The gang stopped in front of a large cave system that gave off an evil aura. Hiei, Shiei, Kurama, Nuema and Yusuke had completely neutral expressions. However Kuwabara's face looked completely freaked out.
"Are you sure we're at the right place?"
Shiei turned her hand and glared at Kuwabara. Her bandana was off, revealing a jagan eye, "Do you doubt my jagan skills?"
Kuwabara's face looked even more scared and he shook his head vehemently, "No!"
"Hn."
They all walked into the cave, Kuwabara looked around, trying to see through the darkness. A few minutes later Shiei ran in front of Kuwabara, her eyes were glowing a royal blue shade and her purple jagan eye was glowing the same color. Kuwabara let out a loud scream that sounded oddly...feminine. Everyone looked over at Kuwabara, well except for Hiei who was rolling his eyes.
"Man Kuwabara, you scream like a girl."
Shiei and Nuema glared at Yusuke, taking offense at what he said.
"What is that supposed to me, Yusuke?" Nuema's voice was dangerously low.
"Yes, watch what you say, detective." Shiei's voice had a faint trace of a growl and was dangerous in and of itself.
"Yusuke looked slightly scared of the combined anger of Nuema and Shiei, "Okay." After a moments thought, "Hey, did anyone else notice that it just got a lot warmer in here?"
Kuwabara nodded and Kurama looked around, "The temperature did rise rapidly after your statement, Yusuke." Hiei made no comment but looked at Shiei. Nuema stopped glaring at Kuwabara.
'Shiei, cool it.'
Shiei looked at Nuema and glared, 'Hn, fine. But if the detective keeps up his stupidity act, don't expect him to stay conscious or alive.'
Nuema mentally rolled her eyes, 'Whatever...and who said it was an act? He really is a moron.'
'All the more reason for his demise.'
Evil laughter filled the cave, spirit fires lit up on the walls, showing they were in a large room. There was only one way to go, forward, which was conveniently blocked by white flames. Someone dropped from the ceiling. She was wearing a pair of black shorts that seemed to be made of an animal skin. She had a skin tight shirt made of the same material that was tied together in the back. Her hair was short and dark blue and she had pale eyes.
She smirked as she looked at the group, an evil glint showed in her eyes. "My name is Agashi, if you want the Kiram, one of you will have to fight me."
"I'm not fighting her," said Kuwabara since it was against his rules.
Agashi glared at Kuwabara. "Let me explain this since no one else will and if you don't know what I'm about to say, its too bad, it still applies. To get to the Kiram one of you will fight one of us. No one fights twice. If three of you lose they will die. Each time a fight is finished your group will continue down to fight the next opponent, and we're a group of females."
Kuwabara looked slightly annoyed since it was against his ethics to fight girls, but he might have to fight a girl to finish the mission. He really didn't have the option to forfeit either. Kuwabara walked away from the group. Yusuke looked at him as if he had gone mad, Kurama seemed somewhat confused for he had heard of Kuwabara's honor code as had Hiei who just didn't care what the human did, so he had an expression of uncaring. As did Shiei and Nuema, but they hadn't heard of Kuwabara's honor code.
"I'll fight you." Under his breath he muttered, "Might as well get it over with sooner then later."
From behind him Nuema called out, "Just watch your back, Agashi uses moves focused on stealing her opponent's energy."
"Don't sound like its your execution, I won't kill you, your loss has a high chance of doing that for me."
"Enough already! Let's just get this over with." Kuwabara got into a fighting stance; he was about to form his spirit sword when he decided not to. 'I'll save that for when I need it. She doesn't seem to have a weapon, it wouldn't be fair.' Instead he opted to try and punch Agashi, keyword was try.
Agashi stifled a yawn as Kuwabara charged at her. Just before his punch would have hit Agashi, she raised a hand and caught his fist. Simultaneously, she threw her own punch at Kuwabara as he was caught. A white flame had formed around both hands by this point.
When Agashi's fist collided with Kuwabara's chest, she let go of Kuwabara's fist and he flew backwards, crashing into a cave wall. Loose rocks were jolted out of their place and landed on Kuwabara's head. As he had flown backwards, he had continuously lost some of his spirit energy, a glimmering trail of yellow sparkles of spirit energy marked his flight path. After a few moments the trail vanished along with the dust created by the falling rocks.
After a few more moments passed, Kuwabara stood slowly from the rubble. There were a few bruises on his skin. His left hand was burned where Agashi had caught it and where the flames had touched. Where Agashi had punched him his shirt had been burned off and the revealed skin had been burned. His black eyes said he was clearly in a lot of pain. Kuwabara clenched his left hand, 'Darn, that was my sword hand too.'
Agashi watched Kuwabara struggle to stay up and not give into the pain she had dealt him. "This was pathetic," She pointed the palm of her hand a Kuwabara and a beam of energy shot from it and became wide enough to completely surround Kuwabara. It completely drained him of all energy that he didn't need to live.
Kuwabara collapsed from a lack of energy.
"I believe I win. This counts as a loss on your part. You may continue now." Agashi disappeared and the white flames disappeared showing the short path to the next room. Everyone ran over to Kuwabara, except Hiei and Shiei who stayed still and Nuema who walked. Nuema point the index and middle fingers of one hand at Kuwabara's body. The sparkles of energy that had faded before reappeared and gathered around Nuema's two fingers and entered Kuwabara's lithe form. After the energy in the air was used up, Nuema returned her hand to her side.
"Someone tow the moron along." She left through the newly opened passage and was followed by Hiei, Shiei and Kurama. Yusuke looked down at Kuwabara who had woken up.
"What happened?""You lost, now come on!" Yusuke ran off in the direction the others had and was followed by a slightly unsteady Kuwabara.