This is a Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction! Welcome, welcome! Um, here I'll just make a few pointers. Yes, I am making OC characters for this story, but I'm unsure of the romantic pairings just yet. It's got a loose plot and I'll probably outline it at some point, but for now I'm just writing as my muse tells me to. I own every episode and all but two of the Yu Yu Hakusho manga, so I'm very well hearsed in the YYH world.

However, I'll probably make mistakes here and there, just like anyone else. If you see a OOC moment with one of the canon characters, just let me know, okay?

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any characters that belong to the anime or manga. They belong to Yoshihiro Togashi, not me. Any OC's, or original characters, belong to /me/. Plot belongs to /me, as does the Orb of Changes, since I made it up. :D So!! Now that that's out of the way, we can focus on other things.

Quick run down of the characters that I've made.

Aiko Wakahisa: Ai means love, Ko means child. Love child. Waka means young and Hisa means ancient. (She is seventeen years old and attends Sarasaki High School.)

Kaito Wakahisa: Kai means ocean and 'to' means soar/fly. (He is thirteen and attends Sarasaki Junior High School.)

Megumi Wakahisa: Megumi means blessed. (She is forty years old and works in a café near their small apartment.)

Daichi Wakahisa: Daichi means earth. (Father of Aiko and Kaito, husband to Megumi. He works at a computer chip company and often travels long distance for business dealings. He is forty-four years old, and will be scarce in this story.)

For those of you familiar with Yu Yu Hakusho, you know the other canon characters pretty well. If you've somehow stumbled upon this story and don't know Yu Yu Hakusho, I suggest Wikipedia. They explain it very well.

This is the longest Author's Note that I'll write unless something drastic happens, like I go on Haitus because of family or school related issues.

That takes care of everything, so please, enjoy the story.

A beeping alarm clock went unnoticed as it struck six on a clear Monday morning. The bed next to the alarm clock's stand was empty and made up with mint green sheets resting on top of it. A few stuffed animals were strewn across the surface, most of them old and worn looking as if they had suffered through many years of being held and carried around.

The room was dark in the early morning dawn as the dark sky slowly lightened outside of the bedroom window. The room itself was small, only holding a bed, desk, and dresser with a small chair in the corner. Shelves of books and more worn stuffed animals took up one side while piles of CDs were stacked neatly in between different books at random intervals. It didn't look organized, but the owner of the room knew exactly where everything was.

The radio clicked off it's annoying buzzer sound, switching to the radio. "Good morning Tokyo! Welcome to the early six o'clock music jam and traffic reports! It's your favorite host, DJ Chi! I'll be jamming to the most popular songs with you until eight while giving you helpful road hints that'll make you on time for work or school! Here's the newest song on the air waves, Jump!" A steady beat came on over the small speakers as a short drum solo filled the air.

However, the morning music went unnoticed to the owner of the room who wasn't even there at all. The door to the bedroom itself was open and across the hallway steam crept out from under the door opposite of it. A hot shower was being taken and a faint scent of apple filled the air. Whoever lived in the small upstairs room was a very early riser.

Sleek black hair cropped just two inches below the chin was filled with suds as nimble fingers lathered the apple shampoo into the scalp. A quick rinse and the hot water was shut off and the figure groped for a towel through the curtain, finding one to wrap around herself. A hand wiped the fog off of the mirror and a face was seen staring back through wet lashes in a heart shaped face. Aiko was her name and she shook her head rapidly like a wet dog, sending a spray of water droplets flying around the cubicle like bathroom. The apartment like home was just large enough to house the family of four and a loud thump downstairs alerted her that the rest of her family was waking up. Screaming along with pots hitting the floor made Aiko roll her eyes at her reflection, the shrill voice carrying up the stair cases.

"Who put the pot in the cupboard!? Stupid piece of metal!"

Aiko counted down on her fingers quietly, her other hand tapping the fingers as she counted. "Three… two… one…"

The clattering of pots was heard again in a more frantic search and Aiko continued to dry herself off, brushing her short bob of black hair once it was towel dried. "Aiko!! Aiko! Get yourself down here, I can't find my cigarettes!"

Aiko sighed softly through parted lips and opened the door to the bathroom. Gooseflesh erupted on her exposed skin when the frigid air of the hallway hit her steamy slice of heaven and she shook despite herself. "Your cigarettes are on the counter next to the coffee maker mother!"

Silence reigned for a moment before a calmer "thank you" was shouted from downstairs. Shaking her head, Aiko quickly finished getting ready by going back into her room to get dressed for school. After ten minutes of getting dressed and packing her books into her briefcase, Aiko's footfalls could be heard on the narrow stair case as she descended downstairs in the apartment her family lived in.

A woman of forty stood at the counter cooking eggs with a cigarette between her lips, puffing quietly on the end. Aiko set her school bag down at the front door before venturing into the tiny kitchen in her blue Sarasaki uniform. The kitchen itself was a sterile white color with wooden floors and a kitchen bar to eat at with wooden stools. The furniture in the apartment was sparse, as were the rooms. Two small bedrooms, a master bedroom, and one bath was the upstairs. Downstairs there was the entry hallway and living room and then the tiny kitchen.

Aiko briefly looked at her mother as she poked her nose into the fridge, frowning with distaste at the lack of food. She'd have to go shopping again, her mother was helpless when it came to cooking anything other than eggs and toast. Luckily she never had to buy very much. Her father was rarely home from his long distance job, while her younger brother ate a lot at the school cafeteria and very little at home. He woke up late in the mornings and usually grabbed food on the way to school from the café their mother worked at. The wonders of free food!! Thankfully her mother was so well liked that they never charged her younger brother for the food he nabbed. Yes, both Megumi her mother and Kaito her brother were very well liked.

"Good morning mother." Aiko gave her mother a quick kiss on the cheek as she put a piece of bread into the toaster, writing herself a note to shop for food later. Aiko's mother smiled a bit at the greeting, the cigarette bobbing up and down as she greeted her back.

Her mother's sleek black hair was tied into a thick pony tail at the base of her neck where it reached in between her shoulder blades. She was tall and lean while Aiko was a bit shorter then her, but otherwise they were the spitting image of the other. The two women looked at each other with cobalt colored eyes and smiled twin smiles. Her mother worked out a lot after she got off from the café, making her mother look more like an older sister instead of a forty year old mom of two.

The smoke from Megumi's cigarettes filled the small kitchen but the smoke detector had been long since out of work in their household. What with her mother being a chain smoker and all, it was pointless to have one when she smoked in the kitchen all the time. It would just beep forever because of all the smoke that hung out in the house.

"I'm going to head on to school." Buttering her piece of toast quickly, Aiko stuck it into her mouth while sliding brown loafers onto her feet, forgoing the knee length socks for shorter ankle socks.

Her mother waved lightly as she left. "Head straight to the hospital to see grandma when you leave school!"

"I will!" With that, one Aiko Wakahisa shut the door to her family's small abode, not realizing what repercussions that day was about to unleash on her.

"Ouch! Keiko stop pulling, that hurts!!" A pretty brunette rolled her eyes as she gripped her boyfriend's ear even harder, pulling him down the lane towards Sarasaki high school. "Ouch! Have some mercy on me Keiko, I've been fighting demons all weekend with my grandmother from hell!! Can't I skip school, just for today?"

"No Yusuke, you can't. You've barely managed to even get through the beginning years of high school, and even then you had people help out your paper work!" She shot him a nasty look at his cheesy grin. "And furthermore, you need to study! If you fail senior year then it's all over for you!"

"Geez, you sound like grandma and training Keiko! Don't be such a hag, let's go hang out or something! You, me, and more of you, why we could—"

"Yusuke you pervert!" A resounding slap was heard and Yusuke stumbled backwards, holding his throbbing face as his furious girlfriend turned red in the face. "I can't believe you'd even ask that!! Jerk!"

Yusuke rubbed at his cheek and smiled, much to his girlfriend's annoyance. "Hey, what can I say, after last night, I just want mor—" This time a briefcase met his head and he was knocked back flat on his back side, a goose egg forming on the side of his head. Some people in the streets stopped to stare while others hurried on, already late for work. "Geez Keiko! I was just kidding! You didn't have to hit me so hard!!"

Keiko's fist clenched and unclenched, a vein visibly throbbing on her temple. "Keep talking Yusuke, you're just digging a deeper grave for yourself! And I've never even gone past kissing you, so don't get any bright ideas!!"

Yusuke sighed heavily and pushed himself to his feet as Keiko stormed off towards the high school's gates, fuming to herself.

"Geez Urameshi, how stupid can you be?" A new and gravelly voice questioned him from behind, one that Yusuke recognized immediately.

Yusuke calmly gave the bird over his shoulder to a familiar carrot-top man. Said carrot-top fumed at the lack of response and grabbed the back of Yusuke's green uniform, holding him up off the ground.

"Don't you walk away from me Urameshi! I'll stomp your –ss into the pavement!"

Yusuke smirked, his fingers gripping the man's collar. "Oh yeah? I'd like to see you try Kuwabara. The last time you did that I was the one stomping and you were screaming uncle."

The man who was identified as Kuwabara growled before it turned into a grin and Yusuke was set back on the ground. The two delinquents grinned at each other before Kuwabara slapped Yusuke on the back. "Great to see you man! So, what did Keiko do to you that made you actually show for class?"

Yusuke grimaced at the memory of her literally beating him up this morning to get him up and dressed. "You don't wanna know man, you don't wanna know."

The two resumed walking, seeing Keiko waiting at the gates to Sarasaki further ahead. "So man, we have any new missions? You've been away to Genki's for like, two weeks now. Any more moves you learned?" He nudged his friend while grinning, trying to pry information out of him.

Yusuke elbowed Kuwabara back harder and soon the two were grinding each other's elbows into the other's rib cages. "No, it's been quiet on the spirit side. I guess the demons are tired of trying to rule the world."

Kuwabara looked doubtful, pushing Yusuke away from him lightly as they entered the grounds to the high school. "It's too weird man. Usually we'd be stomping some alley way dirt bags or at least scouting things out, but it's just been… quiet. Ever since you set up that tournament every two years in Makai, there's been less trouble. It's too weird for demons to be this quiet. Even shrimpy isn't around as much!"

Yusuke just shrugged, lowering his voice as they entered the hallways. "I don't know man. Just count it as a blessing, because so help me if you just jinxed us for a hard mission, I'll beat your –ss so hard into the pavement it'll make your ancestors cringe!"

Kuwabara puffed up a little at the threat, tripping Yusuke as they entered the doorway to the classroom. "You just watch helmet head!! I'll fight off whatever enemy comes our way and then I'll be a hero! Then Yukina will come back, we'll get married, and live happily ever after!"

Yusuke sat in the window sill and snorted, kicking Kuwabara's chair out from under him before he could sit down. "Yeah right lover boy, as if she'd go for you." His grin slowly fell as he looked out the window. "I just hope we get a break for awhile…"

If it was one thing Koenma hated, it was complications. All day there had been nothing but complications. Souls had gone missing from ferry girls, ferry girls were missing their oars or communicators, a certain blue haired ferry girl was grating on his last nerve with her shrill screaming, and it was all because life hated him.

Sighing softly, Koenma leaned back in his large chair, all of his paperwork completed for once. It was unbelievable and unheard of, but he'd worked so hard today that he would have a free night ahead of him if it weren't for one thing nagging on his mind.

Someone had broken into the vaults last night in the Rekai Palace, the strongest strong hold in all of Spirit World! Things were scattered everywhere and everything was shattered and misplaced. The ogres were taking inventory on what was there and what wasn't, but he just hoped that no serious artifacts had been taken. He had a number of pendants that would be worth millions on the black market and deadly in the wrong hands. Taking out a sheet of paper he began listing every rare artifact in the one vault that had been sacked. "Pendant of Memory… Water of Knowledge… Ring of Shadows… Spirit Orbs…"

His double doors bursting open had him looking up at George the blue ogre that had walked in and he straightened. "Well Ogre, have you found anything?"

The ogre nodded, handing Koenma a piece of paper. "Yes sir, we have. Everything is accounted for…"

Koenma let out a sigh of relief. "That's good, but who—"

"Except for one thing."

Koenma slowly looked at George before looking down at the paper he had been given. His eyes widened for a moment then narrowed as he quickly skimmed the paper. "Well? Find it! Find the artifact now!"

"But sir—"

"Ogre." The sharp word had George straightening as Koenma hopped up onto his desk, pacing the clear top of it. "Do you have any idea what this artifact listed can do?"

George looked unsure for a moment and shook his head. "No sir, I don't. What exactly is the artifact that's missing?"

"It's called the Orb of Changes, ogre, and it's very powerful. It hangs on a silver necklace made of dragon scales which won't come off the user until the change is complete."

Ogre frowned even more. "What change is that sir?"

Koenma sighed as he put the paper away into a shredder, pushing the bits into the trash can. "This is strictly top secret information… although since everyone knows what the orb is and that it's here, I might as well tell you. The Orb of Changes is just that, it changes the user that wears it. If a demon wears the orb, the orb will scorch it's soul and mutate it into a horrible creature with monstrous strength. It passed from hand to hand, causing thousand year old wars and such. See, the Orb keeps the user alive, feeding off it's energy like a parasite. No energy, no power, so it keeps the user alive. It heals stab wounds, reattaches your lost limbs, etcetera. It doesn't stop death, but it prolongs your life be thousands of years. If it fell into the wrong hands…" Koenma shuddered. "It would be chaos. It's one of the strongest artifacts I own Ogre, and it was in that vault for a reason!"

George's knees shook and he gulped a little bit as images of mass murder flitted through his head. "But sir, why don't we just entrust it to a human then? Humans don't have powers unless their spirit awareness is through the roof! Like Kuwabara sir, or Yusuke! Well, formerly Yusuke, but still sir!"

Koenma shook his head. "It's fatal if a human tries to wield it. The Orb of Changes sinks into the user's body, becoming one with it. If it fused with a human, it would try to change the human into a demon, something that only twenty percent could survive, at best. It gives them longer life span, powers to protect themselves, and boosts their senses. They become a lower level demon, but with enough hard work they could work their way up the ranks. There is a way to extract it, but… It's extremely dangerous. And fatal. Once the orb fuses with a host, you can't remove it unless you kill the person harboring it. That's why no one must use it Ogre, do you understand?" Koenma sighed, rubbing at the head ache that had formed behind his eyes.

"Get me Yusuke on the line. Tell him to gather Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara at a safe location. There's the east side docks, tell them to meet me there tomorrow afternoon after school." He closed his brown eyes then opened them after a moment, seriousness making them hard and cool. "We're going on a treasure hunt."

Well! There it is! Please enjoy. Reviews are always welcome, they fuel my passion for writing, but I won't hold this story hostage for reviews. ;P I hate it when people do that, so I won't. This story is purely for my entertainment and my muse. If you think it's awful, that's fine, but I don't want people sending me reviews saying "Oh my gosh, not another OC character!!"

Yeah, it's an OC pairing that I'm going to come up with, eventually. So, don't panic, and keep your hard hats on.

Best wishes, love, and blessings be on you from God!

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