---Road to an Eternity of Wars---
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.
Okay…nothing much will probably happen in this fight because, well…both characters I really can't see fighting each other…
To be honest with you…I had trouble deciding so I drew the names from a hat. Hehe… (Scratches back of head sheepishly)
A very short chapter, I know...but...it'll be explained in my end authors' note.
Chapter 27: Fighting Continues (For lack of a better title…)
Overall POV…
Now they stood their in their stances, Sango staring at Kurama to see if she could sense his next movement, and Kurama just observing the demon slayer with calm, calculating eyes.
Slowly, Kurama formed a plant in his hand, in the shape of a sword. He put away his whip, "This plant is as hard as solid steel" He explained, holding his plant sword out in front of him.
Nodding, Sango strapped her boomerang onto her back and shrugged her shoulders to get the strap into a comfortable position.
All through this, Kurama waited.
This was making the crowd a bit fidgety that there wasn't anything happening. Some of them even roared and punched the demon beside them in frustration.
Craning her head to the side to stretch her neck muscle a bit, Sango and Kurama both lunged forward at the same time, their swords making a clash and surprisingly, when the connected, the swords make a 'clash' despite Kurama's being made out of plants.
The two leaped back, keeping eye contact.
"I haven't trained much on the sword" Sango admitted, "But I'll take a challenge"
"What challenge…?" Kurama smirked, "I only commented on how hard my plant was"
Sango growled, running forward again.
Their swords hit each other again, but this time, Sango twisted hers around in such a way that her sword went over his and around to the bottom position.
From there, Sango jabbed right into his stomach.
Sensing this, Kurama shifted to the side, making her miss completely.
Coincidentally, they struck again at the exact same time, both arms locking, sliding apart afterwards. The tips of their blades scratched along the sides of their arms, below their elbows.
A thin layer of blood began to drip out.
Sango and Kurama stared deftly at their right arm.
The wound felt numb.
There was not much happening in this match. It started to bore the crowd and time seemed to tick by slowly.
The two did not know how to approach each other. They knew nearly nothing of their opponent, causing them to be extremely cautious about their attacks.
Sango lowered her right arm, the blood sliding and dripping off her fingers, some molding around the handle of the sword and running down the blade.
Everything seemed to unfold there.
All at once, Kurama dropped his sword, reaching into his hair once again, jumping back and pulling out what looked like a sunflower seed. In his hand, the seed started to crack and grow, revealing a small sunflower. He hastily lowered it onto the ground and patted its frail roots into the dust, powering it with a prick of spirit energy.
Sango too, dropped her sword, and as it clattered to the ground, she drew her boomerang again, and with a yell, swung it into the direction of whatever he was planning, "Hiraikotsu!"
The weapon swung and spun around, only to be bombarded with thousands of pellets – sunflower seeds.
The little makeshift bullets seemed to be sharp, as they deeply scratched Sango's weapon, once in a while denting it too.
Yes, as Sango glanced up with her raised arm, there was a full grown –huge, actually- sunflower growing out of the ground with seeds shooting out.
Somehow, the boomerang managed to make it through though, knocking Kurama a bit so he stumbled to the ground.
Sango was showered in the seeds, piercing tiny cuts all over her arms as the wounds actually started to sting at the moment, making her gasp in pain.
"Matte, matte! Wait!"
Everybody in the stands, the two teams, and the opponents looked questionably at Koto.
Her high-pitch tone filled the stadium with the help of her horrid microphone, "I'm sure the crowd wants something more! We don't want any fights like this! We want blood, right?"
The crowd roared in response, now all hyped up and shouting.
"I call this match a tie! Now let's move on!"
Rolling her eyes, Sango stood up, picking up her weapons while Kurama did the same, glaring at the announcer, making her tremble.
"That was a different experience" Kagome laughed, greeting the two as the stepped off the arena.
"I hate that announcer" Yusuke grumbled.
Sango sighed, "Same here" She snorted, "Calling it a tie because it just didn't satisfy the audience. I hate that"
"It's sort of the way things work here"
"Whatever"
"Who's next?" Genkai interrupted, "We have to move on"
Again, the dice was rolled, quickly this time, without any pause.
Kuwabara.
Keiko.
They both sighed, "Let's go"
By the arena, the two announcers broke out the news, "And it seems that the next match will be Keiko from Team Higurashi against Kuwabara from Team Urameshi! Let's hope this match will be more exciting than the last!"
Sango scowled, but edged Keiko on, the whole team muttering a 'good luck'.
When the two both stood on the middle of the arena, they made eye contact, unsure of how to start off the match.
"Begin!"
At first instinct and thought, Keiko immediately drew her Zanbato (1) and held it in front of her, as much as the weight it looked, it didn't feel heavy to her.
Kuwabara tried to test the reliability of Keiko's metal, racing up and punching it, fist onto the cold metal. He jumped back, holding his knuckles in pain.
"Yeah, it's harder than most metals" Keiko grinned sheepishly.
"You got that right…" Kuwabara muttered, "Okay then…" He drew a sword handle out, roaring as he powered spirit energy into it, a yellow sword forming in front of him.
The weapon flashed like fire, burning brighter than usual.
"Hyaa!" Their weapons clashed and locked there, their hands trembling from the force, refusing to give in. The two jumped back, surprisingly already in a bit of a pant.
Keiko swung her body around, her Zanbato threatening to slice Kuwabara's ankles off if he had not jumped up in time.
He took this time to lunge forward, aiming a punch with his left hand.
She was able to block, but let go of her weapon with one hand to clench the fist and attempt to push it away. At this moment, the blade flew at her while both her hands were occupied. She let go of his fist and dove underneath, making his body with momentum fly overtop of her and onto the ground behind her.
Kuwabara stood back up, craning his neck. He snatched up his fallen weapon and shifted into a stance once again.
Keiko turned around and slid into her training stance, but raised the huge blade above her, slamming it into the earth with near brute force; the ground in front of her started to split and crack, forming a deathly deep crevice.
Kuwabara was forced to roll away before he would tip over.
"That's huge! What are you trying to do, kill me?" He nearly shrieked, quite shocked by the distracting crack that divided the area in half.
"Maybe" Keiko smirked, but they both knew she was joking.
They fought seriously, but never dreamed of killing one another.
By reflex, both of them moved a couple meters away from the danger to ensure they wouldn't just haphazardly fall by accident.
Hai, Hai, I know this isvery a short chapter, but I'm exhausted…and something terrible has happened this week…I'm not feeling well. If you want to know what's dragging me down, feel free to visit and comment to my journal, the link is on my profile…I write out my thoughts on it...
1. At a time, I believe I spelt it 'Zabato', but now I think it's 'Zanbato' so I'll use that.
(Sigh) Read and review onegai…
Sayonara,
Tenshi-Battosai