Yay wow this took me over three hours to write so I hope you like it.

Well three people said Keiko so that's who it is… hope it makes sense.

Disclaimer- I own nothing

Warnings- blood uh cussing, and some shonin ai (kissing) that's about all


Ch.11

"Finally" yusuke said grinning and cracking his knuckles he moved slowly toward his opponent who was standing and dusting his pants off.

Pm moved toward the middle of there arena and removed the blades from his holders he held them at a angle and crouched down never loosing eye contact and a sadistic smirk plastered to his lips.

Yusuke also moved forward and stood about 7 feet away from pm his body tense also crouched down a gleam in his eye and a heart full of rage he prepared for the first attack

"First we will do hand to hand combat, then powers agreed" pm asked

"Agreed" yusuke ground out through clenched teeth

"begin" pm said before he ran forward his arm going back as if to punch him, yusuke ducked and didn't see the knee coming for his face till the last second he was shoved back by the force, but he still stood and went after pm, blood dripping from god knows where.

He went to do a round house kick and pm dodged, he took his other leg and kicked at him again, but pm did a back flip and landed on his knee yusuke charged at him throwing punches at him left and right, pm blocked being slowly pushed back, yusuke threw a kick and pm wasn't able to block the smirk was whipped off his face and he was thrown sideways into a rock. (GO YUSUKE… eh he he)

He stood up rubbing his side glaring at where yusuke had been standing his eyes grew wide when he failed to see him. He turned around slowly and came face to fist with yusuke, he was thrown viciously into the rock, he got up quickly though and threw one of his daggers at yusuke, who didn't expect it so didn't have time to block, the knife embedded itself into his left side yusuke fell to the ground a scream on his lips, he ripped the knife out doing more damage, because the knife had hooked edges blood began to spill out and he got up, rage and fear coursing through his veins he was not ready to give up.

He ran at pm clumsily and stumbled but not before he threw the knife back it sliced a gash into pms arm making pm stumble back and grab at the now profusely bleeding arm wound.

"Enough of this" pm mumbled somewhat breathlessly "we are too equal in hand to hand, let us commence to our safest bets" yusuke nodded his head in agreement

"Oujou maboroshi" pm whispered before yusuke could even think of focusing his spirit energy, yusuke blinked not knowing what was supposed to happen he stood and waited, a few seconds went by and he grew impatient.

"What the hells suppose….. EHHHHHH" yusuke stopped mid sentence and screamed falling to his knees he grabbed his head in a feeble attempt to stop the ax from chopping it in half (metaphor)

"S…SSTOPP… WHAT THE…H…HHHELL ARE YOU D…DOING" yusuke stuttered his eyes clamped shut

"Damn, your mind is so complicated" pm whispered his eyes also shut

"YUSUKE FIGHT IT DON'T LET HIM IN YOUR MIND!" hiei yelled when he realized what was happening

"W..w..wh..why?" yusuke nearly choked he was loosing his barriers and fast

"HE'LL….." hiei started but was cut off by pms soft laughter, he turned and glared at him "and what do you find funny?" hiei asked coldly

"Too late" pm giggled, waggling his finger at him. Hieis eyes went wide and yusuke stood up shaking his head trying to make all the spots clear from his vision.

"What… happened?" yusuke asked his eyes finally focused he looked at pm and he growled readying his pointer finger "what did you do?"

"tut tut tut naughty…" pm grinned like a Cheshire cat suddenly a scream was heard from behind pm yusukes eyes widened he recognized that scream

"Keiko…?" he whispered suddenly a struggling brown haired, brown eyed girl was pulled out in front of pm a arm was held over her neck so she couldn't escape her eyes where wide in terror and her blue school uniform was covered in tears and splatters of blood from pms still bleeding arm.

"YUSUKE" Keiko screamed in terror

"Keiko… KEIKO WHAT THE HELL LET HER GO" yusuke screamed ignoring the yells from his friends

(With hiei and the others)

"what's going on why is he screaming keikos name" kuwabara asked watching the stand down, pm stood a wide grin on his face his arm held casually before him as if he were embracing someone, and yusuke stood a look of fear and anger dominating his features.

"I know exactly why" hiei mumbled then he began to yell trying to grab yusukes attention seeing that wasn't going to work he plopped back down.

"Aren't you going to help" kurama asked staring at the scene

"no… its his fight I wont interfere" hiei sighed and relaxed slightly kurama pulled him closer ad held his hand if hiei weren't so wrapped up in the fight he would have smiled, but as it was he barley acknowledged the others body next to his.

(Back with yusuke)

"You let her go you creep" yusuke yelled lowering his arm in defeat he knew as long as this bastard held keiko he wouldn't be able to even attempt to attack

"Yusuke… you weakling" Keiko snarled

Yusukes eyes went wide and pms grin grew wider (if that's even possible)

"Wha... What…?" yusuke stuttered staring unbelieving at Keiko's cold glare

"Cant even protect me… I thought you loved me" she mock pouted "well I don't love you it's all a big game to me"

Yusuke stared astounded "what the hell are you talking about Keiko… what did he do to you" yusuke asked near tears

"nothing he just showed me how little I can rely on you… look what happens when I depend on your protection" she said she held out her arms and long slices began to appear blood soaking into the soft fabric of her uniform dying it purple

"Stop it it's not true keiko wouldn't say that" yusuke said trying to ignore the blood cascading down his loves arms

"How do you know have you ever asked me?" she snarled "you don't care its all your fault everything that's ever happened is your fault" she cried

"No no no… I was trying to protect you I was" yusuke moaned the tears finally falling from his eyes as the blood continued to rain down a pool forming at pms feet and slowly moving toward yusuke who stared at it in terror moving slowly away from it.

"You are horrible yusuke why won't you help me, just standing there with you mouth open… I know you enjoy seeing me in pain" Keiko smirked

"Pm… you leave her out of this…" yusuke murmured words sticking in his throat

"I know" pm started "let us play a game, rules are I will ask you a riddle if you get it right I will let her go and we can commence the fight if you get it wrong though she dies" pm smirked "rules no outside help… and I only tell you the riddle one time"

"What?" yusuke yelled

"Oh wait to bad I decided you have to play let me think what riddle I should use…" pm scratched the back of his head as if thinking

"And what if I refuse to play…?" yusuke asked

"Then you automatically loose and she dies…"

"Oh yusuke do you doubt your own mind" keiko said

"Shut up…" yusuke said "I don't know what he did to you but… just be quiet for the time being so I can pound it out of him and fix you"

Pm smiled even wider and keiko remained quiet

"Got it the riddle is…

Though it appears to go away,

It always finds some place to stay,

Devouring colors in a way."

"What….? That doesn't make sense" yusuke sputtered

"You have five minutes to decipher the riddle" pm said taping his foot impatiently

"Appears to go away…. Place to stay…. Devouring colors… makes no sense" yusuke mumbled rubbing his head

(With the others)

"That's easy" kurama stated "I just hope yusuke can figure it out in time"

"I can't believe he used that one" hiei smirked "if yusuke doesn't get this I think he'll be stupider then kuwabaka back there" hiei said trying to put a little humor in their situation

"Hey!" kuwabara yelled half heartedly "what's the answer anyways because I got no clue"

"It's…" but they were interrupted

(Back over to yusuke)

"Times up do you have an answer" pm asked

"Yeah wait… uh..." yusuke started

"Well" keiko screeched "are you just gonna let him kill me"

"No… its… damn" yusuke squeezed his eyes shut then gasped "darkness…."

"Excuse me" pm said

"Darkness the answer is darkness… well am I right?" he yelled

Pm smirked and released Keiko

"My hero" she smirked and walked away disappearing into the side of a boulder

"Wait keiko" yusuke yelled trying to go after her, pm stopped him though

"Well I guess your much smarter then I thought guess we'll have to do it the hard way…" pms smile became twisted and yusuke jumped back

"SPIRIT GUN" he yelled a orb of blue energy shot out and yusuke was knocked back by the sheer power of it he hadn't realized how much energy he was storing in that one hit until he released it, the shot hit head on and a blinding flash of light caused them all to shield there eyes several minutes passed and yusuke rose to his feet, the dust began to settle and yusuke gasped pm stood there only slightly scratched up his insane grin still plastered to his smug face

Pms eyes narrowed slightly "that hurt…. You will pay….Totsunyuu daichi !" pm yelled suddenly several boulders where uplifted off the ground, from the size of diner plates to small cars, a cry was herd to yusukes right and he looked over to see kuwabaras body sprawled out on the ground the rock he had been leaning against several feet above his head, yusuke looked back over to pm and saw him grin then move his hands down in one swift motion, all the rocks where heading straight toward him he began to dodge

'duck, jump, swing to the left, duck again' he thought as they started to come faster he hadn't realized how exaughsted he was until that point the wound in his side not helping any.

He leaned over to avoid a hit and wasn't able to dodge the one from behind after the initial hit, he wasn't able to dodge any more, several bruises later the boulders fell to the ground and yusuke laid un moving

"Yusuke" kuwabara whispered watching his friend's small form bleeding on the ground bruises covering his face and his clothing torn and tattered

Pm walked forward and picked him up he slowly made his way to the small group where he sat yusukes body in front of kurama

They all glared at him wondering what the hell was going on

"Two down two to go, 25 minutes" pm said before stalking off in the direction of his castle to ready himself for the next battle

"Why the hell…?" kuwabara started still rubbing his head where it had smacked against the ground

"Koenma already told you this guy has a code, must be he doesn't believe in killing his foes" kurama explained wiping the blood from yusukes brow and tearing yusukes shirt to make a make shift bandage for his side

"It seems he always goes for the stomach area" kurama acknowledged

"Yeah I noticed that" kuwabara said

"So we have to watch out for that…" hiei said

"You're up next kurama" kuwabara stated matter of fact

"Yes..." he said standing up he stretched out his legs and arms then called out his rose whip so he would be prepared for the battle ahead

"Kurama…." Hiei started

"It's ok" kurama said looking into hieis eyes

"just… be careful" hiei said looking down at their feet kurama tilted his chin up and smiled, hiei surprised him by moving there lips together in a kiss kurama wrapped his arms around hiei, in a comforting embrace they pulled apart from the kiss and hiei shoved his face into kuramas chest.

"You guys…" kuwabara whispered hating to break the peaceful moment hiei looked up and glared at him kuwabara blushed "uh he's back"

Kurama looked over and pulled away from hiei, hiei pulled him back and placed another kiss on his lips not caring if anyone saw them

"Hiei" kurama whispered pulling away once again, he took a step back and smiled then turned around and headed toward his foe the one who had hurt his koi and friends. Hiei plopped down next too the other two ignoring everything but kurama silently he prayed to anyone who would listen that everything would come out good and he would for once be happy.


Cliffy once again… I think this is actually the longest chapter I started it and I just couldn't find a place to stop so I kept going… how do you like it? Detailed enough? The whole keiko thing is pm found his weakness and used it yusuke couldn't attack, so he did the riddle buying himself enough time to gain back some energy so he could do the other attack, the keiko thing was just like when hiei saw kurama blame him so it gave pm time pretty much… hope that makes sense.

Reviews-

c- thanks for your help I'll get to that as soon as I find a beta, Tasha says you're her koi so if this is you… talk her into to being my beta ok :)

Hieis Gothic Angel- yeah I hate how people always bash on kuwabara so I try and be semi nice to him doesn't mean I'm gonna make everyone love him though and I realized as I read this chapter it kind of seems as if kuwabara likes yusuke but believe me that's not how its supposed to be I really don't like that pairing much not saying its bad its just I wont write it…I'm blabbing…and yeah I got a story removed, but oh well I didn't get any good feedback on it so I was gonna take it down it just pissed me off that when they took it off I couldn't update any of my fics… I don't think that even if I wanted to I could quite this story I am getting constant ideas for it, and if it ever got removed I think I would bawl my head off then exact my revenge… with your help of course (evil grin) (munches on cookies and candy and hands you more milky ways) YUMMY! Also like I said I love long reviews the longer the better cause I just like reading what people have to say, hope you like this chapter.

Shiorifoxiesmom- yeah I know it is weird. Thanks for reading my story and I'm glad you like the updates hope you like this one.

LoversPastForgotten- yep, I put him with keiko, I don't mind him with keiko but I like yaoi so I have read where he's with koenma and I liked the pairing I was just seeing if any one else wanted it that way though it worked out better with keiko I really don't see how I could have done it with koenma… oops I'm rambling hope you liked this chapter.

Vash- thanks for liking my story so much I decided to put yusuke with keiko and I spelt it the way you did cause I really had no idea how to… hope you like the update and I hope you review this chapter.

Next update as soon as I finish it I haven't even started and it may take a while cause I have only one month to get a whole crap load of homework done so that's what I'm gonna be doing mostly don't forget to review ok.