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Episode 7
"You can run Hiei, but you can't hide," Hitan said, laughing softly. His voice was soft and quiet, but cold and cruel at the same time.
Hiei was disappearing and reappearing all over the arena, and each time he appeared, Hitan would throw a shuriken in that direction. None of them hit, but many were close.
"This is boring, Hiei. Why don't you come and fight me... like a man?" He asked, smirking.
"Shut up," Hiei replied, drawing his sword. Hitan drew a shorter sword. They stood, in fighting stances, then flashed at each other.
"Dude, can anyone see what they're doing? I just see two black blurs."
"I can distinguish the differences between the two blurs, but I can't really tell whether any of them is delivering any critical hits."
"They're about equal," Akuryou said. Just as she said that, the blade of someone's sword came flying into the air and stuck into the ground at Akuryou's feet. "Ok, maybe not."
One black blur, Hitan, landed lightly on the ground, looking smug. The second blur, Hiei, landed as well, holding the handle of his sword. He looked disdainfully at the blade stuck in the grass. Then he turned to glare at Hitan.
"Sorry about your sword," Said Hitan sarcastically.
"Hn, I don't need a sword to defeat you," Hiei smirked. "My right arm will be sufficient."
Hitan's eyes narrowed. Hiei started to unravel the bandages on his arm. Slowly, the black dragon tattoo on his arm started to appear. Hitan's eyes widened. Hiei's spirit energy gathered in his arm.
"Prepare to die! DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!!" The flaming black dragon flew straight at Hitan, who crossed his arms in front of him to defend himself. The dragon drove him right through the stadium wall, obliterating all of the demons in the audience in that area.
When the dragon finally dissipated, Hitan was lying deep in the walls of the stadium, thoroughly scorched and unconscious.
"Well, um... I guess I better start counting!" Kori said hesitantly. "Ten... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two... and ONE!!! FIGHTER HITAN IS OUT OF BATTLE!!!"
Chiku, the little boy from the opposing team, jumped up on stage.
"Yay! I get to fight now!" He grinned happily, doing cartwheels on the stage. "Send out all the weaklings you want! I'll beat you all up! Ha!"
"He doesn't act very much like a little kid," Yusuke remarked.
"Nope," Kuwabara answered, watching Hiei fall off the arena half asleep.
"Why don't you fight him, Kuwabara? You might have better luck with him than Rinku."
"What are you talking about Urameshi?! I could—"
Kuwabara's reply was cut short by a grunt from Akari. "Who's going to go fight?"
"I will," Kurama said. He left Hiei leaning against the wall sleeping and jumped onto the arena.
"Ooh! You're that fox demon Kanaria nee-chan told me about!" Chiku exclaimed. "She said you're the only guy on that team with brains."
Kurama raised his eyebrows and chuckled slightly. "Really?"
"Yeah!" Came the wide-eyed answer.
"Well then, my thanks to your sister," Kurama said politely.
Kill him! A voice suddenly said in Kurama's voice. Wait a sec, he thought. That's not my voice! It must be a telepathic of some sort. Kurama looked around cautiously, then shot a glance at Chiku. No, it couldn't be him, Kurama thought. His voice isn't deep enough. The leader? Rantou was sitting against the wall opposite Kurama taking a nap.
"FIGHTERS, START!" Kori yelled into her microphone.
"About time!" The little boy yelled, jumping at Kurama. Small reiki rings, similar to the ones Kanaria made, formed on his fingers. "Take this!" He crowed, throwing the reiki. Kurama dodged every ring skillfully. His eyes widened. The boy's aura was strange... When the fight started, his aura was small, and stayed close to his body. Now it was branching out in every direction, giving the impression that a flame of some sort surrounded Chiku. Even worse was that his aura was getting larger and more active by the second.
) Akuryou (
I hate medic tents. I hate the medics even more. For people who were so rich, it wouldn't be such a problem to hire decent medics for such a big event! But no, they hire low class apparitions who don't know what they're doing. AND to top it all off, Giori, the fat rich man from earlier, made me come here to nurse my wounds. Argh. I was sitting on a small, dingy cot wrapping bandages around my arm when Kanaria came in. She looked away, and avoided my eyes. The girl walked to her teammate's cot. Hitan was still looking fried. He wouldn't, if the medic had listened to me and poured water over him. But no, she's a medic! So what do I know about healing? What a bitch.
Anyhow, Kanaria came in and was just sitting there. When she heard "FIGHTERS, START!" she jumped up in alarm and ran outside looking frightened.
This puzzled me, but I ignored it and continued to wrap bandages around my arms. Damn it, the weights I had put in were slipping again. Stupid cheap ass at the market told me they were anti slip. I sighed, put them back in place and finished wrapping up my arms. Oh well, I'll get him later.
Suddenly, an aura from somewhere nearby spiked. Literally. Well, it more flamed and was lashing out everywhere, but what ever. I jumped off the cot despite the medic's protests and ran outside. Kanaria was staring horror stricken at Chiku.
"No! I thought it left..." she whispered.
"You thought what left?" I asked.
Forgetting who I was, Kanaria quickly explained. "When I found Chiku, I thought he was a normal boy. But one day, bandits attacked us while we were traveling and they were about to kill him when something happened. He changed completely, and killed all of the bandits. When they were all dead, Chiku fainted. When he woke up, he had no memory of what happened. While the demon took control of his body, he was facing his worst nightmares. He was so frightened. I took him to a shrine to figure out what was wrong..." Kanaria bit her lip. "Itachi the weasel demon is living inside him." (A/N: Itachi means weasel. Sounds stupid, Weasel, the weasel demon :P)
"So you think Itachi is coming out now?"
"I'm afraid so," Kanaria replied. "I thought those priests had exorcised him completely..."
"No priest can exorcise very powerful demons completely. Besides, exorcism is for ghosts," I sighed.
Kanaria shook her head. "But I promised to him that I would always protect him... And that the demon would never come back. That he was safe from his nightmares..." She sniffed.
"No one is ever safe from their nightmares," I said. I know, I thought to myself. I still haven't recovered fully from one encounter.
) Kurama (
I could see a shadow of a demon behind Chiku. Was the boy possessed? No wait! He must be like me, having a demon live inside him!
Chiku bared his teeth and snarled at me. His canines elongated. His fingers became claws. He snarled again and attacked in a flurry of claws. Shocked, I jumped back. Chiku landed short a few centimeters, and jumped straight up. Three gashes appeared on my face and I fell back. The wound stung greatly.
"NO!" Someone screamed. Distracted, I turned around to see Akuryou restraining Kanaria. The girl was struggling to get up to the arena.
"Stop! He can't hear you!"
"Let go of me! I promised that I would stop him if this ever happened again!"
"What the hell are you talking about? I thought you said you promised that Itachi was gone for good!" Akari hissed.
Chiku took advantage of my distractedness and attacked me. I was forced to take out my Rose whip, blocking his attacks. He jumped back as a small cut appeared on the back of his hand. He sat down a few meters away, licking the wound while keeping one eye on me.
) Akari (
"JUST LET ME GO!" Kanaria screamed. Chiku flopped his head to one side, looking in our direction. "CHIKU!"
"SHUT UP! HE'LL COME EAT YOU!" I bellowed.
"Eat ... me?" Kanaria stopped screaming and panted. I loosened my hold on her arms.
"Yes, Itachi is a human eating weasel demon. Didn't those priests tell you?" I asked. She shook her head. "Well, he is."
"Chiku..." She whimpered. The boy looked at her a second more, then leaped to his feet.
) Chiku (
Kill. Destroy. EAT! Eat the scary man. Rip out his heart and drink his blood.
) Kurama (
I was at loss of what to do. Youko was telling me to kill Itachi (something about stolen rabbits), and I didn't want to.
You don't have a choice, Youko said. If you don't kill him, he will eat you alive! Let me kill him then, if you're too soft.
Be quiet, I thought. There must be a way...
If you knock him out, he'll try to eat you when he wakes up, Youko warned.
I ignored him. Youko, do you know how to exorcise demons?
Exorcising if for ghosts.
Er... Then extracting?
If I knew, I would have left this stupid body long ago.
Damn it! I glanced at my opponent. The boy was standing there, watching me curiously. Youko! I begged.
There is a way to separate them... but only for a while, Youko replied after a while.
Good! Tell me!
) Akari (
Kanaria had stopped screaming and was banging her head against the stadium wall with a steady thumping noise.
"Stop that," I snapped. "It's annoying."
She ignored me and kept banging. I shook my head and watched Kurama do a bunch of weird hand motions and chant something. Chiku understood this as much as I did, and watched Kurama with his head cocked to one side.
"Demon, separate!" Kurama yelled. Chiku's eyes opened in surprise, and he was surrounded by smoke. When the smoke finally cleared, a huge weasel was standing where he was moments before. It was pure black, except the tip of its tail was white. All of its fur was standing on end. The blood red eyes were the most frightening. Itachi the weasel demon. Let me rephrase that. Itachi the rabid weasel demon. Kurama's eyebrows disappeared into his bangs.
) Kurama (
Well, there he was.
What do I do now? I asked Youko.
What do you think? Kill him!
Right.
Hurry though! You only have ten minutes!
Right. I hadn't expected him to be so big though. I drew my rose whip, and slashed at Itachi. His nose was laid open, and he screeched in pain, swatting at me angrily.
Careful, he has poisonous claws, Youko warned as I darted and dodged around his claws. I slashed at his feet, leaving wide-open, bleeding cuts. He whirled around, tail facing me.
Look out. He can do weird stuff with his fur... Youko said.
WHAT?! Itachi's tail bristled. He brandished his tail at me, and several needle-like hairs flew straight at me.
Those are poisonous too, Youko added. Don't let one land too close to your head, or –
One of the flying hair needles hit my neck.
Oh, you're a goner, Youko chuckled.
Ah quit it, I snapped. If I die, you die.
Just kill him before the poison starts to take effect.
Right. I dodged more hair needles and landed on Itachi's back. I jumped quickly onto his head. Before he could react, I planted a seed in his ear. Itachi howled in protest and shook his head. I fell off, landing at a weird angle on my foot.
"Kurama! Look out!" Yusuke yelled. Itachi's paw appeared above me and slammed down. I dodged just in time.
) Akari (
"Let me go!" Kanaria yelled.
"No."
"LET ME GO!"
"NO!"
"WHY THE HELL NOT?!"
"You're going to knock a hole in your head, banging it against the wall like that," I replied. "Brains aren't very pretty."
"Hmph, like you care."
"Why must women be so difficult?!" I wailed, trying to restrain Kanaria's head from connecting with the wall. "Kurama are you done yet?!"
"But um... Akuryou, you're a woman..." Kuwabara said, scratching his head.
Before I could open my mouth to retort, there was a terrifying scream from the arena. Long green tendrils were snaking their way out of Itachi's ear, causing the weasel demon to cry out in pain. He tried to cut the vines, but they only grew faster. Kurama was watching with a look of bitterness on his face. The plant burst out of the top of Itachi's head, killing him instantly. But even after the body fell to the ground, it twitched and convulsed.
"Ew! That was like, totally gross! Um... I'll check to see if he's dead..." Kori said into her mic. "Yup, he's stone dead! KURAMA IS THE WINNER!"
The audience was happy. Very happy. So happy in fact, they started to throw things at Kurama. How nice. Kurama quickly jumped off the stage, narrowly escaping a can.
"Nice job!" Yusuke said, thumping Kurama on the back.
"Thanks, though I regret having had killed him in such a way." He stumbled.
"Kurama!" Yusuke and Kuwabara yelled, rushing to his side. "You alright?!"
"I think the poison in his fur is starting to take effect..." Kurama groaned.'
"Leave him to me," I said. "I'll take care of it."
"All right then..." Kuwabara backed off. "Wait, but... Where's the kid?"
Kanaria paled at this statement. "CHIKU!" She screamed, jerking from my grasp. The little boy was still on the arena, but unconscious.
"Um... There seems to be a problem..." Kori muttered.
"There is no problem," Rantou said, placing a hand on Kori's shoulder. "Kurama won fair and square. Now it my turn to take the stage!"
"Aagh! It's Randou again!" Yusuke yelped. "What a bastard, couldn't accept the fact that he lost, eh?"
"What are you talking about?" Randou yelled back. "I am NOT Randou! Randou was a disgrace, losing to humans like you!"
"Oh yeah? Well, you're gonna lose too!" Yusuke bellowed, about to jump onto the stage.
"Urameshi! This is my fight!" yelled Kuwabara, grabbing the back of Yusuke's shirt mid jump. Yusuke crashed to the ground. "You already fought Pako, remember?"
"Alright, alright! Don't get your panties all tied up in a knot..." Yusuke muttered, rubbing his head.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
"Nothing! Just get up there and fight!"
"Just what," Akuryou grumbled, shaking her head. "Have I gotten myself into?"
"AND NOW, LET THE MATCH BEGIN!!!" Kori yelled. Kuwabara stepped up onto the arena.
"You're goin' down!" He yelled at Rantou.
"You took the words right out of my mouth," Rantou replied, smirking.
Yay, it's finally done...
Akuryou:Why doI have to do this again?
Kurama: Because we say so (smiles)
Akuryou: Alright... (sigh) . Let the contest of hard heads begin! With Kuwabara facing Rantou, who knows what the out come will be? And what will become of Chiku? And Hitan? Do I even care?
Kurama: ...
Yusuke: Dude, you suck. Let me do it next time, Kurama!
Akuryou: Fine! You finish!
Yusuke: Ok! Stay tuned for the next episode of Yu Yu Hakusho!