A Glint in the Snow

By: Abby Ebon

Disclaimer: YYH and Gundam Wing do not in any way shape of form belong to me. However anything unrecognized and/or original characters do.

Koenma, sucking intently on his pacifier, watches the fight in demon world from a crystal ball.

He knows that Yuusuke's back up would arrive too late, and he knows Botan is fed up with watching this.

Few beings understand that there are times his father and he can't interfere in mortal or demon matters.

A crossroad in time where there are too many possibilities, where too much could go wrong with only a tiny push, even if it's with the best intentions.

These crossroads aren't rare either happening every fifty or hundred years, and while that might be rare for a human, for demons -and Koenma and his father it wasn't all that long.

Sometimes the right decision was made by humans and demons, other times the aftermath was horrible and it took generations to put things right.

If Rius won, demon world would soon control the human world, and might even make war with spirit world and its rulers.

If Yuusuke, Kurama, and Kori won, the shaky balance between human world and demon world would stabilize.

So all Koenma could do was watch from afar…and hope.

O.o.O.o.O.o.O

-Kurama's Fight-

As Kori faced off with his father, Kurama and Yuusuke faced off against the demons Rius had brought with him.

The demon Kurama now faced was something out of a nightmare. He wore loose black pants, was tall, muscular, and tanned skin with a tinge of green- not so bad right?

Well that was the only normal things about him- his eyes were black with amber pupils. His hair was a blue flame.

He grinned at Kurama revealing him to the demons mouth full of fangs and a forked tongue.

Kurama scrunched up his nose in disgust, and took a step back at the stink that emitted from the demon's mouth.

"Is the little fox frightened so easy?" The demon hissed his blue flame-hair flaring out, as the demon let out a hissing laugh.

Kurama snorted, which made the demon let out a snarling-growl as Kurama ran his hand through his hair, pulling out a rose whip seed. Within seconds, Kurama made it mature, and snapped it at the demons feet.

"Hardly…" Kurama said blandly green eyes, with flicks of gold, narrowed on his opponent.

With another snarl the demons tongue emerged, and elongated to swipe at Kurama, who ducked and rolled out of the way just in time.

"May I at least know the name of my attacker?" Kurama questioned, the demon let out a barking laugh and blue flame flared to surrounded him. Both the heat from the flames and his stench rolled off him in waves.

Kurama watched in disbelief as his rose whip shriveled up and died.

"That's never happened before…." Kurama murmured quietly as he eyed the dead and brittle plant.

"My name is Erekn, Youko Kurama." The demon hissed, as he swiped his tongue like a whip at Kurama. Kurama rolled away again, and Erekn's blue flames shot out at him from his crouched position.

Kurama eyes widened minutely and he rolled again, the blast hit him indirectly and burnt clothes and skin.

Kurama favored his side as he got up; Erekn fell for the oldest trick in the book as he judged Kurama harmless.

For, if Kurama's side had truly been injured, he wouldn't have been able to move away quickly enough.

Moving in for the kill Erekn failed to realize his danger until Kurama had already struck him on the back of the neck- knocking him unconscious.

'Pathetic…' Kurama thought rolling his eyes.

Scrunching up his nose he glanced to Yuusuke who looked like he was toying with his opponent rather then taking it seriously.

Kurama didn't blame him; Rius's lackeys left something to be desired in a fight.

O.o.O.o.O.o.O

-Yuusuke's Fight-

Yuusuke's opponent could hardly be called one, as it reminded one of a cross between lizard -and a cat. A light covering of grey-blue fur covered its tiny body- tiny as it barely reached a foot in height. Its tail, eyes, feet and arms were lizard like and ended in talons.

Its snout was of a lizard in appearance, but its ears were catlike. Yuusuke snorted, and lizard-cat-demon hissed at him, flicking a forked tongue at him.

Yuusuke rolled his eyes and aimed his spirit gun, firing at the tiny demon.

Surprisingly it had enough intelligence in it to somersault out of the way- or perhaps that was only instinct- as it quickly began screeching at Yuusuke in anger.

Yuusuke glanced at Kurama and found he didn't need any help, the lizard-cat made a mad dash at Yuusuke while he was distracted and slashed at Yuusuke's arm.

"Damn it!" Growled Yuusuke glaring at the demon the lizard-cat seemed to be laughing at him.

Yuusuke, frustrated, fired off three spirit gun blasts in quick session- the lizard-cat dodged them all, much to Yuusuke's annoyance.

'Okay fine- he's fast, but he's a lightweight. If I got one good hit on him he'd be out for the count.' Yuusuke thought as he went after the lizard-cat with the spirit gun, the tiny demon seemed only to want to gall Yuusuke all the more.

He was succeeding, and getting in slashes when Yuusuke was distracted in chasing him.

"Ssstupid!" The creature hissed as it rolled away from Yuusuke's last blast. Yuusuke froze, mouth dropping open, and his eyes bulging in surprise.

"Y-you talk?" Yuusuke stuttered the lizard-cat seemed to sneer in disgust.

"Yes and you are poisoned stupid..." The lizard-cat spoke while Yuusuke watched, dumbfounded, not paying attention to what was being said… till it sunk in half a minute later.

The lizard-cat was definitely snickering at him.

"How?" Yuusuke demanded in a hiss, his chocolate eyes narrowed. The lizard-cat's tongue flicked at him, lizard eyes gleaming in amusement at him.

"How do you think stupid?" The creature hissed, at Yuusuke's questioning expression, Yuusuke got the impression it rolled its eyes. "Idiot…my talons are poisonous…"

"Oh…"

There was silence for another half a minute as Yuusuke processed this. He shrugged, and the lizard-cat's ear twitched in annoyance when Yuusuke didn't make any other motions but the oddly pensive expression on his face.

"So what'd your name anyway?" Yuusuke asked half-heartedly.

The lizard-cat didn't notice that Yuusuke was charging a spirit blast from behind his back as he looked up at the metallic ceiling which- he hopped, would bounce the blast onto the lizard-cat.

"Tsar."

"Fascinating, so how long have you been working with that idiot?" Yuusuke asked he knew Tsar was bluffing about the poison. If he wasn't, it sure was one hell of a slow, non-symptom, poison.

"Hmmm, a week…." Tsar answered suspicious of Yuusuke's intentions. "If you think I'd betray him…" Tsar began, Yuusuke snorted.

"I think you're a liar." Yuusuke announced and with howl he fired the blast- the lizard-cat was too dumbfounded to move out of the way in time, Yuusuke smirked.

"Now who's stupid?" Yuusuke questioned Tsar's unconscious body.

Yuusuke looked over at Kori to see how he was fairing- his father was attacking him unmercifully, focused entirely on Kori. Yuusuke, disgusted, fired a spirit blast at Rius, filled with all his hatred and anger of Rius, and took him out.

Kori looks weak as he gets up, freely using his demon energy to form an ice staff. He stumbles and Kurama goes to him, helping him as we go to where the two Gundam's had crashed into one another forming a crater.

Kori looked determined as he sunk to his knees beside Duo's limp body. His fellow pilots watched him warily.

"What are you doing Kori?" Yuusuke asked, knowing that look on the Nekokikai's face, as he had seen it on him once before. He was planning something stupid that could get him killed.

"Healing him." Kori answered Yuusuke quietly as he reached to touch Duo's forehead.

"No need, I'll do it." Koenma had appeared without them knowing. Kori nodded when Koenma approached them, and as he had done when Yuusuke had come into his demon powers Koenma brought a human, this time Duo, back from the brink of death.

Duo groaned and Heero helped him up. Quatre watched his friend concerned, as all the Gundam pilots were, whither they showed it or not.

"Anyone get the numbers on that Gundam?" Duo joked, voice slightly pained. Heero shock his head amused, Wufei rolled his eyes, Trowa's lips twitched in a almost smile, and Quatre laughed softly.

"I'm afraid not 02." Doctor J murmured a slight smirk on his face.

"Come on you guys lets get inside- we can clean this up later…" Yuusuke murmured, and then he frowned- he felt dizzy and the scratches the stupid lizard-cat had given him ached unnaturally sharp.

He paled; Hiei and Kurama glanced between each other and then back to him.

"Urameshi what's wrong with you?" Hiei asked bluntly, bringing everyone's attention to the former spirit detective. Yuusuke swallowed, rubbing the back of his head awkwardly.

"You know that thing I fought? I think it was telling the truth when it said it poisoned me…" Yuusuke's words were slurred as he swayed on his feet and fell back- unconscious, as Kurama held him up.

Hiei grumbled and with a nod from Kurama ran off to retrieve the lizard-cat Tsar's coconscious body. The group- Kurama carrying Yuusuke, Duo being led by Heero and Quatre, and Kori being helped along by Trowa and Wufei- Koenma and J bringing up the rear went into the castle.

Foremost on all their minds was getting a cure for the poison that had felled Yuusuke.

Second was getting revenge on Tsar.