Disclaimer: I do not own any of the YYH characters. If I did, ask yourselves. Would I really write a fanfic about them?
Oh yeah! I forgot to put that I wrote this fic when I only watched a few episodes of YYH so some of the things here might be out-of-date or something like that. But don't let that run you down! Just read it and review, review! D
Chapter Two: Tashiyo's castle
"Form ice now!" the pig-man shouted at Yuki. They were all up at the top tower of the east side.
'Does he REALLY think I'm going to form ice on command just because he obtained the ability to speak? I'll go so far as giving him a standing ovation (the pig can talk; that is big news) but don't push it.'
She sat on a chair in the middle of the room, looking quite unshaken. There were guards with horrific looking weapons designed to torture, surrounding her, blocking any way to escape. The two idiots (pig-man and skinny boy) were yelling and threatening that if she didn't do as they commanded, these weapons would be tested on her.
'I'm supposedly to be feared for my weapons and they threatened ME with those pieces of crap! God, they must be really stupid.'
Yuki just sat there with her arms crossed and stared at them innocently. Then she made a very rude sign with her right hand.
'Provoked. Bring it on.'
"THAT'S IT, GUARDS ATTACK!!" the skinny boy screamed out. It was surprising that a person that skinny could have such big lungs. The guards started firing their electric shockers at Yuki, who just lazily cased herself by making an ice shield around her. The electric shockers shock uselessly around her ice shield.
The pig-man pounded on the ice shield with no effect whatsoever. He started yelling at her while Yuki made funny faces at him. The pig-man's face swelled bigger and bigger until it looked like his head might explode any minute now. Yuki just smirked at him, settled in her chair, and enjoyed the show.
Hiei and Kurama sprinted up the castle, passing the gate with ferocious stone eagles with their sharp talons ready to attack.
"Follow me," Hiei said. Kurama nodded and followed Hiei up to the entrance.
"Sir we have intruders!" a pale, skinny man informed a man who was sitting in a fluffy lazy-boy chair. The man was short and scarred in various places. His name was Tashiyo. "Who dares intrude in my castle?" he asked in a deep, low voice with a note of insanity in it.
"Two teenage humans and two demons sir."
"Hmm...really...I haven't watched a battle in years...time to have fun." Then the man threw his head and laugh maniacally while the pale man wondered why he worked for such a maniac anyway.
'Oh yeah…good pay.'
Yusuke and Kuwabara passed a gate, flanked with stone boars and sprinted toward the castle, which looked even scarier.
"She's on the west side right?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yeah well that's what Hiei said," Yusuke replied, sprinted faster on the ever-ending lawn of the castle.
Yukina was sitting in her chair alone and wondering why this always happen to her.
'I mean aren't there other ice apparitions? Am I that easy to capture?'
This was truly frustrating, stranded in a castle, for the second time and unable to do a thing. Why was she so helpless? She always had to rely on Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei to save her.
'They always have to protect me…and I can't do a thing.'
She shook her head vigorously.
'No! Wallowing in self-pity never helped anyone…besides if this stuff never happened to me, I would have never met such wonderful people. Yusuke, Kazuma, Kurama, and…Hiei…'
"Finally! We're in the castle!" Yusuke exclaimed. "Great. Where do we go now?"
Yusuke looked around him. They just entered the castle's front door and now standing at the doorway. Inside it was brilliantly lighted with chandeliers, looking quite friendly unlike the outside. There were loads of exotic plants and pottery, each looking very expensive. A royal blue rug was beneath their feet and let all the way down of the hallway.
"This guy is loaded," Kuwabara muttered, taking in all the strange and beautiful pottery and paintings of landscapes. They spent a brief moment admiring all the objects; and then started running down the hallway, following the rug.
Hiei and Kurama had also made it into the castle hallway except they were on the east side. This hallway was lighted with cheery flame torches instead. There were no decorations and basically anything. It was as dreary as a dungeon, except for the flame torches, which the flames were cheerfully dancing on the brim of the each torch.
"There was a fork up ahead," Hiei said, squinting in the darkness. Kurama picked up one of the flame torches and walked forward. The flame torch frightened the darkness away and illuminated bits of the hallway. They finally got to the fork.
"Which way?" Hiei asked.
"Umm...I am sensing strong spirit energy from the right and left...but Yusuke and Kuwabara must be on the left then and Yuki should be on the right." Kurama calculated.
Both sprinted to the right and then came to another fork.
"Now what?" Hiei asked impatiently.
"Be patient Hiei...all this spirit energy is making this a bit harder than I expected." Kurama said, trying to sort the spirit energy to who was whose.
"Got it. She's on the left."
Then they ran to the left and instead coming up to another fork, they found a giant Cyclops blocking their way to a stairway.
"Well well, lookie what I found! Two helpings for dessert. How nice of you two to help satisfy my hunger! So what will it be: being eaten alive or burn to death? Most victims choose—"
"We don't have time to try to communicate with an idiot. Get out of the way if you know what's best for you." Hiei was not in a tolerable mood.
"If you wanted to die so quickly, you coulda just said so!" the Cyclops said with a roar that shook the room. "I'll save your heads and warn those smarter than you not to cross Gonshiro!"
"What was that?"
"The whole castle was moving, and then it stopped."
"You think it was an earthquake?" Yusuke wondered.
"No...it's someone...can't you sense anything?!" Kuwabara muttered, closing his eyes, trying to sense and sort all the spirit energy.
"Let's find out later after we save Yukina," Yusuke said, walking ahead, looking around while trying to find the source of that 'earthquake'. The hallway turned and twisted and was very long. The luxury things were being less and less until there was none less. The lights were now flame torches.
"We must be near then."
"I'll test their strengths and cooperation," the scarred boss whispered, "then if they live they pass...and they will get the prize." He laughed louder and more terrorizing and the pale man just ran out of the dark office, seriously considering getting a new job. Despite the pay.
"Don't you get it? Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. Our. Way."
'Some one-eyed freak is blocking my way to her.'
He was really not in the mood.
"You REALLY must not know what you're dealing with!" Gonshiro shouted at Hiei.
"It's the other way around moron," Hiei said as calmly as he could.
Gonshiro was shaking in anger. "Let's see who's right then by battling!" he spat, spraying spit all over the two demons.
"Disgusting." Kurama wiped off the sweat and took out his famous rose out of his hair. How it was there and it didn't bother him was one of the mysteries of the universe.
"Yes let's see." Hiei took out his sword and got into fighting position, Kurama following him.
"Let's show him what death is," Kurama said in a calm tone as if they were at a tea party with insane five year olds.
Gonshiro however didn't even flinch and brought out a club that was half his size and was covered with alarming big spikes, each one coated with blood.
"Hmm I haven't washed this club for a long time." Gonshiro muttered fondly, looking at his beloved club, "no matter I'll wash it after their blood spatters all over it."
"You will never be able to wash that piece of crap after we are done with you," Hiei said.
If Gonshiro looked angry before, he now must be pissed to the maximum he could go. "RRRRROOOOOOOOARRRRRRR!!!" Gonshiro's roar shook the castle once again and started to charge at Hiei and Kurama, with his club over his head, ready to smash it into their heads.
"What the hell is going on over there?" Yusuke wondered, while the castle shook for the second time.
"First save Yukina, then ask questions okay?" Kuwabara said impatiently.
"Fine." Yusuke answered reluctantly, heading to the spiraling stairs.
"What the hell is going on?!" Yuki grumbled.
The shaking of the castle awaked her. The guards who were firing all the grenades and bazookas at her ice shield, which had no damage, for nearly two hours, stop firing at once.
Questioning voices were heard from everyone. "What was that?" "Did you feel that?" They all turned to Pig-man and the skinny boy, firing questions at them.
"I have no idea." Pig-man said. He turned to Skinny boy with a questioning look.
"What are you looking at me for?"
"Go find what that was," Pig-man ordered him. Skinny boy gave Pig-man a terrorized look and reluctantly went to see what the racket was all about.
"Now continuing firing!" Pig-man ordered the guards as if nothing had happened. The guards resumed with their firing but Yuki did not go back to sleep. She just sat there, thinking about how the others were doing, especially that spiky black-haired boy. Hiei, was it?
'How…he…does she know?'
"Ready Kurama?" Hiei asked.
"Of course," Kurama replied.
Gonshiro was raving like a bull to them, roaring and shaking the castle constantly. Suddenly two streaks of red and black rushed past Gonshiro. He stopped by surprise and a moment later fell down, dead. He didn't even feel anything because it was so fast.
"Should have listened," Hiei said with distaste, putting his sword back into the holder as Kurama's rose whip turned back into a regular red rose.
"No time to waste Hiei, let's go."
Like he really needed to be told that.
And off they went, running up the stairs that Gonshiro had blocked a moment before.
"The banging has stopped but what was the cause of it?" Yukina thought aloud.
She felt better. Sounds like the gang was here. A short scarred man came in and started yelling at her, threatening her if she tried to run away that he would make her eat her rescuers.
'There's really something wrong with that guy…'
Yusuke and Kuwabara were almost at the top of the stairs.
"Damn this is long." panted Kuwabara.
"Almost there." Panting also, Yusuke reassured Kuwabara.
"Just a bit more."
"Too bad they probably won't make it to the top of the stairs," Tashiyo laughed gleefully, "Kyoko go meet them."
"Yes master." a female voice answered, laughing as well.
"Just one more case of stairs and we will be finally at the top!!" Yusuke said weakly.
"Not if I can help it," a voice called out.
A girl with spiky blue-whitish hair and a tail poking out behind her appeared.
"Hello say goodbye to the light...you won't see it where you're headed." she smiled.
Two long pointy brown and bloody fangs popped out. Yusuke and Kuwabara revolted, almost throwing up their lunch.
"Don't you even brush your teeth lady?" Yusuke asked, disgusted.
"And you really need a breath mint...really badly too." Kuwabara added, pinching his nose.
The demon just smiled, revealing more brown and bloody fangs.
"AHHH the horror, the horror!!" Yusuke shouted dramatically, shielding his eyes away from the fangs.
Now the demon didn't look remotely amused anymore.
"Enough of your pathetic blabbering," she said, releasing more stink waves. Kuwabara's eyes watered.
"Argh the smell!! Is your power to stink people to death or something?" Kuwabara yelled.
Now the demon just looked murderous.
"Shut up and fight you pathetic humans!!" she shouted, losing all her cool and a full blast of smelly breath came out.
Kuwabara couldn't stand her teeth or her breath anymore. Summoning up his spirit energy, a fiery spirit sword came out of his hand.
"Close your mouth dammit!" Kuwabara yelled, slashing the sword at her. The demon cried out of pain when the sword sliced through her body and as quick as that she died.
"Quick! I can't breathe!" Yusuke and Kuwabara scrambled up the last case of stairs, gasping for fresh air.
"Hmm they got passed Kyoko and Gonshiro...well they were weaklings anyway...but they were our only fighters left!" Tashiyo yelled shrilly, who was once cool, now panicked.
"No matter they get the prize," he said, regaining his cool and creepy manner.
"Finally!" sang Kuwabara as they left the long tiring stairs. Hiei and Kurama appeared on the other side a moment later.
"AHH!!!" Kuwabara yelled, forgetting that he was totally exhausted and jumped, only to fall down again on his already sore rear.
"What Kuwabara?!" Yusuke scrambled off the stairs and looked wildly, spotting Hiei and Kurama.
"Eh what are you guys doing here? I thought you were going to get Yuki," he asked.
"We are," Hiei replied, "there's a fork here. Yuki should be on the right side and Yukina on left."
Kuwabara, forgetting his pained muscles and rear, jumped up, grabbed Yusuke, and fled into the dark shadows of the left passageway. Hiei and Kurama sprinted to the right, hearing loud screaming and horrible voices.
"Hurry," Kurama said, running faster.
Since the guns and weapons had no effect on Yuki's ice shield, Pig-man and his guards started to sing to the highest note possible, hoping to crack the ice. Yet no process and they were destroying Yuki's hearing.
"Can't…take…much…more…" she mumbled, eyes unfocused.
Hiei and Kurama burst through the wooden door, weapons out. The guards and Pig-man stopped singing and looked at them curiously.
"Ahhh so much better...wow I can still hear…Hiei? Kurama?"
Kurama and Hiei were so surprised that they almost dropped their weapons. Instead their jaws dropped.
"What the…"
The room was covered in gunpowder and the windows were cracked.
"So you're finally here," Yuki stated, "couldn't you get here faster? My ears were going to explode."
She then dropped her ice shield, and a magnificent ice samurai sword appeared in her hand. Before Hiei and Kurama could recover from their shock a white blur streaked past them, killing all the guards. Pig-man stood amid of the dead bodies of his once loyal guards.
Face now white, looking more like a cow now then a pig, he stuttered, "He- hheh...ttthhis wwass a joooke-ffooor fuu-" Yuki slashed her sword through him before he even finished speaking.
"Accomplished your mission?" she asked them as if it really meant nothing to her; she was just striking a conversation.
But really, it meant everything to her.
Yusuke and Kuwabara were running toward the light at the end of the drafty passageway. Suddenly a flame torch appeared right in front of them, revealing a short, scarred, deformed man.
"AHHH!! THE CANDY MONSTER!!! MY MOM TOLD ME THAT YOU WERE GOING TO EAT ME SOMEDAY IF I ATE CANDY BEFORE DINNER!!!" Kuwabara yelled, completely losing his head.
"Shut up Kuwabara!!" Yusuke yelled then turned to the man. "Shouldn't you be in the circus or something?"
The man just laughed his creepy laugh and smiled, revealing even worse teeth than Kyoko. That confirmed the belief of no dentist in the spirit world.
"Here we go again," Yusuke said, shaking his head.
"Do you know where Yukina is?" Yuki asked Kurama and Hiei.
"Yes she is on the west tower," Kurama said, smiling slightly at Yuki.
"Do you know how to get there?"
"Just follow," Hiei said curtly.
They reached the fork where they had last separated and this time went to the left passageway. Hiei suddenly gestured them to stop and pointed ahead. Yusuke and Kuwabara were there but they were not alone. A hideous small man stood behind them, leering at Yuki.
With a disgusted look on Yuki's face she asked, "Who are you?"
"Me? You don't know who I am? Tashiyo. I am the famous and wealthiest person in the spirit world!!" he claimed, laughing which sounded like long fingernails scratching a chalkboard.
Yuki muttered, "I am going to lose my hearing soon if I stay here any longer."
"Well too bad because you will stay here...FOREVER!!!" he yelled crazily. "You will make me known as the wealthiest and most powerful person of all of Spirit World!!" He laughed once again, killing Yuki's eardrums.
"AHHH!! I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Yuki shouted. Driven past her limits, her samurai sword appeared once again, ready to strike.
Just when her sword was going to go through the lunatic's head, he pushed a pale man in front of him. It was too late to stop the attack. The pale man was now white and cold, scattered with blood.
"How low was that?!" Kuwabara shrieked. "That guy was your friend, and you sacrifice him to save your own damn life?!"
"He was not my friend just a slave," the man said, "and all of you will take his place!!" Again he filled the passageway with his screeching laughter.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT!!?" Yusuke shouted in anger. "HOW LOW AND PATHETIC!! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THAT COWARDLY ACT!!
A burst of spirit energy exploded from his finger.
"SPIRIT GUN!!"
The scarred man pushed now the dead body of his slave in front of him to shield him from the blast. But since Yusuke was so angry more spirit energy was in the spirit gun and it was strong enough to blast through a steel wall. The blast headed straight for the little man, who was again laughing, his eyes bulging out of their sockets.
"That should be his last laugh." Yuki said looking hopeful. After the Spirit Gun and smoke disappeared, the man's body was nothing more than ashes.
"Let's get Yukina," Kuwabara said, sprinting to the light.
End of second character. People if you like it review and I will continue. But if no one does I fear that I have officially worked on a crappy fic ever since Spring Break...what a waste of time then! But hey this DID take most of my time so I didn't really get bored and improved my writing skills!
EDIT Redid Chapter Two. Better? I think so. Yeah realized that Tashiyo is really crazy. Just go with it. When I wrote this, I made it up as I went. Also what was the prize? Well, he is really really really really crazy okay? Meaning that he is so psycho that he just goes on and on about a non-existent prize…and also, the authoress has no idea what the prize is. There, I have answered the much-sought-after questions of the universe.