Sakura: Take this flamers!
Hiei: Flamers. Ew.
Sakura: Exactly! Anyways, sorry I haven't updated ina while- I'm trying! Really I am! I just have so much going on - this week I had MCAS almost everyday... :( Ew... MCAS... :P
Hiei: Standardized testing sucks.
Sakura: (nodnod)
Hiei: Here's chapter eight.
Sakura: True:) Oh, and if any of you people have problems reading basically a Mary-Sue incarnated story except much more low key and that it just happens to be her persona... why art thou still reading! XD Lol. Just thought I'd add that. Apparently Sakura's a Mary-Sue which would make me a Mary-Sue becuase she's based off of me mostly... not to sound conceited or anything.
Hiei: Sakura does not own YYH. Too bad though- she'd be good at it!
Sakura: That's not Hiei! Hiei would never be so nice!
Hiei/Imposter: Muahaha! I'm your progress report! You can't hide from me forever!
Sakura: AHHHHHHHHHHHH! (runs away)
Chapter Eight
"Which door should we take, Kuwabara?" Yusuke questioned his friend.
'Which door, which door?' Sakura sang with a smile, glad her luck had been going well that day.
She hadn't been caught; Kurama, Hiei and their friends hadn't died; and she hadn't died!
"Second one from the right!" Kuwabara deduced, taking down the thoughtful hand from his head.
"Second one from the right it is!" Yusuke started towards the door.
"I dunno, you sure about this?" Hiei inquired, unsure of their decision.
"Doping out mazes and traps is my favorite!" Kuwabara grinned, brimming with confidence.
They walked through the long, cold corridor. The only one not shivering was Hiei.
'It's so cold,' Sakura complained, curling up into a tighter ball and wrapping her tail around herself.
'Stop complaining, it's not that bad,' Hiei retorted to the fox.
"Phew! Pretentious decorator!" someone shouted and that brought the two's minds back to the task at hand.
The door was large and a steely blue, two bronze dragons guarding the sides.
"This must be Seiryu's chamber, the demonic aura leaking out is more potent than the others!" Kurama noted, taking a short step forward.
The doors slowly creaked open to reveal a tall and sturdy man, his outfit was blue and light purple, an icy dragon jutting out from the shoulders of his top. His hair was black and short, jutting out from the sides and away from his pale blue skin.
Sakura viewed him through Hiei's own tall, black hair and grimaced at the intense cold she suddenly found herself in. Sakura popped back into Hiei's scarf, seeking warmth.
"Master Suzaku finds your petty activities highly vexing. This is as far as you go," even Seiryu's voice was that of the ice itself, "I'll kill you all, after I've torn you limb from limb!"
"We've heard that before, skank!" Kuwabara shouted as each took a fighting pose.
Seiryu's face remained passive as he suddenly spoke: "It seems we have an uninvited guest."
Both Hiei and Sakura stiffened, expecting it to be herself that had been found out.
The four turned, hearing a shuffling from down the hall, Hiei and Sakura looked relieved a moment.
"It's coming from down the hall…" Kuwabara spoke, turning fully to greet whoever it was.
"H-Help me!" A hand shot through the crack in the door, it's fur burning and smoking.
"Byakko?" Kuwabara and Yusuke shouted in unison.
"S-Seiryu!" Byakko rasped, "Please! P-please! I need some e-energy! I-I'll repay you once I'm stronger!"
"Gawd! He's still alive!" Kuwabara watched warily as Byakko passed.
"Fool, you are a ridiculous failure!" Seiryu spat out, "You are of no further use- in fact, you're an eye-sore!" Seiryu stood with his hands posed out in front of him.
"Wait- wait that stance! No, please!" Byakko pleaded for his life, but his cries fell upon deaf ears.
"Fall to the ghostly ice fist!" Seiryu cried.
Byakko roared his final roar as he was frozen solid. Seiryu ran and jumped, kicking through Byakko's body and crushing it into nothing more than icy chunks.
"Heh, I laid 100 freezing punches at near absolute zero on him. No one, save Master Suzaku can dodge that attack." Seiryu spoke boldly.
"S-Seiryu! Why?" Byakko's frozen head rasped out.
"You've proven yourself weak and worthless." Seiryu spat at the frozen, heavily bleeding head.
"They have no sense of camaraderie, driven solely by greed and hunger-" Kurama stopped his dramatic sentence short a moment.
"I wanted to destroy him but this is wrong! He deserved better and I swear he'll get it!" Kuwabara had a determined look in his eyes as he stepped forward, seething with anger.
"Right on Kuwabara! And I'll do the honors!" Yusuke stepped ahead as well, ready for action.
"Wait Yusuke." Hiei too stepped forward, nearer to Kurama however.
The look in his eyes was one of vast confusion and disgust as he stepped closer to Kurama. Without looking Hiei reached back into his hood and grabbed Sakura by the fur of her neck and dropped her on Kurama's shoulder.
"Well, hello there Kurama…eh heh heh…" Sakura pawed her head, embarrassed.
Hiei stepped ahead of Yusuke, "Save that rage for later, you'll need it against Suzaku,"
The two humans took a breath at Hiei's sharp and frightening features, Kurama tried his hardest not to murder his sister on the spot, and so watched Hiei as a distraction to his fury.
Hiei took off his black cloak, tossing it- seemingly randomly- to the side. It fell atop the head of Byakko, falling gently across the furry features.
"What's this? A sentimental feature from you? I'd understood you to be like us, ruthless to the core." Seiryu was astonished at Hiei's actions, as were his four friends behind him.
"I've never seen Hiei like this before," Sakura muttered, catching Yusuke and Kuwabara's attention as the two demon siblings watched Hiei in awe.
"He's just as Seiryu described, or was. Yet he seems truly upset with what Seiryu has done," Kurama agreed with his sister, deciding to squabble over her disobeying him later, "Self interest is not what moves him now, and it bewilders him. What it means, I can't say, but the aura surrounding him is the strongest I ever felt!"
Hiei and Seiryu positioned themselves across from each other, posing for battle. Hiei place a hand on the hilt of his sword and another on the bottom of his scabbard.
"I'll crush you!" Seiryu shouted, "DIE!"
The two rushed at each other, Hiei only a blur. With a shocked look on his face, Seiryu's top split from him bottom, along with numerous other body parts.
Hiei landed, one leg kneeling and one knee on the ground behind him. He stood up as the other watched in shock as Seiryu's body become covered in his own blood.
"May I never see your face again." Hiei looked back, dangerously at the dismembered demon, the statement ironic, considering the most cuts had gone trough Seiryu's head, slicing his face into many sections.
"D-Didya see that? Flippin' awesome!" Kuwabara was agape with astonishment, "I might have to revise my opinion of the little runt!"
"Hey! Runt is a very harsh word!" Sakura glared at the tall human.
"Sakura, get over it. I saw, but lost track after the first stroke," Kurama added.
"WOW! That was amazing Hiei! You laid him out in one go!" Yusuke shouted, running towards Hiei along with Kurama and Kuwabara.
"How many cuts?" Kurama asked.
"Ooo! Say eleven!" Sakura said, adding how many strokes she had seen.
"Sixteen." Hiei said.
"SIXTEEN! I only caught eight!" Yusuke said with an amazed look on his face.
"You're eyes are better than mine, Yusuke!" Kurama smiled.
"I was closest!" Sakura put a paw excitedly in the air.
"That guy was filleted before I even blinked…" Kuwabara muttered, annoyed.
"You're fast Hiei! You could beat me hands-down in a rematch I'll bet!" Yusuke grinned at the short demon.
"Well… maybe." Hiei turned and walked off.
"I don't get it, I thought he'd agree outright!" Yusuke watched confusedly after Hiei.
Hiei reclaimed his cloak and scarf and hurried to catch up with the others who had started to run, Yusuke up front and talking to Botan on a sort of walkie-talkie.
Yusuke began to shout as the screen became fuzzy and useless for contact.
They continued to run until the five came upon a flat field of stone, a tall tower in the middle.
"The big bosses chamber is at the top!" someone shouted, but Sakura paid no attention as she hopped off Kurama's shoulder and onto the rocky pavement.
She closed her eyes a minute as a soft glow surrounded her, outlining her body as it grew taller and more human-like. And there she stood, five feet tall with her kanji shirt and baggy jeans to top it all off. She took an elastic off her slender wrist and tied up her hair, staring at the base of the tower.
A tall, greenish, grimy, man-like creature stepped forth, followed by many others.
"What the hell are those things!" Kuwabara shouted, pointing at the strange creatures.
"Production model hominids. Mindless creatures with only the thought to follow their masters orders, I'm sure they made tasty snacks for the Saint Beasts as well." Sakura deduced, a slight edge to her words.
"There're zillions of them! It'll take forever to fight through all of them!" Kuwabara shouted once more.
"Yes, and that will take time we do not have." Kurama looked over the dreary scene ahead of him.
"And like scarecrows, they feel no pain or fear," Hiei added to Sakura's explanation.
"That Suzaku character's a real sicko! We have to save Yukimura and he throws this crap at us?" Kuwabara once more yelled out angrily.
"Yukimura…familiar but not… do I know of this Yukimura person?" Sakura asked aloud.
'I'll tell you late, Sakura,' Kurama thought to his sister and she nodded.
"I'll finish a bunch off with a shot gun volley of reiki!" Yusuke shouted, readying himself for an attack.
"Hold on! Don't expend yourself!" Kurama grabbed Yusuke's shoulder in the nick of time.
"But there's no other way to get through!" Yusuke protested.
"Maybe there is."
Four heads turned towards Hiei.
"Look up there. See that open window?" Hiei asked, nodding his own head toward said window.
"Jeez Hiei! We're not grasshoppers! None of us could jump that high!" Yusuke protested once more.
"Not from here no!" Hiei ached longingly to hit Yusuke with the hilt of his sword until whatever dust that was clogging up his thinking process was freed.
Hiei explained his plan and everyone followed his exact orders. The end result?
Kuwabara was standing crouched on the bottom with Kurama on his knees atop Kuwabara's shoulders and Hiei, standing on top of Kurama's shoulders. The three stood tall as Kuwabara gave the signal and he began to run, the others still on his back.
Kuwabara shouted back to Yusuke as he ran towards the open window of the tower, "You've got one shot Urameshi! Make it count!"
"That's the plan!" Yusuke shouted sarcastically back as he readied himself.
Yusuke ran, rushing towards his towering friends as they began to run as well. He jumped, stepping atop Kuwabara's back, then Kurama's, then Hiei's with a loud "Hup! Hup!"
Sakura put a hand, salute style, up to her head as she watched the crazy kid jumped towards the window, catching onto the ledge, and only just.
The three fell to the stone ground and readied themselves for a fight.
"I'll be twonked! It worked!" Kuwabara looked shocked as he readied his fists.
"You bet it did! Thanks guys! If we get back alive, lunch is on me!" Yusuke shouted back to his friends as he crawled into the crude window.
Kurama smiled while Hiei's face remained passive. Only Sakura and Kuwabara answered back:
"We'll hold you to that!" Kuwabara yelled with a grin.
"Although you may regret it! Go get 'em, kiddo!" Sakura punched a fist ecstatically into the air.
Yusuke gave a thumbs up and jumped into the darkness, where the four on the ground could no longer see him.
Sakura stood in a more kung-fu styled pose, ready for action to prove that she was totally fine fighting in Demon World. Hiei turned to her a minute and she smirked slightly. He returned the favor and turned to fend off his own portion of hominids.
Sakura smiled innocently at Kurama's disapproving stare.
"Kurama, c'mon! I just didn't want to be left out again! You never let me-have-any-fun!" Sakura's final words were in tune with each high kick delivered to an emotionless hominid.
"Still! You didn't have to sneak and hide in Hiei's scarf!" Kurama retorted, pulling a seed from the mass of red hair behind him.
"You wouldn't have let me come otherwise!" Sakura threw up her hands in protests, looking at a loss for words.
"Because it's dangerous!" Kurama replied, transferring spirit energy into the seed and swinging it out, lengthening it into his rose whip.
"I can stand on my own two feet, thank you very much!" Sakura was slightly perturbed, she had held her own in many situations, "Besides, I was in Hiei's scarf. Don't you think he would have protected me if anything potentially dangerous happened?"
"Hey, I don't mean to interrupt, but we're fightin' monsters here! Reunions come later!" Kuwabara interrupted, punching through another hominid.
Sakura and Kurama blushed as they realized they had stopped fighting hominids and were standing face to face, a slight glare on their faces. They both turned, perturbed.
Sakura began to punch through another hominid as she had a thought.
"Hey. I'll bet I can kill more hominids than you." Sakura smirked at her mending talent.
"You're on." Kurama replied, smiling back at his sister and slashing out his whip.
Sakura laughed as she began to speak and ancient chant. Her hands were suddenly covered in a vibrant green color and it morphed into the forms of two blades.
Sakura lifted her arms out from the light and two blades slipped through the green. The blades were in the shape of a crescent, the points sharp and the thin blade able to cut through bone in a matter of seconds. The hilts were wrapped in a strange cloth, letters were scribed along the center and the edges were raggedy.
"Ready!" Sakura swirled her blades around, ready to kick demon ass.
She sliced and diced through the demons, as did Hiei and the others. Sakura and Hiei stood back to back as they confronted two immensely large groups of hominids. They looked back, smirked at each other and ran forward, their footsteps light against the pavement.
'67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73-' Sakura mentally counted as she sliced through what seemed like a million hominids.
Finally, the four stopped, panting slightly as they looked at their work. Sakura sliced through the last hominid, lopping it's head off and turned to look at her elder brother.
"A hundred and seventeen," she grinned with her hands behind her back in an innocent manner.
Kurama remained silent, a small smile entertaining his face.
"Well? Tell me!" Sakura pried, stepping towards her brother in eagerness.
"One hundred fourteen," He said with a smile.
Sakura jumped up and down in her excitement, victory flooding through her veins.
"How many really?" Hiei had walked next to the fox boy and in Sakura's elation, decided to take the chance to ask.
"What? Oh, one hundred twenty-one." Kurama smiled and scratched his head.
"You never were a good liar. You should probably explain to Sakura what really happened at the trial." Hiei stalked off towards Sakura.
"You guys are too weird." Kuwabara admitted, scratching his own head with a confused look.
"I suppose so." Kurama too began to walk over to Sakura, who had Hiei's hands in hers and was dancing dramatically.
A large bolt of lightning shot clear through the sky and landed through the top of the tower.
"It's gonna be a big one- a big finish!" Kurama deduced from the numerous holes in the wall.
"Yes. Someone's going to die this time." Hiei concluded with a chilling voice.
Sakura looked up at the tower, steadying her gaze towards it's middle and focusing on the two energies inside.
"Well, Yusuke's still alive right now. Why don't we go and try to catch the last of the fight?" Sakura lowered her head and looked at the large metal doors ahead of them.
"Yeah! Now you're talkin'! Let's go! To the top floor!" Kuwabara shouted eagerly and kicked through the doors.
The four ran up the steps as fast as they could. As soon as they had reached the top of the stairs, a blast of golden-blue light exploded through the doorway, knocking Sakura back into her brother and the others to hold onto the side of the walls.
"Holy spit!" Kuwabara shouted as the doorframe disintegrated.
As soon as the light was gone, the four ran into the room. It was a mess, stone was everywhere and the ceiling was in shreds, a large gaping whole in one side.
Kurama and Kuwabara ran over to Yusuke once they found him atop some rubble. Sakura followed tentatively, jumping across seven lifeless bodies.
"Urameshi!" Kuwabara rushed over to his friend.
Kurama kneeled beside the human boy, "Mm, not good. His aura's exhausted and there's barely a heart beat."
Sakura gasped, everything was going her way but the human boy had to die in her happiness' place.
"I'm not gonna stand here and watch him die! He needs energy! Your demonic aura's no good for humans! I'm the only option he's got!" Kuwabara kneeled where Kurama had, the demon having had to stand out of the other humans way, and placed his hands near Yusuke's heart.
"Looks like we'll have to carry them both out of here." Kurama looked on as Kuwabara transferred his energy to Yusuke.
"Humans. They're such a pain. I'll never understand why they make such sacrifices for each other." Hiei watched as well with a confused grimace perched upon his face.
"That quality enabled Yusuke to defeat Suzaku." Kurama pointed out.
"Perhaps." Hiei agreed, "But risking my life for someone else is not something you'll catch me doing."
Sakura stiffened slightly, a sad look gracing her face. She shook her head and pretended she hadn't heard.
"Sure, but if Yusuke hadn't risked it, he'd be dead anyways!" Kurama smiled.
"Always have to have the last word, don't you?" Hiei replied smugly.
"Kuwabara's down and out for the count!" Sakura spoke to the two demons as she walked over to poke the unconscious human.
"Tuh-riffic." Hiei replied and began to walk over as well.
Sakura: Oh, and thank to all the reviewers! By the way, I'd like to add that flames are NOT welcome (they make me cry) but constructive criticism is:)
Hiei: Damn those flamers... :(
Sakura: They can be mean. Very harsh.
ForestHanyou: Cha. Flower power! That's one of my fave quotes- XD. Kurama can't beat up my English teacher! I love her:)
Serendipity-Peirce-Clarke: Forgive me if I spelt your name wrong- I've got a braincell deficiency as according to some reviewers! XD Anyhoo, thanks a ton sis! XD Yeah yeah, I'll bug ya allll I wanna! Muahaha:) Update soon just to prove those flamers wrong! Cuz IIIII like your story!
Time and Fate: Thanks:) I like stories like this too- you know, ForestHanyou said the same thing! She never saw the beginning either!
Sakura: Cookies for all! tosses out lemon tarts with raspberry jam
Fin Chapter 8