Inuyasha characters belong to Takahashi while the Yu Yu Hakusho ones belong to Togashi.

This story was an odd little idea that popped into my mind a while back. It contains spoilers for chapter 374 of "Inuyasha" and is based loosely on the plot of the first volumes of yyh. Enjoy:)

Rated for Kagura's language mostly... damn that woman curses a lot...

I am the wind, she whispered as her soul finally returned to her element, as free as the wind…

She could feel herself being lifted up, higher and higher above the ground where her body had laid, caught in a gentle breeze which she slowly became a part of. Below her, she could see him and the others, her former "enemies," her former ally and the one demon who had been the very embodiment of her hope since the first time her eyes had rested upon his form.

She sighed as she sat back in the air and watched the scene below her unfold with Sesshoumaru walking off in that way he always did and the little taijiya boy looking distressed before leaving with that sister of his. "Guess that bastard Naraku finally killed me."

"Bingo! Ding Ding! You've guessed correctly!"

Kagura, or what was left of her anyway, "jumped" about three feet higher into the air before whipping around to face what appeared to be some type of strange blue-haired youkai woman or else some overly-cheerful bipolar, teen fangirl. If ghosts or souls that had fused with pleasant breezes had hearts, Kagura's would have been racing right then.

"Who the HELL are you? And why are you coming up behind me like that you crazy bitch?"

The freakish woman in the pink kimono smiled cheerfully as she pointed to herself, suddenly taking on a British accent. "Hello there, I'm Death, the Grim Reaper, but you may call me Botan."

"…You're death?" Kagura's face in her suddenly appearing ghost-body was blank with a dash of sardonic annoyance.

"Yep," she said with a huge grin. Death was in a hot pink kimono and sitting upon what appeared to be a giant oar.

"You're what Naraku's been threatening me with for the past few months?"

"Yep." If possible, her grin seemed to grow larger.

Silence for a moment. "Heh… makes about as much sense as anything else here. I probably shouldn't even be this surprised considering my mother and father were the same man and cats can randomly ignore the law of conservation of mass and drastically increase in size."

"Well, well," continued the chipper, British voice, "someone seems a lot more laid back than they ever were in life!"

Kagura smiled. "I'm free now, no more reasons to be so uptight I guess. You gonna cart me off to hell now or just sit there?"

"Hehe, well now, this fan fic wouldn't have much of a plot if you just sat around in hell, now would it?" For some reason, the last half of her sentence lacked an accent.

"Fan fic…?"

"Oh… never mind that right now…" She actually seemed pretty annoyed; whatever stuff she had taken to get high in the first place was probably wearing off. "I haven't come here to take you to hell."

"Oh?" The wind spirit made her usual sarcastic face that she used when mocking Kagome or one of the other main characters.

"Actually, I'm here to offer you a chance to come back to life!"

"Really?" Her mocking façade dropped quickly in surprise. "You can do that?"

"Not me personally…" The chipperness and accent had come back again… "But Lord Koenma could do it!"

"Koenma…? Like King Enma's mini-me or something?"

"Bingo!"

"Stop saying that." Kagura sat for a moment, resting against the breeze. She had been in so much pain only moments before and now this idiot had come along… Death was a frigin exhausting experience. "So why am I being given his honor of being able to return to life? No one can stick a shikon shard in me. I don't have a body anymore."

"Well, you see Kagura, back in Spiritworld, everyone knew you'd be kicking the bucket any day now. We were ready to drag you down to the 8th or 9th circle of hell along with Naraku's other spawns, but then we saw the way you risked your life to save that little boy, Kohaku. Quite frankly, we weren't sure what to do with you after that. After all, it seems you never really wanted to serve Naraku. So what do you say? Care to try the ordeal so you can return to your body?"

"I already told you, my body was destroyed by that bastard Naraku."

"Shut up, this is a fan fic! If they can pair Naraku with Kagome or Voldemort with Draco we can certainly bring you back to life!"

"…Voldemort?"

"Forget him! Do you want to take the test or not?" Her little blue eyebrows furrowed in annoyance as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Sure," said Kagura, pulling a feather from her hair and sitting on it. "What the hell? Anything to see the look on that bastard Naraku's face when I show up alive."

Botan smiled cheerfully once more as she prepared to explain the test to Kagura secretly prayed that this would not turn into a yuri fic.