Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Yu Hakusho or any of its characters, but I would like to own Hiei, at least for a little while.

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Chapter 3

The Warning

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After Echo finally managed to get rid of her fiery whip, she left the school and made her way to her grandmother's house. She could have sworn she kept seeing a shadow following her, but she didn't really care. She was still trying to figure out what had happened.

"Grandma! I'm here!" Echo called out when she opened the door to the house.

"Echo! What took you so long? I thought you would be here sooner," said her grandma.

"One of my teachers wanted to talk to me that's all."

"Oh ok. Don't worry me like that again! I was about to call the police!"

"You don't need to worry about me so much!"

"Yes I do! You are my only granddaughter. I would be stuck with your crazy cousins if anything were to happen to you."

She was right. Her cousins were pretty wild for 5-year-olds.

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Hiei followed the girl to her grandmother's house. He kept thinking she saw him, but if she did then she didn't do anything about it. For some reason he thought she looked familiar, like he had seen her before somewhere.

Hiei waited outside the house in a tree until the girl's grandmother drove her home. He followed the car to the girl's house and listened through an open window.

"Echo, your father and I are going out for a few hours on Monday evening. You are going to be here alone so don't burn down the house," said Echo's mother.

"You're gonna be gone? Yes! I get to watch Yu-Yu Hakusho on the big screen tv!"

Perfect, thought Hiei. This didn't take nearly as long as he thought it would. He could report to Koenma that the girl could be picked up on Monday evening. He headed back to Spirit World right away.

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Echo's friend Jackie had just called.

"Hey Jackie! What's up?" said Echo.

"I just found some really awesome Inuyasha pics on the internet. I was thinking maybe you could find pictures from that Yo-Ya Whose Shoe show you always talk about."

"Hey that's a good idea! And it's Yu-Yu Hakusho," said Echo. For some reason none of her other friends had ever seen Yu-Yu Hakusho. They always seem to miss it whenever it came on.

Echo said good-bye and hung up the phone so she could look for some pictures from the show on the Internet. She especially wanted to find a picture of Hiei. He was her favorite character, but she couldn't find any pictures.

"Ok that's weird." She said to her self.

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"Good job Hiei! Now I need you to go back and warn her of our coming," said Koenma.

"What? You need me to go back again?"

"Yes Hiei. Now go hurry up."

"Grr!"

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The next day Echo was walking home from Jackie's house. It was just starting to get dark. Just then she saw a dark figure on top of a nearby house.

"Hello? Who is that? If you plan on robbing that house then think again because I see you and I can call the cops!" yelled Echo.

"Don't be stupid! I'm hear to warn you that when your parents are gone tomorrow night there will be a group of people with me included coming to take you to Spirit World for training," said the dark figure.

"What? You must be a Yu-Yu Hakusho addict too," said Echo. She thought his voice sounded familiar.

"Fine then! Don't heed my warning, but we will come for you!" said Hiei, and with that he disappeared.

"Well, strange things seem to be happening a lot to me lately," thought Echo.

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