Authoress here.

Wow. PenPusherM is heading off to Florida...(grumbles) And so I have to write like a maniac until she gets back since she'll have no access to the internet.

I'm spending my time over Spring Break well, huh?

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Yu Yu Hakusho

"Now what are we gonna do with him?" Yusuke asked, frowning at Raidon and Yayoi. The two were embracing each other, Yayoi's tears flowing freely to land on the other demon.

Yusuke took the luxury of a quick glance around. Emiko, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara were paying attention to Raidon and Yayoi. He was the only one watching Tamasine and Ayame. Tomo had crumpled to the ground. No one had rushed to his aid. Ayame noticed that at the same time as Yusuke, and stood up, letting Tamasine's clawed hand slip from hers.

Somehow, Tomo managed to sit up as she walked towards him, putting a hand to his forehead and moaning groggily. "Damn you, fox," he grumbled at Emiko. "That shit gives you one hell of a headache."

Emiko's green eyes showed her curiosity. "You should have been rendered the same as those two," she said, her eyes flickering to the other two demons. "Why do you still have so much strength left?"

"I'm an elemental like you, earth...but I'm a really crappy one. I have some resistance to your poisons, but not completely." He groaned again. "Shit."

With Ayame's help, he managed to stand and accompany her to his brother. Ayame placed a hand on Tamasine's arm and was suddenly hit with a jolt of pain. Pulling back, she felt the pain lessen. Her eyes went wide. Why could she feel his pain?

True, her memory of earlier was blurry, but she was positive that this didn't happen before she had been kidnapped. Had something been done to her?

Her thoughts were forced from that as a real jolt hit her, this time being electricity. Raidon was standing, surrounded by a crackling orb of electricity. She let out a cry, the pain intense and white-hot. A moment later, and it had stopped. Raidon kept his hand raised in her direction.

"Underestimate me and pay the price," he panted, having only just recovered from Emiko's numbing pollen. "Her life hangs in the balance. Choose wisely, detective. Your life or hers."

"Don't pull this shit with me!" Yusuke snarled. "Let her go, or you die now!"

Yayoi had been forced back by the electrical current surrounding the man she loved. Now, she struggled to move once again to his side. "Raidon! Stop it! Stop it!" she begged.

She had opened her mouth to repeat the plea a third time, but the words never left her mouth. A bolt of lightning struck her chest. Her mouth formed a startled "O" as her body sunk to the ground, cords of blue light flickering around her for a moment. She fell on her side. Tears streaked down her lifeless cheeks to make several small puddles under her cheek. Her eyes remained open, staring blankly at nothing. Ayame screamed her name once before her heart stopped.

Ayame was hit by another wave of pain so intense that she sucked in her breath sharply until it subsided a moment later. Yayoi's heart had been hit with too much electricity, she realized, causing it to burst and cook inside her chest.

Tears slid down the human girl's cheeks to match the ones on Yayoi's. The second time this had happened to Ayame, and the pain had increased. Her eyes showed that the pain she felt was more than mental.

"Raidon!" she cried out, standing so abruptly that tears flew from her eyes to spatter Tamasine and Tomo. "What did you do to me?"

Raidon spared a glance at her, a smile curving on his handsome face. "Nothing, really. I heightened your spirit awareness to a very high extent. You don't just sense energy now. You feel it. You feel the pain of others."

"I've heard of that," Kurama muttered. "Koenma mentioned it once that there were people like that around the world, but he had never met one. They can sense the pain of others, and make excellent healers. Most of them are from the Ice World. Seeing it in a human is unheard of. The shock could kill her."

Raidon nodded. "The best thing about it is that she's bonded to me by it. If I die, so does she."

"You're bluffing."

"Make the shot and find out," he replied levelly.

Yusuke raised his hand to point an index finger at Raidon. Ayame's heart thudded in her chest. She bit her lip hard, fear getting the best of her. If Raidon spoke the truth, she could die in a matter of seconds. He could also kill her with his lightning if any of the others made a move.

That was when it hit her. Raidon was watching the others, not her. She could escape before he could stop her.

Her eyes landed on Yayoi's body, and something inside her snapped. Without thinking, Ayame stood up and rushed towards Raidon.

"This is for Yayoi!" she shouted, aiming a punch through the lightning. The beams of electricity hit her arm like bits of broken glass, leaving beaded red lines along her flesh. She did not notice.

Her punch connected with the side of his face, knocking him to the side momentarily and causing him to lose his balance. They rolled for perhaps a few seconds before he had her pinned to the floor. His cheek was red, his lip bleeding.

He panted, his breath hissing through his teeth. His eyes were locked to hers, and his clawed hand sought out her cheek. He pressed his bare flesh to hers, and she let out a cry of pain. She could feel the anguish of his entire life, mental and physical, pouring out into her.

Yusuke heard her cry out in a strangled voice, "Shoot...him!"

He hesitated. If he did, it could kill her too.

"Now!" she shrieked.

A second later, a blast of blue light disintegrated Raidon, his charred ashes floating on the air current generated by the blast to drift harmlessly away. Ayame felt the pain from that too, and she let out a strangled gasp before her body went limp. Yusuke rushed to her side, and seized her wrist.

"She's still alive...Raidon was lying." He breathed a sigh of relief.

Kurama was beside him in a moment. "Yes, but if she can still feel the pain of others, we need to find a solution right away."

Yusuke's eyes narrowed at the pile of ashes. "I think I have it figured out. Hiei, gimmie your sword."

"Not a chance in hell," he replied coldly.

Yusuke grabbed the blade of Hiei's unsheathed katana tightly and pulled his hand down, gashing his palm. Ayame didn't stir.

"She didn't feel that. Sensing pain was all that was tied to Raidon. She'll be fine."

"But you won't," Emiko replied coolly. "You're going to bleed to death if you don't sit still and give me your hand."

Tamasine and Tomo were watching from the other side of the room. Tamasine spoke first. "So she's okay?"

"She will be, yes," Emiko replied, using a piece of her sleeve to stop the bleeding on Yusuke's hand. "As for you two...I'm not sure."

Tomo shut his eyes briefly. "We committed a crime, huh?"

"More or less," Yusuke snapped. "You kidnapped a human."

Tamasine said sharply, "No, we didn't."

Yusuke's dark eyes locked onto the demons aqua orbs. "What?"

Tamasine drew himself up, and repeated loudly, "No we didn't. Yayoi is the one who kidnapped her. We watched over her, nothing more than that."

Yusuke opened his mouth to reply, but Tomo cut him off. "We're still guilty of aiding in Raidon's plot, but we escape the charges of kidnapping."

Kurama was silent. He knew that they had helped Raidon, and that the charges for a breach in the security of worlds were serious. The portal that lead to demon world, despite Raidon's death, was still there. It had stopped growing by this time and was incomplete, but still an issue.

"How are we gonna get rid of that portal?" asked Kuwabara, who was growing a little uneasy knowing that demons could come out of he could fall in at any given moment.

"I don't know," admitted Kurama. "But perhaps one of you does?"

Tamasine looked at the ground. Tomo was frowning. "It was something Raidon did. I have no idea how we could destroy it."

Yusuke was oblivious to the conversation between them. Moments before, he swore he had seen Ayame's eyelids move and thought that maybe she had woken up. She hadn't, but he still held her in his arms as he crouched on the floor beside her.

Yusuke Urameshi

Ayame is still unconscious. If Raidon weren't already dead, I'd kill him again for this. He murdered that cat-demon, but what do I care when you compare it to this? He had her kidnapped, he tortured her, and he would have killed her too if we hadn't shown up.

Holy shit. I just noticed. Her arm is bleeding pretty bad. That electricity was like spikes of broken glass that she dragged her arm through when he punched him. It was kinda stupid for her to do something like that, but it pissed of Raidon, so why not. I have to do something before she bleeds to death.

I didn't have any bandages, so I wound up shredding my shirt to stop the bleeding. Emiko was watching me, and seemed to realize what I was doing pretty fast. She ran over to help me, tying the knots that my fumbling hands couldn't seem to make.

"Yusuke," Kurama said once we had finished. "We figured it out."

"Figured what out?" I really meant it. I hadn't been paying attention to what they were talking about.

"You won't be happy about this," Hiei said calmly. "You missed."

I stood up, forgetting that I was holding Ayame in my arms. "What?"

Kurama sighed. "It's the only way this is possible. When you hit Raidon, you only destroyed his body. His soul escaped us. He has the power to posses people, and a second before you shot him, he fled."

I swore so profusely that any mother (besides mine) would've slapped me.

"Hiei could sense the psychic when Yayoi was following Ayame. Can't he just sense Raidon again?"

"I'm afraid that won't be possible," Kurama replied. "He already possessed someone. If it's a human, his energy will be masked. If it was another demon, he will have the same amount of energy as that demon, masking his own behind it so he appears normal."

I swore again, sinking back down to the ground. This was the second time I'd missed hitting a target on this case. The first time, I hit almost hit Ayame. The second, I let a dangerous criminal get away.

At least Ayame is okay now.

Yu Yu Hakusho

"Does that mean we gotta hunt him down again?" asked Kuwabara.

"I suppose it does," replied Kurama. "But it will be more difficult this time. We have no leads."

"Correction," said Tamasine, standing up. Tomo followed suit. "You have two."

END CHAPTER

I hope writers block doesn't hit me any time soon. I have a week off school!

(dances around in celebration)

Haru: Kindly ignore her. She's an idiot. Well, the end of the chapter. You know what to do. After you read it, review it!

Authoress out!