up from the ground underfoot and latched onto his ankles. As Kurama looked down in silent surprise, another mutant charged with enough weight to shake the ground.
Kurama grimaced. There was a flash of silver light accompanied by equally silver hair and eyes and Yoko-Kurama lept up, breaking free of the mutant hands. Vines stretched out from Kurama's arm, digging into the ground at the center of the mutant party. Landing on the ground again, Kurama placed his hands on the dirt, concentrating his youki.
With a rumble, Makai trees burst upward, throwing some of the closest mutants back with the force. The trees stopped growing and waved slight, though there was no wind to speak of. "Kagranashi tree," Kurama said to the now silent mutants. "You will not be able to break them or pass through them."
For emphasis, the trees all around the group lowered their branches and stabbed them into the Earth. Like spikes, the shot back up, closer to the group of mutants then intertwined themselves with the other Kagenashi branches to form a wall that encircles the group.
The mutants murmured with each other for a moment. One mutant stepped forward. He had short brown hair and wore all black. Without a word he placed his hands on the ground. White mist spread from around him, slowly reaching to the mutants trapped inside of Kurama's tree barrier.
Kurama sniffed at the approaching cloud, wrinkling his nose slightly but detecting nothing threatening. The cloud parted around Kurama, leaving him untouched as it covered the rest of the mutants and then suddenly, the smoke faded away, leaving Kurama alone in the encircled clearing.
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Yusuke swore as the fist hit him, sending him sliding across the soppy flooring. He got a hand under him and flipped himself up to his feet. The demon they Reikai Tentei had been after stood unmistakable, his near human appearance a clever deception meant for eyes unfit to see the real thing. His demon nature clearly that of an A or S class demon causing the dark air to shimmer with red youki with no effort put forth by the Black Tempest. He was not completely demon looking. No horns or weird colored body or any kind of tail. He was awkwardly shaped, though, telling Yusuke that he would be hard pressed to find his center of balance. His face was slightly elongated with his mostly human features stretched. He had no nose to speak of -which could explain his choice in scenery- and his stance was set in stone, ready for Yusuke. "I see that your training in the Makai was put to at least partially good use."
"Well, Kurorashi, I don't know what to say," Yusuke said, trying to sound casual. Truth be told, he had felt the true strength and power of this demon when he had made contact. To say that this demon had been holding back on his punch was not accurate enough. This was going to be a fight for the record books. "I just can't tell if it was my training or your weak ass punches that make me feel so confident."
Kurorashi smiled. "Clever till the end, Urameshi. What do you say we get this evolution on its way. By now, the mutants will be in place and not even a Toushin Lord will be able to stop it."
Yusuke gritted his teeth. "We'll see."
Yusuke rushed Kurorashi, his fist glowing with concentrated energy. Kurorashi jumped backward, sweeping Yusuke's hand to the side as he punched forward. The ground erupted with blue reiki, shrouding the two demons in light and falling pieces of human crap.
Kurorashi drove a knee into Yusuke's stomach, lifting Yusuke off his feet and bending him over. Grabbing Kurorashi's leg, Yusuke slammed a shoed foot into Kurorashi's face. The two managed to regain the feet and stumble back a few steps. Yusuke lifted a finger and fired a Spirit Gun blast just as Kurorashi threw his hands forward and fired a reiki attack at Yusuke.
The blasts connected and blew up, incinerating the piping walls and blowing the top off of the ground over head. Like a star shooting the wrong way, the combined energy shot into the sky until it vanished from sight.
Yusuke and Kurorashi landed on the ground next to the pit that had just been created inside a tree barrier that was clearly identifiable as Kurama's handy work. Yusuke glanced around the chosen arena. "Pardon me if I make this quick but I have a world to save."
Kurorashi smiled, ever so slightly. "By all means, Urameshi. If you can manage to defeat me so easily, you will have won your chance to stop my plan. But I doubt you have what it takes to do so."
Yusuke hide a grimace behind a smirk. "I'm glad we understand each other than. Let's go, you demon bastard."
To be continued...
The fight begins! Will Hiei be ok and will Kurama be able to stop the mutant revolution on his own? Will Yusuke be able to defeat the Black Tempest? The end is near so be sure to keep reading!
Sorry guys (and meimeimoo) for one of the shorter chapters here but not to worry. The next chapter will be full of wonderful action, suspense, and understanding so keep an eye out on Monday!
Meimeimoo-
Thank you for your review for chapter 6. It is for people like you that I keep writing. Hopefully, this story will end with a bang that everyone will love!
Until next time, guys...
The Dark Prince