Chapter 1
Munich's Twilight

Miyoko joined her brother, Edward, his friend, Alphonse, and the new gypsy girl they saved, Noah, at the table for dinner. They all chatted and did their usual thing. Noah was quite intrigued by Miyoko's strange appearance. Her cat ears and tail were the main attraction. After the short moment of spotlight was over, she resumed her quietness while the others chattered on about things happening in Germany. Things she really didn't care about.

As they left the table, Noah came up to Miyoko and sat beside her. "You always seem so sad. Why is that?"

"It's nothing really." She looked up and smiled a bit, "It's just, I miss somebody very much."

Noah reached out and touched her shoulder, "You're like Edward. You have no home."

"You got that right. What else do you see?"

"I saw you smiling. You were with someone with dark hair and piercing red eyes. You were happy there, weren't you?"

She looked down at her necklace and answered back, "I guess I was."

"I also see a sleeping darkness within you, like there's more to you than what we all see."

Miyoko sighed and looked back up at Noah, "You're right again. You're really good at this, you know."

"I can't see everything though, but it really interests me. Edward tells me a little about his world, but not much."

"...It's my world too..." She got up and walked into her room, slightly closing the door, and layed down on her bed, staring at a photo she had on her nightstand. She then started humming a tune to herself until she fell asleep.

About three years ago...

Miyoko climbed upon a large tree and looked into the distance at Maze Castle. Accompanied by her dragon, Shyira, she thought she was practically invincible. "Look! There's Maze Castle! Pretty ugly don't you think, Shyira?"

"Well, they could make it look more like the castles in Human World..."

"Not much we can do about it!" she looks down and sees four boys, all looking about fourteen and fifteen, "now come on! I just get here and I got competition!" She tries to climb higher but the branch below her feet suddenly breaks, "Uh oh..." The branch falls on the taller orange-haired one and then Miyoko falls to the ground. The red-haired one looked at her funny, "Um, ma'am, are you alright?"

"Oww! I think I hit my head on something-" she looks down on what she has fallen upon. None other than the shortest member of the group. "Oh! I'm so sorry!"

He glares up at her, "Get off..." Right when he said it she had already jumped off of him and whiped the dirt off her knees. She then looked up at the four she had caught by surprise and laughed a little, "I'm sorry about all this, the name's Miyoko!"

The one wearing the green uniform laughed, "Don't worry about it! Hiei's a grump anyway!" he strikes a pose with his finger pointing forward like it was a gun, "The name's Yusuke Urameshi!" The one who got hit by the branch got up and made a goofy smile, "I'm Kazuma Kuwabara, the man, and I have a sword!" The red-head kept his same stance, "Kurama, nice to meet you." The one she fell on just looked away and put his hands in his pockets, "Hmph." Kurama then said, "As Yusuke pointed out, that's Hiei." Once they got their greetings over with, they travelled towards Maze Castle all wondering what lies inside the gate.

They came closer and closer to the gate of Maze Castle until they were right in front of it's eirie appearance. They then entered into the gate until they were greeted by a large purple bat thing with one large eyeball, "Welcome to Maze Castle!" it flutters around, "Those who enter Maze Castle must be tried at the Gate of Betrayal."

Yusuke looked at the bat thing wierd, "Now what's that?" The area began to shake uncontrollably. Kurama looked up, "The ceiling! It's falling!" The ceiling then fell down and the five attempted to push it up from them with all their strength. The bat laughed at their agony, "The sensors will push upon you with only enough strength for all of you to hold it up, but only enought leeway is left for one of you to escape. That is why it's called the Gate of Betrayal!" They all keep pushing up with all their strength, then Miyoko said, "What are we supposed to do, Yusuke?"

"Shut up! I'm thinking!"

They held on longer on the heavy cieling as Yusuke thought of a plan to get them out. He then spotted a lever at the other end of the hallway. "Hiei! You're faster than all of us! Can you go and hit that switch?"

Kuwabara yelled at Yusuke, "You really think we can trust this guy!? He doesn't care about us!"

Hiei smirked, "Your ugly friend has a good point, Detective."

"Yeah, but I know quick deaths ain't your style!"

"Hn."

"Look, I'll use my energy to help me hold it up while you go flip the switch, alright?"

Miyoko gave him a look and sent a telepathic message only her and Hiei could hear, Please, just this once. I don't want anyone to die here today. Hiei sighed and dashed off to the lever, then he hesitated a little, looking back at the others. Kuwabara then yelled at him, "What are you waiting for!? Pull the stupid switch already!" The bat thing fluttered to Hiei and started to convince him to leave them, "Leave them, they haven't done anything for you. We could make you the General of our demon army." Hiei laughed while the others suffered under the cieling's weight. The bat thing laughed, "A wise choice, the boulder would have crushed you anyway." He then jumped up and sliced the bat thing with his sword and flipped the switch, then the cieling's weight lessened on them and they were able to get through.
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Miyoko crawled out of the gate only to watch a boulder fall towards Hiei, intending to crush him. Miyoko screamed in fright and the others just made surprised faces. When the boulder hit the ground, they saw him standing on top of it, still holding his sword in his hand. He then told the bat thing fluttering around, "Tell your masters, this is their last chance to beg for mercy!" It fluttered away towards the watch tower above the castle. Miyoko sighed and thought, Wow, he's cool...boy did I look like a complete idiot though... She then heard a different voice in her head, So, looks like you've befriended some new victims for me! If these Saint Beasts don't kill them first, then I will definately enjoy doing it myself. She gasped and ran to Hiei and buried her face in his cloak. He looked a little startled and shoved her off of him, "Don't touch me again, Baka Onna."
She had a mad look on her face and started screaming at him, "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO STUPID THAT IT MAKES THAT GUY WITH THE CRESENT HAIR LOOK SMART!!!?"

Kuwabara jumped up, "Hey! My hair don't look like a crecent!"

Hiei laughed and said, "I have another fool I can insult. This might be my lucky day afterall."

Miyoko grumbled, "Stupid, upside-down haired, droopy eyed wierdo..."

Kurama and Yusuke laughed, then Kurama said, "I think she likes you, Hiei!"

"Hn. Then she'd better get through her dence skull that I only saved all of you because I might need your help!"

They all got back together and went deeper into the corridor of Maze Castle, not even Spirit World Intelligence has a clue what lies deep within Maze Castle's corridors.

That's it for chapter 1! R&R, please make them gentle :3