Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunited ❯ Chapter 27
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By: MageDragon17 
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.04.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 258 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.04.2004 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 258 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 27
As they raced the to attack site, Shiroi could sense more people coming, but who?
"Something wrong?" Hiei asked.
Shiroi shook her head, "No, but I don't think we're going to be the only ones fighting these things."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Hiei asked.
"I don't know," Shiroi answered as they reached the site.
At least ten winged serpents had attacked the trading posts. Most of the stands were destroyed, but to Shiroi's relief, none seemed to be dead.
She had been correct when she had sensed others fighting, and they were exactly who she had been expecting: Takken and his gang.
"We have to fight with them?" Hiei asked. "I'd just stand here and watch, see how long they last."
Shiroi glared at him, "This is my village Hiei, I have to help protect it."
"Why?"
"Because I can," Shiroi answered, "I have enough power to do so, so I'm going to help." She jumped off the roof they had landed on and into the frenzy.
"Of course she picks this time to fight," Hiei grumbled and jumped after her.
***
Kurama had heard the screeching from the serpents. He had woken everyone and they were just about to leave when Botan yelled, "Shiroi's not here!"
"Neither is Hiei," Kurama replied. "I'm guessing they both went down to where to attack was already."
"But Shiroi's in no condition to do that," Botan said, "Is she?"
"We'll see when we get there," Kurama answered as he, Yuseke, and Kuwabara ran out the door.
As they ran, the kept one eye on the skies in front of them. Suddenly a serpent shot up from the attack site and dove back down, giving the three a good look at it.
"That thing's huge!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"And I wouldn't be surprised if there were bigger," Kurama replied. "They picked quite a place to attack, the trading post. We'll see how many casualties there are when we arrive."
"I don't want to see that," Yuseke said.
"You won't have a choice," Kurama replied.
They finally reached the now battle ground, and were surprised to find the number of fighters.
"Where are Shiroi and Hiei?" Yuseke asked as he looked around.
"There," Kurama answered as he pointed up.
Hiei and Shiroi were battling one of the winged serpents in the sky. They could catch glimpses of Hiei jumping from one place to another on the serpent so he would stay in the air, and Shiroi was constantly hitting it with some form of projectile, whether it be of her power or from things she summoned off the ground.
"They seem to be fine with that one," Kurama said.
"Then lets get to work on our own," Yuseke said as he charged his spirit gun.
"Oh yeah!" Kuwabara yelled, "Come and get me you overgrown snakes!" He yelled as he summoned his spirit sword.
Kurama summoned his rose whip and lashed it at the nearest serpent. The thorns, being able to cut through anything, ripped away at the serpent's scales.
The serpent hissed and spit in anger and pain, and turn toward its attacker. Finding Kurama, it attacked, fangs bared and dripping venom.
Kurama jumped out of the way of its attack, he lashed his whip out again, grazing the thing's eye. The serpent's missed attack caused it to hit the ground, and now its fangs were stuck in the dirt. When its eye got hit, it could do nothing but squirm and hiss, its fangs keeping it from moving. Kurama hopped onto the serpent's head and embedded and death plant seed into the injured eye, and let nature take its course.
Kurama glance behind him to check and see how Yuseke and Kuwabara were doing, the two humans were battling a serpent together; one drawing its attention one way while the other attacked it. The serpent already had several injuries, including several holes from Yuseke's shotgun attack.
Kurama glanced around in other directions, seeing who was there fighting. Takken and his people were battling several of the serpents; two were already dead by their hands.
Kurama went back to his work, just in time to have a second serpent attack him. It struck at him, only to hit its fellow kin when Kurama jumped out of the way. He landed, but a shadow appeared over him. He glanced up to see a dead serpent falling toward him from the sky. Kurama dodged that one in time to see the serpent that had been attacking him before get crushed by the falling body.
Shiroi and Hiei landed beside Kurama. Both of the sported several cuts, but no puncture wounds from fangs.
"Those things can launch their scales when in an areole fight," Shiroi said.
"Their wings are sharp too," Hiei added, looking at a deep scratch in his sword. "I'm going to need a new one of these after this fight."
"If any of the traders' things survive," Shiroi said, "See if any of them have any they'll trade to you. If not, I think I know where you can get a new one."
"I think that's enough chit-chat," Kurama advised. "Lets revert our attention back to the matter at hand."
They nodded and went after another serpent in the air. Kurama went to help Yuseke and Kuwabara finish off their second serpent, keeping an eye on his friends in the air as he did.
***
In the air, Shiroi and Hiei fought the serpent. It was faster than the one they had just fought, and they were defending more than they were attacking.
"This one must have watched what we did to the other one," Shiroi said. "So it's not holding back when it attacks us."
"I hate it when the enemy gets smart," Hiei growled as he blocked an oncoming scale.
"It's what I've had to deal with in most of my fights," Shiroi said as she scored a hit in the serpent's eye.
Hiei jumped and went for the base of the serpent's wing, but it got smart again. It lashed its tail and sent Hiei flying to the earth below.
"Hiei!" Shiroi yelled. She turned to the serpent and sent a fiery ball of spirit energy into its mouth, igniting it and blowing its head apart. The rest of the serpent's body fell as Shiroi went after Hiei.
She could still see his falling body, and manipulated the wind to stop his descent. She flew over to him to see if he was all right. He wasn't really; the serpent's tail had left a long gash to the bone on Hiei's chest. The fire demon was just barely conscious and Shiroi healed the wound as quickly as she could.
"That was definitely something I didn't want to have to wait for to heal," Hiei said.
"You don't have to worry about it now," Shiroi replied. She looked down at the ground; more serpents had come to join the fight. "We still have a lot of work to do."
Hiei nodded, "Lets fight on the ground for a while, I move faster on the ground."
Shiroi nodded and they raced down.
***
After almost an hour of fighting, Shiroi's village came out the victors. In all, twenty serpents had come in the attack, only three escaped. The rest were either dead or dying in the remains of the trading outpost.
The good side to it all was that no one from Shiroi's village had been killed, nor had any of the traders.
"Whew," Yuseke said, "That was a workout."
"You call that a workout?" Takken asked, glaring at them.
Yuseke's group glared back at Takken's.
"You want to see how my energy we have left?" Kuwabara asked, raising his spirit sword.
"We're more that willing," Hiei added dangerously.
Takken grinned, "Fine, this seems to be the perfect time anyway.
Both groups stood at a standoff for a moment, and then they both charged at one another.
Suddenly they were both blown back to their starting points. Shiroi was standing where the two groups would have collided, arms outstretched in the directions of the groups.
"If you want to fight someone," Shiroi said, "Fight me. I've still got plenty of power left to take all of you on." She glanced back at her friends, and spoke to them through telepathy. -Do you morons really want to get kicked out of my village? -
-I wouldn't care, - Yuseke answered, -I just as long as I know they won't be bothering you anymore. -
-I must say, - Kurama said, -I will second with Yuseke on that answer, know that you're safe from them means more to me that anything else. -
-Ditto, - Kuwabara added.
Shiroi waited for Hiei to answer. -Well? - She asked him.
Hiei answered as best as he could, -All I want to see them away from you. Once I see that happen, I'll be satisfied. -
-I don't want any of you banished from my village, - Shiroi said. -That's why I cannot let you fight them. - She turned her attention back to Takken. "Well?"
Takken spat on the ground, "Lets go home," he muttered, and his group walked away.
"You're going to let them go?" Yuseke asked as he and the others came back to Shiroi.
"They protect the village," Shiroi answered, "That's why they were out here fighting. If they die, there will be no one to protect the village. That's why I can't kill them, or let any of you kill them."
None of them really liked that answer, but they knew she had made a very good point.
They turned to ruins of the trading post. The bodies of the winged serpents lay everywhere, Shiroi felt a pang of pity for the traders who had lost everything in the fight except their lives.
Suddenly, from the debris and bodies, and serpent, a small one, burst from the rumble. It would be considered a fledgling in it species, but it was as big as a full-grown anaconda from the human world. Its head, the size of a human basketball, was shaped like a rattlesnake's, not yet grown into the slender python shape of the adults.
It struck at Shiroi, bit its target was moved, and it hit another.
"Hiei!" Shiroi yelled.
The serpent's fangs had penetrated deeply just behind Hiei's left shoulder, and were draining its venom sacs into him.
Kurama lashed his whip at the serpent, causing it to let go of Hiei to shake its head and spit in pain from the painful graze the whip had caused it.
Shiroi caught Hiei as he fell. Blood and venom were oozing from the puncture wounds. Without thinking about her diminished energy levels, Shiroi summoned the venom out of Hiei's body. There was a lot, and when she was finished she formed the venom into to large spikes and made them rock hard.
"Have a taste of your own medicine!" Shiroi yelled as she launched the spikes at the serpent. They buried themselves into the snake's eyes and exploded, taking the serpent with them. Shiroi then healed the puncture wounds to stop the bleeding.
Hiei groaned and opened his eyes, "Where'd that over grown snake go?" he asked woozily.
"Gone," Shiroi answered as she hugged him, almost choking him.
"Shiroi I think you're going to kill him if you squeeze him any harder," Kurama warned.
Hiei coughed when Shiroi let him go, "I don't know if she would've killed me," he said. "But she might have knocked me out for a while."
"Is this the one that needed that antidote?" They looked up to see the plant apparition walking toward them.
"She is," Kurama answered as he helped Shiroi to her feet. Hiei got to his own and stood next to Shiroi.
"I told your friend that I would get the payment for the plant from you," the apparition said to Shiroi.
"What do you want?" Shiroi asked, ready to pay whatever she asked.
The apparition pulled a small bottle out of her pocket, small enough to hold only three ounces of any liquid. "The cost," the apparition said, "is enough of your blood to fill this bottle."
"Hold on," Hiei interrupted. "Shiroi's lost enough blood these past few days, I don't think she needs to lose anymore."
"I'm afraid I must agree with Hiei on this one," Kurama said. "Do you wish of anything else from her?"
The apparition looked Shiroi over, and then approached her. She reached out and lifted a handful of Shiroi's hair up, the whole thing as thick as Shiroi's wrist. "This much of her hair, my last offer. It's either that or the blood, whichever you prefer."
"That is more reasonable," Kurama said. "Shiroi?"
Shiroi eyed the woman, wondering what she might do with her hair, "Agreed," she said finally. "But lets take it from a different spot, one that won't show the lose."
The apparition nodded, and they decided near the back of Shiroi's neck, where the rest of her hair would cover up the missing hair, not that when it was taken did it really make any difference.
"Very nice," the apparition said as she put the hair away.
"I hope it gives you what you wish," Shiroi said as she put her hair into the braid she normally wore it in.
"It shall," the apparition replied. "Thank you."
"Thank you for the antidote," Shiroi said.
"Thank your handsome friend for the antidote," the apparition said, eyeing Kurama as he blushed, "I merely supplied the plant."
Shiroi grinned at Kurama; both of them knowing that she would thank him better later.
"My name is Syona," the apparition said, "I wish you well, and one day that I may see you again."
Shiroi nodded, "You take care you too."
Syona nodded, and turned to go back to find the remains of her things and head back to her village.
***
Author's Note: Okay, I think this makes up for my last chapter. Rather action packed don't you think? Well, that's for you to decide, so tell me in the reviews.
-Telepathy-
(Thoughts)
Chapter 27
As they raced the to attack site, Shiroi could sense more people coming, but who?
"Something wrong?" Hiei asked.
Shiroi shook her head, "No, but I don't think we're going to be the only ones fighting these things."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Hiei asked.
"I don't know," Shiroi answered as they reached the site.
At least ten winged serpents had attacked the trading posts. Most of the stands were destroyed, but to Shiroi's relief, none seemed to be dead.
She had been correct when she had sensed others fighting, and they were exactly who she had been expecting: Takken and his gang.
"We have to fight with them?" Hiei asked. "I'd just stand here and watch, see how long they last."
Shiroi glared at him, "This is my village Hiei, I have to help protect it."
"Why?"
"Because I can," Shiroi answered, "I have enough power to do so, so I'm going to help." She jumped off the roof they had landed on and into the frenzy.
"Of course she picks this time to fight," Hiei grumbled and jumped after her.
***
Kurama had heard the screeching from the serpents. He had woken everyone and they were just about to leave when Botan yelled, "Shiroi's not here!"
"Neither is Hiei," Kurama replied. "I'm guessing they both went down to where to attack was already."
"But Shiroi's in no condition to do that," Botan said, "Is she?"
"We'll see when we get there," Kurama answered as he, Yuseke, and Kuwabara ran out the door.
As they ran, the kept one eye on the skies in front of them. Suddenly a serpent shot up from the attack site and dove back down, giving the three a good look at it.
"That thing's huge!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"And I wouldn't be surprised if there were bigger," Kurama replied. "They picked quite a place to attack, the trading post. We'll see how many casualties there are when we arrive."
"I don't want to see that," Yuseke said.
"You won't have a choice," Kurama replied.
They finally reached the now battle ground, and were surprised to find the number of fighters.
"Where are Shiroi and Hiei?" Yuseke asked as he looked around.
"There," Kurama answered as he pointed up.
Hiei and Shiroi were battling one of the winged serpents in the sky. They could catch glimpses of Hiei jumping from one place to another on the serpent so he would stay in the air, and Shiroi was constantly hitting it with some form of projectile, whether it be of her power or from things she summoned off the ground.
"They seem to be fine with that one," Kurama said.
"Then lets get to work on our own," Yuseke said as he charged his spirit gun.
"Oh yeah!" Kuwabara yelled, "Come and get me you overgrown snakes!" He yelled as he summoned his spirit sword.
Kurama summoned his rose whip and lashed it at the nearest serpent. The thorns, being able to cut through anything, ripped away at the serpent's scales.
The serpent hissed and spit in anger and pain, and turn toward its attacker. Finding Kurama, it attacked, fangs bared and dripping venom.
Kurama jumped out of the way of its attack, he lashed his whip out again, grazing the thing's eye. The serpent's missed attack caused it to hit the ground, and now its fangs were stuck in the dirt. When its eye got hit, it could do nothing but squirm and hiss, its fangs keeping it from moving. Kurama hopped onto the serpent's head and embedded and death plant seed into the injured eye, and let nature take its course.
Kurama glance behind him to check and see how Yuseke and Kuwabara were doing, the two humans were battling a serpent together; one drawing its attention one way while the other attacked it. The serpent already had several injuries, including several holes from Yuseke's shotgun attack.
Kurama glanced around in other directions, seeing who was there fighting. Takken and his people were battling several of the serpents; two were already dead by their hands.
Kurama went back to his work, just in time to have a second serpent attack him. It struck at him, only to hit its fellow kin when Kurama jumped out of the way. He landed, but a shadow appeared over him. He glanced up to see a dead serpent falling toward him from the sky. Kurama dodged that one in time to see the serpent that had been attacking him before get crushed by the falling body.
Shiroi and Hiei landed beside Kurama. Both of the sported several cuts, but no puncture wounds from fangs.
"Those things can launch their scales when in an areole fight," Shiroi said.
"Their wings are sharp too," Hiei added, looking at a deep scratch in his sword. "I'm going to need a new one of these after this fight."
"If any of the traders' things survive," Shiroi said, "See if any of them have any they'll trade to you. If not, I think I know where you can get a new one."
"I think that's enough chit-chat," Kurama advised. "Lets revert our attention back to the matter at hand."
They nodded and went after another serpent in the air. Kurama went to help Yuseke and Kuwabara finish off their second serpent, keeping an eye on his friends in the air as he did.
***
In the air, Shiroi and Hiei fought the serpent. It was faster than the one they had just fought, and they were defending more than they were attacking.
"This one must have watched what we did to the other one," Shiroi said. "So it's not holding back when it attacks us."
"I hate it when the enemy gets smart," Hiei growled as he blocked an oncoming scale.
"It's what I've had to deal with in most of my fights," Shiroi said as she scored a hit in the serpent's eye.
Hiei jumped and went for the base of the serpent's wing, but it got smart again. It lashed its tail and sent Hiei flying to the earth below.
"Hiei!" Shiroi yelled. She turned to the serpent and sent a fiery ball of spirit energy into its mouth, igniting it and blowing its head apart. The rest of the serpent's body fell as Shiroi went after Hiei.
She could still see his falling body, and manipulated the wind to stop his descent. She flew over to him to see if he was all right. He wasn't really; the serpent's tail had left a long gash to the bone on Hiei's chest. The fire demon was just barely conscious and Shiroi healed the wound as quickly as she could.
"That was definitely something I didn't want to have to wait for to heal," Hiei said.
"You don't have to worry about it now," Shiroi replied. She looked down at the ground; more serpents had come to join the fight. "We still have a lot of work to do."
Hiei nodded, "Lets fight on the ground for a while, I move faster on the ground."
Shiroi nodded and they raced down.
***
After almost an hour of fighting, Shiroi's village came out the victors. In all, twenty serpents had come in the attack, only three escaped. The rest were either dead or dying in the remains of the trading outpost.
The good side to it all was that no one from Shiroi's village had been killed, nor had any of the traders.
"Whew," Yuseke said, "That was a workout."
"You call that a workout?" Takken asked, glaring at them.
Yuseke's group glared back at Takken's.
"You want to see how my energy we have left?" Kuwabara asked, raising his spirit sword.
"We're more that willing," Hiei added dangerously.
Takken grinned, "Fine, this seems to be the perfect time anyway.
Both groups stood at a standoff for a moment, and then they both charged at one another.
Suddenly they were both blown back to their starting points. Shiroi was standing where the two groups would have collided, arms outstretched in the directions of the groups.
"If you want to fight someone," Shiroi said, "Fight me. I've still got plenty of power left to take all of you on." She glanced back at her friends, and spoke to them through telepathy. -Do you morons really want to get kicked out of my village? -
-I wouldn't care, - Yuseke answered, -I just as long as I know they won't be bothering you anymore. -
-I must say, - Kurama said, -I will second with Yuseke on that answer, know that you're safe from them means more to me that anything else. -
-Ditto, - Kuwabara added.
Shiroi waited for Hiei to answer. -Well? - She asked him.
Hiei answered as best as he could, -All I want to see them away from you. Once I see that happen, I'll be satisfied. -
-I don't want any of you banished from my village, - Shiroi said. -That's why I cannot let you fight them. - She turned her attention back to Takken. "Well?"
Takken spat on the ground, "Lets go home," he muttered, and his group walked away.
"You're going to let them go?" Yuseke asked as he and the others came back to Shiroi.
"They protect the village," Shiroi answered, "That's why they were out here fighting. If they die, there will be no one to protect the village. That's why I can't kill them, or let any of you kill them."
None of them really liked that answer, but they knew she had made a very good point.
They turned to ruins of the trading post. The bodies of the winged serpents lay everywhere, Shiroi felt a pang of pity for the traders who had lost everything in the fight except their lives.
Suddenly, from the debris and bodies, and serpent, a small one, burst from the rumble. It would be considered a fledgling in it species, but it was as big as a full-grown anaconda from the human world. Its head, the size of a human basketball, was shaped like a rattlesnake's, not yet grown into the slender python shape of the adults.
It struck at Shiroi, bit its target was moved, and it hit another.
"Hiei!" Shiroi yelled.
The serpent's fangs had penetrated deeply just behind Hiei's left shoulder, and were draining its venom sacs into him.
Kurama lashed his whip at the serpent, causing it to let go of Hiei to shake its head and spit in pain from the painful graze the whip had caused it.
Shiroi caught Hiei as he fell. Blood and venom were oozing from the puncture wounds. Without thinking about her diminished energy levels, Shiroi summoned the venom out of Hiei's body. There was a lot, and when she was finished she formed the venom into to large spikes and made them rock hard.
"Have a taste of your own medicine!" Shiroi yelled as she launched the spikes at the serpent. They buried themselves into the snake's eyes and exploded, taking the serpent with them. Shiroi then healed the puncture wounds to stop the bleeding.
Hiei groaned and opened his eyes, "Where'd that over grown snake go?" he asked woozily.
"Gone," Shiroi answered as she hugged him, almost choking him.
"Shiroi I think you're going to kill him if you squeeze him any harder," Kurama warned.
Hiei coughed when Shiroi let him go, "I don't know if she would've killed me," he said. "But she might have knocked me out for a while."
"Is this the one that needed that antidote?" They looked up to see the plant apparition walking toward them.
"She is," Kurama answered as he helped Shiroi to her feet. Hiei got to his own and stood next to Shiroi.
"I told your friend that I would get the payment for the plant from you," the apparition said to Shiroi.
"What do you want?" Shiroi asked, ready to pay whatever she asked.
The apparition pulled a small bottle out of her pocket, small enough to hold only three ounces of any liquid. "The cost," the apparition said, "is enough of your blood to fill this bottle."
"Hold on," Hiei interrupted. "Shiroi's lost enough blood these past few days, I don't think she needs to lose anymore."
"I'm afraid I must agree with Hiei on this one," Kurama said. "Do you wish of anything else from her?"
The apparition looked Shiroi over, and then approached her. She reached out and lifted a handful of Shiroi's hair up, the whole thing as thick as Shiroi's wrist. "This much of her hair, my last offer. It's either that or the blood, whichever you prefer."
"That is more reasonable," Kurama said. "Shiroi?"
Shiroi eyed the woman, wondering what she might do with her hair, "Agreed," she said finally. "But lets take it from a different spot, one that won't show the lose."
The apparition nodded, and they decided near the back of Shiroi's neck, where the rest of her hair would cover up the missing hair, not that when it was taken did it really make any difference.
"Very nice," the apparition said as she put the hair away.
"I hope it gives you what you wish," Shiroi said as she put her hair into the braid she normally wore it in.
"It shall," the apparition replied. "Thank you."
"Thank you for the antidote," Shiroi said.
"Thank your handsome friend for the antidote," the apparition said, eyeing Kurama as he blushed, "I merely supplied the plant."
Shiroi grinned at Kurama; both of them knowing that she would thank him better later.
"My name is Syona," the apparition said, "I wish you well, and one day that I may see you again."
Shiroi nodded, "You take care you too."
Syona nodded, and turned to go back to find the remains of her things and head back to her village.
***
Author's Note: Okay, I think this makes up for my last chapter. Rather action packed don't you think? Well, that's for you to decide, so tell me in the reviews.