Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho… or Hiei, I'm sad about that fact, but maybe someday I'll scrounge up enough money for that. I do however own Yube, Teki, Akarui, Tasuke, Melanie, Jess, and any other characters that are not from YYH.

The Bright Sunset and the Evening Moon Chapter 1: Arcade Madness, The New Girls, and the Fire Search

Two girls were walking down the street, looking kind of bored. One of them had black hair with a single silver streak in it, right down the middle. Her hair was mid-back length too. Her eyes were green, and she wore black jeans, black shoes, and a red T-shirt, also accompanied by black finger cut-off gloves.

The other girl had black hair, and it was in a high ponytail on the back of her head. She had bright blue eyes, wore midnight blue jeans, black shoes, and a black T-shirt. She wore gloves that had no fingers at all except for the middle one, but on both gloves, the fingertips of the middle one were cut-off.

Both girls were tired, bored, and looked ready to punch someone. They obviously weren't planning on going to school, because they were not donning their uniforms.

"Well Akarui, another day, another waste of time to go to school," said the silver streaked one, looking at the other. The girl by the name of Akarui just nodded, and then smirked as her friend continued, "I think I just got sick, looks like I can't go to school today," she said.

Akarui turned to her friend, who got the idea, "Yeah, me too. You know, I hear this disease is called boredom syndrome, and the only cure is to go to the arcade," the silver streaked girl smirked as well as the two took a left turn at a corner.

"Great thought Yube! I bet the arcade has plenty of remedies for boredom syndrome," Akarui grinned as they kept walking. What those two didn't know was that school was cancelled for them today because the teachers had a meeting.

When the two girls reached the arcade, it looked crowded. There were people everywhere, crowding around some new games that had recently been added to the arcade. Both girls weren't keen on being in big crowds.

"Aw, damn. It's a bit crowded right now, Yube," Akarui said, sounding disappointed.

"Well, let's just make room!" Yube demanded. Akarui nodded, then called out, "Yo! Everyone clear a path for Yuyake and Tsuki!" People in the area all looked nervously at the two girls and many of them moved out of their path. However, a group of guys close to the girls' own age remained.

Akarui and Yube walked toward a game that they liked to play together, but the two reached the machine, the thugs moved in their way.

"Move it. Or haven't you heard? We're Tsuki and Yuyake?" Yube glowered at the thug that appeared to be the leader. He stood at the head of the group, a stare fixed on the two girls. As Yube's eyes found his, he flinched ever so slightly, but he stood strong and cleared his throat.

"You two are way too pretty to be that tough. What are you going to do if I don't move? Huh?" The idiot seemed to be digging his own grave.

The girls looked at eachother as to explain the battle plan in a mere glance. Akarui then immediately kicked one of the guys down, followed by a dash towards the other one who received a knee to the gut and then a downward elbow on his noggin. The one she had kicked first tried to recover, but she quickly turned her attention back to him and delivered a swift kick, dropping it directly down on his back.

The guy that appeared to be the leader of the group now looked a bit shocked to say the least. Yube smirked towards him. Her expression was leaking what the guy could easily mistake for malice.

"We'll do that if you don't move. Are you confident that you can evade that?" she answered his question with one of her own. The thug stood his ground, seeming to believe that he was stronger than those two, but obviously concerned that he may not be able to keep up with the speed Akarui had just shown him. Akarui and Yube glanced at one another again, then shrugged and Akarui held out her arms in a gesture that to Yube meant 'go ahead and kick his ass.'

Yube nodded and she walked forward toward the thug. He stood there, looking slightly nervous. From behind Yube, Akarui was taunting him with faces. Mocking what she believed were his scared expressions. Yube smirked and started to pull her arm back to punch the thug. She did, she punched him square in the jaw. The thug was sent straight into the basketball machine. The machine was dented heavily from the force of the impact.

"Nice shot, Yube," Akarui smiled as the girls started playing the game that the thug had been blocking the whole time with his damn obesity.

"Thanks," Yube said simply as she started pressing buttons on the first player control pad like crazy. The girls were playing a fighting game, which was obvious from the grunting and kiap sounds the game made. It was the newest game in the arcade, and they had already set a bunch of outrageous high scores.

After few hours of video games, the girls had grown a bit tired from watching their characters bloody one another. They started walking toward the door of the arcade.

"So, where are we heading next, eh, Yube?" Akarui asked her friend. Yube shrugged,

"Wherever the flow takes us," she answered. Akarui and Yube were just walking out the door when they bumped into someone and both girls and the person they had bumped fell down to the ground.

"Hey, watch where you're going, idiot!" Yube got up and yelled at the person they had crashed into. Akarui got up as well and looked irritated.

"Excuse me, you crashed into me! You stupid bitch!" the person yelled back.

The person they had crashed into had black hair that was slicked back and brown eyes. He wore green pants and a green blazer over a white shirt. He seemed to be around the same age as Yube and Akarui, maybe a year or two younger. The look on his face was obvious anger from being called an idiot. He had gotten up quickly and he was glaring daggers towards them.

"Actually, you crashed into us. Stupid bitchy ass," Akarui gave him a cold look. The guy was about to punch Akarui for saying that, but someone held back his arm.

"Come on, lemme at 'em!" the boy yelled angrily as his 'friend' that held him back.

"Yusuke, you really need to control your temper. I'm sorry about this," his red haired friend said politely. An orange haired, ugly guy came up to Yusuke.

"God Urameshi, why do you pick fights with girls, that's not very nice," he said to the black haired guy.

"Shut the hell up Kuwabara! They picked a fight with me, I was just delivering an attack!" the boy now known as Yusuke Urameshi yelled at the orange haired boy.

The young men next to Urameshi looked about average. One of them had orange hair, stood about 6ft 3in tall and wore blue pants and a matching blue blazer, his school uniform. (Kuwabara's taller than Spike from Cowboy Bebop! o.o)

The other has long red hair and green eyes. This one also stood taller than Urameshi, though not as tall as the other. He wore light red pants and a red blazer, obviously his school uniform. The girls knew what the Meioh High School uniforms looked like an account of them being students there.

Yube and Akarui glanced at eachother, Yusuke Urameshi? They'd heard of him, he's supposed to be some unbeatable jerk. They'd heard of many of his misdeeds and his record of never losing a street fight. Also, they'd heard that he could summon 100 of his thugs just by whistling.

"You're Yusuke Urameshi?" Akarui asked, pointing at Yusuke. Yusuke seemed to have calmed slightly.

"Yeah, what of it?" he said.

"The 'Great Urameshi?' You don't really strike me as an unbeatable jerk," Yube observed him.

"What do I strike you as?" Yusuke asked curiously.

"You strike both of us as a very wimpy and defeatable asshole," Akarui answered for Yube, who nodded her agreement.

Yusuke steamed, "What the hell? You come right here and say that you class A bitches! I'll send you two on a one-way trip to hell! I'll show you an 'undefeatable jerk' if you get back over here! Get back here!" Yusuke yelled loudly as the two girls laughed and walked away. Kurama and Kuwabara both struggled to restrain him. Once Yusuke calmed down and turned around, he noticed people staring at him, and got irritated.

"Haven't you people ever seen a guy get pissed off before!" he yelled. Kuwabara and Kurama sighed at their friend.

Yube and Akarui smiled as they walked down the street once again.

"I think Urameshi will be coming after us later, what do you think, Yube?" Akarui looked at her friend.

"I think that little wimp will be pissed at us and try to track us down to beat the shit out of us," Yube answered with an emotionless and predicting tone.

"I'll agree with that. So what do we do until Urameshi finds us?" Akarui relaxed as she put her hands behind her head and that bored look returned to her face.

Yube thought for a minute, "Well, we could train a bit, you know, so we're ready for Yusuke when he comes," Yube answered.

"Are you actually concerned about his strength? That's not like you, Yube," Akarui questioned her.

"Well, he has spirit energy like us, and damn, that's gotta mean that he has a chance of hurting us," Yube pointed out.

Akarui nodded, "Alright, then let's get started with that training!" she pumped a fist into the air. The two girls ran off somewhere for their training.

Back at the arcade, Yusuke had calmed down just a little and he was playing the same game that the girls had been playing earlier, but against Kuwabara. Yusuke's character kicked Kuwabara' character's head off and the words 'Player 1 Wins!' appeared on the screen. Then the words "HIGH SCORE" came up and it went to a screen with the top five high scores. Yusuke's score was third to someone that went by 'Yuyake,' and someone called 'Tsuki.'

"Tsuki and Yuyake always get the scores right in front of mine, I wonder who they are." Yusuke said aloud.

Kurama read the screen and smiled briefly for a moment. "You met them earlier; those two girls at the entrance were Yuyake and Tsuki. Those are their surnames," the fox demon told his friend.

Yusuke's eyes widened and then he walked up to Kurama. "You know those bitches, Kurama!" He demanded, holding the fox by the front of his shirt.

"Um… Well, those two go to my school, and their test scores are right behind Kaitou's and my own. They just joined the school about a month ago, and they have unique skills in fighting and spirit energy." Kurama explained briefly, surprised at how Yusuke could hold a grudge.

Yusuke's eyes bulged out of his head. "They have spirit energy? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" He shook his friend furiously. He then stopped and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Well, I thought you noticed their auras. Plus, you didn't ask me if I knew them" Kurama answered as Yusuke put him down.

Kuwabara spoke up after having been quiet this whole time. "Just joined your school a month ago and they're already on the top test scores list? That's pretty impressive, huh, Urameshi?" He said to Yusuke, who nodded. The spirit detective thought for a minute.

"Wait, I have heard those names! The gang I beat up on the way to Dufus-boy's house this morning was complaining about two girls by the names of Yuyake and Tsuki. Hey Kurama, what else do you know about them?" Yusuke asked his friend. Kurama sighed and shook his head as he recalled what the knew of the girls.

"Well, I do know that their first names are Akarui and Yube. They're in a few classes with me, and Akarui is my partner in the Chemistry Lab," he said.

"So why didn't you say 'hi' to them or something?" Yusuke raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I didn't recognize them at first. They usually have on their uniforms when I see them. That and I was too busy restraining you, Yusuke," Kurama pointed out.

"Oh," Yusuke scratched his head a bit bashful at how he'd lost his temper.

"Well, those two girls were emitting some strange energy," Kuwabara spoke up after listening to his two friends discuss this.

"Am I the only one that didn't sense their energy?" Yusuke asked. The other two glanced at one another and then nodded. "So, anyone up for girl-hunting after the arcade?" Yusuke asked after his question was answered. The guys nodded as they started heading for the door to the arcade.

"So Kurama, why did you join us at the arcade anyway? Shouldn't the prodigy be at school?" Kuwabara asked the fox after a few silent moments. Kurama smiled at him.

"Well actually, my teachers have an important meeting today and school was cancelled, but they might not have gotten word out to all students," he told them.

"Lucky you, we just got bored and skipped," Yusuke laughed.

Akarui threw a punch at Yube's face and Yube blocked it with her left arm, following with a counter of a right jab that landed square on Akarui's nose.

"Yeowch! Yube, why did you have to punch my nose?" Akarui had also been grounded with that last punch. Yube smiled and walked over to her friend.

"Well, you gotta learn to be offensive and defensive at the same time, or you'll never be as good as me." Yube said this to her with a wink and a smile.

"Right, let's try that again," Akarui stood up and resumed her ready stance. Her weight shifted more toward one leg than the other.

The two girls started the match over again. This time when Akarui's punched was blocked and Yube countered, Akarui blocked Yube's first counter, but the second one had been a knee to the gut.

Akarui grabbed her stomach as she tried to regain the breath that had been kncked out of her. "God Yube, go a hell of lot easier on me if you're gonna do that!" She practically gagged the words out.

"I'd like to call that move 'The counter of a blocked counter that makes your opponent gag up their lunch!'" Yube declared, jokingly.

"Very funny, but I didn't gag up my lunch; I haven't even eaten lunch," Akarui pointed out.

Yube shrugged before she continued. "Yeah, but at the way I nailed your stomach, you won't be feeling up to lunch for a few hours," she shook her head.

After another hour, the girls both plopped on the ground and breathed heavily. They'd been sparring in one of the many parks around town. Both smiled as they stared at the sky. Yube spoke after a few moments of catching her breath.

"So, you think Urameshi will find us anytime soon?" Yube asked.

"I hope not, I'm tired," Akarui said.

"Well, if he's as dumb as I hear, then he'll be at the arcade for awhile," Yube smiled.

"That's good, because I'm gonna get some ice cream. Want some?" Akarui sat up as she noticed an ice cream cart nearby.

"I'll take chocolate," Yube said. Akarui nodded and went over to the ice cream cart and ordered their ice cream.

When Akarui got back with two ice cream cones, she handed the chocolate one to Yube, and ate the vanilla one herself. The girls were now just sitting on a park bench eating their ice cream, or at least Akarui was until she ran over to a trashcan and puked up her ice cream.

Yube laughed at her friend's misfortune. "I so warned you!" she said, still holding back some chuckles.

"Damn you, Yube! Now I can't even enjoy my ice cream!" Akarui poked her head up from the trashcan to glare at her friend. Once she was finished at the trashcan, Akarui returned to her spot on the bench.

Yube had finished her ice cream, and Akarui frowned and made a sad whiney noise similar to what a dog would sound like.

"I miss my ice cream!" Akarui sulked.

"Oh stop complaining about it! Let's go climb a tree or something. That'll get your mind off of ice cream," Yube stood up and her friend followed suit.

Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama were walking around town. Yusuke was frantically looking around for the bitches- er…-ladies that they ran into earlier. He wasn't using his sense however, or he would've been tracking them based on their spirit energies.

"Where are those two? Seriously! I need to punch something other than Kuwabara for once!" Yusuke yelled, looking from left to right.

Kurama held back a small chuckle at Kuwabara's expense. "Could you not harm those two, Yusuke? It might be hard to believe, but they are my friends," the fox said.

"Yeah Urameshi! Those girls are Kurama's friends! So you don't need to beat the heck out of them!" Kuwabara tried to think of other reasons for Yusuke not to hit the girls.

"Well, I'm your friend too! And friends don't let friends pick on other friends!" Yusuke hadn't given in yet. Kurama stopped to decipher exactly what Yusuke meant by that and then he shook his head.

"Yusuke, I told you I didn't recognize them at first," Kurama said.

"Fine! I won't beat the shit out of them like I originally planned, but I still want to find them and demand an apology!" Yusuke sped up his pace.

"He's really pumped." Kuwabara sighed.

"I suppose we'd best tag along to make sure he actually doesn't harm them." Kurama sighed too as they followed Yusuke.

Akarui and Yube were at the top of a tree. "Wow, I forgot how nice the view was from up here!" Akarui said, shading her from the sun while looking around.

"See? I told you that you'd forget about ice cream," Yube pointed out.

Akarui blinked, "I still miss it," she muttered sadly. Yube sweatdropped and shook her head. Akarui was still sightseeing from the branch they were on, and she saw a familiar redhead down in the park below.

"Hey Yube, I think that's Shuichi-kun down there! Let's go say hi!" Akarui cheered and hopped down from the branch they were on. Yube sighed and followed. The two girls landed right in front of Kurama, both girls down in a crouch. After a moment of silence and awe the girls stood at their full height, Yube about 3 inches taller than Akarui.

"Hi, Shuichi-kun!" The girls greeted him simultaneously.

"Huh? Hello, Akarui, Yube. Nice to see you girls." Kurama smiled and tipped his head forward slightly as a gesture of respect..

"Hey! You two! I demand an apology from this morning because Kurama won't let me kick your asses from here to hell and back!" Yusuke yelled at the girls. Both girls blinked then remembered Yusuke.

"Oh yes, I remember now. You crashed into us and we called you a very wimpy and defeatable asshole, don't you recall, Yube?" Akarui smiled, looking at her friend. Yube nodded and Kurama cleared his throat.

"Now, now, you two. Please be nice to Yusuke. He's been extremely irritated since we ran into you." Kurama almost felt like he was a mother lecturing these girls.

"Who wouldn't be? But I guess since Shuichi-kun asked us so nicely, we could lighten up on the insults. We're sorry Urameshi." Akarui nodded towards Yusuke.

"Oh and Urameshi, why did you call Shuichi by the name Kurama?" Yube looked suspiciously at Yusuke.

Yusuke blinked, and then mentally kicked himself. "Oh that, it's just a nickname!"

"A nickname? Are you sure?" Yube questioned Yusuke's nervous statement.

"Shuichi-kun, is that really your nickname?" Akarui looked at Kurama. The fox demon nodded, indicating that it was indeed his nickname.

"Hey, Shuichi, why aren't you at school today? You're usually such a good student," Yube asked him curiously.

"You didn't receive word of the cancellation?" Kurama asked her.

"Cancellation? It was cancelled? Man and I thought we skipped today." Yube questioned this 'cancellation'. She looked over at Akarui with a disappointed look. Akarui just gave her an 'I told you something was up today' look.

"That's strange, you two seem to act just like me, but you get the top grades along with Kurama and Kaitou?" Yusuke asked.

"Well, we aren't exactly like you; we don't skip school too much. We just beat up gangs after hours at night, usually," Akarui said.

"So you two have classes with Kaitou and Kurama?" Kuwabara wanted to make that part clear.

"Yup, and we have Chem. Lab with Kaitou and Shuichi-kun. Shuichi-kun is my partner, and Yube is Kaitou's partner. The teacher randomly selected our partners with paper slips and a hat." Akarui explained.

The group sat around discussing how the girls knew Shuichi and, on many occasions found, time to insult Kuwabara in mid-sentence. Suddenly a little toddler appeared out of nowhere, and it was floating in midair. The toddler had a big blue binky in his mouth and a big hat that said 'Jr.' on it. He didn't exactly receive the greeting he was expecting, which became apparent as the group kept gabbing. The toddler then cleared his throat very loudly.

"Koenma? Can't you see we're busy?" Yusuke asked.

"I can see that, Yusuke. But we've got some serious trouble! At 4:30 this afternoon meet Botan at Genkai's temple and bring those two girls with you! Oh, and find Hiei too!" Koenma demanded, and then disappeared.

Yube and Akarui blinked, both blatantly confused.

"Who's the toddler? And why did it vanish?" Yube asked.

Kurama found a hint of amusement in Yube's bluntness as he answered. "That person was Koenma as you probably heard from Yusuke. He is the prince of the Reikai, or Spirit World. And apparently he's called us to a mission," he tried to explain.

"A mission?" questioned Yube.

"Yeah, a mission. And Now we've gotta find Hiei and get to Genkai's place!" Yusuke responded.

"I'm terribly confused, but for the sake of going along with this… What's this Hiei look like? Just so we know what to search for," Akarui asked.

"He's really short, wears black, and has spiky black hair. He's really stubborn and he's a big jerk." Kuwabara answered.

"Well, we have three hours to find Hiei, let's split up and search," Kurama suggested.

"Um… where do we search? Huh, Shuichi?" Yube raised an eyebrow.

"Hiei likes to be in quiet or secluded places usually, he is difficult to find when he doesn't wish to be found," Kurama said.

"Okay then! Let's split up gang!" Akarui cheered and whipped out a piece of paper and a pencil. She proceeded to draw a brief concept map of the town. She was done in about one minute and then she took out colored markers and began marking the map.

"Yusuke, you take this part of town. Kuwabara, take this part of town. Shuichi-kun, you take Sakura Street through Kamiya Street. Finally, Yube will take this part of town and I'll take the park and this part of town!" Akarui assigned everyone an area to search, pointing to a different area of color as she spoke.

"If anyone finds Hiei, raise you spirit energy or just blow something up… unless you can think of another way to signal us," Yusuke instructed.

"Alright already, let's just search," Yube said and started running toward her assigned area. Everyone else went to his or her area.

Akarui started her search around the park. I wonder if this Hiei can climb trees? She thought to herself. She climbed every tree in the park within an hour's time. She hadn't found anybody. She searched around the center of the park and in all the quiet areas she could find. No luck at all. Soon she moved on to the part of the city she assigned herself, but he hadn't been found there either, so she sat down on a bench in the park. She sat down and thought.

Let's see, Shuichi-kun said he usually liked to be in a quiet or secluded area away from crowds, but I haven't found Hiei anywhere. Where else is there? If I don't find him within the next hour, I'm going to start calling out his name until he comes and asks why I'm calling his name! Akarui thought impatiently.

Yusuke wasn't having much luck either. He had searched all the streets in his area and no luck, so he started looking in the alleys. "Damn it, where are you, Hiei?" the detective yelled in the alley, which caused an echo. There was still no one there. Yusuke kept going through the alley, hoping to have some sign of the fire demon.

Yube wasn't having any luck at all. She was running around, looking for any short guys with black hair that defied physics, but she didn't see any. Yube got desperate enough to start asking people if they'd seen anyone that fit the description, but no one had. Awe damn! What a way to spend a Friday afternoon! I don't want to waste it searching for some stranger I don't know! Crap! Crap! Crap! Yube thought to herself, very irritated by this.

Kurama hadn't had any luck in finding Hiei either. He was searching around building tops, alleyways, and any other areas that Hiei was usually in. He did sense Hiei around, but Kurama couldn't pinpoint the location. Hiei, where are you hiding around this time? I certainly hope the others are having better luck than I am! The fox demon hoped. Kurama kept searching.

Kuwabara's search was going just as bad as the others were. He was running around alleys and streets, trees, and he even went onto some rooftops. He was now just running around, yelling 'Hiei! Where are you, shrimp?' But that wasn't working either. So Kuwabara looked, and looked, and looked, and looked, and looked. Alas, he couldn't seem to locate Hiei.

Back to Akarui, she was still having no luck. That's it! She thought; I'm going to start yelling out his name! I don't care if people look at me strangely, there's only one hour left to find him and get to that lady's house! She was thinking this as she glanced at a clock. Akarui had still been in the park, but she had searched her area over at least three times.

"Alright here it goes," Akarui said to herself, then took a deep breath. "HIEI!" She yelled as loud as she could, yet her tone was still very impatient, no matter how much air she was using. She waited for a few seconds to regain her breath, and no one came. So she yelled again. "HIEI!"

A figure fell out of a tree nearby. Akarui turned around and saw a short black haired guy with black clothes on. "Ah, you must be the one I was looking for, you fit the description perfectly," Akarui rushed over to the guy and observed him. They forgot to mention how hot this guy was. Oh well, I wouldn't expect to hear boys say that about other boys, that would just be gay. Akarui thought to herself, or so she thought no one heard her thoughts.

"That would be rather gay, but more importantly. Why are you yelling so loud? Are you trying to make my eardrums bleed?" Hiei demanded impatiently.

"Wait, how did you know what I was thinking? Does that mean you heard the first part too?" Akarui blushed as she asked this.

"I heard every one of your thoughts. Actually, I more or less, felt them. Now answer my question," Hiei seemed annoyed by her already.

"I was yelling for you because… I really don't know exactly why I was, but some floating toddler told us to look for you, so, I guess I got caught up in it." She told him, but then added as an afterthought." Oh, and I wasn't trying to make your eardrums bleed… So what were you doing, falling out of a tree?" Akarui asked, glancing at Hiei now that he was standing up. He was shorter than she was by a couple inches.

"I was in the tree, until an idiot yelled my name and distracted me," Hiei replied.

"I'll have you know my grades are almost equal to Shuichi-kun's and Kaitou's, so watch who you're calling an idiot, jerk!" Akarui gloated with a hint of anger.

"Then can't you at least act smart?" Hiei raised an eyebrow as he smirked.

"Ha, ha, very funny. I hate acting like a brainiac out of school, so you'll just have to live with it. Anyway, now we have to somehow tell the others that I found you," Akarui gave Hiei a cold look when he questioned her logic.

"Now Yusuke said to either raise spirit energy or blow something up," Akarui muttered mostly to herself. Before she decided which one to do, Hiei had blown a huge crater in the ground near them. The force of the energy blew Akarui away. She was blown into Hiei actually. And after the dust cloud from the explosion cleared, the two noticed right away the position they were in. She was on top of him, eyes fluttering and her cheeks reddening. Hiei looked uncomfortable as he hurriedly pushed her off. She landed roughly on her rump a few feet away from Hiei.

"Ow, that wasn't very nice!" Akarui yelled once she got up from being pushed onto the ground.

"Well then, you shouldn't have fallen on me," Hiei retorted.

Akarui was still blushing, but she raised her voice. "Well it's your damn fault for making a crater in the ground! Your spirit energy was what blew me on to you in the first place!" she shot back.

"Well you should've stepped back," Hiei said simply.

"You-! You jerk!" Akarui tried to punch him, but he simply tilted his head to one side to avoid being hit. This just made Akarui even angrier, but she resisted what temptation she had to try and punch Hiei's brains out.

"I'll resist my temptation to kill you for awhile. I can't believe you're one of Shuichi-kun's friends." Akarui muttered. She sat down on a bench that managed to stay in tact.

"Hn." Hiei folded his arms and leaned against a tree.

Ten minutes had passed before everyone had reached the park again.

"Hey Akarui, has he been rude yet?" Yusuke asked, jokingly, not really expecting answer. Akarui looked up from where she was sitting.

"Rude? He's already insulted me about four times!" she growled. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama sweatdropped.

"Geez, he didn't even insult me that much in ten minutes!" Kuwabara stated.

"Well, he probably doesn't like girls much." Yusuke grinned at a glaring Hiei. "Anyhow, let's get to the Hag's house."

Akarui walked over to Kurama, and pouted. "Shuichi-kun, Hiei was mean to me, and he entered my personal thoughts." She pretended to be emotionally scarred as she snuggled into Kurama. Kurama blushed slightly as she snuggled into his chest, but then turned to Hiei, Akarui still clinging.

"Hiei could you try to be polite to her and Yube? They're involved in our next mission." He said to his friend. Akarui smirked mischievously at Hiei. Hiei scowled and started walking away. Everyone else followed. They were going to Genkai's house.

As the group went up the stairway in front of Genkai's temple. Kuwabara walked up to Kurama's side. Yusuke was racing Yube and Akarui up the stairs and Hiei trailed at the tail of group.

"Hey Kurama, why were you blushing when Akarui snuggled into you?" Kuwabara asked curiously.

"Well, I suppose that is a fair question. I may be her friend, but I've never really been that close to her, so I was a tad embarrassed," Kurama scratched the back of his head.

"Are you sure that's it?" Kuwabara asked. Kurama nodded.

When they reached the top of the stairs, Yube and Akarui rushed ahead of the rest of the group, and to the front door. Akarui started knocking on the door, and by the time someone got irritated enough and came to answer it, everyone else had caught up to the girls. The one that answered the door was Kaitou.

"Hey Kaitou, why the hell are you here?" Yube asked curiously. Kaitou glanced amongst the group to make sure everyone was there. He waitied for everyone in the group to reach the doorway before answering.

"I was visiting Miss Genkai. Kido and Yana are here too. And the Grim Reaper has been waiting." he said, stepping aside to let them all inside.

"What? The Grim Reaper? Whoa, I'm too young and beautiful to die!" Yube said. She hadn't expected the Grim Reaper to be there. Akarui was freaking out too, when a blue haired lady wearing a pink kimono walked in, followed by an old lady with pale pink hair who was wearing some a sleeveless red kimono that had slits on the sides (for mobility?) over a long-sleeved white shirt and loose-fitting white pants.

"I'm not that scary, Akarui and Yube." The blue haired girl said her words happily. Both girls looked at the blue haired girl and blinked, confused.

"Oh, I'm the Grim Reaper! My name's Botan! And it's such a pleasure to meet surviving members of the Night Dragon Tribe!" the blue haired girl smiled.

"The Night Dragon Tribe?" Everyone in the room but Genkai, Kurama, and Hiei questioned.

"I'll explain for you. Night Dragon Tribe was a tribe of dragon demons that specialized in many ways of combat. Martial arts, weapons, and pretty much any technique. Ah yes, and they had an unbeatable artifact that looked like a staff." Botan explained a little.

"Dragon demons? So what the hell are you saying? That Akarui and I are both some sort of demon?" Yube put her hands on her hips and looked skeptically at Botan.

"Well, yes. That is what I'm saying," Botan answered simply.

Akarui blinked in confusion. "If that's true, then how come we didn't know that?" she asked.

"Well, seeing as you two are some of the only surviving members, Koenma and the rest of us in Spirit World were worried that your whole race would be extinct if we left you in the Makai. So you were sent to the human world in human bodies when you were infants." Botan explained more. Akarui and Yube glanced at one another, and then turned to look at everyone else in the room. All was quiet and a little uneasy.

"I see, so that explains their natural control over their spirit energy, correct?" Kurama looked to Botan.

Botan nodded, "Yes, that's it."

"Right, so what's the friggin' mission? I didn't search a quarter of the town for Hiei just to hear this!" Yusuke was losing what patience he had.

"Well Yusuke, the mission is to find the ancient artifact of the Night Dragon Tribe. In order to do that, you need a member of the tribe, and who better than some of the last members?" Botan said.

"Alright, so where's this artifact?" Kuwabara asked. Botan froze and thought. She shrugged and made a catty face. The others had mixed reactions between rolling eyes and shouting.

"Botan! Don't tell me you don't know!" Yusuke demanded.

"Fine then I won't. Besides, the two members of the dragons should be able to find it for you." She smiled at him. Apparently, Botan hadn't actually witnessed the hiding of the treasure. Akarui and Yube glanced at each other as if to ask the other if they knew where the artifact was, then they both shrugged.

"We don't know where it is." Yube with such a simple tone that the others felt like falling over in a particularly cartoonish manner.

Yusuke turned to the two girls. "What the flippin' hell do you mean, you don't know where it is? You're members of the tribe!" Yusuke yelled, obviously irritated that he could be enjoying himself in the city if he weren't there right now.

"Just what she said, WE DON'T KNOW!" Akarui barked back at Yusuke, just as irritated. Yube seemed to be thinking about it.

"Wait a minute; I might have a clue to where the artifact is!" Yube declared as everyone then glanced at her.

End Chapter 1

Next time- The two girls Yube and Akarui find out a little more about their clan's past. It involved a thousand-year war, pain, and suffering. What's this? Is Akarui falling for one of the YYH boys? Which one? And is one of the boys falling for or have already fallen for Akarui? Where's Yube's place in all this? Probably as the best friend of Akarui, teasing and taunting is in order? Find all this out in the next chapter of "The Bright Sunset and the Evening Moon".