Chapter 12 everyone! Enjoy enjoy rejoice!

"You know the drill," I told my Guards inside the vault. "But this time, a little changement. You will stay in the vault and you will be in charge of making sure nothing gets stolen. Kurama will join you. If this is indeed something Ikuro planned, he might want his little punks to steal something that could be of use to him... Hiei and I will take care of whatever comes through these doors."

The Guards nodded their head in understanding, and Kurama had no objections. I let them discuss the layout of the vault and choose and area to secure while Hiei and I situated ourselves right in front of the giant entrance doors. Yusuke and Kuwabara should have reached Koenma's office and gotten the key at this point, Shiku probably found someplace to hide at the entrance to this entire place. I just hoped we did not go through all of this preparation and stress for nothing. If it turns out to be some weak little below weak demons...

Footsteps came in a hurry and stopped right outside the doors. Hiei's hand went to his sword. "Two," he muttered to me.

Bingo. Two people, must, has to be, some of Ikuro's men. "You take one, I take the other," I muttered back at him, though this was not necessary, we already knew what to do.

Clinking and other weird noises followed the hushed footsteps, then the door silently creaked open, letting in light from the outside. Indeed, there were only two people, teenagers, all looking quite serious. One of them carried a katana, like Hiei, which made them perfect matches. The other though, carried no distinct weapon and looked younger than the others, it was also a girl.

They krept nearer and nearer until we could feel their breath. At once, as if on que, the girl ran with incredible speed to the opposite side of were Hiei and I stood. Not having any other choice, I followed her from the shadows, leaving Hiei to deal with the sword dude. Once the door vanished from sight, the girl stopped and turned towards me, looking... bored. I stepped out from the cover of the shadows.

"It's about time, I thought you chickened out on me. That would ruin the fun here..." the girl said. "So come on, hurry it up and do something!"

The way she talked was as if I was not even there, that I was a speck of dust that she had to deal with, a huge waste of her time. She yawned in my face before putting her hand out in front of her. A bow appeared in her hand, completely Spirit Energy. In her other hand, an arrow appeared, looking quite real and very deadly if that thing caught someone in the heart. My Spirit Energy gathered at my hands, but did not form anything.

She shot her first arrow, making it wiz through the air at amazing speed. I put my hands together, palms facing her, and shot out a stream of my energy. The arrow melted on conmpact, but the girl did not even flinched as it reacher her. She ducked a fraction of a second before kicking her legs up under her and kicked them right into the stream of energy. This girl was crazy!

I waited on the edge of my feet, hoping her feet would burn off, but instead, I received the same thing I sent her, the stream, faster then I sent it out, right at my face. I barely had time to react and put my hands up to guard my face. I felt my hands burn slightly, as the energy pushed against my hands, still covered in Spirit Energy. By the time it passed and I could see what was going on again, three arrows followed by more were coming my way. Do I ever get a break?

I pulled out to Spirit Swords, using them to stop the arrows in their track. Once they let up, I charged at the girl, but instead of catching her off guard, she picked her leg up, as if ready to send me flying backwards with it. I dodged the the right and threw one of my swords at her outstretched leg. It dug right through the boot and pierced the flesh underneath it, and yet, the girl barely flinched.

"Are you done yet?" she asked, getting another bunch of arrows ready.

I found the time that she was open then. She always seemed to fumble with the string of the bow and fiddle with all of the arrows, keeping her attention on them. I picked up speed and charged at her, going for the head with a punch. She ducked and spun around with a kick that hit me square in the ribs. I grabbed her foot, not letting her pull it back, and stabbed my other sword into her leg.

The girl though, had another plan of her own. Instead of trying to shoot the arrows from the bow, she just grabbed one by the end, and threw it herself, then took another one and stabbed my hand with it, forcing me to let go of her leg and barely dodge the one that she threw. Two more, I told myself.

The girl yawned again and threw her bow away, decided it was a waste of time. I found this quite to my pleasure. She no longer had a weapon! But then, past my happiness, a little displeasure flickered alive. She was looking down at her hands, and back at mine, as if trying to figure out why mine glowed with my Spirit Energy and her's did not. Now, last time I checked, you should work these things out when you are not on a battlefield. How can she be so calm and figure out a mystery of some sorts, in the middle of a fight?!

More to my displeasure, she figured it out, and now I faced an opponent that would attack the same way. She barely wasted more than a second before sprinting towards me, ready to attack, well, that makes it seem nice, she was ready to kill me. I put my hands up to defend myself from her blows. I let her spill her energy out and viciously attack me to no end, but once an opening came, I pounced.

A punch from either side was met by the open hand of the other, Spirit Energy sparking in ways that never happened before. A kick was blocked was a short movement of the other's leg, just to sweep the kick away. To anyone who watched, it would seem like a stalemate. But I was winning, and the girl knew not. I have my own technique that no one can copy, as it requires a lot of Spirit Energy, and precise control over it. I barely use this technique, as it just complicated things. But when I fight one on one with a strong opponent, like now, I make things a little more complicated, just to win.

In a sparring match, a fight like this here, I had every opportunity to hit her arms with my hands, and once I hit both of them, I won. The girl went to kick to my head, I dodged to the left and swept her supporting foot out from under her. She switched to balance herself on hands as she started to flip backwards to land on her feet. But as her arms passed right by my nose, I hit them with my hands, not hard, barely grazed them.

I jumped backwards, and let some of my Spirit Energy out. I closed my eyes and imagined all the areas that my Spirit Energy touched, and of course, I pictured the girls legs and arms. Much to her horror, she found she could no longer move, and when she looked down at her legs and at her arms, my blue Spirit Energy had binded her. I grabbed a bracelet from my pocket and walked over to her.

"You do pretty well in close combat!" I said, as nicely as I could. "Unfortunately, not good enough. You just put yourself in the worst position of all, I could kill you right now and you wouldn't be able to do anything."

The girl just spit on my as her answer. I put the bracelet on her arm, letting it activate. I released her binds, having no further use of them. I opened a portal under her to the hospital wing, then gave myself a free break and sat down, leaning against the wall. I closed my eyes and slid to the floor, desperately trying to fight off sleep.

"Kurama!" I said loud enough for it to echo off the walls before sleep took over. That girl's Spirit Energy... it acted as a sleeping posion. Hopefully Kurama will hear the echo of my voice and figure out what is wrong with me, I can't sleep like this at this point in time.

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Next chapter: Hiei's fight! Yay!
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