What in the world happened? Chapter 17!

"Hey, let's talk Sister," a little demon kid said to another little demon kid.

"What about Ikuro?" the little girl asked to her brother. Ikuro smiled and he and his sister, Shiku, sat down at the table.

"I dunno. How about what should we do when we grow up?" Ikuro suggested.

Shiku laughed, "Are you turning into Dad now? 'Now kids, make sure you know what you want to do with your life.'"

"No I'm not! But I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if we worked in Spirit World?" Ikuro said. "Demon World is so boring, nothing ever happens. A change of scenery could do us something good."

Now this time, Shiku banged her fists on the table, her laughing uncontrolable. "What? What's gotten into your head? No one in their right mind would ever work in Spirit World."

"But it sounds so much fun from all the stories we read about," Ikruo said, looking hurt that his sister did not understand. "And if not Spirit World, then what are you going to do then? Huh?"

"If I tell yah, I'd hafta kill yah," she said.

- Present Time -

Shiku smiled up at her brother, but not at the brother who held her up by the collar of her shirt after he made his last move, but at the brother who had always wanted to work in Spirit World and not destroy it. "Ikuro, guess what?" she fumbled her words, spitting out blood that gathered in her mouth. "I ended up working for Spirit World as a spy."

Ikuro grimaced, "So what? That's no secret."

Shiku smiled again, "So it isn't. Now I have to kill you cause you know."

Ikuro started laughing. He couldn't believe what Shiku was telling him. She was on the borderline of life and death, and she wouldn't last long. Ikuro released his grip on Shiku, who fell to the ground like a doll, never to get up again. Ikuro turned his back on her when he noticed fading green things all over his body. Shiku's last attempt to stop him, Ikuro laughed as they faded away, the tiny wounds they had made were barely of concern to him.

As he took a step foward, something pierced through his own body. He got caught off balance and fell down onto his knees, a giant shuriken half embedded into his back. It was his turn now to cough up blood, Shiku already had her turn. He turned around on the spot, almost expecting to see Shiku alive, but she was dead as could be. How could this be?

- A Few Feet Away -

All of our eyes widened in shock as Shiku fell to the ground. Kurama let out a horrified gasp while Kuwabara and Yusuke could not even bring themselves to do that. Hiei's expression barely changed, but his hands twitched near his katana. Any moment now and he would rush in and strike Ikuro down himself.

But Hiei didn't have to do that. A blast of blue Spirit Energy threw all four of them aside, and they all suddenly remembered what happens to me. Hiei scurried to his feet yelling, "Sana!" but nothing got past me.

Hiei looked back at Ikuro, who was on the ground with the shuriken in his back. Ikuro slowly looked over his way, and smirked again. That's when Hiei understood why he felt like something was wrong.

"Shiku!" I yelled and my eyes darted right over to Ikuro, who was clutching on to every second of life he could. I lost myself then, my Spirit Sword appeared and I charged right at him, I was going to kill him myself, I was going to avenge Shiku right here and right now and no one can stop me from doing so.

"Stop!" Hiei yelled in futile.

Kurama, Kuwarabara and Yusuke got to their feet, looking at Hiei who was running after me. "Is he mad?" Yusuke asked.

"Didn't Shiku say something about not trying to stop her? That it's better to let it go until it stops?" Kuwabara asked.

Hiei caught up to me with a little struggle and grabbed me from behind, rooting his feet to the ground, refusing to let me go no matter how much I struggled to get free.

"Let go of me Hiei!" I spat. "I have to kill him! I have to!"

But Ikuro was already dead. "He's already dead Sana, you have to stop," Hiei said. "This is exactly what Ikuro wanted! You're falling into his trap!"

What? He's dead? Ikuro died... and it wasn't because of me... But no, he had to pay! He killed Shiku! He KILLED Shiku!

I stopped trying to get free, I relaxed a little and lowered my Spirit Sword. Hiei thought I had finally come to my senses and released his hold, but as soon as he did, I spun around and glared at him, at everything. Spirit World is at fault.

I shoved Hiei out of the way and started running again. I had to take out my anger on something, on someone. I passed the others, and they all looked at me pass in shock. They were trying to understand just what was going on when Hiei ran past them too.

"Don't let her near the gate!" he yelled.

"What?" Yusuke asked.

Kurama understood. "It's Ikuro's plan then. Kill Shiku or die trying, he somehow figured out that if Shiku or one of us dies, it would trigger this Sana. Even if he died... Sana has a shot of destroying Spirit World, but if she thought straight, she wouldn't even think of that. Get her to think otherwise, and she would think of that."

Kurama ran after Hiei while Yusuke and Kuwabara absorbed this drastic change. They exchanged glances and ran after Kurama.

Hiei got in front of me and did not move from his position. Kurama grabbed my left arm while Yusuke and Kuwabara struggled with my sword arm. I spat curses at them without knowing, I broke free of Kurama and punched him, but he grabbed my arm again. My Spirit Sword burned my hand as I clutched it too hard. I was even shaking and not knowing it, my mind was completely out of reach.

Hiei took a step foward. "Get a grip you fool," he growled and took another step foward.

I freed myself and before they could grab my arms again, I lunged myself at Hiei. He grabbed my Spirit Sword and would not let go, his eyes glared into mine, inviting me to try and fight him. I took him up on his offer, forgot my Spirit Sword and used my hands instead. He blocked and dodged, got hit once or twice, then hit back. I didn't even bother with blocking or dodging, I didn't care, Shiku's death was still imprinted in front of my eyes.

The others had their mouths wide open, they had expected everything else but this. Never had they thought that I could actually fight Hiei, nor that Hiei would fight back. They were shocked beyond words.

I grabbed my Spirit Sword and yanked it out of his grasp and swung it at him. Hiei dodged it and took out his own sword. At the same time, we both swung at each other, missed and tried again. Mt sword went right through his shoulder while his went into my arm. We both stopped moving, a drop of blood formed at Hiei's wound and mine, and it took forever for it to fall to the ground.

I could care less about my wound but my eyes followed Hiei's drop of blood as it fell to the ground and splattered. I took a step backwards, my Spirit Sword vanishing, and Hiei pulled out his sword from my arm. My eyes widened and I opened my mouth to get some sound out of it, but nothing came. Hiei sheathed his sword without taking his eyes off of me, he couldn't risk dropping his guard if for just a moment.

"Wha... What did I just... I..." I fumbled my words, let out a small cry, and fell.

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