A/N: I luuuurve my reviewers! -hugs everyone-
Notes:
Renee half-wolf: Though I really do appreciate the character, you didn't include a description, so I am going to make it up for you if I am to use her, unless you tell me what she looks like before Team Kaleo's turn. -
Dragonheart 7: -sniff- Well I may not be uncursable, but I am invulnerable and curses do not work on me. Besides-- I am uncursable because I am the authoress and whatever I say goes. (JK. I'm being silly.)
pices Aquarius: It is a seeeeecret. Shhhhhh. Don't tell anyone. -shifty eyes- JK. Really you will have to read the story and find out. Though Kurama has spent the entire story with her so far, wouldn't that imply something...?
And about the little flingy romance between the OC's-- I am not going to put you with anyone you do not like, don't worry. And it's nothing serious-- unless someone wants it to be...Yeah OK it will probably be when they are drunk, anyway. Or overly hyper.
And I am warning people now: I do not do shounen-ai. That is something that I will not write. I am not being cruel here-- I will write little hints if someone REALLY wants it, but I don't do explicit, or even close to implying anything writing. Plus my friend Hillary has scarred me for life with her shounen-ai stories. I've seen pictures. -shudders-
Team Kaleo:
1. Chi Koen Koe
2. Kurai Momoko
3. Kage Kancho
4. Hotaru Ikuhara
5. Renee
Team Hitokiri: now this team really needs some members.
1. Ai Satsugikitsune
2. nada
3. N/A
4. absent
5. currently not present.
Team Reform:
1. Kurama
2. Hiei
3. Kuwabara
4. Yukina (SHOCK!)
5. OPEN! No one's here yet.
Team Ei:
1. Remei
2. Itsuki
3. (read and find out)
4. zip
5. zero
Team Fugishima:
1. Akira Fugishima
2. nothing
3. ...
4. again, ...
5. even more ...
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Shei glared over at her fighters. They were losing horribly. She wanted to teach them discipline, and they were failing miserably to understand the concept. They couldn't even lose with some honor.
She watched the miserable group called a team that was on the opposing side of the ring. How dare they try and strike her personal fighters? How dare they?
One of her fighters came and approached her carefully. "Lady Shei, I think I should be the one to go next." Shei looked at her fighter. She shrugged, dismissing him entirely. He took this as approval and walked to the center ring.
Koto and Team Ei's fighter waited for Team Ukishima to send up their next fighter. The Masked Fighter went into the ring, taking his turn against the formidable, weak Ei.
Removal of the cloak from Team Ei's fighter revealed him as Touya, the Ice Master. From somewhere in the stands the voice of Shira screamed, "I LURVE YOU, TOUYA!"
"SHUT UP!" Mar-lo shouted back.
"YOU SHUT UP, FAGGOT!" she shouted. She turned back to Touya, turning on her womanly charm. "Oh but a sweet name like Touya, his fists made of ice, could steal away my heart so and make it...ice..." her face became confused as she realized that she wasn't very good at creating poetry.
Mar-lo folded his arms, grumbling. A very interesting sight had prevented him from answering to something so simple to reply to-- the sudden appearance of the Kuwabara family. He watched Shizuru Kuwabara make herself at home among the flesh-eating demons in the stands. He felt his face turn red as he turned away, her gaze landing on him.
The Masked Fighter showed neither Shira nor Mar-lo's enthusiasm. He squared off with Touya, ready to pounce.
Koto shouted the OK for the third time in an hour, and the fight commenced.
Touya squinted at the Masked Fighter. "I already know who you are," he said, his squint becoming a smug smirk, "and just because you're a woman doesn't mean I'll go easy on you."
The Masked Fighter looked surprised for a moment, and in that moment the crowd roared and screamed violently.
Even Koto looked startled. "It appears we have another situation just like the Dark Tournament-- another woman is revealed as the Masked Fighter! But who is it this time! Is it Master Genkai again? Or possibly some erotic fan playing dress up? Even this intelligent announcer doesn't know what we're in for next!"
With irritation the Masked Fighter glared at Koto. She turned her gaze back to Touya. "You are correct, Ice Master," she admitted, "I am not going to deny that. I am a woman. However, I hate to disappoint you, but Genkai will not be participating this tournament; or any tournament at all."
Touya mirrored her glare. "Let's see if you can live up to your title, Miss," he said, a pointed ice blade wrapping around his arm.
"I intend to," she sniffed, taking an attack stance. Touya was the first to make an attack. He struck forward with his ice blade, missing the not-so-mysterious any longer Masked Fighter by an inch. She swiped at him with her leg, kneeing him in the stomach.
Touya rose up quickly, taking his blade and knocking the Masked Fighter's feet out from underneath her. While she was down he pointed the tip of his blade at her throat.
"Do you concede?" he inquired. "You have lost. Give up, and I will spare you."
The Masked Fighter's brown eyes glared down with a vengeance at Touya's weapon. "Never," she growled, pointing at him. Blue spirit energy gathered at the tip of her index finger.
"What the--!" Touya yelled, jumping back. He'd seen this technique before. But only one person had ever used it, and that was long-gone Yusuke Urameshi!
"Like it?" she asked, taking aim. "It's a technique I learned. I call it Spirit Gun."
She smiled mockingly, sending the spirit gun flying at a miraculous speed toward Touya. He was hit; but not down. He stood back up.
"It's going to take..." he huffed, "...more than a little light to stop me this time."
The Masked Fighter said nothing. Instead, she turned to the King. She pointed at him in his box with her index finger. "Bang," she murmured.
"It appears as if...they've stopped fighting," Koto announced, confused. "More bloodshed, people! Where'd the bloodlust? The horror? The bone-breaking?"
The crowd echoed her questions, a chant for the death of one fighter surfacing above the sea of colorful voices and vocabularies.
Ryu stared down the crowd, silence suddenly washing over a section of the demons. "She scares me," a horned demon whispered to another. Ryu's gaze was directed suddenly and violently at him, zeroing in. He froze-- and then crumbled to ashes in his seat. Some of the demons and apparitions nearby got up and ran away in cowardice.
A tap on the shoulder forced Ryu around. Hiei-san stood behind her. "A brave bunch they are," he smirked. She nodded, her gaze melting into one of admiration.
"Hi Hiei-kuuuuun!" called Maridonna, one of Shira Trusea's teammates from beside her. Shira forced her to sit back down and shut up. Maridonna still waved her hand back and forth at him, anyway, in an attempt to catch his attention.
"Um...Hiei-sama..." Ryu began nervously, pulling at her hair. Hiei pointed back to the arena.
"Your Masked Fighter just lost," he said, calling her attention to the fight. It was true-- the Masked Fighter lay outside the ring, being assisted up by Alianore and Botan, who were both trying their best to heal some of her injuries.
Ryu's gaze darkened. "How dare she lose," she hissed, "now we have to keep fighting."
Hiei shrugged. "What was it that you were going to ask me?"
Ryu turned to look at Hiei, and nearly dissolved where she stood in the deep, intense look of his beautiful crimson eyes. Her mouth clammed up, and she floated back over to Kay, her palms sweaty and her heart racing. Hiei-sama was the most beautiful creature she'd ever seen.
Reality snapped back as the Masked Fighter glared at her. "You could spend a little less time flirting, and a little more time helping your injured teammates."
"I can't heal." she protested.
"So then assist the ones who can," she replied icily. "Go fetch Yukina-san."
Ryu pursed her lips, but turned around and obeyed, muttering, "Yes, okashira." her last word was strained.
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A/N: Ah...I didn't really find that chapter too interesting. But as soon as we move on from team Ei, the fights take a break; and a little party is thrown for all the participants! This is where most people will be able to finally guess who the King is.
-S-chan says: I'm updating every few days now.-