Reikai Sensei Kuwabara Chapter 26, a Yu Yu Hakusho + Negima! Magister Negi Magi/魔法先生ネギま！ Crossover fanfic

Everyone's favourite satanic chibi has arrived! Is he enemy? Or friend?

Let's find out shall we?

Heaven or Hell?

LET'S RAWK!!!

26th period.

Setsuna paled at the red-eyed apparition's words, her fingers tightening around Yanagi's grip like a lifeline as memories rushed through her, none of them pleasant. 'How did he know…' she wondered, shuddering as she recalled the ostracizing she'd suffered at the hands of the bird tribe all those years ago 'Could he…no impossible, I've never seen him before in my life…but still…'

"Sakurazaki-san?" Negi queried, snapping the girl out of her daze, as he took in her trembling frame out of concern, Asuna mirroring his expression on the kendo-ka's right "Are you feeling alright?"

"I-I'm fine…" Setsuna stammered, her face returning to her normal pallor as she turned her attention back to what remained of the horde "Sensei, we should stick with the plan, go rescue Oujo-sama while we hold these guys off."

"You're sure?" Negi whispered, looking not at the remaining members of the horde, though they were a pressing concern, but the red-eyed man that even now was eyeing them like a hawk "What about him?"

"I'll…think of something when it comes to that." Setsuna assured him, though she honestly had no idea what to do. If what her senses were telling her were right, this guy's Youki was easily A-rank prime material, the same as Kuwabara's, and so far he hadn't even exerted himself. 'Which means he's a lot stronger than what he's shown' she muttered 'so much so that even holding back he's pushing A-rank.' She swallowed determinedly 'This is definitely bad…but for Oujo-sama's sake, I cannot falter!'

"Go now Sensei!" she yelled, standing firm alongside Asuna, who stumbled into a horrendously open ready stance at the kendo-ka's look "Get Oujo-sama back and don't stop till you're back at the temple!"

"O-okay!" Negi stammered, blasting off on his wand towards the shrine Setsuna had indicated earlier.

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"And just where do you think you're going brat?" Hiei muttered, eyeing the human youth on the staff with annoyance as he prepared to follow, grimacing at the feel of magic emanating from the piece of wood "Western mages…such course tactics."

"ZANKUUSEN!"

Hiei blinked, leaping out of the tree just in time to avoid a wave of slicing air that reduced it to so much kindling. 'A Vacuum blade?' he wondered, before scowling in thought 'No…there was ki in the strike…' he turned to eye the black-haired half-breed in contemplation 'I see…perhaps I may find some amusement after all…'

"That was an interesting technique…" he called out, his tone amused as he looked down at the half-breed, noting the determination in her eyes "I have to admit I haven't seen anything like it in Makai."

"No demon that experiences a Shinmeiryuu technique lives to speak of it." Setsuna shot back, holding Yunagi at the ready as she glared at the red-eyed demon "And if you dare to target Negi-sensei again, you'll feel the full might of my sword!"

"Shinmeiryuu?" Hiei repeated, frowning slightly in thought "I've heard that name before…a rabble of demon hunters and exorcists if I'm not mistaken." He scowled, disdain apparent in his glare "Have you sunk so low that you'd exorcise your own kin, half-breed?"

"I have no kin amongst your kind!" Setsuna yelled, her eyes glowing with loathing comparable to Hiei's own as she readied herself, her blade held dual handed over her shoulder "I am Sakurazaki Setsuna of the Kyoto Shinmeiryuu!"

"So you think of yourself as human do you?" Hiei muttered, his eyes impassive as he dropped from his perch, advancing on the half-breed at a slow, deliberate pace, drawing his sword as he went "Then prepare to die like one."

Setsuna cursed as the red-eyed horror disappeared, blocking a strike from above that would've cleaved her in two had she not reinforced her sword with ki. 'FAST!' the girl marveled, wincing as he pressed the advantage 'And strong too! I haven't been this pressed since that last spar with Tsuruko-sama!'

Feinting right she put some space between them and launched a Zanganken at the figure, only for him to blur out of sight again, forcing her back on the defensive. "You're pretty good." He offered, though there was mockery in his tone, and a smirk on his lips as he kept slashing at her, their blades crying against one another "I guess human techniques are good for something after all."

"Setsuna-san!" Asuna yelled, running past with a hand clamped over her skirt to keep it down, a horde of cackling oni on her tail.

"Hn, and here I thought females were the smarter of the species." The apparition noted with a scoff, even as Setsuna sweatdropped at the sight "What kind of baka comes to battle demons with their ass hanging out?"

"Who're you calling a baka, baka?!" Asuna shot back, sending several of the more perverse apparitions back to the ether with a wave of her harisen "And quit trying to flip up my skirt you-GAH!"

"Asuna-san!" Setsuna yelped, watching the girl stumble over the remains of a half-dissolved demon, allowing the gleeful horde to catch up, virtually dog piling on the girl as she fought them off one by one

"You have other concerns Half-breed!" her opponent called out, his sword screaming towards her neck, only to be intercepted halfway.

"Now that won't do…" a familiar voice noted, sending a chill down Setsuna's spine as she took in the blonde, sundress sporting form of her rescuer "I can't have anyone else taking Sempai's head."

"Tsukuyomi!" Setsuna spat, leaping back along with her opponent as the blonde beamed at her.

"Ah…you remembered!" the bespectacled outcast simpered, touching her flushing cheek with a smile as she tilted her head coyly "I haven't seen you since Movie village…has your arm healed?"

"Who the hell are you?" Setsuna's former opponent demanded, looking annoyed at the interference, his eye narrowing suspiciously and a dull purple glow appearing under his bandana "That steel…" he muttered, eyeing the blonde's swords "are you her comrade?"

"Comrade? Of course not…" Tsukuyomi replied smiling cutely at the demon, eyes closed behind her spectacles as she beamed at him like something out of a yuri shoujo manga "I'm her lover."

"THE HELL YOU ARE!" Setsuna spiked, embarrassment and revulsion battling for control of her face as almost every demon in the area gaped at them, even her red-eyed opponent seemed to lose focus temporarily, though he regained it well.

"Whatever…" he muttered titling his head slightly, refusing to let his surprise show on his face, after all, such things weren't so uncommon in makai "Am I to assume then that if I try to attack her you'll interfere again?"

"But of course…" Tsukuyomi preened, her eyes golden pools in darkness, a bloodthirsty aura emanating from her slim form that sent shivers down Setsuna's spine "After all, I'm the only one that can kill sempai."

"You humans and your courtship rituals." The demon scoffed, before blurring right in front of the demented prodigy "Let's see what you've got, onna!"

"Fufufufu…" Chigusa chuckled, leering down at restrained Konoka as she lay on the podium, covered only by the towel she'd been abducted from the bath house in "The preparations are complete…we can begin now."

"Is this wise?" the albino youth queried, looking over at his employer with an impassive stare thatalways managed to creep her out "Letting so many Youkai run rampant like that would attract undue attention."

"Bah, you worry to much." Chigusa countered, mentally preparing the sutra of incantation as she tapped into Konoka's well of magical power "The reinforcements the elder summoned won't be here in time to do anything."

"Maybe…" the youth allotted, nodding his head to concede the point "But the Shinmeiryuu complex is not too far from here…and Tsukuyomi was exiled before she could recruit any others to the cause."

THAT gave Chigusa pause for thought, her eyes scrunching behind her glasses as she envisioned having to deal with the Shinmeiryuu on a less amiable front. It was likely they wouldn't take her kidnapping of Konoka-Oujo-sama very well; let alone what their reaction to her colleague's assault on the Main temple.

"I suggest we skip to the point." The youth opined, eyeing Konoka like a snake eyes a mouse, the girl shivering under the blanket, feeling unnaturally cold "Simply recite the sutra as fast as you can."

"I was planning that!" Chigusa snapped, and immediately began, a low glow filling the area.

'These girls are pretty good.' Hiei noted with mild approval, pressing his attack (admittedly reigning in the majority of his ability) whilst fending the two of them off at the same time 'I may be holding back but they've come pretty close to drawing blood several times already…' he shot the Hanyou a quick glance before turning his attention to the…other one 'If I didn't know better I'd swear there was demon blood in that one.' He muttered, smirking as he blocked the giggling psychopath's swords with his own, sending a kick to her ribs to drive her back 'Still, I think that's enough fun and games for today.'

"I applaud your skill ladies." He called out, slipping under their strikes and sheathing his sword in a classic Iai stance, even as they bore down on him from both sides "That said…playtime's over."

Neither swordswoman had a chance to put up their guard before a wave of youki and killing intent washed over them, sending them of balance as Hiei Drew his sword, the draft caused by the blow blasting them off their feet. 'Such force!' Setsuna yelped, eyes widening as she fought to keep her wings from instinctively bursting out of her back 'This bloodlust! No doubt about it! He definitely tops A-rank!'

"You're partially right." Hiei called out, startling the girl out of her thoughts "But I should warn you that in demon world the Ranking system gets a little…quirky, when it comes to beings Higher than A-rank."

"Higher than…that's impossible!" Setsuna stammered, eyeing the advancing horror in alarm, fighting to keep her knees from buckling under the preassure of his youki "A-rank is the highest rank assigned to demons on this plane!"

"That's true…and for all intents and purposes it will remain so." Hiei noted, a smirk on his face "But that's only because the more powerful beings can't come here without ripping a hole in the fabric of reality…I myself am only here because it's my job to round up these clowns."

"Then why are you attacking us?!" Setsuna demanded, shaken by the fact there were demons beyond A-rank waiting to claw their way into Ningenkai, only to shiver as the cold bite of his drawn katana was placed against her neck.

"Simple…" Hiei muttered, his tone flat as he eyed the back of her head, rearing his sword back for the finishing thrust, Tsukuyomi looking on in alarm, too far away to intercept the blow "YOU drew first."

Several gunshots pierced the air, Hiei leaping back, his sword slicing one of the projectiles in half as he put some distance between himself and a stunned Setsuna. "Who the hell?!" he called out, eyes narrowing as he espied several of the demons he'd seen chasing the redhead disappearing in puffs of smoke "Exorcising rounds? Who's there?!"

"You sure know how to pick 'em Setsuna." A calm voice called out, drawing everyone's attention to a tall, panther of a woman with black hair and golden eyes, a smoking rifle in her hands and a tanned, blonde girl in a Chinese dress "It's gonna cost you extra."

"Mana-san?! Ku Fei-san!" Asuna yelped, gaping at the reinforcements in surprise as they drew closer to her position, the horde looking around in confusion at the new arrivals "What are you guys doing here?"

"Back-up." Mana replied simply, sinking into a crouch as she leveled her gun at Hiei "And as for you short stuff..." She smirked at his scowl "I wouldn't make any sudden moves if I were you."

"Hn…you ningen and your firearms." Hiei scoffed, stepping aside as a warning shot was fired "Give it up woman," he warned, dodging another shot "by the time you get me in your sights I'll have already sliced that toy of yours in half."

"Do try." Mana offered, unloading round after round at the swordsman, actually impressed with how he sidestepped them without much effort, only to blink as he blurred out of sight for a moment, followed by a look of amazement as her Rifle fell apart in her hands.

"I warned you." Hiei scoffed, only to lean out of the path of a punch from the tanned blonde, honestly surprised at her strength as it drifted past. 'High C-rank definitely.' He noted with approval, actually forced to dodge her strikes as she pursued him 'Fast too…a few more years and she'd probably have given Toguro a run for his money.'

"Why you dodge-Aru?" Ku Fei called out, not dropping the attack as she spoke, slipping from palm strikes to kicks, to chops, flowing between each attack with the grace of a master dancer "You scared to fight aru?"

"Hardly…" Hiei scoffed, backhanding the girl in the cheek, sending her rolling backwards expertly, only to regain her footing like a cat landing on all fours "I just don't have time to play with children."

"In that case…" and elegant voice opined, the hackles on Hiei's neck rising fully as he spun round to espy a figure standing on a rocky outcrop, bathed in moonlight "Perhaps you'd consent to cross swords with me?"

"Who are you?" Hiei growled, eyeing this newest interloper with annoyance, and a grudging hint of approval. Long black hair that seemed to shine in the moonlight; a stainless white Uwagi and Red Hakama that only seemed to accentuate her elegant form; she carried a nodachi similar to that of the Hanyou, and her features were of an elegant beauty that even HE could appreciate.

"I?" the vision repeated, sounding amused as a bizarre bird settled on her shoulders with a chirp, though the look in it's beady little eyes belied it's beauty "I am merely a simple housewife." She smiled at his scowl "However, I am also the current Shihan of the Kyoto Shinmeiryuu, and first daughter of the Aoyama Family…" she smiled at the Koorime "My name is Aoyama Tsuruko…Hajime-mashta."

"BAAL'S BALLS!" a random Oni yelped, backing away on his ass, wetting himself in terror, "Bad enough Hiei came to round us up, now we gotta deal with the demon sword of Kyoto herself?!"

"I agree…" the leader muttered, his arm almost completely regenerated thanks to the Kitsune-Onna's attentions "This ain't favorable no matter what way we look at it, but we're still under contract."

"Screw the contract!" one of the oni yelped "We had a hard enough time with a trainee Shinmeiryuu and that girl's harisen! Now that SHE'S involved we'll be lucky to get sent back to Makai in a tinderbox!"

"Maybe not…" the leader muttered, looking from Hiei to Tsuruko thoughtfully "In fact, if we play our cards right…" An exorcising round clipped his horn, earning a roar from the oni as he rounded on Mana, who had drawn her desert-eagle air-guns and was emptying round after round into the remaining members of the horde. "Dammit! I ain't paid enough for this shit!"

"Shihan you say?" Hiei repeated, an intrigued smirk crossing his features, even as the sounds of battle kicked off around them "I've never fought a truly capable human shihan before…" he sank into an Iai stance "Should be interesting."

"Indeed…" Tsuruko noted, her ever present smile in place as she drew her own Nodachi from it's sheath, the bells chiming "That said I haven't been on the front lines for some time…" her eyes glimmered, almost cat-like, in the shadows "so please forgive me if I'm a little rusty."

Hiei cocked an eyebrow, only to blink as she vanished, only his instincts saving him from the first slash as he spun round to block her nodachi with his own sword, grunting in surprise at the level of strength the woman possessed, easily an A-rank prime by demon standards. The two continued to press against one another, one smiling with disturbing amiability, the other a heated glare, before blurring out of sight, only the sounds of clashing steel, random uses of Chi techniques and the occasional standoff giving away their location.

'Rusty my foot!' Hiei marveled, an appreciative smirk forming on his face as he continued to lock horns with his opponent, a line of blood on his cheek from where a Zankuusen had come dangerously close to his head 'I haven't fought someone this skilled with a sword since Shigure!'

'He's a fast one,' Tsuruko noted with approval, smiling all the while as she slowly got back into the swing of things 'And he doesn't hesitate, going straight for the killing blow with each attack.' She smirked, their swords clashing yet again as she pressed her attack, sparks trailing between them 'That said, he's obviously self taught.'

"You're pretty good," Hiei opined as they held their blades against one another, sparks dancing as the steel grinded together "You actually made me switch hands…I never expected a human to push me that far."

"Such flattery." Tsuruko replied with a smile that only seemed to invite the demon to try harder, not letting up the preassure herself as she beamed at him genially "But don't you think this is enough of a warm up?"

"By all means." Hiei smirked, his Jagan blazing to life, burning his headband away as it glowed purple and green, drawing upon his vast youki reserves to grant it greater strength "Ladies first."

"Very well…" Tsuruko agreed, smiling all the while as she kept up the pressure "But first…your name, if you please?"

Hiei scoffed, though he kept his eyes, all three of them, on the woman in the as he did so, something he only did when he got serious "Hiei." He supplied, a smirk forming across his lips as he looked her in the eye "Not that it'll do you much good in hell."

"Very well then, Hiei-san." Tsuruko stated, her smile twisting into something dangerous as her eyes glowed golden in a sea of darkness "Try not to die too soon…"

Hiei barely had time to recover his balance as the woman leapt into the air, bringing a massive bolt of lightning down on his head.

"That's Tsuruko-sama for you…" Tsukuyomi noted, sighing as she watched her former shihan follow up the Raimeiken with a Ryuhazan "So elegant even in her retirement…such a shame she's married."

'If that's retired I don't want to see what she was like in her prime!' Asuna thought in a panic as she watched the cackling woman and the red-eyed demon clash again 'And that other guy's creepy!' she thought, watching as a grinning Hiei lunged back into the fray like an energizer bunny from hell 'He just keeps smirking and coming back for more!'

"In any case…shall we continue Sempai?" Tsukuyomi asked, looking towards a recovered Setsuna with a smile "Now that Tsuruko-sama's dealt with the interloper, we can resume from our last encounter!"

"By all means, come." Setsuna growled, Yunagi held at the ready as she narrowed her eyes at the psychopathic Lolita "But don't think there'll be a next time...this time I'll cut your head from your shoulders."

"You're adorable when you're angry…!" Tsukuyomi simpered, before lunging forwards, her blades charged with ki as the two clashed, creating small waves where they stood and knocking nearby demons off their feet.

"Setsuna-san!" Asuna yelled, only to instinctively swat a lunging oni in the face, sending him howling back to Makaias her harisen did its job "Dammit!" the redhead snapped "They keep on coming!"

"Then fight on Aru!" Ku Fei called out from the side, delivering a punch that took out a group of the buggers, Mana dealing out rapid projectile death from a distance with her twin air-gun pistols "No disappoint, Baka Red!"

"DAREDA BAKAK-KA?!" Asuna roared, picking it up a notch as she tore into the remainder of the horde like a woman possessed, unconsciously flashing a few of them in the process.

"What in the hell's going on back there?!" Inugami Kotaro growled, watching the after-affects of a bolt of lightning tore through the sky, followed by sounds equivalent to one of Toriyama's epic battle-scenes "That's some serious Ki they're throwing around over there!"

"It certainly is De Gozaru." One of Kaede's clones noted, coming up behind the youth with kunai in hand, nearly lopping off his spiky hair "But do you really think this is the time to be admiring someone else's fights?"

"INUGAMI!" Kotaro yelled, hurling one of his shadowy, canine summons at the clone, dispelling it, only for five more to take it's place, driving him into the air and warding off his summons with a giant, rotating shuriken 'Dammit! Forget the clones and focus on the original!' he cursed, trying to sense the real Kaede from amongst her copies, only for her to clobber him right in the gut, sending him rolling into the grass.

"You're pretty good, squinty-neechan!" he called out, relishing the challenge of fighting a stronger opponent "I can't believe someone like you'd be content to act the laid-back high-schooler!"

"You're pretty skilled yourself." The chunin called out cheerfully, her clones filling the clearing as she paused in her attacks, but not lowering her guard in the slightest "But don't you think it's time to take off the kid-gloves?"

"Sorry…" Kotaro scoffed, lunging at the teen as he did so "But going all out against women ain't my thing!"

Kaede eye-smiled, stepping out of reach of the attack with the ease of training, even as Yue watched from the shadows, unable to comprehend what was happening right before her eyes.

'This defies all logic!' the wide-browed bluenette wondered, watching as her fellow Baka-ranger went to town on the cocky pup, shinobi style 'It's like one of those fantasy novels Nodoka likes to read! Strength like this defies the laws of physics! It's entirely illogical!' she frowned in understanding 'But then I suppose that's what makes it magic.'

A rustling in the bushes caused her to whip round, worried that one of dog-boy's friends had snuck up on her, only for her eyes to widen as she gaped at the figure standing there.

"You're here too, Ayase-san?" said figure wondered, sounding amazed and bemused at the sight "Yare-yare, I take my eyes off the bozu for two days and already things go to hell." He shot the battle going on before them a cursory glance, before looking towards the lake "I'm guessing that's where all the fun's at huh? You two gonna be okay here?"

Yue merely nodded dumbly, her voice failing her as the figure nodded, sending a concerned look towards Kaede, before vanishing into the undergrowth as silently as he'd arrived. "He's improved." Kaede noted, scaring the bejeezus out of Yue as she appeared at the girl's side, an approving smile on her face "he's a lot stronger than before too…"

"But you're…how?" Yue stammered, pointing from the Koga beauty to the multitude of duplicates battling with Kotaro, the canine teen growing more vexed by the second as they ALL appeared to be fairly tangible, enough to leave a fair number of blows on him that is.

"Kage-bunshin." Kaede replied cryptically, as if that were all the answer her fellow Baka-ranger needed, smiling to herself as she watched her doppelgangers put Kotaro through his paces "Perhaps when this is over he can treat Sesha and Ku to a spar de-gozaru ne…"

'When did my life become so messed up?' Yue wondered blithely, only to gape as a beam of light rose up from the direction of the lake, catching everyone's attention.

Pausing in his advance, the shadowed figure's eyes widened as he took in the sight before him, before shaking his head in disbelief. "Yare-yare…" he muttered, covering his face in exasperation "Just perfect, I can't even take my class on a damned field trip without some idiot tryin' ta being on arma-freakin'-geddon."

Shaking his head again, the figure advanced on the shrine with a glint in his eyes, the hilt of a sword held in one hand as his aura crackled around him.

"Not on my watch."

Cue the nadesico music.

Narrator: What ho! Chigusa's dastardly plot is drawing to fruition!

Chigusa: OH-HOHOHOHOHOHO!

Narrator: Can our heroes make it in time to stop it?!

Hiei/Tsuruko: MINE!

Narrator: Will the blades of the shinmeiryuu drink deep of demon blood?!

Tsukuyomi: Oooh, Sempai!

Setsuna: Get away from me you freak!

Narrator: Next time on Reikai Sensei Kuwabara, Clash! The maiden's heartfelt cry!

Kotaro: What the hell's up with this guy?

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