Rematch and Promises
Things weren't going to be so easy not going so well, first Eri was being kidnapped, and now Kuwabara as well. Sensui was escaping while riding in the back of a truck with other riders that were taking them away as an escape. Yusuke had used his spirit gun on accident because due to his rage he could've killed Kuwabara and Eri! Luckily, Amanuma a child-driving the vehicle didn't have to worry about getting hit when Sensui used his attack to draw out the spirit gun attack.
"Double hell!" Yusuke cursed.
There was no stopping that truck not unless riding a bike to catch up to it is the only way.
"You're drivin' on the wrong side of the road you half-pint loony!" Kuwabara screamed. He was tied up by Makihara fingers that were wrapped around his body minus Eri who sat in the back beside him staring at him worried next to Sensui.
Amanuma who was driving the car didn't care to knock other cars off the road to cause a horrible accident. Eri covered her mouth in shock after just happened to see the vehicles explode that her body was stiff and she couldn't move.
"Hey! Stupid rubber-neckers! Get outta my way!" Yusuke shouted at the people as he pedals on the bike curving around the cars that had been wrecked due to the car accident that Amanuma had caused to make a getaway. When Yusuke pedal by someone watching not afar from him in the alley Sniper grinned as he rode on his motorcycle to chase Yusuke.
Meanwhile, Koenma and Genkai were rushing inside to check on the others after Sensui had used an attack to aim directly towards Yusuke's apartment.
"That Reikou-Resshuuken sure packs a wallop!" Koenma said running up the stairway with Genkai to head up straight to Yusuke's apartment.
"Yes. Too much for Yusuke, even if he is on a "serious" binge." Genkai replied turning the corner to run up the stairs with Koenma following behind her.
"So what's his strategy?" Genkai asked. "Why aim at the apartment when Yusuke was standing right there?"
"Must've been targeting Sea Monkey, again." Koenma mocked. "Sensui certainly is persistent and goal-oriented. I'll give him that." Koenma replied as they turned around another corner of more stairs, "Just two of the many qualities I avoided when I hired Yusuke."
Once they've reached Yusuke's apartment, Koenma opens the door and begins to cough due to the smoke around them.
"Drama prince." Genkai dryly said as she gathered up her spirit energy to wipe out the smoke. "Fiat Lux!"
"You do know a lot of tricks," Koenma said astonish.
"Hiding in a compound can do that to you," Genkai replied.
They went inside of the apartment to find Botan lying underneath a bookshelf unconscious and Mitarai was leaning his back up against the wall trembling in fear. Genkai and Koenma rushed over to Botan to help her as the old hag healed her apart from her injuries behind her back bruised up due to the bookshelf falling on her. Botan awoke and remembers what happened until Kurama enters carrying an unconscious Shizuru in his arms.
"This team just keeps falling apart. Put her on the bed." Genkai ordered the handsome red-head demon who obeyed laying Shizuru down to let Genkai heal her.
Back with Yusuke, he was still chasing down the truck pedaling as hard as he could to catch up to it. They were in the countryside of Japan now, and it was far from the city but he didn't know where Sensui was taking his friends after riding the bike for so long.
'Sensui, you made a big mistake messing with one of my friends. And I'm gonna kick your ass twice as hard for it!' Yusuke thought gritting his teeth tightening the rims of the bike as he pedaled faster than his legs could carry him.
"Hold on to what you got!" Amanuma gripped the steering wheel to make a sharp curve around the mountain whipping half of them to the side to prevent them from leaping out. "Drivin' a real cat's pretty much like the racing game at the arcade."
"You've never drivin' before?" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"Of course not, dumbass! I'm only eleven years old!" Amanuma replied.
"Aw give the poor backseat driver a break, Game Master," Makihara said glancing behind him narrowing his eyes at Kuwabara. "He's probably just a little on edge because his seat belt's fastened too tight." He chuckled darkly tightening Kuwabara's ribcage with his fingers. "I wanna see his full power, even if I have to squeeze it up out of him like the last stubborn glob of toothpaste in the tube." As Makihara squeezed Kuwabara to hear the painful screaming that pleased him as Eri stares at the human male worried.
"Please, Gourmet, give him a break. You're torturing my ears as well." Sensui said.
"Why don't you just kill me?" Kuwabara declared as Makihara released Kuwabara letting him breathe after squeezing the life out of him.
Sensui gave him a stoic expression, "You fail to see your destiny, Kuwabara. You and Eri are going to help us put our cursed race to an end."
Eri trembled knowing what he meant when he said that as Kuwabara glares at Sensui. "And you don't understand who I am. I'll never help you. Neither is Eri."
'What does this guy want with Eri anyway?' Kuwabara thought.
"But you're meant to. Don't you see?" Sensui starts. "That's why you and Eri have been given to these powers. The universe wants a human and a masterpiece atonement just as badly as I."
Kuwabara snarled, "You're pitching the same crap you did to Mitari. But I don't bend!"
Sensui let out a small chuckle, "Silly me. I must have given you a false impression we need both of your consent to help us. We have other ways to make your power ours. Just as your friend elder Toguru."
Kuwabara glanced over at Sensui shocked as Eri gripped her dress avoiding eye contact and listened. She knew who elder Toguru was and that old freak wasn't even dead after he remained to be alive.
"Huh? What do you mean? That old freak has been dead for months!" Kuwabara exclaimed as Sensui had a dark smirk formed across his lips.
"Look down at your bondage. Don't those fingers bring back memories?" Sensui reminded the human male who gawked his mouth slightly open.
Kuwabara begins to sweat, "Oh man! I knew these creepy fingers were familiar. But how can your guy have Toguru's hands?"
"Because he swallowed him," Sensui replied in a casual cryptic tone. "The same way he's going to swallow you, Kuwabara, as soon as your power is completed. Eri doesn't need to be chow down on the menu. We need her for other reasons that her power is remarkably important for us."
The orange brunette male gritted his teeth narrowing his eyes over at the male, "What are you planning to use Eri for?"
"You'll see when you get a look of her incredible spirit energy that is a curse to mankind," Sensui said with a small smug on his face as Kuwabara was perplexed of this guy about using Eri's spirit energy to use for this mission. But why call her a curse? Is it something he doesn't know, but Sensui and his gang know about Eri?
"No! I won't let you do anything to us like that!" Kuwabara exclaimed. "You crazy freak!"
The words spat out of Kuwabara's big mouth that Makihara used his fingers to tighten into his bondage making Kuwabara cry out in pain. Eri couldn't do anything; just sit there and watch in the horror of the orange male squirming and pleading for the pain to stop. She was thinking that she is causing all of this and knew that whatever Sensui had in mind to blame her for the mess she caused that wasn't true.
In the distance, Yusuke was riding the bike to head straight towards them pedaling with the amount of muscle his legs would carry him. He gritted his teeth hearing his friend beg for mercy being tied up and Eri was sitting in between them frighten.
'Hang on, Kuwabara and Eri! I'm coming for you.' Yusuke thought gripping the rims as he felt his palms sweating but didn't lose focus on the truck to pedal faster to keep up with it.
"What, you couldn't find a little girl's scooter?" Kuwabara inquired.
"I don't know? You couldn't go weak without getting snagged by the forces of evil?"Yusuke implied.
As Yusuke pedaled to get close to where the riders were in the front he ranted, "Consider this your first and only chance to get out of this thing alive! Now pull over or I'll run you off-road!"
Amanuma sweats drops over Yusuke's way of threatening to diss them off the road which was impossible because he's riding on a bike.
"He can't possibly do that with a bicycle can he?" Amanuma inquired.
"I don't know, but if we don't lose him quickly he'll follow us to our secret, ex-secret hideout," Makihara said.
"I told you I have it under control," Sensui said with a slight grin on his face.
The two riders were curving on the side of the road, Yusuke was trying to save them, the least he could do was to stop the truck. If he had an idea to stop it. Behind the riders was Sniper riding on his motorcycle catching up to their tails, as Yusuke glanced over his shoulder to see him pull out a dice. Sniper used his energy to pluck the dice towards Yusuke's bike to knock him off of the bike to tumble on the road. Yusuke's shirt ripped off as he rolled on the side of the road, dirty up, and lost sight of the truck.
"So close," Yusuke mumbled wiping the dirt off his. "Prick!"
As Sniper came over to him flashing something over Yusuke's body were target points. The member of the 7 psychic's explained what he will do to Yusuke if he can manage to survive this painful task.
"Oh great! I always wanted tattoos." Yusuke sarcastically complimented.
"Those, my friend, are targets," Sniper said.
"For what?"
"For me to hit of course, and at any time and any range without me having to aim."
Sniper held out something in his hands explaining in more detail what he'll do to Yusuke. "Oh, and with my ammunition, I so choose, as these rocks for instance."
As Sniper demonstrated his attack on Yusuke with the small rocks, he aims it only to miss when Yusuke caught them. But with the quick aim experience, Yusuke winces in pain as he felt the sharp rocks in his palms letting them loose as he began to start bleeding.
"Hey...nice catch," Sniper said with a smug grin on his face. "Now as long as you never let your guard down, you having nothing to worry about."
"Freak," Yusuke said clenching his bloody palms glaring at the biker.
"Come on, let's not resort to name-calling. My proper name is Kaname Hagiri, but my victims call me Sniper." He introduced himself in a monotone voice. "From this moment on you'll never be able to go anywhere without looking over your shoulder. Enjoy living in fear Yusuke, while you still can."
Just like that, Sniper sped off as Yusuke ran behind him ranting, "Hey, get back here! You don't scare me!"
Yusuke P.O.V.
This is just fantastic! I lost my friends against Sensui with his two members that are psychics and not only have I lost them...I failed to rescue them. Damn it, this day couldn't get any worse than it already has. Now, I'm playing a game of "Survive Through Hell" because of Sniper putting these targets on my body. Two on my arms, one on my chest, and one on my stomach. They won't come off unless Sniper may remove them or I'll die in vain to get hit by something coming straight towards me. I ran in the deep part of the forest watching my surroundings to make sure whatever is coming for me is something that I have to take cover and destroy. This is not going to be easy.
Some surprise attacks were heading my way, I knew that Sniper was doing this when I spotted his bike being a park, but he was hiding wherever to aim at me. The more of the attacks, the more influence and strategizing I got to avoid any of Sniper's surprise attempts. I hope the others are alright, they should be just fine after Sensui intervenes with us to cause a whole lot of drama in the city. I had to get out of Sniper's territory, and when I began to run a truck appeared around the corner with no driver which I bet was Sniper's next move to run me over. The truck followed me off the road, down the hillside of the woods to crash which I was glad that I survived. Or at least I thought...
I realized that I wasn't in the forest due to the truck explosion, I was where Sniper was on top of the high mountain glancing at me. But he was talking to someone that must have rescued me. My eyes shifted up as I saw Hiei was standing next to me glaring towards Sniper with a deep stoic expression on his face.
"Who are you?" Sniper demanded. "This can't be."
"Hiei?" I called out to him huskily.
"Don't get sentimental, Detective." He said in a dry tone as he began walking towards where Sniper stood.
Sniper held out a pistol pointing towards Hiei and I'm sure that he loaded bullets into that thing. Hiei better is careful not to get hit by any of them.
"I have no quarrel with you stranger, but I also don't mind killing anyone who stands in our way," Sniper said gritting his teeth gripping the pistol giving Hiei a piercing look in his eyes ready to aim at him. Hiei wasn't phased by his threat knowing that he wasn't going to get hurt by Sniper anyway.
"Last warning!" Sniper gave Hiei his final warning not to come straight towards him.
That's when he pulled the trigger aiming at Hiei shooting out 9 bullets at him that he barely even hit him. But in a flash, Hiei was already near Sniper and had his sword stabbed into his chest area.
"Hiei!" I yelled.
"What, now I'm not even allowed to kill the bad humans?" He remarked. "It's a few inches from his heart if that's what you're worried about."
While Hiei was backtalking with me, Sniper wrapped his arm around his neck and aimed towards me shakingly holding the pistol.
"What's the point?"I gritted my teeth narrowing my eyes on him.
"No one can stop our justified cause." Sniper huffed.
With a single stab through the chest, Hiei swiftly killed Sniper releasing him holding his sword that had his blood on it.
"You...You saved me." I said with my mouth halfway gapped open.
"I was worried about the trees," Hiei claimed.
He approached me glancing over to where the city was located by a force field as the demon world hovered above it trying to break through it.
"This wind coming it feels like home. It's comforting and it soothes me." Hiei said glimpsing over feeling endearing the soft breeze and scent he could smell from the distance.
"It tastes like freshly spilled blood and the rotting flesh of decaying corpses."
I couldn't predict after what he just said but all I know...is that he missed being in the demon world after being trapped here.
"Look at it. The gateway to Demon World will be open soon." He says as I gritted my teeth knowing the gate will open and the demons will appear here in the human world. "Maybe I'll return home."
I smashed my fist into the ground feeling rage built up, "Damnit! I beat Toguru, and after I assumed everything else would..." I gripped my fist glaring at the landscape around me. "Would just be a big piece of cake. And then some rogue Spirit Detective has to go and open up the freaking gates of hell!" I stood up to get back on my feet again limping a little, "And to top it all off Kuwabara and Eri have to get themselves all kidnapped!"
"You're in no shape to be playing the hero." Hiei flatly said.
"Well if I don't, who will? Not you, remember? This is our world, not yours!" I recalled back to him gritting my teeth as I walked away. "See ya! I have to go save the world again."
When I was about to leave Hiei out here on his own, I notice him coming up behind me using to swiftly raise his sword behind me.
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that." He aimed at me as I dodged it, but when I landed he pin-pointed the blade towards my neck. "For the second time today, I hold your life in my hands. Somehow I doubt this Sensui will be as merciful as I."
I could hear him let out a hearty laugh as I glared at him, "Kuwabara and Eri need me."
"Kuwabara was ill-prepared for them and look what happened to him. As for Eri, she too was in the same situation for getting herself capture." He bitterly said.
I gritted my teeth to stand up and glared down at him, "Shut up!"
His eyes squinted at me directly," Do I have to kill you to keep you being foolish?"
"You just might, Hiei!"
We stared at each other in silence eye to eye and not moved a muscle. Until I saw his eyes glowing knowing some shit was about to happen as he removed his cloak from his body to release a yellow aura.
"It's been too long since our last fight." He said to use his strong aura to stagger me away as I felt my blue aura formed.
He began to charge straight towards me forming a fist, "You ready?"
I growled and charged straight to him with my fist raised, "Bring it on, bitch!"
Both of us aimed directly at our faces, that our rematch from the last fight was more intense than before. Hiei has gotten stronger since we were at the dark tournament, I have built up my strength during my training session with Genkai and defeating Toguru to increase my moving pattern and attacks. In the end, we decided that it was a draw knowing that our Spirit Energy has gotten stronger.
Hiei whose arm was injured where his dragon was tied up. It was half-open covered in blood as he started to lick it. Gross.
"Well, that's mildly disgusting." I wrinkle my face in disgust watching him lick his blood.
"You rose to the challenge. It seems you haven't lost your Spirit Power." Hiei clarified glancing up at me. "You just needed a kick in the ass."
I blinked a couple of times until I realized WHY we fought in the first place as I gritted my teeth.
"You mean you stalled me here just to see how strong I am?"
"You really are a simple child aren't you? You still don't get it."
He glanced at me stoically before spitting out the blood he licked off his arm.
"Do you remember when you fought Toguru in the tournament, and we let you think that Kuwabara had been killed?" He said bringing back the memories that happened at the Dark Tournament that we had to fight our way to beat his team and other opponents we'd had to face to win. "Back then, you lacked the motivation to reach your potential. And Toguru went out of his way to bring it out. Sensui just wants you dead."
He walks over to grab his cloak to slip on his body again and starts walking off glancing at me in the corner of his eye.
"Harness your own power if you want to beat him. If you take anything from the scrimmage, take that." Hiei said in bitterness as I didn't say anything. "So go-save the living world. Or don't. I don't really care." His tone was sharp and yet I can tell he was changing his phrase. "Either way I'm fine with the outcome."
I began to start laugh as Hiei gave me a confused expression, "What are you laughing about?"
"Your so full of crap!" I laughed. "I don't care." I mimicked.
As I approached him he raised an eyebrow at me, "You've been rooting for me! You did all this to help me survive!" I said with a huge grin on my face. "I told everyone you would come back to rescue us when we needed you the most, you big softy" I started to laugh more nonstop. "Or should I say, little softy!?"
'I should have slit your throat when I had the chance.' Hiei thought with forming a snarl across his face.
I stopped laughing giving him a serious look, "Really, thank you, Hiei. I was needing that kick in the ass."
My eyes glimpse at Hiei who walked by me giving responding a "Hn" grunting coming from him.
"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" I asked.
He stopped his tracks glancing at me in the corner of his eye, "Now that your little secrets out, there's no reason..." I let out a loud sigh. "Look, what I'm trying to say is that I could really use your help on this one. Kuwabara could really use your help on this one.
"But I hate Kuwabara." He dryly said as he faced away to continue walking ahead. "You do them one favor and they think you're their best friend. This is why I could care less if their entire species was swallowed up."
"What about Eri? I mean, she may not be a human, but at least she cares about you." I said in a low tone as he stopped his tracks.
"Why do I care?" He asked.
"...Because you care about her too, Hiei," I said with a small frown on my lips.
He was silent for a moment knowing that Eri was something he couldn't deny his feelings about her. She needed our help as much as Kuwabara. I could tell that the one thing Hiei grew closer to her was because when it was his turn to watch her I could tell something was in his eyes. It was a sign of something he couldn't describe to me or anyone.
"Hiei, at least tell me this." I start. "What exactly did Eri tell you at the park? Do you remember?"
He was silent replying, "I made a promise to her...that I want to make Yukina and myself happy."
My eyes slightly widen, "She wants you to be happy?"
He merely nodded, "...But what I don't understand is...how can request me to tell my sister that I am her brother. I refuse yet I kept my promise that if I tell her..."
I walked over patting him on the shoulder, "Hey, don't overthink this too much. Eri just wanted to make you happy and I guess she figured out that you two were siblings on her own." I merely smile as it fell when I saw the image of her frowning, "But there is one thing we need to do. We need to make Eri happy, and she wants you to be there to save her, Hiei."
"Why me?" He inquired.
"She cares about you."
I saw a small glint in his eyes knowing that he was shocked to hear the words coming out of my mouth. I know he wants to save Eri and Kuwabara, then ends Sensui for good.
"Fine." He let out a huff.
"Good. I can interest you into something else too." I said scratching the back of my nape.
"And what would that be?" He asked as I glanced away from him after giving him a deal after we defeat Sensui and he'd agreed.
This took me so long to write this down at the beginning of Monday! I'm glad that I finished this chapter and we can move on from here until the suspense off Eri and Kuwabara will come soon along with the gang trying to save them to stop Sensui.