A/N: Heys! I'm back. Hopefully… this story will be better than my last. I've been improving; my English teacher says so. Well, enjoy and review!

Food for thought… How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop without biting?

Disclaimer: I don't Yu Yu Hakusho, blah blah blah…

Naru rested her forehead against the cool glass of the car window. Wherever her big brother, Derik, was taking her, she had no idea where. He just hitched up the U-haul and off they went. Traveling all over Japan, to find one place to stay.

And it wasn't working out very well.

All the apartments were meant for one person. After about three weeks of traveling, they stopped once again. When her brother was just ready to get into the car she screamed, "I've had enough!"

He looked at her, his face softening. "You really want to stay here…by yourself?"

She glared at him. "I've got my car. I'm sixteen. I really want to. I spent half my summer in that freakin' truck!" She glared at the U-haul, expecting it to blow up. It didn't.

So, Derik helped her load her stuff into the room he had purchased for her. She watched as he left her without so much as a goodbye. "Good riddance. He didn't care about me." She knew he would stop at her school to enroll her, and then be on his way to find his own house.

Sighing and still about three hours left until she had to go to sleep, she started making the bed in a small bedroom. There was a dresser and a nightstand, but that's all that was in there other than the bed. Tomorrow was Saturday, which meant oodles of unpacking. And with only one person, it would be a long day.

After a shower, she flopped down onto her bed with a deep sigh. Without so much as a movement, her eyes shut and she fell asleep.

The next morning, she got up at six. At about eight, she hadn't unpacked much. Heaving a sigh, she opened another box. It was half the kitchen ware she and her brother owned. She began to put it away, when there was a knock on the door.

"Hello?" she asked a tall red head with three boys and a girl standing behind him when she opened the door.

"Kuwubara said that you're new to the building," he explained, jerking a thumb toward the one he indicated as Kuwubara. She looked at them all. She was probably as tall as the one with spiky hair. "Well, how can I help you?" Naru asked finally.

"We wish help you."

She blinked. "But I don't even know you."

"We're good Samaritans," the one with gelled hair said. "As if," the girl said, hitting him.

"Sure. Come one in. We can introduce ourselves over coffee." She smiled slightly. Naru felt like she had already made friends. And yet, she was so different…

And they wouldn't accept her if they knew.

I hope you liked it!

Payce.