Disclaimer: I own none of the characters in yuyu hakusho except for the ones I made myself.

Authoress notes: This story is taking place right after the yuyu hakusho series ended and yusuke returns home from the demon world.

Prologue

It was a lovely Friday morning with the weather warm and sunny. Kya Katchina walked down the street heading over to Amanda's house going her usual route but walking much slower than she usually would to really take in the scenery. After all, this would be the last time she would see it. In her mind she replayed last night events over and over making her feel worse as she saw her friend's house in the distance.

~Last night at the dinner table~

It was going so well at dinner last night for Kya. Her Mother cooked her favorite meal and her brothers were behaving for once. Then her father had to drop the bomb.

"Kya, I have some news to tell you about my job. This will be your last summer here because we are moving away" said father in a serious voice.

"Oh that's nice…wait what! We're moving! But why do we have to move now!" She should have paid more attention to what he was saying. She was so upset by this sudden news that her appetite was lost.

"Your father's job decided to relocate him somewhere else" her mother said calmly. Kya looked towards younger brother Nick and middle brother Aaron to see their reactions. They just kept eating like nothing important happened meaning that she was the only one left out of the loop.

"You can't be serious I'm supposed to go Highland High School with my friends. We all said we were going to same high school together. You can't do this to me when were so close to fall now!"

"I'm sorry Kya but that's the way it has to be. We have to go where the money is" her father said while picking at his plate. Kya could only sigh realizing that this is a battle that she could not win. "So where are we moving to anyways?" She asked in a rather irritated but hopeful voice. ~Maybe it won't be too far from my friends. Maybe I can visit them on the holidays or spring break or something~ she thought trying to look on the bright side. That is until she heard the other piece of news.

"Japan" her father replied. There was no way she could contain her rage for any longer as she slammed her utensils to the table.

"We're moving to JAPAN! But we don't even speak the language! We don't know anyone in Japan either, this is ridiculous!" Kya exclaimed.

"Most of my coworkers are moving there as well Kya. And as for the language, well we will just have to learn it once were there now won't we?" Her father said sternly. "Honey, will we have to change our last names as well?" Her mother asked. Kya's father put down his fork and placed his hand on his chin pondering. "Well, if we are going to become citizens of Japan so I guess we'll have to think of what our new last name will be. It would have to be something powerful to replace Katchina."

Kya stood up from the dinner table. "I like being a Katchina! I don't want to change my name!"

" Kya, we are making a lot of sacrifices in order to keep this family from being out on the streets, and if it costs the loss of my last name then so be it!"

"But dad! I don't.."

"There will be no further discussion of this!"

Pissed beyond belief she excused herself from the table. Or rather stormed out of the dining room running upstairs to her room to vent the only way she knew how, Soul Caliber III. All of her anger was now set upon the poor pixelated fool that the game system set against Kya's custom character.

Ready…FIGHT! She laid into the computer opponent with a merciless combo of punches kicks and throws. "Take that stupid Voldo! Your ass is grass now! There will be no ring out for you, only pain! Move me to Japan will you? Well how about if I move this giant sword up your ass! All you do is take, take, take! You take my friends away! You take the only life I know away! You even take my name away!" She showed no mercy to the computer opponent that in her mind's eyes was her father in monster form. On and on she played ranting and raging to herself until the wee hours of the morning.

When Kya finally woke up she was lying in front of her game console with the words game over written across the screen. "I don't even remember when I passed out." She groaned as she sat up. Despite going to bed so late she noticed that the house was quiet meaning that she was up before her family. Kya rose to her feet walking into her bathrobe jumping into the shower. As she stepped out she wrapped her athletic lean body in her favorite sky blue bathroom with a cloud pattern. She walked over to the mirror styling her long raven colored hair into a high ponytail with bangs. She then applied vanilla scented lotion to her mocha skin, brushed her teeth and lightly brushed her eyelashes with mascara to bring out the brown in her eyes. Once she got dressed in her light blue v-neck shirt with a white skirt and white wedge sandals. She headed out the door without telling her parents.

~present time~

Kya stood in front of Amanda's house ringing the doorbell sighing. She answered the door greeting her friend with a smile. But Amanda's smile fades as she sees Kya's dismal expression. "Kya, why you look so down in the face girl? You look like you just broke your Playstation2 in half" Amanda said with her usual Jamaican accent as she let her into the house. "Well you see…" Kya began but was cut off by her other best friend Crystal. "Kai Kai!" She shouted in a high pitched voice, as she ran up to hug Kya half to death. "H-hi Crystal, you're crushing me again." Kya said in a strained voice.

"Oh, sorry about that. Guess I don't know my own strength" Crystal quickly let go and ran to the couch jumping over it like a hurdle and landing on the center cushion. "So what were you about to say Kya?" Amanda asked as she walked over to the couch sitting on the right cushion. Kya walked over and sat on the left cushion as she always did reaching for the remote and cutting on the big screen TV before explaining what was wrong.

"Japan!" Both friends say in time. Kya nodded slowly and sighed. "In about two weeks that will be my new home and school and a new name too…"Kya spoke in a shaky voice. Her friends knew that she was on the verge of tears and so were they. The three of them had been together since grade school up to the last year of junior high. "But that's at least two more weeks of doing as much as you can while you're here right Kya?" asked Amanda trying to cheer up. Crystal nodded in agreement then looked to Kya. "Yeah! Two weeks of memories! And when you go to Japan you have to send me anime okay?" Kya only tilted her head. "Anime, what's that?" Crystal had a blank expression on her face. "Well, looks like I have an idea of what to spend our first week on." Amanda laughed.

For the next two weeks in between packing Kya spent as much time as she could with her friends. She didn't have that many friends to leave behind but for the ones that Kya had, they were very close. The trio went to the movies, the mall and the arcade. And as Crystal promised they also had many sleepless sleepovers watching anime and old Godzilla movies in hopes of learning something from Japan. Sadly, it didn't help much but it did provide a good laugh for Kya.

It was the last day before the big move Kya, Amanda and Crystal decided to spend the last day at a park having a picnic bringing foods that they made from home. The three girls lie down on the grass looking up at the sky. The weather was nice and warm with many clouds in the sky and a slight breeze in the air.

"Kya?" Crystal asked.

"Yeah?"

"Can you do that one thing for me? Pretty please Kya for old time sake?"

"What one thing Crystal?"

"You know the thing you do with the clouds."

"Oh, you mean my Aeromancy. Sure Crystal what do you wanna know?"

"Will I find true love!" Crystal asked with enthusiasm.

Amanda laughed. "Hey Kya after her it's my turn okay?"

Kya nodded then looked up towards the clouds concentrating.

"Okay I see, a boat it looks large though so must be a cruise ship. This breeze is moving it slowly too so I say that your love ship is sailing towards you but it may take a while. So, In short yes Crystal."

"Yes I knew it!" Crystal cheered unable to contain her joy.

"Okay my turn Kya, and my question is…what lies in store for you in Japan?" Amanda asked.

Kya looked to Amanda in shock. "Amanda…"

"Don't worry about me Kya I like to leave my future a mystery but I am curious about what will happen to you."

"Well...alright." Kya looked up to the sky once more concentrating. The images of a rose, fox, heart and an unidentifiable creature came into focus. Kya smiled. "Looks like I might find love there but, the other images don't make sense. One of them looks like monster I can't identify it and the fox and rose is throwing me off. Heh it's always so hard to tell my own future from this sometimes." A gust of wind came out of nowhere blowing the napkins off of the girl's picnic blanket. Crystal ran after the flying napkins as Kya gasped at the sudden gust. "This one is strong…but I can't tell which image is meant to be the strong one the heart, fox, rose or monster?" Amanda stayed silent as she saw Kya in deep thought.

Crystal came back with the napkins tight in her hands as the gust of wind died as quickly as it came. "Maybe, its godzilla!" Crystal exclaimed. Both Kya and Amanda looked towards her in confusion. "You will fall in love with a foxy Godzilla monster that will give you a rose on your first date!" There was a long pause as both Amanda and Kya stared at their peculiar friend as Crystal began to stomp around reenacting the old Godzilla film. "Roar I Foxy Godzilla! Kya's good looking so I date her now! I never mess up cities again and here is Rose for pretty Kya!" Crystal happened to find a dandelion and handed it to Kya while still being in character. Kya fell over laughing in which her two friends joined her in laughter. The three friends stayed at the park until sunset. Before they left each took a commemorative photo of the other to keep with them always.

The two weeks seemed like two days as Kya stood in front her friends for the last time. "I'll be sure to email you once I get there. Heh, as soon as I get settled in that is." Kya said while hugging her dear friends tightly at the airport.

"Kya, we wanted to give you some presents before you go." Amanda said as she held hers out wrapped in a sky pattern. Kya smiled. "You even remembered my favorite wrapping paper." "Me too Kya! Me too!" Crystal said while holding out a sky pattern gift bag. Kya open Amanda's present first, it was an English to Japanese dictionary. "I think it will come in handy there hm?" "Thank you so much Amanda while I'm trying to figure out if they are talking about me or not, I will think of you." Kya said as while she opened Crystal's gift bag. Crystal's gift was a manga book, a sketch pad with pencil, and a box of pocky.

Amanda looked at Crystal perplexed. "Er, Crystal why did you give Kya pocky?"

"So she can have a nice snack of course!"

"But, she's going to the place where pocky comes from."

"And your point is…" Crystal tilted her head.

Amanda sighed. "Nevermind."

Crystal giggled. "If this were an anime Mandy would have a sweatdrop on her head right about now!"

Amanda groaned. "Stop calling me Mandy…"

Kya smiled. "Thank you both for everything." The three friends did a group hug and slowly parted.

Kya did her best not to cry, though her eyes were watery. ~Who knows when I'll see them again?~ She thought to herself but remained strong and smiling as she boarded the plane waving the whole time until her friends were out of sight. Once the plane took flight Kya knew that the next time she touched ground it would be in the land of the rising sun.

The flight was a long one. Lucky for Kya though, she had a window seat. So many things ran through her mind about Japan. The randomness of the animes she watched and the cheesiness of the Godzilla films aside, there was still so much about Japan that made her feel full of anxiety. Kya thought back to the books she read on the country. It seemed as though the place had a lot of monsters, demons and sprits in it. Of course that was the folklore she read up on but what if she actually ran into one?

Kya quickly look out of the window studying the clouds; hoping her secret gift of Aeromancy would help to ease her mind. "And who says it's a bad thing to have your head in the clouds anyway?" She said softly to herself as watching the pattern of the clouds carefully. Once again the clouds start to form random monsters a heart a rose and a fox. ~Dangit again? This must be important for me to get it twice.~ Kya sketched the images down an effort to interpret what it could mean for her. She then tried to listen to the wind by putting her ear to the window but she had no luck since the jet engines were too loud. She looked down at the images trying her hardest to interpret them until she finally fell asleep.

Kya woke up hours later hearing strange voices over the airport intercom. She groaned and stretched her arms. "Is it too late to, ya know, go back to our real home?" "This is your real home Kya, get used to it." Her father snapped back as he made his way to the aisle. Kya stayed close to her family making sure not to get lost as her eyes scanned the airport. Weird designs scanning across the screen where words like "now boarding" or "landed" used to be. Everyone around her was talking so fast she couldn't make any sense of it. "This is worse than Spanish class." Kya mumbled under her breath. She stopped and quickly pulled out her translation dictionary flipping pages as fast as she could. "Gah, their talking too fast I can't keep up." She closed the book sighing and quickly ran after her family.

Once outside Kya's father flagged down a taxi and soon arrived at their new house. The family looked at their new 2 story house in awe. Kya walked towards the front door seeing a name plate. "That's our new last name Kya dear. I think you might like it." Her mother said as she took out the house keys walking inside. Kya looked at the name plate taking out her dictionary once more. "SHOU (翔): Variant spelling of Japanese Sho, meaning to fly, to soar. My name is Kya Shou now. Kya Shou…" Her faced cracked a smile, though she was trying not to show the least bit of happiness around her family. Once inside the empty house the Shou family had their first family meeting.

"The movers won't be here with our furniture until tomorrow so we will have to sleep in our sleeping bags for the night" Kya's father said as he unpacked sleeping bags for each member of the family. "Nick, Kya, Aaron. Once I am done talking, go and pick your rooms. Your mother and I have the master bedroom. Make sure you get a good night rest tomorrow will be your first day at school. Kya you'll be going to Meioh high school, while Nick and Aaron attend the junior high next door. Make sure you leave the house at the same time. Kya be sure to drop off your brothers first and Aaron you keep an eye out for Nick." Kya's father looked towards his wife. "Mindy do you have anything to add to this?" Mindy nodded standing up. "Thank you Skyler." Her usually gentle demeanor faded as she looked at her children. "Your father and I worked very hard to enroll you in to the best schools around here. I don't want to hear any trouble from your schools on the first day. I'll have enough to deal with when it comes to dealing with the movers and as soon as we get the phone hooked up I don't want to hear any calls about you getting into fights, being a nuisance or being disrespectful. Tardiness will be unacceptable. Also I'm expecting your report cards, tests and even pop quizzes to be a B or better understand?" Mindy nodded to Skyler to let him know that she was done talking.

Skyler looked to his wife then back to his kids. "Now are there any questions?"

"Yeah when does the bus pick us up?" asked Nick.

"There is no bus you will be walking" replied the father.

"What!" exclaimed Aaron.

"No bus. Be sure to wake up early. We don't have our alarm clocks here yet so set your cellphone alarms for now."

"Where is the school dad?" Asked Kya.

The father pointed out the window.

"You see that large tower over there. Head that way. You should see other students walking the same way so just follow them. My co-worker said there's only one school nearby so you don't have to worry about getting lost."

Kya's mother handed her and her brothers each a piece of paper. "These are your schedules and shoe lockers combinations if you need any help make sure to ask one of the teachers there."

"Shoe lockers?" The three siblings said in time.

"Something about keeping the school clean so you'll have to change shoes once you get to school.

"Your mother will be staying at the house to direct the movers once they get here. I don't want her to be alone for a long time so after school I want you all to come straight home alright?" The three siblings nodded. "This family meeting is adjourned" Said Kya's father. The Shou family began to explore their new house once the family meeting was over.

"It looks like we have a nice backyard dear and a patio too. It looks big enough for all of us to eat outside. That would be nice to do one day." Mindy said with a smile.

"Oh my god Aaron we have 3 bathrooms! No more sharing bathrooms with Kya!"Nick said with a laugh and cheeky grin.

"I heard that Nick! At least you guys can stay out of my room now and not stink up my bathroom!" Kya yelled while slamming the door to her new room sighing as she looked around her empty room.

"Empty…just like my heart is right now." Her stomach growled. "Empty like my stomach too. When was the last time I ate anyway?" She dug into her suitcase taking out the box of pocky Crystal gave her nibbling on the first cookie stick coated in strawberry icing. " Hey, this is a good snack. Good old Crystal always looking out of me…even if she can't be here with me." Kya finshed off the rest of the pocky took a quick shower and got into her sleeping bag slowly closing her eyes. With a lot of tossing and turning Kya eventually fell asleep.

"Kya don't do this!"

"You'll get hurt!"

"Please go back this is most unwise!"

~Whats' going on? Why am I running?~

Kya found her body running on its own and was unable to slow down.

"He'll be fine so you can go back home now!"

"Hn. What a fool you are running mindlessly into danger. Is that really going to solve anything? What can a weak girl like you do?"

"That's so mean. Stop calling Kya weak you little shrimp!"

"Compared to me she's nothing and compared to you well, you're not even worth mentioning."

"Hey take that back shorty!"

~Who are these people talking to me? I can't see them. Why can't I stop running? Where am I running to!~

Kya looked around to see that her body was running through an unfamiliar forest.

"There will be no guarantee for your safety Kya."

"You'll distract the fox and cause it to be killed by the hunter."

~ The fox?~

Up ahead in the forest Kya could see a large black hole of swirling darkness. Her body was running towards it at full speed.

~What the heck am I doing! Stop me, stop! My body isn't listening… Why!~

"I don't care! I don't care! I won't lose! I will fight no matter what the odds! I am a warrior now so either help me or get the hell out of my way!"

~That voice came out of me that time. Why am I saying that! I don't wanna go in there! No!~

Kya's body jumped up into the portal she could feel the darkness wrap around her body it felt like artic air blowing against her. The sound waves of the portal felt almost hypnotic as it slowly pulled her deeper inside.

~Noooooo!~

"Tell you about a city girl she's surprising."

Kya sat straight up in her sleeping bag before falling to one side gasping for air.

"You'll never get the better of her, so totally amazing."

"Oh thank god it was just dream." Kya groaned as she reached for her cellphone that played her custom ringtone song.

"Don't worry about nothing she's gotta be free yeah. So dontcha dontcha try to mess with…" *click*

"Man what a dream, what caused that to happen?" Kya grabbed her sketchbook and quickly jotted down notes of her dream while it was still fresh in her head.

"Kya! Kya come to breakfast dear. Hurry up and get down here or you'll be late for your first day!" Mindy yelled from the kitchen.

Kya shimmied herself out of her sleeping bag, quickly got dressed and headed down stairs. Minutes later Kya and her two brothers left the house at the same time and as instructed escorted her brothers to the junior high first.

"Okay you two know how to get back to the house right?" Kya asked.

"Yeah." Nodded Nick.

"Why?" Asked Aaron.

"Well just in case school lets out early or late or whatever I just wanna make just that you know how to get back home. Anyways I better get going. Good luck and stay out trouble kay?" Kya ran backwards waving to her brothers before turning around and running towards her school. She could hear the school bell toll from a block away. "Well, here goes.."