GCN-anime-dragon: Whooo-wheee! This took WAY too long to update, I know, I know. I swear, I honestly didn't mean for it to take this long. My disk that I had the update saved on got lost, and I never did find it. I didn't update until THEN however, because I was minor ticked off at a reviewer(s). I'm not telling who.
Just let me lay down the line. I will update WHEN I WANT TO. If I'm happy with my chapter, get excited or get some good ideas, updating will be SOON, IF I have time. (I don't get a lot of time. I have school, work and TV to watch)
My point is, a certain reviewer decided it would be funny and/or inspiring to sent the SAME review over 25 times. It MAY have just been a glitch, a fault of the computers, but it was annoying. I had to go and delete all but one (a major PAIN!), and my e-mail overflowed and thus crashed my old stone-age computer. (Stupid crappy computer) Grrrr. This caused unnecessary problems for me, and I got yelled at. Keh. Bottom line: Don't do that again. If it wasn't your fault, (you know who you are) then please excuse my ranting, and I'll forgive and forget.
Now, I apologize all over myself again, and I'll get on with the story!
Disclaimer: See chapters 1, 2 and 3!
INUYASHA...MEET YUSUKE... Chapter 4
Yusuke took a few steps backwards, falling into line beside Kurama and Botan. Botan had managed to drag Kuwabara over to rest at their feet. His eyes fluttered weakly and he muttered some inaudible syllables. Yusuke hoped for a moment that his friend would be all right.
With an 'I-couldn't-possibly-care-less' snort, Hiei removed his outer black robe, reveling a powder-blue sleeveless shirt beneath. The small demon walked casually over to the hanyou, looking up at the sky, with his hands in his pockets. "Can we please get this over with?"
"KEH!" Inuyasha muttered. He withdrew the Tetsusaiga from its sheath, the sword expanding and growing over five feet long in demonic transformation. "I told you before, I can take your kind on any day. You're just a chibi fire-youkai, aren't you? No challenge."
"I may be small," Hiei grated, making a fist with his right hand. The Ensatsu Kokuryu-ha (Infernal Black Dragon Wave a.k.a. "Dragon of the Darkness Flame") tattoo on his right forearm seethed, begging to be released on Inuyasha's ass. "But you, are just a hanyou."
Inuyasha let the insult slide over him. "What do you know?" He laid the sword out in front of him, allowing the patterns of the wind to dance along the blade. "Whenever you're ready, Chibi." Hiei's eyebrow twitched.
"What's going on?! Are you actually going to let them do this?" Botan squeaked out.
Yusuke shrugged. "Why not? It's what they wanna do, and I ain't gonna be the one to get stuck between a killer dragon and a big ass sword."
Kurama cleared his throat. "I normally wouldn't be one to indulge in this sort of ruthless behavior. However, perhaps a dual between the two would be for the best, allowing each of them to view each other's strengths, perhaps closing at least part of the rift between them. After all, it would be far more profitable if EVERYONE could work together on this mission, even if they really don't like it."
"That's true, Kurama, but what are we gonna do if they each end up dead?" Yusuke snorted. "That's just the only problem!"
"Hmmm," Botan mused. "Suppose there was a way we could interfere if either one of them was going to die. Would that work?"
Botan suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder, and where there had been empty air just moments before, Miroku had popped up, smiling widely and eyes closed rainbow-style. "I HIGHLY AGREE WITH YOU, MY BEAUTIFUL HUNNY! I believe I have a solution to your problem!"
"Really?" Botan chattered.
"Really?" Yusuke echoed, feeling a bit like the monk was pretending he wasn't even there. "How the hell do you plan on doing that?"
"Heh," the monk beamed, standing up strait and tall, pointing at the palm of his right hand. "Oh, I just have my ways."
Question marks appeared over everyone's heads. "What in hell is THAT supposed to mean?" Yusuke scoffed. Sango, with Shippo one shoulder, Hiraikotsu swung over the other, came over to the cluster and gave Miroku a death glare. A dearth glare that Miroku conveniently pretended was not there.
"The bigger question is, why are you letting your own Inuyasha fight? What has he got to prove?" Kurama asked curiously.
"Oh, he's just like that. Don't worry, he's really a sweet guy underneath it all." Now Kagome popped out of nowhere, folding her hands and looking a bit agitated. "Inuyasha won't kill him, unless your friend really angers him."
'Check that,' Yusuke made a mental note. Just then, Kagome and Miroku's silhouettes, (which they had had their back turned to Inuyasha and Hiei) were haloed by a blinding light. "What is that?!" Yusuke yelled.
Shippo had turned around on his perch, his little face aglow with the light. "HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" he squealed, jumping practically three feet into the air.
"Oh, damn! Get down!" Kurama grabbed Botan, and the both of them fell on top of Miroku and Kagome, all FOUR of them tumbling on top of Kuwabara, who NOW woke up with a start. Yusuke was left out of the domino effect to fend for himself, and he dove face first into the dirt as if his life depended on it. Which, of course it did.
The finger-like projections of deadly wind blade energy from the Kaze no Kizo (Wound of the Wind a.k.a. "Wind Scar") torn apart the ground, missing the group of huddling humans and demons by inches.
Pieces of grass and dirt blew up in clouds all around them, the molecules splitting and evaporating into thin are. The projection blades tipped upward, dissipating harmlessly into the sky.
Hiei took a quick glance at where his friends had been buried. "That idiot!" he muttered fiercely. "Hasn't he ever heard of AIMING?! He could've slaughtered his own teammates!"
Inuyasha righted his sword, throwing the weight of it over his shoulder. "KAGOME!!! KAGOME are you alright?"
Miroku pooped his dusty little head out of the debris. "Don't you care about ME? Miroku?" Kagome poked up beside him, followed by Yusuke, Botan and Kurama, as well as a spiral-eyed Kuwabara.
"Screw you monk," Inuyasha muttered under his breath, thanking the lord that Kagome was alright.
"How rude," Hiei muttered. Inuyasha's ears perked up again, having heard the remark, and he bared his fangs. Then, Inuyasha went about his normal way of fighting: Attacking with Whatever You Got Without a Clue in the World What To Do.
"Kaze no Kizo! Kaze no Kizo! Kaze no Kizo!" Inuyasha was going NUTS! Hiei jumped around to avoid getting hit, but none of the attacks even came close. The deadly blades of energy flew everywhere, blowing trees, rocks, dirt, a passing sparrow; everything was eaten in their paths of destruction. Everything except Hiei that is.
More than a couple blows missed the others by mere millimeters. (Hey, it was inches before, lets jump back and forth from US to metric systems, huh!) The others, especially Yusuke, (who hadn't thought to duck until two seconds before he would've been hamburger,) were cover head to toe in smoldering bits of gravel and soil.
"What the hell is going ON?!?!" Kuwabara shrieked.
"That idiot!" Kurama exclaimed. "What does he think he is going to accomplish by doing that?"
"Maybe we should just let Hiei kill him," Botan choked out, only half-joking.
"I'm somewhat inclined to agree," the kitsune muttered.
Hiei looked down at the group, making sure they were all still there, and completely intact with all their proper limbs and such. Yusuke caught his gaze and jerked his head up and to the side, mouthing angry syllables that Hiei translated as, 'What the fuck are you waiting for?!'
Making a quick decision, Hiei began to unwrap the bandage around his right forearm. 'Lets see how well the hanyou fares against the fires of hell,' Hiei laughed to himself. Normally, he would've been content simply bunching the hanyou's light's out and punching the shit out of him, but this time, he was annoyed. Inuyasha had one of those cocky attitudes that really pissed him off, and in addition to that, Inuyasha was swinging that lug of a sword without a care in the world.
Even though Hiei would pretend not to care, he didn't want his friend's lives in danger.
The winding black dragon tattoo seemed to seethe, to glow. Inuyasha was too busy to notice. Hiei stopped bouncing around long enough for the strip of cloth to blow away in the wind. "Dodging was getting beyond old anyway," he muttered.
Inuyasha took a few moments out of his frantic attack to take a look. 'What the hell is that?' he wondered. There was a sort or energy pouring out of the marks. A dangerous energy the was barely contained by the fire youkai.
Back when Inuyasha was just a newbie swordsman, he would've started worrying right now. The power that little chibi held was unimaginable. However, Inuyasha was sure that with his Bakuryuuha, (Explosion Current, a.k.a. "Backlash Wave") he would be able to sent whatever Hiei could attack with lying right back in his face.
The wind became one with the Tetsusaiga again; Inuyasha was ready. All he had to do was wait for Hiei's attack.
"Hiei, what are you doing? Isn't that the Ensatsu Dragon? Hiei, are you even listening to me?" Botan had notice the darkness gathering, and felt uneasy about the whole thing. Hiei was, of course, ignoring her.
"He really is going to use it," Kurama mused, standing to his feet again. He took a sideways glance at Yusuke, then turned to face the rest of the Inuyasha gang. "We need to take cover. Now."
"Why, what's going to happen?" Shippo sound like a twittery ten-year-old. Of course, he was a twittery ten-year-old, but...
"Are we in some sort of danger?" Kagome asked innocently, hiding behind Yusuke, as if he would be a good shield against whatever hell might come their way.
"You mean more danger than your friend already put us through???" Yusuke snorted snidely.
Ignoring his remark, Kurama did his best to answer. "Hai. Our companion has a bit of a knack for over doing things..." (At this point Kagome thought of Inuyasha) "...And he's getting ready to us an attack that, if it went out of control, could destroy this entire area."
"Is he insane?!" Sango gasped. "What attack could—"
Just then, the sky clouded over, and fountains of dark energy began pouring out from it. The energy crackled and spiraled in little spirals around Hiei.
Hiei noticed something a bit odd. The energy...it was more powerful than he had ever experienced it. It must be because that in the Feudal Era, the Demon Realm was MUCH closer to that of the humans. That distance was shortened, so the power of the dragon was greater. Hiei grinned a little: Oh this was gonna be gooood.
Inuyasha glared up at the sky, then looked back down at Hiei. "Keh, you think you're so cool, heh? C'mon, gimme your best shot!"
Hiei didn't even bother with a retort. Instead, he raised his arm out in front of himself, just as the tattoo began to take on a real, three dimensional, lifelike form. The shadow of the attack grew and grew, twitching and writhing like a snake stuck on a spear. The eyes glowed red, sucking up all the demonic energy in the area.
"You can still back down if you want to half breed. If you do, there is a chance that you might live!" Hiei taunted.
"Over my dead body, you ass! I said let me have it, so what are you waiting for?" Inuyasha raised the sword above his head, the strange energy emitting from it confusing Hiei. Was Inuyasha planning on attacking as well? What did he think he could possibly do?
Hiei had had enough of this.
"ENSATSU...KOKURYU-HA!!!!!" he screamed, releasing all the deadly energy that he had accumulated.
The dragon took off, dark and mysterious and deadly. If the ground had taken a beating from the Kaze no Kizo, then it was being utterly slaughtered from the dragon's advance. The sand turned into glass, and the soils imply evaporated into nothing at all. Steam and fire and destruction followed in its wake.
Hiei sighed, quite pleased with himself.
Yusuke and Kurama ran, followed by Kagome, Botan and Sango (Shippo in shoulder), and the three of them were dragging along Miroku, who had somehow lost the ability to walk coherently, and Kuwabara.
When Kuwabara saw the giant dragon, he said what would be expected, "AIEEEE-EEEEE! DON'T EAT MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!"
Inuyasha didn't bat an eye. He swung that sword, giving everything he had screaming: "Take this! BAKURYUU-HA!"
"NANI?" Hiei gulped. What the hell??
As burst of overly colorful blades of wind reached out in the shape of a giant ball towards the dragon. With blinding flashed and the smell of burning, the two attacks collided, sending debris gathered by the dragon flying everywhere.
At first the dragon stammered, like a car hitting a brick wall. But within moments, it regained composure, and began pushing back on the Bakuryuuha!
Inuyasha, feeling somewhat drained, leaned on his sword. Hiei stood there looking like an idiot with his mouth hanging open in disbelief. The two attacks struggled at each other, neither one losing or gaining any ground.
"This is RIDICULOUS! Attack Kokuryu-ha!" Hiei demanded, causing the dragon to jerk and pull forward again. Inuyasha blinked rapidly. What was this... this guy had some power over his attacks after they had been unleashed. Boy, would that come in handy.
The dragon swirled and swirled, engulfing the ball of energy. The Bakuryuuha and Ensatsu Kokuryu-ha became one, and began to pulsate with a newfound energy. With each pulsation there was a sound like a bird shrieking, and flames of blue demonic energy spot out in geysers.
"Oh, shit," Hiei wanted to run, he really did.
Inuyasha's mouth was open, his eyes really wide. A small little squeak escaped his throat, and he almost dropped the Tetsusaiga.
"Dammit, what in hell is happening now?!" Yusuke screamed, scrambling over the ground, running for his life.
"Inuyasha's attack, it doesn't look normal!" Sango gasped.
"It is not. The two attacks are joined together now! Who knows what will happen!" Kurama gasped out.
"JOINED TOGETHER?!" Kuwabara shrieked as he bounced along, still being drug along and not complaining about it one bit. "What (ouch!) will that (oof!) cause---ACK!"
"It looks like it's going to explode!!!" Botan exclaimed. The pulsating ball of flame and energy was spinning around like a mad top, the spits of flame growing more frequent, and the pulsating itself more violent.
"But Inuyasha...and your friend," Kagome gasped. "Their still out there in that. And knowing Inuyasha, he would think to run until it's too late!!"
"The same is true for Hiei, I'm afraid," Kurama muttered to no one in particular.
"Then as I said before, we have to stop them!" Kagome stopped suddenly, dropping the zonked-out Miroku in a sitting position on the ground. She swung the pack of arrows off her back, grabbed her bow and pulled out an arrow. Taking careful aim, she notched an arrow pointed at the Blob From Hell.
"Ka...go...me...sama...what...nani..." Miroku murmured.
"KAGOME, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Yusuke screamed. The others had continued running, all with confused and worried expressions for the young miko's safety.
"Don't worry, I can do this!" And with that, much to Yusuke's complete disbelief, she stood there and let the arrow fly without a care in the world.
"YOU IDIOT!"
Kagome has had a loooong history of having really, really, really, really bad aim. But this is a fanfic, and I really don't think now would be a good time for her to go on missing that big of a frickin' target. So, for once, the arrow hits home, disappearing in between the folds of the huge Blob From Hell. Kagome was counting on her miko powers to save them, to perhaps nullify the two attacks, deleting them perhaps. Or, at least she was sure she could destroy the Kokuryu-ha.
But, would that be enough?????
GCN: BOY, I just accomplished SO MUCH in this chappie. (Kidding, mind you.) But I thought it was amusing. I, for one, was especially amused, and I'll explain some of the background to tell you why. In the original Japanese versions of both Inuyasha and Yu Yu Hakusho, when Hiei and Inuyasha use their attacks, Ensatsu Kokuryu-ha and the Bakuryuuha, they sound identical. The voice actors both scream it out, and I was just way too amused by the similarities. And as a plus, I was recently able to watch the Third Inuyasha Movie: The Sword of World Conquest. In the movie, Inuyasha gets a hold of a new, possessed sword, that's ultimate attack is, (and I kid you not,) the Kokuryu-ha! And when Inu says it he sounds just like Hiei too.
Oh, boy, I'm just way too amused by this probably, and I apologize. I'll try not to take so long with the next update, especially since I let this chappie off with a nasty cliffhanger. I hate cliffhangers too, but do you really think that I would be so cruel as to kill everyone off right away?? Maybe in the next chapter, we can get the main plot line going, after a lot of fussing and whiney from some characters.
As a side note though, I uploaded another new story you may want to check out, (especially if you like Inu/Kag lemons...part one of two is uploaded...) called "Starry Night." I'd also like to thank anyone who visited the Anime Clan Online, as now we have over 1100 viewers! A new record...for me.
I'll se you later then. Sayonara!!!
---GCN-anime-dragon!!!!!