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Notes: This story is still yaoi and will forever be yaoi. I will keep writing yaoi until I am 61 without a job and still obsessed with anime. ^-^ ok................ maybe not 61 but somewhere around there. hehe.

Sorry it took so long to update! I've been a bit busy. Foxglove is still waiting for me to write the next chapter to the joined story we wrote, Sushi is still waiting for those pics and for me to get to the post office to send her anime back, my teachers are expecting me to read The Odyssey (boring), and I'm never gonna finish this fic. *hits head* I also have to finish that pic for Tsunami............ hm........... not to worry Tsunami! I'll get it to you soon! *goes off looking for a piece of paper to draw on*

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Oh Yeah! This Chapter is dedicated to my big sis Foxglove, for being there when I needed her and for helping me with the obstacles of life. (Check out our joined fic. The Crazy Ramblings of CrescentStar and YoukoFoxglove.)

OK! On with the story!!!!

Chapter 7: Aquarius, the Water Bearer

Yusuke and Kuwabara had just reached the Makai and from where they landed (on top of each other) they could see the demoness um......... "watering?" her way through the barrier wall.

"Aw Jeez........ we have to fight a girl who makes things crack by just pouring water?" Yusuke complained. He wasn't very happy about having to go against a girl, and the fact that he only had Kuwabara for help... well... the chances of winning were slim.

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Kurama pulled his hands away from the electric bars. They came back smoking and they started to turn red. He was sick of sitting in the darkened cell. He wanted to get out and help Hiei or Yusuke. Even Kuwabara (A/N: actually, he's the one who needs the most help xP)............ ANYONE!!! He just wanted to get out period. It seemed impossible. He had to try to get passed the bars of the cell without being burned to a crisp, then get past the S-class youkai Shinzoku had blocking his cell, and then go through Shinzoku's throne room and out the door. That meant he'd probably have to face Shinzoku himself.

He started with the first obstacle he had to get through. 'How am I supposed to get passed the damn electric bars?!' he thought frustrated. 'If only the stupid wards would let me use my powers!' He looked at the wards around his arm. It prevented him from moving much and kept all his power under control so that he couldn't hurt anyone. They were marked with a symbol of all the elements, meaning that it kept all powers of every youkai under control. It probably could even keep inanimate things under control. 'THAT'S IT!' An idea had hit Kurama. Why didn't he think of this before?

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Hiei looked at the large sized demon. 'He must have a weak point.' Hiei reached for his katana only to find a mass of air in his grasp.

Shinzoku laughed, "You really think I would be that stupid as to let you be armed with your katana, a weapon that you have mastered, against me?"

"If you had any dignity you would fight me when I had my mastered weapon. But I don't expect you to have any dignity so it figures you would do that."

"Do what?" Shinzoku questioned, now annoyed at the fire demon standing below him.

Hiei snickered, "Act like a coward and run away from the fact that I could beat you in my sleep!"

Shinzoku glared at Hiei, daring him to try to come and defeat him. Hiei glared back, matching the harshness and hatred reflected in his eyes. Shinzoku used this chance to fire a stream of water at the fire demon. The water surged and created a tide just above Hiei. It surrounded him on all sides and then crashed down on him with no mercy.

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Yusuke and Kuwabara ran up to the water youkai and saw that she was almost through the barrier wall. 'We have to get her attention somehow.' Then he got an idea. He pushed Kuwabara and he fell flat on his face.

"Why the hell'd u do that Urameshi?!" Kuwabara's yelling got the demoness' attention and Yusuke shot his spirit gun at her.

She flew backwards a couple of feet into the barrier wall.

"You will pay for that." She said in a mysterious voice. "You killed my brother and now you will die!"

"You have a brother?"

"Yes!" she said firmly. "Capricorn was my brother. I am Aquarius and I will destroy you and make you drown in the sea of my wrath!"

She then poured water from her jug onto the ground. The ground cracked and split in two. Yusuke and Kuwabara were separated on either side of the deep crevice in the ground.

The demoness started to chant a spell underneath her breath.

"What the hell is she mumbling?" Yusuke yelled impatiently.

When she got to the end of the chant, she poured more water towards the ground. But this time, it didn't touch the earth. Against all laws of gravity, the stream of water shot up into the air and started to curve around. All of a sudden, it grew solid. It had claws and a head started to form out of the front of the mass of water.

"Urameshi, I think I just saw its eye." Kuwabara called over to Yusuke, but Yusuke was just standing there, watching every move of the demoness as she stood on the ground in front of the dragon.

'How come her jar never runs out of water?' He thought in his mind. 'It must be a limitless supply of her youki. Argh! How do we get rid of her?'

The dragon looked at Yusuke as if it could read his thoughts and glided forward to protect its master. It glared at Kuwabara and Yusuke and its eyes turned from a light cerulean color to a dark midnight blue. They saw its scales harden and they shone like metal in the sunlight. All of a sudden, it opened its mouth and a huge mass of water rushed out of its mouth. The pressure of the water overpowered Yusuke and Kuwabara and they both fell into the deep crack in the ground.

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Kurama groaned in pain as the wards resisted his movements. He was trying to move the wards on his arms down to the palm of his hands. It was difficult and a bead of sweat trailed down his porcelain face lingering on his perfectly shaped chin before falling to the ground. Slowly but surely, the wards were sliding down his arms. He had thinned a little ever since he'd gotten here. The ward was not retied and so his now slick skin, dampened by sweat, allowed the wards to somewhat fall towards his hands.

After what seemed like hours, the wards made their way to his wrists. He then closed his fingers over the ward, biting his lip so that he wouldn't scream and draw attention to himself, and with one sharp jerk, pulled them into the middle of his palm. Surprisingly enough, they didn't break and instead, they slipped right off his hand.

Kurama collapsed on the floor with the ward in his hand. He had used a great deal of his youki to stay conscious from all the pain the ward was inflicting him with. He sat on the cell floor, knees bent beneath him and gasped in large gulps of air. He gathered his strength and got up, the ward in hand, and put one on each side of the bars. The lightning on the bars of the cell flickered and then their power was totally cut off by the electric restraints on the wards.

Using his bare hands, he pried the cell bars open, draining most of his strength. He crawled out of the cell (A/N: LITERALLY CRAWLED!), and bearing the loss of energy he felt, stood up and tried to walk. The demons guarding his cell were asleep and he made sure to be very quiet. Step by step he walked, closer and closer to the door that would lead him into Shinzoku's throne room.

'This is it........ I have to beat him.......... I have to win............ for Hiei.'

He made it to the edge of the door and barely opened it when his eyes widened in horror.

'HIEI?'

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Yusuke groaned as he held onto the small piece of rock that kept him up from falling into the darkness below. He had fell about 20 feet from the top of the cliff (A/N: I think it's like a cliff now that it's cut in half and all........ like the side of a mountain) and was now hanging on for dear life.

"URAMESHI!! DOWN HERE!"

Yusuke heard a voice call him and looked down. He saw that the orange- haired boy had fallen a couple feet below him and was holding onto a tree root poking out from the side of the cliff.

"How are we supposed to get out?!" Kuwabara yelled up to Yusuke.

"Well how am I supposed to know?" he yelled back. "Just let me think for a minute okay? It's not that easy to get out of a crack in the ground while hanging onto a small piece of rock!"

Kuwabara shut up and Yusuke started to think of some way to get out of the deep crevice.

'There has to be a ground underneath us right?' He slipped on the footing of the mountain he had and a couple small pebbles tumbled down the side of the mountain. He listened for a sound to echo back to him but none came.

'Uh oh....... that's not good. How the hell am I supposed to get us out of this one?'

The water dragon came over and looked down into the crevice, as did the water demoness.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" she laughed. "This is perfect. Water dragon, Water stream attack!"

The blue dragon shot a blast of water into the crevice and water poured over Yusuke and Kuwabara. It was very powerful and went far down into the crevice. It seemed to have found the floor, because it started to surge back up. It was then that Yusuke got an idea.

"Kuwabara! Jump on top of the water," he yelled, trying to let Kuwabara hear him over the sound of the rushing water. He hoped that his plan would work. Kuwabara had heard him and followed him as the two jumped on top of the stream of water.

The dragon stopped its attack and the demoness drew back all the water into her jar. She looked down into the crevice and saw that nothing was there. She called back the water dragon and it turned back into a stream of water before flowing back into her jar. Thinking that the two had been forced down to the center of the earth by the pressure of the water, she walked away, a satisfied grin on her face.

"SPIRIT SWORD!" a voice yelled from behind her.

"WHAT?!" she screamed.

Kuwabara cut her jar in half. With the source of her youki gone, the demoness was helpless and could only watch as Yusuke called forth his youki into his hand.

"SHOT GUN!"

She started to fade as her body was destroyed by Yusuke's last attack.

'I'm sorry...... I failed you brother........'

She disappeared and Yusuke exhaled loudly, a sigh of relief as he sat on the ground.

"If they're all gonna be like this, I don't think I want to listen to Koenma anymore."

"Urameshi............. you never listened to him in the first place."

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*looks at what she just wrote* -_-() how corny................... This is somewhat of a parting chapter because after this chapter, I'm thinking of discontinuing this fic. Hehe (and everyone was wondering why this one was a bit longer xP). It's not something I'm proud of and I don't think I have any ideas anymore. I don't know.......... what do you think? I mean it's not my choice I guess............... cuz if u guys like it I guess I'll update maybe once every................ 10 years? I dunno. Maybe u guys can help me. All in favor of me continuing this fic? *no one raises their hands* and all in favor of discontinuing this fic? *one person raises their hand* IT'S OFFICIAL!! THIS FIC IS NOW DISCONTINUED!!! No............. I want opinions of actually people, not just the imaginary audience I made up. *gets millions of pointy things thrown at her from the imaginary audience.* Please review.............. and tell me what you think.