Repreview: Kitty is still out from helping to heal Kurama. Alaira has beaten the first Saint Beast. Which, of the five remaining, will show itself next? Genbu, the Beast of Stone, will show his ugly mug in this chapter of Yu Yu Hakusho Revised.
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" Kitty, wake up. Please. I can't hold you much longer. My arm is falling asleep!" Hiei whispered into Kitty's ear as he walked beside Kurama and Alaira.
Kitty lifted her head and yawned in Hiei's face. " Okay. I'm up. What do you want?" she said as she jumped out of Hiei's arms.
" Well, that didn't take long. You got your power back in a short amount of time." Kurama said laughing.
" Oh can it. I was also tired of hearing Kuwabara running his mouth so I just decided to go to sleep. It worked. I didn't hear his annoying voice in my dreams." Kitty said also laughing.
Their laughter was interrupted by a gruff voice. " Come into the room. The door to the right of you leads the right way."
" Uh . . . should we trust a voice coming to us from behind a closed door?" Alaira said biting her bottom lip.
" Well it's worth a shot." Yusuke said pushing the door open, revealing a grey stone room.
" Doesn't seem like anyone's here . . . HELLO?!!" Kuwabara yelled walking into the room.
" So much for being discreet . . . " Kitty said knocking Kuwabara on the back of the head with her fist.
" Welcome . . . to your doom." the gruff voice said again. " Your only way out is up this stair case. Too bad you won't live to see what's at the top."
A large grey thing appeared in front of the gang. It looked somewhat like a turtle but it didn't have the shell and was also a whole lot bigger.
"Eww . . . it's ugly!" Kitty yelled jumping behind Hiei.
Hiei just turned his head and looked at her. " Ok . . . " he said underneath his breath.
" I'll fight this one . . . " Kurama said walking up to the middle of the room.
" Right." Yusuke said just watching him. " Kitty do you think that your brother should fight in his condition?"
" Oh . . . umm . . . he's fine. Alaira healed him into perfect health." Kitty said looking over Hiei's shoulder.
" Yusuke do you know the reason why I chose Kurama to fight on my side when we stole the items?" Hiei said putting his arm around Kitty's shoulders.
" No . . . why?" Yusuke said a bit puzzled.
" So I wouldn't have to fight him myself. In battle Kurama is more cutthroat than me." Hiei said watching as Kurama took his place to fight the creature.
" My name is Genbu. I am the Lord of Stone and Earth." the creature said laughing gruffly.
" My name is Kurama." Kurama said. " Shall we begin?"
" Yes." Genbu said as he melted into the floor. " I'm made of stone. I can rearrange the molecules in any stone that surrounds me. Since this whole room is made of stone, I can be everywhere at once!"
As Genbu was saying this, his tail was rearranging itself behind Kurama.
" Kurama! Watch out!" Kitty screamed just as the tail flew at Kurama from behind for a strike.
Kurama dodged the tail and landed on his feet. But Genbu was not finished yet. He struck out at Kurama again with his tail. This time Kurama didn't dodge fast enough and the tail caught him in the stomach. Blood flew from Kurama's wound as he landed.
" Careless. I was just careless . . . " Kurama said to himself.
" Now you will see my special attack." Kurama said as he pulled a red rose out of his hair.
" All right! Get him Kurama!" Kitty started jumping up and down yelling.
" What is he going to do with a rose?" Kuwabara asked stupidly.
" Watch you stupid dolt." Kitty said narrowing her eyes at him.
Kurama spun the rose around and it became a whip covered in thorns. Rose petals fell all around him and the room filled with the sweet scent of roses.
" Now to find you . . . " Kurama trailed off as he snapped his Rose Whip at the wall and Genbu fell out.
" How did you find me?" Genbu said getting up.
" Simple. Once the sweet scent of roses filled the room your stench was easy to find." Kurama said whipping his Rose Whip around and slicing Genbu into pieces.
" Yea Kurama! You did it!" Kitty yelled jumping up and down waving her arms in the air.
Kurama walked over to the group, " Thanks for the cheerleading section Kitty. I really needed that!" Kurama said teasingly.
" Oh ha ha ha. You should be glad that I even bothered." Kitty said sticking her tongue out at her brother.
" Well if that's what I get for thanking you . . . I won't bother again." Kurama said ruffling his little sister's hair.
" Kitty, Kurama look. You're not through with Genbu yet." Yusuke said pointing over at the pile of gravel that was Genbu.
" What do you mea- . . . oh hell." Kitty said looking over at Genbu. " He's regenerated himself. Not good, not good, not good. Nope, nope, nope!"
" Will you stop that? It's getting on my nerves." Alaira said putting her hand on Kitty's head and pushing down on it.
" Oww . . . don't do that!" Kitty said scratching Alaira on the arm.
" You little . . . " Alaira said as she raised her hand as to slap Kitty or punch her, either one.
Hiei grabbed her hand. " Enough. Both of you stop." he said pushing Alaira's hand away.
Kurama was walking back toward the middle of the room. " I thought I killed you . . . " he said as he approached Genbu.
" Well you didn't . . . did you?" Genbu said laughing.
" No . . . but I will this time." Kurama said pulling out his Rose Whip again.
" Maybe . . . Maybe not . . . " Genbu said as he detached himself and flew at Kurama.
Kurama tried to dodge all the pieces but there were too many and he got hit by a lot of them. Genbu put himself together again. " How do you like my little trick? I can regenerate myself. It's quite useful in times like this, I can tell you." Genbu said detaching and throwing himself at Kurama again.
This time Kurama saw a glowing red rock in the bunch of grey ones. " This might work . . . " he thought to himself as he thought up a plan.
" You dodged a lot more this time. You're getting better. See if you can dodge this!" Genbu said as he threw himself at Kurama again for the third time.
Kurama jumped into the stream of rocks this time and grabbed the red glowing one. When Genbu put himself back together, he put himself together a bit wrong.
" OH MY GOD!!!" Kitty said burying her face in Hiei's cloak laughing.
" That's a look for the ladies." Yusuke said bursting out laughing.
" How does he go to the bathroom?" Kuwabara said laughing along with the rest of them.
Genbu had put himself together. But he had put his head in between his legs instead of on his shoulders.
" What? What?! Oh hell, how did I get like this?!" Genbu said frantic.
" I took your central nervous system command center." Kurama said holding up the glowing red rock. " This is what enables you to regenerate, am I correct?"
" How did you get that?!" Genbu asked still distraught.
" It flew with the rest of your body. I thought that it was of some importance so I caught it." Kurama said.
" Give it back!" Genbu yelled.
" Oh . . . what will happen if I do this?" Kurama said as he destroyed the glowing red rock in his hand.
" NOOO!!!" Genbu said as he started glowing and then he burst into a million pieces.
" Way to go Kurama!" Kitty yelled as Kurama walked back to the group.
" Well, I guess he won't be coming back, that I don't think." Kurama said as he walked up.
" Well, best be pressing on." Hiei said walking off. Kitty following close behind.
" If you see one of those two the other one is nearby." Alaira said shaking her head.
" That's something you can always count on." Yusuke said following Kitty and Hiei up the stairs.
" Come on Kurama let's go." Alaira said as she grabbed Kurama's hand and dragged him up the stairs.
" Hey guys! Wait for me!" Kuwabara yelled running up the stairs after the rest of the gang.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Preview: Two down four to go. There are 4 Saint Beasts left. Which will show next? Find out by reading the next chapter of:
YU YU HAKUSHO REVISED