Disclaimer: Don't own YYH. Don't own Hiei or Kurama or Yusuke or Kuwabara.
Thanks to all my reviewers:
Cat Lily- Thanks for the compliments!! I didn't think it was that good...
zee- I totally agree...Hiei's soo cute when he's helpless! But I feel really bad about what I'm doing to him and Kurama…
ShatteredSoul56- Glad you like the story!
Animegoil- I'm really glad you like it so far. I know my writing is a little...um...unsophisticated in early chapters. This was one of the first fanfics I wrote, and I wrote it a while ago. I've written a lot more since then, so I guess my writing got better with experience. And no, this isn't Hiei/Kurama, because I don't like yaoi. But if it seems that way to you, and you want to think of it that way, that's fine with me. Just know that it's not what I intended it to be.
K.C. Whitestar- I can't believe you tracked me down to !!! Glad you like it!!
I really hope the readers of this fic are enjoying. If you are, please tell me. If you're not, please tell me. Thanks!
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Ryton walked a few paces back. Then he skillfully used the Rose Whip to slice Kurama's shirt open. He also ripped through the sleeves. The torn shirt fell. "Now, Kurama, it's your turn. Face in the other direction, with your exposed back toward me."
Hiei didn't hear what Ryton had said. He didn't even care. He didn't care about anything right then except stopping Kurama's foolishness.
Still, he couldn't stop the pain. He couldn't control what he did in reaction. He couldn't say anything for fear of how it would come out. He wouldn't admit it, not even to himself, but he was afraid. He was afraid of his pain. He was afraid of Kurama's pity. He was afraid of what Ryton would do to his friend. He was afraid of what Ryton's teammates would do to him. He was afraid of tears, afraid of despair, afraid of compassion, afraid of mercy. He was afraid of his friends, afraid of his enemies. And like it or not he was afraid of torture and of death.
With Yusuke screeching threats and "DON'T"s and"GET OFF OF ME"s and "LEMME AT HIM"s at the top of his lungs, Kuwabara yelling at Yusuke to please calm down, Hiei still writhing on the floor but with his glare fixed on the TV, and Ryton and his team cracking up, Kurama turned his back to Ryton. "Great!" laughed Ryton, "Now we can begin!"
He raised the whip above his head. Kurama closed his eyes tight in anticipation. Yusuke and Kuwabara quit their bickering. Ryton's team stopped laughing. Hiei stopped groaning. The crowd became silent. Not even crickets could be heard. Ryton smirked, then forcefully brought the whip down.
It hit concrete.
"What?!? How could I have missed?!?" Ryton yelled. "The fault is not yours. You did not miss. I dodged." Ryton looked to his left. There was Kurama, completely unharmed. He still had his back to Ryton.
"I told you to follow my orders!!!" Ryton yelled as he brought the whip down again. And again it smashed through the ring.
"I am following your orders," Kurama said as he dodged another blow. He laughed and dodged again. And he kept laughing.
"What's so funny?!?" yelled his angry opponent. "First of all..." The fox dodged again. "...you told me..." dodge "...to lighten..." dodge "...up." The whole time, he kept his back turned. "Second..."
Ryton cut him off. "And how are you following my orders if you keep evading my attacks?!?!" "I was getting to that." dodge "But I'm not sure I want to tell you." He dodged again. "Tell me!!! That's an order!!!"
Ryton was in a whiplashing frenzy. Kurama barely had enough time to utter a word before he had to evade another lash. "You..." dodge "...told me..." dodge "...to turn..." dodge "...my back..." dodge "...to you." dodge "You..." dodge "...never..." dodge "...told me..." dodge "...to keep..." dodge "...still!"
Ryton stopped whipping and gawked at the fox demon. Kurama turned his head slightly and grinned at him. Then he heard moans of pain and looked up at the screen.
Do you remember that wall of sharp metal spikes? I thought so. Just imagine someone's bare back meeting those spikes head-on. Ouch. Times a million. Especially if that person just so happened to already have a wound in, or more precisely through,t heir back. Especially if that person had a huge gash down their right arm and a hole in their hand. Especially if that person was Hiei.
Ryton's teammates had gotten bored. While Kurama had been evading his own Rose Whip, they had been having some "fun" with Hiei. First, they dragged him off the ground and held him so that the points of the spikes just touched his skin. Then, they slowly lowered his body down the wall. After that, one held him up while the other punched him into the wall. Now that Ryton had stopped whipping and Kurama had stopped dodging, Hiei was lying motionless on the floor.
Ryton and Kurama exploded at once. "YOU TOLD ME HE WOULDN'T BE HARMED UNLESS I HURT OR RESISTED YOU!!" "I TOLD YOU NOT TO HARM HIM UNLESS I GOT HURT!!!!!" they yelled in unison, Kurama to Ryton and Ryton to his teammates. They looked at each other, then glared at the screen.
"So sorry Ryton, but we thought he was not following your orders. We assumed that we had to do it," the one who had taken Hiei's katana said slyly. Ryton rolled his eyes. "Kurama is right. I did not specify that he had to hold still," he said. Then, as an afterthought, he added, "Very clever indeed."
Kurama's heart ached. --I must find a way to stop this. Now he'll tell me to stand here, and I'll be beaten. I can't use the ten-count to my advantage. Yusuke and Kuwabara offer no help. And Hiei...--