Why Him?

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I do not own Yu-Yu-Hakusho, just my OC's, who are Hope, and Rei.

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Chapter Twenty-Five

The next day rolled around and Hope was walking through the woods to clear her mind. That, and because she found a note on her bed from Kurama asking her to meet him, Hiei, and Serina in the woods. Hope kept walking, waiting for the said demons.

"Onna Detective," Hiei's voice began from behind the girl.

"We want you to be…" Kurama started.

"…Perfectly honest with us." Serina finished.

"Alright, what's your question," the girl asked, bringing her jewel sapphire blue eyes to look into Kurama's green ones as well as Serina's gun metal gray and Hiei's jewel ruby red ones.

"What happened yesterday?"

"With that onna…"

"Who wished to speak with you?" Serina as well as Hiei and Kurama were surprised, though Hiei hid it, that they were able to ask the questions without Kyoto/Youko/ Beast wanting to take control. Yesterday, they wanted to rip the bitch's throat out that caused her so much stress that she had to find release in a cigarette.

Hope sighed. She knew it was coming. "It was the sister of the Toguro brothers. The one that sorta looks like the middle brother, Ryuu. Rei."

Kurama's as well as Hiei's and Serina's eyes widen slightly. "The ones who…"

"…Can manipulate their outer looks,"

"To look like someone else?"

"Yeah, but it's just a fuckin' Godblessit copy. The fuckin' smell, and they even gets their Godblessit techniques. But what they really fuckin' love to do is fuck with your mind by Godblessit disguising as someone you love." Hope bowed her head slightly so that her hair covers her eyes. "When we were at Tarukane's three months ago, Rei disguised herself as you, Hiei, and tried to use your sword against me."

Kurama's, Serina's and Hiei's, espially Hiei's, anger nearly hit the roof. "She what?"

Hope laughed. "Don't worry. I didn't fall for it. I knew it was Rei, not you, cutie. You would never attack us, unless we're training." She took in a shaky breath. "And then she told me that the Dark Tournament was a danger place to fall in love with somebody," she said, looking up at Kurama, Serina, and Hiei, giving Serina as well as Kurama a knowing look, a blush on her face.

The three demons blinked. In a way, Hope just told them that she loved Hiei/him. With blushes on their faces Kurama and Serina left to talk alone somewhere. Leaving Hiei and Hope alone. Hiei felt his control slipped a bit then a bit more when the other two left. Before any more could slip he vanished from where Hope was to another location on the island. It wasn't too long, after Hiei left that Hope decided to go to the waterfall she saw while looking for her cousin, Kurama and Hiei. She reached her dictation shortly.

"Guess I clear my head in one of the old meditative ways." Hope sighed as she walked to, sat under in lotus position and started to meditated while for the three demons to show up and talk some more. It wasn't too long that the three demons walked back through, and Hiei was caught off guard by the question, "Cutie? You alright?"

"What are you talking about Onna?" Hiei demanded.

"You haven't been back at the hotel since yesterday," Serina murmured, gaining Hiei's attention as well.

"And your arm," Kurama says. "You know that it'll get tough soon?"

"I didn't have a choice," Hiei growled back at his friend, who stood beside his intended's cousin.

Hope glared into the distance. "We got fuckin' Godblessit company," she growled, standing up, and walked out from under the waterfall while popping her arm. She glared at one of the demons and made her way over to the demon while chanting, who kept watching her, and before he could stop her, he screamed out in pain as she clapped her hands together, the demon's body turn into a ice statue, killing him from the inside out. "Frozen demon," Serina teased. Hope poked at the body with her finger, making it fall over and shattered into bits. The second demon watched in fear.

"They're clumsy..." Hiei stated.

"They think they can slow us down with these diversions," Kurama says, glaring at the last demon.

"They're going to fuckin' pay very dearly for that," Hope says, stepping over the large shattered body parts.

The demon chuckled. "No thanks, we don't want too... There's been a change in the team." Behind the demon in the bushes, something was raising up. A creature that neither Hope nor Serina has ever seen before in her life. "The armored monster of destruction!" the lizard demon cackled. "He's a masterpiece of the professor! It's invincible! KILL THEM!"

The monster did as it was told. Its arms stretched out, attacking the four Urameshi team members that were late for their match. Hiei tried cutting the demon, no luck. Serina gritted her teeth. "Electricity won't work ..." "But..." Hope after quickly chanting began forming a water ball the size of her fist, and fired it at the demon. Nothing, no rushing or malfunctioning. "Damn."

The demon laughed again, over confident. "Its armor is made from a special substance! A child's sword will do nothing to it! It has nothing to fear!"

Hiei dodged another attack, but landed on his right arm, rendering him in pain, letting him being hit by the mechanical arm. "HIEI!" Hope cried out, barely being missed by the other arm that attacked her, Serina and Kurama.

"IT'S USELESS! You're no more than a miserable pile of meat!" the demon shouted out.

"He's going to pay for that!" Black flames started around Hiei's left hand.

"Don't do that!" Kurama yelled, dashing as well as Serina back towards Hiei, making one arm slam into the other, freeing Hiei.

But the bad thing about that was now, both arms were heading for the fox and dragon demon. "Kurama/Serina!" both Hope and Hiei yelled, as the arms collided with Kurama and Serina.

"NICE WORK!" the demon complimented the monster, laughing all the while. "CRUSH THE BASTARD AND BITCH!" Of course. He's all big and bag, yet he hasn't thrown one punch. But his laughing ceased at the next scene.

Kurama and Serina were just standing between the two arms. Hope barely noticed, but his rose whip was in one of the cracks that was in the monster's arm. Damage that was done when the two arms collided with each other. When the demon began sputtering, trying to ask how, Kurama explained. "I have much to teach him about pain."

"It doesn't take much to die..." Serina stated. Hope, Hiei, Kurama and Serina all stood on the head of the beast as Kurama finished. "I only had to discipline him. It really isn't that difficult. And what is your decision? Obedience or death?"

From the back of Serina's mind, Kyoto mutters, ~Okay, I know, bad timing, but that controlling thing he's doing now? Down right sexy..."

~Shut up,~ Muttered, chuckling to herself as Hope join in on the chuckle, shaking their heads lightly. The demon chose quickly and it wasn't too long that the four, with an extra passenger were on their way to the arena. "May I do the honors, Kurama?" Serina asked, holding the demon by the scruff of the neck, who whimpers.

"Of course," Kurama smiled, an old man on his back, knowing that she wouldn't be fighting until the final round wanted to relieve some pint up stress. Via Hiei and Hope interrogation, with Serina and Kurama just sitting on the monster watching, the demon confessed everything about what Ichigaki did to the three humans on his team, and where their master was.

"Thanks!" And with that, Serina tossed the demon up into the air and round house kicked him into the stadium where Yusuke, Kuwabara, and the masked fighter were to be fighting.

"Oh! A member of the Ichigaki team has fallen from the sky!" Koto announced.

Then the monster crashed through the stadium, and let's just says Yusuke and Kuwabara, and apparently a girl with pink hair was the masked fighter, they were all happy to see the extra four members of their team. "Hey guys!" Serina greeted, as she and Hope flashed the peace sign.

"Let us relate the tale about Ichigaki," Kurama starts off, ignoring the greetings. "He promised to heal their master if they became his guinea pigs. They didn't know that it was for killing."

Kuwabara gritted his teeth. "That explains it!"

Hope spoke up then. "And . . . The illness of the master was a trap set up by professor Ichigaki. Basically it ensured him that he would get the three people he wanted for his experiment."

Ichigaki didn't looked frightened that his plan was revealed. Just cocky. Damn, everyone's cocky these days. "Yes... And what are you gonna do about it?" he asked. "Your objective is to defeat your opponents, right? You should busy yourselves with your own affairs." Everyone gritted their teeth in anger as Ichigaki continued. "Don't be distraught about being overpowered by machines!" That really got under Hope's and Serina's skin. "They are guinea pigs, they enrich my work. That's all."

"Bastard!" Yuusuke, Hope and Kuwabara screamed, rushing at the doctor. "YOU'RE GONNA TO GODAME FUCKIN' DIE!"

Koto was amazed though shock at the crude langue from Hope, guess she wasn't paying any attention at what the female Urameshi said the other day. "Both male and female Urameshi as well as Kuwabara are angered! They're rushing towards the professor!" But Hope and the two boys didn't make it that far. The mind controlled students blocked their way to the professor via force.

Yusuke gritted his teeth. "Why are they rushing to protect him?"

Ichigaki cackled. "My little ones are very gifted. That lump on their backs control their souls, it's the heart of the system! If it's removed, they'll die!" This sick bastard was getting a kick out of this. "They're programmed to sacrificed themselves for me if need be! If you want my life, you'll have to take theirs first!"

Kuwabara was getting pissed. "I can't do that," he growled.

Ichigaki sent his lab rats on Kuwabara. "Kuwbara doesn't want to dodge!" Koto announced, watching the match.

"KUWABARA!" Hope and Serina yelled.

"He wants to die?" Hiei asked, watching intently.

"YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP!" Kuwabara yelled. "YOU CAN'T LET YOURSELVES BE CORRUPTED BY THIS BASTARD!" His cries fell on deaf ears as the three humans all attacked Kuwabara, blood went everywhere.

"KUWABARA!" Yusuke screamed.

The doctor merely laughed. "The situation is extremely critical!" Koto says. "Kuwabara suffered a huge collective attack... I LOVE IT! It's so brutal." Hope's as well as Serina's fingers twitched to set the girls pink short shorts on fire.

"You!" Yusuke growled at the doctor. "I'm going to... Huh?"

Hope's and Serina's noses twitched. "What the?" "Fuckin' Blood?" "And it's not Kuwabara's..." Serina jumped down from the monster as Hope ran to Kuwabara's side to get a better look. Their eyes widened. "Oh my god..." The three humans were crying blood.

The masked fighter was over at Kuwabara and sighed with relief. "His vital points weren't touched. They avoided killing him... They struggle against their tears."

Ichigaki laughed again. "I'm dying of laughter! What suffering! The human soul is distressingly silly!"

~Cut off the motherfucker's head,~ Kyoto growled.

Energy began whishing around Yusuke's and Hope's body as they glared at the doctor. "YOU!" they growled at Ichigaki. They then looked back at the three humans. "They're really unlucky... I would prefer to die." And with that, they attacked one of the humans each, shocking the doctor.

"AMAZING!" Koto says, watching the battle intensely. "The male Urameshi has changed tactics! While the female Urameshi has just shown some tactics! One would say they've only begun to fight!"

"That isn't possible!" Ichigaki gaped. "A calculation error? I must revise my predictions... I must verify our chances of victory..."

He typed into a little calculator, and while he did that, Hope and Serina moved to stand behind him. They seen the result and hissed lightly. "Ooooh... Fuckin' fifty three Godblessit percent chance of fuckin' winning? Doesn't that just fuckin' suck?" they asked, startling the doctor.

Hiei and Kurama appeared behind the girls, as back up. "The technology is fine," Kurama says. "But the human spirit is unpredictable."

The doctor blabbed that is was merely an error in calculations. "GO! GET RID OF THEM!"

Hope and Serina just watched as Yusuke got ready to fire his spirit gun, and he apologized about doing it, but the masked fighter stopped him. Then the masked fighter fell into a fighting stance. Koto jumped on this. "The masked fighter has returned! She wants to face off against three opponents!"

"GWA HA HA!" Ichigaki laughed. "They delude themselves they can do nothing against my little ones! GO! KILL THEM!" The three humans raced at the masked fighter, who stood her ground. The said fighter began chanting, energy swarming around her. The three humans were stopped by the force of the energy, and the masked fighter pierced each person in the chest, and each orb on their back came off, explosively. Ichigaki couldn't believe it. "They... Are dead?" The three bodies fell to the arena floor.

"Incredible," Yusuke muttered. "In a single attack? No signs of life..."

"They're all down!" Koto says. "We can start the count!" Hope and Serina stood outside the ring and waited as Koto counted. "TEN! The victory goes to Team Urameshi! THEY HEREBY QUALIFY FOR THE NEXT STAGE!"

Yusuke growled. "That doesn't please me! I don't like this kind of victory!" He as well as Hope began walking over to Ichigaki. "You're going to pay, doc."

"If you kill me, their master will die! I'm the only one who knows the antidote that can save him!" Ichigaki says, waving his hands.

"Doubt that," Serina muttered, jutting her thumb over to the side. Ichigaki turned to see an older man that Kurama carried on the monster back here.

"You will..." the man says.

"That's not possible!" Ichigaki denied.

Hiei smirked. "Your assistant recounted the whole tale to us. Hope and Serina isn't too bad at healing, and Kurama knows a thing or two about making remedies."

Kurama stepped up. "You want me to teach you a lesson on poisons, doctor?" Kurama asked, an evil look in his eyes.

"So, bastard, you ready to fuckin' die?" Hope asked.

Ichigaki suddenly pulled out a syringe and stuck it into his arm. "I'M NOT GOING TO LET MYSELF BE DONE IN! I'M GOING TO TEACH YOU THE MEANING OF TERROR!" he yelled. His body grew in size, and his skin got a slimy green, and just disgusting all over. Hope and Serina shivered as Christian/Steven crossed their mind. "SO! What do you think of my work? Are you afraid?" Yusuke just stood his ground. "DIEEEEE!"

And Yusuke punched the bastard right in the face, sending him into stands. "He'll repent his deeds in hell," Yusuke growled.

Koto gaped. "The professor's been pulverized! He's come to his death in the stands!"

The old man walked over to the ring, looking at his former student. "But why have I survived...? I can't forgive myself."

Hope and Serina sighed, and looked over at the man. "Don't regret anything, man."

"Hope and Serina are right," the masked fighter says. "You must regret nothing."

Yusuke grinned and ran to the ring. "THEY'RE ALIVE!"

Hope and Serina smiled as they watched the scene unfold and the sensei and the students made amends, and the masked fighter explained how they lived.

Next Time:

Kurama fights in two matches. The crowd get roudy and fines something out.

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