Sorry I haven't updated in almost two months! I've been lazy in planning
out the chap, but I finally got to doing it last night.
Underscores ( _these things if you don't know_) mark italics.
*I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho*
Chapter Seven: Emerald Vines
"What is it _now_ Yusuke?" Hiei asked, clearly agitated by this interruptance.
"What's up with you ditching us for HOURS in the middle of Makai, so we have zero idea of WHERE the hell we're going? Especially with and injured Kurama?" Yusuke replied, the same hint of annoyance carrying in his own voice.
"I was going to come back for you after I killed the demons we're searching for," Hiei said plainly, and turned around to leave again.
"Well then we'll just follow you!" Yusuke yelled to his back, unwilling to let Hiei have the last word. The fire demon simply continued to pursue his opponents deeper in the forest while Yusuke waited for Kuwabara and Kurama to catch up. "Are you sure you should be walking into a battle with those wounds, Kurama?"
"I'll be fine...movement isn't required for me to manipulate my plants if need be," the red head answered quietly, and motioned for them to press on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The boys followed Hiei as best they could through the thick forest, losing sight of him every so often and scaring away the birds calling his name until he came back, furious at the racket they made. Hiei's pace was grueling, most of all for Kurama. His injuries were slowing him down greatly, and he was growing more and more frustrated with himself that he couldn't side step the cuts and keep up better with his team. While they trekked through the woods he couldn't bring his mind away from the negative possibilities of him being with his friends during the up coming fight. He felt he was becoming dead weight, and would just weaken their cause because he would be the one who couldn't fend for himself. His heart clashed with his mind on the point though, as it was the nagging force urging him to be there, that he _had_ to be there for some reason. He only wished he knew what that unknown reason was so he would be able to debate whether it was worthy or not.
The clouds rumbled over head more frequently as they went through the forest, wondering how it was that the two demons had gone so far ahead so quickly. "Looks like it's gonna rain again tonight," Kuwabara complained.
"Great...that's _just_ what we need right now. What with three eyes in his 'leave me the hell alone.'" Yusuke added on to Kuwabara.
"He's just frustrated Yusuke, as the rest of us are," Kurama tried to reason.
"Yeah well I'M getting freakin' frustrated too!" the unruly boy yelled back, sending a few more birds fluttering out of their tree top perches. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Eventually Yusuke decided to stop yelling and wait for Hiei to realize they weren't behind him any longer. Kuwabara wanted to take a rest for food anyway, and Kurama had no intention of invoking Yusuke's foul mood saying they should continue. The Fox found a shaded tree to rest under while the other two teens argued over how to cook their meal without any fire to prepare it.
"They're just like children..." Kurama shook his head after Yusuke bashed Kuwabara over his head for starting to eat their ramen uncooked.
"They are aren't they?" Kurama shot forward at the sound of Chisa's voice, sparking shocks of pain from his newly bandaged injuries. He spun around to face her fully alert.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Yusuke asked her, watching her carefully, "wasn't Hiei supposed to have killed you already?"
"Aww...not happy to see me?" Chisa replied playfully as always, swinging down from the branch she was hanging upside down from, "You think that little pipsqueak of a demon could defeat me? He's barely this high!" Chisa motioned to her waist, though Hiei was far taller then that. She turned her deep red eyes from Yusuke to Kurama, and they seemed to spark in interest when his own gaze hardened to a glare. "You know, Kurama, I never expected you to be up and about so soon! Though I can see your not feeling so wonderful eh?"
"You'll be feeling far worse then I do soon, Chisa," he said back. He could faintly sense Yusuke's reiki (a/n: spirit energy) rising and concentrating in his right index finger.
_One blast from Yusuke and Chisa will be down, she can't fight efficiently without her brother judging from what Hiei told us...and if he isn't here handling her then he most likely will be dealing with Nobuaki. Hopefully..._ Kurama thought while he was trying to keep Chisa's attention on him and distracted from Yusuke's ensuing attack. The wounded boy rose to his feet unsteadily, covering the wound on his stomach lightly with his healing left arm. His free hand slid behind his rose red hair to reveal just that - a blood red rose in full bloom.
"You don't seriously think _you_ could fight me in your state do you?" Chisa crossed her arms in disbelief.
"No, but I believe he will," Kurama smiled slyly and nodded to Yusuke, who had his arm raised in his trademark position. Chisa was so set on Kurama's mockery she failed to notice him preparing for his deadly attack.
"Err..." Chisa stumbled for words, taking a step back instinctively. Yusuke fired at her straight on. She swerved out of the way at the last second, having his bullet graze her cheek, splitting strands of hair that were too slow to evade with her. "That would've blown my head off!"
"That's the point," Yusuke growled at her, his face set in a glare as he stepped towards her slowly. "Now apologize to Kurama and tell us where your sorry ass brother is and I'll try not to blow off your head again. Maybe some other limbs, but I'll leave your head alone."
"Screw this," Chisa said turning away, but bumped into Kuwabara before she could escape more then a foot.
"Coward," the tallest boy held out his hand and produced a brightly glowing reiki sword instantly.
"Stop taking the fun out of my game with the fox, okay? I don't have a problem with you losers, just him," Chisa poorly tried to reason.
"You think that we'd sit by and watch him be torn apart by you two psychos?" Kuwabara argued.
"Um...yeah?"
"Damn, your even stupider then Kuwabara," Yusuke said, and threw a punch at the demon girl.
_I'm gonna kill you Nobuaki if you don't DO something real quick here!_ Chisa pleaded angrily in her head. "Can't we talk about this like civilized people?"
"Are you feeling civilized right now Kuwabara?"
"Nope."
"You Kurama?"
"Do what you like."
"There ya have it, three for uncivilized violence like the type you inflicted on Kurama!" Yusuke yelled, shooting another bullet at her. Again she dodged, but it came even closer then the first.
_Do something!_ Chisa tried to catch her brother's attention with her thoughts.
"Nobuaki isn't aiding you anymore I believe," Kurama said, observing the apprehensive look on her face, "You can murder anyone while they're standing by idly, but having to actually work at the battle is where you fall. Your attacks are strong admittedly, but you haven't perfected them to the point that you can fight effectively against a moving target, they aren't fast enough to hit someone before they attempt to evade," the fox's analyze of Chisa's weakness got under her skin quickly.
"You think you know everything don't you?! Well just shut up and mind your own business!" she yelled to him, dodging an attack from Kuwabara..
_You know he's right though don't you?_ Nobuaki whispered hauntingly through her head.
_Jerk! Where have you been?_ Chisa scolded her younger brother.
_Avoiding the small one. Hiei was he? You know his Jagan scrambles my energy, I had to get far enough away from him so his powers wouldn't affect me,_ he explained.
_Well now that you're here DO something!_
_Yeah yeah..._
Yusuke and Kuwabara stared at Chisa's increasingly angry and impatient expression. Yusuke had to hold back a laugh, she looked like a five year old who didn't get what they wanted. "I can see your not real happy...so I'll just end this right now," he said and took a step forward. Chisa's attention redirected to him instantly, watching his feet dip in the soft green grass. She took another step back to match him every time he came closer. "Kind of scared of death and pain aren't you?" he said, raising his arm, forefinger glowing violently.
Then everything stopped.
Yusuke's arm was midway in the air, still gathering energy for his attack, completely stopped. "What the..." Yusuke cursed. He pushed his muscles to do what he wanted, but was stuck in his position.
"Urameshi! Move!" Kuwabara yelled.
"I can't dumbass! Don't you think I would've by now if I could?!" Yusuke screamed back. He was still trying to move, but failing miserably, not even getting a small shake giving all his strength to it.
"But how is that?" Kuwabara asked.
"Nobuaki," Kurama said, "Hiei must've lost him and he's helping Chisa again..."
"Can you stop figuring things out for a second?" Chisa glared at him.
"No," Kurama drew a deeper glare from her. "Gah, fine I'll have to finish her!" Kuwabara interrupted and charged at the demon girl. Chisa stood still with full confidence that he would stop dead in his tracks right in front of her. She ducked when he was close enough to bring his sword down through her head, and had already started to swing when he was stopped.
"What the hell happened? Why can't I move?!" Kuwabara yelled outraged, "I almost had her!"
"Same thing that happened to me idiot!" Yusuke yelled at him.
"Oh dear..." Chisa rose to her feet quickly, "looks like little old Kurama is the only one left not frozen...and he can't fight now can he?"
"Dammit..." Yusuke swore under his breath.
"Now who's scared boy?" she laughed confidently, and walked to Kuwabara first, "I want to play with you first..."
"Hiei where the hell are you?!" Yusuke yelled.
"Dead, but that's just my guess," Chisa absently mindedly answered, and kicked Kuwabara's stomach hard. Pain etched itself on to his face and he flew back into a nearby tree. His immobilized body went limp suddenly as he slid down to the ground. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Where is the stupid bastard?!" Hiei dashed through the woods at top speed searching for Nobuaki. The Jagan imbedded in his forehead was glowing dimly while he ran, trying to catch even a small trace of his aura to track. Hiei jumped on to a tree branch and started to travel through the trees to cover more distance quicker. The smoke gray clouds were still rumbling overhead and flashed the first stroke of lightning for the afternoon. During the blinding flash Hiei felt his Jagan pulsate strongly, sensing something north of him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Ya know, it's chats like these that make me really appreciate Nobuaki's quietness," Chisa was leaning on Yusuke's shoulder forcing all her weight on him, "At least when I talked to him long enough he'd reply to me." She had been trying to get information about the Dark Tournament finals from the boys, mostly about Kurama's match with Karasu.
"You want info? His blood was sucked by a freakin' monster plant, then he died. The end." Yusuke said purely to get her to shut up.
"Well that was nice. Why did you have to be so mean Kurama? Would you want to have met your end by being sucked dry by a plant?" Chisa turned her questions solely to Karaus's former opponent.
"Why did he want to slit my throat just to see my blood mingle with my hair?" "He had mental issues. It happens to the best of us..."
"How would you have known?" Kuwabara asked.
"He was my brother," She said simply not seeming to be distressed in the least that she was talking about someone in her family that was dead, "younger brother to be exact."
"He what?!" Yusuke yelled in awe. "Is that why you've got a death wish for Kurama?!"
"Wow your smarter then you look. So tell me Kurama, despite that fact that he had some severely strange liking for your hair and you in general, why did you kill him? You showed mercy and compassion to everyone else you fought. Besides Roto and that fishing guy."
"He was trying to blow me up. And I did not appreciate all the explosions going off half a centimeter from my body."
"Okay...I get it now...Well that was my brother, Mr.Explosions. Your know he tried to blow me up once? Stupid s.o.b. got a good beating from me for that," she said joyfully.
"You didn't like him much did you?" Kuwabara asked.
"Not really. He was kinda a jerk. Worse then Nobuaki at least. But I didn't want him to die if that's what you mean. If I was waiting for his death I wouldn't be here harassing you all now would I? Maybe thanking, but not harassing," she rambled.
"Your high," Yusuke said.
"Not real-"she started then fell on Yusuke. Yusuke's statue like state was lifted and he was free to move again, as was Kuwabara. "Nobuaki, I swear I'm gonna kill him!" she yelled while jumping to her feet.
"Hiei must be in range of him again," Kurama guessed.
"Now where were we..." Yusuke said taking the same stance he was in before Nobuaki paralyzed him and Kuwabara. "Oh yeah..." his right index finger regained it's violent glow signaling a soon to come rei gun attack. Kuwabara was still on the ground, though his spirit sword was in hand.
"Hey now, didn't we get a little closer while you were stuck?" she backed up again watching to avoid Kuwabara's legs behind her.
"While you were using me as an arm rest, throwing Kuwabara against trees and bashing Kurama because he saved his own life? Yeah we got a lot closer," Yusuke said sarcastically then took a more serious tone, "to your death." Yusuke fired his spirit gun at her for the final time. Chisa jumped barely out of the way, still being grazed by the bullet. When she landed she took another step back, and tripped. Over the few emerald green vines that were growing out of the ground that hadn't been there until the hold over Yusuke and Kuwabara had been lifted. She fell backwards on to Kuwabara.
And his shining sword. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Damn Hiei!" Nobuaki yelled when he landed in a sort of underground safe house. The walls and ground were dirt with no covering whatsoever. He ran through a series of tunnels until he reached another room like place with a large marking engraved on the floor. When he walked in the symbol started to glow. "Now that I'm safe from Hiei's damn Jagan..."
_Nobuaki..._ Chisa whispered in his head.
_What?_ he asked irritated. She knew well enough that Hiei had come in range again and to stop scolding him.
_Heh, you finally won a wager. I guess...you'll get to kill Kurama before me..._ Nobuaki was stunned at the way his sister was talking. Her voice, even though just in his mind, was rasp and abnormally quiet. Added to the fact that she had /I forfeited to him before.
_Why is that now?_
_My clumsiness...I guess if you fail to kill Kurama as well..._ Nobuaki's eyes widened.
_No, wait, what has he done?! What did they do to you?!_ he was frantic in the prospect of losing another sibling. Not again, not after what he went through after the Dark Tournament. Not after all this planning. They couldn't fail. It couldn't end, there was no way the Fox could win again. He wouldn't allow it. He waited for his sister's reply for five minutes longer. Up until the point that he could sense her life energy any longer.
Underscores ( _these things if you don't know_) mark italics.
*I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho*
Chapter Seven: Emerald Vines
"What is it _now_ Yusuke?" Hiei asked, clearly agitated by this interruptance.
"What's up with you ditching us for HOURS in the middle of Makai, so we have zero idea of WHERE the hell we're going? Especially with and injured Kurama?" Yusuke replied, the same hint of annoyance carrying in his own voice.
"I was going to come back for you after I killed the demons we're searching for," Hiei said plainly, and turned around to leave again.
"Well then we'll just follow you!" Yusuke yelled to his back, unwilling to let Hiei have the last word. The fire demon simply continued to pursue his opponents deeper in the forest while Yusuke waited for Kuwabara and Kurama to catch up. "Are you sure you should be walking into a battle with those wounds, Kurama?"
"I'll be fine...movement isn't required for me to manipulate my plants if need be," the red head answered quietly, and motioned for them to press on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The boys followed Hiei as best they could through the thick forest, losing sight of him every so often and scaring away the birds calling his name until he came back, furious at the racket they made. Hiei's pace was grueling, most of all for Kurama. His injuries were slowing him down greatly, and he was growing more and more frustrated with himself that he couldn't side step the cuts and keep up better with his team. While they trekked through the woods he couldn't bring his mind away from the negative possibilities of him being with his friends during the up coming fight. He felt he was becoming dead weight, and would just weaken their cause because he would be the one who couldn't fend for himself. His heart clashed with his mind on the point though, as it was the nagging force urging him to be there, that he _had_ to be there for some reason. He only wished he knew what that unknown reason was so he would be able to debate whether it was worthy or not.
The clouds rumbled over head more frequently as they went through the forest, wondering how it was that the two demons had gone so far ahead so quickly. "Looks like it's gonna rain again tonight," Kuwabara complained.
"Great...that's _just_ what we need right now. What with three eyes in his 'leave me the hell alone.'" Yusuke added on to Kuwabara.
"He's just frustrated Yusuke, as the rest of us are," Kurama tried to reason.
"Yeah well I'M getting freakin' frustrated too!" the unruly boy yelled back, sending a few more birds fluttering out of their tree top perches. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Eventually Yusuke decided to stop yelling and wait for Hiei to realize they weren't behind him any longer. Kuwabara wanted to take a rest for food anyway, and Kurama had no intention of invoking Yusuke's foul mood saying they should continue. The Fox found a shaded tree to rest under while the other two teens argued over how to cook their meal without any fire to prepare it.
"They're just like children..." Kurama shook his head after Yusuke bashed Kuwabara over his head for starting to eat their ramen uncooked.
"They are aren't they?" Kurama shot forward at the sound of Chisa's voice, sparking shocks of pain from his newly bandaged injuries. He spun around to face her fully alert.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Yusuke asked her, watching her carefully, "wasn't Hiei supposed to have killed you already?"
"Aww...not happy to see me?" Chisa replied playfully as always, swinging down from the branch she was hanging upside down from, "You think that little pipsqueak of a demon could defeat me? He's barely this high!" Chisa motioned to her waist, though Hiei was far taller then that. She turned her deep red eyes from Yusuke to Kurama, and they seemed to spark in interest when his own gaze hardened to a glare. "You know, Kurama, I never expected you to be up and about so soon! Though I can see your not feeling so wonderful eh?"
"You'll be feeling far worse then I do soon, Chisa," he said back. He could faintly sense Yusuke's reiki (a/n: spirit energy) rising and concentrating in his right index finger.
_One blast from Yusuke and Chisa will be down, she can't fight efficiently without her brother judging from what Hiei told us...and if he isn't here handling her then he most likely will be dealing with Nobuaki. Hopefully..._ Kurama thought while he was trying to keep Chisa's attention on him and distracted from Yusuke's ensuing attack. The wounded boy rose to his feet unsteadily, covering the wound on his stomach lightly with his healing left arm. His free hand slid behind his rose red hair to reveal just that - a blood red rose in full bloom.
"You don't seriously think _you_ could fight me in your state do you?" Chisa crossed her arms in disbelief.
"No, but I believe he will," Kurama smiled slyly and nodded to Yusuke, who had his arm raised in his trademark position. Chisa was so set on Kurama's mockery she failed to notice him preparing for his deadly attack.
"Err..." Chisa stumbled for words, taking a step back instinctively. Yusuke fired at her straight on. She swerved out of the way at the last second, having his bullet graze her cheek, splitting strands of hair that were too slow to evade with her. "That would've blown my head off!"
"That's the point," Yusuke growled at her, his face set in a glare as he stepped towards her slowly. "Now apologize to Kurama and tell us where your sorry ass brother is and I'll try not to blow off your head again. Maybe some other limbs, but I'll leave your head alone."
"Screw this," Chisa said turning away, but bumped into Kuwabara before she could escape more then a foot.
"Coward," the tallest boy held out his hand and produced a brightly glowing reiki sword instantly.
"Stop taking the fun out of my game with the fox, okay? I don't have a problem with you losers, just him," Chisa poorly tried to reason.
"You think that we'd sit by and watch him be torn apart by you two psychos?" Kuwabara argued.
"Um...yeah?"
"Damn, your even stupider then Kuwabara," Yusuke said, and threw a punch at the demon girl.
_I'm gonna kill you Nobuaki if you don't DO something real quick here!_ Chisa pleaded angrily in her head. "Can't we talk about this like civilized people?"
"Are you feeling civilized right now Kuwabara?"
"Nope."
"You Kurama?"
"Do what you like."
"There ya have it, three for uncivilized violence like the type you inflicted on Kurama!" Yusuke yelled, shooting another bullet at her. Again she dodged, but it came even closer then the first.
_Do something!_ Chisa tried to catch her brother's attention with her thoughts.
"Nobuaki isn't aiding you anymore I believe," Kurama said, observing the apprehensive look on her face, "You can murder anyone while they're standing by idly, but having to actually work at the battle is where you fall. Your attacks are strong admittedly, but you haven't perfected them to the point that you can fight effectively against a moving target, they aren't fast enough to hit someone before they attempt to evade," the fox's analyze of Chisa's weakness got under her skin quickly.
"You think you know everything don't you?! Well just shut up and mind your own business!" she yelled to him, dodging an attack from Kuwabara..
_You know he's right though don't you?_ Nobuaki whispered hauntingly through her head.
_Jerk! Where have you been?_ Chisa scolded her younger brother.
_Avoiding the small one. Hiei was he? You know his Jagan scrambles my energy, I had to get far enough away from him so his powers wouldn't affect me,_ he explained.
_Well now that you're here DO something!_
_Yeah yeah..._
Yusuke and Kuwabara stared at Chisa's increasingly angry and impatient expression. Yusuke had to hold back a laugh, she looked like a five year old who didn't get what they wanted. "I can see your not real happy...so I'll just end this right now," he said and took a step forward. Chisa's attention redirected to him instantly, watching his feet dip in the soft green grass. She took another step back to match him every time he came closer. "Kind of scared of death and pain aren't you?" he said, raising his arm, forefinger glowing violently.
Then everything stopped.
Yusuke's arm was midway in the air, still gathering energy for his attack, completely stopped. "What the..." Yusuke cursed. He pushed his muscles to do what he wanted, but was stuck in his position.
"Urameshi! Move!" Kuwabara yelled.
"I can't dumbass! Don't you think I would've by now if I could?!" Yusuke screamed back. He was still trying to move, but failing miserably, not even getting a small shake giving all his strength to it.
"But how is that?" Kuwabara asked.
"Nobuaki," Kurama said, "Hiei must've lost him and he's helping Chisa again..."
"Can you stop figuring things out for a second?" Chisa glared at him.
"No," Kurama drew a deeper glare from her. "Gah, fine I'll have to finish her!" Kuwabara interrupted and charged at the demon girl. Chisa stood still with full confidence that he would stop dead in his tracks right in front of her. She ducked when he was close enough to bring his sword down through her head, and had already started to swing when he was stopped.
"What the hell happened? Why can't I move?!" Kuwabara yelled outraged, "I almost had her!"
"Same thing that happened to me idiot!" Yusuke yelled at him.
"Oh dear..." Chisa rose to her feet quickly, "looks like little old Kurama is the only one left not frozen...and he can't fight now can he?"
"Dammit..." Yusuke swore under his breath.
"Now who's scared boy?" she laughed confidently, and walked to Kuwabara first, "I want to play with you first..."
"Hiei where the hell are you?!" Yusuke yelled.
"Dead, but that's just my guess," Chisa absently mindedly answered, and kicked Kuwabara's stomach hard. Pain etched itself on to his face and he flew back into a nearby tree. His immobilized body went limp suddenly as he slid down to the ground. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Where is the stupid bastard?!" Hiei dashed through the woods at top speed searching for Nobuaki. The Jagan imbedded in his forehead was glowing dimly while he ran, trying to catch even a small trace of his aura to track. Hiei jumped on to a tree branch and started to travel through the trees to cover more distance quicker. The smoke gray clouds were still rumbling overhead and flashed the first stroke of lightning for the afternoon. During the blinding flash Hiei felt his Jagan pulsate strongly, sensing something north of him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Ya know, it's chats like these that make me really appreciate Nobuaki's quietness," Chisa was leaning on Yusuke's shoulder forcing all her weight on him, "At least when I talked to him long enough he'd reply to me." She had been trying to get information about the Dark Tournament finals from the boys, mostly about Kurama's match with Karasu.
"You want info? His blood was sucked by a freakin' monster plant, then he died. The end." Yusuke said purely to get her to shut up.
"Well that was nice. Why did you have to be so mean Kurama? Would you want to have met your end by being sucked dry by a plant?" Chisa turned her questions solely to Karaus's former opponent.
"Why did he want to slit my throat just to see my blood mingle with my hair?" "He had mental issues. It happens to the best of us..."
"How would you have known?" Kuwabara asked.
"He was my brother," She said simply not seeming to be distressed in the least that she was talking about someone in her family that was dead, "younger brother to be exact."
"He what?!" Yusuke yelled in awe. "Is that why you've got a death wish for Kurama?!"
"Wow your smarter then you look. So tell me Kurama, despite that fact that he had some severely strange liking for your hair and you in general, why did you kill him? You showed mercy and compassion to everyone else you fought. Besides Roto and that fishing guy."
"He was trying to blow me up. And I did not appreciate all the explosions going off half a centimeter from my body."
"Okay...I get it now...Well that was my brother, Mr.Explosions. Your know he tried to blow me up once? Stupid s.o.b. got a good beating from me for that," she said joyfully.
"You didn't like him much did you?" Kuwabara asked.
"Not really. He was kinda a jerk. Worse then Nobuaki at least. But I didn't want him to die if that's what you mean. If I was waiting for his death I wouldn't be here harassing you all now would I? Maybe thanking, but not harassing," she rambled.
"Your high," Yusuke said.
"Not real-"she started then fell on Yusuke. Yusuke's statue like state was lifted and he was free to move again, as was Kuwabara. "Nobuaki, I swear I'm gonna kill him!" she yelled while jumping to her feet.
"Hiei must be in range of him again," Kurama guessed.
"Now where were we..." Yusuke said taking the same stance he was in before Nobuaki paralyzed him and Kuwabara. "Oh yeah..." his right index finger regained it's violent glow signaling a soon to come rei gun attack. Kuwabara was still on the ground, though his spirit sword was in hand.
"Hey now, didn't we get a little closer while you were stuck?" she backed up again watching to avoid Kuwabara's legs behind her.
"While you were using me as an arm rest, throwing Kuwabara against trees and bashing Kurama because he saved his own life? Yeah we got a lot closer," Yusuke said sarcastically then took a more serious tone, "to your death." Yusuke fired his spirit gun at her for the final time. Chisa jumped barely out of the way, still being grazed by the bullet. When she landed she took another step back, and tripped. Over the few emerald green vines that were growing out of the ground that hadn't been there until the hold over Yusuke and Kuwabara had been lifted. She fell backwards on to Kuwabara.
And his shining sword. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Damn Hiei!" Nobuaki yelled when he landed in a sort of underground safe house. The walls and ground were dirt with no covering whatsoever. He ran through a series of tunnels until he reached another room like place with a large marking engraved on the floor. When he walked in the symbol started to glow. "Now that I'm safe from Hiei's damn Jagan..."
_Nobuaki..._ Chisa whispered in his head.
_What?_ he asked irritated. She knew well enough that Hiei had come in range again and to stop scolding him.
_Heh, you finally won a wager. I guess...you'll get to kill Kurama before me..._ Nobuaki was stunned at the way his sister was talking. Her voice, even though just in his mind, was rasp and abnormally quiet. Added to the fact that she had /I forfeited to him before.
_Why is that now?_
_My clumsiness...I guess if you fail to kill Kurama as well..._ Nobuaki's eyes widened.
_No, wait, what has he done?! What did they do to you?!_ he was frantic in the prospect of losing another sibling. Not again, not after what he went through after the Dark Tournament. Not after all this planning. They couldn't fail. It couldn't end, there was no way the Fox could win again. He wouldn't allow it. He waited for his sister's reply for five minutes longer. Up until the point that he could sense her life energy any longer.