Yusuke yawned. He was on the 2nd watch duty. Their was a light drizzle, the rain making his skin moist, he gave off a slight shiver from the chill.
Yusuke turned to look over at Hiei and Kurama, Kurama had grabbed a blanket that the healers had given out, and the two were curled up together. Hiei unwillingly of course, but Kurama wasn't going to have Hiei go sleep somewhere off where he was sure to freeze. Kurama had tried to give Hiei his own blanket, until finally, he realized if he wanted Hiei to be warm, he'd have to knock him out to di it.
It was quite funny to watch...
"Here Uramaeshi." A blanket was placed over Yusuke's head. He pulled it off, and looked next to him seeing Kuwabara, who'd done first watch. "Where ya' been?" Yusuke asked. "Oh, giving out blankets to the others on 2nd watch, didn't want them to freeze." Kuwabara smiled, and sat down next to his friend.
Yusuke smiled, his friend seemed so selfless, "Go ahead and lye down. You stayed up for first watch and your tired. You need sleep, and to be warm." Yusuke pulled the blanket off and placed it on him. "No way Urameshi! You need this more than me!" Kuwabara kicked it off him, shoving it towards Yusuke. Yusuke shook his head. "Okay rest in my lap and we'll share the dam*ed thing! Now you happy?" Kuwabara nodded, and placed his head on Yusuke's lap.
Kuwabara didn't lay fully in his lap, His head was on Yusuke's leg, and he lay on his back, looking up. He wasn't laying in front of Yusuke either, but to the left. Yusuke draped the blanket over the both of them, and rest his arm around Kuwabara's chest. Neith of them seemed to notice this.
It had become a habit. To hold onto the ones they'd hate to lose.
Yusuke often had to catch himself, from gripping onto his friends. He didn't want to lose them.
"You think we'll die?"
Yusuke's thoughts were interrupted by Kuwabara's question.
"No." Yusuke said automatically.
Kuwabara yawned, "If I die...I hope I'm not cold...I hate being cold." Yusuke laughed at his friend. "That's all you want? Not to be cold?" Kuwabara nodded, falling asleep. "I don't want to die cold...I really..really...don't." and he fell asleep.
Yusuke shook his head and turned his head towards the soft drizzle. He covered himself and Kuwabara more. They'd been through a lot already. How was this all going to end? He looked over at the mass of people sleeping. Tomorrow over a quarter of them would be injured or dead.
And half of that quarter would be someone's best friend. Yusuke gripped Kuwabara tighter.
It was Yusuke's duty to make sure his friends didn't fall in with the dead category.
"Heheheheh."
A laugh?!
Yusuke felt the hairs of his neck tickle.
He turned.
A scuff of leaves.
A twig snapped.
Someone was here....
"THEY'RE ATTACKING!" Yusuke shouted for all to here, just as demons burst over their trench wall's. At once people were getting up in a hurry, and three people had taken the dragons in the sky, so that there only means of travel weren't killed.
Yusuke was tackled by several demons, each one falling dead as soon as they touched him. "SPIRIT GUN! SPIRIT GUN! SHOT GUN!"
Kuwabara barely had time to sit up, when a red demon, dropped from the sky. "KUWABARA MOVE!" Yusuke screamed, fighting his way towards his friend. Kuwabara scrambled to get up, but he was grabbed by his shirt and dragged in the air.
Kurama and Hiei had gotten up, Kurama taking off to wake the younger Rekai who had not woken, all the while fighting off the monsters.
"LET ME GO YOU AS*HOLE!" At the sound of Kuwabara's voice Hiei looked up. He spotted the demon in the air with Kuwabara, and leapt at it. Kuwabara was lucky it was only a few feet in the air, or Hiei may not have been able to get up to him in time.
"TRAITOR! MOVE I HAVE A KILLING TO DO!" The demon roared at Hiei angrily, his claws ripping through Kuwabara's shirt. Kuwabara's eyes closed tightly, Hiei's calm face was lost, shocked one taking over. Had Kuwabara just been stabbed? Hiei growled and grabbed the demon's neck. "Shut...UP!" With a jerk he snapped the beast's neck.
It gave a strangled cry, and fell backwards towards the ground. Hiei didn't have enough time to jump off of the body, and fell with the beast, and Kuwabara.
The three fell from the sky at an alarming rate before landing with a crunch on the ground. Kuwabara pushed both heavy bodies off him, and muttered, "What a nice wake up call." Hiei glanced at Kuwabara, seeing nothing wrong, but a few scratches, and took off.
Yusuke smashed his fists into a beasts head. He couldn't tell his own from them. It was too dark...they were all fighting blind. Yusuke looked around, and he was sure people were in the same dilema. An idea sparked in his mind and Yusuke ran towards the wooden food crates.
A demon grabbed him, and with an angry cry he flung him off. "NOT THE TIME BUDDY!" He was about to shoot him when he saw he had the same uniform on as him. Both of them looked shocked.
They were on the same side.
"I didn't know..." The demon gasped.
"I know."
Yusuke shook off the shock and ran for the crates. He pushed all the empty crates he could find down the sloping hill, and with a well aimed spirit gun lit them on fire. The crates caught quickly giving off such a light, that the whole trench was lit up with light. Not enough like day, but enough so that they could tell uniforms apart.
Now they would be able to identify enemy from comrades. "Ye-" Yusuke was tackled once again and felt teeth sink into his neck. He froze feeling paralyzed, as he heard a sucking sound. His skin went cold, turning white, and foam began to come out his mouth. His senses began to fade away, he wasn't sure what was going on. This felt worse then dying...
"YUSUKE!"
The teeth were no longer in his neck, and Hiei was over him. Yusuke struggled to keep his wits with him, but soon found himself unaware of anything, though his eyes were open.
Hiei held Yusuke in his arms. Hiei watched him, foam was coming out his mouth, and his eyes were beginning to roll into the back of his head. His body shook violently, and Hiei had to hold him down.
"Yusuke! Come on!"
Hiei shook him, as his friend's body became consumed with tremors.
"Stop!"
Hiei looked up to see a girl rushing forward. She grabbed a piece of wood, that had not been caught in the fire. "Open his mouth!" Hiei blinked, but obeyed, if she could stop this then he'd listen. She broke off as much wood as she could from the piece, cracking open her hand at one point.
When she had a small piece she nodded, and looked at Yusuke. She placed her uninjured hand in his mouth making sure his tongue was away from his throat and placed the wood in his mouth. She pulled out her hand, and Hiei released Yusuke's mouth, his teeth biting down on the wood.
"Quickly, to the healers!" The girl grabbed Hiei, and the two made their way back to the Healers, with a shaking Yusuke in Hiei's arms. "Danton! Danton!" The girl cried once inside the Healer's shield. A demon with green hair appeared, and immediately grabbed Yusuke. "Poison, or natural?" "He was bitten, poison." Hiei responded instantly.
"I got him, good job kid, you got him here just in time." The girl twitched, "I'm not a kid!" Danton ignored her, a smile on his face, and continued with his work on Yusuke.
"How did you know what to do?"
She turned to Hiei and he fully took her in. She had large blue eyes, and tangled red orange hair. She was pail, and you could not tell the dried mud or the dried blood apart, for it was so heavily smeared on her skin. "Danton here is a friend of mine, I've seen him heal all the time. He just can't remember I'm not a kid!"
She smirked holding out her hand, "I'm Keely."
Hiei nodded, not bothering to give his name.
She smiled sweetly at him, pulling back her hand, and took off back into battle.
Hiei watched, and went off into the other direction.
Kuwabara growled angrily as bulging arms strangled him. "Da...m*...it..." The arms held his head down, and other arms held his feet down. He heard laughter as he was kicked roughly into the gut. "Urg...Urg!" He cried out painfully.
"LET GO UGLY!" Kuwabara heard the whistling of air, and the arms released his neck. He shot up and stabbed the demon holding his feet, his spirit sword going right through the monstrosity's head.
He looked at his savior and saw a pretty Asin girl, and an Egyptian looking boy. They were knocking the demon's back with their bare hands. "Time for your trick Lily!" The boy yelled diving out of the way.
The girl, Lily got on her hands and yelled, "KICK!" as she spun. Her foot smashed into the demons, but it was not just a kick, green energy was on her foot, and went crashing into the demons. Killing all that encircled them.
She flipped up, and landed on a demon's shoulders, twisted her feet which snapped his neck. She swayed from an injury to the side, the Egyptian boy running towards her.
"Are you-" The boy's words were cut off as long needle went through the side of his neck and out the other. The needle was as thick as a pencil, long enough to go all the way through his neck. Hiei eyes were wide, and you could tell he was trying to swallow over and over.
The needle was pulled out, and blood poured out the holes. He fell on his knees, and then crumpled backwards. "KYOTO!" Lily screamed, running over to him. A demon who had the weapon would have gotten her as well, if Kuwabara had not intervened, and taken the weapon away.
As Kuwabara fought with this demon, Kyoto clung to Lily. "Kyoto...its okay...its all okay...Your going to be fine! Just hang on...Kyoto!...Kyoto!" He went pale, and released Lily'd hands going limp. She rose, tears streaming from her face, and aided Kuwabara in killing the demon.
Lily collapsed on the ground after the deed was done, pulling Kyoto to her, "Oh no...no..." Kuwabara looked at him, taking in his small youthful face. The girl and the now dead, Kyoto were the same age. "I'm sorry..." Lily looked up at him. "He was all that was left of my team..." She was crying enraged. They killed April...Shin...Brande..." Lily was babbling.
"Shin was nothing but ashes, they ate April's heart, and ripped out Brande's guts...I'LL KILL THEM ALL!" Lily turned around and Kuwabara got up to stop the infuriated youth. As he got up he saw her, standing before the burning crates, with 3 other demons.
All four now looked black standing in front of the intense light, Kuwabara was grabbed from behind, and held back, he didn't care as they began to attack him, he only watched the four black objects.
One by one the black objects fell, leaving only the smallest figure behind. The smallest figure had been attacked by a small thin line of a shadow, Kuwabara could not make out. He knew that figure had to be Lily, and watched as she swayed, then...the head of the figure fell off.
"NOO!" Kuwabara screamed angrily, and slammed his fists into the demons. His sword went through their guts, and he tossed them towards the fire. As he did so, he saw the light flicker over the head, and it indeed was what he thought it was.
The young girl, Lily's, head.
Tears poured down his face and Kuwabara screamed, "DAM* THIS PLACE AND DA*M THIS WAR!! I'LL STOP IT!! I'LL SHOW YOU BAS*ARDS! I WON'T LET YOU KILL ME OR MY FRIENDS!" Kuwabara attacked and attacked, blood raining down on him, not all of it red.
Blood of every color, of every amount falling onto his body. His own blood was spilled in the air, and he felt only rage for every cut he received.
Faster...faster! He killed them quicker, drums pounding in his ears, children's bodies stuck in his head. He'd kill them all!
ALL OF THEM!
He felt no pain, only intense hate, and then...
Someone hit him in his stomach, and he collapsed.
Wearily Kuwabara looked up, and found Hiei in front of him. "You fool..." He said softly. Kuwabara saw the shock, and confusion in Hiei's eyes as he tried so desperately to breathe. Hiei looked around at all the corpses, and bent down next to Kuwabara. Hiei touched Kuwabara's cheek, and blood of every color appeared on his hand. Kuwabara saw this and moaned.
He brought his head down in Hiei's lap, and sobbed.
Hiei jumped and starred down at the collapsed man in his arms, who lay sobbing in his lap, weak and drained.
Kuwabara was a very proud man, and Hiei a very proud demon. They both stood tall, had great pride, and their own complicated honor codes, among their race. They were old oaks standing in the wind, and rain, standing proud representing their own kind.
And Kuwabara's tree had been cut down.
Hiei gripped Kuwabara's jacket, "Easy you fool....easy..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~dramatic...this part of the war is not yet over. 2nd part in next chapter. (p.s. some of the names i used in this chappie are my friend's names. and those who are my friends and see this, don't voice who's who k? ^_^)
NEXT CHAPTER PREVIEW: Beofore anyone can react the trench is flooded, and Kuwabara and Hiei are sweapt away....
Yusuke turned to look over at Hiei and Kurama, Kurama had grabbed a blanket that the healers had given out, and the two were curled up together. Hiei unwillingly of course, but Kurama wasn't going to have Hiei go sleep somewhere off where he was sure to freeze. Kurama had tried to give Hiei his own blanket, until finally, he realized if he wanted Hiei to be warm, he'd have to knock him out to di it.
It was quite funny to watch...
"Here Uramaeshi." A blanket was placed over Yusuke's head. He pulled it off, and looked next to him seeing Kuwabara, who'd done first watch. "Where ya' been?" Yusuke asked. "Oh, giving out blankets to the others on 2nd watch, didn't want them to freeze." Kuwabara smiled, and sat down next to his friend.
Yusuke smiled, his friend seemed so selfless, "Go ahead and lye down. You stayed up for first watch and your tired. You need sleep, and to be warm." Yusuke pulled the blanket off and placed it on him. "No way Urameshi! You need this more than me!" Kuwabara kicked it off him, shoving it towards Yusuke. Yusuke shook his head. "Okay rest in my lap and we'll share the dam*ed thing! Now you happy?" Kuwabara nodded, and placed his head on Yusuke's lap.
Kuwabara didn't lay fully in his lap, His head was on Yusuke's leg, and he lay on his back, looking up. He wasn't laying in front of Yusuke either, but to the left. Yusuke draped the blanket over the both of them, and rest his arm around Kuwabara's chest. Neith of them seemed to notice this.
It had become a habit. To hold onto the ones they'd hate to lose.
Yusuke often had to catch himself, from gripping onto his friends. He didn't want to lose them.
"You think we'll die?"
Yusuke's thoughts were interrupted by Kuwabara's question.
"No." Yusuke said automatically.
Kuwabara yawned, "If I die...I hope I'm not cold...I hate being cold." Yusuke laughed at his friend. "That's all you want? Not to be cold?" Kuwabara nodded, falling asleep. "I don't want to die cold...I really..really...don't." and he fell asleep.
Yusuke shook his head and turned his head towards the soft drizzle. He covered himself and Kuwabara more. They'd been through a lot already. How was this all going to end? He looked over at the mass of people sleeping. Tomorrow over a quarter of them would be injured or dead.
And half of that quarter would be someone's best friend. Yusuke gripped Kuwabara tighter.
It was Yusuke's duty to make sure his friends didn't fall in with the dead category.
"Heheheheh."
A laugh?!
Yusuke felt the hairs of his neck tickle.
He turned.
A scuff of leaves.
A twig snapped.
Someone was here....
"THEY'RE ATTACKING!" Yusuke shouted for all to here, just as demons burst over their trench wall's. At once people were getting up in a hurry, and three people had taken the dragons in the sky, so that there only means of travel weren't killed.
Yusuke was tackled by several demons, each one falling dead as soon as they touched him. "SPIRIT GUN! SPIRIT GUN! SHOT GUN!"
Kuwabara barely had time to sit up, when a red demon, dropped from the sky. "KUWABARA MOVE!" Yusuke screamed, fighting his way towards his friend. Kuwabara scrambled to get up, but he was grabbed by his shirt and dragged in the air.
Kurama and Hiei had gotten up, Kurama taking off to wake the younger Rekai who had not woken, all the while fighting off the monsters.
"LET ME GO YOU AS*HOLE!" At the sound of Kuwabara's voice Hiei looked up. He spotted the demon in the air with Kuwabara, and leapt at it. Kuwabara was lucky it was only a few feet in the air, or Hiei may not have been able to get up to him in time.
"TRAITOR! MOVE I HAVE A KILLING TO DO!" The demon roared at Hiei angrily, his claws ripping through Kuwabara's shirt. Kuwabara's eyes closed tightly, Hiei's calm face was lost, shocked one taking over. Had Kuwabara just been stabbed? Hiei growled and grabbed the demon's neck. "Shut...UP!" With a jerk he snapped the beast's neck.
It gave a strangled cry, and fell backwards towards the ground. Hiei didn't have enough time to jump off of the body, and fell with the beast, and Kuwabara.
The three fell from the sky at an alarming rate before landing with a crunch on the ground. Kuwabara pushed both heavy bodies off him, and muttered, "What a nice wake up call." Hiei glanced at Kuwabara, seeing nothing wrong, but a few scratches, and took off.
Yusuke smashed his fists into a beasts head. He couldn't tell his own from them. It was too dark...they were all fighting blind. Yusuke looked around, and he was sure people were in the same dilema. An idea sparked in his mind and Yusuke ran towards the wooden food crates.
A demon grabbed him, and with an angry cry he flung him off. "NOT THE TIME BUDDY!" He was about to shoot him when he saw he had the same uniform on as him. Both of them looked shocked.
They were on the same side.
"I didn't know..." The demon gasped.
"I know."
Yusuke shook off the shock and ran for the crates. He pushed all the empty crates he could find down the sloping hill, and with a well aimed spirit gun lit them on fire. The crates caught quickly giving off such a light, that the whole trench was lit up with light. Not enough like day, but enough so that they could tell uniforms apart.
Now they would be able to identify enemy from comrades. "Ye-" Yusuke was tackled once again and felt teeth sink into his neck. He froze feeling paralyzed, as he heard a sucking sound. His skin went cold, turning white, and foam began to come out his mouth. His senses began to fade away, he wasn't sure what was going on. This felt worse then dying...
"YUSUKE!"
The teeth were no longer in his neck, and Hiei was over him. Yusuke struggled to keep his wits with him, but soon found himself unaware of anything, though his eyes were open.
Hiei held Yusuke in his arms. Hiei watched him, foam was coming out his mouth, and his eyes were beginning to roll into the back of his head. His body shook violently, and Hiei had to hold him down.
"Yusuke! Come on!"
Hiei shook him, as his friend's body became consumed with tremors.
"Stop!"
Hiei looked up to see a girl rushing forward. She grabbed a piece of wood, that had not been caught in the fire. "Open his mouth!" Hiei blinked, but obeyed, if she could stop this then he'd listen. She broke off as much wood as she could from the piece, cracking open her hand at one point.
When she had a small piece she nodded, and looked at Yusuke. She placed her uninjured hand in his mouth making sure his tongue was away from his throat and placed the wood in his mouth. She pulled out her hand, and Hiei released Yusuke's mouth, his teeth biting down on the wood.
"Quickly, to the healers!" The girl grabbed Hiei, and the two made their way back to the Healers, with a shaking Yusuke in Hiei's arms. "Danton! Danton!" The girl cried once inside the Healer's shield. A demon with green hair appeared, and immediately grabbed Yusuke. "Poison, or natural?" "He was bitten, poison." Hiei responded instantly.
"I got him, good job kid, you got him here just in time." The girl twitched, "I'm not a kid!" Danton ignored her, a smile on his face, and continued with his work on Yusuke.
"How did you know what to do?"
She turned to Hiei and he fully took her in. She had large blue eyes, and tangled red orange hair. She was pail, and you could not tell the dried mud or the dried blood apart, for it was so heavily smeared on her skin. "Danton here is a friend of mine, I've seen him heal all the time. He just can't remember I'm not a kid!"
She smirked holding out her hand, "I'm Keely."
Hiei nodded, not bothering to give his name.
She smiled sweetly at him, pulling back her hand, and took off back into battle.
Hiei watched, and went off into the other direction.
Kuwabara growled angrily as bulging arms strangled him. "Da...m*...it..." The arms held his head down, and other arms held his feet down. He heard laughter as he was kicked roughly into the gut. "Urg...Urg!" He cried out painfully.
"LET GO UGLY!" Kuwabara heard the whistling of air, and the arms released his neck. He shot up and stabbed the demon holding his feet, his spirit sword going right through the monstrosity's head.
He looked at his savior and saw a pretty Asin girl, and an Egyptian looking boy. They were knocking the demon's back with their bare hands. "Time for your trick Lily!" The boy yelled diving out of the way.
The girl, Lily got on her hands and yelled, "KICK!" as she spun. Her foot smashed into the demons, but it was not just a kick, green energy was on her foot, and went crashing into the demons. Killing all that encircled them.
She flipped up, and landed on a demon's shoulders, twisted her feet which snapped his neck. She swayed from an injury to the side, the Egyptian boy running towards her.
"Are you-" The boy's words were cut off as long needle went through the side of his neck and out the other. The needle was as thick as a pencil, long enough to go all the way through his neck. Hiei eyes were wide, and you could tell he was trying to swallow over and over.
The needle was pulled out, and blood poured out the holes. He fell on his knees, and then crumpled backwards. "KYOTO!" Lily screamed, running over to him. A demon who had the weapon would have gotten her as well, if Kuwabara had not intervened, and taken the weapon away.
As Kuwabara fought with this demon, Kyoto clung to Lily. "Kyoto...its okay...its all okay...Your going to be fine! Just hang on...Kyoto!...Kyoto!" He went pale, and released Lily'd hands going limp. She rose, tears streaming from her face, and aided Kuwabara in killing the demon.
Lily collapsed on the ground after the deed was done, pulling Kyoto to her, "Oh no...no..." Kuwabara looked at him, taking in his small youthful face. The girl and the now dead, Kyoto were the same age. "I'm sorry..." Lily looked up at him. "He was all that was left of my team..." She was crying enraged. They killed April...Shin...Brande..." Lily was babbling.
"Shin was nothing but ashes, they ate April's heart, and ripped out Brande's guts...I'LL KILL THEM ALL!" Lily turned around and Kuwabara got up to stop the infuriated youth. As he got up he saw her, standing before the burning crates, with 3 other demons.
All four now looked black standing in front of the intense light, Kuwabara was grabbed from behind, and held back, he didn't care as they began to attack him, he only watched the four black objects.
One by one the black objects fell, leaving only the smallest figure behind. The smallest figure had been attacked by a small thin line of a shadow, Kuwabara could not make out. He knew that figure had to be Lily, and watched as she swayed, then...the head of the figure fell off.
"NOO!" Kuwabara screamed angrily, and slammed his fists into the demons. His sword went through their guts, and he tossed them towards the fire. As he did so, he saw the light flicker over the head, and it indeed was what he thought it was.
The young girl, Lily's, head.
Tears poured down his face and Kuwabara screamed, "DAM* THIS PLACE AND DA*M THIS WAR!! I'LL STOP IT!! I'LL SHOW YOU BAS*ARDS! I WON'T LET YOU KILL ME OR MY FRIENDS!" Kuwabara attacked and attacked, blood raining down on him, not all of it red.
Blood of every color, of every amount falling onto his body. His own blood was spilled in the air, and he felt only rage for every cut he received.
Faster...faster! He killed them quicker, drums pounding in his ears, children's bodies stuck in his head. He'd kill them all!
ALL OF THEM!
He felt no pain, only intense hate, and then...
Someone hit him in his stomach, and he collapsed.
Wearily Kuwabara looked up, and found Hiei in front of him. "You fool..." He said softly. Kuwabara saw the shock, and confusion in Hiei's eyes as he tried so desperately to breathe. Hiei looked around at all the corpses, and bent down next to Kuwabara. Hiei touched Kuwabara's cheek, and blood of every color appeared on his hand. Kuwabara saw this and moaned.
He brought his head down in Hiei's lap, and sobbed.
Hiei jumped and starred down at the collapsed man in his arms, who lay sobbing in his lap, weak and drained.
Kuwabara was a very proud man, and Hiei a very proud demon. They both stood tall, had great pride, and their own complicated honor codes, among their race. They were old oaks standing in the wind, and rain, standing proud representing their own kind.
And Kuwabara's tree had been cut down.
Hiei gripped Kuwabara's jacket, "Easy you fool....easy..."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~dramatic...this part of the war is not yet over. 2nd part in next chapter. (p.s. some of the names i used in this chappie are my friend's names. and those who are my friends and see this, don't voice who's who k? ^_^)
NEXT CHAPTER PREVIEW: Beofore anyone can react the trench is flooded, and Kuwabara and Hiei are sweapt away....