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Shattered Edges of a Broken Heart

By: Crystal of Psyche

Chapter 9: The Last One

There were loud noises coming from the entrance of the dungeon.  Everyone's headshot up, all their eyes serious, they didn't know what it was coming through that door.  Barak got up and motioned for everyone else to do the same.  Once they were all on their feet, they got into a fighting stance and waited.  The door swung open and a few guards came in and with what looked like another prisoner.  Candice began to shake, Barak noticed this, "Candice no!" He hissed to her but it didn't work.

She stood up and made a mad dash for all the guards hitting them with fire punches and kicks.  Soon they were all on the ground except for one person.  She didn't strike him because there was something familiar about him.  He was a tall fellow; with spiky like blonde hair with a few bangs that fell over his face, he had bright blue eyes that seemed almost unnatural.  His outfit consisted of a white t-shirt with a red and blue vest over it, and just some old jeans and sneakers.  He was skinny person so his clothes hanged loosely on him.  "Hello Candice!  Long time no see!" He said cheerfully.

Candice's eyebrows twitched, "Have I died and gone to Hell?"  The new guy laughed and slapped her lightly on the shoulder.

"You were always the comedic one, I know you missed me," he said as he continued to laugh.  Everyone started walking closer to them in a confused manner.  Barak was the first one to speak.

"You know this guy Candice?" She gave him an angry look.

She sighed and folded her arms over her chest, "Sadly I do.  A while ago he would keep following me around saying something like Half-demons should stick together.  It bugged the crap out of me!!"

Shizu walked forward and held out a hand, "Well, I'm guessing that you're our final member to our team.  My name is Shizu what's yours?"

He happily took hold of her hand and shook it, "The name's Troy!"  Shizu smiled, 'Finally a happy person in our group' she thought to herself.  Troy turned to Jin and kinda stared at him.  Jin got a little nervous and scooted behind Shizu, his only protection against these Half-demons.  "You." Jin jumped looked around and pointed to himself "Yeah you. You're a full blooded demon aren't you?"

Jin started to panic and hid behind Shizu clinging to her and babbling in some Irish that nobody could understand.  Candice felt a bit of steam coming out of her ears.  "Stop blubbering!!  And we're supposed to be scared of you!?! HA!"  Troy calmly patted her shoulder and gave her a gentle smile.

"Now, now no need to get angry, I was just asking a polite question."

"Polite!!!  What a bunch of bull shit!!"

Troy sweat dropped, "Well I guess it's not a question asked in a pleasant conversation.  But still I don't have any grudges against him.  I don't even know him."  Candice's fists clenched, Barak Shizu, and Jin watched this argument unfold before them.

"He's a full demon!  That's good enough for me to hold a grudge against him!!"

Troy sighed and placed his hands on his hips, "Yeah but answer me this what has he done to you?"

Candice grinded her teeth, "It's what his kind did to me!  And they're all the same!!!!" With that said she stormed out of the dungeon upstairs.  Everyone waited until she was out the door to begin talking.

"We should go after her, no telling what they will do if they find out that ALL of us has escaped," Barak pointed out as he made his way to the door also.  Troy smiled at Shizu; she smiled back as they both started walking to the door.  Jin was still clinging to Shizu, who had to practically drag him out with her.  As they made there way through this underground dungeon they eventually ran into Candice and Barak again.  Both of them were non talkative.

Troy's eyes scanned the situation they were in at the moment.  Their hallway they were taking had split into four different hallways.  "Well, now what should we do?" Shizu has she took a few steps forward getting a better look of one of the hallways.  Troy walked up next to her.

"We need to go that way," he pointed to the one hallway on the most left.

Shizu blinked in confusion and turned to look at Troy, "Why that one?  There are three more that could be the right way."  Candice grunted and looked away from Troy finding the wall more interesting.

"Shouldn't question his ability."

Shizu and Jin who had peered from behind Shizu, they looked at Candice and then Troy.  Who gave them a reassuring smile, "My special power is light.  I can feel where it is strongest.  Down there," he said as he pointed down the other hallways, "Those are filled with dark power, and this hallway is warm with a much more pleasant energy.  Which means there is light at the end of the tunnel."

"…………" The whole group was stunned except for Candice who was still pissed off at Troy.  Shizu whispered to Barak, "He's seems to know what he's doing?"

"Well…it's kinda hard to tell…" He whispered back.

"Marshmallow!!" Troy suddenly blurted out making everyone jump.

"WHAT!?!" Candice yelled as she shot a fiery fireball at him.  He made a squeaking sound and hopped out of the way.  Then they heard noises coming from the other halls.  "LOOK WHAT YOU DID!!!  YOU WOKE UP EVERYONE IN THE DUNGEON!!!"

Troy just stared at her with little change in his emotion, "I did not shoot the fireball and started yelling that I did not."

Candice was steaming out of her ears; she was about to start yelling at his comment when some type of energy hit her from behind.  Paralyzed she fell straight on the ground.  Troy hopped up and formed a shield of light around them; Barak quickly grabbed Candice and pulled her into his protection.  "What's going on!?!"

Troy grunted as his shield began to get even more pelted, "Great they brought reinforcements…I can't hold this up for long!!  We need to get out of here!"  Barak with Candice in his arms ran down the hall, quickly followed by Shizu and Jin.  Shizu caught out the corner of her that Troy running behind them barely dodging some more blasts.  They finally reached the light, but they stopped abruptly.

Outside there was a whole group of people standing there holding their blasters at the group of half-demons.  They were soooo close.  The leader of the group stepped forward and gave an evil smirk.  "It's the end for you."  Shizu closed her eyes trying to block out what would happen next.

*****

Yusuke led the group through the mass of corridors.  The group of demons huddled close to each other.  This was definitely the last place they would be if they could help it.  But they had to; two of their family has been captured.  "Uh, Yusuke?" Yusuke turned around and looked down at Riku.  "We're walking into the middle of the headquarters of Koenma!  Do you think that he'll try and arrest us?"

Now in reality Yusuke was a bit tense about that fact, he wasn't really sure if Koenma would actually take action when he sees these particular demons.  And Koenma can be……strange?  He saw the big doors of Koenma's office and a few minor demons guarding it.  He smiled, "Out of the way!  He got business to do!"  The demons frowned.

"You have no authorization in here!" One of the shouted.  Yusuke smirked, 'Must have forgot about me.' He chuckled, 'We'll just have to remind them.'

"Listen up!  We're not here to hurt anyone!!  We just want to see Koenma!" Yusuke said putting up his fists.  The minor demons looked a bit scared but held their ground.

"He's very busy!!  He doesn't have time to speak to ruffians like you!!" The other minor demon shouted also holding up his fists preparing for a fight.

Yusuke's eyebrow twitched with irritation, "Ruffians!!"  Before he could make any further comment the big giant doors flew open.  And a small kid cam out of it, his face showed much frustration.

"WILL YOU KEEP IT DOWN!!!  I'M BEHIND IN MY WORK!!  I could always find you a nicer job as a JAIL GUARD!!!!" For a small kid he sure had a loud mouth.  The two minor demons started babbling their apologies to the child.  Yusuke started laughing which caught the kid's attention.  "WHO DARES TO LAUGH AT THE GREAT KOENMA!?!?!"  Yusuke kept on laughing.

"You haven't changed a bit you toddler!!!" Koenma froze at those words, he was a bit shocked, and he looked around hopeful.  Then his eyes fell upon a thin teen surrounded by all too familiar demons that were in the Dark Tournament.  His eyes began to tear when his eyes fell once again on the teen who was still chuckling.

"Yusuke?"  Then his face turned to anger.  "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?!?!  EVERYONE HAS BEEN WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU!!!  And I'm sure that girlfriend of yours is worried about you too!!  What's her name…oh yes!  Keiko!  Now why do you have to worry a girl like that!?!"  Yusuke winced of the mention of HER name.  The name that he had hoped to forget.  His goofy feature went to a stone expression.

"Something's happened to my family," Yusuke said slowly.

Koenma panicked slightly but then calmed real quick, "That's not true!  We've been monitering your mother for quite some time now, hoping that you would show up.  But I know for fact that your mother is more than safe."  Yusuke growled and clenched his fists.

He swiftly motioned towards his company while still glaring at Koenma, "I mean THIS family!"

The small child was speechless; he didn't know what to say.  But he knew one thing was that these demons from the Dark Tournament weren't necessarily bad.  That they just wanted a good fight, somehow these demons had run into Yusuke and took care of him by the looks of it.  He would have to look in his files later.  "Alright Yusuke, come into my office and we'll chat.  Yusuke and the others felt a rush of relief swipe through them.  They followed the child into his office and the doors shut behind them.

******

Shizu groaned, she had the worst of headaches.  She felt aches and pain all over her body.  Not wanting to move, but she tried to move her right leg.  The immense pain that followed was enough to make her groan louder.  She felt two hands be placed on her shoulders.

"Take it easy dere missy," came an all too familiar voice.  "You got a leg broken, few bruised ribs, and scratches all ova yer body."  She felt something cool swipe across her forehead, and she opened her bright green eyes.  She watched as Jin placed the wet cloth back in the bowl of water.

"No wonder I'm in pain," she mumbled, she relaxed against the cool surface of the stone floor.  She looked back at Jin with a bit of worry on her face, "Your okay though, right?"  Jin smiled sadly.

"Yes, a'ye am.  A'ye was in de back remember?  A'ye didn get de full blow like you did.  A'ye sorry a'ye was the one that should've protected ye instead of vise versa." He said sadly.  He was surprised to feel someone grab his hand, and he looked up and saw Shizu squeezing his hand softly. 

Shizu weakly smiled and he smiled back.  He slowly leaned over and gave her a soft kiss on her forehead.  "Get some sleep." Shizu obeyed and went into a deep slumber.  He looked over at Candice that was tending Barak and Troy, which were in bad shape too.  His gaze went back to the young girl sleeping next to him.  He silently reached out and swept away a few stray strands of her hair from her face.  'Please, hurry up guys.  I don't know what they're going to do to Shizu.  I can't watch over her for long,' he quietly prayed.

Author's Note:  I'm trying my best to keep this story still going, the only thing that is keep me going is all these wonderful readers I have.  I'm so glad that you all like this fic, and I'll try and do something about the next chapter a bit quicker than last. *nervous laugh* yeah that was a bit lazy of me, but now I need to focus on my studies because…*shudders* finals are this week. And I haven't started on any studying, but I think I'll be okay.  Thank god for exemptions.

But anyway, I hope I can see some more of Yu Yu Hakusho because I am running out of ideas. *pouts*

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