I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. This is fan fiction only.
Yusuke looked at Genkai and she was staring at him for a while as the next fight began. The fight was the same trying to intimidate each other and when that did not work switched to beating each other with whatever they brought with them. Kuwabara was having a rather tough time with the guy using a wooden sword.
"Take a picture it will last longer. " Yusuke told Genkai as he watched his so-called brother-in-law fight." I just don't get you Urameshi. You sound like a normal punk, but something tells me you are more demon than human. Still don't care how you ended up like that, but it is something curious. When you get as old as I am you will find boredom can be quite deadly to your health."
Yusuke saw Kuwabara grab the wooden sword and snap it in half. His opponent was not expecting that or what happened later. Kuwabara was so angry at being called names by the guy he was fighting that from his piece of the sword he was still holding a big sword made of light appeared and he used it like a bat and knocked his opponent since he could not use the Dark to hide anymore.
"You call me whatever you like old lady, I am here to do a job. If putting up with your insults is what I need to do, fine. At the end of the job I still got two people who care about me. That is all I will need. " Genkai was glad that the room was dark because she could hide the smile she had on her face.
'You got more than two you loudmouth punk. I swear to make you see hell on earth if you end up winning this tournament. It is the least I can do after that old lady's comment. ' The end of the last fight came and only eight people made it through that round. Genkai snapped her fingers and the lights in the room came on.
"Well now that the deadwood is taken care off come and follow me. I will show you your next challenge. " The eight men followed her and each stopped at the banner. Four of them knew what the banner was there to do, it was a barrier. Kuwabara of course had absolutely no clue.
" Idiot I would stay over this side of the banner if you want to live. " Yusuke told Kuwabara as he walked over to look at the banner closely." And why is that Urameshi? " Yusuke decided to grab him pull him back and point a few inches from where he was looking and on the ground, there was a small pile of bones and not all of them looked like they came from an animal.
" So it's the old demon-infested woods we have to go? What do we have to do in there to find your favorite flowers? Kill a particular kind of demon or just survive for more than half an hour?" Yusuke said that earned him a glare from three of the participants. "Nothing so difficult. I just want you to make it to that tree over there as fast as you can. You only have sixty minutes to reach it. Although I wouldn't exactly say no to the flowers that grow near it." Genkai said as she saw the three that had been glaring at him look surprised.
That was when she gave them the signal to start. Yusuke did not care about looking for dangerous routes like Kuwabara, he just walked straight forward. The simple way to look at it was that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line. But he had one complication as he soon found out.
In this path, he would go through the territory of a man-eating bat demon who could hide in the shadows of people. "So you are going to be Kujo's next meal. Got to say Kujo finds you looking quite tasty." Yusuke kept on walking and he kept ignoring him. "What is the matter? Is Kujo making his prey too scared to talk? Is the young human too afraid to talk to Kujo?"
Yusuke was about sick and the freak talked about himself in the third person. " Actually I am really busy and don't have time to chat. How about this when I get my task done then we can talk when I walk back through here?" He heard some laughing. "No that would not work for Kujo, cause Kujo is really hungry. People avoid Kujo so he has not had a meal in a long time."
Yusuke kept on going till he felt something behind him. He instinctively grabbed something behind him. Kujo was shocked to find himself caught so easily. "Well, you can't blame me for giving you a chance. Say Good night Kujo." Kujo did not understand what he was talking about it was just noon at the moment and that was when he realized his mistake. He had no shadow big enough to hide him.
Yusuke beat him till he was unconscious and ran towards the tree. He in fact found the flowers on the way and he picked them up on the way back. Genkai was about to call him over the time limit when he heard someone say. "Hey, old lady, did you know your watch is five minutes fast? And while we are on the subject those roses were a pain to cut bare-handed."
Yusuke threw the rose bouquet at her and she caught it. "Now hold on a minute, there is only one place these roses grow and that was where a bat demon lives. There is no way you could walk straight through his territory to the tree and back again in only 10 minutes."
Yusuke hopped over the fence. "You mean Kujo? Yeah, he was really chatty that one. Always talking about himself in the third person. Don't worry about him, I helped him take a nice nap. He might have a few broken bones but a tough demon like him will recover."
Genkai had to go and check this out, there was no way a human beat Kujo up as she had done so many years ago. When she got to where someone was crying and moaning. "Kujo, hey are you there? Come one talk me to me." Kujo came out like he was hit by a truck and backed up the truck and hit him again only to repeat it a few times before leaving him alone.
"Genkai, Kujo got the beating of a lifetime that does it. Kujo thinks that Kujo should give up eating meat. Yes, Kujo is going to switch to a nice peaceful salad from now on. No more meat or blood for Kujo just salads, nuts, roots, some juice, and maybe a cup of tea, Kujo not touching meat ever again."
Genji just had to ask if there was a young guy with spiky black hair coming through his territory. "Don't speak of that monster to Kujo, that is no human he beat Kujo like he is now. Kujo should have listened to the offer the black-haired monster made, but no Kujo was foolish, and Kujo prideful. I should have listened to the black-haired monster yes I should."
Genkai could not help but feel sorry for the bat demon so she told him to get well and if he stuck to his new diet maybe then he could pay her a visit sometime. "Kujo might like that, does Genkai like a mint cactus salad that is what Kujo is having for dinner." Genkai thanked him for the offer but she had to give a stern lecture to the black-haired monster.
"Yes, teach the black-haired monster the meaning of mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. The black-haired monster was so brutal to poor Kujo. " Genkai left the territory but she could still hear the sobs and cries of Kujo as he ate his salad.
'It is official that Urameshi kid is not a human. There is no way a human could beat Kujo like that. Even I didn't do as much damage to him when I fought him. ' Rando was sitting next to Urameshi and he was still looking like the young monk. "Found anything worthwhile in the forest Urameshi?" Rando asked him.
"No, not really I found a bat that would not leave me alone. I gave him a chance to do that but he tried to take a bite out of me. So I decided to beat him for trying. I did find these lovely roses. I do hope the old lady like them. Cutting these things was a pain, have you ever seen a rose bush that likes blood?"
Rando laughed and told him that he indeed had once seen such a bush but he corrected him and told him it was not a bush it was a tree. What he found was simply a very young example of the species. "You should be careful Urameshi some female demons consider being given a bouquet of those roses a marriage proposal."
Yusuke laughed as he heard him say it. "Too bad for them I am already married. I pity the poor home wrecker that tries to seduce me. My wife will make what I did to the bat look merciful by comparison."
"And if don't believe me go ahead and as that guy. " He pointed towards Kuwabara." No, no that is quite alright I have no reason to not believe your word. " Genkai made it back and looked at him with an almost surprised look on her face.
" It seems Kujo is in so much pain and suffering that he actually is becoming a vegetarian and calls you the black-haired monster. " Yusuke got up and was about to go back towards the forest. " And where do you think you are going? " Yusuke told her to see Kujo and reintroduce himself and give him a new beating for insulting him as he did by calling a nice guy like him a monster.
" That will not be necessary. If you haven't figured it out Kujo is not the smartest of demons or the most sociable. He even called me names when I first met him. He only remembers my name because I lived here for over 30 years. " Genkai did pick up the roses then and told him to thank you and walked inside her home and told the Kuwabara, him and the other young man to follow her.
" where are we going? " Yusuke asked. " For starters, I am putting these flowers in a vase and second to the final location of this tournament. Is that ok with you your highness? " Even Rando began to laugh as he heard that answer. They followed her after she got done with the flowers to an ancient battlefield.
" Urameshi don't tell me we are going to fight here? I swear I am seeing all sorts of ghosts of some guys who did not die that peacefully or pleasantly. " Yusuke walked over to Kuwabara and told him there was no such a thing as dying either peacefully or pleasant on a battlefield." In this place, you can fire off techniques and not be tired. Since there is a high concentration of spirits around. "
" Now as for the order it is simple, the time you arrived from the forest will determine the order. Kuwabara you arrived last to the tree, the monk second, and Urameshi you first. So you Kuwabara will fight the monk and whoever wins fights Urameshi. Do you have any questions? "
Since nobody said anything Kuwabara and Rando decided to fight it out. Rando was cursing his luck when he had been fighting Kuwabara for a few minutes. He felt that Kuwabara was no better than a monkey with a stick. Rando began chanting something really weird. To Kuwabara, he thought that was some weird poetry until he realized that he was the size of a bug.
Rando picked him up and slammed him hard on a tree and knocked him out and returned him to his normal size. "Well, that takes care of that. Come on Urameshi I don't want to waste more time." Yusuke got up but not before getting something from his pocket and placing it in his ears. "Don't you think you should drop the disguise? I think we all know you are not exactly human from all the energy you are leaking."
Rando removed his disguise and he actually looked bigger in his true form. "Now I showed you one of my techniques why don't you show me one of yours." Yusuke grabbed his fist and it began glowing. "Don't tell me you are about to do the Kamehameha wave?" He did not answer Genkai as she said that. He simply made a punch and the shot was fired at Rando who was hit by a barrage of spirit energy bullets like hits.
"No, actually I call that my Uzi. Now, how about we get this little fight started shall we?" Rando and Yusuke really did seem to be enjoying themselves as they fought. "Just my rotten luck to battle fanatics and one is going to be my student. You can come down you know. Yes, I can actually see you on the oar."
Botan decided to come down and stand with her. "So he is a spirit detective then. Do tell junior that I am grateful for his concern for my safety, but I have lived alone for a long time and I am not as defenseless as I look."
Botan smiled at her. "Sorry, but since you are a friend of his and one of the few he has. He really wanted to make sure you were safe." Genkai smiled and looked at the two fightings. "That is quite alright, at least he sends me someone I can teach." Rando was knocked out and by the looks of it had tried to use the same technique with Urameshi.
"Kuwabara you can stop pretending you are knocked out. You are not fooling us. " Yusuke told him as he walked with Rando in a miniature size holding him in his right hand." What do you mean he is awake even after I slammed him as I did? " Rando said looking rather upset." I've known him for years and it takes more than that to knock him out.
"The real question is how are you listening with your ears plugged like that? " Yusuke laughed and simply told them he could read lips. He stopped his technique and the energy blocking sound to his ears was released. " So that is why you didn't fall victim to that chant. "
Genkai walked over to the miniature Rando and looked at him with a hateful glare." You are the victim of your own stolen technique. Since you will be going to prison for a very long time I will give you a lesson. That technique reprograms the brain with the words of the chant. The only thing a reasonable person has to do is block their ears and the user goes falls victim to it. "
Rando looked not too happy to hear that." That technique is over a hundred years old. How in the world would he figure it out when his friend didn't. " Genkai smiled at him," What did you expect from the Son of Raizen? " that made Rando look rather shocked and so was Yusuke by the look of it.
" Give me some credit Yusuke. I happen to know that you love battle as much as your father. There is only one demon who fits the way you behave and that is King Raizen one of three rulers of the demon realm. "