A/N: Here we go. The hopefully-second-to-last-chapter in this madness. Just to let you know, it's kinda long, but it sounded really stupid if I cut it in half. Also, there is a song-battle thing, and the italics/underline/bold isn't co-operating, so please bear with me. You will be able to tell what is the song and what isn't. If there are no problems, then ignore the last 31 or so words. And the words are meant to be playing at the same time as the written action before them. (You'll get what I mean). Lawyers: I don't own YYH, Aero smith's "Angel's Eyes" or anything else that I might have forgotten about. Sorry that this took so long, but I've had school. So, read, review and enjoy, cause here's:

Updated A/N 2012: To remain in compliance with the terms of use that were updated in 2009, I have removed the lyrics to Aerosmith's "Angel's Eyes". The rest of the story has been preserved.

Part 18: The final showdown—for real this time!

'Hurry Tarukon! You get to Aniya not fast, then she die.'

Tarukon gritted his teeth. "Yes, thank you Laotsu for that lovely bit of obvious observation." He was running down one of the long hallways in the underground complex.

'Is no problem. Any time.'

Tarukon turned to Sani, "You've been here before, do you know the way to the Security room?"

'Yes…' Sani looked little hesitant, 'I think I do…'

She was interrupted by Laotsu's shouts. 'What hell? Why you go there? Aniya not in Security Room! She headed for Portal Chamber!'

"I know that. None of us know where the Portal Chamber is though, so if we find the Security Room, no doubt we can use the security cameras to find a way to the room."

'Good plan, but take too much time. Need to find faster way.'

"Would you rather that I run around aimlessly, hopelessly lost and just watch as she dies?"

'I not know. Would you?'

"Never mind." Tarukon continued his run to the security room and he thought about what had happened not fifteen minutes earlier…

"Alright. You can lift the spell. But if you try and funny mind-controlling business, I will personally destroy you once I get free from your control."

Sani laughed. She closed her eyes and began to concentrate on blocking out Sukeisa so that Tarukon could communicate with Laotsu. 'Nearly got it…. okay, here goes nothing.'

Suddenly, Tarukon was bombarded with a very familiar voice. 'Hello? You hear me? Hello! Tarukon? You there?'

Tarukon immediately raised his hands to his head, feeling a headache coming on. "Will you quiet down in there? You're giving me a headache and I don't think I can handle one right about now."

'Sorry Tarukon. Let me guess, you want full truth, no?'

"Yes. That's right. I want to know what's going on because I'm sick and tired of people not telling me these things until it's too late."

'Okay, what you want to know truth about?'

"Everything. Such as, will Hiei's Dragon of the Darkness Flame really get her back into her dracon body?"

'No.'

'NO?'

'No. It work not.'

At that point, Tarukon had just started to run for the security room, ignoring whatever else Laotsu was trying to say. Laotsu had finally given up and tried to urge him to get to Aniya faster so that she wouldn't die.

Skidding around a corner, Tarukon stopped and found the door to the security room. Walking in, he noticed that there wasn't anyone there. "Probably a good thing for me. I don't think I'm a good enough fighter to face anyone under my father's employment." Looking at the cameras, he found the one that had a picture of a pair of doors with "Portal Chamber" written on them. "There. That's where we need to go." Quickly looking at the other cameras for references, he ran out of the room and down the hall toward the portal room.

The time on the screen with the picture blinked 11:49.

11:50. Lord Doukai looked at his watch and smiled. "Only ten more minutes and then I will become unstoppable. The colossal power I had in the old days will return to me and I can once again achieve my goal of world domination."

He began to pace around, looking at the wall, which would soon form a portal, transporting all the power from the past to the future. "As soon as I gain my power, the first ones to die will be that traitorous son of mine and his little girlfriend there. I would have wanted to kill Calisandra, but it seems that someone's already done that for me." He had noticed that Nara Ska's spirit energy had disappeared. "She really had to go in the end. It's a pity about Nara Ska though. She was such a good fighter."

Lord Doukai started to smile. "It doesn't matter because this fight is between me and the girl. The girl is a human, weak and vulnerable. She does not have the stone to return to her dracon form anymore. She thinks the dragon technique is the flame attack of Hiei's. This shall be amusing when she dies before she starts to fight."

Looking at his watch again, he watched as the hand slowly crept to 11:53.

Firenzy and Botan moved to the cells. They could hear someone talking. "Nice mouse…. that's right…. stay on your side of the cell…. and everything will be okay…. don't come near me…. hey! Didn't you hear me? I said don't come near me!"

"Squeak?"

Botan and Firenzy found Kuwabara in his cell, cowering away from a mouse that was approaching him. Kuwabara forgot his fear when he saw Botan and Firenzy.

"Oh, hey Botan. Who's that?"

Botan opened her mouth to answer, but Firenzy was there first. "I am the almighty Firenzy! Defeater of the bitchy-blond and the creepy person with the freaky red eyes!" He stepped into the cell. "Do as I say or I will use my DITSY POWER on you!"

Botan sighed and then decided that the best way to insure that these two wouldn't mess up the fight was to insure that they wouldn't be there to fight. Quietly, she shut the door and locked it before running down the hall toward the portal room.

"Hey! Open this door up! Don't leave me in here with a loony!"

"Who are you calling a loony? I am the almighty Firenzy with Ditsy Power!"

"Yeah? Well has your ditsy power ever met the all-power-spirit sword?"

"Spirit sword-schmirit sword! My power could take down your power any day!"

"Bullshit. I could win a fight against you with my hands behind my back!"

"I'd like to see you try!"

"Yeah? Bring it on Mr. Freaky Ditz!"

"Sure thing, Mr. Stupid!"

"That was horrible."

"Thanks! Now you are going to die!"

"Aniya! Wait up! We're coming with you!"

Aniya stopped running. She looked surprised when she didn't see Nara Ska coming after them. "Did you guys beat Nara Ska or something? She's not following us anymore."

Gantoi replied, "She ran away before we had a chance to fight her. We guess that something went wrong and she was told to go fix it."

Kurama nodded, "That sounds plausible. I presume now that our next task is to stop Lord Doukai from opening the gate to the past and letting Sukeisa get to it."

Yusuke punched his hand. "What about Yukina, Keiko and your mother? If we try and fight, Lord Doukai will kill them immediately."

A voice answered, "Shiori, Yukina and Keiko are perfectly alright. They are back to where they were before he took them." The group turned to look at Botan who had just got up with them. "Calisandra was tricked into saying the word that would put them back, perfectly free from harm."

"And the poison?" Kurama looked anxious.

"It's completely gone from their system. I checked them to make sure that they were all right. They are perfectly fine and don't remember ever being kidnapped."

All the members of the group smiled, (excepting Hiei, of course), relieved that one weight was off their backs. Suddenly, Gantoi asked, "When does the portal begin to open?"

"Midnight, why?" Aniya looked puzzled.

"It's 11:55 right now," said Joe, looking at his watch.

"What?"

"Fuck!"

"Dammit…"

"Hn."

Aniya turned, annoyed. "Is that all you ever fucking say?"

"Hn."

Kurama turned to Hiei as well. "Hiei, can you find where Lord Doukai is going to have the portal?"

"In the portal room, fool."

Aniya rolled her eyes. "Gee, thank you Captain Obvious for that lovely reply."

Yusuke asked, "So where the hell is the portal room?"

Hiei started to run, forcing the rest of the group to follow him.

11:59. Lord Doukai smiled as his watched blinked the happy news at him. In less than a minute, he would be on his way to becoming the most powerful sentient on the face of the planet, and he would smote a darkness upon the world as he ruled in his reign of terror.

12:00. Suddenly, a dark blue and gray circle formed on the wall. Inside there was a swirling vortex and Lord Doukai reached out his hand to touch it and was just about to do so when he heard a voice.

"Okay, you bastard. You ready to have your ass kicked?"

"Um…Yusuke, that's my line. Let me handle this."

"Shut up."

Aniya turned to glare menacingly at Lord Doukai. "Let's try this again. "Okay, you fucking bastard. Are you prepared to die?"

Lord Doukai grinned as only an insane person on the verge of acquiring everything that they want from life and know that there is nothing that can stop him, can. "You think that you can stop me? All I have to do is touch this vortex and I will receive all my former power. You, in that pathetic human form, think that you can stop me from getting what I need?"

Raising an eyebrow, Aniya shot back, "I'd like to see you try and fight, you bastard. We want to know where Sukeisa is. We don't have time for you."

There was no sound for a few seconds but the quiet chuckling of the man standing in front of the group. "You want to know where Sukeisa is? Can't you guess? I always believed that you were semi-intelligent, but clearly I was wrong." He reached out a hand, almost prepared to touch the vortex. "I am Sukeisa. As soon as I touch this vortex, I can be rid of this pathetic identity," he said, gesturing at his body, "then I may return as Lord Sukeisa, ruler of the Earth's past, present and future, and what I command shall be."

Aniya frowned and nodded at Yusuke's group, who started to run toward Lord Doukai, or rather, Sukeisa, but Sukeisa raised hand, stopping them in their tracks. "Aren't you forgetting something, my dear?"

"And what would that be, bastard?"

Lord Doukai smiled, "I have three hostages by the names of Shiori Minamino, Keiko Ukimora and Yukina. Don't you think that you might want to put their well-being into consideration?"

"Who said anything about Yukina?"

"I saved them! It was all me! You can get my autograph later!"

Give you a guess as to which two idiots had just arrived.

Botan came flying in after them. "They're right. The three girls are fine now. It was lucky that your assistant Blondie knew the word to release them."

Sukeisa seemed to roll his eyes for a moment. 'This is about to be my moment in victory and ultimate achievement and my underlings have to ruin my reputation? What a way to start out a regime.' Then he stared at the group. "Well, you may have won the hostages back, but can you stop me before I touch the vortex? Nara Ska!" He snapped his fingers and waited a second.

Firenzy started laughing. "She committed sepeekoo! Or that's what she said!"

Aniya smiled at the paling Sukeisa. "You see? Even your most trustworthy fighter has failed you now."

"I have not failed him." Aniya stared at the girl with the red eyes who had just materialized out of nowhere and had stepped in front of Sukeisa. "To reach him, you must fight me first." Yusuke and Kurama stepped forward.

"We'll take care of her, while you and Hiei try to stop Sukeisa, because you're still the fastest two."

Aniya nodded and took off for Sukeisa at a high speed, but both she and Hiei were too far away to stop Sukeisa from shoving his hand into the vortex. Black and blue electricity exploded everywhere. And everyone shielded their eyes from the bright lights that were flying around them.

When they were able to look around again, they saw a demon standing in front of them. He had glowing red eyes and black hair. Grinning, Aniya was able to see that he had fangs. "Well, now that I have the majority of my power, I must say that this fight is about to get a lot more interesting." He snapped a finger at Nara Ska. "Get rid of these worthless pieces of trash."

Nara Ska whirled into a blur. Yusuke and Kurama ran toward her, spirit gun and rose whip ready. Gantoi and Joe were right behind them, with their attacks at ready. "SPIRIT GUN!"

Aniya saw the invisible stars flare out from Nara Ska. "Yusuke, watch out! The ninja stars!" One flick of Kurama's whip and the ninja stars were thrown off course. Nara Ska was circling around, looking at her opponents. One could almost detect a look of alarm in her expression when she saw Firenzy there.

"Not you." Firenzy looked at her funny. But he never had the time to ask his stupid question because Nara Ska launched a full attack on him and his companions, keeping them busy while Sukeisa could finish off Aniya and her other short friend there.

Aniya then turned her attention to Sukeisa. Power was just radiating off of him like mist off of liquid nitrogen. 'Now that he has the combined power, I don't know if I can beat him in this form.' She looked at Hiei. 'Although I don't want to do it, Hiei's Dragon of the Darkness Technique must be the only way to get my power back.' She concentrated on him, hoping that he'd get her psychic message.

'Yo, midget boy over there with the dragon technique. I need you to blast me with your dragon thing.'

Hiei turned his gaze to her. 'You really have gone insane. No one survives the Dragon of the Darkness Flame.'

'Except me. I did, once.'

'But you were in your stronger form, fool.'

She sighed. 'What's with you? A while ago, you would have taken this opportunity without questions. Just fucking blast me with the dragon will you?'

"Fine Baka." Aniya watched as he unwrapped the bandage around his right arm. Then he raised it in her direction.

"Don't blame me if this kills you, baka."

Aniya smiled. "I won't." Aniya's back was turned to Sukeisa and Sukeisa saw what she was doing.

'No! I cannot let her regain her power! I must stop her!' He raised his own arm and her and prepared to blast her with an attack.

Kurama saw what he was up to and shouted, "Aniya, behind you! Watch out!" It was too late.

Hiei's and Sukeisa's energies left at the same time, both heading for Aniya. She would die if Sukeisa's reached her first. Turning, she saw the energies flying at her from opposite directions. She braced herself for impact and then realized that there was someone standing on the other side of her, in the way of Sukeisa's attack.

"Tarukon, get out of the way!"

"No."

Then there was a brilliant flash of light as the Dragon of the Darkness Flame and Sukeisa's attack met in the middle where Aniya and Tarukon were standing. Everyone, including Nara Ska shielded his or her eyes from the light of the attack, except Firenzy. He took this opportunity to jump on Nara Ska and pin her down. He then proceeded to sit on her head.

Finally, when the light was gone, everyone looked to see where Tarukon and Aniya were, if they had survived.

Where they had stood, was a black stain on the floor.

Sukeisa started to laugh. "Yes! Now I can accept the rest of my power. Now there is nothing to stand in my way of achieving ultimate power!" He turned around to face the vortex to receive the remainder of his power. The spirit detectives and the arena fighters prepared themselves to fight, when they heard a voice.

"So tell me, did you forget your fucking meds or something this morning?"

Sukeisa, as well as everyone else, turned around to see Aniya and Tarukon standing there. But there was something different about them. Tarukon's hair was now highlighted with silver streaks and his skin was paler. Aniya's hair was still black, but there was a blue metallic sheen to it, and her eyes and skin were back to their original color. Both of them seemed to glow from a power within themselves and Aniya's eyes glittered dangerously.

"We need to settle this once and for all, you fucking bastard."

Sukeisa crossed his arms. "Fine. But it's time for you to face the music, literally."

Aniya looked puzzled but then in hit her. "You realize that I don't need the stupid music anymore for attacks."

"But can you stop yourself from falling into your old habits of using them?"

"There's only one way to find out. Let's fight."

Somewhere in the background, someone scurried to find some music. Then a minute later, it started, the beginning of the end…

Aniya stared at Sukeisa who stared back. Then, at the same time, they ran toward each other, both aiming to beat the other to an attack. They collided and flew to the opposite sides of the room. Sukeisa jumped into mid-air and floated, waiting. He raised a hand and beckoned Aniya to join him. "Come, my dear, are you scared of heights?"

"You wish!" She jumped and floated mere meters away from him. He seemed a little surprised at her power, but he shrugged it off. 'The music is about to truly begin. Let us see how our little miracle can handle it.'

Aniya shot like an arrow toward Sukeisa, glowing in the process as the music started…

Sukeisa managed to easily dodge the attack and twirl out of the way…

Aniya stopped flying, only to see a huge blast of energy coming her way…

Somehow, she grabbed a purchase on clean air back-flipped out of the way in time…

Aniya sent bolts of electricity heading toward Sukeisa, who did a dozen flips to avoid the fast charges…

Sukeisa spun around after his last flip and drew out one of Nara Ska's ninja stars and threw it directly at her…

Seeing the ninja star, Aniya watched it draw closer and closer. 'Come on….just a little closer…then I can dodge it…'

As if in slow motion, she drew out her sword at the last minute and caused the ninja star to fly off course, back to Sukeisa…

Frustrated, he sent several dozen ninja stars, all pinpointed directly on her…

Hoping like hell, she prayed, 'Okay, this worked in the Matrix, please let it work in real life'. Then she twisted her body to avoid the ninja stars, much like Neo did when he was avoiding bullets…

Aniya flew toward Sukeisa with her sword raised up, ready to attack the minute she hit him…

He met her sword with bright sparks…

She twisted her sword away and did a three-sixty spin and brought her sword down again…

Only to find that he had once again managed to block it…

Angry, she sent blow after blow against his sword, never letting him put in an attack…

Sukeisa looked slightly alarmed at the speed and accuracy at which she was attacking, but kept his defenses up the entire time. Not even daring to let them down…

Sukeisa brought his leg out and kicked Aniya in the chest, forcing all the air out of her…

Clutching her stomach, she dropped toward the ground…

Sukeisa floated down, following her, hoping that she would be significantly affected by the attack so that he could win without much of a hassle…

Sukeisa landed and watched as Aniya struggled to get off the ground. Laughing he smiled at kicked her in the side, forcing her onto her back. Then he flipped her over with his foot, so she was face down.

"You'll never win."

Aniya's head snapped up and she was once again glowing.

Sukeisa raised an eyebrow. 'She doesn't know when to stop, does she? Oh, well. I guess I'll really have to make an effort, won't I?' He raised a fist that was glowing with a dark red energy…

Aniya watched as he powered his attack. 'There's no way that I can meet that attack dead on…'

Doing side flips, she avoided the first blast of the attack…

She paused in her dodging to see him preparing an even larger fist, as he aimed it toward her…

Then she saw the attack separate into directions and she tried to doge all of them…

One of the parts of the attack hit her in the side, causing her to fall to the floor…

Sukeisa was about to reach for the portal and celebrate his victory when Aniya rose…

Her body glowed with dark red energy, which was unmistakably Sukeisa's…

Raising an arm, she pointed her finger at him, and all of the dark red energy gathered in the tip of her index finger…

She pulled the imaginary trigger and sent his energy, with some her own mixed in, toward him…

Sukeisa watched as the dark red energy, now streaked with black-blue cackles of electricity, headed toward him…

The blast hit Sukeisa straight on, created a black mass of miasma…

Both fighters stopped as Aniya stared at Sukeisa's damaged body…

Sukeisa stared in shock at the wounds that he had received. "How could you? I should be invincible, and you are in your weak, human form. There is no way that you should have access to your spirit energy. Your dracon form couldn't even handle that much energy!"

Aniya smirked. "I have no fucking clue as to what happened. But I know that I can do it again."

"But I'm invincible. The only reason that you were able to cause damage was because the majority of that attack was my energy!" Then Sukeisa paled as he realized what he had just said and paled even more when he saw that Aniya had raised her index finger to study it.

"Hm…well it just so happens that I have a little of your energy left…now what to do?" she mimicked contemplating what to do for a few seconds until…

"Combine our energies!" Kuwabara and Firenzy glared at each other as they replied in unison and continued so, "What?" "I said that first!" "It's my idea!" "No it's not!"

Yusuke had walked over and punched them both in the face. "Guys! Stop acting like the fucking morons that you are!" While everyone else sweat-dropped.

Aniya nodded, "Guys, everyone blast me with your energy. Now!"

Everyone looked at her as if she was insane. She shot them back with a furious look, "Well, I survived Hiei's dragon technique, didn't I?"

They shrugged. Kuwabara and Firenzy were the first to beam their energy to Aniya. Yellow and orange mixed in with the dark red and blue black to make a very colorful ball of electricity. Aniya controlled this between her hands and then nodded to Kurama and Hiei to add their electricity. Soon, light red and black were in the mix as well.

Gantoi, Joe and Yusuke shot green, brown and light blue energy into the mix. Aniya turned to Tarukon, smiled and nodded. Silver electricity flowed around the others. At this point, the attack was very large. Aniya smiled at Sukeisa and said, "Don't you just hate it? Being so close to your goal, and yet you fail." Before she threw the attack she added one last thing, "It looks like I've killed all of your friends, instead of the other way around."

The attack was released. Sukeisa turned around to try and jump inside the portal, so that he could escape the attack. The portal was rapidly closing, but he thought that he might have been able to fit inside, so he tried to squeeze into the small space.

He never found out if he could have fit inside the hole, because the portal closed just as he reached the wall, so the only thing that he had time to do was watch as his own destruction came about.

There was a lot of noise and light. Suddenly, the shaking stopped, but something wasn't right. All the demons realized that the whole complex was going to collapse on them.

"Run!" Kurama yelled as the group started for the exit of the chamber. For a few seconds, they seemed lost before Timbles appeared in front of them and beckoned for them to follow him. They all rushed up the ladder that led to a very familiar pay phone.

They watched as a mansion in the distance crumbled to dust along with the rumblings under the ground.

It was over.

Or not quite….

A/N: So, that was the second to last chapter. Whew! Once again, I thank you to the people who reviewed so that I could update. There's one more chapter to go….it won't have much fighting in it. I hope. Tell me what you thought of it. And don't worry, I didn't forget about Nara Ska. She's still there…or is she? So review, and I hope you've enjoyed the story (I sound really stupid…) -_-;