Kassandra woke up and looked at the clock. 3:00 and she was up.. Once she was up, It was really hard to go back to sleep. She pulls back the covers and sets her feet on the ground and starts looking for her cat.

"Molly…Molly where are you?"

No answer. Not that she had expected any. After 15 minutes of searching she gives up and returns to her bedroom and sits on the window seat, staring out of the window at the muggy black night. The old pine tree in her yard was swaying gently. At first she thought it was just the wind. Then she realized nothing else was moving. Strange.

She opened the window a bit, but jumped back when something fell out of the tree.

"Niisu." The tree said.

She couldn't understand the words, but she was sure something had been said.

"Whoa…but trees can't talk…"She mutters to herself.

Suddenly another figure dropped out of the tree. Not fell, he dropped down intentionally.

"Daij? bu desu ka?

Finally the fallen figure speaks.

"Un, genki desu Urameshi…"

Kass flinched. Most of the words had made no sense, but she had caught that last one. Had she really just heard Urameshi? No way…he was just an anime character!

"I must have heard wrong…"

A rustle outside catches her attention, and she turns back to the window. Another figure dropped out of the tree.

"Nennotame, Kuwabara? Taidaima" The third figure helped the first one up. Kuwabara?

"Arigatou, kitsune." Kitsune? Why was he calling the person who had helped him up a fox?"

"Doo itashimashite. Sore wa doko, Hiei?"

"Shirimasen." Said the second.

Hiei? There was no way she had just heard Hiei…

"Bakas…"

A fourth person drops out of the tree and walks over. He seemed shorter than the others. A lot shorter. He'd also called them bakas, meaning fools. Definitely Hiei-like behavior…wait! She was considering this? It wasn't possible…

Thunder boomed and she missed what the fourth person said. Or most of it. She managed to catch one word.

"-Kurama."

Kassandra dropped the stuffed animal she'd been holding.

"Ku-Ku-Ku-Kurama?"

She looks out the window to count four people. The number of the Reikai Tantei. The heights seemed about right too…

Scary…

If only she could see better…

As if on command, a lightning bolt lit up the sky. (I just realized how lame that sounded…) Well, Finally…it had been threatening to storm all day. She glances down at the group. They were leaving. Relieved, she shuts the window with perhaps a bit too much force. One of the figures turns around. Another flash of lightning lights up the yard. She stares in disbelief as she watched Kurama, or a very near look alike, look around for the source of the sound. When he finally leaves, she slumps against the wall. No. Way. That had just happened. It wasn't possible.

She continued telling herself this until she fell asleep right there.