Part Two: Genbu Versus Kurama

The four made their way down the stone halls, Yusuke noticing that the torches only lit once you reached them.

"This place scares the bejeezus outta me." Yusuke muttered, rubbing his arms.

"Oh don't be such a girl, Urameshi." Kuwabara said.

Yusuke glared. "Did you forget?"

"Oh…yeah…sorry."

"Forgiven. Now, where is that first damned Saint Beast?"

"Welcome!" a loud voice boomed.

Yusuke blinked. "Well, that answers that question."

A pair of large doors opened, revealing a stone room….again.

The four stepped into the room, looking around.

"Welcome, I am Genbu, the first of the Four Saint Beasts." Said a huge guy made of stone…not the prettiest thing in the world. "Do any of you have any questions before you die?"

"Yeah, how's a Beast a Saint, I'm lost." Yusuke muttered, being sarcastic as always.

"Why don't all four of you attack me at once, so the last one standing won't feel left out?"

Kurama smiled softly. "I'll take him. It would be unwise for all of us to die in the first round."

Yusuke seemed ready to argue while Kurama walked away, but Hiei stopped him.

"Don't worry about Kurama. Genbu will be dead in ten minutes. Do you wonder why I chose him as my partner? So I wouldn't have to fight him myself. Kurama's more cutthroat then I am when it comes to battle, and unbelievably precise. You'd be amazed at what he can hide behind that 'gentle' façade."

"So you want to die one by one, do you? I can do that too."

With that, the first fight began…

Kurama stood, calm as ever, not twenty feet from Genbu. He held back the urge to cover his nose and wrinkle it in disgust from the disgusting odor.

He readied himself, but Yusuke yelled something.

Kurama looked behind himself and jumped out of the way of the sharp-ended appendage flying his way. But the edge caught his side and created quite a large slash.

Kurama dodged every attack from Genbu, but was having trouble guessing where the tail or the other pieces of stone were coming from.

Finally, Genbu managed to cut him across the chest.

"Oof!" he landed to the floor, holding his chest.

"Kurama!" yelled Yusuke.

"Well, it seems that you bouncing around like a jack rabbit isn't helping you any, is it?" Genbu growled.

Kurama chuckled. "Yes, Genbu. It appears you're right." He flipped his hair, pulling out a rose.

Yusuke blinked. "A flower? What the?"

"Now that's weird, if he's gonna try to win Genbu over, I don't think that will work out too well."

Hiei snickered.

"It's no ordinary flower." Kurama stated, standing up. The petals from the rose started to swirl around him, flowing around the room. "Rose whip!" Kurama said, flicking his wrist, causing a whip to form from the stem of the rose.

Yusuke looked up, now surrounded by rose petals. "Well, everything's coming up roses."

"It smells girly, I don't think I like it."

"Oh, so I guess he should be a big tough guy like you and be obsessed with kittens?"

"Shut up!"

Kurama used the whip to slice Genbu into a million pieces with his Rose Whiplash.

But Genbu merely pulled himself back together.

It took Kurama nearly three tries to finally grab a blinking stone.

When Genbu pulled himself back together, he looked like a Picasso painting gone wrong.

Kurama smiled and held up the blinking stone. "Looking for this?" he shattered it, making Genbu fall to pieces.

Kurama sighed, falling to his knees.

"Kurama! Man, are you okay?" Yusuke asked, helping Kurama up.

"I'm fine, Yusuke. But it would appear that I won't be fit to fight another Saint for a while."

"This is a problem, with Kurama injured, we're going to have some issues." Said Hiei, obviously slightly worried about his friend/partner.

Yusuke nodded. "C'mon, Kurama. Can you walk?"

"I'm just fine, Yusuke." Kurama stood, snickering. "With the way you act, people would think you were my girlfriend, or something of that nature."

Yusuke blushed faintly. "Oh shut up, Fox-Boy you wish. And if we were together, you'd be the chick in the relationship."

When Yusuke said that, it brought Kurama's attention back to the fact that 'Yume' was currently a guy.

Now I feel stupid. I shouldn't have said that.

"You forgot again, didn't you?" Yusuke muttered, burying his face in a hand.

Kurama laughed nervously. "Uh…yeah."

"Baka kitsune." Muttered both Yusuke and Hiei.

Kurama looked between the two. "I'm being ambushed!" he muttered, mock-fainting.

Yusuke caught him. "C'mon, Fox-Boy."

"All right! The next fight is mine!" yelled Kuwabara.