Chapter Neunundzwanzig
Hiei took a step back as his sister stood before him her red eyes shining, the proof of their relation to one another bearing into his soul. Was she real? He had to know, he reached his hand out to touch her and she stood there, dead to the world.
"She is real, she was never dead, you were misinformed, Botan lied to you to keep you to herself." Genkai said,
Hiei looked up at the crystal and at Botan, would she be cold enough to do that? No, it wasn't true. "Stop with your lies and let her out of there."
"I told you, Kill your sweet sister. But I don't know why you would just to save some girl."
"She's not just some girl she is my…" Hiei pauses catching himself through his anger.
"She's your what!" Genkai yelled, very angry now, "hmm, Tell me! What is she to you?"
"Let her go!"
"ssss, NO!" hissed a dark menacing voice. "Sshe will do no SSSuch thing…" Hiei and the queen, both, looked toward the dark lord, his eyes were red and his voice was groggy "You both will give her to me, sshe will be my power, my completion."
"What are you saying?" Genkai looked all too distressed,
"Quiet you old hag, you are no longer needed." The dark lord held out and out stretched hand and a purple hue formed between his fingers and swirled within his palm and within moments an arrow like beam shot through Genkai causing her to fall to the ground with a painful scream.
Hiei watched Genkai fall and looked back at the dark lord, "Who are you?"
"What? You mean, What am I?" The dark lord smirked and slowly reached up for the hood of his cloak and pulled it off. Hiei took his sister's arm and moved her behind him out of instanced when he saw the featureless shadow that "stood" before him.
The dark lord was nothing but a shadow with big bright red eyes and a mouth like that of a black sock puppet, no lips, no eyelashes, no skin, no body. "I am a black soul. My name, as some know it, is Iniko."
"What do you want with her?" Hiei growled as he made a head motion toward Botan.
"She will give me more power, Power to pull all of the black souls and bad times out of these human pawns, I will feed off of them and rule all of the netherworld. I will DO what Yakumo failed to do. And you wont be stopping me. There is no way you can. But you are welcome to watch if you like."
Hiei glared darkly and then turned his glare to his friends
"No, don't look at them, there is nothing you can do about it, they are my slaves. And for your reputation I must say that it was the easiest thing, taking over their minds." Iniko smiled anew. "So just sit tight and watch."
"You don't really think that I am going to watch, do you? That's foolish." Hiei gripped his sword even tighter.
"Now don't do anything rash. Nothing you do will work on me, you see you are darkness. So your energy would just feed me."
"Who said I would use my darkness on you? I can beat you with just my swordsmanship." Hiei smirked darkly.
"Ha, your swordsmanship? Please, don't make me laugh. Just sit tight and you will get the show of your life."
"Not so fast Iniko!" Koenma's voice rang boomingly
"Lord Koenma? Where have you been?"
"Nowhere, Now let her out of there! She doesn't even know how to use that power." Koenma ordered, "or shall I have to get her out myself. All I have to do is use that pacifier and she will be free, you don't want to waste the power now do you?"
'But he can't do that, can he?' Jorge thought to himself as he stood behind his boss.
Iniko Growled, "Fine, but it doesn't matter I can still get this power from her." He snapped his fingers and the crystal melted away. Botan fell forward the fabric of her dress and her hair made her look like an angel that had been shot from the sky.
Hiei held out his arms to catch her but Iniko intervened and Botan floated into his arms. "She is mine, Hiei, it's too bad that you had to lose someone that you loved. But that pain and darkness is indeed appreciated, Thank you."
"Let. Her. Go." Hiei grimaced, "Give her to me now" He ordered and ran at the shadow full force and swung his sword wildly as he found that the silvery metal just went though him over and over again, no matter how many times he cut.
"That's ENOUGH!" The dark lord Backhanded Hiei sending him flying across the long room and into a huge obelisk. "You should know that a Shadow cannot be cut." He spoke darkly. "And as for you" he turned toward Koenma, "there is nothing you can do, you need life energy to use it and you have no more left. I, on the other hand, do. I have all of my loyal subjects." He smirked, "Fair well, Prince."
"It's not over yet, Iniko." Koenma growled.
"Not yet, you're right, so why don't we cut to the chase?" He smirked with worriless eyes.