Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. I wish I owned Hiei though. *sigh*

A/N: These are what the symbols mean: 'Reiluka's thoughts' ~Reiluka's brains thoughts~ The same thing with Hiei's thoughts. Its' pretty weird.

Raining Cats and Demons

Chapter Thirteen: Boat Ride

Reiluka, Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwabara were standing in the middle of the woods with a bunch f demons around them. Kuwabara was freaked out. (A/N: I don't think he was like that in the show but I'm making him that way now.)
"Hey! I smell a human over there!" One of the demons said.

"*laughs*Maybe he is our dinner!" Another demon said. Reiluka sighed as Kuwabara started yelling about Yusuke being late.

"Where the hell is Urameshi! I'm gonna kill him if he doesn't get here soon!" And on and on Kuwabara went. Reiluka glanced at Hiei out of the corner of her eye. 'He sure is cute when he's serious. Wait a minute! What the heck am I thinking! Demons don't love! And Hiei is not cute. ~He's gorgeous.~ Reiluka's brain told her. 'He is not!' ~Admit it; you have a crush on Hiei!~ 'Do not!' ~Do too!~ 'Do not!' ~Do not!~ 'Do too!' ~See? You just admitted it!~ 'Oh, shut up.' Reiluka sighed outwardly as she finished her 'conversation' with her brain. Meanwhile Hiei was having a similar talk with his Jagan eye. 'I can't believe I am having a conversation about how cute Reiluka is.' "Cute." Reiluka and the others looked at him. 'OMG! Did I just say that out loud!' ~Yes. Now admit your love for Reiluka.~

"What did you say Hiei?" Reiluka asked him. Hiei looked at her nervously.

"I didn't say anything!" He snapped. All of the demons turned to look at the small group. A few of them eyed Reiluka.

"A female hanyou. How interesting." One of the demons remarked. The demon that spoke walked over to Reiluka.

"Hello sugar. How about me and you hook up later. I can give you one hell of a time." He asked her. Hiei suddenly found himself wanting to rip out the demons throat. 'What the heck? Why do I feel like that?' He wondered as he watched the scene unfold.

"You had better back off before I kill you." Reiluka hissed. Unfortunately, the demon didn't hear her. He walked over to Reiluka and was about to grab her when he suddenly found himself in a tree. "What the hell?" He said stupidly. The demons backed away from him as they saw Reiluka walking over to them.

"No one tries anything with me, got it? Next time you won't be so lucky and you'll be missing a head." With that Reiluka calmly walked back to her group. Hiei smirked. 'Tough kitten.' He thought as he watched Kuwabara stare at her. A voice broke through his thoughts.

"The ship be here mates'! Let's try to board without fighting!" The ship's captain yelled.

"Uh, excuse me sir, we're still missing a teammate." Kuwabara asked the captain.

"Well, then we be sending out a hit man. Standard rule of the tournament."
"Now, now, that won't be necessary!" Yusuke said as walked into the clearing.

"Urameshi! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Kuwabara yelled. Yusuke leaned against a tree.

"Whew. Those forest hikes sure wipe you out!" Yusuke muttered.

"Yeah, you look awful. Oh wait, that's just you!" Kuwabara laughed. Reiluka rolled her eyes. Hiei walked up to Yusuke.

"Yusuke." He said before he pulled out his sword and started swinging it. Reiluka watched as Yusuke expertly dodged each of Hiei's attacks.

"It seems that Yusuke has improved a bit." Kurama said as he watched the two.

"A little bit, I say a lot a bit! I can barely keep up with them!" Kuwabara said as he stared.

"Don't worry. You have improved also if you can see them." Kurama told Kuwabara.
"Is that how you greet someone now Hiei?" Yusuke asked as they stopped fighting. "Hn."

"Enough with the pesky distractions! Let's be going now!" The ship's captain roared. Reiluka than noticed the small fighter next to Yusuke.

"Yusuke, is that our sixth fighter?" Reiluka asked while looking at the small fighter.
"You've got to be kidding me! He's even shorter than Hiei!" Kuwabara yelled as he too, looked at the fighter.

"Trust me. That one there is going to be very helpful to us." Yusuke said as he boarded the ship.

"I don't know. He doesn't even come up to my waist." Kuwabara said thoughtfully.(Wow!)

"Hurry up and board the ship you baka!" Hiei shouted.

"Hey! What'd you call me shrimp!" And with that Kuwabara and Hiei launched into another escapade of verbal insults. Reiluka sighed again as she sat down. She noticed that Yusuke had fallen asleep. 'I wouldn't blame him. If I went through that much training I would be sleeping too.' Reiluka thought as she remembered Botan's words.

*FLASHBACK*

"Now Reiluka, Yusuke is going back to train with Genkai so he will be very tired." Botan said.

"I know, I know. Keep a watch on him. But what for?" Reiluka asked. Botan hesitated.

"Well, Koenma said that I couldn't tell you yet. But just watch out for him okay?"
"Alright, I'll be his babysitter. But if that toddler tells me one more thing to do than I'm quitting his team!" Reiluka growled.

"Thank You so much Reiluka! Now get going!" Botan said as she hugged her friend goodbye.

*END FLASHBACK*

Soon Reiluka started to doze off too. That is, until she heard a voice. She glanced up at the captain. 'What is he going to make us do now?" She thought angrily.

"Only one more team can compete in the Dark Tournament. So we will have the preliminary rounds on this boat." As he said that the boat started shaking.

"Earthquake!" Kuwabara yelled.

"Baka! There can't be earthquakes on the water!" Hiei snarled. A huge ring was now in the center of the boat. Reiluka stared at it with disinterest.

"Everyone send up your best fighter to the ring!" The captain shouted. Kuwabara walked over to Yusuke. "Hey Urameshi! Get up there and fight!" He shouted as he shook Yusuke. When no response came he shook harder. "DID YOU HEAR ME URAMESHI! I SAID GET UP!"
"Fool! Will you shut up! Yusuke's sleeping." Hiei growled.

"Yes. It is best that we leave him alone. The training that he went through must have been intense." Kurama said. Kuwabara finally gave up on trying to wake up Yusuke.

"Well then, I'll just have to be the leader!" Kuwabara stated loudly.

"Oh, brother." Reiluka muttered under her breath.

"What'd you say shorty!" Kuwabara yelled at Reiluka. Just then two large demons came up behind Reiluka. Kuwabara looked up at them.

"Um, these demons look a lot bigger up close." He said nervously.

"Who's going to fight?" Hiei asked. Kurama pointed.

"There seems to be a volunteer." He said as the masked fighter jumped up into the ring.

"Good. Now I will get to see what he can do." Hiei said as he smirked.

"What do we do if the little guy loses?" Kuwabara asked.

"Simple. We just kill all of the demons on this ship and say that we are the winning team." Hiei told him. Reiluka watched all of this from where she was sitting on the ground. Then the group watched as all of the demons ganged up on the masked fighter and backed her up into a corner.

"Oh no! The little guys backed himself into a corner!" Kuwabara yelled. Then as the demons attacked the masked fighter put his hands together to form the spirit gun. A blue blast shot out of his hands and killed all of the demons. Then the masked fighter hopped out of the ring and walked back to the group.
"Hey little guy! That was great!" Kuwabara said as he ran up to the masked fighter. The masked fighter pointed behind Kuwabara. He turned around as all of the leftover demons closed in on them. "Hey! We won fair and square!" Kuwabara shouted.

"Hn. It seems as though they have stolen my idea. For that they shall pay dearly." Hiei said as he pulled out his katana. Kurama pulled out his rose whip. Hiei then turned to Reiluka.

"Aren't you going to fight?" He asked. Reiluka yawned.

"No, you guys can kill 'em. I'm going to take a nap." And with that she put up a barrier around her and fell asleep. Hiei just shrugged his shoulders. Then the fight began.(A/N: I'm not going to go into details. They just fought the demons.) After about five minutes Kuwabara killed the last demon. "Hey? Where did all of the demon's go?" He asked.

"There all dead." Hiei said as he seated himself next to Reiluka who had taken down her barrier, sensing that the fight was done. The rest of the boat ride was without worry.

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I think this was my longest chapter yet! My wrists are really sore. I would like to thank all of my reviewers right now! Thanks so much! *H&K* Anyways, I'll get the next chapter out as soon as I can. Oh yeah, Reiluka will wake up in the next chapter; she doesn't sleep as long as Yusuke. Please review and send me some ideas! Thanks! Animechick8