Catse: Guess what...I updated again! That's doing good for me because I wrote all of this in one evening, and it is to date, now, my longest chapter. It's also the end of the battle. And I have some more good news! I finished the story! I'll do my best to update every two days or so and be done with it, so that I can now move onto the third story of this! Yays! Well, tell me what you think of this chapter, and if I managed to miss anything or get anything wrong, and I'll try to get back to you! (runs off stage happily) Excuse that, I had some chocolate and a pretty good day at school: ) : ) : )

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Disclaimer: It's right where it always should be! First chapter!

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Shadow had now completely taken over, and the only ones still awake to see it were Katai and Tsuki. Tsuki was frightened, it was easy to tell. She had never seen Seika like this. To tell the truth, so was Katai.

Katai had seen Seika almost go into this phase several times, but she had never actually seen him get there. And she had a feeling, that if Shadow stayed, Seika wouldn't be coming out.

Lord Rioko wiped the dirt off of his cheek that had been scuffed there by Seika's shoes, and snarled, almost dog like at him.

"So…You let the other spirit within your body out. Curious. I wasn't expecting you to fall so easily."

Seika smiled, his grin demonic as his golden eyes seemed to blaze in the light darkness of the room. "Who are you talking to? Me, or the dimwit that owns this body?"

"Your name is Shadow I believe, isn't it?" Lord Rioko inquired. "You were the last one to attack the human world…what, about twenty years ago?"

Shadow nodded his head, almost proudly, before the newest challenge of the world. "That's right."

"Would you like to do it again?"

Lord Rioko looked at him seriously, as Shadow considered the question. Would he like to try for the world again? Who knew?

Shadow looked up and smiled. "Try to destroy the world again? With you? Keh…don't make me laugh. If I take over the world, I do it alone. Not with some snivelling tyrant that would no sooner cuff me and experiment on me than he would be a partner in crime. I don't allow myself the opportunity to be fooled Rioko."

"That's Lord Rioko to you." The other man snarled, his yellow eyes glowing evilly at Shadow's.

Shadow laughed. No one was sure why he laughed, but there was something in Lord Rioko that just struck him as funny. When he finally calmed down enough to talk, he merely smiled and said that if Rioko wanted to be called a Lord, then he should act like one. Lords didn't steal children, nor did they try to trick their opponent into working with them. Lords were usually too smart for all of that.

Lord Rioko snarled again, and decided that he had heard enough of this talk for a long time. He had decided that Shadow was only good to him dead.

Lord Rioko took a swipe at Shadow's head with one of his swords, but in an instant, found his opponent missing.

When a sword rammed through his gut from behind, he knew where Shadow had disappeared to.

"So. You found the other Dragon Blade eh?" Lord Rioko snickered, as his own blood dripped to the floor.

"Yes. I'm glad you didn't break it." Shadow replied. Rioko reached up to his stomach, grabbed the end of the blade, and pulled it the rest of the way through his body. It tore his stomach out, which to everyone's surprise, dried up and disappeared on the floor.

Lord Rioko turned around, the Dragon Blade in his hand, with the actual blade coming from his hand rubbing against the hilt. With one quick swipe, he tore off the blade of the other sword, making sure Shadow had no weapon to call on.

"I am rather surprised by your speed Shadow. But not even that can tear off my skin."
Shadow frowned, sniffing the air quietly. Then he smiled softly, staring at Lord Rioko with dreadful intentions in his eyes. "That's not your real body, is it?"

Lord Rioko replied with a laugh of his own, and afterward nodded. "Yes. Very simple actually. All I had to do was kidnap a demon and construct his body the way I wanted it. Then I killed myself and took over it."

Katai's eyes popped from her head in shock. So this body they had seen wasn't Lord Rioko's? That only meant that he had achieved his power through science, not naturally like everyone else. There had to be some weakness in that.

Tsuki held onto Katai's jeans, for it was the only thing she could take comfort in, and Katai, noticing this, leaned down to hug her.

Tsuki began to cry, not for the fact of fear in her heart at the fact that they wouldn't make it out alive. Not for the fact that Shadow had Seika's body. For the fact that it seemed that everyone she cared for was getting hurt. Kenya was unconsious. Seika's body was Shadow's now. Haku was out, and those she held dear were outside, fighting to get in.

A little girl of four shouldn't have to have seen what she had already, and she knew it would affect her mind later on in life. Not only that, but she was sad that she had used up all of her energy, and therefore couldn't save anyone. She was mad because she couldn't help.

Katai also shared the same feelings. Ever since she had met Kenya, she had had a crush on him. She wasn't sure why, but she had felt that he was someone special to her. Then Seika and Haku came into her life, and although she had gotten into several arguments, she couldn't help but think on how many times Seika made her laugh, and everything she had already learned from Haku. If it weren't for them, she probably wouldn't have taken on the challenge of learning the painful Spirit Wave technique, or would even be here now, saving the world.

She closed her eyes and a single tear came from her lids. She was scared. She had to admit it now. Katai Urameshi…was scared. And there was nothing she could do to calm herself.

Shadow chuckled softly, and Lord Rioko glared at him. "What's so funny?" He asked.

Shadow looked up, a gaze of pure bliss on his expressions. "You did all of that just to gain power…Heh. You don't belong at the level you're at. Only the truly strong prevail Rioko."

"I told you! I am to be called Lord Rioko!"

Lord Rioko attacked Shadow, throwing several blows with his swords that would have killed the ordinary opponent. But Shadow was not the ordinary. Sure he was using a human body to fight in, but in any case, his power was not to be meddled with.

As he dodged attack for attack, he began to wonder what exactly he would use to kill off his opponent. He wouldn't mind using spirit energy, as was in Seika's body, but he had no control of that whatsoever. He used Demon energy, not Spirit. Then he noticed Seika's staff against the wall, and that got him thinking. Sure, Seika had only used Spirit energy in it, but just by looking at it, he could tell it contained a well of demon energy in it too, and if worse came to worse, he would just break the guys back with it.

He rolled out of the way of an attack, and snatched the staff just as Lord Rioko flew in for a major blow to his back. Rioko hit the wall instead, and in that amount of time, Shadow drew up his staff and attempted a hit. Of course, Rioko was in a rage now, so he blocked the attack, and attempted to swipe at his feet.

Shadow jumped out of the way once more, and landed a few yards away, staff in front of him. With a tiny bit of concentration, the entire staff glowed a dangerous red, that showed through all of the lightning shaped cracks in the side.

Red knives appeared at the ends, and Shadow smiled. Now things were going his way.

When Lord Rioko came to attack him once again, Shadow ran him through with the blade, hoping maybe demon energy would slice a good wound in him, and at most, burn his insides. Instead, Rioko's body seemed to be eating the energy away, and when Shadow finally managed to escape, his staff was completely empty.

"Damn." Shadow snarled, and Rioko laughed.

"So, you thought you could beat me with that eh…? It doesn't work that way. I won't be beaten so easily."

Shadow thought a moment, looking around. Well, looked like it was about time.

"Okay then…I'll be seein' yah!" Shadow shouted with a smile, leaping for a window that was in the room.

He tried to open it, but the sides had been welded shut.

"I do that so no one can escape." Lord Rioko commented, and Shadow felt a drop of sweat fall down the back of his head.

'Well…it's clear to see he doesn't like fresh air…' He thought to himself turning. Okay, so he'd have to find another alternative, for running away didn't seem to be working.

Then he thought about the few times in the past he did use Spirit Energy. Then, he hadn't had complete control of this body, but partial, and he had been using Seika as a way of controlling the spirit energy. It looked as if if he didn't do something quick, he would get killed in no time, so he decided on something. He would have to let Seika in partially, so he could use the well of Spirit Energy in the body.

'Hey…Seika…You still there?'

"Ugh…You woke me up. What? You loosing?"Seika inquired from inside of his mind.

'Not yet. That's why I'm calling on you. I can't use your spirit energy unless you're awake, so stay awake for me okay.'

"So you are loosing."

'This is no time for jokes! Just stay awake alright!'

"Okay, but don't go doing something stupid."

'I won't. I'm not you afterall.'

He didn't answer the well of cursing in his head about him being the stupid demon that took over the body in the first place and how he was the one asking for help, not Seika. It didn't really matter now anyways. Seika had opened up the channels of Spirit Energy that Shadow could now use, and it was time to party.

Shadow raised his hand up for Lord Rioko to see, and when the other demon began to laugh about the fact that a demon soul was trying to conjure up spirit energy. A ball of light appeared in Shadow's hand, deep green to map out Seika's energy color. Rioko stopped laughing, instead choosing to stare at the ball in Shadow's hand as if it were a crystal ball that would tell him his future.

"What the hell? You're not supposed to use spirit energy." Shadow's enemy snarled, looking thoroughly amazed.

Shadow returned that look with a grin. "We cat demons are very good at adapting."

Rioko didn't look very amused. In fact, one would have to say he looked more angry than anything else.

In a moments time, he ran in and swiped a blade at Shadow's abdomen, which was met by a shield made out of Spirit energy.

When he looked up, he found that a sword had been formed in Shadow's other hand, making him look like a knight with green weapons.

"What kind of move is that?" he inquired, almost enthused.

"A move I learned a few hundred years ago from a demon samurai. When his weapon was knocked from his hand, he would do this move, only with demon energy. Considering I can only use spirit energy, the blade and shield doesn't look as menacing as with demon energy, but in any case this should do as I desire. Shall I test it?"

Lord Rioko didn't give him time. He threw the end of his sword upward, hoping to hit Shadow's chin, but a wave of energy blocked the move, leaving Rioko open.

Shadow took the chance and cut him in half with the other sword with enough force to part Rioko's body. Some of the blood splattered across Seika's body, and Shadow grinned, enjoying the feeling of again cutting through flesh.

"Ick! You got blood on me!" Seika shouted from within his mind, seeming like a chibi form of himself beating up the walls of his head.

He stopped however when the hits gave both he, and Shadow a headache.

"Geez…At least with me you didn't get an image. But hentai boy had to come up with a chibi so I would see him dance across my eyes…Wonderful."

"Hey! I heard that!" Seika growled. "Since you are using my power, how about you kill Rioko already and be done with it. Oh, and then give me my body back!"

'Give you your body back. Why would I do that? I'm having so much fun with it now.'

"Shadow! If you don't give me my body back when you're done, I won't sleep until you do, and I'll constantly annoy you!"

Shadow smiled wrily. 'I think I can last a few headaches and a couple of images of chibi's dancing across my vision thank you very much.'

"I'll do worse than that!"

'Like what?'

Just then, Lord Rioko's upper half jumped from the floor and jabbed a blade deeper into the recess of Seika's wound. Before, with Shadow controlling the body, he had ignored the pain and allowed the blood to leak through the tight bandage at his waist. But when the blade had shot through it, the pain became all that more intense, and he doubled over.

"Jerk! How dare you attack my body!"

'I should have never woken you up…' Shadow growled in his head. When he looked up, searching for Lord Rioko, he found the upper half of his body repinning itself to the lower half.

He stood up, trying to ignore the new wave of pain that flooded his muscles as he crept over to Lord Rioko.

By this time, Rioko had already repached himself, and was in the process of standing up, when Shadow cut off his head.

"Damn you!" Rioko shouted, his head rolling over near Katai. The body stood up and started looking for it, as Shadow laughed.

"Hah! You lost your head! Hah!"

"I hear a rather strange game of bowling coming on…" Seika murmured with a snicker.

"Good idea." Shadow replied, but he stopped when he noticed that the body wasn't coming for the head.

It was going near Katai and Tsuki.

"Stop him!"

'Why? They're none of my concern.'

"But you said you wouldn't let a hair on their heads be harmed!"

'Correction. I said I wouldn't harm a hair on their heads. Not the other way around.'

"Damn you!"

Katai stood up to defend Tsuki, and Lord Rioko's body took her, and placed a sword at her throat.

"What will you do now? Will you allow the girl to die, or will you react and kill me. Mind you, if you even try, I'll kill her both ways, so we are even."

Rioko apparently thought that Shadow had a heart. He was somewhat wrong.

"Go ahead. Kill her. I love a good show of blood." Shadow cackled, grinning.

"What?"

"How dare you Shadow! I thought you wanted to help them!"

'Help them. Where in my voice did it sound like I wanted to help them?'

"But you got so riled up…!"

'I only got riled up so that you would let me out. I only wanted the body.'

"But that makes no sense. You already told me yourself that you couldn't use the spirit energy of my body, so what is it to you!"

Shadow smiled, a small laugh escaping his lips. 'True. I can't use this body. But that's why I plan on changing it into a demon body.'

"What!"

'Kid, your soul is demon. I won't lie to you. You're body is human, but your soul is demon, and for the fact that you can use spirit energy in this body is of what has gotten my interest. I intend on keeping you in this head until I can figure out how you manage to use this body with your soul, and then you're out and I've got control.'

"But I have no power! My body is no good—"

'On the contrary kid. Your body is of much use to me. It may take a few years, but I'll get it to the level I was at when I died. Your body learns moves fast, including my own, so it would only be a matter of time before I grew more powerful than the very rulers of Demon World!'

"You bastard…" Seika growled from within his head, the chibi disappearing.

'I thank you for the compliment.'

"So you don't care for the girl eh?" Rioko snickered, looking at Katai. In an instant, he tossed her out of the way, towards the head, and reached down to grab Tsuki, holding her up with the same blade at her throat. "How about this little girl?"

Katai, in a rage, stood up to attack the body, but a twining of fleshy ropes snatched her legs and she dropped to the ground. When she turned, she found that the ropes had come from the neck of Rioko's head, and he smiled bitterly at her. "No way will you save her girl. No way…"

Shadow stared at the little girl in Rioko's hands and smiled. "Go ahead. I don't care. Little girls are the most fun to watch die. They spew the fastest."

"Shadow! I won't let you do this!" Seika shouted from within his head.

'Oh, and how will you stop me eh? You're powerless.'

"Not as powerless as you may think."

Suddenly, a pain that Shadow had never before felt or even imagined swept across his brain, making him feel like he would burst at any moment.

He held his head, and fell to his knees in pain.

"Stop…it…" He snarled, teeth clenched so he wouldn't bite his tongue.

"No! Not until you save her!" Seika shouted back, increasing the pain.

'Keep this up and I won't save her.'

"You don't save her, I'll kill you, and this time, I'll make sure Spirit World gets you. You wouldn't want that would you?"

'Damn it kid, you've become more trouble than I like!'

"Then leave, because I won't ever leave you alone!"

Lord Rioko looked on in amusement. So, it seemed Seika and Shadow were having a bit of an argument. It made no matter. In less than a minute he would kill both of the girls, and then let Seika kill his own body. It was perfect. Then he would put them in a cryogenic state until he gathered enough children for his plans once more. He would have his army! He would make sure he had his army!

"She's going to die now." Lord Rioko snickered, and Katai turned around and started beating his head with her fist, hoping to crush it. A few more tentacles came from his neck and wrapped around her arms, preventing her from finishing the movement.

"Damn it! Seika, wake up!"

"I'm trying!" Seika shouted in his mind, but Katai couldn't hear him.

'Stop this now you little brat!'

"No. Not until you save her."

'Screw this. I don't need the hastle.' Suddenly, the soul of Shadow crept out of Seika's body, and disappeared into the roof.

Seika returned to his own body, but upon finding the pain in his abdomen unbearable, couldn't find the strength to stand up and save Tsuki.

He thought about making a dagger and tossing it at Rioko's hands, like he had earlier, but when he checked his spirit energy, he found it very low.

"Damn." He cursed under his breath, at a certain Cat Demon spirit that had already vanished from the room.

"Hah! You can't harm me can you! Admit it! You've lost. All of your friends are either unconcious or trapped, and you've lost your only trump card at winning! There is no way you can win! And just to celebrate that, I'll allow the beautiful red blood of this young girl spill!"

Lord Rioko drew the blade across Tsuki's neck, and laughed when Seika jumped up and wobbled a bit, then fell.

Seika looked up, tears forming in his eyes, but then he stopped.

He stopped because he couldn't stop staring.

Tsuki was just fine. Her neck hadn't been slit afterall.

But why? Wasn't the blade at her throat? Then, Seika looked at the blade, and nearly laughed for joy! Rioko still had the excess of it in his hands, yet, the blade…had been melted. When I say melted, I mean that the blade was nothing but a pool of silver on the floor, still bubbling on the marble.

Lord Rioko had noticed it too, and then Katai, noticing how quiet the room had become, looked and saw it too.

"The hell…" Rioko growled, but when he heard the snicker, he stopped.

"I…won't…let…you…kill…them…." A heavy voice breathed with pain.

That voice was very familiar.

"Kenya!" Tsuki shouted happily, looking in the direction Kenya had fallen. Everyone else did the same, and suddenly, they were surprised.

Kenya was standing on his own two feet, looking very tired and weak, the blades in front of him. There was a pool of blood beneath his shoes.

"What did you do to my blade you little brat!" Rioko growled, but Kenya merely snickered.

"If heated to a certain temperature…any blade will melt."

"Ah! Kenya!" Seika shouted. Kenya gave him a weak smile, and then stepped up to the two blades that were still on the floor.

He gave a sigh and reached down, emitting a grunt of pain as his fingers wrapped around the hilts of the swords. But, in his pain, he stumbled and fell, the swords catching the weight underneath him. He hissed in pain, and using most of his strength, lifted himself off of the blades. They were now coated in the sticky red ooze of his blood.

"Damn…" He mumbled, sitting up as he fought the pain.

Lord Rioko began to laugh.

"That is your savior! He can't even stand up right and you expect him to save you!"

Seika glared at the man, before returning worried eyes to Kenya. Even Katai seemed completely attentive to every movement, groan, and wobble that Kenya made as he stood up, a sword in each hand.

He groaned again, the sound from his mouth sounding like the hiss of a frying pan with oil and a french fry had been dropped on it. When he was standing again, he took great difficulty to bring the swords up far enough to slash his opponent, but his arms were just too weak.

Seika growled and stood in hopes of helping. He slipped on his own blood.

Katai snarled and began to kick and beat at the head that held her, and Tsuki began to whimper, looking around her.

"Kenya…" She whispered, tears in her eyes. "Kenya…."

Kenya heard her and stared at her, knowing that if he did not try harder, she would die. They would all die. And then Rioko would bring them back to life and use them as his dummies. His specimens.

Suddenly, he had a strong will in his bones, and he let out a growl like nothing anyone had ever heard, using his own life energy to power his muscles and bring him strength.

'Please be enough.' He thought to the swords. 'Please help me win!'

Suddenly, a light reverberated off of the swords, causing them to glow an eery purple in the dimmness of the room.

They stared with disbelief, everything quieting down once again.

No one spoke. No one even blinked for chance they might miss what was happening.

The crystals on the end of the swords began to pulsate, and in curiousity of what was going on, Kenya turned the swords to get a better look.

It was in that moment, he discovered the true power of the swords. In that moment, he found out why two were needed to contain the power he needed. The crystals on the ends began to melt, but did not drip to the floor. Instead, like some gravitational force was pulling them, they dripped to the other crystal, and when Kenya brought the swords closer together, they merged.

Suddenly, their fires were lit, and the ends went from red and blue to the center where the eery purple had made its home. The swords had become one, double edged staff sword! Both ends had the blade of his father and the blade he received from his grandmother. One combination.

Everyone stared. There was nothing else to be done. Even Lord Rioko could not believe the site before him. But once he had gotten over his astonishment, he began to laugh…again.

"That will do you no good!" He hollered, Tsuki whimpering when the grip of his hand grew tighter at her neck. "You can't even stand up straight, much less use that sword on me!"

Kenya looked at the blade…His wish had been granted! Now if he only had the strength to carry the rest of it out!

Suddenly, the swords pulsated again, and he felt a supreme burst of energy enter his body, almost knocking him to his back again. It was a mix of demon and spirit energy, and when he stood, his entire body was glowing purple. Suddenly, his wound didn't hurt anymore, and even though it still dripped blood, it held no worry in his mind. He could walk freely again, and the fatigue in his body had left.

"Now this is what I'm talking about." He mumbled under his breath.

"I dare you to attack me!" Lord Rioko hollered, not knowing the trouble that he was in.

"Sure thing!" Kenya shouted, running at him with his father's speed. In a moment, Tsuki had been thrown to the ground, and the battle began. It was short however. But powerful. Even though Kenya was as beaten as he was, he took a stance he was familiar with from the Sword Dancing Technique, and began to play one of the more difficult songs in his head, swiping up and around to block the other sword Lord Rioko had. Even though Rioko was missing his head, he still had quite a good coordination on his body. Then, with the same Dancing Technique, he pulled back just as Lord Rioko attempted to stab him, and drew up from underneath stabbing him in the chest. The blood of Lord Rioko had spread across the wall, with some on Kenya's face.

The red flames of his father's sword spread up and across Rioko's body, engulfing him. Kenya thought that would be enough, but when he cackled, he knew that flames didn't harm Rioko's body.

"Is that all you have! Hah! I molded this body from flame! You won't hurt me that way!"

Kenya smirked. "Alright. Then I'll try the opposite."

Kenya tugged his sword from Rioko viciously, turned it around, and jabbed him with the other end.

Rioko smiled. "I already told you boy! Fire doesn't harm me!"

Kenya wasn't amused. "What makes you think this is fire?"

The demon looked over at the mess his body was, the blue flames licking at his body, and suddenly paniced.

There was a slow procision of ice rising from the wound in a diameter that seemed to be growing faster than ice should. It rose up, engulfing his chest, arms and legs in no time at all.

"NO STOP THAT!" He shouted, but nothing he could do could stop the effect now. They all watched as the body became a solid block of ice, and Kenya tugged his sword from the middle.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Rioko let go of Katai and stared, trying to move his body from where he was.

Kenya looked at him, still glowing that purple light, and smiled. "I made sure you could never move again."

Seika stood up, suddenly feeling as if he could do anything now that he had seen Kenya, and stood next to him.

"Hey bud. How you doing?"

"Fine I guess. But I won't be up for long." Tsuki ran over to him and held onto his jeans, crying into them.

"Kenya! I was so scared! I thought you were going to die!" She mumbled into his pants.

Kenya leaned down and patted her head, a soft smile on his lips.

"It's alright Tsuki. Nothing is going to happen to you anymore."

Tsuki looked up, but stopped when she noticed the trail of blood oozing down from his stomach. Then she looked up in fear. "Kenya…You're…You're…"

"Die!" Katai shouted, pulling on one of her bladed gloves (she wasn't sure when they had come off) and stabbed Lord Rioko through the head. He gave a slight gasp, and died, no longer a life in his body.

Just then, the doors busted open, and the entire group flooded in.

They hadn't been able to hear much through the doors, except for a few shouts, and some mumbling, and had been hoping the entire time they fought the barrier outside, that the kids were alright.

The site they saw shocked them.

Haku was unconcious somewhere to the right. Seika was standing up, his own trail of blood leaking from his stomach, but only slightly, and Kenya leaned on him, in a moment unconscious, now that his worst enemy was out like a light. Katai sat on the floor, breathing thickly as if she had done something she had regretted doing.

"Are you alright!" Kuwabara screamed, running up to Seika.

Seika smiled. "Yeah. We're all fine. Take Tsuki out of here. I think she's seen too much."

Kuwabara nodded, handing the crying girl over Suta, who took her out of the room as she comforted her.

Koenma and Hiei immediately came over to Kenya, in which Kuwabara had already relieved Seika's shoulder of him.

The first thing they noticed, was the double bladed staff in Kenya's hand, and how the dragons along the hilt had somehow managed to twine around the crystal protectively, as if they had slithered to the very middle of the hilts.

"Look at that…" Koenma whispered, as Hiei took the sword from his son and laid it down on the ground. Kuwabara laid Kenya down on the floor, and together they looked over his wounds. He had bled severely, and the marble was practically covered in it.

"These children…" Suki mumbled from behind them, shaking her head.

Yusuke walked over to Katai and helped her up, looking for wounds like the parent he was. When he saw the cut on her arm, he shook his head.

"Looks like you all took a beating." He whispered, tearing a sleeve of his own shirt to mend the wound.

"Not me Dad. Help Kenya. He's the one with the most damage." She replied, pointing in the direction of her leader.

"But your arm?" Yusuke replied, almost growling.

"I can last a little cut I think Dad. Just get over there and help him!"

Yusuke was about to argue, but when he saw the determination in her eyes, he decided against it.

"Spoken like a true Urameshi." He said with a soft, menacing grin. None the less, he stood up and walked towards Kenya and Seika, choosing to use his shred on Seika considering Hiei and the others were already working on Kenya.

Kurama and his wife, Jennifer, made their way to their son, and lifted him up.

He had a few wounds himself, but none the less seemed to be doing alright.

"They're not too bad. His transformation cleaned them up." Jennifer remarked, lifting Haku's head off of the marble.

"Yes. It looks like they were successful after all."

Suki helped where she could, and when she noticed Arune's body, she had to go over and check on the girl.

She didn't know much about the young one who's head was ripped through with the blade, but she had known that she had had true horrors in her past, just like herself. Suki had, afterall, come from an abusive father and a mother that was too afraid to do anything before she died. She had a feeling that Arune had had much the same fate. When Koenma announced they would be leaving, just out of pity, she lifted the girl into her arms, and they proceeded outside. Never, would she forget the day that the children of the detectives had succeeded their fathers in talent, skill, and…what could she say…bad ass killing of the enemy. Never should a child have to lift the sword to an enemy, and that was one of the things that had gotten the parents to decide that they're children just weren't ready for death. It was something King Enma had said when he called them all to his castle.

"When the sword is held against the enemy, people will die, even if it is not by the hand of the sword that is lifted. Even worse, is when a child lifts that sword. Anytime there is a weapon in the hands of the innocent, that innocence is lost, and left with a nightmare that will always replay in their minds throughout their lives. That is why we must keep them from fighting. You have trained your children well, but have been to quick to use them as weapons. They have had not the life they need, to actually grow up into powerful beings like yourself. They are not you. That, we must remember."

And yet, against their wishes, these children had lifted that sword, and had seen the very things that would leave their lives in tatters.

Suki felt a tear trail her cheek as she followed everyone out. They would always be left, with the scar on their hearts, and never would she, or anyone else, forget this day.

Never.

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Catse: So, what do you think. There is only one chapter after this, and a bonus chapter, and this story is finished and three is going to be started. Mind you, it may be a while before I can post it, because I have yet to even the start the story, but there is a garantee it will be posted. Also, I'm not sure how Blood Red Sign is going to do. I still haven't finished and admit that I have sort of lost inspiration for it...Oh well...I'm done! This story is complete! And long! Oh well, I've got to go. Please review! Ja Ne for now: )