Chapter 7: Boat side Troubles

The month they had to prepare came and went. To Rai, the days went by very slowly. To everyone else, there wasn't enough. Hiei had noticed that whenever she wasn't training, she was very distracted and had a tendency to walk into things. But now that today was the day to go to the ship, she was more focused than he had seen her.

"Wait a sec. Are we the guest team?" Kuwabara asked Rai. She looked at him and thought for a moment.

"Probably. Why do you ask?"

"That means we're gonna have to fight on the way over." He groaned.

"Doesn't matter to me. I have too much energy I need to waste." She said with a shrug.

"Isn't having a lot of energy a good thing?"

"It is, usually. But if I have too much energy, it's likely I'll overload or something like that. It's dangerous to be a lightning demon sometimes." She said with a sigh. "But I get over it. It has its payoffs." She added with a smirk.

"Ye weren't supposed to bring harem, you dolts!" A rough, deep voice shouted at them. It was a short, hairy man that seemed to be the captain of the ship.

Rai and Yasu looked at each other, then at the short hairy man that was shouting at them. Rai laughed while Yasu scowled. She wasn't the only one that was scowling.

"He thinks we're harem, Yasu. I guess he doesn't realize that we're fighters. I guess he can't count."

"If you even dare suggest that ridiculous idea again, I'll give you another mouth, right across the neck!" Yasu shouted back at the captain. She huffed silently.

Rai approached the captain using her speed. "Sorry about her short temper. You can believe me or not, but that girl and I are here to fight. Not be cheerleaders. We know how to fight."

The captain looked at her rather dubiously. He shrugged in indifference.

"Good. Thank you." She smiled and then turned to her friends. "Come on guys. I know we don't have all day here."

Everyone walked up the plank. Yasu glared daggers at the captain before setting foot on the ship. The ship started on its course to the island. Several demons seemed to look at Rai and Yasu thinking they might make very tasty morsels. Hiei and Kurama saw this and definitely didn't like it.

"Oh dear. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that some fighting will occur before we even set foot in the fighting dome? I could probably cut the tension with a knife." Rai commented.

"There will be fighting if everyone won't stop staring!" Yasu said irritably, "Although, I'd be more than happy to give anyone another eye. They just wouldn't be able to see out of it." She paused, "They'd die too."

Some demons stepped back. They were also getting the glares from the two boys that seemed to be their guardians and boyfriends.

"You two seem to be getting a lot of attention. You two are probably the only girls on the ship. I bet some of these guys would really love to have you on their team." Yusuke said jokingly.

There was a sound whack as Hiei hit him over the head with the hilt of his katana.

"What was that for?"

"Why do you think? Because you are joking about someone else claiming Hiei's woman." Rai said with a smile. "I don't think I would necessarily like what some of these guys would have in mind for us. Frankly, I would like to hurt some of them myself. Just for the fact of where they stare." She jabbed a thumb over her shoulder.

Suddenly, a giant, blue, scaly demon loomed behind her. She casually looked over her shoulder at it. It wasn't wearing very much.

"May I help you?" She asked it.

"Would you like to come over with us instead of these humans?" He spat out the last word.

"No thanks. We're fine with these humans. Bye now." She answered calmly

"We can guarantee you a good time." It put a scaly hand on her shoulder.

"You have until the count of three to take your hand off me. If I don't cut it off myself, that one over there will." She stated, pointing to Hiei who had taken out his katana. Her voice had a menacing tone to it that it certainly didn't have earlier.

The demon quickly left after it was freed of a few fingers.

"Wow. I didn't even get to one." She commented. Of course, now that incident had occurred, Hiei was standing next to her. He had an arm wrapped protectively around her waist. And Kurama was next to Yasu, filling any spot any other demon would try to take.

Kuwabara stared at Hiei. "What was with that?"

"What do you think, idiot?"

"Let me spell it out. Since that demon made an approach on us girls, Hiei and Kurama feel they need to assert the fact that we're their territory. Every man feels that need. If I meet one that doesn't feel the need to protect his girl, I'll punch him in the face. Besides, if Hiei hadn't of done that, I would have." Yasu explained.

"If I may have your attention, this is very important." A voice boomed out of a loudspeaker. "This is not a cruise. When the ring comes up, you must send a team member to the ring to fight. The last team standing shall take place as the sixteenth team in the tournament." As the voice spoke a ring rose out of the middle of the ship.

"Take about déjà vu." Yusuke muttered to himself.

"If you guys don't mind, I'll just go on up." Rai stood up, releasing herself from Hiei's arm. He grabbed her wrist in obvious disagreement. "No worries. I'm not weak. No one touches me if I don't want them to."

"What about earlier?" Hiei asked, not so sure.

"I needed to give him a warning. Besides, if I had, you might've gotten shocked." She put a finger his hand and gave the tiniest shock. He let go, feeling it throughout his body.

She jumped into the ring. The opponents were very much larger than her. The smallest was probably about two feet taller than her. Still, she smirked knowingly. There were several catcalls. Hiei cold only grit his teeth and wait.

The first to approach grabbed her from behind.

"Bad move, bozo." She said as he was shocked and barbequed to a crisp. "Whew, he doesn't smell much better barbequed than he did alive."

Before she could move, another demon ran at her. Like lightning, she dodged his attack. She sighed. She drew a shuriken and charged it with lightning. She threw it at him. There was a loud scream of agony before the demon collapsed, dead. She took back her shuriken and sighed.

"So stupid." Suddenly she felt a hand touch her in a place it shouldn't have. "That's it!" She raised a hand to the air and in a flash, she had caught lightning. She placed her other hand and seemed to pull the lightning so it grew into a gigantic ball.

"Lightning Destruction!" In a blinding flash of light, everyone in the ring, other than her, was dead. And so was half the ship. She deftly jumped down from the ring. Everyone in the group was staring at her.

"Someone was angry. Look how much power they produced." Yasu said, with a slightly amused look on her face. Rai's face dropped.

"Whoa! How'd you do that?" Kuwabara's jaws had dropped practically to the floor.

"That was quite a shock." Kurama said, adding a small pun in there.

"Oops. I didn't mean to generate that much energy." Rai said, looking at the damage she caused. "I was just a little mad. Come on, if no one would stop touching you, you would be ticked."

"A little anger gave you a lot of extra energy." Kurama said. Rai laughed a little.

"Well, I did have some extra energy. That's another reason I went up. To blow off some steam. Now I could probably touch metal with magnetizing or electrocuting anyone touching it."

Hiei looked at her. That earlier shock he had received from her must've been the smallest she could produce. She would probably call it a love shock or something of the like.

"Is it just me, or do those other guys look angry?" Yusuke asked, pointing at the approaching demons.

"No. They're mad." Rai agreed, looking over her shoulder. She turned around and sighed. She addressed one of them. "Let me guess, you have a problem with the fact I just wiped out half the ship?"

The demon nodded wordlessly and suddenly struck at the girl. It didn't even get halfway. Hiei was standing in front of her. The demon that had attacked was lying on the floor dead.

"This is déjà vu alright." Yusuke said with a sigh. Then they went to work.

About ten minutes later, the ship was full of dead bodies. The only people left were Team Toshimo and the crew.

"Now on to the Dark Tournament!" Rai shouted to no one.

Useless notes from the author:

Hey! It took an extra bit of time because I didn't get to type Sunday and I couldn't get in Monday. But here it is now. this chapter was pretty fun to write, all-in-all. An extra note is that I love saying Kuronue's name. And further more, I shall now call him Batman. Because he is.