Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul ❯ Too Many Enemies ( Chapter 14 )

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Mitsukai no Awai: Well, here we are again... hate saying this...T_T YYH doesn't belong to me...*runs around and cries*

Yoko Kurama: Despite this, she found out something.

Mitsukai: I just realized if a flamer gives me a flame, the review number goes up. So if you do give me a flame, just remember I'll be happy because if the review number goes up, I'll be happy. So the worst thing a flamer would do to me would be not reviewing.

Yusuke: Um... Anyway! Can we start this chapter?

Kuwabara: Yeah!

Mitsukai: Fine! Sorry that I haven't been updating lately. Please forgive me! This chapter will probably conclude this mission. (Finally! Took me about 7 chapters to finish this mission!) Please R&R! So I must shout ONWARD! My fellow readers! ONWARD!

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Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul

Chapter Fourteen

Too Many Enemies

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The Reikai Tantei ran forward, the sounds of their shoes beating the concrete echoing loudly in their ears. The end of the long staircase only greeted them with another platform, but another surprise was in store in the form of hundreds upon hundreds of disgusting and almost plantlike green creatures, looking frighteningly human.

"Ugh! What are they?!" Kuwabara asked loudly, pointing at the putrid green creatures.

"Cultivated Humans," answered Gwenevere, her face taking on a sickened look.

Yusuke sighed loudly. "But we don't have time for these...things!"

Hiei looked at the tower adjacent to them, quickly formulating an idea. "I have a plan," he stated coldly. "But I'm only saying this once, so I'll need you to listen carefully."

Listening to Hiei's plan, Kuwabara nodded sharply, spun around and ran forward at full speed. "I hope you guys are behind me!" he shouted, plowing through the mass of Cultivated Humans and stopping just below the lowest window, which was still quite high, of the tower. Kurama darted forward, pressing his foot on Kuwabara's upper back and using the hold to land firmly on Kuwabara's shoulders. Hiei made an equally swift leap, landing on Kurama's shoulders as Gwenevere followed, leaping her way up the slightly shaking pillar of her friends to land on Hiei's shoulders. (HeeHee I'm making Hiei blush! Hiei: *blushes a little* Shut it, ningen onna.) Yusuke took a flying leap as he reached his partners, using each of their backs as stepping stones to reach the lowest window of the tower, clinging tightly as he barely made the jump.

The 'ladder' began to fall just as Yusuke catapulted from Gwenevere's back. Yusuke gave his friends a quick wave and started up the stairs, off to face with Suzaku. Noticing the ladder's demise, Hiei and Kurama each took graceful flipping leaps to the ground as Kuwabara landed, somewhat less fortunately, on his face. Kurama caught Gwenevere as she fell from her perch.

"Thanks, Kurama..." she murmured as she slipped out of his arms to stand, a faint ruby color staining her cheeks.

"No problem at all," Kurama replied with a small smile. (the authoress faints while seeing this in her mind. Yoko just sighs and pours a bucket of ice cold water on her, making her wake up.)

"Hn. Have your moment," Hiei remarked stoically, taking out his katana. "I'll be busy disposing of these creatures."

They each glanced over at Hiei, somewhat abashed as they drew their weapons and began the battle.

"Hey guys! Wait for me!" Kuwabara yelled, getting up and summoning his Reiken, running to the fight.

"Spirit Arrows!" Gwen shot three arrows in a row, killing three Cultivated Humans. A quick glance around told her that the more the Cultivated Humans the Tentai managed to slay, the more managed to arrive from the castle's depths.

Hiei was being successful enough, dashing through the crowds, his katana flashing, leaving piles upon piles of Cultivated Humans in his wake. Kurama was attacking in an efficient manner as well, swinging his Rose Whip around his head as one might a lasso. Kuwabara had chosen a somewhat less graceful, but equally effectual method, that of barging through the groupings, his Reiken at the ready.

Gwenevere looked around her urgently, seeing that she had been surrounded. Taking her stance on one foot, she began spinning rapidly, gaining speed every second she moved. A brilliant aura formed around her as she shouted clearly, "Spirit Tornado!" All the Cultivated Humans within five feet of her were sucked into the massive cyclone, and as she stopped, they were flung out rather harshly, landing at least ten feet away.

Nearly ten minutes later, Gwenevere felt a sharp knot in her stomach and instinctively looked up at the tower. 'Yusuke must be in trouble...'

Somewhat frantically, Kuwabara rushed forward, towards the tower wall. "Reiken get longer!"

The Reiken... well, it got longer and he finished his leap, thrusting it to the ground and using it as a catapult up to the window Yusuke had entered only minutes before. At least, he tried to, until he landed...just below the window, crashing face first into the wall. Desperately trying to save himself, he grasped at the cracks in the wall.

Gwenevere jump kicked yet another Cultivated Human, clearing a path, at least temporarily, to the tower door. "Hey! I've cleared a path to the entrance, come on!"

Hiei and Kurama reached her quickly enough and, slightly puzzled by Kuwabara's absence, they looked up.

"Kuwabara! What are you doing?" Kurama called out to Kuwabara.

"We've cleared a path to the entrance, quit fooling around!" shouted Hiei as Kuwabara released the wall slowly and made a rather ungraceful fall to the ground.

Half of yet another staircase later, the group met another herd of Cultivated Humans. "Let's...not waste more time!" Hiei shouted, a very slightly urgent tone in his voice, as the crew began fighting back the humanistic plant life.

Finally, reaching higher ground in the form of another hall, the group met up with yet another flock of Cultivated Humans.

Gwenevere growled a deep and errie sound. "Grrrrrr... There are too many of them!"

Hiei looked at his teammates and, after an agonizingly silence, proclaimed, "I'm not stopping."

They all exchanged a glance and nodded. This was for the leader of their team. They continued their attack on the astronomical number of Cultivated Humans. Once done, they all were pretty exhausted. But, they kept walking.

They were walking up a long staircase when the stairs behind them and in front of them collapsed.

"Great...Just what we need..." Gwen sighed. There were stairs ahead of them, but they couldn't reach them even if they jumped to them.

Hiei and Kurama shared a knowing glance, and Hiei threw his katana forward, lodging it in the flat of the stairs ahead. Kurama summoned his Rose Whip and snapped it forward, wrapping around the sword.

"Needless to say, hold on tight," Kurama said as he looked back, holding the whip.

They held on to each other, Gwen closed her eyes very tightly, for fear that she would fall into the bottomless hole beneath them. Gwen, being in the center of the group, squeaked as she felt someone behind touch her. When they landed on solid ground, she spun around and slapped the person very hard, making them crash onto the floor.

"OWWW! Gwen, you can slap hard!" Kuwabara stood up, holding his cheek.

"THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT, HENTAI!" she screamed, about to claw out his eyes.

"Come on, Gwen. Let's go..." Kurama said, trying to drag the raged hanyou away from the frightened Kuwabara. "Hiei, can you give me a hand, please?"

"Why? It's amusing how the baka is frightened of her," Hiei replied. Kurama gave him a this-is-not-the-time-to-be-fooling-around look, and Hiei rolled his eyes, slinging Gwen over his shoulder. Walking in front of Kurama and Kuwabara, Hiei ignored Gwen's curses at him and Kuwabara.

"LET ME DOWN! I SWEAR, HIEI, IF YOU DON'T LET ME DOWN, KUWABARA WON'T BE THE ONLY ONE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL!!!!!!" Gwen screamed, hitting his back and kicking at him.

"Are you sure she isn't a full demon, and just a hanyou?" Kuwabara whispered to Kurama.

"I HEARD THAT!!!!!"

Kuwabara flinched as they kept walking.

After five minutes, Gwen had calmed down and Hiei put her back on the ground. They continued their "unending" walk.

They finally found Yusuke in a huge room (and I mean huge!) fighting Suzaku...or, to be more accurate, seven Suzakus. He was surrounded by a pale blue aura, his eyes fixated on an enormous screen behind Suzaku, which decipted Keiko crouching over an unconscious Botan as she attacked by crowds of possessed humans.

"This is for you, Keiko," Yusuke whispered painfully.

Gwen gasped. 'Oh no! He's drained of his reiki! He's gonna use his Life Energy!'

As Yusuke made his last attack on the pheonix Saint Beast, Gwenevere closed her eyes and screamed, "YUSUKE!"

A white light suddenly blinded Gwen and the boys. As their vision returned to focus, the first thing they saw was Suzaku, dead in the rubble remains of his castle, the destroyed Makai Whistle lying in fragments beside him. Yusuke, too, lay in the castle's remains, motionless.

Gwen ran to Yusuke urgently, the other boys following close behind. "Yusuke..."

"He used his Life Energy," Kurama announced sadly. "He's going to die."

'And he did it all for Keiko...' Gwen thought. 'The lucky girl.'

"No! He's not gonna die on me again!" shouted Kuwabara, kneeling beside his friend. "Come on, Urameshi," he muttered, pressing his hands toward Yusuke's chest, sending him some of his own Life Energy. Swaying slightly for a moment, he fell over Yusuke's chest in a dazed unconsciousness.

"That wasn't exactly rational," Kurama thought out loud.

"At least he saved his friend," Gwen smiled.

"Hn. Why would he sacifice his life for her?" asked Hiei scornfully.

Kurama smiled. "Trust me, Hiei. There are reasons."

"Well, I'd never do it," replied the little youkai with a scoff.

Gwen watched the two unconscious teens dazedly, a little hurt at what Hiei said. 'So he wouldn't sacifice his life for mine? I would've done that for him...'

"So I suppose we'll have to return to Ningenkai carrying both of them on our backs," Kurama noted, interrupting Gwenevere's thoughts. She nodded as Hiei replied with his usual "Hn."

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Two days later, Gwen sat in Kuwabara's living room with Botan and Keiko, who had immediately become Gwenevere's friend. The three sat on the couch, wondering when Yusuke will ever wake...he had been unconscious since returning from the mission. Gwen sipped her tea before resting it on the table, and walked to Kuwabara's room to check on Yusuke as the two girls followed.

Gwen opened the door to find a very surprised Yusuke, a laughing Kuwabara, and a smiling Kurama, who was trying, rather unsuccessfully, to hide a laugh under his hand.

"Sorry Yusuke, but he insisted," Kurama explained, releasing more of his laughter.

"What's going on?" Gwen asked.

"They said that you three were dead!" Yusuke shouted, glaring at Kuwabara and Kurama.

Gwen tried her best to keep her glare on them too, but ended up leaning on Botan, laughing her head off.

Three hours later, Gwen and Kurama decided that they would leave.

"So? You really like Kurama, Gwen? Is she a good kisser, Kurama?" Yusuke asked Kurama, laughing loudly.

"HENTAI!!!!!!!!" Gwen screamed, slapping Yusuke very hard on the cheek. Yusuke stumbled, still decked out with a cheesy grin. Gwen was fuming and still had her right hand raised, Kuwabara had long since fallen to the ground as he laughed his ass off, and a blushing Kurama stood at the doorway with the door open.

"You deserved it, Yusuke..." Keiko muttered with a sigh.

"Aw, but they do make an adorable couple!" Botan squealed in a perky tone. =^_^= (Botan: Meow!)

Gwen and Kurama's blushes deepened as they uttered hurried farewells and walked out the door.

Kurama walked behind Gwen, resting his hands on her waist as she covered them with her own. He put his head on her left shoulder and asked softly, "So? How do you feel, knowing that you're a hanyou?"

They continued walking, their backs to the setting sun. She sighed deeply. "Well, I haven't really been thinking about it... I suppose...it's just such a big shock."

"Being a demon isn't bad."

Noticing his friend refusing to lift her frown, Kurama's quick thinking led him to lift the hem of her blue T-shirt and began tickling her.

Gwenevere laughed fiercely, shouting, "No fair! You know I am ticklish!" She ran from Kurama frantically, and he gladly took up the chase.

When they reached her house, Kurama kissed Gwenevere's forehead and whispered in her ear, "Remember what I said. Besides, if you need someone, Hiei and I are just a call away. Well actually - Hiei's probably a yell away."

Gwen giggled, "Good night, Kurama."

"Good night, Gwen." With that, he walked home.

Gwenevere smiled as she walked in her house, not aware of a certain three eyed fire demon watching over her.

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Mitsukai: There you are! Where were you?

Hiei: Downstairs eating sweet snow.

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