Saria: Oheyo! Hey, been a long time, hasn't it?
SA: Yes, and that move wasn't my favorite thing. It took me forever to get out of that box!
Tori: Mmmmph! Mmett me ouu! still stuck in the box
Saria and SA: sweatdrop Ok, lets return to my fic. Oh, and before I forget, if anyone reads Nightmare, Erotic, Death and Sorrow, and The Grass is Always Greener, please write to the authors or authoresses and tell them to update already! And if you don't, do it anyway so others can enjoy their work! Now, on with my idiotic fic!
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The breakfast was not filling. Despite having cleaned her plate, Yusuke was still hungry. The food itself hadn't been all that great either, but it was better than her mother's.
Karasu and Bui, who she still thought of as Maskman and Samurai-wannabe, were now leading her down a new hall toward the 'training room'. She wasn't sure she like the sound of that name. She was quite sure she wasn't going to find a bathtub or shower as well as some better clothes. Her present clothing was coming apart rapidly due to the "testing" that she had gone through with Toguro. Despite her energy having returned to her, Yusuke knew she couldn't take another test like that from Toguro now, in her weakened state, she might not survive. Well, her clothes wouldn't survive for sure, that was guaranteed.
Yusuke was so deep in thought, she didn't see Karasu or Bui turn a corner while she kept going straight. She didn't see as she continued down the hall, entering a section that wasn't used very much. She didn't notice or see all of this until she bumped into a mirror at the end of the hall.
The mirror shocked her instantly, but she got over that very fast when she finally realized that she didn't have a clue as to where she was. As she turned, intent on going back the way she'd come, the mirror once again caught her eye.
"Seems like a long time since I saw one of those," she thought out loud. "Wonder why you're here." She continued as she reached out and wiped away the distinct layer of dust that covered the surface of the mirror.
The mirrors surface was like a pool of pure black. The border was done in a very intricate pattern of silver laced with gold. The mirror in its whole was ominous, dark, and beautiful.
Narrowing her eyes slightly at the strangeness of the mirror, she gently reached out and pressed her hand against the mirror's surface. The face wasn't cold like most surfaces, instead it felt almost like warm water because it seemed to almost flow over her hand, sending a familiar shiver up her back. As she continued to stare, her reflection oddly enough, began to appear. The girl that looked back at her still had pink, though like her it had been cut at the top of her neck in a very ragged style. Her clothes were a little big and falling apart, and her eyes and face were slightly sunken from hunger or bruised.
Yusuke stared at herself for a few more seconds before removing her hand from the surface of the mirror and watched as her reflection did the same, when suddenly she stopped. The reflection looked past Yusuke into the hall before winking and putting a finger to her own lips as though saying "shhhh!". Yusuke could only watch with shock at first, and then horror as the being slowly turned spun around and instantly her clothes dissolved into a soft looking martial arts gi and her pink hair turned white and grew so long that it touched her knees. The real horror came when she saw her face and arms were now covered in purplish-grey marks and that her eyes were light purple with red swirls in them.
Yusuke stared awestruck at the once human looking being in front of her before turning and running as though all hell had broken lose. She turned down a corridor then another, not seeing were she was going as long as it was away from that horrifying mirror.
'Is that what Toguro wants?' she thought as she continued to blindly run. 'Was the mirror trying to warn me of something?'
She didn't think much else because she spotted Bui and Karasu about midway down the corridor and slowed her pace some so that she didn't go alerting them that she'd been gone in the first place. Soon enough she was back behind them, trying to act as though nothing had happened though she had a feeling she wasn't fooling them in the least.
'Youkai hearing, makes it impossible to sneak up on them..." she thought angrily.
They stopped in front of another door, one that looked quite familiar, a few seconds later. Deftly pushing through the door, Yusuke found that they were back in the red level training room, the one that had housed the Demon Triad. Said Triad was now sitting near the back wall covered in bandages. The other levels were also their, having organized themselves into groups according to the level and color of their 'uniforms'.
Bui immediately took hold of Yusuke's tunic and dragged her to the far side of the room where he and Karasu leaned against the back wall. Immediately Yusuke understood the order. The weaker ones were in front and the stronger in back, and with her grey clothing, it was no wonder she was getting strange looks.
The door immediately banged open again, only this time, the Toguro Brothers entered; the elder of course was once again riding on his brother's shoulder. Any noise or conversation that had previously been going on died immediately and anyone who had been sitting jumped to their feet.
Yusuke felt Toguro's eyes on her, insuring that she was there before his eyes swept over the room, taking in all the apparitions that were also in the room.
"The Dark Tournament is approaching fast." He began. Yusuke, who had been sulking slightly, felt her ears perk up at the word 'tournament'. Around her, she heard some of the demons murmur excitedly. Toguro however, continued as though nothing odd was happening.
"We are going to maintain our status as tournament champions as we have for 50 years now, and since there are two slots open on our team, they will go to the two most powerful fighters. My brother and I are going to be on this team, as will Karasu and Bui. The last two slots are for the fifth member of our team and the alternate. If you make alternate, don't expect to fight. There will be try-outs for these posts of course; they will begin in two weeks. Dismissed."
Yusuke felt her stomach twist and go cold. So, that's what Toguro wanted. He wanted her to train and become stronger so he could force her to fight in this tournament, all so he could keep his title! Anger immediately washed over her and began to show on her face. There were plenty of boot- licking demons filing out of this room for him to choose from, yet he chose to kidnap her!
The strange mirror now forgotten completely, she watched as the rest of the demons filed out and moved to follow them when Toguro called out, "Yusuke, remain here!" It was too much of an order to ignore, that might be dangerous for her health.
Unsurprisingly, Karasu and Bui also remained, unmoved, as though they'd been expecting this.
Toguro moved toward them, then spoke quietly in a voice that carried a heavy threat. "You three will train the hardest, and you two," he nodded at Karasu and Bui, "will insure that she improves but doesn't over exert herself. I will have the best team, and I don't have any intention in needing an alternate. Be warned though," he glared at Yusuke, "if I feel you're not improving at a high enough rate, I will personally step in, and you won't like that."
As soon as he moved away, his brother still sitting on his shoulder only now he was snickering coldly, Yusuke groaned inwardly and felt herself shiver in horror. The Toguro's left immediately afterward and slammed the door after themselves.
"Alright, lets begin this." Karasu said, sounding slightly bored.
Yusuke turned just as Bui once again formed his axe from thin air.
"Wait! Isn't this the Triad's practice room?" she yelled, instantly feeling panicked.
"Only when we're not using it." Was Karasu's bored reply as he shifted to an on guard stance. "Otherwise, this is their secondary practice room because it is bigger than their normal one." He then formed a series of the small green, glowing balls in the air.
Bui suddenly charged at Yusuke, brandishing his newly formed axe.
Yusuke, who barely managed to dodge the axe and then Karasu's bombs, began to wonder if she had improved enough just from the little chase/fight. At least until Bui axe once again smashed into her into a wall. She felt the anger inside her rise again and add to her normal power as she pulled herself off the wall and attacked the two, taking care to make sure she stamped hard on Karasu's foot first chance she got.
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"How much stronger do you think that pounding and then the torture made her brother?" the elder Toguro asked as he watched the three inside the room come together in an absolute mess of a rough and tumble street fight, Yusuke actually able to hold up for a while.
The younger watched for a second as Yusuke continued to hold her own for a few seconds longer before she was knocked away. She recovered quickly though and returned to the fight enthusiastically. "Probably about 19% as to the original 16%, not to bad after three days, but altogether still not too impressive."
---------- Saria: Now, please review and talk to the authors as well!
SA: Is sitting on a jumping box Whoopee!
Tori: Voice is very muffled Help! Let me out!
SA: Yes, and that move wasn't my favorite thing. It took me forever to get out of that box!
Tori: Mmmmph! Mmett me ouu! still stuck in the box
Saria and SA: sweatdrop Ok, lets return to my fic. Oh, and before I forget, if anyone reads Nightmare, Erotic, Death and Sorrow, and The Grass is Always Greener, please write to the authors or authoresses and tell them to update already! And if you don't, do it anyway so others can enjoy their work! Now, on with my idiotic fic!
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The breakfast was not filling. Despite having cleaned her plate, Yusuke was still hungry. The food itself hadn't been all that great either, but it was better than her mother's.
Karasu and Bui, who she still thought of as Maskman and Samurai-wannabe, were now leading her down a new hall toward the 'training room'. She wasn't sure she like the sound of that name. She was quite sure she wasn't going to find a bathtub or shower as well as some better clothes. Her present clothing was coming apart rapidly due to the "testing" that she had gone through with Toguro. Despite her energy having returned to her, Yusuke knew she couldn't take another test like that from Toguro now, in her weakened state, she might not survive. Well, her clothes wouldn't survive for sure, that was guaranteed.
Yusuke was so deep in thought, she didn't see Karasu or Bui turn a corner while she kept going straight. She didn't see as she continued down the hall, entering a section that wasn't used very much. She didn't notice or see all of this until she bumped into a mirror at the end of the hall.
The mirror shocked her instantly, but she got over that very fast when she finally realized that she didn't have a clue as to where she was. As she turned, intent on going back the way she'd come, the mirror once again caught her eye.
"Seems like a long time since I saw one of those," she thought out loud. "Wonder why you're here." She continued as she reached out and wiped away the distinct layer of dust that covered the surface of the mirror.
The mirrors surface was like a pool of pure black. The border was done in a very intricate pattern of silver laced with gold. The mirror in its whole was ominous, dark, and beautiful.
Narrowing her eyes slightly at the strangeness of the mirror, she gently reached out and pressed her hand against the mirror's surface. The face wasn't cold like most surfaces, instead it felt almost like warm water because it seemed to almost flow over her hand, sending a familiar shiver up her back. As she continued to stare, her reflection oddly enough, began to appear. The girl that looked back at her still had pink, though like her it had been cut at the top of her neck in a very ragged style. Her clothes were a little big and falling apart, and her eyes and face were slightly sunken from hunger or bruised.
Yusuke stared at herself for a few more seconds before removing her hand from the surface of the mirror and watched as her reflection did the same, when suddenly she stopped. The reflection looked past Yusuke into the hall before winking and putting a finger to her own lips as though saying "shhhh!". Yusuke could only watch with shock at first, and then horror as the being slowly turned spun around and instantly her clothes dissolved into a soft looking martial arts gi and her pink hair turned white and grew so long that it touched her knees. The real horror came when she saw her face and arms were now covered in purplish-grey marks and that her eyes were light purple with red swirls in them.
Yusuke stared awestruck at the once human looking being in front of her before turning and running as though all hell had broken lose. She turned down a corridor then another, not seeing were she was going as long as it was away from that horrifying mirror.
'Is that what Toguro wants?' she thought as she continued to blindly run. 'Was the mirror trying to warn me of something?'
She didn't think much else because she spotted Bui and Karasu about midway down the corridor and slowed her pace some so that she didn't go alerting them that she'd been gone in the first place. Soon enough she was back behind them, trying to act as though nothing had happened though she had a feeling she wasn't fooling them in the least.
'Youkai hearing, makes it impossible to sneak up on them..." she thought angrily.
They stopped in front of another door, one that looked quite familiar, a few seconds later. Deftly pushing through the door, Yusuke found that they were back in the red level training room, the one that had housed the Demon Triad. Said Triad was now sitting near the back wall covered in bandages. The other levels were also their, having organized themselves into groups according to the level and color of their 'uniforms'.
Bui immediately took hold of Yusuke's tunic and dragged her to the far side of the room where he and Karasu leaned against the back wall. Immediately Yusuke understood the order. The weaker ones were in front and the stronger in back, and with her grey clothing, it was no wonder she was getting strange looks.
The door immediately banged open again, only this time, the Toguro Brothers entered; the elder of course was once again riding on his brother's shoulder. Any noise or conversation that had previously been going on died immediately and anyone who had been sitting jumped to their feet.
Yusuke felt Toguro's eyes on her, insuring that she was there before his eyes swept over the room, taking in all the apparitions that were also in the room.
"The Dark Tournament is approaching fast." He began. Yusuke, who had been sulking slightly, felt her ears perk up at the word 'tournament'. Around her, she heard some of the demons murmur excitedly. Toguro however, continued as though nothing odd was happening.
"We are going to maintain our status as tournament champions as we have for 50 years now, and since there are two slots open on our team, they will go to the two most powerful fighters. My brother and I are going to be on this team, as will Karasu and Bui. The last two slots are for the fifth member of our team and the alternate. If you make alternate, don't expect to fight. There will be try-outs for these posts of course; they will begin in two weeks. Dismissed."
Yusuke felt her stomach twist and go cold. So, that's what Toguro wanted. He wanted her to train and become stronger so he could force her to fight in this tournament, all so he could keep his title! Anger immediately washed over her and began to show on her face. There were plenty of boot- licking demons filing out of this room for him to choose from, yet he chose to kidnap her!
The strange mirror now forgotten completely, she watched as the rest of the demons filed out and moved to follow them when Toguro called out, "Yusuke, remain here!" It was too much of an order to ignore, that might be dangerous for her health.
Unsurprisingly, Karasu and Bui also remained, unmoved, as though they'd been expecting this.
Toguro moved toward them, then spoke quietly in a voice that carried a heavy threat. "You three will train the hardest, and you two," he nodded at Karasu and Bui, "will insure that she improves but doesn't over exert herself. I will have the best team, and I don't have any intention in needing an alternate. Be warned though," he glared at Yusuke, "if I feel you're not improving at a high enough rate, I will personally step in, and you won't like that."
As soon as he moved away, his brother still sitting on his shoulder only now he was snickering coldly, Yusuke groaned inwardly and felt herself shiver in horror. The Toguro's left immediately afterward and slammed the door after themselves.
"Alright, lets begin this." Karasu said, sounding slightly bored.
Yusuke turned just as Bui once again formed his axe from thin air.
"Wait! Isn't this the Triad's practice room?" she yelled, instantly feeling panicked.
"Only when we're not using it." Was Karasu's bored reply as he shifted to an on guard stance. "Otherwise, this is their secondary practice room because it is bigger than their normal one." He then formed a series of the small green, glowing balls in the air.
Bui suddenly charged at Yusuke, brandishing his newly formed axe.
Yusuke, who barely managed to dodge the axe and then Karasu's bombs, began to wonder if she had improved enough just from the little chase/fight. At least until Bui axe once again smashed into her into a wall. She felt the anger inside her rise again and add to her normal power as she pulled herself off the wall and attacked the two, taking care to make sure she stamped hard on Karasu's foot first chance she got.
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"How much stronger do you think that pounding and then the torture made her brother?" the elder Toguro asked as he watched the three inside the room come together in an absolute mess of a rough and tumble street fight, Yusuke actually able to hold up for a while.
The younger watched for a second as Yusuke continued to hold her own for a few seconds longer before she was knocked away. She recovered quickly though and returned to the fight enthusiastically. "Probably about 19% as to the original 16%, not to bad after three days, but altogether still not too impressive."
---------- Saria: Now, please review and talk to the authors as well!
SA: Is sitting on a jumping box Whoopee!
Tori: Voice is very muffled Help! Let me out!