Chapter 21: Goodbye Genkai..

'No..oh god please no..'

Silence was all that could be heard now, not even the birds dared to make noise in case the demon that caused all this devastation and distraction would come back and destroy them. Ceraza stood at the scene, her eyes scanned the mass destruction for any signs of the old pink hair woman, but she had little hope. Genkais spiritual energy could no longer be felt anywhere any more.

Then she saw it.

Genkais body on the floor, pools of her own blood surrounding her. And younger Toguro stood there over her body, a happy smug look on his face. Ceraza stared at him, her eyes wide, her body shaking, she didn't even realise that Yusuke had also appeared beside her looking at the scene.

"You've arrived to late.." Neither Ceraza or Yusuke said anything.

"I will never forget her expression. But she didn't even scratch my body with her final attack of her life" Finally Ceraza and Yusuke reacted, Yusuke gasped, his eyes not leaving Genkais body while Ceraza began to shake.

"M-master.?.."

With in a second Ceraza and Yusuke appeared beside Genkais body, Ceraza knelt down and watched as Yusuke turned her over and placed her into his lap.

"Genkai you're alright, we're here now. You're going to be fine trust me Genkai, come on lets get outta here" Yusuke tried, shaking Genkai slightly.

"Hey..dim...wit" Genkai managed to say, Ceraza hands where on her in a second. Healing what she could, she looked at Genkai. No emotion could be seen in Cerazas face.

"Yeah that;s right, I knew you was to stubborn to be killed by this jerk. Come on, we'll get Ceraza and Katsumi to heal you ehehe" Yusuke spoke to the fragile old woman.

"Ceraza stop..." Genkai placed her hands onto Cerazas glowing ones. Her hands returned normal, Ceraza faced the floor, her bangs covered her eyes still no emotion showed.

"It's okay you two...I know.."

"What do you mean you know? Ceraza why did you stop?" Yusuke yelled. Looking between the student and master before him.

"They came to inform me..three months ago..I knew I would die here..As did you Ceraza"

Ceraza remained silent, still looking at the ground, her eyes covered.

"Hey you're not making any sense, what are you on about?"

"Just accept it Yusuke, it's over" Yusuke growled at Toguro, warning him not to take a step closer.

"Yusuke, C-Ceraza"

"Hey try to save your energy" Yusuke answered the woman.

"Damn it Yusuke listen to me, don't you ever run away from a fight" She stuttered out, struggling to keep her eyes open.

"Ceraza, every decision that you make, will effect the countless people that care about you" Genkai placed her frail hand on Cerazas cheek, finally making the young red head look at her master.

And that was it, like that Genkai was gone. Her hand slipped from Cerazas face, Cerazas hand shot forward to grab Genkais falling one.

"Master Genkai..."

"Pitiful, A mighty Asakura mourning at the loss of her master who was nothing more then a mere human. You both have no reason to mourn any more, that woman died a long time ago"

"Shut the hell up, you think you know everything but you don;t have a friggin clue.." Mumbled Yusuke.

"You don't know anything about her!" Yusuke ran at Toguro before Ceraza could stop him.

"Yusuke no! Don't!" She called out in fear. She watched as Toguro landed a punch on Yusukes face, sending his flying back towards the trees, Ceraza quickly found her feet and appeared behind Yusuke, his body slammed into hers, sending her back into the trees.

She winced in pain as her back made contact with numerous amounts of trees, smashing through them. Once they had finally stopped, Yusuke was shocked and turned to Ceraza.

"Damn it Yusuke, your life is more precious then mine! You have to fight Toguro in the finals or you wont stand a chance-" Ceraza began to cough up blood.

"Ceraza..."

"She's gone Yusuke, you need to accept it" Tears rolled down Yusukes face.

"How can you be so calm? Didn't she mean anything to you?" Ceraza didn't reply.

"I'm talking to you! She was your master too wasn't she? You and her had a stronger bond then we ever did!"

"Stop it.."

"How can you not be angry? Or even sad? He just killed her and your just going to do nothing about it?"

"I said be quiet.."

"What the hell is wrong with you huh?" Yusuke grabbed Ceraza by her collars and lifted her up to her feet, his grip tightened.

"Are you really that heartless? You was like a granddaughter to her!"

"I said shut up!" Ceraza punched Yusuke in anger, he fell to the floor. Before he could say anything else, Ceraza had disappeared using her incredible speed.

"Ceraza!" He yelled after her, but it was too late. She was gone.

/With Katsumi and the others\\

"Oh no.."

"What is it Katsumi?" Keiko asked curiously as they all sat in the living room of the hotel.

"Genkais she's...and Ceraza..." Katsumi eyes fell to the floor.

'Oh Ceraza...I'm so sorry..'

"Katsumi where are you going?"

'Please don't do anything stupid sister..'

"Katsumi!"

/With Ceraza\\

Her master was gone, dead.

And was never coming back.

Ceraza will never again hear her voice, calling her a slacker.

She will never again see her scowling face of disappointment when she would catch Ceraza hitting Yusuke over the head during training.

"Why?" Slowly placing a shaking hand on her swords handle she continued to speak.

"Why?" She asked again, slowly drawing her blade, power rising.

"Genkaaaii!" Kaboom!

Ceraza had sent a strong energy wave into the arena around her, creating large cracks in the ground beneath her. Her energy still continued to rise.

"Why didn't you tell me? HUH? How the hell was I suppose to know?" Smash! Another attack.

"We we're a team!" Crack! And another.

"We was suppose to be going home together! Celestial slash!"

Anyone who could hear, sense or even see the commotion knew they were too close. No one dared go near the forest Ceraza was in, in fear it would be the death of them. Her energy could be sensed from miles around, and it was strong.

'Master please calm down, if you continue at this pass you will collapse!' Yelled KouHei in her mind, but she ignored him and continued to until all sorts of attacks onto the trees and boulders around her.

'Mistress! It is dangerous for you to continue! You are already wounded. Please!' Tried Takashi, but again Ceraza ignored the voices and continued.

"GENKAI!" Ceraza let out so much energy into her attack that everything around her was destroyed almost instantly, trees were gone, boulders and disappeared, birds were dead. As she did, a bright and power red energy blast was castes into the sky, demons who saw it instantly knew someone was angry and in pain. No one dared challenge her in the mess she was in.

"You lied to me! You said we'd be going home. That you wouldn't need to fight! So why are you dead!" She raised her sword to created another attack, but another blade blocked her own. Immediately and dangerously Ceraza turned to her opponent, a loud snarl like sound was heard from her.

"Baka, you're bleeding"

And just like that, everything stopped. All the energy Ceraza had been releasing has slowly began to vanished, and the falling trees had finally fallen. All the birds had flown away.

"Hiei.." Her sword fell to the ground as her grip was lost. Her eyes were purely connected with Hieis.

"I know" Was his only reply, Ceraza fell to her knees. Tears rolling down her face, she hated crying. She hated looking so weak, especially in front of people.

"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry" She cried quietly, looking at the ground while still on her knees.

"Hn, for what?"

"It's all my fault..if I was only stronger then-"

"Baka, how was you too know?..."

Ceraza looked up at him, tears still falling down her face. She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out. Her eyes began to close as her body fell forward, Hiei was quick to catch her before she fell completely, as Cerazas head was on Hieis shoulder she smiled a little.

"Thank you.." And with that, darkness consumed her. Hiei stayed like that for a while, not moving. Cerazas body was resting against his with her head on his shoulder while his arms wrapped around her body holder her for support. He sighed.

"Fool.. you used to much energy at once.." He turned her body slightly so he was able to pick her up bridal style, he looked down at her face for a moment. Her checks where still wet from the tears she had cried.

"And you don't have to thank me either.."

Little did he know, in a reaming tree, not far from his location, stood a smiling Katsumi who had witnessed the whole scene.

'Well can't say I never saw it coming'