Silverwing013: Disclaimers, disclaimers. My oh my. Um, yes. Don't own YuYu Hakusho. Do own Kiora, Shadowland, Shadow Minions, and others. You may continue onward now.

"So, Kido told me you four are looking after some girl that deals with his heritage," Kaito pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose. It was a tiresome habit that Kaito hated. He really needed to bring them in to fix some wires so it wouldn't happen so often.

Kurama looked up from his book, held with one good hand, the other hidden in his pocket. "Heritage? I only asked if he knew anything about Shadowland, considering the powers he received during—"

Kaito interrupted Kurama with a shake of his head. "Has no one told you four the truth about Kido?"

Kurama glanced over at him. "The truth? What don't we know Kaito?"

"Kido's whole family history deals all about shadows. I've never really pried myself into his personal life, but I do know there was something…off about him before," Kaito pushed his glasses up once more. "Back in grade school, he talked to himself a lot and a few kids made tease that he only had his imaginary friends. He exploded one day screaming about that Kasatto was real and part of his father's history. Something about Kasatto being a shadow minion he called it. Kids believed him crazy, not wanting to get near the crazy kid again. He never pulled an outburst like that again and kept quiet. The incident faded away in people's minds after a few years, although few like myself remember it."

"Kasatto?" Kurama asked. "Are you sure he said Kasatto? And the Shadow Minion part?"

Kaito pushed his glasses up once more. "Positive. Why do you ask?"

"I do believe I'll be making a visit there after school. Thanks Kaito," Kurama went back to his book.

Kaito turned only to turn back around again, smiling. "And Kurama."

Kurama looked up at hearing him use the name Kurama instead of Shuichi. "How's your hand?"

Kurama glanced down at the hand holding his book pointedly. "Fine."

Glasses were pushed up once more as Kaito smiled again. "I mean the other one, your right hand."

Kurama cleared his throat. "Perfectly fine Kaito."

"I see," Kaito moved the frame of his glasses with his index and thumb. "What's your story?"

"I'm doing an experiment to see how long a person can manage doing things without their dominant hand. Keeping my right hand in my pocket is to remind myself not to use it."

"Nice story. And we both know perfectly well that you can manage with either one," Kaito smiled again, leaving the now empty classroom besides Kurama.

Kurama glanced out the window near the seat he sat in. "But Shadow Minions didn't start coming back till this past week. How did they pass the Spirit World detection?" He pondered around for different answers to this, getting nowhere fast.

"Hey Shuichi," called a voice interrupting his thoughts. "How's the reading assignment going?"

Shuichi glanced up to see the familiar brown head and brown eyes of Sabishii. "Good. How about you?"

"Same. Wish I could repay you back for you helping me study for the quarter test," Sabishii bit her lip, knowing full well that Shuichi never had anyone pay him back from helping. He seemed to do it just because he actually wanted to.

"Well," Shuichi pondered. "Now that you mention it…. There is a experiment I'm doing to see how long a person can manage doing things without their dominant hand. I'm doing it myself by keeping my right hand in my pocket. Would you kindly write your name on my notebook here to do the experiment as well?"

Sabishii's face brightened. "Of course I'll do the experiment! I'm right handed so you know." She bent down to write her name on the notebook, testing herself to write it with her left hand, finding that it looked like her handwriting back in second grade. "Ooo. Harder than it looks," she commented as she stepped back to see her name on the lined paper.

The teacher entered the classroom that was now full of talkative students. Sabishii gave a small wave of her left hand as she headed to her own seat.

"Good Morning class," the teacher spoke as he placed his suitcase on his desk, taking out the stack of papers that held the quarter test papers. Sabishii received her paper, practically glowing as she saw the score. She held it up proudly in Shuichi's direction with her left hand, mouthing the words 'thank you' before turning around to whisper to a girl behind her. And so the Monday day began.

Breath. Snore. Breath. Snore. Breath. Snore. Brea—

"Mr. Urameshi!"

Yusuke jerked his head up from his desk mumbling, "I'm here damnit. Go away."

Waving his hand dismissively, Yusuke fell back asleep on his desk.

Mr. Takenaka yanked Yusuke up by his ear, "Attendance is over Mr. Urameshi. Now why don't you join the rest of the class in paying attention?"

"OW! OW! DAMNIT! THAT HURTS YOU BASTARD!"

Mr. Takenaka shook Yusuke by the ear that he held. "I suggest you tone it down in the future Yusuke, I'd like you to head to the office."

Yusuke, now fully awake, gave a look at Mr. Takenaka. "Yeah, yeah whatever."

Mr. Takenaka gave Yusuke a look as well. "Straight to the office Mr. Urameshi."

Yusuke pulled a huge yawn, arms above his head as he headed out of the classroom. "Keep your pants on old man. I'm going already."

Yusuke shut the door, yawning again to rub under an eye. "Damn toddler. Stupid all-nighter search," Yusuke grumbled. "AND I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY ENERGY TO STOP KEIKO FROM DRAGGING ME TO SCHOOL!"

A classroom door opened to another male student whom called back inside the classroom, "It's only Urameshi!" before he shut the door again.

"Only Urameshi?" Yusuke wondered aloud.

"Hey Urameshi," muttered a tired voice behind him. "You sent to the office for sleepin' too?"

"No. I got sent out because of my good behavior," Yusuke spoke sarcastically to Kuwabara.

"Really?" Kuwabara asked rubbing under an eye.

Rolling his eyes over at Kuwabara, Yusuke spoke. "No, really? Of course I was sent to the office for sleeping stupid."

"Hey! I'm not stupid! You try going to school everyday for once to learn something Urameshi!"

"Yeah, yeah. Like it actually helps in real life," Yusuke opened up a door.

"What real life you talking about? Real world or Spirit world mission life?"

"Tuh! The second one stupid," Yusuke answered going through the door.

Kuwabara paused. "Hey! This isn't the office! This goes up to the roof!"

Yusuke raised an eyebrow. "Did you really think I was heading to the office? Stupid. I could give a shit less about school, I'm getting my sleep."

"Your loss Urameshi," Kuwabara yelled up the stairs as the door shut.

Diary Entry

I finally got out of those guy's kidnapping or whatever one would call that. It took a while, but mama finally got use to talking with me from her head. Wow. That sounded weird. I didn't even know I could do that myself until last Friday and the idea still seems a tad bit foreign. Today she's going to explain to me what she knows about the Shadowland thing. Finally, some clarity! It has something to do with my father though and she said she may not remember all the facts he told her about Shadowland very well. Kasatto came by earlier with Kast, a shadow minion from his leauge that has a troop or something. They didn't seem to pleased about something. I asked about it and it turns out that they asked tree boy to come down for questioning, but he didn't show up. Then they're having trouble locating some old traitor. Whoever that may be. I kind of wonder if nice boy is doing alright with his hand back in sight, even though I know plenty well he helped kidnapped me, a person can still wonder.

Keiko's feet thudded their way up to the roof top area, pushing open the door to see Yusuke sleeping. Standing boldly in front of the school's punk… "Yusuke!"

In mid-snore, Yusuke jerked awake. "What Keiko? I came to scho-ol." The yawn punctured the word school.

Keiko smiled. "I know. School is over Yusuke."

"Oh goody, more time to search for Hiei and that stupid girl," Yusuke stood up, streaching.

"I thought she escaped from Spirit World in less than a day," Keiko frowned pondering how someone escaped from there. It didn't help her pondering that she had never been up there.

"Yeah, whatever. Not that I miss it or anything, but why aren't you yelling at me when I usually skip?" Yusuke gazed over at Keiko, ready for any explosions.

Keiko smiled. "Most days I can't even get you down to your first class. But today you got through not one but three classes. Must have been hard for you two to stay awake because Kuwabara fell asleep twice in two different classes before Shizuru came down to pick him up along with his homework assignments."

"Ha," Yusuke looked smug. "He didn't make it through the leactures."

"Want me to watch over Puu or are you going to bring him home?" Keiko pulled out Puu from behind her back.

"Eh?" Yusuke looked over at his Spirit Beast. "You can baby-sit him."

"Sure," Keiko turned around to walk back to the door. "As long as you go to school ALL day tomorrow…and stay awake for ALL of your classes."

"Like that's going to happen," Yusuke muttered.

Keiko turned. "So you want Puu back?"

"Not a chance."

"No Puu, you go to school. No school, Puu is staying with you for the next two weeks."

Yusuke frowned. "Fine. I'll go to school. Jezz you're worse than ma."

"And go to all the classes," Keiko added in before he could walk off.

Yusuke grumbled loudly to himself. "Alright, alright. Jezz I'll go. Lay off already. Wasn't three classes enough for you?"

"But I was so proud of you actaully attending class for once."

"Puu?" Puu asked nervously.

Yusuke stepped back from her. With one single thought going through his head. "Keiko…you're scaring me."

"Puu! Puu!" Was the agreement.

"Yusuke, you scare all my friends away with your rude and vulgar behavior and you think I'm scary?"

"When your being this nice…."

Keiko raised an eyebrow. "I'll see you tomorrow Yusuke…at school."

Keiko turned away and Yusuke inched his way behind her, lifting up her skirt. "Clean panties for once. Maybe that's why your in such a good mode."

THWACK!

Yusuke twitched. "I don't even know why I bother," Keiko said under her breath as she left the roof top area.

Hearing the door slam shut, Yusuke sat up rubbing at a check, grinning. "Now that's the Keiko I know."

"Shuichi! Shuichi!" Three girls raced up to Shuichi who was just exiting class.

Shuichi mentally sighed. This is what he got for stuffing his invisible hand in his pocket. Pulling out his notebook that was already on it's fourth page of name signatures, he held it out. "I'm supposing you three want to try the experiment also?"

There were suddenly vicious nods of their heads as they beamed smiles up at Shuichi.

"Sign here."

The girls quickly signed, giving happy goodbyes that turned into giggles as he left. He no more than got a few feet farther from the door of the classroom when he got completely mobbed by more students wanting to sign the notebook for his experiment. Mostly girls, quite a few guys in there actually, scrambled around the notebook being passed around the crowd. Tall people, fat people, short people, skiny people. Punks, goths, preps, and all other types of groups. He had even a couple of teachers come up to him when the mob had died down to write their name on the notebook.

Now…only to get to Kido's house without futher mishap….

Jorge slammed the door open to Koenma's office. "Sir!"

Koenma looked up anxiously, "Have you found them?"

Holding up his newest stack of papers from the Spirit Energy Machine (my, my, that thing is handy), Jorge shook his head. "No sir. Hiei's energy is nearly nonsexist and Kiora's isn't even showing up on the screen. Sir, how are you going to get through this mission with one of the team missing?"

"I DON'T KNOW JORGE!" Koenma stood up exploding out, slamming his small toddler fists on the desk. Sitting back down to calm himself, Koenma muttered, "I just don't know. I didn't tell the team this…but we didn't even win against the Shadow Goddess the first time around."

Botan whom had been heading inside the room at that moment was the voice that responded to that statement. "What? You mean we didn't win!"

"Yes," Koenma sighed. "We didn't win. I asked father more about it the other day for specifics. Facts are this. Not one of the fighters that Spirit World sent down came back. Not a single one. Not even the single fighter that was last there before her body was sent back up here destroyed. I'm worried what Hiei has done. He very well may have started the next Shadowland War."

Botan and Jorge exchanged worried looks, only to look back a Koenma's face.

Silverwing013: Congrats to me on writing this chapter finally! Mostly just the days go on type of thing…but a few hints to help the boys out to what's going on. Kido may have more to do with this than originally thought. And if Hiei never showed up…wherever did the fire demon go? Kurama's hand problem was solved (HAHAHAHAHAHA! I do love the way I had it solved.) And Keiko scared the 'Great Yusuke Urameshi'. (tee…they needed some interaction. And Yusuke will have his own way to skive around the school problem.)

HieiFan666: Nothing has happened to Hiei…yet. Lets just say he won't be seen for a while. Kiora will finally be getting her questions answered…some of which will be suprising. She'll be seen with her mother for a while after that to get some mother-daughter time…which, she is undoubtedly going to need.

Samee: Thanks. By the way…I luv spaz's! I can be a bit of a spaz myself. Showing me a can of Dr. Pepper is a sure fire way to get me acting nuts. Then you should see me if I spot a semi with their logo all over it…can you say, 'lack of attention on the road'? I updated!

Jin-ashi: Thank you, thank you. Um…letsee…I updated. Hope forgiveness if it wasn't soon enough.

Niana Kuonji: Yes you were missed! And u just made me think of that Lion King song…can u feel the luv tonight……But that's WAY off subject. Yes…can touch Kurama's hand. He himself cannot touch it with a visible part of his body…but yes, it's useable. Make up…how embarassing! (I never really wear it myself much…) Anyway, he'd have to steal it from his mother somehow or buy some from a store… And a glove seemed to make it too obvious. I liked my experiment idea. I got to play around with his popularity around the school area. Gotta luv the minions! (-random point to my cat- "You! Go get my drink!" unfortunally…I really don't have any cool minions to order around at my command…maybe if I get really famous with my writings…? Or not.) Ur welcome for the updation! (is that a word?)

Silverwing013: so anyway…tomorrow I get wisdom teeth pulled out(-mental screaming-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!) and for a while now, I'm going to bear down on my Forbidden Hunter's new chapter so I don't get completely behind in that story. BAD AUTHOR, BAD! So u guys will have to wait until I get that chapter out before I start typing the next chapter for this one…Sorrys if it's a long wait for u guys. Till next time, it's been a real blast!