Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Not Such a Weakling Afterall ❯ Challenged ( Chapter 2 )

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Not Such a Weakling After All

 

Chapter 2: The Challenge

 

The gang had been waiting for about an hour now for various members of the group. Genkai had ordered everyone staying with her to wake up at 3 A.M. that morning to do laps around the forest (except Yukina). This, adding to exhaustion from lack of sleep, made everyone who had the misfortune not to have an apartment very stupid and irritable. Luckily Hiei and Kurama didn't live there because then anyone who went up against them would have to be carried away in a little jar.

 

“Are we all here yet?!” questioned a very agitated Yusuke.

 

“No”, replied Hiei from a nearby tree, “The buffoon still isn't here.”

 

“Which buffoon are you referring to Hiei?” Kurama asked.

 

“The tall one with so little brains that I'm surprised he even knows which way is up,” said the koorime calmly.

 

“Oh…Who's that?” asked Yusuke.

 

“Its about to be you if you haven't figured it out already” quipped Hiei.

 

“Its Kuwabara!!” cried Yusuke, very pleased about figuring it out (A/N: I'm not hating on Yusuke, he's awesome, he's just half asleep right now)

 

“Speaking of Kazuma. There he is!! Hi Kazuma!” cried Yukina.

 

“Hello Yukina, my love! I'm so sorry I'm late!” said the fore mentioned buffoon, “My cat turned off my alarm again. But I'm here now my sweet!”

 

“Call her that again and I'll turn you into cat food!” yelled Hiei as he unsheathed his sword.

 

“Oh silly, Hiei!” said Yukina happily, “Don't be so overprotective! Kazuma is just joking!”(A/N: Yukina knows Hiei is her brother in here…Duh! And Keiko knows about demons…also Duh!!)

 

“Hn”, scoffed Hiei but he did put his katana away.

 

“Now that everyone is finally here, let's get started!” cried Yusuke waking up a little more, “Botan? Who do you want to pummel first or would you prefer I pummel you?”

 

Botan glared for a second but then put on a smirk very similar to the one Hiei had mastered.

 

“If you put it that way, you'll be my first victim…I mean partner,” she said cracking her knuckles (A/N: I know that doesn't sound like Botan but deal with it).

 

“Uh, are you sure you don't want to spar with one of the others first?” Yusuke persisted while smiling evilly, “I wouldn't want to hurt you before you got to test the guys.”

 

“Oh I'd worry about yourself, detective,” she said her smirk growing.

 

Yusuke shrugged and took his stance. He looked at his opponent. Her long hair blew around her in a slight breeze (she had it down) and she had worn black Adidas shorts (A/N: me no own) with white stripes and a gray t-shirt with sneakers. She looked so strange in a battle stance and not in a kimono that he stared for a moment before putting his mind back into the game.

 

He charged first. With a swing to the head the match began. It only just grazed her left cheek leaving it a little red. Botan was almost as fast as Hiei…cool. She came at him with a flying round house, which he dodged but in a flash he was on the ground after her other foot had landed in his cheek.

 

“Wow,” he said rubbing his bruised face, “Who knew you had moves like that.”

 

“I have been watching the greatest fighters for centuries, you know,” she said slyly, “I know better ones than that. Watch.”

 

He gasped along with the audience surrounding them. Botan split before them. One Botan, two Botans, three. Soon there were about twenty Botan standing around him smiling slightly.

 

“I've heard of seeing double but this is just freaky,” whispered Kuwabara in the background.

 

“It took me a few hundred years to master this one,” one of the Botans to the right said, “It's dopple-ganger. Neat isn't it? Very handy too.” They all giggled lightly.

 

Yusuke lunged at the speaking Botan.

 

`Easy', he thought, `All I have to do is feel the spirit energy of the real one and hit it. Even if I hit the wrong one, it can't hurt me, it's an illusion.'

 

The Botan grabbed his hand.

 

`I'll take a leaf out of the deity's book when I say: Bingo!' he thought triumphantly.

 

WHAM!!!!!

 

A very solid foot hit him in the stomach.

 

“What…?” he gasped, “How…?”

 

The Botans smiled sheepishly and winked.

 

“The dopple-gangers aren't illusions if that's what you thought,” another one explained, “It's like Suzaku. There all me and all capable of fighting. There is a leader that tells the others what to do by telepathy, kind of like the original but you can't detect which one is the leader by spirit energy.”

 

“Oh,” said Yusuke quietly, “Well I'll just beat them all then.”

 

They gave him a small smile that seemed to say `You don't give up easily do you?'. Then they attacked using all sorts of fancy maneuvers. Martial arts, street fighting, one had even gotten hold of a tree limb and was using it as a wooden sword quite skillfully. Sadly he was overcome soon after. There were just too many and he was too tired and amazed to do much. Besides, she was Botan.

 

As Kuwabara dragged the half conscious Spirit Detective out of the ring Botan grinned slightly guiltily.

 

“Sorry about that Yusuke,” she said softly, “I'm sure you would have won if it weren't so early.” Everyone knew she was lying through her teeth. She was more skillful than she appeared.

 

“I believe you've won Botan,” said Kurama stepping forward, “You may take away your copies now if you wish.”

 

“It's all right,” one of them said happily, “This way I can fight everyone at once and you'll not have to waste your time losing to me!…I mean you'll have more time to practice amongst yourself.”

 

`She's spending too much time with Yusuke and Hiei's smart mouths,' thought Kurama who was slightly surprised by Botan's confidence, `They're rubbing off on her.'

 

The middle Botan told a few other Botans who to fight and then the rest faded away except one who decided to sit and watch with Genkai and Yukina. One went up against Kurama and the other Kuwabara (Hiei decided not to train that day). They were all extremely entertained.

 

Each Botan had their own mind so they could fight different people with different attacks at different times with the same ferocity. They all received a shock, however, when one of them suddenly materialized a long staff and the other a long rope whip with a steel tip. (A/N: staff= Kuwabara's fight, Whip= Kurama's fight)

 

The resting Botan quickly explained, thankfully.

 

“We are able to materialize weapons just like our oar,” she said calmly as the fights continued, “We have to make them like our opponents though. Since we don't have spirit energy we had to use a staff for Kuwabara's spirit sword.”

 

Just then Kurama's whip sliced through his Botan's collar of her T-shirt and all three's split open a few inches.

 

“We're only bound in that way,” said the Botan under the tree, “What ever happens to one of us clothes, talking, or emotion wise we all feel or hear it so if important info is passed to one copy it's passed to the others.”

 

“That's fascinating,” said Genkai, “How do you do that? You said it took you a few hundred years?”

 

During the rest of the fights Botan explained to Genkai the theory, method, and creator of the Dopple-ganger technique. In the end Kurama won his fight but the Botan defeated Kuwabara. They were all pretty beat up though.

 

“Looks like I'll have to stay in threes until tomorrow,” Botan said through a thick yawn, then seeing the perplexed looks of her teammates she elaborated, “It takes just as much energy to create the copies as it does to make them disappear. It's the only flaw in the technique.”

 

They started to make their way towards the temple. The Botan leader had stayed behind to tie her shoe when a hand reached out and grabbed her. She could sense it was Hiei but it still startled her quite a bit.

 

“You and I will fight tomorrow at sun rise,” he whispered in her ear, “I wish to see your true power not a copy's.”

 

She nodded and he released her, leaving her alone and puzzled.

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[I know! Stupid ending but my mom wants to go online so I can't change it! Review! Or else! ^____^]