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Chapter Eleven

"Team Urameshi!" Koto yelled proudly as they appeared on the field. The stadium erupted into a roar of cheers as Yusuke jumped onto the ring and walked to the announcer to decide as to how they would battle the approaching Team Cuero.

The teenager of the group walked up, crossing his arms even as Yusuke offered him a handshake. There was a long tense minute before the teenager spoke up, "One on one, best three out of five." He said.

Yusuke's eyes narrowed a little in speculation. This kid was dressed in an odd get up, and wearing a mask over his face, hiding everything but his eyes. They glinted with determination, and knowledge. Apparently they had encountered each other once before.

"I want a fight, but I'm not taking on that loser Kuwabara." The teenager said.

That was enough for the Spirit Detective to ponder more.

"Okay." He said and started back to the group.

"FIGHTERS! BEGIN!" Koto's voice announced over the T.V. It was the only sound in the locker rooms as the five Ronins sat about on the windowsill, benches, and chairs. Cale was in and out, taking care of minor business and making damn sure that there was no way in hell Xander would make an unwanted appearance.

Cye and Rowen sat on the windowsill watching the TV. The two were very content with the situation, since a walk in the stadium seemed to cause nothing but jeers and insults now that they had won their second match. Sage was sitting in a chair by the door, his head resting on his chest plate and silently dozing in the warm sunlight that peaked in between the Ronins of Torrent and Strata. Kento sat back on a bench, holding a soda in his hands and gazing up at the television.

"So that's Genkai?" Cye asked. He hadn't seen much of the tawny haired old woman. She wasn't even present for the party or most of the encounters with the Urameshi team.

"Yeah." Rowen brought a leg up to his chest and sat back against the glass. "She has the same powers and technique as Yusuke. I think she could be his teacher."

Kento nodded as his spilled noisily at his soda. He was watching the fight hard. He only stopped his noisy slurping when the old woman brought down her opponent with a finger. When the guy got back up, Hardrock began to drink again.

A sneaker collided with Kento's head from across the room. He pulled his soda away from his mouth and looked accusingly over to Sage, who had settled back into a doze.

He went back to drinking again, quieter this time.

"Yusuke's weakness seems to lie in his friendship." Rowen said suddenly.

Cye's head shot up in surprise. "Ro! You're sizing him up!?" He demanded. Sage's eyes opened on cue, clearly wanting to be awake for that.

"Kuwabara is a bit of a dofus." Kento added. "If it wasn't for the fact his girlfriend seems to inspire him, I could easily kick his sorry ass."

Torrent's eyes widen in horror. "You…you guys aren't serious…they…they are our friends—"

"Cye…at the rate we are goin'," Rowen cut him off. "We'll either be fightin' the Urameshi team by the semi-finals—"

"—OR THE FINAL MATCH!? " Koenma shot out of his chair suddenly, leaning over a small table that held the tournament match ups on it. His chair fell back with a crash, forcing Ogre to retreat to a far corner of the room.

"My Lord?" He said meekly.

Koenma flicked his wrist, and a marker appeared in his hand. He drew up the lines of the Urameshi Team and the Ronin Warriors. He was steadily getting paler as the marker connected at the bridge between the last two slots of the final match.

"If the Ronin Warriors win…they will battle Yusuke in the last match!" Koenma whispered in horror.

Ogre gulped. "Is that a good thing sir?" He asked. "I mean…do you think Yusuke could lose?"

Koenma shook his head slowly. "It will be getting Yusuke and the others to keep from obliterating the Ronins in the ring! Hiei has enough hate for them to want to kill one…"

"That's good…right?" Ogre came close to lean over Koenma's shoulder. He was instantly smacked in the face with the marker.

"NO IT'S NOT!" Koenma barked. "I didn't tell Yusuke, but the Ronins will fight back in their defense! In the state of mind they are all in, I wouldn't risk the idea that someone won't be killed in the last match…Ronin or Detectives!" He gulped slowly as he started to calm down. Koto was announcing Genkai the winner of the first match in the distance.

Ogre looked up at Koenma. "There is more isn't it?" He asked. "The Ronins can't win, and they can't lose either…right?"

Koenma sighed miserably in defeat.

"Fighters to the ready!" Koto ordered, as Hiei walked into the ring, facing off with a cat creature. She had bright indigo fur and an Amazon attire. She smiled a little and flashed a set of pointy fangs.

"Me-ow…" The feline batted her eyes. "You look like a darling little man. Too bad I'll have to kill you to help my team." She reached for her sword, one just like his.

Hiei smirked a little. She wasn't holding that thing properly.

"This is too damn easy." He declared as Koto's arm fell, beginning the fight.

"Kurama is intelligent." Rowen said. "I've met him before. Top of his class." He looked over to Sage for an opinion.

The warrior of Halo nodded. "His aura is very old and very powerful. I would bet he could do more than turn plants into weapons. I can sense traces of a second identity on him. He may have the ability to transform."

Cye was dead set against the conversation. He didn't like the idea of measuring up the powers and weaknesses of their newfound friends. Correction: The only friends they had here. He sat in the corner of the window, trying not to say anything. But Rowen was right. They would have to fight the Tournament's reigning champions soon.

"What about that Hiei guy?" He asked.

Rowen shook his head. "Accordin' to Cale, he is a pryo." He said. "He is to the degree of Ryo though. There is just one attack, Cale said, that we should look out for."

"We've all beaten Ryo once in training." Kento muttered. "Even if it took two hours to do it."

"Yeah, but there is only so much punishment we can take of that." Sage muttered from his corner. "Cale has a better chance then we do at beating Hiei."

"Hiei takes the second match!" Koto yelled. "And what an awesome display! He single handedly turned Essica into an instant ashtray! She'll feel that one in the morning!"

Hiei walked smugly out of the ring.

Yusuke climbed up next, just as the masked kid did as well. He was determined to answer the question that had been bothering him. He knew who this smart ass was. Who had they encountered before that could be so boyish as he walked across the ring? Why wouldn't he show his face either?

"Urameshi vs. Uknir!" Koto announced. "Fighters…BEGIN!"

Yusuke smirked a little as the fighter stood there. "Uknir?" He chuckled.

"Yeah." The teenager said in defense. "What's it too you?"

The Spirit detective shook his head. "I want to know your real name." He said. The teenager crossed his arms as he said it.

"You'll be dead before you find out."

Urameshi smiled as he reached up and brushed his bangs back. "Alright kid, you asked for it." He went from passive to aggressive, charging across the ring and willing a field of spirit energy around his fist to appear. "I'LL RIP THAT MASK OFF YOUR FACE!" He yelled, taking a swing.

Uknir shot away, letting Yusuke swing at air.

"I certain hope you're not as dumb as Kuwabara." The teenager muttered. "I really want to fight those Ronin Warriors in the final match, if they make it pass the semi-finals."

Yusuke's eyes narrowed in speculation. "What?"

The kid laughed. "You haven't been paying attention to the roster." He lunged into the air, pulling out a lashing weapon that was moving too fast for the eye to see. It looked like a spiked morning star as it swung down on Yusuke's head. The detective darted clear of the attack, allowing the weapon to leave a pitted dent in the marble floor of the ring.

A second one swung out of Urameshi's blind side, connecting with his back.

"Hey…" Kuwabara's eyes narrowed. "I've sensed that before." He mumbled.

Kurama nodded. "Apparently he is a former opponent."

Genkai and Hiei sat silently beside them. The old teacher reached into her pocket and started to count out some coins. "Okay. Ten on the latter." She muttered putting them on the ground between the two of them.

Hiei flicked in his share.

"I'm almost sure of it." He muttered.

"He can't be that old already." Genkai muttered.

"What gives." Kento muttered, pulling away from his soda. "That's not a morning star!"

Rowen nodded. "It's too smooth."

Cye strained to see the weapon as it shot across the screen and smacked Yusuke. "I can't see it. It's a ball of some type, on a string."

Yusuke recovered, looking over his shoulder to see where the thing had hit. It was smooth, but very hard. There must have been some spirit energy wrapped around the object. He was fortunate his tunic had at least added some form of padding against the blow.

"That's pretty weak if that's all you've got." Yusuke called out to his opponent.

Uknir lunged into the air and drew back his arms. There were now six of those weapons flying at Yusuke. The detective clenched his hand at his side, just out of site of the masked teenager. The fist began to glow again.

This guy is a loser. I'll finish him off with my shotgun. But something isn't right. This attack…it's all so…familiar. But I don't remember seeing too much of it.

Kuwabara paled. "NO WAY!" He barked.

"Pay up." Hiei extended his hand. Genkai dropped the coins into it with an annoyed groan.

Kurama jumped. "YUSUKE! HIT HIM NOW!" He yelled.

Kento straightened up. "HEY!" He squinted at the TV. "Rowen! Are those—"

"Jesus!" Rowen blinked in surprise. "I didn't know those could be weapons!"

"SPIRIT SHOT GUN!" Yusuke threw up his arm and let it rip. The bolts of blue spirit energy shot of the palm of his hand, shattering the six targets at they came at him. Shards of plastic flew across the ground around him as he pointed his index finger at the man in the middle of the air.

A fleck of brightly colored plastic shot pass Uramehsi's cheek.

He knew who this guy was now!

And the bonus…he couldn't fly out of the way.

"SPIRIT GUN!"

The large bolt struck his Uknir hard in the chest. He fell to the ground like a dead goose, landing with a sickening crack on the ring's smooth floor. Yusuke lowered his arm and started walking over.

"Well, you little rug rat, I honestly didn't think it was you." Urameshi stood over the teenager and crossed his arms proudly. He landed his foot on the center of his chest and held him there.

When Koto reached ten, Yusuke ripped back the mask.

There was a startled gasp. "Oh my goodness," Koto whispered. "Could it possibly be…RINKU!?"

The teenager looked up with a pout. "How'd you figure it out?" He demanded.

"Those Yo-yos." Yusuke pointed to were they lay in pieces on the ground. "I saw your attack three years ago on a recap when you battled Kuwabara. The Serpent Yo-yo."

Rinku hadn't changed much over the years, having lost the silly hat. His hair was a rich brown color and spiked out to look like a punk. But those silly stars painted on his left check where still there.

"Urameshi Team advances!" Koto was yelling to the cheering crowd.

"So…what was the deal about the Ronins?" Yusuke asked a sulking Rinku.

Rinku shook his head. "If you had been paying attention to the roster…if they win all their matches, and you or I win all our matches…we would meet in the finals." He muttered. "All the other teams are crap…save for the one Chu and Jin are on. Oh yeah, and the Yotokazin Team. They are out for blood."

Yusuke nodded. "Alright. I'll look into it." He said and started walking away.

Kurama looked up as their leader came to the edge of the ring and stood there. "What did Rinku have to say?"

"Something about Team Yotokazin." Yusuke answered. "Rinku said they were out for blood." He was rubbing his chin with Hiei spoke up.

"The Ronins will be fighting Jin and Chu in their next match."

AN: Chapter 11. I swear I didn't do the spirit gun and spirit shot gun justice. And here I call myself a YYH fan.

Okay, now for some house keeping. I'm not sure how many yyh fans have seen this movie, but there was a full-length feature film called YYH: Poltergeist Report. Not to get too much of the story away, the YYH team are the only ones that can protect a strange ob that Spirit World has kept in their vault since the time King Yama was bringing order to the realms. This orb contained the last of the power he took away from the Neither Realm in a great battle with a demon named Yakomo. When I heard and saw this bit of information, I quite literally screamed "CROSSOVER!". So this is my reasoning in combining the RW world with the YYH. Because the RWs mention on many occasions that the Dynasty is part of the Neither Realm. I think Koenma explains why the Dynasty exists in a pervious chapter.

To all those thinking this is an excuse to show off the future pairs of both shows…I'm afraid that outside of the original pairing of Yusuke/Keiko and Kuwabara/Yukina, there none, what so ever relations around the RW realm. I have a future chapter coming up with an in site to this. And to quickly inform Inda: I. DO NOT. SUPPORT. RYO/MIA PAIRINGS. Ahem…I'm loyal Mia/Anubis fan. I am saying this now because when the new elusive chapters come out, I don't want the words "Make Mia Ryo's empress" coming out of anyone...again. Sorry for my stressing and Thank you.

I am also sorry if I have alienated anyone by my constant pop ups of YST names and information…I thought it was cool that the warlords spoke to each other in their "personal" names. Heh.

As for the Yulie living with Mia…come on people lol. The boy is attached to the RWs. how could you even try to separated them!? Lol.…and sadly, I'm a blind and ignorant person when it comes on the subject of Yulie's rents. I write as if the OAVs never happened, and even though I know now that Yulie's parents did return, I have for years written as if Mia had accepted him into her life. And yes, he is no longer a 'kid' anymore. In fact, he becomes much more than the RW's warlord magnet in my original RW stories.

I guess that is all of my ranting for now. With that out of the way, I thank you for reading and reviewing. And please, keep the flames to a low simmer now that I may have alienated some one.

-Star