All's Fair in Love and War

by Tensa-Zangetsu102

Cousins, Yusuke and Kagome, have been brainwashed by a new evil bent on destroying the balance of Light and Darkness. Inuyasha and Keiko are the only ones that can save them, will they succeed or will they be engulfed by the darkness of their pasts?

72. Self Destruction

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Monster Rancher, and Inuyasha.

Chapter 72: Self Destruction

(A short time later after the feminine figure's arrival; within the Makai)

Deep within Demon World, we find our heroes and heroines, namely Genki, Keiko, Hikari, Kira, Zane, Syrus, Ryoko, Inuyasha, Holly, Miroku, Sango, Kurama, Yugi, and Tea are standing on one of the cliffs in the Makai and overlooking the vast territory of the Demon Realm and our heroes and heroines are amazed by what they see.

Tea yells out, amazed, "Whoa! This place is huge!"

Kira says, amazed, "Yeah, no kidding, Tea!"

Kurama says, with a serious tone, "Yes. The Demon World is just as vast as or even vaster than the 'human world' than we live in. However, you must tread with caution here. The rule of survival here is the rule of the stronger rule and weaker are ruled by the strong."

Zane says, seriously, "Namely, the law of the jungle back in our world: The stronger survive and the weak die."

Kurama says, with a serious tone, "Exactly, so, you had better watch yourself in our world because it is tough and full of demons. Some that fears you, some that don't care about you, and some that know you with those wanting to prove their power by tearing you to shreds."

Syrus and Ryoko twitched in fear and Ryoko says, fearfully, "Tear us to shreds!"

Syrus says, timidly, "Why did I come here?"

Kurama says, with a smile, "However, thanks to Yusuke and the rest of us, our current ruler's major rule is that there is no mischief allowed in human world by us, demons. So, the human world is safe…at least until the next Demon World tournament mates."

Hikari asks, seriously, "So, where should we start looking for Raizen's territory?"

Kurama points to east of their current position and he says, seriously, "We go that way."

Inuyasha says, with a plain tone, "We should get going."

Syrus asks, curiously, "Uh…question…? How long would it take to reach the Urameshi triples' ancestral father's territory?"

Kurama replies, "Well, if we hurry up, we'd get there at the most by tomorrow." Soon after, Kurama transforms into Youko Kurama to everyone's, except for Keiko's and Hikari's, shock.

Syrus yells out, shocked, "Whoa! It's that really Kurama!?"

Hikari replies, "Of course, Sy, you see this is Youko Kurama, in this form Kurama's a full blooded demon. That other form is his human side, since I was reborn when he was recovering his strength as Shuuchi Minamino."

Kira says, stunned, "Wow that's really amazing." Kira looks at Youko Kurama as a blush came to her cheeks and she thinks, "Wow! He's even more amazing in this form."

Miroku says, plainly, "Now, should we get going?"

Inuyasha says, seriously, "That's right! The sooner we do this, the sooner we beat that asshole and save Kagome!"

Keiko says, in a serious tone, "Don't forget Yusuke! This whole ordeal was to get some kind of power to get Yusuke and Kagome back from that SOB."

Miroku says, seriously, "Now, let's get going, shall we?"

Holly then transforms into her half-demon form, knowing that with her demon blood, her speed would be a lot faster. Youko Kurama's back had sprout wings, similar to the one that he had during the Sensui case. While Kirara gets out of Sango's kimono, jumps up and transforms into her huge cat form to the shock of everyone, except for Inuyasha, Holly, Miroku, and Sango.

Ryoko says, "That's one huge cat!"

Sango says, while getting on Kirara's back, "Don't worry! Kirara's pretty harmless, if she doesn't consider you an enemy." Soon after, Keiko, Tea, and Ryoko joined Sango on Kirara's back, while Yugi and Syrus got onto Inuyasha's back and Genki, Miroku and Zane grab onto the tentacles on Youko Kurama's wings. Youko Kurama takes the air with Kirara while Hikari, Kira, Inuyasha and Holly keep up by bounding from tree tops and ledges as they vent into the Demon World in order to find Raizen's territory.

Five hours later, we find our heroes and heroines are tracking for Raizen's territory, which would be more than a half way to the castle. Along the way, they had to fight off several hordes of demons that sensed Inuyasha's, Holly's, and Hikari's demon auras, but they were low D class to mid C class demons at best, so, they were no problem for our heroes and heroines.

Kira says, plainly, "It seems like we've been traveling for a while."

Hikari asks Youko Kurama, "Hey Kurama, are you sure you know where we are going?!"

Youko Kurama nods his head and replies, "Yes!"

Just then, Miroku spots a high flat plateau and he calls out, "That high plateau might allow us to see something!"

Inuyasha tells Miroku, "Good idea, Miroku! Let's go!" Soon enough, our group reassembled on the top of the plateau while Sailor Mercury begins her scan of the area.

Zane says, with a serious tone, "How are we going to find Raizen's territory?" Soon after, Hikari's, Kira's, Inuyasha's, Youko Kurama's, Miroku's and Sango's senses came in and Kira says, seriously, "Oh shit! I'm picking up something coming this way!"

Hikari says, seriously, "Kira's right! A large amount of demon energy coming on…something…and heading our way."

Syrus asks Kira, curiously, "Where, Kira?"

Kira points ahead of her and says in reply, "Over there, Sy." When everyone looks to the source of the voice, they see major rustling in the distance and after a while, they manage to see what looks like a bug that's the size of good sized modern day skyscraper coming towards them.

Ryoko asks, grossed out, "Yuck! Is that some kind of overgrown cockroach or something?"

Youko Kurama says, shocked, "It's Mukuro's mobile base?"

Everyone looks at Youko Kurama and Zane asks Youko Kurama, "Wait a minute! Before he was taken in by that asshole, Yusuke mention this to us when he told me and then the others about his days as a Spirit Detective."

Syrus asks, curiously, "Isn't she one of the three demons that use to rule Demon World before the Demon World Tournament?"

Youko Kurama nods his head and replies, seriously, "Yes. Mukuro, one of the former rulers of our realm. I've managed to get the full story after the Demon World tournament and it is not pretty. Mukuro was a beautiful young person, even by your standards, but she was born a slave and abused in every single way, including by her own father. Unable to take it anymore, she poured acid on her body to damage it to make sure she wasn't beautiful anymore. She was imprisoned in chains until she got out. Then she gained power and became one of the three rulers of Demon World. She took the identity of a man that she kept until the start of the Demon World tournament. She was full of hatred and rage until Hiei freed her by getting rid of the shackles that she could have never gotten off! She could have won the Demon World tournament because her hate, anger, and rage gave her great power, but ever since Hiei allowed Mukuro to finally move on with her life, her power was reduced and she lost in the end. Now, she leads former tournament members as part of our current king's 'search party' for any humans that fall into demon world and bring them back."

Keiko says, solemnly, "Damaging her own body to stop getting hurt? That's so sad."

Ryoko says, plainly, "No joke! Way a nasty way to go."

Youko Kurama says, seriously, "Demon World is a harsh now and it was a harsh place then. And I think it's safe to say that her soldiers have sensed our auras. This isn't good if we have to fight them. These aren't those lower class demons that we fought earlier. These are elite A to S class demons and not pushovers. Hikari, here, with her combined spirit and demon powers, is the only who can beat S class demons."

Kira says, drolly, "Just great."

Hikari says, nodding her head, "No joke, sis. I don't think I can fight a whole army of elite warrior demons."

Youko Kurama says, with a serious tone, "I don't think we have to fight at all. Mukuro is many things, but she is an honorable warrior and demon at times. She isn't without emotion. Plus, I think that she might be able to help us. As a former ruler of Demon World, she may help us get to Raizen's territory a lot faster."

Sango says, plainly, "Sounds risky doesn't it?"

Hikari says, with a serious tone, "It might be the only lead that we've got."

Sango says, with a plain tone, "Hikari is a good point, even I have to admit. Even I feel that it is too risky to trust an ex-lord of this place."

Keiko says, in a serious tone, "But still, it could be the only way to get to Raizen's territory a lot faster this way! I say we go for it!" Soon after, our group, in one's own fashion, quickly moves towards Mukuro's approaching mobile fortress.

A while soon after, we find Kiri, one of Mukuro's loyal servants, on top of the mobile fortress with the driver as he sniffs into the air and Kiri asks, plainly, "What do you smell?"

The mobile fortress driver says, "Humans and a lot of them. Plus, there are four…no, five demons, but…most of these demons also has human on them."

Kiri asks, plainly, "Half-demons? Is one of them Yusuke Urameshi?"

The mobile fortress driver shakes his head and replies, "No. But this half-demon is very powerful…I never smelled anything like it and she is coming this way."

Kiri gasps and exclaims, in a serious tone, "Where?!"

The mobile fortress looks to his left and up, points up to the sky, and exclaims, "There!" Kiri looks to where the mobile fortress driver was pointing and gasps to see our group, Genki, Keiko, Hikari, Kira, Zane, Syrus, Ryoko, Inuyasha, Holly, Miroku, Sango, Kurama, Yugi, and Tea floating down in front of them.

Kiri yells out, with a deadly serious tone, "Who the hell are all of you?!"

Youko Kurama says, in a plain tone, "It's a shame that you don't recognize me."

Kiri and the driver gasp in shock and Kira yells out, shocked, "It's Youko Kurama!?"

The driver points at the rest of the group and he asks, "But who are those humans and half demons?"

Hikari steps up and she replies, with a serious tone, "We're looking for Mukuro, you see, I am Hikari Urameshi."

Kiri calls out, stunned, "Urameshi?! You mean that you're in any relation to a Yusuke Urameshi?"

Kira says, seriously, "That's right! I'm Kira Urameshi, Yusuke's younger twin sister!"

The mobile fortress driver sniffs the Urameshi sisters and he says, amazed, "That strange. One of them smells like a half-demon and one smells like a fully human."

Kiri states, perplexed, "What?"

Just then a familiar female voice calls out, in a plain tone, "I can't believe that Yusuke Urameshi's sisters are here in our realm." Everyone turn to the source of the voice to see Mukuro walking up to all of them.

Kiri tells Mukuro, in a serious tone, "My lord, you shouldn't be…!"

Mukuro holds up her right hand to stop Kiri from talking and she says, "It is all right, Kiri. I sensed her large demon energy before you even saw her. And I believe that she isn't here for a fight."

Hikari says, with a diplomatic tone, "That's right! We heard that you were one of the three former rulers of Demon World. Your name is Mukuro."

Mukuro replies, quirking an eyebrow, "Yes, you are correct. Why have all come to me?"

Hikari says, seriously, "It's what happened with my brother and cousin. You see for a year or so, this asshole named Sartorius has been using them as puppets for his own gain."

Mukuro says, with a plain tone, "Yusuke Urameshi has been brainwashed."

Keiko says, seriously, "That's right! I'm his girlfriend…well ex-girlfriend, after what that asshole did to us. We wanted to know where we could find Raizen's territory, because that's where we can find the Valley of the Ends."

Mukuro raises an eyebrow and she says, seriously, "The Valley of the Ends! What kind of business does a human like yourself are planning to go to a place like that. In case, you weren't informed, you'll be meeting with these challenges and if you fail, your soul will be trapped there for all eternity."

Keiko yells out, seriously, "I know and I don't care! If it's a way to bring Yusuke back to his senses, then I'll be willing to do it!"

Mukuro seemed surprised about Keiko's outburst, she quickly regains her composer and she asks Keiko, curiously, "Why do a human like yourself want to go those with this ordeal?"

Keiko calls out, in a strong serious tone, "Because I love him that's why!? It was because of my own stupidity that Yusuke's under the control of that rotten jerk and I don't want the whole universe to suffer because of my mistake! Yusuke's always saving everyone, including me, and I've always seeing him fighting for his life to save me, every time and what do I do to repay him! I got him in the hands of a madman, who's using him as a tool! With most enemies, I'm always used as bait or some kind of tool, just to lure Yusuke to the slaughterhouse and I'm sick of it! Yusuke's always saving me and now it's my turn to save him!" Soon after, tears came from Keiko's eyes, she wipes them out with her hands, and she says, seriously, "I know that I may look like an ordinary human being to you, but I'll do anything for Yusuke, even put my life and soul on the line for him!"

Everyone seemed to be touched about Keiko's speech, especially Mukuro, as she places a smile on her face, and she says, with a smile, "I must say, I'm impressed on your bravery, girl! I believe that you may be the first human that has ever spoken to me in that tone. You must love Yusuke Urameshi with all your heart and soul. What is your name, girl?"

Keiko replies, strongly, "It's Keiko! Keiko Yukimura."

Mukuro says, with a sly smile, "Well, Keiko Yukimura, you've certainly have earned my respect. As a matter of fact, I'll even help you and your friends get to Raizen's territory." Keiko and her friends smiled at this and Keiko says, with a smile, "Thank you, Mukuro!"

Kiri yells out, annoyed, "It's 'Lord Mukuro' to you, you human!"

Mukuro tells Kiri, seriously, "Kiri, you will watch your mouth with Ms. Yukimura and her friends, is that clear?"

Kiri gasps in shock and exclaims, seriously, "My lord, you don't expect…!" However, Mukuro gives Kiri a very serious look that tells him to shut up.

Mukuro replies, seriously, "They are not enemies wishing for battle and right now, we are no longer wishing to force quarrels with the Human World, which is fine by me. They have requested for aid and I've decided to aid them."

Kiri says, with a sigh, "Yes, my lord."

Mukuro says, with a serious tone, "Follow us and please keep up. We are not waiting for any stragglers." Our group nods their heads as Mukuro directly the driver of her mobile fortress and her mobile fortress heads in the direction of Raizen's territory in the Makai while our heroes and heroines follow her.

Syrus whispers to Youko Kurama, serious tone in his voice, "Do you think that we can trust her, Kurama?"

Youko Kurama replies, with a nod, "We can and plus, I sense that we are going the right way."

Ryoko says, with a sigh, "I hope that you know what you are doing, Kurama." As Mukuro's fortress continues in the direction for the Raizen's territory in the Makai, our heroes and heroines along with their demon guides continue on and wondering what they are going as well as what to expect when they get there.

(Returning to the Human World; Sometime later)

Back in the human world, we find ourselves by the KaibaCorp building, where we find Tristan Taylor, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine Wheeler, Jasmine Kurada, Mia, Ayumi, Yuka, and Eri walking towards the building, working into the building and towards the secretary desk.

The secretary asks, "May I help you?"

Jasmine asks, with a smile, "Excuse me, ma'am, but we'd like to speak with Seto Kaiba."

Just then, a male voice calls out, in a snobbish tone, "You're looking for me!" Everyone turns to see Seto and Mokuba Kaiba themselves walking towards them. Kaiba notices Joey, Mai, and Tristan and he says, in his usual snobbish tone, "Oh great! It is 'The Geek Patrol Returns'. Didn't we see this movie?"

Tristan says, in an annoyed tone, "Well, nice to see you too, Kaiba."

Mokuba asks, curiously, "What is that you guys wanted to ask my brother?"

Mai replies, "We have a few questions to ask your brother!"

Kaiba says, in his usual snobbish tone, "If that's the case, then follow me to my office." Kaiba turns away and walks away as the rest followed him. A few moments later, the group followed Kaiba to his office and Kaiba asks, while going to his desk, "What do you dorks want?"

Joey replies, in a serious tone, "Answers, rich boy, you see, while Yusuke and Kagome, along with a friend of their Catherine Maxwell were staying over your mansion, did they happen to go through any weird experiments."

Kaiba asks, in his usual snobbish tone, "What is it that you're implying, Wheeler?"

Joey yells out, seriously, "You know exactly what we're implying, Kaiba! You're working for this Sartorius and gave him information on Yusuke, Kagome, and Catherine!"

Mai snaps at her husband, annoyed, "Joey, shush!"

Kaiba says, in his usual snobbish tone, "That's an absurd assumption, dork! I don't even know who this Sartorius person is is."

Tristan says, in a serious tone, "He's the asshole, who brainwashed our friends."

Mokuba says, perplexed, "Brainwashed?"

Kaiba says, rolling his eyes and with an annoyed tone, "Oh, please! Not this ancient Egyptian stuff, again! I thought after ten years, you would have grown out of this hocus pocus stuff!"

Joey says, annoyed, "We don't buy that, rich boy! Besides, Yusuke told us that you once saw the spirit of his ancestral father, Raizen."

Kaiba says, in his usual snobbish tone, "Shows how much you know, dork! It's not like I had a choice to tell the kid about the main reason why I wanted him and Kagome, as well as Catherine Maxwell as my apprentices for last summer."

Mai asks, "What do you mean by that?"

Kaiba replies, in a serious tone, "Last year, I was paid a visit by a girl no order than Kagome Higurashi. This girl challenged me to a duel and she said that if she could get my life points lower than a thousand then I'd do her one favor. However, she managed to do just that and I beat her in the end. This girl's request to bring the duelists Yusuke Urameshi, Kagome Higurashi, and Catherine Maxwell as my apprentices."

Ayumi asks, "Did this girl happen to tell you why she wanted them as your apprentices?"

Kaiba shook his head and he replies, "Not quite, kid. She was so mysterious about it."

Jasmine asks, curiously, "What was the girl's name?"

Kaiba replies, in a plain tone, "I never forget the name of that girl! The girl's name was Rose Tenku." The group gasps in shock in this and Jasmine says, "You mean that Rose Tenku girl was the one, who wanted you to bring Yusuke, Kagome, and Catherine as your apprentices?"

Kaiba nods his head and he replies, "I'm sure of it! She also told me about Catherine's and Yusuke's 'demonic' heritage, along with Kagome being a reincarnated priestess, but unlike you geeks, I didn't necessarily believe it. However, she did told me that when Yusuke comes in my company asking about getting into Duel Academy to bring him into my office for a proposition as my apprentice, which the reason that I 'talked' to his 'ancestral father'. That Rose girl was just as nuts as all of you!"

Yuka yells out, annoyed, "Just as nuts! Our friends are being used as tools and you're saying that none of it is true!"

Kaiba says, in his usual snobbish tone, "That's right! Now, if you all excuse me, I've got an important meeting in ten minutes to attend, so I know that you know the way out." The group walks out of the room, with annoyed and angered looks on their faces.

Joey says, in annoyed tone, "I see, after all these years, Kaiba hasn't changed one bit! He's still the stuck-up rich punk that I want to bash to the ground!"

Mai says, in a serious tone, "But still, we got what we came for. For some reason, Sartorius wanted Yusuke, Kagome, and Catherine as his apprentices."

Ayumi says, in an angered tone, "It just gives us another reason to tear that fucking brainwashing asshole apart for making Yusuke and Kagome into his little puppets!"

Eri says, in a serious tone, "No joke! He's gonna pay for using our friends like some kind of tools!"

(Back in Demon World; A short time later)

Returning to the realm of the demons, we find our heroes and heroines, namely Keiko, Youko Kurama, Hikari, Yugi, Tea, Ryoko, Syrus, Mia, Kira, Genki, Holly, Miroku, Inuyasha, Sango, and Zane in the world of the Makai on top of Mukuro's mobile fortress with Mukuro nearing Raizen's territory.

Mukuro points at Raizen's castle that they are in front of and she says, plainly, "Here we are, my friends."

Hikari says, perplexed, "This is my ancestral father's territory."

Mukuro says, plainly, "That's right, Hikari. This is where your brother trained for three years."

Mia says, "It's strange that this world has a different time setting than our world."

Keiko tells Mukuro, with a smile, "Thank you for taking us, here."

Mukuro replies, with a smile, "It's no problem, my dear."

Zane says, seriously, "I guess that this is our stop." A few moments later, the group got off of Mukuro's mobile fortress and Mukuro motions to move her mobile fortress. Soon after, Hokushin and his two fellow monks came down from the castle and spot the group in front of them.

The tall monk asks, curiously, "Why are humans doing in our domain?" Soon after, our heroes and heroines looked at the three demon monks coming towards them.

Miroku says, in a serious tone, "Excuse us! We mean no harm! We came here to find a place called the Valley of the Ends."

Hokushin says, perplexed, "The Valley of the Ends! Surely, you must know of consequences for failure."

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "You're got to help us! My name is Hikari Urameshi." Hokushin and his fellow monks gasp in shock and the middle-sized monk says, stunned, "You mean that you're related to a Yusuke Urameshi." Soon after, the group the monks about what has happened in the Human World, with Yusuke and Kagome, along with other things that they need to know.

Hokushin says, in serious tone, "So, Mr. Urameshi has been taken in by this Sartorius human."

Keiko nods her head and says, plainly, "That's right and it's my fault that Yusuke's under the control of that…monster in human clothing! We came here to find the Valley of the Ends, so I can get the power to bring Yusuke back. I know the consequences for failure, but if it's a way to bring Yusuke back, then I'm ready to accept any consequences that it comes to it."

Hokushin looks at the seriousness in Keiko's eyes, he smiles and he says, "Very farewell, we shall help you."

Keiko says, with a smile, "Thank you!"

Hokushin says, with a smile and seriously, "Now, since all of you are Mr. Urameshi's friends and family, please I welcome you to our domain castle."

Ryoko says, with a smile of her own, "Thank you very much."

A few hours later, we find our all of our group sitting down in a huge 'living room' designed similar to palace rooms used in the ancient Hittite Empire and ancient Egyptian Empires, after eating food, which considering that some of the food was meant for humans as well as demons. They are assembled in front of Hokushin and his fellow monks, and they are gathered around her in a 'U' shape.

Hokushin tells the group, "First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your journey. You are the first humans and half demons, other than Mr. Urameshi, have come to this part of the domain."

Ryoko asks, curiously, "I've got a question concerning how Urameshi's ancestral father, Raizen, died. You see, Urameshi told us about the reason why, because he fell in love with a human being and left, while dying in starvation."

Just then, a male voice calls out, "Well, what do we have here." Everyone turns to see a spiritual form of Yusuke's, Hikari's, and Kira's ancestral father, Raizen floating above them. Syrus, Mia and Ryoko scream out fearfully in unison, while holding each other, "A ghost!"

Hokushin and his fellow monks bows in unison and Hokushin says, stunned, "Lord Raizen…"

Kira says, shocked, "No way! That's our ancestral dad!"

Raizen looks at Hikari and Kira and says, with a sly smile, "So these are my descendants I see. They have very powerful auras. Now, I'm wondering why are humans are doing in this domain."

Keiko steps forward and she replies, a bit nervous and seriously, "Excuse me, sir! I was the one, who suggested coming here." Raizen looks at Keiko and he says, with a sly smile, "So, this is the human that Yusuke fancies so much."

Keiko blushed in reply and Raizen says, with sly grin, "Well, I see that boy may be low on brains, but not the looks. Now, why have you come here?" Keiko tells Raizen about what happened, especially her 'role' in this.

Raizen says, in a serious tone, "So, Yusuke's under this Sartorius's character control and you're going to the Valley of the Ends to see to bring him back."

Keiko replies, seriously, "That's right! It's my fault that Yusuke under that asshole's control, so it should be my responsibility to bring him back. Yusuke's always rescuing me from danger and I'm the one, who's always used as bait to lure him into the slaughterhouse. I'm sick of being a weak person, who couldn't help the one that she loves. I know the consequences of failure, but it'll bring Yusuke back from that SOB then I'll do whatever it takes to bring him back, even put my soul on the line to free him from that asshole's control, along with another friend of mine that's under that asshole's control."

Raizen chuckles and he says, with a sly smile, "I see! You must really love that boy to put your life on the line for him. What would you do, if you get this power and bring Yusuke back?"

Keiko replies, seriously, "I'll apologize for betraying his trust, abandoning him, and tell him how much he really means to me."

Raizen cracks a sly smile and he calls out, "Hokushin!"

Hokushin snaps to attention and he replies, "Yes sir!"

Raizen motions to Keiko and he says, seriously, "You will guide Ms. Yukimura and her friends to the Valley of the Ends, safely. I'll even come with you all."

Hokushin says, seriously, "Yes, my lord! Come with me, everyone." Soon enough, our heroes and heroines get to their feet and follow Hokushin to wherever he is leading them.

Tea thinks in her mind, concerned, "Oh! I really hope that Keiko knows what she is doing…!"

(A short time later; Elsewhere in Raizen's kingdom)

Within another area of Raizen's kingdom, we find our heroes and heroines, Hokushin, and Raizen assembled above on plateau overlooking a rocky valley that contains a mystical circle similar to the one that Atem and Tea went to during the Orichalcos Saga when Atem, just Yami at the time, was separated from Yugi when his soul was captured by the Orichalcos.

Zane asks Raizen and Hokushin, seriously, "Is that it?"

Hokushin nods his head and replies, seriously, "Yes, it is, Mr. Truesdale."

Tea says, stunned, "Hey, this looks like where Atem and I went to when he was separated from Yugi, ten years ago, when we had to deal with the Orichalcos thing!"

Hikari says, with a serious tone, "Whoa! I'm sensing a lot of weird energies all around this place."

Kira nods and she says, with a serious tone, "Yes, an eerie wind is around here."

Raizen nods his head and replies, "And you are correct to sense it. A lot of good and evil souls are trapped in this place and those souls are looking for another soul to test. Your friend must head into that circle alone because the spirits will allow only one through. If more people try to follow, those foul spirits shall sense you instantly and your soul will be lost forever."

Ryoko says, a bit fearfully, "Creepy!"

Hikari asks, seriously, "How we will know that Keiko won't get attacked?"

Hokushin says, seriously, "Since there is only one coming, they know that this is a soul to be test by the sacred circle. They shall play tricks to unnerve Ms. Yukimura, but she must remain focused. When she gets to the circle, she will find her opponent for her test and that's facing her enemy."

Tea asks Keiko, concerned tone in her voice, "Keiko, are you sure that you want to go through with this?"

Ryoko says, seriously, "Yeah! Maybe there is another way for you to get Urameshi and Kagome from that asshole."

Youko Kurama says, with a serious tone, "I'm not sure that there is no other way, girls. I believe that Raizen and Hokushin are right that the only way for Keiko to harness this strength is to find it in herself."

Keiko says, with a sigh, "And the bad news is, I agree with both of them. This is something that I can't just run away from. I have to do this, no matter if I want to or not."

Genki tells Keiko, with a serious tone, "Well, you better be damn well careful, Yukimura."

Keiko tells Genki, with a sly grin, "Don't worry, Akaya. I will." Keiko takes her Academy duel disc out of her backpack and attaches it to her left wrist. Soon after, Keiko slides down the side of the plateau and lands on the ground where the sacred circle lies. Keiko gets an eerie feeling and she thinks, a bit nervously, "I don't really like this!" Keiko then tries her best to put on a brave face and starts to move forward. After she is one-quarter of the way there, she starts to hear sounds and when one loud eerie sound comes to her ears, Keiko whips around to find the source. She calls out, somewhat nervous, "Hello?! Is there someone out here?! Hello?!" Keiko turns around to walk away when she yelps out in shock as a ghost image of Younger Toguro is in front of her and Keiko jumps back in shock, but then she notices that the image of Younger Toguro isn't going towards her. Keiko says, with a serious glare, "Wait a minute!" Keiko goes over to the image waves her hand in it and the ghost image of Younger Toguro fades away. Keiko moans out, in annoyance, "Illusion!?" Soon after, multiple small ghostly spheres float around and by her. However, Keiko continues forward as her friends continue to watch on.

Hikari states, with a curious tone, "How did those spirits create such a perfect illusion of Toguro?"

Raizen replies, plainly, "The spirits can see into the heart and mind of the one wishing to take the trial and create illusions of his or her enemies in this time and the past in order to 'scare' and weaken her." On the meanwhile, as Keiko continues to walk forward, images of the Sensui, Tyku, Reginald, Rose, and Sartorius continue to appear in front of her, but Keiko tries her best not to pay them any mind and continues until she is inside the circle.

Keiko yells out, seriously, "Okay, I'm here! So, stop trying to scare me and let's get this over with!" Just then a huge earthquake hits the area and Keiko falls to the ground on her bottom. Keiko yelps out, a bit fearfully, "Okay! Okay! You scared me!" Soon after, a silver field of light surrounds the mystical circle and trapping Keiko inside.

Kira yells to Raizen and Hokushin, seriously, "Hey, what the hell is this?!"

Raizen says, with a very serious tone, "She has accepted the test and her trial shall begin."

Holly asks, curiously, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Hokushin says, with a serious tone, "You shall see. Keep watching."

As Keiko's friends and allies continue to look on, Tea and Hikari think in their minds, concerned tone, "Please, Kei, be careful."

When Keiko gets to her feet, Keiko asks, looking at the barrier trapping her inside of the mystical circle, "What the heck is going on around here?"

Just then a familiar female voice replies, with a nasty tone, similar to a younger version of herself, "What do you think, dork?! It is time for you to pay!" Keiko whips around to source of the voice to see a ten-year-old version of herself wearing a green sweater with a pink pleated skirt, with white socks that reach to her knees and brown formal shoes, with an Academy duel disc and a dueling deck inside attached to her left wrist, and nasty and angered glare pointing directly at Keiko.

Keiko yells out, surprised and angrily, "What the hell!? Who are you!?"

The younger version of Keiko AKA Young Keiko replies, in a nasty manner, "What do you think? I'm you! Meaning if you're too slow to get this, I'm a reflection of you!"

Keiko asks, curiously, "Why are you…"

Young Keiko asks, in a nasty and harsh tone, "Look, can we get this over with!? The sooner I beat you the sooner I can make you pay!"

Keiko asks, "Pay for what!?"

Young Keiko says, nastily, "As if you didn't know…"

Keiko puts her dueling deck into her duel disk and both of them activate their duel disks with their life-points counters displays 8000 life-points each.

After they have drawn their first five cards, both duelists yell out, "Let's duel!"

Starting Scores:

Young Keiko: 8000

Keiko: 8000

Young Keiko calls out, "Boku no time, draw!" Young Keiko draws her card from her deck, places it in her hand, takes one out, places it into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I activate Foolish Burial! Now, can send one monster card from my deck to the graveyard!" Young Keiko takes out her deck, searches through it, takes one out, sends it to the graveyard, reshuffles her deck, and places it back to her disc. Young Keiko places a card onto the disc and calls out, seriously, "I summon Masked Dragon in defense mode!" Soon after, Masked Dragon (ATK: 1400/DEF: 1100) appears in defense mode. Young Keiko places a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I'll place a facedown! Now, go, dork!"

Keiko calls out, seriously, "Watashi no time, draw!" Keiko draws her card from her deck, places it onto the field and calls out, "I'll summon Solar Flare Dragon in attack mode!" Soon after, Solar Flare Dragon (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000) appears in attack mode. Keiko places a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Now, I'll play Quick Summon! Now, I'm allowed another normal summon! Now, say hello to another Solar Flare Dragon!" Solar Flare Dragon (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000) appears beside the first in attack mode. Keiko calls out, seriously, "Now, my dragon, attack her Masked Dragon!" Solar Flare Dragon fires a flame ball directly at Masked Dragon, destroying it and causing a huge explosion.

Young Keiko says, with a sly grin, "Nice one, older me! Once my dragon lives the field by a battle, I get to summon a dragon monster with fifteen hundred attack points or less and I choose my Decoy Dragon!" Soon after, Decoy Dragon (ATK: 300/DEF: 200), a little dragon with green and orange scales and ruby red eyes, comes to the field in defense mode. Young Keiko presses a button her disc and calls out, seriously, "Now, I'll play a familiar trap! Backfire!"

Keiko gasps in shock and she yells out, shocked, "Oh no!"

Young Keiko says, with a sly grin, "I'm pretty sure that you know what this does! Now, when Fire monsters are destroyed, you take five hundred points of Direct Damage! So, take this, dork!" Keiko yelps in shock as she was surrounded by fire and she loses 500 life points!

When the fire stops, Keiko says, with a sly smile, "That dragon won't stand a chance against mine! Solar Flare Dragon, attack!" Solar Flare Dragon fires it's fireball at Decoy Dragon.

Young Keiko calls out, "Not so fast, dork! I play my dragon's effect! When he is attacked, I can summon one level seven dragon monster from my grave and summon him to the field, switching your attack to it! And I choose my Darkblaze Dragon!" Darkblaze Dragon (ATK: 1200/DEF: 1000), a black and fiery red demonic-like dragon, then comes to the field in attack mode.

Keiko yells out, stunned, "But you don't have any dragons in your grave! How did that get in there?!"

Young Keiko replies, "Hey, older me, forget about the card that I sent thanks to my Foolish Burial! This card was the one!"

Keiko says, "But, it's still low on attack points!"

Young Keiko replies, with a sly grin, "Wrong! Sure, it starts out weak, but since it was summoned from the grave, its attack and defense double!"

Keiko calls out, stunned, "Oh no!" Darkblaze Dragon's stats rise from 1200/1000 to 2400/2000, Solar Flare Dragon's attack is redirected to Darkblaze Dragon, the dragon counterattacks, and destroys Solar Flare Dragon causing it to be destroyed and as Keiko loses 900 life-points.

Young Keiko yells out, with a sly grin, "It is only getting worse for you, dork! When my dragon destroys a monster in battle, you lose life-points equal to its attack points and that's fifteen hundred!" Keiko cries out as she gets blasted by Darkblaze Dragon and she can actually feel the burn from the flames and loses 1500 life-points.

Hikari, Kira, Tea, Zane, Ryoko, Mia, Syrus, and Yugi yells out, horrified and in unison, "Keiko!" When the flames died, Keiko slumps to her knees and she groans out, weakly, "What…how did I just feel that burn!?"

Young Keiko says, with a sly grin, "Oh did I forget to mention that we can feel the attacks of each others' monsters'! You can call it a Shadow Game if you like it."

Keiko yells out, shocked, "A Shadow Game!?"

Hikari yells at Hokushin, annoyed, "What's the deal!? You never told us that Keiko would be participating in an actual Shadow Game!"

Ryoko asks, annoyed, "Are you trying to kill her!?"

Hokushin says, in a serious tone, "It'll only kill her if she doesn't have the stamina to go on."

Young Keiko says, in a sly tone, "Ready to call it quits?"

Keiko gets on her feet, sends two cards into the spell/trap slots and calls out, seriously, "Hardly, I'll place two face-downs and I'm done, but my dragon isn't! You see, when my turn ends, you take five hundred points of damage!" Solar Flare Dragon shoots flames at Young Keiko and she yelps in shock as it hits her, while losing 500 life points

Current Score:

Young Keiko: 7500

Keiko: 5100

Young Keiko calls out, "Boku no time, draw!" Young Keiko draws her card and she says, "Your attack barely left a starch on me!" Young Keiko sends a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I activate Pot of Greed! Now, I'll draw two cards!" Young Keiko draws two cards from her deck, places one card onto the disc and calls out, "Now, I'll summon Blazing Inpachi in attack mode!" Soon after, Blazing Inpachi (ATK: 1850/DEF: 0000) appears in attack mode.

Keiko presses a button on her disc and calls out, "I activate my face-down! Call of the Haunted! Now, I summon back to the field Solar Flare Dragon!" Soon after, Solar Flare Dragon (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000) appears beside the first one. Keiko presses another button on her disc and calls out, "Next, I'll activate my other face-down…Infernal Reckless Summon! Now, we can summon in attack mode any monsters from our hands, decks, and graveyard that has the same name of the monster that we gone on the field!" Soon after, the third Solar Flare Dragon (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000) appears on the field.

Young Keiko growls in annoyance and she says, annoyed, "Unfortunately, I have another Inpachi or Darkblaze Dragon! But that doesn't mean you're safe!" Young Keiko sends another card spell/trap slot and calls out, "I'll place this face-down and let you go! But, you're only delaying the inevitable, dork!"

Keiko calls out, "Watashi no time, draw!" Keiko draws her card and she says, seriously, "We'll see!" Keiko sends a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I'll activate Card of Sanctity, now both of us to draw until we're holding six cards in our hands!" Both duelists drew until they were holding six cards in their hands, Keiko places a card onto the disc and calls out, "I'll sacrifice my two Solar Flare Dragons to summon forth Infernal Flame Emperor!" Two of the three Solar Flare Dragons, including the one that was summoned by Call of the Haunted, disappears and Infernal Flame Emperor (ATK: 2700/DEF: 1600) appears on the field in attack mode. Keiko then says, with a sly smile, "Next, I play its ability! Now, I can remove up to five Fire monsters from my graveyard and for each one that I remove, one spell or trap card on the field is destroyed! So, I remove my two Solar Flare Dragons to destroy your Backfire and your face-down card!" The two monsters come out of Keiko's graveyard, she puts them in her pocket and 'out of play', and Young Keiko's Backfire and one face-down card, which proved to be Dormant Volcano, are destroyed.

Young Keiko says, with a sly grin, "Thank you, older me! That was my Dormant Volcano that you've destroyed and when it's destroyed, you lose three hundred points!"

Keiko yells out, stunned, "Oh no!" Just then Keiko yells out as she is blasted from below the extreme heat burns her as her life-points drop by 300. Keiko groans in pain and she says, winching in pain, "That's not going to stop me! Infernal Flame Emperor, attack her Darkblaze Dragon with Underground Torch!" Infernal Flame Emperor slams its palm into the ground, a column of flames bursts up from the ground under Darkblaze Dragon's feet, and it screeches as it is destroyed causing Young Keiko to lose 300 life-points.

Keiko sends a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I'll place this face-down and end my turn, with my Solar Flare Dragon inflicting five hundred points!" Solar Flare Dragon shoots flames at Young Keiko and she yelps in shock as it hits her, while losing 500 more life points.

Current Score:

Young Keiko: 6700

Keiko: 4700

Young Keiko calls out, seriously, "Boku no time, draw!" Young Keiko draws her card from her deck, sends it to the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I activate Graceful Charity, now I get to draw three cards and discard two the graveyard!" Young Keiko draws three cards, discards two to the graveyard, puts another card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Now, I'll activate Monster Reborn to summon the monster from my graveyard and I choose…my Flame Ruler!" Soon after, Flame Ruler (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1600) appears on the field in attack mode.

Keiko asks, confused, "How did that monster get in your graveyard!?"

Young Keiko giggles and she says, with a sneer, "I guess it's true…when you grow older the mind's the first thing to go! Did you forget about the two cards that I've sent with my Graceful Charity spell card!" Young Keiko places a card onto the disc and calls out, "I sacrifice my Flame Ruler to activate his effect as two sacrificial monsters for one Fire monster, namely my Tyrant Dragon!" Flame Ruler disappears and Tyrant Dragon (ATK: 2900/DEF: 2500) appears in front of Young Keiko in attack mode.

Yugi yells out, shocked, "Not that monster!"

Young Keiko yells out, strongly, "Now, my dragon, attack her Infernal Flame Emperor!" Tyrant Dragon fires a breath of flames from her mouth and totally vaporizes Keiko's Infernal Flame Emperor, which cost Keiko 300 life-points.

Keiko screams out, horrified, "My Flame Emperor!"

Ryoko says, stunned, "That was Keiko's best monster!"

Young Keiko shouts out, "And thanks to Tyrant Dragon's special effect, I can attack you again since you have another monster on your side of the field!"

Keiko yells out, horrified, "What?!"

Young Keiko calls out, "Tyrant Dragon, show this old hag what I mean! Attack!" Tyrant Dragon launches another burst of flames from its mouth and vaporized Keiko's Solar Flare Dragon, while costing 1400 life points.

Keiko calls out, shocked, "No! My Solar Flare Dragon!"

Young Keiko yells out, "I'm not done yet! Blazing Inpachi, attack her directly!" Blazing Inpachi throws a fireball at Keiko and it hits her hard, causing a huge explosion. Keiko screams out in pain as she felts the extreme burn and loses 1850 life points and when the fire stops, Keiko slumps to her knees while her form is smoking.

Young Keiko says, "I think that you suffered enough for now, but you'll pay for what you did on your next turn!"

Current Score:

Young Keiko: 6700

Keiko: 1250

Syrus yells out, horrified, "Oh man! Keiko's defenseless now!"

Ryoko tells Syrus, annoyed, "We know that, Truesdale!"

After getting on her feet, Keiko asks, curiously, "Now, this is really starting to bug me! Why do you have something against me?"

Young Keiko looks at Keiko, angrily, and she replies, angrily and seriously, "You know why!? It's what you did to the one person that I treasured! It's what you've done to Yusuke!"

Keiko gasps in shock and Young Keiko says, in a serious tone, "Do ever wonder why Yusuke loves you? All through your childhood, you've treated him like a regular person, unlike his mother and sister, who's done nothing, but ignored him. When he was going to jump of the bridge do you know, who saved him? You did!? Other people knows him for being a 'whore's son' or 'worthless street thug', but not you!"

Keiko says, plainly, "Of course not! I would never do that to him."

Young Keiko asks, in an angered tone, "Oh really if that's the fact than why did you believe that asshole, Tyku, when he told you that the only reason why Yusuke beat him up was to get him away from you!" That question hits Keiko's heart hard and Young Keiko asks, seriously, "Or better yet, why didn't you listen to your friends when they told you that Tyku was bad news!? When that creep, Reginald Haga, why didn't you slap him away when he kissed you, which hurt Yusuke!?"

All those questions hit Keiko's heart even harder and Keiko replies, seriously, "I didn't think there's a reason for those questions, except those were my past stupid mistakes that I had to pay for. I lost someone that I treasured for them. True, he may be an idiot, pervert, annoying, and immature at times, but at least he had a heart and treated me like a regular person, while others wanted me for my stats."

Young Keiko asks, "And how did Tyku treated you?"

Keiko replies, "He treated me kind of the same as Yusuke, even more and a bit understanding. But that turned out to be all false, when I saw him kissing that girl, Rose. When I heard that Yusuke 'moved on', I was so heartbroken that I lost all hope of bring him back to my arms, but when I told Tyku he comforting me and told me that it wasn't my fault. When I was with him, I felt a less guilty about what I've done to Yusuke. When that asshole stabbed me in the back, all the things that I've done Yusuke, including what happened at Yusuke's apartment, came into my mind and I felt even lower than dirt."

Young Keiko says, with a sneer, "Yeah, I bet you did! Why don't you just admit the fact that you never loved Yusuke and you were just waiting for a great opportunity to break his heart!?"

Keiko yells out, seriously, "Don't you dare say that!? I really did love him and I still do! There wasn't a day I could never stop thinking about him!"

Young Keiko asks, seriously, "Oh really, answer this question! If Demon World's years weren't weeks in your world, but went with the same time and Yusuke actually come back for three years, would you wait for him for three years?"

That question hits Keiko's heart even more than the last ones and she replies, strongly and seriously, while loud enough for her friends and allies to hear, "Of course, I would! I'll wait forever for him, because he means so much to me and I don't ever want to lose him! But when he goes off to these missions, I fear for his life and without knowing if he's alright or if he's still alive. The first time that he died, I felt a part of me was broken and was surprised that Yusuke would sacrifice himself to save a little boy at the cost of his life. While he was dead, almost everyone of my teachers and fellow students said that it was good radiance that he was dead. I was so angry that I wanted to hit them so badly for saying things like that, especially when they don't know him as much as I do, but I knew that deep in my heart that Yusuke wouldn't want me to do so. When I found out that Yusuke was coming back, I was overjoyed and the same went for Hikari, who was crying nonstop that Yusuke had died and blaming herself for not being there for him. During in the Dark Tournament, when Yusuke was facing that horrible demon, Toguro, I was so disgusted to see that monster beat Yusuke to the ground. It was too much to watch seeing him throw Yusuke like a rag doll. Then, when that creep, Sensui killed Yusuke for the second time, that feeling that came when Yusuke first died came back, I couldn't bear the thought of him dying the second time and when he came back, I was overjoyed again. When I heard that he was a half demon, I was a bit shocked, but that didn't change my feelings towards Yusuke, the only difference was that I couldn't hear his heartbeat anymore. I didn't care if he was a half demon or fully human, as long as he was still the same Yusuke Urameshi that I know and love! True, I did hurt him, I'm willingly to accept that and once Yusuke's freed from that asshole, Sartorius's, control, I'm hoping that if he's willing to forgive me and if he doesn't then, I won't stop until I gained the trust that he once had for me and in return I trashed! Yusuke's always saved me in many situations and how I repay him…I send him in the hands of some madman uses doing nothing but using him! Despite being a street thug, Yusuke has never once hit me, not even once, even during our arguments. I believe…I believe that I would never find someone like Yusuke! There's no one else like him!"

Back at the plateau, Keiko's friends and allies heard Keiko's declaration with disbelief and Ryoko says, stunned, "I knew that Keiko was in love with Urameshi, but I never knew that how much."

Keiko's young counterpart was shocked by those words and Keiko says, seriously, "Do you understand now, young me? My reason for coming here was to get the power to bring Yusuke back from Sartorius's evil light! Sartorius, he's no human in my eyes if he's going to use trickery to break the bonds of two people and use one of them." Keiko calls out, seriously, "Watashi no time, draw!" Keiko draws her card from her deck, sends it into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I activate Pot of Greed! Now, I'll get to draw two cards from my deck!" Keiko draws two cards from her deck, she looks at them and she gasps to see her Dark Magician Girl (ATK: 2000/DEF: 1700) monster card. Keiko thinks in her mind, stunned, "It's Dark Magician Girl!"

Just then, Mana appears beside Keiko, in spirit form, which got the attentions of Hikari and Kira and Kira asks Hikari, whispering, "Hey, sis! Do you see that?"

The spirits of Vampire Lady and Kuriboh appears beside Hikari and Kira's side was Babycersaurus. Hikari says, in a plain tone whispering, "I sure do, sis. Keiko has a duel spirit also."

Mana nods her head to Keiko, with a smile, as she disappears. Keiko sends a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, seriously, "I activate Monster Reborn to summon back…Solar Flare Dragon!" Soon after, Solar Flare Dragon (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000) appears on the field in attack mode.

Young Keiko says, in a serious tone, "I've destroyed that monster once, I'll do it again."

Keiko places the button on her disc and she calls out, "Not this time! I'll activate Return from the Different Dimension, at the cost of half of my life points, I can summon back every monster that was removed from play!" Keiko's life points have dropped by 625 points and two Solar Flare Dragons (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000 X2) appears on the field in attack mode. Keiko sends another card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Next, I'll play my Cost Down spell card, now I discard one card from my hand and I can lower the level of a monster in my hand by two stars!" Keiko discards her Molten Zombie (ATK: 1600/DEF: 400) monster card, puts one card on her duel disc, and yells out, strongly, "Now, I'll summon my Dark Magician Girl!" Soon after, Dark Magician Girl (ATK: 2000/DEF: 1700) appears in attack mode.

Syrus yells out, shocked and excitedly, "It's Dark Magician Girl!"

Ryoko rolls her eyes and she says, "You're joking…"

Young Keiko says, with a sly grin, "Your monsters aren't so big on points!"

Keiko places a card into the spell/trap slot and she calls out, "That's why I'm playing this…Polymerization! Now, I'll fuse together both my Dark Magician Girl with one of my Solar Flare Dragons to summon…Fire Magician Girl!" Dark Magician Girl and one of Keiko's three Solar Flare Dragons were sucked into the fusion vortex above Keiko's head and Fire Magician Girl (ATK: 2500/DEF: 1700), a monster that's similar to Dark Magician Girl, except that she was wearing an orange version of Dark Magician Girl's uniform and her rod was red, orange, and yellow in color, comes out of the vortex and appears in attack mode.

Young Keiko yells out, shocked, "Wha…What the hell's that!?"

Keiko says, with a sly smile, "This is my newest monster made from the same card that Yusuke gave me! Now, thanks to my magician's effect, she gains five hundred attack points for every Fire monster on the field and either players' graveyard!"

Young Keiko yells out, shocked, "No way!" The essence for the Fire monsters on Keikos' field and graveyard erupts to Fire Magician's rod, increasing her stats from 2500/1700 to 8000/1700!

Young Keiko yells out, seriously, "Now what a minute! On my count, they should be a total of nine Fire monsters on the field and graveyard all together!"

Keiko says, with a sly smile, "Not quite! Remember the discard payment for my Cost Down card!"

Young Keiko yells out, stunned, "No way!!"

Keiko sends a card into the spell/trap slot and she calls out, "That's right, but I'm not done! I'll activate the spell card Card of Demise! This card gives my five cards as long as I discard them in five turns! Keiko draws five cards from her deck, sends one of them into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Next, I'll activate Dian Keto the Cure Master to gain one thousand points!" Keiko's life points were increased by 1000 points. Keiko sends another card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Next, I'll play Premature Burial! At the cost of eight of my life-points, a monster returns from my graveyard and I choose my Molten Zombie!" Keiko's life-points were dropped by 800 points and Molten Zombie (ATK: 1600/DEF: 400) appears on the field in attack mode. Keiko draws a card from her deck and she calls out, "Thanks to my zombie's effect, I get to draw a card from my deck, since I special summoned it from the graveyard!" Keiko sends a card into the spell/trap slot and she calls out, "Next, I'll activate my Double Attack spell card! Thanks to this card, my Fire Magician is allowed to attack two times this round, as long as I send a monster with a higher level than her!" Keiko sends her Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys (ATK: 2400/DEF: 1600) to the graveyard and she says, with a sly smile, "I'll send my Sacred Phoenix of the Nephthys to the graveyard, so my Fire Magician can attack twice and give her a few more points!"

Young Keiko yells out, shocked, "No way!" Fire Magician Girl's stats then rose once again from 8000/1700 to 8500/1700!

Keiko calls out, strongly, "Now, my magician attack with Dark Flare Burning Blaze!" Fire Magician Girl jumps in the air and twirls her wand, as powers up her wand and with a battle grunt, fires an orange electrical blast at Tyrant Dragon, engulfing it and causes a huge explosion that brought high winds and Young Keiko screams as she loses 5600 life points in one shot! Keiko calls out, "Now, my magician attacks again! End this!" Fire Magician Girl fires the orange electrical blast at Blazing Inpachi.

Young Keiko facial expression turned to happiness and she calls out, excitedly, "She did it! She passed the test!" Fire Magician Girl's attack hits Blazing Inpachi, engulfing it and causes a huge explosion that costs Young Keiko 6650 life points, immediately ending the duel.

Final Score:

Young Keiko: 0000

Keiko: 0825

The aftershock threw Young Keiko away to the ground and the final images disappear. Keiko deactivates her duel disc, dashes towards her younger counterpart, knees to her, held her to her arms and Keiko asks, with concern, "Hey, younger me, are you okay!?" Keiko notices something about her younger counterpart as her appearance was changing to something or someone that was a big surprise to Keiko. In her arms was her ex-boyfriend, Yusuke Urameshi, lying unconscious in his male Obelisk Blue uniform with his hair gelled back.

Keiko says, stunned, "Yu…Yusuke?"

Yusuke grunts as he opened his eyes and he looks to see that he was in Keiko's arms. Yusuke smiles at her, instead of a cold and heartless smile, and he tells Keiko, with a smile, "So, you pasted the test, eh, Keiko? I knew that you could do it."

Back at the plateau, Keiko's friends and allies all were flabbergasted and Hikari asks, shocked, "Is that really him?"

Keiko asks, while trying to keep her emotions in control, "Yusuke? It's really you?"

Yusuke chuckles and he says, with a sly grin, "Who else would I be, Kei?"

Suddenly, tears came from Keiko's eyes, while Yusuke notices them and asks, curiously, "What's wrong, Keiko? Why are you crying?"

Keiko pulls Yusuke to a hug, holding him tightly, crying on his right shoulder and she says, weakly and solemnly, "Oh, Yusuke…I'm so…I'm so sorry…please forgive me…it was my fault that you fell into that asshole's hands…I'm so sorry…"

Yusuke places his hand onto Keiko's back and he says, softly, "Oh Kei, it was Sartorius wasn't it? He's the one that's been behind this…isn't he?"

Keiko says, weakly and solemnly, "But…still…it's my fault! It's my fault…that you're under that SOB's control! If I hadn't been so…weak…then, you won't have fallen into that asshole's control."

Yusuke says, seriously, "But it wasn't your fault, Kei! Sartorius…that asshole is the blame for everything! The reason why Kagome has turned against her friends from this time, Feudal Era, even more especially Inuyasha. He's also the reason behind that awful night as well as playing us like his little puppets, including Kagome. He's made our lives a living Hell full of lies for his sick games. I'd really love to plant my fist to his face for all the trouble that he's caused."

Keiko gets a slight giggle as she pulls herself from Yusuke and she says, "I missed you. I thought that I've lost all hope of every bringing you back to me."

Yusuke asks, curiously, "Why would you think that? Just because some girl I kissed, you thought you've lost all hope. That kiss was a mistake, just like your mistake." Yusuke places his right hand to Keiko's left cheek, while pushing a bit of her brown hair to the back of her left ear and he says, seriously, "I love you, Keiko, remember that."

Keiko smiles and she replies, "I love you, too."

Yusuke tells Keiko, seriously, "Listen, Keiko, I have to go now."

Keiko says, stunned, "What now!? No! You can't…! Please, Yusuke! Please tell me that this is one on your jokes! Please, don't leave me!"

Yusuke started to glow silver and he says, "It's too late! I have to be freed from that asshole's control! And until then…please…be safe…! I couldn't forgive myself…if anything…bad happens to you." Yusuke lifts his head up and plants a kiss onto Keiko's forehead as he disappears from Keiko's arms, leaving her alone again.

Keiko says, weakly and solemnly, "Oh no…! He's gone…!" Keiko stands up as she cries out in frustration and sadness and she slumps to her knees. She bowed her head to the ground and slams her fists to the ground, while crying loudly with sadness and anger in her voice!

Back at the plateau, all of Keiko's friends and allies look at this with disbelief.

Ryoko says, solemnly, "Poor Keiko."

Yugi says, in a solemn tone, "Can you blame her? She gets to see the one that she loves and is gone."

Tea says, in a serious tone, "And if the same thing happened to me and Yugi then I'd go insane with rage. That asshole, Sartorius, must have done a huge number in Keiko's heart."

Kira says, in a plain tone, "And once my brother will come back to his senses, he's not going to like what has happened."

Sango says, in a serious tone, "Sartorius may be even worse than Naraku if he's capable of doing this to someone with a good heart like Keiko does."

While at the Sacred Circle, Keiko continues to cry her heart out and she says, weakly and solemnly, "Yusuke…please! Come back! I need you! I don't care what it takes…I want you back! I'd do anything to free you from that asshole's control and back into my arms."

Just then, a feminine voice calls out, in a dark sly tone, "It's about time that you got here, Keiko." Keiko looks up to see the feminine figure in the 'dark mist', that was at Pegasus's castle, in front of her. Keiko gets onto her feet and she says, weakly, "It's you…"

The feminine figure says, in a dark serious tone, "I'm glad that you've pasted the test and now, it's time for your reward. Allow me to share your body to gain my powers! Then, you'll have the power to make Sartorius pay for using you to get Yusuke into that asshole's control and making you abandon Yusuke. However, this will be permanent and there will be no turning back!"

Keiko yells out, seriously, "I could care less what happens to me! As long as I can bring Yusuke from Sartorius and he's gone from our lives, I'm satisfied!"

The female feminine says, darkly, "As you wish!" Just then the feminine figure transforms into a dark cloud that wraps around them and Keiko screams out as the feminine figure fuses with her.

While at the plateau, Ryoko asks, perplexed, "What's going on here? What's happening to Keiko?"

Youko Kurama gasps in shock and he says, stunned, "It can't be…"

Tea asks Youko Kurama, seriously, "Can't be what!? Tell me! What's happening to Keiko!?"

While at the Sacred Circle, Keiko groans as red demonic energy had erupted from her body brighten the whole area, including at the plateau.

Youko Kurama says, in a serious tone, "It's no doubt about it! Keiko is erupting…demon energy."

Yugi, Tea, Zane, Syrus, Ryoko, and Mia yell out, in unison and shock, "Demon energy!?"

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "Kurama's right! Keiko is bringing out demon energy."

Kira asks, curiously, "But how could that be? Keiko's no demon!"

Keiko thinks in her mind, worriedly, "What's going on!? What's happening to me!?"

The feminine figure's voice calls out from Keiko's mind, in a dark serious tone, "Don't worry about it, Keiko and concentrate! Who's the one, who got you and Yusuke broken up!? Who's the one, is the cause of what happened between Kagome and Inuyasha? Who is the one, who played with your heart not to mention, Yusuke's and Kagome's hearts!? Sartorius, that's who!? He's the one, who's responsible for everything! He's the one, who's caused too much pain and agony towards your friends! Hate him! Hate Sartorius!" Keiko groans out she allowed all of her anger, rage, and hatred towards Sartorius flow within her as her appearance changes her hair has grown a lot to her kneecaps, while turning black with dark violet and red highlights, her lips turning pitch black, her fingernails had turned into claws, similar to Inuyasha's claws, and dark violet demonic markings appears around her face. Keiko screams out as the demonic aura flares out from the area, making Keiko's friends and allies block their eyes from the red glow. When the red glow was gone, Keiko slumps to the ground and groans and moans in exhaustion. Keiko groans out as she slowly gets onto her knees and then her feet. The mystical circle trapping Keiko had disappeared and Keiko slowly walking out of the spirit circle and towards the plateau, where her friends and allies were.

Keiko climbed up the plateau and met up with her friends and allies, who were surprised by Keiko's new appearance. Hikari says, stunned, "Keiko, is that you?"

Keiko replies, "Of course, Hikari! Who else would I be?"

Mia gets out a little mirror from her bag, shows Keiko her reflection and she says, plainly, "You may want to see yourself?"

Keiko looks at her reflection, then yelps in shock and she yells out, shocked, "What the hell's this?!"

Youko Kurama looks at the demonic markings on Keiko's face and he says, stunned, "It can't be…! I didn't think that it was possible…"

Hikari asks Youko Kurama, "Kurama, what the hell are you talking about?"

Youko Kurama says, in serious tone, "Keiko has turned into a To-zoku." Raizen and Hokushin gasp in shock and Hokushin yells out, shocked, "No! That's impossible! All of them were extinct centuries ago!"

Syrus asks, curiously, "Who or what's a To-zoku?"

Youko Kurama replies, "The To-zoku are S-class demons that are much like Ma-zoku and are great allies and rivals the Ma-zoku in power."

Hikari yells out, stunned, "Rival the Ma-zoku in power?!"

Hokushin says, in a serious tone, "That's right, Ms. Urameshi. You see, the To-zoku is all Amazon, all-female tribe that follows the code of Bushido, but that doesn't mean that they won't kill someone as long as it doesn't violate their honor code. Plus, they were excellent priestesses and fighters, while they fight very well with a sword and rely on brain power. The To-zoku is considered great allies to the Ma-zoku, but unlike the Ma-zoku, they don't feed on human beings. However, the To-zoku tribe can't come into the human world without becoming part of a human being, making them into a half-demon of sorts by 'fusings' with their new human 'host'."

Sango asks, curiously, "So, Keiko has become a half-demon much like Inuyasha, Holly, and Kagome's cousins?"

Youko Kurama replies, "That's right."

Hikari asks Keiko, stunned, "Keiko, why would you do such a thing!?"

Keiko replies, in a serious tone, "Because I wanted to! I wanted to protect everyone else and stop having to put the others in danger by being saved all the time! You, Yusuke, and others always put themselves in mortal danger because of me and I'm sick and tired of putting you in danger! With that asshole, Sartorius, and what he did to me as well as what he made me do to your brother, I couldn't take it anymore! Using me to hurt my friends as well as the boy I love was the very last straw and I couldn't bear to have him hurt anyone else, especially Yusuke! So, I did what I had to do to help free Yusuke and Kagome from that madman and protect the people that I care and this whole universe from him! So, I permanently fused with the To-zoku and gained her demon powers."

Mia asks Keiko, curiously, "Do you know what you did, Keiko?"

Keiko tells Mia, "Yes, I do, Mia. And I don't regret my choice. So, I'm stuck as a half-demon for the rest of my life as long as that asshole is stopped and the people I care about are safe, I willing to face the consequence of my actions! I don't care! King Emma could send his own Spirit Defense Force to try to kill me because he sees me as a threat as a half To-zoku for all I care! Yusuke mean the world to me and what he did to us was unforgivable, so, I was ready to do what it takes to get Yusuke and Kagome back and I'm willing to suffer the consequence!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "Even if we knew about this, we couldn't stop her from doing so."

Hikari says, plainly, "That's right! It'll take more than the end of the world to stop her."

Raizen says, in a serious tone, "Now, you all have to get out of this realm, quickly!"

Kira asks, curiously, "Why's that!?"

Raizen says, in a serious tone, "Because, all of demons may pick up on your friend's To-zoku's energy, even A to S-class demons have may want a reputation of defeating a To-zoku, since they're one of the most strongest fighting demons."

Inuyasha sniffs the air and he says, in a serious tone, "The old man is right! I smell a bunch of demons heading this way!"

Genki yells out, seriously, "Let's get out of here!" With that our heroes and heroines ran off from the plateau to find a way to get back home…