*a/n: I don't hate Kuwabara. I actually really like him...I feel bad for him when people diss him in their fanfics...if you don't count Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke, he's the best character there is...don't get me wrong...Botan's fun too, but still I kinda like him better...I don't want anyone to think I was giving him a heart attack because I dislike him.*
*Anemone's room...Anemone's gaping at her empty, EMPTY e-mail, Hiei's hanging on her hammock in the upper corner of her far wall with a package of strawberry ice cream in his lap, and Kurama's playing the keyboard*
Anemone: how come no one is reviewing?!
Hiei: hn...you got spoiled in your first fiction...with the constant reviews...*takes a bite out of his ice cream*
Anemone: WAAA!! NO ONE LOVES ME!! *starts crying like crazy*
Kurama and Hiei: GAH! *covers ears*
Kurama: Mones! Mones, please...! We love you...!
Hiei: *growl* lying in such an obvious way won't shut her up, Kitsune!
Anemone: WAAAAA!!!! EVEN HIEI HATES ME!!!
Hiei: ...*under breath* jeez when did you figure THAT out...?
Kurama: *really narrow glare at Hiei, eyes Anemone gently* Mones...come now, you've plenty of people who like your stories-
Anemone: -then why don't they freakin' REVIEW?! That's the TRADITIONAL way of expressing they appreciate my efforts!!
Hiei: my GOD onna you're acting as if you sweat and bleed into that damned keyboard...it takes you like a half hour to write a freakin' chapter! It doesn't require THAT much effort!
Anemone: *glare, pricks in an evil idea, smirks* hmm...well Flames, if it doesn't require that much effort...why don't YOU write the next chapter...?
Kurama: *sweatdrop* er...Mones? I doubt allowing him access to the keyboard would be entirely wise a decision-
Hiei: -hn! Why would I partake in such a petty expression of human "art"?
Anemone: ...you would if you COULD just to PROVE that you're right...but I guess you CAN'T...
Kurama: *bigger sweatdrop* -Mones...-
Hiei: -what is THAT supposed to mean?!
Anemone: oh, just that you lack any ability to write...
Kurama: *looks a little scared* -Mones!-
Hiei: -WHAT?! *really narrow, evil glare* Onna, I could out-write you anytime, anyplace...I bet you anything I could...
Kurama: *slaps face* oh no...
Anemone: you're on, Flames! Go ahead, write the next chapter! *moves aside to let Hiei take over...long pause...he reluctantly eases out of the hammock and slowly sets himself to the chair, typing with mad speed...five seconds later-*
Hiei: this is excessively simple, ningen...I'm nearly finished with the first page!
Anemone: well then let's take a looksie...Fox?
Kurama: but...this isn't even a real-
Hiei: -you don't consider my work real?!
Kurama: *sweatdrop, REALLY heavy sigh* "chapter 7", enjoy...I guess...
Hiei's Chapter 7:
Hiei and Kurama found Kuwabaka. Kuwabaka was dead. He had died while Hiei was gone. Hiei was glad. Hiei laughed. Kurama scolded Hiei. Hiei blasted him to oblivion, but then kinda regretted it. Yusuke got scared of Hiei. Hiei forgot about Kurama and Hiei blasted Yusuke to oblivion. Hiei laughed. Then a demon showed up. Hiei kicked that demon's ass. Hiei was awesome. Hiei was so much cooler than the other people in this screwed over story. Then Grapko showed up and looked all pissed. Hiei totally kicked his ass. Then Hinegeshi and Anneliese appeared and they both started taking turns in totally making out with him-
Anemone: -okay this is friggen PAINFUL to read!! Jeez, Hiei! You like, didn't put ANY thought into this at ALL, did you?! It has no texture...it has no feel...it has no PLOT...!
Hiei: WHAT?! This is brilliance, woman!! Sheer genius!!
Kurama: YOU KILLED ME?! WHAT THE HELL!!
Hiei: hn...it's a story, Kitsune...
Anemone: note how he ALSO managed to kill Yusuke, a random demon, AND Grapko, as well without breaking a sweat AND mustering enough energy for a double make-out session...
Kurama: *calms down, smirk* indeed...this is pure fantasy...
Hiei: WHAT?! I could TOO take you jerks on!! I've superior strength that would leave you ALL as ashes!
Kurama: *deeper smirk* riiight...just be glad I'm your Ally, Hiei...
Hiei: I hate you...you all suck...
Anemone: *snicker* Okay now on to the REAL chapter-
Hiei: -what are you blabbering about now, woman? I wrote the whole chapter just now-
Kurama: * "accidentally" presses delete...trying not to smirk* OOPS! Did I just completely, totally, and irreversibly destroy all of Hiei's precious story? Goodness me!
Hiei: GAH!! NO! Where'd it go?! Where'd it GO?! *starts typing frantically* NO! *in his fury, accidentally blasts her computer...BOOM...the three yelp and duck, and slowly ease back to a stand...REALLY long pause, the three just staring blankly at the smoking debris of plastic, metal, and circuitry*
Hiei: uh...
Anemone: MY COMPUTER!!! HIEI YOU FREAKIN' DUMBASS!!
Hiei: *blurs away*
Anemone: *starts crying* THE FREAKIN' WORLD HATES ME!!!
Kurama: *sweatdrop* erm...*pulls out laptop* here...write the new chapter on this...
Anemone: *sniffle* okay...
Kurama: *turns to readers* the REAL, chapter 7...enjoy.
Chapter 7: Encounter
Fox and Dragon sprinted whole-heartedly for the Southern Sector, racing with the intensity of the situation.
"How slow was his blood flow?" Kurama asked sternly through paced breaths.
"Slow."
"Now is not the time to be vague, Hiei..." the fox half-growled with a narrowed expression.
"I'm not a doctor, Kitsune...medical matters have always left me vague...unless of course the means is death, which I am the master over..." he finished with a lie of a smirk, when in reality he was a bit worried for Kuwabara.
The duo rounded a narrow corner...and a crack of bone to bone snapped into the eerie silence of the Eastern Sector.
Kurama was sprawled on the floor, lying lopsidedly on top of a confused Botan. Hiei snorted in frustration, Ai–after wincing to her parents' current state–side-glancing to the Dragon with a stern expression.
"You found Kazuma?" she half-stated half-coldly as her parents struggled to ease to a stand.
"Yes and we have to tend to him now...unless of course you'd rather cause my sister and nephew pain, Kitsune!" the Dragon roared, frustration stinging his corrosive eyes dangerously acidic.
"I'm coming, Hiei!" Kurama half-growled as he assisted the startled bluette to her feet.
"What's going on? What's wrong with Kuwabara?" the ferry girl piped in her bafflement.
"LATER!" Hiei growled, tightening his fists white-knuckle tight into his partner's collar and jerking off in a blur, dragging Kurama along.
Ai and Botan stared blankly after the Dragon and Fox, both narrowing their expressions in annoyance. Ai's tail stood on end, flicking in her irritation.
"Mother, create an oar, please...it's the fastest means of following them..." Ai locked her raspberry glare to her mother's identical ones, Botan nodding primly in agreement.
"Right! I want to find out what's happening...your father hardly tells me anything anymore...!" Botan muttered in irritation of her mate. The bluette steadied her slender ivory hands before her, and allowed a flow of energy to surge from her long fingertips and into her soft palms. Her energy escaped her body as webbing, weaving and locking in dense, tight fibers...until all left was merely compact wood in the form of her signature rower.
The bluette swung it effortlessly through the air, leaping to a sit over it's side. She zoomed off, her speed spraying a mass of wind through Ai's waist-length ruby mane. The she-fox watched on, startled, having been abandoned by her mother...until the bluette screeched to a sudden halt, two-thirds of a mile down the lonely sector. She awkwardly threw an innocent, meek smile in Ai's direction, the red-head growling to herself in annoyance as she sprinted off towards her mother.
"Sorry, sweety!!" Botan grinned in embarrassment as the she-fox approached with nimble steps and animal speed. "I'm SO sorry, honey!"
"Just fly, Mother!" the red-head grunted as she skid to a halt from her bolt and leapt to a firm sit behind her ditsy mother.
"Right!!" she giggled apologetically, blasting off in flight yet again with Ai clenching firmly to the wooden rower, darkness enveloping them as they sped deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Eastern Sector in pursuit of the Senior Urimeshi Team, each member currently in the Southern Halls.
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Chocolate scanned angrily over the glossed-over street. Gakilei jerked her angry eyes upwards and let loose a shrill scream, which eased to a sickly groan as her tensed muscles fell limp. "UGH!! I cannot BELIEVE this!! Where the hell are they?!"
Yukio's caramel glare rolled in frustration. "Gakilei calm down..."
"NO! First Ai abandons us, then Ryuuhayai like, KIDNAPS Kisho! WHAT THE HELL!"
Kane's nostrils flared in a tense sigh. "C'mon, Lei...I'm sure they all had a good reason-"
"-I know DAMN well Ai left because of some demon, she's like the world's WORST liar...but what the hell?! She NEVER takes more than fifteen minutes to kick a demon's ass...and don't even get me STARTED on Ryuu...what the hell went through her head?!"
"Uncle Hiei's voice," Kane smirked knowingly, the female Urimeshi blinking slightly.
"Oh yeah..." Gakilei moaned in exhaust and annoyance. "They blew our whole night!"
"Lei...something bigger than a stupid trip to the movies has come up!" Yukio growled sternly.
"WHAT COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE "BLOOD AND GORE" MARATHON?! SIX MOVIES OF PURE UNADULTERATED VIOLENCE!!!"
Her two companions stared at her blankly, before Kane piped "You seriously should lay off the sugar, Gakilei..."
She flashed him a very Yusuke glare, both boys backing off.
"Just an opinion, Lei..." Kane blinked meekly. "Yeesh..."
"UGH!" she roared, whirling in her footing to face her comrades, both stepping back slightly in fear of her rage.
"SORRY!! SORRYSORRYSORRY!!" They both jerked into sprints away from the angered Urimeshi, who had lunged towards them in her frustration.
"Gakilei!! HEEL!!" Yukio yelled over his shoulder...but wound up angering her all the more.
"KANE!!" the punk roared for the mint-haired demi-demon. "WHAT DID HIEI TELL RYUU?! WHY DID SHE ABANDON US?!"
"I DON'T KNOW!!" He countered in fear, racing in sync with her terrified brother...the girl about to start powering up for her Spirit Sniper...
"I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW!"
"HN!" Miss Urimeshi growled...before a foreign grip bound about her torso in bruising tenseness, jerking the Detective from her rage. The tense arms woven about her stomach drew her back sharply, dragging her from her footing.
"-the hell?!" she roared as a stranger tore her from her sprint...and just out a blast of singeing ki. A flash of violet light stung to the ground she would have been standing to had this stranger not ripped her from her sprint. She blinked in shock as smoke loomed lazily from the purple attack's impact to the sidewalk.
Kane and Yukio were each frozen solid in awe...her savior was a demon! He resembled Kurama...yet...his face was longer, sharper at the chin...his skin was paler, and his hair was smoother, not as rough and bushy...though just as long and just as red. A bushy fox tail brushed against the side of his thigh, and two white-tipped fox ears flicked against his scalp.
"Who are you?!" Kane growled, sprinting to Gakilei's side and taking her protectively from the stranger's bind. He cast half-annoyed emerald eyes in the teenager's direction, but then pricked to attention.
"Get down!" he roared, whirling in his footing and shoving Kane to the right, Gakilei dragged along by the mint-haired youth's grasp to her wrist. The two fell in sync to the concrete sidewalk...and a swell of violet light stung against their eyes.
The stranger instantly clawed at the ki with his animal-like nails, shredding the energy in slits of purple light.
"Run!" the stranger growled over his tense shoulder, flashing narrowed eyes of brilliant intensity to the three teenagers. Clicking instantly from their bafflement to reality, Yukio gnarled his tense grip into Kane's sleeve and hoisted the boy to his feet, Kane in turn dragging Gakilei to a stand...the three, in slight reluctance, sprinted off, unsure if they should abandon the demon.
"Ryooki!!" another voice spat...the owner of the violet blasts. "How DARE you defy your very father! For that you shall pay!"
"Whatever, Shadow..." Ryooki growled coarsely. "You are weak...how dare YOU attack me!"
"A member of the Urimeshi team has already fallen to the strength of the Hell's Shadows! As will you, Mut!" the unseen villain snickered menacingly, throwing yet another array of violet ki.
The hybrid fox-wolf instantly slapped it to the side...the fencing it bashed against splintering and crackling to an intense, inhuman flame of royal flavor.
"That member was surrounded! You've no right to label yourselves as warriors...you scoundrels!!" Ryooki snarled viciously.
"You're a traitor, bite your tongue!" the opposite raged. "Merely coming to the living world to warn your brother endangered him and his loved ones all the more!"
"Last time I checked, death was the limit of endangerment...they were already at risk, might as well have at least tried to numb the chances a bit," the fox-wolf smirked.
"SILENCE!" Grapko's lackey roared, thrusting seven blasts of violet brilliance straight for the mut.
Onyx, caramel, and chocolate cast themselves for the scene from beyond a rift in the fencing a few yards away. Shock stained each teenagers eyes at the intensity of each blast's ki level.
"He's gonna be killed!" Gakilei growled, attempting to sprint after him.
"LEI!" her companions roared in unison, both latching to each of her slender shoulders and dragging her back.
"LET GO!" she hissed dangerously, Kane and Yukio ignoring her rants and pulling her back into the shadows as the mut stranger supposedly named Ryooki was attacked with seven shots of purple ki.
Shock swelled rabid within them, beyond the limit for each of the three to stand...the fox-wolf actually been plowed into with the enemy's ki. Three teenage expressions gaped in stunned disbelief at the fallen fox-wolf.
"What the hell?!" Gakilei stared in pure astoundment.
Kane slowly thread his arm protectively about her collarbone, drawing her steadily back into the mass of shadows he and Yukio pinned themselves within. Gakilei threw a venomously narrow glare to the mint-haired demi-demon...before she saw the aloof tint in his acute onyx eyes...they were steady to the sky, were the origin of each purple blast had formed and shot to the mut demon sprawled to the street and seeping of redness.
Kane drew the girl into the shadows, swallowing a dry lump set to the core of his throat...Yukio cast slightly confused eyes for his tall companion, seeing a troubled fear locked to his widened onyx eyes.
"Kane...?" she inquired slowly.
"...Father..." the mint-haired youth breathed slowly. "...no!...Father...!"
"Kane...?!" Yukio asked steadily, eyeing the youth with narrow sincerity. Kane held to Gakilei protectively, quivering under the corrosive intensity of the eyes of the Hell's Shadow. Telepathic taunts were stinging into Kane's head...the truth of Kazuma vs. four Hell's Shadows.
"...he's scoffing me..." he whispered slowly. "...telepathically...he's...he's...!...Father!..."
"Kane!" Gakilei roared in her confusion, whirling around and binding her arms steadily to the stunned youth's shoulders. "What is it?!"
"...the Hell's Shadows..." he whispered, his voice choking in disbelief and utter torment. "...they...they...!...Father!...!"
"What is it?! What's wrong with Kazuma?!" Yukio in turn latched to his friend's shoulder in sync with his frantic twin.
"...he can't be...he...can't...be..." the boy pulsed in mad shivers despite himself, fear, anxiety, and overwhelming pain drowning him. His eyes were stung wide, heavy breaths jerking his entire torso in strained attempts to remain conscious.
"What the hell?!" Gakilei roared. "KANE!"
"His father is dead..." a menacing tone smirked deviously to the three teenagers, the twin Urimeshi's gazing in shock to the near-invisible figure looming above.
A hiss escaped his sprawled lips as he dove for the attack...until a shot of emerald ki crackled against the air and snapped into the creature's neck, sending the now deceased corpse in a jerked motion away from the kids.
Yukio and Gakilei breathed coarsely in shock...and jerked for the origin of the blast. There Ryooki stood, seven gashes to his limbs bubbling of blood...but the narrow sincerity of his glare proved the Hell's Shadow hardly an opponent. His opened palm bound to a fist, a slight smirk twinging to the end of his lips.
"Your father isn't dead..." Ryooki breathed calmly, lacking in any motion towards the stunned demi-demon. Onyx blinked to clarity, the hopeless abyss Kane had been potentially sinking towards suddenly hardening waist-deep, the boy clicking to attention.
"He...he isn't...?!"
"Not yet..." Ryooki sighed a nostril-flaring sigh. "I must see Yoko...if I don't..." emerald locked to caramel, then shifted to chocolate, then scanned for onyx. "Not only will Kazuma be murdered...but all of your fathers."
"...what are you talking about...?" Yukio eyed the fox-wolf suspiciously.
"Let's just say some old grudges are still going strong..." the hybrid sighed slowly. "I advise you all return home and defend your mothers..."
"Why?!" Gakilei countered harshly.
"Because there is a near endless supply of Hell's Shadows..." the demon slowly tucked his slender hands to his pockets and strode away with a calm air. "...and they are after every living loved one of any member of Team Urimeshi."
"What?! Why are they after us?! Who are they?!" Gakilei gaped.
"They are mere lackeys...they themselves aren't the threat..."
"But they nearly killed Kazuma!" Yukio countered sternly. "What is happening?! Why were you fighting them?!"
"They are after my blood as they are yours, kid..." the fox-wolf continued on his leisurely way. "Merely coming here to warn my brother of the dangers stalking him...has ensured my name on their hit-list."
"Your...brother...?" Gakilei blinked in confusion.
"You're Yoko Kurama's brother...?" Yukio deduced slowly, in awkward reluctance. Ryooki tipped his chin for his shoulder, pausing in his footing for a moment. With a shadow of a smirk to brush his lips and a silent trudge onward, that ensured for the three teenagers that he was indeed an Ally.
"Watch yourselves, kids...that particular demon was actually after the three of you, but I had intervened...naturally he dragged the fight in your direction, but you'd better be on your guard..." he smirked calmly. "I won't be there to rip you from harm's way again."
And with that, he stalked away to the mist surrounding the overall street, leaving three confused teenagers.
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a/n: RYOOKI IS SO DAMN AWESOME! HE ROCKS THE WORLD! Lol...but, only in the light of made-up characters...anyway...I'm lovin' this! It's SO much better than Hiei's chapter 7 lol...so PLEASE review people! State your favorite part, and do it quickly!! Or else I shall hold the rest of this story hostage! Lol...latr!!
*Anemone's room...Anemone's gaping at her empty, EMPTY e-mail, Hiei's hanging on her hammock in the upper corner of her far wall with a package of strawberry ice cream in his lap, and Kurama's playing the keyboard*
Anemone: how come no one is reviewing?!
Hiei: hn...you got spoiled in your first fiction...with the constant reviews...*takes a bite out of his ice cream*
Anemone: WAAA!! NO ONE LOVES ME!! *starts crying like crazy*
Kurama and Hiei: GAH! *covers ears*
Kurama: Mones! Mones, please...! We love you...!
Hiei: *growl* lying in such an obvious way won't shut her up, Kitsune!
Anemone: WAAAAA!!!! EVEN HIEI HATES ME!!!
Hiei: ...*under breath* jeez when did you figure THAT out...?
Kurama: *really narrow glare at Hiei, eyes Anemone gently* Mones...come now, you've plenty of people who like your stories-
Anemone: -then why don't they freakin' REVIEW?! That's the TRADITIONAL way of expressing they appreciate my efforts!!
Hiei: my GOD onna you're acting as if you sweat and bleed into that damned keyboard...it takes you like a half hour to write a freakin' chapter! It doesn't require THAT much effort!
Anemone: *glare, pricks in an evil idea, smirks* hmm...well Flames, if it doesn't require that much effort...why don't YOU write the next chapter...?
Kurama: *sweatdrop* er...Mones? I doubt allowing him access to the keyboard would be entirely wise a decision-
Hiei: -hn! Why would I partake in such a petty expression of human "art"?
Anemone: ...you would if you COULD just to PROVE that you're right...but I guess you CAN'T...
Kurama: *bigger sweatdrop* -Mones...-
Hiei: -what is THAT supposed to mean?!
Anemone: oh, just that you lack any ability to write...
Kurama: *looks a little scared* -Mones!-
Hiei: -WHAT?! *really narrow, evil glare* Onna, I could out-write you anytime, anyplace...I bet you anything I could...
Kurama: *slaps face* oh no...
Anemone: you're on, Flames! Go ahead, write the next chapter! *moves aside to let Hiei take over...long pause...he reluctantly eases out of the hammock and slowly sets himself to the chair, typing with mad speed...five seconds later-*
Hiei: this is excessively simple, ningen...I'm nearly finished with the first page!
Anemone: well then let's take a looksie...Fox?
Kurama: but...this isn't even a real-
Hiei: -you don't consider my work real?!
Kurama: *sweatdrop, REALLY heavy sigh* "chapter 7", enjoy...I guess...
Hiei's Chapter 7:
Hiei and Kurama found Kuwabaka. Kuwabaka was dead. He had died while Hiei was gone. Hiei was glad. Hiei laughed. Kurama scolded Hiei. Hiei blasted him to oblivion, but then kinda regretted it. Yusuke got scared of Hiei. Hiei forgot about Kurama and Hiei blasted Yusuke to oblivion. Hiei laughed. Then a demon showed up. Hiei kicked that demon's ass. Hiei was awesome. Hiei was so much cooler than the other people in this screwed over story. Then Grapko showed up and looked all pissed. Hiei totally kicked his ass. Then Hinegeshi and Anneliese appeared and they both started taking turns in totally making out with him-
Anemone: -okay this is friggen PAINFUL to read!! Jeez, Hiei! You like, didn't put ANY thought into this at ALL, did you?! It has no texture...it has no feel...it has no PLOT...!
Hiei: WHAT?! This is brilliance, woman!! Sheer genius!!
Kurama: YOU KILLED ME?! WHAT THE HELL!!
Hiei: hn...it's a story, Kitsune...
Anemone: note how he ALSO managed to kill Yusuke, a random demon, AND Grapko, as well without breaking a sweat AND mustering enough energy for a double make-out session...
Kurama: *calms down, smirk* indeed...this is pure fantasy...
Hiei: WHAT?! I could TOO take you jerks on!! I've superior strength that would leave you ALL as ashes!
Kurama: *deeper smirk* riiight...just be glad I'm your Ally, Hiei...
Hiei: I hate you...you all suck...
Anemone: *snicker* Okay now on to the REAL chapter-
Hiei: -what are you blabbering about now, woman? I wrote the whole chapter just now-
Kurama: * "accidentally" presses delete...trying not to smirk* OOPS! Did I just completely, totally, and irreversibly destroy all of Hiei's precious story? Goodness me!
Hiei: GAH!! NO! Where'd it go?! Where'd it GO?! *starts typing frantically* NO! *in his fury, accidentally blasts her computer...BOOM...the three yelp and duck, and slowly ease back to a stand...REALLY long pause, the three just staring blankly at the smoking debris of plastic, metal, and circuitry*
Hiei: uh...
Anemone: MY COMPUTER!!! HIEI YOU FREAKIN' DUMBASS!!
Hiei: *blurs away*
Anemone: *starts crying* THE FREAKIN' WORLD HATES ME!!!
Kurama: *sweatdrop* erm...*pulls out laptop* here...write the new chapter on this...
Anemone: *sniffle* okay...
Kurama: *turns to readers* the REAL, chapter 7...enjoy.
Chapter 7: Encounter
Fox and Dragon sprinted whole-heartedly for the Southern Sector, racing with the intensity of the situation.
"How slow was his blood flow?" Kurama asked sternly through paced breaths.
"Slow."
"Now is not the time to be vague, Hiei..." the fox half-growled with a narrowed expression.
"I'm not a doctor, Kitsune...medical matters have always left me vague...unless of course the means is death, which I am the master over..." he finished with a lie of a smirk, when in reality he was a bit worried for Kuwabara.
The duo rounded a narrow corner...and a crack of bone to bone snapped into the eerie silence of the Eastern Sector.
Kurama was sprawled on the floor, lying lopsidedly on top of a confused Botan. Hiei snorted in frustration, Ai–after wincing to her parents' current state–side-glancing to the Dragon with a stern expression.
"You found Kazuma?" she half-stated half-coldly as her parents struggled to ease to a stand.
"Yes and we have to tend to him now...unless of course you'd rather cause my sister and nephew pain, Kitsune!" the Dragon roared, frustration stinging his corrosive eyes dangerously acidic.
"I'm coming, Hiei!" Kurama half-growled as he assisted the startled bluette to her feet.
"What's going on? What's wrong with Kuwabara?" the ferry girl piped in her bafflement.
"LATER!" Hiei growled, tightening his fists white-knuckle tight into his partner's collar and jerking off in a blur, dragging Kurama along.
Ai and Botan stared blankly after the Dragon and Fox, both narrowing their expressions in annoyance. Ai's tail stood on end, flicking in her irritation.
"Mother, create an oar, please...it's the fastest means of following them..." Ai locked her raspberry glare to her mother's identical ones, Botan nodding primly in agreement.
"Right! I want to find out what's happening...your father hardly tells me anything anymore...!" Botan muttered in irritation of her mate. The bluette steadied her slender ivory hands before her, and allowed a flow of energy to surge from her long fingertips and into her soft palms. Her energy escaped her body as webbing, weaving and locking in dense, tight fibers...until all left was merely compact wood in the form of her signature rower.
The bluette swung it effortlessly through the air, leaping to a sit over it's side. She zoomed off, her speed spraying a mass of wind through Ai's waist-length ruby mane. The she-fox watched on, startled, having been abandoned by her mother...until the bluette screeched to a sudden halt, two-thirds of a mile down the lonely sector. She awkwardly threw an innocent, meek smile in Ai's direction, the red-head growling to herself in annoyance as she sprinted off towards her mother.
"Sorry, sweety!!" Botan grinned in embarrassment as the she-fox approached with nimble steps and animal speed. "I'm SO sorry, honey!"
"Just fly, Mother!" the red-head grunted as she skid to a halt from her bolt and leapt to a firm sit behind her ditsy mother.
"Right!!" she giggled apologetically, blasting off in flight yet again with Ai clenching firmly to the wooden rower, darkness enveloping them as they sped deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Eastern Sector in pursuit of the Senior Urimeshi Team, each member currently in the Southern Halls.
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Chocolate scanned angrily over the glossed-over street. Gakilei jerked her angry eyes upwards and let loose a shrill scream, which eased to a sickly groan as her tensed muscles fell limp. "UGH!! I cannot BELIEVE this!! Where the hell are they?!"
Yukio's caramel glare rolled in frustration. "Gakilei calm down..."
"NO! First Ai abandons us, then Ryuuhayai like, KIDNAPS Kisho! WHAT THE HELL!"
Kane's nostrils flared in a tense sigh. "C'mon, Lei...I'm sure they all had a good reason-"
"-I know DAMN well Ai left because of some demon, she's like the world's WORST liar...but what the hell?! She NEVER takes more than fifteen minutes to kick a demon's ass...and don't even get me STARTED on Ryuu...what the hell went through her head?!"
"Uncle Hiei's voice," Kane smirked knowingly, the female Urimeshi blinking slightly.
"Oh yeah..." Gakilei moaned in exhaust and annoyance. "They blew our whole night!"
"Lei...something bigger than a stupid trip to the movies has come up!" Yukio growled sternly.
"WHAT COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE "BLOOD AND GORE" MARATHON?! SIX MOVIES OF PURE UNADULTERATED VIOLENCE!!!"
Her two companions stared at her blankly, before Kane piped "You seriously should lay off the sugar, Gakilei..."
She flashed him a very Yusuke glare, both boys backing off.
"Just an opinion, Lei..." Kane blinked meekly. "Yeesh..."
"UGH!" she roared, whirling in her footing to face her comrades, both stepping back slightly in fear of her rage.
"SORRY!! SORRYSORRYSORRY!!" They both jerked into sprints away from the angered Urimeshi, who had lunged towards them in her frustration.
"Gakilei!! HEEL!!" Yukio yelled over his shoulder...but wound up angering her all the more.
"KANE!!" the punk roared for the mint-haired demi-demon. "WHAT DID HIEI TELL RYUU?! WHY DID SHE ABANDON US?!"
"I DON'T KNOW!!" He countered in fear, racing in sync with her terrified brother...the girl about to start powering up for her Spirit Sniper...
"I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW!"
"HN!" Miss Urimeshi growled...before a foreign grip bound about her torso in bruising tenseness, jerking the Detective from her rage. The tense arms woven about her stomach drew her back sharply, dragging her from her footing.
"-the hell?!" she roared as a stranger tore her from her sprint...and just out a blast of singeing ki. A flash of violet light stung to the ground she would have been standing to had this stranger not ripped her from her sprint. She blinked in shock as smoke loomed lazily from the purple attack's impact to the sidewalk.
Kane and Yukio were each frozen solid in awe...her savior was a demon! He resembled Kurama...yet...his face was longer, sharper at the chin...his skin was paler, and his hair was smoother, not as rough and bushy...though just as long and just as red. A bushy fox tail brushed against the side of his thigh, and two white-tipped fox ears flicked against his scalp.
"Who are you?!" Kane growled, sprinting to Gakilei's side and taking her protectively from the stranger's bind. He cast half-annoyed emerald eyes in the teenager's direction, but then pricked to attention.
"Get down!" he roared, whirling in his footing and shoving Kane to the right, Gakilei dragged along by the mint-haired youth's grasp to her wrist. The two fell in sync to the concrete sidewalk...and a swell of violet light stung against their eyes.
The stranger instantly clawed at the ki with his animal-like nails, shredding the energy in slits of purple light.
"Run!" the stranger growled over his tense shoulder, flashing narrowed eyes of brilliant intensity to the three teenagers. Clicking instantly from their bafflement to reality, Yukio gnarled his tense grip into Kane's sleeve and hoisted the boy to his feet, Kane in turn dragging Gakilei to a stand...the three, in slight reluctance, sprinted off, unsure if they should abandon the demon.
"Ryooki!!" another voice spat...the owner of the violet blasts. "How DARE you defy your very father! For that you shall pay!"
"Whatever, Shadow..." Ryooki growled coarsely. "You are weak...how dare YOU attack me!"
"A member of the Urimeshi team has already fallen to the strength of the Hell's Shadows! As will you, Mut!" the unseen villain snickered menacingly, throwing yet another array of violet ki.
The hybrid fox-wolf instantly slapped it to the side...the fencing it bashed against splintering and crackling to an intense, inhuman flame of royal flavor.
"That member was surrounded! You've no right to label yourselves as warriors...you scoundrels!!" Ryooki snarled viciously.
"You're a traitor, bite your tongue!" the opposite raged. "Merely coming to the living world to warn your brother endangered him and his loved ones all the more!"
"Last time I checked, death was the limit of endangerment...they were already at risk, might as well have at least tried to numb the chances a bit," the fox-wolf smirked.
"SILENCE!" Grapko's lackey roared, thrusting seven blasts of violet brilliance straight for the mut.
Onyx, caramel, and chocolate cast themselves for the scene from beyond a rift in the fencing a few yards away. Shock stained each teenagers eyes at the intensity of each blast's ki level.
"He's gonna be killed!" Gakilei growled, attempting to sprint after him.
"LEI!" her companions roared in unison, both latching to each of her slender shoulders and dragging her back.
"LET GO!" she hissed dangerously, Kane and Yukio ignoring her rants and pulling her back into the shadows as the mut stranger supposedly named Ryooki was attacked with seven shots of purple ki.
Shock swelled rabid within them, beyond the limit for each of the three to stand...the fox-wolf actually been plowed into with the enemy's ki. Three teenage expressions gaped in stunned disbelief at the fallen fox-wolf.
"What the hell?!" Gakilei stared in pure astoundment.
Kane slowly thread his arm protectively about her collarbone, drawing her steadily back into the mass of shadows he and Yukio pinned themselves within. Gakilei threw a venomously narrow glare to the mint-haired demi-demon...before she saw the aloof tint in his acute onyx eyes...they were steady to the sky, were the origin of each purple blast had formed and shot to the mut demon sprawled to the street and seeping of redness.
Kane drew the girl into the shadows, swallowing a dry lump set to the core of his throat...Yukio cast slightly confused eyes for his tall companion, seeing a troubled fear locked to his widened onyx eyes.
"Kane...?" she inquired slowly.
"...Father..." the mint-haired youth breathed slowly. "...no!...Father...!"
"Kane...?!" Yukio asked steadily, eyeing the youth with narrow sincerity. Kane held to Gakilei protectively, quivering under the corrosive intensity of the eyes of the Hell's Shadow. Telepathic taunts were stinging into Kane's head...the truth of Kazuma vs. four Hell's Shadows.
"...he's scoffing me..." he whispered slowly. "...telepathically...he's...he's...!...Father!..."
"Kane!" Gakilei roared in her confusion, whirling around and binding her arms steadily to the stunned youth's shoulders. "What is it?!"
"...the Hell's Shadows..." he whispered, his voice choking in disbelief and utter torment. "...they...they...!...Father!...!"
"What is it?! What's wrong with Kazuma?!" Yukio in turn latched to his friend's shoulder in sync with his frantic twin.
"...he can't be...he...can't...be..." the boy pulsed in mad shivers despite himself, fear, anxiety, and overwhelming pain drowning him. His eyes were stung wide, heavy breaths jerking his entire torso in strained attempts to remain conscious.
"What the hell?!" Gakilei roared. "KANE!"
"His father is dead..." a menacing tone smirked deviously to the three teenagers, the twin Urimeshi's gazing in shock to the near-invisible figure looming above.
A hiss escaped his sprawled lips as he dove for the attack...until a shot of emerald ki crackled against the air and snapped into the creature's neck, sending the now deceased corpse in a jerked motion away from the kids.
Yukio and Gakilei breathed coarsely in shock...and jerked for the origin of the blast. There Ryooki stood, seven gashes to his limbs bubbling of blood...but the narrow sincerity of his glare proved the Hell's Shadow hardly an opponent. His opened palm bound to a fist, a slight smirk twinging to the end of his lips.
"Your father isn't dead..." Ryooki breathed calmly, lacking in any motion towards the stunned demi-demon. Onyx blinked to clarity, the hopeless abyss Kane had been potentially sinking towards suddenly hardening waist-deep, the boy clicking to attention.
"He...he isn't...?!"
"Not yet..." Ryooki sighed a nostril-flaring sigh. "I must see Yoko...if I don't..." emerald locked to caramel, then shifted to chocolate, then scanned for onyx. "Not only will Kazuma be murdered...but all of your fathers."
"...what are you talking about...?" Yukio eyed the fox-wolf suspiciously.
"Let's just say some old grudges are still going strong..." the hybrid sighed slowly. "I advise you all return home and defend your mothers..."
"Why?!" Gakilei countered harshly.
"Because there is a near endless supply of Hell's Shadows..." the demon slowly tucked his slender hands to his pockets and strode away with a calm air. "...and they are after every living loved one of any member of Team Urimeshi."
"What?! Why are they after us?! Who are they?!" Gakilei gaped.
"They are mere lackeys...they themselves aren't the threat..."
"But they nearly killed Kazuma!" Yukio countered sternly. "What is happening?! Why were you fighting them?!"
"They are after my blood as they are yours, kid..." the fox-wolf continued on his leisurely way. "Merely coming here to warn my brother of the dangers stalking him...has ensured my name on their hit-list."
"Your...brother...?" Gakilei blinked in confusion.
"You're Yoko Kurama's brother...?" Yukio deduced slowly, in awkward reluctance. Ryooki tipped his chin for his shoulder, pausing in his footing for a moment. With a shadow of a smirk to brush his lips and a silent trudge onward, that ensured for the three teenagers that he was indeed an Ally.
"Watch yourselves, kids...that particular demon was actually after the three of you, but I had intervened...naturally he dragged the fight in your direction, but you'd better be on your guard..." he smirked calmly. "I won't be there to rip you from harm's way again."
And with that, he stalked away to the mist surrounding the overall street, leaving three confused teenagers.
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a/n: RYOOKI IS SO DAMN AWESOME! HE ROCKS THE WORLD! Lol...but, only in the light of made-up characters...anyway...I'm lovin' this! It's SO much better than Hiei's chapter 7 lol...so PLEASE review people! State your favorite part, and do it quickly!! Or else I shall hold the rest of this story hostage! Lol...latr!!