"Now what do you want Botan?" Yusuke asked from the roof of his school, "Can't you see I'm busy skipping class?"

"Yusuke, be serious for a minute," she said, sitting beside him, "spirit world is getting strange sound frequencies from the city and humans are being affected. Whenever the noise happens the humans within a 50 foot radius freeze in place. Once it stops they move freely again."

He said, "You can stop right there. You said after the dark tournament demons would be too tired to start any trouble. I deserve an actual break this time." He leaned back.

"We don't even know if this is a human or not," she explained, "that's where Hiei comes in. He can use his jagan eye to see exactly who is doing this and where they are. Then you can go in and save the day like always!"

Yusuke said sarcastically, "Sounds exactly like something Hiei would want to do."

"Yusuke!" Keiko said from the door.

"You can save your breath Keiko," he replied, "I'm not moving from this spot."

"This isn't about school this time," she replied, "though you should be in class. Kurama's the on the school's payphone." [It's still like 1993 in this universe.]

"Kurama what's going on?" Yusuke asked, "You never call me."

He said, "Yusuke, strange demon energy is circulating my school right now. Everyone within my school's walls are completely frozen. They have been for a few minutes now."

"Botan was just telling me something about that," he replied, "so it is a demon. Dammit I never get to catch a break!"

Kurama asked, "Does spirit world know anything else about this?"

"Botan told me to get Hiei so he can try to find this guy," he answered, "you wouldn't happen to know where he is, would you?" On the other end Kurama gasped. "Kurama?"

"Oh, the students here are fine now suddenly and that demon energy just vanished," he replied, "yes, Hiei's been hanging out the park a lot recently. He'll probably be there now. I'll meet you there as soon as I can. I have to go." He hung up abruptly.

Keiko asked as he hung up the phone, "What was that about?"

"It's my next case, Keiko," he said, "stay here and you won't get hurt."

"Urameshi!" Kuwabara shouted, "what's going on?"

"I have to find Hiei," Yusuke replied, "Want to come?"

"Why?" he asked.

Kuwabara looked up a tree trunk and said, "He's not in this one. Are you sure he's even here? We've been looking for 10 minutes already."

"Maybe Kurama was being a troll," Yusuke asked. He looked around the nearly empty park in broad daylight.

Botan said, "My demon compass isn't picking anything up, that means Hiei's concealing his energy." She looked down at her wrist.

"Have you found him yet?" Kurama asked, sneaking up on Botan, "Because he's not here now I guess that answer is no." He looked around at the trees, then saw that familar black flash jump. He's here, he thought.

Hiei appeared behind Kuwabara and asked, "What are you idiots looking for?"

"Just three eyes-hey!" Kuwabara said as he jumped and saw him. "You could have come out of hiding sooner you know!"

Botan said, "Hiei, you must have noticed the blips of sound waves washing over the city on and off for a while now, right? Can you track the demon that's causing it for us?"

"Why should I do that?" he asked.

Kurama said, "Hiei, why don't you cooperate with us just this once? All we need you to do is track down the demon and then you can go free, do whatever you want."

"Why should I help any of you?" he asked, "I'm done babysitting."

"Wait a minute," Yusuke said, "something's wrong isn't it?" Hiei's eye twitched at that comment but he didn't say anything.

Kurama said, "You've already tried to find him."

Kuwabara asked, "What's the matter shorty, did your eye go bad?"

"Would you shut up?" Hiei replied, "I don't know who or what is causing all of this strange energy in the air. All I know is that it's coming from a small cave outside of the city. I can't see into it even with my jagan eye."

Botan said, "Well that would make sense. Perhaps it's the demon's hideout."

"I say we storm the cave!" Yusuke said, "How about it, Hiei, want to join us one last time?"

"Hn," he said.

Botan got out her ore and said, "I'm going to go back to spirit world and see if Koenma has any new updates on the situation. Be careful!" She flew away.