Souls reincarnate every 500 years. They start a new slate with no memories of their pasts, even if their soul's previous form and instincts remains. And Sarah Potter happened to be the reincarnation of a certain Black Crane. YYH X-Over

A Great Loss

That same day, Team Toguro had their match an hour after they did. Kurama and Sarah, still in her Maiden took to watching. Team Gorenja was mercilessly thrashed.

'Kurama, that short freak is mine.' Sarah told Kurama. 'I'm the only one with the ability to match him out of all of us with Hiei being second. But he'll most likely choose Bui.'

'Then Karasu will be my opponent.' Kurama mused. 'Because Yusuke will obviously take Toguro.' and they left when the match ended. However, by the middle way of the hallway, they were blocked by Karasu and Bui respectively.

'You two are the only observer...you have guts.' Karasu commented appraisingly.

'What about it?' Kurama frowned warily.

'Don't be nervous...there's a month before four of you will die.' Karasu told them.

'Four? Last I checked there's six of us, Karasu-san.' Sarah replied coolly.

'Yes...six but one will die today and four more a month later.' then Bui punched the wall, causing the two fighters to look at him but in a blink, Karasu was gone.

"Where?" Kurama gasped as Sarah thought, "Behind!" and a steel wall appeared behind Kurama's back before Karasu could touch him.

'Not bad, Sarah-san. But it's just for laughs.' Karasu smirked. 'It'll go better in a month.' and they left.

'...I have a bad feeling about this...' Sarah muttered as they too, went back to the hotel.

xxx

The Hotel...

Kurama and Sarah returned to the hotel with surprising visitors. Rinku, Chuu, Jin and Touya.

'Ara, why are you guys here?' Sarah asked their former opponents as they appeared in the living room using black swirls. Remus had taken to giving them refreshments too.

'Well, we found Yusuke lyin' around in the forest, then some three fools tried to take advantage so we decided to watch over im'.' Chuu explained.

'I'm glad Junior found good friends as well.' Sarah commented as the Maiden opened, showing them Sarah stabbed in several places and bleeding profusely, The flesh surrounding the gaping holes looked terribly bruised, causing Remus to sway as if to faint. But her injuries rapidly healed in two seconds and so did the holes in her clothes, and the blood disappeared. 'I should cook something! Junior's probably hungry and it's the least I could do for you guys.'

'WOW! THANKS!' Chuu, Rinku and Jin cheered while Touya went green at what he saw and has YET to recover, while his companions' shock recovered from the thought of 'free food'.

'I guess I should rest too.' Kurama smiled. 'It's been a trying day.' and so, he found himself enjoying a chat with their former opponents...and it was two hours later that Sarah cooked up a feast...all were Japanese dishes.

'Looks good!' Chuu beamed. 'Itadakimaaasu!' and they all helped themselves.

'Waaah! It's really good!' Jin chimed. 'You're gonna make a good wife!'

'Ehhhh good wife...' Sarah sputtered with a blush.

'You'll make your husband one lucky man someday.' Remus chuckled. 'The way to a man's heart is through their stomach afterall.'

'Jeez, wait at least until I'm twenty!' Sarah pouted. When Kurama dug into the dish, he noticed that the meat in the dishes-save for the fish in sushi and sashimi-were human meat.

xxx

Hogwarts, that weekend...the match with Team Uraotogi was shown. Hogwarts had gotten used to Hiei's brutality by now...but what they did not expect is that the seemingly human redhead was in fact a youkai.

'That youkai...it's the one she's drawing so often if she's not writing her book!' Tracey cried as she recognized the demon from Sarah's drawings.

'A famous bandit...look! Something's happening to Potter!' and next thing they knew, they got wind that she was the Reincarnation of Youko Kurama's partner-in-crime and best friend, Kuronue, which explained her obsession with the fox and having his abilities. The two demon friends had a short-lived reunion as they reverted back to their human selves.

'She's the reincarnation of a bandit after 500 years?'

'No way!'

'Unreal man, then for all we know we could be someone else's reincarnation too!'

'Oh dear, with the issue about reincarnation popping up, our students think they might be a special case as well.' Professor Sinistra snorted.

'It has requirements to be a reincarnation. It's not that simple.' Snape drawled airily.

Sarah then proceeded to fight Shishiwakamaru despite her condition and temporarily aged three years...

'How'd she get a body like that, that's not fair!' some fifth year girls and older complained as Sarah, at her current self was already attractive and oozing sex appeal, got better at her physically fifteen-years-old body, and the males shamelessly stared...especially at her bouncing breasts.

"Lily wasn't like that at her age and I don't think any Potter-spawn did either!" Snape choked as he found himself staring as well.

'Dear lord...look at the boys!' Madam Pomfrey tut-tutted in disapproval, upon seeing perverted leers from the male students.

'There's bound to be trouble when she gets back.' McGonagall sighed. 'Even if she made it clear she won't marry a Wizard anytime soon. And it's not helping matters that she's wearing provocative clothes like her dresses!'

'I'd say good thing the Ministry is not here for now. Somehow, the matches are played earlier than scheduled but of course, the students will owl their parents regarding the Tournament's Semi Finals...most of them are prejudiced against non-humans and now youkai popped up...learning that Sarah is one will make anti-non-human sympathizers have a field day...and the girl-who-lived will abandon the Magical World for it.' Flitwick said somberly. 'Well, she has every right to!'

'Indeed but let's hope it does not come to that Filius.' said Dumbledore gravely. 'She has contributed so much to our world. More than the Ministry can ever hope to do.'

xxx

Back at the Island...

'Sarah...the meat in the food is human meat isn't it?' Kurama asked Sarah when they were alone in the forest. 'Remus-san and Kuwabara fortunately didn't notice. They just thought you had a way to make meat soft and tastier or something.'

'Well, we eat humans right? Just don't tell those two...they'll freak.' Sarah smiled nervously as they walked around.

'You seem able to stomach it well...and it's been a while since I ate human myself.' Kurama chuckled. 'Like, 14 years ago.' then he went serious. 'Sarah...'

'I know. You want to get used to Karasu's speed with my help.' she told him as the redhead nodded. 'Very well. We have a month from now but for two weeks, you'll be getting away from Remus before you face me. Ookamiotoko are very fast, but not as fast as Hiei but that's a start. Once you got used to Remus during the first two weeks, you will face me.'

'Alright. Let's go back to the hotel.'

xxx

The Hotel...

Remus had taken to talking to the girls, when the two fighters appeared. 'Back so soon?'

'Remus, we need your help for a bit...about two weeks tops.' Remus blinked owlishly.

'My help? In what?'

'You mastered Karate, right?' Remus nodded. 'And you did as I listed on your menu?' he nodded again. 'Well, for two weeks, be at your Werewolf Form and attack Kurama at random directions.' Remus' jaws dropped. 'He'll dodge of course.' Sarah told him. 'Once he got used to your speed, he'll face me next.'

'But Sarah, a scratch or a bite from a werewolf...' Remus spluttered but Sarah raised a hand.

'Nah, I'll do something about your claws once you transformed, so don't worry!' she smiled. 'His opponent is Karasu, a guy many times faster than he so we'll be training his reflexes, reaction time and senses. It'll be fun!'

'Fun? How can chasing Kurama around be fun though?' Shizuru asked him curiously.

'It'll be a game of tag...if Kurama got tagged by Remus, there will be a Batsu Game. And the Batsu Game will be something embarrassing...' Kurama gulped at that. 'That's enough motivation to work hard, no?'

'E-embarrassing...batsu game?' Kurama squeaked.

'Yup! And these lovely ladies will be the witnesses!' Sarah chirped with a mischievous smile as Botan, Keiko, Yukina, Shizuru and Atsuko blinked.

'Ehhh?'

"I'm doomed!" Kurama choked in horror as he can only wonder what embarrassing things will she make him do if Remus manages to tag him. Then Sarah and Botan froze and began crying in anguish. Shizuru also noticed something and it took Kurama longer to notice.

'H-hey! What's going on?' Atsuko sputtered out and is very confused as to why two girls began a sob-fest all of a sudden.

'Someone's aura disappeared...someone I think I know very well...' Shizuru muttered as she racked her brains who.

'It's Master Genkai.' Kurama told them softly as he went to put a comforting hug around Sarah. 'I'm guessing that she was killed by someone.'

'Killed?' Remus gasped as Kurama told them what happened in the hallways of the arena. 'Oh no...' he croaked, worrying for Sarah who saw the woman as a grandmother-figure. 'Kurama-kun, tanomu.' he could only count on Kurama as Remus could never understand Sarah's feelings, as Kurama knew Genkai longer than he had. He can't make her feel better, much to his dismay.

'Hai.' and Kurama led Sarah away to her room.

xxx

In her room...

Kurama spent a good long while with his friend in his arms, and being a shoulder to cry on. Judging from how she cried, she must have loved Genkai which makes him wonder HOW is Yusuke coping. He surely also felt the loss of his mentor as well. For now, this was all he could do for her.

Two hours later, she finally fell asleep from crying, and Kurama found his chest very wet from tears. He silently left her room and locked the door. Downstairs was quiet. The girls weren't around, save for Remus who was cleaning up the mess. 'Remus-san...'

'How is she?' Remus asked the redhead who offered to help with the cleaning.

'She fell asleep just now after getting tired from crying.' said Kurama with a sad smile. Then his eyes fell on the mess. 'And...?'

'Atsuko-san insisted on cheering Botan-san up and well...they had a drinking party...only Shizuru-san, Botan-san and Atsuko-san drank though.' Remus chuckled. 'Poor Yukina-san...when she tried, she was out like a light at just one sip, so Keiko-san had to leave the party early and take Yukina-san back to their room...with a horrible hangover.'

"Hiei's NOT going to like this..."