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Chapter Twelve: Ashes, Ashes
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Death Isle Hotel: Room 10C
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Botan, Shizuru, Keiko, and Yukina were sitting in the boys' hotel room, watching the match on TV.
"This is bad," Keiko said, "Kuwabara's lost, the other team only needs two more wins!"
"Calm down, Keiko, I'm sure they'll pull through," Botan comforted her.
"What are they doing?" Yukina asked, as the camera showed Arashi, Yusuke, and Kurama digging in the hole, while Hiei argued with the announcers, "Shouldn't they be fighting?" Botan shrugged and the four of them continued to watch the screen.
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Battle Field
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Dirt was clinging to her clothes. Bits of rock were tangled in her hair, caught in her sweater. But she didn't care. Niyali and Kozu were in there somewhere, trapped under all the rubble from the boulder.
:Please let them be alive,: she pleaded, in her head, :They're my friends, please don't let them be dead...:
"I found her!" Yusuke exclaimed. Arashi quickly turned to see him pulling someone out of the rubble.
"KOZU!" Arashi abandoned her digging and raced over, nearly tripping on the loose dirt, but making her way there. "Is she all right? Tell me she's fine!" Kozu was limp in Yusuke's arms; dirt clinging to her, her clothing tattered and torn in many places, bruises and cuts all over.
Arashi grabbed Kozu's arm and pressed her ear to the girl's chest. She let out a sigh of relief.
"She's alive," she whispered. Yusuke exhaled in relief. Arashi turned to go back to her digging to see Kurama pulling Niyali out of the rubble.
"NIYALI!" Arashi was over at Niyali's side in half a minute. Niyali wasn't in any better condition then Kozu; covered in bruises, cuts, and dirt, her clothing ripped and in terrible condition. Many of the plants on her head were broken or torn out completely.
"Is she alive?" Arashi asked, eyes flickering up to Kurama's face, "Well? She is, isn't she?" When he didn't answer right away, she seized Niyali's wrist and felt for a pulse. There was none.
"She's alive," Kurama said, after a long moment has passed. Arashi looked at him in confusion.
"You're holding your fingers over her bone, not her artery," he said, and moved her hand over a bit, "Feel it?" Arashi nodded; now there was a steady pulse. Kurama picked Niyali up and began climbing out of the hole; Yusuke had already done so with Kozu and came to help.
"Well, that's interesting!" Faye exclaimed, "It seems Team Urameshi has somehow managed to find their missing team members in the hole in the center of the field where the boulder used to be!"
"Fascinating," Frogari muttered, "Can we get on with the match, please?"
"Arashi, you go," Yusuke told her.
"Why me? I want to stay here with Niyali and Kozu!"
"They'll be fine," Kurama reminded her, "Go on." Arashi grumbled and walked to the center of the field, taking care not to fall in the hole. Her opponent was already waiting there.
He was tall, clad in a black ninja costume. His spikey hair was the color of fire and his eyes were red.
"Match 2, Arashi vs. Kasei Tombuddy," Faye said, "BEGIN!"
"You know what," Arashi said, a split second later, "I don't like this mist. I keep stepping on round rocks and long sticks." He smiled.
"I know what you mean. It's cold and wet." He shrugged, "Too bad none of us can do anything about it."
"Oh, wait a second!" Arashi exclaimed, "I'm so stupid! I could've done something about it all along!" Closing her eyes, she gathered her ki and summoned a wind. The wind blew along the field, blowing the mist away. The sun peeked out from behind the clouds, warming up the competitors and the field.
Arashi then realized what the rocks and sticks were.
"BONES!" she screamed, leaping about a foot into the air, "I HATE BONES!"
Her opponent chuckled.
"As I've said numerous times before," Frogari said, "Less talk, MORE BLOOD!"
"What is it with you and your obsession with blood?" Arashi asked, turning to him, "It's sick! Gross! Wrong! It's--"
"WHIP OF DARK EVIL FLAMES!" Arashi felt something graze her shoulder, and looked down in surprise to discover her sweater was on fire.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! MY SWEATER'S ON FIRE!! PUT IT OUT PUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kasei laughed as she ran around in circles, waving her arms franticaly, her sweater burning. In his hands was a whip that seemed to be made entirely from black flames. The flames licked at his hand but he didn't seem to mind.
"ARASHI, YOU BAKA!" Hiei roared, "YOU CONTROL THE WEATHER, DON'T YOU?"
"PUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUTwhat?"
"SO PUT IT OUT!"
"OH! RIGHT!" Arashi stopped running in circles and conjured up a raincloud. The cloud hovered directly over her head and emptied its contents. The flames on her sweater extinguished. However, half of her sweater had turned to ash and crumbled off, revealing her light purple t-shirt underneath.
"YOU BURNED MY SWEATER!" she shrieked, now soaking wet, "THAT WAS MY FAVORITE SWEATER!!!"
Kasei shrugged.
"We all lose something in battle."
"THAT'S IT, MISTER, YOU'RE GOING DOWN!"
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