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Chapter 17: bugs here and there too
Karuka lay there, still bleeding from her head. In the act of falling unconscious, Karuka obviously couldn't cloak her energy any longer and Hiei caught feel of her power. His eyes jolted open at the sudden surge of energy, but he hesitated to move.
'If I look for her then she will think I'm a stalker. I should leave her be.' He closed his eyes, unaware at what had really happened.
Then, on the other side of the river Karuka suddenly woke up with the taste of blood in her mouth. It seemed that the entrance of the liquid into her throat cut off her breathing ability causing her to wake up.
*cough, cough* "What the hell?" Karuka sat up baring the pain from her head.
'Ow! Man, how long was I out?' She grimaced and looked at the pool of her blood and horrid memories flooded into her mind.
'Damnit!' She hit the pool of blood with her fist as she remembered waking up in her dead family's blood as a child.
'Why can't they ever leave me alone?' Tears weld up into Karuka's eyes but she quickly wiped then away before they could fall into her blood. More memories entered her head but she tried her best to ignore them. She laid her hand upon the wound and it quickly healed over.
"I wonder if that was the best choice." Karuka's head still felt bad but she knew by morning it would be better.
"God, that was horrible. I need sleep, to bad I can't." Karuka sat awake for hours and just looked at the moon feeling the back of her newly healed head.
'Man, I shouldn't have wasted the power on that.' Karuka was thinking of her small amount of healing power that she got from her mother. It was limited though, after the sacrifice that she made, her once permanent healing power would be taken and she would only have a few more attempts at healing anything after that.
'I need rest.' Karuka fell asleep in the light of the moon, hoping that a dream would not visit her in her sleep.
*~ next day (number 5 I think... I lost count) ~*
'Where is she?' Hiei flitted from tree to tree trying to find Karuka. He knew that he couldn't leave without her, or he would have to feel her wrath once she found him again. Then, he caught sense of her energy and moved off in that direction.
'She's still sleeping?' Hiei looked down at Karuka's body and watched the rise of her chest as she slept soundly.
'Is that her blood?' Hiei knelt down to see the blood that Karuka laid next to, but he ignored it when he saw no evidence of her having an open wound.
'She must have killed something. Now, it's time for revenge.' Hiei got really close to Karuka's ear and shouted.
"Get up woman!" Karuka's eyes shot open and she fell to the side.
"Hey! What was that for?!" She stood up to be eye level with the fire demon.
"Revenge is sweet. Come on, we need to go." He turned around and started to walk off.
"Humph." Karuka followed.
*~ with the others ~* (A/N sorry I haven't visited them in a bit ^_^ ;)
"God! We've been looking for them for three days almost! Where could they have gone?" Yusuke groaned as he was searching for Hiei and Karuka under a rock, which was weird.
"Look, I don't think we should waste any more time looking for them. I'm sure that they can hold their own out here. Now, let's finish our mission without them." Kurama said.
"Good, I keep getting pricks from these thorns anyways." Kuwa said, sucking his scratched up fingers.
*~ with Hiei and Karuka ~*
"Your head seems to be better." Hiei said glancing over at Karuka.
"And yours didn't seem to be hurt at all." Karuka kept walking.
"Hn."
"What do you think they decided to do?" Karuka suddenly asked out of no where.
"What? Who?"
"The others stupid. Do you think that they're trying to look for us, or do you think that they continued the mission without us?"
"Why should I care?"
"You shouldn't, with your cold heart and everything. I don't know what I was thinking asking you." Karuka flipped her hair out of her face to see what was ahead of her.
Both Hiei and Karuka froze.
"You felt it too?" Karuka whispered to Hiei. He nodded.
"This one feels strong. Be careful." He said.
"Aren't I always?" Karuka was caught by the arm and pulled into the trees.
'Damn. Karma gets me again.' Karuka cut the invisible rope tied to her wrist and pushes off a tree with her feet back to her former standing place.
"Nice move. Maybe next time you could put us both in danger Miss always careful." Hiei took out his sword to wait for an oncoming opponent.
"Who dares enter my domain?" (A/N corny... I know)
"Hansel and Gretel. Come out and look stupid!" Karuka yelled out, still defenseless from having no weapon. Then, a large bug type demon came out from the trees and attacked the two. Karuka jumped out of the way, but Hiei stayed put and attacked. He sliced through the skin of the bug 17 times but somehow it stayed alive.
"Impossible. Who are you? How could you have survived that?" Hiei jumped back and stood by Karuka.
"My name is Onosawato and that was quite possible, as you could see. I've studied all moves in fighting and I can perfectly defend any attack. Now, no one comes into my territory and lives." Onosawato attacked again. Hiei and Karuka dodged.
"It seems territory is quite important here. Obviously they can't fight to see who is the strongest." Karuka said.
"Ha! You don't know beetle demons very well do you little girl? Like I said before, I can watch an attack midway through and build my outer shell to a perfect armor. You can't get an attack in, and you can't leave till you're dead."
"Ha, if you don't mind Hiei I would like to take him myself." Karuka looked ready to use a stashed away weapon but Hiei didn't see it her way.
"No, you got the overpowering bear, I get the conceited bug." Hiei leapt at Onosawato again. Onosawato looked to be concentrating on something really hard, but before Hiei attacked his shell grew larger to defend Hiei lashing at him 19 times with much more force. Again, it didn't work.
"Your attacks won't work. Swords are the easiest attacks to read, there's no use in trying again." Onosawato's shell shrunk and he got ready to attack Hiei.
"Can I take him now?" Karuka asked.
"If you're positive you can kill that annoying cockroach then fine. I want to get out of here as soon as possible." Hiei sheathed his sword and stepped back.
'Maybe now would be a good time to test that new weapon of mine.' Karuka stepped forward and a long and narrow shadow came up to her arm. Then, sprouting from her right hand, her 8 foot long wooden rod appeared and she got ready to attack.
"What the heck is that? A stick?" Onosawato laughed.
"Do you think that you can kill him with a twig that you broke off of a tree? Get serious or I'm taking control of this fight again." Hiei said with his hand on the handle of his sword.
"No. You've proven, Hiei that steel won't work in this situation. Don't you remember being a child and poking at the anthill with a stick? Well imagine that, but bigger." Karuka stepped into a fighting stance with the rod to her right.
"Fine, if you wish to die humiliated that's okay, just as long as you die!" Onosawato attacked and spread his wings, flying toward Karuka. She dodged.
"What? To afraid to hit me? Come on little girl, show me a fight." He flew towards Karuka who had landed on a branch and she dodged again.
"What are you doing? Attack him!" Hiei yelled from the ground.
'Patience stump. Patience.' Karuka landed on the ground with the rod in her left hand. She stood, ready to attack as Onosawato turned around and flew toward her.
She jumped full speed towards the bug and yellow glimmered in her eyes. She brought her rod up in front of her body and brought it down as she passed Onosawato over his head as he grew his shell to defend. It connected with his shoulder and he fell to the ground, dead.
"What? How did that happen? Couldn't he have grown his shell fast enough?" Hiei was dumbfounded.
"Oh, he could have, but he didn't. He expected less from the rod so when he thought that he was in perfect condition to defend when he produced a stronger shell, he had actually underestimated my power and the power of the wooden rod, therefore, my attack penetrated his outer armor, connecting with his weak body, and killing him." Karuka walked back and stood in front of Hiei's surprised face.
"Stop underestimating me. That's what got us here in the first place." Karuka walked past changing the rod into shadow.
*~ later ~*
"Think you can fish tonight?" Hiei asked Karuka as they stopped in an area to sleep for the night.
"So you liked the fish? Interesting, very interesting." Karuka joked.
"Shut up and answer."
"Fine, but you'll build the fire. You need to start pulling your weight around here." Karuka produced her spear and walked off.
Coming back, Karuka had a load of fish, and Hiei had started a fire.
"At least you know how to listen." Karuka dumped the fish to the right of the fire.
"Hn."
"Okay, to cook them, it takes a good seven minutes on each side for a plump fish. If the fish is below normal size, you should leave each side with four to five minutes, turning them slowly 360 degrees every thirty seconds or so-" Karuka looked up at Hiei's face and could tell he wasn't getting a word of it.
"Why don't I just cook them?" Hiei nodded.
Karuka stuck a few good sized fish on the stick above the fire and sat down. Hiei sat next to her.
"So about that stick." He started.
"It's a rod." Karuka said.
"Yes, a rod. So about the rod, how could it have had that amount of force?" He asked.
"Well, when the person holding it swings it really, really hard-" Karuka said.
"Shut up."
"Hn, fine. You see, anything can be strong enough to be a weapon as long as you give it the right amount of force. In the case of the wood, it has a potential to be really strong, but since it can break, I put a steel rod through the center of it to make it hold together better." Karuka turned the fish slightly.
"What do you mean you put the steel rod through it?" Hiei turned his head.
"Simple, I made it."
"How?"
"I can create almost any weapon I want with my tiger claws, and with my shadow power, I can manipulate their molecules to almost any substance known to the demon world." Karuka took the fish off the fire, and handed one to Hiei.
"That could be quite powerful." He took a bite of the juicy fish.
"Yes and the reason I made that was because it was easy to underestimate, like me." Karuka took a bite of her fish.
"Clever." He finished off the fish, wanting more.
The two actually talked a lot while they ate their large dinner. When they were done, they separated off to go and sleep.
*~ the others ~*
"I think I can see it." Yusuke said searching the area around him.
"Let's hope so, it's almost been a week." Kurama stepped behind Yusuke looking at the scenery.
"Where's Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked looking for him instead of looking at the far off building in front of him.
"AH! THEY'RE ALL OVER ME! HELP! HELP!" Kuwabara appeared out of the forest covered in beetles and jumping around like a maniac.
"Kuwabara! Stop fooling around and come on!" Yusuke grabbed him and pulled him nearer to the building while Kuwabara was swatting at the little bugs all over his body.
*~ Hiei and Karuka ~*
Hiei and Karuka were both laughing in their sleep, neither knew why.
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Shade- Would you call that ironic or a coincidence? Any who... I have nothing else to say but please review... so... please review
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Chapter 17: bugs here and there too
Karuka lay there, still bleeding from her head. In the act of falling unconscious, Karuka obviously couldn't cloak her energy any longer and Hiei caught feel of her power. His eyes jolted open at the sudden surge of energy, but he hesitated to move.
'If I look for her then she will think I'm a stalker. I should leave her be.' He closed his eyes, unaware at what had really happened.
Then, on the other side of the river Karuka suddenly woke up with the taste of blood in her mouth. It seemed that the entrance of the liquid into her throat cut off her breathing ability causing her to wake up.
*cough, cough* "What the hell?" Karuka sat up baring the pain from her head.
'Ow! Man, how long was I out?' She grimaced and looked at the pool of her blood and horrid memories flooded into her mind.
'Damnit!' She hit the pool of blood with her fist as she remembered waking up in her dead family's blood as a child.
'Why can't they ever leave me alone?' Tears weld up into Karuka's eyes but she quickly wiped then away before they could fall into her blood. More memories entered her head but she tried her best to ignore them. She laid her hand upon the wound and it quickly healed over.
"I wonder if that was the best choice." Karuka's head still felt bad but she knew by morning it would be better.
"God, that was horrible. I need sleep, to bad I can't." Karuka sat awake for hours and just looked at the moon feeling the back of her newly healed head.
'Man, I shouldn't have wasted the power on that.' Karuka was thinking of her small amount of healing power that she got from her mother. It was limited though, after the sacrifice that she made, her once permanent healing power would be taken and she would only have a few more attempts at healing anything after that.
'I need rest.' Karuka fell asleep in the light of the moon, hoping that a dream would not visit her in her sleep.
*~ next day (number 5 I think... I lost count) ~*
'Where is she?' Hiei flitted from tree to tree trying to find Karuka. He knew that he couldn't leave without her, or he would have to feel her wrath once she found him again. Then, he caught sense of her energy and moved off in that direction.
'She's still sleeping?' Hiei looked down at Karuka's body and watched the rise of her chest as she slept soundly.
'Is that her blood?' Hiei knelt down to see the blood that Karuka laid next to, but he ignored it when he saw no evidence of her having an open wound.
'She must have killed something. Now, it's time for revenge.' Hiei got really close to Karuka's ear and shouted.
"Get up woman!" Karuka's eyes shot open and she fell to the side.
"Hey! What was that for?!" She stood up to be eye level with the fire demon.
"Revenge is sweet. Come on, we need to go." He turned around and started to walk off.
"Humph." Karuka followed.
*~ with the others ~* (A/N sorry I haven't visited them in a bit ^_^ ;)
"God! We've been looking for them for three days almost! Where could they have gone?" Yusuke groaned as he was searching for Hiei and Karuka under a rock, which was weird.
"Look, I don't think we should waste any more time looking for them. I'm sure that they can hold their own out here. Now, let's finish our mission without them." Kurama said.
"Good, I keep getting pricks from these thorns anyways." Kuwa said, sucking his scratched up fingers.
*~ with Hiei and Karuka ~*
"Your head seems to be better." Hiei said glancing over at Karuka.
"And yours didn't seem to be hurt at all." Karuka kept walking.
"Hn."
"What do you think they decided to do?" Karuka suddenly asked out of no where.
"What? Who?"
"The others stupid. Do you think that they're trying to look for us, or do you think that they continued the mission without us?"
"Why should I care?"
"You shouldn't, with your cold heart and everything. I don't know what I was thinking asking you." Karuka flipped her hair out of her face to see what was ahead of her.
Both Hiei and Karuka froze.
"You felt it too?" Karuka whispered to Hiei. He nodded.
"This one feels strong. Be careful." He said.
"Aren't I always?" Karuka was caught by the arm and pulled into the trees.
'Damn. Karma gets me again.' Karuka cut the invisible rope tied to her wrist and pushes off a tree with her feet back to her former standing place.
"Nice move. Maybe next time you could put us both in danger Miss always careful." Hiei took out his sword to wait for an oncoming opponent.
"Who dares enter my domain?" (A/N corny... I know)
"Hansel and Gretel. Come out and look stupid!" Karuka yelled out, still defenseless from having no weapon. Then, a large bug type demon came out from the trees and attacked the two. Karuka jumped out of the way, but Hiei stayed put and attacked. He sliced through the skin of the bug 17 times but somehow it stayed alive.
"Impossible. Who are you? How could you have survived that?" Hiei jumped back and stood by Karuka.
"My name is Onosawato and that was quite possible, as you could see. I've studied all moves in fighting and I can perfectly defend any attack. Now, no one comes into my territory and lives." Onosawato attacked again. Hiei and Karuka dodged.
"It seems territory is quite important here. Obviously they can't fight to see who is the strongest." Karuka said.
"Ha! You don't know beetle demons very well do you little girl? Like I said before, I can watch an attack midway through and build my outer shell to a perfect armor. You can't get an attack in, and you can't leave till you're dead."
"Ha, if you don't mind Hiei I would like to take him myself." Karuka looked ready to use a stashed away weapon but Hiei didn't see it her way.
"No, you got the overpowering bear, I get the conceited bug." Hiei leapt at Onosawato again. Onosawato looked to be concentrating on something really hard, but before Hiei attacked his shell grew larger to defend Hiei lashing at him 19 times with much more force. Again, it didn't work.
"Your attacks won't work. Swords are the easiest attacks to read, there's no use in trying again." Onosawato's shell shrunk and he got ready to attack Hiei.
"Can I take him now?" Karuka asked.
"If you're positive you can kill that annoying cockroach then fine. I want to get out of here as soon as possible." Hiei sheathed his sword and stepped back.
'Maybe now would be a good time to test that new weapon of mine.' Karuka stepped forward and a long and narrow shadow came up to her arm. Then, sprouting from her right hand, her 8 foot long wooden rod appeared and she got ready to attack.
"What the heck is that? A stick?" Onosawato laughed.
"Do you think that you can kill him with a twig that you broke off of a tree? Get serious or I'm taking control of this fight again." Hiei said with his hand on the handle of his sword.
"No. You've proven, Hiei that steel won't work in this situation. Don't you remember being a child and poking at the anthill with a stick? Well imagine that, but bigger." Karuka stepped into a fighting stance with the rod to her right.
"Fine, if you wish to die humiliated that's okay, just as long as you die!" Onosawato attacked and spread his wings, flying toward Karuka. She dodged.
"What? To afraid to hit me? Come on little girl, show me a fight." He flew towards Karuka who had landed on a branch and she dodged again.
"What are you doing? Attack him!" Hiei yelled from the ground.
'Patience stump. Patience.' Karuka landed on the ground with the rod in her left hand. She stood, ready to attack as Onosawato turned around and flew toward her.
She jumped full speed towards the bug and yellow glimmered in her eyes. She brought her rod up in front of her body and brought it down as she passed Onosawato over his head as he grew his shell to defend. It connected with his shoulder and he fell to the ground, dead.
"What? How did that happen? Couldn't he have grown his shell fast enough?" Hiei was dumbfounded.
"Oh, he could have, but he didn't. He expected less from the rod so when he thought that he was in perfect condition to defend when he produced a stronger shell, he had actually underestimated my power and the power of the wooden rod, therefore, my attack penetrated his outer armor, connecting with his weak body, and killing him." Karuka walked back and stood in front of Hiei's surprised face.
"Stop underestimating me. That's what got us here in the first place." Karuka walked past changing the rod into shadow.
*~ later ~*
"Think you can fish tonight?" Hiei asked Karuka as they stopped in an area to sleep for the night.
"So you liked the fish? Interesting, very interesting." Karuka joked.
"Shut up and answer."
"Fine, but you'll build the fire. You need to start pulling your weight around here." Karuka produced her spear and walked off.
Coming back, Karuka had a load of fish, and Hiei had started a fire.
"At least you know how to listen." Karuka dumped the fish to the right of the fire.
"Hn."
"Okay, to cook them, it takes a good seven minutes on each side for a plump fish. If the fish is below normal size, you should leave each side with four to five minutes, turning them slowly 360 degrees every thirty seconds or so-" Karuka looked up at Hiei's face and could tell he wasn't getting a word of it.
"Why don't I just cook them?" Hiei nodded.
Karuka stuck a few good sized fish on the stick above the fire and sat down. Hiei sat next to her.
"So about that stick." He started.
"It's a rod." Karuka said.
"Yes, a rod. So about the rod, how could it have had that amount of force?" He asked.
"Well, when the person holding it swings it really, really hard-" Karuka said.
"Shut up."
"Hn, fine. You see, anything can be strong enough to be a weapon as long as you give it the right amount of force. In the case of the wood, it has a potential to be really strong, but since it can break, I put a steel rod through the center of it to make it hold together better." Karuka turned the fish slightly.
"What do you mean you put the steel rod through it?" Hiei turned his head.
"Simple, I made it."
"How?"
"I can create almost any weapon I want with my tiger claws, and with my shadow power, I can manipulate their molecules to almost any substance known to the demon world." Karuka took the fish off the fire, and handed one to Hiei.
"That could be quite powerful." He took a bite of the juicy fish.
"Yes and the reason I made that was because it was easy to underestimate, like me." Karuka took a bite of her fish.
"Clever." He finished off the fish, wanting more.
The two actually talked a lot while they ate their large dinner. When they were done, they separated off to go and sleep.
*~ the others ~*
"I think I can see it." Yusuke said searching the area around him.
"Let's hope so, it's almost been a week." Kurama stepped behind Yusuke looking at the scenery.
"Where's Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked looking for him instead of looking at the far off building in front of him.
"AH! THEY'RE ALL OVER ME! HELP! HELP!" Kuwabara appeared out of the forest covered in beetles and jumping around like a maniac.
"Kuwabara! Stop fooling around and come on!" Yusuke grabbed him and pulled him nearer to the building while Kuwabara was swatting at the little bugs all over his body.
*~ Hiei and Karuka ~*
Hiei and Karuka were both laughing in their sleep, neither knew why.
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Shade- Would you call that ironic or a coincidence? Any who... I have nothing else to say but please review... so... please review