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Chapter 1

"What the hell happened?" A raven-haired man exited the portal from Makai to Ningenkai and looked around.

"Well we have been in Makai for nearly one thousand years," a long silver haired figure answered, "it's only natural that things have change significantly."

"Humans," another with gravity defying black hair, blue outlining and white starburst muttered.

"I have to agree with Hiei this time, nothing will satisfy these humans," the second figure, none other than Youko Kurama stated.

The second one, now identified as Hiei, seemed to have grown quite a lot taller. It seemed as if puberty took longer for demons and at age 1000 he was the second tallest in the group. The famous fox demon still looks the same, minus the covered ears and tails to prevent any problems with the humans.

"But humans aren't entire that bad," the only female of the group argued. "There are many who are very kind and caring."

The first one chuckled and patted the female's head, "Of course we know that Yukina. We even had our hands full of them and I'm even half human."

The four, including Hiei, even if only for a second, had a nostalgic smile.

"Yusuke's right, I didn't mean that it was entirely bad. If they are never satisfied with what they have there are many possibility of improvements." Kurama supported his friend.

The ice maiden's, who seemed to also grown quite a lot, smile brightens and nodded. Their leader, Yusuke Urameshi, was also no different than how he looked almost a millennium ago.

"Guys!" All four heads turn the owner of the voice. "I haven't seen all of you in such a long time!"

"Botan!" The ice maiden caught the ferry girl into a tight hug, which was enthusiastically returned.

"Missed me?" Yusuke greeted almost as the same time Kurama and Hiei gave their own nod of head.

"Very much!" Botan let go of Yukina and launched herself at the ex-Spirit Detective.

"Ouch, I can't breathe," Yusuke complained, but made no move to remove from the female's bone-crushing hug.

Botan let go and walked towards the last two, still smiling widely.

A second later the two was spouting threats, the fire demon was first, "Hug me and I'll kill you."

"Minamino Shuichi might hug people, but there's not a single chance I am," Youko Kurama followed.

"You two wouldn't really do such thing, right?" The smiling ferry girl still took big steps towards the two.

"That's what you think," both growled, as they got ready for an attack.

Yusuke, the one closest to Botan and had spent almost a millennium with the two demons, hold the blue haired girl by the back of her clothes, "You better stop Botan, we wouldn't want you killed. They're full demons who had been living a long time in Makai remember."

"Fine," Botan pouted.

"What does Koenma need us for?" Yusuke asked. "Aren't we over being Spirit Detectives nine hundred years ago?"

Botan turned to Yusuke, "That's true, but apparently he have some problems only you guys could deal with. I'm not so sure either."

"There's only one way to found out," Yusuke said.

"After you," Botan joked as she politely pointed to the portal with a bow and giggled.

The raven-haired boy played along with a bow of his own and entered the portal, followed by his four friends.

"Have you visited their graves lately?" Botan asked as she led the way to her boss' room.

"Not really," Yusuke scratch the back of his head. "We haven't been in the human world two years after Kuwabara's death. We were surprised how the much things have changed"

Botan nodded, "We were surprised when you got over their deaths. We thought it would take much longer."

"Well Makai isn't going to rule itself," Kurama coldly stated.

"Mukuro and Yomi was no help either," Hiei added.

"It couldn't be helped, Brother," Yukina told the two demons. "The demons' uproar had just ended and they were badly injured."

"Everyone wondered how they both got to live for ten more years after the war," Botan commented.

"Well they could have been saved if someone," Kurama glared at Botan, "had told us about the war."

"It couldn't be helped," Botan defended herself. "We would've told you if Kurama's mother hadn't just pass away, followed by Genkai, and soon, everyone was passing by one by one."

"Shiori's not my mother," a sad smile graced Kurama's face. "Not anymore anyways, Minamino Shuichi was long gone when his mother was."

Hiei, surprisingly, patted Kurama's left shoulder for comfort.

"Thanks, Hiei," Kurama smiled at his friend. "But I was over it over 900 years ago."

"You may say that red headed human was gone, but I still see him in you at times, Fox. Got over it my ass," the fire demon snorted. "That human mother of yours had made a permanent damage on you."

"This is the third time you had comforted me after Shiori's death, Hiei," Kurama, again, smiled. "Somehow, I feel better. Maybe… just maybe, it might be alright to be myself."

"Don't get use to it," Hiei shoved his hands back to his pockets. "And who else can you be if not yourself?"

The other three watched with a smile as they got closer and closer towards the double door.

"Well here it is," Botan announced, although no one had needed it. The Spirit World interior had not changed even a little from the last time they had came. "Go on in, I'll be taking my leave, bye."

Yusuke and Yukina waved while the two male demons sent another nod of their heads.

"We're coming in," Yusuke shouted into the doors even though he would come in whether the person behind the doors did not approve.

Koenma smiled and looked up from his stack of work as he recognized the voice, "How's Makai? Yusuke, you haven't change at all."

"Same goes to you," Yusuke replied the greetings and took a seat in one of the four couches. "Still as small as always."

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," Koenma focused on the four in front of him setting down on the couches. Kurama was beside Yusuke in one of couches facing the desk while Hiei and Yukina was in another. Two other couches, one facing the east and the other the west was left unoccupied.

"So what did you need us for?" Yusuke asked, as he would have centuries ago.

"We have a problem in the human world," Koenma went all business.

"As always," Yusuke snorted.

"The central is not in Japan though," Koenma ignored Yusuke's comment, "it's in China."

"That's new," the silver haired fox stated. "I always thought you had other groups in other countries."

"It is true that we have one there, but they could not accept this mission," Koenma explained. "It concerns a virtual reality game called Second Life. We would have sent our new Reikai Tante if we could, but the company required people with more time since they would need to play the game."

"In case you forgot," Yusuke cut off, "we're kind of busy with ruling the entire Makai. We wouldn't want the same war happening so we would need to 'prove our worth' as the demons put it."

"Actually, I'm pretty sure the four of you got Makai under control. All the demon population either fear or adore you. In addition, Kurama had added political positions while Hiei trained the military to be the strongest one in history and Yukina help improve your relationships," Koenma argued. "It really isn't a problem anymore and you would still be able to check on it every once in a while. This, however, could threaten the whole human population."

"Fine then," Yusuke complied.

"As you all know and see, humans have continued to develop technologies until the whole world runs by them," Koenma continued his explanation. "This includes their games. This is an example of a helmet the current most popular game, called Second Life, players use to play. It is a virtual reality game with 99% realism that you could even feel the wind blows. To maintain the high realism, the company had made a 'god' in the game that could do anything he wants and could not be controlled by the company, called the Dictator of Life.

"At first they thought this was a good idea; however, as time pass, the company started to question their idea. They are worried of all the possibilities of danger and made this statement towards the head of Second Life Company. After thinking about it, the head had agreed, but they no longer can do anything since they have no control over the Dictator of Life. He was a friend of mine, who knew about demons because once had an encounter with demons, and decided to search for me for help. I told him about the group in China, but he refused. I also told him about the current Reikai Tante, but again, he refused saying that it would be dangerous if something were to happen in Japan.

"He required people that could spend more time playing the game, but are still strong and the first group that came to my mind was you guys. Now your mission is to head for China to Second Life Company to meet the this man and help him."

"Can he be really trusted?" Yukina wondered. "Would he try to do something bad?"

"No, he is a very nice person," Koenma answered. "Completely harmless. That's why I let him know about demons and all. You could trust him and I believe that when he had told you the details you could choose the best choice yourself."

"Well whatever," Yusuke made up his decision. "Play a virtual reality game with 99% realism seems fun. And just as Koenma said, Makai would be fine without us, so let's go, 'kay? Okay. When are we heading out?"

"As soon as possible," Koenma chuckled at Yusuke's childish behavior.

"Now is as good as any," Yusuke was the one who replied again, completely ignoring any protests his three friends have, if they even have any. By now they were practically used to Yusuke making all their decisions by himself without any discussions.

"Well you should go back to Makai to make the preparations you need and come back in an hour time, I'll have the portal opened by then," the spirit god dismissed the four demons.