HELLO! Sorry for the long wait! I hope this makes up for it all! I am personally not satisfied with this chapter, but it needed to get out. There will be two more chapters of the Dark Tournament and then...4 CHAPTERS TILL WE GO BACK TO DEMON WORLD! SO, 6 chapters total! I'M SO EXCITED!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC's

"She's going to kill us."

Kyo let out an annoyed sighed and shot a glare to Reiko. The witch was chewing on her finger nail as she stared down Aria's sleep induced body. His azure blue eyes traveled back to where his lady was laying on the bed, well actually she was tied down. Her arms and legs were being held by a sort of binding cloth, to ensure when she awoke, she could not escape.

"This was your idea." Kyo pointed out as he shifted in his chair. Reiko let out a small whimper as she started to pace once more in the room. Kyo watched her silently curse herself as she muttered at how stupid she was being, how once Aria woke up, her life was going to end.

Kyo was't going to argue with her. His lady was going to be very upset, but she was going to be angry with them both. Kyo was not innocent in this little scheme, he had gone along with Reiko's insanity and he was the one that gave his lady the sedative.

He was doomed.

"No, no, no, we are freaking out for no reason." Reiko argued as she moved her hands in a dramatic fashion. "She is going to understand why we are going to such extreme measures to ensure her safety."

"I'm starting to think we are talking about different people here." Kyo piped up, he was fighting the smirk that threatened to form when Reiko whimpered once more.

As for his lady's safety.

It was more for the inhabitants of this island. Reiko had come to him before the matches and said that seen the island going up in flames, the reason behind it was Aria unleashing hell on earth. The catalyst? Genkai's death.

Reiko knew Genkai was going to die, today. Toguro was going to kill her in just a few short hours and as much pain that that those caused him, he knew his lady would go on a rampage after the events. So, Reiko's ingenious plan? Shoot Aria up with enough sedatives that it would make a S-Class demon go into a coma.

It was that, or let Aria unleash her furry and kill everyone that wasn't strong enough to survive against her wrath. Mozaku demons were dangerous for this reason, when they loved someone, that love was fierce. Most Mozaku would go mad with rage and grief and be an unstoppable hurricane of destruction until someone ended their life. Kyo knew that seeing Genkai being killed, would tip Aria over enough that she would fall into a maddening rage.

They couldn't let that happen. Not here in the Human World. That was the only reason Kyo had even agreed to this plan. Now, they just had to wait and pray she understood.

Reiko ended up leaving the room, not being able to watch Aria sleep anymore. She needed a distraction and well, making tea was a good one. Kyo joined her not long after and the two sat down at the kitchen table, enjoying their teas in silence.

A chill descended into the room as am enormous power filtered through from somewhere on the island. Reiko's cup clattered noisily onto the kitchen table, spilling its contents over the wood. She gripped her head as her squeezed closed shut from the onslaught she was facing. Kyo knew not to touch her, so all he could do was set his own cup down and move to clean the mess. As he reached for a dish towel, a crash sounded in Aria's room.

He burst through the door only to stop as his eyes widened at the scene. Her bed was split down the middle, the headboard in which her hands were tied to was in splinters and laid around the room in pieces. A short breeze blew in from the hole that now made up the far side of the room. His lady was gone.

"Damn it!" He cursed loudly and ran to the hole in the wall, looking down towards the ground, not seeing Aria or anyone else for that matter. Another gust of wind brought a sense of foreboding as that same power as before grew to unimaginable levels. "Reiko!"

"Go! Stop her Kyo!" Reiko's shout from the other room was followed by a short groan as the witch collapsed into the floor, her hands cradled in her head as she was over run with all the possible futures, past and current events hitting her at once. Kyo hesitated for a moment but then turned and jumped out of the open wall, his sensing expanding so he could find Aria faster.

-Aria-

When Aria's conscious returned to her, her memory was a little groggy of the events that took place prior. She remembered being excited the Semi-Finals were finally over, even if she did miss half of it. She wanted to go and check on Yusuke and get Genkai somewhere that was far away from Toguro. She had guessed the mans plans, once Genkai gave her Orb to Yusuke and completed her training, he was planning on ending her life. Over Aria's dead body.

She would never allow anyone to take her friends life. She was all she had left, all that remained of the psychics that she had befriended and called her family. Nothing would ever take her away unless it was her time to go, and Toguro was not going to take her to early.

Then she remembers yelling at Kyo and Reiko as the girls went ahead to meet the boys. When the two finally joined her, she had turned her back on Kyo and was about to start walking when she felt it. A prick of a needle in her skin and when she turned around to face Kyo and Reiko, she noticed the syringe in his hand and the looks on their faces.

Her eyes opened, they were unfocused and cloudy as she fought off the sedative. Her too closes companions, betrayed her. If she was thinking rationally, she probably would have come to the conclusions that they did it for a reason, but she was not thinking rationally.

Even in her groggy state she felt it. The power rising from somewhere on the island. With it, she noticed a spike in very familiar psychic energy. Her eyes snapped open as it dawned on her what was about to take place.

No, no, NO!

She tried to get up but found that she couldn't move her hands of feet. A quick look over her body and she discovered why. They were bound to the bed with a fabric made from demon world, a very unbreakable fabric. Her eyes narrowed in their hazy state as her lip curled in a snarl. Those fools. Did they seriously think this would hold her?

As the energy spiked again, she tugged more fiercely on her restraints. There was no way this current half-strength she had was going to break these, she needed her regular form and damn these power inhibitors!

Taking a breath, she looked around at all her options and found the only way she was going to be able to move to reactive the damn spell was to pop one of her shoulders out of location, so she could move up enough for her hand to reach her ear.

This was going to suck.

She scooted down enough until she was sure her left arm was in the proper position and she pulled while throwing her shoulder back. She bit her lip hard enough to draw blood to keep herself from screaming as it dislocated. She had to take a few calming breaths to blink the pain away before she dragged herself up, her left arm now limp next to her she had just enough leverage to barely press her earring and was one glad it was on her right side.

She wouldn't have very long in this form before they noticed, so she growled as her right hand fisted and pulled, the sound of tearing fabric was heard as she ripped her arm free as well as her feet. In the furry though, the headboard cracked and shattered just was she pulled her right arm free and she felt the bed shake as her legs were ripped free next. Using her claws, she cut the fabric on her left arm and stood up, her eyes went to the wall next to her and with a burst of energy she blew a hole in it and leapt out.

She kept her arm braced against her body as she ran towards the swelling energy. She had to get there in time, she just had too! Panic flooded her when she felt Toguro's energy grow to an all new maximum level and she slid to a stop outside the small clearing just as his fist raised back and shot forward, towards Genkai.

"NOOO!"

She wasn't aware that she was screaming as his fist landed directly in her the middle of her chest. She watched in slow motion as her body erupted from the force and blood shot out the back of her body. She took a step forward as Genkai's body begun to fall towards to ground, but arms clamped around her waist and she was pulled back and away from the clearing's edge.

Her vision had gone completely red and she was sure she'd still be screaming if it wasn't for the hand that was clamped over her mouth. No! She was to late! To late to save her! Tears welled up into her eyes as the image of her friend getting hit played like an unending clip inside her mind.

That bastard was going to pay!

"No, you can't Lady Aria. You can't, you need to calm down!"

That voice was not Kyo's or Reiko's or anybody from the teams. It was Tadashi's. She struggled in his hold, but his grip on her was unwavering and her left arm was useless. Her right hand was clenched tightly in one of his and pinned to her side.

"If you don't calm down and you give into your anger, you will hurt more people than do any good. Please, calm down Lady Aria." Something inside her clicked and all the strength she had welling up evaporated as if it had never been there.

Her body sagged and Tadashi's hold on her tightened as she let the tears flow down her cheeks. Exhaustion washed over her likes wave and she could hear Yusuke's voice coming from the clearing as he pleaded with Genkai to stay with them. Thanks to the hand still over her mouth, her sobs were muffled as Genkai explained she knew she was coming here to die.

That damn old bat!

"Damn it Yusuke, listen to me! *" The sound of Genkai's dying, gasping breath sent another shudder through her body and she unconsciously sunk further into Tadashi's arms. A stupid demon she barely knew, but he was her only salvation at this current time. She missed Genkai's next words but heard loud and clear the last. "Don't you ever do the same! No, human is ever a one man show. Every decision that you make, will affect the countless…people who care about you. *"

Aria squeezed her eyes shut as Genkai's heat rate slowed and her breathing became more haggard. She as about to die.

"You can't be a cocky kid anymore. You...have…to- *"

Pain like she had not felt in a very long laced through her core as her body stilled, her eyes snapping open when she felt Genkai die. She could feel it! A soft thump sounded in front of her and she looked up to meet Kyo's azure blue eyes and she broke, breaking out of Tadashi's hold she fell into her best friend's arms and cried into his chest. Kyo's arms wrapped around her gingerly, holding her against him as he whispered softy into her ear.

She was gone. Genkai was gone! Makoto's granddaughter was gone, and there was nothing she could have done to save her! How pathetic was she?

She heard Toguro's words, heard him drag Genkai's name through the mud, insult her memory. Fresh anger burned the grief away and her head snapped up, but Yusuke's voice stopped her. She pulled away from Kyo and took the steps to look around the tree to watch Yusuke and Toguro. As Yusuke charged Toguro, she felt it. A sense of hope and…awe.

He was the one. The one that must…

When Toguro punched Yusuke away, she stayed where she was and watched him sail through the trees, away from them. Her swirling blue eyes turned back to Toguro as the man turned to face her and Aria titled her head to look at him. She felt Kyo and Tadashi come stand behind her, if either to help or restrain her, she did not care.

"You will not leave this island alive Toguro. If either by Yusuke's hand or my own, you will die before this Tournament is over." She watched as his lips tilted down a fraction, but her attention moved away from him and to Genkai's body. "Enjoy your last days."

She turned then, she could already feel Koenma coming towards them, to collect Genkai's body and she didn't wanna see the prince at the current moment. The two behind her followed as she left the clearing and moved back towards the hotel.

"My Lady, your shoulder."

She stopped walking and looked over her still dislocated shoulder at Kyo. To his credit, he didn't flinch at the glare she was giving him, but she did motion for him to snap it back into place, it was already trying to heal itself and if it wasn't fixed it would have to be dislocated again to fix. Kyo took her wrist gently in his hand and placed the other on her shoulder, he didn't count or delay, just snapped it back into place.

As she gazed up at him, her eyes taking in his white hair and shining, yet guilty, blue eyes. Aria felt all the irritation for him leave her system. It wasn't like she could stay mad at him anyhow, not Kyo. Her gaze went back to where Yusuke was sent flying and she reached up and brushed her fingers across her ears as she moved away from Kyo and the other one, to whom she would deal with later.

"I'll meet you later." She said over her shoulder as she moved in the direction Yusuke was. It took a few minutes to reach him and when she did, she paused and stared at him. He looked utterly broken and defeated. His cheek was already darkening into a very nasty bruise, making his eye close. Her steps were light as she moved closer to him, he looked up as she crouched in front of him.

"Oh, Yusuke." Her hand lifted to cover his bruised cheek and a faint glow surrounded it as she healed the ugly bruising.

"I couldn't do anything. She just died…and I couldn't do a damn thing!" Her heart broke for him. Despite the pain coursing through her own soul, she was used to death and losing those she cares about. Yusuke was not. He hadn't ever lost someone that was close to his heart as Genkai was.

Aria lowered her hand after healing his cheek and let her hands fall into her lap as her eyes ran over the broken boy in front of her. She really wished she could save him from the pain and heart ache that he was feeling and was going to continue to feel.

"I wish I had some uplifting, encouraging words for you Yusuke." She finally said after a moments silence. "I don't though. Genkai knew she was going to die here, and there was nothing we could do to change it."

That obviously wasn't the right thing to say because Aria suddenly found herself being thrown against the tree, her back slamming into the bark painfully. She opened her eyes to gaze into Yusuke's furious chocolate brown. His hands were fisted in her white muscle shirt so tightly, the fabric was ripping in his grip.

"Shut up! You don't know that! Just shut the hell up, Aria." Yusuke snapped as his glare intensified, his grip on her tightening painfully. "YOU could have saved her! Aren't you supposed to be this big badass demon!"

Aria didn't know why, but that sentence had her snapping out of her daze and her hands reached up to grasp Yusuke's wrist, prying his hands off and away from her body. She wasn't angry at him, no, but he as acting like a child and she had enough.

"People die! You have no idea how many people I have lost, people that I loved, that I couldn't save! Not everyone can be saved no matter how strong you are! But you have a choice now! Since you couldn't save her, honor her and go after the bastard that killed her!" She snapped, as she lowered their hands down in front of their bodies. "Standing here crying about something no one could have changed, isn't going to do anyone any damn good! Least of all Genkai!"

She didn't stop Yusuke from yanking his hands out of her grip or take those few steps away from her. She made no move to stop him as he casted her one more scathing look before walking away from her.

Well, that wasn't what she expected. She was expecting him to punch her in the face and then her having to beat his ass out of principle. Sighing, Aira leaned back against the tree and let her head tilt back to look up through the branches at the clouds passing overhead.

"Damn it Genkai." She whispered as she closed her eyes and sunk down to her bottom, bringing her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. She let a few tears escape her tightly closed eyes to slid down her pale cheeks.

She didn't know how long she sat there, crying silently to herself. As memories of Genkai as a child, a teenager, a young woman, and as she grew older. They played like an unending tape over and over in Aria's mind. As did memories of her family and ancestors. The line of Hishori was over.

It was such a melancholy feeling.

A sudden spike in energy had her head lifting to look down the direction of broken trees, Yusuke's body created earlier. That was Hiei's energy. One hand braced against the trunk of the tree and she lifted herself up and made her legs start to walk back towards the way she had came.

Her feet stopped walking at the edge of the clearing and she took note of the new hole next to Toguro's. So, Hiei was comparing strengths? Her eyes raked over his form, they stopped at his bandaged arm. He wanted to train his arm, to be able to use the dragon once more?

Taking the final steps into the clearing, she purposely let her feet kick across rocks to gain Hiei's attention. When his red eyes snapped to her own, she just lazily blinked at him and continued her walk around the much smaller hole. She took her time in assessing the damage as she came to a stop a few feet away from him.

"You won't level with him, not like this." She told him as her eyes rose to look at his face. She watched his face slip into a sneer and she had to suppress the sigh that wanted to bubble up. "If you want to tame that dragon, then you must show it obedience."

"What the hell do you know?" His cocky, self-righteous tone had her lips pulling up into a tiny smirk. She moved before Hiei had time to process she was moving. The front of her body pressed against his back, and she could feel him instantly stiffen. Her arms came around and up, her finger tips pressing against his temples to his Jagan. Her energy seeped out from her body, wrapping around the two of them like a snake.

"I am thousands of years old Hiei." She breathed into his ear, her lips pulling further back at the shiver than he hardly suppressed. Her blueish white energy continued to encircle them, brushing gently against their bodies as it grew and grew. She opened her mind and with a gentle caress of his Jagan, she felt it instantly invade her mind. She kept blocks around the things she didn't want him to see but let him explore what she had opened. "Obedience and master." Her lips brushed the shell of his ear and as quickly as she was there, she grew back and away.

Her mental barriers snapping in place, her demon energy disappearing back into her body and she moved her own body several feet away from Hiei's. She dodged the punch he aimed at her face and laughed as she tilted her head to the side to avoid another. He was such a young, simple minded demon.

The danced around each other, Hiei attacking her as she did her best to dodge. She was feeling the strain from having her energy suppressed to such an extent as it was. She lifted her right hand to block his oncoming fist but failed to block his shin from colliding with her stomach. She grunted from the impact, but thanks to the grip on his hand, she stayed still only sliding back a couple inches. Her eyes connected with his and her lips pulled back into a smile before she used the hand she was still holding as leverage to jump up and twist her body, throwing her right leg out to kick him, his head moved enough to miss the attack.

As she flipped over him, she planted her other hand on his wrist and twisted her other leg around to hook around his neck and using the momentum, flipped them over. His back slammed into the ground, her leg wrapped around his neck and his arm in a very awkward position. She released him and stood swiftly to her feet.

"Once this tournament is over, maybe we will have an actual fight Hiei." She said down to him, giving him a small wink before turning and turning to walk away. "Remember obedience!" She called over her shoulder at him as she disappeared from the clearing.

Her hand rubbed her bruising stomach. Even though that was a quick little spar, and he was obviously holding back, his kick sure as hell hurt. He was going to be so strong once he reached his maturity and he grew up, that is.

Her bare feet padded across the forest floor as she walked aimlessly around. She didn't have any sort of destination in mind. Plus, her walking alone gave her time to sort through her emotions and thoughts. Apparently, her body had a destination that she was not aware of until she heard voices up ahead and stopped as she came upon Yusuke and Koenma talking. Yusuke had Koenma by his robes and was yelling at him about who he was calling a moron.

At Koenma's explanation of Genkai and Toguro's history and destiny, Aria sighed as she stopped next to George, who looked down at her in shock that she just suddenly appeared next to him. As Yusuke pushed Koenma harshly away, she took a step forward and placed her hand against her friends back, stopping him from crashing into the ground. She gave Koenma a small smile when he glanced at her.

"Koenma's right Yusuke." She said as Yusuke turned to plop back down on the ground. He didn't acknowledge that she spoke, but Aria continued anyways. "As much as it hurts and feels completely unfair, there was nothing anyone could do to stop the two stories from ending how it ended." As his soft cries reached her ears and the smell of his tears reached her senses, Aria sighed and took a few steps back to sit down on a small boulder.

"Will you stay here with him? I have some matters to go an attend to." She nodded at Koenma and gave him a small smile as she settled to get comfortable on her perch.

Koenma placed a hand on her shoulder and left them shortly after. Aria sat there on her little rock and watched Yusuke until the sun shrank away into the far west, letting the night settle in around them. Neither one spoke, but that was okay. Aria was just there to offer Yusuke silent solace in not being alone.

She was humming softly when Yusuke started to talk to himself, she didn't catch what he said because Koenma's footsteps had her turning her head to look at him as he came back to join them.

"How long do you plan on to stay out here like this? *" Koenma asked as he approached the sobbing the teenager. Aria placed her chin in her open palm as she listened to them talk. Her lips curled at Koenma's last words from Genkai to Yusuke. Oh, that damn bat.

She stood up as Yusuke jumped up and flipped away from Koenma. She came to a stop next to the Spirit World ruler as Yusuke lifted his finger to the sky and shouted up at Genkai. As his energy swelled and raised, her smile widened as it brushed against them. As his Spirit Gun disappeared into the sky, Aria walked forward as he collapsed onto the ground. She sat down next to him and lifted his head off the rocky ground to rest in her lap.

His chocolate eyes met hers and she gave him a small smile as he asked if they thought his gift made it to Genkai. As Koenma reassured him it did, she brushed her fingers across his cheek to swipe the hair from his eyes.

"Sorry bout earlier." Aria cupped his cheek and bent over to kiss his forehead.

"Nothing to forgive Yusuke."

And there wasn't anything to forgive, not for her. She understood why Yusuke was upset, hell she still was herself. Plus, this idiotic human boy had grown into someone she cared about like a sibling. Aria sighed as she ran her fingers through his hair. When she first met him and helped be there for him when he was younger, she took on the big sister role and it carried over even now.

They sat there together as the sky continued to darken and the stars came out more brightly, shining in the night sky. Koenma had left them, after Yusuke asked him to take Genkai's spot as the fifth member. Aria promised her friend that tomorrow she would be on her best behavior and stick close to the girls. This final fight was going to be bloody, she knew that, and the girls were going to need to stay safe throughout.

"Hey Ari, I think I'm going to go take a walk for a bit. Clear my head." Her teal eyes looked away from the sky as she titled her head to look at him. She was laying down on her back, with his head on her stomach. His head moved so their eyes could meet, and she gave him a small smile.

"Don't stay out to late. You have to be at the stadium early tomorrow." As she spoke, Yusuke climb to his feet and helped her up as well. He gave her his signature grin and nodded, throwing his hand up in farewell as he walked off.

"Yes, mother."

Aria turned and started to make her way back to the hotel. It was probably well after midnight now. She was almost there when a presence caused her to pause at the tree line. Her eyes raked over the two figures waiting for her.

"I'm not mad at you two." Reiko and Kyo looked up from where they were sitting against some trees and stood up to face her. Reiko opened her mouth, but Aria held up her hand to silence her. "I understand why you did it, however- "Her eyes darkened as she glared at them both. "You ever pull a stunt like that again, and I'll send you both to an early grave."

She moved past them then, breaking out of the trees and going towards the hotel entrance. She felt them following her but didn't say anything else as they made their way to their hotel room. Aria stopped at her bedroom door and looked over the once destroyed wall. It was fixed now, the work of some determined demons most likely.

She made a beeline for her shower, enjoying the hot water. As the water pelted her skin, she raised her hand to her chest and pressed it against her none eating heart. Her eyes clenched closed as the grief she had been holding back slammed into her once more. Her knees buckled as she slid down the shower wall to kneel on the shower floor. Her tears mixed with the water, but her sobs weren't silent as she let her emotions go.

She heard the door open, heard someone slid the shower curtain back and then two sets of arms wrapped around her. Reiko and Kyo didn't care that the water was soaking their clothes, they all were feeling the pain of Genkai's death. Kyo knew all the psychics just like Aria did, as did Reiko.

As the three friends set there, huddled under the now chilly water, crying together, Aria lifted her head from Kyo's chest as Yusuke's energy washed over her like a warm blanket. A slow smile spread formed on her face at the feeling.

Somehow everything was going to be okay. One way or another, everything would work out.

I thought I should explain that Hiei scene. If everyone is familiar with the Beginning of Episode 54 about 5 mins and 20 seconds into the episode, Kuwabara freaks out about Hiei's burned arm and Hiei tells him that it wouldn't OBEY so he decided to punish it? Yeahhhhhh, I twisted that around for Aria to give him some ideas on making the Dragon obey...

HMMMM, well that's it.

I'll try to get the next one out as soon as possible, but no promises. Life is crazy right now and welllllll, I guess we will see. I hope you all enjoyed it!