Chapter Fourteen: And So It Begins
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Kurama and the others left early, before any of their family members were even thinking of waking to face the day. So after leaving a short letter they were on their way.
"I'm sorry sir," The hotel worker said when the four of them entered the demon lobby. " but I'm afraid we are out of rooms. If you want to go to the tournament though..." He stopped because they walked past him. Hiei glared at the worker and he backed off from the counter.
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It was quiet in the Tachi room as Katsumi, Rin and Tara were making final preparations.
Tara looked tenderly at the two little girls sleeping in the crib. "Yumi perhaps it will be too dangerous while the tournament is going on. I think you should take the children to a safer place."
Yumi looked up from watching them sleep. "The ningenkai."
Tara nodded her head. Yumi looked over to Rin, his head was down. When she looked at Katsumi she agreed as well. "It's probably for the best." Looking at the clock she put her sword in place at her side. "We should get going. We'll be late."
They began to walk out the door. Tara turned around to see Gwen staring at her with her human mint green eyes. It broke her heart not to be able to grab her daughter and take her away. However circumstances prevented that and with one last glance they left.
They walked quietly down the hall towards the door which open up to the ring where they will fight for the next few days. Rin was the first to speak. "There is three of us and seven of them. We each can have two turns however one of us will need to take three." He looked to the ladies at his side. Both were in their demon forms now, though you couldn't tell it with Katsumi.
A grin came onto Katsumi's features. "Look there. I think you'll find our other team members. Apparently they had a change of mind."
"Took you long enough." Yusuke stated. Tara nodded a look of appreciation on her face.
Lined up they walked onto the platform together. Ura and his team were on the other side. "So you did retrieve all of your members." Ura began. Sarcasim always in his voice and this day was no different. "For a while there I thought it would be unfair and my team would have to beat yours."
Tara's tail swished. "I think that's your bias opinion."
He smiled. "If you say so." Nodding to the two announcer they began.
"Alright! Weclome demons and humans. We are back for another wonderful blood spilling tournament. I'm Juri your referee.." She began excitedly handing the microphone to her partner.
"..And Koto here, your offical annoucner." She state just as inflamed. "Will the teams please come and join us here."
"Now how should we go about business?" Juri inquired.
"The last day of fighting goes to the bosses of the group." Ura looked at Tara. "The rest are already picked out.
"Sounds great to me how about it audiance?" Koto turned to them. The audiance yelled, chanted and went crazy. "Sounds like they are ready."
"Here." Ura handed Juri a paper with names and numbers on it.
"Alright demons and humans we have our fighters." She announced. "Battle one will be Hiei verses Lea. Battle two will be Katsumi verses Akio. Battle three is Kurama verses Eizan. Battle four is Kuwabara verses Heiji. Battle five will be Rin verses Yuriko. Battle six is Yusuke verses Ume. And our final battle is Tara verses Ura." The audiance went into an uproad. "Since this is after all a death tournament we expect death and blood."
"Now there is a choice." Koto stated. "We can either begin now or start tomorrow."
"We can begin today." Tara said without hesitation.
Ura laughed.
"I missed the joke."
Sobering he talked. "Then you should bring your human side back. I swear you two are the same but complete different. Tell the truth I think I like your human side much better."
She growled. By this time both sides and announcers had backed away. "Then just what to you prefer?"
"You know I think you changed to your demon side because you've completely split. This showing side is strong, unafraid. Your human side though is delegate, sweet, honest, and innocent." He touched her cheek lovingly.
She moved from him. "Your disgusting."
"Yes well that may be true but I am giving you a day to put your plans together. You should be more grateful."
"Perhaps I should...but definately not to you."
He shrugged and walked off the stage with his team.
"What tension between these two." Koto observed.
"They're father and daughter right?" Yusuke asked.
"Yes." Rin replied. "Why?"
"I was just wondering. I mean I don't see the resemblance. She has silver hair and gold eyes. While Ura has bluish-gray hair and icy blue eyes." He thought for a few seconds. "Wait silver hair, golden eyes. I've seen that before. But in who?" It was more of a question to himself then to anyone else. Hiei and Katsumi looked at Kurama who was pretending that he was going over his fighting plan instead of listening to Yusuke's question. Whatever they were thinking they were thinking the same thing and nodded to one another.