I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its characters. I only own Mikai and Senkai.

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"Well that was a waste of my good time," Yusuke said as the four of them sat down in the center of a near by park.

The search around the portal to the Makai had been a wild goose chase. They didn't find anything unusual and through their search of the city, nothing seemed out of place or as if it were missing. Everything looked normal to them; even though they knew there was something unusual lurking around.

"Now what do we do?" Kuwabara asked as he plopped down on a red bench.

"I say we just go home and worry about this later!" Yusuke said with a yawn.

"There's nothing to do so we might as well go our separate ways," Hiei said with annoyance. "I have other things to get done."

"But we haven't solved anything!" Kuwabara whined. He hated failing and not finishing a mission after all of the build up he had imagined in his mind.

"Well if someone wasn't a big idiot we might have found something," Hiei said, as he looked the orange haired man.

"Look short stuff! If you don't shut up I'm gonna have to teach you a lesson!" Kuwabara hopped out of his seat and pushed up his sleeves.

"Hiei, Kuwabara! Stop acting like a bunch of big kids!" Yusuke said. "Kurama and I are the only people acting their age, right Kurama?"

Kurama was looking out towards the rest of the park, ignoring what was going on with his three friends. He watched the leaves fall and the cherry blossoms let go of their beautiful petals. The lake in the middle of the park was shining a light blue color, which reflected in Kurama's emerald green eyes.

"Kurama?" Yusuke said as he waved his hand in front of Kurama's face.

"Oh what?" Kurama shook his head. "I'm sorry Yusuke. Did you say something to me?" Kurama looked around only to see everyone looking at him strangely.

"Yeah but it wasn't really important. Are you okay?" Yusuke asked as he moved closer to him.

"Yes I'm fine," Kurama said as he tired to shake the strange feeling off.

The shock he had felt when he touched Mikai's hand was still lingering in his palm. There was something about her eyes that screamed at him, begging for attention and he couldn't figure out why. Her face remained in his mind and he felt as if he should have known her name without Yusuke introducing them, and that he should have known more about her, and should have spoken to her more.

"No you're not," Hiei said, breaking through Kurama's thoughts. "I've never seen you act this way. Just tell us what you're thinking about."

"I was just trying to figure something out." Kurama returned to looking at the lake. "That girl Mikai. She's a good friend of yours right Yusuke?"

"Yeah, what about her?" Yusuke asked as he gave Kurama a strange look.

"There's something odd about her. She seemed…so…familiar. But I've never met her before. I've never felt a feeling like that before. It was almost like I had butterflies in my stomach when I was talking to her," Kurama thought out loud.

The group became silent. Kurama waited for a response from someone but got nothing, causing him to worry a bit. He figured that they didn't understand anything he was saying, even though, he, himself didn't understand what he was saying.

"I don't understand and maybe I never will," Kurama said, as he stood up, irritated that he couldn't figure it out. "Now if you'll excuse me I have to get home, it's getting pretty late. I would recommend you did the same."

As Kurama walked away the group watched him in silence, not sure to say to one another. None of them knew what to say or what to do to make Kurama feel any better but of course; they need to know what was wrong first. They just didn't understand.

"I've never seen Kurama act that way," Hiei said as he broke the silence and crossed his arms.

"I wonder what's up with him?" Yusuke asked as he scratched his head. "What the hell did Mikai do to him?"

"I now have a mission!" Kuwabara announced as he slammed his closed, right fist onto his chest.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Yusuke asked as he looked over at Kuwabara strangely.

"Because I am the love master I sense that Kurama loves Mikai so it's my duty as a friend and teammate to hook them up!" Kuwabara began to laugh as if he was never going to stop.

"Love?!" Yusuke yelled in surprise. "What the hell gave you THAT idea?!"

"Now look at the idiot. He thinks he the master of something now," Hiei said with a sarcastic laugh. "What makes you the master anyway?"

"Shut up shortly! I'm the master because I'm in love with my Yukina!" Kuwabara yelled as he stopped laughing all of a sudden. "I can just tell! The way they look at each other and talk! It's love!

Hiei's eyebrow twitched. "Just shut up now while you're a head."

"You wanna start something shorty!?" Kuwabara yelled.

Yusuke ignored the fighting duo and looked up towards the sky. Kurama…I hope you're okay. I've never seen you look the way you looked at us today. Yusuke lowered his head to see Hiei and Kuwabara fighting.

"Hey!" Yusuke yelled. "Cut it out you two!"


Kurama was walking down the street that he had grown up on and had now memorized through many years of traveling down. It was a simple, easy walk but that wasn't what was bothering him. The darkness of the street worried him, he didn't want to be attacked by a demon, and he just wasn't in the mood.

His shoes echoed through the empty alleyway. But then Kurama noticed that he wasn't alone. He saw a figure up ahead which seemed to be walking down the alleyway peacefully.

"Excuse me?" Kurama asked into the darkness, hoping that it wasn't some kind of demon Yusuke had been hunting down.

The figure turned around. "Yes?" it answered back.

Kurama walked over to the figure and found that it was the girl he had just met, Mikai. He blinked again to make sure he was right and that he wasn't just seeing things; that would just be another thing to put on the list of strange things that had happened to him today.

"Mikai?" Kurama asked as the butterflies in his stomach began to flutter as she reflected in Kurama's eyes.

"Shuuichi?" she said gently. "Hi."

"Oh hello Mikai. What are you doing out here this late at night?" Kurama said. He knew that he had been walking around for a while and it was at least nine at night now.

"I had a little job to take care of before I went home that's all. I wouldn't be out so late if I hadn't gotten so wrapped up in playing Goblin City with Yusuke," Mikai said with a gentle smile.

"Oh, you live around here?"

"Yeah right up there." Mikai pointed up to an apartment building next to them. She pointed to the entrance of the building, which was sitting across the street.

"You live pretty close to me. I live right over there," Kurama said as he pointed over to an apartment building in the distance with a smile that made Mikai blush. Kurama then realized something. "You go to Yusuke's school don't you?"

"No actually," Mikai moved her hand back down from pointing, "I go to the high school half way across town."

"Oh, I was just wondering how it was that Yusuke knew you. I didn't think that Yusuke had any older friends, he doesn't get along with his own peers."

"Yeah I know." Mikai laughed and scratched the back of her head. "He and I have known each other for about a year now. You might have seen me over at his school because I'm working on a project to see how much a person changes between middle and high school. It's supposed to give me college credits or something. "

Preparing for her future. Kurama thought.

"If you live near me shouldn't you go to Meiou High?" Kurama asked as that question hit him.

"Yes but the thing is I don't have the grades to go. So they placed me in the school I'm in now. I didn't do so well on my exit exams," she said, as she looked away, a bit embarrassed. "I've heard about your grades though. You have some of the highest grades in all of the honor classes. Your grades never fail to amaze me."

Kurama blushed a little. "Thank you."

"Well I better get going then," Mikai said happily. "I hope to see you soon!"

"Wait!" Kurama grabbed Mikai's shoulder. "I won't be very much of a gentleman if I didn't walk you to your door."

Mikai blushed. "You don't have too."

"I insist." Kurama reached down and grabbed Mikai's hand. "You have to lace your arm through mine."

Kurama placed his hand on his hip creating a loop, which Mikai placed her arm through. Mikai begun to walk home with Kurama a large blush across her face that matched his hair color.

Strange. All the butterflies in Kurama's stomach were gone and he could now smile at Mikai without the little ones flying around inside of him. He still had that feeling inside of him that he couldn't explain the feeling that he had met Mikai once before many years ago. The question of 'where have I met you before?' ran through Kurama's head over and over again but he did his best to ignore the question.

"Thanks a lot." Mikai said as she arrived at her door and took her arm away from Kurama's. "To tell the truth I really don't like to walk around in the dark alone."

"It wasn't a problem. Besides I don't like the idea of you walking around in the dark by yourself," Kurama said with a small laugh.

Mikai just smiled a gentle, warming, smile. The smile. It sent shivers up Kurama's spine. And a small flash of light ran in front of his eyes, with the image of another person it, but then disappeared as quickly as it had come.

He shook his head. "Mikai?"

"What?" Mikai blinked, and then the fox ears Kurama saw before popped back on top of her head.

Kurama tried to ignore it. "Can I ask you something?"

"Anything."

"Have we met before? Some where else in time?"

Mikai looked upwards towards the sky, as if an answer was going to fall from it and hit her in the head. "I would have remembered someone like you," she said gently. "You know Shuuichi; it feels like I've met you some were before. I can't remember were though. Maybe one day I'll know, maybe I won't. Sorry Shuuichi…I got all spaced out." Mikai looked down towards the ground and laughed.

"Mikai?" Kurama gently and quietly.

"Huh? What?" Mikai stopped laughing as soon as she heard Kurama's serious tone.

"I feel the same way. That's very unusual, for two people to think the same thing and try and remember the same thing. We both have tired to think but all are attempts have been fruitless."

Kurama's brilliant green eyes looked at Mikai who was smiling. She giggled once more, and looked away from his eyes, feeling a bit strange.

"We'll know one day," she said whispered.

Kurama smiled inside and out. "Of course we will."

The two were silent.

"So….," Mikai said, as she looked the clock in her house. "It's pretty late."

"I'd better get going. I still have to eat dinner and do my homework," Kurama said as he turned around. "I'll see you later then."

"Thank you again. See ya Shuuichi!" Mikai said as she closed the door.


Kurama came into an empty house. No one there, no noise, no nothing. Kurama looked into the dark house.

The moon was shining through the blinds as he sat down on his big white couch. He saw the phone on the wall was blinking from the message that was left on it, but he didn't want to get up to check it. The remote was there on the coffee table in front of him, but he didn't reach for it. Kurama never was a real TV person.

The darkness. The darkness around him was what he had to face alone, and by himself almost every day. His mother was better then she was before, thanks to Yusuke, but she still had small traces of the illness and the doctors didn't want to take any chances.

Kurama laughed to himself and looked down at his side. His red school outfit was covered in dark red blood. He had met a demon on the way home, and the demon had managed to get close enough to take a chuck out of him. The demon was one he had never seen before, and during the fight his mind wondered it whether it was Senkai or not but before he could do anything, the demon got away from him.

Maybe he could take care of it on his own; maybe he should have called someone, but whom? Kurama just laid down and closed his eyes. He felt the blood seep out of him and onto the white couch, most likely staining it, but like Kurama cared right now. Kurama didn't know how, but he fell asleep through the pain.


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