Ride like the Wind
Chapter 24

A thought suddenly came to Kurama. "How many personalities does Sensui have?" Seven graves with make a good start...?

"Seven. Of the other sis, Shinobu is the purest. Actually, one of them is a girl. She only appears before me... You can say we're in love," Itsuki replied.

"Augh! That's something you keep to yourself, man!" Kuwabara screamed and backed away.

Seven personalities... Seven graves..."No!" Kurama gasped.

"What? Was that for Itsuki coming out of the closet or...?"

"You remember what Sensui's thoughts were?"

"The seven graves thing? Yeah? Why?"

"Don't you get it now? When he thought about seven graves... The seven graves weren't for the Seven, they were for Sensui alone! The other six were only pawns!"

Mitarai's eyes widened. We were only a distraction... Someone to get in the way so he could progress...

"You're wrong, Youko Kurama!" Itsuki growled. All eyes turned to him mostly because he finally brose his voice top someone. "Shinobu would never do that! It was Minoru!"

"Sensui's a nutjob!" Kuwabara growled back. "Get over it, man!" Suddenly he felt a force tightening on him. "What the... Arms?"

"Don't do anything else!" Hiei pointed his sword at Itsuki. "I've been to Demon World once so I have an idea of how you people work, yaminate!"

"A yaminate?" Kuwabara gasped.

"Yaminate. The devil with eight arms. Pretty rare to catch one and I've heard they can move through dimensions," Mitarai explained.

"Yeah and I won't feel bad about finishing the yaminate race off altogether," Hiei growled.

"Suddenly I don't feel so bad for that race anymore…" Kurama added.

Itsuki sighed. "And the end is near…"

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Yusuke was running away from Kazuya's shots.

"Quit running ya shitball!" Kazuya growled.

He got me! "Augh! My leg!"

"That's why ya don't run, bitch!" He walked to Yusuke like an animal coming in for the kill. He grinned at the thought of killing the demon slayer.

Gotta get away… Yusuke tried to crawl away but Kazuya fired another shot purposely missing Yusuke's hand.

"Keep moving and you'll be playing target practice with me. Then you'll really have fun being a nonmoving target… Heh, heh, heh… Stupid kid."

"Grr… Shut up! Don't mess with Asians, dammit!" Yusuke shook his fist at him. Come on, Koenma! Get out of the lake! Just let me know you're alive! Suddenly Kazuya fired another shot, hitting Yusuke in the same spot he was hit before.

"Oops! Did I do that? My bad! I lied! You're getting target practice fun now and it's not just because I'm not supposed to mess with Asians!" He fired again. Yusuke barely had enough time to dodge the bullet.

"Damn it!" At this rate, I'll either get turned into the human Swiss cheese or bleed to death! "Spirit Gun!"

Kazuya stepped to the side to dodge the shot. "Then again, Minoru isn't so full of crap. Maybe this'll be easier than I thought…"

"Shotgun!" Yusuke jumped into the lake just when he saw Kazuya was hit.

"You bastard!" Wait… I can still find you. You're bleeding so I can follow the blood… He started firing at a trail of blood which started to move toward him. "You really are a stupid kid!"

Out of the lake jumped not Yusuke but Koenma! Koenma jumped on the demon slayer, knocked him to the ground, and started to wrestle with him. He used all the strength he could to make Kazuya's gun point to the roof of the cave.

"Kazuya, get the hell away and bring Shinobu here! Not the other guy who talks all that BS or anyone else in there!" Koenma growled.

"Hell no, bitch!" Kazuya growled.

"Shinobu! I know you're in there! Get your sorry ass out!" Holding both of Kazuya's arms with one hand and holding Kazuya's face to the side with his elbow, he took a lock of his dripping hair and let the water drip into Kazuya's ear. "Let him out."

Kazuya tried to move but Koenma was using more strength than his looks suggested. He twitched at each drop of water but still continued to resist.

"Make him get out. I don't like resorting to Chinese water torture."

"No!" He fired and flung the priest off him with all the power he managed to gather. "Eh? No! I can take him! Let me take him! Don't! No! No! No!" Kazuya started banging his head on a wall of the cave, still arguing with himself.

Yusuke crawled out of the lake, coughing up water. "…Wha… What's… Going… On?"

"Yusuke…" Koenma turned to the demon slayer, his voice grave. "I'm about to say something I never thought I'd ever have to say to you…"

Sensui finally regained his composure and turned to face the two.

"Yusuke, this is Shinobu Sensui, my old partner before I met you…"

He reattached his hand that had fallen off when Kazuya appeared. "My apologies for Kazuya. He tends to be short on temper and sanity. Besides that, he isn't a good opponent to fight with…" His body flared up with golden energy. "Let's keep our introductions short since we have about four minutes left… I'm Shinobu Sensui and as Koenma had stated, I was the last one to work for him." His eyes shifted between the two. "Yusuke Urameshi. Koenma Daioh."

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"Is that… Sacred energy?' Kurama gasped.

"You mean this gets weirder?! What's Sacred energy?!" Kuwabara asked.

Kurama shook his head. "I don't know that much. All I know it composed of rumors and you know how reliable those are…. I know it's not Spirit Energy or Demon energy… But the thing is it takes forty years to master… How?"

"So we got a loony here who doesn't know how to use his power?!"

"Once again you're wrong. Forty divided by seven is six isn't it?" Itsuki replied.

Kuwabara growl and beat a hand on a wall. Damn… Damn… Damn! "I'm getting out of here like I got out of Mitarai's thing!" Com' on. I know I have it in me…

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"Bring it on! Four minutes is good enough for me! I can take someone down in a minute flat! And don't mess with Asians!" He used the shotgun.

Sensui was hit but he recovered from the blow almost instantly. "Your skill. It can take a demon very nicely but that's where you're lacking. I'm not a demon. I know this kind of attack well. Too well."

"Oh shut up and fight me or I'll blow your head off!"

"I would kill you too fast if I fight by the standards you want me to. I'd rather you at least watch the gates of hell open."

"Shotgun!"

Once again, Sensui recovered quickly. "You know… This almost brings me back to the days of being a demon slayer. I would kill demons because I knew if I let them live they would come and attack again. I remember I always found the same ones I let live in possessions… But the most memorable was when they possessed the closest person to me at the time… Remember, Koenma?"

"Yeah. It was the first time I've experience what a possession was like firsthand."

Yusuke raised an eyebrow. "You mean that's why you never gave me any possession cases?"

"You're not yet ready for that kind of thing. The hell the victim goes through is too painful to watch… You too weren't ready for those assignments, Shinobu. Yusuke…" Koenma took off his shirt, revealing that his chest and arms were scarred. "You're wrong. The reason I didn't let you do exorcisms is not only are you inexperienced but because you wouldn't be able to take the toll it has on your body."

"How was I able to do it then? Without a scratch?" Sensui asked mockingly.

Koenma glared at him. "You did it wrong. The victims took the scar."

"How can you do that wrong?! If you do it wrong, wouldn't the victim end up dying?!" Yusuke asked.

"I was doing it partially right then…" Sensui made a wry smile. "You want to know how then? Well, you see…"

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"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Kuwabara screamed and tried to form the Jigen Tou. "Come out already!" The power surged within him.

Itsuki felt the power from Kuwabara. "…No… I've done all I can Shinobu!"

Kuwabara cut through Ura-Otoko, but once everyone was out, it was too late…

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"All I do is stab the victims through the heart and see if they live!" At that moment Sensui's hand went straight through Yusuke's chest.

"Out of time…." Sensui said and walked into the tunnel. Case over. Defendant found…

"Yus… uke?" Kuwabara mumbled. He shook the demon slayer. "Wake up. You're not…" He checked him pulse and stared at the ground in shock. "No… He's not… He can't be… Dead."

"Yusuke-kun…? He…" Sayaka started to cry.

"You…" Hiei rolled up his sleeve to show his right arm had been bandaged. "Hey Kurama…"

"Yeah?' the red head answered his voice just as cold as Hiei's.

"Remember all that crap I gave you about killing Sensui?"

"Yeah."

"Screw it."

"Hey, we agreed for once."

He tore the bandages from his arm revealing a dragon scarred on his arm. "SHINOBU SENSUI, MINORU, KAZUYA, AND WHOEVER THOSE OTHER ASSHOLES IN THERE ARE, YOU'RE GOING TO HELL NOW! DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!"

Kurama's fiery hair turned silver and his emerald eyes turned into a cold gold.

"Hold yer horses!" Kuwabara cried as he leapt into the tunnel with them. "Yee-haw!"

"Are you going, too?" Mitarai asked Koenma.

"No. You and me are gonna have to take these demons coming in. Even though Hiei did master the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, that doesn't me he won't keep them from coming. One person can't take all these demons alone."

"I thought you said that barrier keeps those demons out."

"They have Kuwabara to take it down."

"He wouldn't destroy it would he?"

"Humans do crazy this at crazy times. They come!"

Mitarai opened his Territory. "Ready for it."

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Youko stopped at the barrier. "Coward! You go where we cannot! Stop running and fight as like a man! Are you afraid of a fox?"

"MOVE IT ASSHOLE!" Hiei beat the barrier with a fist cringing at the pain of its shock. "Goddamn that Mexican War. If I didn't kill so many Americans I would've still been able to pass through."

"How sad. You can't come back. Why do you want to?" Sensui mocked them.

"You guys, I'm cutting this thing down!" Kuwabara was about to charge at the barrier.

"Are you crazy?! We've been fighting because we want this shit up! What the hell is wrong with this picture?" Hiei growled.

"Hiei, either we go for this or it's nothing and we let this bastard go. Urameshi wouldn't want number two. Does he mean that little to you?" Kuwabara turned back to the barrier when Hiei gave no reply. "Forgive me for this later. Here we go!" He cut the barrier down.

At that moment Hiei pounced on Sensui but before Hiei could give him a good kick in the face Sensui slashed Hiei's throat and threw him aside.

Sensui looked shocked for a moment. Why is he doing this? Demons don't love humans like they would a brother would they? He isn't doing this for Urameshi, is he?

"Why are you looking shocked Mr. Sensui?"

Sensui was surprised by finding Youko Kurama behind him. He grabbed the end of his Rose whip. "Exorcism Spell number five! Let this soul find eternal peace and the demon eternal damnation!"

At that moment the Rose whip exploded and Sensui ran away.

"Kurama! You alright?' Kuwabara asked Kurama as he helped the fox who was blown away by the explosion up.

"Just a little shocked," the fox turned to Hiei. "The real question should be if Hiei's alright."

Hiei got up, wiping the blood off his neck.

"So Hiei how's your pride?"

Hiei glared at him and ran after Sensui.

"Let's go."

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"How many demons are there?!" Mitarai growled as his seaman killed another demon.

"Believe me, these guys can get hungry. And when they are they eat a lot. You get a good example of that if you've watched Hiei eat." Koenma replied.

"I fail to see how that answers my question."

"If one demon's hungry another would starve so that one would eat. That's the law they live by. But they don't know how many humans there are here…"

"Hey wait… They're turning back all of a sudden."

Koenma turned to Yusuke's body and raised an eyebrow but then he remembered… He looked grave. "That aura…"

"It's coming from Yusuke? The demons must've sensed it too…"

A wry smile formed on the priest's face. "I'm not sure if I should be afraid or glad this is happening."

Yusuke shot up. "DAMN IT! THAT FREAKING HURT!" He spat on his hand so he could wash off the blood on his chest. "Man… Oh shit! The barrier's open! And you guys didn't say anything to me?!" He ran into the tunnel

"You're letting him go?!" Mitarai gasped. "What is all this?!"

"You don't need to know, Mitarai. It's a long story. I'm going in. You can go home now but take Sayaka back to the palace on your way back. If I ever get the chance, I'll see you in London or Paris or wherever you're going. Where are you going?"

"Back to London. I'll be studying for medical school… I'll look forward to it, Koenma…." Mitarai took the princess by the hand. Freedom. It's been a while since I really was free…

Koenma nodded and ran into the tunnel.

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Kuwabara fell to the ground with a thud. He coughed up some blood before he got back up. "I'm not backing down. You gotta kill me first."

"Another…" Hiei said to himself. "Dragon of the Darkness Flame!" Instead of directing it at Sensui, he directed it at himself.

"Hiei!" Kuwabara screamed. "Not you…" He stopped when he saw Hiei was still there without a scratch.

"Now it's your head!" Hiei leapt forward and summoned the dark flames to his sword. "Sword of the Darkness Flame!"

"Exorcism spell number five! Let this soul find eternal peace and the demon eternal damnation!" Sensui stopped the flame but still had his palm slashed open. "Exorcism spell one! Give me strength to destroy the demon!"

Hiei fell to his knees screaming in pain.

"Die! Die! Di-" Kurama tried to Rose whip him but Sensui used the fifth exorcism spell on the Rose whip He used the first spell on both Kurama and Hiei while still fighting of Kuwabara.

"You bastard!" Yusuke's was heard.

Sensui relieved the demons of his spells. Silence. "I just…"

"I got a bone to pick with… Whoa!" Yusuke aimed his Spirit Gun. What the…? I'm not… I'm not doing this! It's like someone… He suddenly pictured a man with long white hair, black eyes, and pointed ears in his mind. The hell is that…?

And Yusuke said in a voice that wasn't his, "Die." He fired a Spirit Gun that sent Sensui flying to a forest about half a mile away.

"Holy crap!" Yusuke ran after the demon slayer.

Koenma appeared at that moment. "Where's Yusuke?"

"He's headed for the Forest of Fools," Hiei answered simply.

"Damn!" He ran to the forest with everyone following. Once they got there, all they saw was Yusuke standing over Sensui's dead body.

"Yusuke…?" Koenma said.

Yusuke looked at him. "I don't know what just happened! It wasn't me but it was at the same time and…"

"Calm down. Tell me what happened."

"I don't…" He thought of that man in his vision. He shook his head. "Kurama…. I killed him… Well in a way I did… Ugh… Look, I'll take the blame so you can be innocent." Yusuke was slashed across the back.

"Itsuki!" Kurama gasped.

"Bastards! You dirty bastards! Was that what all this was about?!" Itsuki growled. "It's even more wicked than what you say Shinobu's plot was!"

"No, it wasn't! Honestly, Itsuki!" Koenma couldn't say more.

"I don't care for your reasons! I'm leaving this world…" He took Sensui's dead body with him into another dimension.

Silence. Koenma looked at his feet.

"Let's go. …Before anymore demons come. I need to make another barrier…"

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Case over. Defendant found…

Innocent until proven guilty.

End chapter 24…

Notes:
I forgot two last chapter:
1. Itsuki left Georgia because in 1836 the Indian Removal Act was passed so all Indian were taken off their land and moved to Indian Territory which what's now Oklahoma.
2. Mafuukan-The Mafuukan was a spell that created a barrier that would stop even an S class demon. That's it in a nut shell. I took my twist on it.
3. Chinese water torture-basically putting droplets in someone's ear as torture. I forget how to explain it.
4. Koenma's last name- I've heard people use this as his last name. I'm not sure if it's the right spelling or if he even has a last name. Well, he has one now.

On that angsty note, I end the Chapter Black series! Yay! But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Whew! And I added on chapter titles because I thought they would help me remember what happened in that chapter! XD But they're mildly inappropriate!

And I'm pissed because I closed the car door on my finger! It hurt like all words that mean painful that's not in this world. And it's purple now! OMG! I'm scared my nail would fall off….

Extra I think 6
"So Hiei, how's your… Oh crap!" Hack, hack! Youko coughed up a hairball. "Ow…"

Hiei yelled, "Quit it with the hairballs!"

Extra 7
Remember Mitarai you don't cut down the street, you go across it… (Me and my people cutting themselves jokes…)

Thanks to everyone who read all the way to here! You rule. And a special thanks to Psyco Anime Luver for pointing out errors in my grammar and anything else in general! You rule! I would've found out too late if you didn't…

Review please!