Juri walks onto stage looking around at all the explosion marks, her legs
shaky from the previous match. "Um... The... uh... The judges would like...
to thank Katrina... and the now decided Toguro... for the fabulous fight...
though it ended with Karasu... uh... They would like to make a note, that
even with these sudden events, there will be no changes in tournament
status... and that the fights will continue as such... Uh... thank you...
and... let us continue..." Juri jumps off the stage right a way, not
wanting to be close to ANY action for the rest of the tournament.
"The next fight will be Karasu and Kurama!!" yells Koto into her microphone from the sidelines, "The judges have no problem with Toguro's death since he won anyway, and that he was killed by his own team member. Karasu and Kurama, please approach the center of the stage!" Kurama starts to head for the stage, Karasu already standing.
Katrina pulls on Botan's shirt, and whispers something into her ear, and Botan looks at Kurama, "Kurama! Just a moment!" He stops and turns around to look at Botan, Katrina whispering something in her ear again. Botan's eyes turn a bit sad as she looks at Kurama. "Katrina asks... that you don't kill Karasu in this match... She's already trying to revive Kuwabara... and she won't have enough power to revive Karasu in time if he is to die in this match..."
Kurama looks down at Katrina, her eyes pleading that her wish be answered, and Kurama smiles, nodding to Katrina, "I shall do my best Katrina. don't worry." And he turns around, stepping onto stage, pulling the vile given to him by Suzuka. He uncorks the vile and drinks it down, putting it away as he's finished it. He stops in front of Karasu and they eye each other down.
"Are you going to fight me in your human form Kurama...?" Karasu says coldly, still being very calm.
"I have changed Karasu... But do not rush to death... there is someone waiting for this battle to be over with without either of us falling dead..." Kurama tells Karasu as he summons a windstorm of rose petals around him, trying to stall for time to change to his Yoko form. They swirl around in the whirlwinds around the both of them.
"Be careful, these petals are as sharp as blades..." Kurama warns Karasu, who ignores his warning and walks strait into the petals, getting cut all over his body from them.
"They are beautiful Kurama... but very weak..." Karasu notes. He stands still as Kurama thrusts all the petals strait for Karasu, who points his fingers at the petals, them all exploding before impact.
"Are you sure you want to fight like that... Kurama?" Karasu says as he jumps into the air, disappearing, and reappearing by Kurama, trying to touch him. Kurama avoids his hands, running around stage, trying not to be touched. Kurama summons his rose whip and tries to hit Karasu with it, but with the grasp of his hand the whip explodes and goes up in flames. The chasing continues, and Karasu almost gets a hold of Kurama's arm, but even though they did not make contact, part of his arm still explodes, the blood flying everywhere.
"I can still hurt you even without touching you directly Kurama..." Karasu mocks as another explosion hits Kurama in the leg, the smoke spreading around the stage.
"Here's a hint... I can produce something like how you can produce your plants. I have on in my hand right now." Karasu opens his hand, and a small, but ugly ball appears in one hand, having a little fuse at the top. Kurama looks at the ugly bomb as Karasu jumps into the air and tosses it at him, another huge explosion goes off and the smoke becomes to thick to see. Karasu lands back on his feet, looking down at his hand, seeing a thorny rose lodged in his palm. He rips it out, and as soon as it hits the ground, the smoke around them turns blue. It starts to clear and Karasu looks through the opening smoke, seeing Kurama standing, but not the Kurama he was fighting, but him in his Yoko form.
"I see you have changed Kurama..." Karasu says, and he forms two strange bombs in his hands and tosses them at Yoko Kurama. The new Kurama throws two roses at the bombs, forcing them to explode before reaching him.
"I'm going to kill you..." Yoko says in a cold deep voice. Karasu creates more bombs, having wings to them and tosses them at Yoko, who dodges them with grace, but they fly back around, homing in on him. Karasu continues to create these bombs as they fly after Yoko till he's surrounded.
"You really believe these thing will hurt me...?" Yoko says with a sinister grin as he summons a huge Minosa plant, and it with its enormous teeth and multiple heads destroys all the flying bombs, its eyes then set on Karasu, and starts to spray some kind of red gas from its mouths. In reaction, Karasu tosses a bomb at one of the heads, though nothing affects it. The plants heads begin to chase Karasu everywhere, Karasu dogging them all. They begin to fire beams at him as he creates bomb after bomb, sending many of the heads up into flames, though not having much effectiveness with it.
"Karasu. they do have feelings. And it's not good to anger them..." Yoko tells Karasu, and three Mimosa plants charge at him, one being able to catch him and pulls him into the air. Karasu's mask flies off his face, blood coming from his mouth. More of the plants being to wrap around him, keeping him enclosed in a wrap of heads and vines. Juri is just about to declare Kurama the winner, until she is interrupted by the explosion of the Minosa plants. Karasu lands from out of the smoke, being unharmed, and not wearing his mask either, and begins to glow, taking in a big breath of air, his hair turning gold. Karasu holds his hands together and huge bolts of lighting appears in hands, jumps up, and dives down at Yoko, and impacts, the huge explosion destroying about a forth of the stadium, the death count rising as the demons go flying. Kurama comes out of the rubble, but is back to his human state. He returns to the ring and charges at Karasu, blowing kicks and punches flying everywhere. Kurama finally makes impact with Karasu, but he finds his trick, and draws the Death Seed Kurama tried to plant. Something catches Kurama's leg, making him unable to move.
"That is the Maddi Bomb Kurama..." Karasu tells him, and the bomb explodes, sending him flying, and creating a huge hole in his leg. As he gets back onto his feet, surrounded by little lights, Karasu walking towards him again. He points his finger at Kurama and one of them flies for him, exploding on impact. It makes Kurama step back into another one, and he stumbles around into each little light till they area all gone. Kurama hits the ground, covered in his own blood.
"I won't scar your face just yet..." Karasu notes as Kurama gets back on his feet. Karasu sends another light at him, and he falls back into the puddle of blood, Juri starting her count.
At the count of 7 Karasu starts to speak again, "There is no longer a need for a final blast..." and he starts to walk off stage. But Kurama wasn't done, a bloodsucking plant appears behind him from out of nowhere, stabbing itself into Karasu's back and into his heart, draining the blood from Karasu and he falls to the ground, Kurama back on his feet before the count of ten. "I'm... I'm sorry Katrina. only one of us was going to make it out alive..." Kurama says as Juri declares him the winner, passing out on the ground. Katrina stairs onto the stage, seeing the blood plant start to cover Karasu's body.
"No." Katrina says silently to herself, getting away from Botan and Koenma, they call to her, but she doesn't stop, she runs past Hiei and then past Yuske who went to Kurama's aid. She puts a fire talisman on the blood plant, burning it off him, and pulls him onto her lap, seeing his blond locks are gone, and the blood dripping from his mouth she whips off with her sleeve.
"Please wake up Karasu..." she begs quietly, patting his face, "Come on... something like that couldn't kill you... right...?" She holds him closer, a few more tears rolling down her cheeks, as everyone watches her center stage. Juri starts screaming about how they need to get her off stage, alone with the body, but everyone refuses to mess with Katrina after what she did.
"You saved my life twice now..." Katrina says, holding his dead body tightly, "And I never got to thank you..." Her tears continue to fall, landing on Karasu's sleeping face. As Katrina continues to cry, the area around the stage starts to glow, little places where the elder Toguro's body went flying, and the small lights rise from the pieces, forming together over Katrina. When she finally notices, Katrina looks up at the white light above her, forming to a human like shape, with long flowing hair, and a long flowing outfit. The spiritual being comes down to Katrina, holding her face while she stares in surprise and awe.
"My power will become your power... my child... I no longer need to have this for any other use than to protect the one I love most..." The spirit says, color starting to take form to it, showing the long brown locks, the green eyes, and the Tao Master wardrobe. But her wardrobe was much different than Katrina's, the sleeves are much longer, and the symbol on the sheet look much more dominate. The ribbons tied around her waist are much longer, and the whole outfit itself seems to be more important looking than Katrina's.
"Take my power my child..." the spirit talks again, "And only use it, to protect the people you cherish most... Like I have..."
Katrina smiles as she looks upon the spirit, "Of course... mom..." The Spirit gives Katrina a smile back, and she closes her eyes, and it dives into her chest. Katrina glows for a slight second, and the energy erupts around her in a whirlwind of light and energy, the strands of energy showing the elements as her hair unravels from its long braid, flying upward with the energy. Her outfit begins to change to the same that her mother wore, and the lights die out, being absorbed back into Katrina's body, and her hair drapes over her shoulders and behind her, spreading everywhere from it's length and thickness. Karasu and Kuwabara also starting to glow, their wounds healing completely, and both their eyes begin to open.
Kuwabara jumps up, "Wha...? What happened!? What did I miss!?"
Botan chuckles a bit, while looking at Katrina and Karasu, "You missed a lot Kuwabara, a whole lot." And Kuwabara looks towards the stage, seeing Katrina and Karasu. He's more surprised about Katrina's hair than that Karasu is in her arms. Karasu's eyes land upon the smiling Katrina, opening widely in surprise.
"What... didn't... wasn't I dead...?" Karasu asks her, looking around the destroyed stage and all the team members.
"Yes... you were... but I couldn't let you leave without me being able to thank you..." Katrina says softly in reply, her smile becoming brighter as a tear rolls down her cheek.
Karasu whips her cheek, taking the tear from it, "Why are you crying...?"
"Because I'm... I'm happy Karasu..." Katrina says, whipping her eyes a bit, "Everything is starting to make sense... I remember everything... I remember you saving me... what my mom looked like... where I was actually from.... I know everything now... And I now have the strength to protect the ones I cherish most... like my mom asked me too..." He sits up from her arms, helping her to her feet. She struggles at first, her knees feeling week, but is able to stand along with him, her cheeks blushing a bit. Karasu picks up his mask, putting it back upon his face, and his Spirit Energy drops dramatically, like it was before.
"Well I lost the match... I think it's time to make one last save for you... to repay you for reviving me." Karasu's kind eyes show he's smiling beyond that mask, and he takes Katrina into his arms, leaping into the air, landing in the crowd, and keeps hopping till he's outside the ring and long gone with Katrina.
The team watches as the black and red coat, the brown, and black hair disappear over the sides of the outer arena's walls and Botan sighs dreamily.
"Oh how cute that is!" she notes, "Even after everything that's happen and how sad that match was, it seems Katrina and Karasu are going to have a happy ending after all. It's just adorable."
Yuske blinks a few times, still looking confused, "But how come he gets a girl and he's not even done the tournament."
Hiei smirks a bit, looking at Yuske, "Because you're the lunk who doesn't get anything at all..." Kuwabara keeps starring into that area, his arms crossed and his eyes focused on the spot where they disappeared.
Botan looks over at Kuwabara, "Aww. Kuwabara worried about his 'little sister'?"
Kuwabara blows out a big breath of air, "How come it was so much easier for her... and they really just meet..." The whole team sighs, and gets ready for what challenges are to come next. ***
'Time passes and the tournament has been won. The Urameshi team has been successful and defeated what was left of the Toguro team. Genkai has been revived from Yuske's wish, since there was not a body for me to revive it from anyway. So far life has gotten itself back to normal. I still hang with Kuwabara, who constantly gets in fights with Yuske. Yukina has found out about her brother Hiei, who still hates Kuwabara for liking his sister in the first place. As for Karasu and I... well he's still very distant from me... He stays in the Spirit World, having probation from Koenma, and visits occasionally. I do worry about him a lot, but... he's the fighting type. Now I know what Keiko feels like about Yuske... But he constantly protects me from any dangers that might come for me from the Spirit World. But... Botan was right... this tale did end happily ever after...'
The End Or is it?
"The next fight will be Karasu and Kurama!!" yells Koto into her microphone from the sidelines, "The judges have no problem with Toguro's death since he won anyway, and that he was killed by his own team member. Karasu and Kurama, please approach the center of the stage!" Kurama starts to head for the stage, Karasu already standing.
Katrina pulls on Botan's shirt, and whispers something into her ear, and Botan looks at Kurama, "Kurama! Just a moment!" He stops and turns around to look at Botan, Katrina whispering something in her ear again. Botan's eyes turn a bit sad as she looks at Kurama. "Katrina asks... that you don't kill Karasu in this match... She's already trying to revive Kuwabara... and she won't have enough power to revive Karasu in time if he is to die in this match..."
Kurama looks down at Katrina, her eyes pleading that her wish be answered, and Kurama smiles, nodding to Katrina, "I shall do my best Katrina. don't worry." And he turns around, stepping onto stage, pulling the vile given to him by Suzuka. He uncorks the vile and drinks it down, putting it away as he's finished it. He stops in front of Karasu and they eye each other down.
"Are you going to fight me in your human form Kurama...?" Karasu says coldly, still being very calm.
"I have changed Karasu... But do not rush to death... there is someone waiting for this battle to be over with without either of us falling dead..." Kurama tells Karasu as he summons a windstorm of rose petals around him, trying to stall for time to change to his Yoko form. They swirl around in the whirlwinds around the both of them.
"Be careful, these petals are as sharp as blades..." Kurama warns Karasu, who ignores his warning and walks strait into the petals, getting cut all over his body from them.
"They are beautiful Kurama... but very weak..." Karasu notes. He stands still as Kurama thrusts all the petals strait for Karasu, who points his fingers at the petals, them all exploding before impact.
"Are you sure you want to fight like that... Kurama?" Karasu says as he jumps into the air, disappearing, and reappearing by Kurama, trying to touch him. Kurama avoids his hands, running around stage, trying not to be touched. Kurama summons his rose whip and tries to hit Karasu with it, but with the grasp of his hand the whip explodes and goes up in flames. The chasing continues, and Karasu almost gets a hold of Kurama's arm, but even though they did not make contact, part of his arm still explodes, the blood flying everywhere.
"I can still hurt you even without touching you directly Kurama..." Karasu mocks as another explosion hits Kurama in the leg, the smoke spreading around the stage.
"Here's a hint... I can produce something like how you can produce your plants. I have on in my hand right now." Karasu opens his hand, and a small, but ugly ball appears in one hand, having a little fuse at the top. Kurama looks at the ugly bomb as Karasu jumps into the air and tosses it at him, another huge explosion goes off and the smoke becomes to thick to see. Karasu lands back on his feet, looking down at his hand, seeing a thorny rose lodged in his palm. He rips it out, and as soon as it hits the ground, the smoke around them turns blue. It starts to clear and Karasu looks through the opening smoke, seeing Kurama standing, but not the Kurama he was fighting, but him in his Yoko form.
"I see you have changed Kurama..." Karasu says, and he forms two strange bombs in his hands and tosses them at Yoko Kurama. The new Kurama throws two roses at the bombs, forcing them to explode before reaching him.
"I'm going to kill you..." Yoko says in a cold deep voice. Karasu creates more bombs, having wings to them and tosses them at Yoko, who dodges them with grace, but they fly back around, homing in on him. Karasu continues to create these bombs as they fly after Yoko till he's surrounded.
"You really believe these thing will hurt me...?" Yoko says with a sinister grin as he summons a huge Minosa plant, and it with its enormous teeth and multiple heads destroys all the flying bombs, its eyes then set on Karasu, and starts to spray some kind of red gas from its mouths. In reaction, Karasu tosses a bomb at one of the heads, though nothing affects it. The plants heads begin to chase Karasu everywhere, Karasu dogging them all. They begin to fire beams at him as he creates bomb after bomb, sending many of the heads up into flames, though not having much effectiveness with it.
"Karasu. they do have feelings. And it's not good to anger them..." Yoko tells Karasu, and three Mimosa plants charge at him, one being able to catch him and pulls him into the air. Karasu's mask flies off his face, blood coming from his mouth. More of the plants being to wrap around him, keeping him enclosed in a wrap of heads and vines. Juri is just about to declare Kurama the winner, until she is interrupted by the explosion of the Minosa plants. Karasu lands from out of the smoke, being unharmed, and not wearing his mask either, and begins to glow, taking in a big breath of air, his hair turning gold. Karasu holds his hands together and huge bolts of lighting appears in hands, jumps up, and dives down at Yoko, and impacts, the huge explosion destroying about a forth of the stadium, the death count rising as the demons go flying. Kurama comes out of the rubble, but is back to his human state. He returns to the ring and charges at Karasu, blowing kicks and punches flying everywhere. Kurama finally makes impact with Karasu, but he finds his trick, and draws the Death Seed Kurama tried to plant. Something catches Kurama's leg, making him unable to move.
"That is the Maddi Bomb Kurama..." Karasu tells him, and the bomb explodes, sending him flying, and creating a huge hole in his leg. As he gets back onto his feet, surrounded by little lights, Karasu walking towards him again. He points his finger at Kurama and one of them flies for him, exploding on impact. It makes Kurama step back into another one, and he stumbles around into each little light till they area all gone. Kurama hits the ground, covered in his own blood.
"I won't scar your face just yet..." Karasu notes as Kurama gets back on his feet. Karasu sends another light at him, and he falls back into the puddle of blood, Juri starting her count.
At the count of 7 Karasu starts to speak again, "There is no longer a need for a final blast..." and he starts to walk off stage. But Kurama wasn't done, a bloodsucking plant appears behind him from out of nowhere, stabbing itself into Karasu's back and into his heart, draining the blood from Karasu and he falls to the ground, Kurama back on his feet before the count of ten. "I'm... I'm sorry Katrina. only one of us was going to make it out alive..." Kurama says as Juri declares him the winner, passing out on the ground. Katrina stairs onto the stage, seeing the blood plant start to cover Karasu's body.
"No." Katrina says silently to herself, getting away from Botan and Koenma, they call to her, but she doesn't stop, she runs past Hiei and then past Yuske who went to Kurama's aid. She puts a fire talisman on the blood plant, burning it off him, and pulls him onto her lap, seeing his blond locks are gone, and the blood dripping from his mouth she whips off with her sleeve.
"Please wake up Karasu..." she begs quietly, patting his face, "Come on... something like that couldn't kill you... right...?" She holds him closer, a few more tears rolling down her cheeks, as everyone watches her center stage. Juri starts screaming about how they need to get her off stage, alone with the body, but everyone refuses to mess with Katrina after what she did.
"You saved my life twice now..." Katrina says, holding his dead body tightly, "And I never got to thank you..." Her tears continue to fall, landing on Karasu's sleeping face. As Katrina continues to cry, the area around the stage starts to glow, little places where the elder Toguro's body went flying, and the small lights rise from the pieces, forming together over Katrina. When she finally notices, Katrina looks up at the white light above her, forming to a human like shape, with long flowing hair, and a long flowing outfit. The spiritual being comes down to Katrina, holding her face while she stares in surprise and awe.
"My power will become your power... my child... I no longer need to have this for any other use than to protect the one I love most..." The spirit says, color starting to take form to it, showing the long brown locks, the green eyes, and the Tao Master wardrobe. But her wardrobe was much different than Katrina's, the sleeves are much longer, and the symbol on the sheet look much more dominate. The ribbons tied around her waist are much longer, and the whole outfit itself seems to be more important looking than Katrina's.
"Take my power my child..." the spirit talks again, "And only use it, to protect the people you cherish most... Like I have..."
Katrina smiles as she looks upon the spirit, "Of course... mom..." The Spirit gives Katrina a smile back, and she closes her eyes, and it dives into her chest. Katrina glows for a slight second, and the energy erupts around her in a whirlwind of light and energy, the strands of energy showing the elements as her hair unravels from its long braid, flying upward with the energy. Her outfit begins to change to the same that her mother wore, and the lights die out, being absorbed back into Katrina's body, and her hair drapes over her shoulders and behind her, spreading everywhere from it's length and thickness. Karasu and Kuwabara also starting to glow, their wounds healing completely, and both their eyes begin to open.
Kuwabara jumps up, "Wha...? What happened!? What did I miss!?"
Botan chuckles a bit, while looking at Katrina and Karasu, "You missed a lot Kuwabara, a whole lot." And Kuwabara looks towards the stage, seeing Katrina and Karasu. He's more surprised about Katrina's hair than that Karasu is in her arms. Karasu's eyes land upon the smiling Katrina, opening widely in surprise.
"What... didn't... wasn't I dead...?" Karasu asks her, looking around the destroyed stage and all the team members.
"Yes... you were... but I couldn't let you leave without me being able to thank you..." Katrina says softly in reply, her smile becoming brighter as a tear rolls down her cheek.
Karasu whips her cheek, taking the tear from it, "Why are you crying...?"
"Because I'm... I'm happy Karasu..." Katrina says, whipping her eyes a bit, "Everything is starting to make sense... I remember everything... I remember you saving me... what my mom looked like... where I was actually from.... I know everything now... And I now have the strength to protect the ones I cherish most... like my mom asked me too..." He sits up from her arms, helping her to her feet. She struggles at first, her knees feeling week, but is able to stand along with him, her cheeks blushing a bit. Karasu picks up his mask, putting it back upon his face, and his Spirit Energy drops dramatically, like it was before.
"Well I lost the match... I think it's time to make one last save for you... to repay you for reviving me." Karasu's kind eyes show he's smiling beyond that mask, and he takes Katrina into his arms, leaping into the air, landing in the crowd, and keeps hopping till he's outside the ring and long gone with Katrina.
The team watches as the black and red coat, the brown, and black hair disappear over the sides of the outer arena's walls and Botan sighs dreamily.
"Oh how cute that is!" she notes, "Even after everything that's happen and how sad that match was, it seems Katrina and Karasu are going to have a happy ending after all. It's just adorable."
Yuske blinks a few times, still looking confused, "But how come he gets a girl and he's not even done the tournament."
Hiei smirks a bit, looking at Yuske, "Because you're the lunk who doesn't get anything at all..." Kuwabara keeps starring into that area, his arms crossed and his eyes focused on the spot where they disappeared.
Botan looks over at Kuwabara, "Aww. Kuwabara worried about his 'little sister'?"
Kuwabara blows out a big breath of air, "How come it was so much easier for her... and they really just meet..." The whole team sighs, and gets ready for what challenges are to come next. ***
'Time passes and the tournament has been won. The Urameshi team has been successful and defeated what was left of the Toguro team. Genkai has been revived from Yuske's wish, since there was not a body for me to revive it from anyway. So far life has gotten itself back to normal. I still hang with Kuwabara, who constantly gets in fights with Yuske. Yukina has found out about her brother Hiei, who still hates Kuwabara for liking his sister in the first place. As for Karasu and I... well he's still very distant from me... He stays in the Spirit World, having probation from Koenma, and visits occasionally. I do worry about him a lot, but... he's the fighting type. Now I know what Keiko feels like about Yuske... But he constantly protects me from any dangers that might come for me from the Spirit World. But... Botan was right... this tale did end happily ever after...'
The End Or is it?