---The Prophecy That Was Destined To Join---
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and Yu Yu Hakusho.
Ok there, I have finally confirmed that I probably am loosing readers. Nonetheless, I'll continue until the end since I'm near it anyways…-sniffle- I feel so hurt…
Chapter 23: You Should've Known Better
Genkai's Temple…
As Kurama predicted, their happiness was short-lived.
"You can't catch me, Oka-san!" Shippo and Kyoshi cried out with laughter, running away from Kagome, who was on a 'hunt' to cause some mischief.
It had been 3 days since Kagome felt better and by that point, all the adults made sure they had their weapons with them at all times.
Suddenly, the wall beside the happy couple and others in the group exploded to bits.
"Great…more repairs to the temple…" Genkai commented sarcastically.
"Kurama! You won't escape me now!" A voice hissed out, echoing through the large room. Err…half room…
The wind whistled for a moment, blowing everyone's hair in their face as they froze, trying to locate the source of the voice.
Yusuke abruptly stood up, "YOU ASSHOLE! COME OUT HERE AND FIGHT COWARD! YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY COUSIN!"
There was a dark chuckle, "Why I didn't do anything…"
He growled. Technically, Karasu was right. He had locked Kurama up for a month. Not Kagome.
Nonetheless, to draw the sadist out, Kagome shot 5 arrows. Each one 3 yards apart from each other. A rustle was heard in some bushes in the distant as Karasu dodged the purified arrows directed at him.
This was it. They had locked onto his location.
Hiei drew his sword and stepped in front of Yukina along with Kuwabara. Kurama took his place protectively beside Kagome and Yusuke on the other, Botan behind him. Genkai merely got into a casual, but guarding stance and Sango stood by Hiei, Hiraikotsu and dagger ready. Miroku and his dad stayed side-by-side with Miroku by Botan. Shippo, Kohaku and Kyoshi all hid behind Kagome.
The voice circulated throughout their ears.
"If I see something I like…"
Everyone jerked their head around when they heard a whimper coming from Sango.
"I kill it" Karasu hissed, hands wrapped around her neck and his thumbs playing with her hair.
"Get away from her" Hiei snarled at raced up to Karasu, who narrowly missed, forcing him to let go of the demon slayer.
Sango fell onto her knees in shock with ragged breathing.
Miroku and Kahyi's eyes narrowed along with the others. Karasu was playing with them.
Karasu jumped up into the air and threw a bomb down at Yusuke, who just dodged, pulling Botan along with him so she would be alright. The bits and pieces from the blow scattered across the room, lightly scratching everything it hit.
Before anyone could react any more to this, he summoned his bat-like bombs and they flew around, this time following every person against him in the room.
The kids screamed as their eyes traveled around the room to them.
Hiei showed no emotion as he slashed his in half, jumping away at the last fraction of a second so it didn't hurt him. His eyes immediately turned towards Sango after to see how she was doing.
Sango was trying to bat it away with her Hiraikotsu and finally landed a good hit, sending it flying out where the wall once was.
"Home run!" Kagome whistled, making Yusuke laugh. She stabbed hers in the eye, but it exploded near her face, leaving a blood trail trickling slightly down her forehead and cheek. She winced, it hurt a bit.
Kuwabara was trying to bat two bombs away, one for himself and another for Yukina. She was hiding, frightened behind him while he was using his spirit sword. Soon after, he was able to get rid of one, but causing the other to hit him, exploding beside his left arm. Blood splattered the floor as Yukina flew out and gave a cry, trying to hold him still to heal his arm.
"Rose Whip!" Kurama wrapped his whip around one of the bat-like bomb's wing and aimed it out of the temple. It flew but exploded the whip before the bomb flew out of the hole in the wall. Kurama looked pointedly at his whip for a moment before shrugging and taking another rose out of his hair.
Yusuke now, was aiming… "Spirit Gun!" a blast of blue energy shot out of the tip in his finger and hit the bomb right in the eye, sending it flying back and hit Shippo's and that hit Kohaku's which hit Kyoshi's….
"Thanks!" Kagome grinned, wincing when she bent down too low and the blood rushed to her head.
"No problem!"
The kids were…at least safe right now.
Genkai had kicked it in the eye, making it explode. It just made a gash around 3mm deep on her ankle, but sent the damned bomb into Miroku's, getting rid of them both. Kahyi slapped a sutra onto its 'face' because the bat-like bomb had some youki energy in it, activating the sutra. He made a point to be far away when he did that, yet he still got hit, gaining a concussion and hitting the ground with a heavy thud..
Then, there was a scream. The fighting group jerked their heads up to see Botan flying away on her oar with a bomb flying close behind. Miroku ran up to her and rapidly slapped one of his own sutras onto the surface, sending her to safety. He whispered to her, "Go tell Koenma what's going on, maybe we could use some help"
"Hai, that's a good idea" Botan opened a portal to the Reikai behind a bush and slipped through, sealing it behind her.
Koenma's Office…
"Koenma, sir!" Botan yelled out frantically, trying to locate where the prince was.
"Koenma!" she shoved open the door to his office and burst through.
He looked up thoughtfully from his stack of papers, "What is it Botan?"
"It's Hiei and the others!" She told him, "Karasu has attacked and they're trying to hold it off on their own!"
He stood up quickly in his seat, ((He was in his teenager form)) "What?"
"They're fighting Karasu right now!"
Immediately, he ordered Botan to open a portal to the temple. A blue, swirling vortex appeared in front of them and Koenma and Botan stepped through.
Genkai's Temple…
Sango growled, stepping forward along with Kurama, Miroku, and Yusuke.
...chink...
They looked down, startled.
A cold, hand-like device clutched onto their ankle, rooting to the ground.
Kurama's eyes widened in realization and fright.
"Hehehe…what's wrong Kurama?" Karasu chuckled evilly.
Yusuke, Miroku, and Sango stared at him in confusion and he looked up with widened eyes, "Watch out" he could only whisper, before his device blew up first, "Ahh!" he yelled out in pain, the force of the explosion sending him to the far wall, blood flying through the air.
Now it was a frantic rush and Hiei did the first thing that came to his mind, he sliced the 'head' off Sango's device and it deactivated, but still kept her to the ground. Karasu threw a hand bomb at her and Hiei watched in concealed terror as it flew towards her.
"Sango!" Kagome cried out, jumping in from of the frozen demon slayer and taking the blow. It exploded near her stomach and sent her flying towards Kurama and unfortunately landed on top of him, unconscious. When she hit him, he spurted out a little blood from his mouth and he took a look at Kagome, his eyes starting to bleed a little red.
"Kurama!" Genkai warned, "Going into rage will just make the situation worse!"
He calmed down a bit, but still had a slight pink tint to his eyes.
"Kagome!" Sango screamed, uprooting the whole device with so much will power to check if she was ok.
Miroku couldn't bend down to touch the bomb. He tried to bat it away with his staff, but could only watch in horror as the string burned smaller and smaller, just about to leave him in the same state as Kurama. Miroku glanced to see how Yusuke was doing, only to find him trying to blow it out. ((the ignition)) Sweat dropping at the attempt he was trying to do, Miroku considered that if he couldn't save himself at this point, then he should try to help Yusuke out.
"Yusuke! Watch out!" The spirit detective looked up and moved a bit just in time for a sutra to plaster itself on the bomb and lock onto its youki energy. They watched in disgust as the bomb started to melt off Yusuke's foot.
Taking this distraction, Karasu summoned his other bombs into the air. ((Those floating blue ones in the dark tournament))
But no one noticed as Botan opened a portal and stepped out right beside Miroku, Koenma running up to Kagome in concern, seeing Kurama trying to heal her with some herbs, or at least find a pain killer.
"Botan! Watch out!" Yukina cried out desperately, but it was too late as the bomb attached to Miroku blew up, sending Miroku flying along with Botan, her falling on top of him and hit their head on the ground, blacking out. There was a sickening crack in Botan's ribcage.
Yukina cried as she ran over to her, checking over her wounds with tears in her eyes, Kuwabara following her in case anyone harmful came close.
Hiei somehow accepted this, although still scowled because it was Yukina, his sister. He had to protect Sango right now too…
The kids were scared now. When Kagome had raced in to take the blow meant for Sango, they scrambled next to Miroku and heard him talking to Botan. In seconds, before they could register what happened, Koenma stepped out of the portal, accidentally kicking them in, in the process. No one really knew where they were. Thankfully, Kohaku had been there once and just told them to sit down and hopefully, someone would come sooner or later.
Later on, Kurama fainted from blood loss and now it was only Sango, Hiei, Yusuke, and Genkai. Koenma was just there for some odd reason…
An explosion was heard and a yelp. Genkai got hit on the left arm. She staggered, holding the exposed flesh and accidentally stepped on another bomb with her right foot.
"Grandma!" Yusuke shouted. He lost her in the Dark Tournament and he never wanted to loose her again.
Loosing her balance a bit, Genkai sent a cold glare at Karasu before getting stuck in the back, "Spirit Gun!" she shot with the rest of her energy, aimed at the sadist before them.
He just smirked and jumped away, but it faltered for a second when she just smirked back. He heard a piercing shattering sound and then something hit him in the back. Something very painful…
Sango, Hiei, and Yusuke watched as the energy missed him, but reflected off a mirror on a wall, shattering it into pieces, but successfully hit him.
Karasu gritted his teeth in pain. He refused to show that he had gotten hurt, although all the demons could smell the metallic scent in the air. Actually, there was already blood in the air, but the could smell more, which meant it had hit. For Kami's sake! Even the humans could smell it without effort!
Yusuke turned back to his sensei.
"Dimwit" she growled lightly, "You better not loose this…it's trouble if we do" Genkai swayed and leaned forward, then to the left, all the energy leaving her quickly. They could only watch as she hit the ground, unconscious like the rest of their teammates.
Hiei's eyes narrowed considerably now, "Hn" he shot forward and lashed out at Karasu, only to slice a bomb in half and go flying across the room, hitting the wall and cracking it. He felt a bit dizzy as he got back up, but other than that, was pretty fine.
Sango seethed. Karasu had now crossed the line. Instantly, she felt a power swell up from inside of her and she un-strapped her boomerang.
"Karasu…You hurt Kagome, Kurama and all the others! You will pay for that you BASTARD!" Sango cried out in fury, "DIE! YOU DON'T BELONG HERE!"
Her eyes glowed pink as her weapons did two. She threw all of the contents of her poison powder into the air and shot a dagger through it. Hiei retreated to the back of the room where everyone else was for safely.
It exploded in the air, raining dangerous chemicals in on them after Sango slipped her gas mask on. Unfortunately for her, Karasu had one too and with either really good aim, or sheer luck, Sango managed to slice the mask off along with scratching his check with her last dagger. The daggers dug itself into the ground behind him.
The youkai choked a bit on the air and found it suddenly hard to focus. Sango glowed a brighter pink and snarled, "YOU WILL PAY!"
It was then that she unleashed all her fury and the energy swirled around her like a storm. Swinging her Hiraikotsu into the air, Sango threw it at the heavily 'suffocating' Karasu, all her energy and hate along with it.
It struck.
And there was only one thing that processed in their minds at that moment. Karasu…he shouldn't have underestimated anyone with pure anger and rage.
'You should have known better'
What do you think about this chapter? Read and review please! The next chapter is the last one. It's sort of like the ending…yeah. Anyways, see you next time!
Sayonara,
Tenshi-Battosai