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Chapter 4

Who's the Better Swordsmen?

So you lay there plotting your escape, having your eyes closed so you can watch the imagery of you escaping and deciding if it is actually possible. :I doubt it somehow that I will be able to escape anytime soon... I don't know their attacking technics quite yet.: After have deciding this you open your eyes and look around. You stand up and fly back to Genkai's still unnoticed, too quick for ningen eyes. You stay a safe distance and watch them slowly walk their way to the inside of the temple. You sigh, realizing that watching from this far will never work if you don't have the ability to see threw walls though you could hear them if you listened, which you did not favor to do. You jump out and landed in the door way without a noise. They were all sitting on the floor drinking tea, though Hiei had abandoned them and was perched on the windowsill, they all stop talking and look at you.

"Well hello Arura." Kurama says kindly. You would snarl but you couldn't do that to your master.

"So this is the new team member?" An old lady says just before she sips her tea. They all nod. "hmmm." She looks at you as you glare at her as you normally do. "So what type of demon are you?"

"Dragon." You pause for a second, "Dark dragon." glaring at everyone that stares at you, which include Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Genkai. Hiei does seem a bit surprised to hear you are a dragon.

"Dragon?" Kuwabara asks. You nod wondering if there was any other way of dumbing it down for him. "So what can you do? What is so special about dragons anyway? I see them on people's shirts. You don't look anything special to me. You don't even look like a dragon." You glare and growl and him. It wasn't a good idea for the orange haired boy to insult you like so. But before you could cut off his head Kurama interrupts all thoughts of Kuwabara's head rolling away.

"You shouldn't talk about a dragon like the Kuwabara. And dragons are very special. They are very very rare. Most dragons don't give offspring because they are often born as a different species. We are probably present with one of only 10 or 20 dragons in all worlds." Kurama says matter-of-factly. "Dragons are honored and cherished for many beliefs in Nenginkai for safety, wisdom, and protection. Sometimes even luck. They are very mystical creatures and very very powerful." He stated. You smirk lightly, hearing your master praise your significance so. "They have very sensitive senses. Such as to hear from over miles away and see from miles and miles away. They have very keen senses. And they are emotional creatures."

"So that's why you ran off on us earlier." Yusuke adds.

"Yes, I believe she got embarrassed." Kurama smiles at you kindly. You don't look at them.

"hn." Is your only reply to all of this.

"Dark Dragon hm? Well I have never encountered one myself. I take it your name is Aurora?" The old women asks. You just nod your reply. "Well I am Genkai, your trainer." Your eyes widen behind your shades. :A human? She looks like many year of experience but ningen live so short, must only be the most at 90 years.: You thought, though you do respect the elderly, a ningen would be different. "Well we'll have to see your powers. Sit down and I'll get you some tea and you can tell us your abilities." she continues.

"Why don't I just show you?" Genkai sits there for a second and nods. She gets up.

"All of you follow. We'll have her first fight Kuwabara, and she'll work her way up." :You're kidding? I have to fight the baka first?: She leads you all outside until you all reach an area proper for training.

"I don't think I should fight her. I mean she is a girl. It goes against my honor code." Kuwabara stands in front of you talking to Genkai. You smirk, :tch. A human with an honor code. And I thought it would never happen. Too bad it's a stupid code.:

"I'm telling you right now, you can fight me. It isn't like you're gonna win anyway." You pull your hood down and pulled off your cape, your swords now an 'X' on your back, to the way you like it.

"Wasn't your hair shorter than that?" Yusuke asks. :damnit I forgot about that.:

"hn. Yes it was. When I sleep it grows to it's normal length. Dragons don't normally cut their hair but I do cause I rather not have it in my way." You reply putting your fingers threw your hair that is now straight and feathery around your chin and all the way around your head. "I'll have to cut it later, but right now I'm in the mood to kick your ass."

Kuwabara gulps, obviously sill thinks you as a vampire. "Are you gonna take your sunglasses off?" Not sure if I'm ready to fight, apparently still not wanting to fight a girl, or a vampire like creature. "Oh wait, you're sensitive, so does the light hurt you or something?"

"No." You growl and take your sunglasses off. "I am not weak. I have my own reasons for wearing them." You put them in your pocket, wishing you didn't take them off, the sun didn't hurt your eyes, but the thought of why you actually wore them came to mind.

"Don't look at me like that." Says Yoko Kurama, It has been maybe 30 or 40 years, though you still look maybe 5 and Yoko looks about 9.. He hits your face ever so harshly, leaving his nail marks on your beautiful young face. "I said don't look at me with those eyes." He kicks you in the stomach so you cough up blood.

"I'm sorry master. I can't help what my eyes look like. And I'm sorry I couldn't get those jewels for you." You had failed a mission he had given you. But you couldn't do it because you would have to kill an innocent persons. You may have been being brainwashed from the moment he took you but you still felt it was wrong to hurt the innocent.

"Sorry's are not good enough Ami." You look up at him, have been sent down to the ground several times after been pushed down again. "I said don't look at me like that!" He goes behind you and cuts you horridly.

You still have that scare on your back today and it still gives you pain and bulges threw your back. Demons do not scar easily, most times the wound is healed very quickly but this one stayed. :Damn Yoko: Hiei looks at you weird.

"Why damn him?" He asks. Your eyes widen a fraction and put up a mind block. :Damn mind readers: He glares at you. The others look at you both weirdly but shrug it off. You then continue on your thoughts. :I can't believe he survived and hid in Kurama: Kurama smiles at you kindly :But Kurama is nothing like him.:

You sigh to yourself, wishing that you didn't have to, but as soon as the kistune remembers your real name you could get in huge trouble. "Let's train already... and by the way, my real name is Ami."

"well Ami, you two may now begin the fight." Genkai says once everyone is in a safe distance, but with you, there never is a safe distance.

Kuwabara nods at the go ahead and puts his hands together and he holds a long light like a sword, you smirk. How about a sword fight: You put your arms cross in front of your face, grab the handle of your sword and pull them up and you spin around and cut his leg and before he can even react you cut him twelve times on his back then once on his chest, but not very deep for his sake. He yelps in pain, Genkai watches you as well as the others. You move around him like a dance, so gracefully and shoot the sword around his body let him hear the swipes of the sword, his mind thinks you're actually hitting him. He yelps and swings his sword around to find you. "If you can't find where I am. It is wiser is you fine me, don't concentrate on any pain you think you are having; concentrate on where I am." Then it hits Kuwabara. He realizes he is barely in any pain at all and finds you and as fast as he can he swings the sword at you and you block it with your sword. "A little better, but what are you gonna do when I do this?" You swing your left sword around and hit his side. He grabs his side with his free hand as you pull both swords away and jump back.

He growls "No fair! You have two sword and I only have one!" You smirk.

"Life isn't fair, what are you gonna do when an enemy has two swords? They aren't going to put one down to make it fair. They'll use it to their advantage."

"Well said. Well apparently you're of higher level. Kuwabara get to those wounds. Kurama step in for him." Genkai says, still trying to find the best of your abilities.

Yusuke laughs. "Hey Kuwabara! You were beat by a girl!" You snap your head to face Yusukes direction and glare daggers, growling.

"Shut up Uremeshi she's good." Kuwabara looks at you. "Think you could help me train more later?" You look at him not exactly sure what to make of the offer.

You reply with "hn." As an 'I guess'. At the corner of your eye you see Kurama smiling at you. You turn to face him. "What?"

His smile grows bigger. "Nothing." He says.

You growl "Let's just fight."

Hiei leans against a tree to watch and mumbles, "Baka onna." You can hear this clearly.

You growl. "I think I'd rather go up against the little twirp." Not only do you want to stay as far away from Kurama as possible but Hiei most definatly stroke a nerve.

"What did you just call me?!" He says standing up straight off the tree.

"I think you heard me, but if you'd like me to explain, little twirp, I think I could possibly dumb it down."

"Uh oh... she's in for it!" Yusuke says. Kuwabara turns around to watch, eyes huge in disbelief. "She's committing suicide!"

Hiei clenches his fist, "a death wish cause you to speak to me that way?" He slowly takes a few steps closer. :He is definatly a fire demon, his temperature rose a few degrees:

You smirk "You're gonna kill me? Well I don't care, as long as nobody saves me." You get in your battle position. Kurama looks at you confused. Obviously pondering what you last said.

"I gotta see this." Yusuke says watching intently. Kuwabara is standing there holding his wound looking back and forth between you and Hiei. Hiei gets into his battle position.

"Begin" Genkai says.

Hiei pulls out his katana, "this will be just a sword fight. We'll see who the better swordsmen is."

"hn," is your only reply as you both race towards each other with great speed. Just as you both are about to collide you jump into the air doing 3 summersaults and spin around and slash your sword at his back, he spins just in time and a loud cling echoes threw the forest behind you and the temple behind Hiei. You land on the ground slashing your free hand sword the right, at his head fast. He ducks and spins to the ground holding himself off the ground with his free hand and spins a leg at your feet and swings his sword at your waist. You jump over the leg and clash your left sword to his and glide your right sword threw the air and create a very large gash on his face. Hiei's eyes widen a fraction for a second, the he glares at you. He spins around in a circle so quick you can barely see him and he drives his katana at your thigh. You manage to move away so it doesn't cut more than it needs to, about an inch or two, but you've taught yourself how to forget the pain.. You quickly bring your left sword down on his shoulder and the right sword making a cut threw his shirt to his abs. He growls and cuts your chest. You both jump back 3 feet, 6 feet altogether the distance between you two, breathing lightly.

"Whoa! Look at them!" Yusuke says.

"This will be close." Kurama says.

"mmm" Genkai agrees and nods. You and Hiei jump at each other and are at it for another 45 minutes. Both of you moving so fast Yusuke and Kuwabara's eyes can't keep up. Finally you both jump back and glare at each other, breathing heavily, new and large cuts and scrapes. Hiei's eyes widen and he squints one eye in pain, his katana drops to the ground and he falls to his knees, sit on his feet, his hands fall to his lap and closes his eyes, chin resting on his chest. You grin, still breathing heavy.

"Does this mean she wins?" Kuwabara asks. Everyone stays silent. You put your Katana's in your sheith that forms an X on your back.

"Yes, he fell... first." You say as your eyes close from exhaustion. Both you and Hiei had put everything into that fight, all your speed and strength. Using that much energy and lasting so long is amazing. You walk up to a tree and sit down, leaning against it, falling asleep.

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