"But brother, we can do this-!" Toguro kicked him out of the ring. "What? I'M YOUR OLDER BROTHER! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He lunged towards him and me. Toguro moved in front of me and easily killed his brother.
"Sorry, but blood can run only so thick." He wiped the smear of blood off his knuckles. He turned to face me. "This will be a fair fight between you and me. And this time, I'm not throwing it for anyone."
"Good, because it's personal for me this time." I glared at him.
"You think this isn't personal for me as well? I'll start with eighty five!" His muscles expanded with each breath he took and he was surrounded in a purple aura, which literally melted the flesh off of the lower class demons. I watched, freaking myself out for how not scared I was.
"Begin!" Juri shouted as Toguro finished powering up. "My turn." I ripped off the wristbands.
"Stand still." Genkai drew the cuffs around my wrists and ankles. I easily drew my legs and arms apart mixing my Spirit Energy with my physical strength. "These'll keep you in perfect fighting shape 24-7. Think of them as weights for your Spirit Energy. And as usual, you can thank me later. And I'm giving you a release spell, use it when you think the time is right."
"Spirit Cuffs from Genkai?" Toguro asked. I knew he was too strong to beat with the cuffs on. I may be cocky, but I am not an idiot.
"Now would be a pretty good time, huh, Genkai?" I smiled, "AVITUS!" The yellow cuffs vanished and a golden light flashed for a second. I cried out as a maelstrom of aura lifted into the air, shaping a phoenix. It circled the stadium, uttering a cry when it passed overhead. Hovering over me for a second, it was reabsorbed into my body.
"Whoa!" Rinku shouted.
"You know you really got something when your wind is shaped like a phoenix!" Jin agreed.
Chu grinned and laughed. "Her energy is out of control!"
"I can see now that I underestimated her." Touya remarked quietly.
"You got that right!" Rinku snickered.
"Do you know what it's like? To lose your beloved?" Toguro asked quietly after I finished powering up.
"No. And I never will because I won't let that happen." I replied, charging up my Spirit Gun.
"Going to her ever trusted Spirit Gun." Touya leaned forward.
Just as it finished charging, I attacked.
Toguro smirked. She used her head in battle. He liked that. "Show me that your master didn't sacrifice herself in vain."
"Don't worry- she didn't!" I dodged his punch, it landed on the ring, completely and utterly destroying it. In retaliation, I kicked him in the head, he stumbled back. I concentrated all my energy. "SPIRIT GUN!" The energy hit him as he was knocked off balance, sending him straight out of the stadium.
"I can't believe the extent in which her technique has improved…" Kurama stared, eyes wide.
"Hn." Hiei agreed.
I felt, rather than saw, Toguro walking back towards the stadium. This battle would end only when one of them died, now that the ring had been obliterated. When Toguro emerged from the smoke, he smiled. "Thank you, Yusuke, for doing as I asked." I looked at him questioningly. He never asked me to do anything. Though I was under the impression that he wanted me to fight him with everything I had. He just started to power up, ignoring my confusion. "This is the first time I've ever gone to a hundred percent- let's see what you can do!"
The stadium fell into complete darkness. "I can't see myself think!" Kuwabara shouted. I snickered at that slightly. After the light reappeared, he was grown even more; his shoulders had lifted, creating two tubes. I assumed they were to maintain his hundred percent, if this was it, which I doubted, condition. This was probably more like eighty-five; the last had been sixty-five. His aura went flying into the stands and he was still powering up. My eyes widened. Was he doing it deliberately or did he lose control? I guessed it wasn't the latter. "Urameshi! Finish him while he's still powering up!" Kuwabara shouted at me. I ignored him, as usual. I had to see what he had.
"Graah!" I attacked; he fended me off with one hand. I glanced at the stands and saw Ryo, Kai and Yen struggling with his aura. "Damn you…." I whispered, my eyes turning the color of my aura for a brief second. I felt a surge of power course through me. He smirked and punched me in the gut. I went flying back, rolled and ran. I had seen him concentrate his aura in his thumb, it was a limitless supply and a direct hit would knock me over. I flipped, dived, dodged and leapt over them, avoiding them with every trick I could think of.
Hiei watched her move. Her movements had become more lethal with a grace that surpassed even Kurama's. Though he couldn't help but notice her eyes were narrowing and taking on a red tint.
"You aren't doing your job, Yusuke Urameshi. Maybe you just need some INSPIRATION to do better." His aura blasted from him and barely missed the shield Puu had made for Keiko, Botan, Shizuru and Yukina. "I wonder if I'll… MISS next time…." I snarled and charged him, my energy spiked up. Toguro smiled. My walls were coming down. I dodged his fist, but a kick blew me into the stands. When I came to a stop, I hunched over and coughed up blood.
Staggering to my feet, I glanced at Jin and quickly glanced at the three struggling humans. He saw my gaze and nodded. I smiled and mouthed "Thank you". Running back down to the arena, I leapt to the ground. Suddenly the two tubes lifted, and sucked in the surrounding air. There were screams as the souls of the dead and weak living were dragged into his body.
"This body takes a lot of maintenance. My body has the demonic impulses to feed, but only when I decide to, does it make the kill." I looked at him in horror. "Are you going to let your friends watch you let all these people be killed?" He laughed. I growled in response. I didn't have to worry about Kurama and the others, Koenma had made a shield for them, Puu was protecting the girl's and Jin and the others could take care of themselves, but... My knuckles throbbed, painfully.
The crowd started murmuring, then as one, a ton of them charged. "If I'm goin' down, I'm goin' down with a fight!" One of the demons shouted before Toguro killed them, either with the aura or the thumb bullets.
"I suggest the rest of you stay in your seats. Yusuke and I have disagreeable tempers."
"Shut up, Toguro. I'M NOTHING LIKE YOU!" I shouted, lunging at him, in a fury of kicks and punches, Toguro held me back.
Then he glanced at my teammates. "What would you do… If I killed them?"
"What!" I shouted, my eyes wide with fear.
"You heard me."
"BASTARD!" Toguro's eyes widened as I changed. "DON'T YOU TOUCH THEM!"
Hiei's face was grim, as was Kurama's, when they heard Toguro. Koenma and Kuwabara were just plain scared. Hiei glanced at Yusuke. Fools. You should never let emotions enter the ring. He made a mistake when he let Yusuke fight him.
I had to do this. I didn't want to, but I had to. I glanced up at the sky and took a deep breath. "Suru hito wa ayatsuru sono unmei no jinrui, wo kiku watakushi no kongan. Moto ni modosu watakushi wo wo tasuke ni kuru nani ga shite iru mo ichido, yuki no mina no sorera no dare gisei karera jishen wo ni watakushi no namae! Yurei'ha!"
Aura exploded from my body as I closed my eyes and the memories flashed through my mind. Death, destruction, killing, was the majority of them. But some were peaceful, nice. Then... I screamed as I clutched my head and sank to my knees. No... Chikusho... Shinkiro... Doku... Naifu... My eyes snapped open. I stood, brushing off my knees. I glanced at Toguro; he took a step towards my teammates.
"This fight is between you and me, Toguro. Leave my team out of this!" I hissed.
He just laughed. "If not your team, why not them?" He vanished.
My eyes widened and realized what he was going to do. "DON'T YOU DARE!" I screamed.
Hiei covered his eyes with his arm. The power she was creating… Incredible. Suddenly her energy changed dramatically, her attack driven inward and her defense outward, protecting those in the stadium. She teleported.
Toguro was just about to kill I blocked the attack. "What!" Toguro shouted, shocked at my power's sudden skyrocket.
"I respected you, you know that?" My power canceled out his own as I forced his blood-soaked hand out of my abdomen. I felt the warm, sticky sensation of blood gush from the wound. "Let's just say I haven't had many people to look up to. And what you had going on, it didn't look too bad. You didn't listen to anyone, and I wanted that. Until Genkai told me the rest." She finished before Toguro could cut her off. "That you gave up on your friends so you could become a demon of the highest class. I won't let go of them, Toguro, even if it takes my life!"
Suru hito wa ayatsuru sono unmei no jinrui, wo kiku watakushi no kongan. Moto ni modosu watakushi wo wo tasuke ni kuru nani ga shite iru mo ichido, yuki no mina no sorera no dare gisei karera jishen wo ni watakushi no namae! Yurei'ha: He who manipulates the fate of mankind, hear my plea. Restore me to what I was once more, for all those who sacrificed themselves in my name! Ghost Blade!
Chikusho: damn it
Shinkiro: mirage
Doku: poison
Naifu: knife
Votes:
Hiei: 9
Jin: 5
Kurama: 1
Hiei and Kurama: 10