The tension on the air was so thick that they could barely breathe. Hiei and Kuwabara sat on the opposite side of the training field then the girls, Hiei tried to talk strategy but Kuwabara only wanted to talk about how cute the girls were.

Yusuke stretched and made sure that his muscles were ready for a fight; because he was sure it would be a good one. With a smirk he walked to the middle of the field, with his hands in his pocket and the smile on his face clear he waited for Rin.

Rin sat and let Myo braid her hair, when she was finished she lost the smile that always stayed on her lips. With a large sigh she grabbed her sword from her suitcase and strapped it to her back. It was a large broad sword that was almost a tall as her, when she wished it the sword would fill with her spirit energy.

Walking to the middle of the training field Rin saw Yusuke's past fill her eyes, normally she would have smiled at this, but all she saw was the face of Keiko and his mother. She saw glimpses of his death but that didn't concern her, what did was that Yusuke hardly showed her affection back. While she was thinking about this Yusuke attacked.

He started off with punches, but they were slow Rin could swear that she heard his muscles and joints creak from being used. Dodging them easily Rin jumped above him and put her elbow into the back of his neck.

Yusuke gave a short cry of outrage as his neck got the shock, but he only resolved to fight harder. Gaining speed Yusuke managed to land a punch on Rin's jaw. Taking a step back Rin spit out the blood that had formed with her cheeks contact with her teeth.

"Nice shot Yusuke, you won't get another." With a quick movement Rin had unsheathed her sword. The steel was tinted blue and had a design running up and down the edges.

With an elegance and grace that Yusuke had never seen, Rin began to twirl the sword. The way the light reflected off the blade it caused Yusuke to become lost in the brilliance of it all.

Yuko and Myo smiled when they saw that Rin was spinning her blade. They had been taught this trick a long time ago and Rin was very good at it.

"This will be simple, he's already swooning." Yuko said high fiving Myo. Myo nodded but her eyes never left the battle.

"Yes let's hope that yours goes as smoothly." Myo giggled lightly and Yuko punched her lightly in the arm.

"Oh don't worry, that Kuwabara is already drooling just thinking about it, besides I've never lost." Myo grinned at her sister and Yuko grinned back.

"There's going to be that first time Yuko, don't take things to lightly." Yuko laughed a 'Yeah right' and cheered Rin on, as the blade continued to spin.

As the blade spun Yusuke began to feel his eyes droop. As he fought with the power of the blade to keep his eyes open he found his mind wandering to Keiko. How soft her hair was, how sweet she was to make him cookies. He shook himself and looked back towards Rin only to see his mother's face in the blade. Crying over his death, then Keiko again mourning him so deeply.

Rin had no trouble in spinning the large blade, for that long or that fast. She called up the memories that had rushed to her earlier and put them in the blade with her spirit energy. She saw Yusuke begin to drop into sleep, and then pull himself back out. He was a strong one but she still had him fast, she didn't give up a second. Rin remembered her training and what had happened the last time.

Flash Back

Rin, Yuko and Myo were around five. Their father had just died and their mother had shipped them off to her brother and sister for training.

The girls were frightened when they first saw Aunt Genkai and Uncle Soto. The moment that the brother and sister saw the triplets they knew what they were and knew that they had to make them strong.

"What say you brother, should we teach them?"

"Yes, sister it would be wrong not to." The triplets began their training that day, deciding to leave their empty childhood behind. After a few months of training Soto called them and told them he wanted to teach them something that only he knew.

"It has no name; I have no reason to give it one, but the one who taught it to me called it 'Sleeping Blade', but I found that there are many other uses for this technique." Though Rin was the blest with her blade, Soto taught all the girls this, and when he felt they were ready he brought in a demon for each of them to fight.

"Rin you're first." Rin began as allowed, she was perfect allowing no fault in her spins or concentration. When the demon had almost gone to sleep, she lowered her concentration and began wondering how to finish him. She didn't remember what happened next.

From what Yuko and Myo had told her was that after she had lowered her concentration the demon had nearly killed her.

End Flash Back

Rin was never told who saved her life, when she finally got back to the battle Yusuke had moved and Yuko was calling out to her.

"Concentrate Rin!" Rin nodded and thrusted behind her to where she knew Yusuke was. He fell to the ground clutching his stomach in pain. Rin peered closely at the wound she had inflicted, just large enough and deep enough to cause him pain even though he was a trained warrior used to pain.

Yusuke clutched his stomach in pain and felt the tears well up inside of him soon they streamed down his face. With an agonized yell he saw that he was bleeding profusely. He was actually whimpering, he had never done that before, especially with this little of a wound.

Kuwabara rushed to Yusuke's side when he saw that his friend had been hurt. The sword looked dangerous but not enough to actually bring Yusuke to his knees, or worse to make him cry.

Rin looked down at Yusuke and then looked to her sword, Forgiven. It had a small bit of Yusuke's blood dripping down it and it screamed for her to clean it before anything else was done. Listening to her sword was very important so she killed her then turned to Yusuke.

Myo and Yuko sat and watched the boys pain as did Genkai. They knew that swords bit and that it hurt they learned that long ago and they had learned to deal with it. Yuko held back a cry when some of Yusuke's pain transferred to her, it was a immense.

"Heal him already for pity sake!" Yuko cried through clenched teeth, she held her stomach. Rin nodded and knelt beside him. It wasn't a game anymore, it wasn't wonder that she faced as she healed him, he was after all only human.

Yusuke felt a calm presence come to him as the pain receded. He looked up and saw a blue light glowing around him and became aware that Rin was healing him. With a small grin he gave into the power that the sword had sent him, drifting into sleep he sighed.

"Well the winner of this match is Rin, next match Kuwabara versus Yuko." Genkai said with a nod. Yuko began to stand and stretch.

"Piece of cake Aunt." She smiled and flexed her fingers, he wouldn't last five minutes. Rin carried Yusuke off the field and he began to drool in his sleep.

"Ew, gross." She said with a sigh and set him down. Myo laughed when she returned with the slime all over the front of her shirt. Hiei smirked as Kuwabara promised to never fight a girl after this. Yuko took her long bow out of her suitcase and strung it. It was a long yew bow that had an intricate tribal design on it, the twine she used to string it with was colored green as were her arrows.

"Are you ready Kuwabara?" She mocked almost, she was a jokester, she had no reason to care about who or what she was fighting she just knew that she would win.

A small breeze floated by carrying the scent of Myo to Kurama's nose. She sat perfectly calm and yet her scent said fear. A fear for whom, her sisters or herself? Perhaps she didn't think that she was strong enough to take on Hiei?

Kuwabara finished his prayer "I'm always ready for a good warm up match!" He called to her his confident voice not masking his fear that she could and would defeat him.

Well that's chapter two!

I'd really like some comments before I post the next chapter and I'd like to thank my one fan Scorose!

What's will happen with Kuwabara and Yuko, and what saved Rin from the demon? Find out in chapters to come.

Ja ne!

Ivy