A/N: Ok, so this is the next and last part of this fanfiction.. I repeat, this fanfiction was created based on Volume 7 [ if i am not mistaken ] of the mangga, entitled, "Two Shots"
First Encounter, First Dispute
"Dispute"
Without warning someone had attacked the place where they should have been, but Kurama was quick enough to jump out of the way at the same time get Maya to safety.
The perpetrator showed himself to them.
"You dodge well!" A youkai clad in black with a katana said.
Kurama slide down from the jump and asked Maya in his arms if she's okay, ignoring the youkai's statement, but his eyes were fixed on him.
"Y-yeah." she answered.
"Are you okay, Minamino-kun? I'm pretty heavy after all."
"This isn't the time for that."
"He's so strong."
Another attack followed, Kurama let Maya go, when he's sure it was him that was the target, he quickly produce a leaf blade to fight.
"A weapon of plants?!" the youkai declared as he had exchanged a sword fight with him. Still unsuccessful to get any hit.
"Run away!!" Kurama, again ignoring the demon, said to Maya, while he is trying to keep the fight even.
Maya just sat there, clueless. "Uh..."
"I'll be faster if we change locations..." The two leapt and ran very fast, their eyes lock on each other in a fierce manner.
"This has to be all a dream..." Maya said, looking after the two figures who just left, unknown to the fact that someone is ought to get her.
A guy possessed by a vomit-spirit held Maya's unconscious body. "Heheheheheh... how lucky, he drove Kurama away leaving this prize, a nice souvenir for Yatsude."
Meanwhile Kurama is still fighting.
"You have a good arm!" The youkai said to him. "Why is someone like you a minion of a youkai like Yatsude!?"
"What?!" Kurama asked surprised."Yatsude!? Is he coming to this city?" The question was enough to halt the fighters.
"What!?! You mean that you aren't in league with Yatsude?"
Kurama waved his hand to call off his weapon. "Now I understand. Sheath your sword. I'm just a resident of this town."
The demon tried to maintain his balance. "Ugh... what a likely story. It's as I thought..." Blood dripped from his torso.
"Blood!?" Kurama thought. "Erk!" The youkai fell unconscious in the ground. "Wha..?!!" Kurama said surprised.
Youkai Yatsude... can't beat him with the power that I have now. This has become a troublesome situation...
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"Shuichi? Are you finished eating?" Shiori asked his son who is in the washroom. "Yes, kaasan! I'll be out in a while to help you fix the table." Kurama said. "It's okay Shuichi. You just go ahead with your work and I'll handle things here." Kurama closed the lights as he went out of the washroom.
"No it's okay, kaasan. I don't want you getting tired because of me. And besides, we don't want to see your face with wrinkles this early, would we?" He teased. A thousand year old fox can still have a human heart of fourteen, right?
Shiori laughed. "Shuichi-chan, you're killing me!" Kurama placed a surprised face.
"What! Then I have to get you to a hospital quick!" He said, coming closer to her so that he can carry her. But Shiori dodged away. "Go study now, Shuichi." She said laughing.
"Well, I guessed I didn't win this time." He sighed. "I'll just be upstairs, kaasan." he said.
Kurama jumped up the flight of stairs quickly and opened his door quietly. His cheerful face was replaced with seriousness. He walked over the bed and lifted the covers.
"The wounds are healing quickly, good. He thought placing the covers back to cover the youkai's body which laid unconscious in his bed."
He was about to go to his table when he heard something, and he turned back to the youkai.
"Yu...yukina..."
"What?"
"Yukina" It was from the being in the bed.
"Yukina? I wonder if this has any connection to Yatsude."
He went over to see if anything was wrong. It seems that this youkai is having a hard time. His face wears a frown, and he's perspiring a little. Kurama placed his hand on his forehead to see if he has a fever, but withdrew it away quickly, his other hand holding it as if it just got burnt. He slowly bent over and lifted the bandage that is over his forehead.
"A jagan?" He whispered more of a statement than a question. He tried to feel his ki for anything.
"His ki is of high level in nature, yet to be developed to the fullest. But it still is adjusting to something, the jagan, it was just placed there recently. Yatsude, Yukina, and his jagan, what does all these have to do with Yatsude?"
~
The city seems to be calm and quiet, nothing seems likely to happen. But Kurama knows otherwise...
"You have a strong ki level, I'm surprised, for you to only sleep for four hours." Kurama said as the youkai sat up from his bed. Sitting against the wall at the bottom of the window, Kurama silently observes the youkai.
He looks closely at his chest where his wounds should have been, but he was surprised to see them gone. Reading his mind, Kurama told him that he has treated them with some demonic healing herbs. He stood up and looked for his clothes and found them neatly folded in the desk.
"By the way..."
The spiky haired youkai turned his eyes to the side to look at the youkai who has a human body, or whatever, who has not changed positions. But he still continued to get dressed.
"You were speaking in your sleep. This Yukina, is she a friend of yours?" Kurama said.
That left him surprised.
"You weren't born with a jagan, were you? With the level of your ki, I sense that it was put there just recently. What purpose do you hold for it? It has something to do with the girl and Yatsude, has it?"
Turning around full dressed, he gave Kurama a cold glare.
"You talk to much." He said his voice deep. "If you hadn't helped me then I would have been tempted to kill you." He walked towards the window, determined to leave at once.
"For my gratitude, I'll give you some advice. Your humanity will be the end of you."
Kurama didn't respond to the comment but he spoke anyway. "Where do you think you're going? It would be better for you to rest and wait for your wounds to heal."
"Yeah, and he'll get stronger after a meal. Only cowards like you would sleep." he said laying his foot on the sill. The youkai was surprised that he didn't get any reaction from him.
"What's your name?" Kurama asked.
The youkai, gave him a side-glance, and finally said, "Hiei." Then went off.
"Hiei. One of the known thieves in the Makai. But even with his strength he's no match for Yatsude."
*RING... RING...*
"Hello, This is the Minamino Residence."
"Hey, this is Tasaka from class. I got a phone call from Kitajima's parents, she ain't home yet. So is she there in your house?... ... ... What? He hung up on me? You better know where Maya is for you to hung up like that!"
"Hey! Let's go together!"
"?!" Hiei found himself being followed by the blabbering ningen also leaping from roof to roof to catch up to him. "So the coward still has a stroke of luck."
"Things have changed." Kurama said, his voice serious.
"That girl... is a sweet person." Hiei said.
"Looks like we have the same problems"
Hiei gave him a side glance. "Hn. You are a non-stop talking fool. I don't like you."
"We'll settle things after we've finished this."
They arrived in a deserted old factory. Old wrecked dolls are scattered everywhere covered in slime.
"What a low class bastard he is." Kurama said.
"Looks like his left-over food is mingled with the dolls." Hiei said, making Kurama panic. If something happened to Kitajima, he will hold himself responsible.
"You'll end up the same!!!" a loud booming voice disrupted the silence. Kurama and Hiei was caught off guard for the voice sounded just behind them. Luckily, the two jumped just in time to avoid the attack. "You're indomitable little bastards." Yatsude said. Yatsude has in fact 8 arms, two at his head, four at his side where arms really should be, and two serving as his feet.
"I'll say it once again. Tell me the name of the koorime that you ate." Hiei said calmly but firmly.
"Dunno. Didn't say." he answered snickering. It was Kurama's turn to ask.
"Today, you abducted a girl, where is she!?" Kurama asked, on the verge of pouring out his anger.
"Is she a friend of yours?" he asked. "Okay, here's a clue." his arm at the left side of his head held up something like human flesh. Kurama flared up in anger in seeing this.
"Kisama! (You bastard!)" He said attacking him with his leaf blade. Hiei doing the same.
Yatsude having more arms than the two put together has the upper hand. It always ends up with Hiei or Kurama being thrown away.
"Our separate attacks are useless!" they both realized. Combining speed and tactics, they charged at the same time. They rushed with great speed one at a time in front of Yatsude.
"Hm? An impudent impromptu combiplay, huh?! We'll see about that!" He said, his arms doubling up the work speed to counter the more powerful attacks the duo launched at him. He then spotted Hiei coming up behind Kurama, making a sneaky attack. "Ha! You're movements are seen right through!" He punched Hiei smack in the face. A cracking sound was heard, it was from the doll that he punched. It was late when Yatsude realized it was all a decoy. After Kurama passed through him again, the real Hiei was behind him and slashed his katana all the way down. Kurama slashed his blade at the same time. Cutting Yatsude's body in 3.
The bodiless head spoke. "You were successful. As for your reward, the girl's safe, and I didn't eat any koorime, just a low class demon." He managed to speak. "Somehow, the two of you beat me."
"He was wrong too." Hiei thought.
Maya woke up in Kurama's back. He was carrying her. "Huh? Minamino-kun. How...? Oh. It's just a dream. That's right." Maya said sleepily. "Yes, a dream. You'll forget it all when you wake up." Kurama said in return. "My thoughts too, all of them."
"Pollen of the Dream Flower, ne? It erases memories, right?" Hiei said his gaze cast forward.
"It's for her best." Kurama said.
"Hn." was all Hiei could utter. "I believe I didn't catch your name."
"It's Kurama."
~End~
That's about it, how was it? so it was that bad, huh? sorry, i'll try to make
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