Hey all! I apologize for making a really stupid mistake. I had accidently uploaded this chapter on the first part of this series. Gomen nasai. Thank you to BKKtE for pointing this out. Otherwise I would have been totally obvlivious to this horrid mistake for another day or two. (Hands BKKtE a cookie.) Thank you so much!

Chapter 13: Round Two

Yasu woke up to see Rai's happy face hovering over her. She muttered sleepily and turned over.

"Come on, Yasu! Today is round two! We can't be late!"

Yasu still didn't respond. Rai huffed to herself for a second.

"Heh, stay there. I've got an idea." She walked away from the bed. Yasu's eyes snapped open and bolted out of bed.

"Ah, drats! It was a good one too!" Rai snapped her fingers.

"Whatever." Yasu growled at the playfully whining lightning demon. "I suppose you're back up on energy." She said flatly.

"Yep! Whenever I just get rid of it, it doesn't take too long to come back. Especially if I've rested." Rai said, way too cheerful for this early in the morning. Yasu snarled at her. Her voice was getting irritating.

"Oh, I'll just let you get dressed. I'll go see if the boys are up. If only one of them's awake, we can have waking up the rest." She said as she walked out.

Yasu stretched while yawning. She wasn't the quickest one to wake up. She pulled out some clothes to fight in. It was her white sweatshirt and her faded blue pants. She pulled off the wrinkled clothes she slept in and pulled on her new ones. After yawning some more, she pulled out a brush and got to work on her hair. After having so many years of practice, she speeded through the task. She brought her soft brown hair into a tight ponytail and tied her customary red bandana behind her black bangs.

She nearly stumbled into the restroom. She turned on the cold water. After holding her hands in the clear, running water, she brought it up into her face. A hand whipped out to grab a towel and dry off her face. She emerged from the restroom in time to hear some loud shouts from the room. She chuckled to herself.

A second later, Rai came into the room, calm and collected, and slammed the door behind her. Yasu suddenly noticed that Rai's face was red.

"What happened?"

"Nothing." Rai went to the task of digging out her weapons. Yasu raised an eyebrow.

"Nothing, huh?" Yasu folded her arms. "You are going to tell me yourself, or I can ask one of the boys to do it. The choice is yours. I don't care who I hear it from, personally."

"Alright! I went in the boys' room, and Hiei was the only one awake. So I was talking to him. He was sitting at the window and I was standing in front of him. Hiei stood up. We were just innocently talking when someone pushes me from behind. I fall straight into Hiei. Thing is, we both fell. So I fell on top of him and we kind of, accidentally, ended up kissing. It would have been alright if we were the only ones awake, but." She paused.

"And?" Yasu inquired further.

"It would have been alright, but it turns out, everyone was awake. And everyone was laughing. Okay, so it was just Yusuke and Kuwabara that were all-out laughing, but you could see Kurama chuckling to himself." She stopped when she saw Yasu was trying to contain herself.

Rai went to her bed and picked up a pillow. In a flash, Rai was beating Yasu with it.

"Come on! We need to go down to the arena before we're late and made to forfeit!" Yasu shouted at Rai, snatching the pillow from her. She quickly smoothed herself and walked out the door, katana in hand. Rai followed suit.

"Come on! Admit it! You enjoyed it!" Yusuke was teasing Hiei mercilessly. Hiei looked like he was about to kill someone. Yusuke was having a lot of fun with the event.

"If you don't mind, I'll just go to the arena. See you there. You'd better not be late or else I'm going to have fun torturing each and every one of you until you die slowly." Rai said as she walked past the boys. Yasu simply shook her head as the boys quickly ran to catch up.

They were up against Team Azumi. Both captains agreed to one-on-one battling. As soon as one match was over, they would send another one in. And it was Yasu's turn to fight.

Her opponent was quick on his feet. His skin was hard and red, his dark eyes stood out. He was about, maybe six-foot in all. But height was nothing to Yasu. She faced him fearlessly.

"A pretty little thing like you shouldn't fight, but stay at home and wait for your man." The demon laughed at her. Yasu's eyes flashed maliciously. In a quick instant, the fight was over. Yasu had separated his head from his body.

"No one tells me what to do. And I don't like to be called 'pretty little thing' by anybody." She spat at the corpse. A piece of cloth somehow appeared in her hand. She wiped the blade of her katana with it before sheathing the bright blade.

"Nice job, Yasu!" Rai said happily.

"Feh. That match took twice as long than it should have." Yasu stated. Rai chuckled.

"Oh well. Not everything can go your way."

It was Yusuke's turn next. His opponent came up to his waist. Yusuke stared at the miniscule thing.

"Heh, short enough there, midget?" Yusuke joked.

"My name is Hijin. Don't let my size fool you, human. Because behind this short exterior, there's power."

"Let the fight begin!" Koto shouted from outside the ring.

As soon as the match started, Hijin began to disappear. Soon, he was completely invisible. Yusuke looked around himself, frantically searching for his invisible opponent. He heard a chuckle come from behind him Yusuke turned and punched. But he hit nothing.

"Heh, what's the matter? Can't see me? Heh, too bad, human."

"Come out where I can se you, coward!" Yusuke demanded to his unseen foe.

"I think not. It's fun toying with your tiny brain." With some invisible weapon, Hijin slashed at Yusuke, achieving a direct hit. Yusuke yelled out in pain. Again, Yusuke looked around him, searching for anything to help him.

Out of nowhere, Yusuke saw speckles of a red liquid floating in middle air. Those red spots were most likely his blood. Gotcha! He pointed his index finger and took aim.

"Reigun!" He shouted, firing off a great blast of spirit energy, sending Hijin straight into the wall. Koto began the count, but he didn't rise.

"Hah! Hard to hide if you've got something on you that isn't invisible, isn't it?" Yusuke had a full grin on his face.

"Maybe, Yusuke, but you need to rest before you lose even more blood." Rai reprimanded him.

Kurama was next up to bat. Yasu was definitely watching this one. She had been unconscious for most of the time he fought Himimaru and she had only seen Youko Kurama fight. She hadn't gotten to see much of his tactics over the time she knew him. This was a bit of a new experience.

Kurama's opponent was a bit odd. He was entirely blue, wore only black pants, and had green eyes that glowed for some odd reason.

"Do you have a death wish?" His voice was low, rumbling, and gravelly.

"Not particularly. I'd prefer not to die, considering I know someone who would very much like to bring me back to life and kill me again, just for dying the first time." Kurama responded, casting a quick glance at Yasu.

"Begin the match!" Koto cried out.

Elf: Sorry to cut you off there, folks! But I wanted to update before too long and my brain died on me. (The funeral is Tuesday. You're all invited!

Kuronue: If you killed your brain, you would currently be dead.

Elf: So? (mutters to self)Stupid technicalities. Anyways, I've been working on my story where my Batman... I haven't quite gotten to that part, but I'm getting there. You knows when I'll post it. (shrugs)