The Sixth Unmarked Videotape

The Sixth Unmarked Videotape by; boysluvcraft
Part5…

The last thing that Hiei recollected was being pulled down under the earth. Now he had lost all sense of time, though he was vaguely aware of movement, like he was floating in water. Actually he was pretty sure it was water. It was cold, clean, and tasted sweet in his mouth. The coolness felt good on his open wounds. It was pitch dark, so he could not see where he was heading or where he’d been. He could not touch the bottom nor could he feel any walls, it was like he was floating on a river in some great underground cavern. That was where the mud-sink hole had dropped him. His body was tired, and his mind was exhausted. But no matter, he let the cool current pull him along. At least it would wash all the friggen mud off of him.

Hiei knew not how long he floated like that. At some point he became aware that the current was getting faster. He was snapped out of his idleness to full attention. Faster waters could mean rapids or-- No sooner did the word spring to mind then the telltale roaring came to his ears. The currant whipped him around a sharp bend. He was stuck by a blinding light, and the roaring became deafening. His mind shouted a warning at him that he was all but impotent to heed. Waterfall!!!

Hiei was flung out into the open space as though he was being shot from a cannon. He tumbled blindly in the air. His eyes had not yet adjusted to this bright world he suddenly found himself in. In the next moment he was once again submerged in cool waters. He floundered for what seemed like an eternity before he decided which way was up. He broke the surface of the water and tasted the sweet clean air. His eyes had finally adjusted to the light so he could see where he was at. Dense forest surrounded the cool emerald colored pool he was in. It looked like demon world, and it felt like it too, filled with demonic energy, but it didn’t smell right. Demon world had a unique scent, of growth and decay, mostly decay. Even forests of the human world had hint of decay under the smell of the growth. But this place only smelled of growth. It was unnatural.

The feeling would only intensify later, as Hiei trudged through the woods. He had been walking for many hours, so by reason it should have been getting dark. It wasn’t, the light had not changed one bit since his arrival. There was also no sign of animals or insects in the brush. There was not even a breeze to stir the trees. It was like time stood still in that wood. Hiei was contemplating these things as he stood on a low hill surveying the land. He saw something glint on the horizon. He tried to use his Jagan to get a better look, but his third eye wasn’t picking anything up. That didn’t mean there was nothing there, just that it wasn’t alive. It could be a shiny piece of metal or pool of water.

Closing his true eyes, he tried the Jagan again. This time instead of focusing on energies, he faced the glinting spot and willed his Jagan to see what was very far away. He saw it, a curious thing. It was a giant crystal, rearing up out of the dirt in the middle of a clearing. Hiei pondered this thing, and if it had significance, and if his should go examine the thing in person. Then suddenly, he felt the earth jerk under his feet.

“Oh what now?” He gritted his teeth. He opened his true eyes and saw that he now stood directly before the great looming crystal. “Shit.” Hiei cursed. Not only was no time in this place, but apparently space was of little significance too. Hiei approached the crystal thinking did he cause himself to be there because he was looking at it? Or did something else bring him here?

A light pulsed from within the crystal. Hiei jumped back, ready for a fight if one should present itself. No fight came, but a voice did, one that Hiei recognized and for once he was actually glad to hear it.

“Guys there he is!” Kuwabara pointed. As planned, Yusuke and Kurama had met up with Kuwabara that morning. They went to a place where Kurama knew they could find a stable portal, and entered the pseudo-space between the human and the demon worlds. Almost immediately they could feel Hiei’s energy broadcasting, and they followed it to the place they where now. The pseudo-space was a naturally empty and featureless place, a narrow gap where creation had not reached. They had no problems spotting Hiei where he stood all alone, seemingly trapped inside a great crystal in the otherwise barren pseudo-space.

Kuwabara scratched his head looking at the demon in the distance, “Man why is he just standing there. Is he stuck or something?”

“If he is, we’ll unstuck him,” Yusuke started toward Hiei, but Kurama cut him off with an out stretched arm. Understanding escaping the boy, Yusuke snapped, “Kurama, what are you doing Hiei is right there, let’s go get him.”

“Have you forgotten Yusuke?” Kurama replied coolly, “Someone is behind this game and be assured that someone is very nearby, watching and waiting for us to get close.”

Yusuke knotted his fists, but said no more because he knew the fox was right. He looked back at Hiei. The Koorime in the crystal wore an expression that was a weird mixture of concern and confusion, but for them and not him. It was like he didn’t know he was the one who was trapped.

“We can’t just stand here all day,” Kuwabara tautly observed.

“We’ll split up; that will make it more difficult to for them to ambush us. And if someone is captured the other two can come to his aid,” Kurama said glancing at Kuwabara, Yusuke was also looking at Kuwabara.

“I am NOT going to get captured!” Kuwabara squawked.

Kurama directed them, “Yusuke you go left, Kuwabara dead center, I’ll take the right. Keep a look out for enemies, break or Hiei as soon as you can, and be careful. That crystal could be booby-trapped.”

With out farther ado, the three men scattered. Yusuke dashed to the left. Kurama hooked around to the right. All three rushed for Hiei in his crystalline prison, ready for a trap to spring on them at any second. Hiei saw them separate and something his gut told him that was the wrong move. Franticly he examined the crystal and what he knew of it-- which was very little. He could see them, and obviously they could see him. So what was this, some kind of window? Yes, that’s what it was a window between dimensions. But why was it here and a now? And what was on their side of it? He could see them framed in the blue-black nothingness, the pseudo-space! Then a dread fell on Hiei, because he remembered what happened to him last time he was in the pseudo-space.

“NO!!!” Hiei shouted at them, he shouted at the crystal, “GO BACKK!!!”

They couldn’t hear him and besides it was already too late. Twin nets of energy shot up out nothing to ensnare Yusuke and Kurama. They fought and howled, spiking their energy, trying to breakout. But their efforts were futile and seem only to strengthen the net. Within seconds the two demons fell into unconsciousness. They sunk to the ground and kept sinking. The floor under them was like a viscous liquid. It was as though they were being pulled under molasses.

Kuwabara stood shocked and impotent. It had happened so fast and both were so far away, he couldn’t have done a thing for them. He spun back around toward Hiei; his crystal was also sinking into the black goo. He was but a few yards away. Kuwabara barreled as fast as his feet could carry him in that direction.

“Oh no you don’t!” He yelled, summoning his Jigon-to “Move aside shorty! Spirit Sword Slash!” His blow landed home, slicing a big rift in crystal. Kuwabara half fell and was half sucked into it.

* * *

“Gahhh,” the first woman’s cry of anguish started her sisters.

“What is it?” The third questioned her.

“My hand!” She held out the bleeding appendage, “He cut may hand when he cut through my view window. Ahhh, I did not know that such a thing could be done!”

Just then the second woman entered the room preening, “Two S-Class demons captured and ready for containment.”

The third woman shushed her, “Can you not see our sister is bleeding?”

“What?” The second tipped her head, “And how did this come to pass? Were you clumsy with a kitchen knife?”

“No you fool,” the first snapped, “You and you traps missed one and that one injured me.”

“You must be mistaken,” the second responded crossly, “My traps never fail and I’ve the proof I have two demons detained.”

“Yes, you have two, but in my view glass I saw three men,” the first told her.

“Impossible--”

The third cut the first off, “She is right, I saw it. There were three. Your trap did fail to detect him, but I can tell you why; your traps are triggered by demon energy, but this one was HUMAN.”

“Human?!” the second shrieked, “Are you sure.”

“Aye,” the third nodded, “as traps are your specialty and inventing worlds is our sister’s, I specialize in energies. I know that it was a human.”

“Ohhh,” the first moaned her agony, “There is filthy human loose in one of my worlds! And he can cause me pain!”

The second women stepped forth and slapped the first across the face, “Get a hold of yourself, it is but a scratch. Look it has already begun to mend. Now, do not worry over that silly little human, he can be disposed of in very short order.” The second woman retrieved the first’s ink well and placed it in her hand.

The first woman seemed to get her wits back about her. She nodded and went to her cash of swirling liquid marbles. She plucked up the one she knew contained Hiei-- and subsequently this mystery human. It was recognizable by the hairline crack that she would have to repair. As before she drew a drop of ink from her well and let it fall into the sphere, then on a second thought she dropped another spot of ink onto it. “Just for good measure,” she said to no one particular.

* * *

Hiei was thrown flat on his back when the crystal/window exploded. Somehow he didn’t think it was supposed to do that. He wasn’t sure, but it may have had something to do with the massive weight on his chest.

“Kuwabara….” He growled.

“Huh, wha-” Kuwabara looked around, then looked down at the agitated fire demon beneath him, “Oh, there you are small fry, heh-heh.”

“Get off of meee!”

“I’m getten, I’m getten,” Kuwabara muttered as he rolled off of the small demon, “It’s not like I like looking down and seeing you there. I’d rather have a pretty girl. A real girl, not some tranny something something….”

Hiei ignored the human’s rambling as he dusted himself off. As he was doing that he spotted the crater where the crystal had been. He didn’t like being there so close that hole in the ground. There was no logical reason for it, but then again how much weight had logic held lately. Hiei began to walk out of the clearing. He called back to the human, “You’d better keep up with me. The fox will never let me hear the end of it if I let you get lost out or killed out here.”

Kuwabara quickly fell into step next to the surly demon. “Where is here anyway?”

“Damned if I know,” Hiei groused. “I’ve been trudging around for days trying to figure that out. Now you three idiots have gone and….” He let the sentence hang, because the thought occurred to him that Yusuke and Kurama were now in this mess. Recalling what he’d been through, he shuttered to think what they might be going through at that very moment. And it was happening because they came looking for his sorry ass. He wanted to cry. Hiei didn’t cry. He never even cried as a baby. But God, he wanted to cry now.

“Hold on.” he told Kuwabara. Hiei removed his warded headband and let the Jagan open. “I’m going to try to locate the others. We’ll stand a better chance if we’re all together.” Sure that’s why you want to find them. Hiei shook his thoughts and turned to the task at hand. First, he willed it to seek out Kuwabara. Yes, he got the signal; the human was right next to him. That proved the Jagan itself was operational. On to the real work, he willed it to find Kurama. His third eye reached out and out, then it felt like he’d hit a brick wall. Hiei staggered a bit. Much to his chagrin, Kuwabara had to help steady him on his feet.

“No good?” Kuwabara asked.

“It’s this damned place,” Hiei tried to shut out the ringing in his ears. “Nothing works--”

Hiei stopped because suddenly the human wasn’t looking down at him, but had his neck craned back, looking at the tops of the trees. His mouth was open and his complexion was deathly pale. Hiei could hear leafs-- that had not made a sound since his arrival-- rustle behind him. He spit, “Oh what fresh hell is this?” He seized the dumbfounded boy’s collar. Not bothering to look behind him, Hiei sprinted off in the opposite direction, hauling Kuwabara with him. After he gained about fifty yards, he flung the boy into the brush as he spun on his heel to face whatever it was.

It was gigantic, but even calling it that sounded like an understatement. A serpent, it reared up high above the treetops. Its neck must have been what, one hundred-- two hundred-- feet long? And who knows how long its tail trailed back into the forest? It was covered in blue chitin armor-like scales save for the head where the scales became feathers. Not a serpent at all there, it had a beak, beady little eyes, and a comb a top its head, like a rooster. It threw back its head and released a menacing “buck-caulk!”

“That’s one big scary cock,” Kuwabara muttered.

Hiei quipped back, “You know what it makes you when you’re afraid of a big cock? A little pussy.”

“Usually I’d tell you off, but I don’t think I have time. That thing’s spotted us!” Kuwabara pointed alarmed. “OH SHIT!!!” Kuwabara cursed because at that moment a second cock-snake reared up out of the trees.

“Were surrounded,” said Hiei.

“Thank you captain obvious! AHH!” Kuwabara shouted as one of the snakes made a bob at him, he narrowly got out to the way.

After the thing missed Kuwabara, Hiei took the initiative. He sprung at the creature, landing on its head. Quick as a flash, he summoned his darkness flame sword and plunged it into where the creature’s brain should be. The thing howled and bucked. Hiei held on for dear life. Eventually its fit stopped and its head crashed to the ground. Hiei breathed a sigh of relief as he dismounted.

“Heh-heh, way to go shorty!” Kuwabara cheered, “One down one to go. Hey, you thing this one’s dumb enough to fall for the same trick?”

Before Hiei could retort, the beast he had just fell, jerked. Hiei spun in time to see its lifeless eyes focus. Muscles that should have been dead bunch and levered the thing’s up. It reared up with a “buck-caulk.” It was then that Hiei realized that his energy attack was still happening inside the creature. It was a rerun of the squid-thing in the caves. Just like before the dark energy was building. Hiei only had to time to cry a warning to Kuwabara, before dark flames plumed from the creature’s beak. Again and again it belched black fire. Hiei and Kuwabara ran for it. They dove down into a natural trench just in time for the flames to roll over their heads.

“What the hell?!” Kuwabara’s mud streaked face turned to Hiei for answers.

“Hell is right,” Hiei shouted over the roaring flame. “Apparently these things can turn our attacks against us. They even seem to amplify it…. I‘ve got an idea!”

“Better make it quick, we can’t hide in this hole forever,” Kuwabara told him.

“Can you get your Jigon-to up again?”

“Uh, I think so.”

Hiei told him what he wanted him to do. As soon as there was break in the fire breathing cock-snake’s attack, the two jumped out of the trench. They split up; each flanking opposite sides of the dark fire breathing beast. Hiei caught the attention of the other cock-snake. It made to strike him, but he zigged into the path of the fire breathing one. The heat of the black flames caused his pursuer shy away. The fire breathing one make an attempt at Hiei, but the other snake had the same idea at the same time and their massive heads collided. In the mist of the confusion and the serpents getting in each other’s way, Kuwabara was nearly forgotten. Until the non-fire breathing snake’s head was appropriately low, then out of bushes Kuwabara sprung, summoning his dimension splitting Spirit Sword. With a howl he stabbed his sword through the snake’s temple. The snake fell, appearing to be dead. Kuwabara rejoined his demonic companion as they both fled.

“I sure hope this works shorty,” Kuwabara growled between his teeth.

“It should.”

“And if it doesn’t?”

“Than we’re both fucked,” Hiei told him.

They could hear the forest groaning as trees were uprooted and pushed aside as the second snake came back to life. It opened its beak to let out a crow of triumph, but it turned to a squawk of panic as a beam of bright yellow energy shot uncontrollably from its throat. It carved up the fire breathing cock-snake like a split hotdog, and it continued to cut a long swath into the sky. More beams shot out uncontrolled as the creature writhed and trashed. The sky and the ground were being cut to ribbons. Soon the ribbons started to stretch and break. The world was literally falling apart around Kuwabara and Hiei. The cock-snake couldn’t contain the power it had swallowed. It exploded; the residual blast tossed away last spreads of reality. Kuwabara and Hiei were falling, falling through a vast white nothingness.

* * *

“Wahhh!” The first woman cried out, falling to the ground. The other two rushed to her. They were taken aback by the rivulets of blood that dripped from the cuts on her hands and arms. She raved, “Ahh, that human! My world, it’s been destroyed. It was that filthy human I know it!”

“But how?” The second woman asked.

“It was those creatures of hers,” the third woman proclaimed, “That trick where they turn a demons power against them. Well now they’ve turned it against us!”

“Hush, finger pointing will not solve this,” the second snapped, “And you, enough of this balling! You are not hurt so badly.”

“She would not be hurt at all, if your traps would have caught that human before it broke into her world,” The third pointed.

“I was not aware of the puny human,” The second defended, “But you were. Perhaps you should have shared that information with the rest of us.”

“Quiet!” The first woman demanded as she shifted through her liquid marbles, “I- I can’t find them. No, that little bastard and that dirty human must be in here somewhere!” With a growl of frication she grabbed up her ink intending to dump the whole bottle.

But the third women stayed her hand, “No, sister you haven’t the strength!”

“What are we to do then?!” She demanded.

The second told her “Calm yourself. We have lived for eons, we are strong. We will think of something.”

“Fools,” the first woman muttered to quietly to be heard as returned to her work. She plucked up one of her once precious worlds. But now it seemed to send a foul odor toward her. She was smelling their doom.

* * *

Kuwabara and Hiei were falling. It was a clever idea on Hiei’s part to fool that behemoth snake into swallowing Kuwabara’s ability to cut through dimensions. As a matter of fact, it worked far better than the small demon had expected. He thought it would only kill and creature-- and maybe take out its titanic twin with it. But the volatile power had shredded the entire world around them. So now they fell through a vast white space, like a piece of paper that no one has yet to lay ink onto. Their falling was slow, as if gravity had forgotten about them. Kuwabara had given up screaming long ago.

The effect of Kuwabara’s blade did more than surprise Hiei, it also enlightened him. The sky had cracked like the dome of a vast snow globe-- or an enclosure? Yes, that made sense. Since waking in the cave, Hiei had been dwelling on the question; why would someone capture you just release you? The answer; they wouldn’t. He had been in a vast elaborate prison the whole time! But it seems that thanks to Kuwabara’s freakish abilities, he’d given his jailers the slip. Hiei determined that he could also use said abilities to liberate his beloveds, Yusuke and Kurama. Of course, to do so would require him have to share his recent revelations with the orange haired human. A conversation which was far longer than Hiei would have preferred to have had with the thick headed human. On the fairer side, it was less annoying than Hiei had expected, seeing that Kuwabara had given up screaming long ago.

Eventually Hiei and Kuwabara floated down on to a solid ground. It was white and indistinguishable from the sky, but it was solid. After they’d regained their feet, Kuwabara turned to Hiei intending to ask some inane question, but he stayed his words when he saw the purple pulse indicating that Hiei was using his Jagan.

“It works here,” he told Kuwabara, “I can sense Yusuke. He’s that way. He’s not moving. I should to go to him. Can you sense anything at all?”

Kuwabara concentrated, “Yeah. Kurama’s that-a-way!”

“Good. Go get him for me,” Hiei ordered.

“What? But don’t you want to get to him yourself, I mean isn’t he your--” Kuwabara cut himself off, because he remembered that Hiei didn’t know that he knew about the demons’ arrangement.

“He’s my what?” Hiei asked tersely.

Well it was now or never. Kuwabara took a deep breath and let it all out, “The other day I was at Urameshi’s place, I was looking for something to watch while I waited for him, and I accidentally saw you guys’ tape, so I know that you three are like messing around and stuff. Then I kinda pushed Yusuke into talking about it, and at some point he mentioned that you and Kurama are like demon married or something, so you don’t gotta dance around the subject, cuz I already know-- though I wish I didn’t have to find out like that. I mean, I refuse to be some jackass homophobe, but damn it that don’t mean I want to see it either!”

Hiei’s head spun at the other’s outburst, slowly the facts registered in his mind. Kuwabara knows about their relationship, he saw the tape. Hiei reeled; Kuwabara knows what my orgasm face looks like! Of all the horrifying things to happen to Hiei, this had to top the list. He had to shake it off to address matter at hand. “Kurama is my mate. That is why I’m sending you for him. You can cut through these dimensional things and free him, I can’t.”

Kuwabara stared at the small demon in wonder. Was Hiei giving him credit were credit was due? Was Hiei putting faith into him?

“Listen, I think I get into these… worlds, but once I do, I‘ll be trapped.”
Hiei pointed at him, “I need you to go get Kurama and then come for me and Yusuke. Got that? If you screw this up, I will personally hunt you down and render you incapable of breeding.” With that Hiei was off following Yusuke’s faint energy signature. Kuwabara went in the direction of Kurama’s.

* * *
TBC….
A/N: My, the 6th UV is going on for a while. I do hope my faithful aren’t loosing patience with me. I promise I’m going somewhere with this. Okay teaser time, cue Smile Bomb! Yusuke and Kurama went to rescue Hiei and now they’re trapped as well. Can Hiei save them or will he be too busy saving himself? There’s sure to be tricks, traps, and Lovecraftain horror in the next 6th UV!