Disclaimer: Duh, of course I don't own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakuso, or else I would be counting money at the moment.

Summary: IYYYH The Dark Tournament was coming again. The Reikai team was going to fight again. But who would be the fifth man? No one expected Hiei came up with a possible name, let a lone a full-blooded demon. And who was the woman that cheered for Hiei and the team? KurKag.

Uhm, okay. This is my first crossover fanfic. I like IYYYH one because of the similarities of them (IY's world and YYH's world) and the surprising truth they usually hold. If you've read one or two stories about the meeting between Kagome and the Reikai team through some demons, Shippo, family bonds, ect… you will know what I mean. And now, enjoy our first chapter.

'Youko's thought'

'Kurama's thought'

'Hiei's thought'

Chapter 1: First impression at the Dark Tournament

Kurama walked to the park near his house, deep in thought. The Dark Tournament was coming again and as the current champion, their team was the honor guests, in other words, they had to take part in the fight. However, they were having a small problem. Okay, maybe not a very small problem. As usual, the rule required at least five members of every team. The Reikai team was four immediate members, but who would fight as the fifth man? Definitely not Genkai since she had refused before Yusuke'd even had the chance to ask. Jin and the others were going to form their own team to fight against them, thus they were also out of option. Not only that, but the matter seemed worse when he was the only one thought over it. Yusuke, at matter of fact, didn't think of it as a problem. Maybe he thought that someone would descend from heaven to help them. Kuwabara actually tried to think of any problem, and as usual, came up with some dumb problem and even dumber solutions. Hiei? Nah, he might just threatened to kill anyone objected to him fighting. With that thought in mind, it was a surprise when he came to the park and was informed that their fifth member was on his way. And it came along with a much more surprising fact that the hybrid was the one who dragged this man, no demon, to their team.

------Flashback-----------

"Hey guys, we have a problem," stated Kurama after the normal greetings.

"What is it, Kurama?" asked Kuwabara in a worried voice.

"We don't have five members for our team, so we might be disqualified from the beginning."

"What? I don't want to be disqualified just because of a stupid rule. Maybe we should ask Genkai for help", Kuwabara suggested, ever the latest to know everything.

"Nah, I've already asked the old hag, but she refused," answered the Toushin.

"The dumbass really can't come up with any solution, as always", said Hiei from a high branch above, not missed a chance to mock Kuwabara.

"At least I try to help, unlike you."

"Help is when you can actually solve the problem, trying means nothing."

"As if you can. I don't see you give us any name. I doubt you know anyone beside some fellow on the demon wanted list."

Before Hiei could retort and kept their argument going forever, Kurama asked again: "So, back to the matter at hand, any of you know someone who can fight in our team?" Even though he asked every one, Kurama didn't expect an answer because the fighters Yusuke and Kuwabara knew were mostly human with no spiritual energy so they couldn't stand a chance and Hiei, well, he wasn't exactly the type Kurama would call 'sociable'. That why Kurama was surprised when Hiei spoke: "That's hardly a problem, fox."

"What do you mean, Hiei?"

"He's on his way."

"You mean our fifth fighter?"

"Hn"

"Who's he? Is he good?", asked an impatient Yusuke.

"…"

------ End of Flashback-----------

From that point, Hiei didn't let loose a word about the mysterious man, no matter how many times Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama himself asked. He simply told them to come to the harbour and their new teammate would be waiting there for them. Nonetheless, they had managed to annoy Hiei enough that the hybrid had to tell them that they were going to fight along side with a full-blooded youkai, a kitsune to be specific. That had caught Yusuke and Kuwabara off guard. They had made a fuss, something about 'there was no way an A class demon were going to help them, unless he was insane or this was a trap'. They even asked whether or not this demon was on the most wanted list like Hiei and Kurama or if he tried to come to Ningenkai and get caught, therefore had to work for Koenma. Something they said had ticked Hiei off, most likely one of Kuwabara insult, for the fire apparition had Kuwabara by his throat in less than a second. His red eyes glowed menacingly and he said in so low a voice that Kurama's sensitive hearing barely caught his words: "He's a noble. Don't ever insult him again, or I'll cut your throat, idiot." Now that surely made him surprised. Hiei knew an A class demon, a noble at that, well enough that he would defend him? And how many A class kitsune belonged to the aristocracy society that would agree to fight with humans, traitors (although he didn't think himself as one), Forbidden child that he knew of? Not many, or dare he said, not any. Well, it looked like he had to wait and figured out this puzzle. This would surely make the tournament all the way more interesting.

One month later

The day they got to meet their fifth man had come. Needless to say, everyone, except Hiei, was very excited. They decide to meet at Genkai's temple then went to the harbour together. Kurama, ever the perceptive one, noticed the imperceptible stiffness of Hiei posture, showed him the fire apparition's anticipation, or maybe nervousness. True to Hiei's words, the mysterious kitsune had already been there and was currently waiting for them, with his back facing their way. He was a tall kitsune, with long auburn hair tied back in a high pony tail by a blue ribbon. He stood straight, head held high. His aura screamed power, pride and anything required of a Demon Lord.

"Shippo", greeted the hybrid, for the first time mentioned the kitsune's name.

The demon, now known as Shippo, turned around with a grin on his face, effectively erased any image of a stoic lord. His mischievous emerald eyes sparkled made Kurama realized how happy he was to see one of his kind in the modern day. Caught in his musing, Kurama didn't see the surprises coming their way. Apparently, Shippo had plenty of those and he was about to presented some, instead of normal greeting.

"Hello, as you've known, my name's Shippo. I'm a nine-tailed fox demon," he began to introduce himself, earning a few gasps from his audience, "nice to meet you all. You must be Yusuke, Kurama and Kuwabara. I've heard Hiei talked about you," he continued to talk, in spite of Hiei's glare as being the receiving end of three curious pairs of eyes," and don't look at me like that, Hiei nii-chan, I know you love me." He ended his speech with a wide grin at everyone flabbergasted appearance.

After five minute of silence, the announcement of the ship's departure pulled them back to reality. Shippo said cheerfully: "Now now, close your mouths everyone or you'll catch flies. And we should get going if we want to take part in the tournament. By the way, nii-chan, she said she would come and cheer for us." The effect of his sentence was almost immediately. Hiei growled, cursed, groaned all as the same time (if one could do that) and yelled:"What does that woman think she is doing? What do you think let her do that?"

"Well, you know how she is. Do you think I can stop her when she sets her mind on doing something?" Shippo answered calmly as five of them arrived on board.

"No, foolish woman" replied an irritated Hiei, who started to kill the demons to take out his frustration.

"If you don't mind, may I ask who are you two talking about?" asked a confused Kurama.

"Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to leave you out. But you will understand once you see her. About their relationship, just ask Hiei or maybe she can tell you herself. But it's not my story to tell"

"I see. I'm impressed that someone could make Hiei become so…expressive."

"Watch your tongue, fox" shouted Hiei, somewhere on the boat, "I can hear you."

"Which one?" asked two amused and equally mischievous boys simultaneously, further annoyed Hiei.

"Both"

"I started to like you, Shippo. Not many, human or demon, who can tease Hiei and get away with it alive." chimed in an enthusiastic Yusuke, while delivering a kick to a demon and a punch to another.

"Then you should see what Kagome can do. Beside, my brother is a sweet heart under all that cold façade" Shippo grinned, made everyone almost fainted.

'Well, this Shippo is very amusing. I like him. He is definitely a kitsune. No one else would put Hiei and sweet heart in one sentence.'

'I must agree with you this time, Youko'

'And I must say you're taking too much fun in this situation', complained Hiei, finishing the last demon.

'But you can't say that wasn't fun. It's rare to come across one such as him. And it looks like he comes along with many surprises, too. Very interesting'

'Hn…'

'I think Youko is right. And by the way Shippo spoke, I can see that this Kagome has kept you in a tight leash'

'I think you spend too much time with Youko, Kurama'

'Hey, what do you mean by that?'

'…'

'Fine, be that way then.'

When Hiei and Kurama finished their "talk", all the demons on the ship, excluding the captain, had been killed. The captain, even though he'd already known that team Urameshi would be the last ones standing, couldn't help but marveling at their strength. It seemed they kept getting stronger than the last time he saw them. And not to mention they always had famous members somehow: the Reikai Team, Genkai, Koenma, and now a full-blooded demon. Although this new members hadn't performed anything yet, his aura showed his great power that not many had obtained since the feudal era. If this demon was who the captain thought he was then this tournament was definitely worth watching. For all those year doing his duty as the contestants' deliverer, this was one of a few times he felt like watching the certainly interesting upcoming matches. Maybe he could try and ask the committee for a VIP ticket.

When the ship arrived at their destination, the five went straight to their hotel. Hiei was still in his come-near-me-and-I-will-kill-you mood so Shippo checked in for the both of them, bid the others goodbye then went to their room while dragging a grimly looking Hiei behind. The remaining detectives could only sweatdrop at the swift retreat. Kurama was the first one snapped back to normal, said: "Well, that certainly was weird."

"You bet," grumbling Yusuke while followed their example and went back to his room. Kurama quickly followed him. And that left Kuwabara, who didn't come back to the real world after five more minutes had passed. "Hey, where did everyone go?"

The next day

Kurama was the first one to wake up, or so he thought, if one doesn't count Hiei. Hardly anyone had seen Hiei asleep before, apart from the time he had to recover after using all his energy in the Dragon of the Darkest Flame attack (?) so it didn't really mattered. He came to the living room assigned for their team and see another funny sight. Shippo had given Hiei a box contained home-made cooking from Kagome and was currently persuading him to eat it. Hiei, on the other hand, refused to eat in front of the others, a.k.a the other SD. And it seemed like all of Hiei's misdeeds in the past had come for revenge since right as that moment, Yusuke and Kuwabara burst into the room while fighting with each other. They came to an abrupt stop at the sight and one second later they were on the ground, laughing their head off like hyenas. That served to annoyed, and dare Kurama said, humiliated Hiei even more. Before the fire apparition attacked the two, Kurama stepped in: "We must hurry up, the fight is about to start in thirty minutes". That seemed to have pulled everyone back to normal.

"Shit, why didn't you say it earlier?" complaint Yusuke, all the while dashing to find something to eat.

After the morning fiasco, the whole team arrived at the arena twenty minute early. On their way, they heard some rumors that the Western Lords and his escorts were the honor guest of this year Tournament. To Kurama, and even Youko (who had waken up after hearing the news), this tournament just had to be full of surprises. Every demons knew that right now, Makai was divided into four parts: one was ruled by Mukuro, one by Yomi and one by Raizen. Those three parts were now under the rule of Enki. But not many knew of how the current ruler of the far west part of Makai where all the ancient youkai, mostly from Sengoku Jidai, resided, looked like. He was famous for his cold, ruthless reputation and his tolerance for hanyous. Nowadays, demons looked down on hanyous less than ever before, however, because of their disadvantage in strength compared to that of a full-blooded demon, half-bread tended to be picked on or killed on sight. The Western land was the only place could be deem as peaceful and safe for hanyou. Even though the Western Lord was very well-known, demons of all kind had to shiver in fear at the mention of his name, there were a few demons actually knew him personally. He was said to be very handsome, more like beautiful, with a blue crescent moon on his forehead, two magenta stripes on each cheek and a god like figure. He was an upper S-class demon like Raizen, but unlike the former ruler, he wasn't weakened due to lack of human meat, for he didn't eat any to begin with. But truth to be told, to one really knew what he looked like, for he hadn't come out of his land since the establishment of the barrier between three worlds and any ignorant demons who challenged him had never come back alive to tell others of his appearance.

'So what made the Western Lord came to the tournament this year? He apparently wasn't fond of violence like others and he hadn't come to any of the previous tournaments, why now? Do you think he might want to watch someone in this tournament?'

'I don't know. But I think that someone must be powerful or closed to him enough that he has gone through all the troubles to come here.'

Then Kurama caught one part of Hiei and Shippo's conversation, which answered all of his unasked question.

"Why didn't you tell me they are coming?" hissed Hiei.

"I thought you'd already known that they would never let her come to a place full of demons like this on her own," Shippo answered while trying in vain to hide his grin.

'Oh, it looks as though we have acquired another infamous member.'

'And I think Hiei had more connections than we thought.'

'I just can't wait to see this Kagome person. She is definitely an important person for the Western Lord had to escort her himself.'

A glance at Hiei confirmed Youko's theory. His lips curved upward, the telltale sigh of an unnoticeable smile, which only reserved for Yukina. Another sister, perhaps? All they could do was just wait and see.

At the whole team came through their respective door, the arena seemed like exploded into demon's shouting, verbal abusing,… It seemed like team Urameshi was still their beloved, after all. However, this time, at the most safe place in the arena (or least dangerous, to be exact, since nowhere in this place could be clarified as safe), sat some of their fans. Their supposed fanclub consisted of Keiko, Shizuru, Botan, Yukina, Genkai, Koenma and George. But, much to Yusuke, Kuwabara and Kurama's astonishment, next to Koenma was a very beautiful woman, appeared to be a human. She had long raven hair, porcelain skin and her eyes had the deepest sapphire colour Kurama had ever seen. They reminded Youko of the most valuable orbs he had in his collection back in his golden days. She sat next to Koenma, who was in his teenager form, the ruler of Sprit World was trying to impress her, in vain. On her other side was some significant demons. One of them was a woman, with red eyes, long black hair held in an elaborated bun, her hands were holding a fan elegantly. Another was a hanyou with silver hair and a red haori. Next to him was a woman, who was remarkably resemblance the first woman, but under closer observation, one could make out many different between the two. This woman was human too, with brown eyes, longer dark hair tied in a low pony tail and a more serious expression, not as carefree as the other. And last but not least, if Kurama was correct in his assumption, the demon sat next to next to the that conspicuous woman was the Western Lord, the Sesshoumaru. The rumors had been true, this demon had an intimidating aura and that was most likely what kept the demon, other than his group, at bay. Nonetheless, the woman, later was known as Kagome, paid no mind to him. Her excitement could easily be detected from where Kurama stood. And she seemed to spot them as well.

"Do your best, Shippo-chan, Hiei-chan," she yelled.

Hearing that, Yusuke and Kurama had another fits of laughter that they could barely stand on their feet. Really, it might worth all the hardship they had went through to live till the day to see Hiei-chan being cheered for by a petty woman. Even Kurama couldn't hide his smile, and it turned into chuckle while the other two decided that they weren't capable of standing on their feet anymore when Hiei gave them murderous glares filled with annoyance, and perhaps, embarrassment.

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So, what do you think of Kagome and Kurama's first meeting, everyone? I hope you enjoyed it. I will do this story at a string of oneshots, about their second, third, ect… meeting. Their love will blossom, and if I am as creative as I think I am, the story will have an ending that meet your heart content.

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