Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or it's characters. I do not own the music. I do own Angela.
AN-I don't know the name for what Koenma wears so I'll call it a robe, if anyone knows please tell me. And I'm calling Hiei's cloak/cape/coat/dress a cloak. And don't kill me about what Hiei says about the US. I'll put in a bit about why he thinks that way later in the story.
REVISED AN: Okay, as you can see I reformated it and added and changed a few details. You'll be seeing alot of these R ANs. I should note that I've fixed some time details to make the story fit in the alloted time frame. I think I've noted on the chaps where I changed the time details. I know some of you have already reread but I ask you to reread again, sorry. I just had to changed the time details and some errors I caught.
Legend:
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Chapter One
"So I say again...What?" a tall dark haired man asked. He was talking to a tall brown haired teen, who was standing behind a desk filled with stacks of paper.
The teen was dressed oddly, compared to the man's red jacket, white t-shirt and blue jeans. He wore a purple robe over tan slacks and a white long sleeved shirt. There were other odd things about him other than his clothes. The word 'Jr' was tatooed on his forehead and he was sucking on a pacifier.
The teen sighed in exasperation. "For the last time Yusuke. You, Kurama, and Hiei are going undercover to an American college to find and make contact with this girl," he pointed to a picture on the big screen TV hanging in the front of the room, "And bring her back to Spirit World."
Yusuke nodded, "I got that part Koenma. What I don't get is how exactly are we going to fit in. We don't, well maybe Kurama, speak English very well."
Koenma motioned to the door. In popped a blue haired woman in a pink kimono. "That's where I come in!" she said cheerily.
Yusuke looked confused. "Wait, you're coming too Botan?"
Botan shook her head, "No, It's just you, Kurama and Hiei, though I don't know how we're going to persuade Hiei to go, seeing as how he hates most humans, especially Americans, he says that they're just plain crazy, though I don't know how he came to know an American-" she babbled.
"Botan! Get to the point!" Yusuke said loudly, stopping the woman's babbling.
She gave a huff, "Oh, alright already. I'm here to introduce new high-tech top of the line Spirit Detective Items!" She pulled out a large metalic brief case from the sleeve of her kimono. As to how she could hide it in there was still a mystery to everyone. She plopped it on the desk with a thud, causing an avalanche of papers.
"Eagh! Botan! Look what you've done!" Koenma yelled as he dove to keep the remaining stacks of papers from falling. He only succeded in causing them to fall as well. Yusuke stood to the side, clutching his ribs as he laughed out loud.
After a few minutes of digging, Botan and Koenma managed to find the case of Spirit Items. Botan sat it on the ground and opened it up. Inside was a compass that looked like a watch, a compact, a ring, a stack of round stickers, and several other gadgets. Botan looked through them all until she found what she was looking for. "Ah! Here we are!" she said as she held up a small loop earring.
Yusuke bent down and held his chin between his thumb and forefinger. "Hmm...I give..what is it?"
"It's the handy dandy compact Hear-Ring, it translates any foreign language for you so that you can understand whatever is told to you! And it comes in the fashionable hoop earring, the traditional stud earring, and even in the rebelious hanging skull earring!" Botan exclaimed.
Yusuke's eyebrow rose, "Yeah, well I guess that will work when I'm talked to, but I doubt that it will work when I talk to somebody..."
Botan stopped dead still, a smile still on her face. Then she laughed, "I guess it wouldn't, hehe." Yusuke and Koenma, who had been standing behind Botan, hit the floor. "But wait!" she said, as she looked through the case again. "Tada!" She pulled out a tongue ring. "The device that's all the rage. The Tongues-Ring! With this device you will be able to speak any language, and it comes with interchangeable balls, Fuzzy, Nude, and Steel!" The two men in the room just looked at her as she paused and took in what she just said. Botan's face turned red as she fumbled with the Tongues-Ring. "Uh...They also come in three different colors, Red, Black, and Blue..." She paused again, her face turning even redder. Finally the two men just burst out laughing.
Bent over, clutching his stomach, Yusuke laughed out, "I wonder what Kurama and Hiei would say if I said," he laughed some more, "I have fuzzy, black and blue balls!"
Koenma nearly spit out his pacifier. He calmed down enough to say, "Hiei would probably say, 'I have balls of steel!'"The two nearly choked.
Yusuke blurted out, "I wonder what Kurama would get!"
"Fuzzy red balls!" This time the two fell on the floor laughing and choking. Botan, the red in her face turning to purple as her humiliation turned to anger, threw the brief case at them and stormed out of the room. The brief case hit and bounced off Koenma's head right into Yusuke's face, knocking him flat. The jarred brief case flew open and spilled it's contents all over the two men.
As the two slowly stood up, one rubbing the back of his head, the other rubbing a red welt on his forehead, Koenma said, "You know, we deserved that."
Yusuke nodded, but smiled. "Yeah, but it was worth it..hehe 'fuzzy red balls'."
Laughing, then grimacing as the laugh aggravated the starting headache, Koenma gathered up the Items, and started heading towards the door. "Let's find Kurama and Hiei, and try not to make the same mistake as Botan," he grimaced again. "I don't think Kurama will find it very funny, and Hiei might not even listen and refuse to join in this mission."
Yusuke nodded, asking, "By the way, how are you going to get him to join?"
"Oh, I have 'ways'," Koenma said then coughed, "Mukuro." He coughed again.
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"So, you are telling me that I have to get peircings for this mission?" a tall red haired man asked Yusuke an hour later. The man, Yusuke, and Koenma were sitting on the front porch of a shrine.
"Yeah, Kurama," Yusuke said, smiling as he tugged on Kurama's sleeve. "A tongue ring and earring will go well with this outfit. Hehe."
Kurama brushed off Yusuke's hand as he straightened the long sleeved dress shirt. He stood up and brushed the dirt off of his tan slacks. "Well, maybe it won't be so noticable if I get a small stud and a nude tongue ring. And please Yusuke, no crude comments on the 'nude' part. I have enough of those in the classroom, and I don't need it from you."
Yusuke looked closely at his friend. The green eyes looked very tired. "Yo Kurama, are you alright? You don't look so good."
Kurama gave a wane smile. "It's finals week. If I don't look so good, imagine what the students look like." Yusuke nodded, as if he understood the plight college students were in when it was finals week.
"Hey! Don't nod and look like you know what finals week is like!" a voice called from inside the shrine. Out walked another tall red haired man. This one was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans. "You never went to college, Urameshi. If you really want to know what its like you should enrole in a college."
"Aw, don't start on me about that Kuwabara. I have no intention of going back," Yusuke replied.
"Fine, its not like I have any hope of getting through to you on that subject. Even Keiko couldn't convince you to go back." Yusuke shot Kuwabara a dirty look. Kuwabara, sensing that he had tread on ground he shouldn't have, quickly changed the subject. "So, you and Kurama are going on a mission, eh."
"Yes, and Hiei too," Kurama said. "Or Koenma is going to try to get him to join on this mission. I think he'll be even less thrilled than I about the peircings."
Yusuke jumped up as a thought came to him. "Wait a sec! I have to get peirced!"
"Yeah, that's what we've been talking about for the past ten minutes," Koenma snapped.
Yusuke slapped his forehead. "Aw man, I wasn't really thinking about it. It just hit me."
Kuwabara ignored Yusuke's outburst and turned to Koenma. "So what's this mission about and what are the peircings for. I only heard Kurama talking about finals week."
"Well...most of it's classified, but I can tell you where they're going and what the peircings are for. They're going to an American college, that's all I can say about that. And the peircings are for the Hear-Ring, which allows you to understand any language, and the Tongues-Ring, which allows you to speak any language," Koenma said.
It took a moment for it to hit him, then Kuwabara laughed at Yusuke. "Haha! Man, I can't beleive it! You're actually going to college!"
"Not by choice!" Yusuke said irritatedly.
Kuwabara laughed even more as another thought hit him. "Even the shrimp has to go to college. Will they even allow him, he's so short he looks like a junior high student!"
Kurama grimaced. "Yes, that will be another major factor that might make Hiei refuse to come with us."
"By the way," Yusuke said, "Where is Short Stack?"
"Demon World," Kurama replied.
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A few days later a short dark haired man dressed in a black cloak with a white scarf strode into Koenma's office where Koenma, Yusuke, and Kurama were going through folders of information about the mission.
"Hey Hiei! How's life? Didya get married yet?" Yusuke joked.
Hiei's red eyes glared at him. "I'm not here by choice. Mukuro ordered me to come and join some mission." His glare turned into a suspicious look. "She also said that I had better do what you say, despite what I might think about it. What are you planning?"
Kurama handed him a folder of papers, "Everything about the mission is in there."
Hiei scanned through the documents. He glared at the other three. "And you need me to go to that crazy country because..." he looked back down at the papers, "Surely Yusuke and Kurama can handle one girl."
Koenma shook his head, picked up a remote and turned the TV on. "It's not the girl I'm worried about. It's these things." On the screen were a group of shadow like beings, the only distinct feature about them were their glowing red eyes and claw like hands. "We call them shadow creatures. We're not really sure what they are, but I don't think they are exactly demons." He gave each man a serious look. "They're strong. They took out a squad of the SDF."
The guys eyes hardened as the implication of that statement sunk in. -The SDF are pretty powerful. So how powerful are these shadow creatures if they can take out a whole squad?- Yusuke thought.
"Hn," Hiei smirked. "I've been looking for a good fight for awhile now. I'm in. Just one thing, explain to me about these interchangeable balls."