Yu Yu Hakusho and all its characters are property of Yoshihiro Togashi

A.C.: Hey guys...or at least anyone who bothers to read the Author's comment. This is a Hiei fanfic, the first one I've done in a really long while and its probably riddled with punctuation errors and such so forgive me haha. Anyways I greatly appreciate anyone who's willing to leave a comment and I'll make sure all comments that are sent to me will be answered.

Also as I'm sure you can see there is a prologue but since its kinda short I decided not to make it its own chapter so this is officially chapter 1, I'll be posting chapter two within the next week. I'll post it sooner if this first one gets a good enough reaction though :) well enjoy yall!

Prologue

It was the first time I've ever felt fear in my life. That night, when the moon was hidden but the flames cascading across my village burned so bright it looked as though it was midday. The sound of screams and the thick smell of burning flesh will forever haunt my dreams I thought, as I ran full speed and helplessly past the edge of my village and the barrier that was no longer there. The barrier was put there eons ago and stood strong protecting my clan of domestic demons from any outside intruders, until tonight. I knew in my heart that many if not all of my fellows were dead, dying, or going to die tonight but for one reason or another fate was been blessing me with life and safety from this danger. However, it did not protect me from the swift crash to the back of my head. I remember falling hard, the dirt suddenly being unforgiving to my poor stressed body, something I had never experienced before. The pain and fear clenched me as my vision blurred and I thought vaguely to myself…"so this is how I'm going to die…." Before the darkness claimed me and my body went numb.

A New Assignment

"WHAT!" Shouted a young boy grabbing the T.V. by either side and shaking it, "WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO GET THE MONEY TO GO TO INDIA? AND WHY?"

"Hey! Urameshi careful with my T.V.! It's new and expensive!" Shouted another boy his beady eyes staring down the back of Urameshi's head as his large hands reached out and began grabbing at his friend's sleeves to try and safely detach him from the television.

"Yusuke! Kuwabara! Sit down and be quiet both of you! Koenma can't explain anything if you keep yelling like children." Butted in a pretty young girl with hair as blue as the morning sky. She rewound the dvd back to the beginning when the young toddler's face first appeared on the screen and while she was doing so the two boys, much to her relief, sat down. Yusuke's brown eyes were still hard and angry as he crossed his arms across his chest with a "humph".

"Greetings Yusuke, If you're watching this then I can assume that you accepted the job I'm about to give you. For this I'd like to thank you but now continuing to the case." The T.V. toddler began, waving his finger at the camera. Yusuke grumbled something most likely rude but inaudible.

"This will be similar to an older mission I've given you except one thing…I need you to travel to India–" The one woman in the room eyed Yusuke hoping he wouldn't have the same outburst from hearing it a second time.

"It's a search and rescue of a demon girl, however I can assure you there is no relation between her and anyone we know." Koenma continued chuckling a little at his own joke.

Yusuke grinned in Kuwabara's direction "Guess you've got a chance to find another Yukina."

"Shut up Urameshi! I'll never find anyone I love more then-"

"Shhhhhh!" Hushed the girl holding her finger to her lips.

"This girl has found herself orphaned; a band of demons raided and destroyed her village. Now normally what goes on in the Demon World isn't any of my business, as I'm sure your comrades can tell you it's not uncommon for a person to loose their whole family while taking residence there. However, this is a special case. You see the girl is a very powerful telepathic and telekinetic, her people live similarly to the Ice Apparitions that Yukina comes from. They live a life separate from the rest of the demon community; they keep their village sealed with very powerful wards so that not even an S Class demon can get through. Because of this it seems impossible that the village could be raided and destroyed so you see my concern. But that's not the only concern I have, the people of this village were very powerful psychics, hundreds of years ago when their village was still open to anyone they mapped out the timed events of the entire demon populace! Demons from all over could go to them and request their future, oddly enough though the demons in this village were all apposed to violence, and so they were virtually helpless when a demon decided they didn't like what was in their future. Feeling that their abilities were being taken for granted, abused, etcetera they closed themselves off from the rest of the demon community. Which brings us to the mission, I need you to search for and find the missing psychic and the best place to start would be on the side of the demon world closely related to India." Koenma commanded as the screen switched from his face to that of a seemingly young girl.

Her skin was the color of expensive milk chocolate and her hair wavy and full of volume. It fell like a messy waterfall of blackness asymmetrically around her rounded face. Though her face looked like a young girl her pale yellow eyes showed wisdom and age far beyond the years of her physical appearance. Tattoos decorated her cheeks below the eyes and from what was shown of her you could see slivers of the designs starting up again at her neck and snaking its way down into the invisible abyss beyond the photo.

"Her name is Terryal and it's imperative that you find her quick, you see these demons were proud people who valued tradition. I'm sure that they continued to use their psychic knowledge to map out the future over all Makai. With the knowledge of how to read that document solely in her hands, as she is the last one left, then she'll be a target for any and every demon out there. Botan will accompany you on your flight. Seeing as how you, Yusuke have not accepted your position as Lord in the Makai yet I'm well aware that a flight and stay in India can't be afforded on your High Schooler's budget but there's no need to worry as I've arranged everything! Being the prince of the Spirit World does occasionally have perks in the human world. Botan will give you a file containing everything we've found out about her last location, she will accompany you on your journey and I've pulled some strings to get Hiei and Kurama to come with you. But I want to make you aware that once you find this girl I'll need you to be her body guards while I send my people to find out what they can about who attacked her village in the first place. I will need to call on you boys to bring him in for me because it's quite clear that anyone who has the abilities to take down such a strong barrier is most likely stronger then many opponents you have faced before so expect to be hearing from me in the near future. Good luck boys have a safe flight." Were Koenma's last words before the screen went black.

"What does he mean; 'while I send my people to find the demons responsible' shouldn't the ones responsible have her already?" Kuwabara asked turning towards his future chaperone Botan.

"Well yes you'd think that. But the person or people who attacked the village had to be very powerful in order to do so but the demons she was seen with have energy signals of an upper C class at best. It would take an amazing number of demons who are all way up into the higher S ranks and then some to get that barrier down. Right now none of us really know for sure who, how, or why." Botan explained while opening the file in her hands and pilfering through it for the umpteenth time.

"That's all fine and dandy but why the hell do we need to go to India for this? I thought we had portals to the Demon world right here in Japan!" Yusuke argued his attention never leaving the idea of flying to a new country.

"Well that's simple Yusuke, the portals here wont take us nearly as close to her location as the portals in India will." Botan responded as though it was obvious.

"I didn't even know there was a Demon World in India." Kuwabara mused to himself.

"Well of course there is, you didn't think the Demon World only took up all of Japan did you?" Botan asked, and without waiting to for the boy's answer she continued

"The Demon World is just as large as the rest of the world it exists parallel to it, the size and type of the land is mostly the same. You can think of it like this. If the world was never populated by humans then Makai is similar to what it would look like."

Kuwabara grunted in an "Oh, now I get it" sort of way. He'd seen Makai a few times before, like while he was helping Yusuke save the world from the Sensui, and another occasion after that but he'd never taken the opportunity to learn more about its general geography.

"Wait a second Urameshi, I thought you resigned the whole Spirit Detective thing." Kuwabara pointed out, staring at his friend.

"Yeah I did." He grumbled running his hand through his heavily gelled hair.

"I thought it'd be a permanent resignation until Botan came to me with the stupid DVD yellin somethin' about how binky breath needs help with something or another and I've been bored outta my skull since I dropped the job so I figured why the hell not. I thought it'd be a small job." Yusuke explained, glaring at Botan who merely smiled and pawed the air making little "meow" sounds.

"I shoulda known better then to think that the brat would ever give me something simple to do."

"I'm not complaining I've been itching to kick some demon ass for weeks now this'll be a perfect chance to get some exercise and test the extra training I've been doing!" Kuwabara exclaimed.

In his spare time after school Kuwabara often visited Genkai to do some side training. However his main reason for going was mostly to visit the young ice apparition he had grown attached to, Yukina who had stayed with Genkai to do some training of her own in hopes of one day finding her long lost brother.

"Well ok I guess that's settled. So how're we gunna do this exactly? And do Kurama and Hiei know what their supposed ta' do?" Yusuke mused chuckling slightly at his overly excited friend.

"Yes they both know. Go home and rest and I'll be at your houses bright and early at 6 a.m. to fetch you, Koenma has you guys set in terms of passports and such and I'll have our tickets in the morning. Our flight leaves at about seven and it's a ten hour flight so when we arrive it should be five here but because of time zone differences it'll be about two I think. That gives us plenty of time to get comfy in the hotel room maybe do sight seeing, figure out what we know about the mission, get rid of jet lag and be up bright and early the day after to start our search." Botan explained her chipper attitude once again in place.

Yusuke groaned at the ungodly hour that they'd need to be up but swallowed the complaints knowing there was no backing out now. He bid Kuwabara and his sister good night and traveled home with Botan as his escort until he reached his destination. Somewhere in another neighborhood Kurama was packing up everything he'd need for the trip while their fourth companion Hiei slept soundly in the tree outside his bedroom, knowing that the ever knowledgeable fox would take care of anything that a certain short demon would need that wasn't already shoved into his small carry on bag that was placed inside the house by the front door.