Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Resident Evil 4 Meets Yu Yu Hakusho ❯ Chapter 9

Author's Notes: Well, I haven't picked up my RE4 game in awhile, but I am still aware of what went on within the game. It's not like me to turn down a request, so I guess I will do what I can for this chapter. I hope you enjoy it.

 

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Suzuka stepped closely to the two injured men he had previously taken down. His heel embedding harshly within Leon's back, a pleased grin crept across his face at the sound of agony Leon emitted. “How Shishi failed against you two is a mystery to me.”

 

Leon lifted his head wearily off of the ground with what strength he had left. His fingers bending steadily into a fist, he glared at the demon with a slight snarl. “If your friend…hadn't been so weak in his emotions…I know you wouldn't be standing…!”

 

“Spare me,” Suzuka scoffed, raising his right hand once more to call upon the dark powers, which had been tainted by the injection he was given. “Now with you out of the way, Lord Saddler can finish what he set out to do.”

 

The American detective closed his eyes, waiting for the pain to strike down his body once more. “Forgive me, Ashley,” Leon muttered to himself, he holding his breath as if he were to dive underwater.

 

Suzuka was about to release his powers he now gathered only to be halted by the blinding light, which shot his entire body in immense pain. His concentration on his powers gone, the dark light he had gathered fled. Covering his eyes, Suzuka hissed and growled nearly digging his sharpened nails into his pallid skin. “God dammit!” He exclaimed angrily.

 

Feeling the blast of light nearly burning into his skin, Leon looked up at the towering demon to see Suzuka had turned around to face someone opposite to him. Leon's sight was hazy as was his hearing. The sight of everything doubling in vision as well as blurring made Leon sick to his stomach.

 

Suzuka glared at the man, which stood in the shadows of the dark land. “So—it is you. They did not take care of you, did they?”

 

“Nobody can be rid of me that easily,” the arrogant male voice responded in the dark, appearing unafraid.

 

“What the hell do you think you're doing here anyways?” Suzuka demanded to know. He kept his distance from the man several feet in front of him, stepping cautiously to the side to reveal the Spirit Detective and Leon S. Kennedy. “You have no business here—LEAVE!”

 

The figure trying to hide in the darkness said not a word for a moment, as if to think on whether to depart or not. “He is too crazy to be left here to carry out such a plan as are you and the others. Yuske may be linnet, but I will never be.”

 

“Well then,” Suzuka grinned, kicking the soil slightly with his feet as he walked. “Let us just see how my power compares to yours!” The demented demon unleashed his Black Prism attack yet again, the dark attack slicing nothing but the large rock formation within the surrounding walls. The rocks collapsing kicked up a horrible, miniature dust storm making it difficult for Suzuka to see where his target went. “Where the hell did he go?”

 

From behind the puzzled, plagued demon came the man he was confronting previously. Drawing his sword he had in his arsenal, he struck Suzuka in the back; the sword piercing through his chest, the blade glistened in tainted blood. At the end of the sword, a serpent looking creature wiggled and squirmed about until stiffening and lying there dead upon the weapon. “Humph,” the man grunted as he pressed his foot onto Suzuka's back to pull back his sword. “The only way to kill a plague.”

 

Leon tried to force himself to look about the area once more though his body was going completely numb. He watched through his hazy sight as she man wiped his sword on the ground before sheathing it, turning towards the two men who were lying on the earth below in pain.

 

“Figures,” the man grumbled, eyeing the American cop with his cold, red eyes. “You send people like this and you get nothing.”

“Who…are you…?” Leon boldly asked as he tried to get up only to fall back to the floor with the horrible pain he was still feeling.

 

Grabbing his sword once more still sheathed, the shrouded man hit Leon in the head with the hilt of the sword. The force of it knocked out Leon yet again. “Shut up, human,” he grumbled as he hefted the unconscious officer over his shoulder. “I sure can't do this alone, so I might as well help you regardless of how weak you both are.” Furrowing his brow in frustration, the young man gazed up at the star filled sky. “I hate to say that I cannot do this by myself.”

 

 

 

 

Within the coming hour, Leon began to feel his body once more as he steadily came to his senses. The feel of the finely polished wood beneath him made him wonder where he was as he steadily pulled himself off of a pew he found himself upon. Rubbing the side of his head, where it was pulsing in slight pain, Leon gazed at the small church he now found himself within. “Where the hell—.” Catching someone out of the corner of his eye, Leon was quick to draw his gun and point it at the man, relieved to see it was only Yuske.

 

Yuske heard the click of the gun, gazing at Leon with a cock of his brow. “Hello to you too.” Placing his hands on his hips, he expressed a sigh with a shake of his head. “What happened to us after that fight? I got knocked out, and I thought for sure we would be dead after that.” Cupping his chin in thought, Yuske gazed back through the flickering candelabras to hook eyes with Leon once more. “Tell me, did a guy, who looked like a toddler wearing a pacifier, save us or give us some second chance to live through this?”

 

Finding that question a bit odd, Leon shook his head briefly as he got to his feet with his gun still at his side. “No…I…I actually saw some guy there who appeared rather rude but insisted we stay alive. He was wearing black, and he killed that guy—Suzuka, as you called him.”

 

Hearing of Suzuka's death pained Yuske as he massaged his forehead with a sorrowful sigh. “I guess I will have to bury him as well.”

 

Leon tilted his head slightly at Yuske's remark. “I meant to ask you, where did you disappear to when I wake up in that cabin back there?”

 

“I left your ass there to bury Shishi's body,” Yuske answered, his russet colored eyes gazing at the hanging chandelier in the center of the church they were within. “I was looking for Botan but ended up seeing you instead and that little shoulder angel, which I wish I didn't have, told me to help you.” Realizing where they were, Yuske turned to Leon this round. “Aren't we in the church?”

 

“Are we?” Leon asked as he jogged for the large double doors to peek outside. Cautiously opening them, Leon saw that the small cemetery they came upon was within view in the darkness. The lightening lighting up the sky, the American officer panicked at the sight of a set of sharp teeth heading right for him. Closing the doors on the beast just in time, he put his back against the closed doors with a quick nod of his head. “Yeah, we are in the church, and there are some nasty dogs outside waiting for us to exit.”

 

Reloading his own gun, Yuske nodded towards the ladder he could see leading the upper level. “We'll deal with Hell's guard hounds later. Let us get Botan and Ashley out of here.”

 

Leon followed after Yuske as they both ascended the ladder to the upper level. Yuske walked toward the broken railing of the balcony to investigate the drop from where he stood. Leon joined him to do the same, gazing over at the chandelier, which hung a few feet away from them; he realized that it could be used to jump to the other side.

 

“Follow me,” Leon whispered as he jumped on top of the hanging chandelier. The light swinging to and fro thanks to the officer using his weight to prompt it to move, he jumped off on the other side of the balcony.

 

Yuske followed after Leon without hesitation. Hopping over next to Leon, he pushed his way past the American officer to take the lead. Spying a door hidden within a small nook on the right side of the church, Yuske readied his gun as Leon did the same once the former Spirit Detective placed his palm on the handle of the door. “Ready?” Yuske whispered.

 

Leon offered a nod with his fingers grasping onto his gun tightly, ready for whatever may be waiting behind the door that could be dangerous. When Yuske managed to steadily open the door, Leon stepped on inside in front of him. As he carefully surveyed the area, Leon was quick to duck when a piece of wood flew at his head. “Hey, take it easy!”

 

Yuske grabbed the wood that was thrown once he made it through the rusted doorway. Spying the frightened girl with short, stringy blond hair, who threw it, he scoffed at her as he tossed the plank on the ground. “Listen, girlie, we've had everything known to man thrown at us. Mind taking it easy?”

 

“Get away from us!” Ashley demanded as she hurried over to where the beaten messenger girl was hiding in the corner.

 

Botan looked up through her messy, sky blue hair to recognize the former detective she asked to help on the case she got caught up within. “Yuske—thank God it is you!” She exclaimed softly as she got to her feet with Ashley close by.

 

“You know these guys?” Ashley asked, pointing towards the two.

 

“Just the one,” Botan chuckled wearily as she pushed tenderly from the president's daughter to run over towards Yuske. “I am relieved to see you, Yuske! I thought I would never get out of this hell.” Looking over at Leon, she nodded at the young man with a questionable look. “And who is your friend?”

 

“I am Leon S. Kennedy,” Leon answered, extending his hand to Ashley, who was still shivering in the corner in uncertainty with the new faces. “I came here on behalf of the president to find you, Ashley.”

 

Hearing her father's title, she was quick to forget all fears while getting to her feet eagerly. “My father sent you—both of you?”

 

“No, he's your pickup,” Yuske remarked, pointing to Leon. “I am only here for Botan and Botan alone.”

 

Remembering the others, Botan quickly turned back to Yuske to press her hands on his chest to get his attention. “Yuske, something is wrong with the guys. I encountered Shishiwakamaru and the others and they are all working directly under this madman! Their powers are incredible—,” Botan paused as she noticed something wounding in Yuske's sorrowful expression. “—Yuske?”

 

“We are aware,” Leon said on Yuske's behalf, Ashley hiding behind the officer who came from her. “We had to kill two of them just to get through to you two.”

 

“Killed them—you can't do that to them!” Botan panicked as she looked between the two young men. “Yuske, why didn't you wait it out until a cure for this could be found!”

 

Yuske growled in the depths of his throat, his heated gaze piercing at Leon as he crossed his arms. “Ask the American meathead over there. He was the one who killed Shishiwakamaru, but I don't know who did away with Suzuka. We both were lucky to get out of that one.”

 

“You two are ridiculous,” Leon countered, pointing between the two who disagreed with his methods. “Those demons could easily take over the entire world with that awful disease they have and it would spread to millions! I doubt even your ruler up there in Spirit World would enjoy dealing with such chaos.”

 

Botan sighed as she embraced herself with a shake of sorrow at the thought. “The thing is, demons cannot be brought up to Spirit World and given another choice on life when they are dead, unlike humans and other creatures…their soul disappears once they are killed since they are already damned beings. I was hoping there would be some alternative to this madness…”

 

“I am sorry, but there isn't a way out but to destroy them and put them out of their misery,” Leon answered coldly. “Look, I am sorry, you two, but we have no other choice. We are doing them a favor. I am sure they would rather their soul be lost amongst the damned then be locked in servitude for the rest of their lives.” Putting his gun away, Leon got out his two-way radio to work on contacting Hunnigan.

 

Anger bubbling up inside of Yuske, he threatened to clock Leon once more with his fists only to be stopped by Botan as she pressed her hands against the eager detective's chest. “Yuske, don't, we need him to get out of here.”

 

“Hunnigan, it's Leon,” Leon said to his radio. “I've succeed in extricating my subject and finding Yuske once more.”

 

“Good work, Leon,” Hunnigan praised as she fixed her glasses on her nose. “I will send a chopper in that direction to pick all of you up.”

 

“Alright, so where is the extraction point?” Leon asked.

 

“There's another trail that you can take to get out of the village. The chopper will pick you up beyond there.”

 

Yuske looked over at Botan with a shrug and shake of his head. Placing his hand to her back, he guided her towards the doorway so they could head home. “Let's get out of here, Botan. We can get out without their help.”

 

Pocketing his two-way radio once more, Leon turned to Yuske as he watched him head for the door. “I still think you're making a big mistake with the condition you are in, Yuske. Even with that gun and whatever pistol you can find, you won't be able to make it out alright without backup.”

 

“I came here for Botan just as you did for Ashley,” Yuske clarified, pointing at Leon with a criticizing gesture. “Even without my spirit energy, I am sure I can make it out just fine.”

 

“What about your friends?” Leon asked. “Are you going to just leave the rest of them here?”

 

“I am not going to leave them here; I am going to find a way to save them!” Yuske said, his voice rising on every word he spoke to show his anger in the situation. “Just promise me you won't kill them all before then, Kennedy.” Guiding Botan out of the prison she was kept within, to guide her down the decrepit staircase they could get to on the right side of the balcony.

 

Waving at Ashley, the American officer quickly dashed after the loose canon, Yuske. Storming down the stairs cautiously behind the former detective, Leon grabbed onto Yuske's wrist to pull his attention back towards him. “Yuske, you don't understand how many lives you are putting before your own!”

 

Yuske jerked away from Leon, narrowing his russet eyes angrily at him to show his disagreement in the matter. “You say that because they are not your friends!”

 

“Is this a way for comrades to act?” An eerie voice filled with arrogance and power asked from the altar of the church they were within. The dark purple robes covered the man's face and body as he kept his hood up to hide his plagued skin. He witnessed as the two men and their young female charges looked in his direction, a sneer gracing his wicked face. “I will take back the young females, thank you. How can I very well carry out my plans without their services?”

 

Both of the young men protective over the young females, they instinctively jumped in front to shield them. “Who the hell are you?” Yuske asked, getting back out his gun.

 

“If you must know, my name is Lord Saddler,” he responded, remaining in front of the altar in the back where the candelabras bowed and weaved to express the ominous feeling about the building. “I am the master of this fine religious gathering.”

 

“What do you want with Ashley and Botan?” Leon inquired next.

 

Lord Saddler released a chuckle within the depths of his throat as his bony fingers touched the woodwork of the altar. “To show the world our powers, of course,” Saddler answered. “I have to admit, while snagging the president's daughter was the start of the plan, but grabbing onto the messenger girl of Spirit World was an added bonus.” Descending the staircase before him, he stopped at the foot of the steps to point at the sky blue haired spirit, who resided in her human form. “And to think, when she returns to Spirit World, even our power will expand there.”

 

Yuske looked behind at the speechless Botan with a raise of his brow. “Botan—what did you do to her!” He demanded to know, shifting his attention to Saddler once more with a click of his gun he held.

 

“Yuske, don't be stupid,” Leon whispered as he nudged the young man next to him with his elbow. “What is your crazy plan, Saddler?”

 

“Believe it or not, it takes quite a bit of money to keep this church up and running,” Saddler explained, looking at the decorative walls of the place they were within. “Why not get some generous donations from not only the president, but a bit of security from the man upstairs?”

 

“You fucking nutcase!” Yuske hissed as he shot at Saddler. Unfortunately, Yuske could only use one shot as Leon was quick to stop him from firing another one. Baring his teeth angrily at Leon for grabbing onto his gun, he shot his attention towards Saddler to see that the satanic leader had managed to dodge the bullet he released. “Don't tell me—he's another one of those monsters…!”

 

“A monster, eh? Do not worry, Yuske Urameshi,” Saddler said in fake sympathy. “We gave you the same little gift we gave your friends.”

 

Yuske and Leon both expressed their worry and shock. The two of them looking at one another, they prayed silently that it wasn't true. “Shot in the neck…while we were asleep,” they both whispered to one another in unison.

 

“Don't look so glum,” Saddler continued as he witnessed the changed expressions on the two men. “I sure hope you enjoy our small, but generous contributions. When those eggs hatch, you will become my puppets just like your friends have become, Yuske.”

 

“You're a sick man!” Botan shouted from the back as she stayed behind Yuske and Leon with Ashley.

 

After her outburst, the doors of the church flew open to reveal men standing there with flaming arrows at ready to take down the four. Leon was quick to grab onto Ashley without hesitation, rushing for the right of the church to get to the window. Yuske dared not remain behind as he darted off to the left with Botan to exit out that way. Taking the full impact of the glass, which shattered when his body hit it, Yuske and Botan fell to the outside of the church, into the dark storm.

 

Yuske shook the glass out of his hair before turning to Botan. “Are you okay, Botan?”

 

“Yuske, what is going to happen to us now?” She asked in a pitiful tone, her cherry colored eyes big in sorrow and wonder. “We are both infected with this disease—the very one that took over the demons!”

 

Yuske shook his head, his dampened tresses sticking to his face once he did so. “We are stuck here just like they are…imprisoned thanks to this damn curse.”

 

 

 

The halls within the large mansion like church belonging to the men in robes appeared to be void of anybody, though the eerie chanting made it seem as though a thousand worshippers were filling the many hallways. Outside of the church, the cobblestone walls of the large building parted and made an arching figure over a flowing fountain where crows cawed incessantly, overlooking the courtyard down below. The torches on the walls had been doused in the downpour, making it difficult to see anything within the area though the light of the moon helped a little. Slight growling heard within the maze like courtyard as two figures in cloaks conversed at the old marble fountain. One of them remained hunched over in front of the fountain, covered in the red robes while the other had on black, nearly blending in with the dark night.

 

“How did they do?” The man in red robes asked, his breathing labored as he remained there against the marble fountain.

 

“They are pathetic and hardly worth the cause,” the man in black clothing answered with a scoff. “We might as well just get out of here while we still can. This guy is insane.”

 

With a grunt, the man on the cobblestone ground shifted slightly. “You know I cannot leave…I am infected unlike you. I only have some time left until it fully takes me over.”

 

“What keeps you here?” The haughty man standing erect asked.

 

Lowering his head in displeasure, his breath hitched in pain as his skin tore brutally from the plague that had him. Coughing into his hands, he spit out his contaminated blood in his palms, dotted in his dark crimson fluids. The man grabbed onto the rim of the fountain behind him to heft himself up steadily, turning to dip his blooded hands in the water to be rid of it. “You know why I stay…” Washing his face with the same water, he turned slowly towards the man in the dark attire. “I am searching desperately for him. I wish I could find where they hid him. Never in my life have I been without him, and I wish he were here…”

 

“Chances are Yuske and his friend will soon be here and they might help you and your weird sentiment for the demon they probably beheaded months ago,” the other male responded coldly. Turning his back on the one in red robes at the fountain, he headed for the building once more. “Just make sure you don't accidentally end up on the other end of their weapon.”

 

Watching his only company for the moment leave him be, the infected man turned his attention back out at the walls, which rose beyond the courtyard with an added sigh. “I will find him…I promise I will…”

 

 

 

The doors, which led from the barn, opened to reveal Leon and Ashley so they could continue to the area Hunnigan had specified. Using his flashlight to look through the stormy night, Leon shined the light over his shoulder at Yuske and Botan, who appeared shortly after Ashley. “Are you both alright?” He asked.

 

Yuske nudged his way past Leon with a grumble in his throat. “We're fine. Let's keep going already.”

 

Leon flinched from the impact of Yuske's bony shoulder coming in contact with his as the half demon passed him by. Shrugging off the slight pain in his arm, he looked at Botan, who appeared distressed by Yuske's actions. “So, what is with him?” He asked.

 

Sighing, Botan twisted her mouth to the side slightly watching through her dampened bangs as Yuske made it to the curve in the road to stop and reload his gun. “You are killing the only friends he has ever had,” Botan explained softly over the rain. “What else is there to say? I know you say there is no other way out, but there just has to be…”

 

“Botan, I am sorry, but there is no other way to my knowledge,” Leon said with a shake of his head. “I don't know exactly what we are up against, but just like the previous virus I encountered, it might not have a cure. And if that is the case, trust me, they are better off dead.”

 

“Don't tell me that,” Botan encouraged as she waved Leon over at Yuske. “Go tell Yuske that.”

 

Leon scratched an annoying itch on the side of his head with the hilt of his gun before making his way forward. Once he made it behind Yuske, he grabbed his two-way radio when he heard Hunnigan calling him.

 

“Leon, we have a problem,” Hunnigan began on the radio.

 

“I am sure we'd rather not hear it,” Leon objected with a shake of his head.

 

“I am afraid I will have to tell you anyways.”

 

Yuske edged closer to the radio Leon held to listen through the downpour at what had happened. He leaned against a rock formation nearby to hear what Hunnigan had to say.

 

“We've lost contact with the chopper. Somebody must have shot it down though, we can't determine who,” she explained with a shrug.

 

“Great,” Leon sighed.

 

Yuske rolled his head back against the boulder behind him to release his sigh through his nostrils. “Fantastic—when I thought all else couldn't go wrong.”

 

“We will prepare another helicopter for all of you,” Hunnigan continued. “Meanwhile, I want you to head towards the extraction point.”

 

“Alright, Hunnigan, we are on our way,” Leon said before hanging up the line, pocketing his radio once more. “Looks like we should keep our prayers in check. It sounds to me like Saddler is trying to cut off our connections with Hunnigan and the enforcements she is trying to bring.”

 

“I hope we make there in one piece,” Ashley replied in a trembling tone.

 

“Don't worry, I am sure whatever moves Leon will shoot it,” Yuske sourly said as he headed onward ahead of everyone.

 

Shaking his head at Yuske's remark, Leon waved for the girls to follow once more as he headed behind Yuske, watching his back regardless of the anger the young man felt towards him. Getting towards the bridge, Leon stopped in the middle with a raise of his hand. “Do you all hear that?”

 

Yuske stopped with the two females to listen to the sound of disgruntle villagers in the distance. Looking over his shoulder at the trail, which would lead them on their way, he widened his eyes in surprise at the thousands of torches he could see coming his way. “The villagers are coming!”

 

“LEON!” Ashley yelled, pointing to the beginning of the bridge from whence they came from to show more of the villagers coming towards them.

 

“We're trapped!” Botan exclaimed, placing her hands on Ashley's shoulders before hurrying her towards Yuske, out of Leon's aim so he could take down who he could.

 

“Not necessarily,” Yuske responded, nodding towards a cabin not too far away, in the center of the area they were within. “Head for the cabin! Come on!” Grabbing onto Botan's wrist, he quickly rushed for the decrepit looking cabin without another thought, Leon following behind him with Ashley close in hand.

 

The villagers all headed for the cabin right behind the foursome. Their torches in hand, they were eager to get back the young females they had orders to recapture and take back into their possession.

 

Leon and Yuske both slammed the door shut together with a sigh of slight relief. Looking to one another, Yuske offered a shrug of uncertainty. “Well, what do we do now, Leon?”