Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Yu Yu Hakusho Re-Written: Journey to Maze Castle. ❯ The Gate and the Golem ( Chapter 3 )

Author's note to Fanfiction.net and Animespiral.com:

Yes, I have to put that now sense I'm posting in more and more places. As my readers at Animespiral.com (I have readers?) already know, I have noticed mistakes in both chapter one and chapter two my Beta Readers missed. I should get sleep more often, I actually NOTICE things. after that is done I will reload the chapters.

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~* She grinned like a Cheshire cat, "Though I'm told I don't know when to shut up, even though it's more like I just don't want too." Kurama chuckled lightly. "We should continue, Hiei doesn't seem very please with our standing around and talking." Kurama commented. Kat nearly doubled over at the glare Hiei was giving her, "Damn! If looks could kill I'd be... I won't finish that sentence." *~

Chapter three: The Gate and the Golem.

Kat yelped as Hiei's glare became stronger, She was inwardly marveling at the fact that some one in the living world scared her. "All right you grouch! I get the point!" Kat shivered a bit as she turned away from the glare and walked into the gate which was more like a large hallway. The others quickly caught up with Kat and passed her, she wanted to be in the back anyways. Kat shuddered lightly, "Something isn't right here..." Kurama slowed until he was right beside Kat, his lavender eyes showing slight concern, "What's wrong?" She looked at him, the air around her bristling with concern, fear and confusion. "I think something's going to happen to the ceiling but.."

"Hey! What's that?" Yuusuke yelled, stopping Kat's train of thought dead in it's tracks.

All of the group looked ahead, they were about ten feet from the end of the gate way, but there was something else there. A purple skinned creature with bat wings was flying around in circles cackling for them to come closer. Kat blinked, "Flying spaghetti?" Kurama sweat dropped lightly as the others chose to ignore her. The bat-like creature glared at her with the single goldish-green eye ball that made up most of its mass. " Sugoi kawaii!" Kat said giggling. Yuusuke and Kuwabara edged away from her till they were five feet from the Passage way's end.

The flesh around the creature's eye crinkled into what could only be called amusement. "Welcome to maze castle." It said as its voice crackled lightly. "And to the gate of betrayal aswell." Yuusuke blinked, "What's that?"

Kat cursed lightly, "We're doomed now, damn it." Kurama looked questioningly to Kat but quickly looked up, drawn by a sound coming from above. "The ceiling!" Kurama cried out, just in time for everyone else to realize what was going on and use their arms to hold up the ceiling. Kat yelped lightly as her arms threatened to collapse on her.

The creature laughed venomously. "Isn't it marvelous? It was created to estimate your strength and put just enough pressure on you so that you could barley hold it up. In a matter of moments all of you will be crushed as your arms and legs buckle under the weight, making them incapable of holding up the stone! But, there is a way that one of you may survive. There is just enough leeway that one of you could escape, leaving the others to be crushed into dust."

Kat growled low, She hated the idea of being crushed by a rock. This is no way for a mage to die. she though solemnly, part of her vowing to find some way out that wouldn't mean the death of even one of her companions.

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Botan smiled as she watched Kazehane bash some blue faced men over the head with a dark oak staff. They had been fighting of the infected humans ever sense Kazehane had agreed to help, and help he did. Kazehane was actually very good with his staff, even better than Botan was with her bat.

"Botan San, How many of these are there?" he said as he brandished a can of 'Reikai Mushi no shi.' "Not sure exactly, but they can only take over depressed or cruel people so that narrows it down a bit."

"Not to sound mean, but that only narrows it down by twenty or thirty people."

Botan groaned a bit, " I know."

As her and Kazehane sprayed the insects that tried to escape she wondered how the others were doing. I'll check on them as soon as we finish off this round of insects. Botan thought to herself. Yeah I'll do that.

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"Hiei, pull the damn switch!" Yuusuke yelled. Kat Yelped as she looked at was going on, some how ignoring the burning in her muscles. She seemed to be the only one not asking Hiei to pull the switch, other than the flying eyeball.

Why bother? Begging and cursing isn't going to make him change his mind. Kat thought as she watched a cruel grin cross Hiei's face. "Don't you dare Hiei!" She heard Kurama say, noting the slight sound of disbelief in his voice. "Damn you Hiei!" Kuwabara yelled loudly.

"That's right, what did they ever do for you anyways." The eye ball said amused. Hiei lowered his arm and started laughing in a way that could only be described as evil. "Good. Had you pushed the switch the bolder would have crushed you anyways."

There were then sudden movements Kat couldn't quite keep up with. She blinked as she felt the ceiling let up and as she heard the sound of a bolder. Had Hiei been crushed?

"Go tell your masters now is their last chance to beg for mercy." No, that was Hiei's voice all right. Kat sighed relived and fell to her knees. Stupid body, gives up the second the primary pressure is off. Kat thought wryly. A wave of confusion struck her, a pair of medium sized hands were helping her up. She opened her eyes after not having realized she had even closed them to begin with. She blinked rapidly seeing it was Kurama helping her up.

"Are you okay, Miss Kat?" Kurama asked looking concerned. Kat nodded sheepishly, not understanding why he was helping some one like her, some one so much weaker than himself. He smiled a little. "That's good." She nodded again, not knowing what else to do. He chuckled lightly at the vague look on her face and led her from under the raising ceiling. "Hn, Baka Onna." Hiei said looking at Kat. Kat nodded, only this time she didn't look vague. "Yep, and if I denied it I'd be worse than the carrot head twinkie." Hiei looked taken aback, he didn't expect her to reply like that. "... Hn." He walked off to the nearest doorway other than the entrance.

Yuusuke blinked. "That was,, different." Kurama chuckled lightly, "He's just surprised, that's all. He didn't expect the reply Miss Kat gave him." "Oh." Yuusuke said and followed after the pointy haired fire youkai. Kuwabara was snickering. "Hey runt, next time you call me weak remember you collapsed back there!"

"I called you stupid, Bakayaro, and I'm not going to stop anytime soon, and don't try to pull a Hiei on me, no matter how stupid I am you'll always be even more so."

Kurama shook his head as Kat walked after Yuusuke, he was finding her both amusing and quick to respond. He followed after Kat and the ranting Kuwabara. Kat is much better at rants. he thought. Her rants are less rushed and make sense.

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Botan smiled as she finished spraying the insects that had tried to escape and was waiting for Kazehane to return when she remembered she wanted to check on the guys and Kat.

She pulled the dark purple communication compact out of her jacket pocket. She flipped it open and held it up at eye level. "Calling Yuusuke, come in Yuusuke, this is Botan speaking."

The screen in the compact came on.

"Yeah Botan? Hey Ow Kuwabara!"

"Hey! It's the hot girl! I Kazuma Kuwabara am looking out after everyone!"

"Get off me and give that back you idiot."

"I second Yuusuke's proposition, I like yaoi but this is scaring me."

"Ew!"

Botan sweat dropped at the chaos on the other end.

"Um all right, I just wanted to see how you were all doing and to tell you all is well on this end. Botan over and out."

Botan closed the communicator, then, unable to stop herself, she started to crack up laughing. They're such children. Botan mused before she notice Kazehane returning.

"All gone Botan San." Kazehane said smiling as Botan wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes. "Okay, let's patrol near the school next." Botan replied smiling.

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"I love you Hot girl!" Kuwabara yelled into the communicator. "It's off you dumb ass." Yuusuke said putting the closed compact into his jumpsuit pocket. Kat was still giggling at her comment, not seeing the light smile Kurama was giving her.

< Kitsune, don't get attached, she's human. > Hiei said to Kurama by telepathy.

< What do you mean Hiei? > Came his reply.

< You're a bad liar Kurama, I know you like this human female, all that will come from that is pain, she's mortal and you are immortal, she will die long before you do. >

< Hiei, you must be confused.>

< Hn.>

"Hey Kurama." Yuusuke started. "Botan hung up before I could ask about the saint beasts. So what do they look like?" Kurama looked to him. "Let's just say when you see them you will be very surprised."

"Don't you mean frightened?" A loud, booming voice asked from out of seemingly nowhere. Everyone but Kat and Hiei looked around. Kat was absorbed in her own thoughts and Hiei didn't give a damn.

The voice sounded again, this time it was laughing. "Keep going forward till you see a large door, enter my den."

"Stupid voice." Kat said as she looked ahead. "Only fox make dens, and maybe a few other animals, but he doesn't sound like an animal demon,, more like a mineral." The others stared at her. "His voice reminds me of gravel and stone."

"Okay... Let's just go." Yuusuke said before taking off towards the door in the distance.

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Artamisu stood looking into a mirror of ice, watching as the five people approached. Unlike Suzaku's mirror Artimisu's mirror transmitted sound and looked into the past, something it was doing at that moment.

"A mage, how intriguing. And considering the fact she hasn't used it as a crutch she is most likely a summoner." A cruel smile spread across his face. "And of a dark element too. If she's a dark summoner, that means I have found the bounty head requested by the Yukiki family." he passed his hand three inches over the mirror, the scene reflected in it changed.

Artamisu stared dully at the scene of Suzaku and his green pest-of-a-bird, Murugu. "How uninteresting Suzaku. You're such a fool, talking to that mess of feathers. Not to mention, you have no idea of my plans to destroy you." He smirked, all sense of beauty around him faded. "My time to be lord of maze castle begins soon." He walked out of the mirror chamber, his intentions set into stone.

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"Shut up you prick!" Kat growled in frustration. She had no idea how they had gotten to the subject, but Yuusuke had managed to shift their subject from the saint beasts, to fuku. "The skirts suck, too short." "Well I think their perfect fur peaking under." Yuusuke commented grinning. They had almost reached the doors, but Yuusuke was as loud as ever. "Hentai otoko no ko." Kat replied wanting to box his ears in. She was relived that unlike most females she was safe from his skirt-flipping antics, she was to boyish for him to bother her. As well as the fact the first time he tried it she kicked him in the face.

"Well, we're here." Yuusuke said as he took one of the torches from it's holder by the entrance. "Took long enough." Kat muttered. She noticed a plaque beside the door and read it aloud. "Genbu." No one paid attention to her as they continued in.

"Yep, Mineral." Yuusuke rolled his eyes, "How would you know?" He asked before throwing the torch out into the middle of the room. He was taken aback when he saw Genbu standing before him. "I just knew." Replied Kat. She was taken aback aswell, but not nearly as much as Yuusuke. "I never expected a golem."

Genbu laughed, his voice echoing throughout the room. "Welcome to my chamber, fools."

"Ah! It's a talking rock!" Kuwabara yelled. Kat rolled her eyes and hit him over the head. "It's a golem, Bakayaro."

"Nuh uh! It's a talking rock!"

"Guys, shouldn't we be fighting him and not each other?" Yuusuke said sweat dropping at the two who started an argument over whether it was a golem or a talking-rock.

"It won't do you any good, you'll never defeat me." Genbu said laughing. His stone body and mouth both made the sound of rock scraping as he spoke. "Well he doomed himself with that statment." Kat said before kicking Kuwabara again. "Stop kicking me!" Kuwabara yelled loudly. "Hm, better yet, I'll change targets." Kat giggled at the loud scream that insued and sidled to the side till there were two people between her and the carrot.

"She kicked me in the balls!" Kuwabara scrame in a high pitch. "You deserved it, you pissed me off." Kat said waving her hand in a way that said 'shoo fly, don't bother me.'

Genbu growled, "Stop ignoring me!"

All of them turned their heads to look at him. "Oh, I forgot about that stupid thing." Kat commented absent mindedly. Genbu got a pissed off look on his face. "You little wench. If I am so stupid come and fight me."

Kat raised an eyebrow. "Give me a break, I can't cut through rock. On top of that I'm not stupid enough to try since I value my scythe among all of my weapons and it's the only blade I have that is anywhere near sharp enough to cut rock."

"Fine then, all of you attack me at once." Genbu said smirking.

Kurama stepped forward. Yuusuke blinked. "Kurama?"

Kurama looked back at Yuusuke. "It is unwise for all of us to rush in, allow me to test his strength." Kat nodded. "He has a good point." "All right." Yuusuke said uneasily.

Genbu laughed as Kurama walked forward. "What do you find so amusing." He said coldly. "You. I doubt you could even make a scratch!" "We shall see."

"Yo Kurama!! The talking rock is doing something funky with his tail!" Kuwabara yelled. Kat blinked and looked at Genbu's tail. It was pushing into the stone floor below them. "Nani?" Kat said as she tried to figure out how that would be of any help. Then it hit her. "Oh hell!"

Kurama barley escaped being impaled as he jumped to the side. Genbu's tail had shot out of the ground and attacked Kurama. Kat cringed a bit seeing that Kurama had a long and trailing wound in his side.

"What the hell was that?!" Yuusuke yelled. "I think, that he can meld his body with the stones around him. Most likely by using his youki to fuse the molecules to the stone and moving his energy through them." Kat said with an unsure sound in her voice. "It's only a theory though."

Genbu laughed, "Your theory is correct wench. And because of that I can't lose."

Kat rolled her eyes and muttered about idiots, cocky ass holes and wanting to blow something up. Kuwabara was watching with a sour look of fear on his face. Hiei was standing calmly as he watched. "Hn."

Kat watched as Genbu's entire body lowered into the ground. She turned her attention to Kurama. 'He doesn't seem worried.' She thought.

Kurama was dodging Genbu's attacks like mad for the next five minutes. Each time he dodged Genbu got closer to striking him down. "This is no good, he can't dodge forever." Kat said dismally. "You're right." Yuusuke said. Kat was itching to help Kurama but knew she'd only get in the way. "Damn it! You can do it Kurama!" She almost fell over. 'Did I just turn into a cheerleader or something?!' Kat thought. Managing to not shiver visibly.

Kurama smiled lightly and sped up. All was still.

"Ha ha ha! All you can do is dodge! You don't even have a weapon."

Kurama smirked lightly. "That does present a problem doesn't it." Kat grinned. She knew that unlike the rest of them he had a weapon that was able to go through rocks. 'Of course! He's not reckless and undecided like I am. He had a plan from the start.'

Kurama pulled a rose seed from his hair. Almost instantly it became a rose. Kat tilted her head to the side. She had never seen a demon that worked with plants before. "Sugoi."

A gleam was in Kurama's eyes as he threw his hand up above his hand. The rose had formed into a whip, that even with his hand above his head, its end trailed a few feet on the floor.

Kat's eyes were wide. "Sugoi."

Kuwabara had an odd look on his face that made it even uglier than normal. "I don't like it, too girlie." Yuusuke laughed. "What? And he should be a tough guy like you and be over obsessed with kittens?" "Hey!"

Kat looked back at them. "You two are such children." "And you can talk about being childish?" the two said simultaneously. "I'm younger than you, and I'm a girl." "So?" "You know, you two talking at the same time is scary."

"Hn. Pay attention Baka ningen tachi." Hiei said. They turned reluctantly back to the fight.

Kat blinked as she saw Genbu come flying out of the ceiling. "Kusou!"

"Rose whip-lash!" Kat grinned wide as Genbu was cut into at least two dozen pieces. Kat was impressed.

"How did you know where I was?" Genbu's Decapitated head asked from the floor where it had fallen. "Quite simple. Your putrid odor was easily detected after filling the room with the scent of my rose." Kurama replied.

'Whoa. He uses his head.' Kat thought as she smiled. 'At least some one on this joy-ride does.'

Yuusuke and Kuwabara ran up to Kurama. Kat followed slowly. 'Something doesn't feel right.'

"All right Kurama! Way to go!" Yuusuke said grinning. "I wish all my battles were that quick!"

"Fool." A harsh voice growled. "It only looked easy because Kurama was the one doing the fighting." The voice belonged to Hiei. Kat looked at them. "Guys. Something's-" She held back a yelp as all of them turned to her. "Something's not right." Kuwabara laughed. "What? You're afraid of the big bad broken rock?" Kat rolled her eyes. "You recover from groin shots too quickly. And no, that's not it." Kuwabara laughed. "Yeah right. You're scared of it and you know it." "Kat is right." Kurama started. "It seems as though my fight is not quite done."

Kat looked at the spot where Genbu's body had previously been. She saw his head sinking into the ground. A shiver went down her spine. "Shit."

Yuusuke had seen what had happened. As had Hiei. Only Kurama and Kuwabara hadn't. Kurama didn't need to see it to know what happened.

A booming laugh sounded. "You thought you had beaten me didn't you?"

"What?! I thought we killed him!" Kuwabara scrame. "Shut up. You and thinking is an oxymoron." Kat growled. "A what?" Kuwabara asked. "Oh forget it." Kat said.

Kat's eyes widened as she felt something coming at her from below. 'Ah Kami-sama no Kurahoushi to Megami-Sama no Kurahoushi!' Kat jumped backwards just in time to keep from being impaled.

Kurama and the others had gotten out of the way in time too. Genbu had shot his whole body through the ground to the ceiling. Kat cursed loudly. "That wasn't fun."

"No kidding!" Yuusuke yelled in frustration. "He's after all of us now."

Kat bit her already tender lower lip hard enough that it bled. 'Damn it. I need to stop biting my lip when stressed. If I keep it up I won't have a lower lip.' She thought as a drop of crimson landed on the ground with a 'plop.' Genbu took that as his cue to fall from the ceiling onto the unknowing Kat. The red head looked up and froze. 'Kusou.' She thought.

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Kat's Translations,

'Reikai Mushi no shi.' - Kind of an inside joke(You'll find a lot of those in this fiction, though not all of them will be explained) , not to mention the fact that it's improper grammar, but the translation (the intended translation) is "Spirit world bug's death" The next few translations will explain the words.

Mushi- This word means bug.

No (In a Japanese sentence)- is used as not only a place indicator ( Example from shounen jump: Bokuto No Ryu 'Wooden sword Ryu' [Bokuto meaning wooden sword]) but as a possessive, there are also many other meanings but I don't know enough proper Japanese grammar to use them correctly.

Shi- Shi means death, just like Chi means blood

Chi- Chi may mean blood or Spiritual energy depending on the context, when in use in this fan fiction it will always mean blood.

Katana- Sword

Bakayaro- Dim wit.

Fuku- sailor suit, though I'm sure there are more translations, or more accurate translations, than that, but that's what I'm led to believe it means. Stupid pocket dictionary..

Kusou- I think it means damn, darn, hell, crap, you should get the point by now. But I'm not sure if the 'o' is elongated.

Kami-sama - Great spirit or God.

Megami-sama - Most commonly translated as Goddess.

To (Used in a Japanese sentence) - normally means 'and'.

X3 Atashi wa Totemo AKU. X3 Gomen nasai, I couldn't help it. blame it on all the Cliff hangers I've been reading and watching. This hasn't been read over by my beta readers yet due to the fact that two of them have no Internet acsess and I'm an impatient idiot. I'll re-upload after they have gone over it. I need to start the next chappy. And by the way, PLEASE review, I understand not getting reviews on anime spiral yet, but right before uploading I and normally right after I go on fic reading and reviewing sprees on ff.net (Not just to get reviews mind you, I visit before hand because 99% of the time my favorite art site is down and if I'm not looking at/commenting on/uploading art then I'm reading fan fics.) and I'm relatively well known to some people. I'm not trying to complain, but it's disheartening to not get reviews when you spend weeks on a chapter. I'm inspired by reviews. now after writing half a page of ANs I'm signing off.