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Yu Yu Hakusho
3: The battle begins!
Saga: The Dark Tournament
Lain sighed as she stepped off of the ship and onto Hanging-Neck Island. A few hours ago she had just found out that there was a parliamentary round on the ship for each time. Only five teams would be left, excluding the Toguro Team who would be the last to fight the only standing team out of the other four.
Her team had made it through with flying colors, though the monsters didn't like the fact that the apparent human team, such as them, had managed to beat the rest of them. During the episode Yusuke had managed to fall asleep in his chair and was slightly awoken by one of the monsters. This per swayed him into sleepwalking and he pounded the monster to pieces shouting 'STOP IT GRANDMA!' at the top of his lungs a few times, before he fell back into his chair and continued to sleep.
She had been the only one brave enough to wake the boy up, and for good reasons too. When she had tried to awaken him he had grabbed a hold of her around the middle and was mumbling something none of them could understand, but they were thankful for it. When he had grabbed her she let out a horrified scream and slapped him across the face. This woke him up instantly, he had looked around angrily for the culprit that had hit him. When he had spotted Lain in his arms he freaked out and ran away from the group as fast as he could.
Now that Lain was standing outside with the rest of her group she was beginning to make her way towards the hotel. She was following this ship's captain, basicly the man in charge. He would be showing them the path to the hotel and then leave.
As he left Lain heard some remarks about what had happened between her and Yusuke this morning. She didn't dare turn around to look at Kuwabara who was the one who had made all the remarks about it. She hadn't need to, because Yusuke had already hit him over the head with his fist several times. She smiled as she heard his yelp of pain, at least someone was taking out their revenge.
"Where is Yusuke!?" the angrily fourteen year old brown headed girl yelled out. "Tell me where he is Botan! I know that you know where he is!"
"Calm down Kayko!" Botan yelled out backing up.
The short brown haired girl sighed but didn't remove her glare from Botan. She had brown eyes that looked a little tired, from worrying so much about one of her good friends, Yusuke. She was wearing a medium length red dress with a long sleeve white shirt on underneath it. Her long socks were white and her shoes were brown.
"Yes tell us Botan! He is my son after all!" Atsuko yelled out a little drunk. "Tell me now Botan! I don't want him to get hurt again!" She looked as though she were about to cry.
"Where's my brother!?" Shizuru shouted out pointing a finger in Botan's face angrily. "Tell me now! If he's in any danger right this minute it's going to be your head!"
"Calm down! Please!" Botan shouted out backing up, while she waved her hands in front of her face guiltily. "I'll tell you, but you have to promise that you won't get mad at me. After all it's not really my fault. They had to go!"
"Go where?" Kayko asked glaring at Botan. "Botan? Where did they go!?"
"They went to the Dark Tournament on Hanging-Neck Island!" Botan cried out cringing a little. She had expected the girls to explode at her, but nothing happened. They all seemed to be smiling about something she didn't quite understand. "What is all this smiling about!? They're in a dangerous tournament! They could be killed!"
"Well that just means we have to go to this…Hanging-Neck Island place and make sure that they don't," Shizuru said tottering her finger at Botan still. "Well then! Come on Botan! We have to go! I bet there already there!"
"Why didn't Yusuke tell me about this?" Atsuko asked as she was about to cry again. "I'm his mother after all! He should have told me! Why!?"
"There, there, Atsuko," Botan said patting her on the back. "I'm sure he had his reasons. But don't worry, you'll be seeing him soon… I can't believe I just said that…" She backed up a little and then gulped. "So I guess were going then? No matter what?"
"Right!" Kayko said smiling. "Well then! Now that it's all settled…lets go!"
"Oh no," Botan muttered under her breath, while shaking her head. "Why did I say that?"
"Hurry it up will you!?" Koenma shouted out grabbing all of his stuff. "We don't have time! We should have been at Hanging-Neck Island an hour ago! Let's go already!"
"Yes sir!" the blue ogre shouted out following closely behind his master.
"Finally!" Koenma said bursting out the front door of the room he was in.
"Wow…this place is huge!" Yusuke cried out as he entered the hotel followed by the rest of his team. He looked around and then spotted the front desk. "Might as well get our rooms right?"
"Yeah, right," Lain replied nodding her head. The day was already almost over. Tomorrow would be the first day that they would begin the kick off's on the tournament. Hopefully this year they would have good competition for her, when she had entered the first one, everyone seemed to be at a lower level than her.
The five of them walked up to the front desk, they seemed to be the only team inside of the hotel so far. The only other people or demons that were in there, were the ones that were going to be watching the fight.
"Team Urameshi," Yusuke said looking at the man in front of him. "We're looking for our rooms. We just got here. We'd like to know where they are."
"Hold on just one minute sir," the man said going over to his computer. He typed at it for a few minutes and then let out a nervous sigh. He looked over to Yusuke. "I'm sorry sir, but we couldn't put you all in separate rooms. "It seems that we have you five split into two rooms."
"Huh?" Lain said doing a double check at the guy. "Not again! First I had to share a room with you clowns on the ship! And now the hotel too! I'm not staying in a room with Yusuke! That's for sure!"
"Fine then! You don't have to!" Yusuke cried out grabbing one of the keys in the clerk's hand. "Not like I care! I'll just bunk with someone else!"
Lain shrugged and then grabbed the other key that was in the clerks hand. "Doesn't bother me one bit." She then began to walk towards the elevator followed by the rest of her group. As they entered and then exited Lain noticed that two of them had disappeared. Yusuke and Kuwabara had decided to share the room, from what she had guessed. Now she was left with… Kurama, and Hiei…
Oh great, Lain thought. I get to share a room with Hiei again. Kurama's nice and all, but at least he doesn't have a starring problem like Hiei… She muttered something under her breath and then found her room number. 127. She pushed the key in the lock and then turned. After she had the door open and the key out she steeped inside, still followed by the two. She looked around the room and the started to laugh a little off tone.
There were only two beds in the room. There were three of them and only two beds.
"Okay! I'm all for the floor!" Lain shouted out running over to a corner in the room. "Have a nice day you two! I think I'm going to sleep!" She then heard a knock on the door and jumped out of surprised. "What the?"
She walked over to the door, leaving the two demon's behind her dumbstruck. When she opened the door she saw one of the bell boys with her luggage. She lunged out and grabbed it. She happened to be a little edgy this morning because of how the rooms were arranged and forgot to thank him. Instead she slammed the door in his face, while dragging in Kurama and Hiei's stuff inside as well.
"Here you go," Lain called out leaving their stuff in the center of the room. She dragged her own suitcase over to her corner of the room and then sat down.
"You don't have to sleep on the floor you know," Hiei said looking at her strangely. "They have a couch."
"Huh?" Lain said looking at the couch, which happened to be right next to her. "Oh! I guess they do!" She laughed nervously, while scratching the back of her head. "Cool!" She then jumped up and walked over to the couch and sat down.
"Why are you…acting so strange?" Kurama asked looking at her a little nervous because of her attitude. "Your not acting like yourself…"
"Am I not?" Lain asked laughing nervously again. "I guess not… well uh…you see I'm not really used to this sort of stuff…." She laughed again. "Well it was sort of different when we had the whole team in one room, I mean not that, that still didn't annoy me. It's just that now that I'm staying in a room with you and Hiei, it's a little different. I know the two of you guys better than the other too…well you see…uh…yeah?"
"So you're saying that you're embarrassed?" Hiei asked raising an eyebrow at her. "There goes all of your pride for yourself again. Over something as stupid as this. And don't tell me your going to apologize either."
"Aw…shut-up!" Lain shot back at him frowning a little. "I hope you're not going to be like that the whole time that we're here, because I don't want to hear it anymore!"
Hiei just looked at her a little confused and then shrugged his shoulders. He then began to walk over to the door but stopped half way when Lain called out to him.
"And were do you think you're going?" Lain asked looking at him sternly. "Hopefully not to attack anyone, right?"
"It's none of your concern," Hiei remarked stepping outside of the door. He closed it behind him and then started his way down the hall.
"We're here finally!" Kayko shouted out happily. "So were supposed to enter here right?"
"Yeah, right," Botan said nervously. She looked around as if trying to find someone. "What the!? Lord Koenma!?"
"Botan!" a tall man said walking over to her. "You recognized me! How wonderful!"
"You got tall!" Botan said looking at him a little dreamily, she found him extremely attractive. "You don't look like a toddler anymore!"
Koenma almost fell down on the ground after her remark but managed to stay standing. "Botan!"
"Sorry sir," Botan replied hanging her head down a little.
"You're here for the tournament too? To watch Yusuke?" Koenma asked.
"Yusuke!?" Atsuko cried out looking around wildly. "Where is he!? Where is my kid!? Oh when I find him I'm going to give him a good lecture."
"Atsuko! Don't be like that!" Kayko said starting in. "I'm sure he just forgot to tell you! I mean look he even forgot to tell…me… Yusuke! I'm so mad at you right no!" She frowned at an invisible person.
"Uh…well," Koenma said and then paused. "I guess I'll see you latter. I have to go and get my seats. Hope you guys have a fun time!"
"You to Lord Koenma!" Botan cried out happily as she waved at him for a moment when he left. "Well then girls! Let's go and find our seats!"
"Right!" Shizuru said smiling. "Then we can watch my brother and Yusuke fight!"
Lain woke up to someone shacking her in a hurry.
"What the?" Lain began as she tried to open her eyes. When she did she saw Kurama standing over her looking a little worried. "I thought you were already up! We're going to be late if you don't hurry! Go and change already!"
"What are you talking about?" Lain asked yawning. She sat up and then began to stretch. She stopped half way as she realized what Kurama had just said. She jumped up instantly and then began to run over to her suitcase and rummage around inside of it in a hurry.
Hiei laughed a little as he watched the panicked teen try and get all of her stuff.
Lain shot him a nasty look as she entered the bathroom with all of the stuff she needed.
Kurama just looked at Lain a little amazed at such a fast pace that she was going. He heard the shower turn on and turn off a few minutes latter. He looked at the clock that was above the door. They had ten minutes to get down to the ring.
As if one q Lain burst out of the bathroom. She had her hair tied back in the red rubber band again but was wearing something different. She had on a long sleeve torn up dark blue shirt. Over the blue shirt was a long short sleeve shirt. Her cargo pants were black. Around her waist she still had on the brown belt full of pockets. Stuck between the belt was her sword in its dark blue sheath. On her feet were her boots but they weren't buckled up or tied.
She walked over to the door looking at the two men a little strangely. "Well then. Lets hurry. Right? We only have like…" She checked up at the clock. "Five minutes?"
"Oh, right!" Kurama shouted out walking over to the door followed by a confused Hiei.
The three of them had met up with Yusuke and Kuwabara along the way. As soon as they had entered the area where the fights were going to be held, they heard there team being called over the speakers that were set-up all around the stadium.
"Will Team Urameshi please report to the arena!? You have five minutes to get here! Or you will be discwolified and will not be able to praticipte in any more of the tournament!" a young fox girl was calling all of this into the microphone she was holding. She had orange red hair that was short and a little bushy. On the top of her head she had fox hears and sticking out of her yellow short she had a small foxtail. She was wearing black tights and short black boots. Her shirt was white and the small tie she was wearing was a light blue. "You have three minutes Urameshi Team!"
"Here!" Yusuke cried out as he slammed into the edge of the ring. "Were all right here! Sorry were late! Some of us woke up late this morning!"
"Shut-up!" Lain shouted out slamming him over the head with her fist. "Well were here…uh…miss? What's happening?"
"You are one of the first teams the will be fighting," the fox girl said. "Will you please pick one of your team mates to come up and participate in the first round?"
"Yeah that's easy," Kuwabara began stepping forward. "It's going to be-" He was cut off by Lain who jumped into the ring.
"Me!" Lain shouted out smiling. "Okay then! Let the match begin lady!"
"Right!" The fox girl called out. "This is Koto your referee for the 16th anuale Dark Tournament. From Team Urameshi we have…" She looked at Lain.
"Lain Mikado," Lain said as Koto gasped.
"I can't believe it foaks! But we have the legendary Lain Mikado! She is participating again in the tournament! What did I tell you!" Koto said pausing and then began again. "She would return! And she has! If you don't know already Lain entered the first Dark Tournament sixteen years ago and finished all the contestants off with a bang!"
A boy that was on the other side of the ring coughed a little. He had brown hair but it was mostly covered up with a baggy stripped red and yellow hat. He was wearing a long sleeve red shirt, with yellow sleeves. His shorts were brown and at his side he had a small green bag. His ankle high socks were white and he wore a sort of nervous look on his face and brown eyes. He coughed again, a little louder.
"Oh and over here we have Rinku from Team Rokuyukai!" Koto finished up sounding excited. "Will the two f you please approach the center of the ring so we can begin!?"
Lain hopped around on one of her feet and took off one of her boots. She took off the other one next, along with her white socks and then threw them out of the ring. They managed to miss Yusuke's head, but just barely. She stood up a few seconds latter and heard the crowd cheer, the battle was going to begin and she was happy about it.
Lain walked forward so she was at least five feet away from the very nervous Rinku. She drew her sword from her sheath and then held it in front of her in a defensive stance. She smiled at the boy and then spoke.
"Give it all you got kid, because your going to have to, to beat me," Lain said still smirking at the boy. The battle had begun
Yep, yep! I finished this chapter! Sorry it took so long! I had to like write it six times because I didn't like it and I wanted to get everything right and such. Hopefully I will be sticking pretty close to what happens in the battles and such. Well not totally because Lain isn't in the series at all… Well read and review people! Until the next chapter!!!