Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Revolution ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

The dimension into which Kurama, Hiei and Bui had been taken was a dimension of darkness. All they could see, even with the Jagan, was one another and anything within a ten foot radius. Yoshiro had disappeared into the blackness around them.

 

“Oh cute,” grumbled Hiei. “He wants to play hide and seek.”

 

At that moment an extremely powerful ki blast came flying out of the darkness right at Hiei. Bui lit up with ki and dashed in front of the blast to block it. Bui's defense was normally phenomenal but this time he was knocked backwards twenty feet and Hiei with him. This put them out of the range where Kurama could see them. No sooner had they vanished than Yoshiro suddenly jumped out of the darkness and viciously attacked him. Kurama dodged his punches and kicks with great difficulty. There was no chance whatsoever to counterattack.

 

“FÅ«ka Enbu Jin!”

 

The sudden shower of rose petal blades forced Yoshiro to jump back into the darkness. Kurama shot a barrage of Akaru Weeds all over exposing light to the entire area. Bui and Hiei were just a few feet away. Hiei ran up to Kurama's side.

 

“We need Youko!” he hollered.

 

“Very well.” In a cloud of smoke Youko appeared.

 

“I'd better try that too,” said Hiei.

 

“What do you mean?” asked Youko.

 

Hiei ripped off his tank top and his body surged with energy. His skin turned green and eyes appeared all over his body. His muscles increased in size. “Haven't done this in years,” remarked Hiei. “But I'm not having a replay of that BS with Sensui. Bui! Ditch the armor! We need every once of power we can get!”

 

Bui hadn't worn his helmet but he did have his body armor on which he removed. “We'd better take him out quick,” warned Bui. “Once this armor comes off my true power is unleashed but it doesn't last long enough.”

 

With all the lamp plants around, Yoshiro had to stay much further away to conceal himself. In short his initial plan to separate them and pick them off one by one had failed.

 

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For Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Mukuro, the situation seemed utterly hopeless. They were too busy dodging Toguro Ani's fingers to do anything effective against him. Yusuke had fired off a couple shots that went right through him and Mukuro's Dimensional Destroyer had cut him in two vertically but he pulled himself back together at once.

 

“Hey Mukuro!” screamed Toguro Ani. He suddenly changed form into Mukuro's father. “Come on over and give daddy a kiss.”

 

Mukuro didn't give him the satisfaction of reacting. The same could not be said for Kuwabara. He charged him. Which was exactly what Toguro Ani was hoping for. He switched back to his true form and tried the body pincushion tactic where every part of him had sharp spikes sticking out but Kuwabara slipped in between every one of them and ruthlessly sliced him up. Kuwabara immediately jumped back to Yusuke's position.

 

“I know you're still alive you bastard!” he hollered. “But I just needed to make you hurt like hell. Monster!”

 

The pile of blood and flesh pieces began to laugh cruelly. “You really are pathetic, Kuwabara. A guy like me ignores pain. I am a warrior.” He pulled himself back together.

 

“No,” replied Kuwabara. “Your brother was a warrior. You are nothing but a demon-wannabe who steals power and behaves like an ass. I can just imagine what sort of human you used to be. I bet Toguro used to beat you senseless when you were growing up together.” For the first time ever, Toguro Ani actually kept his mouth shut. He looked mad. To Kuwabara's amazement, he had actually struck a nerve here. He grinned and continued his taunt. “Or maybe… maybe he had to protect you because you were weak. Maybe… HE PITIED YOU!”

 

“SHUT UP!” screamed Toguro Ani angrily. To Kuwabara, it seemed as if he had landed the only real blow of that fight.

 

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Yoshiro re-emerged from the darkness. “Let's make this short and sweet. I have no prior quarrel with any of you but I'm not going to let anything get in the way of Toguro Ani. I'll fight to the death to see that he comes out on top.”

 

“Why?” asked Youko suspiciously. “Does a 60 year old alliance mean that much to you?”

 

“At my old age I have little left to look forward to and he promised me that once he was on the throne of Makai there is nothing he would deny me. Power, wealth, sex, anything. It's nothing personal but you really do need to die.”

 

“So that's what this is all about?” replied Youko. “Greed?”

 

“My dear Youko, while a noble cause such as protecting one's family may bring out greater strength in some, a man's own desire for his own selfish desires will tend to make him twice as ruthless and violent as the worst criminal in the world. To put it quite simply, I want this. I want this more than you want to stay alive if you can believe that.” And at once his body replicated tenfold. “You've seen this before, I believe. Each one of these creations has all my strength but only the real me can be injured in any capacity. Good luck finding it after I blend in with my clones.”

 

Bui tossed an axe at one of the clones just to see if Yoshiro was bluffing. It hit the clone and shattered. All eleven Yoshiros attacked at once. For about thirty seconds Hiei, Youko, and Bui were beaten senseless. Any efforts to block the attacks or fight back were completely futile. But all of the sudden…”

 

“AH!”

 

The clones disappeared and the real Yoshiro dropped to his knees in real pain. Youko had stabbed him in the gut with his JuryÅ YÅzan Ken.

 

“My dear Yoshiro, how little you know about demons. We have quite a good sense of smell even when our eyes are fooled.”

 

Yoshiro stood up slowly. “It will take far more than that to finish me.” A massive ball-shaped ki barrier surrounded his body. “Hope you like bowling.” Yoshiro crashed into Youko like a wrecking ball sending him flying backwards several feet.

 

Hiei drew his sword and charged at Yoshiro, hopping from side to side as he moved in order to throw him off his guard. No good. His sword could not penetrate the barrier. Within the barrier, Yoshiro could levitate. He didn't stay in midair for long. He came crashing down on Youko with brutal force just as he got back up to his feet and then nailed Hiei. But when he tried the same thing on Bui, he was in for a shock. Bui could perform the exact same technique, only better. In blinding flash of blue ki, Yoshiro ricocheted off of him.

 

Bui took to the air and the two glared at each other angrily in silence. Given the amount of spirit energy possessed by Yoshiro, he should have had a decisive advantage. But he didn't and he knew it. After a few tense seconds they were at it hammer and tongs. They began to crash into each other incessantly; several times per second, in fact. For a while Bui was holding his own, smashing Yoshiro back well over 100 feet with each impact. But after a while he seemed to grow tired and his barrier grew dimmer. Bui's body was not good at regulating ki and the armor was worn so that it wouldn't all come spilling out of him in the first few attacks of a fight. Now he was entirely spent and eventually his barrier fizzled out and he fell to the ground.

 

Yoshiro immediately pumped a massive amount of crackling energy that he'd been saving into his barrier. He intended to take out Bui with one hit. He prepared to dive bomb his fallen opponent. Hiei could tell that Bui would not survive the impact and could only think of one way to break the barrier.

 

“JaÅ Ensatsu Kokuryuha!”

 

The Dragon had not only destroyed the barrier, but took off Yoshiro's left arm. Hiei had stopped him but at a great cost to his own energy level. He ran over to Bui. “Are you alright?”

 

“Yes,” he replied. “I'm so sorry.”

 

“Don't be. You gave all you had. We'll take it from here.”

 

“Oh you will, will you?” hollered Yoshiro. He picked himself off the ground, struggling to ignore the blinding pain he was in. “You've got nothing left. As for me…”

 

Yoshiro's body surged with more energy. He began angrily flinging as many ki blasts as he could create in the direction of Hiei. Bui and Hiei dodged as quickly as they could. With a loud scream and a glowing fist, Yoshiro charged at the two worn out demons. His pain was starting to interfere with his judgment. Immediately Youko blocked his path. Even with one arm, Yoshiro was still quite skilled at hand to hand combat. At one time Youko may have been in trouble at that point. Let's face it; hand to hand had never really been a strong point for Youko or Kurama. He fought with weapons. But after all those sparring sessions he'd been through with Kuwabara, he managed to fight back rather effectively (after taking three hits to the face). He caught hold of Yoshiro's wrist and flung him over his shoulder. When Yoshiro hit the ground, Youko kicked him in the solar plexus. Hard.

 

“Why you dirty worthless…” Yoshiro was clearly losing his cool. He raised up his arm to create a boulder-sized ki blast but while his arm was in the air, Youko slashed his face with his claws. Yoshiro jumped back and tossed the blast anyway.

 

Just at the last second, Bui threw himself in front of Youko and took the blast dead on. This time he didn't go flying, he just dropped to the ground. Hiei and Youko knelt down beside him. “I guess… I had something left after all… good luck.” And with that he closed his eyes for the last time.

 

Hiei and Youko turned on Yoshiro angrily. He was just slightly faster than either one of their weapons but not by much. And dodging a sword and a whip at the same time is a ridiculously hard task because of their difference in range.

 

Suddenly, Youko stopped his onslaught and signaled Hiei to do the same. “Alright, that's enough,” he told Yoshiro. He turned himself back into Kurama. “While you were avoiding that shower of rose petals I used one of my oldest tricks on you. Look at your chest.” Yoshiro did and there was a small leaf growing out of it. He fell to his knees in shock. “It's had time to take root. But I must admit I'm starting to be sickened by killing, having lived a violent life for so many years. Let me spare you. Just stop and I swear I'll spare you.”

 

Yoshiro glared at him. “I'm too strong. Even if you make that thing bloom, I won't die.”

 

“Not right away, you won't,” admitted Kurama. “With your ki level it can't bloom completely. But it will make you bleed to death within 15 minutes. Don't do it.”

 

“If I can't get what I want, I'll have the next best thing!” said Yoshiro with a snarl. “Here's what I think of your pity!” He stood up again to create another ki blast.

 

Hiei looked at Kurama. “I'll take the guilt. JaÅ Ensatsu Ken!” And with that Hiei slew Yoshiro.

 

“I don't get it,” said Kurama sadly. “For greed? He was willing to do all this to satisfy himself?”

 

“Don't try to figure out the bad guys,” replied Hiei blandly. “Not all of them are interesting case studies like Toguro or Sensui.”

 

“Think you can get us out of here?” asked Kurama.

 

“Sorry,” replied Hiei. “As of yet I've never developed a technique that can cut through dimensions. The only way out is if Mukuro or Kuwabara can get to us. I wonder how they're doing against Toguro Ani.”

 

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“Reigun!”

 

Yusuke had asked Kuwabara and Mukuro to keep Toguro Ani occupied and buy him as much time as they could so he would have time to create an enormous Ki blast with his Reigun. Mukuro's jaw was very badly fractured from a punch in the face she had gotten. She was lucky it hadn't been a finger dagger. One disadvantage Toguro Ani did seem to have was that it still took him time to pull himself back together after Kuwabara or Mukuro sliced him up. Of course being telepathic, he knew full well what Yusuke was doing but oddly he was content to toy around with the other two and let him be.

 

But now as the Reigun blast neared him he smiled and raised his palm outwards. What was he going to… NO! Toguro Ani launched a ki blast of his own that he needed no time to create. His blast easily cancelled out Yusuke's. An energy blast from Toguro Ani?

 

“Hey Urameshi, how much energy did you piss away on that? Did you forget I took all of Shura's abilities?” He flung out his fingers again and this time he hit his mark… almost. He had aimed for Yusuke's chest but Yusuke managed to move just enough so that it hit the abdomen instead. Yusuke gritted his teeth but made no noise. He wouldn't give Toguro the pleasure of seeing him in pain.

 

Immediately Mukuro raced over and grabbed his fingers and pulled them out of Yusuke's stomach. With a loud yell she pumped electrical energy into her fist and now it was Toguro in pain.

 

“You bitch!” he screamed. “I'll kill you!”

 

He transformed his hand into a cleaver and flew straight towards Mukuro. Kuwabara tried to stop him but he swatted him out of the way like a fly and stabbed Mukuro in the side.

 

“MUKURO!”

 

“Come and get it Kuwabara!” screamed Toguro Ani like a madman.

 

“Rei KÅ Ha!”

 

And for the umpteenth time, Toguro Ani was temporarily incapacitated. Kuwabara raced to Mukuro's side.

 

“No you fool,” she panted. “Don't heal me; you need all your energy.”

 

He ignored her and held his hands up…

 

“Kuwabara I mean business. If you try to heal me I swear I'll break my own neck and die. I swear I'll do it!”

 

“No!”

 

“Kuwabara finish him!”

 

Kuwabara's mind flew into a panic. She would be dead in less than a minute. He had to win this fight and he had to do it NOW!

 

“I can read your thoughts Kuwabara,” called out Toguro Ani. “I know what you're planning and it won't work any better this time than it did last time.”

 

All of the sudden something occurred to Kuwabara. Toguro Ani could read words in your mind, but not images or abstract thoughts. Why not give him what he was expecting and then… oh yes, it might work.

 

“Kyodai Reikibou!”

 

“Yes! That's it you silly stupid boy, come and get me!”

 

Kuwabara raced towards him and…

 

“DIE KUWABARA!” Toguro Ani stabbed Kuwabara in the chest with his left middle finger. “Insult to injury, boy. I get to kill you and flick you off all at once.” He laughed and retracted his finger. Kuwabara dropped to his knees. He was breathing heavily. Toguro turned his hand into a cleaver and walked up to him slowly to finish him off. Kuwabara was muttering a lot of gibberish and doing some sort of odd thing with his hands but Toguro Ani paid it no mind. “Anything to say before I send you to hell?”

 

“A couple of things,” said Kuwabara. “First of all you didn't get me that badly; I'm acting and second of all SHU NO KEN!”

 

Kuwabara rammed his fingers into Toguro Ani's torso. Without any dramatics at all, Toguro Ani simply fell to the ground and died instantly. He was without purity so the powerful spell of cleansing took his life.

 

Kuwabara turned around and to his astonishment, Mukuro was getting up. “I have a confession to make,” she said. “I exaggerated my injury too. Works, don't it?”

 

“WHAT?! But you were… and he was… how in the hell did you…”

 

“Hey, you pulled a few dramatics to help Yusuke beat the other Toguro,” she said.

 

Just then, they heard Yusuke moaning in pain. “Uh guys? I for one am not acting,” he said weakly. Kuwabara walked over and healed his gut.

 

“How did you survive getting hit in the chest like that, Kuwabara?” asked Yusuke.

 

Kuwabara yawned and lay down on the grass. He had used up a ton of energy. “That's one of the exact same spots he got me last time. Must not be any major blood vessels right there. I moved just right so he'd get me in that exact spot. What about you Mukuro?”

 

She pounded on her chest. “Metal ribs,” she replied. “I've had a lot of surgery over the years.

 

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TWO WEEKS LATER

 

“Congratulations, Natsume,” beamed Koenma. “The tournament couldn't have been won by a more deserving warrior. And should you ever need anything from me, don't hesitate to ask. That is of course provided that you don't change any dietary laws.”

 

“Thank you,” she said with a smile. “I do plan to keep King Enki's policies going. And of course you can resume your duties as governor, Mukuro.”

 

“Nope,” said Mukuro with a grin. “I'm off to Ningenkai.”

 

“You're joking,” said Hiei. “For this idiot you're going to up and leave everything you know?”

 

“I could use a change of scenery,” she replied. “Besides, I want to see how things go between me and `this idiot.'”

 

“Hey, what are you insulting me for?” yelled Kuwabara. “I thought we had a truce going.”

 

“Oh that. Well I was certain you'd be killed in battle so I felt like being nice. It's gone now.”

 

“Why you little…”

 

“Oh, nice piece of real estate here,” remarked Chu as he checked out the royal castle. “Bet me, Jin and Rinku could really cut a rug in a place like this.” He walked up to George and put his arm around him. “Hey fella, tell me, where do they keep the wine cellar here? I know you know.”

 

Natsume looked at Koenma with concern. “Don't worry,” he assured her. “The homeowners insurance on this place comes with drunken idiot coverage.”

 

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EPILOGUE

 

Yusuke returned to Japan along with Kuwabara, Kurama, and Mukuro. Words could describe neither the reunion between Kurama and his mother nor the beating Kuwabara got from Shizuru for leaving such a vague note. Needless to say, she and Mukuro got along just fine. Kurama and Yukina decided to wait six more months before any wedding would be held. One thing was certain, Shiori loved Yukina dearly.

 

Kuwabara began his duties as a sensei and a psychic. He never completely quit doing a little efficiency consulting on the side but it was never a full time job for him again. He had never felt so much inner peace before.

 

There's really only one more thing worth mentioning.

 

One day two weeks later Mukuro was walking a small cat. Kuwabara had given it to her as a birthday present. She was minding her own business and trying not to feel awkward (or hungry) among so many humans when she ran into Hiei of all people.

 

“What are you doing here?” she asked.

 

“I thought it over and realized that I've offended my own honor,” he replied. “Remember what I said about the whole human meat situation?”

 

“Sure. You didn't seem to think it was right to deny a demon his nature and you didn't like humans.”

 

“My own bigotry has gotten to me at last and I am disgraced,” he said. “I put wants of demons over the rights of humans to exist. I am so ashamed that I considered hara kiri at first.”

 

“But you came here instead. Why?”

 

“To live among them. To understand them better.”

 

“I see.”

 

“And I missed my friends and family,” he muttered.

 

“Really.”

 

“Yes…. Uh… Mukuro?”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Your cat is peeing on my foot.”

 

THE END

 

 

 

A very prudish disclaimer- I've long held the belief that sex should only take place in married life. Just because some fornication occurred in this story means nothing to the contrary. I know this story also dealt with the difficult topic of child abuse. If you know a child that you suspect is being abused please call Childhelp at 1-800-4-A-CHILD