Disclaimer: I laugh.

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"Eino, just try!" Yusuke whined to the young boy as they sat in the middle of Genkai's training room.

"I AM trying," Eino snapped back. "I've never done this before, it's not exactly easy you know."

"Give the kid a break," Kuwabara told Yusuke from across the room where he was leaning. "He's right, it's not exactly easy to expand spirit energy."

Eino opened one eye and shot a glaring look across to Kuwabara, "I don't need YOUR support, thank you very much. I'm perfectly capable of defending myself, BY myself."

Yusuke burst out laughing at this remark. "He sounds just like you, Hiei!" he laughed, glancing over at the black cloaked demon who sat on the floor across the room from Kuwabara, as far as possible from the red-haired giant. Time had defiantly not improved their relationship.

Hiei looked away toward the door with an emotionless "hn" not even trying to deny anything. But as Yusuke and Eino continued to practice, he couldn't help but let his eyes drift back toward the two of them.

'There's something very suspicious about that boy,' Hiei thought to himself. 'Something out of place. It's not like something's missing, it's like his energy isn't in line with his body or something. This isn't as simple of a case as it looks. Better keep an eye out.' The, focusing his actually consciousness more on what they were actually saying, the fire demon listened in on the two of them work.

"Excellent, excellent!" Yusuke congratulated the child, as the younger one furrowed his eyebrow and forehead in concentration. "Now, you're getting the hang of it. Just open up your circle a bit more, so we can get a good look at what kind of energy you have!"

Suddenly, there was a bright burst of green light. Yusuke and Kuwabara ducked behind their held out arms in an attempt to block it out and keep their eyes from being fried. Hiei, on the other hand, was so surprised by what he saw, he couldn't help but stare in shock and disbelief.

When the light finally died down, Yusuke and Kuwabara let their hands drop back down to their sides. 'That was Eino's ki? God, Koenma wasn't kidding when he said that the kid's incredible!' "Gosh, Eino," Yusuke said jokingly, looking back over at the boy who now had a swirling fog of green light surrounding his small body. "When I said to expand your aura I didn't mean that much!"

Suddenly, his eyes caught something. Eino leaned forward, trying to figure out what was clicking in the young man's head. Hiei took a shocked step forwards, over to Yusuke's side. "Yusuke," he whispered, so the spirit detective could barely hear. "Do you see it too?"

"That isn't….?" Yusuke began, but he couldn't seem to get all the words out, and stopped in mid sentence. The two just stood there and starred at him, leaving a very confused Eino and Kuwabara to try and puzzle out what in the seven hells was going on.

"Yusuke?" Eino asked, leaning forward, trying to catch his eyes. "Are you okay? What's the matter?"

Yusuke, finally getting a hold of himself and realizing what was going on, blinked twice in realization. Then he laughed nervously. "Nothing's wrong!" he smiled overly cheerful all of the sudden. "Nothing at all!"

Sensing something was wrong, Eino wouldn't let the matter be dropped so quickly. "But you just-"

"Who cares what I just said?" Yusuke laughed again, in an effort to be funny. "It's in the past, isn't it?"

Then, with a deliberate look at his watch, the spirit detective said, "Oh my, just look at the time! Isn't this about the time you should get going?" he hinted obviously.

Eino protested as Yusuke began to drag him to the door, "No, it's the middle of school hours right now! Mom doesn't expect me home until-"

"Ah well, you should really be getting to school then! Don't want to miss class and not get into a university, do you?!" Yusuke laughed.

"But Urameshi!" a very confused Kuwabara followed them toward the door. "We used to do the same thing all of the-"

Yusuke suddenly cut his friend of with a hand flying out toward his mouth. "Yes," he said, clearing his throat, "well, we've got things to do, places to go, people to see! We'll meet you here tomorrow at four, okay?"

"Er, yeah," Eino agreed, stepping out the door, "but-"

"Alright, then see you tomorrow!" Yusuke cried, slamming the door behind him

Eino stood outside on the stone stairs, finishing up his sentence to a closed door. "But I already have plans……"

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Yusuke stood gasping in the door way, letting go of Kuwabara, as he slid to the floor in a pile. Hiei walked over to join them.

"You saw it too?" the fire demon asked the spirit detective.

"Saw what?" Kuwabara asked, glancing back and forth between the two of them.

"Yeah," Yusuke nodded, starring at the floor. "That's just not normal!"

"What isn't?" Kuwabara demanded.

"Maybe so, but he's got it," Hiei said to Yusuke impassivly.

"Got WHAT?!?!" Kuwabara yelped, fed up with the confusing conversation

Yusuke looked over at the red head slowly. Then taking a deep breath and standing up, he told him, "Eino hasn't got human ki. He's got youki."

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Hey everyone!

I like this chapter, and it was pretty easy to write too. I've been in a bit of a writers slump for a while, which you'd know if you'd read any of my other stories. I've been updating barely at all, and when I do, they're short chapters. Now that I've got a good idea for this story, though, it should be a little bit easier.

While my next chapter idea is pretty much already thought out, I'm going on a little vacation soon, so my new chapter won't be up until Tuesday the 24th. I know that's a while, but it's really the best I can do. Sorry!

And let me just give you a little warning. While the plotline may seem fairly obvious, and you may thing Eino is Kurama, I would suggest not assuming that. Not everything is exactly what it appears…..

Ja ne,

Dream Fox