~Chapter 15~
~The Black Widower~

A/N: Wow you guys make it a pleasure to open my email every day...Well actually your praise has gotten me so happy I'm checking it even more often than that. LOL..yes I'm a nerd! No I do not care. Anyways, this demon was donated by a certain Rina Mitsui. Thanks for the demon Rina and I hope all you readers enjoy!

The three demons kept walking cautiously through the castle. It'd been awhile since they'd encountered any demons and they knew SOMEthing nasty had to be waiting on them.

Corana being the leader, walked right into the trap, unable to see or sense the strings of youki that barred their way. "Get Back!" She yelled at the other two. "Be careful!"

"What's wrong?" Hiei demanded.

"I'm stuck. Like I'm in some kind of giant-"

"Spiderweb?" a silky smooth masculine voice interrupted her.

Their next opponent came down from the ceiling and landed between Corana and her two companions. "My my...haven't we caught a tasty morsel." He practically purred at Corana. He was dressed in a black trench coat left open to reveal his bare stomach that had a red hourglass mark on it. His pants and shoes were also black.

She growled and bit at him, being essentially helpless. "Who the fuck are you?" She demanded.

"Oh my! Where are my manners?" he replied in a voice dripping with fake concern. "My name is Imoureym. And I shall kill you now." He chuckled low and created a thin strand of webbing that he circled around Corana's throat and began to choke her with.

"A...little help..boys.." She grunted.

Neko was the first to react and he tackled the spider hanyou and raised his claws for the kill, but the hanyou used a blast of those invisible youki strings that blew him back and fastened him tightly to the wall.

During the distraction, Corana had used spirit energy to burn through the strings, much in the same way Yusuke had against Rando though probably more controlled. She fell to the ground panting.

"Oh so you want to have a little fun before you die?" Imoureym chuckled. "Fine. I'm up for a game." He disappeared to the ceiling. "See if you can find me before I kill you." His voice echoed.

Corana growled in the direction of the ceiling. "Coward! You must be weak to need traps and evasion to fight us. I will not be killed by such a weak thing as you." The answer he gave was a lashing of his webbing across her stomach, just a scratch enough to start bleeding.

"I will not tolerate insolence from my food. Watch what you say if you wish to live longer." His voice echoed again.

"Hiei." Corana hissed. "Can you sense anything?"

Hiei removed his bandana for the first time since arriving and his Jagan glowed green.

"My my my. Isn't that a well-kept secret?" Imoureym chuckled and sent a lashing of webbing straight for the Jagan.

Corana, anticipating an attack on Hiei's Jagan, dashed infront of him and received the brunt of the attack right through her left shoulder blade. She gritted her teeth against the pain and her threw her eyes ceilingward, sending her awareness to place their adversary.

Finally, she pinpointed him as he sent another lashing out, this time toward Neko. A well-thrown dagger deflected the brunt of the attack and his shoulder was merely grazed. Blood was flowing freely from Corana's shoulder and the scratch on her stomach had begun to itch as the blood dried. She needed to end this fast. He'd stopped again, this time aiming another attack at Corana. She and Hiei both leapt out of the way and the attack left a hole in the floor.

~It seems he needs to stop in order to attack.~ Corana thought to herself. The next time she felt him stop, she wasted no time getting air born. She saw the look of surprise on his face as she swung her short sword and severed his head from his neck. Both pieces fell to the floor. The strings holding Neko to the wall disappeared and he fell to the floor. Corana landed heavily and taking off the bandages on her left hand, she wrapped them around her shoulder.

"Will you be ok to continue?" Neko asked concerned, whether for his own future prospects or for her actual well being who knows.

Corana gritted her fangs and nodded. "I don't have a choice now do I?" Came her curt reply as she led the way onward and upward. She'd used up too much energy breaking through the web and this shoulder would hinder her, but she HAD to get to Jin. She just HAD to. ******
The weakened Darktydes hindered Yusuke and the gang. Their progress became slow, as they had to halt often for her to rest. Apparently, the purging and the dying and coming back to life, really takes a lot out of a soul. Everyone felt the constraints of time and soon Kuwabara was assigned to carry Darktydes so the group wouldn't fall too far behind.

Both parties were creeping closer and closer to their goal. But could they make it in time for the Wind Master?

A/N: LOL...wow I'm just on a roll today. That last sentence really sounds like something the tacky announcer for Yu Yu Hakusho would say. I didn't even mean to write something like that, but now it's kinda funny to me. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this installment of my fic! Our heroines and heroes are almost to Deikazan. I have grand plans for THAT installment. All I can say is ya'll are gonna hate me. Oh and Rina! I changed the red hourglass on the black shirt to actually being like a birthmark on his skin. I just thought it sounded a bit cooler. Feel free to yell at me if you hate it.