Eri's Spirit Energy Revealed
Yusuke P.O.V.
We were able to reach Sensui's hideout in time, and just as we'd arrived I saw Kuwabara sitting next to Makihara's wrapped around in rope while Eri sat beside him wearing a slave dress and wasn't tied up. They were on the other side of the cave sitting in a boat filled with water surrounding their exit.
"Get me off this boat!" Kuwabara pleaded tied up with a handkerchief wrapped around his mouth.
I glanced behind Kuwabara to see demons in the black tunnel that was blocked. They couldn't come out and they must be waiting to use Kuwabara and Eri to break it open to unleash the demons into the human world. Until I noticed the demons were pushing hard against the shield as a small crack appeared making me gasp knowing that it could break sooner at this point.
'Those demons are just lining up for a shot at us. Not the kind of crowd you want to be stuck in a cave with.' I thought straightforward.
"In case you're feeling you've done this before, don't." Hiei spoke up, "The world ahead of you is nothing like Maze Castle. They have tapped into the true depths of Demon World." I glanced at him as he gave me a stoic expression. "Ordinary humans will shrivel up just by inhaling its rotten wind."
My eyes shifted over to Sensui who was sitting on a couch watching television ignoring that we were here even though he could sense our energy from afar.
"We're getting to the real grit of the film, Yusuke," Sensui said.
"Yippe." I sarcastically said.
"The finales in about half an hour." He said as I could hear guns shooting and explosions coming from the television. What was he watching? This isn't history class to learn about the wars people had faced for decades to die with honor and pass their stories to write in historical novels.
"The most repulsive part is they weren't even fighting for anything real." Sensui points out very logically spectating the war going on on the screen. "They were killing out of fear, of an idea that threatened their greed. It only gets crueler from here." Sensui stands up from the couch and faced directly at us with a cold facial expression. "And then the whole thing wraps up with a rather beautiful song."
"That's oddly inappropriate," I said in a low tone.
"I've always thought it symbolized hope, which is why I've timed to tunnel to open when the music begins." He implied.
Then it hit me when I realized that we've only got 30 minutes to fight and prevent him from opening the gate of the demon world to here.
"What's the problem?" Hiei asked Mitarai who was looking rather puzzled.
"It doesn't make any sense to me. How's Mr. Itsuki standing up?" Mitarai inquired.
"He does have legs." I joked.
"But every time I've seen him since I was first brought to the cave, he's been sitting in that boat, creating the tunnel," Mitarai explained about his point of view when he sees Itsuki that created the tunnel of demons, to begin with, to follow Sensui's plot.
"The portal is alive now. It's out of my control." Itsuki spoke up, "When the time is right, it will manifest on its own. Even if I wished to, I couldn't stop it."
My eyes widen when I saw the demons in the black tunnel were slightly breaking out at this point reaching their hands out towards Kuwabara and Eri.
"Kuwabara!Eri!" I shouted.
"Human flesh! Let me taste!" One demon bull pleaded hungrily.
"NO! Let me have the human and the little demon girl too!" Another hungry demon begged.
"Get away from their hands!" I yelled.
"Don't think we're trying?!" Kuwabara muffled through the handkerchief leaning forward still tied as Eri tries to get away from them gripping the rim of the boat.
"Those must be C-Class apparitions vying for their attention. Simple, characterless creatures, governed solely by their appetites." Sensui clarified.
"I don't wanna be eaten by C-Demons!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
With all the struggling while they were trying to get away from the C-Class Demons, they were caught by them as they squirm in their grasp that the demons were pulling towards them.
"Stop! Let them go!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.
No one wasn't moving.
No one wasn't saying a word.
No one wasn't trying to save them!
"When the judgment comes, you simple apparitions can eat whatever you like," Sensui said as he raised his hand to gather up the energy to form purple ki coming from him. "Until then, don't spoil dinner."
With a simple blast, he aimed towards the tunnel of demons to disperse them away from Kuwabara and Eri. I felt relief washed over me, but I know it wasn't the end.
"Alright, Sensui, I think you should be the one letting our friends go," I demanded.
"C-Class apparitions are like seeds. Abundant and worthless. But one of evert hundred grows into a B-Class, with brains and strength that can easily surpass a human's." Sensui predicted in his logical mind of his own.
He then faced back towards us inquiring, "Want to tell us first-hand, Hiei and Kurama?" No words came from both of the demons as they formed a frown at Sensui. "And then from the B-Class, a handful take the next big leap. Intellect close to omnipotence, bodies of huge size and power. Creatures fit for human legend...like the Titans of Greek Myth."
"I'm getting really tired of hearing you talk," I said annoyingly.
"They are the A-Class demons. They're probably watching us right now from the pits of, Demon World, waiting for a chance to rise of glory."
"Spare me the pep rally! You're going to kill the people you're supposed to protect!"
"My job was to protect the universe as a whole, and that's exactly what I'm doing." He said contentedly. "I've been trying to enlighten you, Yusuke. Don't you remember the Doctor's words? Humanity is a disease."
"Can't you guys do the debate thing after you're done saving us!" Kuwabara muffled.
"Killing humans can't be that horrific to you, Yusuke. You would've killed the Doctor if Genkai hadn't been there. And Kurama killed a human child."
"We had to." I sighed. "It was for the greater good."
As Sensui turned around to face us questioning, "And what if every human was bad?"
I gave him a straight answer, "I don't deal with what-ifs." His lips curved up into a smirk.
"Mr. Makihara brings Eri with you please," Sensui said.
He called the big guy over after picking up Eri and held her in his long arms. Why did he want to bring Eri over here instead? I was relieved that he decided to bring her over knowing that sitting in the boat near the demon gate was crucial and I still have to get Kuwabara back too.
"If you can kill Mr. Makihara right now, I'll give Kuwabara back to you, unharmed." Sensui declared.
"What?" I grumbled.
"Say yes! Say yes!" Kuwabara pleaded.
"It's your choice," Sensui said. "If you refuse the challenge, I'll deflect any other attack you make by using Kuwabara and Eri as a human shield."
I glanced down at the ground frowning and shifted my eyes back up saying,"...Fine. But you're not going to use Eri on this one."
As I charge over to him, I came up from behind him trying to draw a kick, "SENSUI!" I only missed as he leaned back, but I got my foot contacted with Makihara's face as I kicked him to retrieve Eri who was shocked as Makihara drops her as she fell into my arms when I caught her. Hiei and Kurama were right beside me ready to make a move.
"No! Please don't!" Eri pleaded in my arms as I glared at Sensui and Makihara who were getting back on his feet again, but only this time Kurama used his whip to cut open what we didn't expect to see was elder Toguru. "Go back! Leave me! Otherwise, he'll kill you!"
"I'm surprised that you figured out it was me." Elder Toguru sneered.
"You think I couldn't tell? I could smell you." Kurama pointed out as he glanced behind Eri who was scared for her life.
"We're not leaving you or Kuwabara here," Kurama reassured.
Sensui let out a low growl as Eri gripped my shirt and Elder Toguru speaks up, "Come back Eri. How many times do we have to tell you? It's your fault. Your break people that's just how you were born." He sneered as I sent him a glare as we listened to him taunt the girl with his crucial words that were no need for.
Eri glanced up at me pleadingly as I looked back at her, "Go!"
Hiei spoke up, "Don't listen to him."
"You know how this goes. Sensui always has to get his hands dirty because of your selfishness. Every action you take results in people dying." Elder Toguru venomously said sending shivers down Eri's spine her eyes were starting to water as I held her tightly in my arms to protect her.
"You're a curse demon." Sensui finished off the last part as our eyes widen.
I snarled, "What the hell is your problem?! How could you say that to her? She's just a kid!"
"Heh, she may 'just' a kid. But, there's a different story that you haven't heard about her quite yet, detective." Sensui said as he unleashed a strong attack towards us as I held Eri protectively that he was using his spirit energy to control the ground. It was a massive attack! I held Eri up because sharp spikes were appearing and we manage to get out of there.
'He's using his power to aim directly at us! He doesn't give a shit about what happens to Eri!' I thought.
"You bastard! You could've killed her!" I sneered.
"I don't care if she's dead." Sensui bluntly said making my mouth gaped open as Hiei and Kurama were shocked as well as I am. "If I put her back together immediately, I can revive her even if she wasn't the way she was before."
"H-How could you ever do that? That's crucial!" Kurama exclaimed.
"Eri already knows what I can do," Sensui said in a casual tone.
This guy is already a sick bastard to deal with-not even caring about protecting Eri. He only wants to use her power along with Kuwabara's for his evil scheme of destroying the human race.
Third Person P.O.V.
With elder Toguru combined with Makihara, Kurama faces off against him to use his rose whip to fight him on his own. Yusuke still held Eri in his arms leaving the fight between the two alone, Kurama accidentally got his whip contacted to Eri ripping out something around her neck.
Eri glanced over to see something falling off her neck as she gasped to see the birthstone ripped off her neck.
'M-My necklace!' Eri cried out as she leaped over to reach it out of Yusuke's grip her causing her horn to start to glow.
Kurama didn't want to harm Eri as he remained cautious as the others noticed her glowing trying to understand and put everything together about Eri's mysterious spirit energy. Hiei glanced up to see HIS birthstone that he couldn't believe he had lost years ago that had fallen into the river. Kurama didn't focus on the fight when elder Toguru charged straight for him using Makihara's body in control to attack him he didn't notice Eri's glowing horn.
'S-She's reaching for MY birthstone.' He thought staring at her wide-eyed.
Everything was going in slow motion that she was right by elder Toguru combined with Makihara that she didn't pay attention to him only for her necklace. But Yusuke and his team noticed something was odd and completely different when they paid close attention to this.
'Eri is using her horn...to pass by elder Toguru and get back the necklace. How is she doing that without thinking about what's right in front of her? Unless...' Yusuke thought as he recalled back to their meeting earlier when they were discussing their plan to rescue Kuwabara and Eri.
"Which doesn't make any sense at all. How does Sensui know about Eri and what does she want her for?" Yusuke inquired.
"It's possible of her mysterious Spirit Energy that we don't know about." Botan implied.
Yusuke nodded, "True. But when I saw the look on her face...she was scared around him. She knew something like this isn't right."
"Because Eri doesn't trust us, and I know I'm saying this out open. But, Eri is lost and confused that we all have a reason for the poor girl's sake. Sensui must be doing something to Eri that we don't know about and she hasn't said a word about him or his plan when you found her, Yusuke."
"If they could use Kuwabara's spirit sword and whatever Eri's Spirit Energy could be. Then, they might be able to break open the dimensions of higher demons to let them fall into the human world, we're done." Kurama clarified his statement to the others quite briefly. 'But I willing doubt that Kuwabara will help Sensui."
"And what about Eri?" Kaito asked.
Kurama slightly shrugged his shoulders deepening his frown, "I have no idea what Sensui is going to do to her. But, if we can make it in there on time we might prevent it from happening. Eri's power is still a mystery we all don't know about quite yet. But as much as I have seen it the first time it could be..."
Just as Eri grabbed the necklace in her hand she activated her spirit energy without thinking about it. She used her spirit energy to return elder Toguru and Makihara to their current state except that Makihara was already dead. It shocked the others when they realized what her power truly is.
'The power to rewind.' Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei thought.
Eri's face was full of fear and worried that she faced back into Yusuke's arms as she rested her head onto his shoulder sniffling and was shaking. All of this time that they had never realize before, that Eri can use her power to reverse things back into place and it was strong. But they know better that there was something else behind that power, she hasn't completely used it yet. As Yusuke held Eri in his arms Hiei saw her holding his birthstone that his mother given to him and she reached for it because it must be important to her too. He would have to discuss with her later it, right now, they needed to defeat elder Toguru and Sensui.
"Now, look what you did. You manage to get elder Toguru dead with your spirit energy." Sensui sneered over at Eri as she let out a small whimper. "You broke him."
"Shut up!" Yusuke shouted.
A small smirk appeared on Sensui's face, "You can't possibly think that you're going to protect your friends to ruin my plans? Not when I'm in control you can't do a damn thing about it." Sensui says in a very casual tone as he kept his eyes out on Eri and Yusuke. "One thing for sure..." He starts in a husky tone. "...Is that Eri wants to kill people by using her power."
Yusuke scowls hearing the false lies coming straight from Sensui to claim that Eri is nothing but destruction. He saw what she did and it didn't look that dangerous. Not unless there is another power she hasn't leveled up to at this age.
"She doesn't want to kill people you asshole!" Yusuke shouted.
"But you are certain to keep her safe in your arms?" Sensui squinted his eyes over at them with a slight frown across his lips. "She's a curse and that's all she's ever going to be. Once we use Eri and Kuwabara to finish the rest of our plan. It's over."
The detective and his two reinforcements glared at Sensui as they heard Eri speak up, "...N-No...I don't want anyone else to die."
Kurama glances over at Eri in the corner of his eye, "You're not going to Eri. We'll make sure of that."
"Hn, if what he claims is true I see nothing harmful from the girl." Hiei outspoken sending a cold glare at Sensui standing beside Yusuke. "I can assure you that you're not going to lay a hand on neither of them. Perhaps breaking your limbs one by one will do just fine for me."
"Right." Yusuke scowled. "Your end of the world party's dwindling, Sensui, and I trust don't wanna be plant food." Yusuke's eyes narrowed into his blank black ones. "Give Kuwabara back to us as you promised."
He let out a small chuckle, "Ha. No need to get heated, Yusuke. I've kept my word. He's no longer in my possession."
"What?" They all glanced behind him to see Kuwabara wasn't in the boat.
"No..." Mitarai muttered.
"But I never saw him move," Kurama said.
I gritted my teeth, "You bastard."
"Look, there." Kurama pointed over to where Kuwabara was sitting still tied up giving us an annoyed look on his face.
"Kuwabara! What the hell are you doing over there?!" Yusuke asked while we ran over straight towards him.
When we made it over to them Kurama unties his mouth as Kuwabara spoke up, "Jeez, not bein able to tell you guys how to fight, that's worse than dyin'!"
"Stay focused. How did you get over here?" Kurama asked.
"I don't know really. One minute I was sittin' in the boat, the next thing I was all mixed around. Dizzy." He explained as he exhaled, "Soon as I got my wits together, I was here."
"Did you see something?"
"Look, Kurama," Hiei spoke up with his eyes slightly widen.
Their eyes widen when they saw a shadowy figure moving around near the wall and into the water. They guess that's what brought Kuwabara all the way over here in the first place.
"Okay, another thing on my "Weird" list just got checked off," Yusuke said kinda freaked out as he held Eri tightly into my arms staring down at the ground that appears to be a mouth.
Just then, the mouth opens as they all fell inside as Yusuke held onto Eri to prevent her from falling out of his arms. Soon as they were swept up, the shadow figure moves over to the wall and spits out Yusuke and Eri as we fell on the ground together, well she landed on his back after he landed on his face.
Yusuke glanced up at her groaning while holding his head, "You okay?"
"Y-Yes," Eri replied.
Yusuke then noticed Itsuki sinking into the ground leaving the remaining three of us here. Sensui does a front flip towards us, Yusuke grabbed Eri quickly holding her protectively glaring at the old detective.
"I dunno what you did with my friends, but I tell you now. For every one you hurt, I'm taking a limb." Yusuke said in a threatening tone.
"You're misunderstanding it. Your friends haven't been touched." Sensui says in a dry tone. "I'm not interested in their fates. I just don't want distractions."
Yusuke sets Eri down behind him and faced Sensui with a straight brave face, "So...then it's time."
I have recently been thinking about this DEEPLY because I don't want to "Plagiarism" the same thing that happened in the MHA season 4 anime scene. I want to change it up a bit, but by using some of Sensui's power to hurt Yusuke and his friends similar to Overhaul. Except there will be some changes that I will have time to research and maybe add into the story that will take place. Also, I'm getting used to writing since this is my first time writing up here because I do use a glossary to search up the tone for each part of the story. Let's just say "Try", so please don't rant or try to say anything rude about the story because writing takes a long time for me to think, write, edit, and preview to make sure that I want this to stay in the chapter. But I'm glad some of you are enjoying it because I love Yu Yu Hakusho and this involves Eri being in the same situation only to trust Yusuke and his friends as she did with Deku and Mirio. Thank you!
