A/N: Hello everyone. Thank you all for your reviews once again. So enough of my babbling… and on with the story.

Hiei takes up the fight

Yoko's death plant slowly drew closer to Kuwabara. Hiei narrowed his eyes as he made the decision to attack. He drew out his sword. ' This isn't something I would normally do…. But this is one of those times where I will just have to do it. Kurama means a lot to me… I will not allow this to continue!' Hiei charged at Yoko's plant. " KURAMA!"

Hiei ran at Yoko and cut off his death plant. The plant let out a cry as it feel to the ground. Yoko growled as he looked at the cut ends of his plant that were still on his arm. He turned in the direction that Hiei had gone. " Hiei…. How dare you interfere in this fight."

" You call this a fight? It's only one sided. You will fight with me Yoko." Hiei declared.

" Why should I waste my time fighting you Hiei? Even you don't have the strength to defeat me. If you really want to use your powers to do something…. Then join me and fight by my side."

Hiei narrowed his eyes. " I fight on no ones side. The only side I'm on is my own."

" Come now Hiei. We have the same desires. You want to gain more power to destroy the humans that made your life as it is. You want to get revenge on those who tossed you aside as though you were nothing. I can help you with that. Just come with me and Master Karuru can grant your request."

" The only thing this demon Karuru will do is mess with my mind. I can do what I want without his or anyone's help!"

" Fine Hiei… believe what you want. You still won't be able to defeat me. I know your weakness. You may try to hide it from me but your efforts are in vain."

" We will just have to see about that." Hiei walks over and cuts Kuwabara free. " Go tend to Yusuke. I'll take care of things here."

" Hiei… are you sure you can handle Yoko all by yourself?"

" I'll be fine. Now go!"

Kuwabara nodded. " Good luck."

Hiei watched Kuwabara go rush off to help Yusuke. The fire demon turned his attention to his best friend. " Now Yoko. It's just you and me now. I will no longer allow you to be controlled by some nut case!"

Yoko broke a smile. " Very well Hiei. You've got me interested."

" Good." Hiei said as he took his sword and charged at him.

Yoko smiled as he raised his rose whip dagger and blocked Hiei's attack. Hiei's sword snapped in half. Hiei growled as he threw down his useless sword. He lifted up his fists and they started to burn a fiery red. " There is one thing that I can use to defeat you, Yoko. Since all of your attacks have the same weakness it should be easy."

Yoko narrowed his eyes as he began to think about it. ' No… could he be thinking about using the fist of the mortal flame?'

Hiei smirked as he revealed his Jagan eye. " If you guessed I'd use the fist of the mortal flame… then your were right Yoko. You're through!" Hiei charged into action punching Kurama. Yoko quickly dodged each of his attacks. Hiei soon picked up the pace to not give Yoko to much of a edge on him. The fire demon managed to strike Yoko's plant dagger, burning it to cinders.

A small portion of Yoko's arms was burnt. The fox licked his arm. " Damn you Hiei!" With his good arm Yoko pulled out a rose. " No more playing around."

Hiei smirked. " Indeed. There is nothing you can do to me now Yoko. Anything you throw at me will be burnt."

" That is if you can catch it with your fists." Yoko transformed his new rose into a whip. He swung the whip over his head. " Rose whip torn wheel!" He shouted. The attack shot at Hiei. The fire apparition tried to avoid it however Yoko's attacks were dead on. However, thanks to his speed Hiei he got away with nothing but a few scratches.

Hiei looked at Yoko. " You will never be able to stop me. I know you… all your tactics… everything. Just stop this madness already."

" Silence! You know nothing!" Yoko darted toward Hiei, appearing right below him. He jumped upward giving Hiei a punch in the face. As Hiei flew up Yoko swung his leg around and kicked him in the gut. Hiei was sent flying until he crashed into a large rock formation.

Hiei hit it hard and crashed down to the ground. He cringed in pain as he tried to stand up. Yoko slowly approached. " You might as well stay down Hiei. Save yourself the agony of fighting me and just lay there and die."

Hiei finally stood up. " This isn't over yet. And I will not simply lie down and let you do this!"

Yoko laughed. " Very well Hiei. That was your last chance."

As Yoko was slowly walking toward Hiei. Kuwabara continued to work on Yusuke's wound. He had already cleared it out and was working on wrapping it. Kuwabara tore his shirt and used that as a bandage. He tired it on. " There. That's should take care of things for now."

Yusuke's eyes began to flutter. " Kuwabara?"

The big red head looked down at Yusuke. " Urameshi… Thank goodness. At least you're not dead."

" Hiei? Kurama? Where are they?"

Kuwabara turned his attention to where Hiei was. " Hiei is fighting with Yoko right now."

Yusuke struggled to get off the ground. " How's it going?"

" Not too good. Hiei is losing."

" We gotta help him." Yusuke insisted.

" You're in no shape to be fighting anyone… besides Hiei even told me not to get involved."

" Hiei told you not to get involved? What is he thinking!"

Hiei grabbed his arm and pulled off the bandage. This could he was attempting one thing. The dragon of the darkness flame. Yoko stood there only staring at Hiei's arm. " I see what you're doing Hiei… and it won't work."

" We won't know that until we try…." Hiei turned his hand upward and it started to gather energy. The black energy from the deeps of spirit world began to join with Hiei. Hiei smiled. " This is the beginning of the end for you Yoko."

To be continued..

Hey everyone. How was that? Pretty good? I know I had to leave another cliffy. As I said I want to drag this battle out of a while. But I can tell you this much. It's coming to an end soon. See what happens next time. Please review. Till next time.

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