Demons and Fairies
Chapter 7
The Final Round
Hiei and Bloom were walking through the forest in order to get to where Genkai died so they can see the damage that it caused in order to gage that strength that it took to kill her. When they got to the spot they didn't expect what they saw, a huge crater formed form a single fist slammed into the ground if the print at its center was anything to go by.
"To think that Toguro actually caused destruction like this on his fight with Genkai, what do you think he'll do if he ever went all out," Bloom asked her husband for an answer.
Hiei said nothing as he instead went to a different spot and started to charge his right hand with demon energy before jumping up and slamming his fist in the ground. This caused a huge crater as everything was blown back from the force of the impact, but Bloom stood her ground to see what the outcome would be. When she next opened her eyes, she saw a crater right beside of the crater Toguro made, but this was only about three fourths of the size of Toguro's crater.
(A/N: If you watched the anime and read the manga then you know that the crater Hiei made was actually about a fourth of the crater Toguro made. I made it bigger to account for the added addition of Blooms dragon's flame in addition to his own power that made him even stronger in this fanfiction.)
"Damn, if this is the damage I can do with the power boost then is still need more training to reach Toguro, come on, let's finish what we started," Hiei ordered.
"Did you just order me around," Bloom asked with a glare directed at her husband that made his skin crawl, yes, he was afraid of his wife, what man wouldn't be afraid of his wife.
He answered without letting his face or body language showing any of the natural fear that he felt, "of course not, it was just a suggestion, but if you don't want to we could go out for dinner or something."
"That sounds much more delightful, but getting you more power is our first priority so instead we'll be training that dragon of yours instead," she said with grin that said, 'got you.'
"Next time, wait until it gets a better mood before pulling a joke like that, or no dragon or sword form learning for you," Hiei threatened.
"Fine, but come on, I was just trying to lighten the mood, something needed to be done because you were going to hurt yourself before you even stepped a foot inside the ring," Bloom commented.
"Fine, after the training we can relax with a nice and hot bath, how does that sound for a nice treat," he asked with a rare smile, not an evil smirk, a smile that made him seem a little less like a brutal killer, you know, if you didn't know him.
"That sounds great, now let's train," she stated, they did train, well till it was dark out, and just as the sun was about to set completely, they headed back to the hotel. They took a bath together, and yes, it was just a bath, nothing more, and Bloom fell asleep while Hiei went out to train some more.
The next day
Team Urameshi had just walked out of the hotel when the doors opened, "It's time to kick some ass," Yusuke sounded off followed my Kuwabara echoing with a 'right' while Kurama grunted and Hiei gave off an evil smirk. When they got there, they were waiting by the entrance to the ring, all standing there and not talking until Kurama spoke up.
"One question, have you arranged for a substitute for Genkai since she won't be joining us today," he asked.
"I did but the little twerp should have been here by now," Yusuke answered with one eye open from where he had both closed before the question.
"Well, I don't see why the old bat doesn't have to be here like the rest of us," Kuwabara dumbly commented.
"She's sick, I told you that," he answered sounding depressed as he hung his head down with his eyes again closed.
"Aha, it just so happens that I know a secret remedy that can cure all kinds of sickness, let me think, first you hang upside down for a while, then you eat five large lemons, drink two-day old tea with pepper in it, and then wrap your body in seaweed," the fool listed off.
"So, tell me, what's it like living in a constant haze of stupidity," Hiei asked as they waited and he found nothing better to do but tease the fool for his stupidity.
"I've had enough of your lip half pint," Kuwabara exclaimed before a great shaking was heard and signaling the start of the final round.
"Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for, so let's begin, on my left, Team Urameshi," Juri announced as she pointed to the now opening doors. For a moment our team just stood there, but soon filed in one after the other until they were all at ringside and waiting for the other team.
"I'd really like to show every one of these jerk faces a thing or two about minding their manners, besides all their shouting is giving me a headache," Kuwabara commented.
"Ahem, your attention please, please put your hands together for everyone's favorite, Team Toguro," Juri announced again as the other doors slid open and it appeared as if nobody was there. Then footsteps could be heard coming closer to the light, soon came in said team looking as frightening and as creepy as everyone imagined them to be. All the demons cheered and drowned out Kuwabara's shout of protest as the girls all watched how the final round was shaping up to be.
"I can feel their power from here, do you think it's actually safe to be around here for this, it's not going to be a walk in the park for them," Stella commented.
"They'll be fine, it'll be tough, probably touch and go for a while between somebody and somebody, but in the end, we'll win for sure," Musa assured them, though, there was nervousness in her own voice.
"The odds aren't really looking to be in our favor, but my calculations have been wrong before when it comes to what Hiei once referred to as, 'the spirit of a warrior,' so who knows," Tecna stated.
"I think something's happening," Flora guessed as she saw that the intense staring contest the teams were having was over as demons yelled about not being the correct amount on either team.
"Ahem, everyone please calm down and I'll get to the bottom of this," Juri stated before bringing out a rule book with her tail. "Let's see, uh, according to the tournament rule book, each of the ten players must participate on a one-on-one match assuming five matches are necessary. The first team to win three matches will be the champions, sorry about that, since this is the final battle and neither side has used their substitution, you must have five or your team will forfeit."
Kuwabara nudged Yusuke and said, "hey, you did say you got somebody for Genkai but I just wanted you to know that imaginary friends don't count."
"Right, I think it'd be best if you didn't talk for the rest of the tournament," Yusuke suggested while barely looking at the fool.
"Great, so we're already experiencing difficulty, in case anybody upstairs is curious, I do have the entire tournament rule book memorized," Koto commented.
"Both teams need to find another player soon, because if you don't I'll be forced to disqualify you and forfeit this match and that's not good," Juri insisted.
Toguro smirked before speaking, "that's all you had to say, our reserve team member is always ready to join us when the need is required," the doors behind them began to open and it was now shown to be Sakyo.
"Well to be honest, I have no intention of participating in this match, granted my presence allows Toguro to continue, but all that means for me is a much better view. I'll stake my life on Yusuke's team being defeated before my turn arrives, now let's begin," Sakyo stated blandly and actually seemed a little bored.
"Now that's what I call, put your mouth where your money is," Koto commented with clear excitement.
"Toguro is prepared, now present your fighter or the finals are over," Juri threatened from within the ring and showing clear signs of agitation.
"What now mister team captain, we've got like two seconds for this guy to show up," Kuwabara stated to Yusuke.
For a few moments everything was silent, and then Juri started, "since Team Urameshi has failed miserably to produce a fifth member, Team Toguro will be named the winners by default."
"Hold it missy, patience is a virtue," the voice of Koenma came through the speakers before music started to play and the door to their team opened and smoke filled the entrance.
"Wow Urameshi, this fighter you got even shoots out some kind of magical smoke," the fool commented.
"Um, not exactly, I just thought dry ice would be a nice touch," Koenma stated as he came into view in his full teen form.
"It's a giant Koenma," Kuwabara exclaimed as he pointed at Koenma, all the girls face-palmed at how stupid he is.
"So, what kept you, a diaper change," Yusuke commented as Koenma walked closer to the team and in full view of all demons.
"Look Yusuke, you can cool it with the wise cracks, I don't have to be here you know, I'm doing this as a favor, highly important people like myself shouldn't risk their lives, but Genkai was a friend and Toguro is a jerk," Koenma stated.
"I can't believe that Yusuke actually let a toddler in disguise be the team's alternate," Tecna commented.
"I can't believe that both owners of the teams are the alternates, makes you wonder what would happen if it came down to the two of them in a fight," Musa wondered out loud.
"Are you sure this is a smart idea, we don't even know if he can fight," Kuwabara exclaimed at the toddler.
"Believe it or not, fighting isn't up there on my list of priorities, so I've implemented an escape route, the Koenmatron five thousand, what do you think," Koenma informed as he showed off a jet-pack.
Kuwabara was floored while Hiei gained a sweat drop, "I think we're in deep trouble, that's what," the fool commented once he was off the floor.
"Wait a second, you can't just switch, the rules state that a new player may only be brought in if the original fight is dead," Juri informed them.
"Their team will never get to the fifth match so it won't be necessary for junior to fight, we all know he's here to take up space," Karasu commented.
"Anytime mask boy," Koenma said right back at the opposing fighter as if he actually wanted to fight.
"What's wrong with you," Kuwabara asked since Koenma was switching between not wanting to fight to wanting to fight.
"Alright, there's finally a full roster so get ready to feast your eyes on the dark tournament's bloodiest massacre yet, ladies and gentlemen, it's taken us seven long days to get here, welcome to the finals," Koto commented from within the stands before the buzzer to start sounded off.
Karasu was the first one to enter the ring with his hands in his pockets before looking at them and putting his finger to his head and pulled back a little in a bang motion.
"Awe, look at him trying to scare us with his dumb finger, man, I'm going to beat him until his mother doesn't recognize him," Kuwabara exclaimed.
"No," Kurama voiced before walking up to beside of the fool, "I will handle it," he stated again before making his way to inside the round ring.
"It has been decided, we will begin the final with a match between Team Toguro's Karasu, and from Team Urameshi's side, Kurama," Juri announced the opening battle.
"Folks, I guess you could say this tournament has been one heck of a roller-coaster, and finally, finally, we can get to the most awesome loopy loop part of the ride," Koto commented as the demons cheered for bloodshed. "From the sound of things, it seems like everyone in the stadium is a fan of the tall, dark, and gruesome Karasu," she commented again before she was almost floored by Keiko's voice.
"What did you just say, you couldn't pay me to root for that vampire wannabe weirdo," she said as she held Pue with Shizuru and Yukina to her left and Botan to her right. They were in front of the Winx with the order from left to right being Bloom, Flora, Stella, Musa, and finally Tecna as they looked on at Keiko.
"I don't know, he does have some beautiful hair," Shizuru commented just as a statement with no real meaning.
"Don't forget your stretches Koenma sir," an ogre sitting next to the girls yelled out with a spiked club in his hands, "this was supposed to be Koenma's, guess I'll just use it to scare people. The ogre and the girls chose that moment to start chanting Kurama repeatedly instead of being quiet in their cheering and not making a scene.
"Dammit, if they start a riot in the stands, I'm not going to be the one that saves them," Yusuke commented as Kuwabara ran up to Kurama to ask him something.
"Hey Kurama, wait, you think you'll use that medicine stuff that Suzuka gave you," Kuwabara asked the fox with the fox not turning around.
"Actually, I took some about two minutes ago, I've run a few experiments and found it takes a considerable amount of time for it to absorb into my body and change me," Kurama informed the fool.
"I don't know if you should take that stuff multiple times buddy, it could be bad," the fool guessed almost smartly for a change, almost.
"There's no way I would have shown up here without testing it first," the fox replied before jumping into the ring to begin his fight.
"So, what's it do when you take it," Kuwabara stupidly asked the obvious question, if the compound reverted him back before, it was obviously going to revert him back again.
"Suzuka was right in assuming it would transform me, however there is a time limit, I can only stay in that form for fifteen minutes, I'm not worried though, fifteen minutes is more than enough." Kurama stated and was about to head deeper into the ring when he felt a tug on his pants, looking down he saw Hiei there motioning him to bend down, Kurama complied and Hiei whispered something into his ear.
"Bloom gave me a message, well, Bloom and then Flora, Bloom asked if you could tone down the whole foxy thing, last time they couldn't summon enough buckets to keep up with Flora's drooling over you. Flora asked that you keep the fox out a little longer this time, and now that the messages have been delivered, do what you want," he said.
"Flora likes my fox form, well at least I know that one battle has been won today," Kurama stated to himself turning back and walking deeper into the ring for his fight to begin.
"If I can have everyone's attention I'll explain the rules of the match," Juri started before everyone started ranting about wanting bloodshed instead of talking, "fine, both players take their opening pose, and begin."
Kurama got into a ready position while Karasu just began to speak, "you are either extremely brave, or extremely foolish, it is rare for anyone who has seen my capabilities to go through with fighting me. I'm curious to why you would subject yourself to this, could it be something personal," he asked to try and get into the fox's mind.
"Don't flatter yourself Karasu, I'm here to defeat you, and by the way, I advise you not to underestimate me," Kurama advised. Both fighters lifted their hands up, Karasu's hand glowed a green energy while Kurama generated some rose petals and making them float around him.
"Wow, Kurama's surrounded with a huge whirlwind of rose petals, Karasu must stink," Koto commented from the audience.
Kurama brought up his right arm with his right hand as if being parallel with a wall and pointed his left arm down and out a little with his left arm parallel with the floor. "Petals and thorns," Kurama stated as the petals swarmed around him and Karasu just decided to walk straight into the rose petals.
"Karasu obviously doesn't feel concerned as he walks directly into the massive cloud of rose petals," Koto commented again and the girls just wished somebody would shut her up.
A rose petal flew by Karasu's face and a cut formed on his right cheek just below his eye, "it's incredible, each pedal is as sharp as a razor blade, how utterly charming," he commented as he continued his walk. "I must say Kurama, they are absolutely beautiful, however they are also weak and lacking in substance, traits they must have inherited from you." With a few more steps Karasu acted by sending his hands out and a moment later, Kurama's rose petals all started to blow up, one after the other.
"What the heck, those things just spontaneously combusted," Kuwabara noted the obvious out loud again.
"Be careful Kurama," Yusuke yelled out as if he actually needed to tell the smartest person on the team to be careful with the guy.
"Well, well, well, maybe it was I who was underestimated by you, my hands are not the sole source of my power, they are merely vessels, poor Kurama, it seems you've entirely misunderstood," Karasu stated. "You aren't able to see my power so you feel secure, but it's everywhere, even in the air you breath, you can't escape it, it's all around you, inside of you, why don't you make things easier and submit?" Karasu jumped up in the air in a burst of speed before disappearing again and coming into view of Kurama's left and making a play to grab him, or just plain out touch him. Kurama dodged by stepping back and letting the hand pass through where he used to be, then another swipe that was dodged and then another.
"What an attack, it's just the way I like it, confidence with a hint of malice," Koto commented as more swipes from Karasu forced Kurama to go on the defensive.
Kurama jumped back to get some distance before Karasu ran after him, the fox jumped in the air before calling out, "rose whip," and summoned his infamous rose whip to use. He used it to try and attack Karasu before said man stretched out his hand and destroyed the whip with the same method as before as Kurama got back to the ground.
"You know you can't stop me but you continue to try all the same, that's what's so appealing about you, it's a shame that circumstances couldn't have been different for us," Karasu stated before sprinting towards him and attacked while he talked. "But it doesn't really matter, even the sweetest deal always turns sour, I'm just speeding the process, besides, I've found no greater rush than taking the life of something you care for. The intimacy between murderer and victim share is unparalleled, witnessing their spirit separating itself from their body," at the end of it all, Karasu jumped up before coming down on Kurama, only to hit his hand on the pavement. Kurama dodged by jumping back, but got a big surprise when part of his arm got a small explosion for his troubles, this caused him to bend over a little in pain. "Like I said, it isn't necessary for me to touch you, it's just one of the perks," Karasu stated with a glint of blood-lust in his eyes.
"Darn it, what's the deal, why doesn't he change, if that clown gave him bad juice, I'll make him regret the day he was born," Kuwabara stated.
Karasu was about to make another part explode when Kurama made a run for it, Karasu flew over to in front of him and made another small explosion, this time on Kurama's right thigh, to his credit though, he only stumbled a bit. "Perhaps I should explain how my power works, it's similar to yours as in we both manipulate things with our energy, but with one distinct difference, you can only control things that already exist, like your plants. I manifest my thoughts into tangible things, for example, the object I'm holding in my hand, although you can't see it, it is still very real and very deadly. Honestly, I don't think words can do it justice, it's just one of those things you have to feel for yourself, after all, like they say, actions speak louder than words. Make sure you pay very close attention Kurama, I wouldn't want you to miss a single minute," Karasu stated as he began to charge up some energy in his right hand. The energy in his hand formed into a spooky looking rectangle resembling to a bomb of some sort before it was thrown straight at Kurama where it exploded in a haze of fire and smoke.
This caused everyone to shield their eyes from looking at the explosion, everyone except for Flora who was looking on in horror at watching Kurama seemingly die in front of her.
"What a great explosion, Karasu has just pelted Kurama with several sticks of dynamite, but tragically I'm not able to see the damage," Koto announced.
"I wish she'd shut up, we don't need her comments right now," Stella stated while looking at Flora to see if she's okay, but she just stood there with wide and unblinking eyes.
Karasu was watching the smoke when he felt blood drip from him, then he noticed a rose was actually stuck in it, he brought up the hand to take the rose out while saying, "very amusing."
Inside the smoke cloud, a white energy was being released from within it, the energy seemed to engulf the entire ring and reminded them all of the semi-finals and what happened to Kurama then. The energy soon turned into lightning spurts all around the arena, "I've seen all this before, this battle is in for a heart stopping face lift," Koto commented. Soon, in the smoke, the white haired Youko Kurama came into view and with no movement at all, the smoke vanished from sight and all that was left there was Youko himself. "Well it's no surprise I was right, it's that foxy Youko Kurama," she commented again while leaning on her desk within the audience, the girls all sent her glares.
"Alright, this is going to be sweet," Kuwabara exclaimed with a pumped-up fist.
"You're telling me that's Kurama," Yusuke voiced his question since this is the first time he's seen Kurama's true demon form.
"Basically, as you've heard his full name is Youko Kurama, but he's known as several other names too," Koenma informed and Hiei just smirked.
"You go king of thieves, you my man," the ogre shouted out from beside of the spirit detective's group.
"Creating a bomb from nothing takes talent, that kind of power is a sign you belong to a superior class of demons, a class I consider to be fairly worthy, worthy to fight, and worthy to die," Youko stated in his deeper voice.
"Flattering, but we're still not equals," Karasu started as he formed to glowing spheres from his energy, out of it formed monsters that were obviously bombs.
"Rest assured Karasu, I fully agree, now let's see, you create monsters that act as invisible bombs," the fox noted before Karasu launched the monsters at him. Youko reached into his hair and pulled out two roses before flicking them at the little monsters where they were embedded into their forms and exploded before they reached him. "How very clever, that's why I had such difficulty fighting you while I was trapped inside, lucky for me I found a way to break free from Shuichi Minamino long enough to finish you."
"That's fascinating, but nothing more than a loser's excuse, you weren't able to beat me then, and you won't be able now, but you're welcome to try," Karasu stated before forming more bomb monsters from his energy. These monsters only had one eye and wings on their sides, they were sent straight at Youko who easily dodged five by jumping in the air. While in the air, he moved to the right to avoid one more, backflipped to dodged another, and finally spun to the right to dodge the last. "When you come from the quest class of demons you find you can make all sorts of interesting things, these little jewels are what I like to call Trace Eyes. Once these bombs set their sights on you, they will follow you forever," Karasu informed.
Youko dodged another bomb by ducking his head slightly and kept running while saying, "ever heard of Ojigi, it's a rare plant and found only on Earth's South America. The Ojigi is extremely sensitive to movement, if it senses any king of movement it will quickly wrap it's leaves around it's pray," all of this while dodging the Trace Eyes.
"I have no interest in gardening," Karasu stated before all the bombs with eyes surrounded Youko so he couldn't move, "my, my, looks like you're surrounded, what's a boy to do."
"I thought you knew better than to corner an enemy like a fox Karasu, we have a tendency to show our teeth," Youko stated before exploding his spirit energy and forcing all the Trace Eyes to explode from all the energy. From the cloud dust it created, came a plant that was resembling of an Ojigi plant, but had been mutated to seem quite more demonic in nature. "An Ojigi plant is quite dangerous regularly, and it is several times more lethal and more sensitive when grown under a demon's energy." He then spotted Juri still in the ring, "you, unless you want to be plant food, don't move," he advised before she sounded out a 'k' which the demon plant spotted making her freeze. The plant seemed to sense that it would soon be fed and started to spring to life a little bit and move around hungrily, "it looks like it's zeroed in on you, I guess all your trembling must have caught its attention."
The demons Ojigi's mouths opened up and sum of them shot towards Karasu and forced him to dodge, the first he dodged by jumping straight, the next to the right and the final he jumped up before the came after him all at once. This forced him to run for his life as Koto talked, "um, okay, the tables one eighty and now Karasu's running around like a cockroach in the middle of a tap dancing convention."
"How does it feel to be the one pursued," Youko asked as Karasu kept dodging, only to be cornered when vines sprang up from the ground.
"Oh yeah, this one's in the bag," Koenma commented.
"Who cares if he's part of the whatever you call it class, Youko will still kick his but," Kuwabara exclaimed.
"It's called the quest class, I bet you don't remember your own name half the time," Hiei commented.
"Get off me, anyway, that super fox Kurama is going to beat that idiot, I just know it," the fool stated firmly.
'I hope so," Hiei thought as the plants began to spit a substance out of their mouths towards Karasu and forcing him to dodge them before the plants attacks again with their own bodies. This had Karasu dodging them as well, he formed a grenade in one hand and blew up a plant head that was about to get him, as he landed though, another plant head came straight for him.
"The Ojigi also responds to aggression, so it will be all the more vicious once you attack, you'll have to come up with a smarter way to kill it or bang," Youko ended what he said with a finger gun to his head. Up in the stands, Flora just fainted from a huge nose bleed and with a content yet somehow perverted smile on her face.
"I thought you told him to turn down the sexy fox self to keep Flora's sanity," Bloom's voice came through her husband's head.
"I did, but Youko Kurama seems to have different ideas," Hiei replied as he watched the fight and took a glance in the stands to see the girls were alright.
The plant finally caught up to Karasu and entangled him in its leaves and hoisting him up before squeezing to the point his mouth piece fell off from the blood he spit up. More of the plant heads came forward and wrapped him in their leaves leaving nothing open as if they were all fighting to devour him. "Hugh, I thought it was going to last much longer than that, I would have liked to toy with him a little before he died," Youko stated with a small smile.
"That was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, Kurama's plant just grabbed Karasu and juiced him like a fresh orange, I never thought botany could be so deliciously gruesome," Koto commented.
"Kurama just showed that punk what was up, and he closed the deal in a measly five minutes, eat that Toguro," Kuwabara exclaimed.
"Yes, two more wins and it's done," Yusuke noted, so sure that victory was within their grasp.
"I didn't know Kurama could do that, remind me never to make that guy mad," Koenma stated and lost his focus on his teenage form and his head turned into that of a toddler.
"Koenma sir, look up, your face is leaking," the ogre yelled out before Koenma was forced to fix his face.
"Don't get me wrong, I love my bro, but it's nice to see somebody not embarrass themselves, now if only Flora could learn control," Shizuru observed from in front of them.
Soon the plant seemed to have eaten all of Karasu and Youko began to walk away, Juri was still a little out of it though, which caused Koto to call out, "hey Juri, get the lead out, it's time to tell us who's won."
That brought Juri back to reality, "I know, right, it looks like Karasu has been soundly defeated and the winner of the first match is team Urameshi's Kurama." The plant then done something that maybe Kurama and Juri were not expecting, it descended to the ground from its aerial position, "hey, stay back," Juri ordered.
The plant then did something that nobody expected, it exploded from the inside out, the explosion woke Flora up and shocked everyone else, "I wouldn't count me out just yet," the voice of Karasu was heard from the black smoke.
"Oh, I'm so, so sorry, that was entirely my fault, everyone forget what I just said, the fight will now continue, okay," Juri said before walking off the ring, "this is insane, I don't know how much more of this I can take."
The two fighters stared each other down before Karasu began to talk, "you look surprised Youko, did you think that was the last you'd see of me." Before he began to inhale the very air around him. His hair went from black to blonde and his energy skyrocketed.
"Brace yourselves people, Karasu's back and he's not too happy, his hair has also changed from jet black to hyper blue blonde, to follow the stereo type, that means he's more popular and he's more aggressive," Koto commented.
"Can someone fill me in here, what's going on with his hair," Kuwabara foolishly asked, was it too much to ask for him to use his brain.
"It's an explicit sign he is internalizing his power which means the bombs he creates are inside of him, virtually making him one giant explosive, and if my assumptions are correct, he's about to detonate. If you're wise, you'll take cover now," Hiei informed as the spirit detective team all had shocked looks.
Karasu began chuckling sinister as he put his hands together and then broke them apart with lightning sparkling between them before creating a good-sized ball of energy. That energy grew larger and brighter before jumping up in the air and seemed to be suspended there by the very energy he created the ball with. He stayed there for a few seconds before dive bombing straight into Youko for a huge explosion to rock the very ring they were fighting in, a good chunk of the audience was taken out too. On the opposite sides of where the only audience members we care about are, and as the smoke cleared, Team Urameshi was getting out of the rubble it created.
"Hey, is everyone alright," Yusuke asked once he was out of the rubble, clearly not everyone was able to be seen with his own eyes.
"That idiot almost killed me, I should have him arrested," Koenma complained from still within the rubble pile.
"You guys hear singing," Kuwabara asked, then he noticed Hiei standing on a wall behind them, said demon just jumped down as if nothing was wrong.
Inside the ring, smoke was everywhere, scattered around and not making the ring unable to be seen completely, just some of it. "Now that's devastation, a significant portion of the ring has been completely wiped out, there are corpses everywhere and Kurama is nowhere to be seen," Koto commented. Soon rubble began to move and out of it stepped Kurama, not Youko Kurama, but the red haired Kurama that was nicer and less deadly. "That Kurama is like a nasty virus, you just can't get rid of him, however it looks like this last explosion has taken its toll, because now he's back to his original human form."
"Oh crap, the potion wore off, now he's really going to have to wing it," Yusuke noted.
"What, I don't get it, he said that stuff is supposing to last fifteen minutes, that's it, the next time I see Suzuka, I'm mopping up the floor with his face," Kuwabara exclaimed.
Kurama stumbled to get up and seemed to be in thought about something, until Karasu began speaking, "forgive me for disrupting your train of thought, but shouldn't you take this time to pray. After all, you are about to meet your creator, you can ask him why he flawed with you," then the guy began chuckling to himself. Kurama took out a rose from behind his hair and began putting spirit energy into it to make his rose whip, but was obviously having trouble because it instead destroyed the rose instead. "You're too weak Kurama, you can't even control the most basic of your attacks, make this easier on both of us and give in, I promise it won't hurt too much."
"Wow fight fans, the suspense is in the air here at the dark tournament, because everybody knows that one more solid hit by Karasu means curtains for you know who," Koto commented.
"If you think about it, death isn't really so frightening, who knows, you might actually enjoy it," Karasu commented himself before Kurama lost all thought and jumped into the ring to make a play for Karasu. Kurama made for a kick after running in a crescent to the other side of Karasu, who jumped to dodge it, Kurama then jumped and done a chop to take some of Karasu's hair. When they landed, Kurama went in again, this time aiming for a jab, it was dodged, then a roundhouse kick with his right leg, right jab, a couple spinning kicks, all dodged by Karasu.
"Oh man, Kurama's launching a full-blown assault on Karasu, but so far it's completely useless, blondie's dodging each punch, I can't take it anymore, I need some blood," Koto commented.
"He has a plan, it's obvious in the way that he moves," Hiei mentioned as Kurama still fought on, he made for a chop, left cross, then aright kick.
"I think you've finally lost your mind, if you come any closer, you're a dead man," Karasu stated before making an energy explosive again.
"I will not be afraid of something I cannot see," Kurama stated before jumping over the energy that was launched and landing in time to strike Karasu with a double palm thrust and forcing the new blonde to scoot back.
"You're just full of surprised, but I thought you'd be more original," Karasu began before pulling out a seed from inside his own chest where Kurama hit him. "You really thought that would work, it's called tact Kurama, you should really consider using some," he teased.
"That stupid jerk is really starting to tick me off," Kuwabara stated.
"He knows what Kurama's going to do before he does it," Yusuke noted.
"Guys, I don't think he's going to make it," Koenma guessed, wrongly so, but guessed none the less.
"I must congratulate you though, you've injured me more than once and that is practically unheard of," Karasu stated before destroying the seed and giving a signal for a trap to be sprung that caught Kurama by his left foot. A cord came from the ground as well, at the end was an eye with a fuse on its head, "that's what I call, my Mad Bomb." It soon exploded and dealt Kurama a great deal of pain to Kurama, sending blood spewing from his leg as he hit the ground hard.
Kurama laid there on his stomach for a few moments before getting to his feet, slowly, painfully, and taking a lot of energy, but he eventually got there. "Don't move another inch Kurama, you're surrounded by bombs," Yusuke yelled out to his teammate from outside the ring who looked and noticed that he was indeed surrounded by bombs.
"Didn't you say you choose not to be afraid of things you could not see, well here's a better look, you know that this entire battle has been an exercise in futility. You're weak, you're tired, you're powerless, you're pathetic, yet it seems you have a masochistic streak that likes indulging, so here goes," Karasu said as he began to detonate the bombs. One after the other, from the front, then the shoulder, then the back, each detonation was at a different spot until his clothes was covered in blood.
"Karasu is such a bastard, he's clearly playing with him now, I wish he would get this over with," Shizuru said, more to herself than anything, but others still heard her.
"Don't say that again, if Karasu kills Kurama, I'll kill him myself, I've grown to like Kurama greatly and if he takes him away from me then I'll tear out his voice box and feed it to him," Flora stated with a deadly and demonic aura around her.
Kurama was on his knees panting heavily from the attacks, "your red hair is perfect for that fiery spirit that I admire, you know that's why I've decided to leave your beautiful face unharmed. I may not be able to keep you, but I'll always have the memory of your face to give me comfort," Karasu stated. Kurama chose at that time to stand up again, without more of the trouble this time though, still bloody, but up. "Alright, let's end this," then began the bombardment again, this time even more blood was shed then before, ending with Kurama a bloody mess and no more bombs.
Just as Kurama was about to fall over and faint, he heard the voice of another woman he has grown to care for, the fairy known as Flora from the planet of Linphea in the magical dimension. "Don't give up Kurama, don't die and don't quit," Flora yelled at Kurama as he was falling, and just as he was about to topple over, he caught himself. In one fluid motion with catching himself, he sent out one last resort and in a flash struck Karasu with the bloodsucking plant to kill the bombing demon. The demon was so shocked that he almost died without a word in, in fact, the demon did die without getting a word in through the whole sucking of his own blood.
"And the winner in one fluid motion is Kurama with his wonderful burst of blood sucking flowers," Juri announced to everyone as the full flower from the blood sucking bloomed.
"We did it, in your face," Kuwabara exclaimed with pride and a fist pump for good measure.
"You made a nice flower pot out of him Kurama," Yusuke stated before jumping into the ring and straight over to his teammate, "how you feeling there champ?"
"Fine," Kurama stated before he regretted speaking and then proceeded to fall to his knees from the amount of blood he lost during the fight.
"Alright tough guy, let's get you out of the ring for some medical attention," the detective stated before picking said fox up and helping him walk back to outside the ring to watch the rest of the fights.
Then the guy in armor from team Toguro stepped forward, he obviously seems ready to fight, "oh Bui, I wasn't expecting you to step forward so soon, your team must be special, he rarely shows this much initiative," the elder Toguro mentioned loud enough for them to hear. "This should be dandy, whichever one of you gets to fight Bui is in for quite the treat, he has the strength of a thousand armies."
"Oh yeah, well take a look at these big guns I got here, let me go at this guy," Kuwabara requested with a pumped-up arm.
"So, you want to be buried in that or something descent," Koenma asked, mostly from a joking standpoint, but still asked.
"Now that you're close to my height junior, why don't you say that to my face," the fool suggested with a yell as he grabbed the prince by his shirt collar.
"Yusuke, I planned to take the thug with the sunglasses for myself, but after what he did to Genkai, I believe that vengeance belongs to you," Hiei stated before speeding to the ring edge, "but this thug will do just as well."
He began to silently walk into the ring, "but hey, I thought I had the big guy," the fool commented while he still had a hold of Koenma.
"What about burial flowers, do you like roses," Koenma asked from his spot still in the fool's grip.
"Will you please be quiet I'm trying to think here," Kuwabara exclaimed to the prince as he shook Koenma violently as the prince giggled.
Hiei and Bui walked silently to the center of the ring, and when they got there, Juri announced, "measuring at 4"10" without his hair, Hiei, at 9 feet, Bui."
"Wow, nine feet, that's tall, and it's more than enough man to go around ladies, then again, Hiei has proven on numerous occasions that kickass things come in short packages too, his wife can attest to that I bet," Koto commented.
"You have no idea, some nights over the three-month training period we never got any sleep because Hiei was being kickass," Tecna commented while sending a little glare to Bloom, then to Hiei who was unaffected.
"I have no idea who's going to win this one people, but I can state with certainty that it's going to be exciting," Koto commented again before Bui formed an ax from his own energy in the palm of his right hand. "Oh my, is it my imagination or has Bui's ax gotten even bigger since the last time he formed it from thin air, I can't wait to see how he wields it in this go around."
"Not a bad weapon you got there Bui, but with all due respect, I must say I still prefer my own," Hiei commented before shedding his cloak and revealing a right hand wrapped in bandages and seals.
"Man, look how tightly Hiei has those bandages wrapped around his arm, his injuries must not be anywhere close to healing for real," Kuwabara foolishly commented.
"No, you've misunderstood Hiei's true motives, the purpose of this particular binding is not to repair," Kurama stated, still not looking to good.
"What the hell, so it's just there to look pretty," Yusuke being his smart-ass self couldn't help but commented.
"Why use bandages that doesn't make your hurty spots better," the fool asked in the way that makes everyone call him the fool.
"And now, the second match in the final round of the dark tournament, ready, set, go," Juri announced before Bui made the first move and made a mad dash for Hiei before jumping high in the air and slamming the ax in the exact spot Hiei was in.
"Your aim is as broad as your ax, could at least try and hit me next time," Hiei asked with a taunt from several feet away from Bui, who began to lift his ax from the ground, but took a chunk of the ring with it. With a flick of the ax, the chunk of ring was launched towards Hiei who dodged it with a simple jump before Bui done the same thing again and Hiei dodged again. Bui kept on repeating the same motion over and over again with Hiei dodging them all with simple movements while quite a few of the chunks hit the audience.
"Nobody can explain to me why the combatants keep attacking the audience, though it does make the pain a little more wide spread and I do love that," Koto commented as she watched the audience get attacked.
When the chunks halted for a moment, Hiei commented, "I may be a small target, but this is sad," he stopped running and broke the covering on his jagan and ignited his left fist. "Prepare yourself for the fist of the mortal flame," the chunks came flying and all of them were demolished by Hiei's fist and on the last one is when Bui made a move to drop down to hit him with his ax. Hiei had other plans though because he kept the fist of the mortal flame active and proceeded to collide it with Bui's ax where after a few moments of struggling energies, the ax broke off and flew past Juri into the audience. Bui made another ax with his energy, "at least you are consistent, consistently foolish if you think this ax will have any more impact than the last." Bui then threw the ax straight at Hiei who rose his energy with his left arm raised and caught the ax before destroying it with just his energy.
"Well that's amazing, Hiei not only stopped the blade with his bare hand, he then incinerated it to boot," Koto commented.
"Remind me never to let Hiei touch me anytime soon, or like, ever," Kuwabara requested as if Hiei would want to touch him.
"I warned you that was a foolish maneuver, but you refused to listen, much to your disadvantage and to my boredom, and that is not forgivable," Hiei stated in a bored tone.
Bui's eyes glowed red before he spoke in a deep and raspy voice, "sorry to bore you, I'll remove my armor."
"Did you hear that, Bui spoke for the first time in the tournament, his timbering voice so richly deep that my two little cat ears are tingling, in fact my whole body's got shivers," Koto commented.
Bui began undoing his armor as he spoke, "you should know two things Hiei the swordsman, I was saving this for someone else, and this is the highest compliment I give."
"Hm, I am honored, really I am, but are you sure you're strong enough to take a direct hit from me without any armor," Hiei asked with a smirk.
"I'll handle it," Bui said before tossing his forearm guard aside like it was nothing and almost hitting Kuwabara and Koenma if the hadn't stepped aside in time to see it and to see it embed itself into the ground from the massive weight.
"Woah that's heavy, and that's just one of his arm things, how'd he ever fight in all that stuff, let alone stand up straight in it," the fool asked.
Bui was bending down in order to undo his shin guards when the ogre that accompanied Koenma advised something, "opportunity knocks Hiei, if you hit him while he's kneeling he won't be able to fight back."
"Hiei's an honorable person and would never do anything so deceitful, it's too beneath him," Botan stated while said ogre shrunk a little.
"I suppose you'd just attack a man with your back turned to you as well, wouldn't you, or how about handcuffs or blindfolds ogre, would that be better," Shizuru asked while the ogre shrunk some more.
"Did you just imply that my husband needs some stupid little trick to win against someone," Bloom asked from behind him and making shrink to the point of an ant and too frightened of Bloom to say anything else.
Bui was done removing his shin guards and let them make a small crater, "most fighters wear armor to protect themselves from their opponent," Bui started before he removed his helmet and let it hit the ground. "But I'm the opposite, I actually wear this armor to protect my opponent from myself," he said again after removing his mouthpiece. "You see, my powers are so great I can't control them on my own," he said before an aura started to envelop his entire body and shoot out massive amounts of it, and soon began to levitate a little bit.
"Woah, how did I not pick up on this guy's energy," Kuwabara asked since he clearly didn't see anything that happened in the ring.
"Because of his armor, it contains his power," Kurama informed as he looked on and looking better than at the end of his fight.
"If it contains it, why in the hell would he take it off of him," Yusuke stupidly asked, sometime Hiei wondered why he hasn't went brain dead.
"No, what I meant by contains is that his armor keeps his power from escaping, definition number two," Kurama explained.
"I call this battle aura, I'd like to see you try and top it," Bui said with a smile while still in the air from the energy flow.
"And so would I, but I doubt I'll have to try," Hiei stated before unleashing his own energy and sped towards Bui, Hiei was forced back to the ground in a flash that it was unclear what happened. Bui decided to head straight in like a missile before Hiei used a wordless flamethrower to send a spiral stream of flames to meet Bui. The flame hit and forced Bui to stop for a moment, but only a moment, as the next his battle aura exploded again and forced the flames to disappear.
Bui then sent a wave of energy straight for Hiei who used his fist of the mortal flame to in a widespread attack to get rid of the energy in a burst of power. Then Bui made his arms form an x shape and sent energy at Hiei spiraling and following him, so Hiei got an idea to appear behind Bui and then left as soon as the energy was behind him and didn't have enough time to change course.
Bui got hit by his own attack and went plummeting to the ground making an explosion that lit up the whole arena and a wave of energy through the ceiling of the arena as well. But when Hiei got to the crater he saw that Bui was fine and well before his battle aura let him levitate again, "I told you you'd have to try and top me Hiei. Maybe now you'll take me more seriously and give me the respect I deserve," Bui stated as he floated to the ground on the other side of the crater. "My attacks are designed only to be as strong as necessary to take out my opponent, as you can see, that's not even enough to put a dent in me, take that anyway you'd like."
Bui floated up again before Hiei spoke, "so, it takes a lot more than that to bang you up, here comes a lot more," he then began to undo his bindings on his right hand.
"Hey, Hiei's taking off that bandage you were talking about, you know the one that doesn't do what it's supposed to do," Kuwabara noted.
"It seems you misunderstood, on the contrary Kuwabara, that binding has accomplished precisely what it was intended to do, which for Hiei is similar to Bui's armor. Though in Hiei's case, it's not just his own energy that's trapped in that arm," Kurama explained.
Hiei's arm wrappings were undone fully by then, and revealed to be a dragon tattoo on his right arm, and it was engulfed in black flames, and soon his entire form was engulfed in the black flames. "Once your own doom has been unraveled, I assure you there's no turning back," Hiei stated.
"Time is wasting, let's go ahead and finish," Bui insisted as his aura left him hanging in the air.
"Quiet fool, I don't need to be told to hurry up, it's in my nature, and now the end, it's been pulling at the bandages for some time, I couldn't hold it for long, you're the next sacrifice to the Dragon of the Darkness Flame," Hiei stated as black flames swarmed around him.
"Wow, fire is leaping form Hiei's arm and excited goosebumps are screaming from mine that bit boy is back," Koto commented.
"It's even more than before, without control he could kill us all," Kurama noted from the energy output.
Shizuru was getting chills form the form of the dragon and Botan was feeling it too, Bloom just gave them a sheepish smile and said, "sorry," from the disturbed feeling they were getting.
Just like last time, a dark presence filled the sky and darkened as black pillars of energy shot forth from the sea and into the sky all around the island. Black lightning seemed to crackle and unleash everywhere around them as everything went ominous, but unlike last time, it was more powerful and therefore more destructive.
"What an attack, our state of the art ring is already crumbling under its power, this could mean surprise injuries galore," Koro commented before she noticed Juri still in the ring. "Juri get back, that isn't a safe place to be right now," she yelled over to the girl that was on the verge of crying.
"I can't Koto, I don't want to be a pretty referee girl anymore," Juri said before she did start to cry, this forced Koto to use a ribbon to wrap around Juri's tail and yank her back from the ring.
Hiei seemed to be done charging the dragon and was now ready to unleash it upon his opponent, the energy he was unleashing before that though was so much to the point that part of the ring was starting to break up. Hiei broke out in a run towards Bui's levitating form before shouting, "Dragon of the Darkness Flame," and unleashed a huge dragon upon Bui the likes of which the dark tournament had never seen with a black core and red outline. Bui screamed as he unleashed his battle aura at full power and tried his best to actually catch the dragon, but the dragon impacted him and sent him skidding back quite a bit until it stopped. "I hope you don't think that dragon is completed," Hiei said before sending a blast at the dragon itself and forcing the dragon to gain more power and change to a dragon with a black core and light blue outline. The dragon took Bui all around the arena before crashing through the ceiling and into part of the rock formation of hanging neck island as Hiei went to a better vantage point to see his work.
Bui pushed more power into his battle aura and did the impossible, he actually bent the dragon and forced to back in Hiei's direction, and in one motion, the dragon swallowed Hiei whole. It roamed around in the skies for a bit before disappearing and Bui jumping down and into the ring before saying, "victory, him first, Toguro soon after."
"What a maneuver, Bui managed to force the dragon of the darkness flame away from himself and directly toward Hiei, causing the three-eyed warrior to be swallowed by his own beast of destruction," Koto commented.
The girls were all on the brink of tears from watching what just happened, but when they turned to look at Bloom, she was smirking one of Hiei's smirks, which didn't look right on her.
"It's all clear now Juri, time for you to make the official call," Koto told the ref, but she mumbled something while asleep, "Juri, we can't have the gore fest without you, Juri, all the rich and cute boys will be watching you."
Juri got up and saw that Hiei had been swallowed by the dragon, "Hiei can't compete without a body so the official winner can only be," that was as far as she got before a flame appeared behind Bui.
It exploded and knocked Juri down and grew in size before and eventually, it crashed to the ground and unleashed its contents, a living and breathing Hiei. "This brings up my next attack, it's a little different," Hiei stated as he stood from a kneeling position and looked fine, just right as rain.
"I can't really articulate what happened here people, it looked like the dragon had eaten Hiei, but now the demon's back and appears to be unharmed," Koto commented.
"Something gigantic is still here, I can't explain it but Hiei's attack is on its way," Shizuru commented while trembling a little.
"He looks wrong," Yukina noted that her brother looked a bit different from when he started the fight.
"Why's that Yukina, I don't think he looks any different from when he disappeared a minute ago, except that wound on his arm isn't there anymore," Keiko noted.
"A new attack, Wait, did he just do what I think he did," Yusuke asked and not liking the answer he got.
"It's true, Hiei has consumed the darkness technique, apparently he's learned what no one before him has, the only way to gain real control over the darkness flame is to trap it within. Now the dragon is inside him, and at his full disposal, even Bui must accept what that means, and judging by how Bloom is reacting, this was part of his plan all along," Kurama noted.
"Countless centuries, countless masters trying to harness the power of the darkness flame, only I have had the courage, and the strength to realize it's glorious potential, I have the power of the black dragon, because now I am the dragon," Hiei stated with a black fire in his eyes. Bui jumped up in the air and decided to finally attack by delivering a right cross to Hiei's jaw, but the demon was unaffected by it. "Nice," he said and forced Bui to just go berserk and hit him continuously with crosses and kicks and the like, all the while Hiei just takes it like it's nothing, because it is.
"And Bui unloads like an angry toddler in a therapy session, but Hiei is absolutely unaffected," Koto commented with the ogre by her side, for some reason.
Bui had enough and decided to grab Hiei's head and flip him before punching him in the stomach while in the air and then grabbing him and throwing him in the air. He jumped after him and kneed him in the back before slamming him in the ceiling, Bui then grabbed Hiei and tossed him back to the ring while giving him a kick to the face while in the air for good measure. Hiei just rose from the crash like it was nothing before Bui unleashed his battle aura some more and flying for Hiei with a battle cry to hit him with a fist. Hiei just rose his left hand to block the right fist lazily, and he actually did catch it lazily, and then he actually lazily sucked in Bui's battle aura.
"Insane, Hiei has actually sucked away Bui's battle aura, the secret of all his power," Koto commented.
"Come now, can't you even test me," Hiei asked with clear agitation at Bui's weak performance, this was the time Bui made a mad dash for him as Hiei charged up a blast in his right palm. When Bui was in range, Hiei shot his hand forward and only his energy reached Bui, but that was enough for Bui to be sent flying out of the arena. Hiei chased after him and took the form of a dragon behind Bui before charging his fist with energy and punching him to the audience with one punch where Hiei landed at his feet with grace.
"Both are outside the ring, I'll start the count," Juri stated before she fell into a crack in the ring that was broken beyond repair.
"Finish, the first time Toguro beat me he told me I had the potential to get stronger, he was right, it took someone like him to show me how weak I was. He kept me at his side while I trained hard to kill him, and I know I reached my max, but every time I would get stronger, so would he, I'm sure it was just bait to keep me improving. Now you've beaten me, what's the point, come on, hurry up and kill me," Bui requested of the victor.
"No, if you want to die, kill yourself," Hiei stated before jumping back to the ring at the count of eight, "I don't take orders, especially from those I've beat."
"And ten, the second fight is over, Hiei takes the point," Juri announced as all the fans of Hiei cheered him on.
"Did you hear that Toguro, we're looking at a tie ballgame," Yusuke yelled out at the one who he needs to defeat.
Hiei walked over to his teammates before Kuwabara decided to open his dumb mouth, "wait, this is a no dragon man area, okay, but you can go about twenty yards in the other direction and fight the rest of them."
Hiei was shaking from his attack wearing off, "that's against the rules now you fool, besides my attack expire, I don't know if your brains can imagine it, but this attack drained a good deal of my energy. I'll require some hibernation to get it back, think you can find a good place for my body where it won't get stepped on. Listen to me as close as you can you two, I'm trusting you against my better instincts only because I have no other choice, take care of the Toguro brothers. If I wake up and we've lost I sweat I'll kill you all, and don't let Bloom near my body with a marker or pineapple," he said that last bit before passing out.
The rest of his team just blinked at him before they started to laugh at the fact that Hiei just threatened them before passing out, "that's Hiei for you, he still faints but he still has time for threats."
"Hold on, so nothing we do will wake him up, and what was that about Bloom, a marker, and a pineapple," Kuwabara asked.
"Not long ago he was on a streak of terror, if he had this power then it would have been disastrous, now it's our asset," Koenma pointed out.
"Can I give him a mustache," Kuwabara asked and not at all realizing that a dark aura was around Bloom.
"I wouldn't, not unless you want to deal with Mrs. dragon up there," Yusuke stated while gesturing to Bloom who had warning eyes at Kuwabara, nobody pranks Hiei but her.
"Touch him and I'll kill you," she threatened with danger in her eyes, so Kuwabara decided to do the smart thing and put the marker top back on and not draw on him.
After that, a little discussion broke out in the ring and soon a long intermission started and allowed the girls to move around the arena, they went and got some concessions and returned to their seats. They didn't really know if they were allowed to go to the locker room, and soon Toguro came in with the ring from the old stadium on his back.
In the locker room around six hours later, Hiei woke up to see Bloom, Kurama, and Flora in a room with him. "Finally awake I see, and don't worry, I know not to mess with you when it's this serious, did you really think I would," Bloom asked.
"You can never tell, there was that time on level forty where you actually put itching powder in my clothes before a boss fight," Hiei noted as he set up and looked at them.
"Well, you've been out for six hours, and no, the tournament is not over, because you destroyed the ring in your fight, the ring from the old stadium had to be brought in," Flora informed next.
"However, Toguro decided to bring the old ring back on his back instead of having us all wait so I believe we'll begin shortly," Kurama finished.
"I just received the official word, the ring is now in place and we'll be ready to start in thirty minutes, please make your way to the seats in an orderly fashion, and Juri if you can hear this, get your but over here," Koto announced through the intercom.
"Shall we all go, the girls to their seats and us fighters to the ring of course," Kurama stated before they all nodded and went to their places with a kiss goodbye with the two love birds.
Then came what happened during the rest of the fights, Kuwabara versus elder Toguro, elder Toguro telling Kuwabara about Genkai's death, elder Toguro's creepy puppet show, his almost defeat at Kuwabara's hands. Finally, after a few close calls, and a lot of creepy and a little puking from the Winx, the elder Toguro was finally defeated and making the overall winners Team Urameshi.
Younger Toguro didn't like that and decided to continue to fight Yusuke regardless of the scoreboard, then Yusuke unleashed spirit cuffs and him and Toguro continued to go at it. It still wasn't enough so Genkai came in and told Toguro how to get more power from Yusuke, kill one of his friends, so Toguro seemingly killed Kuwabara in front of him. This brought out more power from within Yusuke where he was finally able to defeat Toguro, then went over to have a discussion with his team about Kuwabara's passing. Then Kuwabara revealed that he was alive and well, that got him beat up by Yusuke, then the arena started to shake before Sakyo announced his plan to blow the place up.
They all bolted out of the arena with that announcement, for one moment they needed to stop and rescue the other group of girls because Keiko had stopped because Yusuke was close to death at one point. After that the Winx had to blow up some debris that had fallen in front of the exit so people couldn't get out. They all met up outside of the arena when they turned around and saw that the building had exploded in a grand explosion after everyone made it out, well, everyone from their group.