Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Yu Hakusho or any of its characters. I do own parts of the plot that I did not borrow from the series. And my own original character Lain Mikado.

Yu Yu Hakusho

7: Kurama and Bakken go down

Saga: The Dark Tournament

Lain was still standing on the outside of the ring, looking at her opposing team in horror. She knew a few people, whom she would be fighting from the team, one was Touya the ice master that had been after her for so long, and the other was Jin, who she knew nothing about besides his highly fast speaking Irish accent.

She finally tore her eyes away from the figures in the black cloaks and turned her attention over to the rest of her team.

"So? Who's going to fight first?" Lain managed to spit out before she started to shake. "Well?"

"I'll do it," Hiei said steeping forward closer to the ring. Before anything else could happen a voice yelled out at them.

"But your not aloud to fight at the moment," a so-called sweet voice said ringing through the stadium. A woman in a nurse's uniform (pretty skimpy one if you ask me), and dark pink hair steeped forward outside of a tent that must have been set up while the team wasn't looking. "You and that girl Lain are seriously injured. I can't allow you to go into the fight until I've looked over your injures."

"I'm fine," Lain spat at her as she forgot all of her fears for the other team. "If you want to look at someone, look at Kuwabara, he's not doing so fine." She held her hand out in the direction of her teammate, Kuwabara, who was lying on the ground in pain. The last battle he had been in almost killed him, but it was more like he almost killed him self in order to try and awake three men under the control of an evil doctor. "Help him, not me."

"I'll get to him in a minute," the nurse said as she tried to hold back her anger, but it showed in her eyes. "Just come here and let me look over your wounds, it'll only take a few minutes."

"Come on, let's get this over with," Hiei said narrowing his eyes at the nurse. He was getting a bad feeling about her, but what ever she was planning it was nothing he couldn't handle, even if he had no spirit energy left and he was almost utterly useless.

Lain cast a glance at Hiei and the followed him over to the tent. She then whispered over to him, "You know what your doing right? Cause, I don't have any more spirit energy left like you. So if this is a trap… We're walking right into it blind folded."

"We'll be fine," Hiei said glaring at the nurse as he entered the tent in front of Lain.

"That's nice," the nurse said laughing happily. "To know that Team Urameshi has some of the stupidest people on it! You've walked right into my trap!"

Lain and Hiei spun around and faced her just as she raised her hands up into the air. Bars appeared all around the tent, trapping Lain and Hiei inside of it.

"Isn't this just great," Lain muttered as she ran forward towards the bars that enclosed them. She slammed into them to only be thrown back; she landed right in front of Hiei on her knees and hands. "Nice, this is just nice!"

"God, how stupid are those two?!" Yusuke yelled out angrily. "I can't believe they just walked right into a trap like that! This is an unfair advantage!"

"Calm down Yusuke," Kurama said sighing. "This is nothing we can't handle. Don't fret; the two of us should do just fine. I can take on the first three and then you can take on the last two?"

"Fine," Yusuke said. "But what I don't understand is how those two could have just walked into a obvious trap like that…"

"What ever is happening I'm sure Lain and Hiei already know," Kurama said looking over in their direction confused. "But what ever they have planned… I don't know. But don't worry about them, there fine. And besides, I can already feel Lain's spirit energy regaining along with Hiei's. My guess is that that woman won't be able to keep them in there long enough for us to lose."

"You're right," Yusuke said smiling. "So how about it. You ready to fight Kurama!?"

Kurama nodded his head and then steeped closer to the ring.

"Alright!" Koto shouted out. "Lets get this first match started!"

Kurama looked across the ring at his opponent. He had token of his cape and revealed that his name was Gama.

"This isn't going to be an easy win you know…" Gama began and then paused to smile at the red headed Kurama. "My art of fighting is in fact one of those types that can paralyze my opponent in a matter of seconds. You're not going to win. The art I am about to use on you is the art of make-up."

"Make-up?" Kurama said looking Gama a little more cautious. If he could speak so highly on himself then there must be more to then just make-up…

Gama whipped out some paintbrushes and then vanished from sight, leaving Kurama to look around wildly for him.

"This is what I would call the Make-up of Chains attack!" Gama said appearing into view.

Kurama tried to lung forward at him but got no success. It seems that Gama had managed to actually use his attack on him. He looked down at his arms and legs and found different color paints on them.

"You are paralyzed now," Gama said smiling wickedly. "You can't escape. In fact I even dought that you will be able to do anything while under the spell. Now I'm going to finish you off!"

Gama lunged himself forward at Kurama smiling more at the victory he thought would be coming. But something happened he would have expected… A few moments latter after he had began to move in on Kurama he was sent flying back with a hard slash of what seemed to be Kurama's greatest attack. The Rose Whip.

"What? How?" Gama said as he lay on the ground. Blood started to make it's why out of his wounds.

"Even if you have me paralyzed from using my arms and feet… It doesn't mean that you can't stop me from moving the rest of my body," Kurama said smiling weakly. "I've used my Rose Whip to defeat…" He paused and then looked at him gravely. "More like… Kill you from your conditions."

"It doesn't matter!" Gama shouted out. "The rest of my team will defeat you!"

Gama then rose from where he was lying in the ground slightly and started to chant. More symbols appeared around Kurama's arms, legs, and chest.

"What!?" Kurama shouted out.

"It's another skill. The Make-up of the Seal," Gama said smiling in pure pleasure. "It seals in your spirit energy so you can't use it."

Kurama looked at Gama horrified and then gritted his teeth. "No matter. I can find another way…"

"Right…" Gama said trailing off. He was dead.

Koto starred at the two amazed and then gulped. "Seems this very short match is over. With Gama dead Kurama is the victor! The next opponent is...?"

A figure steeped forward and threw off his black cloak. He was a kind of tall man that seemed to be hyped up on steroids, or worked out way too much. He steeped in the ring and then begun to walk towards Kurama.

Kurama could only look at him in fear as he approached him. He tried to move his arms and legs but found it impossible. He figured that he must still be under the effect of Gama's spell.

"How about it little boy?" the tall figure said laughing at the defenseless Kurama. "Do you think you can actually win against me?"

"I'll find a way," Kurama said smiling weakly up at him.

"Don't be so confident when you can't even use your arms or legs, let alone any of your spirit energy," he replied laughing. "For when you die… Remember my name. Bakken. The man who killed you." He laughed again.

"I surly will," Kurama said glaring up at him.

Bakken took a step toward Kurama and raised his hand up into the air.

Kurama cringed as Bakken sent his fist crashing into the side of his face. He felt another punch in his stomach and then another in the other side of his face. He finally fell to the ground on his knees. He still couldn't move an inch, the spells were still all in effect.

He then began to cough blood out of his mouth as he cringed from the kick Bakken had sent at his stomach. Everything started to get blurry and dark. He knew he was passing out.

"Is he... Is he alright!?" Koto shouted out looking at the now passed out Kurama. "I guess he's out! Ten... nine- hey! What are you doing!? Put me down!" She screamed this out as Bakken had walked over to her and picked her up from the spot she was standing and threw her out of the ring. "Hey! You can't do that!" She tried to get back into the ring but was pushed back out. "He's been down for longer than the ten count! He's out and you are the winner!"

"I don't care... He's not dead yet," Bakken muttered. "Besides where was his mercy when he killed Gama!?"

Bakken steeped forward towards Kurama's limp body and then picked him up off the ground by the collar of his shirt.

"Now... It's time for you to die," Bakken muttered wincing angrily at the red headed demon that he was holding in his fist. "It's what you deserve."

He raised his hand up into the air and swung it forward to only be stopped by his team captain calling out at him.

"Stop it now!" the captain shouted out angrily.

"What is it!?" Bakken cried out angrily. His fist was only centimeters away from Kurama's face. "What's so important!?"

"Look behind you, you fool!" the captain cried out as he glared up at Bakken.

"Huh?" Bakken said turning around to see Yusuke with his famous spirit gun attack aimed right at him.

"You see now!?" the captain cried out. "If you would have killed that stupid man then you would have gone down with him!"

"I see..." Bakken growled out as he glared down at Yusuke. "You value his life more than winning this tournament. How... stupid." He then flung Kurama out of the ring and glared over in the direction of the referee.

"And then winner is... Bakken from Team Masho," Koto said without any enthusiasm at all. The crowd seemed to be getting happier that Team Urameshi was actually losing again.

"Poor Kurama," Lain muttered under her breath. "He did his best but that wasn't enough. If only you hadn't convinced me to fall into this stupid trap," she glared over at Hiei who rolled his eyes. "then I would have been able to have fought Gama and Kurama wouldn't have had to be put in such a stupid position."

"Just shut-up will you?" Hiei said sighing. "Yusuke's fighting next."

Lain just sent an angry glares at Hiei and then turned her attention back to the match. Yusuke had just gotten into the ring to confront Bakken. "Let's just hope we wins. I don't want to be kicked out of this tournament so soon..."

"You're dead," Yusuke hissed out at Bakken. "For what you were about to do to Kurama... I won't forgive you!"

"Touchy aren't we?" Bakken said laughing.

He then got down into a crouched position and started to flex. This seemed to be causing great strain to him because sweat was starting to pour out of his skin.

"That's gross..." Yusuke said wrinkling up his nose from the stench that started to come from the sweaty Bakken. He flinched as he noticed what Bakken was doing. He was using an attack built from sweat, which caused steam to fill the arena. "I know what you're up too..."
                "Do you really!?" Bakken yelled out laughing. The ring was filled up with what seemed to be some sort of nasty smelling steam. This caused everything to become very hard to see through. "Can't see me... Now can you!?"

"Not much of a problem…" Yusuke said gulping as he got into an offensive stance. "I'll be fine, I'm sure of it…"

"We'll see about that!" Bakken yelled out as he slammed his fist into Yusuke's head, which sent him flying to the edge of the ring.

Yusuke got back up from the impact and looked around wildly, waiting for his opponent to strike again.

Bakken sent another fist flying at Yusuke and made impact perfectly. The spirit detective still had no idea were he was. He was totally in cover, he wouldn't be able to spot him now. A grin spread across his face as the title of the Dark Tournament winners went to him and his team. Nothing was going to stop them now, they were going to win for sure.

Yusuke was still pacing around the ring, waiting for Bakken to put himself in the open again, even if it was only just for a second, maybe he would be able to fight back this time. He frowned as he felt a punch collide with the back of his head.

He shook his head and then stood up straight again and looked around the ring once more. There was no way he was going to be able to spot Bakken through this mess he had created. If only there was a way for it all to clear away. Yusuke smiled as an idea spread into his mind… Why if he could use his spirit energy to send the mess all away!? It was at least worth a shot. He raised his hands up into the air once again, preparing to use his last spirit gun in this match.

The blast went echoing through the ring, and as he thought all of the mist Bakken had created was sent flying out of the arena. Everything was clear once again, and Bakken was in plain view.

He charged at Bakken and send one massive punch at his ribs, knocking him to the ground in pain.

"Didn't think that was going to save you for long did it? I would have eventually found a way to get out of the mess you put me in," Yusuke said smiling. He then rose his foot into the air and was about to send it flying down on the limp figure but stopped when he started to plead.

"STOP! Give me mercy! I didn't mean to hurt your friend! I was only caught up in the heat of battle when I was fighting your friend Kurama! Please have mercy on me! I'm sure that's what he would have wanted!" Bakken cried out, not pleading with Yusuke who as looking down on him with pity.

"Fine…" Yusuke said lowering his foot. He backed up a few steeps and then turned his attention over to Koto who was looking at the two shocked. A second latter he felt something smash over his head, he turned back around to see Bakken on his feet again, looking as though he had just thrown something at him.

"You know what I hate…" Yusuke began trying to hold back his anger. "LIERS LIKE YOU!" He ran head on at Bakken and then threw in a few well-hit punches and managed to just about break every single bone in Bakken's body.

Bakken fell to the ground in defeat and Yusuke was then announced the winner by Koto who seemed to have some relief in her voice.

"Took him long enough," Lain muttered crossing her arms over her chest. "How much longer do you think it will be until you regain the rest of your spirit energy?"

"Not long, but I'm sure in a few minutes you'll be fine," Hiei said casting a glance at the fake nurse who seemed to be frowning at the thought of them regaining their spirit energy back.

"You pay attention well," Lain said laughing. "So how about it? You want to get out of this place?"

"Doesn't matter to me…" Hiei said smiling at her.