~Chapter 10~
~More Obstacles~

A/N: Ok all the demons in this chapter, other than those we already know, like Corana and Hiei, were donated by Flame Fox. Flame thanks for all the suggestions! It was so hard to choose, but I did choose three! You should feel so proud. I'm doing a whole chapter on fights with your demons! You just had some really great thorough ideas! Thanks so much!

Corana and Hiei ascended to the next level only to be met by yet another demon. This time she appeared to be a fox.

"Flame Fox." Corana nodded.

"Ah! Corana! Come to take back what you left so willingly all that time ago?" The demoness had shoulder length orange hair with matching fox ears and gold eyes. There was a mask covering her mouth and nose that actually came out of her skin itself and she was dressed in black from head to toe.

"Is that what Odei's been telling you?" Corana smirked. "It's amazing you can still work for someone who lies as much as that asshole."

"DEIKAZAN..." Flame Fox stressed the name. "Has never lied to us." She protested.

Corana made a snort of disbelieving disgust. "Yeah and my name's Yusuke Urimeshi." Corana rolled her eyes and swiftly drew her short swords and dashed at the fox with no warning.

Flame fox had barely enough time to dodge the attack and the swords still managed to knick her face and tear her sleeve. She landed from her dodge and growled at Corana.

"You are only trying to trick me to avoid killing me. It won't work. Not this time." She pierced her wrist with a gold dagger and pulled a black rose from the blood. Corana just stood back watching idly as it dropped and formed a shadow monster as it hit the floor.

"You are fool twice over if you think some shadow monster can defeat me." Corana smirked. Her eyes went completely black and the monster stopped in its attack of Hiei. Instead it turned on its creator and her screams pierced the night as she was destroyed by her own attack.

Corana sighed, sadly. "She used to be one of my greatest supporters too. You'd think she'd know better." She closed the demoness' eyes for her and they moved on.

They were met next by a giggle. Hovering above them were to angel spirits. ~hmm... I don't know these two.~ Corana thought. ~They're too young.~

"No you don't know us." The angel sporting chin length blue hair and large blue eyes giggled. Both their angel wings were crimson. The one who had spoken was wearing a full-length kimono with a slit up the right side all the way to the hip and long stockings underneath. "I'm Sapphire and this is my sister Ruby. We're run aways. Although she's great with fire and I'm good with water, we work best together." She giggled. Ruby had crimson hair that reached well past her shoulders that matched her wings perfectly. Her eyes were the same blue as the heart of a fire. She wore a red kimono with the sides missing and shorts underneath. Sapphire giggled again. "Ooo! You brought a cute one with you." She flew down and got in Hiei's face. "I can't wait to see what his blood looks like." She giggled again and flew back up to her sister. "What say you sis? Should we make this quick?" Ruby just nodded and they both folded their hands and triangles began to form infront of them.

"That giggle is really getting annoying." Hiei muttered.

Corana nodded. "I have to confess something Hiei. I don't know what these two are capable of. They're too young." She replied.

Hiei blinked at her. "That's just great." He replied. "I should have gone with Urimeshi."

Corana chuckled a bit. The triangles had finished forming and the angels shot them at Corana. She was trapped inside a prism. Both she and Hiei blinked in confusion. Then blue flames sprouted from the bottom, burning Corana's feet.

"Shit!" She swore and began to think fast. If there was fire there had to be air to fuel it and if there was air, she could control it and get out of here. Corana began to gather wind to her and soon the energy inside the prism was so much that I burst, freeing Corana. The sisters were stunned. Ruby recovered first and started flying around behind them to shoot arrows of fire at them as a distraction so her sister could shoot a bubble at Hiei that would engulf him and eventually suffocate him. Corana saw the bubble coming. "HIEI! JUMP!" Was all she had time to yell. He listened however and the bubble sailed straight into Ruby who was trapped in it. As Sapphire stood there shocked, Hiei drew his katana and killed her. They left Ruby trapped inside the bubble to suffocate and continued on.

The third demon they met on that level chuckled from the shadows. "It's been a long time old friend."

A wolf demon stepped from the shadows. Well he was mostly wolf demon. Everyone knew he was a quarter human but he didn't talk about the other side of his nature. He had light brown hair streaked with black and matching wolf ears. His hair was shaggy and hung in his eyes and down to about the middle of his neck. His eyes were a warm amber. He was dressed head to toe in loose, soft blacks and browns. Corana grinned in recognition. "Neko." She said fondly. "What are you doing back here? You left when I did."

"I had nowhere else to go." He shrugged. "Is it true you're attempting a hostile take over with nothing but this fire demon as aid?"

"This fire demon is Mukuro's heir Hiei. You've probably heard of him." Indeed, Neko had, for his eyes had widened. "No I'm not attempting a take over. Odei took my brother and I'm here to get him back."

Neko's eyes widened again. "You have a brother?"

"Yeah. Red hair, blue eyes, wind demon. Probably brought in a few days ago." Corana elaborated.

"Oh! Jin! He's your brother?" Neko asked.

"Aren't you two supposed to be fighting yet?" Hiei was getting bored.

Neko laughed. "I do have to fight you. I can't risk going out in the wild again." He shrugged apologetically.

"What if I say you can have this castle when I'm finished with Odei?" Corana countered.

"What if you die before killing him? Then I'm screwed." Neko shrugged.

"I won't die before killing him. I just won't it's that simple." Corana replied coldly. She slit her hand with a dagger and held it out. "I've never broken a promise. Especially not one made in blood."

Neko slit his own hand with his claw and clasped hers. "Now let's see about getting me a castle." He grinned.

A/N: I hope you like what I did with your characters. If not you're free to yell at me. Neko really spoke to me for some reason. He just seemed a lot like Corana and I thought adding him to the party could be totally cool. Now he'll make all sorts of random appearances. Perhaps I'll even write a sequel to this story and he'll have a part in there too. I just really liked him. Plus he sounds really hot right now neh? LoL. Anyways. Thanks for all the demons! Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter!