Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Slight Problem ❯ It Just Got Worse ( Chapter 3 )

Here's chapter three!! Please R&R!! I really want to know what people think of my writing!!

 

I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Just my own two characters, Natalie and Lisa.

 

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When Natalie finally figured they were far enough and in a mostly deserted area of town, she dropped down to the ground and let Lisa off. Then she took her friend by the hand and started running once more.

"NOW what? Why are you running again?!"

She rolled her eyes. "Kuwabara can sense chi, remember? I had to use chi in order to make a quick exit, but now that we've distanced ourselves from them a little, I have time to suppress my spirit energy completely to avoid detection. But it won't take Kuwabara long to track my trail and they could be in this area of town any minute now! We've got to keep going and hopefully when they can no longer detect my spirit energy, it'll slow them down even more. In the meantime, we should be able to hide out in one of these abandoned buildings and sit tight..." On that note, she skidded to a stop once more and cursed. "Oh, SHIT!!!!!"

"Now what?!" Lisa asked, getting more and more freaked out by the second.

"I sense more energy coming this way!"

Lisa went white. "They're here already?!"

She shook her head. "I don't think it's them! There's six of them, this time. I think some demons picked up on my spirit energy and are coming to take a look for themselves!"

Lisa's eyes went huge. "WHAT?!"

Before either girl could move, six forms dropped on all sides of them, all of them having undeniably demonic characteristics. The girls didn't recognize any of them from the series.

The apparent ring leader of the group looked the two of them over a little appreciatively. "So... that energy was coming from a girl, huh? That's fortunate... for us, that is."

One with horns coming from either side of his head nodded. "Yeah, it's the small cute thing that's giving it off. That tall blonde ain't got nothing, though."

Natalie quickly placed herself between her friend and the unexpected demons. This seemed to make them smile wider.

"Heh. I guess we can't have a fighter slave, so we should just suck out her spirit energy and take her friend instead. She's cute enough to get us a good price on the Black Market..."

Lisa's eyes went huge hearing this and she took several quick steps back in horror. Growing up, Natalie had had a Buddhist monk living next door to them, and he had taught her how to fight and use chi techniques. But to Lisa's knowledge, she had never used them in an actual fight before. She wondered if Natalie was strong enough to fight these guys off, and seriously doubted it.

That didn't stop her friend from deciding she was going to try, though. "Lisa!! Get away from here! I'll hold them off!!"

She protested immediately. "Nat'! You can't seriously..."

"I SAID GO!!!!" Natalie bellowed. "NOW!!!!!"

Hearing the tone directed at her, Lisa jumped and shot off down the street.

 

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In that moment, Kuwabara's eyes went huge as he lead the other three from roof to roof. "DAMN!! Guys, I'm sensing demons up ahead! I think they picked up that girl's energy themselves!"

Kurama bit back a curse. "Is she powerful enough to fight them off? How many are there?"

He focused for a moment. "Five... No! Six of them! And I think she's having trouble already with 'em!"

Yusuke nodded. "Then let's get our asses in gear already! Lead on, Kazu!!" Nodding, Kuwabara shot off, leading them now to the demons he detected up ahead.

 

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Natalie found herself thrown to the ground once again and she quickly leaped out of the way as the demon's foot cracked the concrete where her head had been not even a second before. She was getting out of breath and covered with her fair share of injuries. She was trying to focus on the fight as well as keep an eye on Lisa to make sure she was safe. The demon's weren't letting her friend go, and Natalie had to constantly break away from the main fight to try and help her friend. Which tended to leave her open for attack from one of the other demons.

Needless to say, she was getting the crap out of her.

This only got worse for her when she never dodged quickly enough and one of the demon's claws raked across her side, cutting through both cloth and skin. She cried out in pain, heard Lisa cry her name in terror, and then felt someone grab her by the collar of her jacket. Before she could even think of forming a defense, the demon's knee slammed into her gut, cracking ribs and causing the world to blur in her sight with the pain. Then he smirked and unceremoniously threw her against one of the brick buildings lining the street. It cracked on impact and she landed on the ground in a heap.

Lisa started for her friend, calling out in horror. "NATALIE!!!!" Then she screamed as one of the demons cut her off and started advancing on her.

"Well, with that little pest outta the way, I guess you're all ours, blondie..."

Before he could take another step, however, a small burst of energy slammed into him, knocking him a few feet to the side. He turned slowly, his expression less than impressed when he saw Natalie had worked her way to one knee, one hand extended toward him. Her left eye was sealed shut and she was gritting her teeth in pain.

She and Lisa didn't even have time to blink before the ring leader was in front of her and had her by the throat, slamming her up against the side of the building. "You just don't know when to die, do ya, bitch? I guess you like to suffer, don't ya?"

Natalie's legs were kicking feebly and uselessly as she found her air cut off. She was sore everywhere and her vision was going wonky, her head totally light.

I'm sorry, Lisa... I can't help you... she thought.

But then, as Lisa watched, a familiar thorny vine wrapped around the demon and tore him from Natalie, leaving the girl to fall to the ground once more, coughing and gasping for breath. Lisa cast a glance to the side and, sure enough, there stood the Spirit Detectives, Kurama holding his famous Rose Whip in hand. She ignored them for now and just tore across the street to where her friend was lying.

"Natalie!! Are you okay?! Oh, God! Please say something!!"

Natalie worked her way to her knees, trembling slightly with both strain and pain, her eyes a little bleary. When she saw the Rekai Tentai had showed up and were currently starting to fight with the demons that had been attacking the girls, she bit back a curse. She quickly, but shakily made her way to her feet.

"Natalie! You shouldn't be moving around! They hurt you really bad, and..."

"I'll... be okay. We've got to get away from here. Our only chance is to do it while those guys are fighting each other. Now come on." She took Lisa's hand and pulled her into a nearby alley. Breathing heavily, she scooped up Lisa once more and leaped to the rooftop. She tried not to wince at the landing.

Just a few blocks away, she thought. Nodding to herself, she raced for the edge and leaped from building to building a few times again until she thought they were a safe enough distance away from the fight. Then she leaped to the ground, the impact jarring her to the bone and she fell to her knees, grinding her teeth together as she held her side.

Lisa was knelt beside her immediately. "Please! Stop pushing yourself, Natalie! If you keep this up, you're only going to make your injuries worse than they are already!"

She tried a reassuring smile. "I'm fine, really. We have to find another building to hide in. When we're out of sight, I'll rest." She took her friend by the hand once more. "Now come on. We don't have much time. It won't take them long to defeat those guys." Then, ignoring her friend's protests, she took off in a run down the street, stopping when they came to an old office building with two floors.

Natalie opened the door and almost stumbled, her hand reaching out to lean against the wall and keep herself from crashing to the floor. Lisa raced forward to catch her friend and support her. "Let me guess... you wanna go to the second level, right?"

Natalie nodded wordlessly as her taller friend sighed, supporting her friend as they worked their way up to the second floor. Once they were there, Lisa brought the both of them into a room and settled her friend down on the floor.

 

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Meanwhile, the Spirit Detectives had finished off the fight with relative ease and Yusuke cursed, seeing the girls were now gone.

"Where the hell did they go?" Kurama's brow furrowed. "My question would be WHY did they go? That girl was badly injured and should not have been on her feet, for one thing, and for another, why would they leave when help had just arrived?"

"Unless they're deliberately avoiding us, specifically," Hiei cut in.

Kuwabara blinked. "What the hell are you talking about, runt?"

Hiei ignored the insulting name and snorted. "Hn. Don't you think it unusual that the moment we arrived in Nerima Sector, the girls were in a corner of the district, leaping from one roof to the other until coming here? And then when we arrive here, the second we're distracted, they take advantage of that fact to take off once more, despite that one girl's considerably injuries? It seems to me that they are avoiding us. I'm guessing that small one can detect us."

Yusuke blinked. "Well, I guess that makes sense, except that I can't think of a reason WHY they would want to avoid us. I mean... why run off when we had just saved them?"

The koorime shrugged. "We'll find that out when we catch up with them. And this time, with the girl in her fragile state, I doubt they'll be running off again."

Kurama nodded. "Yes. Kuwabara, can you follow their trail again?"

The boy frowned for a moment in concentration, and then nodded. He lead them to an alley way that was very close to where the girl had been laying injured a moment ago. "They went in here, and..." He looked around a moment, and then shrugged, pointing up. "It looks like they're traveling by roof again."

Yusuke nodded. "Then let's go find them."

They found the street where the girls had stopped only a moment later, and looked around. This area of town was pretty well deserted, and there was nobody in sight. Many of the buildings were condemned and about the only thing someone might find on this side of town were seedy bars that somehow managed to eke out an existence, and the occassional hooker.

"Alright," Yusuke said, looking around carefully. "Where are they?"

Kurama frowned, taking in every detail of their surroundings before his eyes fell on something. "I think I have an idea of where to find them," he said, indicating one of the buildings. Following his gaze, the other three saw a bloody handprint on the side of the building, right beside an ajar door. Nodding, the four of them went inside, and it didn't take them long to figure out from another bloodstain on the railing, that the girls had gone upstairs.

 

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Uh Oh... looks like the girls are about to be found out!! In the next chapter, the questions start!!

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