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Combative Destinies	By : NatalaRose Category: Yuyu Hakusho > Crossovers Views: 1958 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The five fighters filtered into the stands, ignoring the whispers and cheers that surrounded them as they took a seat in the stands. At one particular insult Inuyasha stood and flashed his very not human fangs at the demon, flexing his claws as he did. After a moment he decided the demon was sufficiently cowed and sat back down. "You'd think the dog ears would convince them I'm not human."
The low mutter caused Kagome to giggle and Keiko looked over at them both, frowning and pursing her lips as Koto began to announce the second fight of the round. She put a finger to her lips in an indication of silence.
"I think we missed the beginning," Sango whispered.
"Miroku's fault. He wouldn't wake up. I had to go to the extreme measure of dumping ice water on his head," Kagome whispered back, this time getting glared at by Miroku.
"Pay attention! Look! I don't know what that demon Roto's done, but Kurama's not fighting him!" Keiko hissed in alarm, her eyes trained worriedly on the red head she had caught a glimpse of the night before.
"Keh. Weakling." At Inuyasha's arrogant sneer Keiko fingered the sai at her waist, but didn't turn from watching the redhead below her.
The demon, Roto, continued to pummel Kurama's body viciously, the redhead continuing to not make any move to defend himself from the rain of blows and kicks. There was cheering from the multitude of demons in the stands as it appeared the Urameshi team would suffer a loss in this round.
"Why isn't he fighting back?" Keiko heard herself ask, not really directing it at anyone in particular, but simply pondering aloud.
Despite this, though, Inuyasha responded, answering her question. "That bastard is threatening to do something to Kurama's mother if he resists. Kurama's letting him wail on him to save his mom."
Keiko's eyes widened in shock at both the revelation and the fact that Inuyasha could hear what was being said in the ring. 'Of course he could!' She berated herself. 'He's half demon, after all.'
Finally, Roto seemed to lose interest in beating on an unresponsive opponent, and stood before the bruised and battered red head. The demon spoke, and Keiko strained her ears to hear what was being said, but unfortunately was too far away to hear anything but the rumbling crowd surrounding her team.
"What did he just say?" The brunette couldn't help but want to know. She gave the silver haired boy beside her a pleading glance.
Inuyasha snorted, "He just asked Kurama to lick the slime off of his foot."

Keiko wrinkled her nose in disgust. There was a brief pause before Kurama responded with an inaudible reply, which caused Inuyasha to smirk gleefully. "He refused."
Keiko couldn't help the pleased smile that pulled at the corners of her own lips at hearing this. Such honor and courage this intriguing being held. And then, something unexpected happened that made the entire stadium gasp. Roto made to move, but suddenly froze. Multiple droplets of blood appeared in the air around him, the bright red fluid being forced from the demon's body by the strange plant vines that had suddenly sprouted from various spots over Roto's body, mainly the chest area. Keiko watched with wide eyes as Kurama turned around with a seemingly calm air. The red head paused briefly when the now dead demon collapsed to the cement platform in a colorful, blossom covered heap.
"What irony. Such beauty, sprung from such an ugly soil."

"Huh?" Keiko shook her head, diverting her attention from the fighting arena to give the hanyou a questioning look, as did the others.
"It's what he said," Inuyasha stated, then noticed the confused expressions of his team members. "Kurama, I mean." A broad grin spreadinrossross his face. "Man, but that's one ruthless bastard!"

Keiko returned her gaze to the side of the arena where the Urameshi Team stood, her eyes immediately resting on Kurama's form. Kagome was watching her sister stare at the boy and couldn't help but smirk. Apparently Keiko could still be caught by a pretty face. She quickly snapped her attention to Sango on her right side as Keiko turned to look at her.
"Who's going on, now?" Kagome asked, looking curiously as the team leader, Zeru, began to glow with an angry red aura. He and the fire apparition of the Urameshi team stepped up to the plate. Kagome smiled ruefully. "Never mind. What's his name again?"
"Hiei. As you'd know if you were actually listening to the announcements." Sango's dry comment fell on deaf ears and the older girl shrugged, turning her attention to the fight below.

Sango strained her ears but couldn't hear a thing past the crowds cheering voices. She knew that they had traded insults, but soon after the two fire demons began their fight. Zeru attacked the most at first, and Sango was puzzled at Hiei's lack of response.
Soon after Sango was wincing at the strong fire attack that Zeru had sent at his opponent. She could sense the anger and power radiating from the smaller fire demon as he got up, discarding his shirt and bandana. Then her eyes widen as she saw what was happening. She didn't hear what was said, but she certainly saw the large form of a shadowy black dragon rising from Hiei's arm and vaporizing Zeru.
The team mates were stunned.

"What was that?" Sango breathed out in awe.
"The Dragon of the Darkness Flame. Very powerful. Almost unheard of and almost impossible to control. It takes a lot to use that technique." Keiko's text book answer made the other's stare down in awe, though Inuyasha attempted to look like he was glaring.

Sango swallowed nervously. "I'm suddenly hoping we never have to go against them."
"Keh. We're much more powerful than any dra-" Inuyasha was stopped by an elbow nudging him a bit hard in the ribs. He whipped his head around to glare at Kagome and found her staring at the dark tunnel where the two left over team mates had disappeared. The crowd was overcoming its shock, but the blue-eyed girl was sure she had heard fighting from inside that corridor.
A moment later the sounds ceased and Kagome refocused on the ring just in time to see a rather large looking brute with a blue mohawk practically stumble onto the platform.

The crowd was beginning to shout and yell again, and Kagome saw Inuyasha's ears flatten briefly at the onslaught of noise. The mohawked demon said a few things, and then something unexpected happen. Even as three of the team member were talking, probably about who would go, another movement caught Kagome eyes. The sleeping boy was on his feet.

Before anybody really seemed to know what was happening, he landed on stage gracefully, a smirk on his face and his hair falling down almost into his eyes. The exchange of words was lost on Kagome, but she could tell whatever the boy, Yusuke, had said was some smart assed comment. It didn't help when the crowds began to chant, "Kill Yusuke, kill Yusuke, kill Yusuke."
She didn't dare tear her eyes away long enough to ask Inuyasha what they were saying down there, but she did notice when Yusuke was thrown out of the ring. She winced, but stared impatiently along with the rest of her team until the count got to nine. Then he somersaulted out of the broken wall and back onto the stage. Kagome kept in a gasp.

"What'd he say?" She finally asked Inuyasha. "Even I couldn't hear most of it over the boos and shouts of the crowd. Something about a good warm-up. He wasn't even phased."
Kagome smiled as she watched them fight. They were having fun with it. They took it seriously, but at the same time they didn't. "They're wonderful fighters."
"Sleepyhead isn't bad looking either, is he, Kagome?" Kagome answered before she even realized who had asked the question. "Definitely not! He's kinda cute."
Then she did a double take at her own words and tore her eyes away from the fight, her face heating up against her will. "I mean...Well, that is...Keiko! Who asks those questions!"
"We don't get crushes on the competition, Kagome." Inuyasha's low growl was filled with more than disapproval. The over protective brother vibe was definitely coming through.
"I don't have a crush on him! I just think he's cute. And a nice fighter. Though I can't hear it, I think it's kinda funny that he can talk back like that, too. It's not a crush, I just..."
"Have a crush." Inuyasha's tone was final.
Kagome huffed and glared at Inuyasha. "I'm fifteen! I'm allowed to have crushes!"
Inuyasha's response was cut off when the other three gasped at what was going on down below. Kagome's attention flew to the platform and found that the mohawked demon, Chu, had put daggers in and now the two were fighting without spirit energy but with just their purely physical strength while they stayed with one foot braced against the dagger.
"What are they doing?"
"A Knife-Edge Death match. They used up all their energy in a last double attack you two missed and now they're fighting like this. That foot steps off the dagger, they forfeit. Whoever has the most strength left in them will win. Whoever loses, by the rules, will die." Miroku was on the edge of his seat, and soon his companions joined him as they avidly watched the fight.

In the end, it came to who was the most hard headed. Kagome had to bite off a cheer when Yusuke won. She'd probably be one of the fe the the audience who was. Her respect went up a few notches when Inuyasha relayed to her Yusuke's refusal to kill his opponent. He wanted to fight him again.

Kagome found herself nodding. It wasn't about the killing or pain for this boy, just about the fighting. Her lips quirked up into an almost smirk. Adrenaline junkie. She could sum it up to that. He'd been happy while he fought.

Below, Yusuke froze as he saw something. Kagome followed his gaze. She stiffened a bit herself. She knew who that was. Everyone did. That was Toguro. Kagome shivered a bit as the two exchanged glares, unaware of the spectator. Then the audience was leaving for an intermission. Only a couple of hours until the next fight. Kagome stiffened. There were eight fights this round, four the next, two in the semi finals, and then the finals.

"Hey, guys, when do we fight?" Kagome's panicked and unprepared gaze met with her sister's amused one.
"Don't worry. We still have a few hours to kill. Most of the day probably. We're one of the last matches of the day." Keiko was smiling as her sister practically collapsed in relief.
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"...Yes, mother, I'll be sure to call you within a few days. I understand, I'm just glad to hear that you're alright." Kurama smiled tenderly as he listened to his mother's gentle voice on the other end of the line. "Alright then, I'll talk to you soon. Goodbye."
Hanging up the phone, the red headed teen heaved a sigh of relief. After Roto's threat during their match, Kurama had been seized with an unexplainable urge to hear his mother's voice. Only after finally attaining a cell phone from one of the more sophisticated demons and having actually talked to his mother had the overwhelming feeling vanished. Turning quickly, intent on returning the phone to its owner, Kurama let out a startled "oomph" when he accidentally collided with something.
A small... female-shaped something.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry." He offered his apology as he caught onto the young woman's shoulders in order to steady her. "I didn't see you there."
A curtain of auburn curls framed the girl's appealing features, Kurama noted as she looked up at him, her sienna-colored eyes widening as they focused on him.
"N-No, it's okay. It was my fault. I wasn't watching where I was going..." The girl offered, a slight stutter marring her words, which Kurama found endearing.
There was a tension filled pause in which another young woman rounded the corner a short distance away. Spotting her sister with the red headed hottie from the fight earlier that day, Kagome ducked behind the nearest cover and, in typical little sister fashion, intently listened in.
Tilting his head slightly, Kurama pondered, "Do I know you from somewhere? You seem familiar."

Keiko, having recovered from the shock of suddenly bumping into the very person who'd been occupying her thoughts since she'd first laid eyes on him, grinned as she mumbled to herself. "Huh, I figured he would have at least been able to come up with a better pick up line."
"E-excuse me?" Startled, Kurama blinked. Though the words were barely spoken, Kurama could still hear them plainly.

"Oh, nothing," Keiko continued, speaking up. "You're probably just remembering last night. We passed by one another after we arrived... on our way to our rooms?"
"Ah, yes," Kurama stated, realization dawned. He remembered the group they had passed as he and Kuwabara had packed the slumbering Yusuke to where they would be staying during the Dark Tournament. He'd been faintly curious about them. After all, from what he could sense, they were all human, besides one, and he had only been half demon. Though two of the three s, ts, this one included, gave off a bit more energy than their friends. The power had felt more like a miko's powers than anything.
Kagome's lips turned up into a mischievous grin as she watched them. This could be fun, but it wasn't getting anywhere at the moment. They had paused again, and both were looking around awkwardly for something to say. Kagome carefully erased the smirk from her face and popped around the corner, clicking her tongue in admonishment as she came up to the two. "Keiko, this is no time to be flirting with the competition!"
Amidst Keiko's sputtered denials, the younger sister dragged off the elder, but as they turned the corner, Kagome shot a look over her shoulder to see Kurama's considering look that was pointed firmly at her sister. Keiko turned too and Kagome whipped her head to the front and began to drag her sister off again, only allowing her sister a brief instant with which to meet the kitsune's eyes.

Kurama watched as the two disappeared and stood considering the girl he had just briefly met before beginning to walk away. 'So... her name is Keiko? It suits her.'
There was a stirring in the back of his mind and Kurama sighed. Two things always got Youko to wake up. Females and battles. The first, he had been reminded many times, went hand in hand with the second. This was perhaps doubly true when the girl was a possible opponent. ~Aren't they all?~
Ignoring the silent taunt disguised as a question, Kurama shook his head before turning back to the task of returning the, up until that moment, forgotten cell phone.
Meanwhile, Kagome had finally decided that they were far enough away from temptation and released her sister's arm. She was immediately rewarded with a poignant glare as Keiko crossed her arms over her chest and huffed in annoyance. "What was the meaning of that, Kagome?"
Kagome's innocent smile would have fooled almost anyone, except for the ones who knew her best. Her family, both blood related and the team members she thought of as family. "I have no idea what you're talking about Keiko. I just thought you needed some time to clear your head. Telling our team mates that I let you melt into a puddle because of a green eyed, red haired kitsune wouldn't go over well, don't you think?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," The elder girl muttered, averting her gaze. "I was not melting."
"Say whatever you want. I've lived with you long enough that I know exactly what was happening in your mind." She smirked, then finished in an immature singsong voice. "You like Kurama. You like Kurama!"
Despite herself, Keiko could feel a blush creep across her face. Gritting her teeth, the brunette fighter decided to simply ignore her sister's taunts. After all, it wasn't like there was any truth to what Kagome was saying... was there?
Heavi sig sigh, Keiko finally managed to quell the rosy tint of her cheeks and turned to face her team mate and family member. "Whatever. Look, let's get back to the room. We've got to get ready for the match, it'e ste starting soon."
Kagome watched her sister and sighed. About boys, she was always so stubborn. Kagome bit her lip and waved her sister on as another idea came to her. "You go on. We still have plenty of time left for those of us who don't need hours to prepare. I'm going to go explore this place a bit more."
Before Keiko could protest that she shouldn't wander off alone Kagome was going down the hallway, directly away from the last place they'd seen Kurama. As soon as she turned the corner she sprinted off, going in a wide circle to get back to the place he had last been. She pouted when she didn't see him, but shrugged. This was only a minor setback in her hastily put together plan.
Kagome wandered around for a bit longer, hoping that she would eventually run into the person she was looking for. She was just about to give uen, en, through the small crowd passing down the hall, she caught sight of a familiar looking red head. The kitsune was standing near a door that looked like the one that lead to their room, so Kagome assumed it must be his team's room. On a whim, Kagome stepped toward the red head, intent on putting her make shift plan into action. She faltered when she was only a few steps away, however, when the crowd thinned and she spotted who was standing alongside her quarry.
'It's him!' She gasped, her breath suddenly coming in short pants as both teens paused in their conversation and turned to look directly at her.
Her mind went blank at their stares and she cursed herself inwardly when the redhead said something to his friend that had them both starting to walk towards her. Her eyes were no longer even on her sister's object of affection, but on the black haired, brown eyed boy walking beside him.
She forced herself to calm her teenage heart. She was as bad, if not worse than her sister. She smirked a little as they approached, noticing the way they'd jerked back a bit as if surprised to see that expression on her innocent face. At least she could admit it.
"Excuse me, miss, but you were the one who pulled Keiko away, were you not?" Instantly Kagome jerked her eyes away from the cute boy who was starting to eye her and smirk back and to the red headed hottie who was too pretty and polite for her tastes, but perfect for her rule loving sister. Her eyes flashed triumphantly before she answered. He'd remembered her name.
"Yeah. That was me. Why?"

The question took Kurama by surprise, but he suppressed it by smiling politely. "No reason, really. I was only curious."

He took a sidelong look at his companion, noting the way Yusuke was looking over the girl in silent interest before returning his gaze to Kagome. "So, was there any particular reason you sought me out? Or was it even I you were looking for?"
Instantly, Kagome went on the strategic defense she had learned from Inuyasha. She crossed her arms and snorted. After all this... actually, never worked for him. "Who says I was looking for anything? Maybe I was just wandering around."
The boys shared a look before Kurama coughed politely and offered her a small smile. "Oh, well I'm sorry then, my mistake." The kitsune then turned to his friend, a twinkling of amusement in his green eyes. "Yusuke, weren't we going to look for Kuwabara?"
Yusuke shrugged, allowing his eyes to gauge Kagome's expression as he replied. Her lips had immediately drawn up into a cute little pout at hearing that they were about to leave. Yusuke smirked. "Sure, there's nothing fun to do around here anyway."
Kagome's disappointment flared as they both turned around. She bit her lip, then sighed. She looked at her watch. She had fifteen more minutes to waste before she had to start back and get ready. Well, if this went bad, Keiko would never know, right? And if it went well, Keiko hopefully would still never know. And she couldn't just let Yusuke walk away. Though he did have a nice butt. Kagome shook her head and turned her mind back to the problem at hand. "W-wait."
Kurama stopped and shared a knowing smile with Yusuke. Except Yusuke was smirking. They both turned around. "Yes? Was there something else?"
Kagome glared at him. "Oh, don't pull the innocent act. Kitsune you may be, but Shippo does it so much better."
The two stared at her for a moment before lifting eyebrows. Kurama smiled slightly, ignoring the confusing answer for now in favor of finding out why the girl was there. "Well, perhaps you'd like to tell us why you are here then?"
Kagome considered him for a moment, broke eye contact, stared at the ceiling, fiddled with her hands before finally grimacing and briefly taking the chance to admire Yusuke before having to answer Kurama's question. And she did so. Bluntly. "What do you think of my sister?"

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