Chapter 16!
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Yusuke and Kuwabara walked over to us, triumphant smiles wide on their faces. I cheered happily for them inside my mind and returned their smiles. Kurama patted them on the back to congradulate them, but Hiei barely blinked. His eyes were still resting upon Ikuro and Shiku, who seemed to be argueing away and not fighting, for now, at least. Something felt wrong to him, and he was shocked that no one else felt anything weird. Like, why the hell was Ikuro always looking away from his opponent at everyone here...

"Come on Kuwabara, say it!" Yusuke said, interrupting Hiei's thoughts.

"Say what?" Kuwabara asked.

Yusuke pretended to play dumb for a second, rolled his eyes and replied, "Thank me for helping you."

"You what?" Kuwabara asked. "When the hell did I ever need your help?"

"You didn't do that on purpose Yusuke," I said. "Why don't you two discuss later, let's go."

Everyone silently nodded and began their way over to Ikuro and Shiku. We got about half way there when Hiei told us to stop. Not knowing why, we did. Hiei was the only one who had noticed that, as we had approached Shiku and Ikuro, that Ikuro had his eyes on me the entire time, instead of his sister. He quickly looked over at Hiei and his mouth twitched into a smirk for a second, unoticed by Shiku.

Hiei narrowed his eyes and studied Ikuro, hoping that something might give him a hint of Ikuro's plan. Though the others were not thinking of this, Hiei remembered quite clearly that they had no idea how, if Ikuro managed to get past Shiku, how he would actually destroy Spirit World.

"Are you listening to me?" Shiku said, grabbing Ikuro by his shirt, lifting him off the ground.

Ikuro simply put his hand on her hand and applied pressure in the right place, forcing her grip apart and slipped back to the ground before he said, "I could care less what you have to say."

He pointed a finger at her, his Spirit Energy collecting at the tip, extending out like a long nail, a claw. "So, if you're going to fight me in your futile attempt to destroy me, then hurry up. I'd rather not waste time with you."

Why must my family all become deranged psycho-paths? Shiku thought.

"Here I come," Ikuro said in a bored tone, and charged head on, his attack fully ready for the kill. Shiku jumped backwards, pulling out her giant shuriken, formed from her own Spirit Energy. This time around, Shiku was fully ready for Ikuro's attack and she would not be caught off guard, she won't loose this time.

Her shuriken allowed her to block Ikuro's attacks quite easily, as her weapon was huge and his were skinny little things on his hands. At random times, when Shiku risked it, she would form a smaller version of her shuriken and throw it at Ikuro, but puny weak attacks like this could barely catch him off guard at all. So Shiku decided to do something different.

She formed a protective layer of Spirit Energy on her left arm, meant to block Ikuro's attacks and not take any damage while she would counter attack with her other hand and the giant shuriken.

Ikuro stopped for a split second, stretching his fingers apart like they were sore, and then flew straight at Shiku again, with increased speed. Their attacks became blurs so fast at points that even Hiei could not keep up, yet when they became visible, they both did not have a single scratch on them.

Ikuro attacked with his right hand priorily, using his left as a backup or counter. Therefore, reading his attacks became quite easy, they usually came from the right side. As he attacked once more, Shiku threw her shuriken at him while blocking with her left. She then grabbed Ikuro's wrist so he could not pull his arm back.

Ikuro stopped the shuriken in its path with the tip of his claws, then used his free hand to viciously attack the holding arm, piercing it over and over again, but Shiku would not let go. She called back her shuriken, then the second as Ikuro pulled his hand to attack again, she flipped him over her shoulder, kicked him in the stomach so that he flew away from her, spun around and released her shuriken which sped for its target.

Ikuro put his hands up to try and block the shuriken, but the attempt was not enough to stop him from taking any damage. Shiku, too, was hot on his trail, throwing more mini shurikens at him. It took his all to block them all or dodge them, but he dodged most of them and landed on his feet on the ground. Shiku already had her giant shuriken back and ready for another round.

Ikuro planned to devise a new stradegy. Shiku specialized in long-range combat, though she could also manage pretty well in close-combat. She did everything she could to make sure he stayed as far away from her as possible, so if he could close in the distance, he was sure to find an opening to end it all.

There! he thought. She kept herself wide open when she got ready to throw that huge useless weapon of hers. Ikuro suddenly vanished and closed in the distance with a blink of an eye, stabbing Shiku in the same place as he did the first time they had met.

Shiku keeled over a little, coughing up some blood, but then glared right into Ikuro's eyes and smirked. She had switched her shuriken in the last moment to be behind her, and Ikuro's claws and also sunk deep into it. He could not pull out his hand, Shiku's Spirit Energy had him trapped. His last option was to really kill her with his other hand, but Shiku made sure that he could not get the chance.

Weaponless, she just used her hands. Yes, they got sliced here and there where Ikuro managed to block with his free hand, but it was worth it for the damage Ikuro received. His arms and face were soon covered in deep broozes and some even bleeding. She hit him one more time on the head before releasing her shuriken and jumped away from her brother, wincing a little as his claws sliced out of her.

Shocked, Ikuro barely had enough reaction time to block or dodge the shuriken and took its blow. He got thrown backwards a couple feet, landed on his back with a thud on the ground, and Shiku look down at him, her shuriken back in her hand.

"Guess this is good-bye," she said.

Ikuro smirked. He placed his hands on the ground, flipped around so that he faced the ground and had better control of his own body weight. He kicked up his legs and swept Shiku right off her feet and onto the ground next to him. Now he was looking down at her.

"So it is, for you," he spat out, and put his foot down on her wound, pointed his left hand at her face so that if she tried to move, her head would be no more, and his right hand right over her heart. Then he smiled, savoring the moment before he killed his own twin sister.

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