AN// Okay, one quick thing. This is based around YYH, but takes place mostly in the DBZ universe, and mentions different things from it. And yes…towards the end, Botan's long explanation; I DID have to include that stuff. I'm sorry; but it's my passion. But it makes an interesting twist, no? (I don't believe I've read a YYH fic with those references yet)

Hair dark as midnight, eyes so cold you would hardly see the colour before you died, and a temper most foul. These are what describe two people from different worlds, who are about to collide in a very unusual way.

Who is that man?

The birds were chirping in the sky, giving the temple a very earthy feel. Botan sighed as the wind played with her blue hair; she loved the feeling she got when she was flying. It was like she was a bird, drifting around in the sky, above all the people of the world and their petty problems. Sometimes she wished she could fly without her oar, then it would just be her lazing about in the clouds all day; not good for productivity.

Maybe that was why Koenma had bound all his ferry girls to their oars. So they would stick to work. Maybe that's also why they were all so dull. All but her that is, her side job left no room for being dull. A detectives assistant. Always the assistant, never the detective. Maybe this new case she was going to pick up would be different? Undoubtedly not.

Rekai swam into her view over the horizon and she sighed, preparing to land as smoothly as ever on the uninteresting ground by the palace gates. Funny huh? Uninteresting palace grounds. The first thing one ought to think is extravagant. And maybe to some people that is the way they'd seem, but she knew them far too well, and they had become only too dull now.

As usual, she landed without a bump, dissipating her oar and walking foreword, nodding to the guards, all with a practiced ease. 'How dull.' She thought, not even blinking at the busy bodies all around her when she entered the front door. The reception area was, well…astonishing-ly boring-! Same gold walls, same purple carpets, same busy ogres, and same dull ferry girls. 'Where is the excitement? Where is the wonder? Where is the job I signed up for?' She thought angrily when she walked down her usual hallway, leading up to the huge silver trimmed doors that sealed Koenma's under-furnished office from view.

She knocked on the doors, not even wincing as the silver and gold cracked her knuckles, "Enter!" She pushed open the heavy doors and stepped into the room as cheerfully as she could muster. "You called me for an important matter?" The toddler sized demi-god sitting behind the desk, also known as Koenma, gave her a huge grin; instantly telling her something was wrong. "Yes, yes I did. I noticed you've been working too hard." 'Oh boy. Here come the lectures.' She thought with a roll of her eyes as she sat on the nearest chair to rest her legs.

"Don't roll your eyes Botan; I'm merely implying you have earned a long, relaxing vacation." Now that she hadn't expected. A vacation, it was almost too good to be true; but then again, where would she go? Everywhere was so dull and monotonous. "Which you will get once you complete this mission." He handed her a manila folder which she opened and did a quick once over. "Okay, so just Yusuke and Kuwabara, or Kurama and Hiei too?" He chuckled at her and shook his head. "Nope, only you. We can't trust anyone with this other than a delegate of the spirit world. But if you encounter problems, I'll send someone to help, and/or fetch you."

Talk about exciting. Some political game. Oh what fun she was going to have. "Alright, and what am I doing exactly?" She hadn't seen much info in her folder, just four photos with small bits of information. "You will be negotiating for some information about Dr. Brief's inventions, in trade for access to training gear made in both Rekai and Makai. You'll be going into a new dimension, so you'll be stuck until we get all the data we need."

She thought, rather confused about the whole deal. "Alright. Any dangers I ought to know about first?" She hadn't been looking him in the eyes when she'd asked, but when he coughed nervously her head snapped up. "Well…we know very little about that dimension in particular, but there are reports of large reptilian creatures. Probably just rumors though. You should go pack up some clothes; and pack light. We don't know the specific coordinates, so you could have a lot of hiking to do."

Nodding, she stood up from the chair. 'What an interesting turn of events.' She thought as she headed back out into the hallway and down towards her small room. Her brain didn't even bother to pay attention as she walked the familiar path, and she had made her way into her own closet before she even realized it. Shrugging to herself tiredly, she pulled out four shirts and four shorts, socks, and undergarments, and tossed them into a tiny shoulder pack she'd found in Makai. It was a handy little thing; it could hold a million things and still weigh as little as a feather. She tossed a pair of shoes into the bag, followed closely by her toiletries and about five day's of food and water.

Tying the bag up, she slung it over her shoulder and exited her room, heading back to Koenma's office. When she arrived a swirling blue portal greeted her, the ones they only used for dimensions, and an awfully chipper Koenma. "I'll be in contact with you, and this device," he pulled a tiny red remote out of his pocket and handed it to her, "contains everything we will be trading for the information." She stuck it in her shoulder bag and bowed to Koenma before stepping through the portal.

When the blue lights disappeared she found herself smack-dab in the middle of a desert with giant mushroom-like trees. "Oh how lovely. This dimension's half desert." She grunted to herself as she pulled her communicator out of her pocket. Checking the built-in compass she realized, she had no idea which direction to go in. "Hmm…North, East, South or West? Well…East sounds good. I guess." She put away her communicator and tried to summon her oar, only to fail miserably. 'Oh joy.' She thought bitterly as she set out to start walking.

And walk she did. For many, many hours, in one straight line until the sun was about to set and she spotted a bluff of trees up ahead. "Oh the irony." She bit back a chuckle as she approached the trees, having remembered the argument she'd had with Hiei on their last mission.

Flash back

"How can you sleep in a tree?" She asked innocently, and Hiei snorted, "How can you be such a baka." Botan was always quick to anger and Hiei always just made it worse. "At least I'm not some loser who has to sleep alone in a tree!"

End flash back

"I guess I just graduated to the loser that has to sleep alone in a tree. Oh if Hiei ever heard about this." She began climbing the tree slowly, until she reached a strong looking branch that was wide enough she wouldn't roll off of it. She re-adjusted her shoulder bag behind her head and sighed as she looked up at the stars. 'There's so many. I must be miles away from the big cities.' Sleep overcame her slowly as her thoughts drifted back to her friends and this mission.

The sun was beating down on Botan's face with an almost brutal intensity when she woke up. Judging from the position it was in, in the sky, she'd slept in till around eleven or so. "Shit." She shimmied out of the tree and stretched her limbs, preparing to cross more of the desert. She began a quick pace, figuring it would be easier, and hummed to herself as she walked.

About two hours later, she came across an oasis. She was so happy at first, that she thought it might have been a mirage. But it didn't waver or disappear as she approached it, and she almost jumped for joy. "Finally! Water and shade! And time for a nap!" She chanted to herself as she ran closer to the pond surrounded by luscious greenery. It wasn't until she neared the edge of the water that she noticed the large reptilian creatures lapping up the water.

Her jaw almost hit the ground when she did spot them; they looked an awful lot like dinosaurs. She took a few steps back and had almost gotten out of their sight when she stepped on a twig. A noise which effectively captured the attention of the three dinosaur-like creatures.

What happened next didn't surprise her too much; they moved away from the water and stalked towards her, obviously curious about this new creature. She screamed and started running away as fast as she could, and even Hiei would have to admit he'd never moved THAT fast. Unfortunately for her, these creatures were quite fast as well and they chased her North-West for three hours before she tripped on a root she hadn't seen. In fact, she hadn't even seen the forest appear.

She turned around to look behind her and noticed the pack had grown from three to seven, and they were gaining on her vulnerable and paralyzed form quickly. She screamed as loud as she could, hoping against hope that some one would hear.

Not five hundred yards from where she was, there happened to be two strong people, training. "AHHHHHH!" Her scream echoed throughout the forest, capturing their attention, and in a flash they had streaked towards the noise at an unbelievable speed. "Oh god! Go away! Go away! This can't be happening! Ahhhhhh!" She had begun screaming at the creatures after she had managed to stand back up and continue running. By the time she'd finished the first round of cursing the creatures she'd run right into a very muscular tree.

When she hit the ground she whimpered, 'Oh no! I'm done for now! Curse you Koenma!' She cursed her boss out in her mind and stayed still for nearly three minutes when she realized she wasn't dead yet. "What the…how come I'm not dead…?" She peeled open her eyes to see a twelve-year-old child starring her in the eyes. He didn't look particularly mean, or evil, or menacing, but she still screamed. She shuffled back as quickly as she could until she hit something hard. "Bulma?" She looked up and fell sideways in a dead faint. The stress of the day and the strenuous exorcise had finally taken its toll on her.

The man looked at the young boy, his son, and scratched his head. "I guess it's not Bulma. Sure looks like her though." The boy nodded, "Yeah. We can't leave her out here, should we take her home and see what mom thinks?" The man nodded and picked Botan up, "Yeah. It's almost dinner time anyway." He nodded to his son and they took off, moving so fast it was almost like they were flying…

End of chapter one.

The spelling and grammar should be pretty good. Every time I went to add onto this fic (in total, it's 48 pages long) I read what I already had and fixed any mistakes. R&R