Kurama and the Amulet of Truth

Kurama raised his head from his position on the ground. All he could see was Yoshimi fighting Tomayo. It seemed that Yoshimi had gained considerable strength, perhaps enough to challenge the seemingly all-powerful Tomayo. But, as he watched, Tomayo hit Yoshimi with a stream of dark energy, knocking her into the wall. She was only able to stagger weakly to her feet; her power had faded. Kurama saw Tomayo grab Yoshimi by the throat and summon a ball of energy. He knew it was all over then.

But just as all hope seemed lost, he felt something stir inside him. It was not completely alien, but strange nevertheless. It seemed to overtake his body, until he was transformed into something more. He was not wholly altered, but he could sense that something that had been deep inside him was now on the surface. He had miraculously, amazingly, unexpectedly transformed into Yoko Kurama.

Yoko knew he had to act. The legendary thief had no idea of why he felt so strangely attracted to the pathetic human girl, but only knew powerfully from somewhere that he had to help. He saw the demon that held her and summoned one of his plants that flew quickly through the air to snap the demon up. It, however, did not kill him as he was able to move just in time. But the ball of energy that he was holding was hurled at the ceiling and rebounded all around the force field. It his no one head on, but every one was severely damaged, with the exception of the quick Yoko Kurama.

Tomayo twitched. He slowly raised his head up off of the ground. What happened? He thought. He remembered that he had been just a hair's breadth from finishing Yoshimi off, when he was attacked by some sort of giant plant that had sent his energy flying. That pesky Yoko Kurama must have come back again. He looked around. Yoko Kurama was no where to be seen. Yoshimi was lying on the ground, and he couldn't tell if she was dead or alive. Tomayo smirked. Maybe she was killed after all, he thought. Maybe that reckless Yoko killed her while trying to get me! But where is Kurama now?

At this thought, Tomayo cautiously looked around. His force field was still in effect, and he couldn't see out, as the ones outside couldn't see in. Tomayo looked at his side and saw that the arm he had lost had regenerated. He climbed shakily to his feet and walked over to Yoshimi. He frowned; she was still breathing. He tried to summon an energy blast to attempt to finish her off once more, but he was all out of energy. He tried again, with similar results. He kicked her over, he was frustrated and angry that he had come this far, yet didn't have enough energy to finish the job. "I'll just do it the old fashioned way." Tomayo pulled out a knife, knelt before Yoshimi and prepared to plunge it into the ground when something with very sharp teeth grabbed his arm and pulled it off. Tomayo screamed in agony, looking upon the head of an enormous man-eating flower that was swallowing his arm. (Second time he lost it! I must like cutting off his arm…)

"Now, now, we can't have you hearting her, can we?" said Yoko Kurama from over to the right.

Tomayo's face contorted with rage. "You!" he exclaimed. "Look what you did to my arm!" He summoned a humongous ball on energy through his remaining arm and hurtled it at Yoko. Yoko dodged it neatly, and his plant struck again, nearly taking Tomayo's head off, but Tomayo jumped out of the way just in time.

"Okay," Tomayo said. "This ends here and now!" He leapt into the air, his face contorting horribly as he absorbed the energy necessary for his final attack. His eyes turned blood red, his limbs all stuck out, making his body look like a horrendous X in the sky. The energy became concentrated into his fingertips, making ten portals for this horrifically powerful energy to be released.

Yoko was also preparing for his final attack. He usually didn't take powerful onslaughts head on, usually preferring to destroy the enemy before he attacked. He didn't think he had something powerful enough to combat this terrific energy. Unless… There was this new plant seed that he had received near the end as his reign of the king of thieves. He was told that is was so powerful, it could be used only in the most extreme of circumstances. Yoko decided it was worth a try. He took out the seed and focused all of his energy into it. The seed grew into an enormous black flower, which sucked with the ferocity of a black whole. If it wasn't used carefully, it would engulf everything with its almighty fury.

At the same time as the flower grew, Tomayo released his attack. It hid below the flowering part of the plant, severing the flower from the stem. Instead of quenching the black hole, it made it grow even more powerful. The flower landed up against the wall of the force field, with Tomayo and Yoko in directly in the path of its suction. The flower drew the two demons closer and closer, until it finally seemed there was no hope for either of them. Tomayo was drawn into the gaping mouth of the dark flower, barley managing to grasp the outside petal. He had grabbed onto Yoko, determined that if he was going to die, the devious kitsune would die as well. Tomayo was sucked into the infinite black hole and Yoko was just about to follow, when suddenly the flower exploded, sending Yoko to the edge of the force field.

"Guess I'm back," said Yoshimi, now Kaori, thanks to the blast from Tomayo. "I just couldn't let the flower destroy you, Yoko Kurama." She smiled. "You're just to appealing to throw away." She sauntered over to him and attempted to help him off the ground. Yoko got up by him self and light pushed Kaori away. "I didn't need your help," Yoko said coolly. "But maybe…" he whispered pulling Kaori towards him. "I need you." They embraced, then kissed.

Then they changed. It was a small feeling at first, but as it grew stronger, Kaori and Yoko changed back into Yoshimi and Kurama. They continued to kiss as the force field lowered. Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei came running up.

"Hey Kurama! I didn't know she was your girlfriend!" Yusuke said. Yoshimi and Kurama drew quickly apart, blushing.

"Let's go home, shall we?" Kurama said, still blushing and looking away from Yusuke.

A/N: Yay! I finally got a chapter up! It was kinda shorter than the last one, thought. The battle is finally over. In the next chapter is a talk with Koenma, in which I try to explain everything.