The Technique Stealer

When Yusuke and Kuwabara entered the next room, they saw another female demon, wearing a similar outfit to Agashi's. Her hair was a dark green shade and she had red-orange eyes. She smirked as the others came into the room as the hole returned to solid rock.

Yusuke spoke first, "Let me guess, one of us has to fight against you now."

"That would be correct."

"Fine, then I'll fight you." Yusuke walked away from everyone else.

"Yusuke, I would advise discretion."

"Yeah, yeah, fox boy. Got any info on her Nuema?"

"Sorry, I've got none. She must have joined after Delis left."

"Alright then."

"Urameshi, you had better not lose."

"I'm not planning to lose." Although he sounded over confident, he was, being typical of himself. "Who are you?"

"Aika. Care to begin?" Although the statement was polite, her voice held a dangerous threat. Yusuke nodded and wondered about a vague plan of attack. Suddenly, a dart was flying at Yusuke. He quickly jumped up to avoid the dart. By doing so, however, the dart continued its flight which made it fly directly towards the group, namely Kurama.

Kurama moved to the side and managed to keep himself from harm, but not his hair. The small portion of red that was hit was instantly singed off. The dart hit the earthen wall behind him and the surrounding rock was melted slight. It cooled in a few seconds and it gained a slick appearance. The black dart slowly disappeared and a thick black liquid slid down the wall, burning a thick deep trail in the wall as it moved down.

"Hey! One, I wasn't ready and two, leave them out of this!"

"Its not my fault if you dodge an attack and it just happed to head towards them. And you said you were ready."

Yusuke suddenly looked very pissed. He ran towards Aika and tried to punch her. She twisted her torso so it was perpendicular to Yusuke and dodged that punch. But Yusuke then used his other arm and brought it into a fist.

Then the both started to trade blows, and it seemed like Yusuke was getting the better of Aika, then she started to overpower him, then Yusuke got the upper-hand. Yusuke got hit in the jaw and was sent flying a few yards. Before the dust could settle he was back on his feet. He raised a hand and rubbed the bruised part of his lower jaw. Yusuke used his thumb to wipe away a small trail of blood from the corner of his mouth.

His expression got more serious and he raised his hand almost in the shape of a fist, however his thumb was sticking up and his index finger was pointed at Aika. A dull white glow started to form around the tip of his finger. After the dull glow turned into a bright orb of light he pressed his thumb against the glowing index finger and the energy orb shot from his finger directly at Aika.

"Reigun!"

Aika didn't move a muscle to dodge the blast. As the blast was millimeters from her abdomen, she finally jumped backwards. The shot shattered and turned into sparks of energy. Yusuke started to charge up another shot to dodge a shot similar to the one from his spirit gun, but it was surrounded by a dark aura of energy.

"Dammit! That's my move!"

"My knowledge of techniques is vast." A sadistic smirk appeared on Aika's face.

A slight flint of anger showed in Yusuke's otherwise serious eyes as he crouched down lower to the ground. He pulled the elbow of his right hand back and a glow formed around a freshly formed fist of his right side. He punched the air with his glowing fist and hundreds of bullets flew from his hand towards Aika.

"Shot Gun!"

She dodged half of the ones that went towards her, got hit by a few others and caught more in her hands. She smirked and did exactly as Yusuke had a few seconds ago, only silently, however the bullets were covered in a black aura. Yusuke looked extremely annoyed and sent off another volley of spirit bullets. All the bullets collided and caused miniature explosions.

"Can't you do something of your own?" Yusuke shouted at her, sounding very annoyed.

"Yes, I can." Aika smirked and raised her left arm. Dark flames burst around said appendage covering it completely from elbow to fingertip. The flames around her fingers ended in a log point. In a quick movement she was behind Yusuke before he had proper time to react. She reached out her arm and stuck it through his chest without causing him harm. Yusuke's eyes widened and he felt cold. His skin paled and he collapsed. In Aika's hand was a glass-like orb with a dull white glow to it and a white flame inside.

She twisted her torso to face the others and glance at them sideways. She raised her hand, holding the orb delicately in her claws. She smirked evilly.

"It's amazing how delicate a soul is, no matter how strong its owner. I could shatter it if I wanted to." She smirked and closed her hand a white flame flew out of her hand a faded quickly. Shiei smirked, Hiei gave no reaction, Nuema was slightly bothered, Kurama was annoyed and Kuwabara was just plain pissed off.

"Hey! How come you did that to Urameshi's soul?" Kuwabara looked about ready to charge at Aika, despite his recent loss.

Kurama recognized this instantly. "Kuwabara, stay here." Kurama glared starting to raise a hand into his hair.

"Kurama, don't be stupid. Let me handle this, you'll need your energy." Heedless of Kurama's reaction she moved forward, "Aika, you haven't fooled me, so stop acting."

Aika frowned at Nuema, and she got a few glances at her back like she had lost it. Aika flicked her wrist downwards, opening her hand. Yusuke's soul fell between her index and middle fingers. "You're quite the smart one. Catch, although either way it's your second loss." Aika flung the orb at Nuema at shattering velocity and disappeared.

Using telekinetic energy to stop the soul gently she let it drop into an outstretched hand. She then turned to face the group with a "what did I do?" expression.

"How did you call her bluff? You said you didn't know her." Kurama, now reassured of the safety of his friend's soul, had become curious.

"The technique Aika used was probably stolen in a similar fashion to the way she took Yusuke's moves from a member that Delis did know. With such a move, one can't even bring the slightest nick to a soul."

She flung the orb at Yusuke's body, which is entered with almost no problem. Yusuke sat up rubbing his head mere moments later.

"What the happened?"

"You lost." Just then the door opened, telling them to continue.