Chapter 18: the fun begins
Hiei and Karuka were running through the forest. It was now the seventh day of the mission (I think) and it was almost time to find the gem.
"I think we'll get there just in time. We'll probably meet up with the rest by nightfall." Karuka was weaving through trees as she kept up with Hiei.
"Just as long as we don't meet up with any other problems." Hiei sped off.
*~ the others ~*
"Okay, so we're here. Let's get that gem." Yusuke walked into the building with Kurama and Kuwabara.
"Ya think they could turn a light on in here or somethin'? I can't see a thing." -BAM-
"Hey Kuwabara! Keep walking!" Kuwabara had frozen in his spot.
"There's someone else in the room."
*~ Hiei and Karuka ~*
Karuka was running on the forest floor as Hiei was jumping through the trees. The two had new respects for each other since their disappearance had actually strengthened their strange relationship. Hiei would stop underestimating her, and Karuka would stop making height jokes about him. Though, she still called him stump as a nickname. But, even with this change, they couldn't fully trust each other. They both were convicted felons after all.
"I can see it." Hiei stopped to look at the far off building.
"How far is it?" Karuka stopped and looked up at Hiei.
"A good four miles, we should get there easily. Let's just hope the rest can hold off our opponents in time."
"You don't think they can take them themselves?" Karuka asked him as he jumped from the tree to her side.
"Kurama can, but his ratio of help isn't the best."
"Come on." Karuka ran off with Hiei behind her.
*~ the others ~*
"Who's there?" Kuwabara reached to the side to find a light switch but instead found a hand. He was flung to the other side of the room and hit the wall.
"Hey!" Yusuke threw a punch into air and was pulled by the collar across the room to join Kuwabara.
Now it was just Kurama. He stood completely still and waited for something to move. He felt something in front of him shift and he attacked. Kurama caught nothing but air as Yusuke had done. Suddenly the lights turned on.
Kurama looked to Yusuke and Kuwabara and Yusuke had turned on a light switch. Then, someone gave a strong right hook to Kurama's face.
He was sent across the room to the other two and looked up to the sender of the punch. He was human looking, but the energy he was letting off told a different story. He wore a green long sleeved shirt and black pants. His hair was bleach blonde and he smiled to the three.
"And who may I ask are you?" He stepped forward into the dim light to accent his pale face.
"Crap, we must be late. Where are your other demons?" Yusuke stood up to seem taller to this six foot man.
"Oh, they're coming later. Have you been sent by Koenma? I'm sure he's heard of my heist by now. This has been in the making for months." He stepped closer.
"Months eh? You must have everything planned out." Kurama stood next to Yusuke.
"Yes, I do. My helpers should be here any minute now. I was waiting for them when you showed up. Now, you never answered my question, who are you?"
"Does it matter? Come on, your friends aren't here now, so we can still fight you." Yusuke stood ready to attack.
"Fine, if that's what you want." He suddenly disappeared and Yusuke screamed.
*~ Hiei and Karuka ~*
They were about two miles away from making it to the building when a force field stopped them.
"What's this?"
"Where do you two think you're going?" Four average sized demons stepped from the darkness of the forest and stared at Hiei and Karuka like fresh meat.
"Our luck isn't the best." Karuka stood looking at the demons before her and felt real tired of continuously being stopped.
"Hn, no it's not." Hiei tried to size them up to see if these demons were good opponents. One thing he could tell, was that they weren't pushovers.
"We don't want to be delayed any further so just tell us where you were going." One demon, who looked to be the leader, stepped forward.
'Hm.' Karuka thought for a second.
"Does the Hamisha Gem mean anything to you?" She asked trying to read their faces.
"The Hamisha Gem? How do you know about that?" One demon looked at Karuka with his black eyes.
"We were sent to stop you!" Karuka jumped forward and produced her claws and slashed at the demon. He disappeared and reappeared behind her and punched but she dodged. When she slashed at him a second time she connected with his throat and he instantly died. She jumped back to a fair distance away from the others and stood smiling.
"If you're all this weak then I might as well get some shut eye while I'm ripping through your skin."
The leader looked angrily at Karuka and wasted no time in attacking her himself. As Karuka dealt with him, Hiei wasted no time in attacking the rest. He had gotten tired of Karuka doing all the killing. He slashed through one demon, but the second proved to be harder to attack. He was quite fast, a good match for Hiei. He watched his dull green eyes, they reminded him so much of Karuka's, but hers had more emotion, hers had scars of pain and betrayal.
Hiei, still watching the eyes of the demon, was caught off guard and punched in the stomach and flew back into a tree. He got angered and disappeared.
"Looks like he's no fun, leaving the rest of the fight to a little girl. Oh, well, I guess he wants her to die." The demon Hiei was fighting got a little too cocky and caused Karuka's eyes to turn her deadly yellow, to show her anger. But since Karuka was occupied glaring daggers at the other demon, the one she was fighting took advantage and sent her flying into a tree trunk with a swift kick to the gut.
"I don't leave a fight because my attacks haven't been working, I only see it as I haven't found the correct way to kill you." Hiei jumped from a tree he was in and attacked the demon with a blow fire of punches. The demon had a hard time dodging them all, he was hit 14 out of 15 times but he still found a way to retreat back to safety and distance from the fired up Hiei.
During this time Karuka had gotten back up and took out her wooden rod to fight with. She saw it has the perfect way to kill another underestimating demon that pissed her off.
"Thinking I'm weak because I have breasts and a better figure then you only leads to death, brutal, unruly death." Karuka spun the rod above her head about to attack the demon she faced when the other one caught her eye as he had taking out darts filled with poison and exposed it to the air for her to be able to smell. She could tell by just the scent that it was a deadly poison that worked and spread faster in heat, meaning that it could kill a fire demon instantly.
Realizing this, she watched the demon throw the dart at the fallen Hiei who he had stunned a bit earlier and she knew if that entered his blood stream he would die. She dropped her rod and disappeared as the dart was in mid air. When Hiei finally realized that the dart held poison, he felt he didn't have enough time to move and he waited for the impact. It never happened. Hiei opened his eyes and he saw a black blur in front of him. Following the path of the blur and looking to the left he saw Karuka roll across the forest floor and when she stopped he could see the dart in Karuka's lower right arm.
Karuka sat up holding her arm tightly to try and slow down the poison from spreading. She took out the dart and threw it away and grimaced in the pain of the wound. Looking at Hiei, she could see his surprised face, but looked away as the pain grew too large. She attempted to squeeze the poison out but it was no use, the adrenalin she felt from fighting the demon beforehand had risen her body temperature higher then usual which made the poison move faster, and she had no idea how much poison was in her system and how far it was down her arm. She felt that she would die from its affects that would come soon. She knew its antidote, but she also knew there was no way that someone could have it for her in time. She would have to wait for a chance that someone had it.
Then, as all these thoughts of poisons, antidotes and death swirled in her head, she could see a blur in front of her, though it wasn't a blur from speed, her vision had been distorted and all she could see were blurs. She saw a large black blur attached to a long and skinny silver blur, she watched the two blurs make another blur into two as they both fell to the ground, and she saw the same thing happen with another blur. Then, the silver one disappeared and the black grew larger, but it was really just coming closer to her. Then she could see more colors, white, peach and red. The two red dots glimmered in front of her face but their appearance showed fear, even if they were blurry to Karuka. She could hear voices, but they were muffled. She didn't try to hear them clearly, she only focused on the massive pain in her arm, the focal point of her suffrage at the moment.
Then, she was picked up and all went black.
*~ the others ~*
"Yusuke! Are you okay?" Kuwabara was holding an unconscious Yusuke as the other demon reappeared at his former standing position.
"What did you do?!"
"Oh, the fun has just begun." The demon walked closer to Kurama and Kuwabara just as the dim light turned out.
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Shade- Sorry for the LONG awaited update but my computer hasn't been working quite well lately and I have writers block and still I have homework. But, the most important assignment is over! Night of the notables! Now I only have to memorize 160 words for my conversation in Spanish and I'll probably need more research for my science and... LA BAMBA SUCKS DICKS! That is incredibly hard to play in third position on the violin and I need to know it by next week!
People- What about our problems!
Shade- What problems do you have? I'm the typist! I create your problems!
People- Exactly!
Shade- I need to stop wasting time and do my homework... I sound like my mom
Please review! You know you want to... and I want you to too!
Hiei and Karuka were running through the forest. It was now the seventh day of the mission (I think) and it was almost time to find the gem.
"I think we'll get there just in time. We'll probably meet up with the rest by nightfall." Karuka was weaving through trees as she kept up with Hiei.
"Just as long as we don't meet up with any other problems." Hiei sped off.
*~ the others ~*
"Okay, so we're here. Let's get that gem." Yusuke walked into the building with Kurama and Kuwabara.
"Ya think they could turn a light on in here or somethin'? I can't see a thing." -BAM-
"Hey Kuwabara! Keep walking!" Kuwabara had frozen in his spot.
"There's someone else in the room."
*~ Hiei and Karuka ~*
Karuka was running on the forest floor as Hiei was jumping through the trees. The two had new respects for each other since their disappearance had actually strengthened their strange relationship. Hiei would stop underestimating her, and Karuka would stop making height jokes about him. Though, she still called him stump as a nickname. But, even with this change, they couldn't fully trust each other. They both were convicted felons after all.
"I can see it." Hiei stopped to look at the far off building.
"How far is it?" Karuka stopped and looked up at Hiei.
"A good four miles, we should get there easily. Let's just hope the rest can hold off our opponents in time."
"You don't think they can take them themselves?" Karuka asked him as he jumped from the tree to her side.
"Kurama can, but his ratio of help isn't the best."
"Come on." Karuka ran off with Hiei behind her.
*~ the others ~*
"Who's there?" Kuwabara reached to the side to find a light switch but instead found a hand. He was flung to the other side of the room and hit the wall.
"Hey!" Yusuke threw a punch into air and was pulled by the collar across the room to join Kuwabara.
Now it was just Kurama. He stood completely still and waited for something to move. He felt something in front of him shift and he attacked. Kurama caught nothing but air as Yusuke had done. Suddenly the lights turned on.
Kurama looked to Yusuke and Kuwabara and Yusuke had turned on a light switch. Then, someone gave a strong right hook to Kurama's face.
He was sent across the room to the other two and looked up to the sender of the punch. He was human looking, but the energy he was letting off told a different story. He wore a green long sleeved shirt and black pants. His hair was bleach blonde and he smiled to the three.
"And who may I ask are you?" He stepped forward into the dim light to accent his pale face.
"Crap, we must be late. Where are your other demons?" Yusuke stood up to seem taller to this six foot man.
"Oh, they're coming later. Have you been sent by Koenma? I'm sure he's heard of my heist by now. This has been in the making for months." He stepped closer.
"Months eh? You must have everything planned out." Kurama stood next to Yusuke.
"Yes, I do. My helpers should be here any minute now. I was waiting for them when you showed up. Now, you never answered my question, who are you?"
"Does it matter? Come on, your friends aren't here now, so we can still fight you." Yusuke stood ready to attack.
"Fine, if that's what you want." He suddenly disappeared and Yusuke screamed.
*~ Hiei and Karuka ~*
They were about two miles away from making it to the building when a force field stopped them.
"What's this?"
"Where do you two think you're going?" Four average sized demons stepped from the darkness of the forest and stared at Hiei and Karuka like fresh meat.
"Our luck isn't the best." Karuka stood looking at the demons before her and felt real tired of continuously being stopped.
"Hn, no it's not." Hiei tried to size them up to see if these demons were good opponents. One thing he could tell, was that they weren't pushovers.
"We don't want to be delayed any further so just tell us where you were going." One demon, who looked to be the leader, stepped forward.
'Hm.' Karuka thought for a second.
"Does the Hamisha Gem mean anything to you?" She asked trying to read their faces.
"The Hamisha Gem? How do you know about that?" One demon looked at Karuka with his black eyes.
"We were sent to stop you!" Karuka jumped forward and produced her claws and slashed at the demon. He disappeared and reappeared behind her and punched but she dodged. When she slashed at him a second time she connected with his throat and he instantly died. She jumped back to a fair distance away from the others and stood smiling.
"If you're all this weak then I might as well get some shut eye while I'm ripping through your skin."
The leader looked angrily at Karuka and wasted no time in attacking her himself. As Karuka dealt with him, Hiei wasted no time in attacking the rest. He had gotten tired of Karuka doing all the killing. He slashed through one demon, but the second proved to be harder to attack. He was quite fast, a good match for Hiei. He watched his dull green eyes, they reminded him so much of Karuka's, but hers had more emotion, hers had scars of pain and betrayal.
Hiei, still watching the eyes of the demon, was caught off guard and punched in the stomach and flew back into a tree. He got angered and disappeared.
"Looks like he's no fun, leaving the rest of the fight to a little girl. Oh, well, I guess he wants her to die." The demon Hiei was fighting got a little too cocky and caused Karuka's eyes to turn her deadly yellow, to show her anger. But since Karuka was occupied glaring daggers at the other demon, the one she was fighting took advantage and sent her flying into a tree trunk with a swift kick to the gut.
"I don't leave a fight because my attacks haven't been working, I only see it as I haven't found the correct way to kill you." Hiei jumped from a tree he was in and attacked the demon with a blow fire of punches. The demon had a hard time dodging them all, he was hit 14 out of 15 times but he still found a way to retreat back to safety and distance from the fired up Hiei.
During this time Karuka had gotten back up and took out her wooden rod to fight with. She saw it has the perfect way to kill another underestimating demon that pissed her off.
"Thinking I'm weak because I have breasts and a better figure then you only leads to death, brutal, unruly death." Karuka spun the rod above her head about to attack the demon she faced when the other one caught her eye as he had taking out darts filled with poison and exposed it to the air for her to be able to smell. She could tell by just the scent that it was a deadly poison that worked and spread faster in heat, meaning that it could kill a fire demon instantly.
Realizing this, she watched the demon throw the dart at the fallen Hiei who he had stunned a bit earlier and she knew if that entered his blood stream he would die. She dropped her rod and disappeared as the dart was in mid air. When Hiei finally realized that the dart held poison, he felt he didn't have enough time to move and he waited for the impact. It never happened. Hiei opened his eyes and he saw a black blur in front of him. Following the path of the blur and looking to the left he saw Karuka roll across the forest floor and when she stopped he could see the dart in Karuka's lower right arm.
Karuka sat up holding her arm tightly to try and slow down the poison from spreading. She took out the dart and threw it away and grimaced in the pain of the wound. Looking at Hiei, she could see his surprised face, but looked away as the pain grew too large. She attempted to squeeze the poison out but it was no use, the adrenalin she felt from fighting the demon beforehand had risen her body temperature higher then usual which made the poison move faster, and she had no idea how much poison was in her system and how far it was down her arm. She felt that she would die from its affects that would come soon. She knew its antidote, but she also knew there was no way that someone could have it for her in time. She would have to wait for a chance that someone had it.
Then, as all these thoughts of poisons, antidotes and death swirled in her head, she could see a blur in front of her, though it wasn't a blur from speed, her vision had been distorted and all she could see were blurs. She saw a large black blur attached to a long and skinny silver blur, she watched the two blurs make another blur into two as they both fell to the ground, and she saw the same thing happen with another blur. Then, the silver one disappeared and the black grew larger, but it was really just coming closer to her. Then she could see more colors, white, peach and red. The two red dots glimmered in front of her face but their appearance showed fear, even if they were blurry to Karuka. She could hear voices, but they were muffled. She didn't try to hear them clearly, she only focused on the massive pain in her arm, the focal point of her suffrage at the moment.
Then, she was picked up and all went black.
*~ the others ~*
"Yusuke! Are you okay?" Kuwabara was holding an unconscious Yusuke as the other demon reappeared at his former standing position.
"What did you do?!"
"Oh, the fun has just begun." The demon walked closer to Kurama and Kuwabara just as the dim light turned out.
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Shade- Sorry for the LONG awaited update but my computer hasn't been working quite well lately and I have writers block and still I have homework. But, the most important assignment is over! Night of the notables! Now I only have to memorize 160 words for my conversation in Spanish and I'll probably need more research for my science and... LA BAMBA SUCKS DICKS! That is incredibly hard to play in third position on the violin and I need to know it by next week!
People- What about our problems!
Shade- What problems do you have? I'm the typist! I create your problems!
People- Exactly!
Shade- I need to stop wasting time and do my homework... I sound like my mom
Please review! You know you want to... and I want you to too!