Okay, it's a Thursday. I'm neglecting my homework, because I REALLY want to know what's going to happen. That and I want to start the sequel. Maybe I should do my homework. *opens backpack zipper. Papers explode everywhere* Never mind, too much! It's more fun to type a new chapter. Oh yeah, this chapter will be longer. I also wanted to say sorry to anyone who didn't like the Kurama/Kit scene. I'll develop their relationship in the sequel. Okay, enough rambling.

DISCLAIMER: Please don't sue me, I just found a quarter on the floor *holds up shiny quarter*

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Hiei and Kutsu arrived at the stadium. On the door to the fighter's entrance was a sign that read: FIGHTERS! IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, THE ARENA'S BEEN MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION. THE LOCATION IS LISTED BELOW:

Hiei and Kutsu looked at each other. Luckily the fights would not start for another three hours. Hiei started walking off in the direction of their fights. Kutsu smiled mischievously.

'I got an idea.'

'What?'

Hiei turned and looked at Kutsu.

'How about a game?'

'I don't play games.'

'Okay, a competition.'

'What is this competition?'

'A race. Let's see who's faster. Winner gets one favor from the other.'

'Hn. Easy win.'

'You said last night; I'm just as strong as you.'

In response to this, Hiei flitted away. Kutsu smiled and did the same. They ran neck and neck, until the very end. Kutsu put on a burst of speed. She spotted Yusuke and the others. She stopped right in front of them. Hiei only a millisecond behind. Kuwabara fell over.

'Aaah! Where'd you guys come from?'

Kutsu ignored Kuwabara and turned to Hiei.

'You owe me one favor. I can't think of one now, so I'll save it.'

Hiei scowled. 'How do you know I'll give it too?'

'Because, no matter how tough and 'evil' you act, you will always keep your word.'

Kurama smiled.

'It's amazing, Hiei, she has only known you a month and she already has you figured out.'

Everyone laughed and Hiei glared daggers at them all. Kutsu stopped laughing and looked around. She looked at Kurama curiously. (A/N: Is it just me or does Kurama normally know everything.)

'Where's the stadium?'

'There is no stadium. We shall be playing on an outside arena.'

Kutsu continued looking around. The arena was about fifty feet across. There was nothing else unusual about the area. Kutsu noticed a familiar face in their group. She cocked her head to the side.

'What are you doing here? Um…Uh…Kit, I think.'

'Yes, it is. I wanted to make sure that Kurama wins his match.'

'Why?'

Kurama explained. 'I met her last night, while collecting plants. She helped me find some new weapons.'

'Okay. That explains it.'

'I believe she also has something for you, Kutsu. We created it last night.'

Kit leaned over to Kutsu and whispered into her ear.

'Let's make this a surprise for everyone else, okay.'

Kutsu smiled. Kit walked away and Kutsu followed. They walked into the woods. Everyone stood around for thirty minutes. They suddenly felt Kutsu's energy soar and then go back down. Shortly afterward, Kit and Kutsu walked out of the woods laughing. In Kutsu's left hand was a seemingly black wooden staff. It was as tall as she was.

'What's with the staff?'

'Well, Yusuke, this is my new weapon.'

'A wooden stick. Aren't you a fire demon? Your attacks would burn the stick.'

Kutsu and Kit said at the same time: 'It's a surprise.'

They started laughing. Kit really liked Kutsu. She was becoming a very good friend, even after knowing each other for only a little while. Suddenly, a voice came from behind.

'Wow! Team Urameshi made it again.'

Everyone turned to see a female demon. She had dragon ears and a dragon tail.

'Juri! You're here too'

'Yeah! I was told that I would get to judge, if the Urameshi Team was fighting today, but I'm not allowed to say why.'

'Um…Juri, why do you have a microphone?'

'To speak into.'

She said this like it was obvious. Everyone sweatdropped. There were no speakers.

Everyone walked away from Juri and over next to the ring. Kutsu and Kit talked, while the spectators arrived, along with their opponents. In an hour, the ring was circled by demons. If they could fly they were hovering above the ground. Kit decided to stay with the Urameshi team. Juri walked onto the ring and spoke into the microphone.

'Hello, if you don't remember me, I'm Juri. I hope you all are as nice as last time.'

Strangely enough her voice was magnified as if she had a microphone.

'Today is the final match of the Demon Tournament! Team Urameshi versus Team Kai! Teams please step forward.'

Both teams stepped forward. The first to speak on Team Kai was a demon slightly taller than Yusuke. He had black hair and eyes that looked clouded over. He wore a black pair of pants and white shirt.

'I am the leader, Warui and I believe I have something you want.'

Warui snapped his fingers. Suddenly, a large post appeared next to the ring. Tied to it was Botan. Her clothes were ragged and she had cuts and bruises all over her. She was currently unconscious.

'As promised you may have her back if you win.'

'You bastard!'

'I suppose now that you know I'm her captor, you'll want to fight me.'

'Well, duh! And I'm going to kick your ass!'

'Next is Kyto.'

Kuwabara spoke up. 'I'll fight him.'

'No, this is my fight.' Everyone turned to see Kutsu. Her eyes were cold and emotionless. Warui turned to Kyto.

'Too bad. I was hoping to fight her. I owe her so much.' He turned back to the Urameshi team. 'Kurama you'll fight Mia, Kuwabara you'll fight Naku, and let's not forget the other fire demon, Hiei you'll fight the Ninja.'

'Fine.'

'Okay.'

'I don't care.'

Both teams started walking off the ring. Warui started talking, without stopping or turning around.

'Urameshi, if you go near the girl, I will kill her.'

Yusuke stopped eyes wide with fear. He looked towards Botan. Two demons stood next to her with swords at her throat. Everyone walked off, but Kuwabara stayed behind.

'The first fights mine.'

A small demon turned to face him. He looked like a kid, but strong youki poured off of him. He had spiky blue hair and sea green eyes. His ears were pointed and his skin had a blue tint to it.

'I'll be your opponent.'

'Okay the first match of the finals: Team Urameshi: Kuwabara, Team Kai: Naku. READY, BEGIN!!'

Naku across from Kuwabara then suddenly sat down and closed his eyes.

'What the hell do you think you're doing?!?! FIGHT ME!'

Kuwabara started walking towards Naku, who had started glowing with a blue aura. Before Kuwabara could get to Naku, somebody appeared in front of Kuwabara: Yusuke.

'URAMESHI! What are you doing here? You're going to get the team disqualified.'

Yusuke didn't answer; instead he punched Kuwabara in the stomach. Kuwabara coughed blood. He bent over double, grasping his stomach. He opened his eyes and was staring at someone's feet. He looked up.

'Kurama, you're in the ring too!'

Kurama kicked Kuwabara in the head and sent him flying across the ring. Kuwabara stood up and looked. Both Yusuke and Kurama were blocking his path to Naku.

'Why are you helping him? I'm the one on your team!'

Both Yusuke and Kurama vanished. They reappeared on each side of Kuwabara and proceeded to hit him. Kuwabara fell, gasping for air. He was badly injured. He struggled to his feet. His vision went in and out of focus. Yusuke and Kurama were in front of Naku again.

'You guys aren't my friends. I don't know, who you are, but stop messing with my head! SPIRIT SWORDS!'

A sword appeared in each of Kuwabara's hands. He ran at Yusuke and Kurama and slashed out at them. Both of them exploded into pools of water.

'I'm surprised someone as stupid as you saw through my water illusions.' (A/N: I know, the same thing is in Naruto.)

Naku stood up.

'So, you were creating those things?'

'Yes, fool.'

'I'll get you for messing with my head!'

Kuwabara ran at Naku, swords in hand. Before he could get to Naku something interfered, again. This time a huge wall of water came up, blocking Naku from view. Kuwabara tried to penetrate to wall, but could not. He heard Naku's voice from the other side other the wall.

'Now, how shall I finish you off…Hmm…Ah, I know. WATER TORNADO!'

A huge water spout burst out of the wall of water. It went straight towards Kuwabara, who could not run, due to his injuries from Naku's illusions. He was sucked into the water spout. Inside he was thrown around in circles. Eventually he ran out of air in the spinning fountain of water. His vision slowly blacked out. At this time Naku decided to stop the spout. Kuwabara was at the top and landed with a loud thud. Juri counted to ten and declared Naku the winner. Naku stood over his unconscious body.

'Ha! I beat you without even standing up.'

'You…little…brat!'

Naku's eyes widened.

'You should be dead or at least knocked out for hours!'

'I don't go down that easily. Now how about a fair fight?'

Yusuke walked onto the ring and drug Kuwabara back. Hiei looked at Kuwabara in disgust.

'How could you not beat him? He was weak and easy.'

'What'd you say, Shorty? I would have liked to see you try.'

'I could have done it easily. You…'

Kutsu interrupted. 'You should have seen through the first trick. You need to have more faith in your friends. The wall was also a simple problem. Once the water spout was released the wall was greatly weakened. You could have just walked through it. I'm guessing Naku kept it up, because he knew a baka like you would never be able to figure it out.'

Hiei smirked. He was inwardly proud of Kutsu for seeing all this.

'You know what, Short Stuff, you're starting to get as annoying as the shrimp over there.'

'Hn.'

'Now that's really weird.'

Kutsu ignored him and turned to Kurama.

'I believe you're up.'

Kurama got onto the ring, where his opponent stood waiting. It was a female demon. Like Naku, she too had blue hair. Her eyes were ice blue and had no emotion in them.

'Next fight: Team Urameshi: Kurama, Team Kai: Mia. READY, BEGIN!'

Kurama closed his eyes.

'I suppose I'll start this fight.'

As he said this his voice changed and his hair turned silver. His eyes turned gold. He was now Youko Kurama. Mia did not seem impressed. Youko pulled out his rose and transformed it. Mia had not moved during the entire ordeal. Youko started laughing.

'Are you even awake? I haven't seen you move the entire time.'

Youko stopped laughing as Mia walked over to him. She was forced to look up due to the fact Youko was considerably taller.

'Youko Kurama, Thief of Makai, you shall be defeated. I am the ice demon known as Mia the Frost Queen. I, like the Fire Queen, ruled a section of Makai for many years.'

Mia's voice was as cold and emotionless as ice.

'You must not be that strong, I've never heard of you.'

'I am far older than you, little kitsune. My rule ended and faded from thought long before you were born.'

'Let's quit this idle talk and begin our fight. Through that I will find out your strength.'

In response to this, Mia held out her hand and an ice sword appeared. It was as large as she was and had a razor sharp blade.

'Let's begin!' Mia struck out with her sword. She caught Youko in his shoulder. Youko put his hand on his shoulder and came away with blood.

'So you have some speed.'

Youko swung out with his whip. Mia dodged every attack.

'You cannot defeat me with such tricks.'

'You are no ordinary Koorime.'

'Koorime! Those demons do not deserve to bear the name of ice. The Koorime came along after my time. I am a true ice demon.'

Youko and Mia continued to trade blows. Neither one hit the other.

'Do not try that again, Youko.'

Youko had just tried to insert his death seed into Mia. The seed was caught in Mia's hand.

'I see.'

They continued exchanging blows. Youko suddenly stopped. Mia jumped back.

'That's exactly what I thought you would do.'

'What do you me, kitsu…'

Mia did not even have time to finish. Vines shot out of the ground and wrapped around her. For the first time, her eyes widened in shock.

'Even after being alive for so long, you are far too predictable. Let's finish this.'

A red tree wrapped around Youko's arm. A creature with a mouth full of teeth was on the end.

'It ends now.'

The creature went for Mia, but before it attacked, Youko's eyes widened. His hair turned red and his eyes turned back to their original green color. The creature disappeared.

'No! The thirty minutes is already up.'

The vines loosened and dropped off of Mia. She walked over to the tailless Kurama.

'My turn.'

She summoned her ice sword. She began to attack Kurama. He managed to pull out a bamboo staff and block. Mia continued to attack and Kurama was forced defend. She suddenly stopped her assault.

'This is boring.'

Mia jumped back. She held up her hands. 'ICE CRYSTALS!' Ice shot out of her hand and hit Kurama. Kurama was knocked out of the ring. He was covered in blood and unconscious. Mia looked towards Yusuke and the others.

'You're truly lucky I gave up killing worthless opponents long ago.'

Yusuke grabbed Kurama and pulled him over to Yukina, who proceeded to heal him.

'He's so injured, I won't be able to heal him completely, but I will be able to bring him out of a critical stage.'

Kuwabara spoke up. 'Just do your best, Yukina.'

Hiei jumped onto the ring. It was his turn. He faced his opponent, who was as tall as Yusuke. He had a dark blue ninja outfit on. All you could see were his eyes, which were as dark blue as his uniform.

'I am the Water Ninja who lost his name many years ago.'

'Hn. I am the fire demon that will send you to hell.'

'Not likely.'

[Good luck, Hiei. I know you won't need it though.]

Hiei smirked at this statement from Kutsu.

'What's so funny, fire demon.'

'Hn.'

Juri interrupted further conversation.

'Now for the third match of the finals, Team Urameshi: Hiei, Team Kai: Water Ninja. READY, BEGIN!'

Hiei pulled out his sword. The Ninja pulled out two daggers. Hiei attacked, but the Ninja brought up the two daggers and blocked. They went around the ring attacking and defending each other. Kuwabara stood on the sidelines with his eyes wide.

'Can anyone see where they are?'

'Or for that matter what the hell they're doing?'

'Kuwabara, Yusuke. IF YOU SHUT UP AND LOOK MAYBE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THEM!'

Both of them jumped at Kutsu's voice. They looked over at her, but she was already focused on the battle again. Kurama, too, was having difficulty watching the fight.

Interesting. He must have gotten faster while training with Kutsu. It looks as if she helped him as well.

Kurama looked back at the fight. Both fighters had stopped and were staring each other down. The Ninja was the first to speak.

'Looks like the rumors of your speed were true, but speed alone will not let you win.'

'Then let's try something else.'

Hiei pulled off his bandana. His Jagan began to glow. He was engulfed in black flame, which burned away at his cloak, leaving only his blue shirt unharmed. The black dragon was revealed on his arm.

'DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!'

The dragon sprouted from his arm. It went straight for the Ninja. The flames engulfed the Ninja. Hiei smirked.

'It's over.'

He started walking away.

'It's not over yet, Jaganshi.'

Hiei turned around. The Ninja was surrounded by a blue bubble.

'I am the Water Ninja. I have many tricks. I bet you're wondering why I survived.'

'Hn.'

'I used both my youki and water to create a shield. The water to stop the fire and the youki to reinforce it.'

'Then let's try something different.'

Hiei jumped in close.

'FISTS OF THE MORTAL FLAME!'

The Ninja was attacked by a barrage of punches. Hiei jumped back. The Ninja started laughing.

'Fool, did you think if you got in close, I wouldn't be able to use by shield? I can make it to fit my body perfectly.'

'Well, then I have one choice left.'

Black fire engulfed him again.

'Are you really going to try this again?'

The Ninja brought up his bubble. 'DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!' The dragon shot out of Hiei's hand. The Ninja just stood and watched the flame. The flame hit his shield and then faded away. The Ninja let his shield go as the flame faded. His eyes opened wide. Hiei was gone.

'Not quite gone.'

The Ninja didn't even have a chance to look over his shoulder, before Hiei's blade was driven into his neck.

'And the Urameshi Team wins their first fight!'

Yusuke's and Kuwabara's mouths were opened.

'Shorty that fight took like two minutes!'

'Damn! I ran longer than I thought.'

Kuwabara looked around.

'Where's Urameshi?'

Yusuke was already in the ring.

'Now it's my turn!'

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I know, there is kinda a cliffy. I wanted to get a chapter up this weekend. I promise I'll get the next chapter up soon. BTW: The next chapter is the last, and then I'll start the sequel.

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