{Battle!}
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Didn't you notice?
Chapter 4
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Didn't you notice?
Chapter 4
Yusuke gingerly pulled himself out of the rubble. "Ow.." He looked around and saw Hiei and Kurama were not too far from him. He couldn't see Kuwabara.
"Hey! You guys okay?"
Kurama cast a quick glance to show that he had heard, and continued looking around for something. Yusuke was on his guard now. The demon was a lot stronger that he had expected. And not to mention it moved faster than Hiei. A dark chuckle brought all three boys attention to the demon, who stood over an unconscious Kuwabara.
"Amazing how frail the human body is, isn't it?"
"Get away from him you creep!" Yusuke yelled, powering up for another spirit gun.
"Careful, now. You're friend really will die if you try that again."
Yusuke froze. Suddenly his eyes lit up.
"Is that so? Well, what if I decide to try anyway?" Yusuke looked over to Hiei and Kurama, who both nodded. "Spirit Gun!"
The demon easily sidestepped Yusuke's attack and jumped down to where Kuwabara was, only to receive a decent sized gash in his right leg. Kuwabara had been awake for some time, and had made a silent plan with Yusuke. He now stood with his Spirit Sword in hand.
"Better think twice before messing with us!" Kuwabara brandished his sword proudly.
"Is that right? I should fear for my life now?" The demon laughed darkly.
Kuwabara readied himself for another attack. "Come and get me you big creep!"
"It would be rude of me to deny you such a request."
Kurama's eyes widened. "Kuwabara! Move!"
Kuwabara barely had time to register the warning before he was blasted with an electric blue ball of energy. He was sent flying into another building. Hiei and Kurama joined Yusuke to surround the demon.
"Give up and we may decide not to kill you." Yusuke said through clenched teeth.
The demon looked to Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama in turn. He seemed to be analyzing them. He spent a good deal of time on Hiei. "Tell me small one, do you possess great power?"
Hiei glared at him.
The demon laughed. "I sense that you do. Why would you, a powerful demon of the Makai, protect these worthless beings?"
Hiei brought out his sword. He glanced at Yusuke and Kurama, smirked, and charged his foe. The demon, however; truly was faster than him. The moment he moved the demon was lost from sight. Hiei cursed and tried to relocate the demon.
Hiei was just able to avoid a kick that the demon had aimed at his head. He slashed at the unprotected flesh. The demon dodged again.
"I know that you possess more talent than that. Come at me!" The demon stood his ground as Hiei charged once more. In what seemed to be a gesture of defense the demon brought up his right hand. As Hiei's katana ripped through the thick clothing of the demon he was shot with a volley of crystal spires.
Yusuke and Kurama tensed as they saw the spires being shot at their team mate.
"Too slow." Hiei's voice came from a tree above the demon. He had removed his cloak and used it as a decoy. The cloak had been pierced, and Hiei remained unharmed.
The demon however, was not standing as he had been. He was charging now at Yusuke, almost as if this had been his plan from the start. Yusuke had not expected a surprise assault. He raised his arms in a defensive manor, hoping to escape the worst of his future injuries.
Kurama had not been fooled as easily. He waited to see which one of them the demon would go after. As it chose Yusuke to be its victim Kurama pulled a seed from his hair, snapping it into his whip. The damage was done.
The demon halted his assault on Yusuke as Kurama released a cry of pure anguish. The other tentai looked on in surprise as Kurama fell to his knees, trembling violently.
"Kura--!" Yusuke's concern was cut short as the demon resumed his attack. Sharp claws pierced his shoulder, holding a vice-like grip. The demons strength proved to match his speed, he picked Yusuke up as if he were a child's doll and threw him at Kurama, watching with glee as the two fighters connected. Kurama released another cry as he was pushed to the ground. Nothing remained of his rose whip but a small seed that lay by his side.
Hiei decided that the most important thing he could do at the moment would be to take down the demon. Whatever was wrong with Kurama, he couldn't help him until this other matter was solved. While the demon was laughing at the pain he had inflicted Hiei aimed for the cloth he had managed to tear during their last encounter. This time his sword met with tender flesh. The demon snarled and pulled back.
"You have disrupted my entertainment." He paid no attention to his now bleeding chest. Besides his snarl at receiving the blow he had not shown any sign that he was even injured. In fact, Hiei thought, he had not seemed to mind when his leg was cut by Kuwabara either.
Yusuke quickly sat himself up so that he could look at Kurama. The kitsune had no visible wounds, though that made sense as he had not been the one attacked. The look on his face suggested otherwise. Kurama's face was twisted in pain, his eyes squeezed shut. His body was still trembling, his breath quick and short. Yusuke could only assume from some sort of pain.
"Kurama." He tried coaxing his friend into some sort of response. Kurama gave no indication that he was even aware of Yusuke's presence. Yusuke placed a hand on his shoulder, hoping to make himself known to his friend. Kurama's body tensed with the sudden contact. "Kurama, what's wrong?" Yusuke asked somewhat urgently. Hiei and the other demon were locked in a fierce combat, and Hiei appeared to be on the losing side.
Hiei gasped as the demons claws raked across his chest. The wounds were not deep, but the demons anger seemed to make him even more powerful. Hiei was hardly able to block the string of attacks being fired at him. The demon used energy blasts, punches, kicks, at one point he even attacked using his tail. After being thrown aside by his last attack, another powerful swing of his tail, Hiei removed the bandages wrapped around his right arm. He led the demon away from where Yusuke and Kurama were.
"What? Have you given up small one?" The demon taunted.
Hiei turned on his opponent after he was a safe distance away. "Hardly. Jao ensatsu Kokuryu-ha!" The black dragon flew towards his foe, eagerly seeking a kill.
An instant before coming into contact with the dragons fangs the demon teleported. Hiei grudgingly called back the dragon. The demon was still nowhere to be seen. Cursing, Hiei returned to Kurama.
Yusuke was softly shaking the kitsune's shoulder, but receiving no response. He was beginning to worry. After collapsing for no apparent reason the fox seemed to be lost in a solitary world of pain, nothing he did electing a response. Yusuke turned to Hiei as he approached.
"Hiei, go find Kuwabara, we need to get Kurama to Genkai's."
Hiei nodded, leaving to find Kuwabara, who was unconscious but otherwise mostly unharmed.
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Kurama lay on a futon at Genkai's. Yusuke, Hiei, Kuwabara, Genkai and Botan sat around him. Yusuke's shoulder had been bandaged, Hiei had been cared for, and now they awaited some sort of response from Genkai.
"It appears..." She started. Everyone leaned forward.
"It appears that something is attacking Kurama's spirit energy."
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Okay, I'm not the best with battles, so I really hope that was okay.
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{End Chapter 4}
{End Chapter 4}
