A/N: Thank you all for the nice revews - Here is the full chapter of chapter one.

Chapter 1: Hidden Desires

Emerald eyes opened slowly when the light shining into the room fell upon the red haired youths previously sleeping form. The teen stretched a bit before looking around his room. The room was filled with soft light that came from the high window, built in to the bottom of the window was a padded seat so the teen could look out at the beautiful garden below. Next to the window was a mahogany bookcase filled with books that were sorted by like kind and alphabetized, by the wall next to the window there were pictures of family and friends.

The teen's bed was a western style four poster bed with black silk sheets, a dark red comforter with a complicated green vine pattern, his pillows a mix of black silk covered pillows and dark red silk covered pillows. His bed was directly in front of the window so he could see the sun shining through the tall oak tree's branches. By the wall to the left of his bed he had a mahogany desk pushed into the corner to save room. On the desk there was a neat stack of papers, pencils and pens in a cup and schoolbooks in a shelf, sorted like his other books.

Beside the desk was a small closet, just big enough to have some good outfits, a few shoes and a few small boxes and next to that was a dresser for normal clothes. To the right of his bed there were two doors, one to his own bathroom and the other to the hallway. This young man's name was Shuichi Minamino, other wise known as Youko Kurama, Kurama to his friends. The red haired teen got out of his bed and looked over at the clock and calendar real quick before starting his routine. '9am on a Sunday, plenty of time to take a shower before breakfast.' He thought before he went into the bathroom.

Ten minutes later he walked out of the bathroom, still wet and only a towel keeping his modesty. "Fox." A deep voice came from the direction from his window. Kurama turned his head calmly and gave a small smile to his friend. "Hiei, what are you doing here?" he asked in his soft tenor voice as he walked over to his dresser and started to pull out the clothes he was going to wear that day. "Koenma called us for a meeting. Botan already got the detective and the idiot." Hiei said. Hiei was in his normal clothes, black pants, a black sleeveless tank top, a while belt, black slippers, white headband and white bandages on his right arm.

Kurama hummed to show he heard as he dropped the towel, not noticing how Hiei's eyes traced his body. Kurama quickly put on his boxers, a pair of light blue jeans and a white shirt. "Would you like to join me for breakfast Hiei? Mother most likely finished it while I was in the shower." The emerald eyes locked with the crimson eyes of his best friend and love of his heart. Hiei gave the fox a smirk. "What about Koenma?" he teased; knowing Kurama usually would want to leave as soon as possible. "Now Hiei, Koenma knows I keep my mother in the dark about being a spirit detective, I simply have to stay long enough so she wont worry." Kurama said simply as he finished brushing his hair and putting on socks.

"In that case I will join you." Hiei smirked and got off the window seat. "Of course, I knew you would." Kurama chuckled as they walked out of his room and down the hall. "Hn." Kurama chuckled and winked at Hiei. "Don't be like that, beside I simply think Koenma will understand the importance of breakfast." The red head said with a grin as they walked into the kitchen. "Good morning, Shuichi dear." Shiori smiled when she saw them. "Good morning Hiei-san."

"Ohiyo Minamino-san." Hiei nodded politely. "I hope you don't mind Hiei joining us for a quick breakfast, we have to meet with the others in a little bit." Kurama said before his kissed his mom on the cheek. "I don't mind at all, there is plenty of food, your brother and step-father has already left and didn't eat." Shiori said and started to dish out the food she knew Kurama and Hiei liked.

It was half an hour later when Kurama and Hiei got to the meeting. "Your late! I was expecting this from Yusuke but you Kurama? Not even a warning that you would be late!" Koenma complained. "Forgive us, it wasn't Hiei's fault anyway, I invited him to join me for breakfast this morning." The red head said as he looked around the office. The office only had one big wood desk that was filled with piles of paper, a high-back chair, which Koenma in his teen form was sitting in, and a big screen TV. Both Yusuke and Kuwabara were standing in front of the desk in their normal clothes.

Koenma glared at the red head, which just gave him an innocent look before pointing to the calendar. The young looking lord looked at the calendar before sighing in defeat. "I'll let it slide this time." He said before pulling out a sheet of paper. "As I was telling Yusuke and Kuwabara, you four have a new case." He said before clearing his throat. "Now 500 years ago the worlds were one, demons, humans and spirits in one world co-existing, but the demons were slowly killing humans so my father, King Enma, split the world into three, one for each kind of race. The Makai for the demons, the Reikai for the spirits and the Ningenkai for the humans." Koenma said.

"Yes we know the story, what dose this have to do with the mission?!" Yusuke demanded. "We have reports that there's been a time warp and a demon has been going back and forth from this time to its time." Koenma said. "I need you four to go and, A) capture him, B) Make him stop or, C) kill him." Koenma continued. "So who is this demon?" Yusuke asked. "We don't know Yusuke." Koenma shook his head with a sigh. "Where is the time warp?" Kurama asked, looking almost lost in thought.

"That we do know, the time warp is at this shrine." Koenma said and turned the TV to show a picture of a nice looking shrine at the top of a hill. "These are the directions!" Botan said as she popped up behind Yusuke with a sheet of paper. "Botan! Don't scare me like that!" Yusuke yelped and grabbed at the directions only for Kurama to take them. The red head quickly scanned the page before nodding, having committed it to memory. "How long will this mission last in estimate?" he asked, emerald eyes locking onto Koenma own eyes.

"It shouldn't take more then five days, plenty of time for you to get back." The lord said with a nod. "What do you mean by that? Do you have a date Kurama?" Yusuke teased with a smirk, seeing Hiei tense up and glare at the ceiling. "No, I don't Yusuke, it's simply going to be fox, Ice demon and water demon mating season soon and I would rather not get stuck in the past to be taken advantage of." Kurama blushed lightly. "Ah don't worry fox boy! We wont let anyone force you into mating them!" Yusuke proclaimed loudly while Kurama blushed and shook his head.

"Detective, you just proclaimed that one of us or all of us were going to mate him." Hiei said and glared darkly at the brunette. "When did I say that?" Yusuke ask with a confused look. "You proclaimed we would protect him in the same way a dominant Youkai would proclaim to a submissive Youkai if the dominant wanted to mate the submissive or if one of the group would mate the submissive." Botan said as she read out of a book. "What are you reading Botan?" Yusuke asked with a raised eyebrow. "Oh! I'm reading a book on Youkai mating habits!" the blue haired girl giggled. "I wanted to know what Kurama would be going through in a week."

"Here Yusuke, if you want to protect Kurama you will want to read this." Botan said and gave Yusuke the book while Kurama sighed and shook his head. "You know where you have to go now so dismissed!" Koenma declared before he pushed the team out of the office.

Only a few minutes later the group of four was walking towards the Higarashi shrine. "So what do you think of this assignment?" Kurama asked Hiei to end the silence. "Any assignment Koenma gives that doesn't have something to do with me isn't worth my time." The short crimson-eyed Youkai scoffed. "Now Hiei, you know the more missions we go on, the shorter out sentence is." The red head chuckled.

They continued in silence yet again for ten minutes before a shout was heard. "Kurama! Yusuke! Kuwabara!" Jin the red haired wind Youkai yelled, waving his arms around to get their attention. Beside Jin was Touya, a Youkai with ice blue eyes and two-tone blue hair; he was wearing his normal blue ninja like outfit while Jin was just wearing his harem pants, bracers and slippers. Behind the duo were two humans, one petite blond with a yellow hoodie and blue jeans on, the other a tall brunette wearing blue jeans, white wife beater and a leather jacket.

"Jin! Long time no see man!" Yusuke grinned and ran up to the group. "What's up Touya, Mitarai and Hagiri?" he asked and playfully punched Jin's shoulder. "Heya Uremeshi!" Jin cheerfully quipped. The other three had reached the growing group by then and were greeting their friends. "So what are you all doing here anyway Mita-kun?" Kurama asked Mitarai with a smile. "Koenma-sama has asked us to be your groups back up!" the blond smiled and Touya gave a small nod.

"He told us where your going you may need assistance." The blue haired ice Youkai said calmly while keeping an eye on his long time partner and, hopefully, soon to be mate. "Then we welcome you to our mission Tou-kun." The fox said with a small grin. "So what's with the nicknames anyway?" Yusuke asked looking between Kurama, Touya and Mitarai. "I didn't know you guys were that close."

"Well you see Yusuke, the three of us ended up in the same market place and the same time on the same day and ran into one another. We decided to sit at a little café not far from the market and got caught up on what our groups have been doing since we last saw one another." Kurama explained while he pushed a few strands of hair out of his face, which caused Hiei to stare unnoticed by all but Touya and Hagiri.

"As for the nick names, well we decided to use the ones our precious people called us after we met up several more times every few weeks or so." Mitarai added on. "So Mitarai is Mita-kun, Touya is Tou-kun and I am Kura-kun." Kurama chuckled with a big smile. "If you say so Kurama, but don't we have a job to do?" Yusuke reminded while looking up the hill that was a few feet away and eyed the shrine and house they were supposed to go to.

The group started to walk to the shrine again when the world seemed to stop except for the blast of wind hitting them from all sides. Kurama, Touya and Mitarai were blasted from the group and they fell into a swirling portal that opened up beside them. "Kurama!" "Touya!" "Mitarai!" the group yelled, trying to grab the their friends but were blasted into a different portal. For both groups, the world went dark.