The Left Hand Of Darkness 23, Releasing Energy, the Hard Way~yyh

Koenma flew backwards and slid across the floor as you rose up to your full height. You stood glowering down at him, the rage rising inside you as you stared at his hated form. You felt utter disgust and a burning fury. Your aura expanded, swelling out of your body and curling around you in murderous turquoise waves. You could feel your color draining as your temperature elevated and your right hand clenched and unclenched, wishing for your katana. He dragged himself up while holding the side of his face. You had backhanded him hard enough to split his lip and leave a darkening handprint across his cheek. You had managed to hold back, you had avoided breaking any bones or snapping his neck "I am trying very hard," you whispered. "Not to..." it wasn't working and your voice rose, "Slit your Throat for that Comment!" He looked at you calmly and wiped his mouth. "Just calm down Miti. You really shouldn't get this worked up anymore. It's been years-"

You started shaking, almost convulsing from the effort it took to keep yourself under control, the demon in you was fighting to be free, to cast down your weaknesses-compassion, empathy, love- and just kill, kill everything, everyone, starting with the brat in front of you. This was the rage you kept welled up, dammed up, along with your sadness. Either one or the other had to come out when provoked like that, and this time it was rage.

Your head hung forward, your hair a low curtain shielding your face from view and your energy, your aura was a whiling iridescent cloud, obscuring your body. You slowly began to stop shaking and all of a sudden the youki just sucked back into your body. Some bright morning, when this life is over, I'll fly away. When I die, hallelujah bye and bye, I'll fly away. Koenma let out a relieved sigh as you threw your shoulders back and flipped your hair out of your face. "You know one day pretty soon I'm gonna have a stroke from all the strain and torture you put me through you bastard. And I hope you know I expect you to pay for the funeral, and it damn well better be fancy! I even have the plans for my monument all drawn up. You're paying for that too, since in the end Koenma, you're the one opponent I can't defeat, the one that will kill me." You stuck your hands in your pockets and stared down at him. "You have no shame. In some ways you're even worse than Him, at least He stopped torturing me after a few hours, but you, you just keep on." You put a hand over your heart. "Keep on stabbing. Akuma told me once it's the emotional damage that's the worst, the most terrible, I still don't know if that's true. But I do know it can hold it's own against physical pain, and I'm one person who should know." "Mitsuko-" "Don't. You know you'll only make it worse, you insensitive jackass. Does it give you any comfort, I wonder, that I look forward to my death? Is that why you treat me this way, to make me wish to die? Well if that's your intention you sure have accomplished it. My only hope is to thwart you as a soul, escape your clutches at last in death, and hide among the humans again." "I'm never going to win an argument with you, am I?" "Not if you're wrong."

You let your hand drop to your side and glanced back at the others. "I'm sorry Lily, but I'm in no mood to teach right now, I have to leave. I'm half sick of these shadows. But I'll call Yura to help you with the staff, its her weapon." You picked up Keibihiko who was laying submissively at your feet and petted him absent mindedly. "Give him to Yura too, when she gets here, I'm going to go kill something, well, lot's of somethings," you said pushing the dog into the girl's arms. You turned and walked out of the room without a backwards glance.

i shoulda just killed him!
for once i agree with the psychopath /\ it's time for a rampage or two
whoa, that was some major angst coming from me right there!

"Don't go after her!" Koenma said quickly as you walked down the halls. "She's still quite dangerous right now." He paused and shuddered. "You didn't see her eyes." You turned and slammed your fist into the nearest wall and were only mildly sated when it vaporized. You were depressed and needed to kill something or you'd break down and cry. Your walkie-talkie crackled to life. "Miti! Somebody! Little help here!" "Claire where the Hell are you?" you growled back. "There is a situation in New Guinea, some backup would be appreciated if you could spare some time for your job." You threw the thing back in a pocket and ripped out a vial. In ten seconds you were in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

uhhh, am i here to kill monkeys or soemthing? i mean, i thought i'd go after something challenging
poor little Claire! Kids shouldn't be out in jungles, even if they're vampire kids
Two days later Koenma opened a portal and you stepped out of a Dresden suburb and into his Spirit World office. "Miti 25, werewolves 2!" you proclaimed proudly as you brandished a bloody arm. "Oh My God, you were bitten?!" Koenma shrieked as he jumped backwards. Cackling and shaking your arm to make the gore disappear you quipped, "What, you thought I'd let 25 werewolves lay a tooth on me?" "No not really," he sighed, patting his heart. "Is Claire alright?" "Recovering. I tried to tell her wolf hunting wasn't her thing before but she's stuck small so she always has to go prove herself by nearly getting killed. I tracked that branch's source back to Germany where I kicked some major wolfy ass." "Uh, aren't you going to try to kill him?" You turned your head and looked at Yusuke with a bland expression. "Hm?" "But you were so on the verge of a freak out!" You glanced at Kuwabara. "That was two days ago. Obviously you two have not seen me around Koenma enough to know that he regularly drives me to homicidal fits. I go out for a couple days, kill lots of things, then come back all tuckered out and ready for a nap."

Koenma looked up suddenly. "Germany?! Did you see Gunter?" A dreamy smile spread slowly across your face. "Gunter, six foot one, wavy blonde hair, hazel eyes, twenty five years old, speaks four languages and was one of my best spies until you stole him. Why yes Koenma, I did see him- last night in fact." Now it was Koenma's turn to be the one shaking with rage. "What?" you said in your fake cheery voice. "You act as if you actually expect me to obey your asinine orders; you know I'm not about to do that, especially not when I'm madly in love." You turned and walked out of the room. "Mitsuko! You're always madly in love! Mitsuko! It's no excuse!" Koenma shouted after you.

You ignored him and kept going, in a few seconds you heard the patter of Lily's footsteps as she chased after you. "Hey Miti! Wait up!" You stopped and waited for her to catch up. "Sorry to run out on you like that Lily-chan. How you doing?" "Oh pretty good I guess. It's fine you know, you needed to get the anger out of your system. We all need to do that sometimes! So Yura's been giving me bo staff lessons for the past two nights and Megumi started me on the bow and arrow last night, she's such a good shot!" "How are you holding up? You're under an intense regiment." "Well, the guys have Really been beating me up, it's pretty hard, but between Megumi and Botan they manage to heal me enough that I can go through my evening training with the girls and get up in the morning." "Ah, well it's good they're around. So how bout that spirit energy of yours?" You looked at her closely and saw no difference in the struggling red ki. [Unusually bright color for someone like her, wait, there's something much darker there too.] "I haven't released anything! Yusuke keeps joking that I don't have any energy and they all seem to think the way to make it come out is to beat me to a pulp!" There was real frustration and fear in her voice and she seemed to be on the verge of crying. "Well that's why I'm here. Great Teacher Mitsuko to the rescue!" you exclaimed as you threw an arm around her shoulder and led her in the right direction to get to the first training arena. "Today we unlock the cage. Are you feeling angsty?" "Sorta." "Good! I'm gonna threaten your life and piss you off, not necessarily in that order mind you. And that should do the trick."

~~Back in Koenma's Office~~
"What do you mean she's always in love Koenma?" Kurama asked. "Ugh," the little prince rubbed his forehead and glared at the doors. "That damn girl is always picking up guys and 'falling in love' with them. It's her excuse for running around with whoever she pleases; she breaks it off when she finally decides she's tired of being used, or when she gets the idea in her head that he, whoever he is, deserves someone better." "They don't dump her?" Yusuke asked. Koenma chuckled darkly. "No one in their right mind would ever dump Mitsuko." The boys gulped. "Oh no boys, she's not violent towards her boyfriends, but just think about her powers. She jokes that she is the ultimate toy; she can become what any man desires and routinely does to mess with people. She can show you anything she wants, whether it's your worst nightmare or most blissful dream, she can change your emotions, make you pee yourself in terror or melt with joy. That's really what makes her so dangerous in one on one situations. Follow them. Make sure Mitsuko doesn't get Lily to do anything illegal or dangerous, she's up to something and in this mood it could be anything." "Oh great, just what we need on top of everything else," Yusuke grumbled cheerily.
er, let's get this straight right now, i'm not a whore!
guys! lots of guys! and they're all mine! muwahahahaha! I rock!
aw that's sad! i don't think i'm good enough T.T
~~Back to You~~
You walked into the massive room and ordered everybody else out. Of course they all scampered for the doors while Lily picked up her weapons and you took up position in the center of the largest sparring circle which was in the dead center of the room. "Okay Lily, think of this as a fight for your life, I'm a monster and it's quite possible that I'll kill you. She gulped but you saw the determination in her face and couldn't help thinking that this was a strong little girl.

"So cat, you're gonna try now?" Yusuke asked as the boys strolled up. "There is no try for a competent professional Yusuke, and I have a name." And without further warning you leap forward. She swung the bo staff up to block but you caught hold of it then wrenched it from her grip and sent it sailing across the room. "Aw Hell no! You did not just throw my fucking staff bitch," she snapped as she picked up her shinai. She lunged at you, it was a very good lunge, for a beginner. You grabbed the tip and pulled it upwards. She held onto it as she feet began to lift off the ground and you struck out mentally, sending her sprawling backwards, "Jesus," she groaned. She got up and went for her next weapon, the sai. You moved forward at the same time to block her, but she snatched one then rolled out of the way of your kick. You grabbed the blade with one hand and hit her for real this time. She was thrown almost to the edge of the ring and landed hard on the crash mat. In the middle of the ring you stood waiting, trying to look as inhuman as possible. A small line of blood trickled down the blade you were holding and onto the mat. The drops were audible in the silence of the arena. You had to frighten her, scare the living daylights out of her, and make her forget for at least one brief moment that she was probably the safest she would ever be in her life at this moment.

Now completely disarmed, Lily circled around, trying to look for an opening; you had noticed already that she had a good eye for this sort of thing. You dropped the sai and sprung at her, your speed reduced to make the fear last longer as she saw you coming. She hit out at you but it made no difference as you grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up. She was at least 110 pounds and it was taxing to hold her up for a long time; your legs didn't like supporting another person as well. If this had been twenty years ago it would have been different. You snapped yourself out of the self-pity trip and snarled as you shook her, but still nothing. This damn girl's energy was locked away too well.

"Mitsuko!" Yusuke shouted from the sidelines. "That's enough!" "Kiya!" she screamed and broke your hold expertly, someone had taught her well. She went scrambling away but in a single movement you were in front of her, blocking her retreat. "Miti! This isn't fun anymore!" she cried. "Fun?" you snarled out. "It's not supposed to be fun!" You kicked her across the ring but turned your foot to avoid breaking any of her ribs. "If you can't summon the power to save yourself now you will Die!" [Die in the tournament,] you snickered inwardly. You pounced and dragged her up again. There was some disturbance outside the ring, but you had to focus on Lily. You went into her mind and began manipulating her emotions, elevating her fear, anxiety, clouding her ability to reason, increasing adrenaline levels. You spotted the change and dropped her, getting away just in time to avoid the blast.

Blast? what blast?!
To find out go to the results ^_^
~~Boys' Perspective~~
Mitsuko actually looked like a demon for once, fierce, red-eyed, with fangs bared and low animal-like movements as she pounced. She was a lot like a house cat toying with its prey and it was horrible to watch, just as Lily's determined face and rather decent attacks were unbearable in the face of such a powerful monster. Yusuke started yelling for Mitsuko to stop but Kurama noticed the demon was actually doing the girl considerably less damage then each of them had done her over the last three days. Mitsuko was making it look terrible, making herself look fearsome and she was emitting as bloodthirsty aura, but he could tell it was faked. When she kicked the girl across the ring Yusuke made a move to go up and break them apart but Kurama stopped his impetuous friend. "Wait, she knows what she's doing." "How can you say that?! She's about to rip Lily apart!" "No. The cat seems to have practice with this," Hiei snorted. Mitsuko dropped Lily, turned tail and ran, vaulting out of the ring at an amazing speed. She shoved Yusuke and Kuwabara back as a bright red light, dark and fierce, burst out of Lily and engulfed her completely.

She disappeared from sight as her aura expanded, the center becoming black. Mitsuko clapped her hands together and closed her eyes, a wall of white flames shot up, deflecting the red light. "How do we stop her?" Yusuke shouted over the noise of the whirling aura and dancing fire. "We don't, we have to let her burn out. This might take awhile, feel free to leave so I don't have to protect you anymore." "You can't stop her?" "I could, but I'd hurt her you idiot! She's attacking us and I'm blocking! If I counter with another attack she won't block and I'd inflict--shit" The light had suddenly withdrawn, sucking back into Lily. They saw her, on her knees with windblown hair and eyes that were the reddish black of her spirit energy. "Veil of darkness--engulf!" Mitsuko laughed and yelled out "Light of the sun--illuminate!" A bright light flashed from Mitsuko's hands and utter darkness ebbed out of Lily. The light hit the darkness and burned it away. "To-" "I'd stop if I were you," the cat said calmly. "I know all those attacks, and their proper counters and you are not yet near strong enough to match me." Lily shook herself vigorously until her eyes cleared. "I did it, it's unlocked. I don't think the spell was supposed to be so hard to break..." She faded out and slumped forward, unconscious.

~~Back to You~~
You ran forward and knelt down by Lily's side, trying to hide how heavily you were panting from the boys. You were not a strong psychic as psychics go and elemental magic or psychic attacks were an extreme drain on your energy. Normally you would never use those attacks unless you were outside with direct access to the ground and the earth's energy. Lily was not just unconscious, she had slipped into some kind of dream. You examined her mind quickly and discovered that this was in fact no dream, but a memory that had been suppressed by an outside force.