Author's note:
Sorry for the delay guys, I have too much to deal with my life, I stopped using Discord because my mom wanted me to focus into trying to find a job and I need to focus into courses or anything to help me to find a job, and my progress on my stories had been slowing down. And I have a lot of setups to write on both Reality Collides and this fanfic. Sorry, and I thank for the understanding.
Also I have a question, should I cut the quantity of Bleach Kidos by half? Because I was planning to add The King Of Fighters Techniques and or martial arts to have a better variations of fighting style for Rando, but I will leave that up for you guys.
Anyway, have fun with the new chapter.
Replying reviews:
doomsday5872. Yes I plan, and here is the new chapter.
Just guessing. The idea brought me in my mind, but I decided to not do it, because those swords were way overpower, and Rando already have a supreme skill set, and it would be too boring to always have always new techniques and not to keep up with all the ones he had.
Mr. E Guest . Yeah those techniques are on the list but the problem of the silk technique it's... that technique is a silk leach, which drains life force and spiritual force with it, so it would be terrible to have an armor of it.
Odd Guest. Well, no, it's actually Keiko's father, who is the one who taught's Yusuke how to make Ramen.
Le Quack. Sorry but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I'm really out on their lore and story, so I have to pass. I wish you good luck to find someone to write that fanfic.
Eccentric Guest. Thank you for liking the new chapter. I hope you like this one as well.
Mad Guest. Well, at least you will have an answer XD.
Ghostly Guest. Yep, get ready for the chapter, because things will get interesting XD.
Hyper LOL Guest. Well mostly it will be almost like cannon, so get ready for the new ideas happening around XD,
Sleepy Guest. Well I have a lot of things to set up until the battle of Suzaku, so get ready because things will get more interesting now.
Just a wee guest . To reply your request, Kido's and Hadous cannot be translated, so you have to check on the list of the Wikipedia about the kido and bakudo on there, and about the jutsus, it's mostly the jutsus sand coffin, the ice mirror jutsu, the umbrella of senbons, Kirin, and a few elemental jutsus of hank E,D and C. Since mostly of the Genin was able to use it with training. I hope you understand.
crazy soul dx. No problem, I hope you have liked.
Mr. E Guest. I don't understand the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference, so I will just ignore it. Sorry. But thank you for liking the chapter.
Odd Guest. Get ready for the future plans that I have ahead. XD
Anyway, have fun reading the new chapter guys. While I will go back to study the courses, I need to find a job pronto. See yah.
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Kuwabara stood, drenched in sweat, his chest heaving as he gasped for air. His finger index finger burned with exhaustion, and his hands were crumpled from overexertion, but he clenched his fists, refusing to quit. He had spent hours, no, 2 days concentrating on the same pattern of forms that he learned over and over again. Until his spiritual energy glowed above his index finger and with slightly strong yellow energy, he managed to shape the numbers from 0 and started to count from 0 to 9, between 30 seconds he was doing his best to make his mind create the perfect shape of the numbers, until in 5 minutes... Exactly 5 minutes, he managed the number 9.
"Finally..." Kuwabara mumbled, collapsing to his knees, panting. He'd done it.
Rando, leaning against a tree nearby, nodded in approval. His expression was calm and unfazed but with a hint of amusement in his eyes.
"Not bad, Kuwabara. Took you long enough," Rando commented, arms crossed. "But you're nowhere near done."
"What now? I just nailed it! Five minutes, Rando. I did it." Kuwabara groaned, wiping his sweat-soaked brow.
"Yeah, you did," Rando agreed with a sly grin. "Now comes the next part."
"Next part?" Kuwabara blinked, still struggling to catch his breath. Rando could have sworn the bad boy had whimpered which made it even funnier for him.
"You need to be able to transmute the numbers from 0 to 9 in under one minute." Rando walked closer, his gaze sharp. He decided to give another look at the person who felt like a little dog that just got kicked.
"One minute?!" Kuwabara's voice cracked in disbelief. "That's impossible!"
"Not impossible. Just tough," Rando said with a nonchalant shrug. "But that's still just a step. To truly master the basics, you'll need to do it in five seconds."
"Five seconds?! And you're telling me that with a straight face?!" Kuwabara's jaw dropped, his fatigue momentarily forgotten.
"Five seconds while running, too," Rando added, his smirk widening. As he raised his index finger, and slowly when Kuwabara took a look at the red energy coming from Rando, he couldn't blink as he saw the number starting from 0 to 9 coming way faster than he thought. It was like a person counting quickly the numbers to 10 in quick speed.
"You're killing me here, man." Kuwabara's groan echoed through the training field as he slumped back against the ground, arms sprawled out in defeat.
"You're the one who wanted to get serious about training your spiritual energy," Rando teased, chuckling. "Starting to second-guess that choice yet?"
"Every second." Kuwabara covered his face with his hands, sighing dramatically.
Rando laughed, patting Kuwabara on the shoulder. And by taking the boy from the floor, he couldn't help but smile at him.
"You are doing great, never in my life saw someone taking a few days to surpass the first stage of the training. It usually takes months for a person to manage to do that." Rando was honest, the growth rate from Kuwabara was terrifying since he felt exactly what Biscuit must have felt when she saw Gon and Killua. But still, he isn't sure if was exactly on that great potential of 1 and 10 million. "I gotta say you have the talent between 1 and 1 million Kuwabara."
"Really?" Just the compliment alone made Kuwabara raises his head with a cocky nature, but suddenly a finger slap on his forehead was enough to make him go back to reality. "OUCH,"
"Don't get cocky, you are still in the beginning stages of Transmutation training, there is a long path for you to cross yet," Rando explained as he saw Kuwabara tired and annoyed for being reminded of that. "I keep telling you, Yusuke probably is having a hell of training, and I'm really doing a favor to help you with this."
"Oh come on Rando, I just asked you to show me how it was done, you didn't need to be here to see my progress," Kuwabara said as he tried to move, but he was very exhausted by that.
"Determination, Concentration, Emotion, Focus, Faith, such things are the right points to make your spiritual energy keep expanding, and I'm sure Yusuke is going to have such training that he easily would have made this training be a basic from what he is pulling through," Rando explained, as Kuwabara narrowed his eyes. "But to be honest, I think it would be a training that would fit him, since if my theory was right, Yusuke is an Emitter just like Genkai."
"Emitters?" Kuwabara asked in confusion, which Rando blinked until a thought crossed his mind.
"Oh... I didn't explain that to you right?" Rando asked as he took a piece of stick with him... "Okay, let me teach you something that it will help you with your training after you master your Transmutation,"
Rando knelt down and quickly drew a hexagon in the dirt, marking the points with each of the Nen categories. He glanced up at Kuwabara, who was still catching his breath but watching intently.
"Alright, Kuwabara, listen up," Rando said, his tone shifting to that of a teacher. "This is something that's going to help you understand how your spiritual energy works, and maybe give you an edge in future battles."
He pointed to the top of the hexagon. "See this? It's called Enhancement. Enhancers are good at strengthening themselves or their attacks. Do you remember Kiban on the Genkai's trials? The one who converted to spiritual energy with his own physical energy to create more muscles and with that gave an attack that really messed up Yusuke?"
"How could I forget? Yusuke must have felt that attack since the next day, so converting spiritual energy into raw strength could cause terrifying results. Like how Kiban kicked Yusuke and he needed to have a lucky shot to win the fight?" Kuwabara commented absorbing the explanation Rando was giving to him.
"Exactly," Rando nodded. As he knew Kuwabara could remember having good examples each of them had in battle. "Also, enhancers could have converted their weapons to make it stronger, like Musashi when used his spiritual energy to give more attacks on you."
"Ugh... now I understand why those attacks hurt even more, but at least I managed to break the wooden sword with my body and I won the fight," Kuwabara commented as he was satisfied with his victory. Which made Rando nod his head at him;
"Now, next we have Emission." He pointed to the top-left of the hexagon. "Emitters can release their energy outside of their bodies. They're great at long-range attacks, like sending blasts of spiritual energy at their enemies. Think of Kazemaru spiritual energy blast, or Yusuke's Rey Gan, firing a concentrated beam of energy. That's classic Emission."
"So that's why you think Yusuke's an Emitter?" Kuwabara asked. As he could understand from the point of view of Rando, he didn't actually see Yusuke using another trick than the one he used to beat Kiban with it. "That's actually a reasonable explanation."
"Mostly," Rando admitted. "Though he could be something else. We'll see as he trains more. Now, your type, Transmutation." He tapped the top-right of the hexagon. "You have the ability to change the properties of your spiritual energy. You can turn your aura into different forms or substances. That's why you're working on forming numbers. Eventually, you'll be able to change your energy into something more...useful in battle."
"Something useful, huh? Like my Rey Ken?" Kuwabara's eyes lit up, though he still looked wary.
"Yes, but with the good training, you wouldn't be limited to just using this same technique over and over again, you could evolve it into ways that only imagination would be the limit," Rando smirked, as he saw some transmuters from Hunter X Hunter creating the impossible, and becoming one of the most creative ways into using nen around the whole anime. "But you need to master the basics first."
"This is Manipulation. Manipulators can control objects or people by attaching their energy to them. They can control the movements of things, even make someone do what they want, depending on their skill. It's a tricky ability but very versatile." He then pointed to the bottom left. He pointed to an idea and had an example. "I saw users utilizating it to control animals such rabbits, dogs to even going to the extreme to control people."
"So, like, mind control?" Kuwabara scratched his head.
"In a way, yes, but depending on other ways, it can be used into controlling objects, like chains to even clouds, depending on how to use it, you never know on the versatility until it gets you by surprise," Rando said as he pointed to another one. "Now, Conjuration, here." He tapped the bottom right. "Conjurers can create physical objects out of their spiritual energy. It's not just forming energy, like you do with Transmutation. They can create actual, tangible things that can have various properties, like weapons or tools."
"That sounds like cheating," Kuwabara muttered. Which Rando rolled his eyes.
"It's more complicated than you think, some of the training is related that you had to be so used to the object you want to conjure, that you need to concentrate so much that you would need to dream thinking about it, and when you have in such a state of deep concentration of the form, the color and even the weight of it, your conjuration would be mastered by having it on your hands," Rando said with as he explained in details on how complicated would be. "It would be like you making your Ren Ken a true sword into your hands, and instead of being only made by your spiritual energy, it created a solid-state that it could actually be weighted into your hands. Imagination and planning are their main rules."
Finally, Rando pointed to the bottom center of the hexagon, labeled 'Specialization.' "And then there's Specialization. This one's the hardest to explain. Specialists have unique abilities that don't fit into the other categories. They can do things that seem impossible for everyone else. They're the wild cards, and their abilities vary widely."
"So, what? They just get random powers?" Kuwabara asked as he then never thought about a person who could have such a thing.
"Pretty much," Rando replied, shrugging. "It's rare, and not something you see every day. If you run into a Specialist, you won't know what to expect."
Kuwabara stared at the diagram for a long moment, soaking it in. "So how do you know what you are?"
"Usually, you would need to do the water divination test, which was the one I did to you when you placed the spiritual energy inside of the glass of water with a leaf," Rando explained. As he could give an explanation of what happened "You, Kuwabara, are a Transmuter since your water changed the flavor to sweeter than before. If Yusuke had done the test and the water had changed the color for any other color, he would be an Emitter, if he had changed the volume of the water only by his spiritual energy, he would have been Enhancer..."
Kuwabara nodded slowly. "And you...?"
"Me?" Rando grinned, standing up and brushing off his hands. "Come on Kuwabara... I have 99 techniques, with the most variation of anything you ever seen... Don't you have a guess?"
"Ugh... of course you are a Specialist," Kuwabara groaned, rolling his eyes. Which Rando nodded his head.
"Exactly, which it's a good way to help me to be so unpredictable and have a way to ease up my training with my unpredictable nature," Rando explained as he suddenly decided to give another explanation to him. "And coming to a point that while Specialists may have better access to other spiritual energy... Nobody else can be able to have control of Specialization, and don't question it Kuwabara, because even me have no idea on why does that happen."
Kuwabara was about to argue, but he suddenly shut his mouth.
"Now, to make sure you understand, since you are a transmitter... You have 100% control and easier training on your mastery of Transmutation, while each type of spiritual energy nearby on the one you have, means you have less 20% of control into mastery, which would make you have only a bit more difficulty into mastering and having total control of Enhancement, and Conjuration, making them 80%," Rando marked the numbers 100% in transmutation and marking with a line to direct to Enhancement and Conjuration, 80% each of them... "And the more far you are from the other types, the harder it would be to control them, and master them, but also it would be weaker than in comparison to the other types."
Kuwabara saw Rando then drawing a number 60% on Emission, and 40% in Manipulation.
"There were people who managed to do some interesting tricks into trying to break these limits, however, they lost their lives because instead of training more on their full potential, they wasted their opportunity unto trying to create such a gimmick," Rando explained as he remembered that he was surprised to see the technique of Tiger Bite fist, which Hisoka destroyed Kastro for not focusing into still having control of the basics, and in the end the jester destroyed the martial artist.
"Oh..." Kuwabara understood what he meant, as Rando decided to go up. "So I need to focus on Transmutation, Enhancement, and Conjuration?"
"Well, only if you are comfortable with trying it, but I think you should be focusing on Transmutation, because that way, you could have a better understanding of your spiritual energy," Rando explained but then he saw Kuwabara getting up.
"Oh come on, I at least need to know if an Enhancement technique is that big deal," Kuwabara commented suddenly he saw Rando narrow his eyes as he looked at the delinquent as he had offended him.
"If that's a big deal?" Rando repeated slowly as he flickered another finger slap on his forehead. "Enhancement techniques are very devastating, if you ever find someone who is an enhancer, you should stay away from hand-to-hand combat against him."
"Pff, I don't think that's very scary." Kuwabara simply commented that Rando stared at him like he was an idiot. "I know that Musashi and Kiban had done a lot of pain in me and Yusuke, but come on we could have dealt with it..."
"Oh, the fools and their ignorance." Rando lamented as he then took with him his book, and then decided to flip the pages until he got one that he was used to... "Do you remember the arcade which Yusuke and us went to?"
Kuwabara nodded his head at the little white-haired boy who had just gotten to the page he wanted and passed it to him.
"Page 25. Don't turn the page okay?" Rando gave the instructions which Kuwabara was already used to it, so at the time Rando walked in front of the tree...
Kuwabara was just there, looking at the white-haired boy, who seemed to be a bit offended by his comment. He trusted his friend Rando, but his experience in dealing with combats of someone punching him, he wasn't surprised the power of combining spiritual energy and physical energy wouldn't have been that scary...
"First comes the rock..." Then Kuwabara stared at the person who said that, and slowly his bored eyes slowly started to get wide open, as he then saw some glow from his direction. "Jan Ken... Rock,"
CRASH*
And at that moment, Kuwabara's mouth dropped, as the white-haired boy walked towards him, and grabbed the book from his hand, and immediately the tree which had been 10 times their size, went down like a sack of potatoes... Completely destroyed by the fissures created by the punch...
"And how about now?" Rando asked as he went to read his book...
"Err... what do I need to do to make myself a bit stronger on enhancement?" That was the question that made Rando groan annoyed. Now Kuwabara is interested in having a new strength for himself.
Botan sprinted through the bustling city, her surroundings a blur of colors and sounds. The streets were alive with the hum of everyday life—cars honking, children laughing, and people chatting animatedly, completely unaware of the dark threat lurking in the shadows.
"What a strange world this is," she thought, shaking her head. She immediately took her bat and slammed it on the face of a yokai who was with his legs twitching in panic, before getting more and more beaten up by the girl dressed as delinquent. "They live in such blissful ignorance."
The 90s aesthetic of the neighborhood was charming yet surreal, with pastel-colored buildings adorned with vibrant flower boxes. Retro storefronts lined the streets, each boasting eye-catching neon signs that flickered softly in the afternoon light. A record shop played a catchy pop tune, while the aroma of fresh pastries wafted from a nearby bakery, enticing passersby. To Botan, it felt like a scene pulled from a nostalgic film, but beneath the surface, danger lurked.
As much she sees those Yokai wandering around in their terrible disguise, just to watch the same people living peacefully, shows how annoying they have been over her work, she sometimes misses how simple things were when she just took the departed souls and brought them to the spiritual world.
But since Koenma needed her to call for both Yusuke and Rando to be in the mission of the Demon City, she was tasked with taking out the insects, sadly her progress had been very low, as she managed to take it out 20, but then she realized that the speed of them had been growing up even faster, as she remembered that things could go even slower from now on, and from what Rando had told. Suzaku may be planning to attack the people whose Yusuke and Kuwabara care about.
As much she wanted to try to help to keep killing those awful insects, she knew that she had worries about Yusuke of his mother, the person who showed one important part that made him want to return to be alive, and as much that he never wanted to admit, he loves her dearly, and while Kuwabara had been a person that she knew that had a crush on her, it was a bit uncomfortable, but his worries about Shizuru must be very real, as he even asked her to check on his big sister.
"Kuwabara's sister… I promised him I'd check on her," Botan reminded herself, her heart pounding not just from the exertion of running but from a growing sense of urgency. The specter of Suzaku's devil insects weighed heavily on her mind.
"What if she's infected? What if I'm too late?"The thought sent a shiver down her spine. She never had to meet Kuwabara's sister, and she isn't sure that she had an evil heart, but just for the way he asked in worry, it may be not true, but the idea of she could be in danger of someone infected by the insects attacking her, clearly showed why he should be worried about his sister. And now Botan was on her personal mission, trying to avoid the destruction of the city, but there was only one person, and she decided to follow the advice of the supposed person who decided to call her sister, "Yusuke is going to pay dearly after that,"
Botan commented annoyed, as now she felt that her boss was going to use that as an opportunity to be watching closely for Rando, and the idea of how his sense of humor could make her want to strangle someone, she was still uncomfortable with the idea of talking with Rando, because of what she learned from him, about how they made him talk about his widowed life, and still being a bit personal of him, and Yusuke really had to make it worse.
"Never mind that firstly I need to help these people. And I need to be sure to check on Yusuke's mom later, and I hope the boys will be able to destroy the whistle the soon as possible." The grim reaper said as she dashed through the city, her senses heightened. The vibrant life around her contrasted sharply with the darkness that could erupt at any moment.
"I have to stay focused. If I encounter anyone possessed, I must be ready." She gripped her metal bat tightly, her knuckles whitening as she recalled Rando's warning about those who might be turned into mindless, destructive zombies. Whatever person would have blue skin, she would be ready to beat the crap of them. But still, she had a mission to accomplish.
Finally, Botan spotted the hair salon where Shizuru worked—a quaint establishment named "Beauty by the Braid." Its exterior was adorned with colorful murals and vintage posters of hairstyles from decades past. The large front windows showcased mannequins with extravagant hairdos, capturing the spirit of 90s glamour. Botan took a deep breath, reassuring herself.
"She's probably fine. So far so good." Botan thought as she felt a good relief, nobody around causing a ruckus… But as she approached the entrance, a sudden crash echoed from within. Her heart raced as she paused outside, the cheerful facade of the salon suddenly menacing. Then she heard it—a low, guttural groan that sent a chill through her.
"No, no, no…" Botan paled, her earlier confidence evaporating as dread settled in her stomach. And then as she was about to open the door to help the people inside, suddenly the door was opened like a blast, and with that, a teenage boy launched downstairs, Botan blinked just to check the boy with the blue skin, and groaning in pain, and not going up, it seems it had been knocked out and was unable to move…
"AND IF I EVER SEE YOU HERE AGAIN, YOUR BALLS AREN'T GOING TO BE THE ONLY THING SMASHED. YOU AND YOUR MOTHER ARE BLACKLISTED AND YOU BOTH SHOULDN'T COME TO THIS SALON EVER AGAIN." A female and rudely voice shouted, as Botan palled as she slowly moved her head to the opened door, just to check, a girl who didn't fear dealing with whoever wanted to cause trouble, as she even had the cigar on her lips, and her hands what would be a knife which probably was used by the teenager trying to attack her.
Botan sweated as she saw the girl then narrowed her eyes at her.
"And what about you? Did you come to cause a ruckus on this place?" Shizuru said as she let out a smoke, and the blue-haired girl could see that not only the boy was knocked out on the street, but on the floor of the saloon, there was a big lady, weighing more than 100kg, showing that lady was enormous, but still there was the fact the woman was knocked cold on the floor, with her hair damaged with a broken vase, and there was a crack on the wooden floor.
"No no no… I just came here to check if things are okay." Botan said as she raised both her arms, but the girl in front of her gave a disbelieving look.
"With a metal bat in hands?" Shizuru asked nonchalantly, and Botan realized her mistake, but the girl simply rolled her eyes.
"Shizuru, I just called the police, they said they were on the way to check this place." Then a more mature, old, and more mature lady reaching her 60s said as she approached and stared down at the fat lady on the floor. "Who knew Umiko was such a vile woman to even attack this place?"
"I knew, I even told you about how this bitch was always planning something," Shizuru said as she kicked the woman while still knocked out. "Are you going to file a complaint?"
"Yes, I will dear, if you want to take the rest of the day off, I will be locking out this place just for the police to appear. They are on their way." The madam said as she then looked at Botan who looked sheepishly at her. "Sorry dear, but we are going to close the doors, since recently we got a very inconvenient problem."
"It's fine, I came here because I heard something breaking, and I wanted to know if you both were okay," Botan said with a tone of nervousness as she saw Kuwabara's sister staring at her with her eyebrows raised.
"Well as you can see, we got attacked, but I got things handled, it wasn't the first time a cretin tried to attack this place, anyway, who the hell are you?" Shizuru asked as she narrowed her eyes at the blue-haired woman who chuckled nervously.
"Hehehehe, I'm just a person walking around, my name is Botan, and…" The grim reaper was already thinking about what she should do to prevent herself from getting problems, but suddenly at the time she said her name, the girl nearby her raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"So you're the Botan," Shizuru commented as the girl blinked a few times, and the girl smoking decided to turn to her boss. "Hey Chiyo, remember the girl who I said a few days ago? The one who is the boss of Yusuke? It's her."
"Ohhhh, really?" The old lady said as Botan blinked, and had no idea what was happening. "Shizuru talked a lot about you. Especially on how you managed to make the young Urameshi finally get a job."
"What?" Botan asked in surprise, as Shizuru smirked from seeing her face.
"It's not a surprise that my brother has a crush on you. Gotta admit I like the color of your hair, but Rando is right, you're not his type." Botan immediately had her eyes looking at her in complete disbelief.
"What? Rando? Wait, what… Ugh, you know what, that's not important I'm here because Kuwabara asked me to check on you." Botan said that she could see the girl raising her eyebrows at her, and looking at the metal bat, she already had an opinion in mind.
"Well, from your look, it seems that it was way more than that," Shizuru asked, as suddenly, the beautician, from the corner of her eyes, checked on the fat lady on the floor, and slowly getting out from the mouth, there was a swamp green firefly slowly getting out from the mouth.
Botan stopped and also noticed, that she was about to spray with the spiritual insect killer, and the insect was slowly reaching the air to fly away for its next victim, when suddenly, from nowhere, surprising both the grim reaper and the owner of the salon, Shizuru took a hairspray and a lighter to make an improvised flamethrower which made Botan jumps away, from the girl smoking.
"SHIZURU WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS?" The owner of the salon shouted as she jumped away in fear and outrage.
"Killing just an insect, Chiyo, nothing to worry about." Shizuru simply shrugged off, and while the owner felt convinced, Botan on the other hand had her mouth slowly opened, and her eyes completely open in shock.
"You can see them?" Botan asked as the girl scoffed.
"An insect that big, it's kinda hard to miss it," Shizuru said, as she looked at her boss, and decided it was time. "Chiyo, I'm going to take my day off,"
"Sure, take a good rest darling. I will be here waiting for the police." The old lady said as Shizuru decided it was time to get out of the place.
"It should have been impossible…" Botan thought as she looked at the girl simply shrugging off the event that happened in the place. "Only people who had spiritual sensitivity could see the Devil Insects, but now that I think about it, Kuwabara also has spiritual sensitivity, so that means that both he and his sister had such potential to see spirits. Wow, chances like that is very rare to happen…" Botan had been thinking for a few more seconds when she realized that Shizuru already left the salon. "WAIT, WAIT FOR ME."
Botan said loudly as the Kuwabara's sister already was walking downstairs from her work.
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"So let's see if I understand, to summarize everything, these insects are what is driving people mad, and they are being controlled by a power maniac who is controlling them from the deeps of hell by using a magical flute that it would make the best to get out from hell, or we would be unleashed a hoard of chaos and death, and now Yusuke, Kazuma, and Rando are into a journey in hell just to kick the ass of the prick, and destroy the flute or whistle whatever is controlling these insects..." Shizuru said as she raised her eyebrows, at that moment she looked at the delinquent in front of her, knocked out, but clearly with the insect stuck on his clothes. Botan took the opportunity to use the spray, and with that destroy another insect. The blue-haired girl nodded her head, as immediately she took out the cigar on her lips and gave a look… "What the hell they are adding on these new cigars? I should have stuck with the original brand, but no, I have to try new cigars."
"You won't believe me?" Botan said, as the girl simply rolled her eyes.
"No, the worst part is that I believe you. I know that Kazuma would be stupid enough to try to up both Yusuke and Rando, and I heard a lot of spiritual explanations since Kazuma doesn't stop talking about it in his bedroom, he tends to get loud and frustrated when he doesn't do something right, and it seems his training with Rando had been on his mind for a lot of days." Shizuru said as she released the smoke on her lips. She gave a glance at the girl in front of her. "So, Kazuma asked for you to check up on me, I need a context for that."
"Rando said Suzaku may be planning to use the insects to lure someone dangerous towards the people they cared for," Botan explained to the girl, who took the cigar and threw it on the floor, by stepping it to the ashes, she knew something was about to happen.
"So basically, me, Keiko, and Atsuku," Shizuru explained, as she knew from the news how Yakuza usually operated since they could go after the family of the people they care about. So any relative member could be the victim. By sighing, the girl couldn't help but vent her frustration. "I said for Rando to take my brother safely to school, and not drag himself into such a crazy situation."
"Well… Kuwabara kinda insisted on coming with us…" Botan said, which the sister showed her disapproval.
"Of course he would," Shizuru said, as she glanced around, and found a metal pipe lying down, probably from acts of vandalism from a person who must have been taken from one of the insects. "Alright, Keiko is probably at school, we can go after her later. Let's go at Atsuku, she probably needs a heads up, and I hope that she isn't that drunk on this hour, or sleeping."
"Great, but if we find some insects on the way, we can kill them first, just to be sure nothing bad happens," Botan said, as the girl simply rolled her eyes.
"Fine, but you better move quickly." And with that, Botan finally found an ally that she would need a little help in the future.
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As the silence happened across the castle, the view towards the entire Demon City was a very surprising feeling coming from Kuwabara's point of view, as he stared outside of the open hole giving the view around, he looked very amused at what he was seeing.
Yusuke, Hiei, and Rando were looking at Kurama who seemed to be more ready than ever.
"Kurama, how are you? Did you use a lot of spiritual energy?" Yusuke couldn't help but ask his friend how he was feeling, and while Hiei rolled his eyes, and Rando seemed to shrug off the yokai looking at him, Kurama smiled at the concern of the spiritual detective.
"You don't need to worry about me, The proportion of my spiritual energy isn't that big, and if wasn't for the fact I knew more about my enemy before fighting, the possibility of me getting hurt would have been more probable, but the results of my victory would remain the same," Kurama commented as he gave a slight glance at Rando who seemed to be raising his eyebrows at him.
"So you are the type of guy that you prefer to get hurt in the combat before winning the enemy?" Rando asked as Yusuke and Kurama blinked from the point of view coming from another yokai, and Kurama already had a bad feeling about what Rando was about to say. "Okay, I should have known that you are maso..."
"I'M NOT MASOCHIST," Kurama quickly bluttered out, which made the entire group stare at the thief Yokai who placed both his hands on his face. "Why do you do that?"
"Because 1, it's fun, and 2... that's a strategy that only a few would have the balls to do," Rando commented as he looked around and saw Yusuke staring at him. "And trust me, if you want to get hurt in a fight against an enemy? Suit yourself, but in long and difficult challenges, it would have been better to work together than actually trying to always get hurt in the battle... now that I think about it... Did you from the past version of yourself let yourself get caught by the hunter?"
Kurama opened his mouth to say something, but then words couldn't be said at that moment... That thought just had been so long in the past, that he didn't realize it since it had been years of his life. And he was still trying to figure out how he was caught.
"Well, never mind." Rando as Hiei nodded his head.
"That kind of strategy wouldn't just be risky, but also a very idiotic one, in case you got hurt, we would have been without Kurama and there would still be 3 adversaries," Hiei commented as immediately Kuwabara felt carefree.
"Oh relax, leave it to me, let me take care of the next one," Kuwabara said with all the confidence he could have, and then he just saw Rando narrowing his eyes at him. And Yusuke was already glaring at the bad boy.
"Oh, go trick someone else, you were already fearing for your life when Kurama was fighting Genbu." Yusuke gave a point, which Kuwabara already turned his back on him.
"Oh, that? You already know that I just got a scare," Kuwabara commented as he decided to show something off to the group. "And don't think I didn't do anything while you were having your training with Genkai. I also got my own training, since Rando showed me I'm a Transmutator."
"Transmutator?" That comment alone not only made Yusuke confused, but also let Kurama, Hiei, and even Mr. Koenma who were watching from the spiritual world's screen, Kuwabara get in front of the group.
Kuwabara remembered what he just had learned from the white-haired Yokai, about the 6 types of spiritual users, and from the training alone that he got from Rando, he knew that his spiritual energy was flowing through his body with more fluidity, as he raised his palm and the spiritual energy already creating a spiritual ball... Kuwabara decided to show something to the group.
"REN KEN," Kuwabara shouted as he immediately with one swing managed to create a deep glowing spiritual sword, which surprising Rando, was different from canon, Kuwabara had cut the process of creating a sword by 2 seconds and didn't need to use 2 hands for making the sword to happen.
That movement alone was enough to surprise everyone around the group.
"Ahhhhh," The blue ogre Jorge Saotome looked impressed as Koenma couldn't help but be surprised as well.
"Wow, I can't believe in this, since when did Kuwabara get all that power?" Koenma had to take off his hat, he was impressed to see on the screen, the orange-haired boy being able to develop such a spiritual weapon in just a few weeks. He felt so excited that he sat on the table happily. "That's marvelous, I think I will also nominate him as Spiritual Detective"
Then Jorge Saotome had to be the stick in the mud to appear between the screen and the prince of the spiritual world.
"Mr. Koenma, doesn't this decision wouldn't come from King Yemma your father? He isn't going to like it." The blue ogre had to comment which made the baby boss look ugly at him. "To be a spiritual detective you would need to reunite spiritual force, attack force, and defense force."
"You don't need to tell me that, I already know, that if in case does an exam related to these areas, he will pass it with praises," Koenma turned his head as the duo suddenly heard a loud yelp
"OUCH," It was Kuwabara who felt the iconic duo finger slap.
"Kuwabara you idiot." That was the comment that made the duo watch the white-haired yokai looking ugly at Kuwabara.
Rando got very angry at seeing Kuwabara using his Ren Ken which immediately Kuwabara looking happy at him, but then the next second, the other members of the quartet were surprised when Rando using two fingers gave a finger slap on Kuwabara's forehead.
"OUCH," Kuwabara said as he immediately deactivated his spiritual sword.
"Kuwabara you idiot." Rando commented as he made sure to point out something dead serious at the moment. "You are wasting your spiritual energy just to show off in front of us?"
"Err..." Kuwabara realized as he could see how still painful the finger slaps hit his head.
"Don't waste your spiritual energy doffus," Rando commented as he made sure the boy didn't get tired or already using for so long. "You want to fight the next yokai? Suit yourself, but you already waste your opportunity to fight an easy fight against Genbu, so you better pray for being Byakko, because it's Senryu, there is no way I will let you fight him."
"What? Why not?" Kuwabara commented in outrage as Rando pointed a finger at his chest.
"Because your sister would kill me in case something happens to you, and Senryu could literally freeze your entire body in mere seconds. 2 seconds to be precise," Rando decided to not sugarcoat as he explained something and suddenly, he felt a shiver on the spine, as he glance nearby, and saw Hiei frowning deeply at the mention of the type of attack would be. But he decided to ignore and focus on Kuwabara who seemed to be palling on that moment.
"Err... so... Byakko?" Kuwabara asked as he tried to recompose himself, and the others couldn't help but deadpan at the boy who was scratching his head. Rando sighed at the request made by his friend.
"Byakko, how can I say gently?" Rando commented as Kuwabara nodded his head. Knowing that on how difficult the fight would be for the boy. "Kuwabara, Byakko is you and Yusuke's counter."
"What?" Not just Kuwabara but Yusuke himself was also surprised by such a revelation. Now Kurama and Hiei are interested in paying attention to the information regarding one of the four saint beasts.
"Byakko can absorb the spiritual energy launched at him, and get to his own belly," Rando gave an explanation which made Yusuke and Kuwabara pass a second looking in confusion for him. "Which means, Ren Gan, Shottogan, Ren Ken, he would absorb it all, and wouldn't feel a damage on it."
"What?" Now Yusuke discovered that his next opponent would be far more dangerous than they thought it would be.
"In words that I would say to you Kuwabara, Transmutation, and Emission would be a buffet of spiritual energy for him." Rando didn't sugarcoat, as he knew Kuwabara had a lot of training to do, until he became a very great fighter in the future, and he knew the plot, Kuwabara won by sheer determination, but also by pure luck. And he didn't want to make Kuwabara risk his luck once again... And was enough to make him get his book and start looking for one technique to help him to de...
"Oh, so I cannot use Transmutation? Well, that's easy, all I have to do it's to use Enhancement." Kuwabara said which immediately Rando paused the group just saw a stomp so strong that cracked the floor, as the boy looked at the orange-haired boy with outrage and disbelief.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN ALL YOU HAD TO DO IT'S TO USE ENHANCEMENT? SINCE WHEN YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT?" Rando roared in not just pure surprise, but in sheer disbelief and outrage, and Kuwabara decided to scratch his nose proudly.
"Hehehehe, behold and praise my power of being a genius between 1 and 1 million HAHAHAHAHAHAHA," Kuwabara laughed as the group looked at Rando for the first time on the time they were with him, the white-haired yokai looked completely dumbfounded.
"Err. Not minding my question, but I'm curious, what is enhancement?" Kurama decided to ask further since it was something that would be available for him to learn.
"Enhancement is one of the types of manifestation of spiritual energy, which he can convert spiritual energy with physical energy, and with that making solid attacks with the strength of spiritual energy combined," Rando explained as Kurama and even Hiei had their eyebrows raised in interest.
"Is Enhancement good?" Yusuke asked immediately Rando looked at the book on the floor, and quickly took it from his hands.
"Kiban attacks do ring a bell for you?" That was the only question that made Yusuke suddenly realizes what was said, and from the point of view and from the attacks he received on the trial, he had to admit, Kiban techniques really were a pain in the ass to deal with. "How did you even get a technique on that type of spiritual energy? I didn't even tell you how to train enhancement?"
"Well, I had to do some improvisation while I thought about something when you showed me the Jan Jan Ken," Kuwabara smiled as he chuckled from that moment, as he then gave a superior look to Yusuke, "I was going to test on you, but it seems that having a Yokai who could eat my spiritual energy? I could try this, but It's kinda risky, the drawback would be very painful on my shoulder, so I can only do it once or twice."
"Well that's obvious," Rando commented as it seemed that he finally calmed down, knowing the reason why Kuwabara said that. "Your body wasn't even used to that type of development, and suddenly using an Enhancement technique could be damaging for your body without proper training."
Kuwabara flinched as he gave a slight glance at Hiei and Kurama who were looking curious at them 2.
"Well, you need to hold up all your energy for Suzaku, and since he eats a lot of energy, I can think I can try to come up with something. Is there anything else that I should know about Byakko?" Kuwabara commented as he isn't going to lie, the challenge ahead would be very hard if he didn't have a plan, and he wanted to go solo, but any kind of information would be helpful for him.
"Well... okay, Byakko is known for being the tiger of the Four Saint Beats, he has great endurance, so practically any normal punch he wouldn't feel a thing, so you better make your attacks count, but also you should know that he eats spiritual energy by absorbing it, but everything has a limit, even his stomach. So if you managed to reach his limit and surpass... it has a high probability that he could explode, so that's another strategy..." Rando decided to give a full explanation of what he knew about Byakko, which Kuwabara was paying attention to, as the others as well. "He is proud and arrogant, but knowing all 4, they are all like that, so that's a standard personality of them, and he had abilities of emission by creating energy darts and throwing them away, he can take a few strands of hair and create green demon tiger beasts that also can eat energy, and the worst attack of them all... Screaming Tiger Demolishing Wave, which by grabbing his throat he can launch from his mouth a ball of sound energy that could destroy anything molecularly by the power of the sound, just by touching it, it would make you erase from existence."
...
Yusuke saw Kuwabara literally having his jaw slacking, and he himself couldn't help but gulp into thinking of such a terrifying thought. Thinking about what would happen if he used his Rei Gan to attack of spirit ball of sound waves. Would that mean he could win?
"I heard about a Yokai who was capable of destroying any type of material by using a ball of sound vibration, I didn't know it was him," Hiei commented as he was feeling surprised to learn a bit more of the Yokai, and seeing that Rando already knowing everything from everyone, it was very surprising to see that a Yokai nearby him had such great intel over the enemies. "So it was Byakko all along?"
"Yes..." Rando commented as he suddenly looked at Kuwabara looking at him. "What?"
"Hey Rando... couldn't you try to steal Byakko's techniques? I mean, absorbing spiritual energy and creating such spiritual balls of sound looks very awesome." Kuwabara decided to try to convince his friend to take the challenge instead of him, knowing that it would be a very hard challenge ahead. But his smile turned in despair when Rando shook his head to him.
"I once thought about it, however, a technique of holding my throat with two hands, just for the sake of launching a spiritual ball? It leaves many openings for the enemy to attack, and also it was a very ugly view of technique, and last... I'm sure that Suzaku would have something stronger than that." Rando decided to destroy any hope left to the bad boy of the high school, which also the Yokai didn't want for another reason. "Also... didn't you say that you wanted to do that all alone? It's your chance now Kuwabara, show me what your training was when I wasn't looking."
"Yeah Kuwabara, aren't you that cocky a few seconds ago? Where is your eagerness now?" Yusuke smirked as the orange-haired boy glared at him.
"I'm fine, I know that I can do that," Kuwabara said even as he sweat a bit, but he managed to compose himself. "I know what I'm doing, and since Kurama managed to defeat one of them easily, I just need to do that."
"I don't think that would be viable for you to do that alone Kuwabara," Kurama commented as he showed a bit of concern towards the human who was about to get into his own fight.
"Let him be Kurama," Hiei said as he looked with his eyebrow raised at the boy. "If this idiot thinks that he can do it alone, we should let him fight, if he talks the talk and walks the walk, then it would be easier for us to focus on the others like Senryu and Suzaku."
"Hiei has a point," Rando commented as he looked at the boy who was still determined, and also getting a smile on his face. "Use your techniques on the maximum potential, and do not waste your spiritual energy on silly things, focus into on how to defeat him, okay?"
"Don't worry about me, I can take it," Kuwabara commented as he felt confident in himself, and while Rando knew the boy managed to defeat Byakko on the bridge of stone, he wouldn't let him risk his luck into going on the lava pit, because Kuwabara survived on there just by sheer luck. "Now let's go. And you guys should focus on Senryu and Suzaku, so leave this one to me."
Then suddenly the same familiar sound from the spiritual communicator, made everyone pause and stare at Yusuke who immediately opened it, just to see Botan in worry.
"Yusuke please, hear me out," Botan said those words which immediately brought the attention of the group.
"I'm hearing Botan, you can talk to me," Yusuke replied, as he saw the face of Botan who seemed to be crouching in the corner of the wall and using her spiritual spray, she used to kill 3 devil insects in one go.
"Something horrifying is happening, during the patrol, I found many insects around the Playground," Botan said as immediately Yusuke got worried about that moment.
"Yeah,"
"But didn't you say these insects only get inside of the people with evil hearts in them?" Yusuke asked, which immediately Rando had to voice out the truth.
"You think the worst type of humans wouldn't be around the playground?" Rando's voice immediately made Yusuke and Botan be in silence and slowly had a terrible feeling about what he was saying. "Kidnappers, and … you know what I meant when I said the worst type, the trash of the trash of humanity always tries to find victims on little children." And with that Yusuke and Botan palled. "Funny enough, there were humans who even monsters would be sick into meeting them, the scum of humanity."
"Please, you ar… AHHHHHHH" Suddenly Botan shouted as she fell on the floor.
"Botan," Yusuke and Kuwabara shouted in worry, as the girl slowly took her metal bat, and was about to leave. When suddenly a loud thud was heard, and the groaning of a man was on the ground. They could see the surprising look coming from the girl on the screen. "Botan are you okay?"
"I'm fine but…" Botan said as suddenly she flinched at the sounds of someone taking a beating.
"HOW DARE YOU TO BE AROUND ON THIS AREA? ARE YOU A CHILD ABUSER? A KIDNAPPER? YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK, AND I HOPE THAT YOU ROT IN HELL FOR TRYING TO BE ON THIS PLACE, I'M GOING TO FULFILL A COMPLAINT ON THE POLICE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU NEVER GO NEARBY TO A CHILDREN EVER AGAIN YOU SICK PERSON." The woman from the outside shouted as Kuwabara slowly felt his sweat appearing. And Rando blinked and slowly turned his head to Kuwabara.
"Isn't that Shizuru?" Rando asked as the sound of the person was familiar, but the sound of a man's suffering, and Shizuru's venting her frustrations, he couldn't help but nod his head. "Yeah, that sounds about right. At least you have a backup now Botan."
"Yeah… but I think I should tell her that nobody will remember after they wake up in that state," Botan asked, but Rando simply laughed.
"Nah, they had it coming, let her vent a bit," Rando shrugged, as Yusuke and Kuwabara raised their eyebrows at him. "She is an older sister, she must have thought about the possibilities of who would be with evil heart in a playground."
"Anyway, when we clean up here, we are going to your house to check on your mom Yusuke, so please be quick," Botan explained as Yusuke was about to nod when suddenly a loud roar could be heard from far away.
The roar was so powerful it was enough to shake the structures of the castle with the loud sound of his roar, and with the tower shaking, the rocks and bricks slowly broke from the pressure of the roar, which made Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, and Rando pause as it was enough to know there was something bad about to happen. And then the silence followed by the sounds of the structure of the tower still echoing and ready to be destroyed.
"Anyway, what kind of roar was that? It looks like something outside of this world." Kuwabara asked which Rando decided to explain to the boy.
"That's Byakko, your opponent," Rando commented, as immediately the group stared at the boy he was walking in the direction of the said roar.
"Yusuke what's is happening on there?" Botan's worried voice was enough to make Yusuke snap from his thoughts.
"Botan I will call you later," Yusuke said as the group saw the roaring once again returning, like blasts of wind, it was enough for once again, to start shaking the structures of the tower… Yusuke felt a bit intimidated, but tightening his fist, he needed to make a decision. "Let's go."
And with that, the whole group ran in the direction of the roar, as the building collapsed behind them.
Running on the stairs, they came towards the direction of their next challenge. An open field made of rocks, but above the castle created by the 4 saint beasts. And on the other side of the rock field. There was a high pillar with no one other than Byakko, as his big stature was reflected by the lightning struck with light, showing the expression of every member of the group. Some were intimidated, Kuwabara terrified.
"Byakko," Hiei commented, as he himself didn't believe in the person staring at him.
A tiger yokai with mane-like sea green hair that flows down his back, light bluish fur with grey stripes on his arms, cheeks, and legs, and two bottom canine teeth large enough to reach up his cheeks. He has yellow eyes with red pupils. Wearing a toga, what appear to be a leopard skin leg warmers and a red sash as a belt.
To say the monster was a giant, was an understanding since Kuwabara was shaking in his place. Suddenly he felt a slap on his back.
"OUCH," Kuwabara said, as he looked at Rando who seemed to be pretty calm.
"Stop acting like a coward, and treat him seriously, he is a jerk, but he is also a warrior, it's disrespecting if you act like a coward in front of him," Rando said as he was scolding a child into a lesson, even as knowing Kuwabara wanted to fight him just because of his own pride.
"Right…" Kuwabara nodded his head, as the group saw Byakko using his tail to destroy the rock behind him.
"How dare you to make me come here?" Byakko said angrily which Kuwabara felt gulped dry.
"He is very big," Kuwabara said as Yusuke nodded his head.
"It looks like he is more than 3 meters in height," Yusuke said, as Rando scoffed on the side.
"Lucky bastard…" Rando said, and Kuwabara and Yusuke stared at him in disbelief but preferred to focus on the monster in front of them.
Hiei, knowing the probability of how weak the Yokai was, and with the techniques he learned from the skilled thief, it would be the easiest fight he would ever have.
"Heh, let me handle him," Hiei smirked, and immediately Kuwabara intervened.
"Oh you imbecile, I didn't tell you it's my turn?" Kuwabara said rudely as he gave slow but firm steps going in the direction of the said Yokai. Until a roar made him stop.
"Don't get cocky just because you defeated doormat, Genbu," Byakko said as he looked attentively at the group of fighters who were under him, as he was showing how annoyed he was with everything. "As if wasn't enough being jailed in Makai without tasting Human Meat, the spiritual world still have the audacity to send 2 humans and 3 traitors to defeat us… Listen to me bunch of insects, you humans will be the delicious meal of my banquet…"
"What the hell is he talking about food?" Yusuke asked as Rando rolled his eyes.
"Later I will explain to you," Rando commented as Byakko stared angrily at him.
"Rando…" Byakko said slowly as the yokai with white hair raised his middle finger for him.
"Hiei," Byakko then said to Hiei who glared at him and then turned his head to the red-haired yokai. "Kurama...I will make you all in pieces and turn you all into food."
As the roaring of anger showed his true intentions, the entire place started to shake, and the rock bridge was getting destroyed. Kuwabara was to almost fall for there when suddenly he felt a kick on his ass which made him launch into the middle of the field… After the trembling stops, the entire field was reduced to a circle followed by a narrowed path.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Kuwabara said as he got up feeling a huge pain on his ass, when suddenly he saw Rando was next to him. "Rando?"
"Narrow paths are the worst place to fight, and you need a referee for this fight," Rando said as he saw the Yokai still looking so carefree, which shows how serious he was, at the time he was with his book on his hands. "Hey Byakko, are you finished? Did you need more time for you to tell bullshit? We are kinda in a hurry, we have places to go, things to do… you know, the best stuff of living in the human world. Isn't that cool? Ohhh, right… You don't have such an opportunity… Maybe this eating human attitude without consent and your being a huge jerk bastard didn't help your case at all. Sorry, but when you say traitor, I say VIP access… it must suck for you never to have such great things… oh you poor thing. And one last thing about your speech… You see, that would be intimidating if you were...well, intimidating."
Kuwabara blinked in shock as he could hear the tone of mockery coming from his friend, and the look from Byakko's face, clearly showed how angry he became in just a few seconds.
"ARE YOU MOCKING ME?" Byakko hoared in such anger that Kuwabara felt his bones shaking.
And still, every time Kuwabara looked at the boy when he was with the book in his hands, he felt so reassured and calm even in these circumstances, it was like he was never worried when it came to the fighting.
"Oh, no no no no no no…" Rando remained in his place while turning the pages, but Kuwabara could see the face of solemn look from his face, cracking. "Pff, yeah…"
"Rando, are you sure that you should be provoking him? You are making him want to fight you." Kuwabara said as he could see the angry growling the tiger Yokai was making. Rando suddenly started chuckling.
"Oh, but here is the thing Kuwabara, it's not me who is going to fight him…" Rando said with a smirk, which immediately Kuwabara realize what he was doing. "Well, Byakko? Are you going to monologue all day? Or you are going to fight? Kuwabara doesn't have all day long."
At that moment, Kuwabara fell on the floor, as Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama couldn't help but stare at the duo simply provoking the fight.
"The floor just got destroyed by his roaring, and still Rando had the balls to provoke him in the fight," Yusuke said as he couldn't comprehend from the look in his eyes, and from seeing Rando simply unphased by everything, it clearly made him stares as if something was wrong.
"It's because he already recognized how strong Byakko was…" Hiei commented as it brought attention from Yusuke, and saw the boy turning the pages of the book. "Don't let his words distract you, he already is with his fighting stance, waiting for one specific moment… I don't know what."
Byakko as he looked at the Yokai showing who would be fighting him, suddenly couldn't help but start laughing.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha… this is so ridiculous that I even lost my ability to infuriate," Byakko laughed as immediately Kuwabara felt his pride damaged and it was him who became the one angry.
"Oh YEAH? YOU KNOW? STOPS MAKING FUN OF ME AND COME TO FIGHT ME ALREADY." Kuwabara said as he was now hyped for the fight, he always disliked people who would laugh at him before fighting, and he was going to make sure that giant cat would eat his words. "Come on, let's go."
"Ha ha ha, don't make me laugh more, I don't need to go down to destroy you, fool," Byakko said as Kuwabara narrowed his eyes and placed his fist on his hand…
"Ah you miserable," Kuwabara said, as Rando could see Byakko taking a few strands of hair, and thankfully Kuwabara also recognized. "Oh, so you are going to bring minions to fight me? Here I thought you were a fighter AND NOT A COWARD."
Byakko simply ignored him, as he gave a breath which immediately the strands lighted up, and just for a few seconds, those strands created a life form, and those were creatures that seemed to be the size of Kuwabara and double his weight. And those beasts landed on the field creating a small tremor.
"Wow, those creatures are way bigger than I thought," Kuwabara said as he was gritting his teeth in fear.
"These are my cubs, and listen up, mess him up, boys…" Byakko said as those beast creatures were eager for a fight. "You are going to regret to challenge me, you brat…"
But before Byakko was about to laugh, suddenly he just saw chains tying up each of his creatures, and making all of them tied and unable to move.
"Chain Jail…" This was the comment that Kuwabara heard as he looked in the direction of his friend who was reading his book, with his hand raised, and one of his fingers had the chain tightening up all the beasts until he heard a roaring coming from the beasts, which on the next second, the creatures faded away, leaving only the strands of hair… "As a referee of this fight, using minions to fight in your place would show that you are too weak and afraid to fight him, which that means you would be a joke among all the yokai, great job Byakko, you done goofed."
"What did you do with my cubs? And WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE YOUR DAMMED FACE OF YOUR BOOK?" Byakko said as he looked sternly at the boy who simply tilted his head. And Kuwabara knew, at that moment, what would be the most annoying thing his friend would say… Because he knew… oh how he knew it.
"Huh? Did you say something?" Rando said as he gave a slight smirk, which immediately knew that it would make someone pissed off…