"Eliminations"

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The boat was half way to the island as Yusuke fell asleep on the ground while Dai leaned against Hiei to rest up while Kurama watched them with a smile, all though his eyes warned the fire demon to treat his kit well or else he would be eaten alive by one of the fox's demonic plants.

Yusuke was sleeping as he leaned against the side near his four friends.

"Shoot, nothing here but ugly monsters. I thought cruises were supposed to have pretty girls." Kuwabara said.

"I'm ignoring that." Dai said.

Kuwabara then looked over at the Masked Fighter with a smirk as he thought that he was stronger.

"I sure hope the island isn't as boring as this." Hiei commented.

"We're not on vacation you know." Kurama said.

"I know, but couldn't they have at least give us a place to eat with pretty waitresses?" Kuwabara pouted.

"All righty maties, open your eyes to the captain's deck." The pirate said making the humans, demons and witch all look over to the control room.

"It's still going to be quite a time before the ship finds its way to the harbor, so we have some events to keep you busy." He said.

"Oh, I knew it! It's some dinner and dancing." Kuwabara jumped up.

"The preliminary battles of the tournament will be fought here on this ship." The pirate said.

Everyone was confused by this as they tried to think of what he meant.

"Say what?!" Kuwabara asked.

"A preliminary for the competition." Hiei said.

"Now that we can't go anywhere." Kurama said.

The boat started to shake startling everyone.

"Earthquake!" Kuwabara gasped.

"Fool, there can't be earthquakes on the water." Hiei said.

"Is there a sea monster under the ship?" Dai asked as she looked out to the water.

"Look!" Kurama pointed.

Under some demons' feet, the ground started to move and opened up to reveal an arena for battles rising up.

"Whoa, that thing's huge." Kuwabara said.

"She's a real beauty ain't she?" the pirate asked.

Some demons were laughing and murmuring happily over this.

"Now I'll tell it to ya straight. 15 teams have already been chosen for the Dark Tournament and they're awaiting your arrival. Now out of all of you on my ship, only one team can make it." the pirate said.

The demons were all yelling about this while team Urameshi looked over thoughtfully.

"Hold on, I thought that we were the special guests." Kuwabara said.

"That's the way they operate." Hiei said.

"All teams pick out your strongest man and bring him to the arena's port side. There they'll fight and whoever comes out alive will be in the finals at Hanger Neck Island." The pirate announced.

The demons all cheered at this while Kuwabara cracked his knuckles in anticipation.

"One big beat down, huh? Guess I'll have to show 'em the brand new Kuwabara super attack." He said as a large demon stepped up behind him.

"Yes, I do prefer larger battles. One on one makes me bored." He said.

"And an excellent chance to sharpen my claws." A green skinned demon with shaggy green hair said as he held up his hand as his claws glinted in the light.

"Now I can kill as many apparitions as I want to. After all, I can turn that boy Urameshi inside out of course." A grey skinned demon with horns around his mouth grinned

One by one, a demon from each team walked up the stairs onto the arena while Kuwabara's eye twitched in fear.

"Uh, what did he say about the human? You know, these guys are kinda big when they're standing right next to you and everything." Kuwabara asked.

He then started to laugh nervously to try and make himself seem braver then he already felt and then pointed at Yusuke who was still sleeping.

"Hey, that's right. You're the one that wants to fight them. Well, I guess as the group leader, he is your responsibility." Kuwabara said.

"He's sleeping ya moron." Dai said.

He looked at her in surprise as he then looked at the raven haired teenager as he saw that it was true that Yusuke was sleeping.

"Hey, wake up Urameshi! As the group leader, it's your responsibility!" he yelled as she tried to shake him awake.

It didn't work at all since Yusuke was still snoring softly.

"Why do I feel like I'm screaming at myself?" Kuwabara yelled as he shook Yusuke again.

"Stop." Kurama said as he stepped over making Kuwabara look up at him.

"The training Yusuke went through is apparently immense. You must give him time to recuperate." The fox demon said.

"Then who's gonna fight with all of the big monsters?" Kuwabara asked as he stood up to face Kurama.

Masked Fighter then stepped off over to the arena as the team watched her (Dai knew she was a woman since she could sense it from her aura).

"Hn. It seems we have a volunteer." Hiei grinned as the woman walked over.

"Good, I'm anxious to see what he can do." He said.

Dai leaned over and whispered in his ear.

"It's really a woman in disguise." She whispered into his ear and he nodded in understanding.

"Are you serious? We don't know jack squat about that guy. What if he loses and we get booed at the tournament?" Kuwabara yelled.

"If that happens all we have to do is kill everyone else on the boat when we reach the island. We'll say that we're the right team and no one will complain." Hiei said.

Kuwabara deadpanned at this while Dai giggled at how easily the fire demon said this.

"You didn't have too many friends growing up did you?" Kuwabara asked.

Yusuke was still snoring during this as Masked Fighter walked up onto the arena and all of the demons turned to her, ready to gain up on her.

They assumed she would be the weakest that would go down easily just because she is a human.

"Hey, we gotta do something to warn him. They're all gonna gain up on him and trap him in the corner." Kuwabara said.

"Patience." Kurama said.

"ATTACK!" the pirate said.

At that, all of the demons charged at Masked Fighter, but she went down into a fighting stance as her fist was covered in her spirit energy and she blasted them with it, taking them all out and sending them overboard.

"Uh, holy crap. He got everyone up there with one blow." Kuwabara said as Masked Fighter started to make her way down the stairs.

"I guess that explains why Yusuke can sleep so peacefully on a boat full of demons." Kurama chuckled softly.

The demons and pirate were all shocked by what they had seen.

"I'm sorry to say that the 16th team will have to be a human one. Yusuke Urameshi's team!" The pirate yelled, but he wasn't happy about it.

"Good job, little man. So how about you let us see under those bandages now?" Kuwabara asked the fighter as she came over to them.

Instead of removing her bandages, she pointed behind him to make everyone turn to see the demons all glaring at them and advancing on them.

"Hey, what's this?" Kuwabara asked.

"Mutiny?" Dai asked.

"You really think we care about fighting by the rules?" a purple demon with spikes on his head asked.

"There's only one way to find the best team on this boat." A brown skinned demon said as he punched his fist in his hand.

"Wouldn't you know?" Kuwabara scoffed.

"I think they stole my idea. We'll have to make them pay very dearly for that." Hiei glared.

"Of course." Kurama said as he pulled out his rose.

Then, they all went into fight as some demons advanced on Dai who gave them a smirk.

"This is gonan get messy." She said.

Then, she flung up her hands and made about three of them blow up, sending their blood and other remains around them, which surprised some of the demons.

"You really wanna mess with me now?" she asked as her eyes glowed red.

The demons threw themselves at her, but she fought back, being faster than them with all of the training she had gotten while Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara and Masked Fighter fought the other demons off.

They were either killed or thrown overboard.

Some demons even tried to go after the sleeping Yusuke, but were surprised when he lashed out at them from his sleep as if he were trained to defend himself even in his weakest moment which made Dai laugh at the demons he beat up.

"Come on, you can't scare me, grandma! I'll send you back to your grave!" Yusuke yelled.

"Well, at least he's finally awake." Kuwabara said.

"No you fool. He's sleeping." Hiei explained.

The demons were all defeated, so the team could now relax.

"Right now?" Kuwabara asked.

"Quit it you stupid old lady!" Yusuke yelled before he fell back down to rest properly.

"Even in his slumber, Yusuke is reliving his training. His preparation does make us all jealous." Kurama said.

"I thought I trained pretty hard. I had three teachers for pity sake." Dai pouted which made him smile down at her and plucked a chunk of demon flesh from her hair.

She was very messy when it came to killing, if she were his kit in the old days, he would have taught her how to kill without all the mess, but he found it made her adorable.

"But she wouldn't fight unless she had her own reasons." Kuwabara said thoughtfully making everyone look at him curiously.

"What are you mumbling?" Kurama asked.

"He's trying to talk in his sleep when he's awake." Hiei said as the four others walked off.

"Oh, hey, what happened to the fight we were just in?" Kuwabara asked.

"Everyone's dead." Kurama stated.

"Oh. Ew." Kuwabara said.

"Aw, gross. Dai, you really need a shower." He said once he took in the girl's messy form.

"Shut up or else I'll make you go boom next." Dai warned.

Chuckling at this, Kurama gathered the girl up in his arms and took her over to the side of the boat to rinse her hair out of the blood and clean up her face so she would look presentable until they got to the island and she could shower.

Later, they all went over to the front of the boat to see the island they were getting closer to.

"So I take it that's Hanger Neck Island. This is gonna be wild, you guys. Everybody make sure not to leave me." Kuwabara said.

"Aw, it's not that bad. I mean, I was in a world filed with nothing but darkness once before and almost got killed plenty of times by powerful monsters. Don't worry so much." Dai smiled at him.

He gave a small smile at that and gave her a light punch to the arm as she stuck his tongue out playfully.

Once docked, they went up to the Hotel Kubikukuri that looked very expensive as they stared up at it.

"Are we really staying here?" Kuwabara asked as he helped Yusuke walk.

The sliding doors opened up and they stared inside in amazement at what lay inside, which were humans dressed in fancy evening wear and sipping at Champaign.

"Wow! Well, it's definitely better than the pirate ship." Kuwabara said.

A man then walked over to them.

"The best of the evening gentlemen and lady. The hotel has been expecting you." he said as he turned to lead them to their room.

"Please, follow me." he said as they all walked through the crowd.

"I got a bad feeling about the people in here. Never trust the grown-ups dressed that fancy." Kuwabara said.

The rich humans from different countries were staring at them and whispered about the group.

In the room they were given, it was very nice and had a crystal chandelier above them and some sat on the couches while Yusuke was laid down on one of the couches.

"I call shower first!" she yelled.

"Huh, why you?" Kuwabara asked.

"I'm a teenage girl and I have demon guts in my hair." She stated.

"…Fair enough." He shrugged.

With that done, she went off to shower and made sure that she was cleaned off from the gunk and then changed into an orange night gown that had thin straps and the skirt reached to her knees and then joined the males.

"I gotta hand it to 'em. They sure know how to make things pretty." Kuwbara said.

"I haven't seen this much rich stuff in my whole life." He said.

The door opened up by the man from before who had a cart with six cups of coffee on it, but there was another presence that slipped into the room that made Dai go on alert.

"Your evening coffee gentlemen and lady. Compliments of the hotel." He said as he set the coffee cups on the table, bowed and then left.

"Careful, those fancy guys must be trying to poison us." Kuwabara said as he gave his cup a wary glance.

"Does that really make sense Kuwabara? Why would they bring us all the way here to poison us?" Kurama asked as he took his cup.

"The organizers want to see us fight their murder attempts tomorrow." Hiei said as he pulled his potential mate into his lap.

"You guys can talk you logic all you want, but I'm sticking with the trusty old aluminum." Kuwabara said as he pulled a soda out of his bag.

"Ah. Why is there only two coffee cups on the table?" Kurama asked.

"Because I hate coffee, Yusuke's asleep, Kuwabara think's it poison and the demon that snuck in stole it." Dai said.

Shocked at this, they looked as she pointed over to where a childlike demon with wide green eyes and brown hair dressed in colorful clothing as he had three stars on his cheek was sipping the coffee cup.

"So the girl is the brains?" he asked.

The males all jumped up at this, Hiei shielding the witch from the small demon who was kneeling on the dresser behind them.

"How did he get in here?" Kurama asked.

"He-he must've been hiding in the room before we got in here." Kuwabara said.

"Fibber fibber. I came into the door after you got here, isn't that what good boys are supposed to do? Oops, I guess I did forget to knock though." The demon said innocently as he sipped at the coffee again.

"So you guys are the guests aren't you? You're so lucky. Oh, my name is Rinku by the way. I'm on the Rokuyukai that you're fighting tomorrow." He said.

"Is that so?" Kuwabara asked.

Dai then sensed another presence at the door and turned over to see the door opened and there was a blonde demon standing there looking impassively.

"So?" Kuwabara asked.

"I wish I was a guest. They don't have to go to all of the boring opening ceremonies or openings about the rules." Rinku said as he finished his coffee and then balanced on the cup with his fingers, tilting back and forth playfully on it.

"You just appear and fight. Guess you don't have to find about all the prizes and final rounds since you're definitely going to be dead soon." he said.

"Somebody told me the guests would be special, so I got excited, but you're not special at all. Maybe I'll even beat you no hands." Rinku grinned.

"Don't you think you're talking too much?" the blonde asked making the males all look at him.

"Really, is your witch the only one who can sense when danger comes?" he asked as he eyed the girl which made Kurama and Hiei tense up as they both stepped in front of her.

"What? Who is he? Something's wrong. I didn't sense either of them comin'." Kuwabara said.

"Oh, you guys are so lame." Dai groaned as she placed her hands on her face.

Rinku jumped over to his friend with a playful chuckle.

"Hey there Zeru. I was just saying 'howdy do' to our enemies." Rinku said.

"Enjoy your last night with the living. Let's just say that tomorrow you'll be strongly resembling your coffee cup." Zeru said.

"What?" Kuwabara asked as he looked.

The cup in front of him was then hit with an invisible force and broke down the middle and spilled coffee over the table.

"Thanks for the mess, jerk!" Dai called as the two demons walked out of the room.

Once they were gone, Dai then steppe din front of everyone with her hands on her hips with a look of disbelief.

"You mean to tell me ya couldn't sense either of 'em coming in here?" she asked.

"Well, no." Kuwabara said.

"Looks like we're all screwed." Dai said as she headed for her room.

During this encounter, Yusuke remained sleeping peacefully.

While she was in her room, Dai opened up the computer that was in the room and smiled as she held up her D-3 to the screen.

"Come on out, boy." She said as it glowed blue.

Out of the computer came the small, big red eyes dragon that jumped into his partner's arms and cuddled up into her chest.

"Dai, I missed ya!" he said.

"Chibimon, how are you?" she asked as she kissed his head.

Her door was then opened by the three awake males and she turned to them all.

"You brought a stuffed animal?" Kuwabara asked.

"You guys need to learn how to sense life force." Dai sighed as Chibimon jumped out of her arms and crawled onto her head.

"This is my digimon partner, Chibimon. Isn't he cute?" Dai asked

"Hi-ya!" the dragon chirped.

Kurama chuckled warmly at this as he walked over to the girl and looked at Chibimon kindly.

"It's nice to meet you, Chibimon. I am Kurama." He said.

"I know. Dai told me all about you guys. I can't wait to see how this tournament is gonna go. I'm be cheering for ya the whole way." Chibimon said.

Hiei cringed a bit at how loud the dragon sounded, but he realized that he would just have to put up with it since Chibimon was a big part of his potential mate's life.

(The next day…)

"Welcome humans and demons alike to Hanging Neck Island!" said the announcer who was a female cat demon that looked all cutesy and girly.

Everyone had filed into their seats to watch the tournament while the teams all stood together to watch what would happen next.

"Now let the Dark Tournament begin!" the cat demon yelled cheerfully as the demons all cheered and shouted for bloodshed.

To be continued…