Disclaimer: I don't own YYH

A/N: This was inspired by a one-shot called Caution! Highly Flammable Contents! By ForbiddenDreams13. Very funny stuff. You can find it in my favs. However, this will be a bit different and probably not as funny. This is OOC and AU all over the place.

Chapter Six: Pyros are cute

Characters: Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei and Botan (Slight HxB flirting...again)

Rating: T (for language - couldn't help it, Yusuke's got a durty mouth)

Summary: The team goes out fire spirit hunting.

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Botan sighed heavily and wiped the sweat from her matted forehead. "Ohh..." Curse Lord Koenma and his order to make her join the boys in missions. Why was she happy about that when she first got it? It didn't matter, because now she hated it. Especially in this blasted heat! Yusuke groaned and she looked over.

"Why the hell are we out in this crap?!" Apparently, she wasn't the only one feeling it.

"You heard Koenma, Yusuke. Fire spirits love the heat and love to cause mischief out in it," Kurama, who seemed unaffected in his school uniform, said calmly.

The two human teens had their uniforms on, but their jackets were draped over their shoulders. Hiei, who was only there to avoid prison, was wearing his usual getup, and seemed completely fine in the heat. "Yes," he started darkly. "If I was a low level, I might be tempted myself." All looked over at him and he shrugged. "But I'm not."

"Really, Hiei? How can you be so comfortable in this heat?" Botan asked, him turning to her with a blank look on his face.

"I just said that, didn't I? I'm a fire apparition. Heat doesn't bother me."

Botan huffed. "Ugh, but really? In that long, heavy coat and everything? Just looking at you wearing that makes me feel hotter."

He blinked and whipped off his cloak, showing off a bare chest underneath. "It's off now," he cruelly grinned as she stared at his muscles. "Feeling cooler yet?"

She pursed her lips and pouted. "I hate you."

"Uh, guys? What's that over there?" Kuwabara pointed to a bare field and all looked to see a small, maybe one foot tall, little girl with green hair and green eyes, picking up the flowers. What was odd, other than her size, was the fact that her hair looked like a flame flying around in the wind. Her eyes were big and wide, pure innocence shining in them as she skipped merrily, picking up flower after flower.

"Which one is this?" Yusuke asked the ferry girl as she pulled out her guide-book.

Well, it wasn't an Asobibi, or a Gotokuneko, and definitely not a Basan. This little girl looked nothing like any of those. "It's not the chicken monster, is it?" Kuwabara asked, making both him and Yusuke erupt into a fit of giggles.

"Fools, does that look like a chicken?" Hiei spat, putting his coat back on.

Botan ignored them and flipped through the book. "No, it isn't a Basan. It's...a fire sprite."

Kurama dead-panned. "A fire sprite?"

"Uh huh. Very rare. Koenma didn't even mention these." She shut the book and looked over at the tiny girl. "He also didn't say they were so cute!" Hiei glared over at her. "What?"

"You think everything is cute," he bit out with venom.

"Well, of course I do! How else would I be able to stomach being around you all the time?" She stated as if it was the most simple thing in the world, and his mouth hung open, not knowing how to respond.

"Guys? What are we doing about this?" Yusuke stepped in. "We killin' it, or what?"

"Urameshi! It's a little girl! We can't kill it!" Kuwabara defended the oblivious sprite.

"It's gonna cause trouble!" Yusuke fought back.

"By picking flowers?"

"You wanna join her or something?"

"No!"

"I think you do! Why don't you go get your kitten and go pick flowers with the fairy?!"

"It's a sprite, not a fairy!"

"Who gives a crap!"

The other three just stood with -.- faces as the humans fought back and forth, nobody watching the seemingly harmless little girl, who had amassed a huge bunch of flowers in her tiny hand. She smiled and looked at them with twinkling eyes.

Then her innocent face morphed into a dark expression, eyes turning black and fangs forming as she burst the flowers into embers, the whole space around her erupting into flames.

"HOLY SHIT!" Yusuke swore, pointing to the blaze.

"OH, GOD! WHAT DO WE DO?!" Kuwabara cried, watching the whole field become a fiery inferno.

Botan was whimpering behind Hiei, which was hilarious due to the fact that she was bigger than him, and he smirked at her. "Still think it's cute?"

"Uh...no..."

The teens were running in comedic cartoon circles, screaming and wailing as now the whole field was gone, the flames shooting up all around the tiny sprite.

Hiei spit out some air and walked up to the thing, completely unperturbed by the fire, reaching out and grabbing it by her flaming hair. She paused and blinked, her wicked laughter ceasing as she snapped back to reality from her maniacal fun. "Huh?" She wiggled, not liking this feeling of being lifted up into the air.

Hiei's Jagan pulsed and the flames were put out, smoking cinders the only thing left of what was once a healthy field of grass. He turned and began walking off the barren land, the sprite kicking for all her worth. "Hey, no! What are you doing?! How did you put out my fire?! That's not fair! Put me down!" She squeaked, flailing all over in his grasp.

"He put the fire out with his mind..." Kuwabara whispered to Yusuke. "If I didn't think he was creepy before, I do now..."

Hiei approached them, looking bored as ever as he held out the tiny thing. "PUT ME DOWN, YOU BIG BRUTE!" She wailed, still kicking and punching.

Kuwabara laughed. "Hah, bet she's the only person to ever call you big, huh, Hiei?" All looked over at the young psychic with "oh, you so just didn't," looks on their faces.

Hiei sneered and shoved the little girl right into Kuwabara's arms. "Why don't you take it?"

Kuwabara gasped and looked down at the shocked fire sprite, her shock fading and turning into fury, as she growled at the human who dare touch her. Her face went dark again as she snarled, flames jumping from her eyes. "WAH!" Fire exploded once again all running for their lives, Kuwabara screaming as if he was the little girl. "MY EYEBROWS!"

~End

A/N: The fire spirits mentioned here are real in Japanese mythology, even the chicken. But the fire sprite is mine.