Author's Notes: This chapter Hikage will be fighting the team that
has threatened to end her life in a one on five match. There might be more
to the death match than killing to win. It's time for her to show her real
power. Hope you like this chapter. Oh yeah, someone asked " Is Hikage
going t start liking Hiei, or will she just like Kurama?" That's actually
a secret till later, because it would reveal some later events that I don't
want you knowing about till they happen. All I can tell you is Hiei starts
to fall in love with her, but I'm not telling you if Hikage loved him back
or not.
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Kurama woke up and yawned. He was still quite tired but it was almost time to go to the stadium. He then sat at the edge of his bed and thought about Hikage and how they were going to get out of this one. The enemies were getting stronger and she had never fought against five at once. Sure she had fought four amateurs at once, but he had heard that this team was extremely to the point and powerful. Speaking of Hikage he then got up and walked across the hall and opened the door to Hikage's room. He assumed she would still be asleep. She had a habit of sleeping in. Instead he found her on the balcony with a ton of doves there with her, and some more were still coming. She was holding a dove on her finger. Kurama closed the door leaving it cracked just a bit. He then went out on the balcony scaring some of the doves out of their spot and said " Where'd all the doves come from?" Hikage then turned to him with a warm good morning smile and said " My elder brother sent them to me. My brother sent me a letter with one of them saying he wishes me the best of luck. He said he'd be at the stadium to cheer me on today." Kurama then said with a worried face " I must say I'm against today's arrangement, but I don't see how I can stop you if you've already decided. I just hope you have a trick up your sleeve." Hikage smirked at Kurama's worries and said " I won't need sleeves when I get to the stadium today. I'll beat the crap out of them." Kurama's face didn't seem any more convinced that she would win today, but he still had faith in her.
Hiei then walked in the room and saw that Kurama's face was quite worried and there was a mass of doves on the balcony. Either Hikage was accepting a lot of death matches and she turned them all into doves, or someone was wishing her a heck of a lot of luck. He then walked to the balcony door and said " Kurama, is something wrong?" Kurama's frowned automatically disappeared in surprise that Hiei had was ready and dressed and attempted to go in Hikage's room for something. He would never have thought of wanting something from Hikage. Kurama then asked in curiosity " May I ask why you are here?" Hiei then said " No, you may not ask, because I did not intend you to be here while I talked to Hikage." Kurama then walked out of the room disappointed that Hiei had come in. Well he did always have other business to attend to. He went to Hiei's room and looked in the closet for some clothes he would let Hikage borrow and then get Hiei angry.
Hiei then said staring out to the sky looking annoyed at all of the doves " Your eyes turned blue again." Hikage then said " Yeah, I guess so." Hiei then said turning to face Hikage and said " But that's not why I wanted to talk to you alone." Hikage then said " I know. You don't usually talk to me about my random features." Hiei then said "I just feel we shouldn't hug more than once a day. I get kind of annoyed after one." Hikage then responded by saying " That's fine with me. I don't have anything against it." Hiei then said " That's not all I have to say. I'm feeling a random great power in you all of a sudden. You want to tell me where it came from?" Hikage then said " It was always there, I just had to hide it a little bit longer from everybody to make sure I could be underestimated a while." Hikage then got up and said " If you'll excuse me, I would like to get dressed." Hiei then walked out of the room as Kurama walked in the room. He then set the clothes from Hiei's closet on Hikage's bed and asked her to wear it today and left.
When Hikage was finished washing and getting dressed she came out into the living room. Hiei then said " Where the hell did you get that?" Kurama started laughing. Hiei then turned to Kurama with an angry face and said " How'd you get in my wardrobe? You'll pay for that you idiot. I'll beat the crap out of you." Hiei dived for Kurama and Kurama let Hiei punch him as he laughed his head off not making and sign he was getting hurt. Hikage was wearing a black shirt which was tucked into black pants with two white belts and some black training shoes.
AT THE STADIUM
They were in the stadium waiting for the announcer to announce when the fighting would begin. Finally all the demons and people who were coming were in their seats and the announcer started to announce today's tournaments " Today the Urameshi team will be fighting the Yami team, but this isn't just any event. The teams have agreed to have only one of the Urameshi team players to fight against all of the Yami team alone. One after the other." The crowd started to scream in excitement as they made themselves sure the Urameshi team was going down.
Hikage was just about to walk onto the platform when she felt a hand on her shoulder that stopped her in her tracks. Kurama then said " Just remember that I have faith in you." She walked forward and onto the platform with nothing, but silence. The announcer then said " It's Hikage Taiyo verses Himori Kaiba." The announcer gave the signal to fight. Hikage started to dig in her pocket for something while Himori stayed on his guard. Hikage finally pulled out a pair of white gloves and put them on. The man was annoyed that he was on his guard only waiting for her to pull some gloves out and yelled " Why the heck do you need those?!" She then looked up at him in the process of finishing to put the other glove on and said " Well I thought that killing you would be a messy job so I decided to bring some gloves so that my hands don't get dirty." He then growled. Hikage then looked down at her glove pulling it down all the way. She looked back up and Himori was gone. She then felt two punches to her face and a kick to her gut. She then coughed up some blood. She gasped for air as her pupils grew small. The man appeared in front of her and said with a smirk " It appears you can't deal with my speed. Quite a shame you'll die so soon in the fight." Hikage then smirked and said " You didn't give me a chance to prove my self. . . amateur." She then stood straight up and dove wings sprang from her back. She then said with her hand on her waist " It's true, I'm not all human. I have a hand full of surprises. You just happen to be one of the ginny pigs that I get to test them on." She then leaned forward to create momentum to pick up her speed and then it seemed as if she had disappeared. Himori was having great difficulty sensing where she was. Not even Kuwabara could sense her. Hikage then kicked him from above. She concentrated all of her spirit energy into her whole body. She then punched him two times to the face and swirled around kicking him in the stomach. She then scraped through his clothes and through his skin. His chest was bleeding quite heavily. She then yelled out " You might know this one. It's a classic. Spirit Gun!" It shot right through him and he fell. He was still breathing and if he was still breathing, he was still alive, which didn't satisfy Hikage. Hikage's eyes turned red and she summoned a sword. She then raised it and pierced through his right lung. Blood sprayed all over her face and clothes. Her pupils were dangerously small as she went mad stabbing him continuously until there was nothing but blood. She then said with a smile of a mad man " It's not my fault you wanted to die. I love the taste of your blood. It taste so delicious. I think I'll save some left overs." She then threw the sword to the side and started punching the guys face. He then grabbed one of his eye balls out of its' socket. She looked like she was enjoying it. She then stopped and stared at the announcer and said with a smirk " Just say it, I won by death. It's quite obvious he's dead." The announcer then said backing away from Hikage and said " The winner is Hikage by rule of death." The audience started to groan and boo her. She then yelled at the audience with anger " Shut up! If you don't want to die I suggest you shut you're fucking crap hole!" They still booed her. She then looked at one part of the stadium where she didn't see anyone the team knew or she knew. She then raised her hand to the part of the stadium and a large ball of red energy formed in her hand and was launched . A large portion of that part of the stadium blew off and tons of demons died. The rest of the audience shut up when she showed to courage to blow up some demons.
Hikage's elder brother then appeared from the gate to the platform. He then walked up to the platform and asked Hikage to walk over to the edge. She did so. Her brother then made a dove appear in his hand. It had a note attached to it's leg. He then gave it to Hikage and it turned into a large phoenix the size of a normal hawk. She then let it fly out of the stadium. Hikage's brother then said to Hikage " Don't let your anger get the best of you. If you do the whole audience will be blown away and you might get disqualified." She then nodded her head yes and turned around to face her next opponent.
Her brother then walked to her team and leaned against the wall, crossing his arms and staring at Hikage with concern. Kurama hadn't ever gotten the chance to talk to him. It was scary knowing that she had an older brother. He then said " What did it say on the note Hikage sent out of the stadium?" Hikage's brother looked at Kurama from the corner of his eye and then turned his head smirking " I saw you on the balcony with my sister this morning. You didn't seem too happy about the news. Then again who would be other than her." Kurama then said " I didn't ask you about today on the balcony. I asked you what was on the note." The smirk got whipped straight of his face. He then faced the platform and closed his eyes saying " Koenma forgot to mention Hikage's golden egg when she started her job as a spirit detective. It's about to hatch and she needs to under go a test kind of like Yusuke will soon as well. Her test is about to start quite sooner than Yusuke's though. She sent the note to our grand mother. She is very capable of giving her the test. Her test will be quite different than Yusuke's and very long. It will hurt her a whole heck of a lot, physically and mentally. As you can see, when her eyes turn red her judgment can get clouded. She could just as easily kill an innocent person if she's looking for a suspect in a ghost file case. Her eyes will most likely be forced blue during her test, so she can not make such random thoughts. Her demon side has started to awaken through these acts of anger today. She seems like a mad man, or in this case a mad woman. Her appearance makes her look so able to accept them. She could easily be brought into a house and think a guy is just her friend. When things get too hot for her she finally finds out their after he body and the guy wants to be more than friends. Her history with her ex and first boyfriend was great until he broke up with her for another girl. He's going to be all right. He went back to the human world. As I understand it, you have lived in the human world for fifteen years." Kurama then said " Yes, that is correct." Hikage's brother then said " I also over heard the conversation between my sister and and the black haired boy. He seemed to have mysterious amounts of energy. I'm assuming he has a Jagan, but then again I might be wrong." Kurama then said " Yeah, He hides it behind a bandana." Hikage's brother smirked once again and said " As I understand it, you're quite close to my younger sister." Kurama paused in silence. Hikage's brother then spoke " Don't seem so surprised. She obviously has feelings for you, and that worried face you had on this morning gave you away. How far have you gotten with her?" A sweat drop formed by Kurama's head. He wasn't expecting Hikage's elder brother to ask and said " Do you feel like killing someone today?" Hikage's elder bother then said " Not if you tell me how far you two are." He was a weird kind of older brother. He didn't get why he wouldn't kill him, but he was going to get practically killed if he didn't tell. Kurama then sighed and said " We've gotten as far as making out." he then looked down and blushed. Hikage's brother laughed and then said " Just as far as any young man has gotten. She happens to wear a lot of buttoned shirts on purpose. Don't worry about me killing you. As long as you don't hurt her mentally you're fine with me."
Mean while Hikage was half way into a fight and beaten to a pulp. She was keeping her energy building by the thinnest thread. All she could do was hit him with simple kicks and blocking tactics. If she keeps this up she won't be pulp, she'll be nothing. Her spirit energy hanging at the edge. She had no choice but to resort to her third version of her spirit energy absorbing technique. The opponent, Yuu, then threw a powerful fist of spirit energy at Hikage. Hikage smirked. It was just what she needed to begin the process. Hikage threw her hand at Yuu's fist and stopped it in it's tracks. The spirit energy disappeared from Yuu's fist. He didn't faint. Yuu smirked and said pulling back " What the hell was that for? You could have gotten killed if I had let you stay there any longer." Hikage smirked and said " I was sapping your energy." Yuu laughed and said " You didn't do such a good job. I can't believe master Kouki needed five of his best to kill a stupid third rate kid." Hikage then said with the smirk still on her face " I dare you to throw another fist like that at me." Yuu smirked and said forming a fist. He then said " You're just a monkey, a sad pathetic creature that I shouldn't be wasting my time on." No spirit energy formed while he was running toward Hikage. When he was about to connect his fist to Hikage's face Hikage lifted her hand as if it were a simple every day task that had been going on for years. She then mentioned as Yuu growled at her " Did I mention I took only your spirit energy? I guess not, you were running at me with a useless fist, looking like an idiot. This is why you don't want to get me pissed." Hikage then gripped his fist and and pulled it straight off of his arm. Yuu then leaned a little bit over gripping the part of his arm that Hikage pulled his hand off of. He then charged at her with his left fist. Hikage squinted her eyes in annoyance. She then picked up the sword she used to turn the last guy into nothing but blood. The guy was almost there. She then backed her back up with her arms so she could get a direct cut through his neck. He was finally close enough for her to make the attack and the last words of his life were " I will not be beaten by a idiot monkey!" Hikage then sliced his head clean off. Blood sprayed all over the place. When Yuu's body finally died she leaned down to his head and said " It's sad that you lost to a monkey. She then got up and walked over to her team. She then said " Kurama, you wouldn't happen to have a cloth of some kind would you?" Kurama dug in his pocket and pulled out a white cloth and handed it to Hikage. She then whipped her blood stained face with the cloth. She then said " I'm sorry about all the blood and junk. I don't usually do slaughter like this, but..." Her face then turned very serious and finished " they're in my way and if I need to kill them then I will." Kurama then smiled warmly to Hikage and put his had on her cheek, letting it seek into her hair and said " Well then do what you need to get rid of your obstacles." Hikage smiled back and said " I'm running out of power quickly. It will be hard, but I think I'll be able to manage if your here." Hikage turned around and said " Brother, I will not take no for an answer. I will become my fox demon form when I face Kouki. I'll need you to keep me in my own mind so I can fight clearly." Hikage's brother then said uneasily " I will try me best. If you start causing chaos I will have to resort to canceling your test. An appointment with death would not be to my liking." Hikage walked to the platform again.
AN HOUR LATER
The announcer then yells into the microphone " The last but not least fighter on the Yam team is Kouki! The fighter for the Urameshi team is Hikage!" Kouki's black hair and green eyes made him look a ominous as the devil. Kouki smirked and said "You might become useful as one of my slaves. You could be most useful for personal affairs as well. Once you die I could probably borrow your soul and ask king Yama if he could bring you back to life for me." Hikage then smirked and said " Your power is nothing to me. You are so stupid when you think of possibilities." A dove flew out of the sky and dived into the stadium and toward Hikage. Hikage snatched something off of the doves' leg. She quickly took the stopper out of the bottle she received and she drank it. Her body started teaming with spirit energy. Light appeared to surround her body. When the light cleared a girl white ears and a tail and her fiery blond hair still stayed it's blazing, radiant color. It glowed with gorgeous color. She then finally opened her eyes from the transformation and said with a smirk " It's quite sad that you're so weak compared to me, but that's not my challenge right now."
Kurama then said " Is this her fox demon form or a replica? It's hard to tell, it seems she's holding back some energy." Hikage's brother then said with his arms crossed and a concerned face " No, that's the real thing, but if she holds back that power too long her inner demon will most likely burst out of her, making her judgments clouded. If she were to have used her full power right now, she wouldn't have any problem killing Kouki, but her inner demon would be fully awakened. Every move she makes, the more the demon she is grows impatient. She is very capable of squashing him like a bug now." Kurama then said " Then what's the problem?" Hikage's brother looked at him and said " It doesn't take too long before she goes paranoid."
Hikage then yelled with a screaming in her heart " Final Judgment!" Black energy came from her hand and blasted toward Kouki. The line of energy broke into separated threads of darkness and tied around Kouki's body, making it impossible to escape. The treads of black started blinding like a broken light barb that was about to go out. It got faster and faster as the attack got stronger. An explosion was created from the threads. There was nothing left of Mr. Kouki. He was gone, without a trace. Hikage lowered her hand and then her body faded back into her human form. She then walked over to her brother, jumping off the platform and leaning her head against his shoulder " I'm not sure I can do this, Susuma. When I saw the face of my inner demon inching closer I was about to consider forfeit. Concurring my inner demon isn't my thing." Her brother then hugged her and said in response " I know Hikari. You're a little too fragile for this , but you also have the power within you to beat this."
AT THE HOTEL ROOM
Kurama then said as he walked beside Hikage to the couch " I hear you're going through some difficulty. You want to talk about it?" Hikage sighed and then said nothing. Kurama took that as a no. He then said " I understand, I won't ask again." Hikari then said pausing right before she got to the couch " Kurama, I just hope you have a good life while you live. That's all I'm thinking right now. I'm not about to replace the thought with something as upsetting as what I will have to go through soon." Kurama then said " The tournaments will be ending soon. I'm going to let you stay at the hotel room tomorrow while we try beating the Togurmo team. I will have Hiei accompany you even if he does refuse. After what happened today I don't want you pulling that demon stunt again." Hikage nodded her head yes in understanding. Kurama then said " Do you want to take a walk through the hotel for a while?" Hikage then said " Sure." They walked out the door and went walking aimlessly around the halls. Shishi was around a corner and heard Hikage speaking with another guy. He knew that voice from anywhere. It was definitely Hikage. He looked around the corner to see who it was. He saw Kurama, he didn't seem to be much of threat until he saw them kiss right there in the hall that he was peeking down. He became angry and jealous. The angry face was then wiped away with a smirk. He then thought to himself " I could take Kurama's soul out of his body and put it into my sword while I put my soul into his body. I could just put my body in bed afterward." He then walked down the hall where Kurama and Hikage had been talking and said " Kurama, could I talk to you alone for a couple of minutes alone? It's important" Kurama then looked at her and gave Hikage a stare that meant she should go back to the room.
When Shishi had seen that she was completely gone he put the palm of his hand in front of Kurama's face and his soul got sucked out and Kurama's soul traveled to wherever Shishi's sword was. Shishi's body then faded into the bed of his hotel room. Shishi's soul was now in Kurama's body and he walked up to where Hikage's hotel room was. Being in Kurama's body, Shishi also inherited some memories to support about everything. He never thought that out of all the people in the world, Kurama would be one of those guys that gets jealous because his girlfriend is nice to other guys. When he entered the hotel room he saw Hikage sitting on the couch. Hikage had heard him open the door, so she turned her head and asked " What did Shishi ask you?" Shishi then said " He was wondering where one of his team mates went. He panicked, so I did the best I could to help. I didn't see his team mate on my way up either. His team mate must be training." Hikage turned back to the blank T.V. in understanding. Shishi had expected her to come running up to him and give her and kiss, a hug, anything, but maybe they weren't that tight in the relationship yet. Maybe he picked a bad time to receive Kurama's body. Maybe they hadn't made out yet or something. He then thought to himself as he dug through Kurama's memories. He came upon a ton of make out scenes and kissing and something that almost looked like sex, but not even. He had seen that Kurama would make the first move all the time. He was the one who controlled things during their little sessions. It was just what Shishi wanted, if it were any different, Shishi might have difficulty trying to kiss her without it feeling unusual to her. He walked over to the couch and plopped right next to her. He didn't rest his arm behind her back because that was getting old and he hadn't seen anything in Kurama's memory that saw Kurama ever had to, or did that. He then said to Hikage " I want to show you something in my room. I got a new suit from Koenma."
They both walked to Kurama's room. When they got inside and shut the door behind them, Shishi slammed Hikage against the door and then started kissing her as hard as humanly possible. When he stopped to look at her reaction he saw Hikage blushing and looking as innocent as he had ever seen her. Their lips parted just by a little bit. Shishi could feel Hikage's large breaths roll off of his lips as he stared into her eyes. He had never noticed, her eyes were blue. He could have sworn they were red, but her fighting attitude could explain his mistake. Shishi then said sarcastically " Didn't the suit just blow you away?" Hikage pushed Shishi away from her softly and then said "I'm going to go find Hiei. If I keep him out of my sight for a second he goes off and almost gets himself killed." Shishi didn't attempt to go after her after she made that comment. Maybe she wasn't in the mood or something.
When Hikage went to the door to find Hiei the door opened and Hiei was in front of her. Hikage then said "Oh, Hi Hiei. I was just going to go looking for you. She stepped to the side and let Hiei walk in. She then closed the door and they both sat on the couch. Hikage started talking to Hiei. Hiei sat there as he was barely listening. Hikage was saying " I had read the file of your mission to defeat the demon king Suzaku. It was very interesting. It was a bit funny when you sliced that flying eye ball in half. I wish I would have been employed at the time." Hiei had smirked and said "Aren't you going to brag about how great a job Kurama did on the assignment?" Hikage responded with " Why would I? You probably don't want to hear me babble about how well Kurama did on the assignment. I think I'll save that for Kurama." Hiei was speechless. she was positively right. He didn't get how, but she was right. His pupils were quite small at this point. After all this time he had been quiet about almost everything about himself to her and yet she still gets him. She moves in mysterious ways. After about two more minutes of talking Hikage then slowly got up off the couch and said " I'm going to bed now, so if there's an emergency I'll be in my room." She was about to turn when she just remembered " Oh yeah, good luck in your final battle tomorrow. I won't be fighting tomorrow, because Kurama told me take it easy tomorrow and not fight. After all that happened I think I deserve a break." Hikage then went to her her room.
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: In the next episode Hikage starts to feel ill as she nears her time to take her long and hard test. Hikage wounld't admit her illness and I'm not quite sure coughing up blood is a good sign. Will they find out that Shishi is in Kurama's body? Find out in the next chapter of Rainy Day Girl.
Kurama woke up and yawned. He was still quite tired but it was almost time to go to the stadium. He then sat at the edge of his bed and thought about Hikage and how they were going to get out of this one. The enemies were getting stronger and she had never fought against five at once. Sure she had fought four amateurs at once, but he had heard that this team was extremely to the point and powerful. Speaking of Hikage he then got up and walked across the hall and opened the door to Hikage's room. He assumed she would still be asleep. She had a habit of sleeping in. Instead he found her on the balcony with a ton of doves there with her, and some more were still coming. She was holding a dove on her finger. Kurama closed the door leaving it cracked just a bit. He then went out on the balcony scaring some of the doves out of their spot and said " Where'd all the doves come from?" Hikage then turned to him with a warm good morning smile and said " My elder brother sent them to me. My brother sent me a letter with one of them saying he wishes me the best of luck. He said he'd be at the stadium to cheer me on today." Kurama then said with a worried face " I must say I'm against today's arrangement, but I don't see how I can stop you if you've already decided. I just hope you have a trick up your sleeve." Hikage smirked at Kurama's worries and said " I won't need sleeves when I get to the stadium today. I'll beat the crap out of them." Kurama's face didn't seem any more convinced that she would win today, but he still had faith in her.
Hiei then walked in the room and saw that Kurama's face was quite worried and there was a mass of doves on the balcony. Either Hikage was accepting a lot of death matches and she turned them all into doves, or someone was wishing her a heck of a lot of luck. He then walked to the balcony door and said " Kurama, is something wrong?" Kurama's frowned automatically disappeared in surprise that Hiei had was ready and dressed and attempted to go in Hikage's room for something. He would never have thought of wanting something from Hikage. Kurama then asked in curiosity " May I ask why you are here?" Hiei then said " No, you may not ask, because I did not intend you to be here while I talked to Hikage." Kurama then walked out of the room disappointed that Hiei had come in. Well he did always have other business to attend to. He went to Hiei's room and looked in the closet for some clothes he would let Hikage borrow and then get Hiei angry.
Hiei then said staring out to the sky looking annoyed at all of the doves " Your eyes turned blue again." Hikage then said " Yeah, I guess so." Hiei then said turning to face Hikage and said " But that's not why I wanted to talk to you alone." Hikage then said " I know. You don't usually talk to me about my random features." Hiei then said "I just feel we shouldn't hug more than once a day. I get kind of annoyed after one." Hikage then responded by saying " That's fine with me. I don't have anything against it." Hiei then said " That's not all I have to say. I'm feeling a random great power in you all of a sudden. You want to tell me where it came from?" Hikage then said " It was always there, I just had to hide it a little bit longer from everybody to make sure I could be underestimated a while." Hikage then got up and said " If you'll excuse me, I would like to get dressed." Hiei then walked out of the room as Kurama walked in the room. He then set the clothes from Hiei's closet on Hikage's bed and asked her to wear it today and left.
When Hikage was finished washing and getting dressed she came out into the living room. Hiei then said " Where the hell did you get that?" Kurama started laughing. Hiei then turned to Kurama with an angry face and said " How'd you get in my wardrobe? You'll pay for that you idiot. I'll beat the crap out of you." Hiei dived for Kurama and Kurama let Hiei punch him as he laughed his head off not making and sign he was getting hurt. Hikage was wearing a black shirt which was tucked into black pants with two white belts and some black training shoes.
AT THE STADIUM
They were in the stadium waiting for the announcer to announce when the fighting would begin. Finally all the demons and people who were coming were in their seats and the announcer started to announce today's tournaments " Today the Urameshi team will be fighting the Yami team, but this isn't just any event. The teams have agreed to have only one of the Urameshi team players to fight against all of the Yami team alone. One after the other." The crowd started to scream in excitement as they made themselves sure the Urameshi team was going down.
Hikage was just about to walk onto the platform when she felt a hand on her shoulder that stopped her in her tracks. Kurama then said " Just remember that I have faith in you." She walked forward and onto the platform with nothing, but silence. The announcer then said " It's Hikage Taiyo verses Himori Kaiba." The announcer gave the signal to fight. Hikage started to dig in her pocket for something while Himori stayed on his guard. Hikage finally pulled out a pair of white gloves and put them on. The man was annoyed that he was on his guard only waiting for her to pull some gloves out and yelled " Why the heck do you need those?!" She then looked up at him in the process of finishing to put the other glove on and said " Well I thought that killing you would be a messy job so I decided to bring some gloves so that my hands don't get dirty." He then growled. Hikage then looked down at her glove pulling it down all the way. She looked back up and Himori was gone. She then felt two punches to her face and a kick to her gut. She then coughed up some blood. She gasped for air as her pupils grew small. The man appeared in front of her and said with a smirk " It appears you can't deal with my speed. Quite a shame you'll die so soon in the fight." Hikage then smirked and said " You didn't give me a chance to prove my self. . . amateur." She then stood straight up and dove wings sprang from her back. She then said with her hand on her waist " It's true, I'm not all human. I have a hand full of surprises. You just happen to be one of the ginny pigs that I get to test them on." She then leaned forward to create momentum to pick up her speed and then it seemed as if she had disappeared. Himori was having great difficulty sensing where she was. Not even Kuwabara could sense her. Hikage then kicked him from above. She concentrated all of her spirit energy into her whole body. She then punched him two times to the face and swirled around kicking him in the stomach. She then scraped through his clothes and through his skin. His chest was bleeding quite heavily. She then yelled out " You might know this one. It's a classic. Spirit Gun!" It shot right through him and he fell. He was still breathing and if he was still breathing, he was still alive, which didn't satisfy Hikage. Hikage's eyes turned red and she summoned a sword. She then raised it and pierced through his right lung. Blood sprayed all over her face and clothes. Her pupils were dangerously small as she went mad stabbing him continuously until there was nothing but blood. She then said with a smile of a mad man " It's not my fault you wanted to die. I love the taste of your blood. It taste so delicious. I think I'll save some left overs." She then threw the sword to the side and started punching the guys face. He then grabbed one of his eye balls out of its' socket. She looked like she was enjoying it. She then stopped and stared at the announcer and said with a smirk " Just say it, I won by death. It's quite obvious he's dead." The announcer then said backing away from Hikage and said " The winner is Hikage by rule of death." The audience started to groan and boo her. She then yelled at the audience with anger " Shut up! If you don't want to die I suggest you shut you're fucking crap hole!" They still booed her. She then looked at one part of the stadium where she didn't see anyone the team knew or she knew. She then raised her hand to the part of the stadium and a large ball of red energy formed in her hand and was launched . A large portion of that part of the stadium blew off and tons of demons died. The rest of the audience shut up when she showed to courage to blow up some demons.
Hikage's elder brother then appeared from the gate to the platform. He then walked up to the platform and asked Hikage to walk over to the edge. She did so. Her brother then made a dove appear in his hand. It had a note attached to it's leg. He then gave it to Hikage and it turned into a large phoenix the size of a normal hawk. She then let it fly out of the stadium. Hikage's brother then said to Hikage " Don't let your anger get the best of you. If you do the whole audience will be blown away and you might get disqualified." She then nodded her head yes and turned around to face her next opponent.
Her brother then walked to her team and leaned against the wall, crossing his arms and staring at Hikage with concern. Kurama hadn't ever gotten the chance to talk to him. It was scary knowing that she had an older brother. He then said " What did it say on the note Hikage sent out of the stadium?" Hikage's brother looked at Kurama from the corner of his eye and then turned his head smirking " I saw you on the balcony with my sister this morning. You didn't seem too happy about the news. Then again who would be other than her." Kurama then said " I didn't ask you about today on the balcony. I asked you what was on the note." The smirk got whipped straight of his face. He then faced the platform and closed his eyes saying " Koenma forgot to mention Hikage's golden egg when she started her job as a spirit detective. It's about to hatch and she needs to under go a test kind of like Yusuke will soon as well. Her test is about to start quite sooner than Yusuke's though. She sent the note to our grand mother. She is very capable of giving her the test. Her test will be quite different than Yusuke's and very long. It will hurt her a whole heck of a lot, physically and mentally. As you can see, when her eyes turn red her judgment can get clouded. She could just as easily kill an innocent person if she's looking for a suspect in a ghost file case. Her eyes will most likely be forced blue during her test, so she can not make such random thoughts. Her demon side has started to awaken through these acts of anger today. She seems like a mad man, or in this case a mad woman. Her appearance makes her look so able to accept them. She could easily be brought into a house and think a guy is just her friend. When things get too hot for her she finally finds out their after he body and the guy wants to be more than friends. Her history with her ex and first boyfriend was great until he broke up with her for another girl. He's going to be all right. He went back to the human world. As I understand it, you have lived in the human world for fifteen years." Kurama then said " Yes, that is correct." Hikage's brother then said " I also over heard the conversation between my sister and and the black haired boy. He seemed to have mysterious amounts of energy. I'm assuming he has a Jagan, but then again I might be wrong." Kurama then said " Yeah, He hides it behind a bandana." Hikage's brother smirked once again and said " As I understand it, you're quite close to my younger sister." Kurama paused in silence. Hikage's brother then spoke " Don't seem so surprised. She obviously has feelings for you, and that worried face you had on this morning gave you away. How far have you gotten with her?" A sweat drop formed by Kurama's head. He wasn't expecting Hikage's elder brother to ask and said " Do you feel like killing someone today?" Hikage's elder bother then said " Not if you tell me how far you two are." He was a weird kind of older brother. He didn't get why he wouldn't kill him, but he was going to get practically killed if he didn't tell. Kurama then sighed and said " We've gotten as far as making out." he then looked down and blushed. Hikage's brother laughed and then said " Just as far as any young man has gotten. She happens to wear a lot of buttoned shirts on purpose. Don't worry about me killing you. As long as you don't hurt her mentally you're fine with me."
Mean while Hikage was half way into a fight and beaten to a pulp. She was keeping her energy building by the thinnest thread. All she could do was hit him with simple kicks and blocking tactics. If she keeps this up she won't be pulp, she'll be nothing. Her spirit energy hanging at the edge. She had no choice but to resort to her third version of her spirit energy absorbing technique. The opponent, Yuu, then threw a powerful fist of spirit energy at Hikage. Hikage smirked. It was just what she needed to begin the process. Hikage threw her hand at Yuu's fist and stopped it in it's tracks. The spirit energy disappeared from Yuu's fist. He didn't faint. Yuu smirked and said pulling back " What the hell was that for? You could have gotten killed if I had let you stay there any longer." Hikage smirked and said " I was sapping your energy." Yuu laughed and said " You didn't do such a good job. I can't believe master Kouki needed five of his best to kill a stupid third rate kid." Hikage then said with the smirk still on her face " I dare you to throw another fist like that at me." Yuu smirked and said forming a fist. He then said " You're just a monkey, a sad pathetic creature that I shouldn't be wasting my time on." No spirit energy formed while he was running toward Hikage. When he was about to connect his fist to Hikage's face Hikage lifted her hand as if it were a simple every day task that had been going on for years. She then mentioned as Yuu growled at her " Did I mention I took only your spirit energy? I guess not, you were running at me with a useless fist, looking like an idiot. This is why you don't want to get me pissed." Hikage then gripped his fist and and pulled it straight off of his arm. Yuu then leaned a little bit over gripping the part of his arm that Hikage pulled his hand off of. He then charged at her with his left fist. Hikage squinted her eyes in annoyance. She then picked up the sword she used to turn the last guy into nothing but blood. The guy was almost there. She then backed her back up with her arms so she could get a direct cut through his neck. He was finally close enough for her to make the attack and the last words of his life were " I will not be beaten by a idiot monkey!" Hikage then sliced his head clean off. Blood sprayed all over the place. When Yuu's body finally died she leaned down to his head and said " It's sad that you lost to a monkey. She then got up and walked over to her team. She then said " Kurama, you wouldn't happen to have a cloth of some kind would you?" Kurama dug in his pocket and pulled out a white cloth and handed it to Hikage. She then whipped her blood stained face with the cloth. She then said " I'm sorry about all the blood and junk. I don't usually do slaughter like this, but..." Her face then turned very serious and finished " they're in my way and if I need to kill them then I will." Kurama then smiled warmly to Hikage and put his had on her cheek, letting it seek into her hair and said " Well then do what you need to get rid of your obstacles." Hikage smiled back and said " I'm running out of power quickly. It will be hard, but I think I'll be able to manage if your here." Hikage turned around and said " Brother, I will not take no for an answer. I will become my fox demon form when I face Kouki. I'll need you to keep me in my own mind so I can fight clearly." Hikage's brother then said uneasily " I will try me best. If you start causing chaos I will have to resort to canceling your test. An appointment with death would not be to my liking." Hikage walked to the platform again.
AN HOUR LATER
The announcer then yells into the microphone " The last but not least fighter on the Yam team is Kouki! The fighter for the Urameshi team is Hikage!" Kouki's black hair and green eyes made him look a ominous as the devil. Kouki smirked and said "You might become useful as one of my slaves. You could be most useful for personal affairs as well. Once you die I could probably borrow your soul and ask king Yama if he could bring you back to life for me." Hikage then smirked and said " Your power is nothing to me. You are so stupid when you think of possibilities." A dove flew out of the sky and dived into the stadium and toward Hikage. Hikage snatched something off of the doves' leg. She quickly took the stopper out of the bottle she received and she drank it. Her body started teaming with spirit energy. Light appeared to surround her body. When the light cleared a girl white ears and a tail and her fiery blond hair still stayed it's blazing, radiant color. It glowed with gorgeous color. She then finally opened her eyes from the transformation and said with a smirk " It's quite sad that you're so weak compared to me, but that's not my challenge right now."
Kurama then said " Is this her fox demon form or a replica? It's hard to tell, it seems she's holding back some energy." Hikage's brother then said with his arms crossed and a concerned face " No, that's the real thing, but if she holds back that power too long her inner demon will most likely burst out of her, making her judgments clouded. If she were to have used her full power right now, she wouldn't have any problem killing Kouki, but her inner demon would be fully awakened. Every move she makes, the more the demon she is grows impatient. She is very capable of squashing him like a bug now." Kurama then said " Then what's the problem?" Hikage's brother looked at him and said " It doesn't take too long before she goes paranoid."
Hikage then yelled with a screaming in her heart " Final Judgment!" Black energy came from her hand and blasted toward Kouki. The line of energy broke into separated threads of darkness and tied around Kouki's body, making it impossible to escape. The treads of black started blinding like a broken light barb that was about to go out. It got faster and faster as the attack got stronger. An explosion was created from the threads. There was nothing left of Mr. Kouki. He was gone, without a trace. Hikage lowered her hand and then her body faded back into her human form. She then walked over to her brother, jumping off the platform and leaning her head against his shoulder " I'm not sure I can do this, Susuma. When I saw the face of my inner demon inching closer I was about to consider forfeit. Concurring my inner demon isn't my thing." Her brother then hugged her and said in response " I know Hikari. You're a little too fragile for this , but you also have the power within you to beat this."
AT THE HOTEL ROOM
Kurama then said as he walked beside Hikage to the couch " I hear you're going through some difficulty. You want to talk about it?" Hikage sighed and then said nothing. Kurama took that as a no. He then said " I understand, I won't ask again." Hikari then said pausing right before she got to the couch " Kurama, I just hope you have a good life while you live. That's all I'm thinking right now. I'm not about to replace the thought with something as upsetting as what I will have to go through soon." Kurama then said " The tournaments will be ending soon. I'm going to let you stay at the hotel room tomorrow while we try beating the Togurmo team. I will have Hiei accompany you even if he does refuse. After what happened today I don't want you pulling that demon stunt again." Hikage nodded her head yes in understanding. Kurama then said " Do you want to take a walk through the hotel for a while?" Hikage then said " Sure." They walked out the door and went walking aimlessly around the halls. Shishi was around a corner and heard Hikage speaking with another guy. He knew that voice from anywhere. It was definitely Hikage. He looked around the corner to see who it was. He saw Kurama, he didn't seem to be much of threat until he saw them kiss right there in the hall that he was peeking down. He became angry and jealous. The angry face was then wiped away with a smirk. He then thought to himself " I could take Kurama's soul out of his body and put it into my sword while I put my soul into his body. I could just put my body in bed afterward." He then walked down the hall where Kurama and Hikage had been talking and said " Kurama, could I talk to you alone for a couple of minutes alone? It's important" Kurama then looked at her and gave Hikage a stare that meant she should go back to the room.
When Shishi had seen that she was completely gone he put the palm of his hand in front of Kurama's face and his soul got sucked out and Kurama's soul traveled to wherever Shishi's sword was. Shishi's body then faded into the bed of his hotel room. Shishi's soul was now in Kurama's body and he walked up to where Hikage's hotel room was. Being in Kurama's body, Shishi also inherited some memories to support about everything. He never thought that out of all the people in the world, Kurama would be one of those guys that gets jealous because his girlfriend is nice to other guys. When he entered the hotel room he saw Hikage sitting on the couch. Hikage had heard him open the door, so she turned her head and asked " What did Shishi ask you?" Shishi then said " He was wondering where one of his team mates went. He panicked, so I did the best I could to help. I didn't see his team mate on my way up either. His team mate must be training." Hikage turned back to the blank T.V. in understanding. Shishi had expected her to come running up to him and give her and kiss, a hug, anything, but maybe they weren't that tight in the relationship yet. Maybe he picked a bad time to receive Kurama's body. Maybe they hadn't made out yet or something. He then thought to himself as he dug through Kurama's memories. He came upon a ton of make out scenes and kissing and something that almost looked like sex, but not even. He had seen that Kurama would make the first move all the time. He was the one who controlled things during their little sessions. It was just what Shishi wanted, if it were any different, Shishi might have difficulty trying to kiss her without it feeling unusual to her. He walked over to the couch and plopped right next to her. He didn't rest his arm behind her back because that was getting old and he hadn't seen anything in Kurama's memory that saw Kurama ever had to, or did that. He then said to Hikage " I want to show you something in my room. I got a new suit from Koenma."
They both walked to Kurama's room. When they got inside and shut the door behind them, Shishi slammed Hikage against the door and then started kissing her as hard as humanly possible. When he stopped to look at her reaction he saw Hikage blushing and looking as innocent as he had ever seen her. Their lips parted just by a little bit. Shishi could feel Hikage's large breaths roll off of his lips as he stared into her eyes. He had never noticed, her eyes were blue. He could have sworn they were red, but her fighting attitude could explain his mistake. Shishi then said sarcastically " Didn't the suit just blow you away?" Hikage pushed Shishi away from her softly and then said "I'm going to go find Hiei. If I keep him out of my sight for a second he goes off and almost gets himself killed." Shishi didn't attempt to go after her after she made that comment. Maybe she wasn't in the mood or something.
When Hikage went to the door to find Hiei the door opened and Hiei was in front of her. Hikage then said "Oh, Hi Hiei. I was just going to go looking for you. She stepped to the side and let Hiei walk in. She then closed the door and they both sat on the couch. Hikage started talking to Hiei. Hiei sat there as he was barely listening. Hikage was saying " I had read the file of your mission to defeat the demon king Suzaku. It was very interesting. It was a bit funny when you sliced that flying eye ball in half. I wish I would have been employed at the time." Hiei had smirked and said "Aren't you going to brag about how great a job Kurama did on the assignment?" Hikage responded with " Why would I? You probably don't want to hear me babble about how well Kurama did on the assignment. I think I'll save that for Kurama." Hiei was speechless. she was positively right. He didn't get how, but she was right. His pupils were quite small at this point. After all this time he had been quiet about almost everything about himself to her and yet she still gets him. She moves in mysterious ways. After about two more minutes of talking Hikage then slowly got up off the couch and said " I'm going to bed now, so if there's an emergency I'll be in my room." She was about to turn when she just remembered " Oh yeah, good luck in your final battle tomorrow. I won't be fighting tomorrow, because Kurama told me take it easy tomorrow and not fight. After all that happened I think I deserve a break." Hikage then went to her her room.
__________________________________________________________________ Author's Notes: In the next episode Hikage starts to feel ill as she nears her time to take her long and hard test. Hikage wounld't admit her illness and I'm not quite sure coughing up blood is a good sign. Will they find out that Shishi is in Kurama's body? Find out in the next chapter of Rainy Day Girl.