Game On

After Sniper had been taken down, Yusuke and Hiei had regrouped with others when they found themselves standing outside the cave. It was Sensui's secret hideout where he'd taken Eri and Kuwabara.

"I can't believe this happened. I let them take Kuwabara and Eri right out of my hands" Yusuke said, grinding his teeth and clenching his fist fire in his eyes as he glared down at the ground.

"I apologize for not rescuing her when I had the chance," Kurama said lowering his head down in shame.

"It's not your fault," Yusuke reassured. "Sensui is one of the guys that we have to stop anyway and he could've to harm anyone besides us."

"Before we proceed, let's go over what we know about our enemy." Kurama started. "We know that there were seven of them, to begin with. Yusuke took out Doctor."

"And I did away with Sniper," Hiei added.

"Yes. Seven minus two leaves five. And Mitarai's with us now which means just four!" Botan exclaimed.

"We know they'll head back to Demon's Door Cave. That's where we will go to intercept them and retrieve Kuwabara and Eri." Kurama stated.

"Oh, we're done sitting on our asses waiting patiently?" Yusuke says in sarcasm folded his arms over his chest with a slight frown across his lips.

"Stick a sock in it, you impulsive twit." Genkai sneered. "The tunnel opens in two days. Your sarcasm won't close it any faster."

"But that's four days earlier than our team in Spirit World was estimating!" Botan exclaimed.

Yanagisawa speaks up," Yeah, why do you they keep moving up the deadline? It's like every day the tunnel's growing faster."

"When a psychic tampers with the sort of power Itsuki has, there is the tendency to be overpowered and lose control," Kurama said.

Mitarai was next to speak, "Now that you mention it, he did say it's going faster than he thought like the tunnel has its own life and wants to grow."

"Or, you could tell how fast it's growing just by looking at our fair city...well...once fair." Kaito implied to the others as he adjusted his glasses a little.

"All the more reason for us to storm the cave now before the gateway can expand any wider, especially now that they have Kuwabara and Eri."

"Which doesn't make any sense at all. How does Sensui know about Eri and what does she want her for?" Yusuke inquired.

"It's possible of her mysterious Spirit Energy that we don't know about." Botan implied.

Yusuke nodded, "True. But when I saw the look on her face...she was scared around him. She knew something like this isn't right."

"Because Eri doesn't trust us, and I know I'm saying this out open. But, Eri is lost and confused that we all have a reason for the poor girl's sake. Sensui must be doing something to Eri that we don't know about and she hasn't said a word about him or his plan when you found her, Yusuke."

The detective thought about this deeply remembering back when he was around the young demon girl. She was so frail, innocent, and scared that something was going to happen in the same situation she got herself put through again.

"Please...Please don't go..." She pleaded.

Eri...

"Please don't take me back..."

I'm sorry...

"If they could use Kuwabara's spirit sword and whatever Eri's Spirit Energy could be. Then, they might be able to break open the dimensions of higher demons to let them fall into the human world, we're done." Kurama clarified his statement to the others quite briefly. 'But I willing doubt that Kuwabara will help Sensui."

"And what about Eri?" Kaito asked.

Kurama slightly shrugged his shoulders deepening his frown, "I have no idea what Sensui is going to do to her. But, if we can make it in there on time we might prevent it from happening. Eri's power is still a mystery we all don't know about quite yet. But as much as I have seen it the first time it could be..."

As they discussed their plan to stop Sensui, Mitarai suggested to show them around the cave to search for Sensui's hideout. Hiei scowled at the psychic's thinking that they shouldn't trust him, but Mitarai said he is indebted than Kuwabara is than anybody. Yusuke trusted him and Mitarai was going to be leading them inside of the cave to find Sensui, luckily Kurama was leading a trail of glowing flowers in case they ever get lost.

Meanwhile, Eri and Kuwabara were in Sensui's secret lair, as the two were trapped to wait for the others to come to rescue them. But, poor Eri couldn't help of the thought of them risking their lives to save them when she knows what Sensui can do since he had been through so much.

"Good. I see you're done with your temper tantrum." Sensui said eyeing down Eri who trembled in fear staring up at the tall male.

"You had a nerve to run off like that, Eri. You're not going to get away that easily." Sensui reminded as she held her baggy dress since the one she wore was completely ruined after arriving at the cave hideout. She wore the same dress when Yusuke found her, and she didn't have a pair of shoes to wear just barefooted, and her bandages were remained unwrapped on her arms and legs. Nothing's changed when she got back.

"Giving me the silent treatment?" Sensui grinned darkly over at her as she was sitting on the couch beside him and in front of them was a huge television screen. It was playing with a footage tape live and as for Kuwabara, he was still tied up in Makihara's fingers using the power elder Toguru's power he swallowed up.

"Leave her alone! She isn't doing anything wrong if you keep talking to her." Kuwabara shouted over towards Sensui and Eri trying to protect the demon girl to prevent them from talking to him.

"Do you want Makihara to tighten your bidden more?" Sensui nodded over at Makihara who used his fingers to squeeze the life out of Kuwabara making him scream in torture.

Eri stares over at Kuwabara eyes popping out of her head and her mouth gaped open.

"P-Please! D-D-Don't hurt him!" Eri pleaded.

Her pleading was the only way to start saying a single sentence to beg for Kuwabara's life. It was heartbreaking for Kuwabara to hear Eri beg Makihara not to use his power to kill Kuwabara.

"Next, we shall wait and continue where we left off," Sensui said leaning over at Eri to place his hand on her to use his spirit energy to revive her.

"N-No...Not again..." She pleaded.

Back with the others, they had found themselves at the part where Sensui's lair was somewhere behind a large door. It wasn't there as Mitarai said that it wasn't there before as far as he could remember it.

"Perhaps we took a wrong turn." Kurama implied.

"No, I'm sure of it! We've done everything right!" Mitarai assured. "This door is a new addition, I'd be willing to bet that absolutely nothing good can be lying behind it."

"Hm, that's odd. I know I've seen this door somewhere before. I just can't remember where." Yusuke said trying to remember where he'd last seen that door.

Yusuke starts to think and remember where he saw the door, "Come on, give me a break. I've seen it recently, so it can't be the school gate." He tries again, "Why can't I figure this one out?" He pouts and had enough to get his brain all fried up, "Where the hell have I seen this damn door?"

"Welcome to Goblin City."

A narrative voice came from the door, the others were surprised that something or someone was doing this.

"Where your team of seven heroes must clash iron with the evil Goblin King, and restore peace to the town.

"That's peculiar," Kurama said.

"Oh yeah, of course!" Yusuke exclaimed. "I've seen it a million times! That's the gate to Goblin City!"

"Goblin City?" Hiei inquired.

"A popular video game," Kurama said as Yusuke nodded.

"It's not just any video game! It's a video game." Yusuke starts off to explain the details about the games, "You've gotta kill the Goblin King who's like this master of every single game. But what's so sweet about it is that it combines all the different kinds of games into one: Sports, fighting, trivia, puzzles, and so on." Yusuke paused and continues explaining, "The king challenges you to different games at random, and you've gotta beat him at four out of seven to free Goblin City."

After he was done explaining he glanced back at the large door, "Of course that doesn't explain why it's come to life in a cave."

"I've been meaning to take Eri to the arcade some time. Just for her to get the experience to play with the other video games there." Yusuke said with a small grin on his face as Hiei didn't say anything about the human game.

"Amanuma, he is the Game Master," Mitarai said.

"Welcome to my territory!" The Game Master known as Amanuma spoke through the door loud and clear for everyone to hear.

Mitarai scowls, "Oh yeah, that's him all right."

"The rules of the game are the rules of my territory, and the rules of my territory are the rules of the game." Ananuma clarified.

"If his territory the game, then we can't even enter that door unless we fit into the game somehow." Mitarai said to the others as he sighed, "And unfortunately we have to through there if we want to get to where Itsuki is and save Mr. Kuwabara and Eri from Gourmet."

"Does fitting in mean we gotta dress up as medieval knights?" Yusuke inquired in sarcasm. " 'Cause I left my breast shield in my closet."

"I can't see how many players there are out there, but your team must have seven heroes to clash iron with me," Amanuma said.

"We got enough heroes to beat you four times outta seven!" Yusuke exclaimed.

"The rules say 'Seven'!" Amanuma shouted.

"We have no choice but to follow every guideline," Mitarai said facing his direction at Yusuke. "That's the only way we're gonna get through that door."

"Yes, it doesn't seem he's going to be very flexible with the rules we are a party of seven," Kurama said agreeing with Mitarai's statement.

"Seven!" Amanuma shouted. "There must be seven heroes to clash iron with me."

"Shut up!" Yusuke shouted.

"They must have guessed we'd be cautious and enter in a small group at first, and designed this to us all in here together," Kurama said.

"I'll just follow your light thingies and run back to get three from the outside," Yusuke said.

"It's too dangerous for you to go alone. We lose precious time, but it's not as though we can move any further." Kurama let out a small groan.

"Crap."

The others went back to retrieve the three: Genkai, Kaito, and Yanagisawa to participate in the Goblin City game that came in real life. Once they had all seven, the door opens as Amanuma who was sitting in the chair was dressed up as the Goblin King. They each picked the best players to play the game one of them remainders have one except for Kaito who was defeated by Amanuma. Hiei tries to destroy the game, but when he tried to slice the game it was back in one piece and no scratches. It could play forever he said. There was only one chance of winning this final round, and Kurama had to step in to take him down. The little boy was hesitant when they talked that he soon realized that he wasn't going to win because all of this time he thought Sensui granted him a perfect life where he could live his own way. Sadly, it wasn't true, and so Kurama won as for Amanuma he had lost the game and died. Deep down Kurama felt pain hit his chest after what he did to the poor boy this wasn't the first time he killed a child. The remainder of what was left of Amanuma was to make him wake up and see what Sensui had plans to use him to stall time while they worked on getting the gate open. But, the team kept going only to let Genkai, Kaito, and Yanagisawa return back up to the surface safely, so they can finally rescue Kuwabara and Eri.