Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its characters. All I own is the parts of the plot that I did not borrow from the series. All I do own is my main character Lain Mikado.
Yu Yu Hakusho
6: My Life and My Technique's
Saga: The Dark Tournament
Where's he going? I can't believe he's not going to stay here with the rest of us… I mean we did win… Didn't we?
"Lain?" Yusuke asked tapping her on the shoulder to get her out of her little transfixed stage of starring at Hiei as he exited the battle arena.
"Oh… What?" Lain asked looking at Yusuke with a board expression.
"What are you doing now? Me, Kuwabara and Kurama are going to go back to the hotel and see who were fighting next. Do you want to come with us?" Yusuke asked.
"No," Lain replied looking back to the spot were Hiei had just exited. "I think I'm going to go for a walk. I'll see you guys latter…"
"Lain?" Yusuke muttered as she ran off in the direction of where Hiei had gone. "I don't understand what she has for that guy?" He laughed and then began to walk over to the only other two people that remained on his team. "She must really like him or something. Weird."
"Stop following me!" Hiei shouted out as he realized for the fifth time that Lain was still following him, closely. "I want to be left alone! So just leave already!"
Lain just ignored him and then stuck her hands behind her back and began to hum. She looked up at the sky and continued to follow Hiei. She stopped when he stopped, at least ten feet in front of her. They were both now standing on a beach, the ocean was heard loudly, crashing against the cliffs that surrounded it.
"Why are you so unhappy?" Lain asked as she quite humming and looked at him. "I mean you won your match didn't you?"
"If you haven't figured it out already, my right arm is beyond useless," Hiei said with a flat tone.
"I don't understand, what did you do to it?" Lain asked looking confused. "How could it have been injured so badly? Zeru didn't really get that many attacks on you, and they didn't seem as though they were that powerful…"
"I called the Dragon of the Darkness Flame," Hiei muttered to her. "That is what killed my arm. I used it to unleash the Dragon. Unfortunately it seems to have attacked me also, though I didn't dought that it would have now."
"Oh," Lain said sounding a little unsure as to what to say.
Hiei sighed and then grabbed his sword that was in his belt. He then pointed it at Lain. "Spare with me."
"Okay…" Lain said a little hesitant. She pulled out her own sword and the gulped.
Hiei started it off with a charge at her. He flung his sword at Lain's face, but it was easily blocked with a quick movement of he own.
Lain gulped again as she realized that we wasn't going to be able to use his full strength without his right arm. She then blocked another attack that he had thrown at her. She jumped back and then dodged a kick he threw at her. She then swung her sword forward. Hiei blocked it but wasn't able to get away from the sword. They were interlocked, he couldn't move very well.
In fact Lain figured that he was having a hard time standing up while holding back her attack. Soon he fell down on one of his knees. She sighed and then drew back her sword and sheathed it.
"Lets stop," Lain muttered to him quietly. "You're not going to do so well if you can't use your sword in any of your other matches… I don't want to break it."
"Liar," Hiei said angrily to her. "You stopped because you take pity on me! Well here's some news for you! I don't want you pity! Just go the hell away will you!? I don't want to see you again until the next match!" He sheathed his own sword and then stood up and began to walk away from where Lain stood starring at him a little hurt in the face.
"I'm sorry," Lain muttered. He couldn't hear her. She cleared her throat and then yelled out at him. "Hiei! I'll try my best to find a way to fix your arm! I'll try and find something that will put it back into use!"
Hiei stopped dead in his tracks from walking away from her. "What are you rambling about now? You think you could actually help me? Give it up now Lain. Don't be stupid."
Lain ignored what he had said to her and then walked over to his side. "Yeah before I came here to this Tournament I was out training," she started and then paused. "I was out looking for things, as in trying to find my real self. I sort of lost myself after me and Kurama got separated. Well he sort of meant a lot to me at the time. I mean he was the one who saved my life and everything. I guess I'm still sort of in debt to him and everything."
Hiei just sighed and looked on a head as he listened to Lain talk about her life. Though there was some feeling dragging at him about everything she was saying.
Yusuke entered the hotel with Kurama and Kuwabara at his side. He then walked over to the huge roster board the told everyone who would be fighting next and everything.
"It's all uneven," Kurama commented to the other two. "That means that we happen to be one of the two teams that has to go through all four rounds to reach the finals…"
"Just great," Kuwabara said sighing. "I bet it couldn't get worse…"
"Your right about that. We're fighting next too. Against the Dr. Ichigaki team," Yusuke said frowning. "You are right. It couldn't get any worse than this…"
"Where are Lain and Hiei!?" Yusuke shouted out angrily at the absence of his teammates. "Were out of luck if they're not here!"
"Then how about a three on three battle?" a goblin like man asked stepping forward.
"And who are you?" Yusuke asked glaring at him. "We're not going to fight you are we?"
"No. Not from what I calculator. I am Dr. Ichigaki," the Dr. said smiling evilly at them. "You will be fighting M1, M2, and M3."
"Isn't that lovely," Yusuke said smirking at him. "Fine then. Since Hiei and Lain aren't here. A three on three battle would be perfect."
"Are you sure about this Yusuke?" Kurama asked stepping into the ring with him, and Kuwabara.
"Yeah Urameshi. Are you sure? I'm not getting to good of a vibe from them too," Kuwabara said shivering as their opponents stepped into the ring. "They got some nasty spirit."
"We're going to do fine," Yusuke said reassuring them, though he was having trouble doing that to himself. "Besides we've come this far already. What's the point in backing down now?"
"So that's about it," Lain replied sighing as she finished telling Hiei about most of her life before she came to the Dark Tournament to help them. "Not much to it. In fact it was all just boring to tell the truth."
"So…So you and Kurama… You're still that close are you?" Hiei asked looking at her a little nervous but managed to hide it quickly before she could notice.
"No not at all," Lain said looking at Hiei a little questionably. "Why do you ask?" She then narrowed her eyes at him and grinned. "Hiei? Why do you ask?"
He didn't reply, but instead stopped in his tracks and looked around wildly. "We have company."
"What!?" Lain shouted out sounding shocked. "But I didn't notice anything at all!"
"You were to busy talking to notice anything. You were caught up in your own little world. You should reframe from doing that so often. You could get yourself killed out of your own stupidity," Hiei remarked still looking around. "Show yourself already! I know that you are there!"
Two men stepped forward. One of them resembled a panther/jaguar and the other looked like a python.
The python one smiled at Hiei and then rushed forward towards him with his arm reared back to attack.
Hiei frowned at what was happening and then jumped into the air and pulled out his sword. He swung the blade down then cut the python down the middle. He then reached his sword from the python's limp body and looked away from the bloody mess over to Lain and the last intruder.
"This isn't that hard," Lain said grinning as she reached from her own sword. But before she had a chance to use it her opponent back up and then jumped off into the forest. "Coward!"
Before Hiei had a chance to say something loud foot steeps could be heard approaching them. "What the?"
A huge robot showed up in front of them, through the trees. The panther/jaguar then spoke to them through the intercom that was inside the robot. "You have very little chance in beating me now. This machine is mostly robot but a little demon. It knows no pain! I suggest you give up and accept your death now!"
"Feh, like I would give up now," Lain remarked smiling.
Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama were now back to back in the center of the ring trying to protect them selves from the wave after wave of attacks that the three opponents would send after them.
"This is much harder than I thought it would be," Kurama muttered, though he was the only one out of the three that was getting in a few good hits.
"You're right," Yusuke replied and then gulped. "Dammit. Hiei and Lain couldn't have just picked a much better time to fool around with each other…"
The doctor laughed from outside the ring. "Are you ready to give up yet!? I've calculated your chance of winning and losing! Do you care to know?"
"Just shut-up you ass!" Yusuke shouted out getting annoyed at the way the doctor would just laugh like that all the time.
"You have a 99.95% chance of losing, and .05% chance of winning!"
"What," Kuwabara said sounding a little shocked. "That's way to low…"
"Dammit!" Hiei shouted out as another attack of the spiked robot arms came shooting after him and Lain. "This is getting really annoying!" Hiei swung out his sword finally and then tried to hit the arm of the robot with it. There was no luck and he was soon cornered against a tree with the robot's arm in front of him, waiting for a few seconds before impact.
"Hiei!" Lain shouted out dodging the other arm. She jumped over to his aid and then slammed her body into the robot's arm. The arm went out of angle but the other arm came smashing into her and then Hiei.
"You shouldn't have done that! I was fine!" Hiei shouted out as he jumped away from the next attack with Lain at his side.
"Really?" Lain asked pulling out her sword and then focused on the robot. She jumped into the air again and then slammed down on top of the robot and swung her sword against the armor in a pattern. She finally then raised her sword into the air and sent it flying back down with one crushing blow. The attack seemed to do nothing as she jumped away from the robot and then laded at Hiei's side.
"What was that all about?" Hiei asked as the robot started to smoke.
"It was an attack. It's called Ever Darkness," Lain replied smiling. "It focusing its power into small lines, I sent those lines after the vital circuits in that robot. Since it feels no pain then it won't know when it's dying, or bleeding." She smiled wider. "Now, it's dead."
The robot fell apart before them and then exploded before the panther/jaguar was able to get out of it.
"What the?" Kuwabara said pausing. Visions were coming into his head during the fight. The visions were from the opposing team.
"What!?" Yusuke shouted out as he appeared at Kuwabara side.
"I'm getting strange visions from the other team!" Kuwabara shouted out frowning. "It seems that before they were employed by the doctor they were student under a strong master. He came under a strange illness one day. Then all of a sudden out of the blue the doctor shows up and says that he can cure their master, but only if those three wouldn't mind become his test subjects."
"So!? And your point is!?" Yusuke shouted out dodging one of the attacks that was sent flying at him.
"That they are human! They just have something that's controlling them! That doctor tricked them into this! He knew all along! He was the one that made their master sick!" Kuwabara shouted out.
"So what!?" Yusuke shot back.
"We need to stop fighting and save the mindless souls inside of them! Their still alive!" Kuwabara shouted out.
"Shut up!" Yusuke shouted out. "You're going to fight them Kuwabara! We don't have a choice! And besides they want to kill us!? What's the point?!"
"NO!" Kuwabara shouted out frowning. "I'm not going to fight them anymore. I'm going to try and awaken their souls that are trapped inside of them."
"Yusuke!" Kurama shouted out as he jumped in the way of one of the attacks that were sent flying at him.
"Kurama!" Yusuke shouted out cringing as the red headed man took a hit for him. "Kurama!"
Kurama was sent flying out of the ring and seemed to go into an unconscious state. He could hear none of Yusuke's cries of panic towards him.
"It looks like it's just up to us two now," Yusuke said frowning at the stupid mistake he had just made. He had just lost one of his teammates to the fact that he was yelling at Kuwabara instead of guarding himself.
"I'm still not fighting!" Kuwabara shouted out shaking his head. "We have to talk to them!"
"Yes try and awaken them!" Ichigaki said laughing evilly. "You won't win! You still have a .05% chance and victory! Might as well try and waste your pathetic attempts now before you die!"
Kuwabara glared at the doctor and then jumped in the view of a critical blow. "Come and get me!"
"You fool!" Kurama shouted out getting back up. He seemed to have regained consciousness. He then jumped in the way of yet another blow that was going to hit one of his teammates. He seemed to hunch over a little as he began to yell at Kuwabara for leaving himself open.
"But I've seen visions of what's been happening to them! The doctor set them up! He was the cause of their master's disease! He just used them as lab rats!" Kuwabara shouted out in reply. "I can't just leave them!"
"That's just sick," Yusuke said as he clutched his hands into fists. He then turned to where the doctor was standing. "You're going to pay for this!" He then charged at the doctor with Kuwabara at his side.
Before they even managed to get anywhere near the doctor the three fighters slammed into the two of them, holding them back from getting anywhere near the doctor.
"What are you doing!?" Kuwabara shouted out at the three fighters that had stopped Yusuke and him from getting to the doctor. "Don't you see!? He's just using you! Get a hold of yourselves! Don't you realize what's going on!?"
The three fighters just seemed to be ignoring all of what Kuwabara was shouting at them.
Then out of nowhere the giant robot came crashing down a few feet away from where the doctor was standing. Lain and Hiei were standing up on top of it, glaring at the doctor angrily.
"Sorry were late Yusuke," Lain began crossing her arms over her chest.
"But it seems that the doctor sent out his other two team mates to get ride of us," Hiei said pausing.
"Though it didn't work," Lain finished with an even angrier glare on her face. "We're coming in the fight!"
"But you can't!" Koto shouted out running over to them. "They have already agreed that it will be a three on three fight! I can't change that!"
Hiei glared at her and then jumped down from the top of the robot with Lain. The two of them then walked over to the left side of the doctor and watched the match.
"Stop fighting!" Kuwabara shouted out. "Don't you see what your doing!?" He got no reply from the three fighters besides a wave of attacks. They all hit him. He was then sent flying out of the ring, he crashed into the wall and didn't get up.
"Dammit Kuwabara!" Yusuke shouted out angrily. "What did you have to go off and do that for!?"
"It seems that it's just up to me and you now," Kurama said sighing. "But then again. Didn't you notice? The fighters intentionally missed hitting his vital points. But merely by a few inches. Meaning that they are at war with their own bodies. They are trying to gain control again."
"Is that so?" Yusuke asked smiling. "That's nice to know. Though it's not that comforting. Though they're not going to win. We've got one chance left at winning. I'm going to have to kill them…"
"Should you really? Have we no other chances?" Kurama asked.
"We're all out of options," Yusuke said sighing. "I don't want to. But if we want to keep our own lives I'm going to have to do this… It would be for the best." He then held out his hand in front of him and made it into a figure of a gun.
"Yusuke! STOP!" Lain screamed out getting his attention. "This is still a three on three battle right!? Let me come in! Kuwabara out! That makes a three on two! Let me in! I can try and stop this without getting them killed!"
"Hey your right," Yusuke said lowering his hand and then smiled.
"What?" Kurama asked sounding a little confused. "Alright. If you can manage to save them, then come in and help…"
"What!? But you can't do this!" Koto shouted out jumping in front of Lain as she tried to enter the ring.
"But it will still be a three on three battle. I see no problem," Lain said steeping around Koto. Lain then steeped into the ring, leaving a glaring Koto. "Lets get this over with." Lain raised her hands in front of her and then made a triangle with them. She started to chant out something that no one could understand.
But what ever she was chanting it seemed to be working because the three opponents were paralyzed in their tracks. She then jumped forward towards each of them and stabbed them in the heart with the ends of her fingers. As soon as she was done they all fell to the ground, presumably dead.
"What have you done?" Yusuke said looking shocked at what she had just done, along with Kurama.
"It's the only thing that I could have done," Lain replied shrugging her shoulders. She then turned and faced the doctor along with Yusuke and Kurama.
"You can't kill me!" the doctor shouted out backing up. "I'm the only one with their masters cure! If you kill me he will die also!"
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Hiei said grinning.
"What?" the doctor said looking at him horrified.
Their master stepped out of the hallway, though seemed to be hunched over a little, as though he were still weak.
"After knocking it out of your fifth fighter, he told us were the doctor was," Hiei said stepping towards him. "Lain made a cure for him, he's all better now if you haven't noticed?"
The doctor gulped and then began to laugh nervously. He backed up again and then pulled out a needle with a bottle of a strange looking serum in it. He then stuck it in his arm and injected himself with it.
"What the…" Lain said flinching at the sight of what was happening.
The doctor now seemed to be morphing into a huge, hulking beast with stretchable arms. He then raised his arms up into the air with a wide smile on his face. He slammed them down right over Lain and the others. But at the last moment they all jumped out of the way to safety.
"I'll finish him," Hiei said stepping forward and then reached for his sword.
"No," Yusuke said stepping in front of Hiei with his arm held out in front of him. "This ones on me."
Yusuke then grinned as he jumped up into the air. He formed his hand into a fist and then slammed it into the side of his face. He punched his again and then final threw his last attack at him. He threw a super charged up cut into his face and then sent the doctor flying into the stands.
Koto looked around and gulped. "Well it seems that this round is over. Team Urameshi is the winner!"
"It doesn't feel much like a win to me," Yusuke commented.
"Hey look behind you stupid," Lain said pointing over her shoulders at the three fighters who were getting up behind her.
"What!? How did this happen!?" Yusuke shouted out.
"I used my technique called the Path of Memories on them," Lain said smiling. "It's a technique that uses their spirit energy against them. If their heart is evil, then their spirit energy will destroy them. But if it is good then they won't die."
"This is great to know," Kuwabara said as his face broke out into a smile.
"Master?" one of the fighters asked walking forward to him. "We are sorry to have dishonored you like this…"
"Yes master…" another one piped.
"Dishonored?" their master asked laughing but was interrupted but the committee who had just turned on the loud speakers. Their voice could be heard blaring through the arena.
"The next match will start immediately. Team Urameshi against Team Masho!" a voice blared out.
"What!?" Lain shouted out angrily. "That's unfair!"
After Lain had made her comment five fighters stepped out from the hallways that were inside of the arena in dark black cloaks.
Lain gulped and then clutched her hands into fists.
"This isn't going to be an easy win guys," Lain said wincing as she realized the fact that she would now have to face Touya in a battle.
Oohh!! End of the chapter finally!!! Tell me what you think! READ AND REVIEW!!!!