Fanfic by Kai-Yan Lam Part 3 NB: I hope you're enjoying this. Please bear with me, I know I drag when I write, but I'm only trying to get you to actually see the picture. So please, keep reading and hope you continue to enjoy it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One hour later, the Toguro brothers just so happened to stop at the same stand as Yuusuke's for something to eat. Karasu immediately woke up, Bui's appetite suddenly left him, Yuusuke's in wonder, and Lola's still smiling. "More of your friends?" she quitely asked Bui. "The opposite." the latter replied gravely. Lola thought on it for a moment, then understood as she stops smiling. "Mind if we join you?" Toguro ani asked, well, not exactly asking, and both took it upon themselves to sit with the three. "Your orders?" Yuusuke goes up to the two new arrivals. His facial expression didn’t seem too friendly...... "Just what those two just had." Toguro otouto said rather monotonously. Lola suddenly started to sniff the air. "What's the problem?" Karasu asked. "Somebody doesn't smell too good?" he continued, glancing sideways at the Toguro brothers. The younger brother told his older brother to calm down. "Someone different." Lola smiled at her friend. The smile was the one of total oblivion, and would still be there even during a fight. (ever seen Fat Buu from DBZ? That's the smile:) "Different?" the Toguro team concentrated for a moment. "How interesting, it's my dear old Kurama." Karasu suddenly said, his tone already beginning to change. "*His* dear old?" Lola asked Bui, perhaps even with a hint of jealousy in her voice with the smile definitely gone. Uh oh, how do I answer this question? Bui wondered to himself. While still thinking, Kurama, Kuwabara, Yukina, Botan and Genkai showed up, walking towards the stand. All haltered as they saw the once defeated Toguro team having large bowls of steaming noodles. Toguro Otouto was the first to get up and ran over to the new arrivals. "Which one's Kurama?" Lola asked Bui. Clearly, she was already upset. "The one with red hair." Bui replied, avoiding those questioning big blue eyes. He was trying to give Karasu a look of 'this one's not happy', but his friend was too intent on diverting Kurama's attention away from the Toguro bros. Lola gave a little sniff, and observed Karasu's face with big large eyes, like a puppy trying to make it's owner guilty, therefore giving it food. "Bui, get those envelopes ready." Karasu ordered and raised his ki. Just before Kurama accepts the envelope from Toguro Otouto, he sensed the ki, and looked around, All of a sudden, Karasu zipped in right next to Toguro, and proceed to sling one hand over Kurama's shoulder as if greeting an old friend. Kurama's emerald green eyes stare in utter fear at Karasu. "Kuwabara, I need to have more sleep. I think I'm having hallucinations." the bewildered Kurama said to the also stunned Kuwabara. "I don't think so Kurama." Kuwabara replied, legs tensed, ready to carry its owner away. Kurama immediately freaks out, and sends a shower of fists at Karasu, who easily stepped back. "I heard that in one of human's pathetic religions, violence is the last resort of the incompetence." Karasu said, the tone of his voice is dripping with desire to kill Kurama. The latter could not move because of fright. "They aren't exactly good friends, are they?" Lola curiously asked Bui. Should he tell her or not, that Karasu will take his chance and kill Lola when the time comes one day. He threw the whole stack of invitations at Karasu when he made a signal for it. "Hand these out to the rest of your friends for me would you?" he said shoving the invitations to a dumbstruck Kurama. Bullying victim number two, Bui thought, without much interest at his friend’s habit. Is picking on weak creatures at a young age to see them squeal in fright the cause of where sadism all starts, Bui wondered. He then looked at his side and found that Lola was gone. Looking ahead, he saw that she was tugging at Karasu's sleeve. While the Toguro brothers and Karasu were being distracted, Botan had taken this chance to fly away to tell Koenma. Lola's eyes were clearly upset. Karasu looked down at her with his questioning violet eyes. He didn't understand why Lola would be upset. She only said one word. "Choose." "Between what?" Karasu replied, totally confused. Bui started shaking his head, wondering why he didn't hold onto Lola. "Left hand or right hand. I'll attempt to drag you away with my left, or if you chose right, I'll punch in you the face and never see you again." Lola demanded. It was a bitter threat, an ultimatum. Karasu, thought hard about what the whole thing was about, finally let out a long sigh, and slinged his arm over Lola's shoulder, and the pair went back to their table to continue eating. However, Toguro Otouto, with the instructions of his brother, blocked their way. Swatting Karasu away almost like a fly, he proceeded to treat Lola in the same fashion as Karasu. "Don't worry pretty one, we'll be your friends." Toguro ani said, his voice contaminated with evil of course, but then, I don't think he could have managed anything else and he reached down with an arm extension and started to drag Lola away from Karasu. Lola looked in surprise at the hand on her shoulder but couldn't react. Karasu however looked on with blazing eyes. The next minute, he had blasted the brothers a dozen feet or so away. "Just watch who you're touching." each of his words were like acid. Everyone backed away as they saw a fight about to start. Kuwabara stoods protectively over Yukina. "That short one's mine." Lola shouted, serious, just like the time when they were fighting that afternoon. Genkai was amazed that she saw fear in Karasu's eyes. The metal bo of Lola appeared again from out of nowhere. Both watch intensely as Toguro Otouto came charging back. "I'll take both of them on." Lola shouted, and took off, blue aura emanating, leaving Karasu standing as he closed his ears , and Bui, now also standing beside him, does the same, waiting for some crash or slam to come after Lola thrashes the Toguro Bros. Soon, a loud expected CRASH was heard, and the Toguro brothers were sliding into the concrete ground. "Ok, that's it! No more fighting here!" Yuusuke shouted, raising his ability to the highest, the S-level smell, which immediately caught everyone's attention. It threatened to kill the next person to breathe. "There they all are Koenma-sama!" Botan's urgent voice from above was heard. All tension disappeared. Koenma, in his kid form, started to address two tattered Toguros, Karasu and Bui. "You have broken a pact made with Makai and Reikai. No demon above the level D is allowed into the human world." but in kid form he was in, it made it a bit hard to take him seriously. "You'll have to do better than that Koenma-sama" Toguro Otouto said with his monotonous voice. "The ruler of Makai's idea. He's very powerful, I don't suggest you mess with him." Koenma kept his cool. Yuusuke's around. I'll be safe, he thought. He kept going. "Allow me to keep explain. Two and a half years ago, there was this tournament and whoever won, would become the ruler of Makai for the next three years, without question, and then, another tournament will be held......" and Koenma ranted on and finishes. Basically, what he went on blabbering about was the concept of havin one ruler for Makai between the waring countries of Mukuro, Reizen and Yomi..... Then, there was silence, and it was Karasu who broke the silence. "Dear god, please hurry up and take my life to spare me from eternal damnation." Karasu prayed out loud. He could not believe what he just heard. Kurama takes this chance to mentally depress Karasu even more. "And Hiei and Mukuro are probably going to get married soon." Kurama filled in for them. "You're kidding! Mukuro. THE Mukuro." Karasu thought he was going mad. "Cheer up Karasu, it's not all that bad. What happens if you win the Makai tournament. Who will be ruler then? You know, I think I'll go and try...." Lola broke off into her own world, and starts laughing to herself as the possibilties ran through her head. The violet eyes light up, but dim again. "Makai tournament, I don't think I'll get through the peliminaries though." Karasu said, brooding over the possibilities of all the other S-level youkais. "Hoi Yuusuke! Another two bowls should be enough." Lola shouted to Yuusuke, who was back at his stand. "And while we're all here, I'd like to try Yuusuke's cooking too." Koenma 'ordered'. Everyone ended up having a bowl. Toguro brothers abruptly got up and declared they are leaving after the shocking news. "Kurama, Kuwabara, Genkai, have you been bored lately? If you want something to do, I've always got something up my sleeve." Koenma politely approached the aggressive three. "Just spit it out." Genkai couldn't stand people who twist and turn things before getting to the point. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------