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Well, then. Ten reviews... ten pages to write... hm. That's the only downside to having more reviews and how I judge my chapters length. Ah, darn! Anyway, I suppose I should just get on the reviews, eh? Also, just so you know, I took out the italic flash back thingy in this chapter... just because it was stupid and now I can't think of anything else to put there. Sorry about that... Anway! Yeah... So! Thank very, extremely very, much;
Agent Dark Moose I actually didn't say much on what happened to him... left it up to you. This chapters action... I'm not really fretting about it. It's as good as it gets and I tried. I figure that's all that matter... right? I mean, no body's gonna throw tomato's at me if it turned out bad, will that? I personally didn't think I did too bad at all this chapter... that's just me, though.
YokoYoukai Aw, thank you! Yes... Kuwabara, a.k.a., the comic relief. Yeah. Well, in this chapter he saves a whole life. Anyway... Have you noticed? Both you and Agent Dark Moose have review every single chapter in this story since I first posted it up. Wow... thank you two bunches!
Kuranga108 Cliffhangers are my friend... Much more action in this chapter! I'm glad you liked the ending, I was slightly questioning it...
Hoshiko Megami Ah, it's okay. Thank you!
Ilikeyaoi I'm glad you liked the last chapter. Youko's... sort of fine... erm, not really... not the point either, though.
Bluespark Ah hah! Thank you very much! Yeah... that new movie coming out... I can't remember it's name at the moment. Anyway! Humans... poor, poor us. I like it went people ramble, sort of, they usually say rather interesting things...
Kitsune Kit No computer for a month? Geez... that would suck! Oh well, I hope you have fun doing whatever you're doing for a month. Cliffies a evil to the readers, not to the authors! n.n
mickylover303 I do that a lot too, to particular good chapters and stories, try to read them slowly... but you just can't because they're too good. Anyway! Thank you for the review... I'm glad someone thinks this has some suspense in this too, I never would have thought of it that way... Hm...
Liz Haha, well, here's your next chapter!
IwuxMyKenshyPoo I read a review on some other story that said reviews are just ways to make people read the next chapter. And it's true... it keeps people coming back for more. Well, here's the update... soooooo no need to threaten anymore! n.n; Golfish eating each others eyeballs out? Eh... that sounds like it's be really... nasty to watch happen. Eyeless fishes swimming around... yeah, that's be creepy, alright!
WARNING:
1. This story will contain Shonen-Ai in later chapters (will be mild), if you don't like it, don't read it.
2. Rated for reasons: Language and future scenes (blood, etc.)!
You have been warned!
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( Chapter Sixteen - Middle )
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Hiei fumed as he left Yuusuke, Kuwabara, Kuronue, and the whole lot of Karasu's evil human zombie minions behind him. Dammit, they, he, shouldn't have left Youko alone in the house with that bastard crow. Look what he had to do now! He had to go rescue the fox. Couldn't the fox take care of himself?
As he jumped from tree to tree with lightening fast speed, he began to feel two traces of ki. One was most definitely Youko. It wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to figure out who the other youki belonged to. He was sure even that Oaf, Kuwabara, could have figured this out, given the current circumstances.
Karasu.
He leapt out of the trees, skidding to a halt as Karasu and Youko came into view. The fox was clutching his currently bleeding left arm, glaring defiantly at the crow, who was sporting two rather nasty little gashes on his torso; the attack having cut through his clothing. Hiei presumed that the kitsune had put his claws to good use.
"Now, now, Youko. Really. That's not very nice." The crow was saying, crossing his arms across his chest, and Youko let go of his arm, raking his bloody fingers through his silky silvery locks. Karasu's eyes narrowed, and Youko blinked at the crow.
"What's wrong, Karasu? Suspicious?" The fox taunted, eyeing the crow with a slightly feral look.
"Who wouldn't be, Youko dearest?" Karasu said, rather offhandedly, "When the most notorious fox in Makai history pulls a seed out... shouldn't we all have reason to be slightly... apprehensive?"
"Apprehensive? That's a big word for you. How do you know you're not just scared?" Hiei said from the sidelines, taking a step forward farther into the clearing where Youko and Karasu were standing, "The rumors, myths, legends... wouldn't they give anyone reason to be... frightened while being threatened by Youko Kurama?"
"Indeed," Karasu said, sending Hiei a sharp, cool look, "Can't you mind your own business, little Jaganshi?" He was taunting the hi-youkai.
"No," Hiei said, taking another step into the clearing, "Not when he has something of mine." He chose, wisely, to ignore the 'little Jaganshi' comment. He wouldn't let it slide, Karasu would get paid for that, but not at the moment... The Jaganshi and Youko had a plan going, through some kind of mutual understanding.
"Does he now..." Karasu said, soundly slightly interested. Hiei smirked, he had the crow's attention. Youko caught Hiei's eyes for a brief second, nodding quickly while the crow was focused on the hi-youkai, then slowly moving around the clearing.
All Hiei had to do was keep the crow's attention. How hard could it be...? Not very.
"Hn," Was all Hiei said to Karasu as the crow turned slightly to face Hiei more.
"What would this... item be?" The crow asked, obviously intrigued, "It must be very valuable for you to keep such close tabs on the kitsune... is it?"
"...As far as 'family heirlooms' go... I suppose so. Why do you want to know?" The small demon sneered at the crow, narrowing his eyes slightly. Maybe he had gotten Karasu too interested in his hiruseki tear gem. There was no way that the crow was going to get it.
Youko was now directly behind Karasu. If only said crow would pay more attention to his so-called 'pet' he would actually live slightly longer. His many years in the occupation of 'thief' enabled him to sneak up behind Karasu without the crow noticing his movements. With the hi-youkai distracting the crow, this would go much smoother. The two demons before him were continuing their discussion, but Youko noticed that the Jaganshi's eyes were hard and cold. Hiei was getting tired of holding the crow off.
Youko would have to speed up if they wanted to complete this without Karasu losing interest in whatever the Jaganshi was saying. Youko wasn't listening to their conversation. He was staring intently at Karasu's back. The black clothing the crow wore was all that separated the fox from his goal.
Bending down, no noise emitting as he did so, the fox silently plucked a piece of grass from the ground. As he stood back up and held the grass in his open palm, the fox let some of his youki seep into the plant. This caused the grass to change slightly in appearance. The edges, especially the tip, of the grass became sharper, the whole plant growing an inch or two longer, but only slightly wider. Taking the seed he had extracted from his hair before Hiei had suddenly appeared, the fox placed it on the bottom of the blade of grass; where it had separated from the ground.
The kitsune rolled the bottom of the grass over, until the seed was only visible from the sides. The youki he put into the plant would keep the grass in this position, and it would deteriorate when Youko took his youki back from the plant. The seed, however, would not disappear and would stay in place until further notice; when Youko needed to use it. This was the last of this certain type of seed that he had, he couldn't afford to lose it. Where else better to put it than in the target itself... but without activating it yet?
Youko slid his golden eyes from his creation to Hiei's crimson ones, Karasu still in between them. He blinked twice, slowly, and the Jaganshi nodded; it was barely perceptible. The fox turned his eyes back to Karasu's back, choosing his mark carefully. From the center of the crow's back, up a little bit, and to the left only slightly would be where Youko would lodge his seed.
"Oh, well... My collection of... rare items is always in need of expansion." Karasu said, airily, "I could offer you money - twice as much as this gem is worth - for your item." Which probably isn't worth much... but any gem is rare. I need it. Just like I need Youko... dead, by my hands.
"Go fuck off." Hiei spat, looking at Youko intently. The fox nodded, he knew when Hiei said 'go' was when things were really going to get started. The fox silently slid his right foot back, getting ready to launch himself towards Karasu's back. Inside his head he did a mental count.
Three... two... one... GO!
The fox sprinted forward to the crow, he held his plant creation by where he had hidden the seed, the elongated and sharpened tip of the plant would be able to go through both Karasu's clothing and skin. As he neared the crow, he pulled his arm back and then thrust it forward, the blade of grass ripped through the clothing, the whole plant going into the skin, yet disappearing as soon as Youko took his youko from it. To cover himself up, the fox used his other hand to swiped down across Karasu's back with his claws, this time leaving not only two but three marks going diagonal across the crow's back. The cuts weren't as deep as the ones on Karasu's front, but blood slowly began to seep from the cuts; the seed was safe, lodged carefully within the crow's body.
Karasu's eyes widened as Youko put the plan into action, Hiei watched the scene with amusement. How the crow hadn't sensed the fox, he didn't care, this was too... entertaining for him to puzzle out unimportant things are the moment.
When Hiei saw the kitsune claw the crow in the back, Hiei took the crow's momentary moment of shock to punch him straight in the gut, sending the crow backwards, just as Youko dodged to the side, just barely missing getting thrown to the ground by Karasu's body.
The crow set a hand out as he was sent sliding backwards. Any shock or interest was gone from his expression. His brow was furrowed and his mouth was set in a frown, his violet eyes were cold.
"Now that," He said, his words were like ice, "Was not necessary."
Youko came up and went to stand beside Hiei, looking at the crow with a raised brow, "Oh, I think it was, Karasu. I'm not yours. I never was. I never will be. I'm not going with you just so you can kill me with those damned bombs of yours because you think it's... appealing. Fun. Exciting... Damn you."
"That's how it'll be, is it?" Karasu said, asking no one in particular, "Fine, then. I'll kill you here. It won't be as fun as torturing your body, a slow, deliberate death, but at least I can make sure it will be very painful."
With that done, the crow snapped his fingers. Youko froze as he saw the familiar green hazy color of Karasu's customary bombs. "We'll start now." Karasu said as he looked at the bomb. Without so much as blinking, the bomb inched nearer to Youko's pale skin. It crept and closer until the edges of it singed the fox's skin; and then it exploded.
The bomb ripped through Youko's skin, slightly burning the sleeve of his white shirt that ended near the shoulder, the fleshed was exposed and blood promptly started to fall from the kitsune's arm, running down it, starting a small crimson puddle in the grass. The bright, yet deep red color stood out against the dark emerald color of the grass.
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Yuusuke watched as Hiei dashed like a mad-man towards where ever he heard Youko's cry coming from. The detective turned to Kuronue, who was currently using his weapon - a sickle-like item, without the stick attached to the end, that Yuusuke hadn't noticed the bat had - to hack off numerous heads. Yuusuke took in a deep breath as another two humans were killed under Kuronue's watch. Well, it's not like these humans were 'good guys' anymore. They probably couldn't ever be 'good guys' again, Karasu had undoubtedly made sure of this.
Hell, Yuusuke thought, they weren't even humans anymore. It was like some kind of horror movie... that was particularly scary. It was loud, it was bloody - yes, the zombies could bleed -, it was getting to be damn annoying, but it wasn't scary.
"Hey... Bat guy... Kuronue!" Yuusuke called over the noise of the zombies yelling, and Kuwabara's ranting about being the best, "Hiei went off to find the fox-boy and, ...uh, I guess kill Karasu or something..."
"I noticed," Kuronue said, pushing his way through the crow of about eight-nine human-zombies left, "I suppose all we can do now is keep these things at bay. Oh... and make sure they don't get back into the house. I don't think Enma would take it well if his son was killed by these pathetically easy-to-beat humans... that aren't even humane anymore."
"Zombies." Yuusuke supplied, punching one of the zombies in the gut. He almost gagged as the human fell to the ground, blood dripping from his mouth. It was dead. He supposed that when Karasu had said they weren't as strong as he liked meant that any pretty rough, tough, I-mean-business punch to the gut would kill the things. For Yuusuke, Rekai's top detective, a tough punch by human standards was standard.
"Hai... zombies." Kuronue repeated him, swinging a sickle, smirking as it hacked another head off. This time the sickle hit a vane, a wave of blood washed over the bat and Tentai.
"Dammit," Yuusuke muttered under his breath, wiping blood from his face so he could see "Keiko's gonna kill me now. And this is nasty... some other dude's blood in your mouth, which was open and everything!"
"That brunette human girl?" Kuronue asked, Yuusuke nodded, "She's only human." The chimera said, kicked a zombie out of the way. He quirked a brow when it fell, dead, then sighed and added to his comment, "This is painfully... easy. The only problem is that there's so many of them. Oh... gods."
"Keiko's tough. You don't wanna know. What do ya see now...?"
"Look over there, those 'zombies' of yours have now got knives."
"But they're zombies," Kuwabara suddenly whined as one of them got him in the upper right arm with a knife (he then cut the zombie with his sword, thus killing it) as he was coming to their group of two people, now three with Kuwabara included, "They aren't supposed to have brains or anything... they don't know how to use knives!" The tall human declared.
"Kuwabara, you've been watchin' too many movies. Cause they're obviously using knives." Yuusuke snorted, "They were never dead so their slimy, gooey, graying brains never had the chance to be eaten by nasty million-legged ants."
"'Million-legged ants'?" Kuronue asked.
"Urameshi... don't do that! It's gross... Ech. Bad mental images..."
"Why, scared? And duh! Haven't you seen any million-legged ants in Makai?"
"No."
"I'm not scared, you punk!"
"Look who's talkin' Kuwabaka!"
"Urameshi... why I oughta go over there and take your puny little neck and break it, because I am Kuwabara-"
"Kazuma the Great. We know, asshole."
"I'm not'a asshole, idiot!"
"Ooh, threatening. You need some better insults."
"Urameshi..."
"What? We're suppose to be killing these zombies." Yuusuke said between grunts as he gave three of the 'creatures' a sharp rap on the head each.
"There's a zombie behind you-aaaaaah!" Kuwabara cried as he cut the head off the zombie, it's tan head with brown hair fell to the ground, blood spurted everyone, coating Kuwabara and his white clothing, spraying Kuronue and Yuusuke lightly with thin a crimson layer.
"Eh... thanks." Yuusuke said, acknowledging the fact that Kuwabara had probably just saved his life. Yuusuke balked and thought that thought again. Kuwabara had just saved his life. Yuusuke frowned, something was wrong with this picture. He could already picture Hiei laughing his stupid little demonic head off when he found how that the 'Oaf' had needed to protect the 'Detective'.
"Uh huh." Kuwabara took in his bloody state, "Aw, guys! Now I'll hafta get new clothes! Red doesn't come outta white!"
A human-zombie down.
"Poor Kuwabara. Since when did you care about clothes?"
"Does it really matter, guys? Look, there's, like, sixty-something of these 'zombies' left to kill. Let's hurry up and do that, okay?"
Another two zombies down for the count.
"Uh huh." Was the unanimous reply, Yuusuke and Kuwabara split up from the crow, each person to fight on their own.
However, as soon as they split up they realized something bad. When they, Yuusuke, Kuwabara, and Kuronue, were separated the zombies seemed to get a lot tougher.
"Dammit." Was the repeated remark as each fighters discovered this on his own.
Yuusuke was doing perfectly fine. He had killed about another fifteen zombies - they were still easy to kill... just harder to get at - and then he got stabbed from behind. Right through the abdomen. The detective looked down in surprise. His stomach was bleeding; his own blood was splattering the ground with a steady flow that wasn't all that slow, either. He immediately put his left hand to the wound, a feeble attempt to stop the bleeding.
Some stupid zombie had dared stab the Urameshi Yuusuke? Rekai's top Tentai? He went crazy... figuratively speaking, of course.
He didn't know how, but he was granted with a last bit of energy to kill the demons with. Holding up his hand, pointing out his index finger, the detective summoned his energy and aimed at a row of at least ten zombies lined up one after another. The detective fired the blast, the Rei Gan's blue 'bullet' going straight through the chests of each of those ten human-gone-zombie's.
The ground was coated with a fine layer of red, Yuusuke spun around and kicked another zombie in the gut just as he punched one at the side of the head.
Taking his left hand from his stomach wound the detective ducked under a stray swiped of a knife, coming up behind the zombie and quickly karate-chopping it in the back of the neck. The zombie fell forward, his knife falling to the ground. The detective picked it up and wielded it in front of himself.
With his new found weapon Yuusuke went about stabbing, punching, kicking, and Rei Gan-ing any zombie that came his way. Somehow, just when his energy was dwindling, he stumbled upon Kuwabara who was having his own bout with the zombies. The 'Oaf', as Hiei called him, was literally going around and circles, his spirit sword held out straight, cutting any zombie that dared to come near him. There was a circle of relatively clean grass where Kuwabara stood, and then the rest of the nearby area was covered with dead zombie bodies and their blood.
"Yah! You can't defeat me, you evil zombie guys!" The tall carrot-top was saying, suddenly running forward getting another zombie through the stomach. The last zombie near the two Rekai Tentai was dead.
Yuusuke quirked a brow. Kuwabara's style was different... but effective. The human turned around the saw the detective looking at him.
"Hey... Urameshi... What happened to you?"
"What do you think, Kuwabara? I got stabbed."
"Oh..." Kuwabara said, looking around, "Hey... guess what? There's no more zombies!"
Yuusuke did a tired sweep of the surrounding area. Sure enough there were no more humans that were standing besides Yuusuke and Kuwabara. Actually, no one was standing besides Yuusuke and Kuwabara.
"Oi, where's Kuronue?" Yuusuke asked his companion, seeing no sign of the chimera.
"Dunno," Kuwabara said, starting to carefully pick his way through the dead bodies.
The two Tentai began to search for the bat. The area surrounding the hideout was littered with bodies, laying all over the place. Yuusuke blinked away sleep from his eyes tiredly, all the action within the past few days was taking a toll on him. He was tired.
"There he is!" Kuwabara exclaimed, picking his way over to a limp form that resembled Kuronue, "What happened to him?"
"He... was still recovering from whatever Karasu did to him earlier... Remember?" Yuusuke said, "I bet the worst of his wounds were still healing, so I guess they reopened and he got caught with some kind of knife or something."
"Oh." The carrot-top said, leaning over the body, heaving it up and somehow managing to put the chimera on his back.
"Let's head back to the hideout," Yuusuke said, already leading the way back.
"'Kay," Kuwabara replied, he didn't have any complaints.
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When the bomb exploded into his skin, a cry escaped from Youko's throat. He bit his lip as the other shoulder he possessed started to bleed too. Only, this time the wound was a bit deeper.
When the fox was finally done examining his new wound, he looked at Hiei out of the corner of his eye. The Jaganshi was tense, sneering at Karasu with hatred. Youko was slightly surprised. He was the one who should be ready to rip Karasu's guts out. And then, he realized, he did want to. A low growl snaked its way out into the open.
"That was a stupid move on your part, Karasu." The fox said, with a low tone.
"Whatever you say," Karasu through the warning over his shoulder, looking at the fox. The crow put on a malicious grin, "Shall we continue, then?"
Youko didn't answer, but started to concentrate on the grass beneath Karasu's feet. Extending tendrils of his youki to the grass, the blades began to sharpen and Youko made sure the blades went through the soles of the crow's shoes.
Karasu let out a small hiss of surprise when the bottoms of his feet were poked, sharply, by the grass underneath him. He jumped backward away from his spot on the grass, eyes instantly turning to the youko.
"That was a nasty little trick to play, Youko," The crow remarked, "But now it's my turn."
"Whatever you say, Karasu," Youko said, advancing slightly to the side.
The crow smiled, and without doing anything, summoned three more bombs, stationed so that they formed a triangle if connected, Youko was in the middle. Then the bombs began to move forward, inching closer every second. The fox was trapped within their triangular shape, so the fox stood still. If he couldn't get away from the attacks, he would have to take them on. He could do it...
Hopefully.
The bombs touched his body at different times, they were level with his torso area, first one on the chest, another once again on the arm, and the last one straight in the back.
Youko's eyes widened, his golden orbs shining with shock. The pain was much more than he had thought it would be. The bombs tore away at the skin, burning it where it hadn't completely been blown away. Blood began to seep out of the wounds, Youko's shirt was left in partial tatters. His flesh was exposed to the cool air, the wounds began to sting with a biting pain as the air came into contact with the flesh. Closing his eyes momentarily, Youko allowed his body to sink to his knees. He didn't put a hand to his wounds, that would only hurt more; possibly raising the chance of infection even higher.
Karasu's eyes dancing merrily at the sight of Youko down on his knees, sucking down the pain. A hiss escaped the fox, and the Jaganshi began to growl. Karasu could care less what the Jaganshi thought at the moment. His precious fox was in pain. It was so... beautiful. The kitsune's blood began to seep into his clothing, running down his arms, dripping to the ground.
Hiei, on the other hand, was not enjoying the sight at all, growling at the sight of the youko pushing the pain away on his knees. A look at the crow told him this was exactly what Karasu wanted to happen.
Sliding his right foot back slightly, resting a hand on the hilt of his katana, using the other to hold the sheath, the hi-youkai made a move to go after the crow.
The fox reopened his eyes, looking warily at Karasu, but not really looking at him.
Hiei did a mental count down in his mind, and then suddenly he launched forward. For a second, Karasu didn't know what had hit him, only that the fox was still on the floor and the Jaganshi... the Jaganshi!
Hiei held out his katana, bring it down at a diagonal sweep, cutting through Karasu's clothing, getting at his skin. He smirked when the cut filled up with red liquid. Holding his katana out to the side he brought his bandaged arm and punched Karasu in the just above the gut, the solar plexus.
Karasu stumbled back a few feet, the wind having been efficiently knocking out from him, but the demi-koorime was quick and came up behind the crow, brining up a leg and kicking him in the back, sending the crow forward. Hiei came around to Karasu's front again, but this time the crow was prepared. Karasu looked at Hiei's ruby-red eyes and smirked. A mix between a growl and a cry of pain escaped from the Jaganshi's throat, he had been wounded in the back by Karasu and his stupid little bombs.
Youko snapped back to reality at Hiei's cry and looked up to see Karasu getting to his feet, smiling with a rather conceited grin. The fox moving on leg to his foot was on the ground, one knee still on the grass. He put one hand down on the ground also, and used this position to help launch himself after Karasu.
The crow wasn't exactly expecting Youko's attack, and was knocked over sideways, the youko going with him. They rolled over on the ground, and finally landed with Karasu on top of the fox, hands on either side of the fox's head. Leaning forward the crow position his mouth near one of Youko's twitching ears.
"You look beautiful covered in your own blood," The crow remarked, softly whispering into the kitsune's ear. "But I want more... All your blood needs to be spilled on the ground... a wonderful sight, ne?"
Lifting his head back up the crow looked at the fox's golden eyes. They were wide with some sort of fear-shock combination, and they were glaring at the crow with hatred. Karasu chuckled lightly; this was too perfect to be real.
He couldn't pass up the opportunity. He was so close to the fox...
So Karasu went back down again and captured the foxes lips in a harsh, bruising kiss. Youko's eyes widened still, and a growl rumbled from low in his throat. Hiei, who had recovered from his shock was watching the scene, his own red eyes wide with surprise.
He had not been expecting that.
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I was going to have this be a really long chapter, but I decided I'd save the next part for later. First, though, there are some things I want to cover:
1. I won't have Karasu be turning into that blonde-haired version of himself. Why? Well, because, one, I don't feel like it, and two, he looks so much better as he is now. n.n;
2. Next chapter; no matter how many reviews I receive, there's no way I'll be able to lengthen the chapter out any more than what it's at now. If I do, it'll just drag on and get a bit of a boring streak to it. I'll do what I can, but no guarantees.
So, that's that. Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter. It took me a total of three days ( writing about thirty minutes to an hour each day ) to complete. Then I was lazy... and it took a bit longer. Anyway. Please, have a big nice heart and review? Thank you!