SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 14 out, this is Chapter 15 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review other than just simply putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot and pairing.

Chapter 15: Entering Nirvana

"You are under the protection of Ucchusma." Todo recognized the flames from Juzo's K'rik. "That's interesting. Agni and Kakura, which one is stronger? Shall we pit them against each other and see, Shima-kun?"

"Fuck off!" Juzo snapped.

"Well, all I say at this point is, you really have been improving your stamina, haven't you?" Ami asked, replacing her diagnostic rune.

"I can still fight, if that's what you mean." Yukio rolled his eyes. To everyone else? He wondered. Do they look normal? What on earth happened just now? "Nii-san..." he looked at the direction of Suguro's flame barrier.

"Ucchusma Funnu Youketsu: Kasharinzan!" Juzo fired off his rain of fiery wheels.

"He absorbed it." Yukio muttered, seeing Todo take on the fire with no damage.

"Over here." Todo taunted as Juzo charged in. "According to the 'Diagram of Magical Element Formation', when the same magical elements are used, the weaker one will get absorbed by the stronger one."

"Kakura..." one of Juzo's teammates started. "Is he a phoenix that fell from grace and became a demon?"

"Looks like I win this battle of flames, huh?" Todo mused. "You guys are useless to me now. I'm bored... guess I'll just get rid of you all."

"Portal of the 'Fire Bird: Phoenix, open!" Ami summoned the fiery Stellar Spirit. "Inferno Barrier!"

With a screech, the Stellar Spirit manifested a shield, deflecting Todo's attack.

"My, my." Todo was impressed. "I didn't know you had a Tamer Meister, Himura-chan."

"I don't." Ami admitted. "And besides," she frowned. "Who said my summon is a demon?"

"Excuse my impudence," Yukio voiced. "But would you hear me out?"

"Crimson Flare!" the flame bird and Todo were decking it out.

"What is it?" Juzo asked. "Just spit it out already!"

"This plan of yours!" one of Juzo's more experienced teammates exclaimed. "We can't just go with it just like that!"

"But if we don't do something..." Yukio reminded.

"Boys, anytime now..." Ami reminded.

"Narumi, Shishamo, you're up first!" Juzo barked. "Back up Himura!"

"Ucchusma Funnu Youketsu: Katon Kongousou!" the pair released their combined attack.

"Kumagi Chigusa, focus on strengthening my flames." Juzo instructed.

"Anyone?" Todo taunted. "Anyone willing to be my guinea pig? Like I said," he laughed as Narumi and Shishamo attacked him head-on. "Attacking me with flames is akin to serving me dessert."

"Damn fox!" Juzo shouted from above. "On! Kurodanou Unjaku! Kashouzanmai!"

"Flaming Wing!" the Phoenix Stellar Spirit added in his attack for good measure.

"How many times do I have to repeat myself before you get it?" Todo tsked, absorbing the flames effortlessly. "You've gotta think hard before you act. You were always a hasty one, ever since you were a student. you'd better work on that."

"Oh no." Juzo corrected. "The one who thought all this up was Mr. Spectacles over there."

"What..." Todo gaped.

Demons have to keep the physical body they're possessing at a certain degree of homeostasis. Yukio mused. If he keeps absorbing the flames, sooner or later, Todo's physical body will reach it's limits, just like any other body would.

"What's happening?" Todo found his body stiffen.

"We just have to make him overstep his limits." Ami realized what Yukio was thinking. "And since the demon Todo took over was Kakura and Kakura was a phoenix..." she turned a knowing grin at Yukio.

"His injured physical body will turn to ashes." Yukio finished.

"Have I ever told you how much I love the way you think?" Ami smirked.

"Not recently." Yukio's eyes twinkled.

"I see." Todo realized the same thing. "You're aiming to make me overheat. That means it's not good to over-eat. I've learnt something new. But you really shouldn't underestimate Kakura's regenerative ability. I see, rain." he felt the raindrops fall on him. "As long as this immortal body of mine becomes ashes and dissolved in rainwater, I won't be regenerate so easily. I've been had..." he admitted. "To think that you..." he was cut off when his body crumbled.

"Did we get him?" Juzo asked.

"This should buy us some time." Yukio pointed out.

"But we've got to separate his body parts and restrain them as soon as we can." Ami added. "Or he'll give regenerate sooner or later."

"We really need to stop completing each other's sentences." Yukio joked.

"You say that as if it's a bad thing." Ami teased.

I've got a bad feeling about this. Yukio frowned. I wonder why... once we've got Todo restrained, we could get some answers out of him about the 'Impure King' but...

"Okumura-kun..." Todo sang from behind the Dragoon Meister.

"Maybe he'll leave you alone if you told him you aren't gay." Ami suggested.

"What does that mean?" Yukio leveled a glare at his former subordinate.

"It was just a suggestion." Ami shrugged.

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