Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Resident Evil 4 Meets Yu Yu Hakusho ❯ Chapter 11

Author's Notes: Sorry for not posting anything lately in general. I got hooked on the new Zelda game, Twilight Princess, and I have been a zombie woman for a couple of nights now working on it like nuts. It's my new, cheep, crack—aside from the brownies my dad promised to make soon.

 

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The storm continued throughout the night. It made it difficult for Yuske to aim his gun he had upgraded to fire at oncoming villagers as they made it towards the giant wall, which kept the mansion like church out of reach. Leon examined the exterior of the wall before running up towards the front gates where Yuske pound his fist upon the intricate designs carved within the wood.

 

“We need a key,” Leon announced over the pouring rain, pulling his dampened hair out of his face. “I am sure it has to be somewhere around here.”

 

“I bet you anything that village chief has it,” Yuske said with a slight nod towards the path to their left. “They may have taken away my powers and strength, but they haven't taken away my ability to sense energies.” Stopping at the bottom of the slope, Yuske pointed towards the gorge where the gondolas were. “There—that way—I can tell he is waiting for us over there.”

 

“Are you sure?” Leon asked as he hurried up close to Yuske's side.

 

“Trust us on this one, Leon,” Botan said with a nod to him in the thunderstorm. “We can sense his spirit from over here. He has quite the power, but he is not as powerful as an S class demon. You both should be safe on taking him on.”

 

“If I can take on two and barely survive, this should prove interesting,” Leon announced as he hurried onward with Yuske and the others.

 

The hooded occultist in red robes, which showed his higher status and power, stood upon one of the balconies, which jetted from the church just behind the giant gate. He turned around on his heels to look at the other who had the same garb, only drenched in his own blood as well as others. “Good luck to the both of you,” the man at the balcony chuckled eerily as he looked to the other slumped against the wall. “When you come into these walls, you will be one step closer to your demise.”

 

“I cannot believe you are considering such a thing,” the other said somberly as he flinched in pain. “You would never consider such a thing to Yuske before this plague infected your mind…”

 

“It isn't a plague, really, if you let it take you over,” the other grinned under his hood. “I don't know why you don't just surrender, and let it take you as it has the others.”

 

The injured, hooded occultist hefted himself up steadily with a wheeze in pain as he did so. “You know why I do so, and if you would just tell me what Saddler did with him, then I would give in to your plague.”

 

“You know it is not in my line of duty to reveal such information,” the other occultist member said with an added scoff. “Now, if you will excuse me, I have some guests I will have to welcome very soon.”

 

The injured occultist watched as the other left. Walking over towards the balcony himself, he sighed through his nostrils with a slight wheeze. “You have to make it through his traps, Yuske…you cannot falter at any time…”

 

 

 

Yuske and Leon headed through the dirt road set before them quickly to find it opening up to the torture shed. Yuske pointed at the shed silently with a nod to the American officer. “He's in there,” he whispered.

 

Leon pointed off to the side of the shed. “Ashley, Botan, you two hide over there. Yuske and I will handle this.”

 

The two girls nodded at Leon's orders before heading off to the side quickly.

 

“Are you ready, Yuske?” Leon asked once he reloaded his gun. “Last time we encountered this guy, we could hardly take him down.”

 

“That's because he surprised us,” Yuske corrected as he got out his TMP gun. “That won't happen again.” He walked on ahead to open the door silently in hopes of making a jump on the chief he could sense within the shed.

 

Leon followed behind Yuske, eyeing the decor with a hum in thought. “These people are nuts,” he muttered, trying to avoid hitting some of the hanging knives.

 

“You just now figured this out?” Yuske scoffed before holding his hand up to stop Leon from going any further. “Shush,” he suddenly hissed as he tried to hone in on Mendez's energy. Yuske turned around quickly on his heels to aim his gun right past Leon, who dodged out of the way of the TMP's firing range.

 

Mendez loomed right over Leon only to get shot multiple times by Yuske's gun. The bullets, however, did little harm to him. His fists clutched tightly near his chest, the village chief, with all his might, extended his spinal column so he could loom over the two that dared stand in his way.

 

“Oh, shit,” Yuske swore as he started firing a bit more at the towering, deformed creature. The bullets tearing through Mendez's flesh and bones appeared to faze the chief very little. It made the former detective back up into the corner with his bullets running low. “Leon—please make yourself useful and help me!”

 

Leon pulled out his shotgun and aimed at the revealed spinal column. “Duck, Yuske!” He ordered before firing his shotgun several times at the mutated village chief.

 

Mendez turned around at Leon, coming towards him with his arms swaying about, threatening to grab and slice at any of the boys. Leon and Yuske continued to fire at his body relentlessly, until the chief's spinal column finally severed and he was divided into one. The upper half of Mendez reached up towards the rafters of the shaft as the other remained on the wooden floor.

 

Running over to Yuske, Leon watched as chief Mendez appeared to call to them from where he was swinging like a monkey on the rafters. “We have to try and bring this bastard down. He's much stronger than the others.”

 

Yuske sighed through his nostrils as he looked off to the side at some of the oil cans nearby. “I'll tell you what—if you can get up there and shoot him down here, I think I can end this.”

 

“Deal,” Leon said as he headed for the ladder not too far off to get to the top where the chief was hanging on the rafters.

 

Running over to some of the oil drums nearby, Yuske pulled them over to allow the dark liquid to seep out onto the floor. It seeping through the cracks of the floorboards all about the lining of the shed, he aimed his gun and fired his gun at the oil to ignite it.

 

The fire lighting the dark shed, it caught the attention of the young girls waiting outside. Ashley panicked as she saw the flames engulf the building. “Yuske—Leon!” She shrieked, threatening to run into the flaming shack blindly.

 

“No, don't!” Botan insisted as she grabbed onto Ashley's wrists to pull her gently back away from the burning fire. “If you go in there, you will burn alive, and not to mention cause problems if the chief grabs you! Besides, I can sense Yuske's energy still—they are both just fine, dear. Do not worry about them.”

 

Aiming from the ledge, Leon continued to fire at the upper part of the chief, dodging his attempts to grab him. He wasn't sure what Yuske's plan on setting most of the place on fire was, but Leon had not reason to doubt him now. Starting to get fed up at how much ammunition he was wasting on the village chief, Leon aimed at Mendez's wrists to fire at them both to make the man collapse back towards the ground where Yuske was.

 

“Adios, Mendez,” Yuske grinned as he aimed his gun right next to the oil drum that was right next to the chief.

 

The container exploding from the bullet piercing it, the fires engulfed the monster. Screaming in agony from the fires biting at his contaminated flesh, he neglected to see Leon aiming his last shot at his neck. The shotgun going off once more, the bullet tore through Mendez's neck, severing his head from his spine. The battle obviously over, the false eye of the man rolled upon the floor over towards Yuske's boot.

 

Yuske scrunched his nose at the sight of the eye as he put away his gun. “Gross…”

 

Leon jumped down from where he was stationed, putting away his shotgun. “That eye—it looks like the key we need to enter into the church just beyond the wall we encountered earlier.” He leaned down to pick up the false eye. The fires around them eating away at the wood, he quickly waved over towards the boards, which were parted slightly and allowing a way for them to escape. “Come on, before this entire place collapses!”

 

Yuske didn't have to be told twice as he quickly followed behind Leon as the two of them escaped the burning torture shed.

 

“Leon—are you okay?” Ashley asked as she hurried over towards the two.

 

“Just dandy,” Yuske answered as he looked at the bullets left for his TMP. “We need to reload before heading through that gate. I am on low thanks to that bastard.”

 

“I can tell you defeated him,” Botan said with a relieved sigh. “His energy has dissipated.”

 

Leon hurried onward with the others right behind him. As the team ran off through the storm, a dark creature standing in the downpour in a dark cloak watched them with his piercing, narrow eyes. When it witnessed the team heading for the church, it quickly headed off in that direction as well at a blinding speed.

 

Once they reached the locked wall, Leon held up the eye, which was the missing key, to open the door without a problem. Opening the large doors, they made their way down the dirt path cautiously. The sight of torches burning through the storm prompted Yuske to point further up the road.

 

“More villagers waiting for us,” Yuske mumbled.

 

“Wait,” Leon insisted as he heard a familiar sound grace his ears. “What is that sound…?”

 

Yuske listened with Leon as he too recognized the sound. “It sounds like…” Two blinding headlights nearly took the two by surprise as they saw a huge vehicle making its way down the road they were on—it plowing down the villagers heartlessly in its path. “…a truck!”

 

“Shoot it!” Leon shouted over the roaring engine as he aimed his handgun at the front of the truck.

 

The truck continued down the path until enough bullets pierced through it to make its engine explode, the truck soon collapsing on the road. When the villagers had way to attack, they did so, forcing Leon and Yuske to run right through with their guns at ready.

 

The villagers managed to scratch Leon on his way up with a pitchfork they had in hand, but that didn't stop the persistent officer from heading towards the draw bridge he could just see up ahead. “Ashley, Botan—you both head onwards and work on raising the drawbridge! Yuske and I will watch your backs!”

 

Botan grabbed back onto Ashley's hand to pull her quickly up the hill so that they could do as they were asked. “You take that side,” Botan said as she grabbed onto one crank as Ashley took the other.

 

The drawbridge steadily rising as Leon and Yuske headed towards it quickly, Leon managed to heft himself up on the rising bridge before reaching down for Yuske. “Yuske, grab on!”

 

Without hesitation, Yuske jumped up to grab Leon's open hand regardless of how slippery it was with blood that had splattered upon it. “You better not let me go!” Yuske nearly threatened as he got back out his TMP he reloaded to keep the other villagers coming at them at bay.

 

Pulling with all his might, Leon managed to pull Yuske up onto the raising bridge so that they could slide down to where the two girls were waiting. “Well, well, looks like we made it. I wonder if that Saddler lives here.”

 

“If he is, let's say hello,” Yuske scoffed as he headed towards the staircase he could see.

 

“Yuske, wait!” Botan insisted with her hands cupped before her chest. “I can understand your anger in what is going on, but we cannot take him on when our friends are blindly protecting him.”

 

Sighing irritably, Yuske looked at Botan with a slight shrug. “So what do you suggest we do, Botan? Do you want me to step aside to let Leon destroy them all?”

 

“Yuske, Leon has been through this kind of hell before you,” Botan whispered between the two of them. “The least you can do is hear him out on what he has to say.”

 

“Come on,” Leon said with a wave over towards the staircase. “We have to get going. Who knows, with your friends as powerful as they are, maybe some survived?”

 

Yuske hated to admit it to himself in silence, but he doubted it. Walking up the stone staircase, he exited through the arched doorway with the others to find their way out into the main entrance, which was being guarded by several infected men wearing black robes that covered their entire body, including their face. They mumbled an eerie chant that appeared to be resonating from everywhere. “Who the hell are these jokers?” Yuske whispered to those nearby.

 

“More contaminated monsters, that is all I know,” Leon answered as he readied his rifle. Aiming just right at the two occultists on the balcony above them, he managed to snipe them both down without any effort. “Now come on, let's get moving so we can take down Saddler and get out of here.”

 

Walking up the winding staircase up ahead, they made it to the next level. The towers around them housing catapults with occult members on standby, Leon and Yuske both aimed their guns in preparation to take down the men. But before they could, a voice beckoned to them from the stairs hidden behind the corner of a cobblestone wall.

 

“I would say I am surprised to see you all, but I wouldn't want to lie,” one of the occult members said from the darkness, which shrouded him in his red robes he wore.

 

Yuske and Leon both aimed their weapons at the man though Yuske appeared a bit lenient to do so. “That voice…” he murmured to himself. “That energy signature…” His jaw nearly dropping, Yuske stood upright with his eyes a bit wide. “No…Kurama?”

 

Stepping forward to show his deep, crimson eyes, his sharp, whitened fangs were revealed in the moonlight as he grinned. “It is good to see you too, Yuske.” His pallid hands wrapped in black and red veins grabbing onto his hood, he threw it over his red hair to reveal his face. The fox demon thief smirked still as his wild red hair blew about in the wind. “I have watched your progress, and I have to say, I am impressed, Yuske. Without your spirit energy and with your crippling love for your friends, I would have expected you to have died at the beginning with Shishiwakamaru.”

 

“How could you do this, Kurama!” Yuske demanded to know with a furious growl. “How could you work for that bastard who did this to you!”

 

“Did what?” Kurama asked as he headed up the stairs close to him to make it to the upper level. “The Las Plagus that has been implanted in me and hatched made me get back in touch with Yoko Kurama. I can summon him whenever I feel the need to, and his power as increased ten-fold with the help of that egg.” Standing above the others, he outstretched his arms with a scoff. “So why would I not work for Saddler? He has given us all the power we have craved.”

 

“Where are the others, Kurama!” Botan demanded to know from behind Yuske.

 

“Your friends are within these walls,” Kurama answered as he pointed to the door behind him. “If you wish to find them, then I wish you well. These new men you will encounter will prove to be your most challenging yet.”

 

Without a word spared, Leon readied his rifle at the cocky demon.

 

Hearing the click, Yuske looked over at Leon in dismay. “Leon, don't!” He shouted, grabbing onto the gun to make it misfire once the trigger was pulled.

 

The bullet rebound off of the cobblestone, making Kurama merely `hmm' at the sound, not flinching in the least. “It appears my welcome is worn out. Enjoy your stay, for it will not be for long.” Turning on his heels quickly, he ran towards the double doors up ahead leaving the other members below him to lead in the coming attack.

 

“What the hell is wrong with you, Yuske!” Leon demanded to know as he pushed the former detective away from him. “I could have shot him down!”

 

Grabbing onto Leon's shirt collar, he pulled the man close to his face. “Let's get one thing straight here; we are NOT going to kill my friends anymore! I have lost too many already thanks to you!”

 

“Guys, look out!” Botan shouted as she pointed to the catapults around them being loaded with flaming projectiles.

 

Seeing the balls of fire heading straight towards them, Leon pushed Yuske out of the way before waving for the girls to go onward. “Run! Now!” He demanded, hauling Yuske out of the firing range regardless of the Japanese man's feelings for him.

 

Kurama listened to the sounds emitting from outside with a smirk once more, almost seeming to sway like he was enjoying a melody playing in his ears. Chuckling in his throat, he brought the back of his hand to his mouth as if to conceal his laughter. “Please do not disappoint me now, Yuske. I want to be the one to end your life,” he murmured to himself, there in the great, dark main hall.