New Friend Found
Chapter Eight
Assured Deaths
It seemed that there would be no winner to either battle. Whenever Kouji attacked, Hiei would dodge, and whenever Hiei would attack, Kouji would dodge. The worst that had been done was a scratch that Kouji made when Hiei was caught off guard. He had marked Hiei with a battle wound that ran from the edge of his right eye down to his chin. Blood lightly trickled down to the ground, but Hiei paid no mind to the wound; he just kept slashing his sword at the humanoid demon, every once in a while managing to lightly scratch at Kouji.
The same went pretty much the same with Kayu and Yusuke. Attacking and dodging attacks that the other threw at another; though more damage was done in this feud. Yusuke's green uniform shirt had tears all over it from Kayu's attempts to attack him with her claws and had a light graze running across his left cheek. Kayu was much the same; blood trickling down from the edge of her mouth when Yusuke landed a hard punch on her.
It was killing Kurama to see his friends fighting a deadly battle and he couldn't do anything to help them. Instead, he was sitting down and the grass, poisoned for being to slow to dodge an attack. He could feel the warm poison burn him from the inside out. His flesh and skin felt so cold compared to what he felt on the inside of him. His headache that he felt earlier had gotten worse and his vision was starting to blur.
'The poison,' Kurama began, 'It's getting worse. I don't think I can keep myself alive much longer.' He breathing was becoming heavier and was coming in shorter breaths. He knew that death mustn't have been too far away.
"Damn!" Yusuke complained as he received a hard hit from Kayu. He landed upon the ground, rubbing his left cheek where the hanyou had hit him.
"I'm getting sick and tired of this running around, trying to survive her attacks, and getting no where when I finally get a chance to fight back." The brown eyed boy continued, getting up off the ground and standing up straight. He stood across from the bloody eyed Kayu, who was getting ready for another attack to deliver to Yusuke. The tantei held up his right arm, pointed his index finger at Kayu's heart, and held his right wrist with his free hand.
"Alright, you've only got one shot, so you better not miss Yusuke." Yusuke spook to himself. Taking on a better aim, he began to gather up his rei ki. A soft blue light began to form at his finger tip. The fox eared hanyou started to approach him, feeling no threat in her hypnotized state.
'Great, now I can get a better shot at her.' Yusuke thought. Kayu was coming closer at him and much faster, ready to attack.
'Okay, it's now or never.' He continued gathering up the last bit of energy he had left in him.
"REI-GUN!" The blue energy had finally detached itself from Yusuke's finger tip and shot itself towards Kayu at high speed. She had finally realized that she was in danger and jump up in attempt to dodge the deadly attack. But, to no avail, her attempt to dodge was wasted and instead hit her point blank in her abdomen. She was sent soaring across the clearing and slammed into a tree. Everyone's head was turned towards Yusuke, who was now on his hands and knees taking deep breaths. They had heard him yell and wondered what had happened. It didn't take them long to look at what Yusuke was focusing on across the clearing and found out what had happened.
Kayu limply sat down on the blood stained grass floor; blood freely spilling out of her stomach. She could have easily been mistaken as dead if her breathing wasn't so loud. Her harsh sharp in takes of air signaled that she was hanging onto life by a mere thread willing to snap at any moment.
It was strange. Everyone seemed to be focusing on Yusuke and Kayu; Yusuke for firing his rei-gun when no one was expecting it and killing his opponent and Kayu because she was going to die any second. Even Hiei and Kouji stopped in mid-battle to see the result of the assault that they had missed.
"M-my . . . my pet. . ." Kouji spoke from the silence; turning his back on the fight he was having. His voice was weak and was hardly above a whisper. His eyes were wide and full of shock. He couldn't believe it. His puppet of all his crimes is dead, or to be more precise, is dying.
'Now's my chance.' The fire demon began; he quickly up raised his sword, ready to strike the golden eyed demon that had turned his back on him.
'I think not.' Kouji had just managed to dodge the smaller demon's blade just barely. Kouji turned his head around just enough to see Hiei out of the corner of his golden eyes. His expression had quickly changed from surprise to anger. The demon's eyes shined with pure anger at Hiei.
"Now, did you really think that you would actually strike me?" Kouji quickly turned around, claws extended ready to strike back at Hiei, but the red eyed demon instantly disappeared and reappeared behind Kouji, taking another strike at him, but Kouji avoided as well.
A small laughter echoed unnoticed in the forest.
"Thought you would win this battle, didn't you Kouji?" A weak voice spoke to itself from the lips of a dying being.
Yusuke soon decided to join in the on raging battle. He managed to try and hit Kouji from behind, but the demon just dodged Yusuke's attempt to hit him, while receiving a light wound from Hiei's sword just barely missing.
"But you were wrong." Kayu spoke to herself, knowing that no one was listening, but continued on.
Kouji could hardly evade the two. Each attacking after another had tried. Things were not looking good for the demon. Hiei's quick movement and Yusuke's surprise attacks were getting out of hand.
"I'm not dying alone, Kouji; you're coming with me." The hanyou managed to let out a light giggle escape her throat.
Hiei had thrust his sword at Kouji; causing the blade to run right through his chest. The demon gasped for air as blood ran trickled the edge of his mouth. Yusuke jumped back at the unexpected blade point went through Kouji and towards him, only to stop short. He took a deep breath in relief but stared shocked at the dying demon.
The fire demon extracted his blade and looked it up and down only to look at a doubled over Kouji next. The demon was gaping for breath continuously pressing his hands to the chest wound as to stop the bleeding, but was failing miserably. Yusuke stepped back a few steps still gawking at Kouji trying to live.
"Damn it . . . all. . ." Kouji last spoke as he fell to the ground on his side. Yusuke tried his best to get rid of his gaping expression and looked up at Hiei.
"Watch where you're running your sword through next time. You almost got me." Hiei gazed up at Yusuke; having a So-what-if-I-got-you look in his crimson eyes, and replying with an "Hn." He sheathed his blood stained sword for now and disappeared in a black blur, reappearing at the red headed fox demon's side.
Hiei kneeled down and slung one of Kurama's arms over his shoulders and began to stand up to get Kurama up on his feet. Yusuke quickly ran over to Help Hiei, grabbing Kurama other arm and slinging it over his own shoulders. They began walking Kurama over to the now lifeless Kouji, setting him down next to the dead body.
'Ugh, I can't believe I actually have to do this.' The fox grimaced in disgust at this, but if he wanted to live, he had to do this. He reached out his hand at the late demon's body below the chest wound. As blood began to slowly run down at Kurama's hand, when a small amount of blood collected, he withdrew. Closing his eyes tight and trying not to breathe in the overwhelming smell, he threw back his head with his hand at his lips; he let the blood trickle down into his mouth and down his throat.
Yusuke turned his head away at the last minute while shouting "Yuck" and "Gross" under his breath. Hiei shut his eyes and turned his head down at the ground; he too couldn't watch the strange sight.
When the last drop of blood went down Kurama's throat, he bent over in disgust, smearing his hand on the grass as to remove the rest of the blood left on his hand.
"Bleh, that has got to be the most repulsive thing I've ever did." Not long after that said, Kurama's vision soon started to clear up. The heat that he once felt on the inside began to cool down, relieving him.
"Good lord Kurama! That has to be the sickest thing I've ever seen! I don't think I could do it. Drinking someone else's blood . . . bleh." Yusuke shivered has the image of him drinking blood entered his head. Hiei approached Kurama, standing by his side.
"Come on, we better leave." With that said the small fire demon turned around and started to walk off. Kurama stood up, looking back at his retreating friend and soon followed. Yusuke meet up with Kurama, walking by his side with hands behind his head.
As they passed Kayo's dead form, Kurama stopped. He looked over at her with sympathy in his eyes.
"Yo, Kurama, you commin'?" Yusuke's voice rang throughout the red head's ears, bringing his attention back to the matter at hand. He turned his head over to the 14-year-old.
"Hm? Oh, yes, I'm coming." With one last quick glance, Kurama headed his way back on the trail to ReiKai.
"Uh, where am I?" The hanyou spoke out, unknown to her surroundings for obvious reasons. With out her ability to see, there was no way she could tell where she was.
"Well, in the air." A cheerful voice answered Kayu. Her ears twitched in confusion. Who was talking to her and what was she doing in the air?
"What?! The air? I can't fly! What am I doing in the air? And who the hell are you!" The cheerful voice just gave a giggle.
"Well, first of all you're dead and now you're a ghost so that would explain you being in the air. Second, my name is Botan; I'm the Grim Reaper." The blue haired ferry girl gave another cheerful laugh.
"Alright," Kayu replied, understanding a bit on what's going on, "But why am I a ghost? Shouldn't I be going to hell or something?"
"Well, yes and no. You see, you did do a lot of bad things so you should be going that way, but then again, Lord Koenma would like to speak to you."
"Speak to me?" Kayu questioned once again, "What would Lord Koenma want to talk to me about?"
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Aha! I bet you thought this would be the end, huh? Well, it's not, so you could keep on reading to see the rest. Until then, see ya.
-Halfbreedfox
Chapter Eight
Assured Deaths
It seemed that there would be no winner to either battle. Whenever Kouji attacked, Hiei would dodge, and whenever Hiei would attack, Kouji would dodge. The worst that had been done was a scratch that Kouji made when Hiei was caught off guard. He had marked Hiei with a battle wound that ran from the edge of his right eye down to his chin. Blood lightly trickled down to the ground, but Hiei paid no mind to the wound; he just kept slashing his sword at the humanoid demon, every once in a while managing to lightly scratch at Kouji.
The same went pretty much the same with Kayu and Yusuke. Attacking and dodging attacks that the other threw at another; though more damage was done in this feud. Yusuke's green uniform shirt had tears all over it from Kayu's attempts to attack him with her claws and had a light graze running across his left cheek. Kayu was much the same; blood trickling down from the edge of her mouth when Yusuke landed a hard punch on her.
It was killing Kurama to see his friends fighting a deadly battle and he couldn't do anything to help them. Instead, he was sitting down and the grass, poisoned for being to slow to dodge an attack. He could feel the warm poison burn him from the inside out. His flesh and skin felt so cold compared to what he felt on the inside of him. His headache that he felt earlier had gotten worse and his vision was starting to blur.
'The poison,' Kurama began, 'It's getting worse. I don't think I can keep myself alive much longer.' He breathing was becoming heavier and was coming in shorter breaths. He knew that death mustn't have been too far away.
"Damn!" Yusuke complained as he received a hard hit from Kayu. He landed upon the ground, rubbing his left cheek where the hanyou had hit him.
"I'm getting sick and tired of this running around, trying to survive her attacks, and getting no where when I finally get a chance to fight back." The brown eyed boy continued, getting up off the ground and standing up straight. He stood across from the bloody eyed Kayu, who was getting ready for another attack to deliver to Yusuke. The tantei held up his right arm, pointed his index finger at Kayu's heart, and held his right wrist with his free hand.
"Alright, you've only got one shot, so you better not miss Yusuke." Yusuke spook to himself. Taking on a better aim, he began to gather up his rei ki. A soft blue light began to form at his finger tip. The fox eared hanyou started to approach him, feeling no threat in her hypnotized state.
'Great, now I can get a better shot at her.' Yusuke thought. Kayu was coming closer at him and much faster, ready to attack.
'Okay, it's now or never.' He continued gathering up the last bit of energy he had left in him.
"REI-GUN!" The blue energy had finally detached itself from Yusuke's finger tip and shot itself towards Kayu at high speed. She had finally realized that she was in danger and jump up in attempt to dodge the deadly attack. But, to no avail, her attempt to dodge was wasted and instead hit her point blank in her abdomen. She was sent soaring across the clearing and slammed into a tree. Everyone's head was turned towards Yusuke, who was now on his hands and knees taking deep breaths. They had heard him yell and wondered what had happened. It didn't take them long to look at what Yusuke was focusing on across the clearing and found out what had happened.
Kayu limply sat down on the blood stained grass floor; blood freely spilling out of her stomach. She could have easily been mistaken as dead if her breathing wasn't so loud. Her harsh sharp in takes of air signaled that she was hanging onto life by a mere thread willing to snap at any moment.
It was strange. Everyone seemed to be focusing on Yusuke and Kayu; Yusuke for firing his rei-gun when no one was expecting it and killing his opponent and Kayu because she was going to die any second. Even Hiei and Kouji stopped in mid-battle to see the result of the assault that they had missed.
"M-my . . . my pet. . ." Kouji spoke from the silence; turning his back on the fight he was having. His voice was weak and was hardly above a whisper. His eyes were wide and full of shock. He couldn't believe it. His puppet of all his crimes is dead, or to be more precise, is dying.
'Now's my chance.' The fire demon began; he quickly up raised his sword, ready to strike the golden eyed demon that had turned his back on him.
'I think not.' Kouji had just managed to dodge the smaller demon's blade just barely. Kouji turned his head around just enough to see Hiei out of the corner of his golden eyes. His expression had quickly changed from surprise to anger. The demon's eyes shined with pure anger at Hiei.
"Now, did you really think that you would actually strike me?" Kouji quickly turned around, claws extended ready to strike back at Hiei, but the red eyed demon instantly disappeared and reappeared behind Kouji, taking another strike at him, but Kouji avoided as well.
A small laughter echoed unnoticed in the forest.
"Thought you would win this battle, didn't you Kouji?" A weak voice spoke to itself from the lips of a dying being.
Yusuke soon decided to join in the on raging battle. He managed to try and hit Kouji from behind, but the demon just dodged Yusuke's attempt to hit him, while receiving a light wound from Hiei's sword just barely missing.
"But you were wrong." Kayu spoke to herself, knowing that no one was listening, but continued on.
Kouji could hardly evade the two. Each attacking after another had tried. Things were not looking good for the demon. Hiei's quick movement and Yusuke's surprise attacks were getting out of hand.
"I'm not dying alone, Kouji; you're coming with me." The hanyou managed to let out a light giggle escape her throat.
Hiei had thrust his sword at Kouji; causing the blade to run right through his chest. The demon gasped for air as blood ran trickled the edge of his mouth. Yusuke jumped back at the unexpected blade point went through Kouji and towards him, only to stop short. He took a deep breath in relief but stared shocked at the dying demon.
The fire demon extracted his blade and looked it up and down only to look at a doubled over Kouji next. The demon was gaping for breath continuously pressing his hands to the chest wound as to stop the bleeding, but was failing miserably. Yusuke stepped back a few steps still gawking at Kouji trying to live.
"Damn it . . . all. . ." Kouji last spoke as he fell to the ground on his side. Yusuke tried his best to get rid of his gaping expression and looked up at Hiei.
"Watch where you're running your sword through next time. You almost got me." Hiei gazed up at Yusuke; having a So-what-if-I-got-you look in his crimson eyes, and replying with an "Hn." He sheathed his blood stained sword for now and disappeared in a black blur, reappearing at the red headed fox demon's side.
Hiei kneeled down and slung one of Kurama's arms over his shoulders and began to stand up to get Kurama up on his feet. Yusuke quickly ran over to Help Hiei, grabbing Kurama other arm and slinging it over his own shoulders. They began walking Kurama over to the now lifeless Kouji, setting him down next to the dead body.
'Ugh, I can't believe I actually have to do this.' The fox grimaced in disgust at this, but if he wanted to live, he had to do this. He reached out his hand at the late demon's body below the chest wound. As blood began to slowly run down at Kurama's hand, when a small amount of blood collected, he withdrew. Closing his eyes tight and trying not to breathe in the overwhelming smell, he threw back his head with his hand at his lips; he let the blood trickle down into his mouth and down his throat.
Yusuke turned his head away at the last minute while shouting "Yuck" and "Gross" under his breath. Hiei shut his eyes and turned his head down at the ground; he too couldn't watch the strange sight.
When the last drop of blood went down Kurama's throat, he bent over in disgust, smearing his hand on the grass as to remove the rest of the blood left on his hand.
"Bleh, that has got to be the most repulsive thing I've ever did." Not long after that said, Kurama's vision soon started to clear up. The heat that he once felt on the inside began to cool down, relieving him.
"Good lord Kurama! That has to be the sickest thing I've ever seen! I don't think I could do it. Drinking someone else's blood . . . bleh." Yusuke shivered has the image of him drinking blood entered his head. Hiei approached Kurama, standing by his side.
"Come on, we better leave." With that said the small fire demon turned around and started to walk off. Kurama stood up, looking back at his retreating friend and soon followed. Yusuke meet up with Kurama, walking by his side with hands behind his head.
As they passed Kayo's dead form, Kurama stopped. He looked over at her with sympathy in his eyes.
"Yo, Kurama, you commin'?" Yusuke's voice rang throughout the red head's ears, bringing his attention back to the matter at hand. He turned his head over to the 14-year-old.
"Hm? Oh, yes, I'm coming." With one last quick glance, Kurama headed his way back on the trail to ReiKai.
"Uh, where am I?" The hanyou spoke out, unknown to her surroundings for obvious reasons. With out her ability to see, there was no way she could tell where she was.
"Well, in the air." A cheerful voice answered Kayu. Her ears twitched in confusion. Who was talking to her and what was she doing in the air?
"What?! The air? I can't fly! What am I doing in the air? And who the hell are you!" The cheerful voice just gave a giggle.
"Well, first of all you're dead and now you're a ghost so that would explain you being in the air. Second, my name is Botan; I'm the Grim Reaper." The blue haired ferry girl gave another cheerful laugh.
"Alright," Kayu replied, understanding a bit on what's going on, "But why am I a ghost? Shouldn't I be going to hell or something?"
"Well, yes and no. You see, you did do a lot of bad things so you should be going that way, but then again, Lord Koenma would like to speak to you."
"Speak to me?" Kayu questioned once again, "What would Lord Koenma want to talk to me about?"
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Aha! I bet you thought this would be the end, huh? Well, it's not, so you could keep on reading to see the rest. Until then, see ya.
-Halfbreedfox