A/N: YuYu Hakusho is the sole property of Yoshihiro Togashi. I gain no profit in publishing this. I'm just a fan.
A/N 2: I decided to rewrite the story because I didn't like the way it developed after I published it.

1. Beginnings

Kazuma Kuwabara stopped numerous students in the hallway to ask them if they had seen Yusuke Urameshi. His classmates moved to the sides of the hall when they saw the tall, ginger-haired teen coming toward them, but they answered his question when asked. He wasn't too surprised to find that no one had seen Yusuke. It was still frustrating, however. As Kuwabara thought about the situation, he realized something. Though Keiko had made sure that Yusuke had gotten to school, he probably went up to the roof the first chance he got. Not wanting to head there right away, Kuwabara walked to the next student he saw. This boy stood facing the window without paying attention to the other students. Kuwabara noticed that the edges of his sleeves were laced with light blue trim. Despite this small detail, Kuwabara approached him without hesitation.

"Hey." The boy turned away from the window and faced him.

"Yes, can I help you?" he asked pleasantly.

"You know who Yusuke Urameshi is?" Kuwabara wasted no time. The boy nodded wordlessly.

"Have you seen him?" The boy seemed to think for a minute before answering the question.

"I believe I saw him head for the roof," he said in his pleasant tone. Kuwabara mentally slapped himself. He knew Yusuke would be there, so why did he bother to stop and ask a stranger if he would just confirm what he knew? He didn't say anything out loud. Instead he merely nodded in acknowledgement and headed toward the steps. The boy watched him leave with a smirk and made his way out of the building when no one was looking.

Kuwabara opened the door to the roof. He hoped Yusuke was in plain sight because he needed to talk about the dream he had woken from this morning. A figure was hidden in fog so thick that nothing could be seen save for a pair of black eyes. Everything about the dream had shaken him, but he didn't dare tell Shizuru because he figured that she would tell him to push it out of his mind and focus on his schoolwork. Kuwabara looked around. He didn't see Yusuke at first. Urameshi must be hiding, he thought. He started to walk toward the fenced edge and sat down. He thought back to the dream and tried to remember the details. He stood on one side of an open door facing the fog. He remembered trying to walk toward the figure, but his legs refused to work. He then tried to reach out and touch it, but his fingers wouldn't even twitch. Kuwabara didn't understand why this felt like more of a premonition than a dream. All of a sudden he heard a small clattering noise coming from the far end of the roof. He stood up slowly but hesitated. Should he really investigate? Yusuke could have done it in order to scare him, but there was another possibility. A demon could have managed to get up there with the intention of attacking him. Kuwabara gulped and took a step forward. He didn't hear the noise again, so he walked more quickly. He felt his heart beat faster as he got closer. This made him unaware of what he was about to face. All of a sudden Yusuke Urameshi charged at him. Kuwabara jumped back about two feet and started breathing heavily.

"Damn, Urameshi, you almost gave me a heart attack!" Yusuke merely chuckled lightly.

"Why didn't you say something when I called you?"

'Where's the fun in that?" was Yusuke's response. His chocolate brown eyes twinkled. Kuwabara glared at him, but nonetheless shrugged it off.

"I'm still glad I found you. There's something I wanted to tell you about." He walked back to the edge and sat down. Yusuke followed suit.

"Okay, shoot," he said to encourage Kuwabara.

"I had this dream last night, and before you say anything, it wasn't about a girl." This was apparently the wrong thing to say.

"I didn't know you swung that way, Kuwabara. I should try to look less pretty, then," Yusuke said with another chuckle.

"Shut up, Urameshi! That's not what I meant and you know it!" Kuwabara yelled before continuing his story. "I'm sure it was a man though there was too much fog for me to see clearly. All I could see were these black eyes. Here's what I think: do you remember the dream I had during the Dark Tournament?" Yusuke nodded. Even though the event paled in comparison to the terror that the Toguro brothers brought them, he still remembered the team of humans brainwashed by Dr. Ichigaki as a result of his sick experiments. His eyes narrowed as he realized what Kuwabara was getting at.

"You think we're gonna fight him soon." It was a statement rather than a question. Kuwabara nodded.

"Yeah. But the problem is that there's no way for us to know whether he's a human or a demon until he attacks us." Neither boy wanted to wait that long. Just then the door to the roof swung open. Botan ran toward them as soon as she saw them. She wore her decoy uniform.

"How has no one noticed that you're not really a student?" Yusuke asked her before she could say anything. She chose to ignore him for now.

"We've got a problem, you two." She summoned what looked like a briefcase and opened it, revealing a small screen. An image of what looked like a teenage boy showed up. Kuwabara's eyes widened as he saw him.

"It's him, Urameshi. I know it," he said. Botan loked over at him.

"What do you mean, Kuwabara?" He told her everything that he had previously told Yusuke.

"Well, that's not much for you to go by if you ever see him. Luckily we have this image," Botan said gesturing toward the screen. Yusuke and Kuwabara studied the image briefly before Botan closed the briefcase.

"Koenma thinks that he and a few friends are the cause of more than a few disappearances," she told the two. "Maybe I should elaborate. Numerous humans have turned up missing over the course of two weeks. All the reports to Spirit World show that he was in the area at the time of all the disappearances."

"Could he be killing them?" Yusuke asked her.

"I really don't know anything besides what I just told you," Botan said. She made the briefcase disappear and made her way to the door.

"I'll go back to Spirit World and see if I can find anything else," she said brightly before leaving.

"Why didn't she just fly from here?" Kuwabara asked Yusuke as he got up as well.

"Beats me." Yusuke moved until his back was against the fence. Kuwabara shrugged.

"See you later, Urameshi," he said, leaving Yusuke alone to ponder.

Later that day, Hanna Fujioka made her way toward a crib located next to her bed. When the small boy inside spotted her, he stretched out his arms for her to lift him up. She smiled as she reached him.

"Hi sweet pea! Did you miss me?" she asked as she lifted her younger brother up. She held him in her arms for a while she lay him on her bed. She had just gotten out of school and noted their father's absence. That's odd, she thought. Dad doesn't normally leave him by himself. She ran a hand through her dark hair, but a stink broke her thoughts. She rolled her eyes and immediately grabbed the necessary things for diaper-changing. After throwing the dirty diaper in the kitchen wastebasket she began worrying again. She considered calling the office their father worked at but ultimately decided against it. It wasn't that late anyway.

Hanna began to think about what she had gotten into as soon as their little family got to Japan. They had left her mother behind after her parents' divorce. What had happened was like a blur to her now. The teenage boy named Kai had come to her that first week to give her companionship and eventually a relationship. She was so preoccupied with being happy the she was too blind to realize something was off with him until he revealed his abilities and true intentions to her. According to him, there was a Spirit World and a Demon World besides the Human World and he wanted her to use the unique abilities she had acquired all of a sudden to help him take over. He and Hanna would rule the three worlds together. As soon as she heard his idea, she left him and refused to see or hear from him again. The phone rang all of a sudden. Hanna got off the bed and moved a hand upwards. Watery walls formed around the bed, ensuring that her brother wouldn't fall off after she left. Satisfied with the result, she walked to the phone and picked up the receiver.

"Hello?" She hoped it was her father.

"I have something that I hope convinces you to help, Hanna," the chilling voice on the other line said. She heard a faint voice yelling in the background.

"Shut him up, Kimi," Kai said before speaking to Hanna again. "We... found your father after his car broke down and offered him shelter." Hanna started to shake. "Meet me within the week with your decision, love." With that, he hung up. Hanna slammed the receiver and let down the shield. She held the little boy tightly. A lump formed in her throat as she spoke to him.

"I'm in trouble, Ken."

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