A.S- This here is kinda a pointless chapter. But this is where the humor is so read it if you want! I don't own Yu-gi-oh!, but I own Akurei Shinzo so once it gets published (or if it gets published) I hope you all will read it!

===============================================================

Chapter 18- The Rice Bowl of the Heavens!

"Tell me again why we're walking up this mountain," said Joey as the group climbed up a steep slope.

"Daichi asked me to come over to a temple around here to help him out with something," said Shiro. Then a building came into view, it looked like a run down house though. "This is it…"

"It could use some redecorating," commented Mai surveying the scenery.

"Shiro! You've made it!" shouted Daichi running up to them. "Thank God! Now can you do an old friend a big favor?"

"Uh…what kind of favor? (sweatdrop)" asked Shiro.

"You know this is the time of year when the prayer priests come and pray to one of their gods right?"

"Uh… I've heard of it, but…"

"Well, since I'm a warrior type priest I have to be their bodyguard for a week!"

"What's so bad about that?"

"Hello!? Hanging around with old cranky men!?"

"Oh, that part…"

"So you're going to help me get out of here!" shouted Daichi dragging Shiro over to the run down temple.

"Hey! Why me?"

"You're the son of the high priestess Kimiko, so most likely they'll listen to everything you tell them to do!"

"But…I'm a half-demon! Those priest hate anything with demon's blood!"

"Oh well!"

Behind them the rest of the gang shrugged and followed the two. In front of the temple and old robed man, he had so many wrinkles he resembled a bulldog.

"Hey old man!" called Daichi. His answer to that was a cane to the head. "Ow! You didn't have to hit so hard!" Daichi began massaging the spot when the cane had nearly split his head in two.

"Don't call me an old man you nitwit! Who's this?" asked the old priest referring to Shiro and the others.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"What?!" gasped the old man and several other priests who had joined them. "You're lady Kimiko's son?!" (He pointed at Shiro with his mouth wide open and his eyes bugging out)

"It's not polite to point…"muttered Shiro (not liking the extra attention). One of the priests came towards him and examined him.

"Are these ears real?" he asked. Then he gave both of Shiro's cat ears a huge tug.

"Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"You didn't have to pull so hard!" whimpered Shiro holding onto his ears which still hurt a lot.

"Please forgive me! I didn't know the rumors were true!" cowered the priest who had pulled on his ears.

"What rumors?" asked Yugi.

"It was said that lady Kimiko had enveloped with the feared cat-demon, Kage. At first we didn't believe it, though we've heard she had a son…" said another priest.

"What's so bad about a human loving a demon?" asked Tristan. He got a staff on the head.

"You baka!" screamed the bulldog-like priest. "It is forbidden for a human to love any race, but their own (and once in a while a spirit)."

"But we're so glad you're here, Shiro," spoke another priest. He took Shiro by the arm and lead him inside. "You're just in time to see us worship an item from the heavens…"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"A rice bowl?" asked Shiro sweatdropping. He and the others stared at the porcelain rice bowl which laid on a cushion on top of a table.

"Uh…not to be nosy or anything, but…why are you worshipping a rice bowl?" asked Joey. The priest bashed his cane on him.

"This is not ordinary rice bowl! It is the rice bowl of the Heavens!" said the priest proudly. The priest then noticed the group was staring at him sweatdropping. "Ahem, anyways…Time for dinner!"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"For crazy old guys…they…sure…know…how to…eat!" said Joey through mouthfuls. Shiro slipped a bowl of rice under the table where Zeero (in fox form) gobbled it down greedily. Since the priests hated full-demons they made Zeero sit under the table and wait for scraps (thank goodness for him that Shiro was around to give him some good food).

"Hey," started Daichi. "Shiro, have you found all of those doors yet?"

"Well, not yet. We only have one left…" said Shiro (still secretly giving Zeero food).

"Well, I'll come with you then! I finally found a way to track down the doors a lot faster! So can I come?!"

"If it's okay with the priests…" said Shiro eyeing the priests carefully with his amber eyes.

"Well…"began the eldest priest. Before he could finish the roof of the temple was sliced off. Shiro, Daichi, Katana, and Akio jumped to their feet. Zeero tried to, but he had forgotten that he was under the table and hit his head. A bunch of raven demons began to assault their victims from the air.

"There's tons of them!" shouted Shiro trying his best to avoid the air strikes.

"Save the rice bowl!" shouted a priest.

"Save the tapestry!" shouted another.

"Save the pottery!" yelled another old man.

"Even when they're under attack they think about saving their junk…"sighed Daichi bringing out his staff.

One of the ravens descended and started to attack Shiro. He did a good job dodging the attacks. Then the raven nearly knocked over a Ming vase, Shiro caught it and put it back onto the self. Just when he turned away a pick of the ceiling fell on broke the thing!

"Why did I even bother…"muttered Shiro. Then the raven lashed out its tail at him. He dodged it and began catching the pottery that fell from the selves. "Here!" he said handing the confused raven the stuff while he sliced another raven in half. "Thanks!" he shouted as he took back the stuff and gave the demon a good kick in the rear.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The battle raged on and on, but more raven-demons appeared and the group was getting tired! They had to continue their fight outside since the priests had to collect their so-called 'items from heaven'.

"Got a plan Shiro?" asked Akio.

"Yup! Buy me enough time to summon the true Chaotic Spirit attack!" he replied.

"How much will it cost?" asked Zeero. He got a mallet to the head, courtesy of Katana.

"The true Chaotic Spirit attack?" asked Yugi.

"It's when Shiro says the entire spell, it is not like the attacks where you just say its name. If you recite the full attack the attack can be up to 1000 times more devastating. The Chaos Claw is Shiro's best attack, but you haven't seen it at its full power!" explained Daichi.

"What? You mean the Chaos Claw could be a lot more powerful than what it already is?" asked Mai.

"Forget about how powerful it can be they're coming back!" shouted Kaiba. The ravens were zeroing in on them.

"Alright Shiro," said Tea. "We'll try to buy you the time you need."

"Thanks.

Spirits hear my plea,

Hear my call and answer me…"

"Here they come!" shouted Yami as the ravens realized what Shiro was doing and were heading straight for him.

" Fire, Water, Earth, Thunder, Ice, Wind, Metal, Darkness, & Light.

Fuse our powers and shine your unstoppable might!"

"Shiro look out!" shouted Hoshi as a raven came straight at him.

" Chaotic Spirit!"

Shiro extended his claws from his gloves and struck them into the ground. The nine spirits he had called out came in the form of nine dragons. Each of them flew at the ravens and as soon as they touched the ravens the demons melted into ashes!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Well, that's that!" said Joey. Shiro tried to get up, but then he had to kneel down.

"Hey Shiro, are you okay?" asked Katana.

"Yeah, just used up a lot of my demon powers…" panted Shiro.

"You nincompoops!" shouted a priest. "Look what you did to our temple!" It was turned to ashes as well.

"Well," said Shiro all of the sudden better. "See ya!" His still figure was replaced by a smoke replica of him.

"Yeah…what he said…"smiled Daichi before he and the others took Shiro's example and ran off, with a parade of angry priest after them.

===============================================================

Next time on Heart of a Demon: Hey, it's Yugi. In the next town the villagers are having trouble with a metal demon. And none of our tricks seem to work against him. Looks like we finally get to see what the true power of the Chaos Claw is. I just hope Shiro has enough energy to cast it. Next time: The True Power of the Chaos Claw/ The Shining Solider of Death! See you next time!

===============================================================

A.S- Please review! Five pages of work here!