Catse: Hiyya peoples! Here's chapter fifteen for you! This is my fav. chapter now, 'cause there was a peice here I liked! It didn't come out exactly the way I wanted, but I'm still pretty proud of it. Oh well, enjoy this chappie!
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Disclaimer: You know all this legal stuff. YYH don't belong to me but I wish it did all the time!
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Hiei glared at the castle that housed the demon and the girl he loved.
This was it. This was where it would all be decided.
Whether the human race lived or died, this was it.
"Well, I guess we better get going." Yusuke replied, resting his hands behind his head in comfort.
"I don't like this." Kuwabara replied, looking pale.
"What's up?" Yusuke asked, turning to his friend as they began to walk.
"Shouldn't this place be better protected? If the demon can open up small holes in the barrier, shouldn't there be other demons here waiting for us?" Kuwabara added, rubbing his temple.
"Kuwabara's right. There should be better protection here." Replied Kurama as they stepped into the area that the barrier once stood. They could tell that this was the area, for the ground was torn up in a circle around the mansion.
"Quite right." They heard a slithery voice acknowledge.
"Huh?" Yusuke mumbled. "I don't see anybody."
Suddenly, as if on cue, a drape, almost like sand dropped and there, before the mansion was a huge army of demons and the like, each armed and covered in metal armor.
"There you go Kuwabara. Anything else you want to add?" Yusuke sarcastically replied, glaring at the army.
Hiei added to the glare, and pulled out his katana to prepare for an actual fight.
He had the sword that Suta gave him tied up on his back, figuring that it might come in useful later should his original sword get broken or need to be discarded for some reason.
"Well guys, we ready to kick some demon ass?" Yusuke added, taking a fighting stance.
"Yeah!" Kuwabara shouted, forming a spirit sword in his hands.
Kurama smiled and drew a rose from his red hair, and Hiei merely took a fighting stance of his own and prepared for what was to come.
"Come on! We're ready!" Yusuke shouted.
The army of demons jumped to running, and soon, the four were immersed in battle.
Yusuke used his street fighting knowledge, and knocked a few unconscious before using a Shot Gun attack to wipe out a good thirty or so demons.
Kuwabara slashed his way through, creating two swords after getting tired of being attacked so many times by demons, and double slashed them away.
Kurama used his Rose Whip, slicing demons heads, torsos, or anything else that would kill them.
Hiei did the usual and slashed his way through with his sword, taking down many with use of his lightning speed.
After a good thirty minutes, the large army of demons was annihilated, and the detectives only had a few good scratches here and there from lucky hits to show there had actually been a fight.
"That wasn't even a challenge." Yusuke pouted, his hands shoved in his pockets. "Why don't they send something more powerful?"
Again as if on cue, out came a smaller army, or about twenty demons or so, each of them armed to the max with weapons one couldn't even dream of.
"Good work Uremeshi." Kuwabara replied sarcastically, calling back his spirit sword.
"Hell, I didn't know they were waiting for me to say anything. I feel special now!" Yusuke returned, balling his hands into fists.
The group returned to fighting, but found that these demons, were indeed more powerful than the other group.
In fact, they were well trained in weaponry use, and it was difficult for even Kurama to kill one when it came to battling them. Everyone had trouble with them, and about a good ten minutes later Kuwabara got stabbed in the shoulder by a blade during a scuffle.
Hiei sighed.
These were well trained, and it would take a good sword technique to fight and actually kill one, much less twenty of them.
But this was his chance wasn't it?
His chance to test the abilities of the Sword Dancing technique, and show how truly powerful it was when used properly.
Hiei drew his sword before him in one of the dancing stances, using only one sword instead of the usual two he was used to. With his practice, it would only require one to finish his enemies.
The demons he was fighting took one look at his stance and began to laugh.
"You going to dance for us! Hahahahahahah!"
But again, Hiei didn't reply with the usual way. Funny how much calmer Suta had made him with just their short time together, to where now he had better control over his emotions.
"Hey! Somebody got popcorn! I've gotta see this!" Another demon hollered, causing the whole lot to laugh.
"Laugh all you like demons. This technique is your death." He replied, closing his eyes for a moment to concentrate.
"Right." Another laughed, pointing at him.
The fighting stopped as both demons and detectives wanted to see what it was Hiei was preparing to do. They had seen him practice sure...but they hadn't seen him when he was at his full potential.
All were curious to what it was that Hiei had truly learned from the master of Sword Dancing, Suta.
Hiei snapped his eyes open, and, listening to a song of Suta's favorites playing in his head, he slashed out and a cut swept through a demon's chest, pulling up threw the head and slicing the scalp in half.
The demon fell back, a look of surprise on his split face.
"Damn!" One of the demons replied. But Hiei didn't stop, nor did he slow down.
The technique was a number ten, and he planned on using it to its fullest.
I'll show them...this technique is not as funny as they think!
[Flashbacks]
"Would you like to learn Hiei?"
That had caught him off guard.
She wanted to teach him...how to dance...
"I'm not into dancing." He replied, glaring at the floor.
"This isn't really dancing Hiei." She replied. "Why do you think so many abused children come to me for help? I teach them what appears to be dance techniques for show, but once learned, they come in handy. It helps the children to use a sword, because they master holding it and moving with it with dances. The better they get, the faster. The more they know, the more they are able to do. The techniques could prove useful to you later Hiei, so how about it?"
Hiei thought about it a moment.
He was no where near being a master of his sword...but he didn't sit too well with looking like a fool as he tried to work with the sword.
Finally, after much contemplation, he nodded.
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"Thankyou." She told him, blushing slightly.
Hiei glanced up from his sword and stare at her a minute, before returning to his work.
"Thank you for saving me when those demons were attacking me."
"I didn't do it to save you. I did it for my own enjoyment." Hiei scowled quietly, trying to regain silence once more.
"It doesn't matter what you did it for. I'm still standing here today talking to you now. Thanks. If you like, you can come inside. I'm making some tea and I thought you might like a cup."
Hiei glanced at her with a glare and was answered with a mild smile and Suta returned to the confines of her room.
Hiei stared at the open window with interest.
For the first time in his life, some one had actually wanted his company.
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"Ready for today's lesson Hiei?" She asked with a smile as she stood up from her seat.
Hiei was surprised.
She had been attacked and wounded early this morning, and yet here she was preparing to teach him another lesson.
"No. You should rest." He replied, trying to press her back into her bed.
She wouldn't have it.
"No Hiei. I promised you I would teach you every afternoon and I will keep my promise. I'll be just fine. You'll see!"
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"Hiei. If there is ever a chance you find anyone you truly care for, but you never tell them, please do it. Don't leave them in the dark if you die...because then they may find out when you're gone, and be left living a life of emptiness. That happened to me when my parents died. They never were really there to take care of me. I was always fending for myself. Mother only stayed around long enough to teach me dances, and then she was gone with my father again. I don't even remember what my father looks like anymore it's been so long. They never acknowledged that they loved me, and then they died and left me here."
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"Suta?"
"Yes Hiei." She replied, taking up her sword again.
"Have you..." Damn this was hard!
Stupid soft emotions...won't leave me alone!
"Yes?"
"Have you...been thinking of...uh...you know...when we...um..."
"Hiei, you can stop stuttering. It looks very odd for you to do such a thing. I don't believe I've ever seen you so uncertain before. You're wondering if I've been thinking about our kiss."
Hiei sighed his relief.
He hated being in such a timid state as to stutter, but when it came to Suta, it really didn't matter.
She was the only one he knew of so far that had that effect on him.
He nodded his answer, and she smiled.
"Of course I have silly. I made the first move remember?"
Of course he did!
He hadn't forgotten.
He couldn't forget was his problem.
"Hn." He replied, receiving a giggle. "And—"
"I gather you're wondering if we can do it again. Hell Hiei, I never knew you were one to ask before taking action."
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"Suta..."
"Just leave Hiei! Walk out that door and don't come back!"
Hiei froze.
Don't come back...He couldn't do that...He couldn't leave and try to forget.
Hadn't he already told her that he couldn't forget her...that he never would.
"Suta..."
"Go!"
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"Thank you Hiei. Thank you."
Hiei became confused.
"For what?"
He received a giggle from that, that made him want to smile.
Want to...
"For being my friend Hiei. You and your friends have been the best thing that has happened to me since before I lost my parents. I've actually experienced joy here...because of everyone here."
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"Hiei?"
"Yes."
"Please. No matter what...don't forget me. I know I'll never forget you."
Hiei's eyes snapped wide for a moment, before they relaxed and he smiled.
"I could never forget you."
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"It's so small! And cute!" she acknowledged after they had put the firefly in a jar.
"I wish that I could glow like that!"
"Why?" Hiei asked, looking confused. He had managed to calm down from his hyper fit earlier, and now he had returned to his normal self.
"I don't know. The fact that you can light someone's way and help them out of a trap could be one reason. I just love the way fireflies look so brilliant and beautiful in the dark. Like they're leading us out of darkness."
"Humans are so creative." Hiei acknowledged, smiling gently. It was funny how close he had gotten to Suta in such little time.
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By the time Hiei stopped thinking of the things that happened in the past, he was standing inside the mansion itself, drawing his sword from the demon that was sent to defeat any intruders at the door.
He had been so deep in his thoughts, and remembering everything he and Suta had talked about, that he had lost track of time and of what he was doing.
Hiei turned around to look outside the door, and found Yusuke and Kuwabara gaping at him, and Kurama smiling but with a sort of surprised look himself.
"Hiei, if there is anything I ever did to upset you, please forgive me for I apologize." Yusuke replied, scratching the back of his head.
"Same here." Kuwabara agreed, pressing his jacket over the wound in his shoulder.
"We have no time for jokes." Hiei replied, turning towards the inside of the house.
There was one main door at the top of a set of stairs, and he figured that was his destination.
Just to make sure though, he used his Jagan.
Sure enough, Suta was behind that door and down the hallway, so without another word, Hiei ran ahead of them and broke the door in.
Another set of demons waited for them, and again he used the technique, but this time he kept his thoughts straight on what he was doing.
Once the demons were done with, he raced down the hallway, cutting other demons out of his way as they appeared, and broke down the door he sensed Suta was behind.
Inside was a large room, almost like a tower room, with one wall completely made out of glass, that showed the barrier as it glowed an evil pink, slowly fading as the demons behind it picked and beat at it to help break it.
The room was empty, except for a couch and table, and a rather large glass bottle at one side, where Suta lay sleeping.
Hiei immediately ran towards the glass jar, but was knocked away by a barrier that surrounded it.
"Damn!" he cussed, jumping back up on his feet.
"Do you think I would have left her open like that. Please, you give me little credit for my plans." Came the soft whispery voice Hiei remembered from Shadow.
He turned with a glare, and stared at the demon, sitting in what was once a vacant couch.
"Hello all. I'm glad you came to see the show. It's sure to be breathtaking." He replied, his delicate arms crossed.
"What do you mean?" Yusuke spat, also glaring at the cat demon.
"Why, you should know Yusuke Uremeshi, Spirit Detective of Spirit World. The barrier is going to fall in a good thirty minutes now, and you've arrived to see the show."
"What?! It's only supposed to fall under the full moon!"
"No...it's right on track." Kurama replied, gently resting his hand on Yusuke's shoulder.
"Huh?"
"Koenma told us that it would be under the full moon. What he didn't realize, is that the full moon doesn't require darkness to shine. If it is in the right position during the day, the light of it will still hit the barrier, and present the weakness."
"Very clever Yoko. Yes, that is true. But what's better, is as the barrier falls the sky darkens, and so you'll be able to see the full moon at it's prime when the world is to be destroyed. A beautiful sight, is it not?"
The demon disappeared from the chair, just to reappear on the glass bottle where Suta was kept.
"And the best part is that she dies at that time. You see, there is only enough air in here to last her until the time arrives. Pretty clever eh? And there is no way you can get to her unless you kill me in less than thirty minutes. So is the game on or what?" He asked, scratching his cat-like claws on the glass and making a screeching sound that made everyone want to cover their ears.
"You bet it is—"
"Shut up Yusuke. He's mine." Hiei snarled, glaring at Shadow.
Yusuke wasn't one to pass up a good fight, but when he saw the anger in Hiei's eyes, and how his features seemed so dark, even he knew to step down and give the koorime what he wanted.
Hiei stepped forward, his sword before him and coated in demon blood.
But, to ensure he didn't get slowed down for this match, he ripped the blade off of his back and tossed it near the glass, nearly hitting it.
"Let's go. You're head is mine!"
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Catse: There you go! What did you think? Did you like how I arranged the flashbacks? I thought they came out okay. I'm working on the next chapter. This story is closing up and I'm doing my best to make these the best chapters of the hole story, so wish me luck! I have the entire ending completely planned out but now I have only to write them and upload for you all to read! Oh well, I better get to them then. Ja Ne!