Bellamoura – Alright, sorry I took über long to post, but my computer and my personal life was being insane. Also, Witch of Erie Knoll, Ilove your story! Sorry, the review button wasn't working. Kurama – kun, your turn for the disclaimer!
Kurama – Bellamoura does not own YYH, Star Wars, or Morbid Threads, however much she wishes she did.
The next day, the group met in the council chamber. Yuusuke was dressed in a pair of denim jeans and a white t-shirt, Kuwabara was dressed in white pants with a white t-shirt and his weird white cloak thingie, Kurama was dressed in his white shirt and pants, similar to the ones he wore in the Dark Tournament, Hiei was dressed in his traditional black, and Chiyoko was wearing a Morbid Threads Military Lace Up Top, a pair of ripped jeans and a pair of black combat boots. The group walked to the main council chamber, and the masters looked at their clothing with curiosity, before Master Yoda spoke up.
"Three tests, you will have." He said, jabbing his stick thingie down on the ground in resolution.
"Your first test will be combat; a friendly spar between a Jedi or against each other." Master Windu said, standing up, followed by the other masters. The group walked to a large sparing room.
"First to fight, will be Mr. Kazuma Kuwabara and Mr. Yuusuke Urameshi." Master Gallia said. The two walked to opposite sides of the room.
"Ready, Kuwabara?" Yuusuke asked, cracking his knuckles.
"Born ready, Urameshi!" Kuwabara said, charging Yuusuke and delivering a swift roundhouse punch, which Yuusuke blocked with ease. Yuusuke returned with a swift kick to Kuwabara's stomach, sending him back a few steps. The two started rapidly exchanging punches and kicks.
"This is a friendly match!" Master Gallia exclaimed, looking worriedly towards the two.
"Hn. Baka, they do this all the time." Hiei replied, sitting down leaning against the wall and falling to sleep.
Yuusuke delivered a flying kick to the side of Kuwabara's head, and he flew against the wall.
"Uncle!" Kuwabara cried, standing up, holding his right side slightly.
"Good fight Urameshi, I didn't expect anything less from you." Kuwabara said, extending his hand.
"Hah! That was fun!" Yuusuke said, shaking his hand, and walking back to the group.
"Shouldn't you get some medical attention, you two?" Chiyoko asked, looking over the several cuts and bruises adorning the two.
"Nah, we've had worse, Yoko - chan!" The two responded, sitting against the wall.
"Oh . . . kay," Master Windu said, looking away from the two to Kurama, Chiyoko, and Hiei. "The next two to fight will be Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mr. Kurama Minamino."
The two got into their starting positions, and bowed to the other.
"May the best fighter win, Padawan Obi-Wan." Kurama said, revealing a rose from his hair.
"Same to you, however I don't know how much a rose is going to help you." Obi-Wan said, smirking.
"He shouldn't have said that." Yuusuke said, standing next to Chiyoko.
"Rose Whip!" Kurama yelled, the rose in his hand turning into a long green whip with thorns. Obi-Wan's eyes went wide, and he dodged just in time to avoid the thorn slashing his arm. Obi-Wan engaged his lightsaber, and charged at Kurama.
"Do that, how did he?" Master Yoda asked, gesturing to Kurama's rose whip.
"It is one of the powers of his species. He can manipulate plants." Chiyoko said, paying careful attention to the spar. If she was going to work with them, she mind as well learn their techniques.
Mere minutes later, the two teens were panting at other sides of the room, Obi-Wan covered in thorn slashes, and Kurama sporting some lightsaber marks.
"Intervene with the fight." Hiei said, standing next to Chiyoko and the masters.
"Why?" Master Ki-Adi-Mundi asked looking at Hiei.
"You fool, if this fight continues they are going to wind up doing serious damage to each other, if not by direct hit than by blood loss." Hiei said, glaring back at Master Ki-Adi-Mundi.
"Alright, you two, that's enough." Master Windu said, stopping the fight. Medical droids were called in to tend on the four who already fought. Chiyoko took this brief break to ask Hiei a question.
"Hiei, why did you pick Kurama to become your partner when you broke into King Enma's vault?" Chiyoko asked, looking to Hiei.
"Hn. I'll humor you, baka onna." He said, causing Chiyoko to become a little miffed. "I picked Kurama because he can be as ruthless as I am when someone interferes with his work. I picked him so I wouldn't have to fight him."
"Oh, that makes sense." Chiyoko said.
"Of course it does, baka onna." Hiei said, looking at Chiyoko with a smirk.
When the four were healed, Hiei and Chiyoko were chosen to fight against each other. Hiei unsheathed his katana, while Chiyoko pulled out what looked like two long strips of metal.
"Hn, you call that a weapon, onna?" Hiei said, smirking. Chiyoko smirked back, and flicked the strips, revealing them to be two fans, one white and one black, the edges a deadly blade.
"You where saying, Hiei-san?" Chiyoko said, throwing her white fan at Hiei. He blocked it with his Katana, but Chiyoko charged him and sliced at his arm with her black fan. She grabbed her white fan, and retreated to a defensive stance.
"Nice move, I'll give you that." Hiei said. The two exchanged blocks and blows for a good fifteen action-packed minutes, before Hiei disarmed Chiyoko of her fans. Chiyoko went to punch Hiei, but he grabbed her wrists and slammed her against the wall, his katana to her neck.
"Alright, you win." Chiyoko said, giving Hiei a small smile. He let go, and walked back to the master. Chiyoko retrieved her fans, and stashed them in her pockets. The masters just stared at the five new people. Another droid came in, but Hiei waved it off. The droid healed Chiyoko, and they moved onto the next test.
The group was in what looked like to be a library, the group sitting in the center with the Jedi Masters in a ring along the outside.
"First question. You are walking along the streets of Corousant, when you see a lady being harassed by some thugs for money. What do you do?" Master Windu asked, looking at the group.
"I would attack the thugs, giving the lady a chance to escape." Yuusuke said, lounging in the chair.
"Hn. I would keep walking by. If she can't figure out not to walk in an area without some form of protection, she isn't worth it." Hiei said, causing many of the Jedi Masters to gasp.
'Nice job, Hiei-san.' Chiyoko said, her mental voice dripping with sarcasm.
'Be quiet, baka onna.' Hiei said, closing off the mind link.
"I would fight the thugs, then ask the lady if I could help her with anything else." Kuwabara said, sitting Indian-style on the chair.
"I would politely ask the thugs to leave, using force only as a last resort." Kurama said, sitting politely with his legs crossed in a chair.
Chiyoko sat on the floor on the heals of her feet. She stroked her chin, thinking. "I would most likely step between the thugs, asking them to leave, lacing the phrase with several hints that if they didn't they would have a . . . mysterious case of unconsciousness. If they didn't leave, then I would fight them."
"I see . . ." Master Ki-Adi-Mundi said, examining the group. No matter how grateful or disturbing the news, they were telling the truth.
"Second question, you are fighting an enemy Sith. There is a pause in the combat, what do you do.
"I rush at him, a pause in combat is a chance for him to analyze my strategy, and I don't want that." Yuusuke said.
"Hn. Attack, get the fight over sooner." Hiei said, looking agitated with the incessant questions.
"I would catch my breathe, and come up with a new battle plan if I needed it." Kuwabara replied.
"I would analyze my opponents strategy, trying to find a weakness." Kurama said.
"I would try to convince him to give up the dark side, telling him that redemption is always possible, as long as you ask for it." Chiyoko said, looking at the Jedi Master's, her eyes looking a swirl of emotions, yet none of them readable, making them mysterious.
"Final question, there is a locked door. Your objective is on the other side, what do you do?" Master Gallia asked.
"Bust the door down."
"Slice through the door, baka."
"Plant a mine."
"Enter access codes I received from another room's console."
"Slice the lock!"
"Final test, now to." Master Yoda said.
The group was now in a blank room. The walls where covered in what looked like television screens.
"Unfortunately, this test is necessary. We need to show you different emotionally-challenging scenes to see how well you can handle different situations. Whenever you can't stand it any longer, you may walk out, however, the door won't unlock until a certain time unless it is an emergency." Master Windu said.
"Each person will go one at a time. Kuwabara, you will go first." Master Gallia said, the group except Kuwabara walked outside.
After about eight minutes, Kuwabara burst out of the room, going into a corner and buried his forehead in his knees. Yuusuke, Kurama, and Chiyoko looked at each other, and walked over to Kuwabara.
"Kuwabara, are you – " Chiyoko began to ask, before Kuwabara latched onto her and started crying into her shoulder. Chiyoko frowned slightly, and sat in front of Kuwabara and started comforting him. Yuusuke and Kurama looked at their friend with worry. The never saw him cry this bad before.
When Kuwabara stopped crying, he sat down in the corner. Yuusuke walked into the room. Kurama, Hiei, and Chiyoko looked at each other with worry.
Yuusuke came out about the same time as Kuwabara, and was already crying, Kurama walked up to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. Yuusuke started crying hysterically. Kurama enveloped him in a friendly hug.
"Yuusuke-kun, what happened?" Chiyoko asked, walking up next to Yuusuke and Kurama.
"I-It was Kei – Keiko. She w-was – " Yuusuke stopped, sobbing again. Hiei walked into the room, Kurama and Chiyoko looking after with worry.
When Hiei came out twelve minutes later, he was as pale as a ghost. Yuusuke and Kuwabara had finally stopped crying. Kurama walked next to Hiei and cautiously rested a hand on his shoulder. "Hiei? Are you gonna be alright?" Yuusuke said, when Hiei did the most unexpected thing, he hugged Kurama. Due to his height, his head only came up to Kurama's rib cage. Kurama wrapped his arms protectively around him (In a friendly way!). Kurama swallowed, and walked into the room.
Kurama came out fifteen minutes later, as pale as Yuusuke's white tee shirt, his eyes, instead of their usual calm, where overflowing with pain and sorrow. He sat against the wall, burying his head between his knees and sobbing. Hiei rested a comforting hand on Kurama's shoulder. After he had calmed down enough, Chiyoko walked into the room.
Chiyoko had been in the room for twenty-two minutes, making the boys wonder if she was ever going to come out. The Master's were starting to become worried as well, wondering if she possibly could have collapsed. However, when the timer clocked twenty-three minutes, a loud scream could be heard coming from inside the room. It was so loud that the group had to cover their ears with their hands. Chiyoko came dashing out of the room and almost tackled Yuusuke, sobbing uncontrollably into his chest, her sobs barely being muffled. Yuusuke wrapped his hand protectively around her, trying to comfort her.
"We don't understand how tough that was on all of you, but we do know some of the emotional difficulties you will have to face. We will give you your results tomorrow." Master Gallia said, smiling sadly at the group. They nodded, and walked back to their room.
When they got there, they each went to their separate beds, no bickering, no talking at all. They sat down, looking at each other, and all except Hiei started sobbing. They all gathered on the one unused bed and went into a group hug. Hiei scooted over, and snuggled in against Chiyoko and Kurama.
For the first time in his life, Hiei cried, creating black tear gems.
The group fell asleep like that, gathered in a hug, in peaceful sorrow, surrounded by black tear gems.
Bellamoura – Oh my Isis, I can't believe I wrote that! I made Hiei really OOC. If you want to know what they saw, just PM me
Hiei – I can't believe you made me cry.
Bellamoura – If it's any consolation, neither can I, but it gave me a great idea for my DevianArt!
Kurama - Please review!