Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul ❯ The Legendary Child ( Chapter 17 )
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By: Mitsukai no Awai 
Gwen finds out the she is a reincarnation of a light youkai called Lydrea.
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.01.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.9K | Visits: 158 | Status: Completed
Gwen finds out the she is a reincarnation of a light youkai called Lydrea.
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.01.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.9K | Visits: 158 | Status: Completed
MNA: Hiya! Time to write! I'm so happy that you all like the gifts!
Youko: MNA doesn't own YYH. Only Gwen, Carnation and Gwen's demon & human heritages.
MNA: Yep! They came from my weird imagination!
Yusuke: They sure did!
Keiko slaps Yusuke.
Keiko: That's not nice!
Yusuke: X.X
Shizuru: *still smoking* Go on and read the chapter.
MNA and Botan: R&R!
Note: *blah blah blah* - indicates telepathy inside Gwenevere (strange, but you'll find out why it is only her later)
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Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul
Chapter Seventeen
The Legendary Child
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Gwenevere glared daggers at the Younger Torguro, but he remained unfazed where others would have recoiled in fear. "I haven't used this in a long time..." Gwen murmured, pressing her hands together and holding them out towards Torguro, her index fingers pointing at him.
"I suggest you move," Torguro advised to Torukanae. Torukanae nodded nervously and edged aside.
Gwen narrowed her eyes.
"Spirit Gun!"
A blast erupted from her fingers. "Hit him!"
When the smoke cleared, however, Torguro appeared unaffected. "Nani?! I hit him! That can't be!" Gwen yelled, her voice shaking.
Torguro smirked. "This is an honor, little one. Because of your relation to Genkai, I'll use fifty percent of my strength!"
Gwen's eyes widened. "Fifty...percent...?"
A purple haze surrounded Torguro as he powered up, his muscles rapidly increasing in size. Taking a deep breath, Gwen clenched her fist and ran straight at him.
Torguro glanced down at her, clearly not amused. As she neared him, he reached down and clasped her wrist, lifting her up in a painful hold. Twisting his hand around her wrist, he smirked as he heard a crack.
Gwen clenched her teeth and whimpered. Gritting her teeth and trying to ignore the shooting pain in her arm, Gwen took a wild swing at Torguro's mocking face with her free hand. The blow successfully knocked his head aside, but it was a momentarily victory as Torguro promptly turned back to glare at her.
'But...I hit him!' Gwenevere thought angrily. She moved her legs so as to kick him away from her. He moved away, and she landed gracefully on her feet, cradling her broken wrist. 'Shimatta! It really hurts!' She looked down at her wound, already a dull, murky blue and swelling badly. 'How can I beat him?'
"I suppose you're not done training with Genkai..." Torguro said mockingly. "I guess I'll end it here."
"Heh! Yeah, you kill this wench! She deserves what she gets!" Torukanae crowed.
Torguro ran at Gwenevere swiftly, and before she knew what had happened, he had grasped her throat with one hand, pinning her to the wall. With the other, he punched her abdomen, fatally wounding the young hanyou. He rammed her into the wall and she choked out a scream.
Her head bowed weakly. 'Am I going to die...?'
Her thoughts immediately turned to the Reikai Tantei...Hiei...Kurama...
'No...I don't want to leave them...' The brimming tears fell from her eyes to the wound on the stomach, instantly healing it.
Torguro noticed this immediately. "So. You're an Adehriea."
"A what?" Torukanae questioned.
"An Adehriea is also known as a Healer of Light; a rare breed of youkai capable of producing Linhgea tears, tears able to heal wounds. They all are extinct though, those demons. However, I have heard of a legend about the last one.
"Her name was Lydrea, and she was said to be the purest Adehriea alive. Her life was spent hiding from those greedy youkai who wanted her tears. A group of demons caught her one day, but when she refused to produce the tears they wanted, they had killed her. But before she died...or so the legend goes...she laughed, and told them, 'I am not the last one left, you fools...for I have chosen a vessel to carry on my powers of healing...she will not know it, nor will you know that she is the one to have it...'
"That took place 800 years ago. This girl is the Legendary Child, for she has Lydrea's powers...but, she is also known as a Forbidden Child, for she is forbidden by the demons for her human blood, and forbidden by the humans for her demon blood. Yet, since the humans don't know that she has demon blood in her, she lives among them."
"800 years ago?" Torukanae scanned Gwenevere. "She might be useful...I can make her cry also, and then sell her tears to demons! I'm gonna be a richer man now!"
"No...you...won't..." Gwen whispered despite chokehold she was being pinned to the wall with. "You...won't...make me...cry..."
Torguro looked at her darkly. "Do you know what an Adehriea's weakness is?"
"No, I...don't!"
"The darkness."
'The darkness? Could it be because they are Healers of Light, and the opposite of light is dark? But, I'm not hurt by the darkness...' Gwen thought, puzzled, as Torguro lifted her and carried her carelessly out of the room and into another, followed by Torukanae, who had locked Yukina's room.
It was dark in the room, and Gwen felt chills shake her body. Torguro dropped her on the ground and shut the door. "Now you will find out why Ahedriea are weak against darkness."
Gwen hated to admit this, but she was shivering in fear...yet, at the same time...she was beginning to like it...
*Give into the darkness...*
'What? Who's there?' Gwen looked around the dark room, but couldn't see anything.
Then a pain filled her body, from the inside out. Gwenevere screamed in agony as the darkness tried to consume her. She collapsed on the floor, crying.
'Leave me alone...please...'
*Give into the darkness and I shall take away your pain...*
Her body couldn't stop shivering and the pain increased as it tried to take away her light, the Adehriea's light...
Gwenevere felt two hands picking her up and bringing her out of her "Torture Room."
Meanwhile, Yukina was looking out her door window for any signs of Gwen. She heard footsteps and quickly returned to her seat, looking away from the door. The door opened, and Torukanae and Torguro walked in only to drop Gwen in the chamber.
"You were right, Torguro. She was weak against the dark," Torukanae exclaimed as they walked out, locking the door behind them.
Yukina turned around slowly, shocked by what she saw. Gwen lay on the floor, cuts and bruises covering her body. The healing liquid formed a puddle on the floor as she continued to cry.
"You're an Adehriea!" cried Yukina. "I'll use your tears and my power to heal you."
She hurried over, dipping her fingers in the small puddle by Gwen's eyes and brushing the liquid over Gwen's wounds. Once she was fully healed, Gwen snapped out of her trance, and stood up.
"I can't believe that darkness is my weakness..." she muttered to no one in particular, not even realizing Yukina was there.
"Gwenevere-san? Are you all right?" Yukina asked gently.
Gwen looked at her and smiled. "Never better! But I see the door's locked..." She tried fruitlessly to open the door, then looked resignedly out the door window, only to see her hairpin on the floor just inches away from the door. (Cool! That rhymed! :D) 'Shimatta!' "Well, I guess we're stuck here..."
She leaned against a wall, apparently deep in thought. 'We'll have to wait this out until Yusuke comes...' she thought as she put a hand out to the huge window full of wards only to be mildly burned. 'I guess these will also keep me in here... Hurry Yusuke. I'm counting on you.'
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"Come on now! We have to take Yukina and the broad with us!" Torukanae's voice echoed in the hall.
"We're moving to another room?" Gwenevere asked as she looked at Yukina.
"I don't know," the Koorime answered, a little confused herself.
The door swung open, and Torukanae, his guards and the Torguro brothers came in the room. "Broads, you're coming with us!" Torukanae announced forcefully.
Yukina looked a bit frightened, but Gwen only looked soulless. The guards took Yukina without trouble, but Gwen...was a different story.
"Touch me and you die," she said, not moving a bit.
"You don't want to make this difficult, broad. I did a little research and I can get you to do as I say," grinned the cocky Torukanae.
"And what is that?"
"The Dark Sphere."
"Nani?"
"Try it out yourself!"
Then, the Younger Torguro took the Dark Sphere from a black fabric bag. The sphere was completely black, but had a purple aura. Once she looked at it, Gwen winced. The orb floated to her, attracted by her light.
*Give in to the darkness and you shall live...*
'Get out of my head!!!!!!!!' she thought as she felt the pain coming back.
"...All right...I'll go..." Gwenevere said breathlessly, seeing she didn't have a choice.
Torguro put the sphere back in the bag and gave it to the guards watching over her and Yukina. They started walking down corridors, up some stairs, down some stairs, always, always walking. The Torguros were in front of them as Gwen walked beside Yukina. Yukina seemed to be in deep thought, looking at the Torguros every now and then. The Elder Torguro looked behind and smiled insanely. Yukina got scared, but Gwen just stuck out her tongue, and he returned his gaze forward.
"Well, at least we're not tied up," Gwen whispered, trying to look on the positive side.
Yukina just nodded. Gwen also felt defeated. So they kept walking in silence.
Torguro turned down a hallway to the right as Gwen and Yukina's group headed forward, Gwen noticed. "Hey, why are they leaving us?"
Torukanae led them to what appeared to be a sort of control room. "Why, to defeat these little pests that are trying to do what you tried."
'Yusuke finally got here! About time! Even Botan and...oh great...Kuwabara's here too. But, you guys, these aren't your average demons. Be careful.' Gwen thought as she looked through a window. She saw a huge blue wall encircling a white tiled floor, and her friends against the toughest demons she had ever known.
"Be careful, Yusuke, Kuwabara."
In a sudden flash of understanding, Gwen realized why she and Yukina had been brought to watch the match. To make them cry! "WHY YOU SLEEZY GREEDY UGLY SON OF A PIG!" she yelled as loudly as she could. Torukanae turned his gaze from Yukina to her.
'Bad move, blabbermouth!!' she scolded herself. Torukanae grinned, and snapped his fingers. The guards took out the Dark Sphere and it floated to her. She had nowhere to go since the guards were surrounding Yukina and her. 'Kuso!'
The sphere touched her, and it felt as if her skin was being burned by a white-hot piece of iron. Gwen started shivering again, falling on her knees. The burning spread as the orb was constricting her. Her vision was fading, and her head felt light. The sensation of dizziness making her feel ill, she collapsed to the floor.
Then, the orb just vanished. Gwen opened her eyes and saw black boots and the hem of a black cloak. She looked up to see...Hiei! (Yay!!!! ^_^) 'Hiei...?' she thought, seeing the guards unconscious.
"Hn. I saw the wards hung in the tower window," Hiei said chillingly. "That explains why I couldn't find them with my Jagan eye. But now I've found them anyway."
"...H-Hey! T-these broads are mine! L-listen! If it's money you're after, w-we can talk! That broad behind you makes jewels you wouldn't believe!" Torukanae cried, desperately trying to salvage his life as he pointed to Yukina. "Or...I can see that you're more the fighting type. I could make that broad cry her healing tears by just putting her in a dark room..." Torukanae pointed to a badly beaten Gwenevere who was still lying on the floor.
Hiei glanced at both girls and turned an icy glare to Torukanae. "Die!" Torukanae panicked as Hiei took him by the collar, and was about to punch his lights out, but...
"Stop!" Yukina cried, latching onto his outstretched arm, half a foot from Torukanae's ugly excuse for a face.
Hiei looked utterly shocked by this action. "What are you doing? Is this not the man who tortured you and made you his slave?"
"He is. I have to bear that," she whispered. "Taking his life won't wash away all that he's done to me. It would only...bring more pain..." she finished softly. Tears glittered in the corners of her eyes.
Hiei looked at her and closed his eyes. "Understood. I won't make you cry. He's too worthless for that." He pushed Torukanae into the table in front of them.
Yukina looked closely at Hiei. "Who are you? You look familiar..."
Hiei's eyes snapped open and he turned to her, shocked. He then looked out the window to see Yusuke, Botan, and Kuwabara, all alive after their hard fight against the Torguros. The Younger Torguro was lying on the floor, Kuwabara's Reiken stuck in his stomach. Botan and Yusuke were standing up, while Kuwabara was sitting down.
"I'm...no one," he murmured. "Just a member of the team."
"Oh! I forgot about them!" Yukina exclaimed, turning around and kneeling in front of Gwen, healing her.
Gwen stood up, feeling much better. "Thank you, Yukina. Now you should help my friends down there."
Yukina nodded and left. Gwen looked at the corner near the wall. "Kurama?"
Kurama smiled at her. Hiei interrupted their little staring contest. "So how long were you here, Kitsune?" he asked scornfully. "Long enough, right?"
Kurama walked out of the shadows and smiled. "Why didn't you tell the girl? She deserves to know she has a brother."
"She deserves to be happy," Hiei returned.
"I thought the two were the same."
Hiei glanced down at Yukina healing Kuwabara and shook his head with a small smile. "This is the way I want it."
Yusuke and Botan came in the room, and just as they came in, Hiei left. All of them looked out the door, wondering why he had so suddenly gone. Gwen stood next to Kurama, and held his hand. Kurama looked down and smiled. Botan noticed this, and shouted a frighteningly high-pitched, "AWWWWWWWWWW!" They both blushed, until Yusuke looked down at Gwen. She stared back, and each had an unreadable face on...but, Yusuke's eyes were looking lower than her face.
After a minute, Yusuke spoke up. "...Nice bra, Gwen."
Botan and Kurama offered Yusuke blank stares. Gwen blinked and looked down. She looked up at him and smirked. "You like my bra, huh?"
She released Kurama's hand and put her hands behind Yusuke's head. "How do you like...MY KNEE!?" She pushed Yusuke's head against her raised knee. She sighed heavily as she left, muttering a distasteful, "Hentai," while hearing laughter from Botan and Kurama and obscenities from Yusuke.
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Yusuke, Hiei, and Gwenevere stood in the land of ice, watching as Kuwabara said good bye to "his one true love," Yukina.
Yusuke glanced at Hiei. "There's still time. You could tell Yukina."
"I don't want to burden her with the thought that a criminal is her brother. Even if we are twins," Hiei stared after his sister's retreating back as she walked to her home, his former home.
Gwen looked at Hiei as snow gently fell to the ground. "But what if she found out?"
"I haven't really thought about that much. I'm just satisfied with her being happy right now."
"Come on. Let's go," Yusuke declared as he walked up to Kuwabara and tried to drag him away from Yukina. Gwen turned around to leave with Hiei by her side.
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Gwenevere walked beside Kurama and Hiei, enjoying a wonderful day off. Gwen and Kurama were a little too close for Hiei's comfort, but he didn't say anything. Earlier that day, Hiei had visited Gwen and they planned this walk...okay, Gwenevere planned the walk, and invited Kurama to join them. Gwen's arm was intertwined with Kurama's, and they would smile at each other every now and then. When they noticed Hiei watching them, he would walk ahead with his usual "Hn."
"You know we should stop to get something to eat, guys..." Gwen started to say as they turned a corner to see a crowd looking at a building with a big hole in the corner. They also spotted Keiko. Gwen looked around and saw Yusuke looking at someone with a motorcycle. "Guys..." The boys turned to her, and she pointed to Yusuke who was following the motorcycle. "Let's follow him."
So they ran a couple of blocks and stopped.
"Let's watch from this roof," Kurama suggested, gesturing to a nearby building. They jumped up on the roof and watched as the guy that had the motorcycle turned out to be the Younger Torguro (He's still alive!). Torguro and Yusuke walked in a reconstruction site and in a half way built building. Inside, Torguro told Yusuke that he fought 20% when against him. Yusuke was shocked, and then terrified, as Torguro showed him what 40% of his power would look like. In a matter of minutes, the building had collapsed after the demonstration by Torguro. It had turned to night already, and before Torguro left, he told Yusuke that he and Kuwabara ought to be prepared for the Dark Tournament held in two months, or else all of his family and friends would die by Torguro's hands.
He walked down the street next to the building Gwen, Kurama, and Hiei had perched atop. Torguro looked up at them with a smirk and said, "I take it by your dismal faces that you've been invited to the competition as well. On Urameshi's team, no doubt. You do know that you need a fifth member." With that, he walked away, not really noticing Kuwabara on a roof nearby.
Gwen looked up at her two friends as they were watching Torguro. "Soooo...can I join!?"
"NO!" they shouted.
"Why not?!"
"You could get hurt, Gwen. I don't want to lose you again," Kurama murmured, looking at her with those gorgeous green eyes of his.
'Damn his green eyes!' she thought.
Hiei nodded, agreeing with Kurama. "You would be in the way."
"I WILL NOT BE IN THE WAY! I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF!" Gwen shouted in his face.
Hiei looked away. "Hn."
~You took care of yourself so well, you have been killed twice,~ Hiei's voice echoed in her mind.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Gwen yelled. "I'M TAKING A WALK! BY MYSELF, HIEI!" She glared at Hiei. Knowing him, he would follow her. Before they could respond, she leapt off the roof, put her hands in her black jeans' pockets, and walked away from them.
'Those two demons...JUST WHO DO YOU THINK THEY ARE!?' she thought angrily, never noticing someone following her.
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MNA: Damn...this took a couple of days to write, with occasional breaks here and there. I know it's long, but I know you guys don't mind. The next one's probably really short though...I'm not sure. REVIEW! Or else face the wrath of Mr. Handy Dandy Mallet! It can be very dangerous in the wrong person's hands...
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Touya holding a sign that says "Save me from the seven hells of Hades!"
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MNA: Yep! They came from my weird imagination!
Yusuke: They sure did!
Keiko slaps Yusuke.
Keiko: That's not nice!
Yusuke: X.X
Shizuru: *still smoking* Go on and read the chapter.
MNA and Botan: R&R!
Note: *blah blah blah* - indicates telepathy inside Gwenevere (strange, but you'll find out why it is only her later)
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Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul
Chapter Seventeen
The Legendary Child
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Gwenevere glared daggers at the Younger Torguro, but he remained unfazed where others would have recoiled in fear. "I haven't used this in a long time..." Gwen murmured, pressing her hands together and holding them out towards Torguro, her index fingers pointing at him.
"I suggest you move," Torguro advised to Torukanae. Torukanae nodded nervously and edged aside.
Gwen narrowed her eyes.
"Spirit Gun!"
A blast erupted from her fingers. "Hit him!"
When the smoke cleared, however, Torguro appeared unaffected. "Nani?! I hit him! That can't be!" Gwen yelled, her voice shaking.
Torguro smirked. "This is an honor, little one. Because of your relation to Genkai, I'll use fifty percent of my strength!"
Gwen's eyes widened. "Fifty...percent...?"
A purple haze surrounded Torguro as he powered up, his muscles rapidly increasing in size. Taking a deep breath, Gwen clenched her fist and ran straight at him.
Torguro glanced down at her, clearly not amused. As she neared him, he reached down and clasped her wrist, lifting her up in a painful hold. Twisting his hand around her wrist, he smirked as he heard a crack.
Gwen clenched her teeth and whimpered. Gritting her teeth and trying to ignore the shooting pain in her arm, Gwen took a wild swing at Torguro's mocking face with her free hand. The blow successfully knocked his head aside, but it was a momentarily victory as Torguro promptly turned back to glare at her.
'But...I hit him!' Gwenevere thought angrily. She moved her legs so as to kick him away from her. He moved away, and she landed gracefully on her feet, cradling her broken wrist. 'Shimatta! It really hurts!' She looked down at her wound, already a dull, murky blue and swelling badly. 'How can I beat him?'
"I suppose you're not done training with Genkai..." Torguro said mockingly. "I guess I'll end it here."
"Heh! Yeah, you kill this wench! She deserves what she gets!" Torukanae crowed.
Torguro ran at Gwenevere swiftly, and before she knew what had happened, he had grasped her throat with one hand, pinning her to the wall. With the other, he punched her abdomen, fatally wounding the young hanyou. He rammed her into the wall and she choked out a scream.
Her head bowed weakly. 'Am I going to die...?'
Her thoughts immediately turned to the Reikai Tantei...Hiei...Kurama...
'No...I don't want to leave them...' The brimming tears fell from her eyes to the wound on the stomach, instantly healing it.
Torguro noticed this immediately. "So. You're an Adehriea."
"A what?" Torukanae questioned.
"An Adehriea is also known as a Healer of Light; a rare breed of youkai capable of producing Linhgea tears, tears able to heal wounds. They all are extinct though, those demons. However, I have heard of a legend about the last one.
"Her name was Lydrea, and she was said to be the purest Adehriea alive. Her life was spent hiding from those greedy youkai who wanted her tears. A group of demons caught her one day, but when she refused to produce the tears they wanted, they had killed her. But before she died...or so the legend goes...she laughed, and told them, 'I am not the last one left, you fools...for I have chosen a vessel to carry on my powers of healing...she will not know it, nor will you know that she is the one to have it...'
"That took place 800 years ago. This girl is the Legendary Child, for she has Lydrea's powers...but, she is also known as a Forbidden Child, for she is forbidden by the demons for her human blood, and forbidden by the humans for her demon blood. Yet, since the humans don't know that she has demon blood in her, she lives among them."
"800 years ago?" Torukanae scanned Gwenevere. "She might be useful...I can make her cry also, and then sell her tears to demons! I'm gonna be a richer man now!"
"No...you...won't..." Gwen whispered despite chokehold she was being pinned to the wall with. "You...won't...make me...cry..."
Torguro looked at her darkly. "Do you know what an Adehriea's weakness is?"
"No, I...don't!"
"The darkness."
'The darkness? Could it be because they are Healers of Light, and the opposite of light is dark? But, I'm not hurt by the darkness...' Gwen thought, puzzled, as Torguro lifted her and carried her carelessly out of the room and into another, followed by Torukanae, who had locked Yukina's room.
It was dark in the room, and Gwen felt chills shake her body. Torguro dropped her on the ground and shut the door. "Now you will find out why Ahedriea are weak against darkness."
Gwen hated to admit this, but she was shivering in fear...yet, at the same time...she was beginning to like it...
*Give into the darkness...*
'What? Who's there?' Gwen looked around the dark room, but couldn't see anything.
Then a pain filled her body, from the inside out. Gwenevere screamed in agony as the darkness tried to consume her. She collapsed on the floor, crying.
'Leave me alone...please...'
*Give into the darkness and I shall take away your pain...*
Her body couldn't stop shivering and the pain increased as it tried to take away her light, the Adehriea's light...
Gwenevere felt two hands picking her up and bringing her out of her "Torture Room."
Meanwhile, Yukina was looking out her door window for any signs of Gwen. She heard footsteps and quickly returned to her seat, looking away from the door. The door opened, and Torukanae and Torguro walked in only to drop Gwen in the chamber.
"You were right, Torguro. She was weak against the dark," Torukanae exclaimed as they walked out, locking the door behind them.
Yukina turned around slowly, shocked by what she saw. Gwen lay on the floor, cuts and bruises covering her body. The healing liquid formed a puddle on the floor as she continued to cry.
"You're an Adehriea!" cried Yukina. "I'll use your tears and my power to heal you."
She hurried over, dipping her fingers in the small puddle by Gwen's eyes and brushing the liquid over Gwen's wounds. Once she was fully healed, Gwen snapped out of her trance, and stood up.
"I can't believe that darkness is my weakness..." she muttered to no one in particular, not even realizing Yukina was there.
"Gwenevere-san? Are you all right?" Yukina asked gently.
Gwen looked at her and smiled. "Never better! But I see the door's locked..." She tried fruitlessly to open the door, then looked resignedly out the door window, only to see her hairpin on the floor just inches away from the door. (Cool! That rhymed! :D) 'Shimatta!' "Well, I guess we're stuck here..."
She leaned against a wall, apparently deep in thought. 'We'll have to wait this out until Yusuke comes...' she thought as she put a hand out to the huge window full of wards only to be mildly burned. 'I guess these will also keep me in here... Hurry Yusuke. I'm counting on you.'
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"Come on now! We have to take Yukina and the broad with us!" Torukanae's voice echoed in the hall.
"We're moving to another room?" Gwenevere asked as she looked at Yukina.
"I don't know," the Koorime answered, a little confused herself.
The door swung open, and Torukanae, his guards and the Torguro brothers came in the room. "Broads, you're coming with us!" Torukanae announced forcefully.
Yukina looked a bit frightened, but Gwen only looked soulless. The guards took Yukina without trouble, but Gwen...was a different story.
"Touch me and you die," she said, not moving a bit.
"You don't want to make this difficult, broad. I did a little research and I can get you to do as I say," grinned the cocky Torukanae.
"And what is that?"
"The Dark Sphere."
"Nani?"
"Try it out yourself!"
Then, the Younger Torguro took the Dark Sphere from a black fabric bag. The sphere was completely black, but had a purple aura. Once she looked at it, Gwen winced. The orb floated to her, attracted by her light.
*Give in to the darkness and you shall live...*
'Get out of my head!!!!!!!!' she thought as she felt the pain coming back.
"...All right...I'll go..." Gwenevere said breathlessly, seeing she didn't have a choice.
Torguro put the sphere back in the bag and gave it to the guards watching over her and Yukina. They started walking down corridors, up some stairs, down some stairs, always, always walking. The Torguros were in front of them as Gwen walked beside Yukina. Yukina seemed to be in deep thought, looking at the Torguros every now and then. The Elder Torguro looked behind and smiled insanely. Yukina got scared, but Gwen just stuck out her tongue, and he returned his gaze forward.
"Well, at least we're not tied up," Gwen whispered, trying to look on the positive side.
Yukina just nodded. Gwen also felt defeated. So they kept walking in silence.
Torguro turned down a hallway to the right as Gwen and Yukina's group headed forward, Gwen noticed. "Hey, why are they leaving us?"
Torukanae led them to what appeared to be a sort of control room. "Why, to defeat these little pests that are trying to do what you tried."
'Yusuke finally got here! About time! Even Botan and...oh great...Kuwabara's here too. But, you guys, these aren't your average demons. Be careful.' Gwen thought as she looked through a window. She saw a huge blue wall encircling a white tiled floor, and her friends against the toughest demons she had ever known.
"Be careful, Yusuke, Kuwabara."
In a sudden flash of understanding, Gwen realized why she and Yukina had been brought to watch the match. To make them cry! "WHY YOU SLEEZY GREEDY UGLY SON OF A PIG!" she yelled as loudly as she could. Torukanae turned his gaze from Yukina to her.
'Bad move, blabbermouth!!' she scolded herself. Torukanae grinned, and snapped his fingers. The guards took out the Dark Sphere and it floated to her. She had nowhere to go since the guards were surrounding Yukina and her. 'Kuso!'
The sphere touched her, and it felt as if her skin was being burned by a white-hot piece of iron. Gwen started shivering again, falling on her knees. The burning spread as the orb was constricting her. Her vision was fading, and her head felt light. The sensation of dizziness making her feel ill, she collapsed to the floor.
Then, the orb just vanished. Gwen opened her eyes and saw black boots and the hem of a black cloak. She looked up to see...Hiei! (Yay!!!! ^_^) 'Hiei...?' she thought, seeing the guards unconscious.
"Hn. I saw the wards hung in the tower window," Hiei said chillingly. "That explains why I couldn't find them with my Jagan eye. But now I've found them anyway."
"...H-Hey! T-these broads are mine! L-listen! If it's money you're after, w-we can talk! That broad behind you makes jewels you wouldn't believe!" Torukanae cried, desperately trying to salvage his life as he pointed to Yukina. "Or...I can see that you're more the fighting type. I could make that broad cry her healing tears by just putting her in a dark room..." Torukanae pointed to a badly beaten Gwenevere who was still lying on the floor.
Hiei glanced at both girls and turned an icy glare to Torukanae. "Die!" Torukanae panicked as Hiei took him by the collar, and was about to punch his lights out, but...
"Stop!" Yukina cried, latching onto his outstretched arm, half a foot from Torukanae's ugly excuse for a face.
Hiei looked utterly shocked by this action. "What are you doing? Is this not the man who tortured you and made you his slave?"
"He is. I have to bear that," she whispered. "Taking his life won't wash away all that he's done to me. It would only...bring more pain..." she finished softly. Tears glittered in the corners of her eyes.
Hiei looked at her and closed his eyes. "Understood. I won't make you cry. He's too worthless for that." He pushed Torukanae into the table in front of them.
Yukina looked closely at Hiei. "Who are you? You look familiar..."
Hiei's eyes snapped open and he turned to her, shocked. He then looked out the window to see Yusuke, Botan, and Kuwabara, all alive after their hard fight against the Torguros. The Younger Torguro was lying on the floor, Kuwabara's Reiken stuck in his stomach. Botan and Yusuke were standing up, while Kuwabara was sitting down.
"I'm...no one," he murmured. "Just a member of the team."
"Oh! I forgot about them!" Yukina exclaimed, turning around and kneeling in front of Gwen, healing her.
Gwen stood up, feeling much better. "Thank you, Yukina. Now you should help my friends down there."
Yukina nodded and left. Gwen looked at the corner near the wall. "Kurama?"
Kurama smiled at her. Hiei interrupted their little staring contest. "So how long were you here, Kitsune?" he asked scornfully. "Long enough, right?"
Kurama walked out of the shadows and smiled. "Why didn't you tell the girl? She deserves to know she has a brother."
"She deserves to be happy," Hiei returned.
"I thought the two were the same."
Hiei glanced down at Yukina healing Kuwabara and shook his head with a small smile. "This is the way I want it."
Yusuke and Botan came in the room, and just as they came in, Hiei left. All of them looked out the door, wondering why he had so suddenly gone. Gwen stood next to Kurama, and held his hand. Kurama looked down and smiled. Botan noticed this, and shouted a frighteningly high-pitched, "AWWWWWWWWWW!" They both blushed, until Yusuke looked down at Gwen. She stared back, and each had an unreadable face on...but, Yusuke's eyes were looking lower than her face.
After a minute, Yusuke spoke up. "...Nice bra, Gwen."
Botan and Kurama offered Yusuke blank stares. Gwen blinked and looked down. She looked up at him and smirked. "You like my bra, huh?"
She released Kurama's hand and put her hands behind Yusuke's head. "How do you like...MY KNEE!?" She pushed Yusuke's head against her raised knee. She sighed heavily as she left, muttering a distasteful, "Hentai," while hearing laughter from Botan and Kurama and obscenities from Yusuke.
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Yusuke, Hiei, and Gwenevere stood in the land of ice, watching as Kuwabara said good bye to "his one true love," Yukina.
Yusuke glanced at Hiei. "There's still time. You could tell Yukina."
"I don't want to burden her with the thought that a criminal is her brother. Even if we are twins," Hiei stared after his sister's retreating back as she walked to her home, his former home.
Gwen looked at Hiei as snow gently fell to the ground. "But what if she found out?"
"I haven't really thought about that much. I'm just satisfied with her being happy right now."
"Come on. Let's go," Yusuke declared as he walked up to Kuwabara and tried to drag him away from Yukina. Gwen turned around to leave with Hiei by her side.
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Gwenevere walked beside Kurama and Hiei, enjoying a wonderful day off. Gwen and Kurama were a little too close for Hiei's comfort, but he didn't say anything. Earlier that day, Hiei had visited Gwen and they planned this walk...okay, Gwenevere planned the walk, and invited Kurama to join them. Gwen's arm was intertwined with Kurama's, and they would smile at each other every now and then. When they noticed Hiei watching them, he would walk ahead with his usual "Hn."
"You know we should stop to get something to eat, guys..." Gwen started to say as they turned a corner to see a crowd looking at a building with a big hole in the corner. They also spotted Keiko. Gwen looked around and saw Yusuke looking at someone with a motorcycle. "Guys..." The boys turned to her, and she pointed to Yusuke who was following the motorcycle. "Let's follow him."
So they ran a couple of blocks and stopped.
"Let's watch from this roof," Kurama suggested, gesturing to a nearby building. They jumped up on the roof and watched as the guy that had the motorcycle turned out to be the Younger Torguro (He's still alive!). Torguro and Yusuke walked in a reconstruction site and in a half way built building. Inside, Torguro told Yusuke that he fought 20% when against him. Yusuke was shocked, and then terrified, as Torguro showed him what 40% of his power would look like. In a matter of minutes, the building had collapsed after the demonstration by Torguro. It had turned to night already, and before Torguro left, he told Yusuke that he and Kuwabara ought to be prepared for the Dark Tournament held in two months, or else all of his family and friends would die by Torguro's hands.
He walked down the street next to the building Gwen, Kurama, and Hiei had perched atop. Torguro looked up at them with a smirk and said, "I take it by your dismal faces that you've been invited to the competition as well. On Urameshi's team, no doubt. You do know that you need a fifth member." With that, he walked away, not really noticing Kuwabara on a roof nearby.
Gwen looked up at her two friends as they were watching Torguro. "Soooo...can I join!?"
"NO!" they shouted.
"Why not?!"
"You could get hurt, Gwen. I don't want to lose you again," Kurama murmured, looking at her with those gorgeous green eyes of his.
'Damn his green eyes!' she thought.
Hiei nodded, agreeing with Kurama. "You would be in the way."
"I WILL NOT BE IN THE WAY! I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF!" Gwen shouted in his face.
Hiei looked away. "Hn."
~You took care of yourself so well, you have been killed twice,~ Hiei's voice echoed in her mind.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Gwen yelled. "I'M TAKING A WALK! BY MYSELF, HIEI!" She glared at Hiei. Knowing him, he would follow her. Before they could respond, she leapt off the roof, put her hands in her black jeans' pockets, and walked away from them.
'Those two demons...JUST WHO DO YOU THINK THEY ARE!?' she thought angrily, never noticing someone following her.
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MNA: Damn...this took a couple of days to write, with occasional breaks here and there. I know it's long, but I know you guys don't mind. The next one's probably really short though...I'm not sure. REVIEW! Or else face the wrath of Mr. Handy Dandy Mallet! It can be very dangerous in the wrong person's hands...
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