Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Winter Murders ❯ The End Of Xania ( Chapter 16 )

Winter Murders

"Did you really expect that to work?" Yusuke asked. Kurama turned and smiled at him.

"Welcome to the castle of Xania," a voice said from behind Kurama. He turned, rose in hand, to face Death.

"His lordship is waiting for you all," Death said.

"You're not Death," Kurama said. "You don't have her voice."

The imposter shook her head. The cloak disappeared. The black dress beneath became a white silk dress. Black skin became ivory, and black hair became a shade of startling blonde. Her dress was down to her feet, flowing and blowing in the wind. Her arms were bare, showing the symbol of "The Chosen Few." Yusuke gasped.

"Jinai?"

"Hello Yusuke. I had hoped that I would meet you again before my death to show you who I was before," Jinai said.

"Yusuke?" Kuwa asked, suspicious.

"It… it's a long story," Yusuke replied. Jinai stepped up to him and opened her arms. Yusuke hugged her.

"I am glad you are you, and are free," Yusuke told her.

"As am I," Jinai replied.

"…?" The others stood speechlessly.

"Your pardon, but who are you Jinai?" Kurama asked. Jinai released Yusuke and looked at the fox.

"You know me as Death," she said. Hiei growled and drew his sword. Jinai pulled a katana out of the back of her neck. Kuwa and Kurama gasped.

"A Battle Faerie!" Hiei scoffed. "I should have known."

"Hiei, calm down," Kurama said, trying to calm his lover. "I think that she's on our side now."

"I don't care! She's put me through too much to be granted mercy!" Hiei hissed. He charged forward, his sword meeting Jinai's.

"I'm afraid I can't let you kill me Hiei," Jinai said. She threw Hiei to the ground. "I have already made arrangements for my death. Please don't me disappointed. I want my power to get into the right hands."

"?" Hiei looked at her questioningly.

"I am one of "the Chosen." I am merely waiting for the human "Chosen" to come and kill me. She would benefit from my powers and I don't want one of the blood-thirsty demon "Chosen" to get their hands on it. She is but a human, and these powers will help her stave off all the demons that will be coming after her," Jinai said. Hiei raised an eyebrow. Kurama sighed; he knew what she was talking about.

"Don't worry about it Hiei. She'll die soon," he said. Hiei just shook his head and put away his sword.

"Do you wish me to lead you to Xania or ASH first?" Jinai asked Yusuke. "ASH will not be going anywhere any time soon, I'll guarantee it. Xania, on the other hand, will be."

Yusuke looked to the others. They all nodded.

"Take us to Xania."

~*~*

The lab was silent for a second. A door slammed. Angry footsteps echoed on the floor.

"That bitch! How could she do that to me?! She isn't supposed to change back… revert back to her original form. She is one of MY creations! I won't allow her to do this to me!"

A cruel, but seemingly harmless laugh echoed in the lab. Xania meandered over to the tanks holding ASH.

"Just you wait my pretties. I'll be finished with you soon, and then you will do my bidding. You will be my treasures, my precious. You will do the job that she could not. You will take the place of Death."

Xania stroked the glass of the tank labeled: Selene.

"Just you, me and your sisters Selene. We will rule the worlds… no, we don't care for that, he cares for that. We will do anything for him. To get him back in our lives. To make him loves us as he once did. You three are the key to that success. You three will make him love me. You three will win him back. You three will take my revenge. You three will kill the kit that dared interfere."

Xania laughed again as he pressed a button that turned on a TV, which showed what was happening.

"Soon Kurama, soon you will know what I feel. I will take your lover from you, and then kill you. Not personally, of course, but you will die. You will die and I will triumph. I will have him back, and you will be dead. You will be dead and so will your annoying, worthless, useless, incompetent, pathetic excuse for a lover."

~*~*

"So, Yomi and Xania hired you?" Kurama asked interested in what Jinai was saying.

"Yup. Yomi wanted me to kill Hiei and return you to him," Jinai said. Kurama mumbled something under his breath. "Xania hired me to kill you."

"That doesn't explain why you were trying to kill the rest of us," Kuwa pointed out.

"That was me. I was bored. Bloodshed is a very good way of killing time," Jinai said, slightly smiling.

"Lovely," Hiei mumbled.

"Well, I started to like Yusuke and Genkai, and Kuwa was never a threat…" Jinai began.

"Hey!" Kuwa yelled. Yusuke flinched at Kuwa's loud mouth blaring in his ear.

"Shut up baka!" Yusuke yelled back.

"Anyway, Kuwa wasn't a threat. I didn't really care what happened to the two of you, really. But Xania and Yomi had set strict stuffs down. I didn't really want to kill you Kurama," Jinai said and sidled up to Kurama's side, wrapping her arms around him. Kurama turned a bright red. Hiei growled menacingly. "But he was glued to you and you were glued to him, so I gave up after that beautiful dream."

"So you did send that awful dream to Hiei!" Kurama said. He gulped, he had also seen that dream, and he didn't like it.

"Well, Xania actually came up with that dream. He used me as a way of… what's it I'm looking for… used me as a way to communicate his views and words and such. Used me as a…" Jinai floundered.

"Used you like a rag doll, speaking and acting through a stronger person, you," Yusuke said. Jinai smiled.

"That's it! He used me as a pawn! A Pawn to do the things that he, himself couldn't do," Jinai said happily. The smile faded off her face. "I was a pawn!"

"Good job Sherlock, it only took you nearly a week or something for you to figure that out," Hiei said. Jinai gave him a vicious stare.

"Just because I haven't killed you yet, doesn't mean I won't kill you now," Jinai said.

"Am I supposed to feel scared?" Hiei asked. "I don't feel scared."

"You should be scared," Jinai said. "I am a powerful Battle Faerie/Ice Demoness," she shot back.

"I thought you were a `goddess.'" Hiei shot back.

"I have a rather large ego, and Xania powered me up quite a bit. I have no idea how powerful I am," Jinai said rather ashamedly. Kurama gave Hiei a Look. Hiei rolled his eyes.

"It happens," Yusuke said. "Show the way oh leader."

"This way," Jinai said and stepped through the doorway. Yusuke followed then Kuwa, Kurama and lastly Hiei. Hiei closed the door behind him.

The group walked through a huge entranceway and turn to the left. They entered a seeming human bar. There were thousands of bottles of assorted liquor and such all over the place. Yusuke reached out to snag one, but Kurama pulled him away. He gave Yusuke a `don't you even dare' look. Yusuke wrinkled his nose at the fox.

"You're not my mother," he said.

"No, I'm better for you," Kurama said.

"Hey! Don't dis my ma!" Yusuke hissed.

"It's true!"

"It doesn't matter, she's still my mother!"

"She's not a very good one at that."

"Hey!"

"It's true!"

"Grrr….'

Hiei pulled Kurama away from Yusuke. Kurama muttered something about people being ungrateful, while Yusuke muttered about some people's nerve.

"Here we are, the lab," Jinai said. She opened a two inch thick, steel door. The four spirit detectives looked around in wonder at all the assorted vials and test tubes and things. Hiei picked up a bottle of blue liquid. Kurama pulled it out of his hands, shaking his head. Jinai hovered in the door frame.

"Thank you fro bringing them to me, Jinai," said a voice. The voice sounded like nails on a chalk board. Yusuke realized that that was the exact way that Death had described it to them. Yusuke shook his head.

"Do you surrender, or do we have to get rough?" he asked Xania. Xania laughed, his child-like giggle echoing off the solid steel walls.

"You really are stupid, Yusuke Urameshi. I have caught you, not the other way around," Xania said. Yusuke furrowed his brow. He looked down at his feet as he felt something sliding up it. The floor hand begun to swallow him whole. Yusuke let out an alarmed yelp. Kuwa did the same. Kurama looked down at his and Hiei's feet, they were on a rug.

"It's unfortunate that your lover wasn't on the floor like your friends Kurama," Xania said, he threw a vial and Hiei's head. Hiei ducked. Unfortunately for Hiei, Xania wasn't much of an athlete and the vial that he thought would go sailing over his head fell on top of him instead.

"Hiei!" Kurama yelled as a yellowish smoke rose from his lover. Kurama fanned away the smoke with his hands, revealing a stone statue of Hiei, instead of the living, breathing version. Kurama noticed his lover's soul drifting towards an open window, having been released by the potion. Kurama yelped and ran after it. He grabbed it.

"Tisk tisk Kurama," Xania said. Kurama's eyes went wide as Hiei's soul absorbed into his hand. He fell tot eh ground. "I thought you knew that his soul would combine with yours if you did anything."

Kurama's eyes went wide. He hurt. Everything everywhere hurt.

"Now I can kill both of you in one fell swoop!" Xania shouted. He heaved an axe in the air. Kurama yelped and found he could not move his body.

~~Hiei! Move now! ~~ Kurama mentally shouted at the other person in his body.

~~Eep! ~~ Kurama heard Hiei exclaim and he rolled out of the way. The axe hit the floor. Kurama sighed in relief.

~~Hiei let me take control of my body. I want to destroy him now. ~~ Kurama told his lover. Hiei was silent for a second.

~~fine.~~ Kurama could move again. He kicked Xania's feet out from underneath him as he tried to pick up the axe again. He fell to the ground with a loud thump!

"It's time to die Xania," Kurama said in his deadliest Youko voice. Xania cringed as the fox spirit replaced the human.

"Oh shit," he whispered.

"I should have killed you a long time ago," Youko said. He grew a plant out of a seed he had taken from his hair. "I've been saving this for you."

Xania ran, but he could not run fast, or far enough. Kurama's plant grew, ensnaring and encircling him. It wrapped its purple vines around him and squeezed. The Hiei in him shuddered and felt sick. The Youko simply smiled as his revenge was taken.

Xania's body was crushed ever so slowly. Yusuke could see the bones cut through the skin as Jinai attempted to pull both him and Kuwa out of the floor. Xania's blood was blue and poured steadily onto the ground. It formed a pool, signifying that the ground was completely level. Yusuke shuddered. He knew when Xania was dead because Hiei come back to life and he and Kuwa were pulled out of the floor which became hard again. Kurama continued to squeeze the lifeless form. The others stayed away, afraid of what the Youko might do. Kurama's plant retracted to a seed and he threw it at Xania's body in the pool of his blood. The seed sprouted immediately.

"Well, at least that rare plant has spawned of his evil," Kurama muttered. He turned on his heel and turned back into the human the others knew. He went to Hiei's side and wrapped his arms around him. Hiei sighed and hugged him back.

"I hate the way you are able to just kill things," Hiei mumbled. Kurama chose to ignore him.

"Hey Jinai," Yusuke called out to the "Chosen One." "How do we get these scantily clad girls out of their tanks?"

"Hang on one second," Jinai said. She pulled a lever. The water in the three tanks disappeared. The tanks exploded. The three girls fell forward towards the shattered glass. Yusuke, Kuwa and Jinai rushed forward to catch them. Yusuke caught the farthest, Kuwa the nearest and Jinai the middle. All three of the girls were breathing just fine.

"How are they?" Kurama asked.

"They're fine," Yusuke said.

"They're not human," Kuwa said. The four looked at him. Kuwa looked back. "They aren't."

"How can you tell?" Yusuke asked his friend.

"I can just tell." Kuwa said.

"They are ASH," Jinai said. "They've been ASH since you've been looking for them. Xania was just perfecting them."

"Perfecting them?" Yusuke asked.

"Yes. They should become some very interesting creatures," Jinai said. She stood, still holding the girl. She walked over to an operating table, remembering the many times she had seen this very girl lying on it in a pool of blood as Xania altered her anatomy.

"'Creatures'?" Yusuke asked.

"Yes. They aren't human anymore, and they aren't demons either," Jinai said. She grabbed something off a tray and put it on the chest of the girl. The girl's eyes popped open.

"Be careful what you expose them to. They will develop personalities from what they are exposed to. If you act cruel, or abuse someone or something, they will act that way. They will develop that sort of personality. They are advanced babies as of right now," Jinai said. Kurama and Hiei raised their eyebrows. Yusuke and Kuwa made their way over to Jinai so she could awaken the other two.

"Their names are Angua, Selene, and Hypatia," Jinai said. "Angua has the black hair. Selene the blonde and Hypatia has the red."

"Ok," Yusuke said as the red-head in his arms awoke. Kuwa gently put Selene on her feet. She smiled at him. Kuwa blushed slightly, but smiled back.

"In two weeks they will have developed fully. Make sure you show and teach them the right things, otherwise they could be powerful enemies," Jinai said. She helped Angua sit up and then get off the table. "If you three would follow me, I'll get you your clothes."

Angua, Selene, and Hypatia followed Jinai out of the room.

"This is going to be more like baby-sitting then anything," Yusuke muttered. "I hope we don't have to teach them everything you have to teach a baby."

"Yeah," Kuwa agreed. Jinai entered the room again. Angua followed behind her. Angua was a powerfully built beauty. She had long black hair that reached her waist when pulled back into a pony tail. She wore one of the infamous Chinese outfits Kurama was famous was for. It was red with black detailing. It came to her knees and clung tight to her body, it would have been impractical, except it had slits in the front of the skirt that allowed for movement. Her eyes were blood red. She blinked and sat next to Jinai.

Selene was the next to enter. Her blonde hair was cut in a bob, barely reaching her chin. It was curly, making her look like a child. Her eyes were blue. She wore a blue mini skirt and a white t-shirt and a khaki coat. She ran over to Kuwa and flung her arms around him.

Hypatia entered. She seemed different from the rest. Her eyes were gray and her hair was shoulder length. She wore a black coat that was unbuttoned, revealing a red shirt with a black dragon on it. She wore bell bottomed, hip-hugger jeans and lace-up boots. The other two were wearing stiletto heels. She stood in the door frame, leaning on it.

"They still have a bit of their former personalities, as you can see," Jinai said.

"JINAI!!!" a voice shouted from outside. Jinai went to the window.

"Alexi!" she shouted back. "I'll be down in a moment!"

"'K!" Alexi shouted.

Jinai turned to the spirit detectives.

"Well, it was a horrible life. I'm glad I'm finally leaving it. You guys gave me just a bit to be proud of," she said. She went past them and left the room. The guys followed, bringing the girls with them. Jinai stood outside of the door looking at a girl. The girl was short-ish. She stood at 5'4''. Her hair was halfway down her back in her tight ponytail. Her eyes were sky blue, and her skin was the color of ivory. She was fit, and yet feminine in every sense of the word. She wore a black leather half-trench coat. It hugged her frame. Fur was showing at the top and at the cuffs. She wore huge bellbottoms that covered her shoes.

"Jinai, you called," she said.

"Thank you for coming Alexi," Jinai said. She made an ice sword. "I know you won't kill me any other way, so the truce is off."

"What!?" Alexi yelled as she dodged the blade that was swung at her head.

"Just because I want to die," Jinai continued. "Doesn't mean I'll take it easy on you."

"I don't want to kill you!" Alexi shouted as she dodged again. She dove to the right. A dagger buried itself in the snow at her side. "Shit!"

"Unfortunately, you have to," Jinai said. Icicles sprouted from the ground. Alexi carefully avoided them as she ran at Jinai.

"So be it!" she yelled. She frame glowed with black spirit energy. "Tidal wave!"

Jinai couldn't dodge the wall of energy that rushed at her and swallowed her whole. The girl Alexi gasped for air and stood still as the cloud of black energy swirled and came off the ground. It seemed to absorb into Jinai's body, dropping Jinai to the ground.

"I'd step behind that door if I were you," Alexi said. The guys and ASH just stared at Alexi. "She's going to explode."

"Crap!" Yusuke shouted and pushed everyone behind the door. He looked at Jinai and then ducked behind himself.

"I'm finally free. Thank you Alexi. Goodbye Yusuke. I will love you from afar, where I belong. I will join the one who I love," Jinai said. The explosion shook the castle.

Spaz: Yo. Here's another chappie for y'all. Hope you liked it. I did. And now I can officially say that the Death/Xania bit is over. Shall we see what happens with ASH?