Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Yu Hakusho or any of its characters. All I own is my own original character Lain Mikado and parts of the plot that I did not borrow from the series… oh and to you people out there… do you know where you can post totally original stories that you made up, on this site? Tell me please, thanks! Read on please!
Yu Yu Hakusho
5: Knives and Dragons
Saga: The Dark Tournament
Hiei stepped in the center of the ring. He was now at least ten feet away from the leader of Team Rokoyukai. He smirked at the fire master but got nothing but a pathetic look from him.
"Okay!" Koto shouted out bouncing around the ring a little. "We now will have the team leader from team Rokoyukai… wait a minute… team leader!? What are you fighting to early for! Why aren't you fighting last!?"
"Nothing at all," Zeru said sneering at her. "I've just decided to fight that's all. And besides… I was keener to fighting that young lady over there. That dragon she called forth… the Dragon Nidhogg, amazing, considering that it is very rare for anyone to call forth something from the underworld. It takes a good fighter, and a great deal of training."
"Sorry to burst your bubble, but right now she's out of order and not in the ring. You're going to have to fight me, though I will say that it will not be much of a let down. Considering that right now I have twice the power she has," Hiei said looking at Zeru with the same smirk. "So don't worry about it. You'll still have a good fight, that is if that was what you were worried about."
"You be quite," Zeru shot back at him angrily. "Do you think I care about fighting you? A nobody such as you has to honor fighting me. I will destroy you and then the rest of your team until I will be able to fight the famous Lain Mikado."
"What the hell's his problem!?" Lain shouted out loud enough for Koto's microphone to get wind of what she had just said. "You, idiot! No honor in fighting in Hiei!? What a loud of crap! He's a Tantei like me! You've got all your honor right there!" She shook her fist at Zeru and started walking forward, near the ring, she was planning on confronting the stupid warrior.
"Lain!" Yusuke shouted out grabbing her around the middle. "Don't interfere with what's happening! You'll get Hiei disqualified and we'll have our first loss! I don't want that to happen!!"
"But-" Lain began but was cut off by Yusuke jerking her back once again.
"Hey! Calm down already miss hot stuff! What have you got for protecting Hiei?!" Yusuke asked looking at Lain confused.
"Lemma go!" Lain shouted out looking at Yusuke horrified. "I do not have a thing for Hiei if that is what you are implying!"
"But I…" He cut himself short because Lain had already managed to flip him onto the ground and was walking away from him red in the face. "Never said anything about her having a thing for him. Just thought she was being sisterly to him or something like that… What a confusing girl…"
Hiei groaned at what was happening around him. That girl was starting to get on his nerves a little. Thinking that she should interfere in his battles, he would kill her if she had done so. He then reached up to his white bandana at the back of his head and smirked at Zeru.
"Guess what… You get the honor of seeing my Jagan eye before you die here," Hiei said still smirking at him. "Lucky one aren't you?"
Hiei undid his headband and let it drop to the floor of the ring. A third eye was seen on his forehead, closed. It opened slowly, but did nothing but look at his appoint, Zeru.
"That's the famous Jagan eye? What a loud of crap! I don't have time to stand around here listen to your idle chatter about some stupid third eye! Look! It doesn't even do anything!" Zeru shouted out laughing. "Will you just hurry up and start the fight already lady! I don't have all the time in the world! I came here to fight strong fighters! And this is nothing for me! Not even a warm up act!"
Hiei winced at what Zeru had yelled at him and then began to talk again. "Don't insult the Jagan eye. It's something that you will never posses, and very few have. You'd be lucky to see or have one!"
"Just shut-up and fight me already!" Zeru shouted out as he threw his arms in a front ward direction. The ring was then in gulfed in flames. "How's this for you Hiei!? Hot enough!?"
Hiei just looked at Zeru stupidly. He wasn't even phased at all.
"What the," Zeru said angrily. He was now beginning to shake a little at what was happening around him. Hiei had managed not to even get touched at all by his fire attack.
"Have you anything else that is more powerful?" Hiei asked looking at Zeru lazily. "That attack wasn't of much power. And if that was you're strongest… we'll I'm sorry, but you're going to have a tough time fighting me."
"Fine boy! You want to see my power! We'll here it is! Just don't come complaining to me when you're dead because of your stupidity!" Zeru shouted out sounding even more annoyed. He rose his hands up and then sent a huge massive wave of flames directly at Hiei, smiling.
When the fire disappeared Hiei was still standing, he looked extremely scorched. Zeru looks at Hiei as if in amazement. How could the boy still be standing!?
Hiei fell to the ground in defeat.
The crowd all looked on at him in a gasp. Hiei… was dead.
"N-n-no!" Lain screamed out looking at Hiei's limp body. "He can't be dead! No! I won't take this for an answer! Hiei you idiot! Why did you have to die!?"
"Calm down," Kurama said grabbing Lain's arm so she wouldn't rush into the ring for the third time that day. "It's alright. He's not dead. I'm sure of it, I mean that couldn't have defeated him… couldn't it…"
"I don't know!" Lain shouted out. "Just let me go! I want to know what's wrong with him! Why isn't he standing up if he's not hurt! Hiei! Get up you stupid idiot! You can't die on me now!"
Koto looked at Hiei's body and then snapped out of what world she was in. "Well folks, it seems that we have our first death and our first loss for Team Urameshi. There's no need to count, considering that how badly he is burned… It'd be a miracle if he actually survived."
Why did that stupid woman have to be so loud? Everyone would hear what she was yelling. Hiei thought this as he lay on the ground. He could hear the crowd cheering for the first loss of his team. He groaned at what was happening. He wished Lain would just shut up. Why was she freaking out like that?
He moved his arm and then slowly picked himself up from the ground. The crowd and the rest of his team looked at him amazed IT seemed that he was still alive.
"It is a miracle! He's alive!" Koto shouted out looking at him a little sadly. "And I and anyone one else would have thought he was dead."
"Just get out of the ring," Hiei said looking at Koto as he tore off the remaining parts of his shirt. "You're not going to want to be in the ring when my final attack takes place. It's not going to be a nice sight. That is unless you want to die?"
"What!?" Koto shouted out. "Did you hear that folks! It seems that Hiei has an attack that is going to kill Zeru! Well then! Lets see it already!" She jumped out of the ring and prowled around it impatiently.
"Well Zeru, nice knowing you," Hiei said looking at him with a bright smirk. "It seems that you're also going to be lucky enough to see my dragon."
"What are you talking about…" Zeru said backing away from Hiei horrified.
"I Hiei… Call upon the Dragon. The Dragon of Darkness Flame!" Hiei shouted out.
"Well this is a surprise," Kurama said as the area around the stadium started to go dark. "Who would have thought that he would be using this technique to soon?"
"What are you talking about?" Lain asked looking at Kurama confused. She had just gotten over the fact that Hiei was still alive, and not dead as she had thought.
"You'll see. Just watch."
A huge purple and black shadow-like beast appeared in front of Zeru. It was in the shape of a foggy looking dragon. It let out a screech and then slammed into Zeru. He was engulfed in side of the dragon, he seemed to be screaming out in pain as he died.
As soon as the dragon vanished and the weather went back to normal, everyone looked for Zeru. Where was he? All they could see was a black imprint on the side of the ring, nothing else. He was nowhere in sight.
"Where is he!?" Koto shouted out prancing around the ring looking for Zeru's body. "It seems that he has been totally vaporized! I can't believe it! What a turn of events! And we all thought Hiei was done for! But it seems that Zeru was the actual one! Well… Round three, Zeru vs. Hiei… Team Urameshi takes the win!"
Hiei sighed at what had just happened and walked over to the side of the ring. His right arm hung limply at his side, charred looking. He looked at Kurama and then to Lain as he jumped down out of the ring.
"That was nice," Lain said looking at him as he walked past her to sit on the ground, against the side of the stadium again. "But… I don't understand one thing."
"What is it?" Hiei said.
"Why did you use such a powerful attack on him? You could have killed him instantly, it wouldn't have been that hard," Lain said looking at him confused.
"Why were you so loud when you thought I was dying?" Hiei asked ignoring her question. "Well?"
"Um… nothing," Lain replied turning her back on him. She then walked over closer to the ring, leaving Hiei alone to himself.
"Well who's fighting next!? Will the next fighters please steep into the ring!" Koto shouted out looking from Team Urameshi to their apposing team.
The last remaining team members from Team Rokoyukai looked at the people from Team Urameshi in horror.
"Were not fighting!" one of the shouted out running to the exit that was a few yards away from them.
"Same here man! I don't want to die!" the last one shouted out following the other out of the stadium.
"What a bunch of cowards!" Koto shouted out. "You should have never entered if you didn't want to fight!"
A minute latter screams were heard from the exit that the other two members had just left in. It was the two of them. They sounded as though they were dying. Something must have got them… but what?
Lain looked at the exit with careful eyes. Out of the darkness steeped a tall man with a dark blue mohawk. He had a black jacket on with a tan puffy outline around the collar. His almost skin tight pants were also black, and on his feet were brown boots. His eyes were a dark blue and a little blood shot, considering that he was drunk. And over his nose he had what looked to be white tape.
He staggered towards were Koto stood, now besides Lain.
Lain looked over to Koto in confusion. "Who's he?"
"I don't know," Koto said looking back at Lain just as confused. "Hey! You there! Who are you!? And what are you doing here!?"
"Me?" the man asked laughing a little drunkenly as he staggered close to Lain and Koto. He was now only a few yards away. "I'm the real Team captain. The names Chuu."
"Uh…" Lain said looking at him with a little disgust. "Are you drunk?"
"What? Me? No…" Chuu said shaking his head and then blushing at her. He stopped right in front of her and then fell forward.
Lain's arms flung up to keep him standing.
"What!? You are drunk! You idiot!" Lain shouted out looking at him.
"So what if I am? What's a pretty little lady such as yourself going to do about it?" Chuu asked blushing even more. "How's about me and you go on a date after I win this tournament?"
"Umm… Excuse me!" Koto said butting in. She looked extremely annoyed and jealous as to what was happening.
"Hey lady… don't bother me now… I'm just asking this here pretty girl on a date…" Chuu said looking at Koto a little annoyed.
"No way," Lain replied dropping him to the ground.
"Aw… come on!" Chuu said getting back up while rubbing the top of his head. "Aren't you going to even give me a chance?"
"Hmm…" Lain put her index finger on her chin and looked as though she were going into deep thought. She then looked over in the direction Yusuke was standing. "Only if you manage to defeat Yusuke."
"What!?" Yusuke shouted out looking at Lain horrified. "Hey! Look here! I don't do this sort of stuff! You leave me out of this Lain! And I mean it too!"
"Alright," Chuu said shrugging his shoulders. "Shouldn't be too hard…" He cracked his knuckles and then looked around. "Hey… isn't there supposed to be a ref around here somewhere?"
"That's me," Koto said looking up at him even more annoyed. "I'm the ref."
"Oh cool. So are you going to ref what's happening right?" Chuu asked looking at her drunkenly.
"I don't know if I should," Koto said looking at him.
"Hey! I was the Team captain of Team Rokoyukai! I lost when we were playing rock, paper, scissors to decided who was going to be the alternate!" Chuu shouted out looking at Koto hurt. "Why did I choose paper!? Come miss fox lady… I'd be real nice of you! And besides two of my team members are already out of the game… and there is still one left that has a will to fight! I'm not chickening out!"
"Fine, fine!" Koto shouted out walking over to the ring. "Will the fighters please steep into the ring!?"
"That's you Yusuke," Lain said looking over to Yusuke smiling.
He walked over to Lain and then stopped. "Look. What if I don't want to fight him?"
"Oh come on Yusuke! Please!" Lain shouted out practically begging him now. She then gave him a swift hit on the back and pushed him forward. "Yusuke! Do it for me please!"
"What!?" Yusuke shouted out spinning around. "You fight him! This is your battle! Start and finish it yourself!"
"Yusuke! I already made a bet!" Lain shouted out getting a little angry with him. "Just do it for me please!"
"Fine! If it'll shut that annoying voice of yours up!" Yusuke shouted out getting away from her. He dusted himself off and then walked over to the ring and steeped inside. "I'm fighting."
"Okay!" Koto yelled but didn't have that certain tone in her voice that sounded excided about what was going to happen. She looked at the two of them and then steeped back away. She waited another minutes and then looked at them both stupidly. "You can start you know…"
"Okay!" Chuu shouted out. He looked at Yusuke and then cracked his neck. "You better be a good fighter boy… Because if she is relaying on you for a bet… then you've got to be the best on the team…"
"Him!? The best!?" Kuwabara shouted out laughing. "That's a lie!"
"Shut-up! Kuwabara!" Lain shouted out glaring at him. "Don't make him lose his concentration! I don't want to go out on a date with this guy! It's not something that I'm going to be looking forward too!"
Kuwabara just shook his head at Lain and then muttered something under his breath.
"What was that!?" Lain shouted out steeping forward with his fists at her side. "Just shut-up!"
"Be quite! All of you!" Hiei shouted out glaring at the two of them. "If you haven't noticed… I'm trying to watch what's happening!"
"Oh!" Lain muttered as she spun around to see what was happening now.
Yusuke and Chuu had now just begun to fight.
Yusuke's eyes moved around the ring, tracing after the quick movements of Chuu. He dodged the first attack that he had thrown at him… and was now managing to keep up with his speed.
All of a sudden, Chuu appeared right in front of Yusuke and threw a punch right into Yusuke, who had not been expecting it.
Yusuke was sent flaying back out of the ring and into the wall that was on the outside of the stands. He was now covered in the rubble that had fall out of where he had landed.
"Uh…" Koto said looking at Yusuke stupidly and then over to Chuu. "That was…extremely short… Alright then… Here starts the count… One…two…three…four…five…six…seven…eight…nine-"
She was cut off in mid sentence as Yusuke jumped right out of the rubble he was buried in, and into the ring. He looked over to Koto and then Chuu.
"Nice warm up," Yusuke said smiling at him. "Here's something for you too… Spirit gun!" He had his arm up in the form of a gun as a bright blue beam of light shot out of it. It missed Chuu. But he had done this on purpose though.
"What the hell did you do that for!?" Lain shouted out frowning at Yusuke. Her hands had now formed into fists angrily. "Botan told me you can only do that once! Boy! You have worse aim than my grandma! She could do better than that!"
"Shut-up!" Yusuke shouted back. "I can do this more than once a day you know! I've trained more! So I'd shut my trap if I were you! That is if you want me to loose."
"You wouldn't dare!" Lain shot back at him. "You'd make a loss for the team! Not just for me!"
"You want to bet?" Yusuke said glaring at her. "So shut-up!"
"Fine," Lain muttered crossing her arms over her chest. She had a poutey look on her face. Yusuke had just yelled at her for no real reason at all.
"Impressive… but not all that great," Chuu said shrugging his shoulders at Yusuke. "But I'm not intimidated if that's what you were aiming for." He then raised his hands up in front of his chest and formed a large power ball in his hands. He smiled at Yusuke and then threw it at him.
Yusuke's hand shot up and then fired another spirit gun at Chuu's ball of power.
The crowed and Team Urameshi looked horrified at what was about to happen. It looked as though Chuu's power ball out destroy the ring, with them both along with it!
As soon as both spirit attacks reached each other a huge wave of smoke appeared. They had both canceled each other out.
Chuu raised his hands up again. He created an even larger one, which scared the crowd and the team even more than his last attack. He threw it at Yusuke.
Like before Yusuke shot his hand up and fired a Spirit Gun attack at him. But this time he fired two instead of one, considering that this attack from Chuu seemed much more powerful.
Both of the shots fired right through the blast, they didn't stop, and the ball of energy was still heading right at Yusuke. Bother attacks slammed right into each of them.
They were both on the ground.
"This is getting stupid," Koto muttered into the mike. "One… two… three… four… five-"
Both fighters had jumped up just as she was about to say six.
Yusuke smiled at Chuu and then yawned.
"Out of spirit energy is we?" Yusuke asked.
"You are too. I can feel your power has drained a great deal," Chuu said laughing. "How about we settle this my way?"
"I'm open for idea's. Explain a way," Yusuke said crossing his arms over his chest. He looked at Chuu with a cocked eyebrow.
"How about a knife-edge death match?" Chuu asked as he pulled two knives out of what seemed to be nowhere.
"How does that go?"
Chuu walked over to the middle of the ring and placed the both knives in the ground. They were about ten feet away from each other.
"Each fighter must put their feet up to the knives, on the edge. First fighter to step out of bounds is the first to die. Since you are going to have a major vain in your foot against the edge of the knife. But meanwhile we will be punching each other inside, until either one of us dies, or gets knocked out, or falls to the ground in defeat," Chuu said smiling at Yusuke drunkenly. "How's about that? Fine with you?"
"Fine," Yusuke said broadening his smile. "At least now I'll get something with a little more thrill in it.
"It's illegal to make up rules in a fight!" Koto shouted out at them.
The crowd booed at her, and seemed to like this knife-edge death match.
Koto looked out at the crowd surprised and then cleared her throat. "Well… if you all like it. Then I guess it could happen…"
The crowd cheered with excitement.
Yusuke walked over to where the knives were stuck into the ground and then put his foot up against one of the knives that was across from Chuu who had already set himself up.
"Well here it goes," Yusuke cried out throwing the first punch. He was met back in the stomach with a punch from Chuu.
It continued on like this. Each other taking random turn's punching the crap out of each other, hoping that at one point on would fall or die from falling.
"Why are they doing this!?" Kayko shouted out as she cringed, Yusuke had just been punched in the face, but was still standing. "I can't stand this! Stupid Yusuke! Just had to get himself mixed up in something as stupid as this! I can't believe him sometimes!"
"Well he sure is stupid," Shizuru said crossing her arms over her chest and then sighed. "I'd be surprised by now if he some how manages to win this tournament. Though I dought he will… I mean look at the boy, he doesn't have more brains than my brother…"
"Shizuru! I can't believe you!" Kayko shouted out on the verge of tears. She stood up and then took off, away from the stands that she was sitting in, and down into the hallways.
"Kayko! I didn't mean it!" Shizuru shouted out getting up also. She then ran after her, leaving Botan, and Atsuko alone.
"Fine… Just leave us… I see," Botan said sighing. "Should be go after them?"
"Nah… leave the girl alone. She's going to want to apologize from what I got out of it… and besides… they'll be fine," Atsuko said shrugging the subject away. "I just wish my dumb kid would give up already… I don't understand who would want to watch this… it's so horrible.
Sakyo looked up as Toguro walked over to him. "Have your other teammates arrived yet?"
"I don't know. I've not heard from any of them," Toguro replied.
"What do you think about Team Urameshi? Do you think that they'll be able to make it to the finals…? To beat your team?" Sakyo asked laughing.
"Urameshi himself… I dought it… but then again his luck has turned. He has the legendary Tantei Lain Mikado on his team," Toguro said sneering down at the match that was taking place between Yusuke and Chuu. "If she were some how to revert back to her younger self… I might actually have a good fight for once in my life…"
"You may be right," Sakyo said putting his hands together. "Lets just hope then… that they make it to the finals… and you get a chance to fight her."
A silence started between the two as they looked down at the fight. It was interrupted a second latter as a man with long black hair and a mask over his mouth dodged some guards. As soon as he was in plain view the guards seemed to blow up, as if they had bombs in them.
"All ways with the fancy entrances," Toguro said smiling at him. "Nice to see that you're here Karasu… and the other's?"
"Just arrived," Karasu replied.
"Kayko! Where are you!?" Shizuru shouted out, she had just lost all sight of Kayko. Now they were both lost in the catacombs of the arena. "Kayko! If you can here my voice come to it! Look! I'm really sorry about what I said! I didn't mean it! I swear! I was joking around!"
Shizuru stopped walking as she realized she was being followed by some of the monsters that were at the area for the fight. She glanced over her shoulder, she was absolutely right, she gulped and then began to walk again… she was still being followed by then. She then picked her speed up to a run, they were still following her, but walking faster, gaining on her ever steep.
All of a sudden Sayko steeped out of the corner in front of her and smiled at Shizuru. "You could get lost down here. You know?"
Shizuru screeched to a halt in front of him and then looked over her shoulder. The monsters were gone. They must have fled because of Sayko.
"Yeah…" Shizuru replied.
"Be careful. Wouldn't want anything bad to happen, now would we?" Sayko asked walking off.
"Yeah… I don't want anything bad to happen," Shizuru replied as Sayko disappeared from view.
Kayko exited the hallway and then saw the light in front of her. She exited the area totally and now was standing in the area were the ring was. She could see Yusuke and Chuu still going at it.
Chuu looked at Yusuke and then lowered his head for a head butt. But he wasn't expecting what was going to happen next…
Yusuke had counted with his own head butt!
Both boys are still standing, trying to recover from what had just happened, hoping that they wouldn't be the first to fall over.
Yusuke gritted his teeth and the squinted his eyes as a wave of pain rushed over him. He heard something fall to the ground. He opened his eyes to see Chuu on the ground, he looked as though he were badly injured and was struggling to stay awake.
Koto did a countdown ten. She finished and Chuu was still on the ground. He hadn't gotten up. Yusuke had beaten his match. His team had one there first round in the Dark Tournament.
Chuu looked up at Yusuke with a frown on his face. "Just kill me. Get it over with. I lost. I don't have any reason to live right now."
"No," Yusuke said looking at him sharply. "What would be the fun of that? I'd rather fight you another day. When were both in better shape and are at our full power. How's that? A rematch in the future?"
Chuu nodded his head at what Yusuke had said and smiled. He then got on his feet and sort of hunched over and began to walk over to the edge of the ring.
Lain looked at him and gave him a brief smile. The drunkenness that he had before about him seemed to have worn off. She got up from the ground and then walked over to him.
"Sorry you lost…" Lain said yawning. "No hurt feelings right?"
"Bout what?" Chuu asked yawning in return.
"You forgot…" Lain said and then started laughing. "Never mind then. Have a fun time watching the rest of the tournament! Bye!"
She slid over to where the rest of her team was and then looked over to Koto who was looking at her.
"What is the reason that you came here to the Dark Tournament for? I mean didn't you already beat the first one that they had held?" Koto asked holding out the mike in from of Lain's face.
"I don't really know," Lain replied shrugging her shoulders. "I guess you could say that the first tournament wasn't really that much of a challenge. So I'm hoping that I'm going to get one in this tournament here."
"Really…" Koto said pausing and then turned away from Lain and went back to talking to the crowd about the match and what was now going to take place.
"I guess we can leave now? Right?" Yusuke asked looking at everyone and then yawned. "It might be nice… I think I'm going to need a little nap at the moment." He yawned again and then started off wearily to the exit.
This chapters done after a long, long time… Have fun reviewing please. Till next chapter! Bye!