I'm back! (and alive!) Wow this is like world record timing for me, even
though it is only the author's notes. Hey, can I help if I like to talk?
Anyway, I actually got time to write in school! Wow, that's a first! I'm a
little disappointed with the number of reviews, most of the authors that
review somehow failed to notice I updated. My friend told me the author
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Disclaimer: I don't wanna do this no more. I do not own YYH. I am not smart enough to think up something like this. Do I look smart to you? Didn't think so.
Dedication: Did I even do this in the last chappy? Oh well. This chapter's dedication goes to Lashka the White Rose for somehow getting me over 100 reviews! Thank you! If you noticed I got past my goal. Way past!
To my reviewers: (Note to reviewers, usually the longer the review, the longer my response)
Lashka the White Rose: Yes I am evil, aren't I? Heh, heh. Did you have a problem reviewing though? Because if you saw, you alone gave me over 100 reviews! Man, you really must've wanted that chapter! No, just kidding. I thought it was cool, I never heard of an authoress getting over 100 reviews from the same person for their birthday! I feel so special! Thanx for reviewing! ( I guess the saying is true, a little bit goes a long way!)
Bright Burning Alya: Ha ha! *sings along with Alya* Happy birthday to you- me! My big present to all of you! My chapter wasn't that early ( though it was compared to the two months thing, but that wasn't a normal thing for me) but this one is one of the longest I've written! Over 4,000 words! Hee, hee!
Shards of EvenSong: Sara! Don't feel alone Sara, I got a bottom locker this year. I have ta friggin crouch down on my knees, drop all my books on the floor, just to get my locker open. The number's easy to remember though, 450. I like blankets! I was going to buy I soccer blanket decorated with soccer balls but I forgot to buy one. They came in all pretty colors too blue, green, red, purple.now who's getting off track? Didn't see Juli huh? Too bad. It rained? That must have sucked. White water rafting was fun, except the water was colder than Antarctica! I would have been ok, the rapids surprisingly were not that bad, it was the people! We had buckets to bail out water but we used them to hit people instead, like when we went rafting. The people in charge were mean though! They said not to splash with paddles! Not that we listened but still. We had a lot more rafts than before, only six people to a raft, and the in charge people were in kayaks. Did I spell that right? Anyway, by complete accident we hit one guy and he tipped over! We couldn't get him up. He wasn't mad, just said we were the first people to do that this year, though he did stay away from us the rest of the way.at the end, our whole soccer team was in the water! The raft my coach was in had a civil war and he and Kelly were the only ones left in the boat and not in the water. Though they jumped in to try to pull us in! I hit my coach really good with water, I wanted to get him back for all of the evil things he did to me! Then he jumped in and tried to push me in! But then me and my mom teamed up against him and I stayed in the raft. Oh yeah before that we stole their bucket so they couldn't hit us anymore! Earlier before that, Tim was the bucket thrower in his raft and when he was trying to hit us he fell in bucket and all! We rescued him of coarse. He said " Sure save the bucket!" to his teammates and they just laughed. We were laughing too. Hn. I am like doing this review all out of order. Oh well. Now off the track of rafting.my friend, he's above me in lockers too, he plays the tuba, and one time he tried to push it in, but it fell on my head! You played soccer? I love soccer. I suck at goal though! In track we had a distance run, half a mile, and I came fifth, and earned points for my team, only me and my friend Megan tripped over each other across the finish line! We were both bleeding and were sent to the nurse! We missed the rest of gym class. My class won first place by the way in the track meet! I have so much to type but I already wrote so much! This is the longest response I have ever written! And I still have to finish the others! Let me see.yep this is over 500 words.must move on.bye!
MystiKoorime: Thankies! Thank you for making a Hiei/Botan fanfic! We are falling so far behind! Sure! I'll try to read it when I'm done this stupid chapter. Thanks again! Tell me when your birthday is and I can email you on your birthday!
hieiandbotanlover4ever: Thank you! I'm on a favorites list! Keiko and Hiei fics must die! Ooh, and a character.didn't get many of those! Sorry I couldn't get you in this chapter, but I will! I promise! Actually I have big plans for you, Mandy, *evil laugh* don't worry I'm back. And sane.I think!
deity of death1: Another character! I have big plans for you too! Read the response above and you'll get some sort of idea. Oh wait I didn't put any up there. Never mind, you will have to read her review. Thank you for thanking me so you can thank me so I can thank you! Ok, umm that sounded weird. I like the feeling when people take the time to review me, so I'm gonna do the same for them! Another Hiei/Botan authoress. We don't have that many supporters, actually the whole reason for this fic, to gain supporters, and even less who write them. Most people only review a lot when there are over 10,000 and that takes a lot of time, trust me! And we have about three fanfics in total that are about Botan and Hiei over 10,000 words! So thank you for being one of the few(ohh I rhymed) who want to make a difference. I kind of sound like president Bush don't I? Oh, one more thing, this makes me feel really stupid, but what is crossfire? I know it means between but how does that relate to attacks? God, I'm stupid.
darkgirl2: umm I didn't really set up ages in this fic(I don't think) so you can make them any age you like. Probably later in the story I will tell the ages in the authors notes and I will make Shizuru younger than Kurama. Ok? That takes us to the thing where we wonder who is older Hiei or Botan? Hiei is a demon, they can live for a very long time.but Botan was a ferry girl for only Koenma knows long so I'm just going to say that Hiei is older than Botan.
Wolf blaze fire: Yes sir! This chapter is especially long! Probably about 5,000 words!
Meiko: Meiko! Ah, all wet. Oh well probably deserved it. Two months, people probably thought I'd died or something.this one author didn't update for over a year! And I'm still waiting *cries* * gets happy * I did an awesome chapter I did an awesome chapter! Ahem, back to reality. Yes, Hiei teddy! I want one of those! Let me go find him! I need to make him into and teddy again. * yells* Hiei! Where are you? Don't you want to be turned into a teddy?!
Haze Ziekechitan: Thank you! Someone thinks my fic is cool and would like to be in it. So what if you didn't give me a character it still makes me happy! Oh, grounded from the computer? That's harsh, my family did that once to me when I over flowed the bathtub because I was too busy on the computer to remember about the water( What's your excuse? Nah just kidding, you don't have to tell me. I know it's kinda.personal. There are many twists in this story! I'm glad your looking forward to it! **********************************************
The Will of the Fighter
The Mission Part 3( the finale)
**********************************************Botan
" Is everyone ready?" Tai asked, even though it was too late to turn back now.
Soon, in a matter of minutes we would leave for the Itchigaki Mansion. The villager's fighters were lined up for battle, wearing light armor, carrying either a spear or axe, some of the most skilled chose bows and arrows. Funny, it seems weird to wear armor to protect you, Yusuke never did, neither did the others. They really didn't carry weapons, aside from Hiei's beloved katana, but usually he hid it so it could not be seen.
This mission seemed like a scene from a war movie, not like our ok-I- got-a-mission-let's-get-this-over-with-and-kick-ass attitude. This time, I don't know, it seems odd. To know that some people on your side were going to die and there was nothing you could do about it. If we were in the castle and they were fighting outside it's not like we could just teleport and save them from a deathblow then teleport back like it never happened. It just wasn't possible. Well actually Hiei could probably could if he wanted too.but I know he wouldn't. He's seen too much to care if one soldier died if the outcome would be in our favor.
" Alright let's move out!"
*********************************************Hiei
Pitiful, not even halfway there and the village's so called warriors are slouching like there's not tomorrow. Believe me, for most of them it is. The only thing that can save them are numbers. Maybe Tai and his two bodyguards might be worth something on the battlefield. I rubbed my temples. Thank god I was fighting inside the castle. Botan was looking worriedly at the sad excuse for soldiers. She knew not all of them would make it back. No way in hell.
" Oh Botan, stop moping about. We know it, they know it, some are going to die. Such is the way of life. The weak live the strong survive( Shishio anyone?). As long as we do what we have set out to do the village will be saved and our mission will be complete. Their deaths will not be in vain," Shizuru growled in a tight stoic voice. Only an expert would see she was also slightly troubled. Shizuru may have a hard exterior but on the inside she wasn't ready to see someone die either.
" This isn't like the other missions. This is like a freaking war zone!" Botan cried. Leave it to her to get upset about the inevitable.
" We will do what we can, these soldiers knew what they would be up against when they volunteered. After all, they have been fighting for awhile now," Kurama's wise voice rang out.
Botan huffed and was about to reply when I cut her off.
" Botan no one expects you to save everyone. You don't do miracles and they know that. The question is, do you?"
" Of course I do! I-I'm just not ready to let good people die. It's not right!" She protested. After all this time she was still so naive about death. Even after being a grim reaper for god knows how long. I was about to-wait, something is coming. I concentrated on the energy. It was coming towards us, in the air, not too large, aw crap!
" Get down!" I yelled running straight through the center to where to energy was coming, not caring how many startled, unsuspecting people I knocked over in the process. I grabbed the arrow just in time, a millimeter away from a soldier's heart. He looked fearfully at me, then at his comrades. All of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do. What was wrong with these people!
" What! Do you need a big flashing sign reading "Alert!" to know we are under attack!"
They finally got the message and took out there weapons, only they did not know where to turn. Honestly, where do you find these people. Botan was on the floor, one of the poor people knocked over in my rush to thwart the arrows direction. Even Shiz was looking mildly surprised. Kurama had his rose, facing the hill the Ichigaki's scouts had shot from. At least I had the always-dependable Kurama.
************************ Botan
The nerve of him! Knocking me over like that. What the hell was he- oh. Arrow catching. Well, I guess I can let him slide for now, he'll get it later. I picked myself off the floor and readied my spirit gun. Kurama had transformed his rosewhip, he and Hiei where running up the slope. I sprinted off to follow them, Shizuru catching on.
" Spirit Gun!" Bang! One point for me. I looked at the guys. Ouch. Hiei had three people/demons down, I didn't care enough to find which race they were, they were dead now that's all that mattered and Hiei got the points. Damn.( I got this part from Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers. They were only fighting the biggest battle of the century, or one of them anyway, and they were counting how many people they killed as if it were a game! Even though they could die! So this part is dedicated to them! I was laughing my butt off the whole time!)
Oh, no and there goes Kurama with his rosewheel thornwhip, five down and counting. At times like these I really wish I had a weapon and not just an attack!
Running up the hill I intercepted the human/demons trying to go down the hill. Punch. Kick. Slap. There, that's twelve. I looked for Shiz and found her surrounded by some dead, some bruised bodies. A good sixteen there. Slash. An inhuman screech filled the air as they were cut in half by Hiei's katana. That has got to be Hiei's thirtieth. Maybe we should make a rule no weapons until I get one.
We didn't have to stop the scouts from heading down the hill anymore, their dead comrades made such a fuss that now their concentration was defeating us, then go down to our confused warriors. Almost as soon as it started it was over. The scouts had about seventy fighters come at us, which I will point out, Shiz and I killed about thirty-five.
The once peaceful hill now had dead bodies, or parts of them anyway, dry patches of blood splattered on the grass. Our *ahem* troops looked confusedly at the battlefield. It didn't look like they have moved at all since the battled started. Just stared in wonder the whole time. Great, lot of help they were.
" Shall we continue?" Kurama asked as if nothing had just occurred. Tai only managed a nod in response.
The four of us decided to lead this time incase of a repeat like a few minutes ago. ********************************Hiei
There it is, the Chugiak Mansion. Soldiers were lined up around the castle, and archers were ready above too. They hadn't noticed us yet, much to our relief, it would completely destroy our plan of an ambush.
" So all we need to do is stall the fighters outside long enough for the spirit detectives to take out the inside. Everything clear?" Tai asked, making it sound as if it were a walk in the park.
The soldiers/fighters were pale with worry. Their arms and legs were trembling and eyes showed the fear and horror as if they had just realized that they were going to invade a powerful madman's home. Most of them gazed at the floor, while some fiddled with their weapons as if they were trying to remember how they functioned. None of this seemed to be helping Botany in the least. I tried to use my telepathy to calm her. She looked at me startled, not expecting my voice in her head. She smiled weakly.
She replied.
Somehow I was faced in the front to storm the castle, Botan, Kurama, and Shizuru flanking my sides. " Ready?" We drew our weapons.
" Attack!"
And then we were off. I used my super speed to slash at all the guards in reach, making a clear path to the castle for the others to follow in. My group continued forward in this way until we reached the bog.
It was wide, at least six meters, and didn't smell all that great either. Come to think of it, we really hadn't planned for this part.
" So, um, do we cross? Or just stand here all day while the idiots back there get killed?" Shizuru asked sarcastically.
I threw a stick in the mote. Just as I thought. The water bubbled briefly, and the stick melted. Wait, water! The big stupid drowning fish thing!
" Botan! Do you still have that shell the stupid fish told us he could hear if we ever needed him? I think all we had to do was throw it in the water," I asked.
" Yeah, I think I do," She replied. Botan bent down and grabbed her sock and pulled the little shell out. I just looked at her.
" I thought it might bring me good luck so I kept it with me." she trailed off sheepishly. Typical Botan.
She threw it into the mote. We just stood there for what seemed like an hour. Then the water began to bubble again, a fish emerged to the surface.
" Hey, old chaps, it's been awhile ain't it? Well how might I be of service?" the happy fish questioned.
" Axel! Do you think you could give us a ride over to the Ichigaki Mansion? It's got some acid, or poison or something but we can't touch it," Botan told him. ( Remember I said you would be seeing him again? Also I just figured out that Ichigaki is spelled this way not Ichigaki, like I had been spelling it. From now on I'll use the correct spelling but I won't fix my previous spelling. It just takes too much time and I want to get this chapter out as soon as possible. If anyone has serious problems tell me in a review and I'll see what I can do)
" Sure thing! Hop on!" the king fish replied.
Well at least we got into the mansion.
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" We're under attack!"
Seriously, I don't know whose worse our comrades or these buffoons. We barge in, kill the closest people to us, and now there's havoc. I blurred above a guard and sliced him in half, extended my arm and summoned fire to wipe out the remainder of resistance.
Continuing down the hall, and killing guards as we went trying to find the torture chamber. Yes. The torture chamber. The Ichigaki's experiments were held in a torture chamber, or at least that's what a weak guard said when we interior gated him. But then again he's in no position to do any damage now. Even if he did lie, he paid for it. Dearly. And if he did was telling the truth, uh, whoops?
Ah who cares? It was just one lousy person anyway.
This was crazy, it would take five minutes to go down one blasted hall. The twisted family's henchmen were going down like flies. It was almost too easy. And took too long. Ah just die all of you!
" So the rebellion has finally arrived."
***************************** Botan
We opened a door that led to another hall. My lord, how many rooms does a mad family need? It's not like they have many guests.
" So the rebellion has finally arrived."
This man, or male demon whatever, was probably that loner Endusa guy. What was he again? The fire demon?
" Who the hell are you?" Does Hiei even know how to act shy? That'd be a miracle.
" I am Endusa." Bingo. " And your next opponent. Let's see if you can take on a real challenge."
" I sure hope you are stronger than your little friends out there. The only thing they seem to be good at is screaming and creating hell. Not to mention getting killed," Shizuru interjected. Did someone give them mean pills? At least it's him, not me.
Endusa scowled.
" I do not consider anyone in here my friend. I merely do this for the pay, and the chance to find someone who can last more than five minutes with me in battle." It did say that in the bio didn't it?
" Enough talk. Are you going to fight or not?" Kurama asked, readying his rose.
" I thought you'd never ask!" Endusa replied.
He powered up for a second then unleashed a blast of fire I wasn't suspecting. How can people go from talk to fighting in a second? Maybe I spent too much time as a deity or maybe I just missed something.
I ducked as the blast went past my ear, only leaving a trace of warmth on it. Ouch that burned. He was going to pay for that!
" Blue crusher!" I screamed my best attack at him. He crossed his arms and blocked it. Blocked it!
" Nice try little girl, but you have to do better than that to hurt me!" Endusa screamed as he lunged with his fist. I ducked out of the way just before he hit the wall, making a rather large dent in the once spotless wall. That would have hurt. I hope this guy doesn't have to pay for damages to the house.
Endusa sent a fireball hurling in my direction. I had no more room to run for I was face to face with the wall.
" Spirit Gun!"
Shizuru tried to alter the attack by hitting Endusa, but it was too late, the fireball had been sent. And it was getting closer.
Another fireball sailed centimeters from my face and hit the approaching one, canceling it out. Hiei's form blurred in front of me. I glared at him.
" What are you trying to do?! Scare the crap out of me?!" I screeched lowly in his ear.
" No, just trying to your ass from getting killed," Hiei replied, a smirk forming on his lips.
" Well could you do that in a less terrifying way?" I asked, irritated.
" Now that's no fun, is it?"
I was about to reply with another nasty statement but Hiei grabbed me and jumped away before Endusa's fist would have connected with us.
" Rose whip!" Kurama cried and his beloved rose changed into his favorite weapon. He thrust his whip around the fire demons foot, effectively tripping him, and allowing us to get away to the other side of the room.
" Endusa! Just what do you think you are doing?"
A girl demon. Green hair. Purple eyes. Arenthis.
" Trying to kill them what do you think?!" Came his angered reply.
" Without leaving any for me? That's just selfish Endusa and you know it!" Her response was equally angry.
Our team just froze. Literally. Just stopped, looking at the two like they were crazy.
" Damn it! I just want to find someone I can use my full power on! It's been too long since I had a real fight!"
" Well what about me! I want a good fight too! Hardly anyone can beat me these days!"
" If you want to get your ass kicked you should have just come to me. I would have set you straight."
" Why you! I'm supposed to be on your team!" Arenthis screamed.
" What have I told you? I have no team," Endusa replied evenly.
" Ahem. Can we fight already? You two can fight after, if you are still able to, that is," I cut in. I had my disputes with Hiei and I knew how long they could go.
They glared at each other.
" I doubt you will leave now. Just don't get in my way," Endusa said coldly.
He turned right, Arenthis turned left. The teams were now set. It would be Hiei and I vs. Endusa, Kurama and Shizuru vs. Arenthis. Let the games begin!
Endusa made the first move again, but this time he attacked Hiei. Hiei back flipped over the attack and lunged with his katana. Endusa caught the sword in his hands, trying to push it off him as Hiei tried the opposite. Thin cuts appeared on his hands from where the sword had pieced him, blood seeping out of the wound.
I ran around to the back and shot my spirit gun, aiming at his open back. I nailed him and he turned around, his eyes full of rage and fury. He charged for me and his fists curled into balls, ready to pound my face into the stone floor as I simply stared at him. As I expected, Hiei phased in the air space right above Endusa and slashed his shoulder, blood squirting out of the gushing wound.
" Ahhh! You'll pay for that!"
" I'm sure we will," Hiei said coldly.
Well this guy was pretty much beat, with one arm practically severed off, both his hands had gruesome cuts on them, not big but very deep, and his back had been nailed by my spirit gun. I don't care how tough the guy is, that's got to hurt. Currently, he and Hiei were engaged in a verbal fight of wits.
I took this opportunity to see how our other half of the team was fairing. Arenthis had Shizuru pinned to the wall, though Kurama's whip was curled around her neck, choking her, little lines of red blood trailed down her neck. Kurama pulled on his whip but Arenthis would not give up on her hold against Shizuru.
Shizuru for her part wriggled one hand free and landed a solid punch on her captor's nose, starting a whole new blood flow. Arenthis screeched at the contact, but her hold only tightened with determination. Shizuru closed her eyes as rage poured through her.
" That's it bitch, let me go!" she screamed.
As she ended her sentence, all her energy flowed into one of her palms, and took on the form of a energy sword much like that of Kuwabara's. ( Hey if he can do it, why can't Shizuru?)
**************************** Shizuru
Upon starting this battle launched two of her energy throwing stars aiming for our centers, making me jump left and Kurama right, dividing us. The odd part was both of her stars followed Kurama, not me. I didn't have any more time to ponder for Arenthis had snuck behind me and her hands covered my mouth.
" Hey-mmmmm!" I tried to speak but her wretched hands muffled my voice.
" Not so fast human. I am going to enjoy killing you and your occupied friend over there. But I think I'll kill you first. That'll show that bighead Endusa he's not the only one that can inflict damage around here! I'm just as good as him!" Arenthis dragged on, her voice like nails on a chalkboard to my ears. Enough of this!
" One day he'll see that-oow! Why you little bitch!" She cried, throwing me off her and cradled her hand, which I had so nicely bitten seconds prior. I stumble and in that second she pinned me to the closest wall, her arms on my shoulders pressing me to the wall.
I struggled in her grasp and managed to free one hand loosed and punched her hard in the nose. I smirked at seeing the blood pour out of her new wound. Oops. I think I might have broken it. Whatever shall I do?
" Ahhh! My beautiful nose! You ruined it!" Her voice was brimming with rage.
I winced and held back a groan as her nails dug into my shoulders. I felt my own rage well up inside me, it seemed the more pain I felt the more power I created. Finally, I channeled all my energy into my palm. I don't really know why, I just did, like an unconscious feeling just came over me. I soon found out what my natural instinct was.
" That's it, let go of me bitch!"
Almost immediately my palm glowed where my energy had gathered. It grew out in the shape of a sword. An energy sword that is. I guess me and my brother have more things in common than I would like to think. Mine looks a little different though. My sword actually had a point and a solid form, like that of a rapier. Instead or orange, it took the color of red, which suited me fine. ( Just imagine in Star Wars a red lightsaber, I think Darth used that kind. That's how I picture it anyway)
It grew larger as more of my energy poured into it. Eventually it grew long enough that it went straight through Arenthis's stomach. All this happened in a matter of seconds. Arenthis had her mouth open, gaping like a fish out of water. I had almost forgotten my sword was embedded in her stomach right now. Her hands had loosened considerably, now more like resting on my shoulders. I pushed her off and pulled my sword out.
She dropped to the floor, and I assumed her dead. I heard a whizzing sound and I noticed Kurama was still dodging her blasted energy stars, with a very noticeable startled look on his face. From the corner of my eye I saw that Botan also had adopted a startled look too. Hiei was too occupied at the moment to notice anything besides killing the Endusa guy. Actually, he wasn't doing that bad of a job either.
I ran in from of Kurama once he had gained a good distance from the stars, placing me in between them. I crouched down lower to the ground and took on a batter's stance (batter up!) and prepared to strike both of them. Five. Four. Three. Two. And- ha! Bye bye Mr. Star! One of the stars hit the ceiling and lost all of its energy. The other one, however, almost hit Hiei. Luckily for me, it just missed his leg and hit Endusa's knee. Add that to the list of injuries.
************************************** Hiei
What the hell was that?! A .throwing star? Endusa howled in pain, yet again at the new object stuck in his knee. ( Man this guy is really getting tortured, isn't he?) Since when did Shizuru have an energy sword anyway? By god, I wish I had one of those what do they call them? Camera things? The look on Kurama's face is priceless! What-oh yeah, back to business.
" Well it seems-" I started but was cut off by a blast from outside. It shook the entire mansion, and by the amount of time it took us to not be lost, I knew it was very big. Just what was that anyway. Endusa started laughing.
Not let me tell you, something must be big-and very bad for us if a man that has been blasted in the back, has a pointy object in his knee, a slashed shoulder, and slit palms to laugh. I could only wonder what it was.
" Well it seems our backup has arrived!"
Backup?
" You all must already know, for the lack of a better word, both of our fighters outside suck. Probably about half from both sides are already dead. But when you first arrived we alerted the boss and he sent for backup. Now they brought bombs. And I'm sure that bad fighter vs. bad fighters with bombs are going to have a much harder time winning the battle now!" he exclaimed.
I heard Botan gasp. Great. Now she is worried again about the stupid fighter's outside. Just when she forgot about them too.
" Botan, go. We can hold him off from here. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes from what it looks like," I said, and motioned her to the door with my hand.
" This is the last of their inside fighters. The sooner you leave, the sooner we have the Ichigaki's under arrest, the more lives we save outside," I reminded her as I saw the confusion in her eyes.
She nodded and ran out the door.
Now to finish this..
No one noticed that Arenthis was no longer lying in the dry puddle of her own blood.
( I was going to leave this here but I did promise this would be the last chapter of the Ichigaki Mission and you have been such good reviewers so I'll give you the rest.)
********************************* Botan
I fled out the door and down a dark hall. The lights must have shorted out from the explosion on the.those poor soldiers, they weren't prepared for bombs of all things! I was filled with new determination to bring the Ichigaki's to justice and free the village, not to mention the fighters outside.
My footsteps echoed in the hall, as I ran. I found that this hall was very long, I was running and it still took me a few minutes to reach the door at the end. We have a problem. The knob on the door had a curved slit inscribed in it. Must be the keyhole. Except I have no key. Normally I would just blast it open but this door happened to be made of a kind of metal. I very strong kind of metal.
Two metal objects came flying at me, and snatched the cloth on my shoulders, taking me with it, and pinning me to a wall. I tried to move but I found two throwing stars are very hard to remove. And the fact that they had my hands at a disadvantage seeing as I could only move from my elbows down. The rest was held down by the star.
" So the spirit detective has come to a dead end, has she?" I recognized the voice as that of Arenthis. Apparently she was not as dead as I would like to think. ( Bet the throwing stars gave her away.she really does like pinning people to walls, doesn't she?)
" Your little friend thought she had beat me! Like she could! Now that they have ganged up on Endusa he has surely met his end. Oh well, good riddance to bad rubbish as they always say. The bitch did hurt me though," she said holding her stomach and continued," but I will recover in time. But as for you, I can use you for my revenge. I would like to do this as slowly and painfully as I can but your friends will be here soon, Endusa couldn't have bought me that much time, as bad as the old fool was wounded. Just enough time to kill you and make my getaway, I would think." ( She does like to talk too)
Arenthis took out another of her throwing stars, tilting one of the points toward me, so that it would stab my midsection and started walking towards me, slowly. I visibly shivered and started thinking rapidly. Is this the end? I'm going to die on my first real mission? Images started flooding my head, words forming with them. What about the soldiers? Will Kurama and Shizuru be all right. Hiei? My mind seemed to stop at Hiei. What was Hiei to me anyway? A friend? I knew in my heart it was more. But how much more? Did I love him?
Arenthis was only a few steps away from me now.a few more steps and- Arenthis's eyes widened briefly, then collapsed. From what I could see a deep cut went from her right shoulder to her left hip. I strained to see the dark figure behind Arenthis's dead, I was positive she was dead now, body. Black hair and a sword? Hiei?
" No, I'm not Hiei, detective." That voice! It was the voice of my captor in the alley! ( I think it was chapter 3?)
It sure seemed like him. He had black hair, looked about the same height, used a sword, and had possibly the fastest speed I had ever seen. And he could read minds! How many people can do that? The figure raised his sword. I held my breath. A second later the stars were cut in half, but it didn't look like the sword had ever moved! Yep, this guy definitely had Hiei's speed.
" You better take care of yourself, Botan. I will see you again," he whispered. In a flash he was gone again, leaving me standing there, I was sure my eyes looked like saucers. Then the door fell down, cut right down the middle in one long, perfect slash.
I still stood there. So this guy saves me and helps me? What could this mean? I shook my head free of all thoughts. I had a mission to do and people were dying. With that, I ran through the door to confront the Ichigaki's once and for all.
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I think I'll end it there. So what do you think? I know I promised that this would be the last part of the Ichigaki series and it will. The next chapter will tell what happened in the end and how the village is and all. Thought it would be Hiei didn't you? Remember I said there will be a lot of twists? You might want to read earlier chapter to remember some important things you might have looked over. Remember the ice cream alleyway thing? The brick? The note? Why Koenma made Botan a spirit detective? (That's not fully explained but gives you hints) The Lord part in one of the early chapters? All this will be important in the upcoming chapters.
Speaking of chapters this one was pretty long. Over 7,000 words, unless ff.net screws it up somehow. Don't expect an update soon because I have run out of ideas. I know how I want this to end, I just don't know how to get it there. Honestly I don't know how good this chapter was. I had parts I thought were great but parts I thought were complete crap. I guess I'll know in your reviews huh?
Anyone watching the Simpsons? The episode about the Grim Reaper coming to get Bart I think(?) is on tonight in a few minutes. It looks really funny so I'm going to watch it. I think last time I forgot to give a recommendation so I'll try to give two. I'm running out of fics to recommend that star Botan and Hiei!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Recommendation Love Me When I'm Gone is a Botan/Hiei fanfic. I haven't read it personally, I didn't have the time, but the summary seemed good. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YYH: Twist of Fate by my friend Jagan is really good. She hasn't updated in awhile, she wants more reviews so please give them to her! It's really good. What would happen if Yukina and Hiei switched places? What if Yukina was the cold fire demon? What if Hiei didn't know he had a sister? What would have changed in the series? It starts in the beginning like the series and takes you all the way through. Is really good! Read Michelle's bio too, it's really funny! Made me laugh. There's not much Hiei/Botan right now, but there will be in later chapters! So please review for her! You hear that Michelle? Update now! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here comes your favorite part of the chapter, the bloopers, enjoy! There's a lot of them because I could really work with this chapter!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bloopers^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^(the pov will be different here) The nerve of him! Knocking me over like that. What the hell was he-oh. Arrow catching,' Botan thought.
" Hey! That one was a little close, wasn't it!" Botan cried.
" Damn! I missed! I almost got her to shut up!," came a reply of the person who shot the arrow.
" Hey! What was that?" Botan asked threateningly.
" Gulp."
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" Spirit gun!" Botan screamed.
" Hah! That's what three for you? I have over twenty!" Hiei said proudly and smirked.
" So you have demon speed and I got stuck with a lousy spirit gun. You think that's fair?" Botan growled.
" I think it's perfectly fair. It's not the technique it's the wielder that makes the difference," Hiei teased.
" Oh, you!"
" Hey how come I can't have my energy sword? That would make such a big difference! I can't stand their bragging anymore!"
" Hiei how many do you have?" Kurama asked.
" Twenty."
" Good that gives us thirty-five," Kurama stated.
" What!?" the girls shrieked.
The bickering continued.
" How many times do we need to shoot this scene? The same thing happens over and over again!" exclaimed the director.
" I don't know. Why does it matter who kills more? They are on the same team!" a worker replied.
" It matters because these two brag like there's no tomorrow! And we didn't get all our powers yet! It's not fair! If we had the powers we are getting later on in the fanfic we could wipe that smirk off their faces!" Shizuru exclaimed.
" Shizuru! The readers aren't supposed to know that yet-!" the director exclaimed.
" What do you mean? Your powers wouldn't make a difference. You are just weak women, that's all," Hiei stated.
" Uh, Hiei you probably shouldn't have made that last remark," Kurama said as the girls in the building glared at them, their faces becoming red with anger.
" Uh would this be a good time to run?" Hiei asked.
" Yep," Kurama replied already running down the hall.
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" Ahhhh..splash!"
" Axel how many times do I have to tell you not to throw Hiei into the water?" Botan demanded.
" It's not my fault, the man is impossible," Axel replied.
" It wasn't me who dragged you around when we were fishing!" Hiei exclaimed, emerging by the water.
" Hey it was in the script buddy!"
" So! You enjoyed it!"
" It's called the pleasures of work!"
" I'll give you work! Come here and give my katana some work!"
" Wait no! Hiei come back! Axel stop that! Oh god- Axel run! Run for your life! Hiei but the sword down! What are you babbling about? No, I don't want fish for dinner! Come back! Are you listening to me? Hiei!" Botan screamed.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There are too many things I can do with the bloopers here, and too little time. Because I want to get this chapter out now, I will do the rest of the bloopers in the next chapter. Just remind me ok?
~Freesia~
Disclaimer: I don't wanna do this no more. I do not own YYH. I am not smart enough to think up something like this. Do I look smart to you? Didn't think so.
Dedication: Did I even do this in the last chappy? Oh well. This chapter's dedication goes to Lashka the White Rose for somehow getting me over 100 reviews! Thank you! If you noticed I got past my goal. Way past!
To my reviewers: (Note to reviewers, usually the longer the review, the longer my response)
Lashka the White Rose: Yes I am evil, aren't I? Heh, heh. Did you have a problem reviewing though? Because if you saw, you alone gave me over 100 reviews! Man, you really must've wanted that chapter! No, just kidding. I thought it was cool, I never heard of an authoress getting over 100 reviews from the same person for their birthday! I feel so special! Thanx for reviewing! ( I guess the saying is true, a little bit goes a long way!)
Bright Burning Alya: Ha ha! *sings along with Alya* Happy birthday to you- me! My big present to all of you! My chapter wasn't that early ( though it was compared to the two months thing, but that wasn't a normal thing for me) but this one is one of the longest I've written! Over 4,000 words! Hee, hee!
Shards of EvenSong: Sara! Don't feel alone Sara, I got a bottom locker this year. I have ta friggin crouch down on my knees, drop all my books on the floor, just to get my locker open. The number's easy to remember though, 450. I like blankets! I was going to buy I soccer blanket decorated with soccer balls but I forgot to buy one. They came in all pretty colors too blue, green, red, purple.now who's getting off track? Didn't see Juli huh? Too bad. It rained? That must have sucked. White water rafting was fun, except the water was colder than Antarctica! I would have been ok, the rapids surprisingly were not that bad, it was the people! We had buckets to bail out water but we used them to hit people instead, like when we went rafting. The people in charge were mean though! They said not to splash with paddles! Not that we listened but still. We had a lot more rafts than before, only six people to a raft, and the in charge people were in kayaks. Did I spell that right? Anyway, by complete accident we hit one guy and he tipped over! We couldn't get him up. He wasn't mad, just said we were the first people to do that this year, though he did stay away from us the rest of the way.at the end, our whole soccer team was in the water! The raft my coach was in had a civil war and he and Kelly were the only ones left in the boat and not in the water. Though they jumped in to try to pull us in! I hit my coach really good with water, I wanted to get him back for all of the evil things he did to me! Then he jumped in and tried to push me in! But then me and my mom teamed up against him and I stayed in the raft. Oh yeah before that we stole their bucket so they couldn't hit us anymore! Earlier before that, Tim was the bucket thrower in his raft and when he was trying to hit us he fell in bucket and all! We rescued him of coarse. He said " Sure save the bucket!" to his teammates and they just laughed. We were laughing too. Hn. I am like doing this review all out of order. Oh well. Now off the track of rafting.my friend, he's above me in lockers too, he plays the tuba, and one time he tried to push it in, but it fell on my head! You played soccer? I love soccer. I suck at goal though! In track we had a distance run, half a mile, and I came fifth, and earned points for my team, only me and my friend Megan tripped over each other across the finish line! We were both bleeding and were sent to the nurse! We missed the rest of gym class. My class won first place by the way in the track meet! I have so much to type but I already wrote so much! This is the longest response I have ever written! And I still have to finish the others! Let me see.yep this is over 500 words.must move on.bye!
MystiKoorime: Thankies! Thank you for making a Hiei/Botan fanfic! We are falling so far behind! Sure! I'll try to read it when I'm done this stupid chapter. Thanks again! Tell me when your birthday is and I can email you on your birthday!
hieiandbotanlover4ever: Thank you! I'm on a favorites list! Keiko and Hiei fics must die! Ooh, and a character.didn't get many of those! Sorry I couldn't get you in this chapter, but I will! I promise! Actually I have big plans for you, Mandy, *evil laugh* don't worry I'm back. And sane.I think!
deity of death1: Another character! I have big plans for you too! Read the response above and you'll get some sort of idea. Oh wait I didn't put any up there. Never mind, you will have to read her review. Thank you for thanking me so you can thank me so I can thank you! Ok, umm that sounded weird. I like the feeling when people take the time to review me, so I'm gonna do the same for them! Another Hiei/Botan authoress. We don't have that many supporters, actually the whole reason for this fic, to gain supporters, and even less who write them. Most people only review a lot when there are over 10,000 and that takes a lot of time, trust me! And we have about three fanfics in total that are about Botan and Hiei over 10,000 words! So thank you for being one of the few(ohh I rhymed) who want to make a difference. I kind of sound like president Bush don't I? Oh, one more thing, this makes me feel really stupid, but what is crossfire? I know it means between but how does that relate to attacks? God, I'm stupid.
darkgirl2: umm I didn't really set up ages in this fic(I don't think) so you can make them any age you like. Probably later in the story I will tell the ages in the authors notes and I will make Shizuru younger than Kurama. Ok? That takes us to the thing where we wonder who is older Hiei or Botan? Hiei is a demon, they can live for a very long time.but Botan was a ferry girl for only Koenma knows long so I'm just going to say that Hiei is older than Botan.
Wolf blaze fire: Yes sir! This chapter is especially long! Probably about 5,000 words!
Meiko: Meiko! Ah, all wet. Oh well probably deserved it. Two months, people probably thought I'd died or something.this one author didn't update for over a year! And I'm still waiting *cries* * gets happy * I did an awesome chapter I did an awesome chapter! Ahem, back to reality. Yes, Hiei teddy! I want one of those! Let me go find him! I need to make him into and teddy again. * yells* Hiei! Where are you? Don't you want to be turned into a teddy?!
Haze Ziekechitan: Thank you! Someone thinks my fic is cool and would like to be in it. So what if you didn't give me a character it still makes me happy! Oh, grounded from the computer? That's harsh, my family did that once to me when I over flowed the bathtub because I was too busy on the computer to remember about the water( What's your excuse? Nah just kidding, you don't have to tell me. I know it's kinda.personal. There are many twists in this story! I'm glad your looking forward to it! **********************************************
The Will of the Fighter
The Mission Part 3( the finale)
**********************************************Botan
" Is everyone ready?" Tai asked, even though it was too late to turn back now.
Soon, in a matter of minutes we would leave for the Itchigaki Mansion. The villager's fighters were lined up for battle, wearing light armor, carrying either a spear or axe, some of the most skilled chose bows and arrows. Funny, it seems weird to wear armor to protect you, Yusuke never did, neither did the others. They really didn't carry weapons, aside from Hiei's beloved katana, but usually he hid it so it could not be seen.
This mission seemed like a scene from a war movie, not like our ok-I- got-a-mission-let's-get-this-over-with-and-kick-ass attitude. This time, I don't know, it seems odd. To know that some people on your side were going to die and there was nothing you could do about it. If we were in the castle and they were fighting outside it's not like we could just teleport and save them from a deathblow then teleport back like it never happened. It just wasn't possible. Well actually Hiei could probably could if he wanted too.but I know he wouldn't. He's seen too much to care if one soldier died if the outcome would be in our favor.
" Alright let's move out!"
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Pitiful, not even halfway there and the village's so called warriors are slouching like there's not tomorrow. Believe me, for most of them it is. The only thing that can save them are numbers. Maybe Tai and his two bodyguards might be worth something on the battlefield. I rubbed my temples. Thank god I was fighting inside the castle. Botan was looking worriedly at the sad excuse for soldiers. She knew not all of them would make it back. No way in hell.
" Oh Botan, stop moping about. We know it, they know it, some are going to die. Such is the way of life. The weak live the strong survive( Shishio anyone?). As long as we do what we have set out to do the village will be saved and our mission will be complete. Their deaths will not be in vain," Shizuru growled in a tight stoic voice. Only an expert would see she was also slightly troubled. Shizuru may have a hard exterior but on the inside she wasn't ready to see someone die either.
" This isn't like the other missions. This is like a freaking war zone!" Botan cried. Leave it to her to get upset about the inevitable.
" We will do what we can, these soldiers knew what they would be up against when they volunteered. After all, they have been fighting for awhile now," Kurama's wise voice rang out.
Botan huffed and was about to reply when I cut her off.
" Botan no one expects you to save everyone. You don't do miracles and they know that. The question is, do you?"
" Of course I do! I-I'm just not ready to let good people die. It's not right!" She protested. After all this time she was still so naive about death. Even after being a grim reaper for god knows how long. I was about to-wait, something is coming. I concentrated on the energy. It was coming towards us, in the air, not too large, aw crap!
" Get down!" I yelled running straight through the center to where to energy was coming, not caring how many startled, unsuspecting people I knocked over in the process. I grabbed the arrow just in time, a millimeter away from a soldier's heart. He looked fearfully at me, then at his comrades. All of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do. What was wrong with these people!
" What! Do you need a big flashing sign reading "Alert!" to know we are under attack!"
They finally got the message and took out there weapons, only they did not know where to turn. Honestly, where do you find these people. Botan was on the floor, one of the poor people knocked over in my rush to thwart the arrows direction. Even Shiz was looking mildly surprised. Kurama had his rose, facing the hill the Ichigaki's scouts had shot from. At least I had the always-dependable Kurama.
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The nerve of him! Knocking me over like that. What the hell was he- oh. Arrow catching. Well, I guess I can let him slide for now, he'll get it later. I picked myself off the floor and readied my spirit gun. Kurama had transformed his rosewhip, he and Hiei where running up the slope. I sprinted off to follow them, Shizuru catching on.
" Spirit Gun!" Bang! One point for me. I looked at the guys. Ouch. Hiei had three people/demons down, I didn't care enough to find which race they were, they were dead now that's all that mattered and Hiei got the points. Damn.( I got this part from Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers. They were only fighting the biggest battle of the century, or one of them anyway, and they were counting how many people they killed as if it were a game! Even though they could die! So this part is dedicated to them! I was laughing my butt off the whole time!)
Oh, no and there goes Kurama with his rosewheel thornwhip, five down and counting. At times like these I really wish I had a weapon and not just an attack!
Running up the hill I intercepted the human/demons trying to go down the hill. Punch. Kick. Slap. There, that's twelve. I looked for Shiz and found her surrounded by some dead, some bruised bodies. A good sixteen there. Slash. An inhuman screech filled the air as they were cut in half by Hiei's katana. That has got to be Hiei's thirtieth. Maybe we should make a rule no weapons until I get one.
We didn't have to stop the scouts from heading down the hill anymore, their dead comrades made such a fuss that now their concentration was defeating us, then go down to our confused warriors. Almost as soon as it started it was over. The scouts had about seventy fighters come at us, which I will point out, Shiz and I killed about thirty-five.
The once peaceful hill now had dead bodies, or parts of them anyway, dry patches of blood splattered on the grass. Our *ahem* troops looked confusedly at the battlefield. It didn't look like they have moved at all since the battled started. Just stared in wonder the whole time. Great, lot of help they were.
" Shall we continue?" Kurama asked as if nothing had just occurred. Tai only managed a nod in response.
The four of us decided to lead this time incase of a repeat like a few minutes ago. ********************************Hiei
There it is, the Chugiak Mansion. Soldiers were lined up around the castle, and archers were ready above too. They hadn't noticed us yet, much to our relief, it would completely destroy our plan of an ambush.
" So all we need to do is stall the fighters outside long enough for the spirit detectives to take out the inside. Everything clear?" Tai asked, making it sound as if it were a walk in the park.
The soldiers/fighters were pale with worry. Their arms and legs were trembling and eyes showed the fear and horror as if they had just realized that they were going to invade a powerful madman's home. Most of them gazed at the floor, while some fiddled with their weapons as if they were trying to remember how they functioned. None of this seemed to be helping Botany in the least. I tried to use my telepathy to calm her. She looked at me startled, not expecting my voice in her head. She smiled weakly.
She replied.
Somehow I was faced in the front to storm the castle, Botan, Kurama, and Shizuru flanking my sides. " Ready?" We drew our weapons.
" Attack!"
And then we were off. I used my super speed to slash at all the guards in reach, making a clear path to the castle for the others to follow in. My group continued forward in this way until we reached the bog.
It was wide, at least six meters, and didn't smell all that great either. Come to think of it, we really hadn't planned for this part.
" So, um, do we cross? Or just stand here all day while the idiots back there get killed?" Shizuru asked sarcastically.
I threw a stick in the mote. Just as I thought. The water bubbled briefly, and the stick melted. Wait, water! The big stupid drowning fish thing!
" Botan! Do you still have that shell the stupid fish told us he could hear if we ever needed him? I think all we had to do was throw it in the water," I asked.
" Yeah, I think I do," She replied. Botan bent down and grabbed her sock and pulled the little shell out. I just looked at her.
" I thought it might bring me good luck so I kept it with me." she trailed off sheepishly. Typical Botan.
She threw it into the mote. We just stood there for what seemed like an hour. Then the water began to bubble again, a fish emerged to the surface.
" Hey, old chaps, it's been awhile ain't it? Well how might I be of service?" the happy fish questioned.
" Axel! Do you think you could give us a ride over to the Ichigaki Mansion? It's got some acid, or poison or something but we can't touch it," Botan told him. ( Remember I said you would be seeing him again? Also I just figured out that Ichigaki is spelled this way not Ichigaki, like I had been spelling it. From now on I'll use the correct spelling but I won't fix my previous spelling. It just takes too much time and I want to get this chapter out as soon as possible. If anyone has serious problems tell me in a review and I'll see what I can do)
" Sure thing! Hop on!" the king fish replied.
Well at least we got into the mansion.
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" We're under attack!"
Seriously, I don't know whose worse our comrades or these buffoons. We barge in, kill the closest people to us, and now there's havoc. I blurred above a guard and sliced him in half, extended my arm and summoned fire to wipe out the remainder of resistance.
Continuing down the hall, and killing guards as we went trying to find the torture chamber. Yes. The torture chamber. The Ichigaki's experiments were held in a torture chamber, or at least that's what a weak guard said when we interior gated him. But then again he's in no position to do any damage now. Even if he did lie, he paid for it. Dearly. And if he did was telling the truth, uh, whoops?
Ah who cares? It was just one lousy person anyway.
This was crazy, it would take five minutes to go down one blasted hall. The twisted family's henchmen were going down like flies. It was almost too easy. And took too long. Ah just die all of you!
" So the rebellion has finally arrived."
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We opened a door that led to another hall. My lord, how many rooms does a mad family need? It's not like they have many guests.
" So the rebellion has finally arrived."
This man, or male demon whatever, was probably that loner Endusa guy. What was he again? The fire demon?
" Who the hell are you?" Does Hiei even know how to act shy? That'd be a miracle.
" I am Endusa." Bingo. " And your next opponent. Let's see if you can take on a real challenge."
" I sure hope you are stronger than your little friends out there. The only thing they seem to be good at is screaming and creating hell. Not to mention getting killed," Shizuru interjected. Did someone give them mean pills? At least it's him, not me.
Endusa scowled.
" I do not consider anyone in here my friend. I merely do this for the pay, and the chance to find someone who can last more than five minutes with me in battle." It did say that in the bio didn't it?
" Enough talk. Are you going to fight or not?" Kurama asked, readying his rose.
" I thought you'd never ask!" Endusa replied.
He powered up for a second then unleashed a blast of fire I wasn't suspecting. How can people go from talk to fighting in a second? Maybe I spent too much time as a deity or maybe I just missed something.
I ducked as the blast went past my ear, only leaving a trace of warmth on it. Ouch that burned. He was going to pay for that!
" Blue crusher!" I screamed my best attack at him. He crossed his arms and blocked it. Blocked it!
" Nice try little girl, but you have to do better than that to hurt me!" Endusa screamed as he lunged with his fist. I ducked out of the way just before he hit the wall, making a rather large dent in the once spotless wall. That would have hurt. I hope this guy doesn't have to pay for damages to the house.
Endusa sent a fireball hurling in my direction. I had no more room to run for I was face to face with the wall.
" Spirit Gun!"
Shizuru tried to alter the attack by hitting Endusa, but it was too late, the fireball had been sent. And it was getting closer.
Another fireball sailed centimeters from my face and hit the approaching one, canceling it out. Hiei's form blurred in front of me. I glared at him.
" What are you trying to do?! Scare the crap out of me?!" I screeched lowly in his ear.
" No, just trying to your ass from getting killed," Hiei replied, a smirk forming on his lips.
" Well could you do that in a less terrifying way?" I asked, irritated.
" Now that's no fun, is it?"
I was about to reply with another nasty statement but Hiei grabbed me and jumped away before Endusa's fist would have connected with us.
" Rose whip!" Kurama cried and his beloved rose changed into his favorite weapon. He thrust his whip around the fire demons foot, effectively tripping him, and allowing us to get away to the other side of the room.
" Endusa! Just what do you think you are doing?"
A girl demon. Green hair. Purple eyes. Arenthis.
" Trying to kill them what do you think?!" Came his angered reply.
" Without leaving any for me? That's just selfish Endusa and you know it!" Her response was equally angry.
Our team just froze. Literally. Just stopped, looking at the two like they were crazy.
" Damn it! I just want to find someone I can use my full power on! It's been too long since I had a real fight!"
" Well what about me! I want a good fight too! Hardly anyone can beat me these days!"
" If you want to get your ass kicked you should have just come to me. I would have set you straight."
" Why you! I'm supposed to be on your team!" Arenthis screamed.
" What have I told you? I have no team," Endusa replied evenly.
" Ahem. Can we fight already? You two can fight after, if you are still able to, that is," I cut in. I had my disputes with Hiei and I knew how long they could go.
They glared at each other.
" I doubt you will leave now. Just don't get in my way," Endusa said coldly.
He turned right, Arenthis turned left. The teams were now set. It would be Hiei and I vs. Endusa, Kurama and Shizuru vs. Arenthis. Let the games begin!
Endusa made the first move again, but this time he attacked Hiei. Hiei back flipped over the attack and lunged with his katana. Endusa caught the sword in his hands, trying to push it off him as Hiei tried the opposite. Thin cuts appeared on his hands from where the sword had pieced him, blood seeping out of the wound.
I ran around to the back and shot my spirit gun, aiming at his open back. I nailed him and he turned around, his eyes full of rage and fury. He charged for me and his fists curled into balls, ready to pound my face into the stone floor as I simply stared at him. As I expected, Hiei phased in the air space right above Endusa and slashed his shoulder, blood squirting out of the gushing wound.
" Ahhh! You'll pay for that!"
" I'm sure we will," Hiei said coldly.
Well this guy was pretty much beat, with one arm practically severed off, both his hands had gruesome cuts on them, not big but very deep, and his back had been nailed by my spirit gun. I don't care how tough the guy is, that's got to hurt. Currently, he and Hiei were engaged in a verbal fight of wits.
I took this opportunity to see how our other half of the team was fairing. Arenthis had Shizuru pinned to the wall, though Kurama's whip was curled around her neck, choking her, little lines of red blood trailed down her neck. Kurama pulled on his whip but Arenthis would not give up on her hold against Shizuru.
Shizuru for her part wriggled one hand free and landed a solid punch on her captor's nose, starting a whole new blood flow. Arenthis screeched at the contact, but her hold only tightened with determination. Shizuru closed her eyes as rage poured through her.
" That's it bitch, let me go!" she screamed.
As she ended her sentence, all her energy flowed into one of her palms, and took on the form of a energy sword much like that of Kuwabara's. ( Hey if he can do it, why can't Shizuru?)
**************************** Shizuru
Upon starting this battle launched two of her energy throwing stars aiming for our centers, making me jump left and Kurama right, dividing us. The odd part was both of her stars followed Kurama, not me. I didn't have any more time to ponder for Arenthis had snuck behind me and her hands covered my mouth.
" Hey-mmmmm!" I tried to speak but her wretched hands muffled my voice.
" Not so fast human. I am going to enjoy killing you and your occupied friend over there. But I think I'll kill you first. That'll show that bighead Endusa he's not the only one that can inflict damage around here! I'm just as good as him!" Arenthis dragged on, her voice like nails on a chalkboard to my ears. Enough of this!
" One day he'll see that-oow! Why you little bitch!" She cried, throwing me off her and cradled her hand, which I had so nicely bitten seconds prior. I stumble and in that second she pinned me to the closest wall, her arms on my shoulders pressing me to the wall.
I struggled in her grasp and managed to free one hand loosed and punched her hard in the nose. I smirked at seeing the blood pour out of her new wound. Oops. I think I might have broken it. Whatever shall I do?
" Ahhh! My beautiful nose! You ruined it!" Her voice was brimming with rage.
I winced and held back a groan as her nails dug into my shoulders. I felt my own rage well up inside me, it seemed the more pain I felt the more power I created. Finally, I channeled all my energy into my palm. I don't really know why, I just did, like an unconscious feeling just came over me. I soon found out what my natural instinct was.
" That's it, let go of me bitch!"
Almost immediately my palm glowed where my energy had gathered. It grew out in the shape of a sword. An energy sword that is. I guess me and my brother have more things in common than I would like to think. Mine looks a little different though. My sword actually had a point and a solid form, like that of a rapier. Instead or orange, it took the color of red, which suited me fine. ( Just imagine in Star Wars a red lightsaber, I think Darth used that kind. That's how I picture it anyway)
It grew larger as more of my energy poured into it. Eventually it grew long enough that it went straight through Arenthis's stomach. All this happened in a matter of seconds. Arenthis had her mouth open, gaping like a fish out of water. I had almost forgotten my sword was embedded in her stomach right now. Her hands had loosened considerably, now more like resting on my shoulders. I pushed her off and pulled my sword out.
She dropped to the floor, and I assumed her dead. I heard a whizzing sound and I noticed Kurama was still dodging her blasted energy stars, with a very noticeable startled look on his face. From the corner of my eye I saw that Botan also had adopted a startled look too. Hiei was too occupied at the moment to notice anything besides killing the Endusa guy. Actually, he wasn't doing that bad of a job either.
I ran in from of Kurama once he had gained a good distance from the stars, placing me in between them. I crouched down lower to the ground and took on a batter's stance (batter up!) and prepared to strike both of them. Five. Four. Three. Two. And- ha! Bye bye Mr. Star! One of the stars hit the ceiling and lost all of its energy. The other one, however, almost hit Hiei. Luckily for me, it just missed his leg and hit Endusa's knee. Add that to the list of injuries.
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What the hell was that?! A .throwing star? Endusa howled in pain, yet again at the new object stuck in his knee. ( Man this guy is really getting tortured, isn't he?) Since when did Shizuru have an energy sword anyway? By god, I wish I had one of those what do they call them? Camera things? The look on Kurama's face is priceless! What-oh yeah, back to business.
" Well it seems-" I started but was cut off by a blast from outside. It shook the entire mansion, and by the amount of time it took us to not be lost, I knew it was very big. Just what was that anyway. Endusa started laughing.
Not let me tell you, something must be big-and very bad for us if a man that has been blasted in the back, has a pointy object in his knee, a slashed shoulder, and slit palms to laugh. I could only wonder what it was.
" Well it seems our backup has arrived!"
Backup?
" You all must already know, for the lack of a better word, both of our fighters outside suck. Probably about half from both sides are already dead. But when you first arrived we alerted the boss and he sent for backup. Now they brought bombs. And I'm sure that bad fighter vs. bad fighters with bombs are going to have a much harder time winning the battle now!" he exclaimed.
I heard Botan gasp. Great. Now she is worried again about the stupid fighter's outside. Just when she forgot about them too.
" Botan, go. We can hold him off from here. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes from what it looks like," I said, and motioned her to the door with my hand.
" This is the last of their inside fighters. The sooner you leave, the sooner we have the Ichigaki's under arrest, the more lives we save outside," I reminded her as I saw the confusion in her eyes.
She nodded and ran out the door.
Now to finish this..
No one noticed that Arenthis was no longer lying in the dry puddle of her own blood.
( I was going to leave this here but I did promise this would be the last chapter of the Ichigaki Mission and you have been such good reviewers so I'll give you the rest.)
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I fled out the door and down a dark hall. The lights must have shorted out from the explosion on the.those poor soldiers, they weren't prepared for bombs of all things! I was filled with new determination to bring the Ichigaki's to justice and free the village, not to mention the fighters outside.
My footsteps echoed in the hall, as I ran. I found that this hall was very long, I was running and it still took me a few minutes to reach the door at the end. We have a problem. The knob on the door had a curved slit inscribed in it. Must be the keyhole. Except I have no key. Normally I would just blast it open but this door happened to be made of a kind of metal. I very strong kind of metal.
Two metal objects came flying at me, and snatched the cloth on my shoulders, taking me with it, and pinning me to a wall. I tried to move but I found two throwing stars are very hard to remove. And the fact that they had my hands at a disadvantage seeing as I could only move from my elbows down. The rest was held down by the star.
" So the spirit detective has come to a dead end, has she?" I recognized the voice as that of Arenthis. Apparently she was not as dead as I would like to think. ( Bet the throwing stars gave her away.she really does like pinning people to walls, doesn't she?)
" Your little friend thought she had beat me! Like she could! Now that they have ganged up on Endusa he has surely met his end. Oh well, good riddance to bad rubbish as they always say. The bitch did hurt me though," she said holding her stomach and continued," but I will recover in time. But as for you, I can use you for my revenge. I would like to do this as slowly and painfully as I can but your friends will be here soon, Endusa couldn't have bought me that much time, as bad as the old fool was wounded. Just enough time to kill you and make my getaway, I would think." ( She does like to talk too)
Arenthis took out another of her throwing stars, tilting one of the points toward me, so that it would stab my midsection and started walking towards me, slowly. I visibly shivered and started thinking rapidly. Is this the end? I'm going to die on my first real mission? Images started flooding my head, words forming with them. What about the soldiers? Will Kurama and Shizuru be all right. Hiei? My mind seemed to stop at Hiei. What was Hiei to me anyway? A friend? I knew in my heart it was more. But how much more? Did I love him?
Arenthis was only a few steps away from me now.a few more steps and- Arenthis's eyes widened briefly, then collapsed. From what I could see a deep cut went from her right shoulder to her left hip. I strained to see the dark figure behind Arenthis's dead, I was positive she was dead now, body. Black hair and a sword? Hiei?
" No, I'm not Hiei, detective." That voice! It was the voice of my captor in the alley! ( I think it was chapter 3?)
It sure seemed like him. He had black hair, looked about the same height, used a sword, and had possibly the fastest speed I had ever seen. And he could read minds! How many people can do that? The figure raised his sword. I held my breath. A second later the stars were cut in half, but it didn't look like the sword had ever moved! Yep, this guy definitely had Hiei's speed.
" You better take care of yourself, Botan. I will see you again," he whispered. In a flash he was gone again, leaving me standing there, I was sure my eyes looked like saucers. Then the door fell down, cut right down the middle in one long, perfect slash.
I still stood there. So this guy saves me and helps me? What could this mean? I shook my head free of all thoughts. I had a mission to do and people were dying. With that, I ran through the door to confront the Ichigaki's once and for all.
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I think I'll end it there. So what do you think? I know I promised that this would be the last part of the Ichigaki series and it will. The next chapter will tell what happened in the end and how the village is and all. Thought it would be Hiei didn't you? Remember I said there will be a lot of twists? You might want to read earlier chapter to remember some important things you might have looked over. Remember the ice cream alleyway thing? The brick? The note? Why Koenma made Botan a spirit detective? (That's not fully explained but gives you hints) The Lord part in one of the early chapters? All this will be important in the upcoming chapters.
Speaking of chapters this one was pretty long. Over 7,000 words, unless ff.net screws it up somehow. Don't expect an update soon because I have run out of ideas. I know how I want this to end, I just don't know how to get it there. Honestly I don't know how good this chapter was. I had parts I thought were great but parts I thought were complete crap. I guess I'll know in your reviews huh?
Anyone watching the Simpsons? The episode about the Grim Reaper coming to get Bart I think(?) is on tonight in a few minutes. It looks really funny so I'm going to watch it. I think last time I forgot to give a recommendation so I'll try to give two. I'm running out of fics to recommend that star Botan and Hiei!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Recommendation Love Me When I'm Gone is a Botan/Hiei fanfic. I haven't read it personally, I didn't have the time, but the summary seemed good. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YYH: Twist of Fate by my friend Jagan is really good. She hasn't updated in awhile, she wants more reviews so please give them to her! It's really good. What would happen if Yukina and Hiei switched places? What if Yukina was the cold fire demon? What if Hiei didn't know he had a sister? What would have changed in the series? It starts in the beginning like the series and takes you all the way through. Is really good! Read Michelle's bio too, it's really funny! Made me laugh. There's not much Hiei/Botan right now, but there will be in later chapters! So please review for her! You hear that Michelle? Update now! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here comes your favorite part of the chapter, the bloopers, enjoy! There's a lot of them because I could really work with this chapter!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bloopers^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^(the pov will be different here) The nerve of him! Knocking me over like that. What the hell was he-oh. Arrow catching,' Botan thought.
" Hey! That one was a little close, wasn't it!" Botan cried.
" Damn! I missed! I almost got her to shut up!," came a reply of the person who shot the arrow.
" Hey! What was that?" Botan asked threateningly.
" Gulp."
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" Spirit gun!" Botan screamed.
" Hah! That's what three for you? I have over twenty!" Hiei said proudly and smirked.
" So you have demon speed and I got stuck with a lousy spirit gun. You think that's fair?" Botan growled.
" I think it's perfectly fair. It's not the technique it's the wielder that makes the difference," Hiei teased.
" Oh, you!"
" Hey how come I can't have my energy sword? That would make such a big difference! I can't stand their bragging anymore!"
" Hiei how many do you have?" Kurama asked.
" Twenty."
" Good that gives us thirty-five," Kurama stated.
" What!?" the girls shrieked.
The bickering continued.
" How many times do we need to shoot this scene? The same thing happens over and over again!" exclaimed the director.
" I don't know. Why does it matter who kills more? They are on the same team!" a worker replied.
" It matters because these two brag like there's no tomorrow! And we didn't get all our powers yet! It's not fair! If we had the powers we are getting later on in the fanfic we could wipe that smirk off their faces!" Shizuru exclaimed.
" Shizuru! The readers aren't supposed to know that yet-!" the director exclaimed.
" What do you mean? Your powers wouldn't make a difference. You are just weak women, that's all," Hiei stated.
" Uh, Hiei you probably shouldn't have made that last remark," Kurama said as the girls in the building glared at them, their faces becoming red with anger.
" Uh would this be a good time to run?" Hiei asked.
" Yep," Kurama replied already running down the hall.
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" Ahhhh..splash!"
" Axel how many times do I have to tell you not to throw Hiei into the water?" Botan demanded.
" It's not my fault, the man is impossible," Axel replied.
" It wasn't me who dragged you around when we were fishing!" Hiei exclaimed, emerging by the water.
" Hey it was in the script buddy!"
" So! You enjoyed it!"
" It's called the pleasures of work!"
" I'll give you work! Come here and give my katana some work!"
" Wait no! Hiei come back! Axel stop that! Oh god- Axel run! Run for your life! Hiei but the sword down! What are you babbling about? No, I don't want fish for dinner! Come back! Are you listening to me? Hiei!" Botan screamed.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There are too many things I can do with the bloopers here, and too little time. Because I want to get this chapter out now, I will do the rest of the bloopers in the next chapter. Just remind me ok?
~Freesia~