Yumi looked at Keiko's dead body one final time before she turned and faced the enemies. She materialized the Scarlet Blade of Flame onto her hands and looked at it intently, its blade reflecting her face. She could see her eyes had a different shine in them and she knew the reason why. And for that reason, she has to fight... for her to protect that even if her life would be the price for that.
"Don't even think of letting yourself die, Yumi," Hiei said firmly that snapped her out from her musings. In turn, the said maiden faced him and gave him a determined look that Hiei knew very much.
No matter how she looked at it, it always appeared to be the same. She knew that this would be her last chance.
"You know," the blonde started. "Even though we ended up bickering most of the time, it was fun. But what I really love the most... was when you said your feelings to me after I did the same. I like the way you protected me from almoat everything after that. And I'll definitely treasure it, no matter what happens," she said before turning around.
Even though Yumi wasn't facing Hiei, she knew and she could feel that he gave her a questioning look. But Hiei wasn't dumb to understand that. All he wanted was an explanation. But before he could get one from her, eight demon shinobis appeared before them. Yumi started walking towards the enemies but halted to a stop and turned around once more as she faced Hiei with a smile. It was enough to startle the three-eyed demon and he clearly knew what it meant.
"I'll finish this as soon as I can," she said and ran towards the group of demon shinobis. The blade of her weapon was covered in red flames as she charged towards the enemies.
"Blazing Dragon Flash!" Yumi screamed and swung her sword, unleashing several red energy blades to the target. Only six were destroyed by the attack since the two managed to dodge it almost in a flash. She was about to fire another batch when the two remaining demon shinobis rocketed underground in a blinding speed before she could even wind up.
That action surprised Yumi and she looked beneath her as she tried sensing the enemies' energies. "They're fast!" When she looked up, ten more demon shinobis appeared before her and fired homing missles not to her but to the rest of the grieving team. But she wouldn't allow any of it to harm her friends, let alone her beloved.
"Blaze Wall!" Yumi exclaimed as she threw her hand forward when she turned and faced the others. Long tongues of flames were emitted from the hand and formed fiery rings that passed down over a red dome, shielding Yusuke and the others from the attack of the demon shinobis. She sighed in relief after that, but then she was caught off-guard when the two demon shinobis that rocketed underground exploded out from below and gripped her with tentacles that generated both tremendous heat and lightning.
The others were surprised and shocked to see that but they couldn't do anything to help Yumi since the barrier she created hadn't faded yet. Hiei tried slicing the barrier apart but to no avail. All he could do after that was to curse himself and clench his fist as he watched his beloved being tortured by the enemies.
One of the demon shinobis, however, was about to cast a powerful blast enough to disintegrate Yumi's barrier when Yumi threw a fire blast despite still being tortured and destroyed the demon shinobi before it could do any damage in the barrier. Enraged with that, the remaining eleven demon shinobi gripped Yumi even tighter and torture her with blast after blast of heat and lightning while they held her suspended in the air with their tentacles. This caused Yumi to scream in pain and the spectral energy that she was inadventently releasing caused the ground to shake as it was hit with leaking energy.
To prevent the energy from further leaking, the eleven demon shinobis, along with Yumi, jerked with underground but it only made the situation worst. The enemies created a barrier-coated ice mountain to encase Yumi and her leaking powers and continued to attack against the Fire Wielder from within the mountain. With the final blast, the ice mountain exploded and the eleven demon shinobis came out of it one by one. One of them stood there, holding Yumi's lifeless body.
"Yumi!" Hiei called out that only enraged him and was about to attack when he saw the fire barrier. If the barrier was still there, that means...
With that, he looked at the top of the destroyed ice mountain. He could still feel it- Yumi's spectral energy. But it was getting weaker and weaker and it wasn't a good sign at all. He has to do something to get out of the barrier and prevent Yumi from using her last remaining strength to do something reckless.
But before he could do something, he saw the blood that ran down Yumi's wounded right arm moved and formed eleven red chains that instantly lengtened and bound the eleven enemies as they rose up to the air to prepare themselves to destroy the barrier and finish off the traitors and the rest of the team. Yumi grabbed the eleven blood chains as she reached out. It wasn't only the physical chains that bound the enemies but also her spectral energy that formed barriers enveloping them, as well. The barrier, though translucent, was easy to see since it was colored red- the same degree of redness as Yumi's blood.
"W-where do you think... you're going? I'm not... done yet!" Yumi growled and barely lifted her head, looking up to one of the demon shinobis one final time before tightening her grip to the chains as she focused the last of her spectral energy to it.
Hiei could feel the recklessness Yumi could possibly up to but her barrier was preventing her to do anything to stop her.
"Crimson... Fire... Annihation!" Yumi shouted, followed by red fire storms climbing up the red chains that turned the enemies into ashes in merely seconds. But the fire storms didn't stop even after the enemies were burned. It only began to dissipate after the blast that soon followed it caused an ice tree to be thrown up from the tundra.
While lying on that ice tree, Yumi tried to open her eyes as she heard Hiei shouting her name into her mind. When she succeeded, her tears fell as she remembered a certain memory...
"Yumi, when it's time for the final battle, better make sure you kiss Hiei before you head out to the battlefield. Okay?" Riya said teasingly and giggled that made Yumi uneasy and blush.
"Why in the world do you think I will do that?" she asked with slight irritation to hide her uneasiness.
"Of course, you'll never know what will happen at the final battle. So you have to give him your loving kiss as a gift for him. You can say that it would be your eternal gift, whatever happens. It's like a promise for him that you'll always love him no matter what, even if you died because of the battle. It's just a what if, though. But that depends on you if you want to do it," Riya said.
Yumi just shook her head because of that and smiled...
Yumi smiled weakly and sadly as she tried to look at the team, particularly Hiei, before tears began leaking to her face stained in blood. Her eyes were blank when she looked at him.
"Y-you're right, Riya... I should have kissed Hiei... before this..." she said barely audible as she closed her eyes. "I really wish... I had..." With that, her breathing stopped. The blood from her hand trickled down and the barrier disappeared as soon as she was done saying those words. Hiei read her lips even though it was barely opened but it was enough to crumble his heart's defenses.
Seriously, none of them had anticipated these deaths to happen. And to think the wielders would go that far to fight for the mission and their mistress' sake...
"What in the world happened here?" Kurama mumbled on horror as he tried to look around.
They haven't noticed Kurama's presence because of what happened but they knew that he, too, felt the same way as they were. It was as if a part of them were completely lost after all that.
Yusuke's horrified scream resounded throughout the slumbering city before he fired an immensely powerful Spirit Gun, along with Hiei's Dragon of the Darkness Flame towards Erithea and the remaining demon shinobis surrounding her. Their beloved's deaths enraged them so much that their hearts were now consumed with the sole desire to avenge their lovers' deaths, along with their fallen comrades.
But all of a sudden, the gang heard someone uttered something. The words were clear and the voice seemed so... familiar.
"Holy blade from the silver wings, merge with their attacks. Blade of Eternal Light!" Two white crescent-shaped energy blades thrown from the far sky soon followed and merged with the Spirit Gun and the Dragon of the Darkness Flame.
Before they knew it, the blades covered by Yusuke and Hiei's attack did not only destroy the remaining demon shinobis but also sliced both of Erithea's arms, causing her to shriek in too much pain. The gang was undoubtedly surprised and shocked at that.
"Where did that come from?" Kuwabara asked.
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The death scenes of the wielders were inspired from that of the first season of Sailor Moon. So for those who will find the scenarios quite familiar, this is the reason.
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