Chapter 22

Hiei: Another chapter...

dreamturtle: Uh-huh.

Kurama: Bored?

Hiei and dreamturtle: Yeah...

Kurama: Um, k...

Hiei and dreamturtle: Sigh...

Kurama: Hiei? You ok?

Hiei: Fine.

Yusuke: He's not ok.

Kuwabara: How could you tell?

Kurama: He did not say Hn.

Yusuke: Noticeable. Hey turtle, what is up?

dreamturtle: Boredom.

Hiei: That girl named Shade still wont update her story.

Kurama: What story?

dreamturtle: I have sent her a review but she still won't update! Sigh...

Hiei: That baka will not and has not yet updated her story: The
Shadowed Past.

Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara: Ok...

Hiei and dreamturtle: SHADY! If your there or at least a friend of
hers, tell her to UPDATE!!

Some people: We won't!

Good people: We will!

Chapter 21

Too late

"FIRE!"

Instantly, the armored helicopters fired the outer wall of the stadium and the soldiers fired their weapons at Hiei and Kurama. The two tried dodging the bullets even with their wounds.

Hanma wasn't kidding, Hiei thought, These men are all trained.

"Kurama! Watch out!" Hiei called to Kurama who was about to be hit at the back. Too late, he got hit.

"YAAAAAAAGHHHHH!" Kurama shouted as he slowly landed to the ground. Slowly, slowly...

Hiei quickly tried to run to his partner. I could reach him before he reaches the ground and those spikes! he thought urgently as he sliced demons one by one. Too late, Kurama was getting closer and closer to those spikes and death.

"KURAMA!!!!!" Hiei shouted. There was a white blur and Hiei blinked. Kurama was not in the spikes.

"Do you know what I describe you Hiei?" Yusuke said from behind, "A baka. You hardly left anything for us."

Hiei turned to Yusuke and a look of relief washed his face. The firing had stopped for the meantime. Behind Yusuke were thousands of soldiers and tanks, all ready for battle.

Yusuke grinned. "Like it?" he said. Pu came there and transformed into the giant bird forming a great energy shield on all the soldiers of Yusuke and Hiei. The enemy demons fired fruitlessly.

"Arigato Yusuke..." Kurama said as he fainted at last in peace. Yusuke nodded at Kurama's sleeping figure.

"Daidojo!" Yusuke called. Instantly, a human came and saluted to Yusuke.

"Sir!" Daidojo said.

"Bring this Kurama to safety." Yusuke said handing Kurama over to him. "And mind you, don't you harm him or a certain green creature with too many eyes will hunt you before you sleep." he warned. Hiei grinned at the comment.

Daidojo looked confused but stood up military style while carrying Kurama, "Sir, yes, sir!" he said before scuttling away to bring Kurama in a safe place.

"If I'm not mistaken, that was a human." Hiei said as he watched Daidojo disappear, "Ningens are not allowed to participate in army matters such as this except for special occasions. If they do, we do it in so little number."

"Hiei, I'd like you to meet Mahan Gozen, a retired general. He owns most of the armies in here and gave them most to me at my command." Yusuke bragged. A man a head two heads taller than Yusuke appeared from behind. He had a moustache, black hair, and wore a general's uniform. Hiei was deeply impressed by the medals embedded in his uniform.

"Mahan Gozen." The muscled man said as he reached a hand to Hiei. Hiei looked up to him and at the hand.

"Hiei Jaganshi." he said and they both shook hands.

"So Hiei, are you ready to fight?" Mukuru said form behind. Hiei smirked.

"And here I was thinking that it would be Kurama and I who would be saving the world." Hiei said sarcastically. It wasn't meant to hurt anyone's feelings and everyone there got the message.

"For the humans!" a ningen soldier shouted in the crowd.

"Yeah!" demons and humans shouted alike.

"Emotional creatures humans are, right Hiei?" Mukuru said as he faced Hiei.

"Hn." Then his eyes opened wide in remembrance, "Yukina!" he said. Tena! Sumiko! his mind suddenly raced to what Hanma could have done to his precious Yukina.

"Hiei! Where are you going?" Yusuke shouted to Hiei who was running inside the stadium. The firing of the tanks stopped as the pilots were looking at the new reinforcements of the two beings that nearly killed them all.

Hiei did not answer. "Kuwabara," Mukuru said, "Follow Hiei."

"Uh, why me?" Kuwabara wailed.

"Because it's you, you invertibrat!" Yusuke said as he kicked Kuwabara inside the stadium.

"YOU WILL Pay for this...." Kuwabara yelled as he flew inside the stadium.

"Ready Mukuru? Mahan?" Yusuke asked as he assumed in fighting stance. Mukuru nodded. Mahan readied his gun and hid in a tree. All the soldiers were ready. Yusuke had surrounded the area with soldiers and Mahan had ordered a national alarm. Everything was set.

"All right then!" Yusuke shouted, "Poo! Bring the barrier down!"

"Pooooo!!!" Poo said as he slowly let the energy field down and flapped away. He then settled to make an energy field around the stadium. Some of Yusuke's men had gone inside the stadium to keep the fans of T-41 in one place, the main hall.

Yusuke and Mukuru faced their enemies that were both demons and humans. As of now, the winning chances are undetermined, however, in a few more minutes, the noticeable winners may win.

***
"Hiei! Wait up!" Kuwabara called as he panted to catch up with Hiei. The corridors were empty as Yusuke's men had done a great job secluding the people in one place.

"Hurry up baka!" Hiei called. Then he stopped, causing Kuwabara to trip over Hiei.

"Hn. Baka." Hiei said as he rubbed his head. Then he looked at the door beside him. It read the words: "Conference Room." Hiei thought that he heard someone there.

"What's wrong Hiei?" Kuwabara asked him. Hiei placed a finger in his mouth. Slowly he opened the door and before any guard could react, he killed them all.

"Hmfiei! Kwafara!" Shizuru, Keiko, and Botan called to the two of them. He looked to the side, saw the three girls in a cage, and tied up. Using his sword, he cut the bars of the cage and the ropes and handkerchiefs that tied them up.

"Good air!" Botan said as he breathed the air.

"Where are Sumiko and Yukina?" Hiei asked, his sword on Botan's throat. He received a slap from Shizuru.

"Oh, wow." Kuwabara commented when he saw what had happened.

"Don't you dare threaten a girl like that!" Shizuru said as she lit her cigarette. "As for Sumiko and Yukina, I don't know. The boy brought them somewhere." she said as she made a puff in her cigarette.

"Will this help?" Kuwabara said as he held up a guy with bulging pockets. Hiei slashed the pockets and out and out fell pearls. Yukina's tears.

"BAKA!" Kuwabara and Hiei both shouted as they pinned the man in his late thirties in the wall. The man gave a squeak that you can hear from businessmen who cheat.

"Where is Yukina?" Hiei demanded.

"Where is Sumiko?" Kuwabara demanded.

"Where is Sumiko?" Hiei demanded again.

"Where is Yukina?" Kuwabara demanded again.

Shizuru, Botan, and Keiko stared dumbfounded. "Uh..." was all they could say as the businessman was tied by an angry brother and cousin and two 'lovers'

"Well..."

"SPEAK!" Hiei said as he gave him a dangerous jolt.

"Um..."

"Talk now or you'll live to regret it!" Kuwabara threatened as he held his fist up.

"Um you won't scare me with that?" the businessperson said. Kuwabara punched him in the face.

"Ok, I'll tell you where!" he said as he finally gave in, "They're down there that garbage chute!" Hiei and Kuwabara both raised their eyebrows and looked through the garbage can. No trash. It seemed like a slide down.

"You're going with us." Hiei said as he carried the really heavy man (with the help of Kuwabara of course).

"No! No! Please! I'll do anything! I'll give you money, um, girls! Ow. Ok never mind, ANYTHING!" the guy shrieked.

"Fit in the garbage chute, that's all I want." Hiei said as he threw the man in.

"NOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo00000oooooo" he shouted.

"After you." Kuwabara said as he gave way to Hiei.

"No, after you." Hiei said.

"No, go ahead!" Shizuru said as she pushed them down the garbage can.

"AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa111111hhhh!""

"KUWABAra will you quit ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt"

Shizuru: Not bad.

***
"Let me go!" Sumiko shouted as she struggled to get free from Hanma and Antiochi's grasp. "Let. Me. Go! Man! Is that so hard to understand that?"

"For a starter, your not that bad." Antiochi commented as he tied Sumiko up.

"Uh, what are you doing? Why are you tying me to the floor?" Sumiko asked as the two tied her down.

"To call Tena." Antiochi said simply. "When I get to do it, your spirit will be erased forever." he said.

"I'm gonna die now right?" Sumiko asked Hanma. Hanma nodded. "Can I ask one thing to your son?"

Hanma looked surprised. "Well, I don't usually grant requests however, I think I can allow this one." Hanma said as he headed away from the two. From the looks of it, he seemed to be busy tying Yukina for her tears (Yukina is unconscious again) but he was also listening.

"Uh, Antiochi?" Sumiko asked.

"That was what you wanted to ask?" he joked.

"No! Wait give me one more try!" she said.

"Ok then."

"How old are you?"

"What kind of question is that?"

"I wanted to know. You see, Hiei looks like he's sixteen or twenty or something but he's more than a thousand years old! (I checked that out in the series) I'm trying to see if my hunch is correct that you are older than how you look like." Sumiko said.

"Why would I release vital information to you?" he asked.

"I'm gonna die right?"

"You have a point. Ok, I'm younger than Hiei. Tena's my older sister and I'm five hundred seven." he said.

"Is that young for a demon?" Sumiko asked. Antiochi nodded.

Hanma smiled to himself. Maybe, he could make Tena out of her body and create another body for my precious Tena. It is the first time I have seen Antiochi like this. he thought.

"Father? The ritual?" Antiochi said now that Sumiko was done asking a question.

"Um, one last favor?" Sumiko asked.

"Ok." Hanma said.

"Can I sing one last song?" she said. Hanma and Antiochi looked at each other in confusion.

"What song?" they both asked.

"A nursery rhyme."

"Ok."

She started: "There were a million in the bed and the little one said, 'roll over roll over...'..."

Seven minutes later:

"There were eight hundred ninety eight in the bed and the little one said 'roll over roll over,..."

"Father, I think she just tricked us." Antiochi said as he and his father watched Sumiko sing the nursery rhyme that saved a many soldiers when one sang it.

Hanma nodded.

Fifteen minutes later...

"There.... was......... no.............. one.........." Sumiko said very slowly.

"Take your time." Hanma said.

Sumiko gulped. "Oh fine!!!!! The song is done! Do the ritual thing already." she said her face pouted.

"Now, now Sumiko, don't get too angry." Antiochi said as he knelt beside her, "Don't worry, I'll try to make it as painless as possible." he said. Sumiko huffed even more.

"Um, one last request?" she asked meekly.

"NO!" the two said at the same time.

"T'was just trying. You didn't have to get mad..." Sumiko said.

"Goodbye Sumiko." Antiochi said.

"Bah-bye." Sumiko said as she tried to wave her tied arms to him. Antiochi was so sure that he would miss this girl. He took out an ancient Filipino chant.

"Hey, isn't that Filipino?" she asked. The two nodded.

"I learned this as I searched some forgotten ruins (warning: I just invented this) and I found it. It was what father used to revive me." Antiochi explained.

"Oh. K, bah-bye!" Sumiko said. Antiochi felt sorry that her soul had to perish.

"Bye." he said. He held out the Filipino scroll in front of him. He held out an ancient sword called the Sagradong Espada (Sacred Sword) [oh yeah, to those Filipinos who read Funny Komiks and read A.X. chapter two, a Filipino-'anime' story, you'll get that it was Ezuna who held that sword. Oh wait, was it the green-haired cute guy named Hikaru?]

Using his telekinesis, a star appeared on his forehead and he lifted the Sagradong Espada and pointed it to the scroll. The scroll enveloped in green light and lifted from the ground as Antiochi moved the sword up. "Tanikalang espada, lumitaw ang espiritu ng taong ating papalitan." (I don't know how to say Tanikala in English but I'll translate it without the word Tanikala: Sword, make the being that we will revive show it's soul.")

Instantly, Sumiko was wrapped in green light. She screamed as Tena's head slowly got out form her body. Tena's soul was still sleeping.

"SUMIKO!!!" Kuwabara shouted. Hiei was behind him and was dumbstruck. What exactly was going on?

Hanma appeared in between his son and Sumiko; and Hiei and Kuwabara. "I won't let you interfere with the resurrection of Tena." he said.

"T-Tena?" Hiei said.

"Yes. Apparently, when she comes out, she will kill you Hiei." Hanma said.

"She won't." Hiei said. Sumiko heard it and felt tears coming in her eyes. Despite the pain, she stopped it.

"She won't? She has hated you Hiei, for killing her mother. She HATES you on her own free will. She has hated you ever since." Hanma said.

"No. My daughter has revived herself countless of times just so she could take revenge on you." Hanma said, "She survived so many trials so she could kill you and this time, she will."

This, by the way, is true.

"No..." Hiei said.

"It does not end there Hiei!" Hanma said. "Once my daughter's soul has been fully revived, Sumiko's soul will perish forever, never to return, much less, even get to see the Spirit World. Her soul will vanquish and be gone for all eternity."

"What does Sumiko have to do with this?" Kuwabara shouted as he tried to run to save Sumiko. He was blocked by Hanma.

"I will give my life so that my Tena would be reborn once again." Hanma said, blocking Kuwabara and Hiei, twin swords in his hand. "Antiochi! Continue the ritual!"

"Yes father." he said, "Mahiwagang espada, puno ng kapangyarihan, gisingin ang espiritung namumuhay sa katawan! Gamitin ang espiritu ng taong unang pumapaloob, bilang handog ng kapangyarihan sa bago nitong puso!" (Magical sword full of energy, wake the soul living in this body! Use the soul of the body's first occupant, as energy for the life of it's new owner! [something like that. I had to keep the meaning the same.])

Sumiko shouted louder as Tena started taking control of her body. She could feel her soul crushing to nothing as horrible green light surrounded her.

"No! Sumiko!" Hiei and Kuwabara shouted as they tried to defeat Hanma who was laughing his head off as Tena was starting to emerge.

Sumiko took one final last look at Hiei and Kuwabara. "Gomen..." she said as she felt the remainder of her soul vanish away...... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::

Dun dun dun DUN! Bwahahahaha! I'm so mean. Sniff. Yeah, I'm so mean. Bad Yukina-kun! Bad!

Hiei: What's Funny Komiks?

dreamturtle: Comics in the Philippines. Once in a while, they have two-
three 'anime' episodes there.

Kurama: So... what's your favorite?

dreamturtle: A.X. (though I do not yet know what it means), Bionic
Kid, Tinay Pinay, Mecha Force X, Claire, oh well, basically all the
'anime' episodes.

Yusuke: For how much?

dreamturtle: FIFTEEN PESOS! Before it was twelve only now they made it
fifteen! In a few months, it might reach to twenty! NOOOOOO!!!!!

Kuwabara: It's not that bad.

dreamturtle: It is! One time, me and my brother were collecting those
comics near Unilab when SUDDENLY they vanished! Poof! We could not
find them anymore! Then the suddenly start selling near our village
but this time, it's fifteen! WAAHHHH!!!! Plus it's summer! I'm only
fourteen! I can't earn money yet and I just can't ask my parents!

Hiei: You really crave for those stuff don't you?

dreamturtle: I do! I do! I wanna see Ezuna! I wanna see Hikaru! I
wanna see Maiden (girl) and Hazel and Colleen and Forg and Kaze and
Keiko and Belle and Reinjenna and Neko! I wanna see the cast of A.X.
but they're done with it when they DISAPPEARED! I wanna see Bionic Kid
a.k.a. Neo and all the Bionic Fighters!!!

Kurama: Why not buy one?

dreamturtle: Good point, however I don't have money and I'm not sure
if I want to go spending fifteen pesos for that. Our value for our
money is 56.34 pesos to one dollar! Times are hard these days you
know.

Yusuke: Any message dreamturtle?

dreamturtle: Yes. If any writer of Funny Komiks stumbles into this, I
wanna tell them that I greatly admire your work along with some of my
friends and my brother and sister! Is there an internet site of Funny
Komiks? Hm why did I not think to check it out? Oh well, tell your
fans why you just disappeared! Tell me!!!

Kuwabara: You really want to know don't you.

dreamturtle nods.

Hiei: Is this Ezuna, er handsome?

dreamturtle: Oh he is! Guwapo times a million! (handsome). He's got
white hair until his shoulders and has a young sister named Maemi!
Plus he holds the Sagradong Espada! (Sacred Sword)

dreamturtle does imaginary movements as if holding and slashing a
sword.

dreamturtle: LIMIT BREAK! Ok so that was Kaze's attack but it's still
the same, in one way or the other. Why did you ask Hiei? Um Hiei?

Kurama: (points to window) He left already.

Yusuke: And he seemed pretty angry.

dreamturtle: Uh, I'm sure I brushed my teeth so he does not have a
reason to just leave!

Kuwabara: Oh sure dream. Hiei has always has a reason. Right guys?

Kurama and Yusuke nod.

dreamturtle wonders and does not get any answer.

dreamturtle: Oh well, time to sleep and it's THREE TWELVE AM and I
haven't slept! I'm dead if my parents wake up! K chow!