A Dream Come True

UPDATED: October 21, 2009 (Wednesday)
Edited: October 22, 2009 (Thursday)

Hello everyone!!

I will be posting four more chapters! They are way different then the original version that I had posted three years ago. They have different songs and the scenes have been altered to fit your personality and to make it not so dark ^^. Also I realized some of the characters were actually out of character with some of the scenes with you soooo I changed those as well. So I hope you enjoy it! I will be posting all four today. I don't have much time as I shouldn't be on here this late ^^; soooo yeah, you guys enjoy!!.

Oh PS. (Cause now I have time to edit and fix stuff and what not ^^; ) If you guys happen to find spelling and/or grammar mistakes; or just some things that just doesn't make sense PLEASE let me know. I will not be offended. As long as you let me know it a way that doesn't sound like your being mean on purpose ^^; I want you guys to read my story without having to be distracted by my poor interpretation of the English language ^^; I did run this thru spell check and what not, but just somethings seem to get missed ^^; Soooo yeah thank you. Now enjoy it!

OH another side note ^^; sorry but I haven't talked to you guys in forever ^^; and today (It being now Thursday Oct. 22, 2009 and I updated these chapter yesterday ^^; )
Keep your eyes peeled as I will add a few of my own written songs! Yes, I write songs as well as fan fics! So keep an eye out for Three Simple Words and My Senses Failed; not to be confused with the band Senses Failed who I do not own nor make a profit from them or their songs. However, I do own the two songs that I have mentioned in this disclaimer. So if you see them and would like to use them, please ask permission to use them and please use a disclaimer on them when you do ^^. Thank you


Disclaimer: See Chapter One.
Add: I do not own I'm No Superman by Lazlo Bane. I will insert the creator later, however, that person is who owns it and not me. I make no profit from using it in this story.

Warning: See Chapter One.


Chapter 24: A Dangerous Gamble!!


Under the medical tent….

Hiei looks at his right hand and flexes it.

He gives a small smile.

‘Improving. Just a little longer…’ Hiei thinks.

Luka starts to breathe a bit heavily and looks a bit scared.

The masked fighter glances over at the slightly shaking woman.

‘Our jailor’s also noticed that Hiei is on the mend! He’ll son be strong enough to obliterate this force field, and her along with it!!’ the masked fighter thinks, before turning her attention to the ring.


“And now the fifth match!” Koto says.

“Jin’s finally stepping up!”

“Urameshi’s goose is cooked now!” shouted the crowd.

“Aw, pipe down, ya dorks!” snorts Jin.

Yusuke gives Jin a serious look.

“Hey hey…lookit my ears!” Jin says, pointing to his pointy ears.

Yusuke blinks at the demon he is about to fight, not knowing what to expect.

“They’ve really picked up! They do that when I get excited! An’ they haven’t been this perked in ages!” flexes a super happy Jin.

He then leans closer to Yusuke, whispering to him.

“By the way, that was cool what you did to Baku. He really was a big dumb jerk, served him right. Don’t tell Risho tho’”

Yusuke gives Jin a dumb look blinking at the demon.

“Geeze…” Yusuke gives a side ways smile and scratches his cheek.

“You’re a strange guy, even for a demon. I was all hepped up and angry, ready to take it out on my next opponent, but now…”

“I’m a new foe, and it’s a new match. Going in mad just takes the fun outta it.” Jin says.

A gush of wind spikes up.

“And that’s no way to live—or die!” Jin finishes.

He then hovers a few inches off of the ground, his hair looking a bit like Hiei’s, becoming a gravity defying spiky head demon.

“Amazing! Jin floats on a cushion of air!” Koto says.

Yuskue just looks at Jin before a small smile comes to his lips.

“Hmmm…maybe it’s time I did have some fun. Okay, Jin. We’ll see who’s best! Ready when you are!!” Yusuke shouts, all excited.

“Yeah! Go Yusuke!” You shout though a bit weakly.
Your aura was still being subconsciously drained from you, though now you were subconsciously healing both Kuwabara and Kurama.

Kurama’s head was on your shoulder, were some of your hair brushed into his face, caused by the winds Jin was making.

“You hair smells nice…” Kurama says.

You blush.

“You’re probably smelling the shampoo. I found it in the shower last night. I like it too.” You say.

“Well you should use it more often…it fits you perfectly…” Kurama says, before falling asleep, leaving you a blushing mess.

“Begin!” Koto says.

She jumps back, out of Yusuke’s ways, which dashes right towards Jin, swinging his right fist forward.

However, Jin shoots straight up into the sky, leaving Yusuke in the dust.

“Wow! Jin just shot into the air…and he’s staying there!” Koto says, watching Jin just hovering over the stadium.

You would have fallen over backwards if you weren’t leaning against the wall; that was how high the wind master was.

“There’s a crisp lively wind up here.” Jin says, closing his eyes and enjoying the feel of the light sea breeze. He opens his eyes and looks over the island.

“It’s a good island…an’ I’m makin’ it mine…”

“Come down, you!” screams Yusuke, but from where Jin was, made him sound as if he was squeaking more then shouting.

“…once I win this match!” Jin states, speeding downward towards Yusuke.

“That’s better!!” Yusuke says, getting ready for Jin’s frontal downfall attack.

“Jin’s heeled over and gone into a dive!!” shouts Koto.

Yusuke stands his ground, but just as it seems like Jin was about to collide with Yusuke, Jin steers to the right and come to a screeching halt behind Yusuke, now facing Yusuke’s back.

“Wow! What an incredible mid air turn!!” say an amazed Koto.

Yusuke gasps and slightly turns, bringing up his arm and leg before being hit in the face by a right jab by Jin, which sent Yuskue tumbling forward.

“Brought up foot and elbow…nice try, guy!” Jin says.

‘Damn….I didn’t even see that…something’s wrong.’ You think.

“Ow…now that’s a punch! This is gonna be great!” says Yusuke, blood coming from his lips and a bruise starting to form on his left check from Jin’s punch.

“Jin the wind master employed his power of flight for a great opening meow!! But even put off balance, Urameshi looks ready, willing and able to strike back!!” Koto says.

Jin just smiles at Yusuke who licks away the blood with his tongue.

“Gusty, trying to take me from there!” Jin says, grinning widely as he comes towards Yusuke.

“Gotta watch it around you!” Jin says while tugging his right ear.

“That was a pretty solid punch, man.” Yusuke says lightly touching his check that Jin hit.

“Nicely delivered too.” Yusuke adds, smiling; blood continuing to drip form his lip and down his chin.

“Don’t award me any high marks yet.” Jin says whipping his right arm around. It starts to spin faster until it’s a spinning blur, whipping up more wind.

“Jin’s whipping up a miniature cyclone!” Koto shouts.

“Terror Tornado!” Jin shouts

“And off we go!” Jin charges towards Yusuke, throwing his spinning fist forward. Yusuke bent over backwards out of the spinning punch and gets a new v shaped neckline for his shirt.

‘So this is where the matrix gets their moves…’ you think, grinning to your self at your inside joke.

However the wind from the punch; even though it didn’t touch him directly, sent Yusuke flying backwards.

“Gwahah?!” screams Yusuke as he flies.

“He barely whiffed me! But still sent me flying!” Yusuke shouts.

“Yusuke, look where you’re going!” you shout.

Yusuke turns and sees he’s heading straight for the side of the stadium wall that keeps the arena and the audience seating separate. He quickly manures himself in mid air, landing with his feet on the wall and holding onto the top of the wall; looking like Spiderman.

“Nice acrobatic turn by Urameshi! He’s back on his feet! However…” Koto says.

Yuskue is now standing on the ground and gasps as he sees a flying Jin coming straight at him with his spinning fist.

“…Jin’s right on him!” Koto shouts.

Jin punches, blowing away the wall and sending many of the audience members, along with rubble, flying. Yusuke was lucky enough to dodge such a fierce attack.

“I’m glad I’m not part of the audience right now…I think they’re getting beat up more then the contestants.” You say.

Kurama, who had reawaken chuckles.

“I agree; I think it is safer to be a contender, but not too safe.” Kurama says.

“Yeah, that felt good!” Jin says, his ear twitching a bit.

“And he thinks that was good?…Yeesh! That wall coulda been me!” Yusuke says, looking a bit terrified at the wall.

“Whoo…wotta blast!!” says one of the demons who were blown away from Jin’s attack.

“Urameshi’s reflexes save him again!” Koto announces.

The crowd is now in an up roar of cheers, obviously enjoying the fight.

Both Yusuke and Jin are back in the ring.

Jin’s arm had stopped spinning, but he was about to correct that problem, starting it up again.

“Whoa there, pod’nah!!!” Yusuke shouts, dashing towards Jin, not wanting Jin to get that deadly attack going again.

Yusuke starts to rapidly punch Jin, who is blocking; but barely. This time you are able to see it, barely.

“I-I can’t tell what’s going on! A supersonic exchange of blows—maybe!” says a surprised Koto.

‘Which one’s got the edge…Yusuke’s speed or Jin’s wind?’ thinks Hiei.

“Eh! Oh! Ah!” says Jin as he blocks Yusuke’s punches.

Yusuke’s fist finally hits Jin in the stomach, shocking the wind master.

“Guck…hack…” coughs Jin and holds his stomach.

“Gotcha!!” Yusuke shouts while going in for a finishing punch, however Jin flies back into the sky.

“Rats! Another air lift!” growls Yusuke.

“Koff! Koff! Whem! Dat hurt! No wonder he took Bakuken out so quickly!” Jin says.

“Jin’s out of reach once again! According to the rules, rising straight up into the air doesn’t count as going out of bounds! Jin could stay up there forever and remain in contest!” Koto says.

BLAM!!!

Jin turns and gasps. There coming straight at him was a shotgun attack.

“Yusuke’s addressing that issue with a spirit gun blast!! How will Jin counter this?!” Koto shouts.

Jin turns around.

“Blast Screen!” Jin shouts; with one swoop of his arm moves the attack to the right of him self.

Yusuke’s eyes widen and he gasps.

“He-he diverted Urameshi’s shot with a single gust of wind! That’s the most awesome display yet of his mastery of the air!” Shouts Koto.

“Dude…that was sweet…though not good…” you say, amazed at how powerful Jin was.

You felt you’re self becoming less drained.

‘Yoko…what are you doing?’ Kurama asks.

He could feel himself healing a bit faster then normal, but at the same time, he felt Yoko releasing some of his energy into you.

‘You can’t feel it, can you? (YAFN)-chan is transferring some of her energy into you and Kuwabara…if she loses any more she will die…’ Yoko growls.

Kurama blinks and looks at you. He gasp as he realizes how messed up you looked. Your injuries were not horrible, but needed to be treated and you looked drained.

‘But…how? Why?’ Kurama thinks.

‘I think she has a new power…but she can’t control it…when we have some free time, she needs to get that fixed…’ Yoko says.

‘Yes…she must’ Kurama thinks.

You were oblivious to this and just watched the fight, hugging Kuwabara to you.

“It also makes good protective armor. Your spirit gun is useless against it. Ready to admit defeat?” Jin says.

“Not by a long shot!” shouts Yusuke.

Jin whirls up his arm again and head for Yusuke.

“Then yer goin’ down!” he shouts as he shooms towards Yusuke.

Yusuke stands there, not even in a defensive position.

“Urameshi’s standing his ground! Or…has he given up?!” shouts Koto.

Jin’s punch comes straight at Yusuke who brings up his right hand and his finger pointing and glowing, ready for another spirit gun attack.

“Hey! You—" Jin shouts, not even finishing his thought.

“This oughta settle it!” Yusuke says as he points his finger straight into Jin’s attack.
A bright flash of light blinds everyone.

There was a huge crater where the two once stood, while poor Koto was sent flying out of the ring.

“Are you ok Kurama?” you ask, since you couldn’t see at the moment, except for some stars and you didn’t know if any of the debris came in your direction and hit him.

You knew nothing hit you or Kuwabara, since you would have felt something hit you, and you had Kuwabara in a hug, so you would have known if he was hit too.

“I’m ok. How about you and Kuwabara-kun?” Kurama asks.

“We’re alright…well, I’m seeing stars, but other then that I think we’ll live.” You say leaning back against the wall.

You really weren’t feeling too good.

Koto got up and looked around the now empty ring.

“What the hey?! They’re gone! Both of them…blown away in the clash of power!!” Koto shouts.

“Unnn...”

Everyone looks to see Yusuke sitting up on the other side of the arena, near you and the other two injured members of the team, however closer to where Hiei and the masked fighter were trapped in the medical tent.

“Nice place to land Yusuke!” You shout, meaning how good it was and funny that he happened to land near the medical tent.

“You can say that again, (YAFN)-chan!” Yusuke says, knowing what you meant.

After all you are siblings ^_~.

He then stands up and looks above the ring.

“Snap! I can’t believe it!” he says.

“Urameshi’s out of bounds! AS for Jin where…? He’s gone air borne again!” Koto shouts, looking above the ring her self.

“Nearly got me, there! IF he’d landed a direct hit that would’ve been it!” says a scared Jin, his cloths now a mess.

“Tough one, huh…” Hiei says, talking to Yusuke.

Yusuke looks at him.

“He didn’t need to escape your blast just whip up an updraft to re direct its force. He’s a veteran campaigner, with far more experience then you’ll ever have! Any idea how you’ll beat him?” Hiei says, not looking at Yusuke.

“Not yet! You got a clue, by any chance?!” Yusuke shouts, looking back into the ring, missing Hiei’s ‘Are you kidding?!’ glare.

“Just so you know if you lose, I’m taking him on myself.” Hiei says.

The ground starts to rumble where he is standing, and some flames surround his body.

“Forget the rules and anyone who complains. Anyone!” Hiei says, with an evil smile and gleam in his eyes.

Yusuke gasps, looking a bit terrified and the masked fight just happens to share Yusuke’s look.

“How about me?!” You ask, asking Hiei if he would apply this to you.

Hiei glares at you and huffs.

“Don’t push your luck onna…” he snorts.

“So…can I take that as a no?” You ask.

“5...6!” Koto counted.

Hiei just glares at you.

“What?! I want to fight too, but I don’t want you to kill me! I think you’re cool…well…hot, since you’re a fire demon…but then again…you could be considered both I guess….that’s not the point! The point is I would be hurt if you attacked me…wait…that wasn’t the point…” you say, confusing your self, as well as everyone else.

Hiei just gives you a look that said “WTF”.

Yusuke glares at you, hoping you would stop before Hiei really did kill you.

He bends down into a crouching position and jumps back into the arena.

“Fight!” Koto shouts.
Yusuke says, not even turning to look at either one of you.

“It’s still my fight and I’ll finish it myself, Hiei…and that goes for you lil sis…”

Hiei folds his arms across his chest and glares at Yusuke, acting like he was a party pooper, or like Yusuke just rained on his parade.

“Then show us yer stuff bro!” you shout, smiling.

Jin starts to swing both of his arms.

“Cocky little so-and-so! You’d better pay attention, then!” Jin says

He then gets both arms going into a tornado.

“Jin’s whipping up cyclones with both arms!” Koto shouts.

Yusuke gasp as he stares at the two fists.

“Go ahead…blaze away!” Jin says.

Jin blinks at Yusuke, who spreads his legs, a part and brings his right hand to his side. His whole body starts to glow.

“What kind of stance is that?!” Jin asks no one particular.

“Haah…” Yusuke says, using this to concentrate his aura to his hands.

“Do a Kamehameha wave!!...wait….never mind!!!” you shout, sweat dropping.

((I do not own that attack, Goku does from DB and DBZ and DBGT ^_^; the creator of that show also owns that attack. I am also not making a profit for putting this in the fic. Thanks to FaythDarkStarSlayer for the spelling ^_^))

‘Man…I’m losing it…I just yelled an attack from a different anime show….it would be cool though…’ you think, smiling to your self, imagining Yusuke firing a Kamehameha wave.

Kurama raises an eyebrow at you.

‘I hope Yusuke ends this soon…she really needs some one to look over her…’

Yoko doesn’t even say anything, but gives a mental nod in Kurama’s head.

The crowd looks at you, some amused more then others.

Jin turns to you and grins.

“And I thought Urameshi was nuts….his lil sis is worse.” He laughs.

Yusuke smiles.

“Craziness runs in the family.”

Yusuke then returns to the task of setting up his attack.

“Hoo-hoo! His energy’s rising like crazy! Just like him!” Jin shouts, heading straight towards Yusuke.

“Let’s rumble!” Jin shouts.

Yusuke then moves his left hand and catches Jin’s right fist. Jin gasps. Yusuke grunts as the powerful punch from Jin has the floor crack under his feet a bit.

“Graaaarr!!” he screams as he not only punches Jin’s hand away but also dispels his wind attack.

Jin gasps at this move.

“Wow! Urameshi blocked Jin’s punch with his left hand!!” Koto shouts.

Yusuke then blocks Jin’s other hand with his left hand again, his right hand back, was powering up and ready to attack.

“And now...Aura Blast!!” Yusuke shouts as he jabs Jin in his stomach and using his last blast for the day, having it be his fourth.

Jin flies backwards into the second deck of the audience.

“Clean hit by Urameshi! He parried Jin’s win and sent him into the stands!!” Koto shouts.

“Nice, sneaky move…” Hiei says, smirking and obviously impressed; also proud at the sneaky move.

“He used that one on the boat…called it ‘shot gun’. Apt description…The shock wave can blow away weak enemies at long range. It doesn’t have the spirit gun’s punch and works directly on the body as we just saw. That’s Yusuke’s best—and final—shot today, so if that doesn’t do it…” the masked fighter says, but didn’t finish her thought.

“4...5!” Koto counts.

The crowd goes wild, screaming for Jin to get up.

“5…6…”

Yusuke looked over to where he had send Jin. He had sent the wind master into the stands. Yusuke looks anxious.

All of a sudden, Jin sits up suddenly looking a bit out of it but who could blame him especially since he was sitting in the stands, which were now rubble.

“You have a super punch! You’re an amazing guy!” Jin lets out a breath and then falls over backwards out like a light.

“10! The victory is for Team Urameshi!!” Koto announces.

The crowd was in an uproar.

“That’s hopeless; he should have stayed in longer! It’s a scam!”

“Yeah, that’s pathetic!”

The owner of the Challengers runs into the arena and up to the last remaining cloaked fighter.

“EH! You?! Are you sure you are strong enough?! I’ve bet everything on your victory!”

“I assure you, he’s exhausted. If that isn’t enough for you, you could always try plan b…” hints Risho.

The owner laughs.

“That doesn’t sound too bad…ok! I’ll get to it!”

The owner then runs off to do whatever evil deed he intended to do.

Risho removes his cloak and walks into the ring.

“And here is the chief of the Mashotsukai Team!” Koto announces, pointing towards Risho.

“I warn you…You’re going to lose without even touching me.” Risho declares, sounding confident.

“What?” Yusuke says, narrowing his eyes and giving Risho a look that shows he wasn’t buying that.

“Begin!!” Koto shouts.

Yusuke starts to rush forward, ready to attack.

“We’ll see about that!” he shouts.

All of a sudden the speaker comes on.

“Oh great…my favorite guy…” you mumble.

Kurama is now standing up, and leaning against the wall, feeling much better. He also felt that he was doing more harm to you then helping, especially since you were subconsciously healing two people at once. Kurama figured he had been healed enough and could handle the rest on his own, which left you one less strain and gave you more energy to give to Kuwabara and not kill your self.

“Warning! The test is suspended!!” the speaker announced.

Yusuke, who was in mid attack, falls flat on his face.

“The order comes from one of the VIPs!”

Yusuke is back on his feet and looks frustrated.

“Shit. But why?!” Yusuke shouts, wanting to know what could have been wrong this time.

The speaker was quiet for a few seconds.

“Heh…trying to think up an excuse I see.” You say, smirking at the fact that it was so obvious that it was rigged.

“During the preceding match, Jin was out of the ring. The referee had missed the time for the count down…” the speaker says.

“Meow? Me?!” says a shocked Koto.

“That’s bull crap! She’s a very good announcer and didn’t mess up once! She’s been following the rules, you ass hole!” you shout.

It seems your energy was coming back at full speed all of a sudden. Un-known to you, Kuwabara had been awake from the death grip you gave him earlier, though he had his eyes closed and just rested against you. He had only discovered recently that you were giving him some of your energy, and that it was at a dangerous level. So he had started to give it back to you.

The speaker either didn’t hear you or was just ignoring you, since it continued.

“In accordance with this…we have decided to declare the match void!”

Yusuke looks at the speaker confused, not understanding if that was a bad thing for his team or not.

The crowd was in another up roar.

“What’s that story?! A null match?!”

“You see anything?” asks one demon to another.

“Eh…no, I don’t think so…” says another demon, confused and scratching the back of his head.

“In that case, Urameshi must pass his turn!” says another one.

“Hiei and the mask are out….He can’t stay there against Risho?!”

“So then…Team Urameshi lost?!”

Risho grins as the crowd is in disbelief that the most hated team in the entire tournament lost, with out a single death.

“Heh…They say it well. Go on, referee, and announce the victory!” Risho says, looking at a confused Koto.

She is silent. The look on her face shows that she is battling over either to go against HQ, which would be against the rules, or declare the match void and declare the Challengers the winners by default.

Toya, who is awake and sitting on the sideline, leaning against the wall, is shocked.

“Chief! I don’t want to win that way! Gama sacrificed himself for us!”

Risho turns to his fellow comrade.

“You are too sentimental. For us, the end justifies the means. We are here to win.”

Toya growls still not liking how they were going to win the fight.

“Honor-less punk…” you spit out, which earns you a glare from Risho.

“If I were you, I would learn some respect, human.” Risho growls.

“Bite my shiny metal ass, bitch!” you shout. ((Disclaimer: Bender rules and owns that line as well as Futurama; not making any profit from this line….though I did add that last word to the line ^_^))

Your energy was coming back but it wasn’t enough for you stand on your feet.

“You little bitch!” Risho shouts back, obviously angry.

Your eye twitched and your face turned red, as well as your eyes.

“Uh-oh...” Kurama says, taking several steps away from where you were. He knew of how your temper was and wasn’t going to get in your way.

“Oh, you’re in for it now…” smirked Yusuke, as he himself took a few steps away from your path.

“I have no patience for such low lives like your self!” Risho snorts.

He then turns to Koto.

“What are you waiting for?! I can kill you and you are replaceable…and I’m nit no mood right now.” growls Risho.

“That…he…your ass is mine!” you shout and try to get up, however a hand grabs yours.

You blink and look to see Kuwabara grabbed your hand. You blink again, not too sure if what you were seeing was true.

“(YAFN)-chan, just listen…” Kuwabara whispered, just for you to hear.

Your heart flies around and your face is now calm.

“Yeah?” you whisper back.

“You’re too weak from transferring yer energy to me and Kurama, so you’d have no chance with this guy. Maybe if you were at full power or sumethin’ but not in this condition…don’t worry though…I’ll take his ass down. He had no right to say what he did to you….he’ll pay.”

Kuwabara then squeezes your hand gentle, but firmly.

“That’s a promise.”

You turn your head so you were now looking at his face. His eyes were glaring straight at Risho.

“Kuwabara…” you whisper.

‘He truly does care…’ you think.

It then hits you.

“Wait a minute…I was transferring my energy to you and Kurama?” you ask, blinking at him.

Kuwabara looks at you and sees that you were serious and chuckled.

‘(YAFN)-chan could help someone and not know it.’ thinks Kuwabara as he smiles at your confused face.

“Yup, seems like it.”

“So…what Kura-chan said to me earlier…” you start.

(Flash back)

Kurama blinks his eyes a few times before opening them.

“I’d…hoped to beat three of them myself…” Kurama says, still lying against you.

“You ok, though?” Yuskue asks his voice full of concern.

“As far as the beatings, yah. My deadly vetch is the real problem. It’s from the demon plane, so getting it out of my system will take time. I …..Heh….must reap what I’ve sow.” Kurama says, giving Yusuke a smile.

“Besides…” he lays his head back on your shoulder, only lifting it up so he could give Yusuke a smile.

“I got a soft new pillow and it seems just by being next to (YAFN)-chan has quickly replenished my strength.” Kurama says, smiling.

You blushed.

“Awww…you flit you.”

(End Flash back)

You blink. You then start laughing.

“Huh?” Kuwabara looks confused at you.

“Kura-chan made a funny! Reap what I sow! I get it now…cause he planted that plant and had to deal with the consciences…” you say, not really finishing cause you saw Kuwabara sweat drop.

“Sorry, blond moment.” You say, scratching the back of your head.

“You seem to get a lot of those…” Kuwabara mumbles.

Before you could say anything to that comment, Hiei caught both of your attentions.

Hiei began to power up, while still in the force field.

“Now it’s up to me to fix these rules. We’re going to play a survival game, survival of the fittest!” Hiei says.

“No more for me! I don’t want to do this anymore! Risho! I don’t think I can hold them any longer!” shouts a terrified Luka.

Yusuke looks at Hiei.

“She’s right…I’m with you Hiei, let’s go! To Hell with this place!” Yusuke shouts.

The crowd starts again, though this time its sounds like fear.

“They’re going to do it..?!”

Koto looks scared as well, but sighs.

“By lack of participations, the winners are…”

“Wait a sec!” Kuwabara shouts.

Risho turns with a shocked face to where you and Kuwabara are.

“Listen for a sec…You’ve all completely forgot about me!” growls Kuwabara.

“Yeah! He’s not dead ya know!” you shout.

“Thanks (YAFN)-chan but I think I can take this.” He says.

“Oh ok...” you say, letting go of his waist, figuring he might want to move soon.

“Ku—Kuwabara!” says a shocked Yusuke.

He obviously forgot about Kuwabara as well.

“I think you’re already lost.” Snorts Hiei, doubting Kuwabara could even move.

“What?” Kuwabara says before he clutches his side in pain.

“Kuwabara!” you shout, looking at his side. It wasn’t bleeding but that still didn’t mean it didn’t hurt or that it was still injured.

Yusuke jumps out of the ring; and rushes towards his injured friend.

“You’re not strong enough, moron! You almost died in the first round!” shouts Yusuke.

“I know that!” Kuwabara shouts back.

“I didn’t!” you shout, while getting everyone’s attention focused on your now pissed off face.

“Well, don’t worry about it, cause I’m fine now! Really! You transferring helped a lot…even if I did give you back most of it…” Kuwabara mumbled that last part, knowing if you knew what he did that you would over do it with another transfer and since you didn’t know how to control it yet, it could possibly kill you.

“Besides, trashin’ the place isn’t enough. We have to win this bloody tournament by the rules, ok?” Kuwabara says.

“If that’s even possible!” snorts Hiei.

“Could you shut up?!” shouts Kuwabara, now on his feet.

Kurama is watching the whole thing from a bit of a distance.

‘Ummm…maybe (YAFN)-chan’s energy is enough to help Kuwabara-kun win this for us?’ Kurama thinks.


Meanwhile…

Outside the stadium, a picture of Kuwabara is on a huge screen, showing those demons that were unable to get a ticket in time at what they were missing.

An announcer speaks as Kuwabara is declaring he should fight.

“A general surprise, there is still a contestant! Kuwabara, who was thought out, has affected a grand return!!”

Yukina, who had arrived only minutes before looks at the screen.

‘Kazuma…’ she thinks sadly as she sees how injured he is.

The crowd outside the stadium is in an up roar, more then the one that was inside the stadium.

“It’s not possible! Drink all day and leave off and this is what happens?!” shouts a demon.

“I wasn’t to see what happened?!” shouts another confused demon.

It is at this very moment the girls come to watch the match.

“This sucks…they only had one bottle.” Whines Astuko, taking about how unfair it was to only have one bottle of beer left after all of the ones she had the other night with Shizuru, who happened to be holding the last one.

“But you already had three!” says a shocked Keiko.

“Don’t worry about it.” says Shizuru, to both Keiko and Astuko.

“It’s not like we have to nurse a hangover!” says a cheerful Botan.

Botan then looks around and sees Yukina, who is looking up at the screen.

“Hm? What?! Yukina? What are you doing here?” Botan asks, walking up to the ice maiden; the rest of the girls following.

Yukina snaps out of her daze and sees Botan now in front of her with three other girls.

“Ah…Botan is that you?” Yukina asks a bit shocked to see the person who helped her back to her home not too long ago attending the tournament.

Keiko looks at the new girl a bit curious as to how the two girls knew each other.

Astuko and Shizuru just didn’t care.

Keiko then glances up at the screen and does a double take.

“Eh! Look at the screen!” she shouts, pointing at the screen.

They all look and are in shock to see a battered Kuwabara walking towards the ring or rather limping.

Shizuru blinks at the screen before turning her eyes to a near by demon.

“What’s this?! Where is it, the match?!” Shizuru demands.

The demon turns to Shizuru and glares.

“What the fuck do you want?” the demon growls.

Shizuru’s eyes blaze fire and look so evil that Yama him self would have wet his pants just looking into them.

“Perhaps you want to die?” Shizuru states coldly yet still calmly; which would have even made Hiei proud.

Keiko sweat drops at how dangerous Shizuru is at the moment.

The demon trembles, as he is so obviously scared to death at that very moment.

“I’ll tell you everything!” he whimpers.


Back in the arena….

The speaker comes back on.

“Here is the situation….ahem! The winner of the match, Kuwabara vs. Risho, will win for his team. To your places!!”

Kuwabara starts to wobble over to the ring to fight Risho.

‘Finally, a role for my loftiness! He he, this match’s in the bag!’ thinks Kuwabara, relying on his acting skills to throw off Risho.

Even if he was still hurt, he wasn’t as weak as everyone was thinking he should be, even after the attack he received from all three ‘possessed’ humans.

Risho snorts as he watches Kuwabara walk towards him.

“You really have nothing in your skull. You’re going to die.”

Kuwabara finally reaches the ring.

“We’ll see about that. I’m tough!” Kuwabara shouts.

“Begin! Finally the last two! The victor will win for his team!” Koto announces a bit excited.

Yusuke looks apprehensively into the ring.

“Kuwabara! Take it easy! We’ll try and settle this with those losers in HQ!” Yusuke shouts.

“Oh just pipe down and relax.” You shout, still leaning against the wall.

“Are you alright, (YAFN)-chan?” Kurama asks, kneeling next to you.

He now had some time to inspect your self-inflected injuries.

They weren’t too bad; expect for maybe your elbow, which was raw from scrapping it when you had fallen earlier. Kurama took your arm into his hand and looked it over; grimacing over how bad it looked.

You didn’t notice, until he touched it with a piece of his shirt that didn’t have blood on it and had some kind of herb on it, rubbing it over the raw area, which caused you to wince in pain and hiss.

“Oww…be careful, that hurts.” You whine.

Kurama smiles an apologetic smile towards you.

“Sorry, I’ll try to be gentler.”

Yusuke ran over to you and was on your other side, his eyes looking over your scrap and scratches.

“How’d you get mess up in the first place?” he asked, his voice worried.

He winced as you did, as Kurama gently wrapped your arm up. He then started to clean your other scratches, which didn’t take him too long.

Yusuke’s eyes then flashed as an idea hit him.

“That guy didn’t come after you, did he? That bastard…if he did I’ll…” Yusuke started, his power starting to rise a bit.

“NO. He didn’t, thank God…but that’s why you should have woken me up ya loser! You’re not a good older brother if you can’t even look out for your own lil sis.” You say, pouting, meaning that last phrase to be a joke.

Yusuke let out a sigh of relief and landed right next to you. He swung his arm around your shoulder in a side ways hug.

“Well, I’m glad yer all right, sis. I’ll try harder next time. I promise to do a better job of bein’ an older brother.” He says, grinning.

“I’ll hold you to that.” You say, smiling, and giving him a side ways hug back.

“Who?” Kurama asks, raising an eyebrow.

He was now out of the loop, along with Hiei, who still didn’t know about the cat demon.

“Some demon…you met him in the club with Kuwabara and (YAFN)-chan while you were training them.” Yusuke says, snorting.

Kurama is taken back by this news before his face turns grim.

“So…he’s here is he?” Kurama says.

That bastard…. growls Yoko.

Well, it does make sense though…we’ll have to keep a better guard now that he’s here….who knows what he’ll pull. (YAFN)-chan is in more danger….

Both you and Yuskue blink at Kurama before looking at each other and then back at your usually calm teammate.

“Huh Kurama? You ok?” asks Yusuke.

‘Don’t tell me Kurama likes (YAFN)-chan too?’ thinks Yusuke.

“Uh?” Kurama seemed to snap out of whatever state he was in.

“Yes, I’m fine Yusuke, just a little worried, that’s all…” he says.

You look at him for a second before shrugging your shoulders. You figured Kurama didn’t like the fact that perv was somewhere in the audience; not like you could blame him. That knowledge made you uneasy too.

“It’s fine. I’m fine. It’s over. Period. Now let’s cheer Kuwa-chan on!” you shout, shooting your hand in the air, accidentally hitting Yusuke in the jaw.

“Ah…oops...” you say, scratching the back of your head.

Yusuke falls over backwards, twitching a bit.

“Ummm...I think I killed him.” You say, poking him a bit.

Kurama chuckles at your randomness and silliness.

‘She’s become more at easy lately…’ Kurama thinks.

She’s very amusing, if not delectable…Yoko added.

‘Yoko.’ warns Kurama.

‘It’s true and you know it’ Yoko says.

Kurama mentally sighs at his alter ego.


In the ring…

Risho stands there.

“Heh. Come on, go for it!”

Kuwabara, getting inpatient as well charges at Risho, out stretching his hand.

“Enough talk! Let’s do this!” Kuwabara shouts.

He tries to summon his spirit sword, but is surprised as he raises his arm ready to strike that his hand is empty.

Kuwabara’s eyes widen.

“What the?! I can’t make my sword!! But why?!” Kuwabara shouts, looking at his hand.

“What?” Yusuke says, sitting up and looking into the ring.

“How’s that?! And why can’t we go in?!” says the girls who are still out side of the stadium, now standing at the entrance. However, the gatekeeper is blocking them from entering.

“Today it’s completely full.” The demon says, glaring at the girls.

“But we got tickets, see!” shouts Atsuko, showing the demon their tickets, in tatters.

The demon snorts.

“Humans stink too much. We don’t want you here. Unless you are rich heh heh.” laughs the demon.

Astuko, Keiko, and Shizuru glare at the demon that was greedy.

The demon then turns to Botan and Yukina.

“Eh, you? You feel like demons! You’re one of us?” the demon asks.

He then continues, not even letting them answer his question.

“You two I’ll let in, but you’ll have to be nice to me, heh heh heh heh…’ the demon says, smiling pervert.

“I see there’s nothing else we can do…” Astuko says, earning a look from the rest of the girls.

Shizuru smirks, knowing what Astuko’s angle was.

“Then you get my drift.” smirks the demon, looking satisfied.

Astuko then kicks the demon.

“Go on! Beat it!” she shouts, continuing to kick the demon.

Keiko punches him. She then looks at her throbbing hand.

“Ouch…”

Shizuru breaks the beer bottle over the demon’s head.

Shizuru looks at the broken part of the bottle that is still in her hand.

“So much for the bottle…what a waste.” She sighs.

Keiko stands there, along with Yukina and Botan, just watching Astuko and Shizuru beat the crap out of the poor guy, who was only doing his job, even if he did pull a ‘Yusuke’ on them; a crowd of nervous demons looking on.

Yukina looks at the brutal display.

“Can we really do that?” she asks pointing at the two women beating the demon, and looking at Botan for an answer.

“Yes, yes!” Botan says, nodding her head fast.

She then has a thought.

“OH, Yukina. Why are you here? Did you come to support Kuwa-chan?” Botan asks.

Yukina nods.

“Yes. My healing techniques could help him. I would like to use my ability to help him and his friends….but I’m also here for another reason.” Yukina says.

“Really?” Botan asks, not sure what other reason Yukina could have been there for, other then helping Kuwabara.

“My brother is here, so I thought while I was here, I’d encourage Kuwabara and his friends, since they did save me. I have permission to be here and look for my brother.” Yukina says.

Astuko and Shizuru are now done murdering the poor demon and they all start to walk into the stadium.

“Us too, we’ll help you!!” Astuko says, all excited.

“Yes, but how are you going to find him? Do you have any clues?” Keiko asks.

“Not really…” Yukina says sadly.

Botan sweat drops and gets nervous.

“But I can sense him when he’s near…” Yukina says, with a bit of hope in her voice.

“Yeah…” Botan says with a nervous smile.

‘Koenma, Yusuke, (YAFN)-chan, and I are the only ones who know…’ Botan thinks.

She then remembers something Hiei said to her once, regarding this matter.

‘Unless you want to die, don’t speak about it…’ Hiei’s voice says, echoing in the poor deity’s mind.

Botan sweat drops.

‘I’m afraid I’m going to mess up…’ Botan thinks.

Kuwabara screams as Risho punches him.

“Take this! And this!” Risho shouts, continuing to punch the already injured Kuwabara.

“The reason your spirit sword won’t work is because you were foolish enough to focus all of your energy on healing your wounds! Consider yourself dead!” Risho shouts.

“Fuck that!” Kuwabara shouts back, growling out in pain and in anger.

‘No…I must have given too much energy back to (YAFN)-chan…Damnit! If I wasn’t such an idiot I would have kept some for myself!....If I just didn’t…no….can’t think about that now…’ Kuwabara thinks, while taking every punch Risho throws at him.

Risho then kicks Kuwabara in the face, snapping him out of his thought.

“Eat this!!”

Kuwabara slides backwards, but is still on his feet. He stood in a fighting stance, breathing heavily. It was obvious from his face he’s tiring, quickly.

“Your stubbornness to die is amazing yet comical. It’s time to use my special attack…I, the master of the earth will show you!” Risho shouts before he turns and runs out of the ring.

Kuwabara looks at him confused, but doesn’t let up his stance.

‘What’s this guy up to?’ Kuwabara thinks.

“Risho is going out of the ring! But what…? What’s this? One! Two…” Koto starts to count.

All of a sudden, the dirt around Risho’s feet comes up and turns into armor, latching onto his body.

“He’s covering his body with dirt?!’ says a panicking Koto, not knowing what was going to happen, but knew it couldn’t be good.

Risho jumps back into the ring, now covered with ‘earth armor.’

“The massacre can commence!! A very special spell! The Bombard Tackle!” He shouts as he rams Kuwabara like a bullet that was shot out of a fully loaded and powerful gun.

Kuwabara is sent flying backwards and lands on his back.

“Down! One! Two…” Koto starts to count again, but this time for Kuwabara.

You stare at Kuwabara’s bloody body.

“Kuwabara!!” you scream, losing your self with the scene.

Risho snorts.

“Heh! Finally…”

Kuwabara shifts and slowly stands up, blood dripping from his re opened wounds and new ones he has, as he stands.

“What?!...how?! When?!” asks a stuttering Risho.

“I don’t like to lose….and if I’m gonna die, I rather bring you down with me…besides…” Kuwabara says, glaring straight into Risho’s eyes.

“I made a promise to kill yer ass….and I keep my promises…”

Your eyes widen at how low Kuwabara’s voice dropped.

“Kuwabara?” Yusuke says shocked at how dangerous his voice sounded, even though it was the calmest and smoothest he had ever heard from Kuwabara.

He had never seen Kuwabara like this and it scared Yusuke.

Risho growls not scared at all by Kuwabara’s rage.

You stare at the heavily breathing Kuwabara in awe.

‘Is he serious…? Is the promise…” You eyes widened, “Does he mean that promise of killing this guy for what he said to me?”

You looked at him with a new understanding.

‘Could he actually be…in love….with me?’ you think, blinking at him.

Your heart felt as if it was floating above the stadium. You felt like singing for some reason. Your gut was urging you to sing. You didn’t even think about the song to use, since your heart and voice beat your brain to that.

You closed your eyes and opened your mouth, letting go; forgetting about the crowd; forgetting about all of your bad experiences with singing in front of a crowd; you forgot you were in the DT, fighting for your life and for those of your team mates who were your friends; you even forgot that the whole thing wasn’t even real but an anime show. All you thought of as you began to sing was the fact you had fallen for Kuwabara and that he showed that he could love you back.

(Song)

Out the door just in time
Head down the 405
Gotta meet the new boss by 8 a.m.
The phone rings in the car
The wife is workin' hard
She's running late tonight again

(Kuwabara gives you a glance and sees you singing with your eyes closed. He smiles.
Risho looks at you like you lost it and snorts
“Someone should shut that girl up…since this isn’t a rock show…This is a tournament!!” Risho shouts)

Well
I know what I've been told,
You got to work to feed the soul
But I can't do this all on my own
No, I know, I'm no Superman
I'm no Superman

You've got your love online
You think you're doing fine
But you're just plugged into the wall


(Kuwabara glares at Risho.
“Shut up!” he growls.
Everyone looks in awe as Kuwabara’s spirit energy rises, his whole body glowing. Risho takes a step back, in fear.
“That’s impossible there’s no way for his energy to rise this fast in such a short time!” Risho shouts, shocked.
Kuwabara focuses on his hands and his spirit sword appears.)


And that deck of tarot cards
Won't get you very far
There ain't no hand to break your fall
Well
I know what I've been told
You gotta know just when to fold
But I can't do this all on my own
No, I know, I'm no Superman
I'm no Superman

(Kuwabara then glares at the demon, which is still in shock. “You wouldn’t cause you have no heart!”
Kuwabara points his sword at Risho.
“Prepare to die.” He says.
Kuwabara charges at Risho, who snaps out of his stupor and glares at the ‘foolish’ human who dared to challenge him. Risho then charges straight towards Kuwabara, doing his attack again)

That's right

You've crossed the finish line
Won the race but lost your mind
Was it worth it after all


(“I’ll show you your place human!” Risho shouts. “Bombard Tackle!”
Both are now charging towards each other. Both of them power up right before they are about to clash with each other, Kuwabara’s sword coming down, to block the attack Risho was making.
“Kuwabara!” Yusuke shouts.
In front of his eyes, Yusuke witnesses as the two powerful beings collide with each other, both of their powers clashing with each other.)


I need you here with me
Cause love is all we need
Just take a hold of the hand that breaks the fall

(Kuwabara and Risho struggle with each other, trying to over power the other, however both seem to be equally matched in power as they both are able to push the other backwards a bit before being pushed a backwards a bit them selves.)


Well I know what I've been told
Gotta break free to break the mold
But I can't do this all on my own
No I can't do this all on my own
I know that I'm no Superman
I'm no Superman
I'm no Superman

(Kuwabara hears this line and clenches his teeth.
‘If (YAFN)-chan believes in me...’ Kuwabara thinks, “Then there’s nothing I can’t do!” Kuwabara shouts, finishing his thought in time with you singing the line. Kuwabara’s power grows dangerously fast, surprising everyone.
Risho is starting to be pushed backwards. His eyes widen as Kuwabara walks forward, pushing the shocked demon back.
“How?!” Risho asks.)


Someday we'll be together
I'm no Superman
Someday
Someday we'll be together
Someday
I'm no Superman

(Risho glares at you as you continue to sing. ‘That girl...’ Risho starts to think, ‘She has…the power to recharge one’s energy with her singing voice!’ Risho thinks before Kuwabara summons more of his energy.
“See ya in Hell!” Kuwabara shouts as he shatters Risho’s armor with his sword.
Risho screams as he crashes into the stands. Kuwabara glares at the spot before spinning his sword around a bit and putting it away. He gives a sigh of relief.)

(SONG ENDS)


You open your eyes and see everyone staring at Kuwabara in shock.

A weak smile comes to your lips.

“I believe…Kuwabara won...” you say, smiling.

Kuwabara turns to you, a huge grin on his face. You smile and give him a thumb up.

Just then, Yukina and the rest of the girls run into the stadium and down the steps towards the wall that separated the arena from the stands.

“Kazuma!” Yukina shouts, concern in her voice.

Kuwabara blinks.

‘I know that voice...’ he thinks.

He turns and sees Yukina. His face changes to a smile as he runs over to where she is.

“Yukina-sama! You came?!” asks Kuwabara as he runs over.

You see this and find yourself frozen; your eyes moisten a bit, but you will your self not to cry.

‘I guess he’s just cares for me as just a friend...I should stop doing this to myself. Besides…it’s better this way anyway…’ you think.

You lie back against the wall and finally let everything crash. You fall asleep from the whole experience you had suffered through out the day.

“Are you alright?” Yukina asks Kuwabara, concern written over her face.

“Aha haha, I’m great!” Kuwabara says, flexing a bit to prove to Yukina that he was fine.

Yusuke just stares at the idiot, sitting next to you still, though his arm isn’t around your shoulder anymore.

“Is he bloody stupid or what?” asks a dumb founded Yusuke.

He glances over towards you and sees that you were sleeping.

‘I hope (YAFN) didn’t see that...’ he thinks, sighing. ‘I really need to beat some sense into that idiot...’

Kuwabara then turns and looks at you with a smile, but it disappears as he sees you sleeping, still a mess. He finally notices how much of a mess you are in.

“(YAFN)-chan” Kuwabara whispers at first, shocked at how horrible you looked.

He then shouts your name louder, running over to where you lay.

Yukina and the girls’ saw your figure lying against the wall and all gasped.

“(YAFN)-chan!” gasped Keiko, covering her mouth.

“I must go help her!” Yukina says turning and running back into the hallway where they had come from; the rest of the girls follow close behind her.

Yusuke glares at Kuwabara. He stands up and steps in front of Kuwabara, right before he could reach your unconscious form.

“What the Hell is your problem?!” Yusuke shouts changing into big brother mode.

“What the heck are ya talkin’ about, Urameshi?” Kuwabara asks, not understanding why his best friend is giving him a death glare; Kurama is even giving him a look more of disapproval or was it disappointment?

Kuwabara couldn’t tell.

“How could you lead (YAFN)-chan on like that, that’s what the Hell I’m talkin’ about!” shouts Yusuke.

Kuwabara looks at Yusuke, confused.

“Huh?”

Kuwabara was very confused and blinked at Yusuke.

“Idiot.” scoffs Hiei as he walks over, only just now getting released from his prison along with the masked fighter; who was also coming over with a look of disapproval in her eyes.

“Shut up Hiei! I don’t want to here any of your crap right now!” Kuwabara shouts.

“Besides, (YAFN)-chan lost a lot of her energy givin’ me and Kurama it. She needs Yukina-san to heal her! I’m glad she’s here...Yukina-san I mean… (YAFN)-chan needs her badly and I don’t know what we’d do if she hadn’t come...” Kuwabara says, looking Yusuke dead into his eyes.

Yusuke gives Kuwabara a suspicious look. He had promised you that he would not let you down again, and like Hell he would let your feelings get hurt; that came in the same category as protecting his lil sis.

“Now if you excuse me, Urameshi, I need to help YOUR lil sis.” Kuwabara says, walking past Yusuke and picks you up, having you nestled against his chest.

You instantly cuddle into his chest, which causes Kuwabara to smile down at you, before turning towards the entrance and leaving, not even hearing Koto announce him as the winner; nor that he had won the round for his team.

‘Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to like her a little more...but not ok to love her...’ Kuwabara thinks as he leaves; his team mates in shock, as well as the entire stadium, which were now in an uproar.


Somewhere else on the island, closer to the shore, Kuwabara sat, with you still asleep in his lap. Yukina was sitting across from him, having just healed your injures though your arm wouldn’t heal for a while; since you hurt it badly.

The sun had begun to set as the three of you were on the beach. Yukina looked over at Kuwabara. She had been meaning to ask him, but didn’t think it was appropriate to ask, since it wasn’t her business and she didn’t know much about relationships outside her village.

Kuwabara sighed and closed his eyes, enjoying the nice sea breeze blowing across his face.

“Kazuma…” Yukina started.

Kuwabara turned towards her.

“Yes Yukina-san?” he asks.

“The wounds you have…I thought you were badly hurt, as well as (YAFN)-chan….are you sure you are alright?” she asks, worried about him since he had denied her to help him and insisted to help you with your injures.

Kuwabara smiled a charming smile at her and took her hands in his.

“The wounds you refer to are no longer an issue Yukina-san. (YAFN)-chan took care of that. Ummm…Yukina-san…would you mind showing (YAFN)-chan how to heal? She just got that ability, and she didn’t know how to use it right and almost died…” Kuwabara says, looking at your sleeping face with sadness in his eyes.

Yukina smiles and understands his worry over you. She knew from experience that if one couldn’t control their healing abilities it could hurt the one using it to the point of releasing all of their energy into the one they were trying to help and die; especially if they weren’t trained properly.

“Of course Kazuma. I would be glad to help (YAFN)-chan with her abilities.” Yukina says, smiling at him before looking at you with a warm smile.

“She is a wonderful person. I like her very much.” She then looks at Kuwabara with a smile.

Kuwabara looks at Yukina and smiles back at her.

“Yes…she is.”


“Couldn’t you have told me you were here?” Asks Yusuke, who was standing in the woods with Keiko. It was only hours before sun set and only a half an hour ago after Kuwabara had disappeared with you and Yukina.

“I didn’t want to distract you…” Keiko says, a bit guilty.

“You’re joking, right? That’s not your style!” Yusuke says a bit taken back by Keiko’s remark.

“You’re really a gloomy creaton!!” shouts Keiko, putting her hands on her hips and giving Yusuke a mad look.

“Who me? A creaton!!” shouts Yusuke in disbelief at what Keiko just called him.

“Yes! An enormous creaton!!” she shouts before turning around and crossing her arms across her chest. Yusuke glares at her back also crossing his arms across his chest.

A little away from them, in the bushes hid Botan who had some how managed to receive a microphone and wore sunglasses; commentating.

“Here they are training to sulk.” Botan says into the microphone.

Yusuke’s glare disappears and he looks at the still mad Keiko’s back.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to check it out but…”

Yusuke is now poking Keiko’s buttocks.

“Haven’t you been getting rounder?”

Keiko’s face grew red. She turned and gave him a bitch slap across his face.

Birds in near by trees flee as Yusuke is knocked flat by an angry Keiko.

Yusuke is back on his feet, rubbing his swollen cheek.

“Hahaha, it’s getting hot in here…maybe a bit too hot.” smiles Yusuke, glad that Keiko hasn’t lost her touch.

“Yusuke…” Keiko says giving him a serious look as well as pointing her finger at him as if she was going to fire a spirit gun attack at him.

“If you lose, there’ll be trouble.” She says.

Yusuke smiles and gives Keiko a thumps up, both smiles at each other. Keiko then runs off towards the hotel to find the rest of the girls and see what they were doing.

“Yeah! I’m going to win. I’m ultra motivated.” Yusuke says, watching her leave.

Once Keiko is out of sight, Yusuke turns to the still hiding Botan, who was taking a peek at the two.

“And you? What do you want?” he says, glaring at the peeking Botan.

Botan eeps before ducking back behind the bushes.

“Lucky for you, I’m in a good mood.” Yusuke says.

Botan comes out from hiding.

“You know I was there?” she asks, in shock.

Yusuke ignore her questions and look around.

“You ain’t with Koenma?” he asks, surprised.

“I almost forgot! The egg’s going to hatch!” Botan says excitedly.

Yusuke looks blankly at her, not remembering about the egg, again.

“Egg?”

“Oh course! The Beast Egg!” Botan shouts, about annoyed at how air headed Yusuke could be at times.

“Oh yeah!” Yusuke says, remembering.

“Koenma went to retrieve it from spirit world.” Botan says.

“In fact, he’s already have.” Koenma says, standing behind Yusuke.

Yusuke jumped not sensing the demi god behind him, who is in his teenage form.

“Oops.” Koenma says, sweat dropping.

“You scared the Hell outta me!” Yusuke shouts, getting into Koenma’s face.

“I haven’t finished speaking yet!!” Koenma shouts back.

Koenma then takes out the egg, which fits in his hand completely.

“Tell me? Isn’t it big? Hold it. It’s going to hatch.” Koenma says, handing the egg to Yusuke.

Yusuke holds it and looks at it both excitingly and suspiciously.

“What’s gonna come out of it?” Yusuke asks, examining it.

“I don’t know! I’ve already explained to you that it’s been nourished by your soul. Demon or angel, it depends on you.” Koenma says.

Thunder cracks in the back ground as Koenma finishes his dramatic speech.

The egg cracks open before it starts to fully hatch, in Yusuke’s hand.

All of a sudden, the egg was gone.

“It disappeared?! Where is it?!” Yusuke shouts, blinking at his hand where the egg once was.

Botan points and screams as she looks at something, which was above Yusuke’s head.

A penguin like creator with very long ears and a fuzzy mop of hair is sitting on Yusuke’s head.

“Puu.” The creature says.

Puu then flaps his ears, hovering over Yusuke’s head as he turns it, looking around to try and find out what Botan was pointing at and what had made that noise. As soon as Yusuke stopped moving his head, Puu perched himself back on top of Yusuke’s head.

Koenma and Botan started to laugh hysterically, though they tired to stop them selves at first, but failed miserably.

Botan wiped a tear from her eyes.

“You’re alter ego is cute, don’t you think?!” says a smiling Botan.

“Hahahaha!! Yusuke, you’re in luck. It doesn’t have an evil air. Heh heh.” Laughs an amused Koenma, who was also shocked, but more relieved by the fact Yusuke didn’t create a monster.

“I was imagining something like that.” Botan says, pointing to a dream bubble that appeared above her head; which held a picture of a snake-serpent with Yusuke’s head and fangs.

Botan laughs, but not for long since Yusuke whacks her in the back of her head.

Botan rubs her injured spot on her head.

“You don’t have to hit me for it!” she shouts, glaring at Yusuke.

Yusuke growls as he was glaring at her.

“I’m relieved, but that annoyed me! It really flips me off!” snorts Yusuke.

He was upset they didn’t give him enough credit not to be that evil.

Back at the hotel, Puu is sitting on Yusuke’s head.

You are now awake and are finding this situation just as amusing as everyone else is.

“That’s it, that tiny guy? Ridiculous!” laughs Kuwabara who couldn’t believe that the cute blue fuzz ball on Yusuke’s head was part of Yusuke’s inner thoughts and such.

“Awwww! Who knew my big brother was sooo cute inside!” you say, laughing along with Kuwabara.

“He seems to appreciate empty heads!” Astuko adds, also joining in making fun of her son.

“You can still talk you drunkard!” Yusuke shouts, glaring at his mother.

The laughter had finally subsided.

“What now? The tournament isn’t going to wait for us. Tomorrow is the semi-finals.” Kuwabara says, sitting back in his chair.

“We had two matches after another for nothing?” growls a frustrated Yusuke.

“They’re really a bunch of dirty tricksters!” snorts Astuko.

“Yeah, the scumbags don’t even give us a break!” you add, also not liking how they were doing the tournament lay out.

“Don’t worry (YAFN)-chan, we can take anything they give us!” says a grinning Kuwabara.

You look at him and smile back.

You had forgotten of the entire singing incident. It was now a blur and seemed more like a dream to you. You were half awake when you did it, so you thought you were dreaming.

“We’re going to win!” shouts Yusuke, all excited.

“Puu puu!” shouts Puu, also excited flapping his big ears around all excitedly.

Kuwabara, Astuko, and you all started to break out into laughter at the whole thing.

“I’m going to die laughing!” says Kuwabara and Astuko, through their laughter.

“You’re all idiots!” growls a mad Yusuke.

“That would make you one too brother.” You giggle.

He glares at you, before it turns to a smirk. You pale a bit, as he starts to come towards you with his fingers out stretched.

“What are you doing Urameshi?” Kuwabara asks, raising an eyebrow.

“You’ll see!” Grins Yusuke.

You eep and hide behind Kuwabara.

“Save me Kuwabara!! Don’t let him near me!!” you say from behind Kuwabara.

Kuwabara didn’t know what was going on, but that didn’t matter to him. He would help a damsel in distress no matter what it was.

“Don’t worry (YAFN)-chan, I’ll protect you!” he says, a bit over dramatically.

This causes everyone to sweat drop at it.

“Oh yeah!” Yusuke says with that grin still on his face.

You peek from behind Kuwabara and gasp at how close Yusuke was now.

Kuwabara stood still and was ready for anything Yusuke would throw at him.

Yusuke pointed to the doorway.

“Hey, Shizuru is calling you and looks pretty pissed.” Yusuke says.

Kuwabara pales and turns around.

“I didn’t do nuthin I swear!”

He blinked, as his sister wasn’t even in the room.

“Hey!” Kuwabara shouts, turning back around.

However, it was too late.

Yusuke took the opportunity to jump you, since you looked your self. You hadn’t sensed Kuwabara’s sister enter the room so you were curious as to how she got by your senses. When you realized it was a trick, it was too late. Yusuke jumped on top of you and started to tickle you.

You screamed in laughter as Yusuke mercilessly tickled you.

Everyone sweat dropped at the two of you on the ground, both of you laughing and of Yusuke tickling you to death.

After a few more minutes of the torture, Yusuke finally stopped. When he did, you pushed him off you and pinned him to the ground.

“That wasn’t fair!!” You shouted, glaring at him.

Yusuke just smirked at you.

“You deserved it, little sis.” Yusuke laughed as you started to turn red in anger.

The last thing you did was punching him before storming out of the room, leaving a huge bump on top of Yusuke’s head.

“I’m gonna find Kurama and Hiei.” You mumble while leaving.

Kuwabara was laughing hysterically.

Astuko grinned.

“You know you deserved that. I’m gonna find Shizuru and see if she wants a to go to the bar.” Astuko says, walking out the door as well.

Yusuke growled as he stood up.

“You did deserve that Urameshi.” Kuwabara says.

He was about to leave when Yusuke grabs his arm.

“Kuwabara…What did you mean? You know…back in the stadium?” Yusuke asks.
Yusuke just couldn’t stop thinking about what Kuwabara had said. It was bothering him the whole day and he wanted to wait until he got his friend alone and out of ear shot of you before asking him about it.

Kuwabara stiffened and just stood there, quiet a bit.

Yusuke narrowed his eyes. He thought something was wrong with Kuwabara lately, and it had something to do with you. Yusuke promised you secretly that he would hook you and Kuwabara up, and that was exactly what he was going to do.

Kuwabara sighed, knowing that no matter what he did he wouldn’t be able to escape his best friend’s grasp.

“Hey look! Isn’t that Keiko!” Kuwabara says, pointing towards a door that was across the room.

“You think I’m an idiot. I won’t fall for that!” Yusuke says.

“Now, we’re not leaving until you tell me…”

“Tell you what?” Came a voice from behind him.

Yusuke blinked and turned to see Keiko, who was stretching.

“Where did you come from?!” Yusuke asks, letting go of Kuwabara.

Kuwabara used this moment to sneak out of the room, while Yusuke was busy.

“I was taking a nap in the other room and heard you guys talking and stuff. What did Kuwabara say?” Keiko asks.

Yusuke stopped for a moment. He wasn’t sure if he should tell Keiko about what was going on. However, he knew if he didn’t she would find out eventually and it would most likely be more pain for him.

Yusuke then remembered Kuwabara and turned to discover that his prisoner had escaped.

“Damn it…” cursed Yusuke.

“Yusuke….what happened?” Keiko asks a bit more concern in her voice.

She had a feeling something was going on with you and Yusuke, but she wasn’t sure of what it was.

Yusuke looked at Keiko and saw the concern in her brown eyes and sighed.

‘Might as well tell her now, I guess.’ He thinks.

“It’s Kuwabara and (YAFN)-chan….(YAFN)-chan loves Kuwabara and Kuwabara is too much of an idiot to realize that he loves her back…the only problem is, he keeps saying that he’s in love with Yukina. I’m trying to show him that he loves her, and what he says yesterday, after his match with Risho, proves that he loves her, but he’s scared for some reason. He thinks he gonna be hurt or something, which is stupid. (YAFN)-chan loves him too much to hurt him…and I know it, cause I’m her big brother…” he smiles as he thinks about you.

Keiko gives a sigh of relief. She was worried that Yusuke had actually liked you or had a crush on you and you had one back. She was glad that wasn’t the case.

She smiles.

“I’m sure he’ll realize that he loves her sooner or later. Don’t get involved, you might make it worse.” Keiko adds, looking at Yusuke seriously.

Yusuke frowns. He never thought of that. He didn’t see how he could have made it worse. He shrugged.

“I can’t screw it up too much. Kuwabara’s already doing that. I’ll talk to you later. I got to find the rest of the guys.” Yusuke says, turning and leaving Keiko in the room.

Keiko sighed.

“I should find Botan and see if she knows anything that’s going on.” Keiko goes out the door and closes it behind her.


(End of Chapter 24)

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