Kamusta! :)


Here's part 13 of my sis' fanfic:
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Thirteen.

       Hiei was tough, but the sanjiyan seemed tougher.  It turned out to

be a battle more of durability than of strength, or skill.  It seemed to
Hiei that an entire hour passed, and still neither of them sported a major
wound, or surrendered.

       He was tiring out.  In mere moments, a limb would fail him, and

bring him too close to fatal defeat.  Yakoru was swift, strong, unfailing,
despite the fact that he did not use any weapon to counter the Ensatsu Ken,
which would not even scratch him.

       He needed Kurama.  Damned if he was not going to admit it now.  But

Kurama was a world away, though trapped in the same darkness, and passive in
his captivity.  Hiei could see him: a faint gleam in the shroud.

       "Kurama," he tried to call, but not even he could hear that sober

cry for help.

Yakoru took this moment of carelessness to strike.  A giant fist knocked

against Hiei’s chest beyond the protection of the Ensatsu Ken, and Hiei
hurtled backward.  The distance that emerged between him and his opponent
gave Hiei enough time to act.

       "Saoh Ensatsu!" he cried, and a beam of fire ripped through the shroud.
       Yakoru leaned to the right, and avoided it completely, with a

precision and grace that bewildered Hiei.

       From Yakoru’s fingers, lightning burst forth, quicker, if it was

possible, than the flight of the Ensatsu itself.  It caught Hiei just
beneath the ribs.  Hiei cried out.

       Kurama looked up, even though he heard nothing.

       The instant the lightning bolt let go of him, Hiei leapt for a

safer vantage point, heedless of the pain.  Lightning pursued him, wherever
he went, but he was quicker – and more frantic – than Yakoru must have expected.

       Hiei had "sheathed" the youki blade.  He had come to realize that

it would not harm the sanjiyan in any way.  Kurama, of all times, should
help him then.  Or else…or else!

       He would not surrender to the evil urge pounding in his breast.  He

would not release the Black Dragons again.  Yakoru was not so powerful as to
deserve the youkai’s ultimate death, he could tell, even if he could not
sense it directly.  There had to be another way.  Trickery could win the
fight if force could not.  Kurama…!

       "You cannot pass this final gate," Yakoru pronounced, "if you

cannot pass through me.  And even then the youko is already in my keeping."

       Hiei alighted, a great distance from the sanjiyan, swaying with

weariness and pain.

       "How dare you call him yours?" he said aloud, though hoarsely. "Do

you think you can keep him long?  A fox-spirit is a free spirit. It is not
within its nature to tolerate living in a cage."

       "With my powers," said Yakoru, "I can make it believe that it is

not within a cage."

       At that instant, Hiei heard Kurama’s voice.  It was clear, this

time.  It called his name.  "Hiei!" Kurama was looking out at him directly.
He could see!

       Kurama took one eager step forward, but then stopped.  His

expectant stare became sharp, piercing.  Was he wondering if what he saw was
an illusion?

       The puzzlement in Kurama’s eyes ebbed immediately.  Almost wearily,

the youko threw the rose he held toward Hiei.  Hiei prepared to evade it –
but it never struck.  It disintegrated just as it came halfway.  The black
glass barrier between them still existed, after all.  The only difference
was, it did not restrain so much as before.

       Kurama’s wrathful stare focused on the sanjiyan, who met it

squarely, with all three eyes.  "You see that it is useless," said Yakoru,
to them both.  "You are at the very end of the maze."

       He was right, Hiei decided.  It was the final battle; they were not

at a dead-end.  Beyond Yakoru was surely the way out of the idiotic fix
Kurama had entangled themselves in.  Only one goal remained for finishing:
the sanjiyan himself.

       Hatred smoldered in Kurama’s eyes.  It blazed in Hiei’s heart.  If

it were up to the forbidden forces to end the pain, no one was in any place
to deny it.

       "Saoh Ensatsu," Hiei slowly intoned, "Kokuryuha…!"
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BFN!
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