Warning: This will eventually be a yaoi, so if you don't like it then DON'T FRIGGIN READ IT! Also this story will have major violence in it, so if you're a little crazy about blood, avoid this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or Naruto and my imagination tells me that the person who does own them is sitting in a very big castle, rich and laughing at all of the chaos we're causing with our fanfics.
Layla: What's wrong Polly, don't you have anything to say to that?
Polly: I would love to take credit, but I am not the author's imagination, so I can't.
Layla: Wait, if you're not my imagination, then who is?
Polly: Polly doesn't know. I'm only one of a lot of people in your head.
Layla: Wait, there's a lot of people in my head? How do I find out about my imagination?
Polly: Listen well, young grasshopper. Be creative.
Layla: [nods] I understand. [walks off]
Akira: I don't think she understands. At all.
Layla: [yelling] SELF! WHICH ONE OF YOU ARE MY IMAGINATION?
Polly: It's creative. [ ]
Jenna: [smirks] Heh.
"Keh" – normal
Keh – thoughts or emphasis on something (in this chapter, it's Kiba's dream too)
Keh – premonitions
Keh – Akamaru talking
Chapter Five: The Road To Hell
Kouichi hated this. For the past ten hours he'd been locked up in this cave with no way out. It was a cave, too. The walls were cavernous and rocky. Gray sharp-edged stones jutted out and poked him where he walked. Ryou hadn't caught up with him yet, but if Kouichi kept going like this it wouldn't take him long to find the wayward boy. He'd been keeping one step ahead of the man because of his superior hearing.
This is getting me nowhere. Kouichi sighed. Nowhere and lost. He hadn't found a way out yet.
"Kouichi-sama," an unfamiliar voice said. Kouichi whirled around, feeling for his magic as hellfire erupted on his arms. The black flames edged his fingertips, primed for a fight. The man didn't move a muscle and Kouichi didn't disperse his weapons. "Shouldn't you be in your rooms until it is safe?"
"No." His voice was harsh at the mere mention of those stupid rooms. "Safe from what?"
"From the damned souls of Hades," he said. "Forgive me. I am Enkotsu."
"Where am I?" Kouichi demanded.
"In the lower regions of Hades, my lord. Even the king himself dare not tread down here. And we were safe for a time, but he has discovered us," Enkotsu answered. He didn't hesitate and he didn't seem to be withholding information. Kouichi looked around for Ryou or anyone else who might try and drag him off somewhere else.
"Why am I here?"
"You are our last hope. Aijin-sama has done all she can do to lead us against him, but you are the only one who can lead us to victory," Enkotsu said.
Kouichi was hating this more and more. "What victory?"
"Against Hades and all of the underworld. We can conquer them. They will no longer control us and we will live our death as we were meant to." Enkotsu offered his hand. "Will you come with me, Kouichi-sama? To fight for us?"
"I can't and won't stay here." Kouichi had to get back to Kouji and Zoey and the organization.
Enkotsu sighed. "We were all afraid of this. Kouichi-sama, you misunderstand. You can't leave. You don't know the way, and while you're still alive and with us and able to help, nobody here will show it to you. Nobody will let you escape."
That's what Kouichi had been afraid of. Of course he could start picking them off one by one until someone agreed to take him home, but he really hated fighting. "I won't fight for you."
"You don't need to fight for us. As long as you are near us, your strength can make us stronger. Your will can push us to fight. We will never tire. We will never die. And all we have to do is keep you here. Please be reasonable, Kouichi-sama. Please stay." He shook his offered hand.
It was beautiful. The Hyuuga lay bare beneath him, dark brown strands splayed out around his head, back arched off the floor. Milky white skin spanned all over his body, not roughened by the scars or calluses of a hard-working warrior. Neji's eyes were wide as he shuddered, moaning and thrashing. "Kiba…"
Kiba jolted awake, sitting upright and nearly throwing Akamaru off of him. He sputtered and tried to breathe around the water in his lungs. Water?
Damn it, Kiba! Akamaru growled.
"Sorry, buddy," he said apologetically as he petted the giant, now wet, dog. He looked up at Neji as the bastard stood over him with a bucket in his hands. His jaw dropped. "Did you just throw water on me?"
"Yes I did," Neji said calmly. "You were taking too long to wake up. We need to get moving."
"Bastard! What if I drowned!"
"I thought dogs could paddle," Neji smirked. "Can't you swim or is that reserved for smart canines like Akamaru?" Akamaru, the traitor, licked Neji's hand and Neji smiled down at him. The smile had Kiba rock hard all over again. Akamaru stood at attention, probably smelling Kiba's arousal as animals tended to do. Neji was oblivious. He pointed ahead. "We're heading in that direction. We should get there in–What are you doing?"
Kiba nuzzled Neji's hand, holding it to his cheek.
"Kiba." Kiba stared up at him with the yellow eyes of a wild wolf. Neji wasn't afraid, though. Just confused. He raised an eyebrow. "What do you think you're doing with my hand?"
Kiba came back to reality. For a moment, there was no sound. Then, Kiba smirked. "Admiring it. It's just like a girl's," he taunted. Neji flushed and glared at him. "Don't you ever work?"
"No."
"But you're a ninja."
"I do my job, it just isn't hard work for me," Neji said slowly. Kiba glared. He wasn't an idiot and Neji treating him like one pissed him off. "If it's too hard to do, why bother with the effort?"
Kiba didn't believe what he was hearing. "Are you serious?"
Neji looked mildly amused. "Did you think I was joking?" He started walking. "Come on, we have to get there before nightfall this time. You can't slow us down forever."
Kiba followed him. Jeez, and we thought Shikamaru was bad? This guy's lazy and arrogant.
"SHIT!" Kouji hissed in a breath as he stared down at the missing chunk of flesh out of his leg. He didn't feel it now, his blood was pumping too fast and his adrenaline was too high. Damn, was his blood pumping. Not only was he too juiced to stand still, blood was pouring out of his thigh in droves. Raw flesh was showing, ragged from being chewed on. It was a deep hole and the missing hunk of flesh was filling with blood again and again. It looked like an offering, raw bloody meat, for a wild animal.
"Demigod-sama!" Raito called. The gas mask Kouji had on was staying but Raito shouldn't be in there. He didn't have a gas mask, only a piece of cloth. The hydra roared, the purple poisonous odor billowing out from its mouth like smoke from a chimney, and one head lunged for the half-Greek warrior. Kouji ran for him but another head attacked him. He dodged it, jumping over it as it hit the wall beside him. The brown rocks on the cave wall crumbled and fell down into the abyss. Kouji made it to Raito, slashing off the head of the hydra attacking him.
"How many are there?" Kouji demanded.
"How many hydras? One." Kouji didn't believe him. "Every time you cut off a head, two more grow back in its place. Many warriors have tried before you and shaved at least one head."
"So there's, like, a hundred of them?" Kouji demanded.
"A thousand," Raito breathed. Kouji turned around to see what he was staring at. The hydra was completely still and silent as two heads slowly fought their way out of the bloody stump of the head Kouji had cut off. They both watch in stunned horror until the heads were fully grown and the hydra let out another roar.
A thousand and one. Real smart, Kouji. Kouji barely felt anything.
Raito handed him and torch. "Take this. If you burn the stump, no more heads will grow." The hydra attacked just as Kouji took it, knocking Kouji and Raito into walls. Raito flew through the wall and outside of the cave. Kouji struggled to his knees and peered over the edge just in time to see the torchlight disappear and the flames go out with a splash.
"There's freaking water down there." There's no way he could burn the stump if the thing was neck deep in water. It didn't really matter, he didn't have fire anymore.
The hydra attacked, striking the wall as Kouji ducked and slashed with his kendo blade. The hydra's neck was too thick to cut in one go and it was too quick to allow him a second strike. This wasn't going good. Kouji slashed at any head that came near, but it wasn't enough. The hydra had gotten more precise. It was actually hitting when it attacked now and every time it missed and hit the wall, rocks seemed to cave in around Kouji, effectively trapping him or damaging him. He was losing fast.
"Call for it." Kouji lunged, dodging the hydra again. This time the rocks, nearly threw him over the edge of the cliff and into the waters below. "Summon the power."
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Kouji snapped.
"Call for it. Summon it." What power? His power of creation? He'd only ever used it to create weapons before. Kouji grinned. Of course. A flamethrower was a weapon wasn't it? The hydra smashed the rocks above him and Kouji didn't make it out in time. The hydra screeched loudly as Kouji burst from the rubble. Tossing the kendo sword aside, he materialized a long and wickedly sharp scythe. When the hydra lunged next, he grabbed onto a head and was lifted.
The hydra knocked him into the ceiling trying to get rid of him. The ceiling caved in, some of the debris hitting Kouji in the back as it fell but most of it trapped the hydra's heads under them. Kouji stared slicing off the ones left. Gigantic, green snake heads fell into the water. The hydra screeched in pain, thrashing violently, trying to lose Kouji. Kouji screamed.
Lightning fell from the sky, pale and a strange white-blue. It was bright and blinding as it flashed, striking the hydra and Kouji. Kouji slipped from the hydra's back. He threw out his hands towards the water and a beach ball materialized in the lake. He fell into the waters and threw his arms around the beach ball.
Raito stared transfixed. The hydra's charred remains fell into the ravine, its body so big it could still be seen floating on top of the water. Kouji looked like an angel. His dark midnight hair was fanned out behind him and his eyes were closed even as he held onto the black and white beach ball. His face was completely passive and absolutely serene. His body was twisted awkwardly around the ball as he floated around the dead beast in the bloodied lake waters.
"C-Come quickly! Demigod-sama has defeated the Hydra!"
[H] powers they Have, [D] powers they Don't have yet, and [C] powers they Can't control (yet)
Kouichi – control over the shadows (D), hellfire (H), destruction [destroying things with a touch] (H), premonitions (C), mind sight (H) & can communicate with Kouji whenever he wants (H)
Kouji – control over light (D), thunder (C), creation [creating anything out of thin air] (H), telekinesis (H), seeing auras [can see into the depths of somebody's soul and tell if they are sinful or not] (D)
Kouzo – control over water (H), illusions (H), telepathy (H), empathy [feeling other people's emotions when he touches them] (H), flashing [sort of like teleporting for Death Gods, meaning he can walk between worlds] (H)
*Zoey is a Siren, meaning her voice compels anyone to do what they want if she puts any force behind it. Thankfully, her voice doesn't much work on the twins or her partner and otherwise she can control it.
*Akira is not a Nymph just a nymphomaniac, meaning he's addicted to sex.
Layla: What did you think?
Kiba: I think I did pretty good for our birthday.
[Kiba's birthday is on July 7; the same day as the author's. Happy birthday!]
Polly: What about me? How did I do?
Jenna: Horrible.
Polly: [wails] But I really tried!
Layla: Good grief. [looks at Jenna] Emotionless bitch.
Jenna: Heh.
Jenna, Layla, Polly: Thanks for reading this chapter. Please rate and review.
Layla: Who do you think we should check on first next chapter–Kiba and Neji, Akira, Sasuke, a ninja, a DigiDestined or one of the triplets? I'd really like an outside opinion. Thank you.