dna- i just turned 13 on april 1! yay! but i think i liked being 12 better. its a more... childish age, you know... anyways, on with this chapter!
Recap- Run Away Forever Chapter 8- Her World
Hiei follows Akiya into the forest and secretly reads her thoughts, finding out that the Katsu had joined Rejuko, and many other things that Akiya thinks. Then he looks into her past and finds out about her background. After that, Hayate leads Hiei to another part of the forest and talks with him about Akiya. He tells Hiei that he trusts Akiya with him. When Hiei turned around, he came face to face with Akiya. He pulls her too hard by accident and causes her to fall on top of him. She talked to him and seemed pretty much back to normal. Hiei tells her that the way she talks about Hayate makes it sound like she's in love with him. She reveals to Hiei that she likes Hayate and how she feels around him. Akiya tells Hiei that he reminded her of Hayate and that she didn't like it. After a bit, all of the ninjas come with Botan who informed the two that they needed to help Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei immediately. When Akiya and Hiei arrived at fight scene, they find the other three struggling to their feet, and Akiya identifies the man they're fighting as Tokujo, one of Rejuko's helpers.
Run Away Forever Chapter 9- Hiei and Akiya's Mission
Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara struggled back to their feet as Tokujo shot another powerful blast of energy towards the three injured detectives.
"Shadow Replication Technique!" Akiya shouted as she put up the single seal needed for the technique.
Three clones of her appeared and immediately knocked Kurama, Kuwabara, and Yusuke away. Tokujo looked at the person who interfered with his fight and smirked when he saw who one of them was. Akiya glared at him.
"Well, well, well," Tokujo said. "If it isn't Akiya, my favorite little punching bag. I let you go the last few times but I haven't had another punching bag that lasted more than five minutes, except for these three maybe, but you're more fun."
"Don't be so proud," Akiya replied bitterly as she arrived in front of him. "The last time we met was what, ten, eleven years ago? I was a little kid back then. I've gotten stronger."
"Yes, you have," he agreed, "but so have I, more than you. I've always been stronger than you."
Akiya didn't reply. She knew that he was right. Even now, he was a lot stronger than she was. Hiei looked over at Akiya and could tell from the looks in her eyes that they had no chance of winning. Their only option was to escape.
That other damn ninja that we already fought was already powerful, probably more powerful than this guy, so how powerful is he? He thought.
Tokujo sent another blast of his energy towards everyone. Akiya performed another Shadow Replication Technique right away that took the attack for Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara. Hiei and Akiya dodged it, but barely. They both landed in front of their three teammates. Akiya reached behind her and took out a talisman. She held it between two fingers and began chanting. Tokujo advanced towards the group. Hiei drew his katana, ready to parry Tokujo's attack. Tokujo took out a kunai and lightly tossed it towards them. Akiya quickly placed the talisman on the ground.
"Barrier, activate!" she shouted.
A barrier formed around the five of them as the kunai that Tokujo lightly tossed hit the barrier hard.
What the hell? Hiei wondered. He barely put any strength into that.
Even after it hit the barrier, it didn't drop. It pierced through Akiya's shield little by little. Akiya took out another talisman.
"Barrier Reinstallation, activate!" she shouted as the barrier was a brighter color than it was before.
The kunai pierced the barrier a bit more before it dropped to the ground. Tokujo laughed at their struggle. He held up another kunai but threw it a bit harder this time. Akiya knew the barrier wouldn't hold up. She ran outside the protective shield and performed a series of hand seals.
"Rock Fall Technique!" she yelled.
Rocks began to pour down onto the kunai and knocked it off the barrier. Tokujo walked up to Akiya and threw a light punch at her. Akiya ducked down and jumped away from the barrier. Hiei immediately teleported beside her so that Tokujo's attention would be on them and not the other three. Tokujo attacked the both of them. Hiei swung his katana at him but it just bounced off of him.
"Sorry," Tokujo said smirking. "Swords don't work against my Titanium Armor Technique."
He grabbed Hiei's sword and threw it along with Hiei to the side. Then he turned to Akiya, but she wasn't there. He looked around for her but couldn't find her anywhere. When Tokujo got tired of looking for her, he looked up at the sky, but instead of seeing that, he saw Akiya coming straight down at him. She threw some kunai at him that just bounced off like Hiei's sword. Tokujo smirked and sent a blast of energy her way. It hit her back in the air and after a few seconds, there was a poof and she disappeared. Out of instinct, he looked behind him and saw a handful of shuriken thrown at him. He stayed put and let it hit him as it bounced off again.
Damn his armor! Akiya cursed. And how the hell are we gonna get out of here? Those three have lost a lot of blood. If they don't get treatment soon, they're gonna die! Damn… I wish Keta-san had come along… or even better, if Karano-kun was here, he'd be able to heal us all in less than a minute…
Akiya was suddenly knocked away by someone, pulling her out of her thoughts. She looked up and saw Hiei on top of her.
"Quite day dreaming and pay attention!" Hiei scolded.
"I wasn't day dreaming!" Akiya defended.
She held onto Hiei and rolled over, dodging three shuriken that were thrown at them.
"See?" she scoffed.
They both got up and was knocked away by yet, another blast of energy from Tokujo. Hiei was able to dodge it in time. Akiya quickly turned her body to the side to shield the rest of her body from the full force of the blast. Instead of only knocking her away like she thought it was suppose to, it cut about an inch or so into her upper arm. Akiya got back up.
His energy, it's sharp! She thought. It's like a flying sword with a dull edge. If that's the case, then we may be in more trouble than we think…
"You've done pretty well up until now," Tokujo complimented. "I think it's time I stepped it up a notch."
Hiei appeared beside Akiya again. "Let's attack him. He isn't strong enough to last much longer."
"No," Akiya said quietly. "He's merely toying with us. He's barely used any of his strength against us yet. We can't win, not with the strength we currently have. He may be a lot weaker than Rejuko, but he's a lot stronger than all of us."
Tokujo sent multiple blasts of energy towards them. They were able to dodge some, but most of them hit.
"Alright, I'm getting bored," Tokujo said. "I have no more use for any of you. Now, you get to die."
Akiya and Hiei tried to get up but found that they couldn't.
C-can't move! Akiya thought as she looked towards Tokujo. That's when she noticed talismans around her and Hiei. What? Paralysis talismans? But… how? When?
Tokujo advanced towards his two paralyzed foes. Hiei struggled to move as did Akiya even though she knew it was useless. He created a spear out of his energy and held it above Hiei. Tokujo was about to stab Hiei when a blue energy blast flew right above Hiei and Akiya, breaking the spear that Tokujo had created. He looked over at the person who attacked and saw Yusuke. He was out of breath and nearly out of energy. Kuwabara and Kurama were standing beside him. Kurama had his Rose Whip in his hand and Kuwabara had his Spirit Sword in his. Akiya and Hiei were able to move again. Yusuke's Spirit Gun had blown the talismans off. The two teleported in front of their three weak teammates. Tokujo sent a large and powerful blast of energy this time. He was getting tired of all the inference. Hiei started to power up, getting ready to use his Dragon of the Darkness Flame. Akiya slapped her hand on his wrist and pulled his hand down.
"Save your Black Dragon attacks for later," she said. "It takes too long."
She swiftly did a series of hand seals, concentrating an immense amount of energy on this technique.
"Razor Wind!" she yelled out.
The wind picked up a bit as Tokujo's blast neared them. Then, right before his attack hit, the wind blasted towards his blast and slowly pushed it away.
"Get in!" a familiar voice yelled to them.
Everyone turned around and saw Botan on her oar. She had summoned a portal back to Koenma's palace. They were all off guard and Tokujo took this chance to attack. His sharp energy hit everyone hard on the back. Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara coughed out blood and fell limply to the ground. Hiei and Akiya struggled back on their feet. Botan covered her mouth with her hands, hoping that everyone was okay. Akiya performed another Shadow Replication Technique. Three clones popped up and picked up the three detectives that were lying on the ground. Then all of them joined Akiya and Hiei as they jumped into the portal followed by Botan.
They all landed in one of Koenma's rooms. Koenma immediately got up and rushed to the six of them. The three clones gently laid Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara on the beds nearby. They were still bleeding.
"Is everyone okay?" Koenma asked stupidly.
"What do you think?" Hiei asked coldly. "Take a look at those three. Do you think they're okay?"
Koenma kept his mouth shut. Akiya threw Koenma a quick glare before she walked over to her three friends. She turned around and looked at Botan.
"I see you're okay now," she said.
Botan nodded.
"Hey, could you get me a portal to Genkai's?" Akiya asked. "I need to see Keta-san."
"I could, but they've already left Genkai's," Botan replied sadly. "They said that they were called on an urgent mission"
"Then, where's Yukina?' she asked.
"I think she went back to one of the snowy mountains nearby," Botan replied sadly again.
Akiya sighed.
I guess I have no choice… otherwise, they're not gonna make it… all three of them… Akiya thought. I'm not as good as Keta-san, but… I'll try.
She held out her hands as a large blue light began to glow brightly. It moved over the three detectives and they started to outline them. After nearly five minutes, Akiya put her hand down. A few of the cuts and bruises on their bodies were gone.
"Alright, I've stopped their bleeding mostly and healed some of the major wounds they had," she informed everyone. "It's all I can do for them. I'm not exactly the medical ninja master so… anyway, whether they survive or not, it's going to be up to them."
Suddenly the door burst open.
"Oh my gosh, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama!" Keiko cried as she ran over to them.
"Kazuma! Yusuke!" Shizuru yelled in concern for her little brother and his best friend.
"What happened?" Keiko asked to no one in particular.
"They… were on a mission…" Botan answered.
"Hiei. Akiya," Koenma called. "I need to talk to you both."
The three of them left, leaving the rest of the girls to talk. Hiei and an angry Akiya followed Koenma down the hall a couple minutes to his office.
"I have another mission that needs to get done," he began.
"If it has anything to do with Rejuko, then I'm out!" Akiya snapped.
"Relax, it has nothing to do with that at all," Koenma said calmly. "In fact, it has to do with a demon. His name is Bachi. He's been killing innocent children to recover from his injuries that he got when he was in the Makai. Obviously, Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara are in no condition to fight, so I need you two to go on this mission together. I know this may seem harsh to you Akiya, but it's the way we do things here. Kill Bachi. He's weak right now, but he's an upper C, maybe lower B class demon. Bachi will be a threat if he fully recovers, and we don't need any trouble, especially while Rejuko is running wild and on the loose."
"You don't have to worry about me killing enemies," Akiya responded. "I've been doing it for so long it feels like a daily routine."
"Of course," Koenma said. "I should've known. So I need you both to go down there and take care of Bachi. Can you two handle it?"
"All we have to do is kill a pathetic demon that's only strong enough to attack ningen children. It's too easy," Hiei said confidently.
"Well, actually…" Koenma began. The two of them turned their attention to Koenma to hear what he had to say. He looked at the too of them and seemed uncomfortable. "Never mind…" he finally said.
"What?" Akiya asked, feeling that he had something important to tell them.
"Nothing…" he said again. "Well, here's your portal. Be careful!"
They both nodded and went through the portal even though Akiya was still curious about what Koenma wanted to tell them. The two of them were dropped at an old garage in an abandoned part of a city. Akiya looked around but saw nothing as did Hiei. They went in to inspect the garage. There were mostly just boxes, and maybe just a few tables but that was it. Upstairs, there was the control room for some of the machinery. They went back downstairs. On the way out, Akiya happened to notice a drop of red liquid right beside a box.
"Hey," she called to Hiei as she walked over to the box.
Akiya opened the box to find at least five to six young children in there, dead. Hiei saw what was inside but didn't really care about the children. The only thing that was on his mind was that Bachi was here somewhere and had yet to come out of hiding.
"There must be at least three hundred boxes in here," she said. "Are they all filled with bodies of children?"
"So what if they are?" Hiei asked her. "It's not like that matters. They're only mere human children."
Hiei suddenly drew his katana, alarming Akiya as she drew her katana as well. The boxes started to open, and the children inside were coming out. At least a few hundred children, no more than seven years old, surrounded the two. All of them had some kind of sharp object in their hand. The army of seven year olds began closing in on Hiei and Akiya. Soon, they started attacking the two. Hiei slayed everyone who was attacking him while Akiya was merely blocking their attacks.
"Don't pity them! Kill them! They're trying to kill us!" Hiei shouted while killing five children.
"But-!" Akiya was cut off.
"You want to be a sparing partner for hundreds of seven-year-olds?" Hiei asked as he slayed three more children.
"Good point…" Akiya mumbled to herself.
She sliced every single child that attacked her and that was in her reach while Hiei did the same. After a while, they both moved in opposite direction. Hiei went left while Akiya went right. The children were easy to eliminate. All of the children were killed in no more than fifteen minutes. Akiya suddenly took out a shuriken and threw it behind her. The demon that they were looking for came into view.
"Who are you?" asked a deep muscular sounding voice.
"I assume that you're Bachi then?" Akiya asked, ignoring his question. "I hope you have your will written up, especially since you're not at full power. Isn't that right? You're weak, nothing more than a pathetic demon that can only bully children."
"I'll break your pathetic body in two you pathetic bitch!" he said.
"Just try it," she answered coolly.
Bachi suddenly disappeared. They couldn't see him anywhere. Hiei disappeared, soon, so did Akiya. She teleported next to Hiei's hiding spot. Hiei was planning on keeping in the shadows until Bachi came out of hiding, or at least until he found out where he was hiding.
"Hiding isn't going to help you win this one," Akiya shouted, giving away their hiding spot.
Bodies suddenly came from behind and almost cut Hiei and Akiya. Hiei teleported to the next hiding place and glared at Akiya as a sign to shut up, but she only gave away their position again instead by talking to Bachi. That was how the fight was going for a while, Hiei teleporting to new places to conceal himself, and Akiya giving away their position. Then, she finally saw what she was waiting for, a quick flash of blue. Hiei caught it as well. Akiya threw a kunai at the place where she saw the flash herd a gasp. She had been able to hit Bachi, or at least graze him. Hiei charged in with his sword as did Akiya. They were so close to cutting his head off but some of the bodies jumped in to protect him. Bachi didn't try to hide anymore.
"You may be better fighters than I thought," Bachi commented to Akiya and Hiei. "I shall honor your foolish but brave souls with my full strength!"
"That would be impossible," Akiya said. "For you to be using your full strength against us, you would have to be fully recovered. I've heard that your strength is nowhere near where it was back then. You should be easy enough to beat."
Bachi growled. All of the children that Hiei and Akiya had slayed were rising from the ground. They were surrounded again. Bachi controlled the children and made them attack his two enemies. Hiei and Akiya were back to killing the children, but no matter how many times they attacked them, they would always get right back up. It was a never ending cycle.
"What the hell is this?" Akiya asked to herself.
Bachi laughed malevolently. "It's pointless!" he said, watching the two amused. "You can't kill them! Their souls are already with me! They are merely my hollow puppets!"
"Okay then," Akiya said. "Then take this!"
Akiya performed a series of hand seals and used her Black Flame Technique. It disintegrated all of the bodies and left Bachi defenseless. Hiei went in to attack. He cut him across the chest. As soon as that happened, blue lights started to gather around his cut. When they disappeared, Hiei and Akiya noticed that his wound was gone.
"I use souls to recover and attack with," Bachi explained. "I thought you already knew that."
"Freak," Akiya said.
"If you're gonna use the souls of children to heal yourself and attack us with, then all we have to do is destroy all of your supplies," Hiei stated. "Simple as that."
"You may be able to kill them without regret, but what about your partner?" he taunted.
Akiya lifted her sword and sliced through three souls.
"Actually," she said. "My partner's plan sounds like a great idea!"
The two began to destroy all of the souls with Bachi interfering with his own attacks then and now. Some of them hit and caused some wounds, but it was nothing they couldn't handle. Once all of the souls were destroyed, they charged at Bachi again. However, to shield himself from their attack this time, he pulled out a young girl who was gagged. As soon as Bachi did that, the two stopped right where they were.
"That's what I thought," Bachi said amused.
"Coward!" Akiya said angrily yet worried. The young girl that he was holding in front of them was Yukina.
Bachi lifted Yukina off the ground about an inch or so by her throat. Yukina was kicking her legs. Hiei made a move to go in but Bachi threatened him.
"If you even think about doing that, I suck her soul away. It won't be very quiet I might add."
Hiei stayed put. Akiya was trying to think of some way to rescue her but her mind was drawing blanks. Hiei was thinking of teleporting behind him and killing him, but he noticed the barrier that was around him as did Akiya.
'Hey,' Hiei called to Akiya telepathically. 'That barrier around him, what is it?'
'It's a barrier made out of souls,' Akiya answered. 'The souls that he's using for this barrier seems like they're from demons with a lot of energy. It'll block all physical and spiritual attacks…'
'Physical and spiritual? Hiei asked her confused. 'Then what kind of damn attack are we suppose to attack him with? A verbal attack?'
'I know a technique that'll work. Only problem is… it requires hand seals…'
'And what's wrong with that?'
'Look at Yukina! He'll snap her head off if we try to do something suspicious!'
Hiei, frustrated, made another move to attack. Bachi instantly absorbed some of Yukina's soul as she screamed in pain.
"I said don't move!" Bachi commanded. "Now this is fun!"
"You BASTARD!" Akiya shouted at him, angry that he had hurt Yukina.
Bachi absorbed more of Yukina's soul as she screamed once again.
In a blind fury of rage, Hiei and Akiya charged at Bachi to attack him even though they already knew it was useless. Hiei forcefully drove his sword down at the barrier, trying to push through it. It only pushed Hiei away as he safely landed on his feet. Akiya punched the barrier hard but something knocked her in the stomach and sent her flying backwards.
"I'll have to teach you both a lesson then," Bachi said evilly. "I'll make her scream some more!"
Bachi slowly drained Yukina's soul from her as she screamed as loud as she could, only adding more fuel to Hiei and Akiya's anger. They foolishly charged in again. Souls gathered and charged at them both, knocking them to the ground. They may have been the souls of children, but they had a lot of energy behind it, Bachi's energy. As weak as he was, he still had an enormous amount of energy. Hiei and Akiya got up and charged at Bachi once again only to get beat up every time they did that. They now struggled back to their feet and got into a fighting stance. All that was on their minds was saving Yukina before Bachi drained all of her soul. Nothing else mattered. They lifted their swords and began to attack again. This time, Bachi controlled some of the souls to hold his two enemies in place while he controlled the rest to attack them. By the time Bachi was done, Hiei and Akiya were on the ground, barely able to get up.
"Now, if you stay there, maybe, just maybe, I'll spare this girl's life," Bachi told them.
Seeing as they were weak anyway, they stayed put.
Botan said that Yukina was in the mountains, Akiya thought. How in the hell did Koenma not know that Yukina was-!
Both Hiei and Akiya's eyes widened.
He did know! They both thought at the same time.
Flashback
"Well, actually…"Koenma began.
"What?" Akiya asked.
"Never mind…"
End Flashback
'Get ready!' Akiya sent telepathically to Hiei.
'Wait! What the hell are you going to do?'
'Just teleport when you count to three!' Akiya sent confidently. 'Trust me on this one!'
Hiei counted to three in his head, then teleported immediately while Akiya did the same. When Hiei looked back at where they were before, they were still there. Akiya had created clones of themselves to stay in their place. Akiya performed a series of hand seals. Hiei looked and saw Bachi was surrounded by souls with a dark aura around them. Bachi dropped Yukina to the ground as he fell on his knees in fear. Hiei saw that they were obviously fake, but Bachi seemed to think that they were real.
"Let's go!" Akiya shouted.
They both teleported and landed behind Bachi who fell to the ground dead. Hiei gently picked Yukina up as Akiya checked her pulse.
"Let's hurry," Akiya said. "Her pulse is very weak…"
Hiei nodded in agreement as they began to walk out if the garage and to the portal they had used to get here.
"What did you do to him back there?" Hiei asked.
"It was Illusionary Technique," Akiya answered. "What kind of illusion is created is random. Only people with lots of talent, power, and energy can control what happens…"
"Why didn't you use that earlier?" Hiei asked again.
"Dunno, just wasn't thinking straight… my mind was just way too clouded…"
"As soon as we get back, I'm going to torture that pacifier sucking infant to death!"
"Sure, as long as I get to help."
At Koenma's
The girls ran over to Yukina.
"What happened?" Botan asked.
"Oh my gosh!" Keiko cried.
"Yukina?" Shizuru said, looking at her in concern.
"Where's Koenma?" Akiya asked in a low voice which was a sign that she was angry about something he had done.
"H-he's in his office," Botan answered hesitantly.
Hiei and Akiya marched down to Koenma's office and thrust the large doors open. A surprised Koenma and his ogre George, jumped and turned towards the door. Shizuru, Keiko, and Botan were secretly listening in.
"You have a lot of explaining to do!" Akiya said angrily to him.
"Yukina!" Koenma shouted. "What happened?"
"Don't pretend to be clueless!" Akiya said.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Hiei took over.
"I didn't know!" Koenma told them.
"Then tell me what you were going to tell us before we left!" Hiei said dangerously. "Go ahead!"
Koenma kept silent.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Akiya asked with a bit gentler. "You knew that he had Yukina and sent us in like a couple of clueless idiots."
"Well, you would've been angry with me," Koenma said. "And besides, what difference could it have made?"
"We would've known what to expect," Hiei said. "And we wouldn't have charged in blindly and get beat up."
"What are we gonna do with Yukina know, huh?" Akiya asked, trying to suppress her anger. "Over half of her soul was drained. She'll be dead if we don't do something."
"Well… you both could transfer some of your life energy to her," Koenma suggested. "He couldn't have drained her soul because in order to do that, he would've had to extract her soul first. Seeing as how her soul is still in her body, the only thing he took was her life energy."
"That had better be all that he took, because if I find out that you're wrong-" Hiei began threatening but stopped when he noticed the girls hiding. "We nearly died to save her!"
"Relax, that's all," Koenma assured.
Akiya and Hiei silently walked over to Yukina.
"I've got this," Akiya said, also knowing that the girls were watching. "I won't have to use as much to some of my medical background."
Akiya put both her hands over Yukina and started transferring her life energy to her. After a while, she started trembling a bit but paid no mind to it. The only thing on her mind was to give Yukina enough life energy to make sure that she'll be okay. Finally, Akiya stopped giving Yukina her life energy, but she lost her balance and fell to the ground unconscious.
"Akiya!" Koenma shouted alarmed.
Hiei's eyes widened for a split second and the three girls outside ran in.
"Akiya!" Botan cried alarmed.
"Geez, how many people are gonna need an infirmary bed?" Shizuru asked.
"She's given Yukina too much of her life energy!" Koenma informed as if everyone didn't already know. "Hiei, get her to the infirmary!"
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Run Away Forever Chapter 10- A Day's Rest
Koenma has given everyone a day to rest and recover as much as they can. Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara are mostly back to normal. Keiko and Shizuru goes home after seeing that everything is about okay again. Yukina goes back to Genkai's for a bit. Akiya recovers quickly as she and Hiei spend some time alone together. Will Akiya begin seeing Hiei as more than a friend? And will Hiei do the same?