Revised chapter! Wootnss!

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Kuwabara let his eyes meet with the small demonic child's own wild and crazed ones. He was tired and felt drained of his energy, but he was Kazuma Kuwabara-the man of honor! This child could not scare him; make him forget who he was. No child would ever scare him...

…Okay well maybe just this one.

Kuwabara plastered on a smile and told her with confidence, "Bring it on little lady. I'm ready for-" Kuwabara let out a small groan, and toppled over, Yusuke catching him.

Yusuke shook, eyes wide, "Someone take him from me...or..."

"What Yusuke? You might kill him?" Kira asked smugly, "My...you are a baby!"

Yusuke glared and stopped shaking, helping a weary Kuwabara rise.

Kira smirked at the tuckered out youth. "Are you sure you're ready? Did you strain your mind too much from saving that pathetic "friendship" between you and Hiei?"

Kuwabara glared at her, "Friendships are not pathetic Kira...If I die, then I'll die knowing people cared for me unlike you! You'll die alone."

Kira rolled her eyes, "Answer my question…are you ready for your test?"

Kuwabara opened his mouth but...

"He's not," Hiei spoke stopping Kuwabara from uttering a single syllable, "He's not ready for anything."

"Give him 5 minutes to rest, and then he'll be ready for what ever madness you have to offer him!" Kurama spat at the girl, eyes shining once again from the pure faith he had in Kuwabara.

"My, my! Level headed Kurama has a temper!" Kira giggled, "This game is fun."

She turned her glare back on Kuwabara, "Ready or not it's time for your test...and I'm going to punish you good."

Kuwabara pretended to clean his ear out, "I'm sorry where you talking? All I heard was what sounded like a long drawn out piece of bull shit!"

Yusuke laughed at Kuwabara's boldness as Kira went deep red with anger, and humiliation.

"ENOUGH!" Kira screeched. At her intense screech, Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke were ripped away from Kuwabara, as the mirror seemed to come alive. The glass turned to liquid and wrapped itself around Kuwabara. "You stupid human!" Kira snarled eyes a blaze with anger. Kira snapped her fingers and the odd liquid that had once been a mirror squeezed and curled around Kuwabara.

"Aggh!" Kuwabara cried out as he felt the life get squeezed out of him.

"LET HIM GO!" Yusuke reached for him, but Kuwabara was suddenly sucked into the odd liquid, and with a blink of an eye the liquid became a mirror once more. The room was still, and Kuwabara was gone to face whatever test, and whatever punishment Kira had in store for the man that had dared to challenged her.

"Dammit!" Kurama growled hitting the wall in the hopelessness of it all. Hiei stared at the mirror and found himself pacing. Yusuke went to stand by the mirror placing his brow on the cool glass, "God…God get us out of this. Please. Please get us though this," Yusuke begged whatever entity could hear him. They had to get out of this…they had to get out.

Kira's voice cackled in the room, though the little girl was also gone, and Yusuke shuddered in fear, thinking that maybe out meant only one thing.

Death.

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Kuwabara was falling in the darkness screaming in the air. Until finally he landed on the ground...on his head.

"KIRA YOU BRAT! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!"

High-pitched giggling filled the air, answering Kuwabara's angry shout.

Kuwabara got up mumbling and the darkness began to take shape. The world grew fuzzy, and Kuwabara closed his eyes and rubbed them trying to make everything come into focus. When it all finally fell into place, Kuwabara thought he was in some whacked up dream. On the right of him was a path with flowers, and birds, and bees, and everything looked eerily happy. To the left of Kuwabara was another path, glowing red, with smoke seeping from the path. It was considerably darker on that path.

Kira suddenly materialized in front of Kuwabara, causing him to jump.

"Now Kuwabara, your test is simple," Kira said with a sugary smile and the batting of her eyes, "Either choose the path of happiness, and kitties and go have fun down there," Kira said pointing at the friendlier path, "Or..." She smiled, "Save your friends, by walking over a pit of fire, hot steel, and coals." She said pointing to the path on Kuwabara's left. Kuwabara swallowed…the path may have only been about 6 feet long but still…

"Oh Shit," Kuwabara couldn't help but gasp.

"Oh yes...and you can't use shoes, or socks," Kira added grinning in delight.

The red head glanced down to see he was already barefoot. "Ohcrap.Ohcrap.Ohcrap!" Kuwabara muttered through gritted teeth.

Kira smiled at Kuwabara's reaction.

"Now here's my punishment, if you go down the burning path, the pain will not just be at your feet, it will consume your whole body. But your task is so simple Kuwa-chan," Kira babbled, "Once you walk down the path all you have to do is untie your friends who are on the other side waiting for you. It's an easy choice, path of pain, or path of pleasure…it's such an-"

Kuwabara felt sick to his stomach, but smiled and interrupted Kira, "You're right this is easy Kira." And with that he veered to his left standing before the glowing path.

Kira smiled knowingly. "I knew you'd choose the painful path...humans and their loyalties! BAH!" She spit in the pit, it making a loud hissing sound.

Kuwabara stepped up the path, and took in a deep breath.

He took a step, and screamed.

The burning sensation spread all over his body.

Flames consumed him as it came up in a fiery twister. The burning steal, hot coals, and fires from Hell, were licking at his body; it felt like the flesh was being melted off his very bone. He marched steadily on-screaming in pure agony-his blood filling the air. What made it worse was for the fact that the whole time he was walking he prayed...He prayed that he would die. His steps became shorter, but the pain seemed to increase. He was dying inside, outside...all over. He felt skin melt away and go up with the flames. Kuwabara had no watery tears, but he did have bloody tears. He was being melted, and slashed away by this horrible fire.

It seemed as if time was against him. He felt eternity roll on, and the pain didn't stop...God...he was going to die. Then...

Without warning the hot fire was gone, leaving behind a crispy corpse. Kuwabara untied his friends and the entire scene faded away.

Kira hovered in front of him smiling down at the burnt body.

Kuwabara had no hair what so ever, and his skin was charred and black, only a few spots red. It looked as if the heat of the fire, coals, and steel had melted half of his face. His brow seemed to have sunk into his left eye. Kuwabara's fingers were no more than nubs, and he had no toes. The muscle tissue could be seen on several patches of Kuwabara's body, and one of his bones was clearly visible in Kuwabara's foot. His nose, was now shaped like the skull part of his nose, the flesh of his nose haven been completely melted off. He was a deformed monster, which had seen so much pain. Kuwabara was no longer human, too tortured to be a human, too covered with horror to be a man.

Looking at him now, all you could tell that he was, was a charred piece of flesh.

He lay on the ground, crying out in misery and pain. Kira sat down next to him smirking. "Now you know not to mess with me don't you?" She smiled wider as Kuwabara sobbed with the intense pain.

No. Intense is not the correct term. There is no correct term for this type of pain.

How can one describe Hell?

"There, there, Mama will take care of you..." She placed her small hand on his back and began to rub, his skin coming off in flakes.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! NOOOO!! STOP!! AAAHHHHAAAAHHH!!" Kuwabara cried out, and when he ran out of breath, laid still, and sobbed until his breath came out in short gasps and his voice was hoarse and raw.

After he could no longer cry, he lay there, and his breaths died away along with the fearless, brave, noble man he had once been.

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Yusuke paced the waiting room, and looked back at the mirror, half expecting Kuwabara to be spit out. Hiei and Kurama sat near each other, not exchanging any words, not able to find any words to say to one another. A strange sound filled the air and all heads jerked to the center of the room.

The floor turned black and Kuwabara appeared on the floor. He lay on his stomach sobbing and moaning with pain. He was normal, there were no burns, his hair was back, and Kira was doing loops in the air not even touching Kuwabara. The only thing wrong with Kuwabara, was his shoes and socks were missing, and the bottom of his feet were burnt up and bleeding very badly.

"KUWABARA!" Yusuke cried out his voice catching.

Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei knelt by their friend, who cried out with pain when they neared him.

Yusuke put his hand on Kuwabara's back who only screamed with pain. "MY SKIN! MY SKIN! KIRA STOP RUBBING IT OFF!! I BEG YOU! AAAAAYYYYAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!"

"KIRA YOU DEVIL CHILD STOP YOUR ILLUSION!" Hiei cried out losing his patience.

Kira hit her head, "Oh silly me! That's what I forgot!"

She snapped her fingers, and Kuwabara stopped screaming. He didn't open his eyes, and just remained curled up in the fetal position sobbing for the world to hear. Yusuke laid down on the floor next to Kuwabara, rubbing his back, willing his best friend to open his eyes. Kurama and Hiei busied them selves with bandaging Kuwabara's feet. They were horrible, and even Hiei couldn't stand the smell of Kuwabara's burnt flesh.

"We need a doctor...or Yukina…or something...if he doesn't get help in the next 24 hours, he could lose both his legs!" Kurama murmured concerned, eyes wide.

"Just bandage them good. We'll worry about a doctor later." Hiei ordered.

"Well, all of you have made it through round one! As a reward, you all get an hour-long rest. Be back soon! TATA!" Kira said with a giggle as she faded away

"WAIT!" Yusuke roared. "Wh...What the hell did you do to him!?"

"He had to be punished," Kira's voice rang out sweetly.

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Okay...bad chapter...bad...if you threaten to eat my first born you might want to hold on until we get to the next rounds...which are about ten times worse...but hey! For the ones that suffered most in these they get a small break, and easy tests...sorta not really...