InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Ultimatum ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

Ultimatum

Chapter 7

Boxing King

 

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Ok, we'll see how fast this one gets out. I got a review saying my chapters were short. I thought I was doing pretty good, especially trying (key word!) to update fast. I generally get a chapter out once I start writing in two days. Anyways, I'll try and add more to this, so it might take longer to get out. I was cowed with my page amount when I read another fanfic that had chapters that were each more than 50 pages each. Mine definitely won't be that big, but I will strive to do better than five. So here ya go - read and enjoy, and pretty please review. It is an author's food source. Update one - it has been at least a week since I have started writing. Guess who forgot where she was trying to go again. And, in case (likely!) no one reads my bio, I started a blog, on blogger.com, and I was hoping someone could go on there and tell me if it works. It should be under something like BoxingKing-WordsofWisdomonWriting.

 

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Yusuke rounded another corner trying to find Kuwabara. That damn idiot had hightailed it, apparently. And Yusuke was running out of places to look for him. At this point, the demons would be wreaking havoc on humanity with free reign. Damn Kuwabara.

 

He stopped running suddenly and smacked his head. Kuwabara had a communicator, too. Duh.

 

He swiftly clicked his open and got a hold of Kuwabara. He could hear him fumbling with the small pocket gizmo, struggling to get it open and right side up.

 

“Yo, Urameshi, what is it? This better be good, cause I got me a fight lined up with-”

 

“Shut it, idiot. Listen, we have a demon rampage going on all over city, and we need to start getting rid of them, now.”

 

“How the hell did that happen? Why didn't Koenma contact me?” Kuwabara was surprised and irate at the same time. Demons never failed in sucky timing.

 

“They didn't show up on the radar. Now where the hell are you?”

 

Yusuke could hear Kuwabara swearing and looking around, trying to find a streetsign. Finally, he just said he was in front of a bagel shop down from the school.

 

“Idiot. Just get over to me at the school, right in front. We need to hurry!”

 

With that he clicked close the communicator and jogged over to the school. Hopefully, Kuwabara wouldn't take long. A congregation of three monsters in one spot could only be a bad thing.

 

Looking into the crowd, he saw a tall, orange head bobbing towards him. Yusuke grunted in relief.

 

“YO, KUWABARA, OVER HERE!” bellowed Yusuke.

 

“Yusuke Urameshi! Where have you been? We have been doing check-ins for the last hour, and you have conveniently not been on any of those lists. It is time to come back to school.” The principle was fast approaching on Yusuke, determined to bring him back from the edge of delinquency. “And you, too, Kuwabara.”

 

Yusuke swore under his breath. Of all the times the principle had to see him, it had to be now. “Nice try, old man! But we have another appointment. Come on Kuwabara, let's go!”

 

The principle stopped walking as Yusuke and Kuwabara took off. “I'll see that you both have detention. See if I don't!” He shook and head and moved off to finish the checklists, muttering. “Damn kids…”

 

Meanwhile, Yusuke and Kuwabara were heading to location one, designated the worst demon congregation of the lot. They kept a fast jog going while Yusuke debriefed Kuwabara.

 

“At least one of them started the fire at the school. I went out to investigate and it was gone. I call Koenma and he suddenly finds out that there are a shitload of demons in the city from out of nowhere. He figures that they are from our little friend, since they escaped attention. I think they are either made from or using electricity. The one I saw was blending in with the tree pretty well, albeit a few sparks here and there.”

 

Kuwabara grunted. “How do we kill 'em?”

 

“Not a clue. I haven't met one yet, and Kurama and Hiei are still out somewhere getting the ones not close to school.”

 

They grew quite, nearing the alley. “Man,” muttered Yusuke, “This is coming at the worst time. I'm supposed to be with my cousin right now.” They rounded the alley corner.

 

Yusuke and Kuwabara stopped running, trying to assess the situation. There were six demons huddling in one corner, and from the crying that they could hear, one hostage.

 

“Shit, Urameshi, all they're doing is torturing her. Poor girl must be freaked beyond belief. What do we do?”

 

“Ah hell, I don't know. I can't fire my gun - I'll hit her. I'll distract them, you use your sword, and I'll get the girl out.”

 

Kuwabara nodded solemnly. He could do that. With a thought he pushed energy out of his hand and created a pulsing orange sword.

 

“Let's do it, Urameshi. Let's save the world.”

 

Silently shaking his head, Yusuke drew in a deep breath and prepared to announce himself.

 

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Kurama and Hiei tumbled into Koenma's office, Hiei still out cold. Botan ran over to check on Hiei.

 

“As far as I can tell, he just fainted from the energy buildup. Hopefully he'll wake up soon.” She was wringing her hands in nervousness. Hiei very rarely came in needing healing. She figured it must have been an enormous amount of power, which kind of freaked her out. Hiei was always so gruff with her, well with everyone, and it kind of affected how she viewed him. Pretty much, she thought he was a violent jerk of a demon that carried a very big threat that he was not afraid to use. It was such a shame, too. She loved dark, mysterious men, and Hiei was definitely a hottie, oh yes he was.

 

Botan shifted Hiei over, making him more comfortable. The little demon probably wouldn't appreciate her making such a fuss, so a pillow and blanket were out. Oh well, now she could at least hear what had happened. She sat next to Hiei, making herself more comfortable.

 

“Ok Kurama,” started Koenma. “What happened? Why is Hiei out cold? The last I knew the computer was telling me that there was a massive amount of demons congregating where you two were fighting. How did you get out of that?”

 

Kurama shook his head. “We almost didn't. Neither Hiei's sword nor my rose whip had any more affect than moving through the demons. They had incorporeal forms, somewhat, so the most we could do was push them back. I have no idea where they came from - whether they multiplied or just came running.”

 

He sat down and stretched his arms over his head. He was exhausted. He was getting lazy - one defensive battle involving nothing more than covering Hiei should not have wiped him out. That must mean it was time to pick up training with Yusuke and Hiei again. Well damn, he thought, there goes that manicure. He let out a big sigh.

 

“Hiei actually defeated them all - it's why he is unconscious now. He discovered that shoving more energy into the demons made them explode, so he did that on a major scale and caused all the demons to combust at once. It actually seemed that he had called the dragon at first, what with all of the whipping wind and power. It was a stroke of luck that it wasn't the demon, and that it worked.”

 

Botan and Koenma sat digesting this. “That means that Yusuke and Kuwabara aren't going to have an easy time of it, either. And they can't do what Hiei did. Hopefully their spirit weapons will help.” Koenma was only slightly concerned. They didn't need the equivalent of a gun going off right next to a school.

 

He moved to look at the big computer, trying to get a current read out of demon locations.

 

He clicked a few keys and frowned. “There are only a few left, all around the school. They seem to all be moving to one spot again. They want something. They have a goal in being here. What could it be…?”

 

Kurama moved up to the screen. “We have no idea why they are here. Or what they want. Or even how they escaped detection from you. Electrical demons are some of the hardest to fight in an urban setting - they can just leech off of their surroundings and get power. Someone knew what they were doing when they sent them. There is no way they were not created and sent on purpose. We are dealing with someone very powerful if they can manage to create the amount of demons that they did.”

 

Koenma remained silent, viciously sucking his pacifier. “We have found nothing on who this is. Have you, Kurama?”

 

His silence was answer enough.

 

“This is a new development. I know of no demon that uses both bugs and electricity. The two don't naturally mix. I'm afraid that I might have to give into Hiei's wishes. Obviously our foe is moving forward with his plan. If he succeeds in getting whatever he wants, we have no choice.”

 

Kurama continued to stare at the screen. It seemed as if they knew what they wanted, and two spirit detectives weren't going to keep them from getting it.

 

“Botan, open me a portal to that alley.”

 

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Kagome cringed as far back into the wall as she could go, the rough sensation of the brick scratching exposed skin. The alley was dim, any light and life sucked out by the demons. Kagome knew there was no one near by. How could there be? The demons seemed to exude a personality that made people falter in their steps near the alley, a chill going down their spines. Who was going to come and save her? To the rest of the world, demons didn't even exist, let alone try and terrify some stuck girl in a back alley. There was no one to save her, just like there hadn't been in the past.

 

The demons began to lean into her, hands reaching. She figured that if they managed to touch her, she wasn't going to be making an escape. The electricity they were handling would definitely have some effect on her. It would be her end.

 

Something inside of Kagome changed. She had had no one in the past to come and save her - Inuyasha and the others being just as captive as she. Last time, she had made a mistake in trying to handle things on her own. It had been no secret that she was not a fighter, that she was not trained in magic, and that she was soft in the way that someone who had no lived their life fighting was. Naraku had easily set her up to fail.

 

But things were different now. Then, others had depended on her to come and save them. Now, no one depended on her at all. It was just her, in an alley, surrounded by demons. If she failed, no one else would suffer, no one else would die, it would just be her.

 

Kagome figured she could take the risk.

 

She closed her eyes, preparing to draw on that one part of herself she had completely closed down since coming home. She was going to perform magic.

 

Her body relaxed, losing the stiffness inspired from fear. She stopped pressing back on the alley wall, and it seemed to her that the world brightened just a bit from the gloom that it had been forced into. She was ready.

 

She released her priestess powers just as the demon grabbed her upper arm.

 

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“YO, ASSHOLES, JUST WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?” bellowed Yusuke. Sure enough, that grabbed the demons' attention. Two of them were shocked enough that anyone else had approached that they stood up from their stopped positions, revealing just who the demons had in their clutches.

 

Yusuke drew up short. “Kagome…” he whispered.

 

Kuwabara smirked and began to run at the demons surrounded the girl. In the back of his mind he registered that Urameshi had stopped running, but he knew that he couldn't stop for him. They were here to save the girl, and for whatever reason he had stopped, he could not do the same.

 

Kuwabara ran at the two demons that had stepped back from the girl. At Urameshi's shout they had stopped what they were doing, but it looked as if they were ready to pick back up from where they left off.

 

With a bellow he threw himself at the first demon. He swung his sword in a downward thrust, aimed at it's neck. The demon smirked and moved to the left, dodging the sword. It reached forward with it's left hand to grab Kuwabara and began building an energy ball in it's right. Kuwabara threw himself back a step at the last second, seeing the incoming attack. His sword was still off to the right, leaving his entire side open for the energy bomb.

 

He threw himself backwards, rolling as he hit the ground. The demon's second attack harmlessly hit the wall, leaving a large singe mark. The demon warily turned to face Kuwabara, sword at the ready.

 

It held out it's hands wide, letting a grin come up it's face. In each hand an energy ball slowly began to build. Apparently, it took longer to create two at once. Kuwabara took this chance to act.

 

He lunged forward with a cry and viciously decapitated the electric demon, it's smirk still wide on it's face. The head fell to the ground and began to roll. Kuwabara watched with satisfaction. He saw the head begin to dissolve and turned to look at the body. Taking in what he saw Kuwabara's eyes widened just before the two bombs exploded, bigger than they had been from the addition of the head and body.

 

He was thrown back, hitting the wall with a sickening crack. He slid to the ground, sword reabsorbed, unconscious to what was going on around him.

 

Meanwhile, Yusuke had recovered from his shock at seeing his cousin sitting there. He had been about to rush forward to aid Kuwabara and finish their plan when his path was blocked by two more demons.

 

“Shit,” swore Yusuke softly. They had successfully separated him and Kuwabara. “Stupid. If only I hadn't hesitated. But then we would have been surrounded.”

 

With a snarl, Yusuke threw himself at the two demons, prepared to beat the shit out of them.

 

He lunged at the demon on the left, slinging his right arm forward. To his surprise and dismay it went through the demon. The demon's cackle filled Yusuke's head, as he stumbled and almost went down from his own momentum.

 

Being used to street fighting, Yusuke pulled his weight to the right and swung around, facing the two demons. He narrowed his eyes, taking closer stock of the two. He could see a slight shimmer as their bodies coalesced and broke apart repeatedly. Apparently, normal punches wouldn't work on these guys.

 

Yusuke began to run at the other one. Maybe if he infused his punch with energy, the demons would be able to take the hit. He jumped up, adding force to his punch, and let energy fill his entire hand. It glowed blue as he slammed down into the demon.

 

There was a sickening squelching noise as the demon was squished into the cement. Yusuke smirked, best as always. He stepped back to see if the demon was going to be able to recover form his hit.

 

The jolt and additional weight came as a surprise to him. The second demon, seeing his distraction, had jumped on his back infused with electricity, transferring the energy to Yusuke.

 

Yusuke felt on fire as his entire body began to jerk spasmodically. He let out a scream of pain and threw himself to the ground, trying to get the demon off of him. The demon jumped off at the last second, letting the detective throw himself into the ground. Yusuke banged his forehead into the cement, nearly knocking himself unconscious.

 

He swore incoherently, struggling to get past the pain that had diminished slightly once the demon was gone. He had to take these demons down, the fight depended on it. If he let them get past him, then Kuwabara was gone. And Kagome would be at the mercy of demons.

 

The though invigorated him, lending new strength to his tired and pain-filled body. There were people counting on him, and he would be damned if he let them down.

 

Yusuke began to scream with fury and launched himself up. It took him only a second to locate the demon and launch himself at it. This time, rather then letting just his hand fill with energy, he let his whole body blaze. He let his whole body fight, using feet and hands interchangeably.

 

The demon didn't stand a chance. It was ripped apart in moments, bit of remains flying across the alley to fade away.

 

Yusuke stood hunched over and panting, trying to take in the situation of the alley. Kuwabara was lying still against a wall at one end of the alley, Kagome was at the other. The last demon in the alley was moving towards her, hands extended, scrabbling to grab a piece of her, any piece. It probably had a portal that it could call up.

 

He tried to hobble forward to aid her, but he had used up his last reserves taking down the demon. He wasn't going to be able to reach her in time.

 

Above the alley, blue lights began to coalesce into a portal, forming a vortex between Kuwabara and Kagome. Kurama dropped down on his feet, falling onto one hand. He stood up quickly. With nimble fingers he tossed a seed in the direction of Kagome. It landed in front of her and quickly sprouted.

 

Kurama turned to Yusuke. “Hurry, Yusuke. Get Kuwabara and get to the portal. I will grab the girl. We must escape. Others are on their way, and will be here soon. We do not have the proper tools to fight them.”

 

Yusuke grunted and moved towards his fallen friend.

 

Kurama turned towards the remaining demon in the alley. It was struggling against the plant that was keeping it away from Kagome. The plant was a particularly viney individual, and it was continually wrapping it's waving appendages around the demon, halting it for a few seconds from reaching it's goal. Kurama moved forward swiftly. He went behind the plant and scooped up the girl.

 

Kagome didn't move at all, but Kurama didn't have time to check her vitals. They had to leave, now. He went over to the portal where Yusuke was already standing with Kuwabara slung over his back. The portal began to glow anew, preparing to suck up the group. Kurama cast one last quick look around the alley. Three more demons dropped down from the rooftops, lunging at them.

 

They left in the knick of time, the demons sliding through where they had been standing. Their frustrated howls followed Kurama and Yusuke back to the Spirit Realm.

 

They were dumped in an unceremonious heap in front of Koenma. Yusuke staggered and fell over from the jolt of landing and the additional weight. Kurama landed more decorously next to Hiei.

 

He laid Kagome down on the floor, next to the prone Hiei, where they remained side by side as the rest of the occupants began to avidly discuss what had happened. No one noticed when the Jagan eye flared briefly, glowing purple, and then went dormant.

 

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OK, I finally updated! This took freaking forever to get out! I could have written more - I have the next part in my head planned out, but I'm tired and I was just so eager for a post! I wasn't going to leave a cliffie, and then I had an idea and I wrote a small one anyways. So there ya go. This is three pages longer than my last one, so enjoy. I will try for more length in the future. Please read and review, let me know what you think. All advice is appreciated. Also, PLEASE look at my blog so that I know people can look at it. I really, really want to be like other authors and have a blog, so hopefully this works. If it doesn't, I'll have to find a way to get one to work. I don't know when I'll be able to update again, but as always reviews help. Thanks! ~ BoxingKing