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kyori-chan: um, Kagome will come back but this is rated PG-13. No mating here sorry.
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Enjoy.
**Hiei's POV**
That saying. I should have known when I first heard what he feeds on...if I could just-
My thoughts were cut off by hearing Koenma's voice. "Hiei, I need you to come to my office as soon as possible. I'm holding a meeting on our new enemy, Shido. Hurry up and come in. don't waste any time!" with that brief message Koenma's voice disappeared from my head.
Sighing, I headed to Spirit world. This would be a good time to tell them about Shido's weakness, but...it's just a hunch. I don't want to cause more problems than I already have. *~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*!
"I'm here. Now unless you have some important information that will help me destroy Shido, than I'm leaving." I said sharply, getting ready to walk out the door.
"We do have some important news. We have found out a way to revive Kagome." Koenma said in his usual right-to-the-point voice.
That made me stop, foot have way out the door. "Repeat that." I said so quiet I don't think that they heard me.
As I thought my answer was, "What?"
"I said 'repeat that'."
"We have figured out how to bring Kagome back to life in her original form, just like herself. You know personality, features, powers, but..." Yusuke looked at the ground, and stopped talking.
"But what, spirit detective?" I said harshly. I wanted to see Kagome, but I also wanted to kill Shido to revenge her death in the first place. Confusing, I know.
"Kagome, she'll...Kagome won't remember anything of her previous life, really. Maybe a few pop up memories here and there. The only way to bring her memories back is to kill Shido."
"So? I'll kill Shido, and Kagome will remember everything." I retorted. I could not stand to have Kagome not remember anything. It would hurt me so much because she wouldn't even remember my love for her...
"It's not that easy, Hiei." Kurama said softly. "Shido is an S class demon. We don't know exactly how he got through the barrier. All we know is that we can only capture him, to stop him. The only way to stop him is to use Kagome's power to make a cage." Kurama stopped for a breath. "That's the only reason; Koenma is letting Kagome come back to life."
"And you agreed to thins?" I shouted in the heat of the moment. "You are willing to use Kagome?"
Everyone put their head down in shame, except Koenma. Of course. He's the stupid basterd who suggested this idea. I starred at him.
"What?!" He asked, bending under the pressure. "Its either her power of letting the whole human realm to perish!"
"Do you really, think I care about some stupid humans lives?!" I shouted.
"Well, Kagome's human..." Koenma pointed out gulping.
"Forget this! I will kill Shido on my own time. I know how to anyways." I was just about to leave again when I remembered something very important in my plan to kill Shido: happiness.
"Do you want to know what it is?" I asked, trying to get them to join me with out revealing that I need their help.
"Hiei, if you know something we don't, tell us. We are a team." Koenma stated calmly.
I would have made a rude comment on that sentence but I bit my tongue. I was trying to get their help after all.
"Well, I know Shido's weakness. You bone heads could of figured it out if you listened." I said instead. "Its happiness."
"Happiness?" Yusuke asked confused.
"Why do you suppose that?" Kurama asked just as confused.
"Shido told me that he feed on sadness and angst, etc. the opposite should have an opposite affect on him. If he were to feel happiness, my hypothesis is, that it will drain his energy." I explained.
Everyone stared at me, until Koenma said, "You're plan is risky. It might not work, you know...but...I would prefer Shido dead, so I know he won't come back or escape...do you have a back up plan?"
"Shido's necklace as, as I saw, was the Realm's Maiden. It controls time, and how long some one will live. If you take it off him then he should turn into ashes. Though, he knows this. That's why there are many barriers protecting it." I said as I explained my back up plan to everyone.
"True..." Koenma started to think about it. "Alright." He said after a while. "You may go through with you're plan Hiei, but if you fail, you know what will happen."
"Okay." I knew what would happen. I would be executed. Heh, like I would really let him kill me.
***************!
The plan was set. We had everything set up to lure out Shido. Make a guess on who was to lure him out.
"Hiei, you would be perfect to bring Shido out of his hiding place." Yusuke said to me.
"Why me?!" I asked, annoyed.
"Well," Kurama said with a little smile. "You never seem to be happy. As you said yourself, Shido feeds on sadness anger, etc. That's like describing you."
Do it for Kagome. Do it for Kagome. Do it for Kagome...that's what was running through my head as I agreed. Kagome you owe me...
So here I was standing out in Kagome's lawn, waiting for Shido to appear. Like Kurama said, he felt my anger, and came too me.
"Ah, the small fire demon. I thought we'd never meet again. You really are a fool to stand out here feeling angry. That's like, just begging for me to come and get free energy from you." Shido said like he was in control.
**Yusuke's POV**
I watched as this 'Shido' person appeared out of no where and started to talk to Hiei. Unfortunately, he was out of hearing range. We couldn't let Shido pick up on our scents so we had to be a somewhat far distance away.
"Good." Kurama whispered to me and Kuwabara. "Things are going just as planned. As soon as Hiei gives the signal, we'll go and fight. For now, you two should start to get ready."
"Right." Kuwabara and I said in together.
Soon we would be going against an S class demon. I could feel that my nerves were on the edge. I had to calm down. Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm...that was the mantra I had running through my head.
Just then, Hiei tapped his foot twice.
"That's the signal guys! Let's go!" Kuwabara whispered to us.
We all nodded and got ready. Finally, the last tap of Hiei's foot came. That was the q. on a count of three, we would rush him.
"One, two, three!"
This was it! At the exact moment that Kurama whispered three, we were off. Just as we were to nail Shido, he put up a barrier without even looking at us! Did he know that we were going to charge him?
"I'm afraid that you aren't the only ones who can put up a play. A little farther back, I heard your group talking about your pathetic plan. I simply followed along until you guys came out." Shido said cockily. "Do you take me for a worthless B class demon, like Toguro?"
I, and all the others, looked at Shido in shock. He knew about the Dark Tournament?
"Ah, yes. Now you must be wondering about how I know about you now." He laughed a low, evil chuckle. "I did a little research on you; are we going to fight are what?" Shido asked suddenly changing the topic. Though none of use complained. We all wanted to beat this guy to a pulp.
"You know, you talk way to too much for a demon." I said as I started to crack my arm, getting ready to fight. "I think I should shut you up once and for all."
With that I charged at him. He out up a barrier. "Hey!" I said knowing that this would get on his nerves. He was an ecological jerk after all. "I thought you said you where an S class demon, yet you have to cower behind barriers? Some demon you are." I taunted, as I wiped a little blood from my mouth. That barrier was pretty strong.
Just as I thought, calling him weak and a coward hurt his pride. I could tell right off the bat that this man had an ego the size of Texas and a pride to match it.
"How dare you say that to me you human fool. For your disrespect you shall die!" Shido cried and lunged at me.
The man was good. I could hardly black all the punches thrown my way. Every now and then, one would get through. Boy did they hurt to. Ten, a fatal blow was sent my way, that hit me square in the gut.
"Ooooh." I moaned in pain. The wind was knocked out of me, I think practically all my ribs were broken. He won one battle but the war wasn't over yet! I decided to try and do what Hiei suggested. I thought happy thoughts about me and Keiko, fun times with my friends, beating all those punks that challenged to fights...I looked over at Shido. He was grasping his heart as though he was in pain.
"Some...thing wrong...?" I coughed out. My ribs cage hurting with every breath/word that came out of my mouth.
"Shido shoot me a glare that could scare Kami. "You did this?" he asked in long breaths. "I will make you're death slow and painful for thi-"
Shido was cutoff by Kurama, who had just summoned his rose whip.
"Rose Whip!" he yelled as he flung the thorny whip at Shido, who was taken surprise by this. It hit him dead on.
A thought struck me, as I watched Shido fall down to the ground in pain. Was this really Shido, the S class demon? He was acting weaker than Toguro! Something wasn't right...
Suddenly, I saw a purple spear of energy come out of the sky, and strike, Kuwabara, who was running over to help Kurama.
"Kuwabara!" I screamed, as I saw the energy spear pierce his side. Kuwabara yelled in agony.
I ran over to Kuwabara, who was unconscious, and looked at Shido with hateful eyes.
He just smirked at me. "Did you really believe that it was that easy to hurt me? To kill me? You are such fools!" he laughed his horrible laugh. "But you," he said turning serious and looking at me. "Your power frightens me some what. You were able to cut of my energy supply by doing nothing. What sort of black magic did you curse upon me?!"
I sweat dropped. Curse? He must be talking about 'thinking happy thoughts'. Does he really not know his own weaknesses? I decided not to answer him.
"It doesn't matter. I will kill you all and than this spell of yours will fade!"
With that he attacked us.
**Kagome's POV**
(A/n: didn't think I would do her POV until after the battle with Shido
eh?)
Where am I? Why is it so cold? I curled into a tight ball to get away from the cold. The black silent void surrounding me was deafening. Where am I? Where is Hiei? Inu yasha? Sango? Yusuke? Some one help...
"I will help you..." I heard a voice say from behind me.
"Who's there?" I asked, getting ready to fight who ever was there.
"I thought you said you wanted company," The person, female, retorted. "Though I can leave."
"No!" I shouted, not wanting to be alone again. "Just let me see who you are!"
"Very well." The figure replied and showed her self to me. "Shido! Stop dressing up as me!" I yelled at who I 'thought' was Shido.
'Shido' looked disgusted. "Do not call me that vile demons name, girl. I am not Shido."
"If you're not Shido, than who are you?" I asked suspiciously.
"I am Kikyo."
Okay! I'm done with this chapter, I have to go quick because I gotta do a report on Leonardo da Vinci. *SIGH* oh well. See ya.
Preview: What is Kikyo doing here? How can she help? Wait a minute...she's the future Kikyo? How is that so, and how does all of this information help me? Find out next time on Red Roses and Black Thorns.
kyori-chan: um, Kagome will come back but this is rated PG-13. No mating here sorry.
Now on with the story!
Enjoy.
**Hiei's POV**
That saying. I should have known when I first heard what he feeds on...if I could just-
My thoughts were cut off by hearing Koenma's voice. "Hiei, I need you to come to my office as soon as possible. I'm holding a meeting on our new enemy, Shido. Hurry up and come in. don't waste any time!" with that brief message Koenma's voice disappeared from my head.
Sighing, I headed to Spirit world. This would be a good time to tell them about Shido's weakness, but...it's just a hunch. I don't want to cause more problems than I already have. *~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*!
"I'm here. Now unless you have some important information that will help me destroy Shido, than I'm leaving." I said sharply, getting ready to walk out the door.
"We do have some important news. We have found out a way to revive Kagome." Koenma said in his usual right-to-the-point voice.
That made me stop, foot have way out the door. "Repeat that." I said so quiet I don't think that they heard me.
As I thought my answer was, "What?"
"I said 'repeat that'."
"We have figured out how to bring Kagome back to life in her original form, just like herself. You know personality, features, powers, but..." Yusuke looked at the ground, and stopped talking.
"But what, spirit detective?" I said harshly. I wanted to see Kagome, but I also wanted to kill Shido to revenge her death in the first place. Confusing, I know.
"Kagome, she'll...Kagome won't remember anything of her previous life, really. Maybe a few pop up memories here and there. The only way to bring her memories back is to kill Shido."
"So? I'll kill Shido, and Kagome will remember everything." I retorted. I could not stand to have Kagome not remember anything. It would hurt me so much because she wouldn't even remember my love for her...
"It's not that easy, Hiei." Kurama said softly. "Shido is an S class demon. We don't know exactly how he got through the barrier. All we know is that we can only capture him, to stop him. The only way to stop him is to use Kagome's power to make a cage." Kurama stopped for a breath. "That's the only reason; Koenma is letting Kagome come back to life."
"And you agreed to thins?" I shouted in the heat of the moment. "You are willing to use Kagome?"
Everyone put their head down in shame, except Koenma. Of course. He's the stupid basterd who suggested this idea. I starred at him.
"What?!" He asked, bending under the pressure. "Its either her power of letting the whole human realm to perish!"
"Do you really, think I care about some stupid humans lives?!" I shouted.
"Well, Kagome's human..." Koenma pointed out gulping.
"Forget this! I will kill Shido on my own time. I know how to anyways." I was just about to leave again when I remembered something very important in my plan to kill Shido: happiness.
"Do you want to know what it is?" I asked, trying to get them to join me with out revealing that I need their help.
"Hiei, if you know something we don't, tell us. We are a team." Koenma stated calmly.
I would have made a rude comment on that sentence but I bit my tongue. I was trying to get their help after all.
"Well, I know Shido's weakness. You bone heads could of figured it out if you listened." I said instead. "Its happiness."
"Happiness?" Yusuke asked confused.
"Why do you suppose that?" Kurama asked just as confused.
"Shido told me that he feed on sadness and angst, etc. the opposite should have an opposite affect on him. If he were to feel happiness, my hypothesis is, that it will drain his energy." I explained.
Everyone stared at me, until Koenma said, "You're plan is risky. It might not work, you know...but...I would prefer Shido dead, so I know he won't come back or escape...do you have a back up plan?"
"Shido's necklace as, as I saw, was the Realm's Maiden. It controls time, and how long some one will live. If you take it off him then he should turn into ashes. Though, he knows this. That's why there are many barriers protecting it." I said as I explained my back up plan to everyone.
"True..." Koenma started to think about it. "Alright." He said after a while. "You may go through with you're plan Hiei, but if you fail, you know what will happen."
"Okay." I knew what would happen. I would be executed. Heh, like I would really let him kill me.
***************!
The plan was set. We had everything set up to lure out Shido. Make a guess on who was to lure him out.
"Hiei, you would be perfect to bring Shido out of his hiding place." Yusuke said to me.
"Why me?!" I asked, annoyed.
"Well," Kurama said with a little smile. "You never seem to be happy. As you said yourself, Shido feeds on sadness anger, etc. That's like describing you."
Do it for Kagome. Do it for Kagome. Do it for Kagome...that's what was running through my head as I agreed. Kagome you owe me...
So here I was standing out in Kagome's lawn, waiting for Shido to appear. Like Kurama said, he felt my anger, and came too me.
"Ah, the small fire demon. I thought we'd never meet again. You really are a fool to stand out here feeling angry. That's like, just begging for me to come and get free energy from you." Shido said like he was in control.
**Yusuke's POV**
I watched as this 'Shido' person appeared out of no where and started to talk to Hiei. Unfortunately, he was out of hearing range. We couldn't let Shido pick up on our scents so we had to be a somewhat far distance away.
"Good." Kurama whispered to me and Kuwabara. "Things are going just as planned. As soon as Hiei gives the signal, we'll go and fight. For now, you two should start to get ready."
"Right." Kuwabara and I said in together.
Soon we would be going against an S class demon. I could feel that my nerves were on the edge. I had to calm down. Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm...that was the mantra I had running through my head.
Just then, Hiei tapped his foot twice.
"That's the signal guys! Let's go!" Kuwabara whispered to us.
We all nodded and got ready. Finally, the last tap of Hiei's foot came. That was the q. on a count of three, we would rush him.
"One, two, three!"
This was it! At the exact moment that Kurama whispered three, we were off. Just as we were to nail Shido, he put up a barrier without even looking at us! Did he know that we were going to charge him?
"I'm afraid that you aren't the only ones who can put up a play. A little farther back, I heard your group talking about your pathetic plan. I simply followed along until you guys came out." Shido said cockily. "Do you take me for a worthless B class demon, like Toguro?"
I, and all the others, looked at Shido in shock. He knew about the Dark Tournament?
"Ah, yes. Now you must be wondering about how I know about you now." He laughed a low, evil chuckle. "I did a little research on you; are we going to fight are what?" Shido asked suddenly changing the topic. Though none of use complained. We all wanted to beat this guy to a pulp.
"You know, you talk way to too much for a demon." I said as I started to crack my arm, getting ready to fight. "I think I should shut you up once and for all."
With that I charged at him. He out up a barrier. "Hey!" I said knowing that this would get on his nerves. He was an ecological jerk after all. "I thought you said you where an S class demon, yet you have to cower behind barriers? Some demon you are." I taunted, as I wiped a little blood from my mouth. That barrier was pretty strong.
Just as I thought, calling him weak and a coward hurt his pride. I could tell right off the bat that this man had an ego the size of Texas and a pride to match it.
"How dare you say that to me you human fool. For your disrespect you shall die!" Shido cried and lunged at me.
The man was good. I could hardly black all the punches thrown my way. Every now and then, one would get through. Boy did they hurt to. Ten, a fatal blow was sent my way, that hit me square in the gut.
"Ooooh." I moaned in pain. The wind was knocked out of me, I think practically all my ribs were broken. He won one battle but the war wasn't over yet! I decided to try and do what Hiei suggested. I thought happy thoughts about me and Keiko, fun times with my friends, beating all those punks that challenged to fights...I looked over at Shido. He was grasping his heart as though he was in pain.
"Some...thing wrong...?" I coughed out. My ribs cage hurting with every breath/word that came out of my mouth.
"Shido shoot me a glare that could scare Kami. "You did this?" he asked in long breaths. "I will make you're death slow and painful for thi-"
Shido was cutoff by Kurama, who had just summoned his rose whip.
"Rose Whip!" he yelled as he flung the thorny whip at Shido, who was taken surprise by this. It hit him dead on.
A thought struck me, as I watched Shido fall down to the ground in pain. Was this really Shido, the S class demon? He was acting weaker than Toguro! Something wasn't right...
Suddenly, I saw a purple spear of energy come out of the sky, and strike, Kuwabara, who was running over to help Kurama.
"Kuwabara!" I screamed, as I saw the energy spear pierce his side. Kuwabara yelled in agony.
I ran over to Kuwabara, who was unconscious, and looked at Shido with hateful eyes.
He just smirked at me. "Did you really believe that it was that easy to hurt me? To kill me? You are such fools!" he laughed his horrible laugh. "But you," he said turning serious and looking at me. "Your power frightens me some what. You were able to cut of my energy supply by doing nothing. What sort of black magic did you curse upon me?!"
I sweat dropped. Curse? He must be talking about 'thinking happy thoughts'. Does he really not know his own weaknesses? I decided not to answer him.
"It doesn't matter. I will kill you all and than this spell of yours will fade!"
With that he attacked us.
**Kagome's POV**
(A/n: didn't think I would do her POV until after the battle with Shido
eh?)
Where am I? Why is it so cold? I curled into a tight ball to get away from the cold. The black silent void surrounding me was deafening. Where am I? Where is Hiei? Inu yasha? Sango? Yusuke? Some one help...
"I will help you..." I heard a voice say from behind me.
"Who's there?" I asked, getting ready to fight who ever was there.
"I thought you said you wanted company," The person, female, retorted. "Though I can leave."
"No!" I shouted, not wanting to be alone again. "Just let me see who you are!"
"Very well." The figure replied and showed her self to me. "Shido! Stop dressing up as me!" I yelled at who I 'thought' was Shido.
'Shido' looked disgusted. "Do not call me that vile demons name, girl. I am not Shido."
"If you're not Shido, than who are you?" I asked suspiciously.
"I am Kikyo."
Okay! I'm done with this chapter, I have to go quick because I gotta do a report on Leonardo da Vinci. *SIGH* oh well. See ya.
Preview: What is Kikyo doing here? How can she help? Wait a minute...she's the future Kikyo? How is that so, and how does all of this information help me? Find out next time on Red Roses and Black Thorns.