A/N: I have decided that that there will be one more chapter to this story. THAT'S RIGHT! you heard me correctly! just ONE MORE CHAPTER and my Hiei story will be complete!! If you have ANY ideas on what I should right next PLEASE feel free to tell me! I already have an idea, BUT i WOULD like to hear from my readers!
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"Will you be home soon mommy…?" Yuki asked as she stared up at me with tears in her eyes.
I leaned down and kissed her head softly. "Of course I'll be back sweetie, and maybe if you're good I'll bring you a present."
He face lit up with joy. "Really? Will you bring me a present when you come home?"
I smiled. "Of course darling, you just have to be good."
She nodded vigorously. "I will mommy!!"
I smiled and hugged her against me, god I was going to miss her. "I love you Yuki…" I murmured.
"I love you too Mommy."
"Are you ready Moon…?" Yuske asked.
I nodded and stood up. "Let's go NyghtFyre…" I called to the pink eyed girl who was putting on the water works as she left her husband. "We'll be back…" I told her as I walked out to join the boys.
Goddess of all who walk the earth Protect us in our journey as we try to complete our mission… Let me bring back my daughter's father… Let me bring Hiei back…
The boat trip was completely uneventful, after the year we had gone they stopped having the competition duke it out on the boat and started just having a 'test' at the stadium itself.
I sighed and looked out the window of our hotel. "This is so boring… I just want to get this tournament over with…"
"Stop whining Moon…" Yuske snapped after loosing yet another round of cards to NyghtFyre, in fact, everyone was loosing to her…
"We'll fight when we get there." Kuwabara growled.
I sighed and rolled over I just wanted to get this over with… I wanted to be home again with my daughter and hopefully Hiei…
There was a knock on the door a few hours later. "Time to go, Team Urameshi." The person called.
Oh thank god I thought I was going to go crazy waiting for them to call us to the arena. I followed NyghtFyre out of the room and closed the door behind me.
We walked out of the hotel, into the surrounding forest…
If you could call a couple of trees, a small lake, and a few bushes a forest (but the hotel employee's sure as hell called it one)
And into a portal that was waiting for us.
When we arrived at the stadium our "tour guide" showed us to our "quarters", which literally was two beds and lots of floor space, just great.
"This is where you will be staying when you aren't out in the rink. Since you were the winners two years ago the owner decided that you could skip both the preliminary placement test and the first round. You will be fighting soon. Thank you for your patience."
I almost wanted to stand up and applaud. You could tell he had rehearsed the whole damn speech. I groaned when he left. "We have to wait MORE?!" I griped.
"Oh shut up Moon!" Yuske barked.
I was off the bed I had sat down on and had Yuske against the wall faster than anyone could blink, except maybe Kurama and Nyght.
"Don't ever tell me to shut up." I hissed in his face. "Do you even understand how HARD it is to leave my five year old daughter at home without me?" I slammed him against the wall. "You have NO idea how afraid I am of never being able to return to her, or for that matter, how much I fear NyghtFyre not being able to return to her family so you better shut that trap of yours or I'll shut it for you and we haven't even been out in the arena." I threw him away from me and into Kuwabara then stormed out of the room.
"I told you…" NyghtFyre said as she followed me out.
"Moon, wait!" She called a she ran up to me. "I know how you feel, but you shouldn't have taken it out on Yuske."
I huffed then sighed. "I know… It's just really hard to be away from my daughter… I mean… it's gotta be hard for you too Nyght…"
She smiled and put her hand on my shoulder. "It is but I just keep telling myself that the whole thing will be over soon and I'll be able to see my Inuki and Damien very soon. Besides, I know that you'll have your Hiei back and you all will be just one big happy family; you, Hiei, and Yuki."
I hugged her. "Thanks Nyght."
As we made our way back to the room the boys came out.
"It's our fight now." Kurama answered my questioning look.
"Hey Yuske…" I mumbled.
"What?"
"I'm sorry buddy… I just feel really bad being away from her… she's so little…"
Yuske sighed. "No harm no foul."
I beamed at him. "Thanks."
We walked out to the arena and looked around at the crowd.
"Wow… this is just an insane amount of people…" Nyght stated as she gazed and the rows upon rows of demons.
"And we're the team that's always hated." Yuske muttered as he walked up to the ref.
"Are any of your team member's pregnant or dating someone within the team?" the fish girl asked both captains.
Well I guess our last fight here really changed some of the rules…
When the captains both told her no she let out a huge sigh of relief. "Well then, pick who's first!"
"I am." I called as I walked up to the stadium floor.
Yuske nodded, jumped off and went back over to the team.
The other captain stayed on the stage.
Goody… I was fighting their captain. He sure as hell better be strong.
"Well, well, well…" a voice rang out over the stadium. "We haven't seen your face here in over six years. I thought you were dead."
I looked around and growled. "So what?" I chided. "I'm alive and kicking, does that upset you?"
"Not at all. I'm very pleased that you are alive and well. Ladies and gentlemen this young lady standing on the arena floor was our very first female winner in the entirety of our tournament. Not only that but she fought while she was pregnant!"
Suddenly a screen popped up and began to re-play the last fight I had here at this stadium.
"No…" I whispered as I closed my eyes.
The noise in the audience ceased as the battle raged on on the screen above us.
"No…" I said as I covered my ears and fell to my knees.
"Not only was she pregnant, oh no, but she was in love with one of her own teammates!!"
I knew what scene they were on now. I could hear my own voice tell Hiei that he was going to be a father.
Tears were streaming down my face as I heard my own voice crying Hiei's name as he died in my arms.
"NO!!" I screamed.
Then images on the screen stopped as the screen disappeared.
I breathed slowly as I realized he stopped it when I screamed. I stood up slowly and knew that I was now the center of attention.
"How dare you make a fool out of me." I was furious and the sky showed it. Clouds blocked out the sun as lightning struck the ground outside the dome. Thunder cracked overhead. "How dare you use me as your entertainment! I am not something you can use to entertain your audience!" I turned in a slow circle to face every angle just so he could see the anger in my eyes.
"I swear by the end of this tournament I will turn you into a laughing stock with your own public. By the power of the protector of my people I will show you how cruel I can be." I was seething and the man standing in front of me didn't have a chance in hell.
"Begin the god damn fight." I hissed to the announcer.
"I uh…" she stuttered. "O… okay… R-Ready! … F-F-Fight!!"
And with that my opponent was out of the ring and bleeding.
"Uh… uh…" the young girl stuttered.
"Better announce the winner if you know what's good for you…"
"Th-The winner is Team Urameshi!!" She cried now looking scared out of her mind.
I climbed off the stage and stormed past my teammates and into our waiting room.
"GOD DAMN IT!!" I screamed as I threw one of the beds from one side of the room to the other. "That son of a bitch will pay!!"
A small demon boy just happened to be unlucky enough to knock on the door at that time.
"What the hell do you want?!" I seethed; he took off running down the corridor.
After a few more minutes of completely trashing the room I opened the door and walked back to the arena.
"Who's fighting?" I asked as I walked up to Kurama.
"NyghtFyre just finished, we're heading onto the next round soon."
"Well you might want to ask for a new room." I muttered.
Kurama just stared at me. He opened his mouth, thought better of it, shut it and shook his head. "Yuske." He called.
"What?!" snapped the irritated boy sitting against the wall.
"Moon says we'll be needing a new room."
"Great, just fucking great! How the HELL are we going to do that?" he snapped as he stood up.
Seeing as I was still angry from earlier I answered. "Because I fucking trashed it when the guy I was fighting couldn't even last a god damn second with me, that's fucking why!"
Yuske was pissed and he was about to tell me "where to get off" when Kurama shut him up. "We need more beds anyway; maybe they can give us a bigger room."
The battles raged on and on, all the while my seething anger could not be stopped, not once had the sky cleared since the showing of the video and not once did I run into the man that announced my last battle.
Finally… The finals were here… So I guess I wasn't ever going to battle the man who had made a fool of me…
I walked out to the arena carrying my father's sword for my 'swords only' battle. When I had gotten on the stage I looked over at my opponent. I gasped.
It was the man that I had seen in Koenma's office the day I went over there.
He was still wearing his cloak, and his hood still covered his face, but I just knew that he was the man I had seen that day.
"Ready!" the announcer called.
I slid into my stance as my opponent did the same.
"FIGHT!!"
Suddenly my attacker was on top of me, his sword against my neck.
"Very good…" I breathed. "But you're too slow…" I twitched my hand that held my sword against his side. From the angle I held it it would easily pierce his lungs.
He 'hn'ed me and got off.
I stood up and rubbed my neck to see if there was any blood; there wasn't. I looked up, but my attacker had disappeared. I chuckled; I was ready for him this time…
I closed my eyes and listened to the wind…
My left!
I parried his blow just in time and jumped away from him.
Good god he was fast! I think he might have even been faster than Hiei!
On and on the battle between us raged and all I could do was dodge his attacks. I hadn't even gotten a single blow in.
I could hear the crowd cheering my opponent on, boy was I hated.
I swung blindly in the direction I knew my attacker came from and actually hit him!! Well… grazed him I should say… I hardly made a cut… but he was bleeding and that's all I needed to see where he was coming from.
This time I watched for blood trails to give me the upper hand… It worked some times and I was able to get a hit in once in a while but mostly I was still blocking…
I was panting and looking over at my opponent; he didn't even seem phased. He disappeared once more and I took a step in the direction he was coming from…and slipped…
As I fell I looked around me.
I should have known… he used his own blood to trap me… he was just waiting for me to step in it and slip up…
I was on my back, my sword on the other side of the stage, and my opponent was kneeling over me with his sword against his neck.
I could feel the tears in my eyes as I tried hard not to cry.
"Please…" I whispered, "Please don't kill me… I'm the only one my daughter has left… Please… She doesn't have her father… Please don't make her loose her mother either…"
I felt the sword tip dig into my skin and my blood welled up in the wound. I knew he would kill me…
I closed my eyes. "Just get it over with…"
But he stayed like that… holding me down and not moving.
I opened my eyes to look up at him, he was shaking. I reached up with my hand and grabbed his cloak; he didn't even try and stop me.
"If you're going to kill me at least let me see the face of my killer before I die…" I told him and ripped away the cloth.
The whole audience gasped with me.
There above me stood the man I saw die six years ago… There was Hiei…
"Hiei…?" I questioned as I reached to touch his face; he jumped back from me.
"Hiei!" I called as I sat up.
Someone was clapping behind me...
"Very good Moon…" the person said. "I see you found my secret weapon…"
I turned to face the man and growled viciously. "You…"
There before me stood the man that had shown the recording of the time I lost Hiei… The man that owned the tournament… Toguro Ototo…
"You…" I hissed again as I stood up. "What have you done to him…?"
"I merely brought him back from the dead, enhanced his powers and put him under my control." Toguro smirked. "Though he seems to fight back at times… I did tell him to kill you but he obviously refused to…"
I was fuming again; I was going to kill this man in front of me.
"Fight me." I growled.
"What did you say? I didn't quite hear you…"
"FIGHT ME!!" I roared. A flash of light erupted from my body and I was suddenly back in my sphinx form that I hadn't been in since the time Hiei died.
Toguro chuckled. "But you've already lost your battle with Hiei."
"Have not." I snapped.
"Oh yes you have."
I smiled evilly at him. "No I haven't" I stated simply. "I was off the ground before your little announcer could figure out if she wanted to count to ten or not. I won and he knew it.
Oh that pissed him off. "Get out of the ring Hiei." He commanded as he climbed in.
"If I win you release Hiei from your control."
"And if I win…?" He sneered.
"What the hell could you possibly want from me…?"
"I want you as my wife."
"WHAT?!" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Why would you want me of all people?"
"Don't play dumb Moon. Half the demon world knows what you are. You're the last remaining goddess. Not only that but you are the only and only goddess of both the night and the day; you are more powerful all the demons in this stadium. You may be the second most power thing in the Makai!"
"Who's the first…?" I don't think I even needed to ask…
"Well me of course."
Yep… I knew he would say that…
"Just fight me already you son of a bitch…"
"You can use whatever attacks you want, there are no restraints on this battle." Toguro then nodded to his announcer.
"Ready!" she called.
I brandished my new fangs and growled at him.
"Fight!!"