Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Hanyou ❯ Chapter 20 Curses and Damnation ( Chapter 20 )

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Yet I still don't won Yu Yu,…..

Chapter 20- Curses and Damnation

“Urameshi! Nooooo!!!” Kuwabara cried out desperately as he saw his friend resign to his death.

Itzuki's golden eyes widened with fear when he saw the powerful sword being called upon in the boys' desperation.

“I've done all I can do here!” he shouted before Kuwabara's sword slit through his shadow creature. He and the others were free now, but they weren't fast enough to save Yusuke from death.

“YUSUKE!! YOU STUPID FAKER! YOU'RE NOT REALLY DEAD!” Kuwabara tried to laugh it off, “hey! Look, it worked!! I got the sword again! See? Now lets go kick Shinobu's ass together!”

“It's no use Kuwabara, he's dead.” Hiei said through gritted teeth.

Kurama turned when he heard the lake rapidly steaming, “Hiei!” he warned.

Hiei and Kurama moved out of the heat wave that came up from the lake and steamed the water to where it was only 1/4th full.

“I've got it, Shinobu! I've got his shedding skin!”

“Keep it on him until we reach demon world. That's where his power'll come in handy.”

“But it's leaving him now! If I let go, then I can't get I back!”

“Fine then, do it now!”

Soukou pressed a little more influence on the dragon.

Ryu's large orange eyes shot open and he roared so loud that the cave shook. Everyone covered their ears.

Three spirit orbs rushed out of him. One, the power of his armored hid went to Soukou. Another embedded into Desota who lay unconscious at Soukou's feet still. And the third one raced out of the lake crater and sunk into Urameshi's body.

Kuwabara leaned down to hear his heart, “It didn't do nothing! His hearts still not going.” He said still in shock of it all as he sat back on his haunches just starting down at his friends corps, “he's …. Gone….”

//worry about him when it's safe to do so! Right now I don't like where Desota is// Yoko urged Kurama, but there was little need soon as the fox located where she was.

Hiei noticed his friend attempting to go down in the crater, “If you go down there now, you'll be burned alive with those fumes he's giving off.”

“Then why is she unscathed!” Kurama bit out. Wanting desperately to get to her. Their bond was weakening! Someone had severed his mating bond that was still so fresh to her. He should have known it would be vulnerable to her.

“At this point all he recognizes is her! So he won't attack her! But he's a large animal in pain right now!” Hiei growled.

“What!?” Soukou snarled as he realized that not all of Ryu's life force had gone to him. A dragon has 4 elements that make up his soul and each carry a piece of his power. When Soukou tried to take it all, Ryu had a say so in where 3 of the orbs went.

“He kept one to stay alive!” Soukou snarled, “It is no matter to me, all you can do is these silly defensive tricks! And your body is too damaged to fight!”

He then turned to Sensui, “Now my master! I sacrifice my self to further give you the power you need to enhance yourself!” with that, Soukou chanted a spell that forced his soul out of him and gave it to Sensui's body to act as a power up. A golden light engulfed the spiritually powered human and his power increased tenfold!

Soukou's life force was leaving him, but he used the last ounce of his strength to levitate Desota's limp, glowing body to Sensui, “Her power will aid you now, master! Keep her near you and you'll have a never ending supply of it!”

The dragon form of Ryu reached out to intercept Desota, but a static force field surrounded her body, courtesy of Soukou he was sure. The furious dragons' orange eyes locked on Soukou who was laughing manically as the girls body was tucked into Sensui's awaiting arms where he shifted her to holding her delicately in a bridal style.

“He ehehehehehehehhehehe!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!! It's done! My master will defeat you all! One by One you shall fall at his hands! All of you- AHHHHH!” the Wizard gone-mad was swallowed up by the large jaws of Ryukunai's dragon form. The dragon seemed to grow tiered of him and seeing as he was only governed by instincts alone now, he had eaten the wizard with a gag at the after taste he seemed to have acquired, but it was short lived. Ryukunai's own life was fading as well since his body was too weak to hold out.

He snarled at the man he knew was responsible, but then he looked down to see Yusuke's unmoving form. Wide orange eyes beaded with disbelief and he let out a pained howl as he became weaker and weaker. Finally, the dragon's long neck curled around the fallen detective and his friends and the 3 that were left still alive were stricken again with shocked grief as the great beast's last breath was drawn in and exhaled.

And that was that. The Dragon, Soukou, and Yusuke lay dead now. One was in the belly of another, even. Things were happening too fast for the detectives liking, and the emotional strain of it all was nearing its breaking point. Especially in Kurama's case. His mate was taken from him and the newly formed bond they had was severed in the process!

“It's …. Strange,” Sensui seemed crestfallen as well with the way things were turning out, “I had thought killing the boy would give me some relief, but all I see in it is the pain of another loss of life. A terrible tragic loss of someone fighting on the wrong side.”

//He will not ….. get away with this!// Yoko seethed angrily. The fact that this guy was also holding his former mate so gently like that was only adding fuel to the foxes rage.

“But in truth, it's pointless to mourn over his death any longer. As humans we will all join him sooner or later.” Sensui's voice hardened, “If you insist on getting in some blows for your self, now is the time to do it. The portal to demon realm has finally opened.” Sensui smirked as the cave started to collapse and the demons slowly started to push through, “Are any of you brave enough to lead the way? Attempt to finish what your friends could not?”

The three of them had no chance at leading, Yumi beat them to it! She had raced through the caves after she was sure the little boy was alright and she felt Yusuke's and Ryu's life forces fade. Looking over at the fallen boy with the large dragon almost peacefully curled around him, Yumi had seen red and took action.

“BASTARD!” she snarled and morphed into her wolf form then darted at the man, only to yelp in pain as the spiritual energy deflected her away with a painful snap of energy.

“Yumi!” Hiei yelled surprised that she was being so rash. Had she lost her mind?!

“I will not back down, Hiei!” Yumi snapped and morphed back to her humanoid form for a different approach, “EARTH POWER!” she called as her eyes flashed green. The rocks around them sent a wave of stone at Sensui who simply deflected it as if it were a fly.

“Done yet, pup?” he mocked.

“Not by a long shot!” she snarled and her eyes flashed blue, “Water. Air Combo!” she called as her Smokey black wings appeared on her shoulder blades once more. The water from behind Sensui rose up like a sudden impulsive Tsunami wave and swirled around him in a mist to confuse him. Then, Yumi fanned her wings at the mist to spread about the room and started to attack with a physical approach, but Sensui saw it coming.

“AARGGH YA!” she hissed as she lunged at him from out of the mist.

“Too slow,” Sensui caught her around the neck and placed a hand on her forehead. He blasted her with holy energy and knocked her back into the wall. Yumi screamed in pain and was silenced as she was knocked out on contact with the wall.

“Yumi!” Hiei was alert. Her enchanted mist handicapped all Demon senses so he couldn't smell, hear, or see her much except for at a human level. His Jagan was even handicapped in this stuff, which was why he hated it so much, but his bond with her still rang loud and clear as he felt her pain and when she was knocked out.

With her unconscious, the mist slowly faded and Hiei could see that his wolf was buried under the rubble she'd caused in her crash course with the wall above her. His ruby eyes widened in the fear of her well being that clenched his heart tightly. She was hurt and he didn't even try to stop her!

That had been the last straw for Hiei and the others. Hiei's bounds around his black dragon were fried as the beast reared its head when it felt its master's anger. His Jagan eye flashed open and he charged.

Kurama's hair was turning silvery white and he felt Yoko's power over flowing him as they changed into the former fox thief of the demon realms himself. Yoko was now in control and he didn't waste anytime in following the fire hybrid demon after Sensui. Even Kuwabara charged right after the two, straight for the demons that poured out of the hole.

Sensui looked at them with mild amusement, “Incredible, their demon energy has just jumped to upper A class levels.” He said to himself.

He felt the girl in his arms stir. Her body was still glowing its golden color as her aura was combined with the hidden energy that was endlessly a power source for him. Her aqua eyes looked as if they wanted to open but she found her eye lids too heavy to comply.

“Kur …. Kurama….” She whispered.

“She can still remember his name even after the bond was severed…. Interesting,” Sensui filed that for later use.

“Kyo! Stay here and watch over Yusuke and Yumi!” Kuwabara yelled before he kicked up his speed to try and keep up with his friends.

“Hai!” the zhorse nodded and started to dig Yumi out of the rubble to drag her over to Yusuke and Ryu's fallen bodies.

Hiei's dragon flared up as it sensed its time was coming to be released yet again. Black flames engulfed Hiei's arm as he raced for Sensui with the intent to rip him apart, “DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!!” Hiei called as he released his dragon. The beast surged forward and scorched any demon that was trying to break through, “Here's a ticket for you straight to hell! YOU BASTARD!” Hiei released his full power into the dragon and the black flames scorched even more power into it as it came in contact with Sensui's protective barrier of spirit energy. The dragon was almost carrying him since only its force was met with Sensui; no pain was inflicted on him or the girl in his arms.

Yoko Kurama was almost afraid he'd kill Desota in the cross fire, but the spirit shield was proving to be a useful ability in this retrospect.

Sensui almost laughed as he was pushed into the tunnel, “This is a great way to get around, ya know?”

The black dragon attack pushed the man through the tunnel and disappeared, leaving the others in a crumbling cave.

“Kyo, stay here an' watch over Desota, Yumi and Koenma.” Yoko said as he made a dash for the portal after Hiei, who didn't even pause in his run as their enemy was pushed in by his dragon.

“W-wait! What about me?” Kyoshi called out.

“You stay here with them!” Yoko called over his shoulder.

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Desota's body surged with an unknown power, it didn't even feel like her own, but it wouldn't allow her much mobility since along with that power, a draining feeling was ever present. Yet no matter how much what ever was draining her took, this unknown power replaced it.

`Is this what Soukou was talking about? This never ending power?' her glowing eyes barely gave her a view of the outside world, but she could see that they were now in some type of Limbo between the human and demon realms. She woke up just after she felt a surge of Kuwabara's energy as his newly acquired dimension sword sliced a hole in the Gekai barrier for Hiei and Kurama to pass through.

She wanted to scream in surprise when she suddenly found Sensui and herself free falling to the land below; demon world. She used to not be able to hear anything when the power started to take hold of her, but now she could hear mummers of what Sensui was saying since he was in such close proximately. She figured it was something sarcastic to throw at the `rescue' squad above.

When they landed on a plateau that was bare of any foliage and stood hundreds of feet above a forest of trees, Desota was shocked to feel Ryukunai's aura surround Sensui's body as it hardened into something.

`He's making his armor! The armor made out of Ryu's hide so he can deflect their attacks!' she thought.

Sensui's body was being covered by a golden like armor with an odd helmet that reminded Desota of a member of the `Ku Klux Klan' with how pointy it was. It gave him an air of medieval armor and scyfi-ish pads. It was strange to think something that …. Odd looking came from the `Great Dragon' spirit.

Sensui discarded her body near him and set a powerful barrier around her prone form made of holy energy so the others wouldn't be able to reach her. His Ki was mixed by all 4 spirit types: spirit, demonic, holy, and the legendary ancient energy which was Ryu's spirit energy type. It was amazing to see him fight off Kuwabara, Yoko Kurama, and Kuwabara at once with little effort. His 4 opposing energies were even fighting against him to be released from the small space inside his body were they were tightly woven together through out him. He should have been ripped from the inside out by now, but he was swatting the enraged detectives like flies!

Kurama took a particularly bad fall and this time he didn't get up like the rest of the times Sensui knocked the silver fox back. Hiei was soon to follow and Kuwabara was already down panting his life away. Sensui stood in the middle of them in his tall and graceful way with a sadistic smile on his face.

“Don't tell me that your done yet.” Wow, Desota could hear again! “I'm only doing this to give you some sort of peace for avenging your friends before you die. Urameshi made his choice to die. So don't blame me.”

Oh, so he's going to act like Yusuke's death wasn't HIS fault?! The guy aimed an attack whose power equals that of an atomic bomb at Yusuke out in the open for every one involved to see while he killed him and he says `don't blame me.'!

Desota's anger was rising and she felt the unending source in her burst into flames as if its faucet of power just cranked up from flowing to full blast away! It was suffocating her in the small space the spirit barrier allowed and she fell to the ground coughing from the lack of air.

The blast of sudden energy startled the others currently locked in a stand still of the battle they were in. everyone turned shocked to see the golden energy pressurizing the inside of the barrier and shoving its own hostess body down to the ground with its physical presence. Not wanting to kill of his power source, Sensui quickly let the barrier down to allow the pressure to release. With a resounding `CA-BOOM!' Desota's energy blasted from under the barrier before it was completely let down and flowed over the plateau and surrounded the present fighters.

Hiei jerked away as the aura energy approached him, but even he was too slow for it. Like his comrades, the fire demon was shocked to feel revitalizing energy seep into his own aura and replaced his exhausted Yoki with this new energy. Giving him enough strength to double his performance of before. The golden aura tidal waved over Yoko Kurama and Kuwabara doing the same to their own exhausted Yoki before the revitalized energy seemed to be pulling back.

Confused, they saw Sensui holding the still immobile hanyou bridal style to him. His energy was calling to the rest of the source energy and it quickly was sucked away from the other 3 and filled his own power higher than before.

“You felt it, didn't you?” Sensui remarked softly as he looked down at Desota. Her eyes were clenched shut as she struggled to hold back the power he was drawing from her. Such stubbornness even when she probably knew it was useless by now fascinated him to no end. She really did show her human half quite well, “that revitalizing power as it surged through you made you feel as powerful as the gods, but unfortunately for you, I'm some what of a greedy consumer and I hate to share something so valuable at times.” He smirked.

Yoko's blood was boiling. Although his instincts didn't react as strongly in blood lust since the bond had been severed, it didn't mean he still loved her any less! She was still HIS in his own mind and soon as this was all over, he'd wipe away every last scent molecule of Sensui from her and replace it with his own!

Rashly, Yoko pulled out a seed from his silvery white mane and charged at Sensui fully intent to kill him. He snapped his wrist that still held his faithful rose whip and lashed the thorny vine at Sensui to push him in the desired direction.

“You're supposed to be a strategist, Kurama, the least you could do is act like it,” Sensui didn't even blink as his barrier deflected the attack. He was taken off guard when a red, thick thorn root sprung up and latched around is left leg from the ground. Surprise was evident in the mans face as he glared down at the plant that bit into his calf so brutally before disintegrating into dust as the holy aura around him got to it.. He looked back at Yoko who was kneeling on the ground panting.

“I spoke too soon. You do realize though that even if you manage to scratch me like that….,” as he spoke, Sensui's wound was healing rapidly, “I heal faster than anything alive now that I have the source with me,”

Kurama snarled at him in frustration and leaped out of range as Sensui pushed him back with a wave of power.

`This is taking too long! It doesn't take an expert to know the strain he's putting on Desota both physically and spiritually with all the draining he's doing to her power!' Kurama grimaced as he and the others had to dodge yet another attack. By now, Sensui was toying with them until they were too worn to even move. A slow death is what this man was going for.

//You don't think I know that Red!// Yoko hissed back //Nothing we do is helping her at all!//

They barely got a good look at her before Sensui forced them to dodge again. She was looking worse and worse as time progressed. Both sides of the Kitsune spirit had never felt so helpless in either past or present life, and they never wanted something like this to happen again to her.

//I don't care what you say, Kurama, soon as this is all over, it's naked and chained to the bed for her!// even now, Yoko let a small perverted implication slip out of that yapper of his.

Except this time, Kurama agreed with his other half. Fully and wholly he did.

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Kyo wasn't doing too hot either on the other side of the portal. It had taken a while for Desota's condition to reach him since the bond was so weak, but he was a reflection of her condition since Ryu was no longer of this world. He still remained in his larger battle form, but due to the new power his other half was under going, golden flames lined his mane, tail and hocks (ankles) like a fire horse of some sort. He lay on his side near the deceased body of Yusuke with his head draped over the boy's abdomen. Orange eyes were filled with tears as he felt all the sadness and pain coming from every where. It was times like these that it sucked to be able to feel what other hearts felt.

Koenma sat with his feet tucked under him on the cave floor with his adopted daughter's head resting in his lap as her body healed its self while Kyoshi sat with his legs pulled up to his chest between the Price and Zhorse. He looked back to Yumi's body as her fingers started to twitch, showing that she wasn't numb all over any more, “is she getting better?”

“I can't really say if she'll get ALL better, but yes, for now she's getting better.” Koenma nodded, then looked over at Kyo's golden flames, “it's those new installments that are making me anxious.”

“Why did the flames suddenly come out of him like this and why aren't they scorching anything, let alone him. He seems to not notice the difference in himself as it is.” Kyoshi blinked at the flamed animal.

“Like that blue chibbi pillow thing that Keiko's so fond of, Kyo is now the reflection of Desota's soul. He was once the same thing for Ryu, given that all dragons born receive something like Kyo when they reach adolescence age and should have died with Ryukunai, but given the bond that Desota has formed with him recently, he is now bound to her until she dies.” Koenma replied, avoiding Kyoshi's other question.

“And….. What about this ….. `Source' thing inside of Dessy?” Yumi whispered as she started to rouse up.

Koenma's eyes narrowed down at her in a father like way, “Quit trying to move, Yumi, you're still healing.”

Yumi stilled like he told her too, but laughed at him, “You sound like my father,”

“Then I suppose I'm doing my job, given the fact that's what I am.” Koenma sighed. When her green eyes looked up at him, showing that she was expecting an answer, he gave in, “Desota is the product of her families curse form her demon side. One of the fox clan many years ago got involved with the Unicorn-Dragon war that was waged during ancient times before the barriers were set in stone. The two races are equal in power, but their power was too great to be released against one another lest they wanted to destroy all life from earth.”

“Unicorns?” Kyoshi dead panned, “you mean those white ponies with a gold horn on their for heads that like to play with little girls and prance over rainbows and make flowers and sunshine and such?”

“Yes Unicorns did exist just like Dragons existed, but not like that. Heavens no!” Koenma rolled his eyes, “where Dragons are masters of dark power and fire, but not entirely evil, Unicorns are masters of white magic and can have different elements empowered to them at birth. A dragon has to learn them, just like Ryukunai mastered Lightning attacks. And just as Dragons are dark creatures but not evil, Unicorns are pure creatures, but not always good. It is this unbalance that forever brought the two races to prejudice against one another with out question. It was very annoying to handle at the time with all the wars and what not.” Koenma sighed.

“You're rambling off subject here,” Yumi reminded him.

“Oh, right!” Koenma cleared his throat, “Anyways, each side had allies when it came to war, but some breeds of demon's chose to stay out of the wars and focus on ending the bloodlust between the two species. There came a time when the leaders of both clans fell in love with a Kitsune Vixen, but she hated war and blood lust. So she refused to love either of them until they came to a solution.”

“Don't tell me, it ended up being a Threesome?” Yumi smirked.

Koenma blushed, “uh… eventually… but what ended up happening was that so both sides couldn't fight with ultimate power, the entire races of Dragon and Unicorn channeled their power into the vixen's womb and she bore 2 children. One of endless source and one of endless knowledge. The curse of the 2 powers doesn't seem harmful for the most part besides…. The source runs on the hosts' own spirit partially when it's being drained. So while the power will never fade, the host will eventually die of exhaustion if the power is exerted too much in too little of time.”

“You're saying that Kitsune have Dragon AND Unicorn blood in them?” Yumi collected the information dealt to her.

“Only Desota's clan does, but it's so ancient in the blood line we thought the curse died out.” Koenma admitted.

“YOU IDIOT! I CANT BELIEVE I HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING ADOPTED BY SOMEONE WAS ABSENT MINDED AS YOU!” Yumi snapped.

“LOOK OUT!” Kyoshi shouted as a blue light shot over them from the cavern entrance of the cave and hovered just in front of the hole to demon world. Form the orb, nine soldiers materialized in their own small light that separated from the large one. All wearing the same uniform that looked like some messed up power ranger cross of an army uniform. Each soldier had a unique style of hairdo even.

“Who the hell are they?” Kyoshi shifted away from them.

Kyo only flicked an ear back at them to acknowledge their presence, but something inside him told Kyo to protect Yusuke in this state at all costs. He could tell he was dead and his heart was stopped, but the spirit remained as it was coupled with his old masters' spirit as well. Ryu had plans for this boy and Kyoma was using his own abilities to keep the boy safe until those plans become actions. Besides, he could tell Pu was on his way.

“They're the Spirit World Special Defense Force bastards is who.” Yumi grunted out as she struggled to sit up.

“The who?” Kyoshi didn't understand and looked to Koenma for help.

Koenma had to almost wrestle his daughter to relax again so she didn't injure herself anymore than she was and keep the healing process going smoothly, “they're my fathers' last resort and he relies on them to get the job done when all else fails. I can imagine that the demon hole is why they're here. This means that my father has lost all faith in my own ability to do so.”

“Get to know the feeling.” Yumi grunted.

The head of the SDF was tall with dark brown hair and a black mustache. He was commanding his squadron to seal the hole and sent 3 of his soldiers inside to guard the barrier its self before approaching Koenma and the others. The man looked over at Yusuke and the dead Dragon whose body lay in the water while the long neck wrapped around his prince and the others with the massive head curled into them like a mother cat. A zebra like creature had yet to turn its head to look at them as it rested its neck across the dead boy's abdomen and Koenma and another blond human boy stood up as they approached. The commander noticed that Koenma's adopted wolf demon child was injured and was laying on her side now glaring up at him. She always seemed like a spoilt brat.

“Koenma sir, are you hurt?” he asked.

“Well I did bite my tongue awhile back.” Koenma wasn't in a good mood.

“Then I'll have to insist you go back to the spirit world to recuperate sir. Let us handle this situation and deal with…. Things.” The commander once again gave the group another over look.

“I'm staying right here. This is my mess so I must clear it up.” Koenma stayed firmly in place.

“I'm sorry Sir, but as King Yama has made this a matter of martial law, my word prevails your own.”

“He knows what martial law is. Captain” Yumi spat, “and once more he said he's not leaving.”

“If you both stay, you'll be witness to something very painful.” The captain's voice was stern.

Koenma lifted his chin in defiance, “Are you…. Threatening me now, Captain?”

The captains' eyes steeled even more as he looked down at Yusuke's body then returned to one of his men, motioning towards Kyoshi.

Yumi caught the look then saw a shaggy haired, buck toothed soldier smirk.

“Hey goldilocks, this doesn't concern you so outta the way!” he raised a hand and sent a small blast of energy into Kyoshi's chest, knocking the boy painfully back a good few yards with a cry of pain.

“KYOSHI!” Yumi gasped.

“STOP IT!” Koenma demanded as the soldier held up his hand for another fire at the human, “He's just a kid!”

“No one will stand in our way to kill Yusuke Urameshi and the Source hanyou. They're both half breed blood and both destructive the worlds!” the commander made clear their intentions.

Yumi snarled at them as she started to stand, “I won't…. I won't let you touch either one of them!”

“You're just a half dead wolf! The only reason Koenma bothers with you is because the mistake spirit world made by reincarnating your soul that was once an Angels into a worthless bitch! Or did you think that having that kind of elemental power was normal?” the other soldier that was larger and more ape like than the other two snide at her.

Yumi gritted her teeth and her fangs started to lengthen with the low wolf growl rumbling through her. Her form changed into the large black wolf with glowing green eyes as she stood with her fur erect in anger in front of Koenma like an attack dog.

“Is this why you kept the puppy, Koenma? To be your personal bitch when you needed one?” the buck tooth one snorted.

“Silence!” the commanders snap made his underlings shut up quickly as Koenma glared them down.

“I can understand how you'd go after Desota with the Source curse in her, but what's Urameshi got to do with all this?! He's been taking a lot of shit off your asses with all the work he does in human and demon world to keep them in check!”

“Yusuke Urameshi is the direct descendent of the Mazuku demon clan.” The captain said.

Yumi stopped snarling in surprise with a whine of confusion, “Mazuku?”

“You're out of your mind!” Koenma shouted.

Kyo craned his head to look back at them surprised. He then looked back down at the boy he protected for now in awe. Well, that explains a lot.

“There's no way that's possible! Koenma and I personally did a back ground check on him and there's no demon blood!” Yumi defended her friends honor as she growled once more, “that's some shit to say about him! And right in front of his corpse too!”

“Sure his mother may act like a monster, but she's no demon! Not his father either.” Koenma admitted in shock that this man would accuse such a thing.

“True, and neither are his grand parents or great-grandparents, but if you go back much further…,” the commander let that sink in a little.

“You're saying…. It's the Mazuku Atavism?”

“That is exactly what I'm saying. Yusuke Urameshi is the descendent of Raizen himself.”

“You're talking crazy now. Go take your meds.” Yumi snorted.

“It's the truth. The 1st time he died, he was too weak to allow his demonic blood to awaken. This is why he was a human when you revived him. However the second time he's died, he's almost quadruple in strength and that alone would have maybe allowed his rebirth again if his resemblance to his ancestor was that close, but since the dragon Ryukunai has embedded a piece of his own soul inside him to ensure this happens, he will become a demon if left unchecked. A demon whose power far exceeds his father if given the training. You have given fall to one rouge spirit detective to make way for another one even worse than before. It's a blessing we made it here in time before he awakens so we can make sure that threat is banished.”

“You'll have to do it over my dead body!” Kyoshi proclaimed as he stood up barely and slowly made his way to them, “You should be ashamed of yourselves accusing him for being a traitor, and a monstrous beast or anything other than what he really is! A hero….. Who gave his life protecting all of us! And you're saying that this guy is something that will kill us all when he just gave it all to save us?!”

Before Yumi could help him, the buck toothed one was behind Kyoshi and sent a shock wave through him to knock him out, “Yeah right, like you're a good source for that. We know all about the last spirit detective you got involved with and as far as I'm concerned, you're still an enemy to this mission.” With that said, the soldier dragged the boy off to prop against the wall out of the way.

Yumi made move to follow and attack, but a weapon was pointed at her from the taller, lumberjack one and Koenma stopped her before he had reason to shoot, “Move girly and I'll have no problem making sure you don't for a while.”

Yumi's wolf ears flattened to her head, “You're all a bunch of ass wipes you know that! Watch your backs cause I'll be chew'n on them soon as you let your guard down ya hear me!” they could see the blood lust flash in her eyes as her anger mounted with every little thing they did to provoke it.

“Yumi!” Koenma's sharp voice reminded her to keep her anger and blood lust under strict control. If these guys weren't who they were to his father, he'd tell her `fetch' if it would some how get her angry enough to rip them to pieces.

The wolf backed down but didn't stop growling lowly at them.

Captain nodded to the lumberjack and the man fired the stunning weapon with a smile on his face. Yumi saw it coming and was healed enough to dodge it, only to be shot at again and again, keeping her on the move!

“I DEMAND TO KNOW WHY YOU'RE SHOOTING AT HER! SHE HASN'T ATTACKED SO WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!” Koenma shouted in the captains' face.

The captain shot a stunning force into Koenma's stomach and dragged the immobile price to the wall out of the way, “as a leader I hope you appreciate the difficult choices I must make.” He said, “We must get you out of our way to complete the mission.”

Yumi had leaped at the Lumberjack man and snapped the weapon in half with her wind bending abilities as she snapped her jaws around his wrists for pay back before leaping away, “You bitch!” the man cradled his hand in pain.

Meanwhile, the buck toothed one started for Urameshi's body to get it from under Kyo. Kyo's new golden flames ignited even more at the threat in warning as he let a low sound rumble in him. He stood up and over Yusuke's body protectively as the flames on his body reached out and whipped at the soldier so he was forced away.

“Damn you little son of a bitch!” the bucked tooth one hissed.

“Noranda Hisio Naga Yuyu!” Kyo snarled with his teeth barred at the man. An increase of energy under him made the zhorse shy off of Yusuke in surprise as the boy started to glow red and levitate off the ground.

“Captain! He's…. He's glowing!” the soldier Eeped.

Kyo saw the other soldiers start to approach him and quickly cut them off as his golden flames stretched from his hocks to make a fire line around the boy and himself, keeping them out of range from Yusuke. He could feel Ryu's soul merging with Yusuke's demonic blood as it jumpstarted the boy's spirit once more. Now all they needed was Pu to arrive and reawaken the boy.

Speaking of which….

A loud cawing noise startled everyone as the dark blue phoenix flew through the cave and headed for Yusuke. Its size was almost bigger than Ryu's head! And that's saying something!

“What are you doing! Kill them before it's too late!” the commander ordered his troops.

Spirit energy shot through the flames and Kyo was powerless to defend anything but himself as they hailed on him and Yusuke, but Pu's wings shielded Yusuke just in time, seemingly canceling the attacks effects.

“Keep on firing!”

Many blasts of canceled attacks made the fire line Kyo created die down and a smoke screen veiled Yusuke's body, Pu and Kyoma.

The attack was held in suspense as they waited for it to clear up. When it did, they saw Pu nuzzling the much alive Yusuke who stroked the bird's chin lovingly as he smirked at them. Kyo wasn't far off shaking his mane from his eyes from being disheveled from the rush of attacks.

“Now that was some welcoming party, huh Pu?” Yusuke said.

Pu Squealed in response with a joyous look about him now that he was reunited with his master.

“You'd think they'd just tried to kill me after all I've done for them, too!”

“Shit, now we're done for! We were too late in killing him!” the Commander mumbled.

“You know I could hear some of what you guys were saying about me while I was `sleeping' back there. So what now I'm some kind of monster?!” Yusuke was going some where with this.

A burst of Demonic Aura blasted pass everyone like a strong wind.

“You see Koenma sir! You see how much his demonic power is!” the commander deemed the time to prove his point.

“No…. not Yusuke!” Koenma didn't believe this! Sure, the kid was an annoying prick of a punk ass kid, but Yusuke would never…… would he?

“You know, my teachers always said something like that about me, but I thought it was all just a figure of speech,” Yusuke let his aura die down.

“Please, your royal evilness! Use me in what ever way you wish to gain what you desire, just don't kill me!” Yumi gave the buck toothed one a dead panned look as he practically groveled at Yusuke's feet almost pissing himself. She sighed in annoyance before carefully examining the situation and Yususke's aura readings like Hiei had taught her too. Something was off about him. Not just the demonic blood either.

“Thanks weakling, but what I desire, you can't hope to help me with. I plan to take over the whole world and use the humans in it to feed all my demonic bastard groupies while I have wild sex with every pleasurable woman in sight and eat their babies for breakfast. All of you will bow down to my Mazuku being as I reveal my true form and eat you all after you've paid your respects to me. Then I'll do the other stuff” with that Yusuke let out a wicked laugh, showing off his devilishly sharp fangs.

How he said that in a straight face, no one knew…. Yumi was now confused, `that's what's off. He's talking about vile things, but….' She looked at how closely Kyo stood by Yusuke with out an ounce of fear or disgust in the heavenly beings posture. He seemed amused more than anything, `If he really was going to do that, Kyo wouldn't be standing near him if that lil'guy can sense heart intentions. Come on, he thinks Hiei is his own personal pillow!'

The SDF soldiers were now really spooked and started retreating as far away as they could from him in fear. Yusuke couldn't hold it in any longer.

“SYCH!!!” he laughed like a little kid with a successfully stolen cookie, “DAMN YOU GUYS ARE GULLIBLE!”

The whole force fell to the ground in surprise at the mood switch. Yumi couldn't help giggling with Yusuke, who just noticed her there, “Oh, you're still here, Yumi?” he blinked, “wait when did you get here?”

“I attacked Sensui after he took Dessy and killed you,”

“Took Dessy? Why? And what's this “Source” thing I keep hearing about when I was sleeping?”

Yumi quickly recapped him on what was going on and left Yusuke feeling sorry for the predicament the other hanyou was in before he turned to the now humanoid wolf demoness when she giggled uncontrolled again.

“Man, Yusuke, that was a good one! I can smell the Urination from almost all of them! Did you see their faces!” she rolled on the ground laughing.

“Heck yeah! That was the best part!” Yusuke laughed with her before looking over at a scared to death Koenma, “What? You didn't really think I'd go all evil did ya?”

“Huh?” Koenma squeaked, “Uh, no! Not at all!”

“Heh, well anyways, I suppose I ought a go to demon world. Sensui left me death as a departing present and it would be rude of me not to return the favor” oh, so now he got serious.

Yumi stood up and held up her fist, “Now you're talking, Yusuke! I'm going with!”

“What?! You can't leave! You haven't been confiscated yet!” the commander protested,

Yusuke turned to him with a sour look, “You even think about stopping us, and I'll bite off your head, mustache and all.”

The commander flinched but then gritted his teeth, “I knew you couldn't hide your true nature of the Mazuku. Your still and evil bastard through and through.”

“Look Jerk, it's called a running joke. Look it up some time and live a little will ya? I'm still the same Yusuke Urameshi! Protector of all the good stuff with a little hint of this and that and hater of authority! There's nothing that'll stand in my way from going in there and helping my friends as we save the world…. Again… and kick some bad guy's nasty ass while I'm at it” Yusuke proudly introduced himself.

“Yep, he's certainly the same `ol Yusuke we all know and …. Well know.” Yumi sighed as she stood up to stand by him.

Koenma laughed hysterically, “Now that is something that actually makes sense around here. That's why I'm going too.”

“Koenma sir! You cant, your father'll,”

“My father can do what ever the hell he wants to me when I return, but I'm leaving with Yusuke now.” With that said, Koenma mounted Pu's neck behind Yusuke while Yumi rode astride Kyo.

“Let's go Pu! TO DEMON WORLD!”