Okay, people. If you don't like reading Mary Sue stories, you might as well leave this page now. I mean it! You can go! –waits- No? Fine then, you're stuck with me! –laughs evilly-

YAY!

Shadow: -dances- Finally! My first fanfiction!

Hiei: Hn. About time.

Shadow: -sticks out tongue- Nyeh! Be nice! Yin has been bugging me to put this up.

Now! Do the disclaimer!

Hiei: Like hell I will, onna.

Shadow: -gets puppy face- Please?

Hiei: -sighs- Fine. This annoying wench does not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Nor does she own Yin (Rose Kitsuna).

Shadow: Weeee! –Runs around in circles-

Chapter 1: The Past

"Shadow! Wait up!" A young girl, probably nine years old with black, pin-strait hair and caramel eyes raced through a forest. She giggled, chasing her friend.

"Ha ha! You can't catch me, Yin!" Shadow grinned, her sharp canines glittering. She turned around and ran backwards so she could taunt her friend by sticking out her tongue.

"Hey! It's no fair! You're faster than I am!" Yin dodged a tree.

"Your old age makes you slow!"

"I'm only one year older than you!"

"Well-"

"SHADOW LOOK OUT!!!" The kitsune yelled.

Shadow turned around and ran smack into a tree.

Yin raced up, laughing hysterically as Shadow slid down the tree to sit on the ground.

"Itaii, Yin. That's not funny!" Tears welled up in Shadow's eyes as she held a hand up to her now bleeding forehead.

"NOOO! Don't cry!!!" Yin patted Shadow's shoulder. "The cut's not that bad!"

Shadow sniffed. "Really?"

"Really, really!" Yin grinned. "I think you hurt the tree more with your hard head Sha-sha-dow!"

Shadow blinked and giggled. "It's Shadow! Not Sha-sha-dow!"

"Crybaby."

"Slow poke."

"Well, we can't all be wolf demons!"

The young ookami grinned and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her baggy white t-shirt. She grimaced at the blood that was wiped from her forehead. Her brown wolf ears tilted cutely on the top of her head. "But you're still trickier than me you sly fox."

Yin shrugged, swishing her black foxtail, and helped her best friend up. "I try."

Shadow stuck her tongue out at the tree that she had collided with. "That hurt!"

Yin giggled. "That's what you get for running backwards with your speed- Wait."

Shadow blinked. "What?"

"I smell fire."

Shadow sniffed. Sure enough, the smell of smoke lingered from the direction of their village. "The Elder is probably having another bonfire." She offered. She followed Yin when she sped off in the direction the smell was coming from. "What's wrong?" She asked while she was running. She was very careful not to smash into any trees.

"I have a feeling that something's wrong…"

Shadow didn't question her further. Throughout the years that they've known each other, she'd learned not to question a fox's instincts. As they approached the top of the hill they were running up, Shadow looked upon their village.

What, normally, would have been filled with laughing kitsunes and ookamis living out their lives peacefully was now chaos. A blanket of smoke hung over the tops of the houses that obscured Shadow and Yin's sense of smell and made their eyes water. Flames leaped up from the houses, consuming all that would burn, leaving only ashes and embers once they've moved on to another source of fuel.

Yin froze, staring wide-eyed at the damage. She hesitantly turned to look at Shadow. "Shadow…?"

Shadow was staring at the fire. She got a look of determination on her face as she, all of the sudden, raced down the hill towards the village, leaving Yin at the top. "Mom! Brother!" She yelled.

"Shadow! Come back!" Yin was about to run down after her friend when a pair of arms grasped her from behind. "AH!"

"Come on, Yin, we have to go!"

Yin turned to face her teenage brother. "But, Shadow!" She struggled to get away from him, but his grip kept her rooted to the spot. She turned back to the village to watch as Shadow raced into a still-burning house. "SHADOW!!!" A band of thieves were rummaging through the wreckage. They started for the house that Shadow had ran into, laughing.

He picked her up. "There's nothing we can do! Father and Mother are waiting!" He raced off, ignoring Yin's struggle to escape to help her friend.

Shadow ran through her house. "MOM! YUKI!" She called over and over for her mom and her brother until she fell to her knees in a coughing fit from the smoke. She controlled the cough and pulled herself up while supporting her small frame on the wall next to her. "What…" The wall was sticky. She looked at her hand and paled. A thick red liquid coated it and now half of her shirt. Blood. "M-mom…?" She walked into the room next to her. "Yuki…?" She screamed.

"Well, well, well." A pair of rough hands grabbed her by her arms behind her. "We have a live one!" The voice chuckled.

Shadow bared her fangs. "Let me go!" Her eyes were wild as she still stared at the scene in front of her. Her mother's distant, dead eyes stared back. "Mom!" She sobbed and sank against the demon behind her. He dragged her out of the house and held her before another demon.

He towered over her, a good seven feet. He had obsidian eyes and matching hair. A scar traced over his left cheek down his neck. "What have you brought me, now. A little girl?"

Shadow growled. "Fuck you. I'm not little."

He raised his eyebrow; his black eye's sparkling.

"What do you want me to do with her, boss?" The one who held Shadow spoke. "Want me to get rid of her?"

Shadow panicked and struggled futilely against the hands that held her.

To her surprise, the boss chuckled. "No, wait." He raised a hand and lifted her chin. Shadow tried to bite his hand. "She can be trained. It might be useful to have her around."

The one holding her scoffed. "Yeah, right. Whatever you say, boss." He lifted her up over his shoulder.

'I hope you're okay, Yin.' Shadow thought before someone knocked her out.

End Chapter 1

Shadow:-writing furiously-

Yin: -making out with Youko-

Shadow: -eye starts twitching- That's fucking wrong! It's distracting!

Yin: -stops and looks at Shadow- Then don't look…

Youko: -looks around- What's the rating anyway?

Shadow: M for language… -sweat drops- just don't do anything that Hiei and I wouldn't do.

Hiei: -coughs- Hn…

Youko: -blinks- hmm… -pulls out a book and flips through it- let's see… did you do this position? It's called—mmph!

Yin: -covering Youko's mouth, sweat dropping- Ignore the kitsune.

Shadow: -pale- now its definitely rated "M"…

Hiei: -snorts- idiot…

Shadow: -burns Youko's book- -sighs- review people!!! Please!

Youko: -pushes Shadow away from the computer and pulls up a site- -gets big grin on face-

Yin: -turns red- Shadow! You need to block some sites!

Shadow: -covering eyes and screaming- it BURNS!!!

Hiei: Review. –Smashes the screen-

--FUZZ--