Hiya, folks! This is a collaboration fic between two absolutely unknown authors, Shattered Farewell and H.kabob!

This is H.Kabob speaking, and I'll bee your host for Chapter 1(yay...)! Anyhoo, so Shattered stops bugging me, here's the disclaimer:

Yu Yu hakusho and all characters featured in this series belong to Yoshihiro Tagachi, because he wrote it, not me. Nor, Shattered. As much as we love all(well,most) of the characters in YYH and dearly want to hug them, they're not ours.

And now, on with the show!

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Yuusuke was in his room, sulking. He hadn't done much of anything, for the past week, even go to school, though his mother was up in arms over that fact. He was still working on absorbing one recent event. He still had it clear in his mind...

"Yuusuke, I have some important news for you." That stupid little baby, Koenma, had called him into his office in Spirit World. This had better be important, or he would...

"You're service as Spirit Detective is over."

"WHAT!?"

"You heard me correctly. All privileges and responsibilities associated with the title of "Spirit Detective" are removed from you, effective immediately. Your replacement has already been selected."

"Does that mean I-"

"No Yuusuke, you're not going to have to die, again. You did enough to repay that debt. However, you're going to have to live like a normal person. No spirit powers, no fighting demons, and," Koenma's eyes opened slightly to fix Yuusuke with a threatening stare, "If you cause any trouble or try to interfere with the new detective's work in any way, you will have to face the appropriate consequences. I don't play favorites, Yuusuke, not now, especially. the stakes are too high for your fumbling to mess things up. Discussion over." Koenma quickly stamped a paper with the agility of much practice, an turned away from the former spirit detective. "One last thing: any attempted contact with any inhabitants of spirit world will result in swift retribution. Spirit World doesn't exist, anymore, Yuusuke, nor do demons, not to you."

Yuusuke opened his soda can, downed it in one gulp, crushed it in his fist and threw it against the wall. "Damnit! It's not fair!" he screamed.

His mother rapped on the door with her fist. "Hey! Keep it down in there! If you're not gonna go to school, you could at least do me the favor of shutting up!"

He heard his mother's further grumblings and her dwindling footsteps as she went back to her room. Yuusuke glared at the door and then focused inward again, brooding.

"Well well, Detective, or rather, Ex-Detective. I expected something pathetic, but this is worse than I had imagined."

He whipped around to face the offending fire demon, surprised that he had come, but ready with an insult, anyway. "What do you want, ya little punk? I'm not cleaning up your problems anymore, so don't even ask me to down some of your demon buddies."

Hiei sniffed and crossed his arms, looking away from the former Spirit Detective and out through the open window through which he had come. "I told Kurama that you would be a pathetic lump, by now. Luckily for you, he's a much kinder and more persistent person than I am." He sighed and handed a folder to Yuusuke, still not gracing him with a glance. "It's your replacement's file."

Yuusuke took the folder dubiously and opened it shocked at the contents. "It's a little kid!"

Hiei narrowed his eyes, exasperated. "As if you haven't fought formidable opponents that were young, Urameshi."

"all right, all right." Yuusuke twisted his mouth in a sour expression and scanned the rest of the file. His replacement was apparently a 10-year-old girl by the name of Maria Kawazaki. er powers seemed to have to do with manipulating spirit energy... just like Yuusuke's. "Wait a minute, if her powers are just like mine, then why did Koenma edge me out?"

Hiei fixed him with a level stare. "They say she's better than you are."

"WHAT!? How can that be possible? I've had Grandma's training and I'm older than that kid!"

The fire demon sitting opposite him was not impressed. "Your powers were only awakened recently. Age doesn't matter, it's skill and time in practice that counts. Besides, there are also rumors that she's also a pleasure to work with: kind, respects authority, follows orders, and treats those she works with like her superiors. Quite the charming little girl. No wonder they ditched you for her."

"Huh! I could be nice and friendly if I wanted to! Just no one I've met deserves it!"

"As much as I'd love to see you in a dress, Urameshi, let's keep our minds on the matter at hand. Kurama decided that you were worth helping and sent me to give that to you." He nodded towards the folder in Yuusuke's hand.

"Playing the messenger, Hiei? Surprised you took that, even from Kurama."

"Children should be seen, not heard, Urameshi. Now shut your mouth before I have to use drastic measures to keep you from yapping."

Yuusuke grumbled at that, but refrained from further remarks.

Hiei continued explaining the situation. "Kurama doesn't like this new spirit detective, and I have to say that I don't, either. There's something not quite right about this, so we're going to investigate the situation. And if I'm feeling nice, I might actually try to get your job back." The fire demon smirked. "But we don't have a plan yet, so keep thinking. Call Kurama I you have any worthwhile ideas, not that I expect any, from you. If nothing else, Kurama will come up with something and contact you." He got up and opened the window a little farther, preparing to leave.

"Wait!" Yuusuke shouted, stopping him, "I don't have Kurama's number!"

Hiei looked back at Yuusuke as if he was the most deplorable nd unintelligent maggot on the entire face of the Earth. "Look up Shuuichi Minamo in the phonebook, detective." That last stinging remark made, he leapt into the air, quickly becoming a black streak across the sky.

Yuusuke looked out after him and wondered why he wasn't content to live life as a normal teenager.

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And that's it for Chapter one! Yeah, not very interesting, but it's just the intro, really. Send all comments and suggestions to , if you will. That's all for now, folks.

Toodles!