Chapter 5
Suzaku's ghost was wondering around the room, as Raidon's shadow was showing in the distance, sitting where Suzaku used to sit, watching the screen. He saw how hurt Yusuke was. Raidon has had a special interest in Yusuke ever since he saw it in the Dark Tournament. He refuses to compete, but loves watching it. He saw how he killed Toguro, which made him angry because he wanted to be the one to defeat Toguro. But after seeing Yusuke, he got the urge to want to destroy Yusuke. Ever since he knew that Yusuke killed his brother. Yusuke had to pay for the damage that he caused him. The only reason he's doing this too is because he knows he's better than Yusuke. "Raidon, I sent messages out to Shinya and Nibori. They should be arriving any moment now." Raidon looked at his brother's ghost, wanting the revenge on Yusuke Urameshi now more than ever.
Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei all approached Genkai's temple. Ever since the dark tournament and coming back to life, they knew she wouldn't be able to take on another challenge, but they knew that they'd need her help. They approached the door, seeing that she wasn't there. She wasn't in any of the rooms they knew. They were getting worried, wondering where she could possibly be. She hadn't been acting herself since she returned back to life.
Genkai sat there, sipping some tea, looking at a picture of her and Toguro. The frame was broke, the picture still in tact though. She was sitting in the place that they used to sneak down to so they could be together. She remembered the last time they were there together, which had also been the last time she was down there. They had just gotten off a boat when sailing across the lake, a week before the Dark Tournament they were in together. The scene replayed in her head.
"You're a beautiful girl, genkai." He said to her, as he put his hands on her cheek. "I love you, so much genkai. You're the one person who truely understands me." He brushed his long fingers through her light pink hair, as she looked him in the eyes. She saw those eyes and she felt safe, yet at the same time, sad. A tear went down her cheek, and she stood up, knowing she couldn't do what he wanted. "What's wrong? Don't you feel the same way?"
"I can't. I..." She said, knowing she did. "I just can't love someone who doesn't love themself. You're a great person, and you have tremendous power, but I know you want more. If you make yourself a demon, you'll be... destroying what you already have." she said. "You're a hopeless dimwit. Why can't you understand that you could be more powerful, as a human!" He looked at her, a tear now going down his cheek. He didn't speak, and he got up and left. Genkai knew that he was hurt, probably embarrassed. "Toguro, don't be mad at me. You're being an idiot now. You know I'm right, why won't you listen." He turned to her, angry, throwing a picture of them on the ground, breaking the glass.
"When we go to the tournament next week, I will make my wish. I will become greater, and you'll see how much better I'll become! Maybe I was wrong about you understanding me." He walked out the door, and she remained there alone, sobbing.
"I love you toguro, you know I do."
She couldn't believe that he was in limbo. A tear ran down her cheek, flashbacks of her and Toguro when they were younger came back. "I will still always have one regret Toguro. I could have saved you from your sanity. Didn't you love me enough to listen to me?" Then she heard his voice in the back of her head. She remembered the last time she saw him, after they both died. He looked at her, as she waited near limbo. He explained to her that he wanted to be there, and he walked past her, telling her he didn't want her lectures. Then he told her that yusuke still hasn't reached his full potential.
"You really care about yusuke, in your own messed up way." She told him. "You've been teaching him too. He's like a son to me, maybe you feel the same. Don't ever feel regret for the things between us." She remembered him taking off his glasses, looking at her lovingly.
"No, genkai, but it would have been a beautiful life." He walked past her, walking towards his fate, limbo. 'You really are a big hearted fool,' she thought to herself. Then she heard what she told him in her head. 'Don't you think you've blamed yourself enough already for not being perfect? Haven't you blamed me enough too?' Toguro... you may not realize it, but I still love you, and I always will. She put her head in her hands, sobbing for her lost love.
"Toguro!"
"What was that?" Yusuke screamed. She heard it from underneath the floor they were on. Kurama and Hiei looked around, and yusuke stepped back. He looked at the floor board, seeing one different from the rest. He took it off, revealing steps. The three walked down the stairs, and saw Genkai on the floor. "Genkai!" She looked up at them, wiping her eyes. "Genkai, are you alright?"
"Well, if it isn't my favorite dimwit and his friends. What have you come to me for now? Your training is complete for now. I wasn't planning on seeing you guys for another week or so."
Hiei and Kurama explained everything to her, as Yusuke caught a glimpse of the picture of her and Toguro. 'Poor Genkai.' He said to himself. 'The elder Toguro was right, they really were in love. That's got to hurt, killed by your true love.' Yusuke saw her still upset as Kurama and Hiei weren't really paying attention to her, just the explanation. Yusuke walked over to her, kneeled down, and interupted the other two as they were talking.
"Can I talk to Genkai alone for a few minutes? I'll bring her up and you can finish explaining to her in a few minutes." Yusuke said. Kurama and Hiei nodded and walked up the stairs. "Genkai, are you alright?"
She looked at Yusuke, who obviously knew what she was feeling. She knew how Yusuke thought Keiko had died once, and knew that he was just as in love with keiko as she had been with Toguro. "Yes dimwit. You killed my worst enemy, why wouldn't I be happy?" Yusuke shook his head.
"He wasn't your worst enemy, was he. He was the opposite. He helped you, even though he killed you first to do it. I looked up to him, and I respect him. You should do the same."
"Yusuke, you don't understand. He could have gotten a light sentence in spirit world, but he wanted limbo. 10,000 years of pain, torture, suffering. I made him suffer his madness. I could have stopped him. If I had only told him how I felt that day when he told me... I would have stopped him. We'd be happy together, and he wouldn't be going through that now."
"Genkai... you stopped his madness." Yusuke said. Genkai was crying, and yusuke held her in his arms. "Toguro obviously loved you, and you loved him. Words aren't needed with that. Look at me and keiko. I've loved her for a long time, and I never told her, but she knew. As I knew she cared for me too. Genkai, Toguro knew you loved him. I know he did, I saw it in his eyes as he spoke about you. You couldn't stop him from the demon body he wanted. Even if you feel responsible, he would have done it anyway, no matter what was..." She backed up as he spoke and jumped up.
"God damn it Yusuke! Listen to me!" She stopped him and explained to him the night two weeks before the tournament. Yusuke looked at her.
"It's not your fault you old hag!" He said, standing up. "That proves it even more! If you would have told him how you felt, then he might have convinced you to becoming a demon too! Genkai, you can't regret the past, all you have to do is keep moving forward. You can't stop that, ok?" She looked at him, pleading, and he caught her as she fell to her knees in tears again. "Genkai, you always told me to commit to something all the way with all your heart. You both did that, just in a different way. You both will rejoin again one day, not in limbo, but he'll realize he doesn't want to be there, and the day we know that he knows that, we'll go to Koenma to get him out of there for you. Genkai, it'll be alright, I promise you that." He hugged her, comforting her. She looked at him, smiled.
"My dimwit apprentice just taught me a lesson. I don't know if that's supposed to be right." She said, as she laughed. "Just do me a favor, lets leave this out when we see Kurama and Hiei upstairs.
The two walked upstairs, as Kurama and Hiei waited patiently for them. They went into her main section of the temple, and they all finished the explanation of the mission. Genkai nodded, and decided that she could help train them. She didn't have enough spirit energy to actually fight, but was going to help however she could. After hearing that Yusuke was doing basically all this for Keiko, she knew she had to. She didn't want what happened to her happen to Yusuke. She didn't want him to deal with the emotions she had right now.
"Perfect" Raidon said. "Genkai is now on their team. All they need is Kuwabara, and as soon as they ask I know Kuwabara will accept, his foolish pride will lead him to." Suddenly, two men walked into the room. A shorter man, very muscular, black hair all spiked up with blue high lights, a sword in hand. The second man was very scrawny, seemed to have no spirit energy what so ever. Then, the door closed behind them, and suddenly, a load of spirit energy was unleashed. It was so powerful that raidon almost got knocked to the ground. You saw bursts of a black/purplish color spirit as well as a red spirit flowing around the room, radiating around the two men. Evil red eyes opened, as well as blue eyes. "We've arrived." said the more muscular man. "Are we too soon? Because we could always go kill a few more people before we come back."
Raidon smiled. "It's ok, you're on time. Suzaku greets you. You two won't be able to see him, because unfortunately all that is left of him is his spirit."
The scrawny man laughed. "So that's why you've brought us here. To avenge your stupid brother?" He smiled. Suzaku appeared, screaming, cursing, but only Raidon could hear him anyway. He ran right through Nibori, and he shivered for a little bit. "Oh, there's Suzaku now. Good, that means Kurama will be coming. I'm guessing King Enma's spirit detective has finally killed him then?" Raidon nodded, as the muscular man stepped up.
"Good, now the legend continues. If this kid, Urameshi, is the one in the legend that could kill your brother, be prepared for him Raidon. Me and Nibori better prepare ourselves as well. If it is Urameshi and his gang, then we might be next to die. Legend says when this group comes back for the second time around it has no survivors except for them. The one exceptional with plants, the one exceptional with swords, the one exceptional with spirit energy, the one who has taught them all, and the one who can break the barrior from the Human world to the Demon world. Legend says when these five people come together, they are unstoppable. Well, I'll go for the one with the sword. I know for a fact that nobody could beat me, unless he was practically me himself." Shinya laughed.
"You might not want to be so over confident there Shinya, I know Hiei, and he could fight very well. He has the darkness technique mastered." Shinya gulped.
"The darkness technique. But... that is supposed to be impossible!" Shinya said.
"He even learned to consume it, and the darkness is within him. It got turned against him in the dark tournament, and now it lives in him. Bui, the guy he faced, turned the dragon back at Hiei, and instead of being incinerated by it, he consumed it. Bui gave him the biggest beating of his life, and hiei felt close to nothing from it." Raidon said, Nibori and Shinya in complete shock. Shinya had a look on his face.
"The darkness flame was the one technique I tried that I couldn't learn. I will take this guy down, no matter what it takes."
Suzaku's ghost was wondering around the room, as Raidon's shadow was showing in the distance, sitting where Suzaku used to sit, watching the screen. He saw how hurt Yusuke was. Raidon has had a special interest in Yusuke ever since he saw it in the Dark Tournament. He refuses to compete, but loves watching it. He saw how he killed Toguro, which made him angry because he wanted to be the one to defeat Toguro. But after seeing Yusuke, he got the urge to want to destroy Yusuke. Ever since he knew that Yusuke killed his brother. Yusuke had to pay for the damage that he caused him. The only reason he's doing this too is because he knows he's better than Yusuke. "Raidon, I sent messages out to Shinya and Nibori. They should be arriving any moment now." Raidon looked at his brother's ghost, wanting the revenge on Yusuke Urameshi now more than ever.
Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei all approached Genkai's temple. Ever since the dark tournament and coming back to life, they knew she wouldn't be able to take on another challenge, but they knew that they'd need her help. They approached the door, seeing that she wasn't there. She wasn't in any of the rooms they knew. They were getting worried, wondering where she could possibly be. She hadn't been acting herself since she returned back to life.
Genkai sat there, sipping some tea, looking at a picture of her and Toguro. The frame was broke, the picture still in tact though. She was sitting in the place that they used to sneak down to so they could be together. She remembered the last time they were there together, which had also been the last time she was down there. They had just gotten off a boat when sailing across the lake, a week before the Dark Tournament they were in together. The scene replayed in her head.
"You're a beautiful girl, genkai." He said to her, as he put his hands on her cheek. "I love you, so much genkai. You're the one person who truely understands me." He brushed his long fingers through her light pink hair, as she looked him in the eyes. She saw those eyes and she felt safe, yet at the same time, sad. A tear went down her cheek, and she stood up, knowing she couldn't do what he wanted. "What's wrong? Don't you feel the same way?"
"I can't. I..." She said, knowing she did. "I just can't love someone who doesn't love themself. You're a great person, and you have tremendous power, but I know you want more. If you make yourself a demon, you'll be... destroying what you already have." she said. "You're a hopeless dimwit. Why can't you understand that you could be more powerful, as a human!" He looked at her, a tear now going down his cheek. He didn't speak, and he got up and left. Genkai knew that he was hurt, probably embarrassed. "Toguro, don't be mad at me. You're being an idiot now. You know I'm right, why won't you listen." He turned to her, angry, throwing a picture of them on the ground, breaking the glass.
"When we go to the tournament next week, I will make my wish. I will become greater, and you'll see how much better I'll become! Maybe I was wrong about you understanding me." He walked out the door, and she remained there alone, sobbing.
"I love you toguro, you know I do."
She couldn't believe that he was in limbo. A tear ran down her cheek, flashbacks of her and Toguro when they were younger came back. "I will still always have one regret Toguro. I could have saved you from your sanity. Didn't you love me enough to listen to me?" Then she heard his voice in the back of her head. She remembered the last time she saw him, after they both died. He looked at her, as she waited near limbo. He explained to her that he wanted to be there, and he walked past her, telling her he didn't want her lectures. Then he told her that yusuke still hasn't reached his full potential.
"You really care about yusuke, in your own messed up way." She told him. "You've been teaching him too. He's like a son to me, maybe you feel the same. Don't ever feel regret for the things between us." She remembered him taking off his glasses, looking at her lovingly.
"No, genkai, but it would have been a beautiful life." He walked past her, walking towards his fate, limbo. 'You really are a big hearted fool,' she thought to herself. Then she heard what she told him in her head. 'Don't you think you've blamed yourself enough already for not being perfect? Haven't you blamed me enough too?' Toguro... you may not realize it, but I still love you, and I always will. She put her head in her hands, sobbing for her lost love.
"Toguro!"
"What was that?" Yusuke screamed. She heard it from underneath the floor they were on. Kurama and Hiei looked around, and yusuke stepped back. He looked at the floor board, seeing one different from the rest. He took it off, revealing steps. The three walked down the stairs, and saw Genkai on the floor. "Genkai!" She looked up at them, wiping her eyes. "Genkai, are you alright?"
"Well, if it isn't my favorite dimwit and his friends. What have you come to me for now? Your training is complete for now. I wasn't planning on seeing you guys for another week or so."
Hiei and Kurama explained everything to her, as Yusuke caught a glimpse of the picture of her and Toguro. 'Poor Genkai.' He said to himself. 'The elder Toguro was right, they really were in love. That's got to hurt, killed by your true love.' Yusuke saw her still upset as Kurama and Hiei weren't really paying attention to her, just the explanation. Yusuke walked over to her, kneeled down, and interupted the other two as they were talking.
"Can I talk to Genkai alone for a few minutes? I'll bring her up and you can finish explaining to her in a few minutes." Yusuke said. Kurama and Hiei nodded and walked up the stairs. "Genkai, are you alright?"
She looked at Yusuke, who obviously knew what she was feeling. She knew how Yusuke thought Keiko had died once, and knew that he was just as in love with keiko as she had been with Toguro. "Yes dimwit. You killed my worst enemy, why wouldn't I be happy?" Yusuke shook his head.
"He wasn't your worst enemy, was he. He was the opposite. He helped you, even though he killed you first to do it. I looked up to him, and I respect him. You should do the same."
"Yusuke, you don't understand. He could have gotten a light sentence in spirit world, but he wanted limbo. 10,000 years of pain, torture, suffering. I made him suffer his madness. I could have stopped him. If I had only told him how I felt that day when he told me... I would have stopped him. We'd be happy together, and he wouldn't be going through that now."
"Genkai... you stopped his madness." Yusuke said. Genkai was crying, and yusuke held her in his arms. "Toguro obviously loved you, and you loved him. Words aren't needed with that. Look at me and keiko. I've loved her for a long time, and I never told her, but she knew. As I knew she cared for me too. Genkai, Toguro knew you loved him. I know he did, I saw it in his eyes as he spoke about you. You couldn't stop him from the demon body he wanted. Even if you feel responsible, he would have done it anyway, no matter what was..." She backed up as he spoke and jumped up.
"God damn it Yusuke! Listen to me!" She stopped him and explained to him the night two weeks before the tournament. Yusuke looked at her.
"It's not your fault you old hag!" He said, standing up. "That proves it even more! If you would have told him how you felt, then he might have convinced you to becoming a demon too! Genkai, you can't regret the past, all you have to do is keep moving forward. You can't stop that, ok?" She looked at him, pleading, and he caught her as she fell to her knees in tears again. "Genkai, you always told me to commit to something all the way with all your heart. You both did that, just in a different way. You both will rejoin again one day, not in limbo, but he'll realize he doesn't want to be there, and the day we know that he knows that, we'll go to Koenma to get him out of there for you. Genkai, it'll be alright, I promise you that." He hugged her, comforting her. She looked at him, smiled.
"My dimwit apprentice just taught me a lesson. I don't know if that's supposed to be right." She said, as she laughed. "Just do me a favor, lets leave this out when we see Kurama and Hiei upstairs.
The two walked upstairs, as Kurama and Hiei waited patiently for them. They went into her main section of the temple, and they all finished the explanation of the mission. Genkai nodded, and decided that she could help train them. She didn't have enough spirit energy to actually fight, but was going to help however she could. After hearing that Yusuke was doing basically all this for Keiko, she knew she had to. She didn't want what happened to her happen to Yusuke. She didn't want him to deal with the emotions she had right now.
"Perfect" Raidon said. "Genkai is now on their team. All they need is Kuwabara, and as soon as they ask I know Kuwabara will accept, his foolish pride will lead him to." Suddenly, two men walked into the room. A shorter man, very muscular, black hair all spiked up with blue high lights, a sword in hand. The second man was very scrawny, seemed to have no spirit energy what so ever. Then, the door closed behind them, and suddenly, a load of spirit energy was unleashed. It was so powerful that raidon almost got knocked to the ground. You saw bursts of a black/purplish color spirit as well as a red spirit flowing around the room, radiating around the two men. Evil red eyes opened, as well as blue eyes. "We've arrived." said the more muscular man. "Are we too soon? Because we could always go kill a few more people before we come back."
Raidon smiled. "It's ok, you're on time. Suzaku greets you. You two won't be able to see him, because unfortunately all that is left of him is his spirit."
The scrawny man laughed. "So that's why you've brought us here. To avenge your stupid brother?" He smiled. Suzaku appeared, screaming, cursing, but only Raidon could hear him anyway. He ran right through Nibori, and he shivered for a little bit. "Oh, there's Suzaku now. Good, that means Kurama will be coming. I'm guessing King Enma's spirit detective has finally killed him then?" Raidon nodded, as the muscular man stepped up.
"Good, now the legend continues. If this kid, Urameshi, is the one in the legend that could kill your brother, be prepared for him Raidon. Me and Nibori better prepare ourselves as well. If it is Urameshi and his gang, then we might be next to die. Legend says when this group comes back for the second time around it has no survivors except for them. The one exceptional with plants, the one exceptional with swords, the one exceptional with spirit energy, the one who has taught them all, and the one who can break the barrior from the Human world to the Demon world. Legend says when these five people come together, they are unstoppable. Well, I'll go for the one with the sword. I know for a fact that nobody could beat me, unless he was practically me himself." Shinya laughed.
"You might not want to be so over confident there Shinya, I know Hiei, and he could fight very well. He has the darkness technique mastered." Shinya gulped.
"The darkness technique. But... that is supposed to be impossible!" Shinya said.
"He even learned to consume it, and the darkness is within him. It got turned against him in the dark tournament, and now it lives in him. Bui, the guy he faced, turned the dragon back at Hiei, and instead of being incinerated by it, he consumed it. Bui gave him the biggest beating of his life, and hiei felt close to nothing from it." Raidon said, Nibori and Shinya in complete shock. Shinya had a look on his face.
"The darkness flame was the one technique I tried that I couldn't learn. I will take this guy down, no matter what it takes."