A New Team, A New Challenge
By: BlackLadyCharon

Author's Note's: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, just Karma, Cherry, Flare, and Neko. This chapter is the only one that's in first person, and it's Koenma's viewpoint. I may write a prequel to this, depending on how many people ask and if I feel like it.

Prologue

I still can't believe that they're all gone. Yusuke, Keiko, Kurama, Aoi, Hiei, Phoenix, Kuwabara, and Yukina. Gone in a surprise attack by a band of demons, and they left ME with thier kids. I'm still not sure how I survived taking care of four half youkai's. Maybe it's because I've kept them in the Ningenkai and in America, where strange things are easily explained away.

All four of them are sitting in front of the T.V., vegged out on a Sailor Moon marathon. I look at them, seeing how much they resemble their fathers. There's some features they get from their mother's, but mostly they're their Daddy's girls.

Karma is the one in the white tank top and black pants, sitting cross legged on the couch, cheering for Sailor Saturn, her favorite scout. She's definetely Yusuke's baby, with that face, those brown eyes, and her natural ability to kick anyone's ass, including her team mates. She got her brown hair from Keiko though, and a royal slap attack that makes most boy's think twice before messing with her. And she has some inventive way's to use her youkai form and her Spirit Gun and Shotgun Blast's.

Cherry's the one in pale pink, fingering a red rose. She has fine feature's, and her mother's pale blue eyes, but her father's long red hair, and ability to steal things right from under my nose. She also inheirited Kurama's ability to become a kitsune, save she has nine tails, and still keeps her nother Aoi's blue eyes. She's second in command, and has enough boy's dancing attendance on her it's surprising that she doesn't have them carrying her through the school halls on a litter.

Flare's the only one on the floor, and the smallest one to boot, just like her dad, Hiei. She wears a black tanktop and pants, with knee boots and a sword at her hip, along with a warded headband, because she somehow inheirited Hiei's Jagan Eye. Her eyes are red, but her black hair has streaks of red and yellow from her mother Phoenix, the only woman who ever out fought, out sped, and out incinerated Hiei. Flare can definetely start a fire, and she's fast. Just about every girl and boy in her school is afraid of her, but she can't beat Karma, no matter how hard she tries.

Neko's the youngest, by birthday's, as they're all eighteen years of age, dressed in a little blue dress and matching sandals. She has Kuwabara's carrot orange hair, and Yukina's pink eyes. She's a terror when she's got a cold, considering she sneezes ice. She can also wield her dad's Spirit Sword, and plenty of boy's look after her, so Cherry's not the only one with a boy monopoly.

Four little girl's, all born in the same year, all orphaned, and all half demons. I'm not quite sure what Flare and Neko look like as Youkai, as they stay human, period end of sentence. Still, maybe it's time to take them back to Japan, back to the house Kurama designed as the ulitamte fortress for four Youkai's and their human mates and half human children, which only a kitsune or someone with the plans would ever be able to find all the secret passages, tunnels, rooms, staircases, and hidey holes. Lucky me, I have the plans, and Kurama really went over board with his fox paranoia of not having an escape from almost every place. Still, it saved the girl's lives when the Youkai hoard attacked, though the solicitors in charge of the estate still have vague nightmares involving little girls with fangs and fox tails.

I'm not quite sure why all four wills named me guardian of the kids, but I'm stuck with them, which means I stay in my teenage to young adult forms. I don't even WANT to think of how much paper work I have back in the Reikai, or how I'm going to explain to my dad why I've had to take thirteen years off of work to raise four little girl's into four teenage girl's almost ready to become the new Spirit Detectives. They just need to get used to hunting Youkai and checking in with the Reikai, and the only way that they're going to be able to do that is to go back to Japan. The girl's have been in the Makai before, during the Tournament. The last one was when they were seventeen, and Karma came close to winning. Hopefully by the time she's twenty one she'll be strong enough to win, and learn just what ruling a third of the Makai is like.

The marathon has been forgotten, as Flare's started a fight and Cherry and Neko are trying to stay out of the way of Karma's Spirit Gun and Flare's fire. Time to pull them apart before the neighbor's come over and finally find out that I've been raising four monster's and not four humans. Then I'll tell them about the plans to go back to Japan. That should keep them busy for a while.

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Yusuke: You killed us all off so that youn could write this?
Hiei: Hn.
Kurama: When do we get to meet the girl's that we have to date during the prequel?
Later, IF I do the prequel.
Hiei: Hn. You had to make a Ningen female that could out do me, didn't you?
Of course, I did it to piss you off.