Yusuke stood up and asked, "Hiei, where's Miori now?"

Hiei struggled to his feet and said, "Long gone now." He used his eye to search the forest and saw she was in another part of it, far away from them. "She's several miles south of here, still in the same forest."

Kurama explained, "Since Miori's the one that did this, she should be able to change all of us back to normal."

"Then what are we waiting for!" Kuwabara shouted as he ran east.

"Kuwabara's it's south!" Yusuke shouted as he walked away.


"She's here," Hiei said.

A large shadow moved through the trees in front of them. A demon the size of a building knocked down the trees to get to them. "That's not Miori!" Yusuke said.

"No," Miori said as she flew in the air, "this is my pet. I thought you ladies were going to try and come back for me so here. Get 'em, boy!" She pointed at the group and the beast roared.

It swiped toward Hiei. He jumpd backward, but realized something was wrong, "No speed!" he said as a claw slashed him in the face. He went down easily as the scratch on his face burned.

"Hiei!" Yusuke shouted, "Spirit gun!" He blasted the beast with a gigantic blast and killed him.

"Dammit," Miori said, "I was hoping to have more fun with you." She created a sound wave with her energy frequencies.

Hiei noticed he was unable to move as he felt paralitics coursing through his viens. Then a migrain started to overcome him. He sealed his eyes shut and it felt like every sound was a razor to his brain in the distance.

Kurama held his head as rage started to overwhelm him. "Kurama," Yusuke said, "fight it!" He turned to look at him, his eyes were as red as his hair as he glared at him.

"Oh no," Kuwabara said nervously.

Yusuke said, "I didn't want to do this," as Kurama was about to punch him. He took out the fox trap and activated it as he threw it at him.

An electrical cage surrounded him and pinned him to the ground. Miori said, "Impressive, you actually know how to subdue your own friends."

"Get your ass back here! Spirit gun!" Yusuke shouted as she disappeared suddenly, her soundwaves did too. "Dammit!" He looked over at Kurama who was struggeling in the net.

Kuwabara asked, "Does that hurt?"

"Yes!" Kurama answered painfully.

Yusuke bent over and deactivated the traps and put the small disk back in his pocket. "Hiei's still not moving."

Kurama sat up and said, "That beasts claws must have had a paralitic in it." He crawled over to where Hiei was laying an examined the wound on his face.

I can't move, Hiei said telepathically. Kurama took different plants out of his hair and started creating an antidote. Kuwabara said, "She beat us without even trying."

"Not only that," Yusuke replied, "but we're still girls. That didn't solve anything!"

Kurama made a paste and covered Hiei's wounds with it. "We're going to have to find her and trap her somehow so she can't get away," he said.

"Well where is she now?" Kuwabara asked.

"He can't move yet," Kurama answered, "it'll take a few moments." He sat Hiei up in order to get the blood flowing.

Yusuke asked, "How are we supposed to beat someone who can make Kurama go nuts?"

"A stradegy," Hiei said as he braced himself, "we need a plan."

Kuwabara asked, "What happened to you back there?"

"I don't have my speed," he explained, "I couldn't move out of the way in time."

"Where's Miori now?" Kurama asked.

"By the harbor," Hiei answered.


The fog from the ocean was so thick they almost couldn't see through it as they walked to the shoreline. "Damn," Yusuke said.

"Stay together," Kurama said, "at least no innocents should wander through and see us fighting a demon."

Miori demanded, "How do you keep finding me?"

Yusuke shouted, "Change us back!" He started channeling his spirit energy.

"Alright already," she said, esasperated, "I've had my fun with that." A large bright light of energy encased them all in a flash.

When they came to all of them looked back down at themselves they were all back to their normal selves. "Finally," Hiei said as he felt his hair, it defied gravity again. He stood up and watched the others do the same.

"Happy now?" Miori asked.

Yusuke said, "I'm still going to kick your ass!"

"I have something else in store for you now," she replied. Small blades came from nowhere and cut all of them on their arms before returning to her hand.

Kurama demanded, "What did you do to us?" His cut didn't feel much different but he knew something was up.

Miori replied, "It's just an old trope, I'll make you fight yourselves!" The fog started to clear as she mixed her demon energy and the blood. First Hiei appeared, his shadow self's eyes glowed bright red. Kurama's appeared after, his eyes also glowed red, as did Yusuke's and Kuwabara's shadow selves.

"Don't listen to her," Kurama said, "you'll never win a fight against yourself. We should switch with someone else."

"Okay," Kuwabara said nervously, "so who's going to take on Kurama and Hiei?"

Hiei jumped forward and cut down Kuwabara's shadow self instantly. "Hn," he said, "I've always wanted to do that."

"You punk!" Kuwabara shouted.

"I'll take Hiei!" Yusuke shouted as he readied his spirit gun.

Kurama took out his rose whip and said, "I'll take Yusuke."

"That means..." Kuwabara said nervously as he looked at shadow Kurama. He got his spirit sword ready. As Kuwabara tried to attack his legs became entangled in the vines shadow Kurama grew.

Yusuke tried to punch shadow Hiei but he moved out of the way and punched him back. He tried to slice him up with his sword but instead Yusuke blocked every manuver.

Kurama cut down shadow Yusuke without getting injured and saw Yusuke struggling against Hiei's speed. Just when it looked like shadow Hiei was going to end him Kurama cut him in half.

Hiei jumped in front of Kuwabara and stabbed shadow Kurama in the heart and twisted his blade. The dead bodies disappeared and turned into dust as the fog started rolling back in again.

"Where'd she go now?" Yusuke asked.

"She's not here," Kurama said, "I can't smell her anywhere."

Kuwabara said, "She must have slipped away while we fought ourselves."

Yusuke shouted, "I'm getting sick of these stupid tropes! Where is she, Hiei?"

"At an abandoned warehouse on the far side of the city," he answered, "in there we might actually get to trap her."