Hey, I just realized, being 14 ROX! I'm THAT much closer to my learner's permit. And in four years, I'll graduate and go to college some where in CA, away from the very tiny MD. Optimisim. u gotta luv it.


Chapter 10:

"Seeing how both Risho and Lee have been out of the ring for more than ten counts, the battle ends in a draw!" Koto said energetically.

"Teams, please send up your next fighters!" Juri urged. Yusuke looked over to the unconscious Lee. He sighed.

"Well, who's next?" He asked, rubbing the back of his neck. Kuwabara summoned his Spirit Sword. "Kay." Well, Kuwabara's fight was over in a matter of seconds. Touya won…

"Uh…" Yusuke responded. This was not going well. He gulped. "Uh… Hiei. You're up." Luckily, Hiei won his fight, but his sword had been plunged through is chest. He was out for a while. Ailias was up next. She uh… well, her fight was much longer than the rest of them, but, uh… well, I'll come right out and say it, she lost. She couldn't take it anymore, y'know, with her sorrow of spraining Kurama's knees, so she… ran away.

"Alright…" Koto and Juri both said at the same time. Their expressions: -.-; "Next is Jin verses Yusuke!" The two competitors stepped up to the stage. Yusuke needed to win this one. One more win, and Team Masho advances.

"So… here we are," Yusuke said.

"Yeah. 'Ere we are," Jin said in his Irish accent.

"Fighters, please take your positions…"

Back at the hotel room:

"…Six potato, seven potato more…" Kurama chanted. Ailias rushed through the door.

"Kurama!" Ailias called.

"Down here…" Ailias looked down, behind the coffee table.

"What the f---?" She blinked. "How'd you get down there?"

"I was trying to get the remote. A little help?" Ailias lifted Kurama off the ground and back onto the couch. She then sat down next to him, handing him the remote. "How'd the battle go?" Ailias stared at him blankly.

"Dunno."

"Dunno?"

"I left in the middle of it." Kurama did one of those anime falls. He pushed off the couch.

"Go back there and finish!" Ailias drooped her head and muttered a 'Yes, sir,' under her breath.

In the kitchen with some crazy dude:

Some guy stared at a boiling pot of water. His eye twitched wildly. He then began adding many odd thing-a-ma-hoosits to the pot. Why? Dunno. I just felt like talking about some guy who has no significance to the story.

At the Stadium:

"Fighters," Koto started. "Are you ready?" Jin and Yusuke nodded. "BEGIN!" They charged at eachother. Punches were thrown wildly, kicks were sending them flying, and some random items were throw at them, usually banging them on the top of their heads.

"No audience interference!" Juri yelled at the crowd. Ailias rushed into the stadium just as Yusuke was thrown into the wall right beside her by one of Jin's special wind moves.

"Ah! Yusuke!" She yelled. He stood up and wiped the blood off his lip. He raced back on the center stage and threw punches at Jin that were faster than lightning. Unfortunately, Jin was faster. Ailias walked over to Kuwabara, Hiei and Lee. Lee was just waking up and Hiei was unable to move since no one had enough sense to help him out and he was in too much pain to speak up. Ailias walked over to Hiei and pulled the sword out of his abdomen. His blood spilled over the ground, but he held his wound tightly as to slow his bleeding. "This doesn't look good…" Ailias mumbled.

"No it… doesn't," Hiei had a hard time saying. "We… just might… lose… this one." And before they knew it, it was over. Yusuke had been knocked unconscious, and their hopes of bringing Quinn back went out the window.

"And the winner is Jin! Team Masho advances!" Koto and Juri said at the same time. Kuwabara just about fainted. Lee stood up quickly.

"We lost!" She yelled into the air. "How could we lose!"

"Like this I suppose…" Ailias answered. Lee leaned her head on Ailias's shoulder.

"We lost…" Her eyes flowed over to Hiei, who was currently trying very hard to stand up. She walked over to him and threw his arm over her shoulder and stood.

"What the hell do you think you're doing onna!" He yelled at her.

"Oh shove it." Ailias threw Yusuke over her shoulder and walked out of the stadium. Kuwabara followed their lead.

Back at the Hotel Room x2:

"You lost!" Kurama yelled. He leaned back into the couch's cushions. He sighed. "At least we won't have to come back next year…"

"Now how are we going to bring Quinn back?" Lee asked, sulking.

"We'll think of something, Kit," Ailias reassured her. She rubbed Lee's back, but gave Kurama a worried look. How were they going to? Suddenly, Ailias's eye lit up. Kurama lifted an eyebrow. A now patched up Hiei walked into the room, Kuwabara at tow.

"Is Urameshi still out?" Kuwabara asked. Kurama nodded. Now, everyone in the room was staring at Ailias oddly.

"Onna, what are you thinking?" Hiei questioned her. Ailias jumped up, her index finger pointing in the air.

"THE FORLORN HOPE!" She yelled.

"What about it?"

"AILIAS! NO!" Kurama yelled, practically falling off the couch. "We can't use that!"

"Sure we can. Just get some poor sap to make the wish, and BOOM! Quinn's back!" Hiei smacked his forehead.

"One, Koenma wouldn't let us do that, Two, a life for a life is hardly logical, and Three, the Forlorn Hope only grants the wish that one truly wants, not because some people on the street asked them to. The mirror was designed like that," Hiei informed her.

"What then?" Ailias asked, plopping down on the couch next to Kurama. No one spoke up.

KJ and Niki signing off! Oh-hoho! What do we have here? A turn of events? MUWAHAHA! I am truly evil, am I not? REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW YOU UNGRATEFUL LITTLE WORMS! J/K but all playfulness aside, PLEASE REVIEW! PRESS DAT BUTTON! Press it…No knew chappie until I get … 5 reviews. That'll do. Yes. I start to demand. . Stare. I stare at you. I stare until you review. DO IT.