Chapter 11- The test
"What?" Kagome was heart broken at the fact that their new "friend" wouldn't let them have the jewel shards. "I would like to test your abilities." He said to everyone's surprise. "What?" Inuyasha said still dumbfounded at his strange request. "Fine by me." Yusuke said as he stood up cracking his knuckles. "All right then, lets take it outside." Touken said.
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They had arrived outside where eight servant girls were waiting for them. "So whos first?" Touken asked. "Hn. I will go. The sooner I win the sooner we leave." Hiei said. A girl with blonde hair stepped up and got into a fighting stance.
"Ready! Begin!" Touken yelled. "The girl ran towards Hiei but was unable to hit him due to his speed. Then he went on the attack with his fists of the mortal flame. But surprisingly the girl was almost as fast as he was. She dodged all of his attacks and grabbed his wrist. She then flipped him over and put her heel on his throat, threatning to crush it.
"Thats enough!" Touken yelled. The girl lifted her foot off the fire demon and walked back into the line up. The fights continued with each of the detectives fighting one of the girls. Kagome lost, Sango won, Miroku lost, Kuwabara lost(He refused to fight a girl) Kurama won.
"These girls are well trained warriors. I didnt expect Hiei to lose!" Kurama said. "Well he probably just underestimated her. If I were him I would probably have done the same." Touken told him. Finally it was Inuyashas turn to fight.
A girl stepped up but was stopped by Touken who said "I'll handle this. I want to see how strong these two are first hand. Yusuke! Why dont you fight alongside him?" He yelled over to the spirit detective. "Are you sure? I could probably beat you by myself. You'll get massacred if you fight both of us together." Yusuke said in a cocky voice. "We'll see about that, wont we?" Toukens voice had completely changed from the kind generous one he normally had to a deeper more viscious sounding cold hearted voice. Just the tone of his voice was enough to petrify some of them.
They stood opposite from eachother, Touken on one side, Inuyasha and Yusuke on the other. "Ready! GO!" He yelled out. Inuyasha drew his sword and Yusuke powered up his spirit gun. To their surprise the masked warrior was already behind them with his blades on the backs of their necks. The wind he generated had just caught up with him, showing how fast he had moved. "Wow! He's incredibly fast!" Said Sango in surprise. Even Hiei was somewhat impressed at the speed he could acheive. Being that he was just a human made it even more shocking to the fire demon.
Yusuke wasnt about to be defeated so easily though because he ducked and punched Touken in the stomach. He jumped back and was about to attack again when Inuyasha fired a wind scar at him. "REVERSAL WAVE!" Touken yelled out. His swords began to glow white and he slashed them in front of him, where a white wave of energy shot out across the ground. It was much smaller then the wind scar but when they hit each other the yellow blast was reflected towards its wielder.
"What the?" Inuyasha was surprised by the attack and was hit directly with it. There was a huge explosion and the half demons limp body was thrown through the air like a rag doll. "Inuyasha!" Kagome called out. But just as she was about to run to his side she felt the sharp blades across her throat. She looked behind her and saw Touken with a terrifying look in his one exposed eye. "Dont interfere." He said coldly before returning to the battle. Inuyasha struggled to stand up and when he finally did Yusuke was flung into him after taking a beating from Toukens punches.
"He's just to damn fast!" Yusuke punched the ground in frustration. "Thats was pathetic. Big Brother is about a hundred times stronger then I am. If you can barely touch me, then you wont last five seconds in a battle with him. You arent allowed to leave until you prove to me that you can at least put up a decent fight."
Touken brushed himself off and started to head back into the tower. "We dont need your permission! We can leave whenever we want!" Inuyasha yelled to him. "Yes but you do want these dont you?" Touken lifted up the necklace with the jewel shards on it. He then placed it around his neck and walked back inside. "Damn." Inuyasha said under his breath.
The next dayYusuke and Inuyasha tried to defeat Touken but to no avail. Day after day, they went through rigorous training with the help of their friends. But this still wasn't enough. Hiei was used to simulate Toukens speed so that they could learn to counter it. Kuwabara, Sango, and Hiei all attacked them with their swords to teach them how to block and dodge better. They even fought eachother, just as a sparring exercise. Even after the others went to bed, they continued to train. After training for a few more days, they had one final battle. "So you two think you can win this time?" Touken said with a small bit of hope in his voice. "Yusuke you ready?" Inuyasha then said. Yusuke cracked his knuckles as a "yeah" and got ready for the battle. "Well alright then. Lets go!" Touken got in his fighting stance and readied for battle.
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