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The Fifth Toguro Fighter Yoko vs. Devourer

Chapter Four

Announcer: "Hiei had lost the battle against Neverteiaou. As punishment the tyrant had stolen his soul and imprisoned it inside a gemstone. Is Kurama strong enough to save him before it's too late?"

Kurama stepped onto the stadium ring. Bound determined to defeat the last of the Toguro team. His eyes burning with rage.

Hiei, trapped inside the gemstone, looked around through clear walls. "Where am I? How did I get here?" he looked forward and saw Kurama gazing in his direction angrily. "Kurama?" Hiei then heard a chuckle and turned around to see a giant Neverteiaou holding his prison above her hand.

"Hmm. I see you're angry of what I did. Am I right? Judging by the look on you face it seems that this demon is more to you than I thought." The woman said starring straight into his eyes in interest.

Kurama glared at her even more and clinched his fists tighter.

"Yes I can see that. You two have been through a lot together, you bond is quite strong. Almost brotherly." (Note: I am NOT a Yoai writer.)

The kitsune pulled out a flower from his hair and whipped it around till it became the rose whip. "I don't know what you are, but you WILL pay for the pain you caused."

Neverteiaou shrugged, "Please, put it on my bill." The gemstone above her hand then levitated high in the air and safe from the whips rang.

Juri raced in between the two fighters and raised her hand, "The next fight is Kurama vs. Neverteiaou. Now begin!"

Kurama with his whip and Neverteiaou with her blood sword; the two warriors charged toward on another. The woman thrashed her sword. Kurama quickly dodged out of the way and wrapped his deadly whip around the blade.

She jumped away to try to break free, but the thorns had broken through the sword's steel, shattering it into pieces.

Crack!

Neverteiaou gazed at the determined kitsune with surprise, but calmed just as quickly, "You're not going to be an easy one aren't yeah? I like that. Not I can see why Karisu liked you. Shame really. He used to say the same thing about me. Even aboutmy hair."

Yusuke: "Oh great she dated the entire team! Talk about having a weird taste in men."

Kurama glared at Neverteiaou even more, "Since you can create weapons with your blood there's no use in simply cutting your skin.

She shrugged, "You're correct. You would have to think of a creative way to defeat me. But I guess that's your specialty isn't it?"

Kurama: "If that's the case I will have to kill you, by draining all your blood."

At that moment Kurama changed from his teenaged redhead self, to the grown, silver-haired Yoko Kurama. His golden eyes shot daggers at themysterious fighter, as he drew a deadly plant seed from the silky silver locks of his hair

Koto: "Oh Wow people! This has been my lucky day! My gorges beautiful hunka burnin fox has returned to the field for a comeback. This should spell trouble for Neverteiaou."

Kuwabara shouted in glee, "Alright this should put her down. You go Kurama!"

Koenma: "I just hope that Kurama is up to this. He nearly died fighting Karisu, and she will not be proven weak so easily."

Yuauke: "Koenma, don't jinx us."

"So, you can transform yourself to your true demonic form. Very well, I shall do the same." Neverteiaou said gazing upon the silver-haired Yoko.

The demon's stern expression changed as he saw the lady draw the same vile of the potion from her robes.

Yoko Kurama's eyes widened, "Impossible! How could she have obtained the same potion!?"

Sensing the Yoko's fear Neverteiaou grinned evilly as she drank a hard shot full of the juice, and tossed it out of the ring. Her eyes immediately began to glow bright red. Her hair grew infinitely long and white. She opened her mouth to reveal large sharp fangs as they grew and her face inched outward. In a time of four lingering minutes Neverteiaou had transformed into a white canine demon larger than Byako's demon's. (If you've seen Inuyasha she would look like Sesshomaru's full demon form.)

Kurama shook in his place gazing at the massive beast. "How can this be? It's impossible!

"The Devourer." Koenma said between quivers of fear behind his pacifier.

Yusuke glanced over to him fearfully, "The what?!"

Koenma: "A feral creature, originally a fictional character talked about amung animal demons. She was a normal she wolf thousands of years ago until humans destroyed her pack. In desperation she slaughtered and ate a village family to survive. But one of her victims was possessed by a demon. And, when she ate him, she became a maddening bloodthirsty monster. In a single night she devoured a hundred humans and demons alike, for forty years. It took my father's entire army just to capture and restrain the demon, and nearly all the power of the spirit world to kill it."

Kuwabara: "Yikes. And she's standing right there?!"

Koenma: "I don't know this happened, but it did. Now Kurama has to face the most feared demon in history."

Yoko straitened himself up, clinching the handle of his whip to the point of breaking. "How is she doing this? The Devourer is just a legend concocted by the older demons to keep the younger one from traveling to the living world. However she's doing this, I must defeat her."

The silver fox leeped high into the air and thrashed his whip forward. the vines wrapped around The Devourer's neck but the beast simple bit it off. she whipped her long tail as Yoko knocking him back to the ground.

The kitsune leaped back ready to go on the offensive again. But the rapid beast's eyes glowed as hundreds of thorny vines suddenly sprung up from the stadium floor. They wrapped and coiled around the silver fox, lifting him above the stadeum . The teeth of venomous thorns cut through his pale flesh making it bleed. Kurama screamed from the pain as his body slowly transformed back into the human Seuichi.

"Kurama!" the remaining team shouted as the vines released him and dropped him onto the floor with a hard thump.

A cruel thought struck Yusuke's heart like a steal arrow, "This can't be right! He can't loose. If he looses that means his soul will be trapped too!"

As soon as Kurama was down on the ground Neverteiaou quickly resumed her natural form. Except that her outfit had been torn off from changing and all that was left was a tight black high cut leotard. "So Kurama, is there anything you'd like to say before I seal you away?"

Kurana gazed up at her from the tiled stones of the stadium floor. His whole body shook as it bled from all sides. "Yes. Indeed I do."

Neverteiaou: "Oh really?"

"From fighting with you I know just what kind of demon you are." He glared at her with his usual stern yet emotionless tone, "You're a hallucination apparition. A rare Fear Demon, capable of possessing a human form and manipulating a victim's deepest, and most commonly, unknown fear into reality. Hiei's fear was that someone else would be able to hold a better control the Dragon of the Darkness Flame and use it against him. Mine was of the fearful might of madden creature that frightened me in tales I have long forgotten."

Yusuke: "So he's saying that he was afraid of this demon boggy man?"

Kuwabara: "I can'tblame him. That was pretty terrifying."

Neverteiaou grinned as she blew on another sprinkle of crystal dust and chanted her spell. Kurama collapsed on his side as his soul escaped from his mouth.

"KURAMA!" Yusuke shouted as he ran back into the ring and lifted his kitsune friend from the floor. "Speak to me Kurama. Please. Please wake up!"

But Kurama didn't respond to his desperate cries. His eyes were hollow and empty of their sparkle. His skin was pale from the blood loss, and his body laid limp in Yusuke's arms.

The Spirit Detective's eyes began to tear as he slammed his fist into the tile. "How can this have happened?! Kurama can't loose, he just can't!" After giving Neverteiaou a hateful glare he carried Kurama back to the others and laid him next to Hiei.

Meanwhile Kurama soul was imprisoned inside an oval shaped, pinkish gem not an inch away from Hiei's silver crystal. The image of Kurama opened his eyes to see the ground far below him. "Whoa! Where am I?" He turned to his left and saw Hiei through the transparent glass.

Hiei: "Hn. Welcome to the party."

(Back on the ground)

The tallest boy of the group took a closer look at Neverteiaou. To him she looked oddly familiar, even more so after she changed form. His eyes widened in shock. "Hey Urameshi. Remember the note that a lot of the guys were passing around during the last math test?"

Yusuke: "The answer sheet?"

Kuwabara: "No. The other one."

Yusuke: "The doodle you made of Imumoto in a Nazi uniform?"

Kuwabara: "No."

Yusuke: "In the tootoo?"

Kuwabara: "NO! The OTHER one."

Yusuke just starred at his friend for a moment. Then thought. (gasp) Thenrubbed his chin a little. And finally his eyes widened in surprise, "You have GOT to be kidding?"

"Nope."

"Are you saying that we're getting our $$es kicked by a…."

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